𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, January 20, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sat 21 Jan 02:41:36 GMT 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/20/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmNt5eextzQVZUBr2ZtPeFpGEySDSJ3d1mRBqP4t126YvE QmdcR8a3vTfpFjhLVTL5gCq8WQ4ahnKhbZnPhvZVnGhcHs QmSqRoGuWGzGPiMq2GgcCee22CrF6E8w7JYJncWSZqw4yj QmfK4VviyZTAsVrucs7LLyQVXy6qvWzpZkkW319Z93v9HU QmZzEXJ11q9di9Z977tWHwaZ9JZJs1RZgjoJHMsusRGmV2 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╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/01/20/bill-gates-cash-under-nda/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/20/bill-gates-cash-under-nda/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.20.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Slush_Funds_or_Pocket_Change_From_Bill_Gates_(Under_NDA)⠀✐ Posted in Bill_Gates, Deception at 1:15 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇UK_and_US_Language_differences:_My_staff_is_all_here;_Bill Gates_bribes_me_here⦈_ Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ was never the same after the desperate CEO agreed to take Gates_Foundation money under an NDA (probably the first NDA of this kind in the company’s 24-year history, with almost_immediate_consequences) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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For people who don’t want to click through to PornHub, here are the “SFW” highlights on the technology front. Normally, I wouldn’t cite them but they collect a large sample of very high quality data about people from all over the world. I feel that they are uniquely, errrm, positioned, to tell us what’s going on. In light of the 11,000 layoffs just announced at Microsoft, and rumors of a bigger round later this year (the 11,000 were rumors until they weren’t), it’s worth considering why this is happening. Microsoft’s consumer division is, in a word, collapsing. Desktop PC usage is down 6% from 2021 to 2022, and Windows is only 64.7% of that. XBOX fell to only 1/4 of the gaming console market, vs Playstation at nearly 3/ 4ths, by browser hits. (2021 was 60.6% Playstation and 36.8% XBOX) Microsoft has no operating system for Mobile, unless you count bribing / threatening Samsung to destroy their brand by preloading crapware that pissed everyone off, and Samsung Internet (the preloaded browser on their phones) has lost over 25% of its mobile marketshare YoY, which I’d suppose is probably a proxy for all of the people ditching annoying buggy Samsung phones with Microsoft garbage, like I did. Microsoft has been missing the boat on everything, and is a reactive, not proactive, company. Had Windows Mobile been a priority before Android and iPhone, they might have a presence now, but they’ve been reduced to paying off and threatening Spammy Samsung into including their sad “apps”. Samsung phones are very slow and glitchy, and a lot of that is, you know, not moving in the right direction. It has become a common carrier for malicious software that you can’t get rid of, including hidden Facebook system services that spy on people, even without Facebook accounts. I switched to a Google Pixel last year, and they’re much better. You lie down with dogs, you get fleas. So much for Spamsung. In Microsoft’s reduced circumstances, they’ve decided to “force the issue” and “discontinue Internet Explorer”. This Edge thing turned out to be a major strategic blunder that they are now committed to. It’s still there, rotting in the guts of Windows 11 and adding security problems, but they’ve removed all of the convenient ways to launch it. Despite Internet Explorer falling 69% 🙂 in a single year, Microsoft Edge failed to budge on the desktop. Firefox and Safari actually took a meaningful share on the desktop. This appears to be because people are buying Macs or not even getting a desktop computer at all and are heading straight to an iPhone. Since PC sales are in the dumps, (6% drop in hits to PornHub in 2022) and with them Windows license revenues drop even if it remains at 64.7% on the desktop, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a lot of those 11,000 layoffs at Microsoft were in Windows. We already know that a lot of them happened to the Microsoft Edge team because it leaked out on Twitter. ✐ Teams Impacted by Layoff on 1/18/2023⠀✐ @tomwarren Twitter is reporting Microsoft’s layoffs today have affected employees in the following divisions: • HoloLens • Microsoft Edge • marketing • 343 Industries • Bethesda -TheLayoff.com This is the second round of Microsoft Edge layoffs. The first round was last year, when they whacked a bunch of XBOX people at the same time. There’s really no use for Edge except to route people to their crappy off brand search engine and give them 3 screens of advertisements before any “results” and they scooped out Google’s spyware and put in Microsoft spyware. They marketed Edge as “saving you money with price comparisons”, and it’s usually offering you the wrong thing on some other site, and that’s an aside anyway because it’s just another way that their browser is obviously spying on you, keylogging, and password stealing. (There was a scandal a while back where Windows gives all your passwords from Firefox or Chrome to Edge anyway even if you said no.) Things are going so badly for Microsoft right now that they sacked their paid army of “come back to Windows trolls” last year, over_200_of_them_on_their official_payroll. Things aren’t just “getting” bad at Microsoft, this is 1990 in the Soviet Union. The Berlin wall had come down and there was still denial, there were still a lot of people projecting confidence that “reforms” would make the whole thing go on somehow, but it was on borrowed time. Very soon, they may even have to stop running the welfare programs for their army of unofficial trolls, like ZDNet and “Debian_Stabbers”. The situation in Azure/”Cloud” isn’t very good. They shuffle money around like Ted Beneke’s company on Breaking Bad to obscure where things are good and where things are bad. By shoving everything under “Cloud” they can absorb things that only cost money, including failed acquisitions like Skype, which….when is the last time anyone used that? But nobody asks questions of these sorts of things until it falls apart and the dam of investor-oriented propaganda busts open. Stay tuned. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 429 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/01/20/sirius-contract-signing/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/20/sirius-contract-signing/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.20.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Management_Lies_to_All_the_Technical_Staff_to_Trap Workers_in_a_New_Contract_a_Month_Before_Creating_a_Shell_in_the_US_for_Bill Gates⠀✐ Posted in Bill_Gates, Deception, Law, Microsoft at 9:40 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Note: This article is redacted as well/best as possible to protect people’s identities. It’s important to properly report and inform the public of this. There might be laws being broken herein. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇sirius-us-july-2019⦈_ Just a month after we were forced to sign a new contract that we did not see! Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ (Limited or Inc.) is a truly dodgy company; it has been exceedingly and increasingly dodgy every year since 2019 — a turning point for the worse AS we noted here yesterday, one must go back to 2019 to properly understand what happened to my employer (since 2011). 4 years ago we were compelled to sign up for a minuscule and dodgy shell valued at one British pound (just a little more than a dollars), initially registered in some poor residential area, maybe the address of the registrar rather than the company’s real (physical) address. Sirius Corporation was “becoming” Sirius ‘Open Source’ Ltd. and nobody told us about it while Sirius ‘Open Source’ Inc. was being created in another continent for Gates_Foundation as its “first client” (very shortly after formation). We don’t know why the company was so secretive about the whole thing, but the CEO did openly admit (verbally, never in writing) that the Gates Foundation had signed some NDA. The Gates Foundation would never ever be mentioned after that; never ever in writing! So what the heck was going on? I’ve long had this theory that they know cannot bribe me for silence (and maybe not threaten the employer either; they tried_this_already). It’s just to convenient to use fake ‘charity’ to gain greater control over my employer, getting the company to move to another country based on false promises, all for some work that thousands of American companies (not British) could trivially do. Why choose a Microsoft- hostile firm in another country and continent? It makes no sense. Was this something to do with me? Impossible to prove? Sure, and moreover there’s an NDA. Why on Earth was an NDA signed? For those who think Sirius some ‘small potatoes’, bear in mind this wasn’t always the case (it_is_now). For insatnce, see this 2006 press_release_from_Red Hat. To quote: “Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that UK based open source consulting firm , Sirius Corporation, has joined its Red Hat Advanced Partner Programme in Europe.” Back then Sirius Corporation was also a sponsor of the Free Software Foundation. It was a good company. Today I’d like to show a chain of correspondence show what exactly happened in 2019, at least as far as we can tell from our side. The gist of the story is, a colleague was working early that morning (or night) and said he’d likely not attend a meeting. I said the same. The company then escalated the tone and forced us to travel to the meeting, without even once mentioning a contract with a new company would be signed. They use progressively menacing, threatening language to invited people. While it seems a relative of management was invited*, the CEO was absent entirely. Why? How curious. In any event, in the correspondence below, do note there’s no mention of contract signing; the training was a bit of a joke too, as it was basically just a cover. The Office Manager initially to the NOC team, with all the “cabal” CC’d**. Hi Support, We will be holding a _compulsory_ [emphasis in original] Sirius Workshop to provide you all with the additional training required to carry out your role. During the specified day (list below) you will all be required to come into the office where xxxx will be able to help with any enquires. xxxx – 24th June Roy & Rianne – 26th June xxxx – 28th June I will organise travel for those of you that require it, I will send these details in a separate email. These dates cannot be changed due to requiring cover for your shifts whilst you are at the workshop. Can you all confirm that you have read this email. Thanks, xxxx & xxxx xxxx Sirius – stress free technology I politely responded half a day later: I’ve just spoken with Rianne about this. Would it please be possible to attend remotely (over Hangouts) for the sake of the environment and also to reduce travel costs? We’re very environmentally-conscientious and believe this can be done remotely in a way that is beneficial to all. We’d be very grateful. One colleague said: “I’ve read it – but I’ll be on night shift then so would be sleeping during the day time” (same day). Later we got sent some more: Sirius Training Workshop – June 2019 Hi All, Just to reiterate, this is a training workshop not only to help with gaining knowledge but also to collect feedback on what else you need in order to carry out your tasks to the best of your ability and for any concerns you may have. As you are all aware from the fortnightly meetings, Sirius is growing and we’re taking on more and more clients. We want to ensure that each of our clients are getting the same standard of service during the day shifts and overnight/weekend and xxxx will be providing the training to ensure this is the case. It will also be a great opportunity to meet up with the office team. Please find attached the agenda for the day. From the attached PDF: Sirius Workshop Agenda: W/C: 24th June 2019 Morning Meet-up: 09:00 – 10:00 Brief meeting to discuss what you would like to gain from the training workshop – We will then try to cover all these topics / help answer queries during the training session. Training session with xxxx Lunch Break: 13:00 – 14:00 Training session to continue – Task / Trouble shooting with xxxx Feedback with management – this will give you the opportunity to give any further feedback for anything else that you may need to successfully carry out all tasks during your shifts and receive feedback. Please feel free to write any notes/questions below that you would like to discuss on the day. Notes: …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………… Notice there is NO mention of new contract signing for a new company. A day or so later: Dear All, As previously discussed, a support workshop has been arranged for each of you between the 24/06/2019 – 28/06/2019 to assist with your role. I have made arrangements for your shifts to be covered and ensured that you will have appropriate rest before returning to your normal working pattern. The training is mandatory training the company are covering all of the costs including the travel and will be providing food. It is not possible for your attendance to be arranged remotely due to the nature of the training so your attendance is required. This shift is regarded as your normal working shift for the day you are attending and failure to attend could result in formal action. This is direct management instruction and is intended to ensure that there is no issues and that everyone attends this training that the company has gone to expense to arrange. Kind Regards, xxxx Read “It is not possible for your attendance to be arranged remotely due to the nature of the training so your attendance is required” as “we’re going to (en)trap you into signing a contract you never saw, probably illegally…” Later came this: Hi Roy, To ensure I leave you enough rest period your shift on Tuesday 25th June will be covered by xxxx. Your next shift on the 26th June will also be covered by xxxx and you will need to arrive at the office around 12noon for your training. You will still be paid your normal salary – no reductions will be made. Please keep your receipts for your travel as I will need these to process your expenses and I will ensure you’re reimbursed on the day. Lunch will also be provided. If you can please confirm that you understand this, hopefully it all makes senses. Incase I have missed anything please let me know and I will get any queries answered ASAP. Kind Regards, xxxx Still no mention of contract. Next E-mail: Hi Roy, Please find attached a Self Assessment that I would like you to fill out before your training workshop. This will be used during the feedback meeting in the first part of the workshop in order to see what we can help with during your training with xxxx. You can either print it off and fill it in OR fill it in online and email me a copy. Please just make sure its done by the day of your training workshop as it will be really useful for everyone taking part in the workshop that day. Kind Regards, xxxx And to my wife: Hi xxxx, xxxx has already mentioned that we will be organising cover for shifts. Roy – your shifts on the 25th June 2019 and 26th June 2019 will be covered – emails to follow with more details. Due to the journey, we completely understand that you will not likely arrive by 10am – but we are aware and will be adjusting your agenda times. Thanks, xxxx The person signing the above messages was likely an “instrument” in doing something illegal, having to “lie to Roy to protect the boss” (by denying the truth). Such spineless, blindly-obedient workers would not last long, as the company would collapse. So even this blind loyalty to reckless bosses would not save them. We will always remember. █ _______ * Probably another fine example of overt nepotism (unqualified relatives as staff). ** They knew what they were really doing. 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We didn’t get to even examine what we were signing. That was around the time a person unknown to us registered a company in the US — a company whose first client would be the Gates_Foundation. There was an NDA, so nothing was said to us. The name “Gates Foundation” was never put in writing, either (ever!), so it was merely a verbal mention by the CEO, insisting to me it would not jeopardise my freedom of expression. The video above explains why that was extremely suspicious, especially the timing. We also explained_this before,_even_as_memes. “Sirius operates like a cryptic, secretive cabal while maintaining that same old audacity to use the term “Open Source”.”Months ago the CEO accused me of saying things I never said. He told my wife that I had claimed Microsoft bribed Sirius managers, only much later to correct himself and actually show what I said (with context included). What I said was not false; it’s not convenient to the CEO. But he’s the one who got himself into this mess. He only told me about it after he had signed some mysterious contract and an NDA. How could he be so naive? Did he not know Microsofters_were_trying_to_silence_me_in_all_sorts_of sinisters_and_nefarious_ways? The video above takes the example of the Microsoft_layoffs (lots of cuts expected throughout this year), mentions the enigma around pensions, and then explains some of the “side stories”. Sirius operates like a cryptic, secretive cabal while maintaining that same old audacity to use the term “Open Source”. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 871 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.20.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_20/01/2023:_Red_Hat_Satellite_6.12.1_is_Out,_FOSS_Weekly_Blocked_by Google/Gmail⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:46 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Chromium # Mozilla o Programming/Development # Java * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Science * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ That_Old_ThinkPad_Needs_An_Open_Source_2.5″_IDE SSD⠀⇛ So you fancy yourself a FOSS devotee, do you? Running GNU/Linux on your old ThinkPad, avoiding devices that need binary blobs? Got LibreBoot installed too? Not bad, not bad. But what about the hard drive? Can you be sure you aren’t leaking some freedoms out of that spinning rust? o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ SDTimes ☛ The_perfect_SRE_doesn’t_exist,_but_the_right_one might_already_be_in_your_organization_–_SD_Times⠀⇛ There’s been an explosion of interest in SRE over the last 18 months and a lot of this has been from companies that are looking at scaling their DevOps or DevSecOps initiatives to look at the reliability concerns of their customers. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Set_Different_Kubernetes_Restart Policies⠀⇛ We will talk specifically about the various Kubernetes restart policies in this article. Let us first discuss the various policies that are used when Kubernetes has to be restarted. You can use these Policies to stop a certain workload from being deployed in the cluster. While imposing stringent standards in the cluster is typically done to ensure compliance, cluster administrators should also follow several best practices that have been suggested. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Use_Linux_sysctls_in_Kubernetes⠀⇛ This post will discuss what Linux sysctl is in Kubernetes and how it can be used within a cluster of Kubernetes. The sysctl is an interface in the Linux operating system which enables the administrator to modify the parameters of the kernel at runtime. Here, we will demonstrate how to use the Linux sysctls in the Kubernetes platform. We will demonstrate a simple example to help you understand what kind of output you can expect while implementing the kubectl commands for using the sysctls in Kubernetes. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Kubernetes_HostPath_Volumes⠀⇛ A hostPath volume points to a particular file system socket or directory on the node. In Kubernetes, there are various volume types. Because GitRepo and emptyDir volumes are erased, the hostPath volume is advantageous in Kubernetes applications because it preserves the content of the volumes. The hostPath volume and the Kubernetes volumes type are discussed in this article. You will learn how to launch the Minikube and build a YAML file manifest in this article. You will then be guided step-by-step through the configuration of the hostPath volume and the creation of the pod volume. # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Consider_All_Microservices_Vulnerable_— And_Monitor_Their_Behavior_|_Kubernetes⠀⇛ This post warns Devops from a false sense of security. Following security best practices when developing and configuring microservices do not result in non-vulnerable microservices. The post shows that although all deployed microservices are vulnerable, there is much that can be done to ensure microservices are not exploited. It explains how analyzing the behavior of clients and services from a security standpoint, named here “Security- Behavior Analysis”, can protect the deployed vulnerable microservices. It points to Guard, an open source project offering security-behavior monitoring and control of Kubernetes microservices presumed vulnerable. As cyber attacks continue to intensify in sophistication, organizations deploying cloud services continue to grow their cyber investments aiming to produce safe and non-vulnerable services. However, the year-by-year growth in cyber investments does not result in a parallel reduction in cyber incidents. Instead, the number of cyber incidents continues to grow annually. Evidently, organizations are doomed to fail in this struggle – no matter how much effort is made to detect and remove cyber weaknesses from deployed services, it seems offenders always have the upper hand. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ This_new_Steam_feature_will_change_how_you_use_your Steam_Deck!_–_Invidious⠀⇛ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_84:_the_@property_at-rule⠀⇛ The @property rule allows you to register custom properties. You can already define custom properties, but the difference between defining and registering is that the at-rule allows you to specify the type and other attributes. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Beginner’s_Guide_to_Using_Podman_Compose⠀⇛ If you have looked for alternatives to Docker, Podman might have attracted your attention. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_WhatsApp_Client_in Linux_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛ Looking for an easy way to install and use WhatsApp on Linux? This how-to guide gives step-by-step instructions on how you can download and set up WhatsApp on your Linux machine. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_GIMP_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04⠀⇛ GIMP, also known as GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a widely used and highly versatile image editing software that can be integrated into your Ubuntu desktop. This powerful software can be used for a variety of tasks, including photo editing, graphic design, and creating digital art. It offers many features that can bring many benefits to your workflow, such as the ability to enhance and manipulate images, create custom graphics, and save money on expensive alternatives. Incorporating GIMP into your Ubuntu desktop is a great way to take your image editing skills to the next level. # ⚓ Setting_Up_an_Email_Server_with_Carbonio_CE⠀⇛ This article gives an overview of how to deploy and manage a private email server on Linux using Carbonio Community Edition and its dedicated Admin Panel. Sending and receiving confidential information is a normal part of any business. Many companies send this information through public email servers, which means they have little control over who can run, use and manage the email system. This exposes them to spam, phishing, and data breaches. Having a private server is a big step towards email security; plus, it keeps those creepy online ads away. Here is an easy way to deploy and manage your own private email server on Linux using Carbonio Community Edition and its dedicated Admin Panel. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PHP_Composer_on_Debian_11_or 10⠀⇛ PHP Composer is a powerful tool that helps manage dependencies in PHP projects. It works by specifying the dependencies in a file called composer.json and then running the composer command to install or update them. Incorporating PHP Composer into your Debian system can bring numerous advantages to your development process. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Upgrade_from_Debian_11_Bullseye_to Debian_12_Bookworm⠀⇛ Debian is a widespread Linux distribution known for its stability and security. The upcoming version of Debian 11 Bookworm is an exciting release that looks to feature Linux Kernel 6.1 and GNOME 43. The Debian Release Team has proposed the following schedule for the release of Debian 12.0: transition and toolchain freeze around January 12, 2023, soft freeze around February 12, 2023, and complete hard freeze around March 12, 2023. The release of Debian 12.0 is expected to take place a few months after that, depending on the progress of bug fixes. A mid-2023 release is expected. People eager to upgrade to Debian 12 Bookworm can do so from Debian 11 Bullseye, but it’s important to note that some bugs may be present. However, for those who are comfortable with testing software or are not bothered by potential issues, upgrading from Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm is possible with a few simple steps. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Monitor_RAM_Usage_on_Linux_–_Linux Nightly⠀⇛ This tutorial shows how to monitor RAM usage on Linux by using commands like top, htop, free, vmstart, and a GUI method. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Use_Snap_Package_Manager_on_Linux_– Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ This tutorial shows how to install Snap package manager on all Linux distros, and use it to install, remove, and update software packages. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_Discord_on_Manjaro_–_Linux Nightly⠀⇛ See how to install Discord on Manjaro Linux using Pacman command or Snap package manager. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PHP_8.2,_8.1,_8.0,_or_7.4_on Debian_11_or_10⠀⇛ PHP is a programming language executed on the server and is mainly used for creating websites and web applications. It can be easily incorporated into a Debian server to create dynamic websites and content management systems (CMS). PHP is also a popular language for web developers as it can be integrated with various databases and frameworks to create powerful, dynamic web applications. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Import_the_Favorites/Bookmarks_into Google_Chrome⠀⇛ If you’re switching to Google Chrome from another web browser, you will want to import the favorites/ bookmarks from that browser to Google Chrome. Google Chrome can import the favorites/bookmarks from other browsers very easily. To import the favorites/bookmarks into Google Chrome, open the Google Chrome and click on ⋮ > Bookmarks > Import bookmarks and settings… from the top-right corner of Google Chrome. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Create_Local_Persistent_Volume_in Kubernetes⠀⇛ In this guide, we will learn about local persistent volumes in Kubernetes and how we create local persistent volume files in Kubernetes. Persistent volumes are similar to host Path volumes but they allow only a few specifications, like point-to- point pining to specific nodes. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Create_Kubernetes_Network_Policies⠀⇛ In this article, we will discuss network policies in Kubernetes. Network policies are very important in Kubernetes. With the help of network policies, we specify how pods communicate with each other and how we make connections between pods. If you are new to this concept, this article is for you. Let us start the article with a detailed definition of network policies in Kubernetes. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Configure_Event_Rate_Limit_in Kubernetes⠀⇛ Kubernetes provides various ways to control the number of resources individual containers can consume. One important way to limit the number of resources used by individual containers is through event rate limits. This article describes event rate limits and how to use this feature to limit resource consumption for your applications running on Kubernetes. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Configure_Deny_Service_External_IPs_in Kubernetes⠀⇛ You may run into a problem while setting up a Kubernetes cluster when you only know how to use NodePort to make your Kubernetes service accessible over the Internet. When employing the NodePort service type, a high port number will be assigned and you must allow connections to those ports in your firewall rule. It is detrimental to your infrastructure particularly if the server is accessible via the open Internet. You can assign a block of IP addresses outside the cluster as a cluster administrator who can transmit traffic to services there. This is exactly what we are going to talk about in this article: to find all the critical information on how to configure deny service external IPs in Kubernetes. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_rename_the_volume_group_for_root_and_swap on_Alma_Linux_9?⠀⇛ In this post, you will learn how to rename the volume group for root and swap using Alma Linux 9 o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Developers_Of_Stadia_Exclusive_Hide_Game_Inside Other_Steam_Game_To_Preserve_It⠀⇛ This is one of those interesting times when multiple topics we regularly cover here at Techdirt converge. Readers here will recall all the posts we did on the rollout and eventual demise of Google’s Stadia product. Stadia was primarily to be a game streaming service for existing games. That being said, the service also signed up some exclusive games for release. With Stadia’s eventual demise, one of the open questions was how that art and culture in the form of the game would be preserved, another regular topic of conversation here. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Get_some_gems_like_Streets_of_Rogue, Hellpoint,_Chasm_and_more_in_this_bundle⠀⇛ Fanatical seem to be putting out some really great bundles lately, with the Vanquish Bundle offering up some pretty nice indie gems for you. I’ll go over what to expect on Steam Deck, and for Linux desktop listing either Native Linux status or ProtonDB rating (which goes Platinum – Gold – Silver – Bronze – Broken) to save you clicking around for info on each one. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GE-Proton_removes_the_dxvk-async_patch_in version_7-45⠀⇛ There’s another release of the community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton with version 7-45 out now, and this one removes a popular patch to help game performance but there’s a good reason for that. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Hyper_Gunsport_saves_the_original_from_the closure_of_Stadia⠀⇛ Hyper Gunsport released on Steam and itch.io with Native Linux support back in December 2022, and now the developer has sort-of rescued the original Stadia exclusive Gunsport with it. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Wandering_Village_gets_gamepad_and Steam_Deck_support⠀⇛ The Wandering Village, a very unique city-builder set on the back of a giant creature recently had a major update that added in gamepad support which also helps Steam Deck too. I was a pretty big fan of the initial release. # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Ayaneo_Confirms_the_Release_of_Their_Linux- based_Ayaneo_OS⠀⇛ Ayaneo announced that it will release Ayaneo OS, a Linux-based operating system for its devices later this year. The move is similar to Valve’s decision to release SteamOS 3, which powers the Steam Deck, as a way to have more control over the user experience. Here are the details… o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Plasma_5.27_Beta_live_with_Flatpak settings,_multi-monitor_upgrade,_SteamOS_updater⠀⇛ Here we go! The next version of KDE Plasma is now in Beta and ready for wider testing, with some really great sounding changes. This is my favourite Linux desktop environment I use at home, plus it’s the Desktop Mode on Steam Deck! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat_Announces_Intent_to_Reach_Net- Zero_Operational_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions_by_2030 [Ed: Shallow and meaningless greenwashing, citing some very distant future date]⠀⇛ Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its ambition to achieve net-zero operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 to address the global climate crisis. Red Hat’s 2030 operational net-zero goal follows a science-aligned pathway to limit global warming to 1.5-degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and includes scope 1 and 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions associated with Red Hat’s electricity consumption in third-party colocation data centers. The company has been through a rigorous exercise to develop an emissions accounting profile which establishes a baseline year of 2019. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Clevis_performance_improvements⠀⇛ This blog post showcases the performance improvements achieved in the process of booting unlock for Clevis LUKS-bound devices. By removing a single function from the boot process, boot time was shortened by 20% to 47%, depending on the scenario. Clevis is a software framework that allows booting encrypted LUKS devices without manual intervention. This tool is part of Network-Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE). Clevis is the “client” side, although it is not strictly necessary to work against a server, and can be configured to read keys in different ways. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat_Satellite_6.12.1_has_been released⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce that Red Hat Satellite 6.12.1 is generally available as of January 18, 2023. Red Hat Satellite is part of the Red Hat Smart Management subscription that makes it easier for enterprises to manage patching, provisioning, and subscription management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Taking_patch_management_to_the_next level_with_automation⠀⇛ The term “patching” dates back to the days of punch cards when a programmer would literally patch a hole in a punch card to correct a bug. This allowed the programmer to correct mistakes without re- punching the entire card. What a painfully manual process that would have been to scale! We have come a long way since the mid-twentieth century when this technique was used, but patching is as prevalent—if not significantly more so—today as ever as the threat landscape is evolving more rapidly and software release cycles shorten. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ MSI_Cubi_5_12M_Mini_PC_available_for_pre- order⠀⇛ MSI presented their Cubi 5 12M mini PC at CES 2023 earlier this month. This mini-PC integrates Alder- Lake-U processors and it provides dual 4K displays, dual 2.5GbE LAN ports, 1x M.2 slot , Wi-Fi 6E/ Bluetooth 5.2, etc. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Radxa_Taco_Turns_a_Raspberry_Pi_Compute Module_4_Into_a_NAS⠀⇛ As it uses a Compute Module, the carrier board has to supply all the ports, and this one has been neatly designed for network storage use with five SATA interfaces, each capable of taking a 2.5 inch hard drive or SSD up to 15mm (0.6in) thick. If you want to use 3.5in drives, that’s possible too with an extension cable. You can arrange the drives using software RAID in RAID 0, 1 or 5 configurations (with the last one requiring at least three disks). There’s no mention of a maximum drive capacity. In addition to this you get an M.2 M Key 2280 socket for an NVMe SSD, and a Micro SD card slot. There’s another M.2 socket too, an E Key for a Wi- Fi module or a Google Coral (opens in new tab) AI accelerator. There’s an optional OLED status screen too, and activity LEDs for all the drives. # ⚓ Computer History ☛ The_Lisa:_Apple’s_Most_Influential Failure⠀⇛ Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, CHM has received permission from Apple to release the source code to the Lisa software, including its system and applications software. Access the code here. What is the Apple Lisa computer, and why was its release on January 19, 1983, an important date in computer history? Apple’s Macintosh line of computers today, known for bringing mouse-driven graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to the masses and transforming the way we use our computers, owes its existence to its immediate predecessor at Apple, the Lisa. Without the Lisa, there would have been no Macintosh—at least in the form we have it today—and perhaps there would have been no Microsoft Windows either. # ⚓ CubicleNate ☛ Raspberry_Pi_OctoPrint_Powered_by_Ender3_3D Printer_–_CubicleNate’s_Techpad⠀⇛ After almost a year of having my Ender3, it has received a lot of new parts, fixes and upgrades. The great thing about the Ender3 is that you can do so much with it and truly personalize it for your use case. One area that needed to be addressed was the power supply situation that powers the Raspberry Pi running OctoPrint. Having a single switch to shut the station down is a far more elegant solution to power down this 3D printing station. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Quiet,_ultrathin_AirJet_solid_state_active cooling_chips_could_replace_fans_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Frore Systems Airjet Mini and Airjet Pro are active cooling chips that are just 2.8mm thick and quietly suck cool air in from the top of the chip before pushing it out the sides with the aim to replace traditional fan-based solutions in ultrabooks, or be integrated into VR headsets and smartphones for improved cooling. Yesterday we saw that cameras could clean themselves with micro-vibrations, and it happens that processors can be cooled with vibrations too as the Airjet chips are comprised of tiny membranes that vibrate at ultrasonic frequencies to generate a flow of air that enters through inlet vents in the top and transformed into high-velocity pulsating jets exiting from one side of the chip. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ LILYGO_T-RSC3_ESP32-C3_board_features isolated_RS232_–_RS485_interfaces,_5_to_24V_DC_input_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ LILYGO T-RSC3 is a relatively compact ESP32-C3 board with WiFi 4 and Bluetooth LE 5.0 connectivity, support for RS232 and RS485 communication protocols through a DB9 connector and a terminal connector respectively, and a wide 5V to 24V DC power input. LILYGO had already made an ESP32 board with CAN Bus and RS485 interfaces called the T-CAN485, but without any isolation. The new T-RSC3 offers both RS232 and RS485 interfaces, but no CAN Bus, protected by isolated transceiver modules that should make it safer to use in industrial environments. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ This_DIY_Apple_Pencil_writes_with_gestures⠀⇛ Released in 2015, the Apple Pencil is a technology- packed stylus that allows users to write on iPad screens with variations in pressure and angle — all while communicating with very low latencies. Nekhil Ravi and Shebin Jose Jacob of Coders Café were inspired by this piece of handheld tech to come up with their own pencil concept, except this one wouldn’t need a screen in order to function. The pair’s writing utensil relies on recognizing certain gestures as letters, and once one has been detected, outputs the result over USB or Bluetooth® to the host device. They started by first gathering many samples of different letters and how they correlate to the change in motion on the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense’s built-in accelerometer. From here, they designed an impulse in the Edge Impulse Studio to extract spectral features from the time series accelerometer data and pass it to a classification Keras neural network. The resulting model could accurately determine the correct letter from each gesture, making it suitable for deployment back to the Nano 33 BLE Sense. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Google_Prepares_Android_Tweaks_For_Pixel_Tablet⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S6_Lite_gets_Android_13- based_One_UI_5.0_update_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Indian_startups_rejoice_as_Android_ruling_against Google_upheld_|_Reuters⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_vows_to_cooperate_with_India_antitrust watchdog_after_Android_ruling_|_Reuters⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ [Old] Mailpile ☛ Rebooting_Mailpile⠀⇛ The main reason for these changes, is that Python 2 is no longer maintained or supported by the community, and I decided that rewriting the whole thing in Python 3 made more sense than attempting to port the old code. o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.03:_Unknown_Linux_Shells,_Terminals, Code_Editors_and_More⠀⇛ Google is tightening its noose around what emails it wants to show you instead of what you want to see. Several readers notified me that FOSS Weekly emails are going to the spam directly and they have to retrieve the mail from spam manually. If you are using Gmail, please add my email to your contacts list otherwise Google may start hiding it from your inbox. Don’t fall prey to Google’s tactics. [...] The FBI managed to trace a Tor user’s real IP address, they wouldn’t divulge how. We wonder how they were able to accomplish that. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Beta_Channel_Update_for ChromeOS/ChromeOS_Flex⠀⇛ The Beta channel is being updated to OS version: 15278.36.0, Browser version: 110.0.5464.41 for most ChromeOS devices. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Thunderbird_102.7.0_requires_manual_updating due_to_a_bug [Ed: Microsoft_is_breaking_Thunderbird]⠀⇛ Thunderbird 102.7.0 is the first version of the email client that handles OAuth2 authentication for Microsoft accounts differently. The team had to make the change, according to a blog post on the official Thunderbird website, to meet Microsoft’s publisher verification requirements. The project switched to a new Azure application and ID. Some users who use Thunderbird may receive a notification prompt on first run of Thunderbird 102.7.0 that prompts for administrative approval. If that is the case, an IT administrator needs to approve the client. The team provides the following information on the procedure: “If you encounter a screen saying “Need admin approval” during the login process, please contact your IT administrators to approve the client ID 9e5f94bc-e8a4-4e73-b8be- 63364c29d753 for Mozilla Thunderbird (it previously appeared to non-admins as “Mzla Technologies Corporation”). o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Connect_MongoDB_with_Golang⠀⇛ Just like the C language, the Golang language is also an open-source language that can be executed on many tools on Windows and Linux/Unix systems to create records. Like C++ and Java, we can make a connection between a MongoDB client system and Go language using any golang tool. To do this, we will be performing several very important and necessary steps in Ubuntu 22.04 by utilizing the Visual Studio code tool for a program. Before making a connection with MongoDB compass, we tend to install MongoDB and Visual Studio Code along with “go” and required extensions in the guide to help you out in the Go language. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ A_guide_to_Java_for_loops⠀⇛ In programming, you often need your code to iterate over a set of data to process each item individually. You use control structures to direct the flow of a program, and the way you tell your code what to do is by defining a condition that it can test. For instance, you might write code to resize an image until all images have been resized once. But how do you know how many images there are? One user might have five images, and another might have 100. How do you write code that can adapt to unique use cases? In many languages, Java included, one option is the for loop. Another option for Java is the Stream method. This article covers both. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Ten_Years_of_Blogging⠀⇛ Ten years ago today, I started this blog. I can’t believe it’s been a decade already! Here’s some stats from the last 10 years, as well as some lessons I’ve learned along the way… When I started drafting up this post, I thought it would be a good idea to have some stats, so I went away and typed up some liquid (as this blog is based on Jekyll) to show those stats. Then, I decided it would be cool to have ongoing stats as the blog grows, so I’ve added a stats page for us all to enjoy. To save you the trouble of navigating away from this page, here’s some high level stats… o ⚓ Greece ☛ Metro_riders_to_get_5G_services⠀⇛ The first phase of the project is set to last until March of this year and aims to find the best technical solution, which will then be applied to the entire network. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Hic_et_Nunc⠀⇛ A.E. Stallings is the author of four collections of poetry: Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), and Like (2018). Born in Decatur, Ga., in 1968, Stallings studied classics at the University of Georgia and at Oxford before decamping in 1999 to Athens, Greece, where she lives with her husband and two children. One of America’s leading poets, Stallings is also a translator of Hesiod and Lucretius as well as a book critic. Her body of work—which has drawn comparisons to Edna St. Vincent Millay and Elizabeth Bishop, but which also recalls the urbane style of her fellow American expatriate in Athens, James Merrill—is notable for two things: its sustained engagement with the literature and material culture of antiquity, and its use of rhyme, meter, and fixed verse forms. In her work, traditional forms like the Sapphic stanza, the sonnet, the villanelle, the sestina, the haiku, the triolet, and the ballad stanza can be found alongside forms of a newer vintage, like the multiple-choice poem, the poem whose syllabics are determined by the Fibonacci sequence, and the poem whose words are composed exclusively of a fixed series of letters.  o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Barbara_Walters_in_Real_Life:_Icon_and_‘Pushy Cookie’⠀⇛ Barbara Walters, who died on December 30, 2022, received many accolades during the days that followed. She was rightly hailed as a TV journalist who shattered glass ceilings and fused hard news with gossip-style entertainment and an interview style that led even famous world leaders and others, accustomed to formality and social distancing, to relish the aura of intimacy she created. She was admired, particularly by her female colleagues, who extolled Barbara Walters as ‘pioneer,’ ‘trailblazer,’ and ‘legendary.’ She was most frequently celebrated as an ‘iconic trailblazer’ who permanently elevated the role and impact of women in TV journalism. I share the view that her drive and style resulted in an extraordinary career that makes it plausible to eulogize her death with words of extreme praise, tempered in some assessments by her own self-deprecating image of herself as ‘a pushy cookie,’ and that she was, and probably needed to be, to climb to the heights of media stardom in the patriarchal kingdom from which she emerged. In the close aftermath of such a public death, I felt hesitant to share my own less flattering experience with Barbara. Yet as the days pass, I became convinced that this idealized portrayal of Walters needed to be balanced by off-camera encounters, which admittedly seem trivial if compared to the experience of countless others, but they were important for me and  accompanied by intriguing asides. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_The_Specter_of_Equity_and_Other Evils⠀⇛ + Having saved Christmas, FoxNews’ Greg Gutfeld, another man who failed at comedy and took up political commentary, has now declared war on “equity,” calling it an “evil word…a word that causes communism…and leads to (class?) war.” It’s like the movie Candyman. Say “Equity” three times in the mirror and presto: You’ll be forever haunted by the specter of … Communism! o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Twilight_borders_Cross-cultural_ties_and_historical tensions_at_a_tripoint_in_Central_Europe_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Q_Meter_Measures…_Q,_Of_Course⠀⇛ If you’ve ever dealt with RF circuits, you probably have run into Q — a dimensionless number that indicates the ratio of reactance to resistance. If you ever wanted to measure Q, you could do worse than pick up a vintage Booton 160A Q meter. [Mikrowave1] did just that and shows us how it works in the video below. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Victory_for_Human_Rights_and_Academic Freedom’:_Harvard_Reverses_on_Kenneth_Roth⠀⇛ Human rights and free expression advocates on Thursday said the Harvard Kennedy School finally made “the right decision” after the prestigious public policy school’s dean announced he was reversing his opposition to a fellowship for longtime human rights campaigner Kenneth Roth. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Domesticating_Plasma_With_A_Gorgeous_Live_Edge Table⠀⇛ If you’ve been reading Hackaday for any length of time, you’ll know we don’t often cover woodworking projects here. It’s not because we aren’t impressed with the skill and effort that folks put into them, and truth be told, we occasionally we even feel a pang of envy when looking at the final result. It’s just that, you know…they’re made of wood. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ High-Speed_Sled_Adds_Bicycle_Suspension⠀⇛ While you might have bought the best pair of skis in the 90s or 00s, as parts on boots and bindings start to fail and safety standards for ski equipment improve, even the highest-quality skis more than 15 or 20 years old will eventually become unsafe or otherwise obsolete. There are plenty of things that can be done with a pair of old skis, but if you already have a shot ski and an Adirondack chair made of old skis, you can put another pair to use building one of the fastest sleds we’ve ever seen. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ What_Else_Is_An_M.2_WiFi_Slot_Good_For?⠀⇛ Many mainboards and laptops these days come with a range of M.2 slots, with only a subset capable of NVME SSDs, and often a stubby one keyed for ‘WiFi’ cards. Or that’s what those are generally intended to be used for, but as [Peter Brockie] found out when pilfering sites like AliExpress, is that you can get a lot of alternate expansion cards for those slots that have nothing to do with WiFi. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Automated_Drip_Watering_Device_Keeps_Plants Happy⠀⇛ Plants tend to need a regular supply of water to stay happy. If you’re a green thumb, it’s one of the primary things you should take care of before you go on holiday. This DIY plant watering system from [Jaychouu] offers to handle just that. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Watchdog_Seeks_Harsher_Penalties_in_Wake_of Abuse_at_Illinois_Mental_Health_Center⠀⇛ The watchdog for the Illinois Department of Human Services is seeking harsher penalties against health care workers who obstruct abuse and neglect investigations. IDHS Inspector General Peter Neumer’s call to action comes on the heels of extensive reporting by Lee Enterprises, Capitol News Illinois and ProPublica last year that revealed a culture of abuse and cover-ups at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in rural southern Illinois. The news organizations detailed how uncooperative staff stymied the state’s ability to hold employees facing serious abuse allegations to account. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Unredacted_NIH_E-mails_Show_Efforts_to_Rule Out_a_Lab_Origin_of_Covid⠀⇛ As Covid-19 was spreading fear and spurring lockdowns across the United States in March 2020, the scientific journal Nature Medicine published a paper titled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.” Written by five renowned academic scientists, it played an important early role in shaping the debate about a fiercely controversial topic: the origin of the virus that has killed millions since it emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Did it spill from animals to humans in nature, on a farm, in a market? Or did it leak from a lab like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a leading center of coronavirus research in China? Drawing on “comparative analysis of genomic data,” the paper’s authors wrote that “our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated construct.” Toward the end of the paper, they added, “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible” in explaining the origin of the virus. Instead, the scientists strongly favored a natural origin, arguing that the virus likely spilled from bats into humans, possibly by way of an intermediate animal host.1This article was produced in partnership with The Intercept. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Fukushima’s_Toxic_Dumping_Flashpoint⠀⇛ “We must remind Japan that if the radioactive nuclear wastewater is safe, just dump it in Tokyo, test it in Paris and store it in Washington, but keep our Pacific nuclear-free.” (Vanuatu’s celebrated former ‘Turaga Chief’ Motarilavoa Hilda Lini) In the face of considerable worldwide criticism, TEPCO is moving ahead with its well-advertised plans to dump contaminated water from storage tanks at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster zone into the Pacific Ocean. They are running out of storage space and the Pacific Ocean is conveniently right next door. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Supreme_Court’s_Big_Investigation_Into_the Dobbs_Leak_Is_a_Big_Bust⠀⇛ Last May, about six weeks before the Supreme Court released its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in which conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade, a leaked version of that opinion appeared in Politico. The Politico draft turned out to be almost exactly what Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his final majority opinion. Whoever gave the opinion to Politico had access to the court’s deliberations at the highest level. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Abortion_Bans_Are_Part_of_GOP_Plan_to Disempower_Working_Class:_Analysis⠀⇛ The Economic Policy Institute details how “abortion restrictions constitute an additional piece in a sustained project of economic subjugation.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Cancel_This_Failed_Experiment’:_Physicians Tell_Biden_HHS_to_End_Medicare_Privatization_Pilot⠀⇛ A national physician group this week called for the complete termination of a Medicare privatization scheme that the Biden White House inherited from the Trump administration and later rebranded—while keeping intact its most dangerous components. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ Attackers_Crafted_Custom_Malware_for Fortinet_Zero-Day⠀⇛ # ⚓ NBC ☛ The_lights_have_been_on_at_a_Massachusetts_school_for over_a_year_because_no_one_can_turn_them_off⠀⇛ The lighting system was installed at Minnechaug Regional High School when it was built over a decade ago and was intended to save money and energy. But ever since the software that runs it failed on Aug. 24, 2021, the lights in the Springfield suburbs school have been on continuously, costing taxpayers a small fortune. # ⚓ [Old] Minnechaug Regional High School ☛ What’s_Wrong_With The_Lights?⠀⇛ When the high school was rebuilt in 2012, an energy conservation software was added which relied on a daylight harvesting system for the lights to use daylight to equalize the light in the room. Cenedella estimates that there are about 7,000 lights in the building, all of which individually send information through wires to a computer which determines how much light to keep that particular one on. This system is owned by a company called 5th Light. “On occasion, the software would go down and it would somehow get corrupted. We would try to recycle it and eventually everything would come back on,” Cenedella said. “Unfortunately the last time it got corrupted it was unfixable.” Gaining access to the software that runs the lights is one of the main reasons why the lights can’t be adjusted correctly. “[5th Light] no longer has any of that information. They don’t have the software,” Cenedella said. “The old information is proprietary, so they wouldn’t originally give it to us. Now, they say that they don’t have it and that it’s unavailable.” # ⚓ CBC ☛ Want_a_job?_You’ll_have_to_convince_our_AI_bot first⠀⇛ While AI hiring tools can save time and money for businesses when all they want to do is fill a job, experts caution that the platforms can overlook qualified candidates — and even introduce new biases into hiring processes if they’re not carefully used. Meanwhile, human job seekers are usually in the dark about exactly which AI tools are being used and how their algorithms work, prompting frustrated searches for advice on how to “beat” recruitment software — much of it only scratching the surface. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ BeyondTrust_enhances_Linux_and_Active_Directory support [Ed: Stephen Withers (Microsofter) pushing Microsoftism in “Linux” clothing; see this on Azure and “Trust”]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ Microsoft_Hosted_Sting Performance_in_Davos_on_Night_Before_Announcing_Layoffs [Ed: At least Sting did not dance and perform for Saudi 'Royals'. Bill Gates and Microsoft are a near second in Davos.]⠀⇛ On Tuesday evening, Microsoft hosted an event. It was an intimate gathering of 50 or so people, including the company’s top executives, who got to while away the evening listening to a performance by the musical artist Sting, said people familiar with the event. The concert would end up sounding a sour note to some employees at Microsoft the next morning. On Wednesday—while much of the company’s leadership team was halfway around the world from its Redmond, Wash. headquarters—it announced plans to lay off 10,000 people. It was the largest round of layoffs Microsoft has had since 2014, and as CEO Satya Nadella would explain in a blog post, reflected the need for the company to adapt to a global economic slowdown. Top Microsoft executives have been a major presence at this year’s World Economic Forum. On Tuesday Mr. Nadella was interviewed on stage for a Wall Street Journal panel and he spoke about the promise of artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, he was on stage again, discussing the headwinds for the tech industry, and the need to do more with less. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ News AU ☛ PTJ_Muay_Thai_trainer’s_shock_as_15_cops turn_up_after_Apple_Watch_calls_police⠀⇛ Jamie was yelling out the combinations “1-1- 2” – while also telling his client “good shot” – and that’s when he and the officers realised what had possibly happened. “The button is on the side of the watch and if it is pressed down for long enough, Siri is activated and in that time I must have yelled out ‘1-1-2’, it called emergency and they heard the impact of the pads and me saying ‘good shot’ or ‘nice shot’.” # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ New_T-Mobile_Breach_Affects_37 Million_Accounts⠀⇛ T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts. # ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_12.0.2⠀⇛ Tor Browser 12.0.2 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This release updates Firefox to 102.7, including bug fixes, stability improvements and important security updates. There were no Android-specific security updates to backport from the Firefox 109 release. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Experian’s_Treasure_Trove_Of_PII_Breached By_Simply_Altering_URLs⠀⇛ Data brokers like Experian and Equifax pose tempting targets for malicious hackers looking to find another source for personal info they can hawk online to other malicious people. The sad thing is, no one really needs to hack their databases. They’re more than willing to just leave them exposed. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ When_It_Comes_to_the_US_Military,_Nothing Succeeds_Like_Failure⠀⇛ More than two millennia ago, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recounted a disastrous conflict Athens waged against Sparta. A masterwork on strategy and war, the book is still taught at the US Army War College and many other military institutions across the world. A passage from it describing an ultimatum Athens gave a weaker power has stayed with me all these years. And here it is, loosely translated from the Greek: “The strong do what they will and the weak suffer as they must.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Insurrection⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Medvedev_Threatens_Nuclear_War_If_Russia Loses_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of current Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, warned the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Thursday that a Russian loss in Ukraine could lead to nuclear war. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Prince_Harry’s_PR_Firestorm_Creates Opportunity_to_Rethink_Militarism⠀⇛ In the wake of Prince Harry’s new book Spare, leaked excerpts that he had killed 25 people in the war in Afghanistan shocked readers. He reflected on what it’s like to take a life in war: “You can’t kill people if you think of them as people. You can’t really harm people if you think of them as people. They were chess pieces removed from the board. Bads taken away before they could kill Goods. I’d been trained to ‘other-ize’ them, trained well. On some level I recognized this learned detachment as problematic. But I also saw it as an unavoidable part of soldiering.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Did_Washington_Boost_Another_South_American Coup?⠀⇛ The U.S. tyranny of monopoly capital has long preferred to deal with fascist governments abroad, specifically in the Global South. American oligarchs’ foreign fascist sycophants are so much more malleable than democratic representatives; they don’t even have to be told what to do because they know. It’s in their DNA. From murdering peasants to tossing leftists out of helicopters during flight, to privatizing anything in the public domain to stuffing their offshore bank accounts with cash, to financing death squads to doing the bidding, whatever it may be, of Washington bigwigs, foreign fascists all read from the same script, and nowhere is their chorus more uniform than in Latin America. That’s because despite the southern continent’s repeated and determined lurch toward socialism over the past century, the U.S. has intervened with coups so often that by now Latino fascists have loads of experience. They know exactly what to do. And of course it’s elementary that what to do does not include a basic income, state-subsidized housing, medical care and education, improving basic infrastructure, including mass transit, providing food to the poor, putting the military on a funding diet or exiting the extractivist and cash crop economic model imposed by those financial totalitarians, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. All such moves smack of communism, of staving off destitution for the already impoverished, of concern for public welfare rather than private profit. And Latino fascists know that will never do, just as they know that unions, students, liberation theologians and left intellectuals are their natural enemies. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_“Authoritarianism”_Really_“Being Revealed_to_be_Weak”_Around_World?⠀⇛ Beware of elite academics who tell you that things are better for democracy and the common good than they really are. Commenting last week on connections between (a) the US-American fascists Steve Bannon and Donald Trump, (b) the January 6the Capitol Riot, (c) the Brazilian fascist Bolsonaro family, and (d) the fascist attack on Brazil’s national government buildings twelve days ago, the liberal media- acclaimed “fascism expert” and 20th Century European historian (at NYU) Ruth Ben-Ghiat said something rather odd. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Police_Violence_Reached_an_All-Time_High Last_Yea,_Are_We_Ready_to_Shrink_Police_Budgets?⠀⇛ The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington Post’s police shootings database, law enforcement officers shot and killed 1,096 people last year. In comparison, there were 1,048 shooting fatalities at the hands of police the year before, 1,019 the year before that, 997 the year before that, and so on. These numbers are most likely underestimated. According to Abdul Nasser Rad, managing director of research and data at Mapping Police Violence, the Post “only captures incidents where a police officer discharges their firearm and the victim is killed.” This means that it doesn’t count events like the 2014 killing of Eric Garner in New York and the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, as both deaths resulted from asphyxiation. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Activists_Demand_Independent_Investigation_After Cops_Kill_Protester_in_Atlanta⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Independent_Probe_Demanded_After_Police Kill_Forest_Defender_“Tortuguita”_in_Atlanta⠀⇛ Police accountability advocates on Thursday called for an independent investigation after an activist was shot and killed during a multi-jurisdictional law enforcement raid on a forest encampment blocking the construction of a massive police training center just outside Atlanta popularly known as Cop City. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Biden’s_Safer_America_Plan_Will_Harm_Already Hyper-Policed_Communities⠀⇛ A safer plan for America would invest in its people by promoting alternative deterrents to violence. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Plutonium_Pit_Bomb_Plans_Excoriated_by General_Accounting_Office⠀⇛ The independent General Accounting Office (GAO) issued a scathing report last week about the plan underway to refurbish plutonium pit triggers for nuclear weapons decades into the future. The GAO gave the National Nuclear Safety Administration a failing grade for its master plan to build “pit” factories in Los Alamos N.M. and Savannah River Site S.C., warning that costs, safety and quality controls could not be confidently verified by NNSA’s  current management strategies. NNSA is a semiautonomous branch of the Department of Energy tasked with maintaining the potency of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. NNSA is also described by the GAO as an agency “at high risk of fraud, financial waste, abuse, and mismanagement”. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ It_Has_Always_Been_a_‘Religious_War’:_On Ben_Gvir_and_the_Adaptability_of_Zionism⠀⇛ In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behavior at the just-conquered holy Muslim shrines in Occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 as “an astonishing moment of religious restraint”. “The Jewish people had just returned to its holiest site, from which it had been denied access for centuries, only to effectively yield sovereignty at its moment of triumph,” Halevi wrote with a lingering sense of pride, as if the world owes Israel a ton of gratitude in the way it conducted itself during one of the most egregious acts of violence in the modern history of the Middle East. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Picture_of_Global_Complicity:_Aiding Myanmar’s_Military_Regime⠀⇛ International relations remains the sum game of vast hypocrisies, a patchwork of compromises and the compromised. Every moral condemnation of a regime’s conduct is bound to be shown up as an exercise in double standards, often implicating the accusers. In the case of the military regime in Myanmar, double standards are not only modish but expected. A number of international declarations and measures have targeted Myanmar’s regime for its blood-soaked brutality, its genocidal practices against the Rohingya, and its general contempt for the human rights of its citizenry. In a statement last November, US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken took note of the military’s “brutal campaign of violence against the people of Burma, carrying out lethal air strikes against the political opposition and the broader civilian population.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Tony_Dungy_Is_a_Right-Wing_Zealot_and_the_NFL and_NBC_Don’t_Care⠀⇛ I’ve covered the March for Life in Washington, D.C., for years. It is a madhouse of right-wing gadflies, disinformation addicts, Qanon adherents, and, most disturbingly, class after class of teenage and tween-age children dragged there by teachers who abuse their authority in ways that would make Ron DeSantis smirk. (He only outlaws the speech of some teachers.) # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Harvard_Reverses_Course_After_a_Nation Exposé⠀⇛ On January 5, The Nation reported that Ken Roth, who headed Human Rights Watch for over two decades, had been rejected for a resident fellowship at the Kennedy School’s Carr Center on Human Rights. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_There_a_World_Beyond_War?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_May_Help_Ukraine_Launch_An_Offensive_On Crimea⠀⇛ By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack In a new article titled “U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea,” the New York Times reports that the Biden administration now believes Kyiv may need to launch an offensive on the territory that Moscow has considered a part of the Russian Federation since 2014, “even if such a move […] # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Direct_From_Western_Sahara:_Learn_About_the Struggle_of_the_Last_Colony_in_Africa⠀⇛ After 30 years of peace, the Polisario Front holds its 16th Congress amidst the war against Morocco’s invasion. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_compares U.S._Ukraine_aid_to_Holocaust_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Speaking at an annual press conference on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov likened U.S. efforts to assist Ukraine to Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” to eradicate Europe’s Jewish population. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prigozhin_says_Wagner_forces_have_captured_key village_near_Bakhmut_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Wagner mercenary group founder Evgeny Prigozhin said Thursday that his troops have taken control of Klishchiivka, a village located about five kilometers (three miles) south of Bakhmut. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_on_‘peace_talks’_with_Putin:_‘I_cannot make_out_if_he’s_really_alive’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ At the remote Ukrainian Breakfast hosted as part of the Davos 2023 forum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed doubt about the possibility of peace talks with Russia — and whether Vladimir Putin is still “alive.” “I don’t quite understand,” he said, # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Podolyak:_banker_Denys_Kireyev,_who_warned_of Russia’s_plans_to_attack_Kyiv,_was_killed_because_of_lack_of ‘unified_coordination’_among_law_enforcement_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Former banker and Ukrainian intelligence officer Denys Kireyev was killed because, in the first days of the war, there was “no unified coordination” between Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said in an interview with Baltic news website Delfi. Podolyak is also a member of the Ukrainian delegation to talks with Russia. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ It_Comes_Down_to_Political_Practice,_It Comes_Down_to_Weapons⠀⇛ The deep divisions in the US left over the Ukraine war can be reduced to a single practical question: Do you support sending weapons to Ukraine? The answer to that question depends on whether or not you accept the idea that we’re the cops of the world. The two parties accept this without question but the pro-weapons left? Behind a facade of left- sounding words, political practice tells the tale. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Azerbaijan_Blockades_Nagorno-Karabakh Region,_Angering_Armenia_&_Raising_Specter_of_a_New_War⠀⇛ We get an update on Azerbaijan’s month-long blockade of the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, home to ethnic Armenians in the South Caucasus. Russia, which brokered a ceasefire between the two countries in 2020 following six weeks of intense fighting, says it’s ready to send troops to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, but with the Russian military bogged down in a costly war in Ukraine, the country’s capacity to enforce a settlement may have changed. We speak with journalist Roubina Margossian, managing editor of the independent news site EVN Report in Armenia, who reported from Nagorno-Karabakh during the 2020 war. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Jailed_Russian_student_activist_Dmitry_Ivanov beaten_and_threatened_with_rape_by_prison_guard_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Dmitry Ivanov, a student activist who was jailed last year for anti-war posts he made on his Telegram channel, has been severely beaten by a prison guard, according to his lawyer, Maria Eismont. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Expected_to_serve_in_any_conditions’:_How_Russia is_using_new,_stricter_laws_to_prosecute_soldiers_who_leave the_front_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In September 2022, on the day before Vladimir Putin announced mobilization in Russia, the Russian State Duma passed multiple amendments to the country’s Criminal Code at an emergency session. Among other changes, lawmakers introduced harsher penalties for “crimes against military service,” including insubordination, resistance to superiors, unauthorized absence from one’s unit, and desertion. BBC News Russia examined which charges are being applied most often to soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Unexplained_photos_and_videos_showing_military equipment_on_Moscow_roofs_appear_online_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On January 19, videos and photographs appeared on social media, allegedly showing Pantsir-S1 surface- to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery systems mounted on the roofs of several buildings in Moscow. The authenticity of the videos and photos has not been confirmed. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘A_military_defeat_is_the_only_cure’:_Sociologist Dina_Khapaeva_on_how_Russia’s_‘death_cult’_led_to_the_war_in Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In late November, at a meeting with “soldiers’ mothers,” Vladimir Putin told a woman whose son had purportedly died in Ukraine that “we all leave this world sooner or later,” and that her son “didn’t leave this life in vain” because he “accomplished his mission” rather than “dying from vodka or something.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ European_Parliament_moves_to_establish_a_tribunal for_Russian_and_Belarusian_leadership’s_war_crimes_against Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ With a majority vote, members of the European Parliament have adopted a resolution to establish a tribunal for the war crimes committed in Ukraine by the Russian and Belarusian leadership. A press release noted the MEP’s joint conviction that o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Only_Social_Pressure_Will_Contain_the_Climate Crisis:_Greta⠀⇛ “The changes will not come from the inside but from the outside. They will go as far as they can for their own benefits,” Thunberg said, referring to fossil fuel companies. “We need to create a critical mass of people who demand change and justice,” she emphasized at a high-profile meeting in Davos (Switzerland) with the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), as reported by Reuters. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ This_Scientist_Was_Fired_by_the_US_Government After_Engaging_in_Climate_Protests⠀⇛ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Wyoming_‘Bans’_Electric_Cars_In_Dumb Performative_Oil_Industry_Ass_Kissing⠀⇛ While some states work on how best to phase out traditional gas cars to help mitigate the climate’s steady collapse, Wyoming is busy showcasing how far its head is lodged up the ass of the oil and gas industry. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Out_of_the_Lab_and_Into_the_Streets”:_Meet Earth_Scientist_Fired_After_Engaging_in_Climate_Protests⠀⇛ It was a dramatic scene when scientist and climate activist Rose Abramoff joined fellow scientist Peter Kalmus in December to disrupt the world’s biggest meeting of scientists who study Earth and space: the American Geophysical Union. The nonviolent protest was meant as a call to action to address the climate crisis. She and Kalmus went up on stage and unfurled a banner that read, “Out of the lab & into the streets.” This was not Abramoff’s first protest. She previously chained herself to a White House gate and to a fence at Charlotte Douglas International Airport as part of a series of global protests coordinated by a group called Scientist Rebellion to raise awareness of how luxury air travel contributes to the climate crisis. Until earlier this month, Abramoff worked as an Earth scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. But in a New York Times opinion piece this month, she announced, “I’m a Scientist Who Spoke Up About Climate Change. My Employer Fired Me.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Greta_Thunberg_Warns_Davos_Elite_Will_Throw Humanity_‘Under_the_Bus’_for_Profits⠀⇛ Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg took aim at those profiting off of the climate emergency Thursday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Rapacious_Industrial_Capitalism_and_its Apocalyptic_Consequences⠀⇛ Christian apocalypse Is climate apocalypse possible? But what does apocalypse mean? Apocalypse in Greek means revelation, pulling the cover off something. But with Christians, apocalypse took a new violent meaning. At the end of the first century of our era, the Roman imperial government exiled John, a Jesus follower, to the Greek island of Patmos where he wrote the Book of Revelation in which he unleashed a storm of harm, blasphemies, and hatred against non-Christians, and the Roman Emperor Domitian, 81 – 96. This terrible book took the name of apocalypse. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Wealth,_Power_and_Climate_Change⠀⇛ I like clarity. On the question of the politics of climate change under capitalism, David Canfield’s new book Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change provides exactly that. In addition, the book is brief and very much to the point. The topic is climate change, the target is the system of capitalism and the point is that the issue is a political issue and that political power is what will halt humanity’s quickening race to self-destruction. Not the political power of politicians and bureaucrats who suckle on capitalism’s teat, but the political power of social movements; social movements that are slowly but surely being built. Social movements that require tenacity, a political and economic understanding of how the powerful see the planet and its residents, and reject corporate and other non-solutions to the crisis. Camfield begins this text with a reminder of where the planet is at the current moment. He discusses heat rise and the need to curtail CO2 emissions. Reasons why the planet is experiencing rapid increases in both are looked at and placed in perspective: population growth, economic growth, fossil fuels. Naturally, each of the reasons he presents are elements that contribute to the crisis. Addressing one or the other of them might help but, as Camfield makes abundantly clear, the primary culprit in the demise of the planet as we know it is the economic system of capitalism; its exploitation of the environment, of human labor and, most importantly, its need to constantly expand in order to survive. The metaphor of cancer is an appropriate and oft-used one when it comes to acknowledging capitalism’s destruction. What cancer cells do to the human body is what capitalism is doing to the planet and the multiple environmental systems it requires to exist as a healthy entity. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Lusaka ZM ☛ Zambia_and_UAE_Sign_Landmark_Agreement for_$2_Billion_Renewable_Energy_Investment⠀⇛ In a significant move towards sustainable energy, Zambia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to facilitate massive investment in renewable energy in Zambia. The MoU and JDA will see ZESCO, the country’s state-owned electricity company, partner with MASDAR, a key investment funding entity of the UAE, to form a joint venture in developing and deploying large-scale solar projects across the country, estimated at US$2 billion. # ⚓ Lusaka ZM ☛ Zambia_President_seeks_modern_rail network,_promises_to_open_Embassy_in_UAE,_at_Abu_Dhabi Sustainability_Week⠀⇛ One of the key topics discussed during the meeting was the development of Zambia’s railway network. President Hichilema highlighted the need for a lasting solution to the country’s rundown and outdated railway network and emphasized the need for a modern rail network that can carry the bulk of Zambia’s cargo and reduce pressure on the country’s roads. He said, “Our rundown and outdated Railway Network needs a lasting solution that meets the aspirations of our envisaged Economic Transformation Agenda. Zambia needs a modern Rail Network that will carry the bulk of our cargo and also reduce pressure on our roads where we are currently spending enormous amounts of money on construction and maintenance. Our ultimate goal is not only to rehabilitate the existing network, but to also add more rail tracks to augment usage and optimise capacity in cargo and passenger freight.” # ⚓ NL Times ☛ Schiphol_cuts_14,500_flights_as_permanent contraction_begins⠀⇛ The Cabinet wants to reduce the flight movements at Schiphol from 500,000 per year to 440,000 per year. The goal was to do this by the end of this year, but as it has to follow an EU procedure, that target will likely not be reached, State Secretary Mark Harbers (Infrastructure) informed parliament late last year. # ⚓ Red Pixels Ventures Ltd ☛ CCI_Denies_Google Allegations_That_It_‘Copy-Pasted’_EU’s_Antitrust_Order on_Android⠀⇛ The CCI has fined Alphabet Inc-owned Google $161 million (roughly Rs. 1300 crore) for exploiting its dominant position in Android, which powers 97 percent of smartphones in India, and asked it to change restrictions imposed on smartphone makers related to pre- installing apps. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Book_of_the_Dead:_The_Species Declared_Extinct_in_2022⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Inside_the_Sales_Practices_of_the_Nation’s Biggest_Title_Lender⠀⇛ In her mid-20s, Cordelius Brown thought she had found the perfect job. She was thriving as a store manager at TitleMax, a Savannah, Georgia-based company that dominates a segment of the state’s subprime lending industry known as title lending. Brown’s easy rapport and hustle made her a natural in convincing Georgians with few credit options to sign up for TitleMax’s lending product. She was earning more than she ever had, thanks to bonuses she received based on a percentage of her store’s profits made from the company’s targeted consumers — people like her own family who were struggling to make ends meet in low-wage service industry jobs, living on a fixed income or out of work because of poor health. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_You_Don’t_Need_to_Fear_the_Taxman⠀⇛ House Republicans’ first official act—or 16th, if you include all the failed votes for Speaker Kevin McCarthy—was to introduce legislation that would cut new IRS funding allocated by the Inflation Reduction Act. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ OSHA_Fines_Amazon_‘Roughly_0.000013%’_of Annual_Earnings_for_Worker_Safety_Hazards⠀⇛ A paltry $60,000 fine for failing to keep employees safe at one of the world’s richest companies offered the latest evidence, according to one critic, that the system ostensibly meant to protect workers “is so broken.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ FTC_Urged_to_Crack_Down_on_Egg_Industry’s ‘Organized_Theft’⠀⇛ As U.S. egg producers rake in record profits amid soaring prices, a farmer-led advocacy group focused on building a just and sustainable food system on Thursday implored the Federal Trade Commission to “promptly open an investigation into the egg industry, prosecute any violations of the antitrust laws it finds within, and ultimately, get the American people their money back.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Debt_Ceiling_Explained._Once_More,_With Feeling…⠀⇛ It is in the nature of articles about the debt ceiling that no matter how often one tries to set the record straight, nothing ever gets through. Noting this after reading my most recent effort, a physicist friend chided me for using “facts and logic” against “what everyone knows.” This states the problem precisely. So here I go again, once more, with feeling. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Civics_1.1:_Structures_of_Feeling⠀⇛ Republicans have since Reagan marched in step behind Market Rule which after all is a Rule and not chaos. More accurately it demands an order of business in which debts are paid, interests protected as an order of law as well as conscience, and capital trickles down to the wage earner. The whole hocus pocus must be treated with an air of fair and just distribution. It’s all in Econ 101. But of course, the play of the market is itself stochastic. It has no order. So, you could say chaos is on the scene in a way. A very big way. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Need_for_Greed:_Payback⠀⇛ The opening credits of the new four-part Netflix series, Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, features at one point cash raining down from the heavens on Wall Street. You picture bankers smiling inside knowingly on their way to work, say JPMorgan Chase. But, being an aging hippie nearing the extinction of my subspecies, I recalled the happier, spliffier days of street theater and its master practitioner, Abbie Hoffman, and one of his signature gags in August 1967 where he rained dollar bills down on Wall Street brokers from the balcony of the Exchange and watched them drop everything to snorkleporkle for the cash. Larry Sloman, author of the marvelous Steal This Dream, an oral history of the Sixties and the counterculture days, reported on Abbie’s shenanigans at Wall Street this way: # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Wealthy_Took_a_Hit_in_2022,_Who_Lost the_Most?⠀⇛ The latest Federal Reserve Board figures on the distribution of wealth in the United States show that since the survey started in the third quarter of 1989, as of the fourth quarter of 2021, the size of the holdings of the wealthiest .1% reached their highest point, $18.42 trillion. Nine months later, as of the third quarter of 2022, the value of their holdings had declined over 8% (not factoring in the further erosion in the value of their wealth from inflation) to $16.93 trillion. For the “poorest” .9% of the 1%, the value of their holdings as of the third quarter of 2022 was $24.45 trillion, down over 10.3% from its peak in the fourth quarter of 2021 when it was $27.28 trillion. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ America’s_Inequality_Problem_in_One Statistic⠀⇛ If you work for a big corporation, there’s a very good chance your boss has already raked in more cash than you will all year. If the typical CEO of a large U.S. corporation clocked in at 9 am on January 2, by 3:37 pm that afternoon he’d made$58,260 — the average annual salary for all U.S. occupations. In less than seven hours on the first workday of the year, that CEO made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year long. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Krugman,_China’s_Demographic_Crisis,_and the_Which_Way_Is_Up_Problem_in_Economics⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Mass_Strikes_and_Protests_Sweep_France_After Attack_on_Pension_System⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Mass_Protests_Across_France_Condemn_Macron Attack_on_Pension_System⠀⇛ The streets of France filled with outraged workers on Thursday as rail employees, teachers, and others walked off the job to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular plan to overhaul the nation’s pension system by raising the official retirement age from 62 to 64. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Lawmakers_in_7_States_Are_Working_Together_to Tax_the_Rich⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Iranian_Labor_Unions_Have_Led_Inspiring Solidarity_Strikes_Amid_the_Uprising⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Democrats_Lambast_GOP_Plan_to_Abolish_Income_Tax and_Impose_30_Percent_Sales_Tax⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Richest_1%_Took_2/3rds_of_Global_Wealth_Since 2020_–_Twice_as_Much_as_99%_of_Population_Earned⠀⇛ In 2020 and 2021, the wealthiest 1% of the world’s population took nearly two-thirds of all new wealth – six times greater than the wealth made by the poorest 90% of workers. And while billionaires get richer, global poverty is increasing, Oxfam warns. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Civic_Investment_for_the_Ages_in_a_Just Society [Ed: "Buffett is a generous philanthropist"???? It connects him to the enabler of Jeffrey Epstein. What sort of philanthropist is this???]⠀⇛ The super successful mega-investor, Warren Buffett, CEO of the giant conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, was heard to say: There are only 535 members of Congress, why can’t 300 million Americans control them? That’s a pretty fundamental question since our senators and representatives are given their sovereign power by the people. Remember the preamble to our Constitution? Buffett is a generous philanthropist. Among his contributions, he has given the Gates Foundation (public health projects) about $3 billion each year for over a decade. That’s over $30 billion dollars! Just one $3 billion contribution, devoted to establishing systemic-focused Congress Watchdog locals in every congressional district, would fund such groups for more than thirty years. Their objective would be to organize up to one-half of one percent of adults to volunteer in each congressional district to make sure our elected officials do the general public’s bidding under honest election procedures. The American people and their children have far more commonly desired necessities and wants than the hyped divide-and- rule tactics imposed by the present ruling powers imply. (See, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State by Ralph Nader, April 2014). # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ If_You_Work_for_a_Major_Corporation,_Your Boss_Has_Probably_Already_Made_More_in_2023_Than_You_Will⠀⇛ If you work for a big corporation, there’s a very good chance your boss has already raked in more cash than you will all year. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Democracy_for_All’:_House_Dems_Introduce Bill_to_Overturn_Citizens_United⠀⇛ To end an era in which wealthy corporations have been given free rein to spend nearly unlimited money on political campaigns, Democrats in the U.S. House on Thursday proposed a constitutional amendment that would overturn the hugely consequential Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision by U.S. Supreme Court, saying the ruling “has dangerously eroded” the government’s ability to serve the public interest. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Corrupt_and_Clueless_Supreme_Court⠀⇛ As many of its own members privately admit, Congress has become a pay-to-play lawmaking casino — closed to commoners, but offering full-service access to corporate powers. But there’s another government entity that’s even more aloof from workaday people: the Supreme Court. And it has become a handmaiden to the corporate elites trying to increase their dominance over us. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Share_of_Workers_in_Unions_Hit_Low_in_2022,_But Number_of_Unionized_Workers_Grew⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_rise_and_fall_of_Ukraine’s_‘therapist-in- chief’_Zelensky_adviser_Oleksiy_Arestovych_is_out_of_a_job, but_likely_not_for_long_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Oleksiy Arestovych, now-former advisor to Volodymyr Zelensky’s Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak, has resigned from his job. It couldn’t have been otherwise, following the scandal precipitated by his remark that the Russian missile that killed 45 in Dnipro may have been shot down by the Ukrainian air defense. That narrative was instantly picked up by the Kremlin and its propagandists, while officials back in Ukraine accused the presidential advisor of treasonous egotism. But, if the President’s Office made no effort to bail out its publicity advisor, it was probably because his propaganda skills no longer matched Kyiv’s sense of what kind of publicity it needed in wartime Ukraine. Arestovych had spent the early days of the invasion assuring Ukrainians that victory was no further than “a couple of weeks” away, but as the war dragged on and grew grimly routinized, Arestovych’s reputation as Ukraine’s “therapist-in- chief” began to work against him. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Low_Union_Numbers_Amid_Organizing_Wave Spark_Calls_for_US_Labor_Law_Fixes⠀⇛ Labor advocates renewed calls for boosting U.S. worker rights and protections on Thursday as federal data revealed that despite union membership rising by 273,000 from 2021 to 2022, a jump in nonunion jobs meant the unionization rate fell from 10.3% to a record low of 10.1%. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Scholars,_Lawmakers_Outraged_Over_DeSantis’ Rejection_of_AP_African-American_Curriculum⠀⇛ Academics and Democratic lawmakers reacted angrily Thursday after the administration of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rejected a new high school Advanced Placement African-American studies course—without even seeing its syllabus—claiming it violates the state’s ban on “woke” education and “lacks educational value.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump_vs._DeSantis_Death_Match?_Bring_It_On!⠀⇛ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis committed to fight “woke ideology” at his inauguration last week. It’s part of his crusade against “woke capitalism,” by which he means companies that see LGBT people as part of their market (Disney) or make noises about building environmental concerns into their investment strategies (BlackRock), and pharmacy chains that peddle what he now insists is a dangerous Covid vaccine (CVS and Walgreens). On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that DeSantis’s inaugural committee took money from lobbyists who work for those very same companies. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Great_Santos⠀⇛ As I grew up in the district that George Santos now represents in Congress, I can claim him as one of our own, even if not many college counsellors on the ambitious north shore of Long Island would ever recommend Baruch as the best college from which to fake a degree. Had George at least gone to Faber, he could now being saying to his many Democratic accusers: “Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Inventing_Santos:_How_a_Far_Right_Con_Man_Lied His_Way_Into_Congress⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_Kazakh_President_Nursultan_Nazarbayev undergoes_heart_surgery_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was reportedly hospitalized and underwent heart surgery in Astana on Friday. According to an official spokesperson, the operation was successful and the 82-year-old’s life is not in danger. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kazakh_president_calls_snap_parliamentary elections_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has dismissed the lower chamber of the country’s parliament and called snap parliamentary elections for March 19. He said the move was “dictated by the logic of constitutional reform.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Advocates_Say_‘Hell_No’_as_Manchin_Pitches Social_Security_Deal_With_GOP⠀⇛ Sen. Joe Manchin provoked outrage Wednesday by suggesting congressional Democrats should agree to pursue changes to Social Security as part of a debt ceiling agreement with Republicans, an idea one advocacy group condemned as “negotiating with legislative terrorists.” # ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ The_Republican_Party’s_Worst_Nightmare⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Did_Twitter_Let_Trump_Post_His_Way_Into_a Coup?⠀⇛ The House select committee on January 6 drove many a news cycle over the summer, as its televised hearings documented the imminent threat that hard- right political initiatives pose to American democracy. But the committee’s final report was strikingly silent on the role of the news itself in fomenting the insurrection at the US Capitol—especially as that news was filtered, customized, and willfully distorted by social media platforms catering to the militant wing of the Trumpian right. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Desperation_Sets_In:_Twitter_Offers_To_Match $250,000_In_Ad_Spending_To_Lure_Pissed_Off_Advertisers_Back⠀⇛ Things are going great in Twitterland, apparently. The company has been facing lawsuits, tech outages, government investigations, bailing partners, not to mention departing users and advertisers. We had noted that 40% of advertising had gone away last month, and this week reporters are noting that an internal Twitter presentation confirms that number, while noting that 500 of the company’s top advertisers have left. Musk claims he’s cut enough costs to take the company away from the threat of bankruptcy, but all those other issues aren’t going to help (especially the lawsuits and the government investigations). It doesn’t sound like his “pay me $8” plan is going all that well either. Selling off the furniture seems unlikely to make that big of a dent, so Twitter needs to woo back the advertisers who left. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ UT_Austin’s_Ban_Of_TikTok_Is_A_Dumb_Performance That_Fixes_Nothing⠀⇛ For decades, U.S. policymakers have utterly refused to support any meaningful privacy protections for consumers. They opposed any new Internet privacy laws, however straightforward. They opposed privacy rules for broadband ISPs. They also fought tooth and nail to ensure the nation’s top privacy enforcement agency, the FTC, lacked the authority, staff, funds, or resources to actually do its job. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ DEBATE:_Leftist_vs._Liberal_Critiques_of_the Twitter_Files⠀⇛ Glenn Greenwald and Briahna Joy Gray engage in a rare substantive debate regarding their critiques of the Twitter Files. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Thousands_Descend_on_Lima_Demanding Resignation_of_Unelected_Peruvian_President⠀⇛ Thousands of Indigenous and other Peruvians descended on the capital Lima on Wednesday to demand the resignation of unelected President Dina Boluarte, show support for imprisoned former leftist leader Pedro Castillo, and condemn government forces for killing dozens of protesters over the past six weeks. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Biden’s_Carelessness_is_More_Than Embarrassing⠀⇛ At the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, the Republican Party and its titular leader Donald Trump were in meltdown. In addition to poor midterm elections results: the former president was under special counsel investigation for his role in January 6 insurrection and his refusal to turn over classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home; the Trump Organization was fined $1.6 million for tax fraud; the newly-elected Congress opened with the nationally televised chaotic selection of Kevin McCarthy as House speaker; freshman Congressman George Santos’ multiple lies about his background had members of his own party calling for him to resign. By contrast, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party were riding the crest of a wave. The Economist and YouGov showed him with a positive job approval rating of 50 percent among registered voters. Biden and the Democrats could not have asked for a better start to the New Year. Then came the revelations about the president’s own possession of classified documents in a former office in Washington D.C. and at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. At the same time Biden and the Democrats were preening and pointing to all the Republicans faux pas, the revelations about mishandled classified material in Biden’s possession saw Biden and the Democrats going from offense to defense as fast as my basketball New York Knicks back peddling to defend against the opponent’s fast break after scoring a basket. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Don’t_Bring_Back_Pot_Bans⠀⇛ From the onset of marijuana prohibition, criminalization advocates have sought to advance their position — and unduly influence the public — by greatly exaggerating the supposed strength of the cannabis flower. Modern prohibitionists are continuing to engage in this tactic by claiming that today’s cannabis is uniquely more potent, and therefore allegedly more dangerous, than ever before. Increasingly, they are also advocating for the imposition of arbitrary THC potency caps on state-legal products. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungary_requested_removal_of_nine_names from_list_of_sanctioned_Russians_–_Politico⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Slovak_FM:_The_majority_of_the_European Parliament_do_not_consider_Hungary_a_Western-style democracy⠀⇛ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Israel’s_Hard-Right_Turn_Fails_to_Raise_Alarm_in_US Media⠀⇛ There is a political crisis in Israel—particularly for Palestinians, minorities and anyone who believes in secular democracy. But US press coverage has had trouble recognizing that the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu is anything other than business as usual. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Pleads_With_Meta_to_Allow_Him_Back_on Facebook_for_2024_Campaign⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Velvet_Divorce_of_the_Czech_Republic and_Slovakia⠀⇛ Thirty years ago, I was in Prague and Bratislava to cover the “velvet divorce” between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Slovaks were celebrating their separation from the Czech Republic in the squares og Bratislave, even though it was 0 Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius). The snowy streets of Prague, on the other hand, were deserted. The Czechs had no reason to celebrate, and stayed at home pondering the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. While the world admired this peaceful divorce, which contrasted so sharply with the war being waged at the same time by Serbian nationalist politicians in the former Yugoslavia, many Czechs were saying, with a gloomy sigh: “If they want to leave, let them leave.” The Slovaks, with their hangover from the day after the party, found themselves in an abyss. They were facing a test of their ability to survive as an independent state, to complete the hard task of adapting the Marxist-run economy to a market economy and to finish establishing a democratic system after four decades of totalitarianism which they had shared with the Czechs and other peoples of Central and Eastern Europe. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Are_We_on_the_Verge_of_Civil_War_II?⠀⇛ “Folks keep talking about another civil war. One side has about 8 trillion bullets, while the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.” The words — actually a 2019 Facebook post — are those of then-Iowa Republican congressman Steve King, loosing a puerile smirk as he stirred the pot of violence on the American political right. The politics of stupid has intensified since then, as white supremacy and fear of the Great Replacement Theory take over the GOP. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Is_the_United_States_on_the_Verge_of_Civil War_II?⠀⇛ “Folks keep talking about another civil war. One side has about 8 trillion bullets, while the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Defeated_GOP_Candidate_in_New_Mexico Arrested_over_Shootings_at_Homes_of_4_Democratic_Officials⠀⇛ As election violence fueled by lies about “rigged” elections escalates, we go to New Mexico to look at how a former far-right Republican candidate and election denier faces charges of orchestrating shootings at the homes of four Democratic officials following his landslide election loss. We speak with Debbie O’Malley, former Bernalillo County commissioner, whose home was attacked, and with New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Will_Peace_Ever_Get_Its_Chance?⠀⇛ I like to sing and what I like best is to do so at the top of my lungs when I’m all alone. Last summer, taking a walk through the corn fields in New York’s Hudson River Valley with no one around but the barn swallows, I found myself belting out a medley of tunes about peace from my long-ago, summer-camp years. That was the late 1950s, when the miseries of World War II were still relatively fresh, the U.N. looked like a promising development, and folk music was just oh-so-cool. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Powell_Memo:_Start_of_the Counterrevolution⠀⇛ It was good seeing CounterPunch publish an article on what is known as the “Powell Memo” by Brad Wolf.  He rightfully notes, “Powell expressed his grave concern that American business and free enterprise were under full-scale attack from “leftists” and might altogether collapse unless drastic steps were taken.”  However, far more was at stake. Lewis Powell was a Virginia attorney, tobacco- industry lobbyist and future Supreme Court Judge.  He can be credited with helping launch the conservative social wars of the last half-century.  In 1971 he delivered a secret study for the Chamber of Commerce entitled, “Attack on the American Free Enterprise System.”  His advice to the business community was simple: # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Fossil_Fuel_Groups_‘Spent_Millions’_on Social_Media_Ads_Spreading_Climate_Disinformation During_COP27⠀⇛ Fossil fuel-linked groups spent around $4 million on Facebook and Instagram that spread false climate claims over the COP27 summit, a new report says. The physical presence of more than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists overshadowed the November conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, as world leaders, NGOs and activists gathered in a bid to accelerate global efforts to confront the climate crisis.  o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Supreme_Court_Poised_to_Reconsider_Key Tenets_of_Online_Speech⠀⇛ Now the Supreme Court is poised to reconsider those rules, potentially leading to the most significant reset of the doctrines governing online speech since U.S. officials and courts decided to apply few regulations to the web in the 1990s. On Friday, the Supreme Court is expected to discuss whether to hear two cases that challenge laws in Texas and Florida barring online platforms from taking down certain political content. Next month, the court is scheduled to hear a case that questions Section 230, a 1996 statute that protects the platforms from liability for the content posted by their users. # ⚓ Canada Today ☛ The_Supreme_Court_is_poised_to_reconsider key_tenets_of_online_speech⠀⇛ The Supreme Court case challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is likely to have many repercussions. While newspapers and magazines can be sued for their publication, Section 230 protects online platforms from lawsuits over most of the content published by their users. It also protects platforms from lawsuits when they remove posts. For years, judges dismissed lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, citing the law and making sure the companies didn’t incur new legal liability with every status update, post and viral video. Critics said the law was a “get out of jail free” card for the tech giants. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Dear_Supreme_Court:_Judicial_Curtailing_Of Section_230_Will_Make_The_Internet_Worse⠀⇛ Every amicus brief the Copia Institute has filed has been important. But the brief filed today is one where all the marbles are at stake. Up before the Supreme Court is Gonzalez v. Google, a case that puts Section 230 squarely in the sights of the Court, including its justices who have previously expressed serious misunderstandings about the operation and merit of the law. # ⚓ CNN ☛ Google_claims_a_Supreme_Court_defeat_would_transform the_internet_—_for_the_worse⠀⇛ Google, which owns YouTube, is fighting a high- stakes court battle over whether algorithmically generated YouTube recommendations are exempt from Big Tech’s signature liability shield, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 broadly protects tech platforms from lawsuits over the companies’ content moderation decisions. But a Supreme Court decision that says AI-based recommendations do not qualify for those protections could “threaten the internet’s core functions,” Google wrote in its brief. # ⚓ Barrons ☛ Google_Warns_Pending_Supreme_Court_Case_Could Wreck_the_Internet⠀⇛ The case has attracted widespread interest not only from the internet industry but across the political landscape. In an amicus brief, for instance, just over half the U.S. states—including both left- leaning states such as California and New York, and more conservative states such as Alaska and Alabama—jointly recommend the court rule against Google in the Gonzalez case. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Google_warns_Supreme_Court_against_‘gutting’ controversial_tech_provision⠀⇛ Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been pushing for reforms to Section 230, but for different reasons, meaning there is likely to be little consensus by way of policy reform. # ⚓ ANF News ☛ Wave_of_arrests_spreads_across_Iran_and_East Kurdistan⠀⇛ Nearly 20,000 people have been detained since the beginning of the mass anti-government demonstrations in Iran and East Kurdistan. At least 16 demonstrators died due to torture and lack of treatment in prisons. 112 demonstrators have been sentenced to death. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ As_Expected,_FEC_Easily_Tosses_Out_GOP’s_Whiny Complaint_About_Google_Classifying_Their_Spam_As_Spam⠀⇛ Over the last year, we’ve been covering a whiny, victim-playing, bit of nonsense, inspired and pushed by a firm whose main business seems to be running spam email campaigns for Republican politicians, that Google is “unfairly” putting their campaign emails into the spam folder. This was all kicked off when some of these Republican spammer consultants noticed that they weren’t raising as much money from email blasts leading up to the 2022 midterms. Then, they misread a study from some computer scientists, saying that Gmail put a higher percentage of GOP campaign emails into spam than Democrats. They ignored that the opposite was true for other popular email systems (Outlook and Yahoo put more Dem emails into spam) and that the impact went away as soon as a user did minimal “training” on what they wanted in their inbox. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_censorship_authority_issues_anti-LGBTQ Internet_guidelines_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian censorship authority Roskomnadzor has developed a list of criteria for blocking online content as “LGBT propaganda.” According to the Russian news outlet Vedomosti, websites can be blocked if their content o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ Nobel_laureate_and_journalist_Maria_Ressa_acquitted by_Philippine_court⠀⇛ The Philippines ranked 147 out of 180 countries in the 2022 World Press Freedom Index, and the Committee to Protect Journalists ranks the Philippines seventh in the world in its 2021 impunity index, which tracks deaths of media members whose killers go free. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ German_parliament_recognizes_Yazidi ‘genocide’_in_Iraq⠀⇛ The Bundestag “recognizes the crimes against the Yazidi community as genocide, following the legal evaluations of investigators from the United Nations,” the resolution said, after similar moves by countries including Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands. # ⚓ NPR ☛ NPR_uncovered_secret_execution_tapes_from_Virginia. More_remain_hidden⠀⇛ An NPR investigation can now reveal the tapes show the prison neglected to record key evidence during what was considered one of Virginia’s worst executions, and staff appeared unprepared for some of the jobs they were tasked to do in the death chamber. Before Virginia abolished capital punishment in 2021, the state executed more people than any other in America. This is the first time audio recorded during any of those executions has ever been published. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Does_Kathy_Hochul_Really_Want_to_Go_Down_With Hector_LaSalle’s_Sinking_Ship?⠀⇛ Hector LaSalle, Governor Kathy Hochul’s conservative pick to become chief justice of the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in New York State), went before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for what was meant to be the first stage of his judicial confirmation hearing. LaSalle has faced significant pushback from liberals and progressives, and significant support from Republicans, for his anti-choice, anti-union, anti-Black-jurors but pro-cop judicial record. At the hearing, LaSalle seemed to be the only person in the room unfamiliar with his own rulings. He told the committee that he supports unions and abortions, despite the fact that his judicial opinions say otherwise. The Senate Judiciary Committee wasn’t buying it: LaSalle lost the vote, 10-9. All six Republicans and three Democrats voted for him, but it wasn’t enough. This is the first time in New York’s history that the Senate has voted down a governor’s pick for chief judge. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_SCOTUS_on_the_Verge_of_Dismantling_Labor and_the_Administrative_State_in_One_Blow?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Beyond_the_Border_Crisis⠀⇛ Most of us agree that the U.S. immigration system is in dire need of reform. But inflammatory rhetoric and policies designed to keep immigrants away won’t get us there. When I was in law school, I witnessed firsthand the difficulties faced by asylum seekers. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_the_US_Economic_War_on_Venezuela_Fueled the_Migrant_Crisis⠀⇛ The U.S. economic war on Venezuela is one of the main reasons for the record number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, where there has been a surge in migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Years of U.S. efforts to destroy the Venezuelan oil industry and overthrow the Venezuelan government has fueled the humanitarian catastrophe. As U.S. sanctions have pushed Venezuela into one of the worst crises in the hemisphere’s history, more than 7 million people have fled the country. Hundreds of thousands more have fled Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua, poor countries that have lost access to low-cost Venezuelan energy. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ethnic_Terrorism_Continues_to_Stalk Ethiopia⠀⇛ Where there is division there will be conflict. In a country such as Ethiopia with dozens of ethnic/ tribal groups, the need for tolerance, cooperation and unity is essential if there is to be peace and social harmony. Where these are absent, where differences and historic grievances are enflamed by ideologically ambitious individuals/groups, fear hate, and violence flourish. Ethiopia is a large country divided into 11 regions. Covering over a third of the total land mass Oromia is the largest and, with an estimated 35% of the total population (approximately 122 million), the Oromo constitute the largest ethnic group, followed by the Amhara (28%). # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ditched_by_Biden,_Railway_Workers_Continue Battle_for_Sick_Leave_and_Safer_Conditions⠀⇛ While the high-stakes labor dispute on U.S. freight railroads has receded from headlines since President Joe Biden and Congress imposed a new contract last month, rail workers are continuing their fight for dignity and better conditions — albeit without the threat of a national strike on the table. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Pixels Ventures Ltd ☛ Apple_Faces_Investigation_Into MercadoLibre_Complaint_Over_App_Store_Monopoly_in_Brazil⠀⇛ Brazil’s antitrust watchdog CADE has begun investigating a complaint by e-commerce retailer MercadoLibre Inc against Apple Inc for alleged abuse of a monopoly in the distribution of apps for its devices, the regulator said on Wednesday. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Have_You_Tried_Turning_It_Off_and_On_Again: Rethinking_Tech_Regulation_and_Creative_Labor⠀⇛ The Internet Copyright Wars are in their third decade, and despite the billions of dollars and trillions of phosphors spilled on its battlegrounds around the world, precious little progress has been made. A quarter of a century after Napster’s founding, we’re still haunted by the same false binaries that have deadlocked us since the era of 56k modems: There is nothing especially virtuous or wicked about either tech companies or entertainment companies. Indeed, in an era in which Google owns the world’s most popular video site; where Amazon and Apple both own movie and television studios; where Microsoft owns multiple game production studios, and where the Big Three music labels own substantial stakes in Spotify, there is no longer a meaningful distinction between “a giant tech company” and “a giant entertainment company.” Both are simply: “a giant company.” And giant companies are gonna giant company. As paperclip-maximizing artificial life-forms, limited liability corporations are on a remorseless, ceaseless quest for ways of reducing the cost of their inputs, and if payments to creative workers can be squeezed, they will be. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Mark_Your_Calendars:_The_2023_CC Global_Summit_Is_Coming_to_Mexico_City⠀⇛ We are thrilled to announce that the Creative Commons Global Summit will return to an in- person event in 2023, and this time we are heading to one of the most vibrant and culturally rich cities in the world — Mexico City! During 3-6 October 2023, we will be gathering at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco to unite, share ideas, and create a brighter future for open sharing. We are thrilled to be organizing the event in collaboration with CC Mexico, and hope you will be able to join in what will be an unforgettable experience. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate_Bay_Proxy_Site_Challenges Police_DMCA_Takedown_at_GitHub⠀⇛ A few days ago, GitHub disabled the domain of a Pirate Bay Proxy information portal following a DMCA notice sent by City of London Police. The operator of the site is unhappy with the removal. In a DMCA counternotice, GitHub is asked to reinstate the domain since it doesn’t link to any infringing material. According to the counternotice, the police don’t seem to understand how the site works. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ French_ISPs_and_Sports_Organizations Sign_Anti-Piracy_Agreement⠀⇛ French national anti-piracy agency Arcom has announced that sports organizations and Internet providers have signed a new anti- piracy agreement. Blocking measures are already cemented in law, but the new agreement establishes ‘good practices’ while also addressing costs. The ISPs, meanwhile, call on search engines and hosting companies to follow suit. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Fair_Use_Creep_Is_A_Feature,_Not_a_Bug⠀⇛ Lawyers, scholars, and activists, including EFF, often highlight Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Section 230 (originally of the Communications Decency Act) as the legal foundations of the internet. But there’s another, much older, doctrine that’s at least as important: Fair use, which dates back many decades and it codified in law as Section 107 of the Copyright Act. Fair use is, in essence, the right of the public to use a copyrighted work in a variety of circumstances, without the rightsholder’s permission. It’s why a reviewer can quote from the book they’re reviewing, a parody video can include excerpts from a movie, and security researchers can copy a software program in order to test it for malware. Fair use is essential to internet for at least two reasons. First, the vast majority of what we do online, from email to texting to viewing images and making TikToks, involves creating, replicating, and/or repurposing copyrighted works. Since copyright is a limited but lengthy monopoly over those works, in theory, using or even viewing them might require a license; now, and for many decades in the future. Second, technological innovation rarely means starting from scratch. Instead, developers build on existing technologies, hopefully improving them. But if the technology in question involves code, it is likely copyrightable. If so, that add-on innovation might require a license from the rightsholder, giving them a veto right on technological development. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Open_Data_and_the_AI_Black_Box⠀⇛ Artificial Intelligence (AI) grabs headlines with new tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, but it is already here and having major impacts on our lives. Increasingly we see law enforcement, medical care, schools and workplaces all turning to the black box of AI to make life-altering decisions—a trend we should challenge at every turn.  The vast and often secretive data sets behind this technology, used to train AI with machine learning, come with baggage. Data collected through surveillance and exploitation will reflect systemic biases and be “learned” in the process. In their worst form, the buzzwords of AI and machine learning are used to “tech wash” this bias, allowing the powerful to buttress oppressive practices behind the supposed objectivity of code. It’s time to break open these black boxes. Embracing collaboratively maintained Open Data sets in the development of AI would not only be a boon to transparency and accountability for these tools, but makes it possible for the would-be subjects to create their own innovative and empowering work and research. We need to reclaim this data and harness the power of a democratic and open science to build better tools and a better world. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Ghosts_of_Southern_Colorado⠀⇛ I miss the little ghost towns – CF&I company towns, fragments of Colorado’s industrial past – that dot the south and central regions. I’d like to do a whole post about this at some point – with my usual degrowth and anti-capitalist slant, and focused on Ludlow – but right now I just feel tired and homesick. With that in mind, here’s some photos of places I love. Note that these are fairly large files. # ⚓ No_problem_there⠀⇛ Gee, wouldn’t it be fuckin’ A if we didn’t need to trust any one single entity to interact with a distributed network?! # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BUHILTG_Wordo:_BETAS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Suggesting_adventures_but_not_writing_them⠀⇛ I’m trying to write a section with adventure ideas. @Judd@dice.camp has been saying that he would like a setting described using questions. Perhaps this can be done here? Ask leading questions, keeping it open, set expectations and don’t close off open ends. Perhaps it’d be interesting? Here’s what I have under the section “seasonal adventures”. Other sections include “community building”, “love and marriage”, and “misfortune”. I hope there are more. Something about war. Something about the plague. Something about a dancing madness. Something about intolerant madmen coming and poisoning the community with their divisive talking. Things to deal with that aren’t dungeons. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ The_good_news?_Somebody_wants_to_use_my_blogging_engine. The_bad_news?_Somebody_wants_to_use_my_blogging_engine⠀⇛ Over the 23 year history of `mod_blog [1]`, I’ve given up on the notion of anyone other than me using it. There was only one other person who used it for just a few months before deciding blogging wasn’t for him and that was way back in 2002. So it was completely by surprise that I recently received a bug report [2] on it. # ⚓ Commodore_64_is_calling_my_name⠀⇛ I’ve been inexplicably drawn to the Commodore 64 — the one computer I have no nostalgic connection to. I cut my teeth on an Atari 800 (I saved up my entire summer job earnings to buy it) and an Apple ][. I didn't know anyone with a C64, and got my hands on one a few years ago. It's kind of a terrible thing, but it has a 6502 (6510), colors, sprites, sound, and the demo people keep pushing the limits making it do amazingly impressive yet tasteless and annoying things. I am kind of fed up with modern tech. The problem is the rate at which everything becomes obsolete. It is obsene. Apple ][ was around for two decades, until that phychopath Jobs killed it for an inferior 68000 machine. C64, well over a decade. # ⚓ Permacomputing_II⠀⇛ # ⚓ Permacomputing_II⠀⇛ Today I was looking for a terminal font which could display various esoteric Unicode blocks, and stumbled upon the UNSCII fontset. Reading the webpage, I noticed that the domain, viznut.fi, was strangely familiar. I went to the homepage, and, yes, indeed! These fonts are by the same person who coined the term “Permacomputing”. As if that weren’t serendipitous enough, the *same* person is responsible for the “Robotic Liberation” VIC-20 demoscene production that I enjoyed watching ten years ago or so! A prolific fellow, to be sure. [...] The term permacomputing is coined in analogy to permaculture. Permaculture is, in turn, a portmanteau from “permanent agriculture”. It’s been retconned to mean “permanent culture”, but I think it still retains a strong connotation of being concerned with food production (which, sure, is not the exclusive domain of agriculture). I have no beef with permaculture at all (ha ha). It is basically the question of “how do we feed ourselves long term without destroying the planet”. Human beings need to eat. Always have, always will. It’s a question of existential importance. And we managed to successfully stop ourselves from starving out of existence for hundreds of thousands of years before the advent of intensive mechanised agriculture. So there’s very good reason to believe the question can be solved. But computing is not existentially important. Not even close. I still believe the quote below, which I wrote in late 2020 in my “radically sustainable computing” post. And not only is computing not existentially important, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to believe that anything like what most people today would recognise as computing can be made sustainable on a timescale measured in millennia. Sure, some kind of hand-cranked Babbage engine might fit the bill, but that’s not the kind of thing the permacomputing community is, for the most part, talking about. # ⚓ Pangamebook_1.5.1⠀⇛ Another minor Pangamebook update. Shuffling sections in the gamebook now uses a fixed random seed (that can be configured using the gamebook- randomseed metadata, although I can’t think of a use-case for that). This mostly happened because I saw Pandoc 3.0 was released yesterday, and when I ran some tests to see if pangamebook still works it was annoying that the section numbers were different each time. It should probably always have been like this anyway. It seems like Pangamebook works as expected in both Pandoc 3.0 and 2.9.2.1. Those are the only two versions I have installed right now. There is something new in Pandoc 3.0 about Lua-support being split out into its own Haskell package, making it possible to have Pandoc installed without Lua. Running without the Lua support would break Pangamebook. Hopefully very few installations will be like that. The binary DEB I downloaded to try 3.0 had Lua included anyway. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ We_Are_A_Special_Case⠀⇛ A while back, I noticed a significant statement, or rather misstatement, in an earthsky.org article[1]. The article was describing research (or rather, computer modeling) which supposedly supports the pebble accretion theory, and which also suggested that earth was originally formed with its water, rather than having the water deposited later by comets. [...] The idea that “we should never presume we’re a special case” may be a tenet of modern philosophy and cosmology, but it is certainly not a key tenet of science. This statement sounds deceptively similar to another concept, which is a key tenet of science, namely the idea that any experiment, conducted under the exact same conditions, will yield the same result anywhere in the universe. That is, the laws of physics operate the same everywhere in the universe. We can’t empirically verify that, of course, since it would require running an infinite number of experiments everywhere in the universe, but you can’t do science unless you make that assumption. Incidentally, that idea only makes sense if you assume there is one Lawgiver, that is, one Creator who decides all the laws of physics and is also in control of the whole universe. # ⚓ Creation_Stories⠀⇛ Except for the fact that all the evidence points to us not necessarily being a special case. Let’s stay right here on Earth before making any claims about what is “out there”. Even if we limit ourselves to just Earth, there’s pretty solid evidence that we aren’t the only sentient species on this planet. The dolphins are excellent candidates for “other intelligent beings sharing our world.” They call one another by name. They can communicate with us using language. They also experience erotic love in a way not much different from humans. I’m pretty sure I can find citations to back up all of those 3 assertions. For that matter, there is at least one known case of a dolphin willfully ending his own life due to heartbreak. So even right here on Earth, I wouldn’t conclude definitively that humans are a special case. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4366 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.20.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_20/01/2023:_Apple_Releases_Lisa_Code_Only_40_Years_Later,_Legacy_OS 2023_and_Netrunner_OS_23_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o FSF o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python # Rust * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Linux_Foundation o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Monopolies # Software_Patents * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ TechRadar ☛ You_can_now_get_ChatGPT_on_a_Linux_desktop [Ed: Microsofters are googleboming "Linux" to promote plagiarism for Microsoft (disguised as "Hey Hi" with lots of unwarranted hype)]⠀⇛ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Manjaro_22.0_“Sikaris”_Gnome_Edition_Quick_Overview #shorts_–_Invidious⠀⇛ A Quick Overview of Manjaro 22.0 “Sikaris” Gnome Edition. # ⚓ Video ☛ Swap_Out_Dmenu_For_Rofi_In_Any_Script_(It’s_EASY!) –_Invidious⠀⇛ I write a lot of scripts that use the run launcher program ‘dmenu’, and a common complaint that I get is from those of you that use ‘rofi’ as your run launcher. # ⚓ Video ☛ Changes_to_gamescope_reveal_SteamOS_is_going_VR_ (plus_other_Steam_Deck_news)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ This week there were games rolling out with official support, new Deck features, new Deck accessories, and open source projects are showing Steam Deck some love! # ⚓ Video ☛ OpenRA_is_an_amazing_fan_remake_of_Command_– Conquer_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Quickly_Switching_to_Linux [Ed: YouTube ☛ Streaming live_soon (17 hours)]⠀⇛ Today we talk about process of switching to Linux quickly in the event you need to do that. We have four ideas that you need to consider. # ⚓ Bad_Voltage_3×54:_The_Joe_Dolce_Music_Theatre_|_Bad Voltage⠀⇛ Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we create predictions for 2023! What will happen over the next twelve months in the world of tech? Here’s what we think… o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Candy:_Relaxator_–_relax_to_soothing sounds⠀⇛ Linux Candy is a series of articles covering interesting eye candy software. We only feature open-source software in this series. Relaxator is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to soothing sounds. This free and open source utility is written in Vala. # ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Best_Push_Notifications_Software_for_Linux 2023⠀⇛ If you’re a Linux user, you may be wondering which push notification software is the best for your system. In this blog post, we’ll be taking a look at the top 5 push notification software for Linux in 2023. But before we dive into the list, let’s go over some key considerations to keep in mind when choosing push notification software for Linux. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Listen_to_Internet_Radio_From_Your_Linux Terminal_With_PyRadio⠀⇛ There are several graphical internet radio apps for Linux. But what about users who want to listen to the radio from their terminal? Enter PyRadio. Radio is the oldest form of electronic mass communication and even in the third decade of the 21st century, it’s still how many people consume news, find new music, and pass the time while stuck in traffic on the commute to work. The internet allows you to listen to streaming radio stations worldwide, exposing you to music, culture, news, and events you would never otherwise have found. You can listen to internet radio without ever leaving your terminal on Linux. Here’s how. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Swift_Programming_Language_on Fedora_37_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Swift Programming Language on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, Swift is a powerful and intuitive general-purpose programming language, it’s designed to work on multiple platforms and it’s open-source, which means that developers can contribute to its development, and use the language for developing on other platforms besides Apple’s ecosystem. Swift is also a high-performance language, it’s designed to be fast and efficient, it uses modern techniques such as automatic reference counting (ARC) and optional types to help developers write more efficient code. It also includes features such as closures, generics, and operator overloading which make it a versatile language for many different types of development. Swift is also designed to be easy to learn, its syntax is easy to read and understand, and it’s similar to other modern programming languages such as Python or Java, which makes it easy for developers who are already familiar with other languages to pick up. 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 Swift programming language on a Fedora 37. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_VRoid_Studio_on_a Chromebook_with_Crossover_22⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install VRoid Studio on a Chromebook with Crossover 22. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_MongoDB_NoSQL_Database on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, and distributed NoSQL (Non-SQL or Non-Relational) database system. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_OpenSSL_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OpenSSL on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, OpenSSL is a widely-used open-source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, which are used to secure communications over a network. It provides a library of cryptographic functions and command-line tools to use them, including symmetric ciphers, public-key ciphers, and hashing functions, as well as functions for managing digital certificates and certificate signing requests. OpenSSL is also used as a foundation for many other software libraries and tools, however, it’s important to keep your version of OpenSSL up- to-date to avoid known vulnerabilities. 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 latest OpenSSL on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian- based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_ImageMagick_on_Fedora_37_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ImageMagick on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, ImageMagick is a powerful command-line tool for manipulating images on a Linux system. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats, it offers image manipulation through the command line, as well as through programming languages such as C, C++, Perl, and PHP using the MagickWand API, it has the ability to handle a wide variety of image formats, it has a powerful command-line interface, it has a built-in library that can be used by other programs, and it is supported by many programming languages. 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 ImageMagick on a Fedora 37. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Java_17,_11,_or_8_LTS_on Fedora_Linux⠀⇛ Java is a popular, general-purpose programming language designed to be platform-independent. It is widely used to develop enterprise-level, mobile, and web applications. One of the main benefits of using Java is its ability to run on different operating systems and devices, making it a versatile choice for development projects. Additionally, Java offers several features that make it an ideal choice for many applications. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Enable_EPEL_Repo_on_Amazon_Linux_2_– Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) in Amazon Linux 2 for installing various additional software packages that run on RPM-based Linux. Apart from the official repository of Amazon Linux 2, we can add a popular one known as EPEL. That stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, a community-driven project for RedHat Linux. However, it is not limited to REHL; we can add it to other Linux systems based on it, such as CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, and more. So, AWS AMI Linux is also a Fedora drive project and uses RPM packages; hence EPEL is also available for it as well. The group of volunteers maintains this repository and its packages. It includes a wide range of software, including libraries, utilities, and applications that cannot be installed using the official repo of the distribution. With each new version of Redhat, EPEL also releases a dedicated repo containing well-test packages that are compatible with the RHEL version. EPEL packages can be installed and managed using the standard YUM or DNF package management tools. However, unlike other popular Linux, the way to enable EPEL on Amazon Linux is slightly different, and in this article, we know that. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Disable_Welcome_Screen_(First Login_Dialog)_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ When first time logging in a user account, it always pop-up a welcome dialog to setup online account, livepath, privacy, etc in Ubuntu. It’s quite annoying if you create new user accounts regularly, since all options in that dialog are also available in system settings. In this case, you can follow this tutorial to disable this function in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 22.10. Tip: run /usr/libexec/gnome-initial-setup –existing-user command in terminal can manually launch Welcome dialog if need in Ubuntu. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Test_Ubuntu_Budgie’s_Improved_Window Snapping_Feature_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ An improved window tiling experience is being primed for inclusion in the the next stable release of Ubuntu Budgie, which is due out in April. Developers of this Ubuntu flavour have shared word on work they’re doing to bring the edge tiling experience — or window snapping, if you prefer — up to par with that offered by the distro’s existing keyboard-driven Window Shuffler too. The proposed approach, which is being made available for testing on earlier versions of the distro, will be familiar to anyone who’s used a recent version of Windows. You drag a window to the upper or lower corners to quarter tile, drag to either side to vertically half-tile, and drag to the very top or the very bottom to horizontally half tile. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_php_7.4_on_Amazon_linux_2_– Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Execute the command in this tutorial to install the PHP 7.4 version on Amazon Linux 2 for your web applications that don’t support the latest version of PHP. Amazon Linux 2 is the current long-term supported and RPM-based Linux offered by AWS to run on its cloud. As we know, CentOS is not anymore an LTS server OS; therefore AML 2 version of AWS is an excellent stable option for installing and hosting applications. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_deploy_a_Golang_Application_with_Google cloud_run⠀⇛ Google cloud run is a fully managed container execution environment. It is an environment specifically for request-driven workloads. It provides autoscaling, scaling down to zero, pretty fast deployments, automatic HTTPS support, global names and more. Google Cloud Run doesn’t have language runtime restrictions as soon as the language runtime is supported on gVisor. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Getting_Started_with_Linux_Command_line:_The Beginner’s_Guide⠀⇛ The Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) is a text- based interface for interacting with the operating system. Users can enter commands, which the system then interprets and carries out to the kernel. It allows the user to navigate the file system, manage files, and perform various other tasks. The command line interface is a powerful tool for advanced users and is often used for tasks such as automation, scripting, and system administration. Most of the Linux servers provide CLI only for interacting with the system, which is also the preferred way for system administrators. Many desktop users also love to use the command line interfaces to quickly perform jobs. # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ The_Linux_rm_Command:_Everything_You_Need_to Know⠀⇛ The Linux rm command is primarily for deleting files. It’s one that most people encounter soon after they start using Linux. Just by virtue of being a newcomer to Linux, you’re likely to make mistakes. You’ll create or copy files by accident, or with the wrong name, or to the wrong place. It’s all part of the learning curve of the command line. The clean-up operations for such mistakes involve rm . The rm command can delete files, groups of files, directories, or complete directory trees. That’s why it must be used with caution. Using rm isn’t difficult, but the penalty for failure is high. When a file is deleted with rm , it is gone. It isn’t moved to the trash. It is obliterated immediately. That doesn’t mean you should avoid using rm . But to use it safely, you need to be aware of what it can do, and ensure you’re using it properly. Some tools are more dangerous than others, and far less forgiving of mistakes. That’s why there’s never been a movie called The Texas Wrench Massacre. rm isn’t a wrench, it’s definitely a chainsaw. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Dev_snapshot:_Godot_4.0_beta_14⠀⇛ With the first Godot 4.0 Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. # ⚓ Video ☛ A_Gamer’s_Descent_into_Linux_Lunacy_(Switching_to Linux)_*Reaction*_–_Invidious⠀⇛ So we have a Gamer who decided to make a descent in the lunacy filled world of Linux! Let’s see how that switching to Linux went for them! # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ Wolfenstein_3D_is_now_fully_playable_in_CGA_even on_an_8088!⠀⇛ Wolfenstein 3D is now fully playable in CGA (a low- rez color and black and white display standard on the first IBM PCs and compatibles)! A 80286 is no longer required either, as it will run on an 8088 under MS-DOS! o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ 8_Best_Window_Managers_for_Linux⠀⇛ A window manager should be helpful if you dabble with multiple active windows on your system and want to make the most out of the available screen space. Sure, you can re-size and reposition your windows to organize them to some extent. However, with a window manager, you can step up your multitasking potential by organizing the windows using keyboard shortcuts, mouse and even automating some of it. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ #79_Research_Results_–_This_Week in_GNOME⠀⇛ Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 13 to January 20. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ GNOME’s_Survey_Results:_A_Window_into_User Behavior⠀⇛ GNOME has published the results of its last year August user survey. The findings are expected and telling. Here they are. As our media reported in August, the GNOME project initiated a survey among users using a telemetry data-gathering tool (gnome-info- collect) to gain a better understanding of user habits, software installed, and overall desktop experience. Five months later, the results were public, revealing both expected and surprising facts. So, without further ado, let’s analyze them. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Netrunner_OS_23_“Vaporwave”_Launches_Based_on Debian_GNU/Linux_11_“Bullseye”⠀⇛ Dubbed “Vaporwave,” Netrunner OS 23 is here almost two years after Netrunner OS 21.01. It is the first release of this GNU/Linux distribution for desktop computers based on the latest and greatest Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” operating system series. Previous Netrunner OS versions were derived from Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster” and shipped with Linux kernel 5.9. The new Netrunner OS release is powered by Debian Bullseye’s long-term supported Linux 5.10 kernel series, which will be supported with security and bug fixes until December 2026. # ⚓ Legacy_OS_2023⠀⇛ After a 6 year hiatus LegacyOS is back! Now based on antiX / Debian Bullseye 64 Bit. After a long development period LegacyOS 2023 is now available for download. As with previous releases LegacyOS uses the Ice Window Manager (icewm) and ROX / PCmanFM File Managers. All included Ice Window Manager Themes have been created for this release. A useful selection of Applications are included by default. VLC, MPV, Strawberry, Peek, FreetuxTV, OnlyOffice, Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape, Firefox-ESR, Thunderbird, Transmission just to name a few. Also available for download through the Synaptic Package Manager are the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge Web Browsers. Unlike previous releases LegacyOS 2023 will receive regular updates. To Login User = Demo | Password = Demo Install or run live from USB or DVD. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Salt,_Vim,_nodejs_update_in_Tumbleweed⠀⇛ This week’s openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots had a steady amount of software packages in each of the daily releases. While vim, Node.js and Salt updates made the headlines, AppStream, KDE Frameworks and the Linux Kernel provided several important updates. # ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the week_2023/03_–_Dominique_a.k.a._DimStar_(Dim*)⠀⇛ For Tumbleweed, things are steadily rolling. Updates come in (mostly pre-tested in devel projects), are staged, pass staging (most requests pass in a day), and are then added to a snapshot. Sounds rather unspectacular. Of course, this is the optimal case, which does not work in some cases (as seen on the ‘future changes’ that have been carried over for a few weeks already). But all that does not have an impact on users’ workstations, as we simply do not deliver those aspects which are known not to be ready. # ⚓ German_Software_Giant_Suse_Begins_India_Operations_Taps Kerala_Police_As_Client_–_BW_Businessworld⠀⇛ Suse, the German-based open-source software major that develops and sells Linux, Kubernetes and Edge products, has begun its full-fledged operation in India by opening a first-of-its-kind ‘Centre of Excellence’ in Bengaluru. The company, which earlier had its sales operation in India, has already sold its Linux products and services to Indian entities like Indian Oil, JK Tyres and Industries, Mankind Pharma and the like. Besides business houses, Suse has also partnered with state-owned Kerala Police to transform the latter’s digital policing platform. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Debian_12_“bookworm”_Reaches_First_Code Freeze⠀⇛ For the last few months, Debian 12 has been under development. Developers and package maintainers were pouring their application components into the new branch. Code-named “bookworm”, Debian 12 is planned for release by the end of 2023. And now, the Debian team has reached a significant milestone for the upcoming Debian 12 release. # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Debian_12_“Bookworm”_Just_Hit_its_First_Freeze –_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛ Development on Debian 12 “Bookworm” just hit a major milestone. Ahead of its expected release later this year, the popular Linux distro has officially entered a freeze period. Paul Gevers, writing on behalf of the Debian release team, announced the first freeze on the Debian developer mailing list, writing: “On January 12th we stopped accepting transition requests and we are working to complete the transitions in progress. We ask the maintainers of packages that are part of the toolchain to stop uploading those packages without prior approval from us.” o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_18.04_LTS_End_Of_Life_–_keep_your_fleet_of devices_up_and_running⠀⇛ Ubuntu 18.04 ‘Bionic Beaver’ is reaching End of Standard Support this April, also known sometimes as End Of Life (EOL). This distribution of Ubuntu was installed by millions of users and powers up thousands of devices. From kiosks and appliances to IoT devices and robots, 18.04 helped many companies deploy innovations to the world. As with all other Ubuntu LTS releases that reach their end of standard support, Bionic Beaver will transition to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM). This blog post will help developers and companies evaluate their options for devices currently running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It will also cover how you can enable ESM in case you choose to extend the support window with this service. Before we jump in, let’s cover a burning question: why do Ubuntu releases reach EOL? # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_22.04.2_delayed_by_two_weeks_over_Hardware Enablement_kernel,_due_Feb._23_–_Neowin⠀⇛ Canonical is delaying the launch of Ubuntu 22.04.2 by two weeks to February 23 after it encountered some issues pertaining to the new Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernels that are designed to make newer hardware work with the current long-term support edition of the operating system. People running Ubuntu 22.04 are not affected by this but those waiting on the point release with the HWE kernel will have to wait just a bit longer. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ 3,000,000_THANKS!_Celebrating_3m_orders @adafruit_–_thank_you!⠀⇛ On January 18, 2023 11:20am ET the 3,000,0000 order was placed for a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – 4 GB RAM by Michael from Austin, TX! (we asked to make sure it was OK to post this). Michael, a real human, was able to get a Raspberry Pi which is extra special since we’ve worked really hard together to make sure makers, real humans, have been able to get units! # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ AI_Designed_Raspberry_Pi_Cas⠀⇛ What do you think of this case design? Micheale Klements called on AI to design a Raspberry pi case. # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ Circadian_Pi_Desk_Light⠀⇛ # ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Raspberry_PI_Pico_W_Power_Consumption_(mA)_and How_to_Reduce_It⠀⇛ Running IoT projects without a line power supply requires identifying your power budget in order to avoid service outages due to missing power. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Walk-Bot_helps_people_with_visual_impairments navigate_safely_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ It is no secret that visual impairments — even those that don’t result in complete blindness — make it very difficult for people to live their lives. White canes can help people get around, but they require physical contact. Seeing eye dogs provide very valuable assistance, but they’re expensive and need care of their own. That’s why Nilay Roy Choudhury designed the Walk-Bot device to help people with visual impairments navigate safely. Walk-Bot is a wearable navigation device that uses audible cues and haptic feedback to give visually impaired people a sense of their immediate environment. It has a host of sensors that let it identify nearby obstacles at any height from the floor to the ceiling. Walk-Bot performs onboard trigonometry to determine the distance to any obstacles that might interfere with its user’s ability to walk safely. And it is affordable and easy to build with common components. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ The_2022_Arduino_Open_Source_Report_is_out_| Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ In our last annual report we described 2021 as one of the busiest and most productive years in Arduino history in terms of open source development (if you missed that report, go read it now as it contains so many nice things). Well, we didn’t rest in 2022 either! The Arduino team has been busy releasing new important open source projects, both hardware and software, while the community continues to release and maintain libraries at an incredible pace. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Arduino_resurrects_a_washing_machine_that_failed for_silly_reasons_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ The maker movement often focuses on creation, but we should never overlook repair. In a consumer market increasingly moving towards planned obsolescence, manufacturers often fail to devote any resources towards the repair of their products. In many cases, replacement parts are unavailable or prohibitively expensive. But the maker skill set can provide recourse, as demonstrated by Balakrishnan Prashanth’s Arduino-based solution for a washing machine’s failed timer display. Like many modern washing machines, Prashanth’s Whirlpool has a digital readout that displays the time remaining in a cycle. It’s a handy feature, but not one that is absolutely necessary to wash clothes. Unfortunately, this Whirlpool disagrees. They designed this model’s control board so that the entire machine’s functionality comes to a screeching halt if the digital display stops working. The control board sends data to the display and expects an acknowledgment. If it doesn’t receive that acknowledgment, it won’t let the washing machine run through a cycle. That’s what happened when Prashanth’s machine’s display failed. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Xperia_10_IV_owners_get_their_invite_to_the_Android_13 party_–_Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A52_4G_and_Galaxy_A72_get_a taste_of_Android_13-based_LineageOS_20⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ If_you’re_still_not_running_Android_13, you’re_far_from_alone⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Smart_Lock_becoming_‘Extend_Unlock’_as_Watch Unlock_needs_Android_13⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_14_launch:_Potential_release timeframe,_features,_and_more⠀⇛ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ 8_advanced_Android_clipboard_tricks_| Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2_Best_Ways_to_Share_Apps_Between_Android_Devices_–_Guiding Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Google_to_cooperate_with_Indian_authorities after_losing_bid_to_block_Android_antitrust_ruling_• TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_vows_to_cooperate_with_India_antitrust watchdog_after_Android_ruling_|_Reuters⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_add_your_medical_information_to your_Android_phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Onyx_is_back_with_a_huge_13.3-inch_Android e-reader,_the_Boox_Tab_X⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_only_just_realizing_there’s_an_Android setting_that_could_save_you_on_vacation_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Twitter_forces_‘For_You’_tab_on_Android⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Apple_Lisa:_40_Years_Later,_Now_Open_Source⠀⇛ This consequently led to the development and launch of Lisa. But, when it launched, it didn’t garner that many sales due to its high price and was considered a commercial failure. What it succeeded in was that it paved the way for the Macintosh operating system which later took the computing world by storm. It offered many innovations, with a good GUI being one of the main highlights. Now, in a recent announcement. After 40 years of Lisa’s release, the Computer History Museum (CHM) has made the source code open. o ⚓ Adafruit ☛ The_Apple_Lisa_source_code_has_just_been_released!⠀⇛ Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, the Computer History Museum has received permission from Apple to release the source code to the Lisa software, including its system and applications software. Lisa Office System 3.1 Twiggy dates back to April 1984, during the early Mac era, and it was the equivalent of operating systems like macOS and Windows today. The entire source package is about 26MB and consists of over 1,300 commented source files, divided nicely into subfolders that denote code for the main Lisa OS, various included apps, and the Lisa Toolkit development system. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_pgFormatter_5.4_released⠀⇛ Version 5.4 of pgFormatter, a free and reliable tool used to format SQL and PLPGSQL code, has been officially released and is publicly available for download. A demonstration site is available online at http://sqlformat.darold.net pgFormatter is the most advanced SQL and PlPgsql code formatter and beautifier dedicated to PostgreSQL. It is provided as a CLI or a CGI program. This maintenance release fixes issues reported by users since the last five months with some improvements and new features. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_Parquet_S3_FDW_1.0.0_released⠀⇛ We have just released version 1.0.0 of the Foreign Data Wrapper for Parquet file on Amazon S3. This release can work with PostgreSQL 13, 14 and 15. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_SQLite_FDW_2.3.0_released⠀⇛ We have just released version 2.3.0 of the Foreign Data Wrapper for SQLite. This release can work with PostgreSQL 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_High-Performance_SQL_Cluster Engine_PGSpider_3.0.0_released⠀⇛ We have just released PGSpider v3.0.0. PGSpider is High-Performance SQL Cluster Engine for distributed big data. PGSpider can access a number of data sources using Foreign Data Wrapper(FDW) and retrieves the distributed data source vertically. Usage of PGSpider is the same as PostgreSQL. You can use any client applications such as libpq and psql. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_GridDB_FDW_2.2.0_released⠀⇛ We have just released version 2.2.0 of the Foreign Data Wrapper for GridDB. This release can work with PostgreSQL 11, 12, 13 14 and 15. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_DynamoDB_FDW_1.2.0_released⠀⇛ DynamoDB FDW 1.2.0 released We have just released version 1.2.0 of the Foreign Data Wrapper for DynamoDB. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_pgAdmin_4_v6.19_Released⠀⇛ The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 6.19. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 20 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes. pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website. Notable changes in this release include: # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_JDBC_FDW_0.3.0_release⠀⇛ We have just released version 0.3.0 of the Foreign Data Wrapper for databases with JDBC interface. This release can work with PostgreSQL 13, 14 and 15. This FDW is implemented in C language with JDK. o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Join_LibrePlanet_2023_behind_the_scenes_as_a volunteer⠀⇛ LibrePlanet 2023 is coming very soon and we need your help to make the world’s premier gathering of free software enthusiasts a success. LibrePlanet 2023 will be held March 18-19, 2023 both online and in person in Boston, MA. It will be the fifteenth edition of the conference that brings free software advocates together from around the globe, and you can be an important part of this celebration. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Move_over_Internet_of_Things,_I_built_the_Internet_of Memes⠀⇛ I built the Internet of Memes, making it possible for anyone at my company to push funny pictures to the ePaper display on the desk of all our coworkers. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ OTOBO_supports_the_German_Perl/Raku-Workshop⠀⇛ We are happy to announce that Rother OSS again supports the German Perl/Raku-Workshop as a sponsor. Since 2011, Rother OSS GmbH, based in southern Germany and with a team throughout Germany, has relied on the combination of an open source ticket system and business services from experts. Specifically: consulting, development and support for the free OTRS versions. Since 2011, Rother OSS GmbH, based in southern Germany and with a team throughout Germany, has relied on the combination of an open source ticket system and business services from experts. Specifically: consulting, development and support for the free OTRS versions. # ⚓ Perl ☛ This_Week_in_PSC_(094)⠀⇛ # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Python_Set_Comprehensions_Are_AMAZING_#python #coding_#programming_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust_in_2023:_Growing_up⠀⇛ When I started working on Rust in 2011, my daughter was about three months old. She’s now in sixth grade, and she’s started growing rapidly. Sometimes we wake up to find that her clothes don’t quite fit anymore: the sleeves might be a little too short, or the legs come up to her ankles. Rust is experiencing something similar. We’ve been growing tremendously fast over the last few years, and any time you experience growth like that, there are bound to be a few rough patches. Things that don’t work as well as they used to. This holds both in a technical sense — there are parts of the language that don’t seem to scale up to Rust’s current size — and in a social one — some aspects of how the projects runs need to change if we’re going to keep growing the way I think we should. As we head into 2023, with two years to go until the Rust 2024 edition, this is the theme I see for Rust: maturation and scaling. # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ The_Rust_Programming_Language_Blog: Officially_announcing_the_types_team⠀⇛ Oh hey, it’s another new team announcement. But I will admit: if you follow the RFCs repository, the Rust zulip, or were particularly observant on the GATs stabilization announcement post, then this might not be a surprise for you. In fact, this “new” team was officially established at the end of May last year. There are a few reasons why we’re sharing this post now (as opposed to months before or…never). First, the team finished a three day in-person/hybrid meetup at the beginning of December and we’d like to share the purpose and outcomes of that meeting. Second, posting this announcement now is just around 7 months of activity and we’d love to share what we’ve accomplished within this time. Lastly, as we enter into the new year of 2023, it’s a great time to share a bit of where we expect to head in this year and beyond. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Tales_from_four_decades_in_the_Sinclair aftermarket_•_The_Register⠀⇛ RWAP Software has been offering parts and upgrades for Sinclair Research computers since the mid- 1980s. Owner Rich Mellor talked to El Reg about what got him into the business, what’s kept him interested, as well as his new product – which is a very different beast. While Commodore and Atari dominated the US market, in Europe, no other range of home computers still holds so much affection for so many people as Sinclair Research. The original company sold untold millions of units of the ZX80, ZX81, the classic ZX Spectrum and the Sinclair QL. Then founder Sir Clive Sinclair pulled off an impressive second act with the Cambridge Computers Z88, one of the earliest consumer laptops. If you are lucky enough to find one in the attic, or for a bargain price at a car-boot sale, there’s a good chance the famously awful rubber-membrane keyboard will have failed – but over three decades later, RWAP can supply you with a replacement. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ The_corruption_of_evidence_based_medicine⠀⇛ Professor Clancy worked with Professor David Sackett, the founder of the modern evidence based medicine movement, for over 4 years. Here we discuss the nature and importance of EBM and how this has been corrupted to the detrement of patient care. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Microsoft_Will_End_Sale_of_Windows_10 Licenses_to_Consumers_This_Month_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system has been available on the retail market for over seven years and was superseded by Windows 11 in October 2021. However, despite its age, Windows 10 remains the most popular version of Windows, with a global market share of 67.95% in December 2022 compared to 16.97% for Windows 11, according to StatCounter. But it now looks like Microsoft is ready to put the brakes on issuing new Windows 10 licenses to everyday consumers. Microsoft’s official product pages for Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro now include the following disclaimer: “January 31, 2023 will be the last day this Windows 10 download is offered for sale. Windows 10 will remain supported with security updates that help protect your PC from viruses, spyware, and other malware until October 14, 2025.” # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_pushes_KB5021751_to_check_for outdated_Office_installs [Ed: Figuring out how to squeeze money out of people who don't have any left]⠀⇛ The company says the goal is to determine how many customers are still using outdated Office versions. o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_forms_metaverse_group_to_foster collaboration [Ed: Linux Foundation as Openwashing Front Group for Facebook, Microsoft, and Companies That Say "Open Source" is a Security Crisis/Threat]⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation has formed the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF), a group designed to support the development of open-source software and standards for the metaverse. # ⚓ Venture Beat ☛ Linux_Foundation_launches_Open_Metaverse Foundation_to_move_the_metaverse_to_reality_|_VentureBeat⠀⇛ The nonprofit Linux Foundation has established the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF) to create the open- source software and standards for an open metaverse. # ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_announces_the_formation_of_the Overture_Maps_Foundation_|_Geo_Week_News_|_Lidar,_3D,_and more_tools_at_the_intersection_of_geospatial_technology_and the_built_world⠀⇛ The initiative includes four founding members – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom – but is looking to grow with more members as it progresses. # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Open_source_maintainers: What_they_need_and_how_to_support_them⠀⇛ Core to the Linux Foundation and Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)’s mission is to ensure the security and sustainability of widely used open source software projects. Free and open source software (FOSS) makes up the digital infrastructure we all rely on. And maintainers play an important role in keeping that ecosystem functional, easy to use, and secure. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (lava and libitext5-java), Oracle (java-11-openjdk, java- 17-openjdk, and libreoffice), SUSE (firefox, git, mozilla-nss, postgresql-jdbc, and sudo), and Ubuntu (git, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon, linux-azure, linux- gkeop, linux-intel-iotg, linux-lowlatency, linux- lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15, and linux- bluefield). # ⚓ CISA ☛ Cisco_Releases_Security_Advisory_for_Unified_CM_and Unified_CM_SME_|_CISA⠀⇛ Cisco released a security advisory for a vulnerability affecting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME). A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of- service condition. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_18.04_LTS_End_Of_Life_–_keep_your_fleet_of devices_up_and_running_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Ubuntu 18.04 ‘Bionic Beaver’ is reaching End of Standard Support this April, also known sometimes as End Of Life (EOL). This distribution of Ubuntu was installed by millions of users and powers up thousands of devices. From kiosks and appliances to IoT devices and robots, 18.04 helped many companies deploy innovations to the world. As with all other Ubuntu LTS releases that reach their end of standard support, Bionic Beaver will transition to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM). This blog post will help developers and companies evaluate their options for devices currently running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It will also cover how you can enable ESM in case you choose to extend the support window with this service. Before we jump in, let’s cover a burning question: why do Ubuntu releases reach EOL? # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ New_Boldmove_Linux_malware_used_to backdoor_Fortinet_devices [Ed: The Microsofters are getting nastier. This is a Fortinet problem, not Linux, and there’s no_“backdoor”. Vicious FUD campaigns persist.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Chinese_Hackers_Exploited_Recent_Fortinet Flaw_as_0-Day_to_Drop_Malware⠀⇛ A suspected China-nexus threat actor exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN as a zero-day in attacks targeting a European government entity and a managed service provider (MSP) located in Africa. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ How_Is_This_for_Apple_Privacy?⠀⇛ This week in the WeeklyNewsRoundup, Apple scans computers again, FOSS Software Sideloading Malware, and the Linux Foundation creates an Open Source Metaverse o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ In_WDTX,_the_Numbers_Tell_the_Story_–_Patent Progress⠀⇛ If there was ever any doubt that Judge Alan Albright’s courtroom in Waco, Texas was a favorable venue for patent trolls, we can now put that notion to rest. The proof is in the numbers. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Comics_and_Graphic_Novels⠀⇛ I’m not sure exactly what kicked it off but I’ve been more into comic books and graphic novels lately. There was a period in my youth where I was pretty into comic books but it didn’t really stick around for too long. Anyways, my wife gave me Descender Volume One as a gift and it is really good! I tore through it pretty fast and then ordered volumes two and three. I’m a huge fan of sci-fi anything so that’s mostly what I’ve been searching out. I ordered some other volume ones to check out too along with “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Authorized Collection” which is a volume of the HHGG comic books that I didn’t even know existed up until this point. # ⚓ Album_#150:_Cosmo’s_Factory⠀⇛ Creedence Clearwater Revival to me are the band that films or games use when they want you to think ‘Vietnam War’. I’ve just left them in that box as far back as I can remember. So I put today’s record on expecting very little, and was surprised to have a blast. I think it was track 1, Ramble Tamble, that softened me up – the long instrumental section in the 7 minute song wasn’t at all what I expected. On some albums, big singles like Up and Around the Bend really stand out as obvious hits, but on this it felt like just another song – one I knew already, but in no way overshadowing the rest. # ⚓ Album_#149:_The_Stooges⠀⇛ The Stooges is 34 minutes long, including and even that feels like a cheat – “We Will Fall” is an eminently skippable 10 minute drone a few songs in. The album has its moments though. “I Wanna Be Your Dog” is a great track, sleigh bells, dirgey piano and menacing guitars making for an atmosphere that nothing else on the album quite reaches. I guess this makes the list for its influence, or impact, or the sign of things to come. Raw Power is The Stooges album I’ve heard before, and from memory think it’s the better album. I’d check, but might as well wait – I’m sure it’s going to come up later. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_do_I_keep_writing_short_games?⠀⇛ I just don’t read the long rule books. The absolute upper limits for me are the 2×64 pages of B/X D&D, or the 160 pages of The Traveller Book, and … I just don’t want to read more than that before I start playing. Maybe, once I’ve played for 12 sessions, I’d be interested in more. If I had to guess, I don’t even read 50 pages before running a game. I might read more, later. But up front? Never. # ⚓ Dungeons_&_Dragons_–_OpenGL_Controversy⠀⇛ I really enjoy playing Dungeons & Dragons, but Hasbro (which owns Wizards of the Coast) has evidently decided to try break the Open Gaming License, and don’t really care about the players anymore. Below are linked a couple of videos about the controversy, that explains it a lot better than I ever could. I’ve played a lot of different systems. In the last several years, D&D has been my main game, with some Alternity (2018 version), and custom systems made by my brother thrown in. # ⚓ Getting_efingerd_/_finger_working_on_Ubuntu_with_systemd⠀⇛ Not a lot of folks use the finger command or protocol these days; however, I’ve been delving into the #smallweb / smolweb (i.e., the Gemini Protocol) for the past year and noticed a few people have revived this ancient protocol for status updates. I figured I’d give it a shot, and I thought it would be simple, but the lack of guidance really hindered me for a bit. If you’re wondering, efingerd / fingerd (the original) simply enables people outside of your own linux machine to use the finger command, just remotely. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Smörgåsbord_of_Problems⠀⇛ For the past several days, while combating another flu, I’ve been polishing Lagrange’s dev branch for the v1.15 release. Preparing for a release typically involves solving a series of small(ish) problems. Here’s a sampling of what I encountered this time. Operating systems have fundamental differences when it comes to windowing and event processing. I do most of my development on macOS, so a bunch of small issues typically pop up when testing on Windows, Linux, and *BSD. # ⚓ Gopher_and_Long-Term_Interest_in_Gemini⠀⇛ My presence on the small Web is almost exclusively on Gemini, and I mostly browse capsules in Geminispace, but every now and then I find myself returning to Gopher. My first experience with small protocols was with Gopher, and while I switch the Gemini almost immediately, I still enjoy exploring phlogs and resources on Gopher. Part of the enduring charm of Gopher to me is its long-term stability. It’s been a staple of the Internet for over three decades, receiving an assignment on port 70 by the IANA. The protocol hasn’t evolved significantly since then, meaning any server or client capable of accessing the Internet can still communicate–indeed, several decades-old gopherholes are still online. That stability imbues the community with a rich culture that is easily as accessible as it was in the 1990s. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6008 ➮ Generation completed at 02:42, i.e. 55 seconds to (re)generate ⟲