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multi-month investigation (dealing with several pensions going back 12 years), pension funds in the UK are truly awful and definitely not trustworthy; colleagues too are receiving no replies to very simple enquiries and money just goes ‘missing’ with neither notification nor explanation, probably plundered by failing companies like Sirius ‘Open Source’ (which does_not_obey_laws and keeps hiding) THE video above is hopefully a good enough roundup of what’s happening or has been happening at Sirius_‘Open_Source’ when it comes to pensions alone. We’ve been covering the subject every month since December and the latest is a whole mini-series about “Sirius ‘Open Source’ Pensiongate”. Earlier today we finally named one of the culprits (after months of frustrating lies) and the above plays a portion from a 26-minute phonecall (0:34-1:00, 7:06-7:40, 15:40 onward, 18:10-20:10, 21:05-25:03), basically skipping personal details, waiting time, and the duration they put me on hold (for over 8 minutes). The person who picked the call said he “spoke to a colleague of mine” and insisted that it “takes more investigation” or it’s “longer to process”. But it has been 20+ days since that call and his promise of letters within 5 working days wasn’t fulfilled. To make matters worse, I’ve contacted them by E-mail several times since then and they’re not even replying. “Do not take anything for granted. Many of these things are like Ponzi schemes or scams.”The conclusion of the series will be, no matter where you live and irrespective of how “reputable” a firm may be, if you have a pension you need to check that it is really there; either the employer or the pension providers can run away with the money without notifying anybody. Do not take anything for granted. Many of these things are like Ponzi schemes or scams. Compare to these, “bullshit jobs” are reasonably benign. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 244 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/01/osi-the-voice-of-microsoft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/01/osi-the-voice-of-microsoft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ OSI:_The_Voice_of_Microsoft⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, Microsoft, OSI at 3:05 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Hours ago: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇ClearlyDefined_gets_a_new_community_manager_with_a_vision toward_the_future⦈_ Summary: OSI reminds us that it became merely a front group of Microsoft, promoting_proprietary_GitHub_and_also_GPL_violations. OSI has been defunct for years. Microsoft bribed it to fall on its sword [1, 2]. ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣻⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣯⣯⣿⣾⢿⢿⡻⣿⢿⢟⣿⣟⣻⡟⢿⢿⢿⠟⢻⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢷⣯⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢹⣯⡇⣟⣿⣻⢻⢛⣿⡿⣟⡏⣿⢻⣻⣿⣖⣟⣿⣿⣿⡿⣗⣿⡟⣟⣟⣿⣻⡿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣻⣿⢿⣿⣻⢻⣿⣟⣿⢿⣻⣻⣿⡟⡟⡟⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⢺⢻⣻⢿⣿⢻⢻⣻⣻⢻⢻⢻⣻⣿⡟⡻⣟⡟⣻⣿⣿ ⣿⣾⣷⣷⣷⣿⣾⣾⣾⣿⣟⣾⣷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣗⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣷⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣾⣳⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣾⣾⣾⣾⣿⣟⣿⣷⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡹⢻⡏⡏⣽⣿⢻⣿⡏⣿⡝⣿⣽⣻⣯⡟⣯⣯⣯⣿⡏⣽⣽⢻⢛⢯⣿⢹⣽⡝⡯⣿⡏⣿⣯⣟⣯⣿⡇⣯⣿⣯⣽⢹⢹⢩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 289 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/01/the-european-patent-office-issues/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/01/the-european-patent-office-issues/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_European_Patent_Office_Cannot_Survive_This_Way⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 1:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 8225002a69654cd13c9c3fbcb8b74170 EPO Under Ongoing Scrutiny Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/epo-scrutinised-again.webm Summary: The European Patent Office, Europe’s largest patent office, has been hijacked by special interest groups that commit crimes and intentionally disregard all the rules; they not only try to establish plaintiff-friendly kangaroo_courts but they also want a "production_line"_for_patents_instead_of_a properly-functioning_patent_office THE Web site of the EPO pretends that all is well, but under the surface there are fuming patent examiners and administration staff. The chiefs at the EPO, who are basically friends of Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos (nepotism all the way up!), are promoting illegal and unconstitutional courts while granting European_software_patents by pressurising_examiners. “The EPO, assuming it carries on moving/marching in this very same trajectory, will simply perish and maybe cease to exist after its 50th anniversary.”The above video takes stock of some recent publications from within the EPO, covering a range of issues. Among them: brain drain, work pressure, declining patent quality, and demoralisation tactics. The EPO, assuming it carries on moving/marching in this very same trajectory, will simply perish and maybe cease to exist after its 50th anniversary. It’s only a matter of time before political will outweighs lobbyists’ power. Maybe what’s left of the media will belatedly participate in exposing the corruption at the EPO, though media ownership by the powerful (and consolidation around power) may mean that instead the media will cover up this corruption. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 346 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_01/03/2023:_End_of_HP_Dev_One⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) * Leftovers o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents # Software_Patents # Trademarks * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ PlanetPC_XR1/XR2_Rockchip_RK3568/RK3588_Mini PC_comes_with_a_touchscreen_display_for_control_ (Crowdfunding)⠀⇛ PlanetPC XR1/XR2 are Arm Linux mini PCs based on Rockchip RK3568 or RK3588 processor respectively with a unique design featuring an integrated touchscreen display for control. Planet Computers has designed several unique computing devices over the years such as the Cosmo Communicator 2-in-1 smartphone and computer or Astro Slide 5G transformer smartphone, and the British company has now come up with a mini PC preloaded with Ubuntu with a touchscreen screen interface, dual 4K/8K video output, dual Gigabit Ethernet and more. # ⚓ This_mini_Linux-powered_desktop_PC_has_a_built-in touchscreen_for_slick_controls⠀⇛ Desktop PC launches don’t turn many heads today (unless, of course, they’re fire-breathing, RGB- laden, insanely expensive gaming PCs), but every now and then we come across one that catches our eye. In this instance, its Planet Computers’ new XR — a range of ARM-powered Linux-running desktop PCs announced at MWC 2023. Pre-loaded with Ubuntu OS, it’s touted as the first out-of-the-box mini Linux desktop experience, with the aim of bringing the open-source benefits of Linux to the masses. With everything already pre- installed, it makes for a hassle-free introduction outside the world of Windows and macOS, on paper at least. # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ HP_Dev_One_Linux_laptop_has_been_discontinued, but_HP_will_offer_support_through_January_2026_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ Less than a year after launching the HP Dev One thin, light, and powerful laptop aimed at developers, HP has discontinued the product. The company says it stopped selling the Dev One on January 30th, 2023 and currently has no plans for a new model. But HP tells Liliputing that it will continue to offer support to existing customers “through January 2026 or three years from purchase date.” o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ FFmpeg_6.0_releases_with_new_Radiance_HDR image_and_WBMP_support⠀⇛ The new version of FFmpeg 6.0, a popular open- source multimedia framework, is now available. This major release is now available for download and consumption in multimedia projects. 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Wayland is getting increasingly common: it’s the default display server for most GNOME-based distros now. Ubuntu made it the default in version 21.04, and Fedora way back in version 25. However, most still include the XWayland layer to support legacy X11 apps. So while WINE can run on Wayland-based distros right now, that only works via translation. The new code will make WINE talk directly to the new display server without going through this intermediary. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ H2S Media ☛ 6_Popular_but_Best_Lightweight_Linux_desktop Environments⠀⇛ Do you think Windows is heavy for your old laptop and want to replace it with Linux? 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This makes Red Hat seem like a subsidiary of Microsoft.]⠀⇛ o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Euroshop_2023:_SUNMI_is_leading_the_move_to_Android_for business_–_PR_Newswire_APAC⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lifewire ☛ How_to_Find_Your_Wi-Fi_Password_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_Android_trick_gives_you life-changing_‘upgrade_loophole’_–_but_it_only_works_in_your home_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Realme’s_new_Android_phone_charges_to_100% faster_than_you_can_finish_a_coffee_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Google_7_Pixel_Review:_Superb_Android Phone_at_a_Great_Price⠀⇛ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ This_$1099_Android_tablet_has_a_12.4_inch glasses-free_3D_display_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_QPR2_Beta_gets_final_feedback survey_before_launch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ Android_11:_Guides,_News,_Reviews,_How- Tos,_and_More_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Linux_Foundation_Europe_forms_OpenWallet Foundation [Ed: Openwasing service misusing and diluting the brand "Linux"]⠀⇛ o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ ClearlyDefined_gets_a_new_community_manager_with_a vision_toward_the_future [Ed: OSI_reminds_us_that_it_became_merely a_front_group_of_Microsoft,_promoting_proprietary_GitHub_and_also GPL_violations._OSI_has_been_defunct_for_years._Microsoft_bribed_it to_fall_on_its_sword.]⠀⇛ Nick Vidal has joined the project hosted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) that helps Open Source projects thrive by putting essential licensing data at teams’ fingertips. o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ WordPress ☛ People_of_WordPress:_Hauwa_Abashiya⠀⇛ This month we feature Hauwa Abashiya, a project manager in Nigeria and the UK, whose passion for community support led her to an adventure in open source. The People of WordPress series features inspiring stories of how people’s lives can change for the better through WordPress and its global community of contributors. As we travel through life, sometimes we are drawn to a particular cause, one to which we can get behind and join in. This cause, in whatever field it may be, can help lift us beyond our everyday lives and can help us take stock. This is the journey that depicts Hauwa’s finding a global sense of place and providing a way to re-look at her life and plans. That change agent was discovering and becoming part of open source through WordPress. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 1.5_Million_Quake-Risky_Buildings_to_Be_Replaced_in Istanbul⠀⇛ Defense Minister Akar also announced that nearly 42,000 Syrian refugees in Türkiye have voluntarily returned to their homeland so far. o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ It’s_all_downhill_from_here_…_but_is_that_a_good_or a_bad_thing?⠀⇛ Two different usages of the common idiom have sparked some heated debate. o ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_sends_more_material_aid_to_Turkey,_Syria⠀⇛ The aid package includes tents, blankets, heaters and food supplies. o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Nokia_adopts_six-pillar_plan_to_reform_strategy, unveils_new_logo [Ed: Nokia was already killed by criminals from Microsoft, who later bribed to cover up their crimes]⠀⇛ NOKIA on Sunday unveiled a plan to accelerate its growth across six pillars and a “refreshed brand” as part of its long-term strategic transformation. The Finnish network equipment developer said it intends to pursue technological leadership to grow its market share, actively manage its portfolio to ensure a path to a leading position in all key segments, increase the share of corporate clients, seize new opportunities to monetise its intellectual property, implement new business models and develop environmental, social and corporate governance into a competitive advantage. o ⚓ Shirish_Agarwal:_Cutting_off_body_parts_and_Lenovo⠀⇛ o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Almost_one_in_ten_in_Denmark_prescribed_antidepressants⠀⇛ New national data shows around 9 percent of people in Denmark made use of a medical prescription for antidepressant medicine in 2021. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ These_Are_the_Top_25_COVID_Hot Spots_in_the_U.S.⠀⇛ These are the 25 counties with the highest recent averages for new COVID cases per capita. # ⚓ YLE ☛ THL:_More_than_half_of_Finland_has_hybrid_Covid immunity⠀⇛ Three years have passed since Finland saw its first confirmed case of Covid-19. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Side-Channel_Attack_against_CRYSTALS- Kyber⠀⇛ Researchers have just_published a side-channel attack–using power consumption–against an implementation of the algorithm that was supposed to be resistant against that sort of attack. # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Dish_hit_by_multiday_outage_after_reported cyberattack_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛ U.S. satellite television provider Dish is experiencing a multiday outage after a reported cyberattack, with customers unable to access streams, services or their accounts. # ⚓ WCVB ☛ Social_engineering_attack_on_Boston_labor_union results_in_$6.4_million_loss⠀⇛ A cyberattack on a Boston-based labor union’s health fund resulted in the loss of $6.4 million, but it does not appear that the personal information of members was stolen or compromised, union officials said. Federal and local law enforcement agencies were notified of the attack at Pipefitters Local 537 that was discovered Feb. 7 and the union retained a cyber security forensic investigator, union business manager/financial secretary-treasurer Daniel O’Brien said in a message to members. # ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ LastPass_says_employee’s_home_computer_was hacked_and_corporate_vault_taken⠀⇛ Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted login data into a threat actor’s hands, LastPass on Monday said that the same attacker hacked an employee’s home computer and obtained a decrypted vault available to only a handful of company developers. Although an initial intrusion into LastPass ended on August 12, officials with the leading password manager said the threat actor “was actively engaged in a new series of reconnaissance, enumeration, and exfiltration activity” from August 12 to August 26. In the process, the unknown threat actor was able to steal valid credentials from a senior DevOps engineer and access the contents of a LastPass data vault. Among other things, the vault gave access to a shared cloud-storage environment that contained the encryption keys for customer vault backups stored in Amazon S3 buckets. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Forget_the_spy_balloon._China-linked_hackers_collect far_more_information,_report_says.⠀⇛ Even as the Chinese spy balloon floated across the U.S., China-linked hackers were gathering far more information by breaking into computer networks in America and around the world, according to a new report by a leading cybersecurity firm. CrowdStrike says in its annual global threat report that it observed China-linked cyberespionage groups targeting 39 industries on nearly every continent. About a quarter of the hacking was aimed at North America, while most of it targeted China’s Asian neighbors, the report found. The techniques China used have become increasingly sophisticated as cybersecurity has improved, the report found. “They’re endemic at this point — they’re everywhere,” said Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s head of intelligence. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ CrowdStrike:_Threat_actors_shifting_away_from ransomware⠀⇛ CrowdStrike’s ’2023 Global Threat Report’ showed a 20% increase in the number of threat actors using data theft and extortion tactics without deploying actual ransomware. # ⚓ NBC ☛ U.S._Marshals_Service_suffers_‘major’_security_breach that_compromises_sensitive_information,_senior_law enforcement_officials_say⠀⇛ The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach over a week ago that compromises sensitive information, multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday. In a statement Monday, U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson Drew Wade acknowledged the breach, telling NBC News: “The affected system contains law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, administrative information, and personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of USMS investigations, third parties, and certain USMS employees.” Wade said the incident occurred Feb. 17, when the Marshals Service “discovered a ransomware and data exfiltration event affecting a stand-alone USMS system.” # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Another_Texas_school_district_with_a_data breach?⠀⇛ There is no notice on WSISD’s website that DataBreaches could find about any incident or cyberattack, and it’s not known if any files were encrypted or if this was an attack in which data were just exfiltrated for ransom or extortion purposes. None of the files in the proof pack are demonstrably recent files, and a number of them have dates suggesting that they are from 2015 or earlier. One file, however, had an image of a passport issued in 2020. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ LastPass_Shouldn’t_Be_Trusted_With_Your Passwords⠀⇛ The company published new details about a disastrous breach in which hackers stole customers’ vaults. It’s time to switch. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Aleksanteri_Kivimäki_remanded_into_custody_over Vastaamo_hack⠀⇛ Kivimäki is suspected of aggravated extortion, aggravated data theft and aggravated distribution of information infringing privacy, among other offences. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_Organised_crime_is_infecting_African_and global_supply_chains⠀⇛ Transnational organised crime is usually associated with violent mafia-style groups that traffic drugs, people, arms and wildlife. Less dramatic but equally damaging is the effect of organised crime on global supply chains for legal goods. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ US_Republican_lawmakers_launch_bill denouncing_South_Africa’s_naval_exercises_with_China_and Russia⠀⇛ On 21 February, a new piece of legislation was introduced in the United States Congress — in the House of Representatives — by Representative John James, a Congressman from the state of Michigan, which, if passed, would make the US mandated to take a stand against South Africa. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Live:_Moscow_says_it_foiled_Ukraine_drone_attack on_Russian_territory⠀⇛ The Kremlin said it foiled a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian territory overnight as Moscow’s forces pressed their offensive in eastern Ukraine, attempting to encircle the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut. The fighting came as Ukraine’s head of military intelligence dismissed fears that China was considering supplying arms to Moscow. # ⚓ HRW ☛ Biden_‘Asylum_Ban’_Rule_Would_Send_Thousands_to Danger⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Finland_Starts_Construction_Of_Russian_Border Fence⠀⇛ Finland says it has begun construction of a 200- kilometer fence on the Russian border as Helsinki fears Moscow could use migrant flows at the frontier for political purposes. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kalmyk_Activist_Who_Fled_Russia_Unable_To_Enter Mongolia_Due_To_Expired_Passport⠀⇛ A leading Kalmyk activist who says he may face persecution if he is deported to Russia has not been allowed to enter Mongolia over his expired Russian passport. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran’s_Former_Crown_Prince_Says_Fall_Of_Regime Would_Have_Global_Effect⠀⇛ Iran’s former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, says the fall of the Islamic republic and the establishment of a democratic government would not only liberate Iranians from the tyranny of a “terrorist regime” but also benefit global peace and stability. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Another_Group_Of_Iranian_Pupils_Falls_Ill;_Lawmaker Calls_For_Investigation⠀⇛ An Iranian member of parliament has acknowledged reports of several groups of female students falling ill in at least 15 cities, with many being hospitalized in recent months. # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Dubious_Alliance:_How_Present_Is_the_Far_Right_in Germany’s_New_Peace_Movement?⠀⇛ Putin’s war in Ukraine is unsettling many in Germany. A new peace movement is forming in the country, but it is stirring up the ghosts of German history – and has an open flank to the extreme right. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Russians_tighten_noose_on_Ukraine’s_Bakhmut, as_Putin_warns_of_Western_espionage⠀⇛ Taking Bakhmut, the scene of some of the war’s bloodiest battles, would be Russia’s first major prize in more than six months. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_soldiers:_Ukraine_needs_better_training_to win⠀⇛ Finnish soldiers say the Finnish Defence Forces’ training to combat a Russian attack is the best in the world. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnair_pilot_flies_off_course_to_show_passengers Northern_Lights⠀⇛ Strong solar winds have offered opportunities to see the colourful display in places as far south as Helsinki this week. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Nato_chief:_Finland,_Sweden_in_stronger_position_than before_they_applied_to_alliance⠀⇛ Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said it would be impossible for alliance members not to intervene if Finland’s or Sweden’s security were to be threatened. # ⚓ HRW ☛ Trinidad_and_Tobago:_Bring_Home_Nationals_from Northeast_Syria⠀⇛ (Port of Spain, Trinidad) – Over 90 nationals of Trinidad and Tobago, including at least 56 children, are unlawfully detained in life- threatening conditions as Islamic State (ISIS) suspects and family members in northeast Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. The government of Trinidad and Tobago has taken almost no action to help them return, even as countries including the United States and Barbados repatriate their own nationals. Conditions in the camps and prisons holding Trinidadians and other ISIS-linked suspects and family members are increasingly dire. Turkish airstrikes in November 2022 hit a security post at one camp, killing eight guards, and came perilously close to striking one of the prisons. Health care, clean water, shelter, and education and recreation for children are grossly inadequate. Mothers interviewed by Human Rights Watch said they hide their children in their tents to protect them from sexual predators, abusive camp guards, and ISIS recruiters and fighters. Children have drowned in sewage pits, died in tent fires, and been hit and killed by water trucks, and hundreds have died from treatable illnesses. # ⚓ LRT ☛ 600_German_troops_with_equipment_come_to_Lithuania for_training⠀⇛ Around 600 troops from the German Army’s 41st Mechanised Infantry Brigade and about 240 pieces of military equipment have arrived in Lithuania by land, air and sea for training, the Lithuanian Armed Forces said. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_president_‘not_happy’_with_latest_Russia sanctions,_to_keep_pressing_to_add_Rosatom⠀⇛ Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda pledges to keep pressing the EU to add Russia’s state nuclear giant Rosatom to its sanctions list. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Russian_tank_displayed_in_Vilnius_helps_to_‘see vatniks’_in_Lithuania,_president_says⠀⇛ Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda supports the display of a destroyed Russian tank in Vilnius despite recent pro-Russian provocations next to it. # ⚓ LRT ☛ ‘Russia_is_constantly_planning_for_new_offensives’_– interview_with_NATO_chief_Stoltenberg⠀⇛ The Vilnius summit will deliver important decisions for NATO, says the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with LRT. He says he invited Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to come to the meeting. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ H2 View ☛ US_and_UK_reaffirm_hydrogen_in_clean_energy drive⠀⇛ Hydrogen was firmly on the agenda during US- US strategic energy dialogue discussions held today between US Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm and UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary of State, the… # ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ Solar_developers_may_benefit from_a_new_stormwater_calculator⠀⇛ Stormwater management practices, permitting, and regulations at solar sites often do not account for the unique characteristics of large-scale solar installations, according to a new Department of Energy (DOE) funded study. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Ethereum_moved_to_proof_of stake._Why_can’t_Bitcoin?⠀⇛ Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. Last year, Ethereum went green. The second-most- popular crypto platform transitioned to proof of stake, an energy-efficient framework for adding new blocks of transactions, NFTs, and other information to the blockchain.… # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ NGO_urges_China_to_stop_using pandas_as_diplomatic_gifts⠀⇛ >An animal welfare NGO has urged China not to use animals such as pandas as political gifts. It comes after a 24-year-old male giant panda named Le Le died at Memphis Zoo in the US. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Home_price_slide_loses_momentum_as_new listings_tighten⠀⇛ The residential property market continues its downturn but the rate of decline has pulled back sharply.   The monthly home value index released by property data from CoreLogic declined 0.14 per cent over the month – the smallest monthly loss since the Reserve Bank first started hiking interest rates in May last year. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Sweden’s_Q4_GDP_Shrinks_0.9_Pct_Ahead_of_Expected Recession⠀⇛ In its latest economic forecast, the European Commission said that Swedish economy would be the worst performing in the EU in 2023. # ⚓ Lower_energy_prices_take_air_out_of_Danish_inflation⠀⇛ Inflation continued to fall in Denmark in January with lower energy prices a primary factor. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ How_much_does_having_a_baby_cost?_Here’s_what you_should_know⠀⇛ As inflation surges, having a baby might not look as financially comfortable as it did 18 months ago. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Digital_mortgages_have_cut-price_rates,_but they_don’t_suit_everyone⠀⇛ Banks are pouring money into developing digital home loans. Are they good value for customers? # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Five_ways_to_secure_gender_pay_parity_from your_workplace⠀⇛ The gap between male and female wages in Australia remains vast, and women are getting short-changed when it comes to their pay packets. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Mississippi_House_Panel_OKs Longer_Medicaid_After_Births⠀⇛ A Mississippi House committee has advanced a bill that would provide women with a full year of Medicaid coverage after giving birth # ⚓ YLE ☛ Talks_fail,_Finland’s_bus_driver_strike_starts_on Wednesday⠀⇛ The 10-day strike will affect most public bus services across the country and is due to start at 3 am on Wednesday. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ASX_set_to_dip_as_Wall_Street_wavers⠀⇛ Stocks are mixed as Wall Street closes out what’s been a tough February. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Italy’s_Purchasing_Power_Halved_Since_Start_of Ukrainian_Crisis⠀⇛ Around one Italian in seven earned less than they required to make ends meet, and a quarter of those surveyed said they spent all their money on essential purchases. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UK_Household_Energy_Bills_to_Rise_Despite_Price Cap_Drop⠀⇛ Households in the UK are still expected to pay more for their energy consumption after April due to a cut in government support. # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Booze_price_hikes_and_tax_deadlines:_What changes_in_Sweden_in_March?⠀⇛ Alcohol is set to get more expensive and tax declaration season gets under way. Here’s more on that and everything else that changes in Sweden in March 2023. # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ How_much_will_alcohol_prices_go_up_in_Sweden in_March?⠀⇛ Despite inflation at over 10 percent in Sweden, prices of beer, wine and spirits at the country’s Systembolaget alcohol monopoly are only going up an average of less than 3 percent next month. Here are the pricing details for your daily tipple. # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Recession_looms_as_Sweden’s_economy_shrinks more_than_expected⠀⇛ The Swedish economy shrank more than initially estimated in the last quarter of 2022, new statistics showed on Tuesday, with a recession looking increasingly inevitable. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_won’t_ban_TikTok_from_official_devices⠀⇛ After some countries have banned TikTok from official devices, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry says it sees no reason for such restrictions for the time being, but does not recommend using the Chinese-made video sharing app. # ⚓ Denmark_at_‘significant_risk’_of_missing_2030_emissions target:_Climate_Council⠀⇛ Denmark’s climate council has warned of “a significant risk” of the country missing its 2030 emissions goal and has outlined six actions the government could take to put it on track. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ‘Fearing_young_person’s_app’:_US-China_TikTok clash_escalates⠀⇛ China says the US is overstretching the concept of national security after the White House gave government agencies 30 days to remove Chinese-owned app TikTok. # ⚓ Denmark’s_parliament_tells_MPs_to_uninstall_TikTok⠀⇛ Denmark’s parliament announced Tuesday that it had asked MPs and all staff to remove the TikTok app from mobile devices because of the “risk of spying”, while businesses were also advised to delete it. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ TikTok’s_Landlord_Influencers_Want_You To_Stop_Being_Mad_and_Start_Landlording⠀⇛ Extremely online landlords are regularly told their jobs are “inherently corrupt” and that they, personally, are “greedy animals.” But they claim their mission is noble—and that they deserve some sympathy too. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ White_House_Orders_All_Federal Agencies_to_Remove_TikTok_Within_30_Days⠀⇛ About two months after the No TikTok On Government Devices Act became law, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has officially instructed all executive agencies to remove the highly controversial app within 30 days. # ⚓ France24 ☛ White_House_gives_government_agencies_30_days_to enforce_TikTok_ban⠀⇛ The White House on Monday gave government agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have Chinese-owned app TikTok on federal devices and systems. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_and_EU_reach_deal_to_amend_Northern_Ireland Protocol⠀⇛ UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Monday reached a deal to resolve their disagreements surrounding the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Hundreds_of_BBC_journalists_to_strike_on Spring_Budget_day_over_local_radio_cuts⠀⇛ Some 83% of NUJ members who voted backed strike action, while 92% backed action short of a strike. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Press_&_Journal_editor_Frank_O’Donnell departs_DC_Thomson_amid_newsroom_‘transformation’⠀⇛ Frank O’Donnell left The Scotsman after 19 years to lead the Press & Journal in 2020. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Arron_Banks_wins_Carole_Cadwalladr_libel appeal_and_set_to_receive_damages⠀⇛ Brexit donor Arron Banks is entitled to damages over Carole Cadwalladr’s Ted Talk, appeal judges have ruled. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Vice_appoints_longtime_execs_as_co-CEOs_to succeed_Nancy_Dubuc⠀⇛ Longtime Vice executives Bruce Dixon and Hozefa Lokhandwala have been appointed co-CEOS. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Regional_press_ABCs:_Print_decline_is funding_digital_future⠀⇛ Birmingham Mail has dropped from 300,000 copies per day in the 1980s to 6,500 – but reaches 10 million online. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Reforms_will_mean_more_power_for_Communist_Party leader_Xi_Jinping:_analysts⠀⇛ China’s reforms could create Soviet-style super- commission under party control. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Young_Chinese_feeling_‘political_depression’_amid hopelessness_about_future⠀⇛ ‘I have gone from being shocked and angry … to realizing I may not be able to change anything.’ o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_Board_to_probe_officers’_photo_ban_at_Lapland logging_protest⠀⇛ Police cut down the timber tripod structure with a chainsaw, but would not allow the act to be photographed or recorded. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Journalist_Fined_For_Calling_Ukraine Conflict_‘War’_During_Interview⠀⇛ Russian journalist Yulia Starostina, who worked as a volunteer to help Ukrainian refugees, was fined 50,000 rubles ($660) on February 28 for “discrediting” Russia’s armed forces during Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarusian_Stroke_Victim_Jailed_For_Lukashenka Caricature⠀⇛ Amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent, Belarusian blogger Mikalay Klimovich, who recently suffered a stroke and had heart surgery, was sentenced to one year in prison on February 28 for posting an online caricature of authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Cambodia’s_Hun_Sen_ramps_up_efforts_to_bring political_opponents_to_heel⠀⇛ Facebook commentator, provincial party officials latest to be targeted in efforts to gain ruling party support. # ⚓ Great_Prayer_Day_abolished_by_Danish_parliament⠀⇛ The government’s bill to abolish the Great Prayer Day holiday was adopted following a vote in the Danish parliament on Tuesday. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Labour_market_organisations_fail_to_reach deal_on_stevedores⠀⇛ THE FINNISH Transport Workers’ Union (AKT) and Finnish Port Operators’ Association failed to reach an agreement on the terms and conditions of employment for stevedores on Sunday, according to the National Conciliator. National Conciliator Anu Sajavaara told YLE late on Sunday evening that some progress was nonetheless made in the negotiations. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Strike_threatens_to_disrupt_bus_services in_cities_across_Finland_as_of_Wednesday⠀⇛ BUS SERVICES in Finland’s largest cities are set to come to a grinding halt due to a driver strike taking place between 3am on Wednesday, 1 March, and Friday, 10 March. The Finnish Transport Workers’ Union (AKT) has indicated that the strike would have an impact particularly on commuter bus services but not so much on intercity coach services, even though it would also apply to Onnibus and Koiviston Auto. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Lawyers_for_Vietnamese_Buddhist_group_investigated_by authorities⠀⇛ Police said that lawyers may have violated Vietnam’s penal code by providing legal assistance o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ Pinsent_Masons_hires_renowned_patent_attorney to_strengthen_UPC_offering [Ed: JUVE is running UPC propaganda while cashing in from he profiteeer; it's a fake news site now]⠀⇛ Kristina Cornish (55) joined the London office of Pinsent Masons in mid-January 2023 as a partner in its life sciences team. W # ⚓ UPC_sunrise_period_starts_9.00_CET_on_1_March [Ed: Liars and propagandists from Bristows, who spent many years lying about UPC, are now openly promoting something illegal]⠀⇛ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_for_VideoLabs_data transmission_patent_prior_art⠀⇛ A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S._Patent_7,266,682, owned by VideoLabs,_Inc. The ‘682 patent generally relates to data from a transmitter that is extended to include authentication data on the application level by an application protocol. The authentication data is used by the receiver to determine whether the transmitter is known by the receiver. If the transmitter is known by the receiver, the data is accepted. If not, the data is rejected. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_for_IpIcontent_voice recognition_patent_prior_art⠀⇛ A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S._Patent_11,416,668, owned by IpIcontent, LLC. The ‘668 patent generally relates to voice recognition with a limited dictionary. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB_Posts_March_2023_Hearing_Schedule⠀⇛ The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee- Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled eight oral hearings for the month of March 2023. Five of the hearings will be held via video conference; three will be held “in-person” in Alexandria, VA. Briefs and other papers for each case may be found at TTABVUE via the links provided. March 7, 2023 – 10 AM [Virtual]: Alaskan Brewing_&_Bottling_Co._v._Northern Hospitality_Group,_Inc._dba_49th_State Brewing_Company, Opposition No. 91264066 [Section 2(d) opposition to registration of ALASKA TRAILS PALE ALE. ALASKA 8 STAR LAGER, and ALASKA EIGHT STAR LAGER for “beer, ale and lager” [ALASKA, PALE ALE, and LAGER disclaimed], in view of the registered marks ALASKAN, ALASKAN WINTER ALE, ALASKAN AMBER ALT STYLE, ALASKAN ICY BAY, ALASKAN SUMMER KOLSCH STYLE ALE, ALASKAN HARD SELTZER, ALASKAN DISTILLING CO., and the word-and- design mark shown below, for beer and ale [WINTER ALE, ICY BAY and SUMMER KOLSCH STYLE ALE disclaimed; all but the first registration including a distinctiveness limitation "as to 'ALASKAN'"]. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Temporary_Prescence⠀⇛ This is a rather odd thing to converse about while I wait for my beer, but it has been egging me on lately because a possible (key: possible) new person has entered my life. However, I know since its online, its very easy to lose contact and I fear this will happen again due to my usual inaction or something out of my control. I get saddened by this fact, but alas this is normal, especially in online spaces. You really like talking to someone, and it goes really really well! But then all of a sudden, they don’t speak to you again. Proof that *just* because someone has a really good conversation with you doesn’t mean they’ll be your friend, and that’s is fine. # ⚓ Spruce_Twigs_and_Needles⠀⇛ I have been doing some research lately into plant life in Alaska, and was most recently reading up on White Spruce. So, I got the idea to clip the end of a branch from off a spruce tree here in my yard (in Fairbanks) and take some photos with the coin microscope. I believe the tree is common White Spruce, but it was twilight and I didn’t get too good of a look at it before clipping off the branch. # ⚓ Long_socks⠀⇛ Long socks are uncomfortable. I have a pair of short socks, but I couldn’t find them anywhere. Long socks — it takes time to take it off, it takes time to put it on. I don’t like to wear long socks. # ⚓ DEAD_WHALE_HIVE_WHALE⠀⇛ Wrote this for a text game I never published. You play as a mote of consciousness rediscovering her body as she undergoes surgery to become the pilot (human liaison) for a mech (sentient ecosystem). o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ tldr_in_gemtext_🖥️📚⠀⇛ For command line help, man pages are thorough. The information you want is probably in there somewhere. But I’d prefer a few examples to get me started. The tldr project does exactly that. So I translated their pages to gemtext, and put up a list of them. # ⚓ Revamped_my_Gemini_mirror_of_The_Anarchist_Library⠀⇛ A while back I had set up a Gemini frontend for a mirror of The Anarchist Library. It lacked a few key features such as the ability to enter search queries. I lost the motivation to work on it for quite a while after I was disappointed with how it had turned out. Over the last week or so I’ve spent about two dozen hours rebuilding the thing from the ground up to be more performant and feature-rich. It’s written in C# using .NET 7, with MariaDB as the backing data store. The capsule now supports search queries that are evaluated against document metadata (title, notes, etc.), authors, and topics. Part of the rebuild was implementing a parser for the AmuseWiki file format that The Anarchist Library stores its documents in. This way I no longer have to rely on pandoc, which is a behemoth in terms of resource usage. Rendering un-cached documents should be much quicker now, and won’t crash the service on larger files. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1902 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_01/03/2023:_More_TikTok_Bans⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 9:40 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Arch_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Education o Programming/Development # Python # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh * Leftovers o Science o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Software_Patents # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Blog:_Introducing_KWOK:_Kubernetes WithOut_Kubelet⠀⇛ Have you ever wondered how to set up a cluster of thousands of nodes just in seconds, how to simulate real nodes with a low resource footprint, and how to test your Kubernetes controller at scale without spending much on infrastructure? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you might be interested in KWOK, a toolkit that enables you to create a cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds. § What is KWOK? KWOK stands for Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet. So far, it provides two tools: kwok kwok is the cornerstone of this project, responsible for simulating the lifecycle of fake nodes, pods, and other Kubernetes API resources. kwokctl kwokctl is a CLI tool designed to streamline the creation and management of clusters, with nodes simulated by kwok. § Why use KWOK? KWOK has several advantages: o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_218⠀⇛ Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner. # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ On_Lunduke’s_New_Radio_Show_(and_how awesome_it_is)⠀⇛ Listen now (21 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast – Feb 28, 2023 o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_530.30.02_mainline_Beta_driver_rolls out,_plus_a_new_Vulkan_Beta_driver⠀⇛ NVIDIA has released two new Beta drivers for Linux recently, so here’s your usual rundown of what’s new and changed. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Collabora_announce_‘Mercury’_hand-tracking for_open_source_XR_runtime_Monado⠀⇛ After working on it for a while, Collabora developer Moses Turner has announced that their “Mercury” hand-tracking for Monado, their open source XR runtime, is now ready for use. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 5_Best_FOSS_PDF_editors_for_Ubuntu_and_Other Linux⠀⇛ Looking for a free and open-source PDF editor for Ubuntu? Read on to learn about the top PDF editors for Ubuntu and step-by-step guides on how to edit PDF files using them. Ubuntu is a popular operating system among developers, students, and professionals. Editing PDF files is a common task for many users, but finding the right tool for the job can be difficult. In this article, we’ll look at some of the best PDF-free and open-source editors and their features. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Ultimate_Vocal Remover_GUI⠀⇛ With the availability of huge amounts of data for research and powerful machines to run your code on with distributed cloud computing and parallelism across GPU cores, Deep Learning has helped to create self-driving cars, intelligent voice assistants, pioneer medical advancements, machine translation, and much more. Deep Learning has become an indispensable tool for countless industries. Ultimate Vocal Remover is a GUI that lets you isolate stems from music. It offers convenient access to a wide range of different models. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Monophony:_A_GTK_YouTube_Music_Player_with_Local Playlists⠀⇛ Music is an integral part of our lives, and for Linux users, finding the right music player can be daunting. With so many options available, finding one that suits your needs can be challenging. However, if you’re looking for a sleek and minimalist music player with built-in playlist support to listen to your favorite tunes, then Monophony might be the answer you’ve been looking for. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_PgAdmin4_on_RHEL_9_Step_by Step⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Host Support ☛ How_To_Install_Plausible_Analytics_on Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Plausible Analytics is a free and open-source, self-hosted web analytics application that helps you to track your website visitors. It is a simple analytics alternative to Google Analytics. In this tutorial, we will install Plausible in a docker container and then install Apache as a reverse proxy for Plausible Analytics. Prerequisites Step 1. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_Docker_on_Linux_Mint_21:_A_Step- by-Step_Guide⠀⇛ Follow our step-by-step guide to easily install Docker on your Linux Mint 21 system and start containerizing your applications. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ Install_Google_Chrome_on_RHEL/Fedora/ CentOS/Rocky/AlmaLinux⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we’ll see how to install the Google Chrome browser on RHEL-based Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Fedora, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and CentOS in a few short steps. Installing Google Chrome Step 1. Download the Google Chrome RPM file with the wget command: $ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google- chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm Step 2. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_on_Fedora_37/36⠀⇛ In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Oracle VirtualBox on Fedora Linux. VirtualBox is a very easy-to-use solution for all of your virtualization needs on Fedora, allowing you run different Linux distros, Windows, MacOS, and BSD as guest operating systems. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 3_tips_to_manage_large_Postgres databases⠀⇛ The relational database PostgreSQL (also known as Postgres) has grown increasingly popular, and enterprises and public sectors use it across the globe. With this widespread adoption, databases have become larger than ever. At Crunchy Data, we regularly work with databases north of 20TB, and our existing databases continue to grow. My colleague David Christensen and I have gathered some tips about managing a database with huge tables. # ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Replacing_postfix_with_dma⠀⇛ I like Postfix. I’ve been a fan of it for over 20 years. I deployed it on every host for outgoing email. Lately, I’ve taken to using dma (DragonFly Mail Agent) as my preferred mail handler on jails and hosts which don’t need to deal with incoming mail, only outgoing mail. After first getting serious with it about 6 months ago, I decided to remove it from all internal hosts during the consolidation of two hosts into one. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Troubleshooting_the_other_half⠀⇛ You should know the operational state of your network because there really is no reason why you should not. The IETF and your hardware vendor of choice have worked hard to give you a whole fleet of protocols and machinery to assess all aspects of the pieces of the Internet that are under your direct control. But once you leave your own network and enter the public Internet, there is hardly anything you can do to pinpoint potential problems. And you might argue that nobody other than the network operator in question should actually be able to do that. Well, people using vital infrastructure hosted in the cloud might disagree. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Future_Internet_PKI_schemes_need_to be_bootstrapped_through_web_PKI⠀⇛ A core element of any public key infrastructure (PKI) is identifying things, because by themselves public keys are relatively useless; you care about using public keys to talk to something or authenticate some information, and for that you need to know who you’re talking to or who is giving you this information. Identifying things on the Internet can sound simple (‘root of trust’ everyone says in chorus) but it turns out to be very hard to do in practice in the face of attackers, misaligned incentives, mistakes, and other issues. There is exactly one Internet PKI system that is solving this problem in practice with a demonstrated ability to operate at scale and despite problems, and that is public web TLS. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Want_to_Create_a_Custom_Ubuntu_ISO?_Try Cubic⠀⇛ Create a custom Ubuntu ISO using Cubic, an open- source GTK app with an easy-to-use interface. The app works on Ubuntu 18.04 and up. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Configure_Docker_Daemon_for_Remote Connections⠀⇛ Is it possible to connect Docker daemon running on remote host from local Docker client? Yes, this tutorial will take you through how to configure Docker daemon for remote connections. Docker daemon listens on Unix socket on a localhost by default. # ⚓ Klara ☛ ZFS_Optimization_Success_Stories⠀⇛ Discover why storage is the main performance bottleneck for most workloads. Learn about Klara Performance Audits and Bug Investigations related to storage. # ⚓ Peter_Czanik:_Syslog-ng_101,_part_9:_Filters⠀⇛ # ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Peter_Czanik:_Syslog-ng_101,_part_9: Filters⠀⇛ This is the ninth part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about macros and templates. Today, we learn about syslog-ng filters. At the end of the session, we will see a more complex filter and a template function. # ⚓ Adam_Young:_Vector_Multiplication_Using_the_Neon Coprocessor_instructions_on_ARM64⠀⇛ Last post I showed how to do multiplication for a vector of integers using ARM64 instructions. Lots of use cases require these kinds of operations to be performed in bulk. The Neon coprocessor has instructions that allow for the parallel loading and multiplication of numbers. Here’s my simplistic test of these instructions. # ⚓ A_Console-based_Audio_Visualizer_for_ALSA⠀⇛ # Installing apt search cava sudo apt install cava # modify the default config to change the colors by their hex color code cava -p mkdir ~/.cava nano ~/.cava/config cava # run with changes! # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Terminal_Basics_Series_#3:_Listing_the_Contents of_Directory_With_ls_Command⠀⇛ In this chapter of Terminal Basics series, learn about displaying the contents of a directory, sorting them and checking file stats. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Insomnia_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Insomnia on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Insomnia is a popular open-source REST API client that allows developers to test and debug HTTP requests. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Slack_on_Fedora_37⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Slack on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, Slack is a powerful tool for team communication and collaboration. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Change_Hostname_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to change the hostname on Debian 11. For those of you who didn’t know, In Linux, the hostname is the name assigned to a computer, typically in a networked environment. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_R_and_RStudio_on_Fedora_37⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install R and RStudio on Fedora 37. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Why_are_video_games_so_expensive_these days?⠀⇛ I was looking to buy the latest Zelda game for my wife as a present (Shhh! Don’t tell her!) and it was SIXTY BLOODY QUID! For a video game! That seems extortionate. I remember, when I were a lad, video games cost… wait? Do I remember? Or is it just rose tinted glasses? # ⚓ Arduino ☛ This_illuminated_chessboard_displays_possible moves⠀⇛ This is still a work in progress, but the short video does a great job of demonstrating the concept. The entire board is lit from underneath and normally shows the standard checkered pattern. But when a person lifts up a piece, the surrounding squares change color to indicate where the player can place that piece. The starting square is yellow, and squares the piece can move to are green. Red squares indicate positions that a piece would normally be able to go, but which are blocked by other pieces. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ JSAUX_makes_more_Steam_Deck_backplate colours_available⠀⇛ Want to give your Steam Deck a bit more colour and customization? The new coloured translucent backplates from JSAUX are available to order. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Paradox_plan_announcements_next_week,_like a_new_game_from_Cities_Skylines_dev⠀⇛ Paradox Interactive announced that on Monday, March 6th they will be announcing a whole bunch of new games and expansions. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Announcing_The_Winners_Of_The_5th_Annual_Public Domain_Game_Jam!⠀⇛ In January, we asked designers to create games based on works that entered the public domain this year for our fifth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1927! It took us a little while to get through all the entries, but now it’s time to announce the winners, and it was not an easy decision. There were so many great entries this year, and you should check them all out. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Proton_Experimental_fixes_up_Wo_Long: Fallen_Dynasty,_No_Man’s_Sky⠀⇛ Proton Experimental from Valve has been upgraded fixing up some more problematic games for Steam Deck and Linux Desktop. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fury_Unleashed_got_a_nice_update_to_get_it Steam_Deck_Verified⠀⇛ Fury Unleashed, a fast-paced action roguelike from Awesome Games Studio, recently had a rather nice upgrade for Steam Deck players. It has full Linux support with a Native Linux version too, and it is now Steam Deck Verified using that Native build. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ OpenRA_gets_a_big_new_stable_release,_lots of_fun_for_classic_RTS_fans⠀⇛ After multiple testing releases, OpenRA for the playing the classics Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 has now released a major upgrade. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Inventory_management_roguelike_Backpack Hero_releases_1.0_in_May⠀⇛ Currently in Early Access with Native Linux support and rated Steam Deck Playable, the inventory management roguelike Backpack Hero is releasing in full in May. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Systemd 76 ☛ COSMIC_DE:_February_Discussions⠀⇛ And we’re back! As projects have been completed and more are in progress, we’re light on things to report this time around. The Bluetooth applet joins many others in being added to COSMIC DE. There’s been discussion around decisions like how config files and widget layering should work, but most of the conversation has been around COSMIC DE’s text editor application. The UX team gathered data on what people like about existing text editors like Vim and VS Code, and they now have an initial concept for how the text editor will behave! # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ KDE_Plasma_Development_Branch_Now_Qt_6 Only⠀⇛ With KDE Plasma 5.27 out of the door — this was the final release in the Qt 5-based 5.x series — development effort is going to focus entirely on the next generation. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] Dan Langille ☛ Home_Assistant_running_natively_on FreeBSD_via_bhyve⠀⇛ In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 vm-bhyve-1.5. edk2-bhyve-g202202_1 qemu-7.2.0 o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ First_Arch_Linux_ISO_Powered_by_Linux_Kernel 6.2_Is_Now_Available_for_Download⠀⇛ As expected, Arch Linux 2023.03.01 is the first ISO release of the popular GNU/Linux distribution to be powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.2 kernel. The ISO ships with Linux kernel 6.2.1 by default. Also included in the Arch Linux 2023.03.01 release is the latest archinstall 2.5.3 text-mode installer, which brings an improved disk encryption menu, including HSM, improved partitioning reliability, new data classes (DiskEncryption and Fido2 with Fido2Device) for individual devices, the ability to fetch information about block devices, and new translations for Ukrainian, Korean, and Chinese (PRC). o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Fedora_38_will_still_support_framebuffer X11_and_NIS+⠀⇛ The shape of Fedora 38 continues to get clearer as next month’s planned release approaches. The latest meeting of the Steering Committee (FESCo) has decided some stuff just isn’t ready to remove yet. Back in January, we wrote about what new things will be in Fedora 38. The minutes of the last FESCo meeting in February revealed some of the things that the project had hoped to drop, but now won’t be. Support for NIS+ in PAM (the Pluggable Authentication Module) and user space are staying… for now. Amusingly, some of the best documentation on NIS+ is from Red Hat’s parent company. NIS+ evolved from NIS, which was formerly called Sun Yellow Pages: it’s a network directory service for Unix, now largely replaced by LDAP. # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_4_cool_new_projects_to try_in_Copr_for_March_2023⠀⇛ This article introduces four new projects available in Copr, with installation instructions. Copr is a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. It hosts thousands of projects for various purposes and audiences. Some of them should never be installed by anyone, some are already being transitioned to the official Fedora Linux repositories, and the rest are somewhere in between. Copr gives you the opportunity to install 3rd party software that is not available in Fedora Linux repositories, try nightly versions of your dependencies, use patched builds of your favorite tools to support some non-standard use-cases, and just experiment freely. If you don’t know how_to_enable_a_repository or if you are concerned about whether it_is_safe_to_use Copr, please consult the project_documentation. This article takes a closer look at interesting projects that recently landed in Copr. § Sticky Do you always forget your passwords, write them on sticky notes and post them all around your monitor? Well, please don’t use Sticky for that. But it is a great note-taking application with support for checklists, text formatting, spell-checking, backups, and so on. It also supports adjusting note visibility and organizing notes into groups. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Mint ☛ Linux_Mint_Monthly_News_–_February_2023⠀⇛ Many thanks to all of you for your support and your donations. Linux Mint 21.2 In preparation for Linux Mint 21.2, the changes below were implemented. Nemo 5.8 will feature multi-threaded thumbnails. Instead of generating each thumbnail one by one, Nemo will generate multiple thumbnails in parallel. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ What_is_real-time_Linux?_Part_II⠀⇛ Welcome to this three-part mini-series on real-time Linux. In Part I, we set the stage for the remainder of the series by defining a real-time system, and went through common misconceptions.  We also covered the broad market applications of a real-time Linux kernel.  o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ J Pieper ☛ pi3hat_r4.5⠀⇛ I’m excited to announce a minor upgrade to the mjbots pi3hat product line, the pi3hat r4.5! This has a few upgrades over the old r4.4b: Check it out at mjbots.com today! # ⚓ Herman Õunapuu ☛ LattePanda_V1_–_my_experience_with_a Raspberry_Pi_alternative⠀⇛ Please note that my use cases are more on the software side, I did not try out the hardware capabilities that SBC-s are also associated with (GPIO, camera/display ports etc). # ⚓ Ken Shirriff ☛ Reverse-engineering_the_ModR/M_addressing microcode_in_the_Intel_8086_processor⠀⇛ I’ve been reverse-engineering the 8086 starting with the silicon die. The die photo below shows the chip under a microscope. The metal layer on top of the chip is visible, with the silicon and polysilicon mostly hidden underneath. Around the edges of the die, bond wires connect pads to the chip’s 40 external pins. I’ve labeled the key functional blocks; the ones that are important to this discussion are darker and will be discussed in detail below. Architecturally, the chip is partitioned into a Bus Interface Unit (BIU) at the top and an Execution Unit (EU) below. The BIU handles bus and memory activity as well as instruction prefetching, while the Execution Unit (EU) executes instructions and microcode. Both units play important roles in memory addressing. # ⚓ Oona Räisänen ☛ Using_HDMI_radio_interference_for_high- speed_data_transfer⠀⇛ This story, too, begins with noise. I was browsing the radio waves with a software radio, looking for mysteries to accompany my ginger tea. I had started to notice a wide-band spiky signal on a number of frequencies that only seemed to appear indoors. Some sort of interference from electronic devices, probably. Spoiler alert, it eventually led me to broadcast a webcam picture over the radio waves… but how? # ⚓ MaskRay ☛ Linker_notes_on_Power_ISA⠀⇛ The terms “PowerPC” and “powerpc” remain popular in numerous places, including the powerpc-*-*-* and powerpc64-*-*-* in official target triple names. The abbreviation “PPC” (“ppc”) is used in numerous places as well. For simplicity, I will refer to the 32-bit architecture as “PPC32″ and the 64-bit architecture as “PPC64″. We will see how the lack of PC-relative addressing before Power10 has caused great complexity to the ABI and linkers. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_users_warned_of_simple mistake_that_could_cost_you_dearly_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Guide:_How_to_Install_new_GCam_8.7_in_all Android_smartphones⠀⇛ # ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Google_is_Making_eSIM_Transfer_Even_Easier_on Android_Smartphones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers 2023-03-01_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ What_is_Fire_OS?_The_Android_operating_system_explained⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ New_Android_games_released_February_2023_— from_Shelter_to_Valiant_Hearts⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Smartphone_Brands_with_Longest_Android Support:_Samsung,_OnePlus,_OPPO,_and_Xiaomi⠀⇛ # ⚓ Express ☛ Nothing_matches_Samsung’s_Galaxy_with_surprise Android_phone_reveal_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ The_Vivo_V27_Pro_is_coming_after_last year’s_flagship_Android_phones_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ 3_awesome_new_Samsung_Android_13_shortcuts |_Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ Motorola_Android_12_update_and_bugs_tracker_ (cont.updated)⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_12_Biggest_Failures_In_Android_History⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_shmups_on_Android_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 9_New_Features_From_Google’s_Android_and_Wear OS_Spring_Update⠀⇛ # ⚓ Kim Kommando ☛ 9_new_features_coming_to_your_Android devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Top_7_Online_Calendar_and_Appointment Scheduling_Apps_for_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Galaxy_S23_Ultra_does_what_no_other_Android phone_did_in_the_past_few_years_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ These_Xiaomi_smartphones_are_set_to_get 2023’s_‘biggest_Android_update’_|_Gadgets_Now⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ A_stolen_Android_phone_PIN_could_be_used_to change_your_Google_account_password_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 3_myths_about_open_source_CMS_platforms⠀⇛ There are two choices when it comes to building a website. You can choose an open source platform like Drupal or WordPress, or a proprietary platform overseen by a company like Adobe or Microsoft. How do you know which is best for your website? For organizations with limited budgets, the choice is either an open source site or something less flexible like Wix or Squarespace – the cost attached to a proprietary platform might be out of reach. However, for a large enterprise organization, both approaches have pros and cons worth addressing. o ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Open_Source_Policy_Update_Spotlights_AI Considerations⠀⇛ Arecent update of SUSE’s Open Source Policy is giving developers, communities and projects food for thought as Artificial Intelligence chatbots and protocols are gaining popularity and are being integrated into the fabric of global society. The policy is specific to all SUSE employees; the ambition, however, is that open-source communities and developers give the policy careful consideration and that the policy will inspire other companies to adopt or introduce an open-source policy. o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Best_5_Open_Source_Identity_Management_Solutions_(IAM) For_Enterprise_for_2023⠀⇛ Identity management is a crucial aspect of modern-day digital operations. It involves the management of user identities, access controls, and authentication in a secure and efficient manner. With the rise of cloud computing, the need for effective identity management solutions has become more apparent. o ⚓ Earthly ☛ Announcing_Earthly_v0.7⠀⇛ We do not take major or minor releases lightly at Earthly. We’ve never had a major release, and our last minor release was over a year ago, in December 2021 (read about it in Announcing Earthly v0.6). That’s because we know that the reliability and stability of your build and CI/CD processes are of the utmost importance. In every minor release of Earthly (and also eventually when we have a major release), all features promoted to GA have finalized APIs and have been through thorough testing. That’s why we are comfortable enabling all features promoted to GA by default. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Common_Sense_Media’s_ultimate_guide_to parental_controls⠀⇛ Do you need parental controls? What are the options? Do they really work? Here’s everything you need to know about the wide array of parental control solutions, from OS settings to monitoring apps to network hardware. # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ An_Axios_tech_reporter_on_her_favorite corners_of_the_internet⠀⇛ Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we are also quick to point out that the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for people to connect with others, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In My Corner Of The Internet, we talk with people about the online spaces they can’t get enough of, what we should save in Pocket to read later, and what sites and forums shaped them. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Programming Language DataBase ☛ A_brief_interview_with_Rexx creator_Mike_Cowlishaw⠀⇛ Mike Cowlishaw is a distinguished computer scientist and creator of Rexx and NetRexx. He has worked on many other programming languages, including PL/I, C and Java. Mike Cowlishaw is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, elected for his contributions to the field of engineering, and is a retired IBM Fellow. His relentless spirit has catapulted too many contributions to count yet he remains humble and accessible 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Sumana Harihareswara ☛ PyCon_2023:_“Argument_Clinic”_& Mitigating_COVID_Risk⠀⇛ I plan to attend PyCon US 2023 in person in mid- April in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. I’ll be speaking there, co-presenting the play “Argument Clinic: What Healthy Professional Conflict Looks Like” with Jacob Kaplan-Moss at 5pm MT on Friday, April 21st. # ⚓ MWL ☛ BSDCan_2023_Tutorial:_OpenBSD_Storage_Management⠀⇛ I’ll be teaching a four-hour tutorial on OpenBSD storage management at BSDCan 2023. As you might imagine, it’s based on OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Tim Bradshaw ☛ Dynamic_binding_without_special_in_Common Lisp⠀⇛ Common Lisp has two sorts of bindings for variables: lexical binding and dynamic binding. Lexical binding has lexical scope — the binding is available where it is visible in source code — and indefinite extent — the binding is available as long as any code might reference it. Dynamic binding has indefinite scope — the binding is available to any code which runs between when the binding is established and when control leaves the form which established it — and dynamic extent — the binding ceases to exist when control leaves the binding form. # ⚓ Tim Bradshaw ☛ Two_tiny_Lisp_evaluators⠀⇛ Everyone who has written Lisp has written tiny Lisp evaluators in Lisp: here are two more. Following two recent articles I wrote on scope and extent in Common Lisp, I thought I would finish with two very tiny evaluators for dynamically and lexically bound variants on a tiny Lisp. # ⚓ Alex Ewerlöf ☛ The_Dangers_of_Enforcing_a_Premature_RTO Policy⠀⇛ Amazon used to have a generous remote work policy. Since last week it demands at least 3 days at the office per week. It is not the first company to enforce RTO (return to office) policy: [...] # ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ A_glex/acetone_example⠀⇛ Glex is such a limited and clueless lexer that has zero idea about context, and acetone is such an strange and weird parser that doesn’t look anything like a traditional BNF string rewriting parser. At first glance they look like they’d be beyond useless. So here’s a worked example. # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ End_Users_Over_All_Else,_Even_In_Our_Tools⠀⇛ While the consumerization of software has made strides towards putting the focus and decision making power in the hands of end users, many people are still required to use obtuse software because somebody from Company A took somebody from Company B out to dinner and a round of golf. In return, the person at Company B said, “Sure, we’ll throw you our business.”[1] # ⚓ Loris Cro ☛ Zig’s_Curious_Multi-Sequence_For_Loops⠀⇛ Zig has just gained new for loop syntax that allows you to iterate on multiple slices / arrays at the same time. In this blog post I’m going to explain in detail the rationale behind this choice, while also introducing you to a couple useful patterns that the syntax is meant to encourage. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Strsep()_Function_in_C_Language⠀⇛ Practical tutorial on how to use the strsep() function, the theoretical explanation of its operation, its syntax, and the type of data that they each accept. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Strdup()_Function_in_the_C_Language⠀⇛ Comprehensive tutorial on how to use the strdup() function, its syntax, its theoretical explanation about its usage, and its input and output arguments. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Do-While_Loops_in_the_C_Language⠀⇛ Guide on how to use the conditional “do-while” loop, what the conditional loops are consist of and discussed the different options available in the C language. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Pad_a_String_with_Leading_Zeros⠀⇛ To pad the string with leading zeros in Python, the “f-string“, “format()”, “zfill ()”, “rjust()”, and “ljust()” methods can be used. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Add_String_to_List⠀⇛ To add the string to the list, the “+” operator, the “insert()” method, the “extend ()” method, and the “itertool.chain()” method can be used. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Inline_If-else⠀⇛ The inline if-else is a logical statement that allows users to preserve the code quality in a single line by replacing the number of lines of “if-else” code. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Prepend_List⠀⇛ To prepend the Python list, the “+” operator with square brackets “[ ]”, “slicing” method, “insert()“ method and “deque.appendleft()“ method can be used. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pip_Install_Tkinter⠀⇛ The pip install tkinter command is used to install the tkinter package, a GUI building tool, in your Python Environment. Read this guide to learn about Tkinter. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Substring_After_Character⠀⇛ To get substring after a character in Python, the “split()” method, the “partition()” method, the “index()” and the “find()” method are used. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Check_if_a_String_is_a_Float⠀⇛ To check if a string is float or not in Python, the “float()” method, the “replace()” method and the “isdigit()” method are used. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Truncate_String⠀⇛ Truncating a string means splitting the string into separate parts. In Python, truncating a string can be done by slicing and by using the rsplit() method. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Insert_Character_Into_String⠀⇛ Use the concatenation operator (+) to add the character(s) at either end of the string, or use the string slicing to insert them into the middle of the string. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_KeyboardInterrupt⠀⇛ The Python KeyboardInterrupt is the action performed by the user by pressing the combination “CTRL + C” terminating the execution of the program. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Overwrite_a_file_in_Python⠀⇛ To overwrite a file in Python, either use the open() method with the mode “w” or the truncate method. To overwrite specific content, use the re.sub() method. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Multiply_List_by_Scalar⠀⇛ In Python, a list can be multiplied with a scalar using list comprehension, loops, maps, and the Numpy Package. Read to learn all these methods. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Linux Handbook ☛ What_is_Zsh?_Should_You_Use it?⠀⇛ Now, the questions comes, what features make Zsh a popular choice and should you even bother to use it? Let me answer that. # ⚓ [Old] FOSSLinux ☛ Bash_vs._Zsh_–_differences_you should_know⠀⇛ Linux is known most famously for freedom (free as in free speech, not free beer). It will allow you to do anything to your system, which goes to such an extent that it even implodes if you tell it to. This freedom is mainly accessible to the users through the operating system’s shell (shell can be thought of as the interface to the operating system). This shell is usually Bash, but again, thanks to the freedom, that’s not necessary. Today, we will explore an alternative shell called Z Shell that has been gaining a lot of attention and popularity recently, and for a good reason. We will also see how it is different from our good ol’ Bash. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ NDTV ☛ 42_Students_Stuck_In_US_After_Hotel_Shredded_Passports: Report⠀⇛ The students were scheduled to fly back home on Saturday, but they had to stay for four more days to get their emergency documents. o ⚓ BBC ☛ Walsall_pupils_stranded_after_hotel_‘shreds_41_passports’⠀⇛ Mrs Hibbs told the BBC: “Forty-one of the passports were destroyed whilst the group were staying at the hotel in New Hampshire.” o ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Microsoft_Stabber_Joseph_Cantrell_Boasts of_Nazi_Lineage_and_Made_Disturbing_Video_Games.⠀⇛ Microsoft gets a disturbing number of stabbers, rapists, stranglers, and other assorted crazy people. You’d seriously think that the hiring managers could open Google and find out that they’re dealing with a crazy person though, which about, oh, two or three minutes looking at his blog would have done. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ How_Did_Birds_Get_Wings?_We_May_Have_Found The_‘Missing_Link’_in_Dinosaur_Fossils⠀⇛ Wings appeared long before flight. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Milky_Way_Might_Be_Producing_More_Stars Than_We_Thought⠀⇛ It’s getting crowded in here. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Former_Delivery_Man_Found_With_a_600_Year Old_Mummy_‘Girlfriend’_in_His_Cooler_Bag⠀⇛ ‘Juanita’ was actually a ‘Juan’. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Entire_town_invited_for_medical_check- up⠀⇛ Grindsted in the Region of Southern Denmark has fewer than 10,000 residents, and many, concerned about the local pollution they have grown up, intend to take up the offer # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Study_Links_Artificial_Sweetener_to_Stroke Risk,_Says_It_Could_Make_Blood_Stickier⠀⇛ Here’s what you need to know. # ⚓ CNN ☛ Zero-calorie_sweetener_linked_to_heart_attack_and stroke,_study_finds⠀⇛ People with existing risk factors for heart disease, such as diabetes, were twice as likely to experience a heart attack or stroke if they had the highest levels of erythritol in their blood, according to the study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Giving_birth_in_the_US_is_becoming_a_deadlier affair⠀⇛ Giving birth in the US (where, in 2020, 21 women died of pregnancy-related causes per every 100,000 live births) is nearly twice as deadly as it is, on average, in Europe (13 deaths per 100,000 live births). It is almost seven times more dangerous than it is in some of the best-performing countries, such as Spain (3.4 per 100,000 births). # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Extreme_heat_is_a_health_crisis,_Columbia experts_say⠀⇛ The record-breaking heat Earth endured during the summer of 2022 will be repeated without a robust international effort to address climate change, a panel of scientists warned Monday. Heat-related deaths, wildfires, extreme rainfall, and persistent drought are expected to become increasingly severe as both ocean and atmospheric temperatures continue to rise, the experts said. Even if all greenhouse gas emissions ceased today, Earth will continue to warm for several decades. # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ First_electric_ambulance_hits_the_road_in Denmark⠀⇛ Following the lead of the police, another emergency service is embracing the green transition # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Swimming_in_Nature_Is_Wild,_But_Is_It Healthier_Than_a_Dip_in_a_Pool?⠀⇛ Let’s dive in. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Wearing_an_Eye_Mask_While_You_Sleep_Could Have_Surprising_Mental_Benefits⠀⇛ Do try this at home. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Tesla_Pauses_‘Full_Self-Driving’_Beta_Rollout Amid_Latest_Recall⠀⇛ In the lead-up to Tesla’s_March_1_Investor_Day event, the company is facing renewed challenges and questions over the safety_of_its_driver_assistance technology. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Tesla,_Elon_Musk_sued_by_shareholders_over self-driving_safety_claims⠀⇛ In a proposed class action filed in San Francisco federal court, shareholders said Tesla defrauded them over four years with false and misleading statements that concealed how its technologies, suspected as a possible cause of multiple fatal crashes, “created a serious risk of accident and injury.” # ⚓ NBC ☛ Dish_Network_confirms_network_outage_was_a cybersecurity_breach⠀⇛ The intrusion took place on the morning of Feb. 23, the same day the company reported its fourth- quarter earnings. “This morning, we experienced an internal outage that’s continuing to affect our internal servers and IT telephony,” Dish CEO W. Erik Carlson said at that time. “We’re analyzing the root causes and any consequences of the outage, while we work to restore the affected systems as quickly as possible.” # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ News_Corp_outfoxed_by_IT_intruders_for years [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ A year later, according to a four-page letter sent to employees, News Corp executives said the unidentified cybercriminals likely first gained access to a company system as early as February 2020, and then got into “certain business documents and emails from a limited number of its personnel’s accounts in the affected system.” # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ U.S._Marshals_Service_suffers_ransomware breach_that_compromises_sensitive_information,_senior_law enforcement_officials_say [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach over a week ago that compromises sensitive information, multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday. # ⚓ NBC ☛ U.S._Marshals_Service_suffers_‘major’_security_breach that_compromises_sensitive_information,_senior_law enforcement_officials_say [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ In a statement Monday, U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson Drew Wade acknowledged the breach, telling NBC News: “The affected system contains law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, administrative information, and personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of USMS investigations, third parties, and certain USMS employees.” Wade said the incident occurred Feb. 17, when the Marshals Service “discovered a ransomware and data exfiltration event affecting a stand-alone USMS system.” # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ CrowdStrike:_Threat_actors_shifting_away from_ransomware⠀⇛ The cybersecurity vendor this week published its “2023 Global Threat Report,” which annually compiles CrowdStrike’s research related to cybercrime, or “eCrime,” from the previous year. Major topics covered in the 2023 report include malware-free extortion attacks, cloud-related attacks and ongoing geopolitical conflicts. # ⚓ CNN ☛ Top_US_cyber_official_warns_software_firms_aren’t doing_enough_to_stop_damage_from_[crackers]_from_China_and elsewhere [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Easterly’s speech reflects frustration from US officials that major software programs used by millions of people are routinely released with gaping flaws that can be exploited by [crackers]. After a series of high-profile [breaches], the Biden administration introduced cybersecurity regulations for sectors such as pipelines. US officials have not ruled out more regulation in an effort to raise defenses. # ⚓ Riccardo Mori ☛ Subscription_fatigue_and_related_musings⠀⇛ This is an App Store review of an app I, too, have been using on my iOS devices for years. I have translated the review because it only appears on the Spanish App Store. The ‘previous version’ the reviewer refers to is the last version of the app to use the ‘free with in-app purchases’ model. Since then, the developer has switched to a ‘free with strict limitations unless you subscribe’ model. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Kent_State’s_ticket_vendor_down_due_to security_breach⠀⇛ The third-party ticket vendor for Kent State events, including athletics and performing arts, experienced a security breach Tuesday.  AudienceView has halted services until the investigation is over. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Hackers_Claim_They_Breached_T-Mobile More_Than_100_Times_in_2022⠀⇛ Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T- Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T- Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ A_Top_LastPass_Engineer’s_Home_PC_Got_Pwned_by_a Hacker’s_Keylogger⠀⇛ Beleaguered password manager LastPass has announced yet another serious security screwup and, this time, it may be the final straw for some users. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Security_Defects_in_TPM_2.0_Spec_Raise Alarm⠀⇛ Security defects in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference library specification expose devices to code execution attacks. Security researchers at Quarkslab have identified a pair of serious security defects in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference library specification, prompting a massive cross-vendor effort to identify and patch vulnerable installations. # ⚓ uni Carnegie Mellon ☛ TCG_TPM2.0_implementations_vulnerable to_memory_corruption⠀⇛ Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference library specification, currently at Level 00, Revision 01.59 November 2019. An attacker who has access to a TPM-command interface can send maliciously-crafted commands to the module and trigger these vulnerabilities. This allows either read-only access to sensitive data or overwriting of normally protected data that is only available to the TPM (e.g., cryptographic keys). # ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Bug_Bounty_Radar_//_The_latest_bug_bounty programs_for_March_2023⠀⇛ New web targets for the discerning hacker # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ransomware_Attack_Hits_US_Marshals Service⠀⇛ The US Marshals Service has confirmed that ransomware was deployed on one of its systems that contains sensitive law enforcement information. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Vulnerabilities_Being_Exploited_Faster_Than Ever:_Analysis⠀⇛ The time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation is decreasing, according to a new intelligence report from Rapid7. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Vulnerability_in_Popular_Real_Estate_Theme Exploited_to_Hack_WordPress_Websites [Ed: FUD. This is about a theme! Not WordPress.]⠀⇛ A critical vulnerability in the Houzez premium WordPress theme and plugin has been exploited in the wild. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ ‘Hackers’_Behind_Air_Raid_Alerts_Across Russia:_Official⠀⇛ Russian authorities said that several television and radio stations that have recently broadcast air raid alerts had been breached by hackers. # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Firefox_110.0.1_fixes_security_issues_and_a_crash: here_are_the_details⠀⇛ Mozilla plans to release Firefox 110.0.1 Stable later today. The new stable version of the Firefox web browser fixes security issues in the browser as well as crashes and other non-security issues. Firefox users may select Menu > Help > About Firefox to display the version that is installed on their device. The browser checks for updates when the about page is opened, and it will download any update that it finds to the local system to install note. Please note that the update may not be available yet, if you are reading this on February 28,2023. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Dish_Network_Confirms_Hack_Following_Chaotic Multi-Day_Outage⠀⇛ Dish Network, the television provider and satellite/telecoms company, has been hacked, according to a statement published Tuesday on its website. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ 33_New_Adversaries_Identified_by CrowdStrike_in_2022 [Ed: Microsoft-connected CrowdStrike is a political front group, alsoa FUD merchant, not a reliable source or authority]⠀⇛ CrowdStrike identified 33 new threat actors and campaigns in 2022, including many cybercrime groups and operations. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ New_‘Exfiltrator-22’_Post-Exploitation Framework_Linked_to_Former_LockBit_Affiliates [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ A recently identified post-exploitation framework ‘Exfiltrator-22’ uses the same C&C infrastructure as the LockBit ransomware. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Indian_transport_ministry_flaws potentially_allowed_creation_of_counterfeit_driving licenses⠀⇛ Armed with personal data fragments, a researcher could also access 185 million citizens’ PII # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Sensitive_data_stolen_in_ransomware attack_on_US_Marshals_Service [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ NBC News was the first to report the [breach] Monday, quoting a Marshals Service spokesperson saying that the ransomware attack “affected system containing law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, administrative information and personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of USMS investigations, third parties, and certain USMS employees.” # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Another_Texas_school_district_with_a data_breach?_(UPDATED) [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ LockBit has added White Settlement Independent School District in Texas to their leak site, with a proof pack that suggests that the threat actors were able to access — and may have exfiltrated — a lot of files. The listing was added yesterday. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Amazon_Driver_Says_AI_Is_Tracking_Their Every_Move,_Even_Beard_Scratching⠀⇛ The dark overlord Sauron that is the online retail giant Amazon always has its eye on its workers, and none more so than its delivery drivers. # ⚓ Signal_hotar_lämna_länder_som_bryter_kryptering⠀⇛ Meddelande-appen Signal meddelar att den kan komma att lämna länder som tvingar den att kringgå kryptering. Till exempel vad gäller brittiska Online Safety Bill och EU: s #ChatControl / CSA Regulation. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ How_Social_Networks_Became_a_‘Subsidiary’ of_the_FBI_and_CIA⠀⇛ The US Congress last tried to grapple with what the country’s ballooning security services were up to nearly half a century ago. In 1975, the Church Committee managed to take a fleeting, if far from complete, snapshot of the netherworld in which agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ White_House_faces_deeply_skeptical Congress_as_it_advocates_for_controversial_surveillance tool⠀⇛ Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was saved from the brink of sunsetting by Congress twice before, is in perhaps its most precarious position yet. Leading House Republicans, including House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, have signaled strong opposition to renewing surveillance. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., voted against reauthorization in 2018 while other Democrats have made it clear that their support for reauthorization is dependent on significant reforms. Those signs of early opposition to the law, which is set to expire at the end of this year, may be the reason the White House has started to publicly push for its renewal 10 months before 702 expires. In statements released Tuesday and during an event at the Brookings Institution the same day, top law enforcement and national security officials made their case that 702 has become an essential tool for protecting Americans against a growing number of threats. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Illinois’_biometric_privacy_law provides_blueprint_as_states_seek_to_curb_data collection⠀⇛ Congressional efforts to address the concerns about online privacy have largely failed. Last year, federal privacy legislation that covered biometric data passed out of a House committee but floundered on the floor and its Senate companion didn’t even reach a vote. States, tired of waiting around, have increasingly filled in the gaps with their own laws. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ US_Military_Signs_Contract_to_Put Facial_Recognition_on_Drones⠀⇛ The Air Force paid RealNetworks $729,056 for SAFR. “Through this effort, we will adapt the SAFR facial recognition platform for deployment on an autonomous [small unmanned aircraft system] for special ops, [intelligence, surveillance, and target acquisition] , and other expeditionary use- cases,” the contract said. “This will require integrating the SAFR software with the hardware and software stack of the [small drones], including its onboard compute, communications systems, and remote controller software to enable operation in [disconnected, intermittent, and limited] communications settings, support actionable insight for remote human operators, and open the opportunity for real-time autonomous response by the robot.” # ⚓ El País ☛ White_House:_No_more_TikTok_on_Government devices_within_30_days⠀⇛ The Office of Management and Budget calls the guidance, issued Monday, a “critical step forward in addressing the risks presented by the app to sensitive government data.” Some agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and State, already have restrictions in place; the guidance calls on the rest of the federal government to follow suit within 30 days. The White House already does not allow TikTok on its devices. # ⚓ National Post ☛ ‘Unacceptable_level_of_risk’:_Canada bans_TikTok_from_federal_government_devices⠀⇛ In a statement Monday, Treasury Board Secretariat President Mona Fortier confirmed reporting by National Post that no government mobile device would be allowed to host the short-video social media app owned by Chinese company ByteDance as of Tuesday. # ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok’s_Chinese_ownership,_security concerns_spark_bans_across_nations⠀⇛ The move has thrown a spotlight on the social media app owned by ByteDance, the world’s most valuable start-up, and raised concerns of its proximity to the Chinese government and hold over user data across the world. # ⚓ NYOB ☛ Data_brokers:_Identification_possible_to_sell ads,_not_to_exercise_fundamental_rights⠀⇛ Today, noyb filed a series of complaints against websites and data brokers that did not correctly address access requests using cookies as an authentication factor. The companies had shown obstructive approaches when authenticating users; ranging from denying the right to access, to requiring additional information, unnecessary to authenticate the user. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ [Older] TechCrunch ☛ Sensitive_US_military_emails spill_online⠀⇛ The exposed server was hosted on Microsoft’s Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers, which uses servers that are physically separated from other commercial customers and as such can be used to share sensitive but unclassified government data. The exposed server was part of an internal mailbox system storing about three terabytes of internal military emails, many pertaining to U.S. Special Operations Command, or USSOCOM, the U.S. military unit tasked with conducting special military operations. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Signal_would_‘walk’_from_UK_if_Online_Safety Bill_undermined_encryption⠀⇛ But the digital rights campaigners the Open Rights Group said it highlighted how the bill threatened to “undermine our right to communicate securely and privately”. But Ms Whittaker told the BBC it was “magical thinking” to believe we can have privacy “but only for the good guys”. # ⚓ Wladimir Palant ☛ LastPass_breach_update:_The_few additional_bits_of_information⠀⇛ Half a year after the LastPass breach started in August 2022, information on it remains sparse. It took until December 2022 for LastPass to admit losing their users’ partially encrypted vault data. This statement was highly misleading, e.g. making wrong claims about the protection level provided by the encryption. Some of the failures to protect users only became apparent after some time, such as many accounts configured with a dangerously low password iterations setting, the company hasn’t admitted them to this day. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Antiwar_Movement_Roars_Back_to_Life⠀⇛ On February 19th, the National Mall in Washington, DC saw its largest antiwar rally in 20 years. The speakers list included four former US presidential candidates and a broad and diverse collection of antiwar activists from beyond the left and right. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Joe_Biden_Disparages_George_Washington_on President’s_Day_With_Trip_to_Kyiv⠀⇛ Rather than celebrating President’s Day in the United States on Monday, February 20, President Joe Biden went to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In direct contradiction to President George Washington’s 1796 farewell address, Biden delivered another $500 million in military aid to keep bloodying the Ukraine killing fields. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Time_for_a_more_honest_conversation_about foreign_basing_in_Australia⠀⇛ Australia needs to have a more honest conversation, with itself and its main ally, about the b-word. As a straight-talking country that prides itself on its closeness to the United States, Australia finds it curiously … # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Treason,_sedition_and_parliamentary privilege_in_Fiji⠀⇛ Contrary to some media reports, Fijian opposition leader Frank Bainimarama’s three-year suspension from parliament was not for an act of sedition. Rather, he was excluded from service to the parliament for something more prosaic—using unparliamentary … # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Makings_of_the_Market:_Seven perspectives_on_offensive_cyber_capability_proliferation⠀⇛ The marketplace for offensive cyber capabilities continues to grow globally. Their proliferation poses an expanding set of risks to national security and human rights, these capabilities also have legitimate use in state security and defense. To dive deeper on this topic, we asked seven experts to offer their perspectives. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_fourth_inflection_point:_Testimony of_Frederick_Kempe_to_the_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on Intelligence⠀⇛ This moment is as crucial as the periods after World War I, World War II, and the Cold War, when US leadership alongside allies and partners—or the failure of US leadership—will have global and generational consequences. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ What_we_learned_from_the_Russia-China- South_Africa_military_drills⠀⇛ Why did these three nations get together? What’s in it for South Africa? Our experts set sail with the answers. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Tech_innovation_helps_Ukraine_even_the odds_against_Russia’s_military_might⠀⇛ Over the past year, Ukrainians have demonstrated their ability to defeat Russia using a combination of raw courage and innovative military tech, writes Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Rupert_Murdoch’s_Press_Empire_Is_a Threat_to_Democracy⠀⇛ Murdoch poses a threat to democracy in the United States and the United Kingdom. But ultimately he’s a symptom of an industry-wide problem. Disgraced CBS chairman Leslie Moonves was infamously quoted as saying that Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS,” demonstrating to the public that the media system is less interested in holding power to account than prioritizing profit margins from advertisements. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Iran_can_make_enough_material_for_nuclear_device_in ‘about_12_days,’_US_official_says⠀⇛ On Tuesday, the IAEA said the capability had actually reached 83.7 percent, which is on the verge of making weapons-grade uranium. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Denmark_abolishes_public_holiday_to_boost defense_spending⠀⇛ People in Denmark will no longer get a long weekend off for “Great Prayer Day” late in the spring starting next year, after lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday scrapping it as a public holiday. The move comes as Denmark’s newly-formed government seeks to implement reforms aimed at improving the country’s welfare model, and as it tries to reach its NATO defense spending targets. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Islamist_Militants_Have_Pakistan’s_Police_In_Their Crosshairs⠀⇛ More than 2,100 Pakistani police personnel have been killed and 7,000 injured since 2001, but never have they been the target of militants’ operations to the degree they are today. # ⚓ DroidGazzette ☛ Why_Technology_Will_Define_the_Future_of Geopolitics⠀⇛ The competition between the United States and China is as much a competition between systems as it is between states. In the Chinese model of civil- military fusion, the government promotes domestic competition and funds emerging winners as “national champions.” These companies play a dual role, maximizing commercial success and advancing Chinese national security interests. The American model, on the other hand, relies on a more disparate set of private actors. The federal government provides funding to basic science but largely leaves innovation and commercialization to the market. For a long time, the trifecta of government, industry, and academia was the primary source of American innovation. This collaboration drove many technological breakthroughs, from the moon landing to the Internet. But with the end of the Cold War, the U.S. government grew averse to allocating funding for applied research, and it even lowered the amount devoted to fundamental research. Although private spending has taken off, public investments have plateaued over the past half century. In 2015, the share of government funding for basic research dropped below 50 percent for the first time since the end of World War II, having hovered around 70 percent in the 1960s. Meanwhile, the geometry of innovation—the respective role of public and private players in driving technological progress—has changed since the Cold War, in ways that have not always yielded what the country needs. The rise of venture capital helped accelerate adoption and commercialization, but it did little to address higher-order scientific problems. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ ‘A_year_of_cyberwar’_with_Russia:_An inside_look_from_a_top_Ukrainian_cybersecurity_official⠀⇛ Covert cyber operations during the eight years prior to the invasion, which we can consider part of this ongoing war, were preparations to the full scale war which we have right now — testing the efficiency of technologies and probing with the goal of understanding the possibility of using cyber as a destructive way of attacking Ukraine. We shouldn’t underestimate the importance Russian offensive cyberattacks. But in general, they choose to use more disruptive weapons, while keeping cyber operations for psychological operations or cyberespionage. # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Dangerous_threats,_violence against_MPs_have_worsened_since_Jo_Cox_murder⠀⇛ The panel is set to be co-chaired by Tory Baroness Gabrielle Bertin and Labour’s Lord Vernon Coaker. The ongoing issue of the MP’s safety was brought to light once more after Tory MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery in 2021. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Sub-Saharan_Africa_Emerges_as_Epicenter_of_Violent Extremism⠀⇛ Like al-Shabaab, violent extremist groups such as Al-Sunna wa Jama’a, or ASWJ, Boko Haram, Daesh and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen, or JNIM, are seizing on local grievances to establish a foothold in mostly rural communities across the region. That is among the findings of new reporting by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). One recent UNDP report labels Sub-Saharan Africa as one of the world’s new epicenters for violent extremism. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Islamic_State_Expands_Campaign_of_Violence_in_the Sahel⠀⇛ The woman, one of about 410,000 people displaced by violence in Mali, added that the group “just wants to control the area [and] bring the people to submission while promising security and that any opposition would not be accepted.” # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Why_are_so_many_Pakistanis_trying_to_reach the_EU_illegally?⠀⇛ Over one-fifth of Pakistan’s 220 million people already live below the national poverty line, according to the Asian Development Bank and IMF. Currently, inflation is running at nearly 30%, the wealth gap is enormous, and tax avoidance by the rich is rampant. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ ACLU_of_N.C.,_Freedom_of_the_Press_Foundation,_and I_Are_Challenging_Sealing_of_Documents_Related_to_Gag_Order⠀⇛ In Doe v. U.N.C. Sys. (W.D.N.C.), a case challenging the expulsion of plaintiff Jacob Doe for alleged sexual assault, the court issued a quite remarkable TRO last week: It, among other things, required defendants “to direct all individuals”—including UNC students—”over whom they exercise control to refrain from publishing or disclosing any information concerning the Plaintiff… # ⚓ Site36 ☛ German_government_dupes_parliament:_Cooperations with_foreign_secret_services_remain_secret⠀⇛ The term is used to justify secrecy if the information sought by parliament comes from a service abroad. According to the argumentation, this authority only transmitted the information on the condition that no third party obtains knowledge of it. This concerns, among other things, the activities of the Federal Intelligence Service, which is responsible for overseas reconnaissance. Since 2001, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has also been working together with all other domestic secret services of the Schengen states in a „Counter Terrorism Group“. It belongs to the informal „Club of Berne“, about which there is also great secrecy vis-à-vis the Bundestag. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Wastewater_sector_emits_nearly_twice_as much_methane_as_previously_thought⠀⇛ “The waste sector is one of the largest anthropogenic sources of methane in the world,” said Mark Zondlo, professor of civil and environmental engineering and associated faculty at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. “As cities continue to urbanize and develop net-zero plans, they can’t ignore the liquid wastewater treatment sector.” # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Canada_Loves_to_Shower_Fossil_Fuel Companies_With_Public_Money⠀⇛ In effect, Smith is promising to lower already cut- price royalty obligations if oil companies fulfill a task to which they are already legally committed. If Smith is reelected and the program goes through, the cost to Albertans will very likely be immense. When Smith first pushed the idea as a lobbyist, she advocated for oil companies to be subsidized by R- Star credits in the amount of $20 billion. # ⚓ Science News ☛ An_incendiary_form_of_lightning_may_surge under_climate_change⠀⇛ An analysis of satellite data suggests “hot lightning” — strikes that channel electrical charge for an extended period — may be more likely to set landscapes ablaze than more ephemeral flashes, researchers report February 10 in Nature Communications. Each 1 degree Celsius of warming could spur a 10 percent increase in the most incendiary of these Promethean bolts, boosting their flash rate to about four times per second by 2090 — up from nearly three times per second in 2011. # ⚓ NBC ☛ FTX_ex-engineering_chief_Nishad_Singh_pleads_guilty to_criminal_charges⠀⇛ Two of the criminal charges are related to wire fraud, and another is conspiracy to commit commodities fraud. # ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ The_Center_For_Gaslighting_About Blockchains⠀⇛ Source On March 10th 2022, as Bitcoin recorded a 43% loss from its peak the previous November, and 8 weeks before Terra/Luna crashed, driving the loss to 76%, Princeton launched the Center for the Decentralization of Power Through Blockchain Technology. A year later I am laughing as I read Francesca Maglione’s Princeton Says Crypto Chaos Helps Justify Its Blockchain Center describing their desperate attempts to spin this as a good move. Below the fold I pour scorn on this outbreak of “blockchain is the answer, now what was the question?”. # ⚓ BBC ☛ [Cryptoccurrency]-mining_scheme_run_from_US_school crawl_space⠀⇛ Nadeam Nahas, 39, who was an assistant facilities director in Cohasset, pleaded not guilty in court on Friday. He is charged with fraudulent use of electricity and vandalising Cohasset High School, just outside Boston. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran’s_Power_Company_Warns_Of_Cuts_Due_To_Illegal Cryptocurrency_Mining⠀⇛ Such illegal mining was responsible for 20 percent of blackouts over the summer, the statement added. # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Authorities_seek_arrest_of_man_who allegedly_mined_[cryptocurrency]_under_a_high_school_and stole_$18,000_of_electricity⠀⇛ Nadeam Nahas, the former assistant facilities director for the town of Cohasset, was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on charges of vandalizing a school and stealing $18,000 worth of electricity. But he failed to appear in court, and a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. The town discovered 11 computers, electrical wiring, and ductwork in the crawl space of Cohasset High School in December 2021. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Future_Potential_of_Fusion_Energy⠀⇛ The fusion energy is moving in the right direction. Firstly, the regimes have to step up investment in the fusion industry. Secondly, the decentralization of fusion research is transpiring. Incipient startups are growing, companies are taking an interest in fusion energy, and private-sector investment is transpiring at an expeditious rate. According to a survey by FIA, 93 percent of people working in the fusion industry believe that fusion energy will reach the grid by 2030. In the last year, the survey percentage of these people was 83 per cent. In the same survey, 84 percent of respondents believe that fusion energy is going to be efficacious. The top Chinese scientist believes that fusion energy will become authentic by 2028. These people might be partial towards the prospects of fusion energy because they work in the fusion industry; however, fusion energy is, without a doubt, moving in the right direction. # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ New_study_shows_people_are_willing_to start_bicycling_more_post-COVID-19_pandemic⠀⇛ The findings, which were recently published in Scientific Reports, were the result of an analysis of data from the COVID-19 and the Future Survey conducted by Arizona State University and the University of Illinois Chicago. Results showed that two factors came out of their findings: People who are more environmentally friendly and those who are more satisfied with their life have a higher probability of cycling more post-pandemic. # ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ Battery_recycler_Li-Cycle_Holdings inks_$375m_DOE_loan_pledge⠀⇛ Canada-based Li-Cycle Holdings said that it received a conditional commitment for a $375 million loan from the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, through DOE’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program. # ⚓ Low Tech Mag ☛ Can_We_Make_Bicycles_Sustainable_Again?⠀⇛ For this article, I have consulted academic studies that compare different types of bicycles against each other or focus on the manufacturing stage of a particular two-wheeler. That kind of research was virtually non-existent until three or four years ago. Using the available material, I compare different generations of bicycles. Set in a historical context, it becomes clear that the resource use of a bike’s production increases while its lifetime is becoming shorter. The result is a growing environmental footprint. That trend has a clear beginning. The bicycle evolved very slowly until the early 1980s and then suddenly underwent a fast succession of changes that continues up to this day. # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Climate_report:_Denmark_is_behind schedule_on_CO2_emission_ambitions⠀⇛ Council on Climate Change contends that there is great risk that climate targets won’t be reached unless significant action is taken # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Antarctic_Sea_Ice_Is_The_Lowest_It’s_Been in_45_Years_of_Records,_Researchers_Report⠀⇛ This is fine. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ FTX’s_Nishad_Singh_Pleads_Guilty_to_Fraud and_Conspiracy_Charges⠀⇛ While FTX collapsed just a few months ago, the fallout of the defunct crypto exchange is still developing. Today, FTX’s former director of engineering Nishad Singh pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud and conspiracy as court cases into FTX higher-ups continue. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Safeguard_Mechanism_is_great_… for_big_polluters_and_landowners,_not_so_much_for_the planet⠀⇛ The Senate inquiry into the government’s key emissions policy, the Safeguard Mechanism, revealed broad support for the policy by industry bodies, yet independent experts exposed a myriad of inadequacies. It may even lead to higher emissions. Callum Foote reports. The Safeguard Mechanism was originally designed in 2015 by Tony Abbott’s LNP Government. It was designed to capture any facility which produces more than 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Rise_in_Online_Shopping_Partially to_Blame_For_Recent_Spike_in_Whale_Deaths⠀⇛ Climate change and cargo ships are a bad combination. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Recently_‘Discovered’_Whale_Behavior Was_Actually_Documented_Thousands_of_Years_Ago⠀⇛ Hidden in ancient folklore. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_Sharpshooter_Insect_Catapults Huge_Blobs_of_Its_Pee_to_Save_Energy⠀⇛ We’ve never seen anything like this. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Water_shortage_in_Kochi:_It’s_serious, need_plan,_HC_tells_Kerala_Water_Authority⠀⇛ Shortage of drinking water within Maradu municipality limits and Ernakulam district was highlighted in the plea. # ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ Global_population_has_hit_8 billion⠀⇛ The world population has hit 8 billion, a milestone which has been widely discussed in media. In this article originally published by The Hill, William Ryerson of Population Media Center and Kathleen Mogelgaard of Population Institute reflect on the economic and environmental effects of this milestone. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico’s_export_revenue_increased_25% compared_to_last_January⠀⇛ Mexican products worth US $42.59 billion were shipped abroad in January and the trade deficit is 34% lower in the same month in 2022. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Marjorie_Taylor_Greene_Admits_Kevin McCarthy_Should_Have_Considered_National_Security_before Harming_It⠀⇛ Marjorie Taylor Greene acknowledges that if Russia gets access to the sensitive surveillance footage to which Kevin McCarthy has provided exclusive access to Tucker Carlson, it will compromise the security of the Capitol. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Release_the_Kraken:_Fox_News’_Revolving Sidney_Powell_Conspiracy_Theory_Door⠀⇛ It’s not just that Dominion has laid out damning evidence that Fox knowingly and falsely accused it of fraud. But discovery in this suit appears to have produced abundant evidence that the campaign itself knew it was recycling fraudulent claims Fox was peddling to keep Trump loyal. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_TikTok_Block:_Why_Does_the_Canadian Government_Seem_to_Embrace_Weak_Privacy_Rules?⠀⇛ The Canadian government often talks about the importance of privacy, but actions speaks louder than words. Not only has privacy reform clearly not been a priority, but the government seems more than willing to use the weak privacy rules to further other policy goals. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Nigeria_electoral_commission:_Tinubu wins_presidential_vote⠀⇛ Nigerian election officials say ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has won the presidential election. The official announcement early Wednesday came hours after the leading opposition candidates demanded a revote of the weekend election. The ruling party has asked the opposition to accept defeat and not cause trouble. The overnight announcement was likely to lead to a court challenge by his main opponents Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ AMLO:_“More_democracy”_in_Mexico_than in_the_US⠀⇛ Democracy is better here than in the U.S., the president said Tuesday after the U.S. commented on Sunday’s protests against election reform. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ White_House_to_Federal_Employees:_You_Have_30 Days_to_Delete_TikTok⠀⇛ In a move to cut government employees from accessing TikTok on government-issued devices, the White House told federal agencies yesterday that they have 30 days to remove the app from government-issued devices. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Rupert_Murdoch_Said_Fox_News_Was_Seeing_‘Green’ During_Stop_the_Steal,_and_More_Revelations⠀⇛ Billionaire Fox Corporation Chair Rupert Murdoch thought all the noise spewed by former President Donald Trump during his “stop the steal” hoax was “bullshit and damaging.” However, the thought of curbing the spread of an incredibly dangerous conspiracy wasn’t at the top of his mind back then. # ⚓ Tedium ☛ Robot_Hand_is_the_Future⠀⇛ What I learned about YouTube’s algorithm from creating an account that only watched videos related to Elliott Smith. I fought hard, but the algorithm won. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Bret_Stephens_Says_Journalists_Admitting_Values Would_‘End_United_States’⠀⇛ In his crusade for “objectivity,” Bret Stephens seems, ironically, to have thrown inconvenient evidence out the window. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Public_Versus_Private:_Managing_Perceptions of_the_War_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ “I want Russia to be defeated in Ukraine,” French President Emmanuel Macron publicly told the media. But it’s not what he privately told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He also said that now is not the right time for dialogue with Moscow and that France is ready to sustain “a longer conflict.” That’s not what he … Continue reading_“Public_Versus_Private:_Managing Perceptions_of_the_War_in_Ukraine” o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Record_Number_of_Countries_Blocked_the_Internet in_Blackouts_in_2022⠀⇛ Governments in 35 countries shut down the internet for a record total of at least 185 times in 2022 alone, a new study shows. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Russia_Hits_Wikipedia_With_Fine_for_Going_Against Putin’s_War_Narrative⠀⇛ Russia issued a two million ruble fine ($27,000) to Wikipedia on Tuesday, claiming the site refused to remove “misinformation” about the country’s military involvement in the Ukraine War. The Kremlin issued a series of laws last year restricting reports that contradict Russia’s official message. # ⚓ Quillette ☛ Words_Are_the_Only_Victors⠀⇛ Even with Rushdie in hiding the controversy continued to rage. Bookstores in the United States were firebombed. The novel’s Japanese translator was stabbed to death. And dozens were killed in anti-Rushdie protests around the world. But as the years passed the controversy waned and Rushdie began to appear more frequently in public. By the time of the Chautauqua event, more than 33 years had passed since the fatwa, which was beginning to seem like an empty threat. Perhaps this explains the lack of security at the event, where audience members were prohibited from bringing coffee into the hall but were seemingly not checked for weapons. # ⚓ Reason ☛ A_group_autopsy_of_the_Supreme_Court’s_oral argument_on_section_230⠀⇛ As promised, the Cyberlaw Podcast devoted half of this episode to an autopsy of Gonzalez v Google LLC , the Supreme Court’s first opportunity in a quarter century to construe section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. And an autopsy is what our panel – Adam Candeub, Gus Hurwitz, Michael Ellis and Mark MacCarthy – came to perform. I had already laid out my analysis and predictions in a separate article for the Volokh Conspiracy, contending that both Gonzalez and Google would lose. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Why_Big_Tech_will_lose_its_Supreme_Court_case_on section_230⠀⇛ First, a bit about the case. Gonzalez seeks to hold Google liable because the terror group ISIS was able to post videos on YouTube, and YouTube recommended or at least kept serving those videos to susceptible people. This contributed, the complaint alleges, to a terror attack in Paris that killed Gonzalez’s daughter. Google’s defense is that section 230 makes it immune from liability as a “publisher” of third-party content, and that organizing, presenting, and even recommending content is the kind of thing publishers do. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ More_than_half_of_college_professors_bite_their tongues_over_cancel_culture_fears⠀⇛ Academic freedom is under siege. A new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) reveals professors are shutting their mouths and biting their tongues out of fear of being canceled. In their newly released report “The Academic Mind in 2022,” FIRE (where I’ve been a fellow since 2021) surveyed nearly 1,500 professors from colleges and universities across the country. The results show mass self-censorship and a widespread fear that saying the wrong thing could cost them their reputations — or even their jobs. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Journalist_Fined_For_Calling_Ukraine Conflict_‘War’_During_Interview⠀⇛ [...] A Moscow court concluded that Starostina was guilty because she described the invasion as a war in an interview with Dozhd TV in December. [...] # ⚓ CPJ ☛ At_least_14_journalists_detained,_attacked,_or harassed_covering_Nigeria’s_election⠀⇛ At least 14 journalists and media workers were detained, harassed, or attacked while covering Nigeria’s presidential and federal elections, including private news website WikkiTimes owner Haruna Mohammed Salisu, who remains in police custody without charge, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Campus_Views:_Black_minds_matter⠀⇛ The most pressing issues in the Black community are the disparity in mental health resources, cultural stigmas and the lack of Black psychiatric health professionals. # ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Georgia_Prisoners_May_Lose_Critical_Lifelines As_Prison_Officials_Overhaul_Communications_And_Target Contraband_Phones⠀⇛ As Georgia prison officials move towards fully digitizing communications with Securus and curtailing access to contraband cellphones, incarcerated people and their loved ones are speaking out. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Schultz_Has_Given_Us_No_Choice’:_Sanders Plans_Vote_to_Subpoena_Starbucks_CEO⠀⇛ U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday announced plans to have the committee he chairs vote next week on whether to subpoena Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who so far has refused to provide testimony about the coffee chain’s federal labor law violations. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Tyre_Nichols_Was_One_of_Too_Many⠀⇛ News outlets treat cases like Tyre Nichols’ as isolated incidents, lavishing short-term attention that makes the chronic seem exceptional. # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ VW_wouldn’t_help_find_kidnapped_child because_his_mother_wasn’t_paying_for_find-my-car subscription⠀⇛ Likewise, the VW execs who decided to nonconsensually track the location of every driver and sell that data to shady brokers – but to deny car owners access to that data unless they paid for a “find my car” subscription – didn’t foresee that their cheap, bumbling subcontractors would refuse the local sheriff’s pleas to locate the car with the kidnapped toddler. # ⚓ CBC ☛ Vancouver_police_shoot_man_twice_with_less-lethal rounds_in_case_of_mistaken_identity⠀⇛ Before he could explain he was not that man, police shot him twice with less-lethal rounds in the stomach and buttocks “at point blank range.” Barnett’s complaint describes the rounds as bean bags. Police referred to them as rubber bullets.bv # ⚓ [Repeat] Vice Media Group ☛ The_Invisible_Workers_Who_Train Google’s_Algorithm_Fought_for_$15/Hr_and_Won⠀⇛ A group of contractors working on Google products have won a second historic pay raise and will now be paid the company’s minimum standard wage of $15 an hour, according to a Monday announcement by the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA. This victory comes after the union delivered a petition demanding that the contract workers be included in Google’s company-wide U.S. Wages and Benefits Standards to the company’s Mountain View, CA headquarters on Feb. 1. Over 1,000 Alphabet workers signed it. # ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Georgia_Prisoners_May_Lose_Critical_Lifelines As_Prison_Officials_Overhaul_Communications_And_Target Contraband_Phones⠀⇛ As Georgia prison officials move towards fully digitizing communications with Securus and curtailing access to contraband cellphones, incarcerated people and their loved ones are speaking out. According to advocates, contraband phones are both a vital transparency tool and are increasingly used by Georgia prison officials as a scapegoat for agency brutality and incompetence. When Tim Ward was commissioner of the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) last year, he told the state senate that the department believes cellphones are used to commit crimes and plan “hits” on civilians within the prison walls. The crackdown on such devices is allegedly a response to threats to safety and security within the prison system. However, incarcerated people and their advocates say the GDC is attending to fears of media exposure and enjoys financial incentives to remove the devices. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Iran_probes_‘deliberate’_poisoning_of_schoolgirls across_the_country⠀⇛ The mysterious incidents may have been deliberate attacks designed to prevent girls from seeking an education, officials said in recent days, after previously downplaying the issue. Girls and young women have played a prominent role in the protests that have rocked the Islamic Republic. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Israeli_Police_Crack_Down_on_‘National_Day of_Disruption’_Over_Judicial_Overhaul⠀⇛ Under fire for pushing what critics have decried as an authoritarian overhaul of Israeli’s judicial system, the country’s right-wing government directed police to respond with force on Wednesday as thousands of people marched, blocked traffic, and rallied to protest the plan. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ IFF_puts_5_questions_to_the Chief_Secretary_of_Haryana_about_the_ongoing_internet shutdown⠀⇛ On February 26, 2023, the Home Department of the Haryana Government ordered an internet suspension for three days in Nuh. We have written to the Chief Secretary asking five questions that must be put to the legality of the Suspension Order. # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Standing_Committee_on_IT highlights_lack_of_action_taken_by_the_Government_and reiterates_it_recommendations_on_internet_shutdowns⠀⇛ In our letter to the Standing Committee on IT, we note with appreciation the recommendations, made in its 37th Action Taken report, of bringing the issue of internet shutdowns to the forefront and recommending concrete steps to address it. # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ #5_questions_to_ask_the Grievance_Appellate_Committee⠀⇛ The three Grievance Appellate Committee(s) (GAC), constituted under the notified IT Amendment Rules, 2022, become functional today, i.e. March 01, 2023. As part of our series #5Questions, this post covers 5 questions that are worth raising with the GAC. # ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Adding_Email_Subscriptions⠀⇛ I have added a way for you to subscribe to this blog via email. A while ago, back in 2021 in fact, I_maintained_a newsletter. But after some time I realised that newsletters_are_hard_work, so I decided to ditch the whole idea. Since then, a number of people have emailed me asking if I still offer a way for people to subscribe via email, but I don’t. Well, not until today at least. Buttondown have implemented a load of new features since the last time I tried their service. Chief among them is the ability to ingest an RSS feed as newsletter posts. This means that I can ingest my_RSS_feed into Buttondown, which can then be configured to either send the item automatically, or create a draft. So I’ve signed up for a Buttondown account and added a form to the bottom of all my posts. If you wish to sign-up, please feel free. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Updated_Model_Motion_to_Suppress_For_Unlawful Internet_Preservation⠀⇛ Hey, criminal defense lawyers, this is for you. # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Barbara_van_Schewick:_Net_neutrality_and_the future_of_the_[Internet]⠀⇛ Original Publication: Stanford University School of Engineering – The Future of Everything Date published: February 24, 2023 o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ The_Next_Wave_of_Technology_Regulation: The_Need_for_New_Authorities_in_the_U.S._and_Beyond⠀⇛ Over the last few years, tremendous attention has been focused on the need to address the challenges and harms created by the technology sector. # ⚓ RTL ☛ EU_narrows_probe_into_Apple’s_restrictions_on_apps⠀⇛ The European Union’s executive arm, the European Commission, launched the original case against Apple over alleged anti-competitive behaviour in 2021. It had been based on a 2019 complaint brought by Sweden-based Spotify and others that accused Apple of making unfair use of the App Store to promote its own Apple Music. With the latest announcement, the Commission has withdrawn a charge against Apple over in-app purchase rules that force developers to use the company’s own payment technology. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft_adds_new_Bing_to_Windows_computers in_effort_to_roll_out_AI⠀⇛ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Ford_seeks_patent_for_cars_that ditch_you_if_payments_missed⠀⇛ The patent [PDF], which was originally filed in August, covers more ways to combat non- payment. The least intrusive is a helpful message delivered to the vehicle or a smartphone notifying the user of the delinquency. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Canadian_Copyright,_Fair_Dealing_and Education,_Part_Five:_Open_Textbooks_Saving_Students Millions_of_Dollars⠀⇛ Fair Dealing Week for 2023 may have come to an end, but my series on Canadian copyright, fair dealing, and education continues. [...] I’ve often written about the importance of open access publishing. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) now lists nearly 19,000 open access journals featuring millions of articles which play an increasingly important role not only in knowledge dissemination but also as course materials. For example, the University of Guelph’s electronic course reserve data shows that shows that their open access course materials increased by 79.9% between 2018/19 and 2021/22. In 2021, Simon Fraser University was one of 14 universities across Canada to adopt an institution-wide open access policy and in 2020, Selkirk College was recognized for their “Open First!” approach that prioritized open access resources in course curriculum. # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Law_and_Ordure:_Scatalogic Rites_of_All_Nations_(1891)⠀⇛ In this strange book, marked “not for general perusal”, the use excrement in medicine, magic, and culture is elevated to a universal aspect of human life. # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Let’s_talk_about_how_ChatGPT_and_friends could_kill_blogs_and_the_[Internet]_as_we_know_it⠀⇛ Google and ChatGPT do not actually know the answers to the questions we ask them. They just search the internet for the answer on the websites accessible to them and serve it to us. ChatGPT can generate original content but it needs a lot of information to be out there from which to train itself. Most of these websites they pull from or train themselves on are commercial enterprises that rely on getting eyeballs on their websites. You know the business model, you visit a website and scroll through the content and as you do that they serve you a few ads so they can get paid themselves. Now, if Google or ChatGPT scour through that website and serve the answer to the searcher in plain text, then the searcher does not even need to visit the website. You can see the problem, right? With no eyeballs going to the website, the website loses out on ad revenue. Tough luck, you say. Well, we could look at it as the world moving on from that particular way of doing things and tell websites to move with the times. However, let us remind ourselves that Google does not have a bank of this information, they rely on those same websites. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s_been_a_while_eh!⠀⇛ I seem to be following my normal pattern of blogging for a bit, and then forgetting to update it for months at a time cos I don’t think I have anything fun, interesting or blog worthy to report. Anyways, living in the country has been OK. We got the insulation and double glazing finished up in early spring, and we had a few cold (0°C overnight, top of 9°C) days, and the diffrence was pretty astounding. The kitchen felt so warm we thought we’d left the oven on accidentally. We eventually got the fire managed so that we were maintaining ~20°C on those colder days with it damped almost all the way down, which is a big diffrence from not being able to sustain more than about 18°C with the fire on full blast previously! We have the Solar and battery installed, ended up with 12.7kW of panels, and a 22kWh battery backing it, with lights and sockets being powered in a grid down event, so far we’ve been effectively off grid since it was turned on! Hasn’t been without hitches though, the Zappi car charger we got was tripping the breaker after ~40 minutes of charging. Discovered that the terminals on the breaker weren’t ever tightened properly, causing it to overheat and trip. Then it worked for a while, charging up at full speed from excess solar, decided to check the terminals inside the thing and they also were not tightened down properly 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:(⦈ And once we put it back together, it no longer worked. It’s being replaced by MyEnergi (the manufacturuer) but I’ll have to get a sparkie to install, and that’s not going to happen before Christmas I don’t reckon. # ⚓ Fun_in_games⠀⇛ People were playing a horror game (CoC I think), chars are in some monster infested tunnels, one of ‘em suddenly goes “I panic, the flashlight slips out of my hand, and I run”, tunnels go dark, monsters go omnomnom, rest in pieces rest of party. Players mad AF out of character because the game had set up conflicting affordances. The flashlight dropper had violated their expectation of “trying to win” in the situation. If there had been rules in place that rewarded that sort of behavior (like compels in Fate) or even mandated it (fear checks in Alien, meters in Unknown Armies), that’d sidestep the argument and lead to clarity. The “actor”/“instigator” type players who like to experience things on an emotional level and act it out fully would be allowed to do so, and the tactical minded players would need to take the psychological state of their characters into account (à la Darkest Dungeon), making it more acceptable as just another vector for trouble, parameter to plan around—or, if the design was focused on another kind of fun, rules could reward or mandate calming your tits for three seconds and just hold the light steady while we figure this situation out. Either way the design would have a clear promised premise and lean into that promise rather than fight it all the way like that PoS game CoC does. # ⚓ Against_the_“Criterion_of_Embarrassment”⠀⇛ Before we get into it, I wanna clarify that I’m not arguing against the historicity of the baptism or crufixion. I’m just arguing against a specific line of reasoning about it. The criterion of embarrassment is the idea that a group would not make up false embarrassing facts about their own leaders, and therefore ideas such as “having to” get your sins baptized away or “succumbing to” a painful humiliating death could not have been made up or mythical. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_DEILTZU_Wordo:_FILER⠀⇛ # ⚓ Books_list⠀⇛ These are the books that I’m reading, have read, or haven’t read. You may find many of them on Gutenberg and/or Standard Ebooks, and some of them in the care list. If I don’t forget, I’ll link to their sources. Though less common, if I have a page dedicated to a book of this list I’ll link to it instead, like I did with How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. # ⚓ Streetlights⠀⇛ On Monday evening I was returning home from an appointment by car. My route took me across a bridge crossing over an interstate highway, at a time when the sun had just dipped below the horizon. The bridge was lined with streetlights activated by individual light sensors, as opposed to a central switch. As I reached the intersection just before the bridge, the the streetlights turned on–but not all at the same time. At first only one light blinked on, but after about a second, another light began to glow. Then came a third, a fourth, and a host of about two dozen in rapid (and uneven) succession. Soon all but one of the lights illuminated the roadway, and the last, seemingly hurrying to catch up with the others, winked into life a few seconds later. # ⚓ I’m_seriously_wondering_who_is_trolling_who_at_this_point⠀⇛ I have a Gmail account. I signed up early enough to get my name as an email address at Gmail. But I never use it for anything, so by default, anything that arrives there is either spam or misaddressed. I will occasionally check it, and I found two emails from one Trudy XXXXX­XXXXX­X. # ⚓ Its_fasting_time…⠀⇛ After observing myself going back to the bad old habits (spending too many hours mindlessly browsing reddit and zoning out to youtube) and – worse – spending way too much time in r/collapse and subreddits dedicated to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine (which did absolutely no good to my – even under normal circumstances – brooding personality). So i set the goal to leave the commercial net with all its addictive content for at least until easter… and perhaps leave it for good. # ⚓ An_even-handed_and_restrained_criticism_of_police⠀⇛ In July 2011 in Norway a man in a cop uniform and flashing a cop badge killed 77 people. The whole idea of “trust law enforcement”, “comply” etc is a sick joke. There are often reports in the news here about elderly being robbed by people claiming to be police. Usually reported with the victim-blaming slant that “well of course they should’ve called their local precint and waited in line on the phone for hours and gotten their badge numbers and verified them before opening the door”. Really? What happened to “well of course they should’ve complied and not have to suffer police brutality”…? o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ text-only_interfaces⠀⇛ I’d like to talk a little bit about how I’ve changed my private workflow more and more towards text-only interfaces. It started when I had caught myself sitting in front of my triple-monitor Windows 10 machine, evening after evening, either mindlessly performing “dailes” in one video game or another, or watching YouTube videos that barely interested me. I had stopped *doing* and was only *consuming*, passing time until I could fall asleep. I felt that what I needed was _less_. Less technicolor, ultraHD, dolby surround. More focus, more purpose and communication. # ⚓ sudo_make_install⠀⇛ I found a weird bug. It occurred while installing neatroff, which is a nice, new, tidy implementation of troff. It can be used from the source dir itself, or can be installed to a $(BASE) like /usr/ local/share/neatroff. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Molly_Brown_upgrade⠀⇛ Ahoy, Geminatus! Sometime this coming weekend (March 4th and 5th) I will be installing a more recent version of the Molly Brown Gemini server software which powers gemini.circumlunar.space. The new version is currently being “dog fooded” at another server with promising results so far, so I anticipate the upgrade going smoothly. One can never quite be sure when computers are involved, though, so here’s some advance warning to please not panic immediatley if there is a little downtime. I’ll be keeping an eye out for gremlins over the weekend. If things still seem to be acting up come Monday – especially if you have a user capsule here and it stops working like it used to – then feel free to bring this to my attention. # ⚓ A_Decentralized_Internet⠀⇛ Let’s imagine a hypothetical decentralized internet for a second. Your home internet connection is fast, and it’s fast for both uploads and downloads. You’re not much of a sysadmin, but like everyone else, you know someone who is, and maybe even live with them. They run some services on a laptop in their house (or in yours, if you live together). You decide you want to talk to your friend who lives a few hundred miles away. Instead of logging into Discord, you log into the XMPP server your sysadmin buddy runs for you. It connects to the XMPP server your friend runs in their house, and y’all have a nice chat. # ⚓ Self-hosting_calendars_is_a_mess⠀⇛ Here I was, thinking that hosting a calendar for my family would be easy… Currently my wife and me use Google Calendars to keep track of birthdays, times where I’m away from home because of work, etc. You know, the usual things. But since I want to get us off the clouds and regain control over our data, the next item on my list was to see if I could host a calendar server myself. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5429 ➮ Generation completed at 02:42, i.e. 36 seconds to (re)generate ⟲