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Investigating_Pension_Fraud_(and_Only_After_Repeated_Reminders_From_the_Fraud’s Victims)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Finance, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 1:59 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 2b863a00d74ee7980569100f280fc404 Delaying and Stalling Tactics After Fraud Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/kafkaesque-standard-life.webm Summary: As the phonecall above hopefully shows (or further elucidates), Standard Life leaves customers in a Kafkaesque situation, bouncing them from one person to another person without actually progressing on a fraud investigation THE above recording is of a phonecall received from a Standard Life manager after I_had_requested_a_callback. It hopefully makes it clear that Standard Life is not progressing a case of pension_fraud perpetrated by my my_former employer. As I explain to the manager, this isn’t in the interest of Standard Life as it may culminate in a lawsuit soon (colleagues are speaking about it already). “Some remaining (existing) and former clients of Sirius have contacted me last week, expressing support for me.”As it turns out, as per Wikipedia at least, Standard Life has its share of controversies (see screenshot below) and even a lot of layoffs. If this is the level of service provided by the company, then why trust this financial institution with one’s money? This case isn’t a personal case, as I’m informally speaking ‘on behalf’ of other people as well. Some remaining (existing) and former clients of Sirius have contacted me last week, expressing support for me. They’re very unhappy about what’s going on at Sirius, which dodges accountability. It runs away from the law, not just metaphorically. “Standard Life cannot simply ignore this because it’s part of it and if it’s not actively enabling the fraud, looking the other way would be regarded as “passive corruption” (formal, legal term).”What remains unknown, based on the processes and protocols, is whether Standard Life can be held legally accountable for effectively facilitating the company’s fraud by issuing official paperwork that serves to legitimate if not validate what was going on for over 5 years. They need to keep checks and balances in case of such embezzlement, which in this case impacted a lot of people for a very long time (in secret). We were meant to assume that the pension provider’s credibility was on the line, so when Sirius refused to respond to queries about the plan we thought, “OK, well, Standard Life would not allow this to be rogue, would it?” Standard Life cannot simply ignore this because it’s part of it and if it’s not actively enabling the fraud, looking the other way would be regarded as “passive corruption” (formal, legal term). They make money by letting companies create accounts (they had a Sirius account) by which to mislead and embezzle staff, even for more than half a decade in the case of Sirius. The reputation is exploited to pacify people who are concerned they don’t receive any statements/updates. “They make money by letting companies create accounts (they had a Sirius account) by which to mislead and embezzle staff, even for more than half a decade in the case of Sirius.”It’s no secret that right now people increasingly (and already) lack confidence in financial institutions, even the Swiss ones. Why would anyone trust Standard Life in light of the experiences I’ve been having since January? I am putting a lot of effort into it and I’ve been spending lots of time on the whole pension thing; from the appearance of things (thus far at least) it may turn out to be a scandal for 2 pension funds in the UK, not just one. By extension, this might be a problem/crisis of reputation for just any pension fund in the UK or — given the inter-connectivity of accounts across nations — in the world at large. They’re all connected; my recordings hopefully serve to demonstrate/show their apathy towards perfectly legitimate fraud reports. They already bounce me between departments in vain (“complaints”). Nothing gets done. There’s not even a reference/number. █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Standard_Life:_In_January_2006,_Standard_Life_were_accused of_smearing_a_policy-holder,_Michael_Hogan,_who_was_not_happy_with_the_way_the company_was_being_run._An_e-mail_sent_to_Standard_Life_executives_and_advisors_ (which_was_disclosed_under_the_Data_Protection_Act)_revealed_an_attempt_to discredit_him.[26]_In_January_2007,_the_head_of_Standard_Life's_life_and pensions_business,_Trevor_Matthews,_used_the_racist_phrase_'nigger_in_the woodpile'_while_giving_a_presentation_at_one_of_the_company's_Edinburgh offices._After_issuing_an_apology,_Mr_Matthews_remained_in_his_job_and_no disciplinary_action_was_taken.[27]_In_March_2007_the_company_announced_it_would cut_1,000_jobs_in_an_attempt_to_save_an_additional_£100_million_per_year_in costs.[28]_One_month_later_it_was_highlighted_in_the_company's_annual_report that_three_of_Standard_Life's_top_executives_(Sandy_Crombie,_Keith_Skeoch_and Trevor_Matthews)_were_awarded_more_than_£5_million_in_pay.[29]_A_Standard_Life spokesman_defended_the_awards,_citing_the_leadership's_efforts_in_turning_round the_company's_fortunes.[29]_In_February_2014,_Standard_Life_announced_that_it may_move_parts_of_their_operations_outside_Scotland_in_the_event_of_Scottish independence,_if_it_was_necessary_to_do_so.[30]⦈_ ⠤⡤⠄⠠⠤⠤⠄⢤⠤⠤⡤⠤⠤⡤⡤⠤⠤⠤⠤⢤⢤⠤⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⢄⢤⡤⡄⠀⡐⣒⠶⡄⠤⠤⠤⡤⢤⡤⡤⠤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠈⠀⠁⠁⠀⠀⠁⠈⠀⠉⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡏⢿⠟⠿⠟⠛⡛⠛⠛⢛⢻⣿⣿⠛⢛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣧⣾⣠⣵⣬⣤⣎⣾⣤⣤⣴⣿⣬⣤⣷⣥⣼⣦⣿⣧⣦⣧⣬⣤⣤⣧⣵⣤⣤⣵⣤⣧⣶⣧⣶⣵⣬⣮⣮⣸⣼⣧⣤⣬⣎⣮⣦⣤⣮⣤⣽⣤⣤⣶⣤⣼⣧⣧⣄⣥⣷⣽⣥⣤⣼⣦⣦⣤⣷⣤⣼⣮⣄⣄⣌⣿ ⣿⣿⣏⣁⣫⣿⣻⣍⣏⣉⣉⣇⣈⣩⣟⣩⣿⣏⣉⣭⣹⣉⣉⣹⣈⣩⣭⣉⣿⣻⣟⣯⣩⣿⣩⣉⣉⣅⣏⣍⣉⣻⣛⣇⣀⣉⣯⣉⣩⣁⣟⣠⣹⣍⣭⣩⣛⣝⣭⣩⣹⣹⣭⣸⣩⣩⣭⣉⣽⣹⣨⣩⣅⣡⣽⣉⣉⣹ ⣿⣿⣏⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣹⣏⣉⣙⣉⣏⣉⣉⣟⣍⣝⣹⣩⣍⣙⣉⣭⣋⣙⣏⣋⣉⣏⣉⣋⣉⣛⣉⣹⣹⣽⣙⣉⣹⣭⢉⣹⣉⣿⣉⣉⣩⣙⣹⣹⣉⣯⣝⣮⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡿⢿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⣿⠟⠿⣿⠿⠿⡿⡿⠟⡿⢿⠿⠿⡿⠿⢻⢿⠻⢿⢿⡿⠻⡿⠿⠟⡿⡿⠿⢿⠿⠿⢿⠻⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠿⠿⣿⡿⠿⠿⡿⠻⠿⣿⢿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡷⡿⠶⠾⡷⡶⡷⡿⡶⣶⢷⡾⡶⠶⣿⣷⡶⡷⡷⢶⣷⡶⣶⡶⠷⡶⡾⠶⡶⢾⢾⢷⡷⡷⠾⡶⠷⠷⡶⡾⠶⡷⡾⡶⠶⢶⡷⢶⠶⡿⣾⠾⡶⠾⠷⡶⠶⠶⡶⡿⠷⠾⣶⠶⠷⢷⠶⠶⢿⠾⢶⡶⠿⡿⢿⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⢶⣶⣿⣾⣮⣮⣶⣾⣿⣷⣾⢶⣷⣾⢾⣶⣶⣷⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣧⣼⣶⣷⣽⣶⣷⣾⣶⡶⣾⣶⣾⣾⣶⣷⣾⣷⡶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣷⣿⣾⣧⣶⣿⣴⣷⣷⣿⣶⣶⢾⡶⢴⣾⣷⣿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣧⣤⣮⣴⣬⣧⣴⣼⣤⣤⣶⣤⣤⣽⣴⣼⣷⣤⣦⣽⣦⣤⣬⣿⣤⣤⣤⣷⣤⣽⣧⣼⣦⣬⣧⣤⣾⣤⣤⣿⣧⣼⣼⣬⣤⣤⣧⣤⣼⣽⣤⣴⣥⣴⣿⣴⣤⣽⣥⣧⣤⣿⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡟⣿⢙⡟⢛⢟⣿⠉⠫⡏⡏⢙⠛⡿⢛⣛⠛⠛⣛⢻⠛⡟⡛⠻⣻⡻⢛⢻⠹⡟⠛⡻⠛⢹⢟⠋⡯⣿⢝⠩⣻⡛⠙⢻⢙⣿⠛⢻⢋⡻⠛⠛⢛⢿⠿⡟⡟⣛⢻⡟⠛⡟⡋⠋⡻⡛⠛⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡟⡟⠛⠛⣟⡛⢻⠟⠻⣟⠟⢻⢛⠛⠛⡟⣻⢟⢻⠛⢻⣉⣏⣹⠛⡻⢻⠛⢛⢛⠛⢻⠟⠻⠛⡟⣻⠛⠻⢻⡻⠟⠛⠻⠛⢛⠻⢻⢛⣿⣛⠟⡟⠟⢛⠟⠟⠛⢟⢻⡟⠛⣻⡟⢻⣟⠛⠛⢛⢻⠛⠟⣻⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⠿⡿⢟⡟⠻⠿⢿⡿⠿⢺⡟⠻⠿⢿⣿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠻⠿⢿⣿⢻⠿⢿⡿⣟⣻⣿⣿⠻⡿⣿⢛⠿⠓⢿⠳⠾⢿⢿⠿⡿⠿⠟⡛⡿⠿⠿⢿⠛⠿⣾⠻⠿⠿⢟⡿⠿⠿⠷⡿⠿⡿⠿⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡷⢷⠷⠷⡷⢿⠷⢶⢾⢷⠶⠶⡾⢶⢶⠷⣾⠶⢶⣗⠚⣷⡾⡶⡶⢷⢾⠿⡾⢾⣷⠿⢷⠾⢾⠿⠾⢷⠾⠶⢾⡶⠿⠾⡷⠶⠷⢷⠷⠶⢶⠷⠷⠷⠾⢿⡿⠶⠶⠾⢾⠿⡶⡷⢾⠶⠾⡷⠷⢷⠶⢶⣷⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡷⢶⡶⣷⣷⣶⢾⣾⣾⣶⣶⣷⣶⣿⣾⣿⣶⣦⣾⣿⣿⣶⣷⣶⡶⣷⣶⣾⢾⣷⣿⣾⣶⠖⣲⣶⣶⣿⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣷⣷⣶⣦⣾⣿⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣾⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣧⣾⣦⣶⣴⣷⣾⣤⣾⣿⣶⣼⣿⣵⣵⣮⣿⣷⣦⣯⣶⣶⣯⣦⣶⣼⣼⣷⣤⣴⣴⣦⣴⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣏⣽⣩⣉⣉⣉⣙⡝⣏⣍⣉⣋⣿⣍⣍⣉⣉⣙⣍⣏⣯⣋⣏⣯⣫⣙⣟⣝⣍⣋⣏⣙⣉⣝⣹⣉⣋⣝⣯⣝⣍⣉⣿⣉⣫⣉⣟⣉⣯⣝⣉⣹⣙⣝⣉⣙⣙⣝⣍⣿⣉⣩⣉⣉⣹⣍⣙⣍⣉⣫⣋⣏⣽⣭⣝⣹ ⣿⣿⡟⡛⠛⣛⢿⠋⡏⠟⠛⠛⠙⠙⣟⡛⠙⠛⡛⠛⢛⠛⠛⡛⢿⣫⡟⡟⢻⠛⡟⡛⠛⠛⠛⠟⣿⢻⠛⢻⢛⢻⠛⠻⣏⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 327 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/20/sirius-open-source-pensiongate-update/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/20/sirius-open-source-pensiongate-update/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.20.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ An_Update_on_Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_It’s_Looking_Worse_Than_Ever⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Finance, Fraud at 12:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Previously/context: 1. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_and_the_Money_Missing_From_the_Pension 2. Sirius_Finished 3. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_An_Introduction 4. When_the_Pension_Vanishes 5. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate_(Sirius_Financial_Crisis):_Company_May Have_Squandered/Plundered_the_Pensions_of_Many_People 6. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_Pension_Providers_That_Repeatedly_Lie to_the_Clients_and_Don’t_Respond_to_Messages 7. NOW:_Pensions_Lies_to_Its_Customers_and_Protects_Abusers 8. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_It’s_Beginning_to_Look_Like_a_Criminal Matter_and_Sirius_is_in_Serious_Trouble 9. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_A_Long_Story_Merits_Many_Videos 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Standard_Life_Logo⦈_ Official ‘Standard Life’ paperwork (issued_by_Standard_Life) was used to legitimise fraud for over half a decade Summary: It’s starting to look more and more like pension providers in the UK, including some very major and large ones, are aiding criminals who steal money from their workers under the guise of “pensions” THIS site, unlike my personal blog, isn’t about my work colleagues at Sirius ‘Open_Source’. As explained_this_past_month, this supposedly “Open Source” (not anymore!) company that was one of the FSF’s early sponsors stole a lot of money from employees, myself included. This is now a criminal matter. Several managers knew what was happening; they stole money from many of us and we will put them behind bars if possible (one of them has fled to the United States already). The pension providers are culpable too, as we shall explain in the habitual updates (maybe once or twice per week). Former colleagues also chase the matter. “Any progress on this?” I asked this month. “Did you file for review or something to that effect?” As it turns out, pension providers are stonewalling. They try hard to not get involved in these crime investigations. As if ignoring the victims is a wise strategy. It’s not. It just makes them look complicit in cover-up. The person I blame the most is Leah Brown at Standard Life. For many weeks she kept saying “my hands are tied”, refusing to tell me what had actually happened. She’s a manager, so one cannot just report her to a manager. Leah Brown has made Standard Life look like part of the crime and there might be a class action lawsuit on the way. We just try to gather a list of people willing to participate in it (sharing the cost of litigation). “Do you have contact details of other past workers?” I asked. “I’m sure quite a few had this pension and haven’t been keeping up with its status.” Over the past month I spoke to more former workers than I can count. Some aren’t surprised by this corruption; their view of the company was already mostly negative. Most of them left years ago. We recently found out that the exisiting CEO of Sirius (last man standing so to speak) now tries to do the job of the engineers… and is failing at it… as they left. The former CEO left too. This cheats the customers of the company as they paid for actual engineers to look after their servers. I find that situation similar to Mozilla. Maybe Madame Baker can try to develop Mozilla Firefox, but she never even did a “hello world!” program and she’s almost hitting pension age. Just like the CEO who has just left… Did the Sirius ‘US’ (no such thing) CEO bag bribes from Bill Gates with one hand while plundering the pensions of past staff with his other hand? Stay tuned to find out… we shall get to the bottom of this. Famous last words for Sirius: we don’t need no stickin’ engineers, just some slush funds from a criminal like Bill Gates under an NDA! Earlier this month I published “How Poorly Standard Life Has Dealt With Pension Fraud” and it cannot be stressed strongly enough that it seems like many pension companies are the same. I contacted Standard Life managers 3 times already (by phone) and I am being obstructed; colleagues tried to do the same, several times in fact, and report that they never receive a reply. They cannot even speak to anyone! The CEO has just left the company. So who’s going to be held accountable for theft? Sirius is now, in effect, run 100% by a financial fugitive who escapes many liabilities. Any questions asked about the past are obstructed and met with stonewalling; any questions about the present, or even those who sought reassurances about the pension, are going unanswered or people are being lied to, respectively. This is a severe systemic failure. I spoke to the company (Sirius) and so did colleagues; the company refuses to even answer very simpler questions! I still have all the paperwork from Standard Life and all the payslips to show money was ‘paid’ to Standard Life every month for over 5 years (or so they told me; it was embezzled). Recently, someone who knows Standard Life very well told me this is “theft” and my money is “stolen” by Standard Life (or in their name). I’ve already contacted the media and spoke among former colleagues about a class action lawsuit against Standard Life. It was only at that point that Standard Life started to become more cooperative. Nothing bothers Standard Life except its public image. For several of us, some legally-savvy (I have access to an uncle who is a judge and who advised me to enroll when he heard of the Standard Life pension in 2011; back when I had lengthy discussions with him about it), the matter won’t end due to stonewalling. They cannot tire us down. My uncle feels betrayed too; it is him who convinced me to join, unlike other people whom I asked. A the moment I am told the case is being chased by a manager called Laura Johnston (Standard Life) after escalation from Karen Liddle, who works below her level. For the sake of transparency, here’s the latest on this: Laura Johnston wrote on 14/03/2023 20:07: Good Afternoon Dr. Schestowitz. Apologies that I have not reached out before now. Unfortunately, I don’t have anything to report so far but have reached out to the team who are dealing with this for an update. Once I have an update from them I will be in touch. Thank you for your patience, I responded: I waited for you to get back to me till 5PM yesterday and then recorded a video on this issue (as I had not heard back): http:// techrights.org/2023/03/14/pension-fraud-standard-life/ More in http://techrights.org/wiki/Crimes_of_Sirius_Open_Source and http://techrights.org/wiki/Sirius_Open_Source I look forward to hearing of any progress. Clients of the company are contacting me, this week expressing sympathy. The company will soon have no clients and no business to even track down, so you must hurry. This really should have progressed months ago when I first contacted Mrs. Brown several times (a manager at your company). Or when colleagues sent detailed E-mails to you (those always went unanswered). She has not responded since then (5 days have passed). She wrote “good afternoon” at 7 minutes past 8PM, so there’s a certain sense or feeling that she’s not being too honest. As if to pretend it was done within the reasonable timeframe. Remember she already failed to respond to me “today” (as she said she would 7 days earlier). This does not look good at all for Standard Life. What should have been a trivial case of fraud (with papers and everything to prove it) isn’t progressing. Or barely (nearly 3 months already!). Minutes ago I followed up: Can I please have an update on this? I cannot stress strongly enough that this is a matter of great urgency, implicating many people, and we have already lost 2 months due to your slow response. Your delays have given time for fraudsters to adapt and curtail prosecution. We have evidence to prove this. When people come to think of it, if she phoned before 5PM as she said she would, a lot of this escalation would not be needed. For instance, no person at Standard Life would be named and Standard Life itself would never be mentioned here. The bottom line is, Standard Life increasingly seems unwilling to deal with crime done in its name. So the pattern that emerges is, pension providers lie, obstruct, and even cover up for people who abuse their system. This is really awful. On a separate day we’ll get back to NOW:Pension, another pension provider that provided awful service and isn’t progressing in the fraud investigation. One day they may have to compensate us for all this trouble — us as in past workers who were plundered… like people who already have some other job, needing to spend weeks if not months chasing this rogue/criminal nonsense. Some former workers are very angry and some might lose sleep over it. More so knowing and seeing that the pension providers are mostly apathetic and only respond when the reputation is on the line. 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It’s quickly becoming rather frustrating to see that pension providers in the UK (maybe elsewhere too, but I cannot verify this for myself using first-hand experience) prefer to not deal with serious fraud, instead delaying, stonewalling and tiring the complainants. Today I contacted Laura, a Standard Life manager, about 2 weeks after we first spoke. She said she would redirect this to a fraud investigation team, but today she says it has not really started and may take another week with another team — a subject that will be covered in the next video. This morning we covered (also see my personal_blog) how Standard Life had failed to respond to a fraud report, instead issuing false assurances that it would investigate. It’s an eye-opening ordeal. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 617 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/20/the-paper-mills-in-edinburgh/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/20/the-paper-mills-in-edinburgh/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.20.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Standard_Life_Paper_Mills_in_Edinburgh⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Finance, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 1:30 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Standard_Life_(Phoenix_Group_Holdings):_Will_issue paperwork;_won't_deposit_money⦈_ Summary: Standard Life is issuing official-looking financial papers for companies that then use that paperwork to embezzle_staff ⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡟⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠁⢠⣤⣈⣟⡟⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢩⣭⣍⣙⣛⣋⣛⢉⣉⣉⢉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⠉⢉⣉⣋⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣙⣛⣉⣛⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠿⣿⢿⣽⣿⣿⠟⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠙⢿⣦⠄⢀⣉⣿⠛⠛⠻⣿⢹⠓⠘⠇⠞⠃⣠⡄⠹⠀⢤⠀⡇⢠⡄⢹⠀⣤⡄⠁⢸⣿⠀⠇⣤⡄⢩⣤⢀⣤⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣶⣤⣿⡟⣿⡿⣰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠻⠻⠂⢨⣿⠀⣸⣿⠟⠛⠛⠀⢸⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠟⠋⠀⠀⢸⠀⠅⢠⣄⠘⠀⢄⡀⡇⢸⣿⠀⡆⣠⣤⣾⣿⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣭⣥⣛⣻⣶⣿⣟⣻⡪⣽⣿⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣄⣉⣿⡀⠘⠛⠀⣾⠀⢠⠼⠇⠠⠇⠀⠤⠾⠀⠀⢤⠤⠤⠀⠠⠄⠉⠃⠰⠤⠀⠴⠀⠸⠿⣿⠟⠀⢿⠇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣾⣽⣽⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣦⣴⣿⣄⣸⣧⡀⠛⠃⢀⣿⠀⣴⡆⠀⣿⠀⢰⣿⡇⠀⣶⡖⠀⣶⠿⣿⠇⢀⣿⣿⣿⠧⢴⠿⠏⢀⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣏⢗⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣦⣤⣤⣼⣟⣀⣾⣿⡇⠀⠉⠁⠀⢩⣄⡌⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠀⠈⠰⠀⢠⣼⠟⢉⡉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠿⢰⣬⣉⣮⣽⡟⠋⠟⠿⣿⣋⣉⣉⣿⢿⣿⠋⠋⣽⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⢿⡿⠟⢁⢙⣽⣻⡻⡿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⣰⢀⡄⠀⣿⣧⣀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⣆⡄⠀⣿⡏⠀⣉⡛⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠿⠆⢸⣿⣿⠿⠿⠈⢱⣄⡛⠶⠎⣭⡖⠸⡾⡶⣶⣥⢫⣿⣿⠹⠿⠛⠋⠉⠉⠀⢸⣷⡜⠀⠘⠀⠛⠛⠛⠁⢩⡿⡗⠀⠀⣿⣽⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣰⣆⣿⡄⣴⣿⣷⣀⡉⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢀⠀⡠⠀⠉⠁⠀⠂⠀⠀⠸⣿⣷⣤⣶⣦⠠⡄⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⢠⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠉⠀⠀⠙⠛⠋⣿⣿⠻⢿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠹⠿⠇⠵⠀⣏⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠰⣯⠉⡉⠙⠙⠉⠁⠀⠿⠓⠂⠈⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡟⣁⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠒⠂⠤⣀⠖⠠⠸⢩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⣀⢀⡼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡐⠀⡐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣄⠀⠀⠀⠘⡀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠈⢯⢩⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠣⠉⠀⠰⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣟⡛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠿⠛⠇⠃⠔⣋⣀⢨⠄⡐⠀⢪⡀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣄⣴⠀⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠰⢂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣦⣄⢄⣄⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⠝⢿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠐⡤⠋⠙⠟⠶⠄⠀⠀⠠⠁⠀⠀⠀⢼⣿⣷⣷⡦⢀⣄⠀⠀⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡆⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣦⡀⠄⠄⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠈⢈⣿⡴⢒⣤⣲⣦⢂⣀⢠⠈⢡⢢⠉⢫⡧⢀⣀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣦⢄⣤⠸⠲⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠑⠀⠈⠁⠉⠐⠶⠌⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠄⡀⠀⠀⠄⡀⣦⠈⠹⣗⠒⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠈⠉⠙⢯⡻⡉⠉⠋⠷⢬⠙⠇⠀⣃⠰⣾⡿⢼⡻⣿⣿⣿ ⣞⣟⣟⡀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢀⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠸⢿⠏⠙⠈⠁⢂⣒⣀⢀⣀⣀⡀⢀⣀⢀⣤⡄⣤⣤⢠⣤⣤⣄⢠⣤⣤⣤⢰⣶⣦⣶⠞⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⠛⠿⠻⠒⠆⠀⢈⣀⡀⣀⡀⠈⣀⡉⠀⠀⣠⣤⢀⣤⣤⣄⢉⣤⣦⣤⢰⣶⢰⣶⡆⣶⣶⡆⠀⢰⣿⢿⣶⢠⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⢻⣷⢸⣿⠛⢸⣿⣹⣿⠼⣿⣼⣿⣧⣿⡟⣿⣿⢹⣿⢸⣿⣼⡿⠸⣿⣿⣟⢸⣿⣿ ⣻⡃⣿⡇⣿⣿⢸⣿⢻⣿⡇⣿⡇⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⢻⣿⢸⣿⣜⡛⠸⣿⣼⡛⢸⣿⣾⣿⡇⣿⣧⡄⠀⢸⣿⣼⡿⢸⣿⢹⣷⢸⣿⠾⠟⢸⣿⠿⢸⣿⡟⣿⡄⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⡇⢹⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⣽⣿⡆⣿⡿⣿⡌⣯⣿ ⣾⣥⢹⣿⣿⢿⣾⣿⠘⣿⡇⣿⡇⠀⣿⡇⢔⡆⢸⣿⢠⣭⢻⣿⣠⣬⢻⣿⡼⣿⡏⣿⡇⣿⣇⣀⠀⢸⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⢻⣿⣼⣿⡆⡀⢸⣿⣶⡎⣿⡇⠿⠇⠹⠿⠇⠻⠿⠇⠘⠻⠿⠋⠘⠛⢛⡛⠃⠛⠃⢛⣃⢘⣿ ⣿⡷⠸⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⡶⣿⠿⠶⠠⠸⠿⢈⠻⠾⢟⣁⡛⠿⢛⣥⣙⡛⠛⠁⠛⢛⣩⣤⢈⣭⣥⣷⣮⣭⣾⣭⣦⣶⣾⣿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣘⣻⣾⣿⣿⡎⠈⠒⠾⡃⢄⡈ ⣿⣿⡷⣩⣭⣶⣆⣴⡤⢴⡒⣲⣴⣶⣶⣶⠶⡯⠲⢴⡮⣴⣿⣻⣿⢿⣿⣻⡿⣟⠁⠃⡀⣬⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⠟⢿⣾⢿⡻⢿⣿⢽⣷⠀⠀⡈⣾⣼ ⣿⣷⡇⣽⣿⣿⣾⢞⣅⣿⡿⠽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣰⢯⣩⡘⣴⡿⣽⣿⣿⣝⣿⣿⣿⣜⢲⠠⣻⣽⣿⣷⣻⣿⡿⢿⣿⠯⣿⣿⡟⠩⠿⡟⠹⢻⡝⠫⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣭⣟⣿⣣⣽⣿⡟⠈⠋⠉⠙⠄⠀⢼⣻⢛ ⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣯⢸⡟⣅⠍⣶⣲⣾⣿⣿⣿⢷⣮⣾⠹⢻⡌⠉⣥⣉⣻⣭⣿⣿⠿⢿⡴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣯⣻⣿⠿⡌⣻⣿⣿⣾⡟⢿⡠⡷⡀⠇⠚⡿⡿⠙⠟⠻⠿⣭⠍⣹⣟⠥⠓⣁⣸⠫⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⠯⣿⣿⣿⣷⣹⣿⢁⣇⣈⢽⢿⣿⡷⢿⣿⡋⠑⠀⠍⠠⠀⣡⣵⣾⢻⢿⣿⢆⡐⣷⣾⣿⡿⢛⣿⣿⣿⡿⢍⢘⣿⣽⠛⠉⠭⢸⡑⢐⠐⠀⠀⠠⠠⠌⠀⠀⠈⠘⠉⠋⡉⠙⣾⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡂⠔⠃⠁⠀⠀⠀ ⢻⣎⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠁⢘⢾⣇⣯⠋⢿⢽⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠙⠻⢩⠁⠡⡇⣿⣳⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣧⣾⣿⣷⠆⠀⡈⡄⡙⠊⠱⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠ ⣾⣝⣿⡸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⢸⡈⡇⠻⠚⢘⡌⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣬⣆⢄⠳⢾⣾⣦⠼⣿⢿⠿⡟⠊⠂⠀⠄⠈⠢⠀⠧⢡⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡍⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡍⣿⠏⣿⣿⣿⡏⡧⡇⠀⠀⠈⠁⢡⡀⣑⡈⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠋⣈⠐⡐⠀⡠⠟⠂⠘⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⢀⡀⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠄⣿⡗⣍⣿⢸⣿⡑⠐⣀⡀⠀⢂⠜⠁⡧⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠈⠉⠛⠒⠡⠂⠐⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⠁⠀⠉⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣇⣾⣟⢈⣫⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠁⠉⠀ ⢀⣿⣓⣿⣥⠠⢳⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠦⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⣡⠠⠄⠠ ⠀⡼⢿⣿⣶⢰⣦⣶⣴⣶⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢀⠀⠤⠀⠪⠈⠐⠐⠐⠐⠊⠈ ⢐⡟⠹⣿⡟⠘⠛⠛⠋⠙⠋⠓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣛⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢀⡀⠠⠀⠔⠖⠬⠁⠁⠐⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠰⢧⣠⣜⣇⠀⢀⠄⡀⠀⠀⠀⢤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢺⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠄⠤⠔⠒⠂⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠉⠉⠟⠹⠟⠛⠁⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠋⠀⡀⣀⡀⣐⠐⠀⠂⠉⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣤⣄⣠⡄⣀⣀⢀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⣤⣄⠀⣀⡀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣈⣈⡙⢈⣠⣤⡀⠀⣠⣤⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣤⣀⠀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⠀⠀⡀⠀ ⠙⠿⠿⠁⢹⣿⣸⣿⣇⣿⡇⣿⡏⣿⡇⣿⣿⣸⣿⠹⠏⢹⣿⠉⠠⠀⣿⡏⣿⡇⣿⣿⠉⢸⣿⢹⣿⢸⣿⢹⣿⢸⣿⣝⠿⢸⣿⡏⢹⣿⡏⠁⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⢹⣿⡆⣿⣧⣿⡇⣿⣿⠉⢹⣷⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⠃⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⡿⣿⣿⠈⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣿⠛⢸⣿⠛⠋⢸⣿⢸⣿⢀⣙⢻⣷⣸⣿⡇⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠛⠀⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠿⠿⠘⠿⠿⠀⠻⠷⠿⠃⠿⠇⠿⠿⠀⠀⠸⠿⠀⠀⠀⠿⠷⠿⠇⠿⠿⠶⠸⠿⠀⠀⠘⠿⠾⠟⠘⠿⠾⠿⠹⠿⠇⠸⠿⠇⠀⠀⠿⠇⠿⠸⠿⠘⠿⠾⠿⠁⠿⠏⠿⠇⠿⠿⠶⠀⠿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 685 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.20.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_20/03/2023:_Amazon_Linux_2023_and_Linux_Kernel_6.3_RC3⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o New_Releases o BSD o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o FSF o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Security # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Unix_Pioneer_Ken_Thompson_Announces_He’s_Switching_From_Mac To_Linux_–_Slashdot⠀⇛ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ AWS_delivers_delayed_major_release_of_its homebrew_Linux_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Amazon Web Services (AWS) has delivered a major release of its home-spun Linux distribution – albeit rather later than it first promised. Amazon Linux debuted in 2010 and was promoted as optimized for AWS’s infrastructure. Seven years later, the cloud colossus delivered Amazon Linux 2. A successor dubbed AL 2022 was announced in November 2021, along with a promise of a major release every other year, plus quarterly tweaks. # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Amazon_Linux_2023,_a_cloud-optimized_Linux_distro, is_now_available⠀⇛ Earlier this week, Amazon announced the availability of Amazon Linux 2023, its third- generation Linux distribution. With this distribution, Amazon is promising three benefits: a high-security standard, a predictable lifecycle, and deterministic updates. On the security front, Amazon says that its latest operating system comes with preconfigured security policies to help you set your system up to meet various common industry guidelines. The company says that these can be set during launch time or run time. Amazon Linux 2023 also comes with a hardened Linux kernel by default for added security. # ⚓ Slashdot ☛ 2023-03-18Amazon’s_AWS_Releases_Fedora-Based, Cloud-Optimized_‘Amazon_Linux_2023′⠀⇛ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_367_–_Open source_will_never_be_the same⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about GitHub enforcing sanctions against an open source developer and Docker changing how their registry works. There’s a lot to unpack in this one. There’s a lot of happenings going on in the world of open source. We are seeing governments paying attention to open source like never before, change is coming and everything is going to change. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_6.3-rc3⠀⇛ So rc3 is fairly big, but that's not hugely usual: it's when a lot of the fixes tick up as it takes a while before people find and start reporting issues. And nothing here looks hugely worrisome. The diffstat looks a bit unusual in that there are relatively big changes to the scripts and selftest directories, but that's mainly due to the git-ignore script removal and some kvm selftest cleanups respectively. Nothing scary. If you ignore those parts, it's a fairly standard "two thirds drivers, one third rest" thing. The drivers are all over, but networking, gpu and sound are the usual big ones, with the fbdev code showing up mainly just because of a coding style fixup to the logo conversion scripting (mainly to use proper tab indentation). The qcom interconnect driver also shows up for major cleanup and fixes. Outside of those areas, it's a random collection of fixes: the usual arch updates (much - but not all - of it being kvm), some filesystem fixes (mainly cifs), core networking, tracing, and some core mm fixes. Anyway, it's early days still, but nothing here looks particularly odd. Please test and report any issues you find, Linus # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_6.3-rc3_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ The 6.3-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. “”So rc3 is fairly big, but that’s not hugely usual: it’s when a lot of the fixes tick up as it takes a while before people find and start reporting issues.”” o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Easily_adjusting_the_minimum interval_on_panels_in_Grafana_dashboards⠀⇛ All of this is great and works fine right up until you do what I did, which is lengthen the scrape period and thus the necessary minimum query step for one set of metrics from our Prometheus data source. Since this is only one set of metrics, not all of them, I can’t just set a larger minimum interval for the datasource as a whole (and generally you can’t do this with Prometheus; in many configurations you’ll have different scrape speeds for different exporters). This required me to go through all of the panels and change ’30s’ to ’60s’, which was just as tedious as you’d expect in a GUI. # ⚓ How_to_install_NextCloud_on_Almalinux_9_|_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ In this article, we learn how to install and configure NextCloud on Almalinux 9 or Rocky Linux 9 for setting up your cloud. What Is NextCloud? Well, those yet don’t know NextCloud is a fork of popular OwnCloud but become more popular than that. It is also a free and open-source personal cloud solution with Enterprise solutions as well. The key benefit of using such open source software suite is it lets users store their data securely in the cloud but on a server owned by them physically or virtually. Hence, from the privacy point of view, it is an excellent alternative to proprietary cloud solutions like Dropbox or Google Drive because users have full control over their data. # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Install_Epic_Games_Store_On_Chromebook_Easily With_This_App⠀⇛ Though Chromebooks are best used for cloud gaming, it is possible to access the Epic Games Launcher on Chrome OS using a simple and free Linux app. # ⚓ How_To_Perform_Disk_Check?_[Mac,_Windows_-_Linux]_– Tech4Gamers⠀⇛ We explain how to perform a disk check so you can keep your disk safe from various errors that can corrupt it. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ View_Your_Webcam_Feed_in_the_Linux_Terminal With_asciicam⠀⇛ Want a webcam app that displays your camera feed inside the Linux terminal? asciicam is what you need. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Comment_Out_Lines_in_Linux_Text Files⠀⇛ Commenting out lines in configuration files affect how a Linux app or your system behaves. Learn how you can comment and uncomment lines on Linux. # ⚓ How_to_Fix_Error_522_in_LibreOffice_and_OpenOffice⠀⇛ LibreOffice is one of the most popular software applications used for data analysis, financial modelling, and reporting. It has some basic errors which are pre-defined. They are meant to tell you the reason for the error. This guide will see how to fix Error 522 (or Err: 522) in LibreOffice. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_Serpent_OS,_Security_Onion_2.3,_and Gentoo_Live⠀⇛ To me, this all sounds like a similar to design to NixOS, with perhaps a few improvements. I was curious to learn more about Boulder and Moss. Boulder appears to be the distribution’s build system for packages. Something more geared toward the developers and people wishing to make new packages for Serpent OS. Moss, on the other hand, seems to be the package manager (or system manager) end-users will run to perform software management. The Serpent OS website describes Moss as follows… I will admit, when I pictured a Gentoo-based live desktop I was picturing something more bare bones, something that might require configuration or at least launching Plasma from a command line to use. Gentoo has a well earned reputation for manual, hands-on work and configuration. The live media though is quite the opposite – polished, automatic, and effortless to use. I was impressed with this demo of Gentoo’s capabilities. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-14Development_Release:_Fedora_38 Beta⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-15Distribution_Release:_Qubes_OS 4.1.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-16Distribution_Release:_Murena_1.9⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1603/13_Bluestar_6.2.5⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1803/18_EasyOS_5.1⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1603/11_EndeavourOS_03-2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1603/14_Fedora_38-beta⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1803/18_FreeBSD_13.2-RC3⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1603/11_GParted_1.5.0-2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1603/11_helloSystem_0.8.1⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1903/13_Kali_2023.1⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1903/16_Manjaro_22.0.5⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1903/14_Qubes_4.1.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1903/14_Regata_22.1.3⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1903/15_siduction_22.1.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1903/16_Slackel_7.6-beta2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1903/15_Snal_1.26⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1903/17_Whonix_16.0.9.8⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1903/16_XeroLinux_2023.03⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-1703/13_Zevenet_5.13.1⠀⇛ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ (Even_more)_Aggressive_randomisation_of_stack location⠀⇛ In a late-stage addition prior to the release of OpenBSD 7.3, Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) has committed [more] aggressive randomisation of the stack location for all 64-bit architectures except alpha: [...] o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ RP2040_Runs_Linux_Through_RISC-V_Emulation_| Hackaday⠀⇛ We’re used to running Linux on CPUs where it belongs, and the consensus is that RP2040 just isn’t up for the task – no memory controller, and nowhere near enough RAM, to boot. At least, that’s what you might believe until you see [tvlad1234]’s Linux-on-RP2040 project, reminding us there’s more than one way to boot Linux on a CPU like this! Just like with the “Linux on AVR” project in 2012 that emulated an ARM processor, the pico-rv32ima project emulates a RISC-V core – keeping up with the times. Initially, the aforementioned “Linux on AVR through ARM” project was picked as a base – then, a newer development, [cnlohr]’s RISC-V emulator, presented itself and was too good to pass up on. Lack of RAM was fully negated by adding an SD card into the equation – coupled with a small caching layer, this is a crucial part for the project’s not-so-secret sauce. A fair amount of debugging and optimization later, [tvlad1234] got Linux to run, achieving boot times in 10-15 minutes’ ballpark – considering the emulation layer’s presence, this is no mean feat. # ⚓ Real-time_Analytics_News_for_Week_Ending_March_18⠀⇛ Canonical announced it is teaming up with MediaTek to optimize Ubuntu for IoT innovation. The first Ubuntu images are optimized for MediaTek’s Genio 1200 System on Chip (SoC). The solution enhances AI innovation for enterprises, startups, emerging brands, and leading ODMs in diverse markets. In other Canonical news, the company announced that its Ubuntu Core OS is now compatible with Arm’s SystemReady IR system specification. In addition, the OS has achieved PSA Certified Level 1. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ 7_Android_camera_features_that_will_make_you a_better_photographer_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_Auto_lower_screen_portion_freezing_after_Coolwalk update⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion:_Google_Pixel_is_just_a_regular_phone_in_markets without_exclusive_features⠀⇛ # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Google_I/O_2023_–_Pixel_7a,_Pixel_Fold, Pixel_Tablet,_Android_14,_and_everything_we_expect_to_see_| Business_Insider_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ 15_Galaxy_devices_will_not_receive_Android 14/One_UI_6.0_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ YouTube_Music_will_now_auto-download_recently played_songs_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ BGR ☛ Beats_Fit_Pro_tips_and_tricks_for_iOS_and_Android users_|_BGR⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Norbert Preining ☛ TeX_Live_2023_released⠀⇛ Another interesting change is the inclusion of luametatex, a new engine which is used for ConTeXt. Development is fast in this area, so I expect that the binary will soon be out-of-date. o ⚓ OpenBSD ☛ rpki-client_8.3_has_just_been_released⠀⇛ rpki-client is a FREE, easy-to-use implementation of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) for Relying Parties (RP) to facilitate validation of BGP announcements. The program queries the global RPKI repository system and validates untrusted network inputs. The program outputs validated ROA payloads, BGPsec Router keys, and ASPA payloads in configuration formats suitable for OpenBGPD and BIRD, and supports emitting CSV and JSON for consumption by other routing stacks. See RFC 6480 and RFC 6811 for a description of how RPKI and BGP Prefix Origin Validation help secure the global Internet routing system. o ⚓ Undeadly ☛ rpki-client_8.3_released⠀⇛ One small but significant step for routing security on the Internet happened Sunday 19th of March 2023 with the release of version 8.3 of rpki-client. o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_FSF’s_Free_Software_Awards⠀⇛ The Free Software Foundation has announced the recipients of this year’s Free Software Awards: – Eli Zaretskii (advancement of free software) – Tad (SkewedZeppelin) (outstanding new free software contributor) – GNU Jami (project of social benefit) o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ LLVM_16.0.0_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Version 16.0.0 of the LLVM compiler suite has been released. As usual, the list of changes is long; see the specific release notes for LLVM, Clang, Libc++, and others linked from the announcement. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Simple_code_for_the_probability_weighting_function according_to_prospect_theory⠀⇛ Prospect theory made its debut back in 1979 and was one of the first major attempts to address empirical deviations from expected utility theory. One of the key ingredients in operationalizing prospect theory involve conversion of probabilities to “weighted probabilities”. It should be noted that while there are more advanced libraries which are designed to implement prospect theoretic models (like the pt library ), my objective here was to write a function which takes a vector of probabilities and converts them into a list of weights. # ⚓ Jan Schaumann ☛ Open_sourcing_code_into_a_separate_git repository⠀⇛ Suppose you have a code repository that you want to open source. You go ahead and add all your license, contributor agreement, README, and any other files, but you also have a few changes that you know will remain internal. That is, you know that your open source’d code will not be the authoritative copy, but a fork of your closed copy that you will have to track separately. Now git is supposed to help you with this, and you know you want a local branch as well as a second remote repository, but git is notoriously unintuitive at times, so here’s the quick set up for this scenario: [...] # ⚓ 2023-03-17Rust_Firebird_Client_updated_to_v0.23.0_with_a few_features⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-16The_Servo_Blog:_Making_it_easier_to_contribute_to Servo⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-18My_experience_taking_part_in_Season_of_KDE⠀⇛ # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-15Template_Toolkit’s_DEFAULT_is_not too_useful⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-14Quiq_–_Weekly_Travelling_in_CPAN⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-18The_first_line_of_Perl_CGI_script, env_perl_vs_perl_only,_how_different?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-15Perl_Weekly_Challenge_208:_Minimum Index_Sum_and_Duplicate_and_Missing⠀⇛ # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Glyph ☛ Building_And_Distributing_A_macOS_Application Written_in_Python⠀⇛ So, it makes sense for me to write my applications in Python to achieve this sort of portability, even though on each platform it’s going to be a little bit more of a hassle to get it all built and shipped since the default tools don’t account for the use of Python. But how much more is “a little bit” more of a hassle? I’ve been slowly learning about the pipeline to ship independently-distributed1 macOS applications for the last few years, and I’ve encountered a ton of annoying roadblocks. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Open Source For U ☛ Google_Launches_A_New_Open_Source Effort_For_Healthcare_Welfare⠀⇛ The Check Up with Google Health 2023 event was presented by Google yesterday on YouTube and featured some of the company’s key personalities, including Dr. Karen DeSalvo, chief health officer. The new Open Health Stack programme was one of the topics covered by the participants. With the use of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards, it intends to enable developers to create health-related applications. It is the most recent HL7 standard for creating cutting-edge, patient-focused healthcare applications. # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Google_takes_on_healthcare_with_new_open-source initiative⠀⇛ Yesterday, Google held “The Check Up with Google Health 2023″ event on YouTube, featuring some of the important faces of the company, including the chief health officer, Dr. Karen DeSalvo. The participants went through multiple subjects, one of them being the new Open Health Stack program. It aims to let developers build health-related apps centered around the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards. It is the latest version of the HL7 standard for building modern patient-centered healthcare applications. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Glyn Moody ☛ 2023-03-172023_Bilbao⠀⇛ o ⚓ Connor Tumbleson ☛ Written_by_a_Human⠀⇛ From the ones I selected here – you can quickly see how content to consume will get more and more difficult to discern human generated vs machine. Imagine a company or business that writes a new post/blog weekly to stay relevant on searches. I’m guessing with a simple prompt of that week’s content – the entire post may be generated. This may not be a terrible thing as these tools continue to evolve, but I’m also nervous that much like SPAM dominates the amount of emails we get – that AI generated content will dominate our media consumption. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Why_are_they_called_du_Pont_connectors?⠀⇛ You know those tiny header connectors that computers use to attach power buttons and speakers to motherboards? I’ve always known them as du Pont connectors. I never really thought why, though I assumed it was for the same reason they’re called Molex connectors. # ⚓ [Old] Matt Millman ☛ Why_do_we_call_these_“DuPont” connectors?⠀⇛ The company we have to start with is Berg Electronics, originally based in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. It was them who introduced the Mini- PV connector in the 1950s which looks very similar the connectors we call “DuPont” connectors, and is the first type of its kind. But they’re not the same. This page details the differences. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Opioids_are_devastating_Cherokee_families._The_tribe has_a_$100_million_plan_to_heal⠀⇛ Many of the families around Tahlequah tell stories of how prescription pills wrecked their lives and damaged their children. Brenda Barnett, a Cherokee citizen, was pregnant with her son, Ryan, in the 1990s when the reservation was first flooded with opioids. # ⚓ NPR ☛ California_enters_a_contract_to_make_its_own affordable_insulin⠀⇛ The state-label insulins will cost no more than $30 per 10 milliliter vial, and no more than $55 for a box of five pre-filled pen cartridges — for both insured and uninsured patients. The medicines will be available nationwide, the governor’s office said. “This is a big deal, folks,” the governor said. “This is not happening anywhere else in the United States.” A 10 milliliter vial of insulin can cost as much as $300, Newsom said. Under the new contract, patients who pay out of pocket for insulin could save up to $4,000 per year. The federal government this year put a $35 monthly cap on out-of-pocket costs on insulin for certain Medicare enrollees, including senior citizens. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Unmitigated Risk ☛ The_Growing_Security_Concerns_of_Modern Firmware_and_the_Need_for_Change.⠀⇛ Today’s firmware is larger and more complex than ever before. In 1981, the IBM PC BIOS was a mere 8 KB, but now UEFI, even without considering machines with BMCs, can be 32 MB or even larger! To illustrate the magnitude of the problem, Intel will soon release its next-generation SoCs with support for 128 MB of firmware! Essentially, UEFI has become a real-time OS with over 6 million lines of code and is still growing. This is larger than most modern operating systems. Furthermore, the various boot phases and hardware layers create significant complexity for defenders. Increased surface area leads to more vulnerabilities. o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ Musk_says_code_for_recommending_tweets_will_be public⠀⇛ The code used for recommending the posts suggested to users will become “open source” at the end of March, Musk said in a tweet of his own. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ Skin_cancer_survey_hack_may_have_‘compromised’ personal_details,_Medicare_numbers_of_participants⠀⇛ Australia’s biggest skin cancer study has been hit by an unpublicised data breach, with the personal details of more than 1,000 people feared to have been accessed by hackers. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ What_is_the_cost_of_not_purging_data_or moving_it_offline,_Sunday_edition⠀⇛ Maybe one day, a law or regulation will require entities to purge old data that is no longer needed or requires it to be disconnected from the internet. If anyone needs a fresh example of why we need that type of law or regulation, here it is: Richard T. Miller, DMD, PC, d/b/a Great Neck/Mid Island Dental (“Great Neck Dental”) acquired the assets of another dental practice back in 2015. The law firm of Cooperman Lester Miller Carus LLP (“CLMC”) was hired to assist with the transaction and was provided with certain patient information. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ MONTI_ransomware_gang_leaks_Donut_Leaks ⠀⇛ The listing then provides the login credentials to what is allegedly Donut Leaks’ admin cpanel. When tested on _D#NUT:ch, however, the login credentials did not work. Perhaps D#NUT Leaks spotted the post and changed their login. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Was_there_a_rush_to_arrest_Pompompurin,_the owner_of_BreachForums?_If_so,_why?⠀⇛ Bloomberg Law broke the news Friday that Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin,” was arrested Wednesday, and a search warrant was executed at his family’s home in Peekskill. The affidavit of FBI Special Agent John Longmire claims that Fitzpatrick admitted to being “Pompompurin” and the owner and administrator of BreachForums. He allegedly made those admissions voluntarily after being advised of his Miranda rights. # ⚓ BREAKING:_Largest_Crypto_ATM_manufacturer_hacked_over security_hitch-_Over_$1.5_bitcoin_(BTC)_Stolen ⠀⇛ The week before saw a handful of traditional banks take a massive hit in the United States. This time, crypto seems to have been hit with its own fair share of pushbacks, as a leading global cryptocurrency ATM manufacturer recently got exploited by hackers. General Bytes, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency automated teller machine (ATM) manufacturers, experienced a security breach on the 17th and 18th of March. # ⚓ Information Security Media Group, Corporation ☛ Hitachi Energy_Latest_Victim_of_Clop_GoAnywhere_Attacks⠀⇛ Hitachi Energy joined the ranks of victims hit by the Clop ransomware group, which has exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra’s widely used managed file transfer software, GoAnywhere MFT. Clop claimed responsibility for the hack, which compromised networks used by 130 different organizations. # ⚓ Website_intrusion_attempt:_Department_of_Health_seeks_help from_Chot-In_Pipa_News⠀⇛ India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CHOT-IN) has been asked to investigate the alleged hacking of the Health Department’s website by a Russian group The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CHOT-IN) has been asked to investigate the alleged hacking of the Health Department’s website by a Russian team. . CloudSEK, a cyber security company, said that the Russian hacking group ‘Phoenix’ has hacked into the website of the Central Health Department and stolen the information of hospitals and doctors working in them. It is said that this infiltration attempt has been made after the information that the G20 federation is likely to impose economic sanctions on Russia due to the war in Ukraine. In this case, an official of the Union Health Department said, “In relation to the alleged intrusion of the website, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Committee, which is operating under the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has been consulted. The committee will investigate the matter and submit a report soon,” he said. The ‘Phoenix’ penetration team has been operational since January last year. Before this, the company has carried out infiltration operations on the websites of hospitals in countries such as Japan, Britain, and the United States. # ⚓ Lansing_Community_College_students,_staff_left_in_the_dark due_to_cyberattack⠀⇛ The school is working with the FBI, a cyber insurance response team, and the Michigan Cyber Command Center to solve the problem. LCC posted on social media Thursday that classes will not be in session Friday, but in-person classes will resume as normal on Saturday. LCC has not released the source of the cyberthreat, which started Wednesday afternoon. Students and faculty are still confused and concerned about what is happening on campus. Students were completely cut off from college websites following the threat. Student Jordan Clarkson said that it’s affecting his studies. # ⚓ The Brussels Times ☛ Hospitals_risk_becoming_major_targets for_cyberattacks_following_Saint-Pierre_hacking⠀⇛ Hospitals are increasingly finding themselves the target of cyber-attacks, affecting service and causing unease over sensitive data being stolen among both hospitals and patients. There are several pathways hackers use to access hospital computer systems. Last week, the Saint-Pierre Hospital in Brussels was the victim of a cyber-attack. With computer operations blocked and servers slow, the attack caused a widespread outage throughout the hospital which led to major delays in operations and an emergency room being shut down for a few hours. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ ‘Show_your_LinkedIn_profile’: Bengaluru_landlord’s_demand_for_a_tenant⠀⇛ The tweet received multiple responses from the tenant community in the tech capital. A user said, “This is happening quite a lot in Bengaluru, I know a couple of my friends who are ready to pay a good amount for rent but they’re asked a lot of questions and then the rent is quoted again with an increased price… They’re still hunting for a house.” # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-03-14TikTok_bans:_what_the evidence_says_about_security_and_privacy_concerns⠀⇛ # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Unmitigated Risk ☛ Key_Management_and_preparing_for the_Crypto_Apocalypse⠀⇛ Today, keeping sensitive information secure is more critical than ever. Although I’m not overly concerned about the looming threat of quantum computers breaking cryptography, I do worry about our approach to key management, which significantly impacts how we will ultimately migrate to new algorithms if necessary. Traditional key management systems are often just simple encrypted key-value stores with access controls that release keys to applications. Although this approach has served us well in the past, moving away from bearer tokens to asymmetric key-based authentication and, ultimately, the era of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) demands a different approach. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ 2023-03-15UN_nuclear_watchdog_says_2.5_tons_of uranium_missing_from_Libyan_site⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Chinese_[crackers]_are_getting_more sophisticated_with_their_attacks,_report_says⠀⇛ This comes as tensions between the U.S. and China mount over a myriad of issues, including security concerns over TikTok, cyber espionage, election security, spy balloons and recent export control restrictions. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_The_Lord_of_Chaos⠀⇛ The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held accountable for their crimes. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ 20_Years_On,_a_Question_Lingers_About Iraq:_Why_Did_the_U.S._Invade?⠀⇛ It’s not even the war’s consequences, which are broadly understood to include, at a minimum, plunging Iraq into civil war, giving rise to a new generation of jihadism and, for a time, chastening American interventionism. Rather, it’s question that would seem to be far simpler: Why did the United States invade at all? # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ War_Made_Easy:_Will_US_Media_Finally_Admit_Its Craven_Complicity_in_Iraq_War?⠀⇛ This clip is adapted from the critically acclaimed documentary “War Made Easy,” produced in 2007 by the Media Education Foundation at the height of the Iraq war. “War Made Easy” takes a blistering look at how U.S. media outlets from Fox News to MSNBC enthusiastically disseminated Bush administration propaganda and helped sell a war that would kill thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, most of them innocent civilians. # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Reagan_Allies_Schemed_to_Delay_U.S. Hostages’_Freedom_to_Sabotage_Carter,_Alleged_Witness_Says⠀⇛ While several of the players who could corroborate Barnes account have died — including Connally and Casey — Barnes named four people whom he had confided in about the meetings. All four — Mark K. Updegrove, president of the L.B.J. Foundation; Tom Johnson, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson (no relation) who later became publisher of the Los Angeles Times and president of CNN; Larry Temple, a former aide to Connally and Lyndon Johnson; and H.W. Brands, a University of Texas historian — confirmed with The Times that Barnes had shared his story with them. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Four-Decade_Secret:_One_Man’s_Story_of Sabotaging_Carter’s_Re-election⠀⇛ Mr. Connally did not figure in those investigations. His involvement, as described by Mr. Barnes, adds a new understanding to what may have happened in that hard-fought, pivotal election year. With Mr. Carter now 98 and in hospice care, Mr. Barnes said he felt compelled to come forward to correct the record. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ Millions_of_dead_fish_wash_up_amid_heat_wave_in Australia⠀⇛ Millions of fish have washed up dead in southeastern Australia in a die-off that authorities and scientists say is caused by depleted oxygen levels in the river after recent floods and hot weather # ⚓ Gannett ☛ Global_warming_driving_more_extreme_droughts_and floods,_NASA_satellites_show⠀⇛ Warmer air causes more evaporation during droughts and increases the amount of water available in thunderstorms and other precipitation during wet events. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-03-14Immensely_stupid_fragility,_March_2023 [Ed: "The collapse of SVB may HELP dealing with climate change"]⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-17Children_more_likely_to_break_out_of poverty_when_they_catch_up_on_language_deficits⠀⇛ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Who_can_tell_you_what_to_do_with_your money?⠀⇛ In the story, the heartless bank refused to refund the fraud victim due to an absurd technicality – the money was sent to a foreign account rather than a UK account. Once again, big business bending the rules in order to protect their profits from a defenceless pensioner. Only after protests did they reimburse him. What a disgrace! Except, of course, that’s not what happened. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Warren_Demands_Probe_Into_Bank_Failures, Urges_Biden_to_Fire_Powell⠀⇛ Sen. Elizabeth Warren this weekend called on federal officials to investigate the causes of recent bank failures and urged President Joe Biden to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom she has criticized for intensifying financial deregulation and imposing job- and wage-destroying interest rate hikes. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 2023-03-16‘Moment_of_truth’_as_Macron’s contested_pension_reform_heads_to_final_votes⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-15Standard_Life_Making_False_Promises_About Cracking_Down_on_Pension_Fraud_and_Embezzlement⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-16NOW:_Pensions_Won’t_Let_Me_Have_My_Money,_Fails to_Apologise_for_Months_of_Lying⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-17Speaking_to_NOW:_Pensions_About_a_Corrupt Employer⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-16UK_bans_TikTok_from_government_devices with_immediate_effect⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-16Twitter’s_bookmark_counter_is_a_new way_to_convince_yourself_tweeting_is_worth_your_time⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Inside_the_Payoff_to_a_Porn_Star_That Could_Lead_to_Trump’s_Indictment⠀⇛ The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, has signaled he is preparing to seek felony charges against Mr. Trump; Mr. Bragg is expected to accuse him of concealing a $130,000 hush-money payment that Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s lawyer and fixer, made to Ms. Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Manhattan_DA:_Trump’s_Intimidation_Efforts Won’t_Be_Tolerated⠀⇛ Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Saturday that former President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine his prosecutorial authority won’t be tolerated. # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Tech_layoffs_in_2023:_A_timeline⠀⇛ Though technology companies announced massive layoffs last year, 2023 is looking much worse, as tech giants including Facebook parent company Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, SAP, and Salesforce — as well as many smaller tech companies — announce sweeping jobs cuts. # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Children’s_Online_Safety_Bills Criticized_for_Compliance_Burden,_Plus_Speech_and_Privacy Risks⠀⇛ In addition to those two core directions, many of the state proposals have their own unique twists, Czerniawski said. For example, the Utah legislation prohibits any design choice that “causes a minor to have an addiction to the company’s social media platform.” While the bill has not yet been signed, Gov. Spencer Cox has previously indicated his intent to do so. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Rapid7_Appoints_Jaya_Baloo_as_Chief_Security Officer⠀⇛ Jaya Baloo has also been a faculty member of Singularity University since 2017, where she regularly lectures. She serves on the audit committee of TIIN capital, a cybersecurity fund, and is also a board member of the RvT of the Dutch Broadcasting station, the NOS. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Russia_and_West_accuse_each_other_of_cyber attacks [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ A Russian diplomat said the West has unleashed a full-scale campaign against Russia since the start of Moscow’s war against Kyiv, with the intention to test the strength of the country’s economy, financial and energy sectors, as well as its main industries. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ A_Florida_professor_says_his_contract_was_terminated for_teaching_about_racial_justice⠀⇛ Students and alumni have condemned the discipline measure, arguing that the school is going against its own values of unity and academic freedom. A petition demanding the renewal of Joeckel’s contract received over 2,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon. In an accompanied open letter to the university president Debra Schwinn, supporters wrote: “Restricting much needed conversations around race is — at its core — racism and discrimination itself.” Joeckel said racial justice has been part of his course for 12 years, calling it a “perfect topic” to teach at a Christian school. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ US_justice_department_investigating_TikTok’s owner_for_‘spying’_on_journos:_report⠀⇛ The justice department is investigating the surveillance of American citizens, including several journalists who cover the tech industry, by the Chinese company that owns TikTok, according to three people familiar with the matter. The investigation, which began late last year, appears to be tied to the admission in December by the company, ByteDance, that its employees had inappropriately obtained the data of American TikTok users, including that of two reporters and a few of their associates. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-17Angolan_outlet_Camunda_News_suspends operations_indefinitely_after_police_harassment⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-16Authorities_detain_journalists_throughout Belarus,_5_remain_in_custody⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-17Belarusian_journalist_Maryna_Zolatava sentenced_to_12_years_in_prison,_Valeryia_Kastsiuhova_to_10 years⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-14China_should_improve_overseas_media accreditation,_access_following_restrictive_political meetings⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-16CPJ_calls_on_Uzbek_authorities_to_ensure Karakalpak_journalists_are_not_imprisoned_for_their_work⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-15CPJ_reiterates_call_for_Rwanda_to investigate_John_Williams_Ntwali’s_death⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-14DRC_defense_minister_files,_withdraws_false news_complaint_against_reporter_Stanis_Bujekera⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-14Georgian_authorities_deny_entry_to_Russian journalist_Aleksandra_Shvedchenko⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-17Indian_journalist_Sanjay_Rana_arrested_in Uttar_Pradesh⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-14Italian_police_investigate_Domani_newspaper in_criminal_defamation_case⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-14Journalist_Hosein_Naderi_revealed_to_have died_in_bombing_at_Afghan_press_event⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-17Maldives_journalist_Hussain_Juman_arrested, assaulted_by_police_while_covering_opposition_rally⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-17Tajik_journalist_Khurshed_Fozilov_detained on_extremism_charges⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-17Togolese_journalists_Ferdinand_Ayité_and Isidore_Kouwonou_sentenced_to_3_years_in_prison⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-17Zimbabwe_journalist_Garikai_Mafirakureva charged_with_publishing_false_information⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ 2023-03-18Greece_sacks_police_chief_after clashes_over_deadly_train_disaster⠀⇛ # ⚓ UN ☛ Global_Bottled_Water_Industry:_A_Review_of_Impacts_and Trends⠀⇛ Withdrawals for bottled water can contribute to groundwater resource depletion in areas of bottled water procurement, although case studies that illustrate this are rare. However, even if such withdrawals are small in absolute terms globally or compared to larger water consumers like irrigated agriculture, local impacts on water resources may be significant. The lack of data available on water volumes extracted by the bottled water industry is largely due to the lack of transparency and a legal foundation that would have forced bottling companies to publicly disclose extracted water volumes and assess the environmental consequences of their activities. The Global South, where safe drinking tap water is not always available, represents potential future markets for bottled water. Lack of national policies for water management may promote uncontrolled groundwater withdrawals for bottled water procurement with little or no contribution to a sustainable long- term drinking water supply. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Navajo_Nation’s_long_quest_for_water_—_and_for_the federal_government_to_keep_its_promises_—_ends_up_at_Supreme Court⠀⇛ As part of the tribe’s efforts to assert control over its long-term future, it filed a long-shot lawsuit in 2003 arguing that the U.S. government has a duty to assess the nation’s water needs and ensure it has enough. After lengthy litigation, that case is now before the Supreme Court, which hears oral arguments on Monday. For the tribe, the case is about more than what rivers it can draw water from — the Navajo say it’s about ending nearly two centuries of injustice perpetuated by the federal government, which has failed to keep promises and left them to suffer on the arid lands where their ancestors settled. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_stops_paying_remaining_maternity, medical_leave_for_sacked_workers:_Report⠀⇛ Over 100 former employees have formed a group called “Laid off on Leave”. They are requesting that executives compensate them for the weeks and months they were authorised to take off prior to the January job cuts. # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Women_have_historically_been equal_to_men_in_Estonia⠀⇛ Merili Metsvahi, associate professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, said on Radio 2′s “Pulse” program that Estonian women were not as repressed historically as is commonly believed. The patriarchy was first acknowledged in Estonia during the second part of the 19th century. The eldest son, who also inherited the land, would become the family’s most influential member. “Truth and Justice” by Tammsaare, for example, echoes this development. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-03-17Our_attempt_at_e-EQE_Paper_C_2023_–_Road racing_pedal [Ed: EQE is actually a fraud for a whole bunch of reasons. It's amazing that EQE isn't blasted in the media for it.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-16Our_Paper_C_2023_blog_will_open_for comments_after_the_end_of_the_exam⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-03-16EPO_tries_to_have_its_cake_and_eat it_on_claim_interpretation_(T_0169/20) [Ed: EPO completely disregards the law. It is a dictatorship.]⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-03-16Generative_Artificial Intelligence:_US_Copyright_Office_denies_registration⠀⇛ # ⚓ RTL ☛ How_AI_‘revolution’_is_shaking_up_journalism⠀⇛ The German publishing behemoth Axel Springer, owner of Politico and German tabloid Bild among other titles, has been less coy. “Artificial intelligence has the potential to make independent journalism better than it ever was –- or simply replace it,” the group’s boss Mathias Doepfner told staff last month. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ You_just_can’t_win_on_the_internet⠀⇛ I listen to this fairly popular podcast, Blocked and Reported with Jessie Singal and Katie Herzog. Both of the hosts have gotten in their fair share of controversy and cancellations over pieces of journalism they have published on the transgender youth subject, with Jessie receiving the majority out of the two due to his incessant responses on twitter, trying to respond to people as if they are rational actors. Well following a recent twitter blow-up, Jessie decided to deactivate his twitter, which naturally got a huge response because the twitter trans activists viewed this as a victory over one of their favorite enemies. Jessie and Katie were discussing this on their most recent subscriber-only episode when the two came to a point of disagreement. Jessie viewed his departure from twitter as a ultimately insignificant and personal decision that would have no real impact on his career. His reasoning was that no matter how careful he was about what he said or what actions he took, it would always be used, twisted, or fabricated to paint him in the worst light possible. He admits that he has a negative relationship with how he uses twitter and compulsively tries to defend himself and others from the drivel in the form of arguments that spurs from the toxic environment of twitter. I, as a fan of both his journalism and his show, can attest that this man should have left twitter a long time ago because it poisons his mind. Katie disagreed and said that Jessie was doing exactly what his detractors wanted him to do, to back down, shut up, and let them get the last word. She said that his presence on twitter was at least somewhat beneficial as an archive showing exactly which tweets and replies got twisted and amplified through a cruel game of telephone that resulted in false rumors being spread about him online. Furthermore she said that with a large percentage of journalists and editors being active twitter users that it in fact could hurt his career by not being brought into the spotlight every few months in the form of another twitter pile-on. # ⚓ on_hrt_and_dysphoria⠀⇛ I am a cis woman. However, when I grew up, I never felt woman enough, girly enough. I personally feel like my autism made me come off boy-ish when I opened my mouth or in my mannerisms (and still kind of does), but even more importantly, I felt terrible about my body. It was decidedly different than feeling like you’re not pretty enough as a girl, wanting to turn heads or feel beautiful. I simply did not feel like the outside matched the inside. The other people around me usually confirmed this. Girls didn’t want anything to do with me past kindergarten and I was treated like one of the boys by the boys. In the changing rooms after school sports, the girls noticed my intense hair growth over my body and laughed and told me to shave. When I was 12, people in my grade used “it” pronouns for me to make fun of me and drive home that I am not a girl. But I wanted to be a girl so bad. I wanted to be like all the other girls. Their mannerisms, their look, the way they dress, their interests. It was more than just wanting to fit in, I fit in well with the boys already and only had male friends. This wasn’t about trying to reach an unattainable girl standard. I just felt like no one was seeing what I truly am and wanted to be, and I hated my body and how it developed, that it wasn’t feminine enough. No, this wasn’t about tomboy acceptance, I didn’t wanna be a tomboy, I wanted to be a girly girl. o § Technical⠀➾ # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ aliases⠀⇛ For something more advanced, you can have an alias call a script to check a conditition before allowing the command to run. This is helpful in my git sandbox where the index.html file is sometimes a dummy file, since it faces the internet. I don’t want to check that in by accident – I want to swap the dummy for the real one before git ever executes anything. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2334 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.20.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_20/03/2023:_Tails_5.11_and_EasyOS_5.1.1⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Slackware_Family o Debian_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o Education o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Python # Java o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_USA_–_Mississippi⠀⇛ We cover user groups that are running in the US state of Mississippi. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS_Episode_#500:_500th_Episode Spectacular⠀⇛ Hello and welcome to the 500th episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts cut loose and let it all hang out. # ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_504⠀⇛ **plasma-wallpapers** , and the rest of **plasma- workspace** ( **ksmserver** , **ksplashqml** , **plasma-apply-colorscheme** , **plasma-apply-cursortheme** , **plasma-apply-desktoptheme** , **plasma-apply- lookandfeel** , **plasma-apply- wallpaperimage** , **plasma-interactiveconsole** , **plasma-shutdown** , **plasma_session** , **plasma_waitforname** , **plasmashell** , **plasmawindowed** , **startkwayland** , **startplasma-wayland** , **startplasma-x11** , **systemmonitor** , **xembedsniproxy** ) from the Slackware **kde** package set. shasum - a256=ef7ba21087cf774b6d50ef80d19bceb240a68ebb59b000cd48463f586734a593 o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Net2 ☛ The_Best_Spreadsheet_Software_for_Linux⠀⇛ As more people switch to Linux as their operating system, it’s important to find alternatives to Microsoft Excel. Although Excel is popular for spreadsheets, there are other programs available for Linux that offer similar or better functionality. This article explores some top alternatives to Microsoft Excel on Linux that can enhance your spreadsheet experience. # ⚓ Michael_Ablassmeier:_small_standalone_sshds_in_go⠀⇛ Been looking into some existant sshd implementations in go. Most of the projects on github seem to use the standard x/ crypto/ssh lib. During testing, i just wanted to see which banner these kind of ssh servers provide, using the simple command: [...] # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Show_Live_Scores_in_Ubuntu_Panel_for_NBA, EPL,_or_Other_Sports_Teams⠀⇛ For sports fans who want to keep a watchful eye on live scores for favorite teams, here’s an indicator applet for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux with GNOME. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_Stable_Diffusion web_UI⠀⇛ Machine learning is about learning some properties of a data set and then testing those properties against another data set. A common practice in machine learning is to evaluate an algorithm by splitting a data set into two. We call one of those sets the training set, on which we learn some properties; we call the other set the testing set, on which we test the learned properties. Stable Diffusion is a deep learning text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo- realistic images given any text input. In seconds you can create stunning artwork. Stable Diffusion uses a kind of diffusion model, called a latent diffusion model. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ Install_Single_Node_Openstack_using_Devstack on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform that provides a cloud computing infrastructure. It provides a set of services for building and managing cloud environments, including compute, storage, networking, and identity management. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ Linux_TAR_vs_TAR.GZ_Files:_Key Differences⠀⇛ If you’ve ever had to manage files on a Linux system, you’ve likely encountered TAR and TAR.GZ files. Both formats are used for archiving and compressing files but differ in key aspects. This article will explore the differences between TAR and TAR.GZ files and help you understand when to use each format. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ httpx_Library_in_Python:_How_to_get started⠀⇛ HTTPX is a modern, high-performance, asynchronous HTTP client library for Python 3.6+ that provides sync and async APIs. It aims to provide a simple, intuitive, and Pythonic way to make HTTP requests while still being versatile enough to support complex use cases. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Display_Last_Updated_Date_in GeneratePress_Theme⠀⇛ GeneratePress is a popular, lightweight, and customizable WordPress theme that has gained popularity for its performance and flexibility. One feature that many website owners appreciate is the ability to display both the original post date and the last updated date on their blog posts. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Everything_You_Need_to_Know_About_UFW Logs⠀⇛ UFW firewall comes pre-installed in Ubuntu and as the name suggests UFW logs can offer inside-out information on how your firewall deals with incoming and outgoing requests. # ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ Install_Single_Node_Openstack_using_Devstack on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform that provides a cloud computing infrastructure. It provides a set of services for building and managing cloud environments, including compute, storage, networking, and identity management. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Smartctl_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Smartctl on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. # ⚓ nftables_basic_configuration⠀⇛ Introduction Nftables is a firewall and packet filtering system that replaces iptables in Linux. It provides a clean and organized way to manage your network security and traffic filtering. Nftables was introduced in Linux Kernel 3.13 and has been included in all major Linux distributions since then. # ⚓ Configuring_nftables⠀⇛ Introduction The world of networking and firewalls is constantly changing and evolving, with new tools and technologies being developed every day. One such tool that has recently gained popularity is nftables, a powerful, yet flexible firewall management system. # ⚓ The_mangle_table⠀⇛ Introduction The mangle table is a unique and practical piece of furniture that has been around for centuries. It’s a table with a built-in wringer, and it was once a common household item used to wring out clothes and linens. # ⚓ The_NAT_table⠀⇛ Have you ever wondered how internet service providers (ISPs) manage to connect multiple devices to the internet using just one public IP address? The answer lies in a concept called Network Address Translation (NAT). # ⚓ Configuring_iptables⠀⇛ What is iptables? iptables is a powerful firewall tool for Linux, it is the firewall that is pre- installed in most Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install CPU-X on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ In this guide, we will show you how to install CPU- X on Ubuntu systems. CPU-X is a free and open- source utility for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that displays information about the system’s CPU and other hardware components. It is a free software that collects information about CPU, motherboard and more. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Open-Source_Backup_Made_Easy_with_Deja_Dup:_A Step-by-Step_Tutorial_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Introduction Data loss can occur for various reasons, such as hardware failure, software bugs, malware attacks, or human error. To prevent data loss and ensure the safety of your essentials, it is crucial to have a reliable backup system in place. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Securing_Your_Website_Using_.htaccess:_Best Practices⠀⇛ .htaccess is a powerful configuration file used by web servers such as Apache to control and customize their behavior. While it can be used for a variety of purposes, one of the most important is securing your website. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Using_.htaccess_to_block_IP_addresses_and prevent_unwanted_visitors⠀⇛ One of the most important aspects of website security is preventing unwanted visitors from accessing your site. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_SmartCTL_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04⠀⇛ Smartctl is a command-line utility that is part of the smartmontools package. It is a powerful tool that enables you to monitor and manage the Self- Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into most modern hard and solid-state drives. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_WHOIS_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04⠀⇛ Whois is a widely used tool that allows users to query domain registration information, such as the registrar, contact information, and registration and expiration dates. It benefits administrators, developers, and security researchers who must gather details about domain ownership and network resources. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Becoming_a_Linux_Power_User:_Tips,_Tricks,_and Productivity_Hacks⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will explore a range of tips, tricks, and productivity hacks that can help you become a Linux power user. Also, We will cover various topics such as file and directory management, package management, process management, system monitoring, shell scripting, and more. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install QOwnNotes on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ In this guide, we will show you how to install and configure QOwnNotes on Ubuntu systems. QOwnNotes is a free open source (GPL) plain-text notepad. The program has support for markdown, and includes a to-do list manager that works on FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS and Windows. It can optionally work together with the notes application of ownCloud or Nextcloud. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Deploying_a_Multi-Node_Kubernetes_Cluster_on Linux⠀⇛ Introduction Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform that enables developers to manage and deploy containerized applications at scale. In order to take full advantage of Kubernetes’ capabilities, you can deploy a multi- node cluster on Linux. A multi-node cluster allows you to distribute your applications across multiple nodes, ensuring high availability and scalability. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Krita_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04⠀⇛ Krita is a powerful, open-source digital painting application that has rapidly gained popularity among artists, illustrators, and graphic designers worldwide. Developed by the Krita Foundation, this feature-rich software is designed to cater to the needs of creative professionals and enthusiasts alike. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Install_a_Non-Snap/.deb_Version_of Firefox_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Having issues with Snap based Firefox? Then read the mentioned steps to ditch the Snap version of Firefox for the classic/regular Firefox on your Ubuntu 22.04 system. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past Week_with_Planet_Cube:_Edge_–_2023-03-19_Edition⠀⇛ Between 2023-03-12 and 2023-03-19 there were 82 new games validated for the Steam Deck. We use numerous criteria such as popularity, ratings, and more to establish this Best Steam Deck Games list every week. # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Steam_Client_for_Slackware_updated_to 1.0.0.76⠀⇛ A few weeks ago, Valve’s official Linux binaries for its steamclient got an update. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ TecMint ☛ The_Best_Linux_Distributions_for_Beginners_in_2023⠀⇛ Traditionally, Linux was a reserve for developers, system administrators, and Enterprise users for hosting websites and other applications. There was a time when Linux posed a great deal of complexity to beginners and simply discouraged them from embracing it. Over time, the vibrant Open source community has made enormous efforts in bringing Linux closer to ordinary Windows and Mac users by making it more user-friendly and easy to use. o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Global_IP_TV_Panel_bumped_to_2023MK3⠀⇛ Forum member ETP created this PET. Easy 5.0 has the “MK1″ release, but ETP has recently released “MK3″, see forum post: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=689 I have bumped to the latest PET, which will be in Easy 5.1.1. Release of which is imminent. o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_5.1.1_released⠀⇛ Version 5.1 was released only a couple of days ago: https://bkhome.org/news/202303/easyos-kirkstone-series- version-51-released.html A couple of little bug-fixes, a PET package version bump, and improvements to AppImage Installer, see release notes: https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/ kirkstone/2023/5.1.1/release-notes.htm o § Slackware Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Wine_8.4_packages_for_Slackware⠀⇛ The Wine developers released version 8.4 last week. There’s lots of bugfixes of course, but the announcement also mentions that the work has started on a Wayland graphics driver. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Tails_5.11_Amnesic_Incognito_Live_System Switches_to_ZRam_and_Linux_Kernel_6.1_LTS⠀⇛ In Tails 5.11, the devs added the ZRam (formerly compcache) Linux kernel module for extending your computer’s physical memory to allow running apps and sessions for longer periods of time without the system hanging or freezing. ZRam creates a compressed block device in RAM with on-the-fly disk compression. On the same note, the Linux kernel was bumped in this release from the now deprecated Linux 6.0 series to the long-term supported Linux kernel 6.1 LTS. This automatically translates to better hardware support and new features. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Texas_Instruments_unveils_AM62A,_AM68A_and AM69A_Arm_Cortex_Vision_processors_and_devkits⠀⇛ The $299 SK-AM69 Starter Kit/Evaluation Module (EVM) can be used to evaluate the AM69A AI vision processor with two 22-pin Raspberry Pi CSI connectors and two 40-pin MIPI CSI-2 expansion connectors for up to 12 cameras. All AM62A, AM68A, and AM68A SoCs support Linux application development, standard development tools such as Code Composer Studio (CCS), as well as the upcoming (Q2 2023) Edge AI Studio free web-based open-source tool to develop and test AI models quickly and easily using user-created models and TI’s optimized models. Supported frameworks include TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, TVM, and others. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_Touch_OTA-25_Arrives_on_March_24th_as the_Last_One_Based_on_Ubuntu_16.04⠀⇛ The wait is almost over as Ubuntu Touch OTA-25 appears to be the last update based on the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) operating system series. UBports worked very hard in the past year to rebase Ubuntu Touch on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), which will be released to the general public in the coming months starting with the OTA-26 update. Meanwhile, Ubuntu Touch users will have another software update on their hands that brings emblem counters for the Dialer and Messaging apps, persistent notifications when the urgency status is set to critical and other improvements to notifications, as well as on-screen keyboard vibration optimization on Volla Phone devices. # ⚓ TheHinduBusinessLine ☛ Android_appeal_case:_NCLAT_reserves verdict,_likely_to_issue_final_judgement_by_March_31_–_The Hindu_BusinessLine⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Qualcomm_Removes_Licensing_Fees_for_aptX_and aptX_HD_Encoders_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Top_9_ways_To_Easily_Fix_‘Android_Phone Keeps_Turning_Off’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_vs_iPhone:_Which_one_is_more_reliable? Here’s_the_answer⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ FiiO_M15S_Lossless_Music_Player_launched_in China_with_Android_10_&_Snapdragon_660⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_14_could_finally_separate_the ringtone_and_notification_volumes⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ David Revoy ☛ Lightwork⠀⇛ A speedpainting inspired by Devin Townsend’s 2022 music album. I’ll go to his concert tomorrow in Toulouse! Lightwork Tour. I listen to his music since 2000. I can’t wait! o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts_Weekly_recap_—_19_March_2023⠀⇛ Week highlights: DreamWorks Animation releases source code of MoonRay renderer, new beta and final releases of Siril, HDRView, MFEKglif, QGIS, major changes coming to FreeCAD. § GIMP CmykStudent is proposing to start working on real non- destructive editing in GIMP this summer within the GSoC program. Here_is_their_proposal. All projects ideas for GSoC and generally for internships are here. Meanwhile, mr.fantastic continues hacking on the on- canvas alignment feature when moving layers. o ⚓ Luis_Villa:_Writing_elsewhere;_the_pain_of_moving_platforms⠀⇛ I’ve been doing a lot of writing elsewhere of late. Some links: # I’ve written a fair amount in the past year for the Tidelift_blog, most recently on the EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act and what_it_might_mean_for_open source. # I wrote last week at opensource.com; the latest in a now multi-year series on board candidates in elections for the Open Source Initiative. # I have a newsletter on the intersection of open and machine learning at openml.fyi. It is fun! # I’ve moved to the fediverse for most of my social media—I’m social.coop/@luis_in_brief (and you can subscribe to this blog via the fediverse at @lu.is/ @admin). I don’t love (mostly) leaving Twitter; as I’ve said a few times, the exposure to different people there helped make me a better person. But one of my primary political concerns is the rise of fascism in the US, and that absolutely includes Elon and the people who enable him. I can’t quit cold-turkey; unfortunately, too many things I care about (or need to follow for work) haven’t left. But I can at least sleep well. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ twenty-five_years_of_curl⠀⇛ Time flies when you are having fun. Today is curl’s 25th birthday. The curl project started out very humbly as a small renamed URL transfer tool that almost nobody knew about for the first few years. # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ Fossified:_curl_25_years⠀⇛ Over in our podcast Fossified, we did an entire episode dedicated to curl’s 25th birthday. Enjoy! o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Create_accessible_websites_with_Drupal⠀⇛ As the world becomes increasingly digital, it’s more important than ever to ensure that websites are accessible to everyone. Accessibility is about designing websites that can be used by people with disabilities, such as visual or hearing impairments, as well as those who rely on assistive technology like screen readers. In this article, I’ll explore recommendations for creating accessible websites with Drupal, a popular open source content management system. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Bert Hubert ☛ European_Innovation_&_Technical Capabilities⠀⇛ Over the past few years I’ve been writing a lot about innovation, and specifically, the lack thereof in Europe. I also touch on how we’ve outsourced a ton of operational capabilities, leaving us relatively helpless. By now this is such a huge amount of words, audio and video that it is in dire need of a summary, if only to see if it makes any kind of sense taken together. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ Amin_Bandali:_LibrePlanet_2023:_What’s_new_in_Jami⠀⇛ Update: Jami has_won_this_year’s_Award_for_Project_of Social_Benefit, presented by the Free Software Foundation “to a project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, to intentionally and significantly benefit society. This award stresses the use of free software in service to humanity.” Today I gave a talk at LibrePlanet_2023 on what’s new in and about Jami since my Jami_and_how_it_empowers_users talk for LibrePlanet 2021. # ⚓ GNU ☛ a2ps_@_Savannah:_a2ps_4.15.2_released_[stable]⠀⇛ GNU a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter. Of course it processes plain text files, but also pretty prints quite a few popular languages. More detailed web pages about GNU a2ps is available at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/a2ps/. This release is a minor bug-fix release. It fixes a long-standing but rare crash, makes a minor fix to the build system, and finally puts the manual online; see: https://gnu.org/software/a2ps/manual/ Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature:   https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/a2ps/a2ps- 4.15.2.tar.gz   https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/a2ps/a2ps- 4.15.2.tar.gz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:   https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: b02c9f4066ebb2899f7615b93b354fb77192377c  a2ps-4.15.2.tar.gz 7FKQSp+sEmQWsyrJokBfPWF92pfWUpnhpBVVT+Az0iU  a2ps-4.15.2.tar.gz The SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to. Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:   gpg –verify a2ps-4.15.2.tar.gz.sig The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:   pub   rsa2048 2013-12-11 [SC]         2409 3F01 6FFE 8602 EF44  9BB8 4C8E F3DA 3FD3 7230   uid   Reuben Thomas   uid   keybase.io/rrt If that command fails because you don’t have the required public key, or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve or refresh it, and then rerun the ‘gpg –verify’ command.   gpg –locate-external-key rrt@sc3d.org   gpg –recv-keys 4C8EF3DA3FD37230   wget -q -O- ‘https://savannah.gnu.org/ project/release- gpgkeys.php?group=a2ps&download=1′ | gpg –import - As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU keyring:   wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu- keyring.gpg   gpg –keyring gnu-keyring.gpg –verify a2ps-4.15.2.tar.gz.sig This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:   Autoconf 2.71   Automake 1.16.5   Gnulib v0.1-5853-ge0aefd96b6 NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 4.15.2 (2023-03-19) [stable]  * Bug fixes:    – Fix old crash when using –stdin=””.  * Build    – Make configure stop if libpaper is not found.    – Enable building the manual for gnu.org. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Develop_on_Kubernetes_with_open_source tools [Ed: 'Former' Microsofter shilling Azure (proprietary) in opensource.com]⠀⇛ Over the last five years, a massive shift in how applications get deployed has occurred. It’s gone from self-hosted infrastructure to the world of the cloud and Kubernetes clusters. This change in deployment practices brought a lot of new things to the world of developers, including containers, cloud provider configuration, container orchestration, and more. There’s been a shift away from coding monoliths towards cloud-native applications consisting of multiple microservices. While application deployment has advanced, the workflows and tooling for development have largely remained stagnant. They didn’t adapt completely or feel “native” to this brave new world of cloud- native applications. This can mean an unpleasant developer experience, involving a massive loss in developer productivity. But there’s a better way. What if you could seamlessly integrate Kubernetes and unlimited cloud resources with your favorite local development tools? # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_Python_Replaced_Perl⠀⇛ Both Perl and Python are powerful scripting languages that are used extensively in software development, system administration, and data analysis. Here are some key differences between the two languages: In recent years, Python has become the preferred language for many tasks, particularly in the areas of data science, machine learning, and web development. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Common_Mistakes_When_Using_Optional_in_Java⠀⇛ Optional in Java is a container object that is used to represent the presence or absence of a value. It is a powerful tool that can help to avoid null pointer exceptions and make code more robust. # ⚓ How_to_Use_Efficiently_Generics_in_Java⠀⇛ In Java, generics provide a way to specify a type parameter for a class, method, or interface. A type parameter is a placeholder for a type that is specified at runtime, allowing code to be written that works with a variety of different types. # ⚓ What_are_the_Benefits_of_the_Diamond_Operator_in Java⠀⇛ The diamond operator in Java, also known as the empty angle bracket (<>) syntax, was introduced in Java 7 and provides several benefits: Overall, the diamond operator in Java provides a cleaner, safer, and more efficient way to work with generic types, improving the readability and maintainability of code. # ⚓ Why_should_You_Use_Method_References_in_Java⠀⇛ In Java, a method reference is a shorthand notation for referring to a method as a lambda expression. Method references provide a way to pass a reference to a method without actually invoking the method, which can be useful in functional programming contexts where methods are treated as first-class objects. # ⚓ How_to_Create_Custom_Annotations_in_Java⠀⇛ In Java, annotations are a form of metadata that provide additional information about program elements such as classes, methods, fields, and parameters. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ UTF-8’s_creation⠀⇛ “UTF-8 was designed, in front of my eyes, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992.”  Also why Windows had poor UTF-8 support for so long. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Missing_Dr._Strangelove⠀⇛ Bosley Crowther, chief film critic for the New York Times, didn’t quite know what to make of Dr. Strangelove at the time of its release in January 1964. Stanley Kubrick’s dark antiwar satire was “beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I’ve ever come across,” he wrote. But if the film had its hilarious moments, Crowther found its overall effect distinctly unnerving. What exactly was Kubrick’s point? “When virtually everybody turns up stupid or insane — or, what is worse, psychopathic — I want to know what this picture proves.” We may find it odd for an influential critic to expect a movie to “prove” anything. Kubrick’s aim was manifestly not to prove, but to subvert and discomfit. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Artificial_Intelligence:_Friend_or_Foe?⠀⇛ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Minnesota_Becomes_4th_State_to_Provide_Free Meals_to_All_Kids_at_Public_Schools⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Chinese_Customs_Busts_Man_Smuggling_84 SSDs_in_a_Scooter⠀⇛ Customs agents in China report they have caught a man attempting to hide drives inside of an electric scooter. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ xTool_D1_Pro_20W_Review_–_Mandala_Art_with_a 20W_laser_engraver_and_cutter⠀⇛ Hey Karl here. I am going to be sharing my experience with the xTool D1 Pro 20W. It is a 20W laser cutter/engraver with a 340x390mm working area. It has been heavily reviewed and I will comment on a few points I have not seen spoken about. I join a lot of Facebook groups for these reviews to get real-world feedback and ideas to write about. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Look_At_Zweikanalton_Stereo_Audio_And Comparison_With_NICAM⠀⇛ With how we take stereo sound for granted, there was a very long period where broadcast audio and television with accompanying audio track were in mono. Over the decades, multiple standards were developed that provide a way to transmit and receive two mono tracks, as a proper stereo transmission. In a recent video, [Matt] over at [Matt’s Tech Barn] takes a look at the German Zweikanalton (also known as A2 Stereo) standard, and compares it with the NICAM standard that was used elsewhere in the world. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_$50_Pen_Plotter⠀⇛ [Arca] sets out to build himself a low-cost pen plotter that doesn’t require access to a 3D printer. The plotter uses a coreXY arrangement, powered by 28BYJ-48 stepper motors, which he overdrives with +12 VDC to increase the torque. Pen up and down control is done using a stepper motor salvaged from a DVD reader. The frame is constructed using PVC electrical conduit and associated fittings, and [Arca] uses the hot glue gun quite liberally. Steppers were driven by A4988 modules with heatsinks, and motion control is provided by GRBL running on an Arduino UNO. # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Why_are_they_called_du_Pont_connectors?⠀⇛ You know those tiny header connectors that computers use to attach power buttons and speakers to motherboards? I’ve always known them as du Pont connectors. I never really thought why, though I assumed it was for the same reason they’re called Molex connectors. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Rethinking_‘Back_to_Normal’_in_the Pandemicine⠀⇛ I really, really want Left organizations to rethink “back to normal” in the pandemicine. I can’t tell you how demoralizing it is to see announcements of meetings or other events that I might want to go to, but for which I  see no information about Covid precautions.  Is it virtual? or hybrid?  Will people be wearing respirators?  What’s the ventilation like in that indoor venue?  Are we living on separate planets? # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Egg_freezing_and_storage_remains_shockingly analog—and_ripe_for_disruption⠀⇛ Technology for in vitro fertilization has existed since the 1970s, but it wasn’t until 2014 that the American Society of Reproductive Medicine said it no longer viewed egg freezing as an experimental technology. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Paralysis_Outbreak_in_Europe_Tied_to ‘Stomach_Botox’_Procedures⠀⇛ A cautionary tale. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Ozempic_Is_a_Weight-Loss_Sensation,_But These_Foods_Give_The_Same_Effect⠀⇛ >The right food may be all you need. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_if_Kids_Are_Sad_and_Stressed_Because Their_Parents_Are?⠀⇛ To heal our children, we need to heal ourselves. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Wyoming_becomes_first_state_with_explicit_ban on_abortion_pills⠀⇛ Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has signed into law the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills since they became the predominant choice for abortion in the U.S. in recent years. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ I Programmer ☛ Surveying_Software_Supply_Chain_Security⠀⇛ Chainguard, the co-creator of Sigstore, has conducted a survey to better understand if and how software supply best practices are utilized by the industry. We take a look at the findings. With the title, SLSA++ A Survey of Software Supply Chain Security, it was actually run by a consortium comprising Chainguard, the Eclipse Foundation, the Rust Foundation and the OpenSSF. Suffice to say that these resounding names put some weight behind it. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 10_Cyber_threats_for_Healthcare_Systems⠀⇛ Protection against cyber threats is crucial for healthcare services because they handle sensitive patient information and rely on computer systems to support critical operations. Cyberattacks on healthcare organizations can result in the compromise of patient data, disruption of services, and even the potential harm of patients. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ FBI_arrests_alleged_owner_of_popular hacking_forum_BreachForums⠀⇛ The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a New York man on Wednesday on suspicion of running BreachForums, the popular internet forum that has become a favorite among hackers to share their exploits on the regular internet. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Owner_of_site_that_hosted_Optus,_Medibank_data arrested⠀⇛ Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was arrested on Wednesday [15 March], according to a_report published by Bloomberg. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_administration_tells_employees_to scrap_their_iPhones_by_April_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Putin administration has instructed members of its domestic policy bloc to stop using iPhones by the end of the month, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Monday, citing multiple sources who were at the meeting where the announcement was made. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Iraq_Daily_Roundup:_Seven Killed⠀⇛ Five more were wounded. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran’s_Foreign_Minister_Says_He_Has_Agreed_To_Meet Saudi_Counterpart⠀⇛ Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on March 19 that he had agreed to meet his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Adel Al- Jubeir, proposing three locations during a news conference. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_FSB_Raids_Moscow_Bar_After_Owners_Held Fund-Raising_Event_For_Ukrainian_Group⠀⇛ Officers from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) raided two Moscow bars, temporarily detaining dozens of workers and customers, after its owners last year allegedly held a fund-raising event for a Ukrainian group. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Serbian_President_Says_ICC_Arrest_Warrant_For_Putin Will_Prolong_The_War⠀⇛ Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has criticized an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court will prolong the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Defiant_Putin_visits_occupied_Mariupol, symbol_of_Ukrainian_resistance⠀⇛ Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Russian-occupied Mariupol, his first visit to territory captured by his forces in the year-long conflict. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ North_Korea:_Latest_missile_simulated_nuclear counterattack⠀⇛ The North’s leader Kim Jong Un instructed his military to hold more drills to sharpen the war readiness of his nuclear forces in the face of “aggression” by his enemies, state media reported. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ BBC_tells_employees_to_delete_TikTok_from_work phones:_report⠀⇛ “We are currently reviewing the TikTok concerns and will provide further updates based on the government and National Cyber Security Centre guidelines.” # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ BBC_advises_staff_against_using_Tiktok_on work_devices_unless_for_‘editorial_and_marketing’⠀⇛ The BBC said staff should have a “justified business reason” to install Tiktok on work phones. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_enduring_lessons_of_the_Iraq_War⠀⇛ The US-led overthrow of the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq marked the beginning of a series of events that reshaped the strategic environment of the Middle East. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_may_join_Nato_before_Sweden,_Niinistö_says⠀⇛ “We’ll walk hand in hand as long as it’s up to us,” the Finnish President told Swedish broadcaster SVT. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_leader_Kim,_with_daughter in_tow,_leads_drills_‘simulating_nuclear_counter-attack’⠀⇛ The drills were the fourth show of force from Pyongyang in a week. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ To_combat_food_shortages,_North_Korea deploys_the_military⠀⇛ South Korea is trying to use food shortages as leverage to coax Pyongyang back to dialogue. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Nuclear-powered_submarines_and_Australia’s non-proliferation_obligations⠀⇛ The issue of nuclear non-proliferation is back in the headlines, thanks to details announced last week about Australia’s acquisition of nuclear submarines under the AUKUS pact. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Jim_Gordon,_Drummer_for_Eric_Clapton_— And_Convicted_Murderer_—_Dies_at_77⠀⇛ Jim Gordon, drummer for Eric Clapton and George Harrison, convicted of murdering his mother in 1983, has died at 77. Jim Gordon, a top drummer for Eric Clapton’s Derek and the Dominos, George Harrison, and many others, has died at 77. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UNICEF_report:_children_in_central_Sahel_Region_in urgent_need_of_humanitarian_aid⠀⇛ The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Friday issued a report about the well-being of children in the central Sahel Region. The report claims that 10 million children in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, and an additional 4 million are in danger as a result of the conflict spreading to nearby nations. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Manhattan_DA_reassures_staff_of_their_safety_after Trump_protest_call⠀⇛ Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg reassured staff in a memo Saturday that efforts to intimidate them or threaten the rule of law will not be tolerated. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Pavlov’s_Press_Corps:_Trump_Once_Again_Got Journalists_to_Willingly_Serve_as_His_Incitement_Mules⠀⇛ Trump has once again expertly played journalists to get them to serve as data mules disseminating his tweet inciting violence in response to his expected indictment in New York. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Just_for_Perspective:_Investigations_Take Longer_When_Presidents_Don’t_Wiretap_Themselves⠀⇛ It has now taken longer to hold Trump accountable than it took to get Richard Nixon to resign after the Watergate break-in. Even assuming those were comparable timelines, a number of things distinguish the January 6 investigation from the far less complex Watergate one, starting with the fact that, unlike Nixon, Trump is not known to have wiretapped himself. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Revisiting_the_Flood_report_on_the anniversary_of_the_Iraq_War⠀⇛ Today marks the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Policy_lessons_from_the_Iraq_War_for those_who_wish_to_forget⠀⇛ A retired US Marine Corps officer who served in Iraq reflects on what went wrong, what went right, and what today’s leaders can learn. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Putin_the_Pariah:_War_crimes_arrest warrant_deepens_Russia’s_isolation⠀⇛ The ICC decision to indict Putin for war crimes is a highly consequential step that will deepen Russia’s international isolation while weakening Putin’s personal position both at home and abroad, writes Anders Åslund. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘No_other_option’:_Russia’s_unequal economic_marriage_with_China⠀⇛ Russia has found itself in an unequal relationship with China since intensifying its pivot toward Beijing after the assault on Ukraine. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Iranian_Strategic_Patience:_Israel_and the_Soft_Wars⠀⇛ Unfortunately, by tracking the pattern of strategies of many countries based on exaggerated interest in human rights, women’s and democracy issues in Iran (such as the case of the death of the Iranian girl Mahsa Amini), it is no longer possible to ignore the extent of the political, security and cultural exploitation… # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ ICC’s_Arrest_Warrant_Limits_Putin’s External_Visits⠀⇛ The first simple interpretation of the warrant issued by International Criminal Court is that Russian President Vladimir Putin could be arrested in 123 member states around the world. These members are now legally bound to arrest, detain and hand him over to the court. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Minsk_Deception_and_the_Planned_War_in Donbas⠀⇛ There is a historically possible world in which the Minsk Agreement never needed to be made. In 2014, a US supported coup removed the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, with his eastern base, and replaced him with a West leaning president who was handpicked by the US. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Iraq_20_Years:_The_Uses_and_Abuses_of_National Intelligence_Estimates⠀⇛ A New York Times Magazine article in July 2020 focused on then Secretary of State Powell and his U.N. speech of Feb. 5, 2003 and the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) upon which it is largely based. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ 20_Years_After_the_Invasion_of_Iraq,_Will_the Media’s_Complicity_Be_Flushed_Down_the_Memory_Hole?⠀⇛ “All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen As mainstream U.S. media outlets pause to remember the US invasion of Iraq, it’s clear that there’s a lot they hope we’ll forget – first and foremost, the media’s own active complicity in whipping up public support… # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Iraq_War_II_–_20_Years_Later⠀⇛ Well it seems like only yesterday, though it was half a lifetime ago. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their men and women, especially the neoconservatives, knowingly and deliberately lied this country into starting an aggressive war against Iraq – a war they pretended was a “preemptive” attack against a nation… # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Life_on_the_Chukchi_Sea_coast_A_film_shot_in Chukotka_offers_a_glimpse_of_one_of_Russia’s_Arctic Indigenous_cultures_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In the summer of 2020, a Russian film crew went to Russia’s autonomous Chukotka region, the north- easternmost part of the Russian Federation, to film the daily lives of the region’s inhabitants. Most of the resulting short film was shot in the villages of Inchoun and Uelen, on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, where the majority of inhabitants are indigenous Chukchi, and nearly everyone lives on the spoils of subsistence marine hunting. The film’s title, Piblokto, refers to a culture- specific condition — sometimes called Arctic hysteria — which may occur in societies in the Far North. Those afflicted are said to perform dangerous, cruel, or apparently senseless acts. To outside observers, the behavior may resemble that of a shaman during a ritual trance. The term Piblokto does not exist in the Chukchi language, and it appears to have been invented by researchers. Indigenous people do not consider the condition a disease. Here, Meduza shares some clips and stills from Piblokto. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘We_forced_these_lowlifes_to_give_in’_Evgeny Prigozhin_flouts_local_ban_on_Wagner_funerals_and_threatens the_mayor_responsible_—_Meduza⠀⇛ According to estimates from U.S. officials, Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has lost more than 30,000 fighters since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. Hundreds of those men have been buried in a cemetery in the small village of Bakinskaya, not far from the official Wagner Group chapel. This weekend, though, an attempt by Wagner’s founder, Evgeny Prigozhin, to hold a funeral ceremony at that graveyard was met with pushback from local officials, who cited public opinion among village residents. Not to be deterred, Prigozhin escalated the situation, threatening to prosecute village authorities, while Wagner fighters promised violence. Here’s what we know about Prigozhin’s latest refusal to take no for an answer. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Intricacies_Of_Starting_A_Rocket_Engine⠀⇛ Rockets are conceptually rather simple: you put the pointy bit upwards and make sure that the bit that will go flamey points downwards before starting the engine(s). Yet how to start each rocket engine type in a way that’s both safe and effective? Unlike in the Wile E. Coyote cartoons, real-life rocket engines do not have a fuse you light up before dashing off to a safe distance. Rather they use increasingly more complicated methods, which depend on the engine type and fuels used. In a recent article written by [Trevor Sesnic] with accompanying video featuring everyone’s favorite Everyday Astronaut [Tim Dodd], we’re taken through the intricacies of how flamey ends are made. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Taiwan_Separatists_Lose_Key_Ally,_Honduras Recognizes_China—Just_12_Small_Countries_Remain⠀⇛ Honduras’ leftist President Xiomara Castro announced her government will recognize China. Now only 12 UN member states have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan separatists. They have a combined population of less than 39 million, or 0.49% of the planet. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 20_Years_After_Illegal_US_Invasion_of_Iraq,_Its Architects_Are_Still_Cashing_In⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump_Wants_More_Violence._That’s_Fine_With Kevin_McCarthy.⠀⇛ Donald Trump is a liar. So there is no reason to believe he’s going to be “arrested” Tuesday, as he claimed in a Truth Social post on Saturday morning. There has been reporting that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is close to indicting Trump, presumably on charges related to the hush money he paid porn star Stormy Daniels (we don’t know that for certain), possibly as early as this week. But we don’t know that for sure either.1 # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Spent_Matters:_The_AUKUS_Nuclear_Waste Problem⠀⇛ When Australia – vassal be thy name – assumed responsibilities for not only throwing money at both US and British shipbuilders, lending up territory and naval facilities for war like a gambling drunk, and essentially asking its officials to commit seppuku for the Imperium, another task was given.  While the ditzy and dunderheaded wonders in Canberra would be acquiring submarines with nuclear propulsion technology, there would be that rather problematic issue of what to do with the waste.  “Yes,” said the obliging Australians, “we will deal with it.” The Australian Defence Department has published a fact sheet on the matter, which, as all such fact sheets go, fudges the facts and sports a degree of misplaced optimism.  It promises a “sophisticated security and safety architecture” around the nuclear-powered submarine program, “building on our 70-year unblemished track record of operating nuclear facilities and conducting nuclear science activities.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ In_the_70s_the_USAF_and_RAF_Were_Both Tired,_But_RAF_Pilots_Were_Better_Off⠀⇛ The 1970s were a disastrous decade for the USAF. Having failed to defeat North Vietnam, there were serious issues that persisted. In his 2022 book And I Lived To Tell The Tales: The Life of a Fighter Pilot, retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel Ed Cobleigh, who flew the F-4 in Vietnam, said: “By the mid- 1970s, USAF F-4 Phantoms were tired, many were worn out. Years of combat missions in Vietnam coupled with intensive training missions in the US all had taken their toll. At Nellis, we flew the newest F- 4Es in the fleet but even there the aircraft were often unavailable awaiting repairs or spare parts. As the SEA [South East Asia] conflict wound down the constant protests against that sorry-ass war and against the US military in general also affected our USAF personnel. Morale, particularly among the enlisted troops, measured lower than whale poop. Spare parts were hard to come by. Trained maintainers left the service in droves for greener and less controversial pastures. It was not uncommon to plan for a flight of four F-4s at 0600 and find out after the pre-mission briefing there were only enough serviceable aircraft for a flight of two, or a flight of none. At least we got briefing practice.” (pp. 124-125). In contrast, Colonel Cobleigh noted that when he trained pilots in the Imperial Iranian Air Force, then a staunch ally, “[it] was like being in a brand-new air force. The jets were pristine, right from the factory, and well-maintained by enthusiastic troops. Everything on the air base was shiny new, no expense had been spared.” (Ibid.) Like the USAF, the RAF went through hard times in the 70s, and Cobleigh knew all about it as an exchange pilot flying the Jaguar. He observed: “In the mid-1970s, the Royal Air Force experienced serious decline. The force’s point air defense interceptor, the English Electric Lightning, was obsolete as were its missiles. The most modern aircraft the RAF deployed, the F-4K Phantom, was wearing out and anyway wasn’t really up to the challenge.” (p. 190) So both the USAF and RAF were using worn out F-4s, so they had that in common. The new Jaguar had serious deficiencies at first, but eventually became a pretty good airplane. “Once the aerial refueling glitches were solved, RAF Jaguars deployed across the Atlantic, and clear across the US, to participate in Operation Red Flag at Nellis AFB. There they gained a reputation for expert low flying. During one full-scale exercise, [RAF pilot] Chris McCairns called, and was credited with, an air-to-air kill on a USAF F-15 Eagle, which pleased him to no end.” (p. 197) He concluded “What success the Jaguar achieved was due in large part to the dedication and professionalism of its RAF pilots.” (Ibid.) # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_China’s_Actions_Toward_Ukraine_and Russia_Could_Shape_the_Course_of_Future_Geopolitics⠀⇛ Days before the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2023, U.S. officialsclaimed that China was considering providing Russia with lethal weaponry to support its military campaign. China denied the accusations, and on the anniversary of the invasion instead put forth its 12-point peace plan to end the conflict. These events followed after tensions between Beijing and Washington flared during the Chinese spy balloon scandal that began in early February 2023. Since the war’s inception, the U.S. has cautioned China not to support Russia. Following reports that Russia had asked China for military assistance in March 2022, Washington warned that countries providing “material, economic, financial [or] rhetorical” support to Russia would face “consequences.” The Biden administration also confronted China in January 2023 with “evidence that [suggested] some Chinese state-owned companies may be providing assistance” to the Russian military. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ International_Criminal_Court:_Sauce_for_the Goose_…⠀⇛ “Well, I think it’s justified,” US president Joe Biden said of news that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russian president Vladimir Putin and “children’s rights commissioner” Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova over their actions in Ukraine. “[The ICC’s jurisdiction is] not recognized internationally by us, either. But I think it makes a very strong point.” Here’s the thing about the ICC’s jurisdiction: It extends to crimes committed in countries which recognize that jurisdiction, even when the alleged criminals aren’t from those countries. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ We_Need_to_Talk_About_Gun_Manufacturers⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Fascists_Are_Attempting_to_Win_Followers_by Rebranding_as_Antiwar⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ KGB_of_Belarus_reports_the_death_of_a_foreign national_during_an_‘anti-terrorism’_operation_in_Grodno_— Meduza⠀⇛ In Grodno, Belarus, employees of the country’s state security service (which uses the acronym KGB) shot and killed a foreign national. The person in question allegedly put up armed resistance to KGB officers, “using automatic weapons and detonating grenades.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘No_one_showed_him_the_empty_pits’_Putin_visits Mariupol_for_the_first_time_since_Russia_destroyed_and_then annexed_the_city_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Late at night on March 18–19, Russian president Vladimir Putin paid an unplanned visit to Mariupol. The city was almost completely destroyed during a two-and-a-half-month siege by Russian troops in spring 2022, and was annexed by Russia in fall 2022. Russian state news networks ran approving video footage of Putin’s visit, including a meeting with residents of one of the city’s restored neighborhoods. Independent media outlets confirmed the trip and published the reactions of a few of the city’s other residents, who were less than thrilled with Putin’s drop-in visit. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky’s_office_on_Putin’s_visit_to_Mariupol: ‘The_criminal_is_always_drawn_to_the_scene_of_the_crime’_— Meduza⠀⇛ Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, commented on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s visit to the annexed city of Mariupol: # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_‘Red_Fox’_sniper_wounded_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ A volunteer sniper from Latvia, nicknamed Red Fox, has been injured on the front in Ukraine, according to the aid association’s ‘SOS palīdzība Ukrainas armijai’ entry on social media on Sunday. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Higher_cancer_rates_found_in military_pilots,_ground_crews⠀⇛ A Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and, for the first time, shows that ground crews who fuel, maintain and launch those aircraft are also getting sick. The data had long been sought by retired military aviators who have raised alarms for years about the number of those they knew who had cancer. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Free_Trade_or_Just_Green_Trade?⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_Questionable_Economic_Calculus_Behind_the Willow_Project⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Greens_seek_‘bare_minimum’_on carbon_emissions_scheme⠀⇛ The Greens say they are asking the federal government for the “bare minimum” when it comes to cutting carbon emissions. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Call_for_climate_officers_to help_farmers_cut_emissions⠀⇛ Farmers managing the effects of climate change must be considered in the upcoming federal budget, says an independent MP pushing for agricultural assistance.  As the lower house debates the government’s changes to the safeguard mechanism, independent crossbencher Helen Haines proposed her plan for a network of 200 agricultural extension officers. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Alliance_for_the_Wild_Rockies_Scores Court_Win_for_Grizzly_Bears⠀⇛ Of all remaining “unoccupied” grizzly bear habitat in the lower 48 States, the enormous Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness has the best potential for grizzly bear recovery. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is thrilled and grateful to announce that a federal court in Montana recently ruled in our favor and has forced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take action to restore grizzlies to this area after 22 long years of stalling. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a Record of Decision in 2000 that committed the agency to establish a Bitterroot Grizzly Recovery Area, form a committee to recommend land use management standards for the bears, implement an information campaign to prepare the public for the presence of grizzly bears in the area, and release a minimum of 25 grizzly bears into the Recovery Area over a period of five years as an “experimental non- essential population.”  o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Regulatory_Breakdown_Behind_the_Collapse of_Silicon_Valley_Bank⠀⇛ For more than a year, the Fed knew that the bank was headed toward a crisis. Why didn’t it intervene sooner? # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Yanis_Varoufakis_in_Geneva:Blowing_the Cloud_Capitalism⠀⇛ “First time in history we all contribute to accumulation of a cloud capitalism, which became the production of a behavioral modification.” Yanis Varoufakis, Geneva, February 2023 His Excellency Yanis Varoufakis is a world renewed academic economist and politician, former finance minister of Greece, who was trying to renegotiate national depth within EU. # ⚓ France24 ☛ UBS_agrees_to_buy_Credit_Suisse_for_more_than $3bn_to_calm_global_markets⠀⇛ UBS agreed to buy rival Swiss bank Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.23 billion) in stock and agreed to assume up to 5 billion francs ($5.4 billion) in losses, in a shotgun merger engineered by Swiss authorities to avoid more market-shaking turmoil in global banking. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Banking_giant_UBS_is_acquiring_troubled_rival Credit_Suisse⠀⇛ Banking giant UBS is acquiring smaller rival Credit Suisse in an effort to avoid further market-shaking turmoil in global banking, Swiss President Alain Berset announced. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ RBA_faces_rate_clash:_Should_they_stay_or should_they_go_up?⠀⇛ The Reserve Bank faces a clash of priorities over coming weeks: deal with banking turmoil in Europe and America, or drive down inflation? # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Aussie_bank_funding_costs_tipped_to_rise_on global_turmoil⠀⇛ After a tumultuous period in global banking, local experts say the most direct impact for Australian lenders could be more expensive funding. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_may_subsidise_interest_rates_for_thousands_of first-time_home_buyers⠀⇛ The state subsidises 70 percent of interest rate costs exceeding 3.8 percent on ASP loans. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Railway_strike_halts_train_services_on Monday_–_VR_reimburses_tickets_bought_during_strike⠀⇛ The Finnish Railways Union (RAU) has announced that it will hold a strike from Monday, March 20th, which will affect all train services indefinitely. The strike by train drivers is in response to ongoing collective agreement negotiations, which have yet to be resolved. As a result, VR, the Finnish state railway company, will cancel all long-distance and commuter trains during the strike period. However, VR has also made clear that it will refund passengers who have purchased tickets for the duration of the strike. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Rail_shutdown_stopping_trains_on_Monday⠀⇛ Finnish state railways VR says it will refund customers affected by the strike action. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ RBA_says_Australian_banks_strong despite_global_turmoil⠀⇛ The comment by Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor for financial markets Christopher Kent comes in the wake of UBS Group’s takeover of troubled rival Credit Suisse. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Investors_Greet_Emergency_Credit_Suisse Deal_Warily⠀⇛ Swiss regulators announced that UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, would take over the troubled Credit Suisse. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Federal_Reserve_and_Global_Central_Banks Act_to_Shore_Up_Dollar_Access⠀⇛ America’s central bank and its counterparts around the world are rushing to cushion markets against the impact of bank problems. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ UBS_Agrees_to_Buy_Rival_Credit_Suisse_to Shore_Up_Global_Market⠀⇛ In a deal brokered by the Swiss government, Switzerland’s largest bank will buy its smaller rival for about $3.2 billion. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Pension_protests_pile_pressure_on_Macron_ahead of_crucial_vote_for_France⠀⇛ French President Emanuel Macron faces a critical test on Monday when the National Assembly is due to examine no-confidence motions filed after his government bypassed parliament on Thursday to push through a deeply unpopular pension reform, sparking days of unrest. # ⚓ France24 ☛ New_York_Community_Bank_announces_purchase_of failed_Signature_Bank⠀⇛ Signature Bank was the second bank to fail in this recent banking crisis, just 48 hours after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Midsize_banks_want_unlimited_FDIC_insurance_for_2 years⠀⇛ A coalition of midsize U.S. banks is calling on the government to insure all deposits for the next two years, in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s emergency_rescue that insured all of the firm’s deposits regardless of size. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Warren_calls_for_investigation_into_the_Fed_amid banking_turmoil⠀⇛ Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called for an independent investigation into the Federal Reserve and the banking regulatory system during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday. Why it matters:The banking sector is poised to head into a third week of existential questions and whipsaw volatility, despite official efforts to stabilize markets and reassure depositors, Axios’ Pete_Gannon_writes. =================================================== # The fates of Silicon_Valley_Bank and Credit Suisse remain up in the air. State of play: “I’m calling for an independent investigation of the Fed and the whole regulatory system here. The fed doesn’t just get to do its own investigation,” Warren told the program. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Global_central_banks_announce_joint_action_to combat_crisis⠀⇛ The world’s leading central banks jointly announced new action to try to keep U.S. dollars flowing easily through the global banking system, returning to a strategy used extensively in past crises. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Credit_Suisse_bought_out_by_UBS_as_banking_fears claim_big_victim⠀⇛ UBS has struck a deal to purchase troubled_Credit Suisse for $2 billion, as a maelstrom of higher interest rates and bank solvency fears continue to batter global markets. # ⚓ Axios ☛ New_York_Community_Bancorp_to_take_over_failed Signature_Bank⠀⇛ New York Community Bancorp is taking over the failed_Signature_Bank, which was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) a week ago. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Next_Bomb_to_Go_Off_in_the_Banking Crisis_Will_Be_Derivatives⠀⇛ U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen finds herself in a very dubious position. Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010, the U.S. Treasury Secretary was given increased powers to oversee financial stability in the U.S. banking system. This increase in power came in response to the 2008 financial crisis – the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression. The legislation made the Treasury Secretary the Chair of the newly created Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC), whose meetings include the heads of all of the federal agencies that supervise banks and trading on Wall Street. The legislation also required the Treasury Secretary’s authorization before the Federal Reserve could create any more of those $29 trillion emergency bailout programs for the mega banks – which had tethered themselves to casino trading on Wall Street since the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999. Yesterday, after the Swiss banking behemoth Credit Suisse had traded at an all-time low of less than two bucks; blown out its credit default swaps to unprecedented levels; and tanked the Dow Jones Industrial Average by more than 700 points intraday, Bloomberg News ran this headline at 12:54 p.m. – “US Treasury Reviewing US Banks’ Exposure to Credit Suisse.” By “exposure,” the Treasury really means how many billions of dollars of underwater derivatives are U.S. banks on the hook for as a counterparty to Credit Suisse. The Treasury also has to worry about U.S. banks’ exposure to Credit Suisse’s other major counterparties that U.S. banks do business with, even if the banks are not direct counterparties to Credit Suisse itself. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_Can_Inflation_be_Out_of_Control_with 3.6_Percent_Wage_Growth?⠀⇛ We have been getting conflicting data on inflation in recent days. The February consumer price index was not great, showing a one-month rise of 0.4 percent in the overall index and 0.5 percent in the core. Combined with the last couple of months’ data, it indicates a modest acceleration over the rates seen in the fall. By contrast, the Producer Price Index came in somewhat better than expected, with the overall finished goods index declining 0.1 percent, driven by drops in food and energy prices. The core index rose a modest 0.2 percent. Most of the indices at earlier stages of production also showed a good picture. For example, the intermediate index for processed goods fell 0.4 percent in February and is now up just 2.1 percent over the last year. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What’s_to_be_Done_With_Lawyers?⠀⇛ Wow, “Former High-Profile Lawyer Is Charged With Embezzling More than $18 Million”! Who would have predicted a high-profile lawyer would behave so unethically? Turns out pretty much anyone, according to opinion polls that consistently rank lawyers near the bottom among professionals. A recent Gallup poll was celebrated in an article the title of which is classic damning with faint praise: “Good News! People Think Lawyers Have an Average Amount of Integrity Now.” In fact, only half the people polled thought that, but half is actually a significant improvement over earlier polls.  The headline about Tom Girardi, one of the attorneys who represented Erin Brockovich, being indicted on charges that he stole from clients reminded me of a joke about lawyers from the first season of  the television series “Frasier.” # ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_venture-backed_rocket_industry_is_finally coming_back_to_Earth⠀⇛ Venture-backed rocket makers recently spent an anxious_weekend waiting on the outcome of Silicon Valley_Bank’s_failure, but their latest troubles have no connection to with the lender’s collapse. # ⚓ Michel Alexandre Salim ☛ On_recharge⠀⇛ It’s been over 6 years since I started working at Meta (then known as Facebook). Not going to comment here about all the controversies surrounding our products, but as an employee, I have been lucky enough to work on interesting teams that, yes, don’t do anything that give me cause to be sleepless at night. One perk we have (that is no big deal to friends in Europe, but is a big deal in the US) is being able to take 30 calendar days of recharge leave (think of it as a short sabbatical) after each 5 years of employment (together with the 21 work days of PTO a year, this roughly brings us in line with what Europeans get courtesy of employment laws. [...] … and then the layoffs began. After the first round I rushed to apply for my recharge, since… unlike more established benefits like parental leave, this likely won’t be cashed out in case the employee gets laid off. I’ll be back just in time to see if my position gets eliminated in the second round! (That is looking very unlikely, but you never know). # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Scottish_independence_at_crossroads in_testy_SNP_leader_race⠀⇛ The race to lead the Scottish National Party has cracked open fissures over political strategy, social issues and the legacy of departing leader Nicola Sturgeon. Sturgeon announced her resignation in February after eight years as party leader and first minster of Scotland’s semi-autonomous government. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Deathly_silence_from_Perrottet_and Minns_to_Sydney’s_burials_crisis_as_state_election_looms⠀⇛ As the NSW election looms, both major parties have buried a big problem, burials. Both Labor’s Chris Minns and Premier Dominic Perrottet have no answer to Sydney’s burial crisis. The city’s public cemeteries expect to run out of space in the next five years. The former boss of the government’s new cemetery manager speaks out in a scathing critique of the lack of accountability and leadership in Sydney’s $5 billion cemetery sector. Callum Foote reports. “Having had more than 20 years of experience in managing public cemeteries, I can only describe my four months experience as the CEO of OneCrown as highly unusual, if not bizarre, unprofessional, and an immensely frustrating experience” says Robert Pitt, former CEO of NSW’s public cemetery manager OneCrown. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Information_Commissioner_aiding_and abetting_the_enemy⠀⇛ In a David and Goliath battle in the Federal Court today, Rex Patrick takes on Information Commissioner, Angelene Falk to challenge to the lengthy delays that plague freedom of information (FOI) requests being reviewed by her. Rex Patrick gives us the inside word as he enters the courtroom. Delay is the enemy of FOI, and right now our Information Commissioner is aiding and abetting that enemy. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ LTV’s_De_Facto:_MEPs_Ušakovs_and_Ameriks_face graft_accusations⠀⇛ Memebr of the European Parliament and former long- standing Rīga mayor Nils Ušakovs (Harmony) announced in mid-March that he has the status of a suspect in a new case. Latvian Television’s De Facto has found that Ušakovs and his colleague in Brussels, Andris Ameriks (Honor to Serve Rīga) are both accused of requesting bribes, the broadcast reported on March 19. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ WATCH:_Decentralized_Communication_– #SolutionsWatch⠀⇛ As the internet clampdown begins, people are finally beginning to wake up to the need to find alternative communication platforms. But if the masses are just herded from one centralized platform to another, has anything really changed at all? # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Digital_Literacy:_Can_the Republic_‘Survive_an_Algorithm?’⠀⇛ Much of the debate about combating online misinformation and extremism revolves around government regulations and changes made by social media platforms o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Over_200_detained_after_İstanbul_Newroz_celebrations⠀⇛ The police surrounded and detained groups of people who were chanting slogans while leaving the event area after the celebrations ended. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Advocates_Call_for_Regulatory_Change_After Blocking_Deportation_of_Woman_in_Coma⠀⇛ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Saudi_Arabia_bets_on_cinema:_A_smokescreen_for human_rights_violations?⠀⇛ FRANCE 24 brings you a special full-length report on how the conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is investing in home-grown cinema. Making films in stunning Saudi locations is also a way of attracting foreign tourists to the country. Young people are now rushing to see films at multiplex cinemas and women make up a large proportion of the audience – a sign of the country’s liberalisation. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Gov’t_plan_to_curb_overseas_lawyers in_national_security_cases_‘not_blanket_ban,’_says_deputy justice_minister⠀⇛ >Hong Kong’s proposal to amend the law so that the chief executive can decide whether to allow overseas barristers to participate in national security cases does not amount to a blanket ban, the city’s deputy secretary for justice said on Sunday. # ⚓ Papers Please ☛ 9th_Circuit_upholds_secret_US_monitoring_of foreign_airline_reservations⠀⇛ In a case we’ve been following closely, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that orders requiring the Sabre computerized reservation system to provide real-time reports to the FBI on any reservations made in or through Sabre associated with specific individuals can continue to be kept secret, at least as long as warrants for these individuals’ arrest remain outstanding, which could be indefinitely. The wanted individuals aren’t US citizens and aren’t believed to be in the US. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) already receives complete mirror copies 72 hours in advance of all international airline reservations (Passenger Name  Records) for flights to, from, or via the US. CBP has a well-established system of TECS alerts — which don’t even require a warrant — that it can use to generate a message to the FBI or other law enforcement agencies whenever planned travel to or from the US by a person of interest is detected. This is a much simpler process than going to court to get an order directing Sabre to maintain a lookout and report to the FBI on planned travel by a suspect. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ A_Comprehensive_Report_on_Incarceration_and Women_Outlines_the_Gender_Disparities⠀⇛ The Prison Policy Initiative looks at a fast- growing group in the incarceration system and the challenges they are more likely to face. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Routing_protocol_implementation_evaluation_in_fat- trees⠀⇛ Guest Post: How Sibyl establishes measures for comparing routing protocol implementations. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Filmmakers_Want_Owner_of_Defunct_VPN Arrested_in_Piracy_Case⠀⇛ Last year, a group of independent filmmakers obtained a multi-million default judgment against VPN service LiquidVPN, which stood accused of facilitating piracy. Since the owner of the now-defunct service has paid nothing, the movie companies are calling for his arrest. Meanwhile, a waste company has been added to the dispute. # ⚓ KOL407_|_Fair_Use_Discussion_with_James_Cox_(2016)⠀⇛ Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 407. This is a short conversation I had with James Cox about copyright and fair use back in 2016 (Feb. 26). We also talk about the safe harbor in the DMCA and the §230 safe harbor in the CDA. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_GINPRSY_Wordo:_VIRES⠀⇛ # ⚓ Moving_the_MacGuffin⠀⇛ I feel that this text could be easily misread as if it’s OK for the DM to be yanking around the maguffin post-hoc or, and this would be worse: that the writers of the book actually intends for such moving target shenanigans. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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