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For the most part, people go for Windows simply due to the overall convenience and the fact that many other industries have Windows as their go-to OS. That said, did you know that there are advantages to utilizing another operating system for your company? An OS such as Linux can prove to be a fantastic addition, but you’ll have to take the time to figure out the ins and outs of the system. Here’s how you can develop a reliable startup utilizing the Linux OS. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Bodhi_Linux_can_make_an_old_computer_feel_brand new⠀⇛ Bodhi Linux has always held a soft spot in my heart. Not only is it a beautiful, user-friendly operating system, it reminds me of my earlier days with Linux. That is mostly because the default “Moshka” desktop is based on one of my all-time favorites, the Enlightenment window manager. # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Kubuntu_Focus_XE_Gen_2_Linux_laptop_launches with_12th_Gen_Intel_CPUs,_up_to_64GB_RAM⠀⇛ Kubuntu has released the second generation of its flagship laptop, the Kubuntu Focus XE. With its sleek design, high-end hardware, and pre-installed Kubuntu 22.04 LTS GNU/Linux distribution, the Kubuntu Focus XE Gen 2 is aimed at power users and developers who demand top-notch performance and stability. # ⚓ Slow_computer?_Maybe_give_Linux_a_shot_|_Opinion_–_The Torch⠀⇛ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-03-22FLOSS_Weekly_724:_The_Wide_World_of_Open_Radio_– Levi_C._Maaia,_Ham_Radio⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_6.3-rc4_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Linus has released 6.3-rc4 for testing. “”Things are looking pretty normal for this time of the release process.”” o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_FBCNN_–_JPEG artifacts_removal⠀⇛ In essence, Machine Learning is the practice of using algorithms to parse data, learn insights from that data, and then make a determination or prediction. The machine is ‘trained’ using huge amounts of data. In other words, Machine Learning is about building programs with tunable parameters (typically an array of floating point values) that are adjusted automatically so as to improve their behavior by adapting to previously seen data. Machine learning architectures have arisen in recent years that include JPEG-style artifact mitigation as part of AI-driven upscaling/restoring routines. # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ LibrePCB_–_A_Free_Electronic_Design_Automation Software⠀⇛ LibrePCB is a free/open source electronic design automation (EDA) software. Its purpose is to help electronic engineering people draw circuits and make printed circuit board designs with drag-and- drop approaches and many more. Its latest version is 0.1.7 which has been released 3 October 2022. We write an overview and introduction of LibrePCB in this article. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreELEC_(Nexus)_11.0.1_–_LibreELEC⠀⇛ The final stable version of LibreELEC 11.0.1 has been released, bringing Kodi (Nexus) v20.1. o § Gentoo Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Gentoo-Based_Porteus_Kiosk_5.5_Released_with Linux_Kernel_6.1_LTS,_exFAT_Support⠀⇛ Coming a year after Porteus Kiosk 5.4, the Porteus Kiosk 5.5 release is powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.1 LTS kernel series to support new hardware and features and includes upgraded userland packages from Gentoo Linux portage snapshot 20230318. New features in Porteus Kiosk 5.5 include support for exFAT formatted storage devices, MD5 authentication support in 802.1x wired networks, support for monitoring the battery capacity of connected clients, as well as the ability to enable the watchdog timer to automatically restart the computer when something fails. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Operation_vs._innovation:_3_tips_for a_win-win⠀⇛ # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation:_3_ways_agile methodologies_can_help⠀⇛ # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 2023-03-24IT_layoffs:_7_tips_to develop_resiliency⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-03-22Red_Hat_Summit_2023_session catalog_and_agenda_builder_now_available⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-03-22Red_Hat,_Team_Guidehouse_named winner_in_Mission_Daybreak_challenge_to_reduce_Veteran suicides⠀⇛ o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Debian_12_Bookworm:_Best_New_Features⠀⇛ Debian 12 has been under development for a few months and slowly moving towards a final release. As of publishing this, it is currently under the hard freeze. That means no major package changes or enhancements are expected. This release comes with several new features and improvements, making it an exciting release for Debian enthusiasts. In this article, we will discuss the best new features of Debian 12 Bookworm and how they can benefit users. Here are all the details. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Ubuntu_Touch_OTA-1_Focal_brings_Ubuntu_20.04 LTS_to_smartphones⠀⇛ The community of developers who have been keeping the dream of Ubuntu phones and tablets alive since Canonical abandoned the project have announced that the first stable build of Ubuntu Touch based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS “Focal Fossa” is here. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ First_Ubuntu_Touch_OTA_Release_Based_on_Ubuntu 20.04_LTS_Is_Out_Now⠀⇛ To everyone’s surprise and while we were waiting for the Ubuntu Touch OTA-25 update, UBports pushed today a new stable update based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, entitled Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal. This is the culmination of more than a year of hard work porting Ubuntu Touch from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The Focal Fossa Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 update is currently only available for Fairphone 4, Google Pixel 3a, Vollaphone 22, Vollaphone X, and Vollaphone devices. UBports also mentioned the fact that this release supports Android phones running Android 9 or later. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 6_Ubuntu_23.04_“Lunar_Lobster”_Features_That Are_Worth_Upgrading_For⠀⇛ It’s only been three months since 2023 began and Ubuntu has already released its short-term release, Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster”. Even though it comes with only nine months of support (until January 2024), it’s excited people with its slew of upcoming features. If you are an avid Ubuntu fan and don’t want to wait to get your hands on the final release, you can take a sneak peek into the beta version and get going with the latest features on display. Here’s what you can expect with April’s release of Ubuntu Lunar Lobster 23.04. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Edge_embedded_database_for_VxWorks_and_Wind_River_Linux⠀⇛ ITTIA™ has announced the immediate availability of ITTIA DB software for the industry-leading VxWorks RTOS and Wind River Linux operating system. ITTIA DB is an embeddable, high-performance database that integrates time series with real-time data processing, where low-footprint transactional and analytical queries are both performed locally on embedded devices. Together, ITTIA DB and Wind River software offers a great edge computing platform for developers of embedded system applications. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Purism ☛ Meet_my_Friend,_Jack⠀⇛ How does the OS know when a headset is plugged in? This is a physical jack, so there must be a physical change that is detectable. Some jacks have normally-closed sense pins that open when you insert a plug. These might be readable as a simple digital I/O – high or low. If you’ve ever wired gadgets onto the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi, it’s something like that. The Librem 14, though, has a normally open sense pin. The plug tip shorts two pins together. The jack’s datasheet has a diagram worth a thousand words… o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Daily_Authority:_Google_or_GrapheneOS? –_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ New_Google_Wallpapers_come_to_Android, including_a_previous_Pixel_exclusive⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ android:_Government_wants_you_to_update_your Android_device,_here’s_why⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hundreds_of_banking_apps_at_risk_from_the_new_Nexus_Android trojan_|_Fox_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Multi-Device_Sync_Finally_Makes_Its_Way_to_the_Android_Play Store_/_Digital_Information_World⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ 18_of_the_best_Wear_OS_3_tips_and_tricks for_your_Android_smartwatch_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Best_ways_to_Manually_Update_an_Android Device_OS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ How_to_enable_10-bit_color_on_Android_|_Tom’s Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ ZTE_releases_stable_Android_13_Update_for_the Axon_40_Ultra,_Nubia_Z40S_Pro_and_Z40_Pro⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ This_three-year-old_LG_smartphone_is getting_Android_13_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_Android_Police_podcast_makes_Google Bard_say_the_silliest_things⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Best_ways_to_Manually_Update_an_Android Device_OS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Top_6_ways_to_Play_Android_Games_and_Run Apps_on_PC⠀⇛ # ⚓ Will_Galaxy_Note_20_and_Note_20_Ultra_Receive_One_UI_6_ (Android_14)?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ LG_V60_users_get_surprise_Android_13 update_in_the_US_-⠀⇛ # ⚓ “Why_a_European_mobile_operating_system_can’t_challenge Android_and_iOS”⠀⇛ In a pretty long article published on March 24th at “TheNextWeb”, /e/OS was lucky enough to be highlighted as a proof of “why a a European mobile operating system can’t challenge Android and iOS”. So “two OS is enough”. But why not “one OS is enough” in that case? For apps developers, having to deal with both iOS+Android is real pain. They would really prefer one OS. But there is a solution for this: use the technologies of the web to build mobile apps. That’s called “PWA”, “miniApps”… Standard technologies, not owned by X or Y. When you reach that point, then you can have 1,2,3… 5, 100 different OS. You don’t care: all apps will work. That would be possible, and we think it’s what’s going to happen. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § FSFE⠀➾ # ⚓ FSFE ☛ 2023-03-22The_Interoperable_Europe_Act_needs_a_“Free Software_first”_approach⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSFE ☛ 2023-03-20Meet_Andrei_and_David,_two_first_edition YH4F_participants⠀⇛ o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GnuCash_5.0_Accounting_Software_Released_with New_Stock_Transaction_Assistant⠀⇛ Highlights of the GnuCash 5.0 release include a new Stock Transaction Assistant that can be accessed from the Actions menu. This feature will guide you through entering most investment transactions for bonds, mutual funds, and stocks. This release also introduces an Investment Lots report that displays a graph of capital gains and losses in a period by investment lot. This feature works only when you use the View Lots dialog to manage capital gains and losses and can be accessed from the Reports > Assets & Liabilities menu. # ⚓ LWN ☛ GnuCash_5.0_Released⠀⇛ Version 5.0 of the GnuCash accounting tool is out. Changes include a number of investment-tracking improvements, better completion in the register window, a reworked report-generation system, and more. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-03-23Internal_includes_instead_of_global_ones_– EasyHack⠀⇛ In every C/C++ source code file, we use header files to put declarations of functions, data types, class, macro and other relevant things inside it. These files have the extension of .h (for C) and .hxx (for C++). We have different header types: internal and global includes. Some of the header files are used in many places. For example, in LibreOffice we have several modules, and some modules are used in many places. Here, we focus on the VCL module. For the global includes, they are placed inside include/ folder, and for internal headers of VCL module, the include files are put inside include/vcl/. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Seth Michael Larson ☛ 2023-03-18Python_and_SLSA⠀⇛ # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ 2023-03-23The_Rust_Programming_Language Blog:_Announcing_Rust_1.68.1⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-20EU_Commission_pledges_€1_billion_to Turkey_quake_recovery⠀⇛ o ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-22Turkey:_Suspend_Time_Limit_on_Travel_Outside Quake_Zone⠀⇛ o ⚓ YLE ☛ 2023-03-18Niinistö:_Relief_after_Turkey_visit⠀⇛ o ⚓ Antipope ☛ 2023-03-21Crib_Sheet:_Quantum_of_Nightmares⠀⇛ o ⚓ Old VCR ☛ 2023-03-21Printing_real_headline_news_on_the_Commodore 64_with_The_Newsroom’s_Wire_Service⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-22Scientists_See_Photosynthesis_Happening in_Detail,_Thanks_to_New_Laser_Technique⠀⇛ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-03-18‘Hating_Everyone_Everywhere_All_at_Once_at Stanford’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-22Universal_Free_School_Lunch_Is an_Absolute_No-Brainer⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ 2023-03-18Some_reasons_why_CPUs might_re-use_unofficial_NOPs_for_other_things⠀⇛ o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-20Woman_told_she_shouldn’t_serve_on_Ottawa health_board_because_of_her_weight⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-18The_brewing_war_over_who_goes_hungry_in America_—_and_how_to_feed_them⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-19Wyoming_banned_the_abortion_pill._Some states_are_trying_to_go_even_further.⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-23What_is misophonia?_Little_known_hearing_problem_affects_18_percent of_adults_in_UK,_study_claims⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-22How_Ivermectin_Became_a_Belief System⠀⇛ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ 2023-03-22AI_Takes_Over_Because_of_Human Hype,_Not_Machine_Intelligence⠀⇛ o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ LinuxInsider ☛ Linux_Foundation_Takes_on_Metaverse, Physical_World_Mapping_Challenges [Ed: This has nothing to do with Linux. The brand is being misused and thus 'diluted'.]⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation (LF), one of the primary driving forces behind the continuing growth of open-source technology, is turning its attention to developing a better metaverse and creating a living digital record of the physical world. In December, LF announced the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF) with a mission to provide a collaboration space for diverse industries to work on developing open-source software and standards for an inclusive, global, vendor-neutral, and scalable metaverse. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-21CISA_Releases_Eight_Industrial_Control Systems_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-22Windows_11_security_flaw_exposes cropped-out_screenshot_data⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-21Romania_detains_3_Dutch_people_for phishing_scams;_Fourth_held_in_Enschede⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (libreoffice and xen), Fedora (chromium, curl, and xen), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, and thunderbird), Scientific Linux (thunderbird), Slackware (tar), SUSE (apache2, ceph, curl, dpdk, helm, libgit2, and php7), and Ubuntu (firefox and thunderbird). # ⚓ ABC ☛ What’s_happening_with_the_Latitude_Financial_cyber attack?_Millions_of_customer_details_stolen_in_one_of_the largest-known_data_breaches_in_Australia⠀⇛ Millions of Australian and New Zealand customers have had their records stolen in the attack on Latitude Financial announced a fortnight ago. The data includes up to 7.9 million drivers licence numbers and 53,000 passport numbers. The attack is the largest-known data breach on a financial institution in Australia. Here’s what we know about the Latitude hack so far. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Crown_Resorts_says_ransomware_group_claims accessing_some_of_its_files⠀⇛ Crown Resorts said on Monday a ransomware group had contacted the company, claiming that they had gained access to some files related to Australia’s biggest casino operator following a data breach at a file transfer service GoAnywhere. “We were recently contacted by a ransomware group who claimed they have illegally obtained a limited number of Crown files,” a spokesperson of the formerly listed firm said in a statement. # ⚓ Europol ☛ The_criminal_use_of_ChatGPT_–_a_cautionary_tale about_large_language_models⠀⇛ In response to the growing public attention given to ChatGPT, the Europol Innovation Lab organised a number of workshops with subject matter experts from across Europol to explore how criminals can abuse large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, as well as how it may assist investigators in their daily work. # ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Twitter_takes_legal_action_after_source code_leaked_online⠀⇛ # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Updating:_Cyberattack_against_CHRU_Brest: what_happened⠀⇛ In a March 11 post about non-U.S. hospitals that had been victims of cyberattacks, DataBreaches had noted a report about CHU-BREST. Valéry Rieß- Marchive of LeMagIT has an update and more details on the incident. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ No_need_to_hack_when_682,000_medical records_are_leaking,_Monday_edition⠀⇛ On March 15, DataBreaches was contacted by a researcher who had found a “bunch of medical docs.” The files included patient intake evaluations, laboratory results, medical records requests, insurance information forms, treatment or consultation notes, and other files you would expect to see in a patient’s records. The patients all appeared to be in Texas, and there were almost 683,000 files. When the researcher couldn’t determine who owned the data, they requested DataBreaches’ help. The researcher’s confusion was understandable. There appeared to be scanned documents from numerous doctors and medical groups, although certain names cropped up more than others. Most of the files were scanned pdf files and many were more than a decade old. The most recent files appeared to be dated in 2018 or so. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ NYS_Secures_$200,000_from_Law_Firm_for Failing_to_Protect_New_Yorkers’_Personal_Data⠀⇛ According to the filing, the law firm’s server was vulnerable to attack in November 2021 because they had not patched a vulnerability reported by Microsoft months earlier in April and May. A patch had been made available by Microsoft at around the the time as the vulnerability report. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2023-03-19Assad’s_2nd_Diplomatic_Trip_in Days_Speeds_Easing_of_Isolation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-19Syria’s_Assad_visits_UAE_as_Arab isolation_eases⠀⇛ # ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-03-24Call_for_international_action_against Turkish_occupation_and_crimes_in_North-East_Syria⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-19Iran’s_president_to_visit_Saudi king_in_bid_to_thaw_ties⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-23Someone_Has_Been_Mailing_USB_Drives_to Journalists_That_Are_Programmed_to_Explode⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ 2023-03-209_Chinese_killed_in_Central African_Republic,_President_Xi_calls_for_‘severe punishment’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-20Right-Wing_Provocateurs_Are Trying_to_Drag_Australia_Into_War_With_China⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-03-20Green_Party_response_to_IPCC Synthesis_Report⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-25Some_cancellations_at_Eindhoven Airport_due_to_climate_protest⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-20UN_climate_scientists_are_running_out_of ways_to_warn_us⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-23Only_a_Mass_Working-Class Climate_Politics_Can_Free_Us_From_the_Climate_Doom_Cycle⠀⇛ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ 2023-03-20Last_opportunity_to_stop_worst_of climate_change,_says_UN_report⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-20This_New_NYC_Hospital_Is_Designed_to_Be Hurricane-Proof⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-20UN:_Climate_action_needs ‘quantum_leap’_to_save_1.5C_goal⠀⇛ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ 2023-03-20UN_report_urges_all-out_climate_push –_now⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-23The_state_of_California’s_drought_after_an epic_winter⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-03-24EU’s_Energy_and_Politic Approach_to_Indonesia:_Between_Hate_and_Love⠀⇛ # ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ 2023-03-20Silfab_Solar raises_$125M_to_fund_U.S._cell_manufacturing_plant⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-21Changes_coming_to_ensure_prompt reporting_of_oilsands_spills,_Alberta_premier_says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-24The_EU’s_Green_Deal Industrial_Plan_Is_a_Windfall_for_Corporations⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-24Detained_Crypto_Fugitive_Do_Kwon Faces_Extradition_to_U.S._and_South_Korea⠀⇛ # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-22Drought_in Somalia_may_have_killed_43,000_in_2022,_half_of_them under_age_5,_says_UN⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-24Landlords_selling_private_sector rentals_as_new_rules_slash_their_income⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-22Inflation_means_significantly_higher traffic_fines_this_year;_Up_10%_on_average⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-23Free-Market_Idolatry_and Hatred_of_Democracy_Go_Hand_in_Hand⠀⇛ # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 2023-03-23Africa’s_Economy_Projected_to_Grow_3.9 Pct_in_2023:_UNECA⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-03-19Accelerating_the_Use_of Digital_Technologies_is_Key_to_Boosting_Economic_Growth_in Africa⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-25Central_bank_president_lashes_out_at Dutch_Cabinet_over_deficit_levels⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-22The_Fed_prioritizes_inflation_over_bank turmoil_with_its_latest_rate_hike⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-23UK_Workers_remain divided_over_Hunt’s_Spring_Budget_announcements,_new_survey shows⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-03-24Activists_at_Geneva_vigil_demand “Freedom_for_Öcalan”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ 2023-03-24I_Re-Joined_Twitter⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-22Twitter_Users_Are_Complaining_About Vanishing_Tweets⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-21Elon_Musk_sets automated_poop_emoji_response_for_all_press_queries_on Twitter⠀⇛ # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 2023-03-23Bolivia_Under_Evo_Morales:_13_Years_of Reclaiming_Sovereignty⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-21Elon_Musk’s_Foreign_Connections_Raised National_Security_Concerns_for_Biden_Administration⠀⇛ # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-22Spotify_has_reportedly_spent less_than_10_percent_of_its_Joe_Rogan_apology_fund_ (updated)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-23Fact_check:_No,_Putin_did not_kneel_before_Xi_Jinping⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-22Roger_Waters_concert_cannot_be halted,_says_Munich_city_council⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-21Ex-Judge_Rejects_Free Speech_Defense_in_Project_Veritas_Case⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-21Suspects_in_hate_speech_laser projections_face_community_service_for_Breda_attack⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reason ☛ 2023-03-23Florida_Decides_To_Extend_LGBT_School Censorship_to_All_Grades_After_All⠀⇛ o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-21At_least_28_journalists_harassed,_beaten, denied_access_while_covering_Nigerian_state_elections⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-21Kurdish_journalist_Hamdullah_Bayram_arrested_in ‘terror’_case⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-23Belarusian_journalist_Henadz_Mazheyka sentenced_to_3_years_in_prison⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-23Turkish_authorities_arrest_employee_of_Yeni Yaşam_newspaper_in_terrorism_investigation⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-24Unidentified_men_attack_brother_of_exiled Bangladeshi_journalist_Zulkarnain_Saer_Khan⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-19In_the_face_of_anti-Asian_racism,_report finds_some_Chinese_Canadians_feeling_‘wu_nai’_—_helpless_and hopeless⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-23FTC_Wants_to_End_the_Hell_That_Is Trying_to_Cancel_a_Free_Trial_or_Subscription⠀⇛ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ 2023-03-20Canada_dispatch:_issues,_challenges,_and victories_of_Canadian_francophonie⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-23How_digitalization_improves remittances_to_Africa⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-23The_Crisis_of_the_Intellectuals⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-22Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette Workers_Are_in_the_Longest_Newspaper_Strike_in_Decades⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-22Good_Riddance_to_Howard Schultz,_Starbucks’s_Union-Buster-in-Chief⠀⇛ o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ 2023-03-21Next_Steps_in_IPv6_Policy_Work⠀⇛ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ 2023-03-20The_Internet_Governance_Forum_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ 2023-03-22Relax,_It’s_Just_Networking_(and_humans are_just_complicated_machines)⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-03-24G_2/21:_Is_the_technical_effect embodied_by_the_invention_as_originally_disclosed?⠀⇛ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-03-20Trade_mark_protection_for ‘METAVERSE’?⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-03-24Proving_genuine_use_of_an_EU trademark_to_defeat_revocation_proceedings⠀⇛ * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_HYLMTUI_Wordo:_STAPH⠀⇛ # ⚓ Yahtzee⠀⇛ We started playing Yahtzee as a way of playing games and passing the time with my in-laws over Zoom, back in the early days of the pandemic. It became a weekly thing: every Sunday, two games of Yahtzee, rolling the dice for around 45 minutes total, circling the wins on our scorecards. # ⚓ An_Admission⠀⇛ The last year in general, and the last couple of months generally, have been bad from a mental health perspective. I’ve taken some real, tangible steps to healing from what went on when I was younger. I’m seeing a therapist; I need to schedule our next appointment. But it’s been helping. # ⚓ House_rules_for_Halberds_&_Helmets⠀⇛ I think there will be some changes to Halberds and Helmets, based on discussions on the Internet Office Hours podcast. # ⚓ The_need_to_be_seen⠀⇛ It feels somewhat pointless to just create things knowing there will never be an audience to see it. [...] Similarly, I’ve tried writing on my own a number of times before I found Gemini. I’d find an old notebook for school and start writing about my day or whats on my mind, but very quickly would burn out. I tried having a digital journal for 2014 as well as later in 2022, but each one never got more than a couple entries before I lost interest. It wasn’t until I found Gemini, where I could post my writings, that I was able to stick to it for more than a week. The year anniversary for me starting this is coming around the corner and It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. Writing for my glog has been a great escape for me, much more rewarding than any video game ever was. Sure I’ll still occasionally write something, knowing full well I won’t publish it, just to get it off my chest, but still the desire to have an audience still fuels part of this passion. Even if it’s someone just skimming through it and not finding much interest, the very fact I’ve created something that can be viewed by another being just brings me a sort of closure. It scratches that creative itch. o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Movement_against_the_Pension_Reform⠀⇛ Hi Gemini! A short text to talk about what is happening in the streets of Paris and elsewhere, as I’m spending most of my time and energy out there. If you saw trash on fire, I’m going to talk mostly about that. I won’t talk about what the reform is about; essentially, people’s anger is focused on the change of the legal age for retirement, pushed from 62 to 64 years, which a good two thirds of the population rejects, including a significant part demanding the legal age to be 60 again. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ re:_systemd-free⠀⇛ After my first encounter with systemd (which I honestly cannot remember the details of) I started reading about it, found myself quite convinced by the arguments against it, and kind of joined the “systemd is evil” camp and eventually moved to a systemd-free distro. # ⚓ Doing_stuff_and_process_degradation.⠀⇛ I am confronted with office work that I don’t want to do but needs to get done. I had to trick myself into doing it by getting out of the house with my office work with the reward of coffee and pastry. I had to put that down just to bring me to the here and now. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ I_have_made_a_gemini_random_url_script⠀⇛ I have created a random URL script to jump to any url in the gemini space, since I way playing around with PHP on my gemini server I thought what would be interesting small projects, so I did this. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1369 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.27.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_26/03/2023:_OpenMandriva_ROME_23.03,_Texinfo_7.0.3,_and_KBibTeX 0.10.0⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Art o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python # Java o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_USA_–_Louisiana⠀⇛ We cover events and user groups that are running in the US state of Louisiana. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Free_Software_Security/ Josh_Bressers:_Episode_368_–_The_Sovereign_Tech_Fund_with Fiona_Krakenbürger⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk to Fiona Krakenbürger about the Sovereign Tech Fund. This is a fund created by Germany to fund important open source projects. Fiona has amazing insight into how this fund was created, what it’s doing today to help fund open source. She discusses where we go from here and what the future will look like. The Sovereign Tech Fund is a forward thinking program to fund open source across the world. This episode is a window into the future. # ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_505⠀⇛ **polkit-kde-agent** , **powerdevil** , **poxml** , **print-manager** , **prison** , **pulseaudio-qt** , **purpose** from the Slackware **kde** package set. shasum - a256=533bba40acd690d666ad17934dd66c073ea61784eaf85eacd398220cf0051a94 o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_6.3-rc4⠀⇛ Things are looking pretty normal for this time of the release process. All the stats look very regular, and the diffstat mostly does too. I say "mostly", just because we had a bunch of xfs fixes last week, which makes the diffstat skew that way more than usual. But even that is mainly for a self-test addition. The actual code changes are much smaller. So instead of the usual 50+% drivers, the rc4 diffstat is about "one third drivers, one third filesystems, one third rest". Not all of the filesystem stuff is xfs, of course - we have cifs, btrfs and ksmbd fixes too. On the driver side, it's a mix, but networking and gpu shows up as usual. With USB and thunderbolt fixes showing up, and the rest being fairly random. And "the rest" is all the normal stuff. Self-tests, core networking, architecture updates, nothing odd there. Let's hope things stay normal. And, as normal, testing and reporting issues is appreciated, Linus o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ [ANNOUNCE]_libinput_1.23.0⠀⇛ libinput 1.23 is available! Thanks to Yinon Burgansky, this version has a new pointer acceleration profile: the "custom" profile. This profile allows users to tweak the exact response of their device based on their input speed. On X11, the code required to configure a custom acceleration profile was already merged [1]. In the Wayland world, now that libinput 1.23 has been released, compositors are able to expose this feature to their users. Peter Hutterer already covered how this feature works on his blog in detail, so make sure to have a look at his article [2]. In addition to the new acceleration profile, this release includes a set of new quirks for different hardware. The work done for Razer hardware is especially noticeable. Finally, various bugs has been fixed and the CI has been improved. [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/ xf86-input-libinput/-/merge_requests/39 [2] http://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/01/libinput-and- custom-pointer.html Thanks to everyone involved for making this new version possible: Aksel Stokseth (1): add quirks for Logitech MX Master 3B Benjamin Tissoires (1): CI: bump b2c and kernel Bill A (1): quirks: add generic quirk for Dell 2-in- 1 models for side volume buttons Cyril LEVIS (1): fix: add apple m2 keyboard quirks Diep Pham (1): quirk: Lenovo P14s Gen 1 AMD Trackpoint José Expósito (13): test: remove unused variable tablet-pad-leds: fix compiler warning when - Dlibwacom=false tablet: fix compiler warning when - Dlibwacom=false test: fix compiler warning when - Dlibwacom=false test: fix uninitialized variables sparse: make some variables static quirks: add quirks for Positivo-Vaio touchpad tools/record: fix quirk error message quirks: touchpad: add ModelPressurePad doc/user: fix trackpoint quirks path quirks: fix DWT on Legion 5i quirks: add a note to not quirk the Bolt Receiver libinput 1.23.0 Lucas Zampieri (1): Allow rotation on all mice and for any angle Marge Yang (1): quirks: Dell Mayabay (Pressure Pad). Peter Hutterer (36): doc/user: explicitly specify language as en test: print the usage from the symbols-leak- test Remove trailing whitespaces in the tree Remove a few empty lines with nothing but a lonely tab Remove duplicate empty lines in our source tools: fix a tab after space whitespace issue gitlab CI: add a job to check for whitespace issues quirks: allow overriding of AttrEventCode and AttrInputProp evdev: only read the trackpoint multiplier on trackpoints tools: add a libinput list-kernel-devices tool tools: add a --hid toggle to libinput-list- kernel-devices doc/user: document the new list-kernel- devices tool meson.build: fix a deprecation warning CI: give the meson-build.sh script a proper license tag CI: make the meson-build.sh script even more generic CI: use meson compile over ninja directly in meson-build.sh filter: add helper functions to create/ destroy a delta smoothener doc/api: set HAVE_DOT to YES doc/user: fix sphinx warning tools: add --replay-after and --once to libinput replay CI: bump to use Fedora 37 gitlab CI: drop comment about weekly rebuild of images gitlab CI: remove a leftover use of a fedora image gitlab CI: explicitly run the test in the systemd service CI: update to latest ci-templates CI: add new workflow rules test: give the generic MT touchscreen realistic ranges quirks: fix duplicate section names quirks: change all 3-digit matches to zero- prefixed 4-digit matches tools: honor FDO_CI_CONCURRENT in the tools option parser test: drop the explicit -n auto to the tool options test CI: make the ci-fairy commit check verbose test: comment two tap tests test: add a quicks file validation test test: add a test to make sure we don't accidentally add Logitech receivers quirks: add a bunch more Razer internal keyboards Richard Stefun (1): Improve X280 support Tobias Bengfort (3): filter: simplify speed_factor() doc/user: fix tap in palm exclusion zone touchpad: rm dead tp_palm_tap_is_palm Yinon Burgansky (3): Introduce custom acceleration profile filter: validate custom acceleration function's points size filter: add scroll movement type to the custom acceleration profile Zhangyuan Nie (1): quicks: invert horizontal scrolling for Logitech MX Master 3S gogogoghost (1): quirk: Google Chromebook Atlas (Pixelbook go) hrdl (2): evdev-tablet: clip touch arbitration rectangle evdev: apply calibration for touch arbitration # ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ [ANNOUNCE]_mesa_23.0.1⠀⇛ Hi list, I know this email is going out a little late, but better late than never. Which may also be the name of the 23.0.1 release. I must apologize, I was running behind to start with, and then the troubles with the CI pushed me even further behind. As such, there are still a great number of patches nominated that are not in the release. I basically got what I could in by the end of day Friday, and cut that as the release, and I'll continue to pull in patches over the next week and half to have a normally scheduled release on April 5th. There's a lot here, covering a wide swath of the mesa codebase, especially Intel, AMD, and Zink. Cheers, Dylan o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Gtop_–_A_Command-line_System_Monitoring Dashboard⠀⇛ As a Linux system administrator, having access to real-time performance insights is crucial for managing and optimizing your system. While there are several command-line tools available, Gtop offers an interactive, visually appealing dashboard that presents a wealth of system information at a glance. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Iostat_–_Monitoring_CPU_and_Disk_I/O_on_Linux with_Examples⠀⇛ Iostat is a valuable Linux command-line utility that provides detailed information about your system’s CPU and disk I/O performance. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ vmstat_–_Monitoring_Memory_&_Processes_In_Linux with_Examples⠀⇛ In the world of Linux system administration, monitoring and understanding the performance of your system is crucial for ensuring its smooth operation. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_IDLE_Python_IDE_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ When starting out in Python, setting up a coding environment can be challenging. IDLE (Integrated Development Learning Environment) is a Python IDE that simplifies the process for the same. You can start coding immediately after you install it. IDLE is an easy-to-use IDE with features that make it easier for you to write and run Python code. It comes pre-installed with some operating systems, but on Linux, you need to install it. Learn how to install IDLE on Ubuntu and how to use its interactive shell. # ⚓ How_to_Write_a_Simple_Linux_Bash_Honeypot⠀⇛ The first step in a malicious hacker attack is scanning. This means that an attacker will scan its target for open ports and vulnerabilities. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Delete_MySQL_User_Accounts⠀⇛ MySQL is a widely used open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that allows you to store, organize, and retrieve data efficiently. User account management plays a crucial role in maintaining the security and integrity of your database. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Kdenlive_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04⠀⇛ When it comes to video editing, Kdenlive stands out as a versatile and user-friendly solution for Linux users. Developed on the KDE platform, this open- source video editor has gained widespread popularity among multimedia enthusiasts and professionals alike. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_KTorrent_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04⠀⇛ KTorrent is an efficient and feature-rich BitTorrent client designed for the KDE Plasma desktop environment on Linux systems. Built with user-friendliness and flexibility, KTorrent offers advanced features catering to beginners and experienced users. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_MyPaint_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04⠀⇛ MyPaint is a highly versatile and user-friendly open-source digital painting application designed to cater to artists of all levels. With its powerful, dynamic brush engine and sleek, intuitive interface, MyPaint has become a go-to tool for creatives looking for a seamless digital painting experience. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Check_the_MySQL_Version⠀⇛ MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that is widely used for web applications and content management systems. Knowing the MySQL version you are running can be essential for compatibility, security, and performance reasons. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_LibreOffice_on_Linux_Mint_21⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install LibreOffice on Linux Mint 21. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_MyPaint_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MyPaint on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, MyPaint is a free, open-source graphics application designed specifically for digital painting and drawing. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_ProcessWire_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ProcessWire on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Audacity_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Audacity on Rocky Linux 9. # ⚓ Linux IT ☛ Emanuele_Rocca:_EFI_and_Secure_Boot_Notes⠀⇛ To create a bootable EFI drive to use with QEMU, first make a disk image and create a vfat filesystem on it. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.img bs=1M count=512 $ sudo mkfs.vfat boot.img By default, EFI firmwares boot a specific file under /efi/boot/. The name of such file depends on the architecture: for example, on 64 bit x86 systems it is bootx64.efi, while on ARM it is bootaa64.efi. Copy /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/monolithic/ grubx64.efi from package grub-efi-amd64-bin to /efi/boot/bootx64.efi on the boot image, and that should be enough to start GRUB. ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_VMware_Workstation_Player_on_Debian_11_(Bullseye)⠀⇛ Install VMware Workstation Player on Debian 11 (Bullseye) and easily enjoy virtualization. Follow our step-by-step tutorial to get started. ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Maximize_functionality_with_these_tmux_plugins_&_extensions⠀⇛ In this article, we will explore valuable tips and tricks for using Tmux plugins and extensions, including how to install them, configure them, and use them to streamline your workflow. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, this guide will provide you with the knowledge you need to take your Tmux experience to the next level. ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Simplifying_virtualization_on_Ubuntu_with_GNOME_Boxes⠀⇛ In this guide, we will provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to install and use Gnome Boxes on Ubuntu. We will cover the steps involved in installing Gnome Boxes, creating and managing virtual machines, and configuring virtual machine settings. We will also explore some popular use cases for Gnome Boxes. ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Exploring_the_Pop!_OS_Desktop_Environment⠀⇛ In this guide, we will provide an introduction to the Pop!_OS desktop environment. We will cover its features, customization options, and differences from other popular desktop environments. We will also explore some popular tools and applications for working with Pop!_OS. § Games⠀➾ * ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past_Week_with Roadwarden,_No_Time_and_Quake_–_2023-03-26_Edition⠀⇛ Between 2023-03-19 and 2023-03-26 there were 95 new games validated for the Steam Deck. * ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Last_of_Us_Part_I_Verified_Day_1_on_the_Steam_Deck?⠀⇛ It looks that way — apparently on the Steam Deck official website the current short trailer of games showcased on the Steam Deck (that are usually Verified) includes a short sequence from the Last of Us Part 1… § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ * § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ o ⚓ Building_Plasma_against_Qt6⠀⇛ As you probably have heard by now the lastest development versions of Plasma and KDE Frameworks require Qt6. This transition has been in the works for a few years by now, but it was only somewhat recently that we took the plunge and started relying on Qt6 exclusively for Plasma. Plasma 5.27 is the last Plasma 5 release and continues in bugfix-only mode. For people who want to hack on Plasma features this raises the obvious question: How do I build Plasma 6 to hack on it? Before diving into this, a word of warning: Current Plasma master is in no way “ready for production”. There are known-broken things and things may temporarily regress at any time. That said, the only way to get towards a stable thing is to dig in and fix things. So let’s see how to do that. For this explanation I’m assuming you have build KDE software with kdesrc-build before. If not we have some extensive documentation for that. First you need at least Qt 6.4 installed. The usually best way to get that is from your distribution. If your distribution does not have Qt6 packaged yet please complain^Wtalk to them. CMake should complain about any missing Qt6 modules/ development files, but make sure you have the qtpaths tool installed beforehand. It should be named something like qtpaths6 or qtpaths-qt6. o ⚓ KBibTeX_0.10.0_released⠀⇛ After the recent release of_KBibTeX_0.9.3.2 as the last release of the 0.9.x branch, it is now time to make a stable release of KBibTeX 0.10.0. Tar-balls are as usual available at KDE’s download_mirrors. Some of the changes were documented more_than_two_years_ago_in_a_pre-release_(0.9.90), but here are the highlights taken from the ChangeLog: [...] § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ * ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ blendOS_Aims_to_Replace_All_Linux_Distributions⠀⇛ Sounds too far-fetched? Well, blendOS pitches itself to be the ultimate distro-blend. blendOS is a new project by Rudra Saraswat, known for Ubuntu- based remixes, and Ubuntu Unity in particular (which is now an official Ubuntu flavour). I would say the project has a pretty accurate name for what it wants to achieve. But, how does blendOS aim to be a replacement to all? What is it all about? * ⚓ Arca Noae ☛ I_want_ArcaOS_5.1!⠀⇛ ArcaOS 5.1 is complete and ready for release. The holdup is really related to our distribution system, which is based on the WooCommerce platform. * ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Time_to_Stop_Using_(and_Recommending)_Solus⠀⇛ I’ve complained in the past about Solus (Linux distro) when they could not be bothered to fix their Steam Linux client packaging after Proton 5.13 was long out (they eventually did)… * § Reviews⠀➾ o ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_siduction_22.1.1⠀⇛ I like Debian and run it on almost every computer I own, so siduction felt very familiar to me. In some ways it was a preview of Debian 12, and in other ways, it was an interesting look at some advanced features that go beyond the conservativeness of vanilla Debian. The three major features covered in its release notes — chroot helper, Nala, and snapper — are all great features. I just wish the chroot helper worked with my eMMC drive, but siduction would not be the first distribution that had issues when the only storage available is eMMC storage. If Debian-based distributions are your preferred Linux distributions, I highly recommend giving siduction a try. It offers many interesting things while remaining familiar. There are certainly plenty of Debian-based distributions out there, but siduction provides a lot of features that make it different from other distributions. Sure, it lacks the conservativeness of Debian Stable, but aside from the issue with the siduction-btrfs package on an ext4 install, I ran into no major issues when working on this review. Though, I am somewhat amused by absurdity of the root password issue, but that was 99% on me for doing something I knew would likely end up ending in the situation that it did. * § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ OpenMandriva_ROME_23.03_is_Here:_Get_Ready_to_be Impressed⠀⇛ Shining with KDE Plasma 5.27.3 and vanilla GNOME 43.3, OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 will impress and satisfy every user’s taste. o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ OpenMandriva_Lx_23.03_Released_with_Linux_6.2,_Mesa 23,_and_KDE_Plasma_5.27⠀⇛ OpenMandriva Lx 23.03 is here almost three months after the introduction of OpenMandriva Lx 23.01 ROME as OpenMandriva’s first-ever rolling-release edition where you install once and receive updates forever. This release bumps the kernel to the latest Linux 6.2, ships with the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment series, which is accompanied by the KDE Frameworks 5.104 and KDE Gear 22.12.3 software suites, and features out-of-the-box support for the Flatpak universal and sandboxed binary format. o ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Opera_Browser_97.0.4719.28⠀⇛ The Opera Browser has been updated to 97.0.4719.28 and available through our software repository. No need to go hunting all over the internet to find your favorite web browser when they are in the PCLinuxOS software repository! o ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Vivaldi_Browser_5.7.2921.65⠀⇛ The Vivaldi Browser has been updated tp 5.7.2921.65 and shipped to our software repository. o ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ PaleMoon_Browser_32.1.0⠀⇛ The PaleMoon Browser has been updated to 32.1.0 and available from the software repository. o ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Chromium_Browser_111.0.5563.64⠀⇛ The Chromium Browser has been updated to 111.0.5563.64 and available from the software repository. o ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Brave_Browser_1.49.128⠀⇛ Brave Browser has been updated to 1.49.128 and has been shipped to the software repository. Brave Browser is one of the best Chromium based browsers on the market. * § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ CM4_Maker_Board_review_–_Part_1:_specifications, unboxing,_and_first_boot⠀⇛ Cytron CM4 Maker Board is a carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM4 or CM4 Lite system-on-module with plenty of I/Os, support for one M.2 NVMe SSD, and RTC backup battery, a buzzer, and various LEDs for GPIO status that makes the board especially well suited for the education market and prototyping. The board is designed to run the Raspberry Pi OS operating system provided by Raspberry Pi Trading. o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Arduino_Uno_R4_Due_in_May_With_32-Bit_CPU,_16x the_RAM_and_USB-C⠀⇛ One of the world’s most popular microcontroller boards is getting a huge upgrade. o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Arduino_UNO_R4_Renesas_RA4M1_32-bit_maker_board offered_with_optional_ESP32-S3_WiFI_&_BLE_module⠀⇛ Arduino have launched an upgrade to their 8-bit Arduino UNO R3 board with the Arduino UNO R4 featuring a 48 MHz Renesas RA4M1 Arm Cortex-M4F 32-bit microcontroller, and an optional ESP32-S3 module for WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity. * § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_Keep_for_Wear_OS_actually_becomes useful⠀⇛ o ⚓ SlashGear ☛ What_To_Do_When_Your_Android_Phone’s_Storage_Is Full⠀⇛ o ⚓ TechRadar ☛ An_incoming_Android_tweak_stops_your_phone_from blinding_you_in_the_dark_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ o ⚓ Ghacks ☛ 5_Best_PSP_Emulators_for_Android⠀⇛ § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ * § Art⠀➾ o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts_Weekly_recap_—_26_March_2023⠀⇛ Week highlights: new releases of topologicpy and LSP plugins, new features and improvements in GIMP, Inkscape, FreeCAD, Olive, automatic generation of subtitles from audio is coming to Kdenlive. § GIMP There’s some minor porting of various file support plugins to GimpProcedureDialog API going on. Other than that, no major changes. o ⚓ David Revoy ☛ Fa_Bd_Comics_books_on_SCAMazon:_don’t_buy_them⠀⇛ Achievement unlocked: we found with the Pepper&Carrot community Fa_BD_Comic, the publisher of the worst derivations of Pepper&Carrot made so far. Unfortunately, the product’s are published under my name and also in the name of artists who sent fan-arts of Pepper&Carrot… That’s why I write this article to describe a bit this scam and desktop publishing carnage happening right now on Amazon and inform the audience of Pepper&Carrot to not buy them. Brace yourself, cause we are going in the territory of the zero absolute of quality, graphic designs horrors, colorimetry nightmares and bad layout. * § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ o ⚓ Bryan_Quigley:_Email_list_to_Ghost_site_–_PastaDollar.com⠀⇛ From a pricing perspective, the platform scales with your audience size. Importantly, Ghost does not take a cut of your membership subscription revenue. For this reason, the pricing incentives mean your Ghost site is more cost- effective when you have 100% paid members and 0% free members. I’m sure that ratio is a pipe dream for most publications, but that’s how the business model works. Pricing is currently $9/mo for any site with 500 or fewer subscribers, including web hosting. * § GNU Projects⠀➾ o ⚓ GNU ☛ Texinfo_7.0.3_released⠀⇛ We have released version 7.0.3 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. This is a minor bug-fix release containing minimal changes from the previous release (7.0.2). This package contains tools to produce documentation in various formats, including HTML and PDF, from source files in the Texinfo format. Texinfo is a text-based format with commands for marking text, document structuring and indexing. https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.3.tar.xz https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.3.tar.gz If automatic redirection fails, the list of mirrors is at: https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html Failing that, you can use the main server: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.3.tar.xz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.3.tar.gz Please email any comments to bug-texinfo@gnu.org. The Texinfo web page: https://www.gnu.org/software/ texinfo/ Support free software ~ https://www.fsf.org/ ~ https:// www.gnu.org/ News: * texi2any . fix performance regression when Perl binary extension (XS) modules are not being used (e.g. with TEXINFO_XS=omit) * info . further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII to avoid text disappearing from nodes . avoid possible freeze at start of a file with `- v nodeline=pointers' o ⚓ GNU ☛ texinfo_@_Savannah:_Texinfo_7.0.3_released⠀⇛ We have released version 7.0.3 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. This is a minor bug-fix release. It’s available via a mirror (xz is much smaller than gz, but gz is available too just in case): http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.3.tar.xz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.3.tar.gz Please send any comments to bug-texinfo@gnu.org. Full announcement: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2023-03/ msg00087.html o ⚓ GNU ☛ a2ps_@_Savannah:_a2ps_4.15.3_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. For more information, see https://www.gnu.org/software/ a2ps/ This release is a minor bug-fix release; no pressing need to update unless you’re affected by a bug it fixes (see the end of this message for details). Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/a2ps/a2ps-4.15.3.tar.gz https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/a2ps/a2ps-4.15.3.tar.gz.sig b2ae4016b789a198c50a2f1dc0fefc11bda18ebe a2ps- 4.15.3.tar.gz 0A6B4OtNy/LUlj2J4d8rtm9x5m1ztBUsQ8+YOOaq98c a2ps- 4.15.3.tar.gz The SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to. gpg --verify a2ps-4.15.3.tar.gz.sig pub rsa2048 2013-12-11 [SC] 2409 3F01 6FFE 8602 EF44 9BB8 4C8E F3DA 3FD3 7230 uid Reuben Thomas uid keybase.io/rrt 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 - gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify a2ps- 4.15.3.tar.gz.sig Gnulib v0.1-5892-g83006fa8c9 * Noteworthy changes in release 4.15.3 (2023-03-26) [stable] * Bug fixes: - Fix fixps to use GhostScript’s ps2write device instead of defunct pswrite. * Build: - Fix a problem building PDF version of manual. * § Programming/Development⠀➾ o ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ How_to_Implement_OTP_View_in_Android?⠀⇛ An OTP View or PinView in android is a widget that allows users to enter their PIN, OTP, etc. o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Little_useless-useful_R_functions_–_Transforming dataframe_to_markdown_table⠀⇛ Writing markdown documents outside RStudio (using the usual set of packages) has benefits and struggles. Huge struggle is transforming dataframe results into markdown table, using hypens and pipes. o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Reading_Remote_Data_Files⠀⇛ Sometimes data arrives as a series of individual files each of which is organized in the same way—which is to say, each of which has the same variables, features, or columns. o ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_littler_0.3.18_on_CRAN: New_and_Updated_Scripts⠀⇛ The nineteenth release of littler as a CRAN_package landed this morning, following in the now seventeen year history (!!) as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates Rscript. It allows for piping as well for shebang scripting via #!, uses command-line arguments more consistently and still starts faster. It also always loaded the methods package which Rscript only began to do in recent years. lives on Linux and Unix, has its difficulties on macOS due to yet-another-braindeadedness there (who ever thought case- insensitive filesystems as a default were a good idea?) and simply does not exist on Windows (yet – the build system could be extended – see RInside for an existence proof, and volunteers are welcome!). See the FAQ vignette on how to add it to your PATH. A few examples are highlighted at the Github_repo, as well as in the examples vignette. o § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-21Perl_Weekly_Challenge_209:_Special_Bit Characters_and_Merge_Account⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-19Perl_Weekly_Challenge_#208⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-22Text::Extract::Word,_MsOffice::Word:: Surgeon_–_Weekly_Travelling_in_CPAN⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-03-24This_week_in_PSC_(102)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ Introducing_Exporter::Almighty⠀⇛ Exporter::Almighty sets up your exporting automatically (but using Exporter::Tiny instead of Exporter), and calls use strict and use warnings on your behalf. Exporter::Almighty creates your constants for you, so you don’t need to duplicate your list of constants anywhere. o § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_python-per-line.py_version 0.0.10⠀⇛ This is an update to python-per-line.py, my tool to execute a Python expression one each line of a text file. New options are regex join split. And there are new string reversal functions: Reverse and ReverseFind. More details in the man page. python- per-line_V0_0_10.zip (http)MD5: 54BFA2E593A024E3FBAA76757D63847ESHA256: D12E5FE10F71011C480EA332E0E183AE904024CEBC22128775197481152B9C1E # ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ Top_10_Python_IDEs_in_2023⠀⇛ IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment is software that facilitates the programmers to develop applications. o § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Overusing_the_Static_Keyword_in_Java⠀⇛ The static keyword is often overused in Java and this can lead to several risks, including: To mitigate these risks, it is recommended to use the static keyword sparingly and only when necessary. # ⚓ How_to_Use_Properly_Lambdas_in_Java⠀⇛ Lambdas are a concise way to define and use functional interfaces in Java. # ⚓ What_is_a_Predicate_in_Java_and_How_to_Use_It⠀⇛ In Java, a predicate is a functional interface from the java.util.function package that represents a function that takes in one argument and returns a boolean value. # ⚓ How_to_Add_Dependencies_in_a_Maven_Project⠀⇛ In Maven, you can manage dependencies using a pom.xml file. # ⚓ What_is_Polymorphism_in_Java⠀⇛ Polymorphism in Java is a concept that allows objects of different classes to be treated as if they were of the same type. It allows you to write code that can work with objects of multiple classes, without knowing the specific type of each object at compile time. # ⚓ How_to_Remove_Elements_from_Collections_using_the_removeIf ()_Method⠀⇛ The removeIf() method is a default method introduced in Java 8 for the Collection interface. It is used to remove all elements from the collection that satisfy a given condition. # ⚓ What_is_the_AutoCloseable_interface_in_Java_and_How_to Implement_it⠀⇛ The AutoCloseable interface is a functional interface introduced in Java 7 that defines a single method called close(). This interface is used to ensure that resources are closed automatically when they are no longer needed, without the need for manual intervention. # ⚓ How_to_Prevent_Resources_From_Leaking_in_Java⠀⇛ In Java, a resource leak occurs when a program fails to properly release system resources after they are no longer needed. This can lead to a range of problems, such as reduced system performance, increased memory usage, and potential security vulnerabilities. # ⚓ Reasons_to_Make_Methods_Final_in_Java⠀⇛ Making methods final in Java can provide several benefits… * § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Daylight_dispute_leaves_Lebanon_with_2_time zones⠀⇛ Lebanon woke up in two time zones on Sunday amid an escalating dispute between political and religious authorities over a decision to delay the clock change by a month. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Lebanon_time_in_confusion_over_daylight_savings dispute⠀⇛ Lebanon woke up in two time zones on Sunday amid an escalating dispute between political and religious authorities over a decision to extend winter time for a month. § Leftovers⠀➾ * ⚓ Joe Brockmeier ☛ Joe_Brockmeier:_What_If_Everybody_Did_It_(WIEDI)?⠀⇛ Most people, I think, tend only to think about their actions and interactions as one-offs. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Militia_executes_17_hostages_in_eastern_DR_Congo⠀⇛ A notorious militia in eastern DR Congo on Sunday executed 17 people it took hostage the previous day, local sources said. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Dozens_of_migrants_killed_in_latest_boat_disaster_off Tunisia⠀⇛ At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their two boats sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the Tunisian coast guard said on Sunday. * § Science⠀➾ o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_biomedical_event_defends_22- speaker_exclusively_male_line-up⠀⇛ Organisers of a biomedical innovations event consisting of an exclusively male 22-speaker line-up has defended the gender disparity. The event was held last week at the Science Park in Shatin and was supported by the University of Hong Kong, InvestHK, the Hong Kong Startup Council, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Extreme_Horizons_in_Space_Could_Lure_Quantum States_Into_Reality⠀⇛ They’re watching. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Strange_Signal_From_Decades_Ago_Hints_at_Hidden Oceans_Orbiting_Uranus⠀⇛ An unresolved mystery from Voyager * § Education⠀➾ o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Afghan_Women’s_Protest_For_Education_Halted_In_Kabul_By Taliban⠀⇛ At least 20 Afghan women marched in the capital, Kabul, on March 26 to demand the right to education for women and girls before being rounded up by a Taliban patrol. * § Hardware⠀➾ o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Gordon_Moore,_Intel_co-founder_and_creator_of ‘Moore’s_Law,’_dies_at_94⠀⇛ Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore, the man credited with creating “Moore’s Law,” which served as a measuring stick and spark for the entire semiconductor industry for decades, passed away Friday at his home in Hawaii. He was 94 years old. ⚓ Security Week ☛ Intel_Co-founder,_Philanthropist_Gordon_Moore_Dies_at_94⠀⇛ Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore, who the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94. § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Philadelphia_Water_Supply_Chemical_Spill_Prompts Advisory⠀⇛ More than 8,000 gallons of an acrylic polymer solution leaked on Friday into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of the city’s drinking water. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ When_I_Got_Cancer,_My_Dreams_Told_Me_What_My_Doctors Could_Not⠀⇛ When all the rational decision-making options are bad, relying on dreams offers a different kind of logic that can be a lifesaver in its own way. * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Over_40_million_euros_in_costs_from_patient_harm: Multiplied_consequences_for_society⠀⇛ The Patient Insurance Center in Finland has reported a significant increase in patient injury claims in 2022, with over 9,000 claims filed during the year. Nearly one-quarter of the claims resulted in compensation payments, with the majority relating to surgical and anaesthetic procedures. Claims for compensation due to delays in diagnosis and treatment have also increased in recent years. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_Nuclear_Power_Plant_in_Minnesota_Taken_Offline_After Leak⠀⇛ “The leaked water remains fully contained on-site and has not been detected beyond the facility or in any local drinking water,” Xcel Energy vows. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_federal_judge_blocks_request_to_reinstate_abortion_ban_in Guam⠀⇛ A federal court in Guam Friday denied a request to reinstate a total abortion ban on the island of Guam. The Attorney General of Guam Douglas Moylan filed the motion to reinstate the ban. § Proprietary⠀➾ * ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Get_Off_My_Desktop!_Windows_Needs_to_Stop_Showing Tabloid_News [Ed: No, people should stop using Windows and stop tolerating Microsoft doing this]⠀⇛ Microsoft is treating the Windows search and widgets boxes like a supermarket checkout line. * ⚓ !_Avi_Alkalay_¡:_GPT_me⠀⇛ This is what GPT “knows” about me. More precisely, this is the sequence of words GPT generates when asked with that specific prompt. First paragraph is 100% correct. Second is kind of 50% (in)correct and outdated. Third paragraph he completely confused me with one of my relatives that have same last name but different first name. Also, I think GPT would have a different perspective about me if blog posts in social media, such as Facebook, would be part of its training dataset. But it can’t because Meta won’t allow open access to their platform even if I post openly there. § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ * § Openwashing⠀➾ o ⚓ SDx Central ☛ Why_Carriers_Are_Powering_Telecom_Cloud_Services With_Open_Ethernet_with_SONiC [Ed: Rather disappointing that Sean Michael Kerner helps 'Linux' Foundation with this blatant openwashing of Microsoft surveillance ware]⠀⇛ § Security⠀➾ * ⚓ Crackers_attack_Wisconsin_court_system_computer_network⠀⇛ Hackers have attacked the Wisconsin court system’s computer network, court officials said Thursday. A cyberattack began early this week, according to a statement from court officials. Network users may have experienced intermittent service or slower than usual response times from online services, court officials said. Asked when specifically the attack began and if it’s still ongoing, courts spokesman Tom Sheehan said in an email that he had no further information. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Australia’s_Latitude_Group_Says_7.9_Million Driver_Licence_Numbers_Stolen_in_Data_Theft⠀⇛ * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Hacked:_Latitude_confirms_details_of_14_million_consumers stolen⠀⇛ The data breach affects driver licence numbers of 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand customers of retailers including Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, The Good Guys and Apple. * ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Latitude_now_says_7.9m_driver_licence_details_stolen_in breach⠀⇛ In an update to the ASX on Monday, the company said out of this number, 3.2 million had been provided during the last decade. “In addition, approximately 53,000 passport numbers were stolen. We have also identified less than 100 customers who had a monthly financial statement stolen,” the statement said. Major Australian retailers Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, David Jones and The Good Guys offer buy-now-pay-later services in association with Latitude. * ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Friday_afternoon_fraud:_the_scam_that_wipes_out_your_house deposit_in_seconds⠀⇛ Discover how conveyancing fraud works and how to avoid it * ⚓ SANS ☛ CyberChef_Version_10_Released,_(Sun,_Mar_26th)⠀⇛ * ⚓ SANS ☛ Extra:_“String_Obfuscation:_Character_Pair_Reversal”,_(Sun,_Mar 26th)⠀⇛ I discovered that the textwrap.wrap function… * § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ At_Apple,_Rare_Dissent_Over_a_New_Product: Interactive_Goggles⠀⇛ The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months. Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple. § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ North_Korea_Fires_Ballistic_Missile_off_Its East_Coast_-South_Korea_Military⠀⇛ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel_Boils_as_Netanyahu_Ousts_Minister_Who_Bucked Court_Overhaul⠀⇛ Protests broke out shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the defense minister, who had called for a halt to efforts to weaken the judiciary. * ⚓ France24 ☛ North_Korea_fires_ballistic_missile_towards_eastern_waters⠀⇛ North Korea fired at least one unidentified ballistic missile Monday, South Korea’s military said, the latest in its flurry of weapons tests in recent weeks. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Israel’s_Netanyahu_sacks_defence_minister_after_call_to suspend_judicial_reforms⠀⇛ Thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Sunday in protest after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed his defense minister who had urged the government to halt a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system. * ⚓ NYPost ☛ South_Korea_says_North_Korea_test-fired_another_missile⠀⇛ South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing at least one ballistic missile toward the sea off its eastern coast, adding to a recent flurry in weapons tests. * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_fires_ballistic_missile,_says_South⠀⇛ The launch comes days after Seoul and Washington ended their largest joint military drills in five years. * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Mass_protests_erupt_after_Netanyahu_fires defense_chief⠀⇛ Tens of thousands of Israelis have poured into the streets across the country in a spontaneous outburst of anger after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister for challenging the Israeli leader’s judicial overhaul plan. Protesters in Tel Aviv blocked a main highway and lit large bonfires Sunday, while police scuffled with protesters outside Netanyahu’s private home in Jerusalem. The unrest deepened a monthslong crisis over Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary. Mass protests and unrest in the military prompted Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Saturday to speak out against the changes. In a brief statement Sunday, Netanyahu’s office said the prime minister had dismissed Gallant. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Israel_defense_minister_fired_after_calling_for_suspension_of judicial_reform_legislation⠀⇛ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Netanyahu_sacks_defense_minister_who_called_for_halt_to judicial_overhaul⠀⇛ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister on Sunday, a day after Yoav_Gallant called for suspending the government’s judicial_overhaul_plan and warned opposition, including within the military, to the legislation was undermining Israel’s national security. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Honduras_Switches_Relations_to_China,_a_Blow_to Taiwan⠀⇛ The decision by Honduras is also a setback in Washington’s efforts to use its influence in Central America to help prevent China from isolating Taiwan. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Honduras_breaks_off_diplomatic_ties_with Taiwan⠀⇛ Honduras announced on Saturday that it had broken off diplomatic relations with Taiwan, a move that drew an immediate rebuke from Taipei as Tegucigalpa switches allegiances to China. * ⚓ France24 ☛ In_blow_to_Taiwan,_Honduras_and_China_officially_establish diplomatic_relations⠀⇛ China and Honduras began formal diplomatic relations on Sunday, with Taiwan accusing Beijing of using “coercion and intimidation” to lure away its few remaining allies. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Says_He_Could_Put_Tactical_Nuclear_Weapons_in Belarus_by_Summer⠀⇛ The proposal from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, talked of since last year, would be provocative without changing the West’s battlefield calculus in Ukraine. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Putin_says_Russia_will_station_tactical_nukes_in Belarus⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. Putin said the move was a response to Britain’s decision this past week to provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium. Speaking in an interview broadcast Saturday on Russian state television, Putin said Russia would maintain control over the tactical nuclear weapons stationed in Belarus. He said storage facilities would be completed by July 1 but didn’t say how many weapons they would hold. He argued that Russia was following the lead of the United States, which has tactical nuclear weapons based in Europe. Such weapons are intended for battlefield use, unlike more powerful, longer-range strategic nuclear weapons. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ History_in_the_Rubble⠀⇛ Documenting the damage of last month’s earthquakes in Turkey. * ⚓ NYPost ☛ Ukraine_calls_for_emergency_UN_Security_Council_meeting_over Putin_nuke_plan⠀⇛ Ukraine is calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to place tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Wagner_Fighters_Left_as_Convicts._Will_Russia_Bury Them_as_Heroes?⠀⇛ As thousands of ex-prisoners fight and die in Ukraine, honoring their memory is becoming a patriotic imperative in Russia. But some committed crimes their old neighbors cannot forget. * ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ When_things_turned_to_‘Ash’:_Henry_Tarrio’s_first witness_appears;_plus_a_fight_over_informants_ensues_at_Proud_Boys sedition_trial⠀⇛ The first witness called by Proud Boy ringleader Henry Tarrio at Jan. 6 sedition trial trips over testimony * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ From_the_Archives,_1885:_Victoria’s_navy_readies_for Russian_invasion⠀⇛ In 1885, with tensions high between England and Russia, and a Russian fleet spotted off the coast of South Africa, just 19 days steam from Australia, the Victorian government prepared for war. * ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Taking_Japan–Australia_defence_cooperation_to_the_next level⠀⇛ After decades of gradual military build-up by China, territorial disputes with China and Russia, and increasing concern about North Korea’s missile-strike capability, Japan is once again reinventing itself and rapidly moving from the pacifist stance [...] * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Somalian_Army_Kills_Over_3,000_Al-shabab_Militants_in_6 Months⠀⇛ President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud vowed to intensify military operations to flush out al-Shabab militants from their strongholds. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ North_Macedonia’s_Military_Backs_Sending_Mi-24_Helicopters_To Ukraine⠀⇛ The General Staff of North Macedonia has backed the transfer to Ukraine of 12 Mi-24 military helicopters that it purchased from Kyiv two decades ago, Macedonian Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska said. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Fighting_Rages_Around_Bakhmut_As_West_Assails_Kremlin_Plan_To Place_Nukes_In_Belarus⠀⇛ International condemnation has intensified over Moscow’s plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, even as fighting raged in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, with the ruined city of Bakhmut continuing to be the focal point of Russia’s struggling war effort. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine’s_Top_Central_Banker_Vows_To_Tighten_‘Dangerous’ Monetary_Approach⠀⇛ Ukrainian National Bank Governor Andriy Pishniy says the bank has settled its “open conflict” with the government and will avoid the “very dangerous” practice of printing new money to fund the war effort. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ No_more_money_printing_to_fund_war:_Ukraine_bank chief⠀⇛ Ukraine will no longer resort to “dangerous” monetary financing to fund the war against Russia, its central bank governor, Andriy Pyshnyi, has told the Financial Times. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tehran_Condemns_U.S._Strikes_On_Iran-Linked_Groups_In_Syria⠀⇛ Tehran has condemned U.S. air strikes on Iran-linked forces in Syria that reportedly killed 19 people, which Washington said it carried out following a deadly drone attack on U.S. forces. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.K._Says_Iran_Resupplies_To_Russia_Of_Kamikaze_Drones_Fueling More_March_Attacks⠀⇛ The British Defense Ministry said on March 26 that Russia had “likely launched” at least 71 Iranian Shahed kamikaze drones against Ukraine after a two-week letup in late February. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pentagon:_No_Indication_Russia_Plans_To_Use_Nuclear_Weapons⠀⇛ The U.S. Department of Defense said that there were no indications that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons after Moscow’s announcement to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Fighting_Beijing’s_long_arm_of_repression⠀⇛ Activists rely on social media to stay in touch, but this also makes them more vulnerable § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ * ⚓ Reason ☛ Democracy_Died_in_Darkness_in_Harvard_Trial_Sidebars⠀⇛ Judge Allison Burroughs refused to unseal an anti-asian joke shared by a federal employee to Harvard’s Dean of Admissions. § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Wildfire_Burns_4,000_Hectares_in_Spain⠀⇛ “Conditions of water and temperature are not those that have traditionally existed in our country,” Minister Rivera pointed out. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Dozens_killed_as_tornado_and_thunderstorms_rip_through Mississippi⠀⇛ Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi overnight, killing at least 25 people there and another in Alabama, leveling dozens of buildings and spawning at least one devastating tornado. The White House announced on Sunday that Joe Biden had ordered federal aid be provided to support local recovery efforts. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Mississippi,_other_Southern_states_see_more_severe_weather Sunday⠀⇛ With residents of Mississippi and portions of Alabama reeling from the damage sustained during Friday_night’s_deadly_tornado outbreak, more severe weather is occurring Sunday. Threat level:The Storm Prediction Center forecast the likelihood of “several tornadoes” that could include “a few strong tornadoes” of EF-2 intensity or greater in southern Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia into Sunday night. =============================================================== o The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) placed the region from northeastern Louisiana to southern Alabama at a “moderate risk” for severe thunderstorms Sunday. This is a level 4 out of 5 on the storm threat scale. o The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for portions of far eastern Louisiana and all of central Mississippi around 4 pm local time. The watch is scheduled to expire at 11 pm local time on Sunday night. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Weather_service:_Mississippi_tornadoes_deadliest since_2011⠀⇛ With at least 25 people dead in Mississippi, tornadoes that ravaged parts of the Deep South overnight were the deadliest in the state in more than a decade. That is according to National Weather Service records that say 31 people died in Mississippi in April 2011 during tornadoes that tore through several states. Alabama was hit hardest during that so-called “super outbreak” of twisters that killed more than 320 people. A sheriff in Alabama on Saturday reported one storm-related death. Records show that 12 people died in Mississippi during Easter storms in April 2020, and 10 died in the state during a tornado event in April 2014. * ⚓ Axios ☛ In_photos:_Mississippi_town_decimated_by_deadly_tornado⠀⇛ Dozens of people were killed and homes were destroyed as tornadoes_spiraled_through_parts_of_Mississippi_and_Alabama on Friday night. The big picture:More tornados are expected to hit Mississippi, Alabama and other Southern states Sunday, Axios’ Andrew Freedman reports. =============================================================== Zoom in:In Mississippi, the rural towns of Silver City and Rolling Fork in the southwest and Amory in the northeast all sustained significant tornado damage Friday. o The NWS preliminary damage survey found the tornadoes that struck Rolling Fork and Silver City were about 3/4 a mile wide and lasted for over an hour. It was given a rating of EF-4 — the second highest. o In Amory, businesses and infrastructure were significantly_damaged or destroyed. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ After_tornado,_harrowing_tales_of_survival_in Mississippi⠀⇛ Residents of rural Mississippi have recounted harrowing tales of survival after a deadly tornado tore through the state Friday night. In the tiny town of Silver City in the western part of the state, homes were ripped right off their foundations, leaving scattered piles of debris in their wake. About 30 miles away, the small town of Rolling Fork was also flattened. Residents described seeking refuge in bathtubs and hallways and covering loved ones with their bodies as the twister surged around them. Officials say the tornado killed at least 25 people in Mississippi and one person in Alabama as it surged nearly 170 miles across the Deep South. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Daunting_recovery_underway_in_tornado-devastated Mississippi⠀⇛ Help began pouring into one of the poorest regions of the U.S. after a deadly tornado tore a path of destruction in the Mississippi Delta. President Joe Biden has issued an emergency declaration for the state. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Daunting_Recovery_Underway_in_Tornado- Devastated_Mississippi⠀⇛ Help began pouring into one of the poorest regions of the U.S. after a deadly tornado tore a path of destruction in Mississippi even as furious new storms struck Georgia * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Churches_Provide_Solace_in_Tornado-Ravaged Mississippi_Delta⠀⇛ Many residents in one of the Mississippi towns hit hardest by devastating tornadoes found solace in their church communities Sunday * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Mining_giants_push_for_international_carbon_offsets_in safeguard_mechanism⠀⇛ Major oil and gas companies are calling for access to international carbon offsets, which analysts say could reduce the price and make it easier to produce fossil fuels. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Block_Gas_Alliance_Blocks_Private_Airport_in_Vienna⠀⇛ “Behind closed doors, the gas lobby wants to impose its destructive fossil fuel interests once again,” the climate activists denounced. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Survivors_of_Cyclone_Freddy_in_Malawi_Yearn_for_Fresh_Start⠀⇛ Currently, there are 577 evacuation camps spread across the country, providing shelter for the displaced population. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ ‘There’s_nothing_left’:_Deep_South_tornadoes kill_26⠀⇛ Rescuers raced Saturday to search for survivors and help hundreds of people left homeless after a powerful tornado cut a devastating path through Mississippi, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens. The tornado flattened entire blocks and obliterated houses in at least one Mississippi Delta town as it carved a path of destruction for more than an hour. Another person was killed in Alabama. The tornado flattened entire blocks of the small town of Rolling Fork, reducing homes to piles of rubble, flipping cars on their sides and toppling the town’s water tower. Residents hunkered down in bath tubs as the tornado struck and later broke into a John Deere store that they converted into a triage center for the wounded. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Demonstrator_in_critical_state_after_clashes_with_police_at French_water_reservoir_protest⠀⇛ A protester with trauma to the head was fighting for his life on Sunday after clashes with police during a demonstration over water storage facilities in France, a prosecutor said. * § Overpopulation⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_China,_Marriage_Rates_Are_Down_and_‘Bride Prices’_Are_Up⠀⇛ China’s one-child policy has led to too few women. Grooms are now paying more money for wives, in a tradition that has faced growing resistance. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ France24 ☛ Swiss_regulator_mulls_Credit_Suisse_disciplinary_action after_emergency_rescue⠀⇛ Swiss financial regulator Finma is probing how to hold bosses at Credit Suisse to account following its emergency takeover by rival UBS, a media report said on Sunday. * ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ WATCH:_Alternative_Solutions_to_the_Banking_Crisis_– #SolutionsWatch⠀⇛ Ellen Brown, frequent Corbett Report guest and author of The Web of Debt and Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age, joins James to discuss her latest articles on the bank runs that are leading us toward the event horizon of the quadrillion-dollar derivative black hole. * ⚓ NYPost ☛ First_Citizens_said_to_be_near_deal_for_Silicon_Valley_Bank: report⠀⇛ First Citizens BancShares Inc (FCNCA.O) was in advanced talks to acquire Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB.O) and close to making a deal. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Canadian_firm_plans_to_buy_Russian-owned_Helsinki_shipyard⠀⇛ The shipyard, which is suffering from financial problems due to sanctions on Russia, has been long been seeking a new owner. * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ASX_trades_up_as_nerves_steady_on_Wall_Street⠀⇛ The Australian sharemarket lifted on Monday after Wall Street steadied and concerns alleviated around the domestic financials sector. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ President_Macron_Not_To_Back_Down_Over_Reforms_Despite Protests⠀⇛ “Popular discontent with the pension reform does not mean we will withdraw the approval of other unpopular reforms, which are highly necessary,” Veran said. * ⚓ France24 ☛ French_pension_protests:_Brav-M,_the_special_police_unit accused_of_brutality⠀⇛ They ride in pairs, are armed with handguns, expandable batons and tear gas grenades, and have been specially trained to prevent protests from spiralling out of control. But since France’s pension protests began, officers belonging to France’s special Brav-M motorbike unit have increasingly been accused of taking the law into their own hands, intimidating and threatening people, and in some cases, resorting to the use of excessive force. * ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Some_officers_think_everything_is_allowed’:_Sociologist deplores_French_police_brutality⠀⇛ Tensions are rising in France after President Emmanuel Macron in a televised interview Wednesday refused to compromise on the government’s controversial pension reform bill. As peaceful demonstrations turn to social unrest, police forces are picking up their batons and using them on protesters. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Complacent_mortgage_holders_stung_by_higher rates⠀⇛ Rapid interest rate rises have spurred a refinancing boom but many borrowers are still paying the price for their complacency.  Almost a quarter of all borrowers are paying 6.5 per cent or more on their variable rate loans, based on Canstar modelling, which is 1.81 per cent higher than the cheapest loan rate. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_Republicans_Are_Handling_Trump’s_Possible_Indictment⠀⇛ The responses to Alvin Bragg’s Stormy Daniels case may not offer the best guide to navigating the former President’s legal troubles. * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Obamas_land_in_Sydney⠀⇛ Former US President Barack Obama has touched down in Sydney ahead of a scheduled speaking tour alongside wife Michelle. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Did_We_Learn_From_Trump’s_Waco_Rally?_He’s_Stuck in_the_Past.⠀⇛ Trump is still fighting old battles. But Republicans have moved on to their own war, a new war, a culture war. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ At_the_Waco_Rally_and_Beyond,_Trump’s_Movement_Now Commands_Him⠀⇛ It’s clear who runs the GOP now. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Trump_invokes_Jan._6_at_Waco_rally_ahead_of_possible charges⠀⇛ A defiant and incendiary Donald Trump, facing a potential indictment, held the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign Saturday in Waco, Texas, a city made famous by deadly resistance against law enforcement. * ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Not_a_crime’:_Trump_dismisses_NY_probe_at_first_2024 campaign_rally_in_Texas⠀⇛ Donald Trump staged his first presidential campaign rally in Texas Saturday, brushing off his potential indictment as he railed against multiple criminal probes threatening his bid for the White House. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Trump_suggests_DA_“dropped”_Stormy_Daniels_case_after_Waco rally⠀⇛ Former_President_Trump, who said last week he_would_be_arrested in a probe into alleged_hush_money_he_paid_to_a_porn_star, now suggests the case might be dropped by Manhattan’s_district attorney. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Rep._Comer:_DOJ_should_handle_probe_into_Trump_hush_money payment⠀⇛ Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s probe_of_former President_Trump should instead be handled by the Department of Justice, House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Trump_didn’t_make_up_arrest_prediction,_his_lawyer_says⠀⇛ Former President Trump’s prediction last weekend that he_would be_arrested on Tuesday wasn’t made up, his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. Driving the news: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has beeninvestigating a hush_money_payment allegedly made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, and reports_continue_to_circulate that an indictment in the case could be imminent. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_nominee_to_lead_FAA_withdraws_amid_GOP_opposition⠀⇛ Denver International Airport CEO Phil_Washington, President Biden’s nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), has withdrawn his nomination amid Republican opposition. Driving the news:Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called Washington an “excellent nominee” and condemned the “undeserved” partisan attacks against him in a tweet_confirming the_news Saturday night. * ⚓ Axios ☛ The_DeSantis_conundrum⠀⇛ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ biggest political asset is that he’s viewed favorably by nearly all of the Republican Party’s voters — across the ideological spectrum. Yes, but:His biggest challenge is that those sky-high approval numbers are likely to falter now that he’s sparring_with_former President_Trump — and as he makes tough decisions on where he stands on hot-button national issues. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Elon_Musk_Values_Twitter_at_$20_Billion⠀⇛ The billionaire bought the social media company for $44 billion in October and took it private. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Twitter_Says_Parts_of_Its_Source_Code_Were_Leaked Online⠀⇛ The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to identify the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Suspect_in_Zyskowicz_attack_questioned,_placed_under_arrest⠀⇛ A veteran Finnish politician was slightly injured in a suspected anti-Semitic assault on Saturday. A decision on whether to remand the suspect will be made within the next two days. * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Let_them_eat_bugs!_EU’s_foes_have_a_new_conspiracy theory⠀⇛ From Italy’s Matteo Salvini to Britain’s Nigel Farage, self- proclaimed defenders of tradition say there’s a plan afoot to make the public dine on crickets, locusts and grasshoppers. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kazakh_Journalist_Who_Rejected_Election_Results_Launches_Hunger Strike_In_Jail⠀⇛ Kazakh journalist Duman Mukhammedkarim has launched a hunger strike as he serves a 25-day jail term over his plan to hold a rally to protest the official results of this month’s parliamentary and local elections. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Arrest_Warrant_Gives_Russian_Journalist_Hope_For Resistance⠀⇛ Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova said the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin has given her “some sort of hope” that resistance might be sparked within the country’s elite. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_Cell_Phone_Is_a_Pair_of_Red_High_Heels⠀⇛ Edward curtin It is comical how easily one can be ignored for pointing out that new technology is dangerous and fetishistic.  So-called “smart” cell phones are a prime example.  For years I have been pointing out their dangers on many levels. To say most people are devoted to them is an understatement. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Kenya_police_ban_government_protests_following_student protester’s_death⠀⇛ Kenya’s police chief Sunday announced a ban on opposition protests scheduled for Monday. The ban comes in the wake of last week’s protests, which devolved into riots. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_dispatch:_disqualification_of_Rahul_Gandhi_from Parliament_after_defamation_conviction_could_doom_opposition_to_PM_Modi in_upcoming_elections⠀⇛ Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Samar Veer, a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi.   * ⚓ JURIST ☛ First_Hong_Kong_protest_since_2020_held_under_tight_police restrictions⠀⇛ The first protest since the introduction of the 2020 National Security Law in Hong Kong was held Sunday in Tseung Kwan O, an eastern area of Hong Kong. Protestors marched against the implementation of a new land reclamation plan but did so in compliance with certain restrictions imposed by authorities. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Sedition_cases_are_supposed_to_be_rare_in_Hong Kong…_or_were_until_recently⠀⇛ Chui Chun-man, who was sentenced to ten months in prison last Monday for sedition, must be among the least likely convicts to attract sympathy. * ⚓ EDRI ☛ Feira_@_the_Global_Gathering⠀⇛ You can now apply for the Global Gathering Feira, a 3-day social and networking festival space for digital rights defenders! * ⚓ EDRI ☛ Civic-centric_digital_transformation:_international_conference⠀⇛ The conference is organized in the spirit of an inclusive and efficient digital transformation based on the needs of the citizens, which leaves no space for the undermining of human rights and dignity, nor digital exclusion of any community. § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ KOL408_|_Soul_of_Enterprise_#432:_Abolishing_IP_[sic]⠀⇛ Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 408. This is my appearance on The Soul of Enterprise, Episode 432, with hosts Ed Kless and Greg Tirico. Recorded Friday, March 24, 2023. Their shownotes are below. Ron and Ed recently welcomed patent attorney and advocate for abolishing intellectual property, Stephan Kinsella to the show. We explored what is (and is not) intellectual property and then had a conversation about why Stephan thinks these forms of property should not exist and why the world would be better if they did not. * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ MSN ☛ Judge_Rules_Online_Archive’s_Book_Service_Violated Copyright⠀⇛ A federal judge has sided with four publishers who sued an online archive over its unauthorized scanning of millions of copyrighted works and offering them for free to the public. Judge John G. Koeltl of U.S. District Court in Manhattan ruled that the Internet Archive was producing ”derivative” works that required permission of the copyright holder. o ⚓ uni Emory ☛ Meet_the_Indian_artists_advancing_a_new_era_of independent_music⠀⇛ Anyone who has been exposed to Bollywood culture could argue that contemporary mainstream Indian artists produce the same type of music with little experimentation — either catchy feel-good pop tunes or cliche love songs. § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ Sunset!_2023-03-25_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)⠀⇛ I felt bad that my wife is not usually able to come along on these sunset chasing adventures, since one of us has to stay with the kids, so I decided to bring the whole family along this evening. I could only think of a few decent parking spots with the right view for this, so I settled on Hot Springs Gas, a gas station a little east of Fairbanks, which has a decent view to the west, and also a bathroom and snacks for children. It almost goes without saying that trying to watch the sunset while trapped in a vehicle with three young children for 50 minutes is far from a tranquil experience. o ⚓ Rain,_rain,_rain⠀⇛ It rained most of Wednesday and Thursday, and all day yesterday and today. I’m wondering if it’s going to wash away all the cherry blossoms. The trees are out in full bloom now. o ⚓ Do_I_need_Windows⠀⇛ Not the operating system, but the display concept. Do I actually need them? I’ve been thinking a bit about my computing setup, primarily, how I plan to reconfigure my desktop machine to move off of Manjaro. It has been “fine”, but I’ve found delays and fuck ups from their end, and some “choices” they’ve made to just not align with my personal computing preferences. // FWIW, I’m the type of gal that expects my computer to work the same every time I boot it. If you, computer, decide to update something that I didn’t explicitly authorize in the updater? See Ya!! And Ubuntu, and now Manjaro have broken that rule. Which is often why I stick to mainline distros like Debian, or Arch + a DE and not get “out of the box” type stuff, since that’s someone/ group controlling the direction, and I’m perfectly capable of doing nothing thanks 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ o ⚓ What_a_nice_day⠀⇛ It was a really nice 22c/71f today; it was nice and sunny and HOT. I had to run to the store around lunch time and I was hot wearing a thin jacket. Kids on the street were in T-shirts and shorts. Too bad it’s going to rain the rest of the week :/ Also at lunch was the news that Japan won the WBC (World Baseball Classic.) It was, of course, all over the TV on most of the channels. I checked the news back home but the only bit there was this story way down the page. It took a while to find it cnn.com, too. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ Gave_up_TWTXT⠀⇛ After some time of trying I have decided that TWTXT is not for me. In its current form it shares many negatives of other social networks while almost nothing to offer (for me). Unlike the Gopher, it’s useless on older computers (SSL is required for most people’s files). I don’t say I will not try it once more in future but at the moment I have no use for it. o ⚓ systemd,_a_Retrospective⠀⇛ Ah, systemd. More or less this was Linux under new management, same as the old management. For example, systemd on RedHat Enterprise 7 (2014) had a charming feature where, sometimes, it would fail to shutdown a host, and one would eventually stride to the server room and apply the Paperclip of +3 System Slaying. Such already unbent paperclips had been hung on the racks for exactly this purpose. RedHat 7 (2000) also had this feature. Folks with money might have remote management, or maybe a data centre tech would be wandering about Europe at 2 AM as one kept the Sev-1 line informed of their progress. Regardless, there was a manual reset because of a wedge at shutdown. Different clowns, same act. [..] That systemd generated more than 20 log lines by default for each and every mailman cron job on RHEL7 was charming. What was the point of all that log spam? I forget how I squelched it; RedHat Linux is fairly maintenance heavy. [...] The past tense means I haven’t really touched Linux in a while; there is an Alpine Linux virt under vmd(8) somewhere, gently unused. And a big-endian Debian MIPS qemu thing used even less to test that code does not assume little-endian. OpenBSD gets the complexity and maintenance needs just about right. o ⚓ Monitor_your_remote_host_network_quality_using_smokeping_on OpenBSD⠀⇛ If you need to more the network quality of a link, or the network availability of a remote host, I’d recommend you to take a look at Smokeping. o ⚓ Emphasis_vs_Italics⠀⇛ Same goes for strong and b. I like that it gives you a choice between _ and *, that they mean the same thing, and that you can mix and match them, and that double means stronger. That was a good design decision that was a lot easier to remember than the other markup formats I was using before. So solutions where “_ is cite and * is em” are no good, especially when they don’t fix things like Linnaean names. I suggest that Markdown installations that do allow fallthrough HTML should stick with em and strong as the default, since those are the most common cases and fallthrough HTML can handle the special cases, but Markdown installations on online forums that disable fallthrough HTML (i.e. where Markdown is used in lieu of bbcode or Wiki syntax), it should generate i and b instead of em and strong. It’s less wrong. o ⚓ Announce:_release_of_run-many=1.0.0⠀⇛ I just uploaded first release of “run-many” tool that is standalone implementation of colored interleaved output like “docker-compose up” or “devenv up”. o ⚓ Signal_Corps_Sergeant_1st_Class⠀⇛ I was just looking at an old photo of my great grandfather. He was in the 99th aero squad in WWI, which I think I’ve written about previously. Maybe not. In any case, I noticed that in this photo, he had handwritten the names and ranks of the people around him, who were all officers. But, none of them had sleeve insignia, except him. He didn’t bother writing his own name or rank, of course. Saving the memories for himself, I think. o ⚓ Will_I_outlive_NetBSD?⠀⇛ I was recently reading a detailed account of Apple UNIX, a Macintosh-compatible UNIX operating system published by Apple for Macintosh computers with m68k CPUs. The account appeared to have been written in 2001, based on one screenshot of the author’s PC desktop. The account concludes by recommending that operators of m68k-based Macintosh computers who wish to run UNIX on their machines find an alternative to Apple UNIX for a number of reasons. They recommend NetBSD. o ⚓ Fedora_Deprecates_Legacy_BIOS_Installs⠀⇛ As of release 37, Fedora has deprecated legacy BIOS installs [0] - you can still boot and presumably upgrade an existing OS install over the network, but you can no longer install it fresh. I think the biggest issue with this decision for me is the lack of awareness around e-waste and re-purposing of old hardware that may have many years of useful life left. I know I am not alone in that I mostly buy refurbished or older computers. I keep them for years and maintain them or replace parts in them as needed, and only junk them when they are truly dead. o ⚓ Trisquel_11_on_a_New_Desktop⠀⇛ I needed to replace my aging desktop, which is my daily driver for work, so last week I purchased a refurbished “business desktop” with four CPU cores, a large SSD and plenty of RAM (32GB), which is more computing power than I have ever had. My old desktop has half that amount of RAM with a SATA HDD, and was beginning to groan under the weight of all the web-based and other apps I’m forced to use while at work. Things like Google apps and Slack were noticeably sluggish. o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ What_happened_to_index.gmi?⠀⇛ I am quite sure that Gemini server on tilde.pink user to serve directory index automatically, now I have to regenerate “index.gmi” manually. I understand that it makes server simpler which is good, but that broke by dist/ directory, which is bad. Did I miss an announcement? # ⚓ Tinylog⠀⇛ I had a feeling looking at my capsule that there should be a last time stamp for every section. Because without that reader must check every link if there was any change. So I implemented a script for that… # ⚓ Gophersphere_is_(still!)_volatile⠀⇛ Gophersphere was crowded at the beginning of the 90s. And it was empty at the end of the same decade. We are aware that most of that content was lost. The only archive which is available is from 2007 and we are naming it The Wayback Machine. The same as that from Internet Archive. But Internet Archive which is operating The Wayback Machine for WWW has 802 billion web pages, not some small amount of final stage content of Gophersphere. Probably there isn’t any other backup of Gophersphere from the earlier years. And we can only weep for that. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4098 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.27.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_27/03/2023:_Twitter_Source_Code_Published_(But_Not_Intentionally)⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows * Instructionals/Technical * Games * Desktop_Environments/WMs o GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Devices/Embedded * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Licensing_/_Legal o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents # Software_Patents # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_March_26th,_2023⠀⇛ This week we got a lot of cool stuff, starting with the release of the GNOME 44 desktop environment and continuing with a new Linux laptop from Kubuntu Focus, a new major NVIDIA graphics driver release, and new security updates for Ubuntu users. Several new distro releases were also out this week including Tails 5.11, Trisquel GNU/Linux 11.0 LTS, and OpenMandriva Lx 23.03. Check out the hottest news of this week and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for March 26th, 2023, below. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-03-24Degoogled,_Private_Custom_Android_ROM:_how_does IODÉ_OS_compare?⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-24TUXEDO_OS_2_Quick_Overview_#shorts⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-24How_to_install_Flowblade_video_editor_on_Linux Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-24How_to_install_Hamonikr_6.0_Taebaek.⠀⇛ * § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ Connor Tumbleson ☛ Homelab_Software_Recap⠀⇛ Roughly a year ago I redid my entire home network and could then officially call it a homelab. Unfortunately the insane delays in acquiring Raspberry Pi’s has put quite the delay in finishing this setup. So while I continue to sit and wait on available pieces – I want to recap all the software I’ve come to love and run on this network. o ⚓ Adriaan Roselli ☛ CSS-only_Widgets_Are_Inaccessible⠀⇛ Interactive widgets powered with only CSS are relatively common as people are playing with all the ways CSS can respond to, or create, interactions. CodePen contests are a great venue to see these experiments (which hopefully are never moved to a live human-facing project). The problem with many of these examples is they need to convey their state (such as expanded or not), properties (think of relationships), or values, and (sometimes) dynamic names. While CSS is ideal to show these visually, they need to be passed to accessibility APIs so they can be conveyed to users of assistive technologies. o ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Emphasis_vs_Italics⠀⇛ Emphasis is what you use italics for most of the time. When you need cite, you can type and when you need a more generic italic, for example for foreign language words or Linnaean names, you can type . But on user- writable forums that disable fallthrough HTML, i is the better default. It’s never “wrong”, per se (em is just more specific) and it matches how many people sometimes use * and _ on these forums, when they think “I want to make this look cursive” rather than “I need to semantically emphasize this”. o ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_Kubernetes_(K8s)_Metrics_Server_Step by_Step⠀⇛ * § Games⠀➾ o ⚓ The Economist ☛ As_video_games_grow,_they_are_eating_the_media⠀⇛ New business models are another source of growth. Gaming’s latest boom was propelled by free-to-play games, which suck users in before monetising them with ads and in-game purchases. A new phase of expansion is coming from game-library subscriptions, which already show signs of increasing consumption and accelerating discovery, much as the cable bundle did in television. These new distribution mechanisms and business models promise more choice for consumers—which is why regulators should allow Microsoft’s $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a big gamemaker whose titles Microsoft would make available for streaming and subscription. All this holds lessons for other industries—chiefly that, if you are in media, you need to be in gaming. Apple and Netflix are scrambling to complement their streaming offerings with games. Others are already there. In August Sony Pictures will release “Gran Turismo”, a film based on a Sony game which features songs by artists from Sony Music. Media firms that ignore gaming risk being like those that decided in the 1950s to sit out the tv craze. * § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ o § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ 2023-03-24This_Week_in_GNOME:_#88 Forty-four!⠀⇛ * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Ferrous Systems ☛ How_we_built_our_Embedded_World_Demo_on_Rust for_QNX⠀⇛ At Embedded World 2023, Ferrous Systems had a joint booth with AdaCore, to talk about our new joint-venture: Ferrocene. Ferrocene is a qualified toolchain for building safety-critical systems in Rust. Florian noted that our booth was next to the Blackberry/ QNX booth, and that “we should do a demo using QNX Neutrino”, the POSIX-compatible real-time operating system that’s popular with our target audience in the automotive sector. That’s pretty much all we had to go on o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Theo_de_Raadt_at_CanSecWest:_Synthetic_Memory Protections⠀⇛ We recently reported that Theo de Raadt (derradt@) was scheduled to present at CanSecWest. That’s now happened, and slides of Theo’s presentation, Synthetic Memory Protections, can be found in the usual place. Video is available on the bird site. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Rockchip_RK3588M_automotive-grade_AI_SoC supports_up_to_16_camera_inputs⠀⇛ Rockchip RK3588M is an automotive-grade variant of the Rockchip RK3588 octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 SoC that supports at least 6 Full HD displays and 16 camera inputs and can simultaneously run the car dashboard, in-vehicle infotainment, a digital rearview mirror, headrest monitors, ADAS system, and more. The company offers support for Android 12.0, Ubuntu Desktop and Server, Debian 11, and buildroot RTLinux for the board//system-on-module. Firefly also mentions Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and Docker container support, as it will be necessary to support critical (e.g. dashboard) and non-critical (e.g. infotainment) parts of the software with isolated and likely different operating systems. Technical documentation can be found in the Wiki to get started with Android, Linux, and RTLinux. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Nzyme.org ☛ A_New_Chapter_Begins⠀⇛ You can expect many more blog posts with development updates, but, in summary, I am taking the existing WiFi- focused core of nzyme and am extending it to support Ethernet data. Along with this huge addition, I am adding critical features like multi-node support and a proper authentication model. o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ India ☛ Twitter_admits_parts_of_its_source_code_leaked online⠀⇛ In a court filing, Twitter also asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to order GitHub to identify the person who shared the code and any other individuals who downloaded it, reports The New York Times. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Twitter_says_parts_of_source_code posted_online,_seeks_leaker⠀⇛ It is unclear when the code was posted online or whether its leak exposes Twitter to security vulnerabilities or hackers. Twitter’s takedown request to GitHub described it as “proprietary source code for Twitter’s platform and internal tools,” while the legal filing called it: “various excerpts of Twitter source code.” Musk said earlier this month that Twitter would “open source” all of the software code it uses to recommend tweets on March 31. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Twitter_says_parts_of_its_source_code_were_leaked online⠀⇛ According to the legal document, filed with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, Twitter had asked GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, to take down the code where it was posted. The platform complied and said the content had been disabled, according to the filing. Twitter also asked the court to identify the alleged infringer or infringers who posted Twitter’s source code on systems operated by GitHub without Twitter’s authorization. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Twitter:_Parts_of_its_Source_Code_Leaked Online⠀⇛ According to the legal document, filed with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, Twitter had asked GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, to take down the code where it was posted. The platform complied and said the content had been disabled, according to the filing. Twitter also asked the court to identify the alleged infringer or infringers who posted Twitter’s source code on systems operated by GitHub without Twitter’s authorization. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Little_useless-useful_R_functions_–_Transforming dataframe_to_markdown_table⠀⇛ Writing markdown documents outside RStudio (using the usual set of packages) has benefits and struggles. Huge struggle is transforming dataframe results into markdown table, using hypens and pipes. Ugghhh… This useless functions takes R dataframe as input and prints out dataframe wrapped in markdown table. # ⚓ Tim Bradshaw ☛ The_absurdity_of_stacks⠀⇛ The argument that the stack should be small often seems to be that, if it’s not, people will write programs which run away. That’s spurious: if such a program is, in fact, iterative, then good compilers will eliminate the tail calls and it will not use stack: a small limit on the stack will not help. If it’s really recursive then why should it run out of storage before its conversion to a program which manages the stack explicitly does? Of course that’s exactly what compilers which do CPS conversion already do: programs written using compilers which do that won’t have these weird stack limits in the first place. But it should not be necessary to rely on a CPS-converting compiler, or to write in continuation-passing style manually to avoid stack usage: it should be used for other reasons, because the stack is not, in fact, expensive. # ⚓ Tim Bradshaw ☛ Measuring_some_tree-traversing_functions⠀⇛ In a previous article my friend Zyni wrote some variations on a list-flattening function, some of which were ‘recursive’ and some of which ‘iterative’, managing the stack explicitly. We thought it would be interesting to see what the performance differences were, both for this function and a more useful variant which searches a tree rather than flattening it. # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Raster._Vector._Generative.⠀⇛ A self-hosted AI image generator takes, very roughly, a few hundred GB of disk space, plus a large amount of RAM, and some fairly hefty compute. But, once that’s done, you could “compress” images by specifying an AI engine and weighted prompts like this: [...] # ⚓ Jeroen Engels ☛ Implementing_multi-file_analysis_for linters⠀⇛ Recently I’ve been in a few discussions about adding support for multi-file analysis in several single-file linters. I believe that to be an amazing feature and that it is done quite well in elm-review, so I wanted to write down how it works to help other tools do the same. Hopefully it will be interesting for non-tooling authors as well! * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Herman Õunapuu ☛ techtipsy,_now_hosted_on_k-space!⠀⇛ Oh, and we have ipv6 now! You’ll have to let me know if that actually works, since I can’t really test it on an ipv4 network. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ IBIS_Models_Explained⠀⇛ If you’ve worked with circuit simulation, you may have run into IBIS models. The acronym is input/output buffer information, and while you can do a lot without having to deal with IBIS, knowing about it can help you have a successful simulation. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_4004_Upgrade_You’ve_Been_Waiting_For⠀⇛ You know how it is. You have an older computer, and you can’t run the latest software on it. Time to upgrade, right? Well, if you have been in this situation a very long time, [ryomuk] may have an answer for you. The emu8080on4004 project (Google Translate) offers a way to run 8080 code on a 4004 CPU. Finally! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Caterpillar-Like_Soft_Robot_With_Distributed Programmable_Thermal_Actuation⠀⇛ Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft robot that moves in a distinctly caterpillar-like manner. As detailed in the research paper in Science Advances by [Shuang Wu] and colleagues, the robot they developed consists of a layer of liquid crystalline elastomers (LCE) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with embedded silver nanowire that acts as a heater. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Links:_March_26,_2023⠀⇛ Sad news in the tech world this week as Intel co- founder Gordon Moore passed away in Hawaii at the age of 94. Along with Robert Noyce in 1968, Moore founded NM Electronics, the company that would later go on to become Intel Corporation and give the world the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004, in 1971. The four-bit microprocessor would be joined a few years later by the 8008 and 8080, chips that paved the way for the PC revolution to come. Surprisingly, Moore was not an electrical engineer but a chemist, earning his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1954 before his postdoctoral research at the prestigious Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins. He briefly worked alongside Nobel laureate and transistor co-inventor William Shockley before jumping ship with Noyce and others to found Fairchild Semiconductor, which is where he made the observation that integrated circuit component density doubled roughly every two years. This calculation would go on to be known as “Moore’s Law.” # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Recreating_The_ZX_Spectrum_Unboxing_Experience By_Manufacturing_A_New_Boxed_One⠀⇛ Why scour the internet for a rare-as-hen’s-teeth new in box ZX Spectrum computer when you can instead order up some parts, assemble a basically all new ZX Spectrum along with the box, instruction manuals and more? # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Loudmouth_DJI_Drones_Tell_Everyone_Where_You Are⠀⇛ Back when commercial quadcopters started appearing in the news on the regular, public safety was a talking point. How, for example, do we keep them away from airports? Well, large drone companies didn’t want the negative PR, so some voluntarily added geofencing and tracking mechanisms to their own drones. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-24Cosmetic_brands_may_have_to_disclose fragrance_ingredients_—_a_welcome_change_for_Canadians_with allergies⠀⇛ # ⚓ Variety ☛ How_TikTok_Could_Herald_the_End_of_the_Remote Control⠀⇛ The average person spends 2.45 hours a day perusing social media — mostly watching videos — on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and Snapchat, to name just a few. The older, TV-based media services are battling for our time and attention with these newer phone and PC-based media services, and YouTube and TikTok are winning. While the social media companies perfect user experiences that leverage the amazing capabilities of 10+ billion phones and PCs, pre-social media businesses spend roughly $100 billion per year on content but almost nothing on user experience (UX). As phones go 5G and social media reaches 5 billion users, older media is held back by a stagnant UX, frozen to the same plastic buttons TV remotes have had for decades. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ How_TikTok_broke_social_media⠀⇛ The speed of the change is astonishing. Since entering America in 2017, TikTok has picked up more users than all but a handful of social-media apps, which have been around more than twice as long (see chart 1). Among young audiences, it crushes the competition. Americans aged 18-24 spend an hour a day on TikTok, twice as long as they spend on Instagram and Snapchat, and more than five times as long as they spend on Facebook, which these days is mainly a medium for communicating with the grandparents (see chart 2). # ⚓ [Old] US FDA ☛ May_2018_FDA_Report_on_the_Quality,_Safety, and_Effectiveness_of_Servicing_of_Medical_Devices_In accordance_with_Section_710_of_the_Food_and_Drug Administration_Reauthorization_Act_of_2017_(FDARA)⠀⇛ • Rather, the objective evidence indicates that many OEMs and third party entities provide high quality, safe, and effective servicing of medical devices; • A majority of comments, complaints, and adverse event reports alleging that inadequate “servicing” caused or contributed to clinical adverse events and deaths actually pertain to “remanufacturing” and not “servicing”; and • The continued availability of third party entities to service and repair medical devices is critical to the functioning of the U.S. healthcare system. # ⚓ Ivermectin_goes_from_being_the_new_hydroxychloroquine_to being_the_new_MMS⠀⇛ If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last couple of decades, it’s that there is one characteristic of a quack treatment that is almost immutable, that always, always comes to apply to it—and usually rather quickly after it is introduced as a “miracle cure” for something. Basically, sooner or later, that quack treatment will be—shall we say?—repurposed for other conditions, usually many other conditions (e.g., cancer). A corollary to this principle is that, sooner or later, the quack treatment will likely be applied to autism, especially if it’s ever been claimed as a “treatment” for “vaccine injury.” A further corollary (a sub-corollary, if you will) is that, if this treatment, whatever it is, causes significant side effects in the autistic children being subjected to it, instead of stopping the treatment the parents will “persevere” and continue to abuse their child with it. I was reminded of this and thought it worth discussing when I came across a story on VICE by David Gilbert, Inside the Private Group Where Parents Give Ivermectin to Kids With Autism. It gave me serious flashbacks to Miracle Mineral Solution (a.k.a. MMS), and it was that similarity that I wanted to explore. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Uranium:_It’s_radioactive_and_it’s everywhere⠀⇛ If, however, a person ingests a high concentration of uranium, it can cause cancer, affecting bones or the liver. And if a person inhales a large concentration of uranium, the alpha particles are likely to cause lung cancer. Uranium is also a toxic chemical, so any form of consumption will damage a person’s organs severely, particularly the kidneys. # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Biden’s_TikTok_Dilemma:_Go_After_China Or_Pursue_Social_Media_Antitrust_Claims⠀⇛ Demands by the president for TikTok to sell to an American firm cemented Democrats’ about-face on alleged national security threats posed by TikTok, with momentum against the platform escalating. The government and more than 30 states have blocked the app on government-issued devices. And, in a precursor to Biden’s ultimatum, the White House on March 7 supported a bipartisan measure to take action against TikTok and other companies subject to influence from foreign adversaries by establishing a new unified framework for reviewing and addressing foreign technology. The effort came after Republicans on a House committee rammed through a separate bill that effectively would ban TikTok on mobile devices in the U.S on the heels of the company acknowledging that its Beijing-based parent firm, ByteDance, used data collected from the app to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Federal_Study_Calls_US_Stillbirth_Rate “Unacceptably_High”_and_Recommends_Action⠀⇛ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-24Clever_Hack_Uses_YouTube_to_Back_Up Your_Data_in_Google’s_Cloud_for_Free⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-23Online Footballers?_Meet_the_teams_taking_Youtube_by_storm⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ 2023-03-23YouTube_TV_Price_Increase:_Here’s_What It’s_Going_to_Cost_You_Each_Month_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ 2023-03-20YouTube_TV_Prices_Are_Going_Up._Here’s What_You’ll_Pay_Now_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-23Linus_Tech_Tips_YouTube_Channel_Is_Down After_Crypto_Scammer_Hack⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-24Web3_security issues_persist_despite_plans_to_be_more_resilient_than_web2 [Ed: Buzzword security versus buzzword security]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-24OpenAI_says_a_bug_leaked_sensitive ChatGPT_user_data⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ 2023-03-24ChatGPT_Bug_Exposed_Some_Subscribers’ Payment_Info_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-23CISA_Releases_Six_Industrial_Control Systems_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-23Cisco_Releases_Security_Advisories_for Multiple_Products⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-23JCDC_Cultivates_Pre-Ransomware Notification_Capability⠀⇛ o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-24Germany_walks_fine_line_on nuclear_weapons⠀⇛ # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ 2023-03-23AU_field_mission_to_eastern_DR Congo⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ Bad_faith_UN_report_on_Nicaragua whitewashes_violent_US-backed_coup⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Volunteer_Corps_head_Denis_Kapustin_added to_Russia’s_federal_wanted_list_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s Interior Ministry has put Denis Kapustin, the head of the right-wing militant group the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), on the federal wanted list. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Drone_explodes_in_Kireyevsk,_near_Tula_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A Ukrainian Tu-141 Strizh drone packed with explosives exploded in the city of Kireyevsk, in the Tula region, reports TASS. RIA Novosti reports that the drone was carrying ammunition. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prigozhin_says_more_than_5,000_former_prisoners have_been_freed_after_serving_in_Wagner_Group_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin says more than 5,000 former prisoners are now free since they received pardons after fulfilling contracts with Wagner Group.  # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_The_Donald_Trump_Problem⠀⇛ Donald Trump is not being targeted for the misdemeanors and serious felonies he appears to have committed but for discrediting and undermining the entrenched power of the ruling duopoly. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Sukhoi_Superjet_sends_distress_signal_after_taking off_from_Nizhny_Novgorod_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger aircraft en route from Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow sent out an alarm 10 minutes after takeoff, reports TASS, citing aviation services. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_recorded_conversation_appears_to_reveal_two Russian_elites_harshly_criticizing_Putin_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A voice recording is circulating on Ukrainian traditional media and Telegram channels. It’s allegedly a recorded telephone conversation between Russian music producer Iosif Prigozhin (no relation to Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin) and billionaire and former politician Farkhad Akhmedov. Ukraine’s Channel 5 television network was among the first outlets to call attention to the recording, which was first posted on March 7. Its authenticity has not been confirmed. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ While_Silent_on_Apartheid,_Israelis_Protest Netanyahu_Firing_Minister_Who_Urged_Halt_to_Judicial_Coup⠀⇛ Decades into the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine, massive crowds flooded Israel’s streets on Sunday for another round of demonstrations to “save a democracy that never existed,” as one journalist recently put it. # ⚓ Taiwan News ☛ Chinese_communist_way_of_war:_Different_than the_West⠀⇛ The Chinese communists employed deception and subterfuge—to compensate for inferiority in training and equipment—during their war with the Imperial Japanese and the Chinese Nationalist forces from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949. The West is not adept at using deception beyond the military arena, whereas the CCP has practiced employing deception in every dimension of the struggle. Michael Pillsbury realized late in his long government career the vast extent of the CCP’s strategic deception. In The Hundred Year Marathon (2016), Pillsbury identified the following elements of deception in the Chinese strategy to defeat the US: [...] [...] Pillsbury’s description of the principal elements of Chinese strategy to defeat the US are unlike those used in Western states. The CCP’s focus on deception is key to their goal of defeating the US. # ⚓ Foreign Policy ☛ How_Albania_Became_a_Target_for Cyberattacks⠀⇛ A massive [breach] led to the expulsion of Iranian diplomats—but Tehran may have had help from Moscow. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Albania_Cuts_Diplomatic_Ties_With_Iran_Over Cyberattack;_Tehran_Condemns_Decision⠀⇛ The White House later condemned the alleged Iranian actions and warned of “further action” for an “unprecedented” cyberattack on a NATO ally. “The United States will take further action to hold Iran accountable for actions that threaten the security of a U.S. ally and set a troubling precedent for cyberspace,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement. # ⚓ The Record ☛ Iran-linked_incidents_spurred_Cyber_Command_to send_‘hunt_forward’_team_to_Albania⠀⇛ The Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) deployed a team of two dozen personnel on a “hunt forward” operation following the second hack, which took place in September, and returned before the end of 2022. A CNMF spokesperson declined to comment on the specific number, or kinds of networks, that were examined. The three-month mission was part of a now-years- long effort by the CNMF, a unit of U.S. Cyber Command, to work with foreign governments that want help shoring up their systems. Since 2018, teams have deployed 44 times to 22 countries and conducted operations on nearly 70 networks around the globe, most notably in Ukraine months before Russia’s invasion. # ⚓ C4ISRNET ☛ US_sent_‘hunt-forward’_team_to_Albania_in_wake of_Iranian_cyberattacks⠀⇛ The so-called hunt-forward operation, a defensive measure taken at the invitation of foreign officials, was the first conducted in Albania, a smaller NATO ally. U.S. Cyber Command revealed the operation, handled by its Cyber National Mission Force, or CNMF, on March 23. Army Maj. Gen. William Hartman, the commander of the mission force, in a statement said the operation brought CYBERCOM personnel “closer to adversary activity” while promoting international relationships. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Putin_to_Station_Russian_Nukes_in_Belarus_in “Dangerous_Escalation”⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ 10_Simple_Things_to_Do_to_Celebrate_Earth Day⠀⇛ While every day is technically a day to be kind to the planet, April 22 is Earth Day—a time to show appreciation and get into new habits if needed. There’s a lot of history when it comes to why fighting the climate crisis is at the core of all Earth Day celebrations. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-24US_charges_crypto_fugitive Do_Kwon_after_Montenegro_arrest⠀⇛ # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-03-24How_you_can_help Michigan’s_bats_amid_a_deadly_epidemic⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Men_Dominate_the_Corporate_World,_But_Replacing Them_With_Women_Isn’t_the_Answer⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Political_Democracies,_Economic Dictatorships⠀⇛ From France to Uruguay, not by chance, neoliberal governments have proposed a pension reform that adds years to the retirement age (two in France; up to five in Uruguay). The narrative that justifies raising the retirement age is twofold: (1) People live longer and, therefore, have to work more; (2) If these “necessary and painful reforms” are not carried out, the system will be defunded and the country will lose competitiveness in the world since other countries have applied these same measures, necessary for the financial class and painful for the productive classes. The same discourse, plus a third threat, has been repeated for decades in the United States: (3) Social Security (invented by “the communist president” Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression) is not sustainable, so we must raise the retirement age and, as far as possible, privatize it. It does not matter that it is and always has been self- sustaining. Social security is just that: insurance, not risky investments. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ It’s_Time_to_Change_the_Rules_of_the Banking_Game⠀⇛ On CNN March 14, Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said that American banks were on the verge of being nationalized: # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-23Crisis_lessons_for_U.S._Federal_Reserve_as Powell_waits_to_find_out_why_banks_collapsed⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reason ☛ 2023-03-22Sex-Trafficking_Suits_Against_Banks_That Serviced_Epstein_Can_Proceed⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-22No_Surprises_From_the Fed_as_it_Hikes_Rates_a_Quarter_Point_While_Declaring_the Banking_System_‘Sound_and_Resilient’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-24Even_When_Facing_Collapse, First_Republic_Bank_Still_Fought_Against_Stronger Regulations⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-21Don’t_Call_It_a_Global_Banking Crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-22Bank_of_England and_Federal_Reserve_claim_banking_systems_are_secure⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-21US_Treasury’s_Yellen_says banking_sector_‘sound’⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-24Unrest_shows_importance_of_banking sector_supervision,_says_Dutch_central_bank_president⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-24Banking_crisis_lingers_as_contagion_fears take_aim_at_Deutsche_Bank⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-24What_Republicans_should_learn_from_French protests_over_pension_cuts⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-24Deutsche_Bank_stocks_slump_as sector_fears_grow⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Dark_Money-Fueled_WI_Supreme_Court_Candidate’s Anti-Abortion_Views_Span_Decades⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-24Why_advertisers_aren’t_coming_back_to Twitter⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Passing_on_Senate_Run,_Ro_Khanna_Endorses Barbara_Lee⠀⇛ Congressman Ro Khanna announced on CNN Sunday that he will not run for U.S. Senate and is endorsing fellow California Democrat Rep. Barbara Lee in the closely watched 2024 race for retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_What_Just_Happened_in_Moscow Is_Big⠀⇛ Now that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have concluded their summit in Moscow– an unusually long series of meetings over three days–are those purporting to lead the United States prepared to drop their wishful thinking, their miscalculations, and their illusions as to the significance… # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Government_Hasn’t_Justified_a_TikTok_Ban⠀⇛ Freedom of speech and association include the right to choose one’s communication technologies. Politicians shouldn’t be able to tell you what to say, where to say it, or who to say it to. So we are troubled by growing demands in the United States […] # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-24Did_George_Santos_lie_about_everything?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-24U.S._Decline_in_Perspective_of_a Global_Democracy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_First_TikTok,_AOC_Says_Solution_Is_Not Ban_But_Strong_Privacy_Laws⠀⇛ Amid a national debate over whether Congress should ban TikTok, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday posted her first video on the social media platform to make the case for shifting the focus to broad privacy protections for Americans. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ GOP_Voters_Keep_Backing_Trump_Because_He Hates_the_‘Right’_People⠀⇛ On a Saturday when dark clouds and even killer tornadoes were wending their way over huge swathes of the United States, the sun rose brightly over Waco. On a dusty patch of land in a central Texas town tagged by historic infamy, Donald Trump’s army of supporters came early and in surprisingly large numbers on the first weekend of an uneasy American spring. # ⚓ Variety ☛ TikTok_Hearing_Does_Little_but_Hand_Small_Victory to_Meta’s_Zuckerberg⠀⇛ Whether the hearing will advance Congress’ goal of ultimately banning TikTok in the U.S. remains to be seen. But if there were winners that emerged from the hearing, they were TikTok’s rivals — specifically Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. For years, Zuckerberg has attempted to draw attention and shift scrutiny onto TikTok, whose parent company is Chinese tech giant Bytedance. That’s because Zuckerberg and Meta have a lot to gain if TikTok were to get banned in the U.S. # ⚓ NBC ☛ After_TikTok_hearing,_users_declare_their_love_for the_platform_—_and_the_CEO⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Ocasio-Cortez_posts_first_TikTok_in_support_of the_app,_says_ban_‘doesn’t_feel_right’⠀⇛ Her post comes after lawmakers from both sides of the aisle grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Thursday on ways his company plans to address recent security concerns raised about the social media app. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-24Vladimir Putin_is_using_body_doubles_on_trips,_claim_social media_users⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-24Utah_passes bill_banning_people_under_18_from_using_social_media without_parental_consent⠀⇛ # ⚓ El País ☛ YouTube’s_chaotic_rise_to_world_domination: ‘Not_long_ago_virtually_no_one_took_it_seriously’⠀⇛ Google was already a billion-dollar giant in 2006. YouTube’s fit was difficult. From the beginning, its complex, contradictory and wrong decisions have made the platform what it is today. Indeed, YouTube has surpassed the audiovisual competition that ridiculed it in 2006. Few imagined that the combination of Internet videos and unleashing the creativity of millions of people with only a camera could change entertainment forever: “It’s a sea change in how we think about entertainment. It’s undeniably true that it has given careers to people that don’t have careers in traditional media and never would,” says Bergen. # ⚓ NPR ☛ A_scrappy_newscast_in_Kyiv_aimed_at_Russians counters_Putin’s_propaganda_machine⠀⇛ The channel, called February Morning (a reference to when the invasion began), also runs dozens of Telegram channels – the news messaging app where most Russians get their information about the war. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Opinion:_The_autocrat_threatened_by_Winnie_the_Pooh⠀⇛ I don’t think I’d want to see this film if it was the only one being shown on a 19-hour flight, and all I had to read was the air sickness bag. But China-watchers speculate the film isn’t being suppressed over matters of taste; it’s political censorship. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ NBC ☛ How_did_a_police_chase_in_Mississippi_end_with_an innocent_woman_shot_in_her_bedroom?⠀⇛ Three months later — with the bullet still lodged in her arm — she continues to wait for answers. Latasha Smith. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety, which oversees the Capitol Police, has offered little information about what led an officer to open fire at Commonwealth Village apartments. The state has not given a timeline for releasing more details, including video from the body camera the officer was wearing. # ⚓ India Times ☛ US_judge_moonlighted_as_online_porn_star, fired⠀⇛ Gregory A. Locke, 33, a New York City (NYC) administrative law judge, moonlighted as a porn star on OnlyFans, according to the New York Post. He has now been fired by the City officials for “unprofessional behaviour”. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Taliban_Disrupt_Women’s_Protest_of_Education Ban⠀⇛ Protesters marched through the city’s western Pol- e Sokhta neighborhood before being forcefully dispersed by Taliban security forces. Around 25 women and girls attended the demonstration, carrying placards and chanting slogans “freedom, work, education,” “wise mother strong nation,” and “education is our right,” organizers said. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Unions_Have_Been_Under_Attack_For_Decades,_But Michigan_Just_Gave_Them_A_Big_Win⠀⇛ On Friday, Michigan repealed an 11-year-old law that weakened unions’ power in the workplace. Known as a “right-to-work” law, this type of legislation has been around since at least 1943, and Michigan is now one of only a handful of states to ever repeal it. When Michigan’s law passed in 2012, the state was firmly in Republican hands. The party held control of the governorship, state Senate and House, after riding the Tea Party wave to power. Conversely, this repeal comes a few short months after the Democratic Party — which has long allied with unions — scored their own trifecta for the first time in roughly four decades. Meanwhile, in 2022, unions reached their highest popularity since 1965. In the repeal of right-to-work, though, partisanship could play just as much of a role as love of unions does. # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Is_Apple_really_joining_the_WFH_counter- revolution?⠀⇛ What’s new, according to Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer, is that Apple is now using badge records to monitor attendance — and has begun to enforce an escalating system of warnings against those who don’t make it in on those three days. It suggests some staff are being warned that failure to comply could cost them their job, though this policy doesn’t seem to be compan-wide. This followed reports that the company has begun cracking down on workers, including insistence on presenteeism and the cessation of additional sick time for staff who catch COVID – even though the virus continues to infect people. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘Speechless’:_US,_Canada_Agree_on_Plan_to_Turn Away_Asylum-Seekers⠀⇛ “We’re simply creating the worst scenario possible” for migrants, said one activist. # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ 2023-03-23Access_Now_and_ARTICLE_19:_Statement on_Myanmar_at_the_52nd_UN_Human_Rights_Council_session⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-24US_Lawmakers_Tackle_Transnational Repression⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-23Black_Residents_of_Louisiana_File_Landmark Lawsuit⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-23Brazil:_Ratify_Regional_Environment_Pact⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-23El_Salvador:_Court_Hears_Case_on_Total Abortion_Ban⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-24Nepal:_Transitional_Justice_Bill_Needs_to Protect_Victims,_not_Abusers⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-24France_Protests_Test_Government’s Commitment_to_Rights⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-24One_Year_On,_the_Taliban_Still_Attacking Girls’_Right_to_Education⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Atlanta’s_“Stop_Cop_City”_Movement_Is_Spreading Despite_Rampant_State_Repression⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-03-20GlaxoSmithKline_Files_Amicus_Brief_in_Amgen v._Sanofi [Ed: Severe conflict of interest]⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-22AbbVie_Files_Amicus_Brief_in_Amgen_v. Sanofi [Ed: Who will be speaking for the general public?]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-03-24UK_patent_office_declines to_base_standard-essential_patent_policy_on_‘anecdotal evidence_from_bodies_representing_smaller_businesses’⠀⇛ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-21US_Judge Overturns_$469_Million_Verdict_Against_Dish_Network Over_Streaming_Patents⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Internet_Archive_to_Appeal_Federal_Ruling Against_Lending_of_Digital_Books⠀⇛ * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Embarrassing_moment..⠀⇛ I stood and talked to someone in my class with something near my chin for A FEW MINUTES. Embarrassing… lol He will think that I am a silly person haha =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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