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 QmPLzQwbdLfSX3Lwy5y4NAytNNrK2R2YVSH35U16u1mRKt (full IRC log 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇text logs⦈ as plain/ASCII text) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇IPFS logo⦈ § Bulletin for Yesterday⠀➾ Local_copy | CID (IPFS): QmWm4edZaVvNMuBZzAa4oDApS61pFXU7zhe1rpSBqcntdr ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 182 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/29/microsoft-is-the-1-percent/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/29/microsoft-is-the-1-percent/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.29.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Among_Users_in_the_World’s_Largest_Population,_Microsoft_is_the_1%⠀✐ Posted in Asia, Microsoft, Search at 8:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Edge developers recently laid off, too (the media_barely_mentioned_this; it’s all about chaffbot hype) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇India's_browsers_share⦈_ Summary: A sobering_look_at_India shows that Microsoft lost control of the 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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 250 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/29/microsoft-seattle-layoffs/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/29/microsoft-seattle-layoffs/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.29.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ In_One_City_Alone_Microsoft_Fired_Almost_3,000_Workers_This_Year_(We’re_Still in_March)⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft at 8:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz In Bill Gates-sponsored media [1, 2] this_week: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_Seattle-area_layoffs_top_2,700_with_tech_giant’s latest_cuts⦈_ Another_Microsoft_piece_from_a_Microsoft_mouthpiece (Bishop, a Microsoft_Media Operative): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_job_cuts_surpass_2,700_in_Seattle_region;_security technology_group_hit_in_latest_round⦈_ The media_in_India (where Microsoft has many layoffs too; GitHub has fired almost all of its Indian (as in India-based) staff): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_layoffs:_559_employees_fired_from_Seattle_offices, taking_total_to_over_2,700⦈_ Summary: You can tell a company isn’t doing well when amid_mass_layoffs it pays endless money to the media — not to actual workers — in order for this media to go crazy over buzzwords, chaffbots, and other vapourware (as if the company is a market leader and has a future for shareholders to look forward to, even if claims are exaggerated and there’s no business model) ⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠶⢶⡶⡶⠶⢶⡶⣶⠶⠶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡖⣶⠶⠲⠶⠶⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡶⣶⣶⣶⣶ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣶⣷⣾⣶⣶⣷⣷⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣷⣶⣶⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣿⣧⣵⣿⣭⣽⣭⣽⣯⣬⣥⣼⣿⣿⣥⣤⣯⣭⣭⣬⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣭⣭⣼⣿⣭⣬⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣯⣯⣤⣽⣯⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣹⣽⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣯⣭⣭⣽⣯⣭⣿⣽⣭⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣯⣭⣭⣽⣿⣭⣭⣭⣍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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It’s basically a rebranded Intel NUC. But since System76 is a Linux PC vendor, the Meerkat comes with a choice of Pop!_OS or Ubuntu Linux pre- installed. Previously available with a choice of 10th or 11th-gen Intel Core processor options, the Meerkat now also supports 12th-gen Intel chips. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Makulu_Max_Development_Update⠀⇛ We have updated the Development Release Highlight Notes for Makulu Max, you can Click Here to see what’s happening on the Development front. Some Really exciting things happening, especially on the AI and Widget development side of things. 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It also supports non-uniform object scales for spot lights, improves adaptive sampling for overexposed scenes to reduce render time, improves GPU rendering performance on Apple devices, adds “Select Linked Vertices” to weight the paint mode, and makes it easier to add F-Curve modifiers to multiple channels. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 6_Best_Mastodon_Clients_for_Ubuntu_and_Other Linux⠀⇛ Are you planning to leave Twitter and join Mastodon? Use these free and open-source Mastodon clients for your Linux desktop. Mastodon is a free and open-source microblogging platform similar to Twitter. It is designed as a decentralised platform that can communicate with other Fediverse protocols such as GNU Social and Pleroma. With the recent news stories about Twitter, many users are trying Mastodon and migrating to the platform. With that in mind, we give you a list of free Mastodon clients for Linux desktops as well as Windows and macOS in this post. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Have_You_Tried_Virtualbox_Unattended_Guest_OS Install?⠀⇛ Recently, I updated my VirtualBox installation to version 7.0.0, I noticed some nice updates on the graphical user interface (GUI). The first was the improved theme support, then the new notification center unifying most of the running processes and error reporting around the GUI. Additionally, in VirtualBox 7 you can navigate and search through the user manual easily via a new help viewer widget. But importantly, the new VM wizard has been reworked to integrate the unattended guest OS installation and to have a more streamlined workflow. This was the most intriguing feature for me, I had never used it before, so I decided to give it a try. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_To_Restore_a_Particular_Schema_from_a PostgreSQL_Database_Backup⠀⇛ If you intend to restore only one or a few schemas from a PostgreSQL backup file, you can use the pg_restore command, which is used for restoring a particular PostgreSQL database…. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_To_Install_and_Use_Android_Debug_Bridge_(adb) in_Linux⠀⇛ Android Debug Bridge (adb) is the most used command-line tool that enables communication between a personal computer and a connected Android-powered device or emulator instance over a USB cable or TCP/IP (wirelessly). # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ An_interesting_yet_ordinary consequence_of_ZFS_using_the_ZIL⠀⇛ However, all of this strict TXG ordering goes out the window once you introduce the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL), because the ZIL’s entire purpose is to persist selected operations to disk before they’re committed as part of a transaction group. Renames and file creations always go in the ZIL (along with various other metadata operations), but file data only goes in the ZIL if you fsync() it (this is a slight simplification, and file data isn’t necessarily directly in the ZIL). # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Kontact_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Kontact on Debian 11. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Setup_UFW_Firewall_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to setup UFW Firewall on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Rancher_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Rancher on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Last_of_Us_on_Steam_Deck_is_not_great⠀⇛ Here we are, another big release on Steam and sadly it’s just seemingly not a good experience from my early testing. Even though it seemed like we might see good support, the result is nothing of the sort. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GOG_giving_away_another_game_during_their Spring_Sale⠀⇛ Alwa’s Awakening is now up for grabs if you’re in need of a free game, plus there’s a whole lot of discounts in GOG’s Spring Sale. To claim the free game, you need to be logged in. Scroll down a bit and you’ll see the giveaway banner where you can grab it. You have until March 30th 2PM UTC to grab it. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Dolphin_Emulator_for_GameCube_and_Wii_is coming_to_Steam⠀⇛ Giving you another easy way to download and keep it up to date, the Dolphin Emulator for GameCube and Wii is coming to Steam. Even though it’s going to be on Steam, they don’t dare mention Nintendo directly on the Steam page: “Dolphin is an emulator for the big N’s 6th and 7th generation consoles, featuring enhancements such as increased resolution, save states, and netplay.” # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fresh_Steam_Deck_and_Steam_desktop_Beta, Valve_dropping_old_Windows_support⠀⇛ Steam Deck and Steam desktop both got a fresh Beta release, with plenty of bug fixing involved and Valve are dropping support for older versions of Windows. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Announcing_KTechLab_0.51.0⠀⇛ I’m happy to announce KTechLab release version 0.51.0. KTechLab is an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics. This new release contains the following changes: # updated and improved translations # the Serial Port component, for better compatibility, uses Qt’s QSerialPort, instead of operating-system specific library calls # experimental support for Windows; it requires MSVC 2019 compiler # various stability fixes # modernisation of the codebase, porting away from some deprecated APIs * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Klara ☛ FreeBSD_or_Linux_–_A_Choice_Without_OS_Wars⠀⇛ Pinning FreeBSD against Linux is a tale as old as time. But it removes from the necessary conversation about which technology is most suitable for its users. Both Linux and FreeBSD are mature operating systems with a myriad of resources and features to offer. At times, one will be more suitable than the other depending on the use case and aim. In this article, we take time to discuss where does it fit, and provide the audience with more reading material before making a decision. # ⚓ Marian Bouček ☛ OpenSMTPD_on_FreeBSD⠀⇛ Any Google account that has 2-factor authentication enabled prohibits the so-called “less secure” apps from using the standard Google password. In order to overcome this problem, navigate to the Security page in Google Account and then move to Two-factor Authentication section. Generate a new special App Password for the service here. # ⚓ TuMFatig ☛ Self-Hosted_Calendar_and_Addressbook_services_on OpenBSD⠀⇛ Once you have self-hosted email up and running, you may want to add the Calendar and Addressbook features to your service bag. Nowadays, the standard protocols regarding those subjects are CalDAV and CardDAV. I decided to go with Baikal, the dedicated CalDAV+CardDAV server based on the sabre/dav framework ; the same framework used in Nextcloud DAV services AFAIK. It relies on PHP and is available as a package on OpenBSD. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Will_New_CEO_Dirk-Peter_van_Leeuwen_Bring ‘Open_Source_Way’_Magic_to_SUSE?⠀⇛ As Red Hat slowly loses its open culture under IBM’s ownership, SUSE might be set to finally become an important global open-source player, but only if its board allows the former Red Hatter who will take the helm on May 2 to bring “the open source way” to a secretive and “top-down” corporate culture. [...] Melissa Di Donato is out as CEO of SUSE, effective immediately, and Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen is in, or will be on May 1. In the meantime, SUSE’s CFO Andy Myers will be holding the reins as he continues with his CFO role. According to a press release from SUSE, Di Donato is leaving to “embark on the next chapter of her career.” My guess is that she was let go, and gently pushed out the door with a generous separation package. She left quickly and without fanfare. Although a press release was written and posted online last week, the PR people at SUSE didn’t bother to notify many of the tech journalists they typically turn to when they want to get the news out about a new hire or product release. Jonas Persson, chair of SUSE’s board, praised her she was walking out the door, with something of a “the king is dead; long live the king” statement. o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Arch_Linux_Installer_Gets_Initial_Swapfile Prototype,_Updated_Sway_Profile,_and_More⠀⇛ Archinstall 2.5.4 is here to implement an initial swapfile prototype to enable the creation of a swapfile and hibernation, an updated profile for the Sway window manager to allow you to install it with polkit or seatd, as well as the ability to generate a -fallback variant of boot entries for systemd-boot. This release also introduces the ability to save your entire encryption configuration, adds a sector unit for parted to make creating partitions easier, removes the archlinux-keyring package update since it’s been replaced by a service that populates keys, and adds support for using the pacstrap - K command to initialize a new pacman keyring. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_Gets_Official_Ubuntu_Flavor Status⠀⇛ Waiting for Ubuntu 23.04 next month? Well, we already mentioned that one of the exciting things about the Ubuntu 23.04 release includes a new official Cinnamon flavor (originally, Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix). And, that is now official, as the Technical Board of Ubuntu approved it with enough votes. o § v/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Rockchip_RK3588_embedded_PCs_support_PoE,_4G LTE,_10GbE,_2.5-inch_SATA_HDD,_and_more⠀⇛ Mekotronics provides Android 12, Debian 11, and Ubuntu images, as well as support for Buildroot. The new model uses the exact same motherboard as the Mekotronics R58X-4G and as such, they rely on the same OS images. One of the images (Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy) has been built with the Armbian build system, or even by the Armbian team themselves since Mekotronics thanks Armbian… I could find videos of the new device in action, but they should perform the same as the Mekotronics R58 mini PC which we reviewed earlier, although the software must have improved since July 2022. However, the company did upload a video showing how the 2.5-inch SATA bay works on the R58X-HDD model. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ RAKwireless_launches_modules_designed_for LoRa_and_BLE5_connectivity⠀⇛ This month, RAKwireless launched a LoRa/BLE5 module based on the Ambiq Apollo3 Blue SoC and the Semtech SX1262 optimized for IoT applications. These new RAK11720 modules start at $7.99 and are compatible with Arduino programming. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ How_to_build_your_own_Raspberry_Pi_webcam⠀⇛ We slightly amended Max’s original design for the 3D-printed parts so they fit our newest Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3. You need to print just two small support pieces so that the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and the camera module will sit nicely inside an Apple iSight shell. You can find the parts on Printables, and download them for free. We found an Apple iSight on good old eBay and we’ve made a disassembly video to show you how to remove the internals. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ EPROM_Does_VGA⠀⇛ If you wanted to create a VGA card, you might think about using an FPGA. But there are simpler ways to generate patterns, including an old-fashioned EPROM, as [DrMattRegan] points out in a recent video. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ IOT_Message_Board_Puts_Fourteen-Segment_Displays To_Work⠀⇛ We’re not sure, but the number of recognizable alphanumeric characters that a seven-segment display can manage seems to have more to do with human pattern recognition than engineering. It takes some imagination, and perhaps a little squinting, to discern some characters, though. Arguably better is the fourteen-segment display, which has been pressed into service in this just- for-funsies IOT message board. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Convert_your_3D_printer_into_a_metal_cutting machine_with_an_Electrical_Discharge_Machining_kit_ (Crowdfunding)⠀⇛ Rack Robotics’ Powercore is an Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) kit that converts your existing 3D printer (or CNC router) into a machine capable of cutting high-precision and detailed metal parts. We’ve already seen 2-in-1 3D printers and laser engravers such as the Creality Ender 3 S1 Pro, but while this type of machine can usually cut plywood or engrave stainless steel, the laser is not powerful enough to cut through aluminum. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Business Today ☛ Realme_C55_review:_A_solid_budget_Android with_iPhone-like_dynamic_island_–_BusinessToday⠀⇛ # ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_free_up_space_on_Android_–_Geeky Gadgets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Top_9_Ways_to_Fix_‘Android_Connected_To WiFi_But_No_Internet’_issue⠀⇛ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ 7_Google_Play_Store_secrets_for_smarter Android_app_management_|_Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Honor_introduces_two_affordable_mid-range Android-driven_phones_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ A_new_Android_botnet_trojan_is_out_for your_banking_data⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_scores_partial_victory_in_Android antitrust_case_in_India_|_Reuters⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Google_wins_partial_relief_in_Android antitrust_case_in_India_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Google_loses_appeal,_Rs_1337_crore_fine upheld_by_NCLAT_in_Android_antitrust_case_|_Technology News,The_Indian_Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Google_again_accused_of_destroying evidence_in_Android_case_•_The_Register⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ a_Bloomberg_donation⠀⇛ Hi curl admins, Alyssa here from the Bloomberg Open Source Program Office. I wanted to let you know that curl was selected as a winner in our inaugural FOSS Contributor Fund! We wanted to let you know of the results before we transferred funds via Open Source Collective. Can you confirm you’ve received this message? Again, we’re super excited to support your work and excited that you were selected in our inaugural vote! Please let us know if we can be of any further support. All best, Alyssa. The quote above was received by the curl team on March 27, 2023 and… # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl_code_coverage⠀⇛ A few years back we actually did a build and a test run in our CI setup that used one of those cloud services that would monitor the code coverage and warn if we would commit something that drastically reduced coverage. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_2023_Hackaday_Prize_Is_Ten,_First_Challenge Is_Educational⠀⇛ If you were anywhere near Hackaday over the weekend, you certainly noticed that we launched the tenth annual Hackaday Prize! In celebration of the milestone, we picked from our favorite challenges of years past and came up with four of our favorite, and even one new one just to keep you on your toes. But the first challenge round is running right now, so get your hacking motors turning. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Creative_Commons_Open_Education Platform:_2022_in_Review⠀⇛ We ran a successful French translation, as well as the first ever Spanish language sprint for the CC Certificate course reading content. Thanks to the efforts of CC Certificate graduates and additional translators,2 569 million more people will have access to CC Certificate open educational resources (OER) in their native languages. These published works enable 493 million native Spanish speakers and 76 million native French speakers to access translations in their languages — not to mention others who have Spanish or French as a second language. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Why_We_Must_Defend_Against_the_GOP_Plan_to Destroy_Public_Education⠀⇛ The following are the prepared remarks by American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten delivered on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at the National Press Club. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Teachers_Union_Leader_Calls_for_Defending Public_Education_From_‘Dangerous’_GOP_Attacks⠀⇛ American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten on Tuesday defended the egalitarian legacy and goals of public education and outlined a participatory plan to strengthen it nationwide as right-wing lawmakers intensify their long-standing assault on the institution. o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_LibrePlanet_Workshop_–_April_17_–_Digital Colonialism,_Surveillance_Capitalism_and_a_Libre_Software Future_by_Jose_Castro⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_LibrePlanet_workshop_–_April_10_–_Newk Script:_Code_Katas_to_learn_programming_by_Reynaldo_Cordero⠀⇛ o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ parted_@_Savannah:_parted-3.5.28_released_[alpha]⠀⇛ I have released an alpha version of parted-3.5.28 Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted- 3.5.28.tar.xz   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted- 3.5.28.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:   https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the SHA256 checksums: af8a880df2e7b577c99ed9ee27a38e3f645896de8354dbfc05d8e81179a6d6dc  parted-3.5.28.tar.xz 49e8c4fc8aae92d8922f39aaae1fcdb0c8be3f3a80d34e006916e93a4a4852fc  parted-3.5.28.tar.xz.sig [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:   gpg --verify parted-3.5.28.tar.xz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, or that public key has expired, try the following commands to update or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.   gpg --locate-external-key bcl@redhat.com   gpg --recv-keys 117E8C168EFE3A7F   wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/ release-gpgkeys.php?group=parted&download=1' | gpg --import - This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:   Autoconf 2.71   Automake 1.16.5   Gettext 0.21   Gnulib v0.1-5949-g480a59ba60   Gperf 3.1 NEWS Noteworthy changes in release 3.5.28 (2023-03-24) [alpha] ** New Features   Support GPT partition attribute bit 63 as no_automount flag.   Add type commands to set type-id on MS-DOS and type-uuid on GPT.   Add swap flag support to the dasd disklabel   Add display of GPT disk and partition UUIDs in JSON output ** Bug Fixes   Fix use of enums in flag limits by switching to using #define   Fix ending sector location when using kibi IEC suffix         o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ Joinup ☛ Galileo_HASlib_Service⠀⇛ Funded by European Commission DG-DEFIS, the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) distributes and share under the European Union Public Licence the HASlib program, an open-source software package intended to facilitate the implementation of the Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS). # ⚓ National Land Survey of Finland ☛ HASlib:_an_open-source decoder_for_the_Galileo_High_Accuracy_Service⠀⇛ HASlib is available for download at the GitHub platform under the European Union Public License (EUPL). Its design is described in the Master’s thesis by Oliver Horst, and a shorter description can be found in the publication Horst et al. 2022. HASlib was developed in the project Precise and Authentic User Location Analysis (PAULA), funded by European Commission DG-DEFIS contract DEFIS/2020/ OP/0002. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Qt_Creator_10_Open-Source_IDE_Released_with LLVM_16_Support,_CMake_Improvements⠀⇛ Qt Creator 10 comes more than four months after Qt Creator 9 and introduces new features like the ability to temporarily drag the progress details out of the visible area and support for the “Open as Centered Popup” option to remember the last search term typed into the input field. This release also adds support for the latest LLVM 16 compiler infrastructure to further improve C++ 20 support in Clang, as well as the interaction between Qt Creator and Clangd. Also for C++ support, Qt Creator 10 enables the ClangFormat plugin by default for indentation. # ⚓ Yoshua Wuyts ☛ Linear_Types_One-Pager⠀⇛ This post represents an overview of an MVP “linear types” design which we could probably start implementing and validating today if we wanted to. What I’m sharing here is a combination of conversations I’ve had with Gankra and Jonas Sheevink. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Rust_Basics_Series_#1:_Create_and_Run Your_First_Rust_Program⠀⇛ In the first chapter of the Rust programming series, you learn to write and execute your first program in Rust. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_348:_Sci-Fi_&_Silicon Valley⠀⇛ Science fiction has always served as a source of inspiration for real technological progress. Sometimes that’s great, but other times it enables abuse or leads people to make terrible assumptions that result in harmful decisions. This week we’re joined by the hosts of the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, authors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, who recently began tackling this very subject, to discuss the relationship between Silicon Valley and science fiction. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Magic_8_Ball_Provides_Tech_Support⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Puzzle_of_Ryan_Lee_Wong’s_Activist_Autofiction⠀⇛ Over the din of a Korean barbecue restaurant in Los Angeles, Reed, the hero of Ryan Lee Wong’s debut novel, Which Side Are You On, tells his parents that he plans to drop out of Columbia University after spring break. Guilt-stricken after Peter Liang’s killing of Akai Gurley, Reed (of Korean-Chinese heritage) argues that “everything in college is designed to insulate us from the world.” It is 2014. Politically awakened through protests and the left-wing corners of Twitter, he decides he wants no part of “the great American ladder climb, where East Asians hoard resources and try to become white at the expense of Black and Brown people.” This impending change forces his parents to divulge more about their own pasts as activists—admitting that they faced the same choice in university, only to realize life is easier in the long term when you’re not a partisan. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Kids_leave_empty_lunch_trays_for_Kathy_Hochul_to promote_more_free_meals_in_NY_budget⠀⇛ About 75% of New York public school students currently get free meals, according to the Hochul administration, but lawmakers from both parties say more can be done. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Particular_Misery_of_College-Admissions TikTok⠀⇛ A common theory of teen unhappiness says that kids these days are under an inordinate amount of pressure to compete. The evidence is all over social media. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_New_Gaming_Shell_For_A_Mouse⠀⇛ For some gamers, having a light fast polling mouse is key. [Ali] of [Optimum Tech] loved his 23-gram mouse but disliked the cord. Not seeing any options for a comparable wireless mouse, he decided to make one himself. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Kino_Wheels_Gives_You_A_Hand_Learning_Camera Operation⠀⇛ Have you ever watched a movie or a video and really noticed the quality of the camera work? If you have, chances are the camera operator wasn’t very skilled, since the whole point of the job is to not be noticed. And getting to that point requires a lot of practice, especially since the handwheel controls for professional cameras can be a little tricky to master. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ History_Of_The_SPARC_CPU_Architecture⠀⇛ [RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors during the 1980s and 1990s. SPARC was initially developed by Sun Microsystems, which most of us associate the SPARC but while most computer architectures are controlled by a single company, SPARC was championed by dozens of players.  The history of SPARC is not simply the history of Sun. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ New_Mexico_tackles_food_insecurity_with_free school_meals_for_all⠀⇛ New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed a bill to provide free school meals to all students, setting aside more than $22 million to fund the program. The legislation aims to combat food insecurity rates, boost local agriculture, and reduce food waste. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Bellies_of_the_Rich_Swell_Further_on_the Back_of_Hunger⠀⇛ Colin todhunter It’s a zero-sum situation. The rich are robbing the poor to swell their coffers – and their bellies. In April 2022, Oxfam reported a terrifying prospect of more than a quarter of a billion people falling into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 alone. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Baltimore_Blocks_EPA_Plan_to_Dump_Toxic Wastewater_From_East_Palestine⠀⇛ A local Democratic lawmaker in Baltimore on Tuesday credited community members and clean water advocates for helping to secure an environmental victory, as the City Council unanimously approved a resolution to block shipments of contaminated wastewater from East Palestine, Ohio. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ UN_warns_of_‘imminent’_global_water crisis⠀⇛ About 26% of the global population does not have access to safe drinking water and about 46% of people lack access to safely managed sanitation services, according to a new report by the United Nations. The UN World Water Development Report 2023 was released right before the first UN conference on global water scarcity in nearly a half-century, which is set to start on Wednesday. While launching its new report, the United Nations warned of an “imminent” international crisis. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Italy_investigates_TikTok_over_‘dangerous content’⠀⇛ The Italian antitrust authority on Tuesday accused TikTok of breaching its own guidelines by failing to remove content related to suicide, self-harm and poor nutrition. A recent face-marking challenge, dubbed “French scar,” has taken the app by storm. The challenge involves pinching one’s face until it bruises. # ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Occupational_Disease_and_Women:_From_the Radium_Girls_to_Garment_Workers⠀⇛ All occupational diseases start somewhere. Sometimes they have a well-known history and treatment, as with certain cancers, tuberculosis, and more common stress-related ailments and fractures. Coal miners develop pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung. Meatpacking and poultry-plant workers get repetitive stress injuries. Other occupational ailments are so specific they almost sound comical: Mad hatter’s disease, which afflicted Victorian-era hat makers who fell victim to mercury poisoning that damaged the nerves and brain (“mad as a hatter,” get it?); workers and artists who used lead-based paint and found themselves poisoned and in pain had painters’ colic; and as potters worked at their kilns, they breathed in tiny shards of silica dust, which lodged in and scarred their lungs, giving them potters’ rot. No matter what an occupational disease is called, the reality has always been uglier. Sometimes capitalism extracts its pound of flesh metaphorically, and sometimes more literally, but it’s always the workers who pay the price. # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ statezMinister_Järvan:_TikTok_to be_banned_on_state_officials’_work_phones⠀⇛ In response to an EPL question, in an interview with the daily, asking whether the Estonian state has weighed up banning apps such as TikTok on official phones, Järvan said: “This will be closed down on all centrally managed devices, this month.” # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ My_6-Year-Old_Son_Died._Then_the_Anti- vaxxers_Found_Out.⠀⇛ I’m a North Carolina–based journalist who specializes in countering misinformation on social media. I know that Twitter, Facebook, and other networks amplify bad information; that their algorithms feed on anger and division; that anonymity and distance bring out the worst in some people online. And yet I had never anticipated that anyone would mock and terrorize a grieving parent. I’ve now received thousands of harassing posts. Some people emailed me at work. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Over_40%_of_Finns_received_private healthcare_reimbursements_from_Kela_in_2022⠀⇛ 40 percent of Finns received Kela reimbursements for private healthcare in 2022, according to a press release from the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela). This represents a slight increase from the drop caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of those receiving Kela reimbursements for private healthcare were located in Varsinais-Suomi, Satakunta, and Helsinki. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Prasenjit_Saha,_LTIMindtree_on_the_need_of cyber_resilient_ransomware_protection [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Legacy backups are no longer a reliable defence mechanism against ransomware attacks, the evolving threat landscape calls for more advanced security measures. Attackers can now infiltrate systems and remain undetected for long periods, giving them ample time to encrypt backup data too. Relying solely on legacy backups could lead to businesses losing critical data permanently. Legacy data backup contains a lot of weaknesses, and lacks the following elements: [...] # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Interview:_Open_source_is_good_for_AI_but, is_AI_good_for_open_source?⠀⇛ We’re at a weird time with AI and Intellectual Property. Well, IP has been in a weird place since Napster launched at the turn of the century! None of the issues around sharing, remixing, and controlling have been properly resolved. Copyleft is a noble goal – but seems more honour’d in the breach than the observance. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Thousands_Access_Fake_DDoS-for-Hire Websites_Set_Up_by_UK_Police⠀⇛ The UK’s National Crime Agency has been running several DDoS-for-hire websites to collect information about individuals looking to launch such attacks. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ UK_Sets_Up_Fake_Booter_Sites_To_Muddy DDoS_Market⠀⇛ The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ ChatGPT_Data_Breach_Confirmed_as_Security Firm_Warns_of_Vulnerable_Component_Exploitation⠀⇛ OpenAI has confirmed a ChatGPT data breach on the same day a security firm reported seeing the use of a component affected by an actively exploited vulnerability. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ 14_Million_Records_Stolen_in_Data_Breach_at Latitude_Financial_Services⠀⇛ Australian financial services provider Latitude says roughly 14 million user records were stolen in a recent cyberattack. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ China’s_Nuclear_Energy_Sector_Targeted_in Cyberespionage_Campaign⠀⇛ A South Asian espionage group named Bitter has been targeting the Chinese nuclear energy sector. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Europol_coordinates_armed_special_forces_and now_also_surveillance_teams⠀⇛ With the Atlas group, the EU has a powerful police network of 38 member states. On Germany’s initiative, a „surveillance group“ has now been added. [...] However, the governments have decided in the Council that the agency may coordinate its special units. Since 2019, a „support office“ for the so-called Atlas Group has been located at Europol’s Counter-Terrorism Centre in The Hague. It organises 38 special task forces from the Schengen states as well as Great Britain, which will be allowed to continue participating in police cooperation in Europe even after Brexit. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ U.S._Hardware_Is_Fueling_Russia’s Facial_Recognition_Crackdown_on_Anti-War_Dissidents⠀⇛ Not everyone in Russia is happy with Moscow’s war in Ukraine, but protesting can be dangerous. On March 4, 20022—a week after it launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine—Russia made it illegal to publicly criticize the war. Some protesters even found themselves rounded up and sent to the frontlines. The father of a 13-year old girl who drew an anti-war picture was recently sentenced to a year in a penal colony. The report from Reuters details how facial recognition software has aided the Kremlin in its crackdown against dissidents. There are more than 160,000 cameras in Moscow and 3,000 of them are connected to facial recognition software. According to Moscow court records, the technology has aided in the arrest of hundreds of protestors. # ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Government_Is_Turning_Border Surveillance_on_Everyday_Americans⠀⇛ “By viewing these towers on the map,” says Maass, “you can really get a sense of how these towers are installed in residential communities, be it urban or rural, and not just in the remote expanses of the Southwest.” The government hasn’t disclosed much about the towers beyond their expense, leaving the people who study and live in the borderlands with incomplete information. Sam Chambers, a geography and migration researcher at the University of Arizona, says that those studying surveillance in the borderlands previously “had to rely on documents such as environmental impact statements or other public records to know where a tower may be or had been built—and that was limited to specific districts and had to be verified.” Otherwise, researchers had to “learn by word of mouth or searching for them themselves.” # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Amazon_opens_up_its_Sidewalk_Network to_all⠀⇛ Amazon has opened up its Sidewalk low power wide-area network for all developers Tuesday, touting coverage for 90% of the U.S. population. The online retailer will provide free test kits so developers can suss out where Sidewalk has coverage, and how robust that coverage is. # ⚓ Emmanuel Maggiori ☛ Amazon’s_cashierless_stores: artificial_intelligence_or_major_deception?⠀⇛ When I walked into the shop for the first time, it did indeed feel a bit like science fiction. You first pass your phone through a scanner at the turnstile to log in as an Amazon customer. You then pick up products while cameras over the ceiling film you; there are many of them and they seem to cover every inch of the store. The shopping experience is rather smooth, as there is no protocol to follow and no one tells you what to do—you can put products in a shopping bag, place them in a backpack, or carry them in your hands. Once you’re finished, you head to the exit and the gate opens automatically—no payment, no cashier, no app. But then something sketchy happens: Almost immediately after walking out of the store, you receive a message from Amazon saying “thank you for your shopping” and explaining that they’re “preparing your receipt,” which you should receive soon. It usually takes a couple of hours until the itemized receipt is delivered to you and the payment is taken. The waiting time varies and can be as long as 50 hours according to some reports. If Amazon Fresh was truly powered by artificial intelligence, why the delay? # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_FSB_seeks_‘constant_remote_access’ to_Russian_taxi_service_databases_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian FSB has developed draft legislation that would give intelligence agencies “constant remote access” to the databases kept by taxi companies that are included on the government’s registry of “organizers of information dissemination” (which includes Yandex). # ⚓ NYOB ☛ Majority_of_credit_bureau_“CRIF”_database illegal⠀⇛ Decision by Austrian DPA in noyb case: Data of millions of Austrians have to be deleted # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ US_And_EU_Nations_Request_The_Most_User Data_From_Tech_Companies,_Obtain_It_More_Than_Two- Thirds_Of_The_Time⠀⇛ Most tech companies handling data requests from governments now publish transparency reports. As everything moves towards always- online status (including, you know, your fridge), social media platforms and other online services have become the favored targets of government data requests. It just makes sense to look there first rather than out there in the real world, where people (and their communications) are that much more difficult to locate. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Chris Ferris ☛ Public_Access_Key_–_2023⠀⇛ Earlier this week, I did a big no-no. I deliberately published an AWS Access Key and its associated secret to GitHub. While I suspect many of you now think, “what a horrible cloud security person he is”, I figured I’d share my learnings. Timeline of events & quarantine # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Financial,_health,_contact_information exposed_in_Meriton_data_breach⠀⇛ The property giant contacted around 1900 staff and guests to inform them their data may have been accessed in the latest cyber incident involving an Australian company. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Arms_Manufacturer_Says_TikTok_‘Cat Videos’_Are_Keeping_It_From_Making_Ammo⠀⇛ The Norwegian defense company Nammo said it can’t expand its factory and make new ammunition because TikTok’s new data centers nearby are using up all the electricity. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Unseen_Taliban_Leader_Wields_Godlike_Powers_in Afghanistan⠀⇛ Except for some senior Taliban officials who claim to have seen him in person, Akhundzada, believed to be in his 70s, is an enigma to Afghans — and the world — because there is no information about the man who rules Afghanistan without being seen, elected or accountable to anyone. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Pakistan_to_Skip_US_Summit_for_Democracy⠀⇛ A Foreign Ministry statement in Islamabad thanked Washington for the invitation but did not specify any reasons for skipping the event. However, critics attributed the exclusion of longtime ally China from the event as a likely reason for Pakistan to opt out, as it did when Biden hosted the first summit in December 2021. Islamabad does not want to upset its “all-weather friend” Beijing, Pakistani English-language Dawn newspaper reported. Turkey, which maintains close ties with Pakistan, also has not been invited to this week’s gathering in Washington. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ China_Accused_of_Meddling_in_Canada’s Elections⠀⇛ Chiu, who was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Canada, said he later found out through Disinfo Watch, Quebec-based McGill University and the Atlantic Council that he was smeared by a disinformation campaign that sought to influence ethnic Chinese voters. He said false rumors started spreading online and on the Chinese instant messaging app WeChat, that the Conservative Party and Chiu himself were going to ban the platform in Canada. WeChat is the only messaging service that many in Canada’s Chinese community can use to communicate with friends and family in China. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Will_the_US-Backed_War_in_Yemen_Ever_End?⠀⇛ This past Saturday marked the eighth anniversary of the launch of Operation Decisive Storm, the Saudi- led military intervention in Yemen. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ted_Cruz_AUMF_Amendment_Would_Authorize_War With_Iran⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Parliament_approves_Finland’s_application for_NATO_membership_after_eight_months_of_delay⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Pentagon_Leaders_Admit_Defense_Funding_“Wish Lists”_Are_a_Bad_Practice⠀⇛ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_real_definition_of_victory_for Ukraine⠀⇛ Genuine Ukrainian independence will only come with the country as a member of the European Union and NATO, writes Victor Pinchuk. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Could_the_Final_Surprise_in_Russia’s_War_in Ukraine_Be_a_Mushroom_Cloud?⠀⇛ Some wars acquire names that stick. The Lancaster and York clans fought the War of the Roses from 1455-1485 to claim the British throne. The Hundred Years’ War pitted England against France from 1337- 1453. In the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648, many European countries clashed, while Britain and France waged the Seven Years’ War, 1756-63, across significant parts of the globe. World War I (1914- 1918) gained the lofty moniker, “The Great War,” even though World II (1939-1945) would prove far greater in death, destruction, and its grim global reach. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ House_Republican’s_Vow_After_School_Shooting: “We’re_Not_Going_to_Fix_It”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Hungary_ratifies_Finland’s_Nato_bid, Turkey_expected_to_follow_suit_shortly⠀⇛ THE HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT on Monday approved the Finnish application to join Nato by a vote of 182 in favour and 6 against. Helsingin Sanomat on Monday reported that all the ratification was opposed only by members of Our Homeland Movement, a far-right opposition party that believes expanding the defence alliance would geographically escalate Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Congress_Has_Been_Captured_by_the_Arms Industry⠀⇛ And We’re Paying the Price (and What a Price It Is!) # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Libyan_Coast_Guard:_Again_shooting_instead_of rescue⠀⇛ The EU Commission supports the Libyan Coast Guard financially and with equipment. In at least five cases, the units have used firearms in maritime distress cases outside their territorial waters. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_China_and_Russia_Deepen_Ties To_Oppose_US’s_Destabilizing_Actions⠀⇛ The recent accord between Saudi Arabia and Iran, facilitated by China, signifies a seismic shift in geopolitical dynamics. This was followed by a three-day summit between the presidents of China and Russia in Moscow where they signed agreements that deepen their cooperation. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ICC_Charges_Putin_With_War_Crimes_While_US_and Israeli_Leaders_Enjoy_Impunity⠀⇛ The U.S. celebrates the charges against Putin, but pressures the ICC to refrain from prosecuting Israelis and Americans. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Two_police_officers_injured_in_shooting_at_patrol post_between_Ingushetia_and_North_Ossetia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Two police officers were injured in a shooting at a patrol post between Ingushetia and North Ossetia, the North Ossetian Investigative Committee reported on Tuesday. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Dad,_you_are_my_hero’:_A_Russian_court_sentenced a_single_father_to_two_years_in_prison_for_his_daughter’s antiwar_drawing._But_the_defendant_fled_from_under_house arrest_the_night_before._—_Meduza⠀⇛ Alexey Moskalev is a single father from Yefremov, a town in Russia’s Tula region. Back in April 2022, his 12-year-old daughter Masha “shocked” her school teachers and principal by drawing an antiwar picture in art class. The girl’s drawing depicted a woman with a Ukrainian flag defending her child from flying missiles. Above the picture, the sixth- grader had written two slogans: “Glory to Ukraine!” and “No to war.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Now_there’s_just_emptiness’_Residents_of_Dnipro’s 118_Victory_Embankment_apartment_complex_recall_the_airstrike that_killed_dozens_of_their_neighbors_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On the afternoon of January 14, Russian troops subjected Ukraine to yet another round of shelling. One of the missiles they fired, a five-ton Kh-22, hit a nine-story apartment building on Dnipro’s Victory Embankment, completely destroying 63 apartments and damaging more than 200. The strike killed at least 46 people, six of whom were children, and injured 81, while nine people were still unaccounted for as of the authorities’ last public report in late January. While many of the survivors found new homes after the incident, others have continued living in the building, where they can still see the wreckage of neighboring apartments from their windows. Meduza traveled to Dnipro to speak to residents of Building No. 118 about what it’s like to live in the aftermath of such a devastating attack. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Three_cadets_at_military_academy_in_St._Petersburg die_of_unknown_causes_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Three cadets at the Budyonny Military Academy in St. Petersburg recently died at the institution, according to the Russian news outlet Fontanka and multiple Telegram channels. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Noah’s_Wounds_Were_Not_Survivable’: Parents_Allow_Detailed_View_of_AR-15_Carnage⠀⇛ On Monday morning, The Washington Postpublished a series of 3D animations to show “how bullets from an AR-15 blow the body apart.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2_Killed_in_Knife_Attack_at_Ismaili_Center in_Lisbon,_Portugal⠀⇛ The police shot and wounded the assailant at the Ismaili Center in Portugal’s capital. His motive was not immediately clear. # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Danish_ship_overrun_by_pirates⠀⇛ Danish-owned tanker Monjasa Reformer has been attacked and potentially hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea. The ship, which belongs to Danish oil trading company Monjasa, is currently located roughly 100 kilometres from the southerly coast of Cameroon. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_to_Lift_the_Fog_of_War_in_Ukraine?_Try These_Playing_Cards.⠀⇛ To help soldiers quickly distinguish friend from foe, the Pentagon is issuing playing cards with pictures of 52 different NATO weapons systems. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Torture_and_Turmoil_at_Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia_Plant:_An_Insider’s_Account⠀⇛ The former director of Europe’s largest nuclear facility describes abuse of Ukrainian workers and careless practices by the Russians who took control of the plant. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Some_Ukrainians_Refuse_to_Leave_Avdiivka Despite_Russian_Bombardment⠀⇛ In Avdiivka, as in Bakhmut and other devastated places on the front lines, most residents left long ago, but there are holdouts. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Push_in_Eastern_Ukraine_Leaves Avdiivka_in_Ruins⠀⇛ Moscow has struggled to capture new ground in eastern Ukraine but its bombardment has laid waste to cities and towns. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ With_US_Opposed,_UN_Security_Council Rejects_Russia-Led_Push_for_Nord_Stream_Probe⠀⇛ The United Nations Security Council on Monday rejected a Russia-led effort to launch a fresh international probe into last year’s sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in the wake of investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s reports accusing the U.S. of carrying out the attack. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Blue-and-yellow_wooden_drone_crashes_in_Moscow suburb_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The remnants of a handcrafted drone have been discovered in New Moscow, part of the Moscow metropolitan area. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Girl_Sent_to_Orphanage_After Father_Criticizes_War⠀⇛ Rights activists worry that the separation of a teenage girl and her father after they criticized the war in Ukraine might signal a toughening of the crackdown on dissent. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kamala_Harris,_at_Former_Slave_Port_in Ghana,_Ties_Past_to_Present⠀⇛ The vice president leaned into her heritage during a three-nation trip to Africa to strengthen U.S. relations on the continent. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Nashville_Mourns_6_Killed_in_129th_U.S. Mass_Shooting_This_Year,_After_Tennessee_Loosens_Gun_Laws⠀⇛ Nashville is in mourning after a gunman killed six people at a private Christian elementary school Monday before being killed by police. The victims were three adults who worked at the school and three 9-year-old students. Police identified the shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student, who entered the school through a side door armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun. The shooter had written a manifesto laying out plans for the attack that included maps of the building, but no motive has been established. Monday’s massacre was the 129th mass shooting in the United States this year alone, including 13 school shootings. “People here are still just in shock,” says Holly McCall, the editor-in-chief of the Tennessee Lookout. “It’s just not difficult at all in Tennessee to get any type of weapon. Over the last six or seven years, we’ve seen the Legislature increasingly passing laws that even law enforcement officials and law enforcement organizations oppose.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_End_of_the_World_Has_Always_Been_Just Around_the_Corner⠀⇛ Indulge me for a moment. This is how “The Prophecy” in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some of my classmates in the year we graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City. Being an historian, I am jotting down these notes out of habit, but what I saw and experienced two days ago I am sure no one else as civilized as I am will ever see. I am writing for those who shall come a long time from now. First of all, let me introduce myself. I am THOMAS M. ENGELHARDT, world- renowned historian of the late twentieth century, should that mean anything to whoever reads this account. After the great invasion, I was maintaining a peaceful, contented existence in the private shelter I had built and was completing the ninth and final volume of my masterpiece, The Influence of the Civil War on Mexican Art of the Twentieth Century, when I was seized by a strange desire to emerge from my shelter, have a look at the world, and find some companions. Realizing the risk I was taking, I carefully opened the hatch of the shelter and slowly climbed out. It was morning. To my shock, I was in a wide field overgrown with weeds; there was no sign of the community that had been there… # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Putin’s_Nuremberg_Moment⠀⇛ The decision by the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over the deportation of thousands of children from Ukraine to Russia is by far the boldest assertion of international justice in history. Faced with Russia’s naked aggression in invading Ukraine, followed by a daily stream of brazen war crimes, the world, or at least part of it, is living a Nuremberg moment, pushing the boundaries of the possible. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Oh_Look,_More_Dead_Kids⠀⇛ What to say. More gun carnage, this time in Nashville, where three children and three adults were shot dead at a private Christian school – so much for God’s protection – in America’s 90th school shooting this year. But GOP legislators and Gov. Bill Lee are on it: They’ve eliminated permits, licenses, registration or background checks to get more guns, they’ve banned drag shows and trans health care, and they’re praying with all their hearts (and bloody hands). One more time: #ItsTheFuckingGuns. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ From_Media_Outlet_to_‘Non-State_Hostile Intelligence_Service’⠀⇛ By designating WikiLeaks a spy outfit, the U.S. government has stacked the deck against Julian Assange and leveled an unprecedented threat against journalism. [...] When Yahoo News sought comment from Pompeo, the former CIA director did not respond to requests. However, during an event at Hillsdale College following publication, a student questioned him. “Don’t believe everything you read in Yahoo News,” Pompeo replied, as he scratched his forehead nearly the same way Director of National Intelligence James Clapper did when he lied to senators about NSA warrantless surveillance. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Bicyclists_Deserve_the_Right_to_Free Movement⠀⇛ At the same time, I find bike advocacy in the United States to be extremely frustrating. Our cities deserve better bike infrastructure because cyclists deserve to live and to go about their lives free of mortal danger. That, it must be remembered, is the central task. The numbers are unacceptable. In 2018 alone, a bicyclist was killed approximately every third day in the greater Chicago area. Each of these unnecessary deaths is blood on the hands of feckless politicians who refuse to do the necessary work to create streets that would ameliorate the carnage because it requires inconveniencing a certain type of crank who thinks the city exists as a place to park their car. When the life of a bike rider is torn from their friends and families, often nothing is done because infrastructure requires money, and funding things like bike lanes (or, while we’re at it, other public goods like schools or transportation) means diverting money from other interests (like, say, violent, lawless police forces who terrorize the poor and protect only private property). In America, a bicyclist is usually not envisioned as being on par with someone who drives a car. They are stereotyped as either a rich hobbyist in spandex or as drunks who lost their driver’s license and have to rely on a lesser form of transport. While in Ljubljana, everyone rides their bike because the space has been made for them to do so. It is that simple. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ Greens_urge_UK_government_to_rule_out_new fossil_fuels_in_net_zero_strategy⠀⇛ As the government prepares to announce its revamped net zero strategy on Thursday, the Greens have urged Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, to choose the policies that will bring the most benefit to households across the UK as well as to the environment. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ The_World_Is_Burning,_but_Fossil_Fuel_Companies Are_Meeting_Behind_Closed_Doors_to_‘Future-Proof_Gas’._This Should_Be_Criminal.⠀⇛ By Lisa Göldner, Lead Campaigner from Greenpeace Germany for the Fossil Free Revolution campaign France, Nigeria, Finland, South Sudan, Italy, Peru, Romania. What do all of these places have in common? They are just some of the countries in which Europe-headquartered fossil fuel companies stand convicted or credibly accused of criminal, civil, or administrative offences. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Turning_point:_More_US_electricity generated_by_renewables_than_coal⠀⇛ In 2022, electricity generated from renewable energy passed coal electricity production in the United States for the first time. Experts say renewables are now the most affordable source of new electricity for much of the country. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_US_Has_Seen_50_Chemical_Spills_or Fires_This_Year,_and_It’s_Only_March⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_‘Landmark_Victory’_for_Consumers and_Climate_as_California_Passes_Big_Oil_Price_Gouging Law⠀⇛ Climate and consumer advocates on Tuesday hailed California lawmakers’ passage of legislation aimed at tackling Big Oil price gouging as the proposal headed to the desk of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said he will sign the measure into law. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Crypto_Mining_at_Gas_Wells_Sparks_Regulatory Headaches,_Outcry_in_Northwestern_Pennsylvania⠀⇛ By Audrey Carleton This story originally appeared in Capital & Main, and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Longhorn Pad C is located about half a mile south of a small cemetery and a little over a mile north of a Methodist church in Elk County, in northwestern Pennsylvania. With a population of around 30,000, this county sits squarely in the center of the path the Marcellus Shale formation takes as it curves through the commonwealth. # ⚓ NBC ☛ How_is_bitcoin_still_trading_(for_now)_at $27,000?⠀⇛ It’s a reasonable answer. Amid the smoldering crater that is the [cryptocurrency] market, bitcoin has somehow made maybe not a comeback, but at least a stand. For all the tokens, coins, forks, chains and NFTs, bitcoin remains the gold standard in cryptocurrency. # ⚓ Alaska Beacon ☛ U.S._Senate_panel_probes_how_crypto mining_increases_energy_consumption⠀⇛ “Bitcoin mining in the United States uses as much power as we need to light every single home in our country, and that demand on our grid is only going to grow,” Markey said in opening remarks. Markey’s bill, introduced Monday, would require cryptocurrency asset operators to report emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency, and would mandate the agency to conduct a study of energy usage required by thousands of robust, special-use computers to add new transactions to the decentralized digital accounting ledger, he said. The text of the bill was not yet published. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ North_Korean_hackers_turn_to ‘cloud_mining’_for_[cryptocurrency]_to_avoid_law enforcement_scrutiny⠀⇛ Unlike other North Korean hacking units engaged in cryptocurrency-related cybercrime, researchers at Mandiant believe that APT 43 is using its loot to fund its own hacking and cyberespionage activities, not sending it back to the regime for a nuclear weapons program. Instead, the group takes the cleaned funds to purchase infrastructure such as website domains to further espionage activities. “They don’t need $100 million to rent servers to run C2 nodes. They need much smaller amounts,” said Joe Dobson, Mandiant Principal Analyst. “We see them targeting everyone. I like to say, ‘There’s no fish too small.’ If someone has funds in their [cryptocurrency] wallet, they will get targeted.” # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Mandiant_Catches_Another_North_Korean Gov_Hacker_Group⠀⇛ Mandiant flags APT43 as a “moderately- sophisticated cyber operator that supports the interests of the North Korean regime.” # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Nigerian_BEC_Scammer_Sentenced_to Prison_in_US⠀⇛ Solomon Ekunke Okpe was sentenced to four years in prison in the US for his role in a BEC fraud ring. # ⚓ Mandiant ☛ APT43:_North_Korean_Group_Uses_Cybercrime to_Fund_Espionage_Operations⠀⇛ Tracked since 2018, APT43’s collection priorities align with the mission of the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), North Korea’s main foreign intelligence service. The group’s focus on foreign policy and nuclear security issues supports North Korea’s strategic and nuclear ambitions. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ For_the_love_of_nature:_Outdoorspeople help_lawmakers_bridge_divides⠀⇛ Climate action can be politically divisive. But a love for nature is bringing people together – even in Washington. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Salmon_Hatcheries_Get_More_Federal Funding,_Tribes_Say_It’s_Not_Enough⠀⇛ The federal government has announced plans to increase funding for the Columbia River Basin’s salmon hatcheries, the often- crumbling facilities that maintain the river’s dwindling salmon populations. But tribes and state agencies say the influx of funds is only a fraction of what is needed. The Bonneville Power Administration, the federal agency that’s required to pay for salmon recovery using proceeds from selling power generated by hydroelectric dams, is putting an additional $50 million toward repairs at hatcheries operated by tribes and states. The agency also plans to increase annual funding for hatchery upkeep from $500,000 to $2.7 million. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Small_shareholders_abandoned_as private_equity_muscles_in_on_Nitro._What’s_the_scam?⠀⇛ Private equity funds taking listed companies private is never an act of benevolence. They spot an undervalued company, buy it, strip assets where possible, take out the cash, borrow to the hilt and sack as many of the staff as they can get away with; and then presto, a couple of years later, the company is re-listed or on-sold, at great profit. It’s a great scam if you can afford it, but not so much for minority shareholders who just have to take what they get and lose out on the value uplift. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chipotle_Must_Pay_$240K_to_Workers_After_It Closed_Unionizing_Store_in_Maine⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_if_the_People_Owned_the_Banks?⠀⇛ This raises a simple question: Is this banking system the best we can do? New York progressives see room for an alternative. Even before this latest bank failure, they were pushing for the passage of the New York Public Banking Act—one of many proposals across the country that could transform American finance by introducing a public banking option. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ R_in_Finance_and_Accounting_Sector_in_Korea⠀⇛ Woo June Jung, Founder of the R Korea Group (also on Facebook) recently talked to the R Consortium to discuss his efforts to promote the use of R in Korea. He stressed the importance of communities and also shared the group’s experience of hosting an annual R User Conference in Korea for six consecutive years. They R Korea Group stopped hosting the conference during the pandemic but are hopeful to start again this year. He also discussed his work on two accounting projects developed in R. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Monopoly_Bank_Bailout⠀⇛ Never in our nation’s history have we allowed a player to pass Go without collecting two hundred dollars, and we cannot start now. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ March_in_Paris⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘The_Billionaire_Bailout’:_FDIC_Chair_Says the_Biggest_Deposit_Accounts_at_SVB_Held_$13_Billion⠀⇛ In prepared testimony for a Senate Banking Committee hearing slated for Tuesday morning, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reveals that the 10 largest deposit accounts at Silicon Valley Bank held a combined $13.3 billion, a detail that’s likely to intensify criticism of federal regulators’ intervention in the firm’s recent collapse. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_10_Largest_Deposit_Accounts_at_SVB_Held_$13 Billion,_FDIC_Chair_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_latest_from_Arte_Weekly:_A_look behind_the_French_protests_against_Macron’s_pension_bill,_and why_Romania_is_looking_to_ban_gambling_adverts⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ After_Bank_Collapses,_US_Regulators_Urged to_Impose_Rules_on_Climate-Related_Financial_Risk⠀⇛ In the wake of recent bank collapses and protests across the United States demanding financial institutions end fossil fuel financing, 50 climate, environmental justice, and Indigenous rights groups on Tuesday advocated for new regulations. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ France_Fears_Pensions_Protest_Standoff_Is Getting_More_Violent [Ed: French police is violent and attacking millions of French people's freedom is an extreme form of violence. NY Times helpd distort, warp, reverse the narrative.]⠀⇛ On a new day of strikes and marches, President Emmanuel Macron’s government rejected a call by labor unions to suspend his pension overhaul. # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Tivoli_to_celebrate_180_years_by_jacking up_prices⠀⇛ High inflation prices has prompted famous Copenhagen amusement park to increase entre fee despite raking in record turnover last year # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ A_frustrated_French_public_defies_Macron._But do_protests_matter?⠀⇛ Protests against President Macron’s retirement reforms have inflamed France. Yet in a country where demonstrating is practically de rigueur, how much difference does marching really make in a situation like this? # ⚓ UM-Dearborn_program_readies_students_for_shifting_auto industry [Ed: When universities are really controlled by corporations like Ford, which moreover control the syllabus (more buzzwords) and turn the institutions into training centres future staff pays for (tuition fees)]⠀⇛ Launching this fall, the revamped Automotive and Mobility Systems Engineering master’s program is built for an industry being transformed by electrification and autonomy. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Poll_suggests_housing_maintenance_fees_set_to_rise⠀⇛ Finnish housing is often owned by co-operative companies, with shareholders paying monthly fees for maintenance and repairs. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Maintenance_fees_of_housing_companies_on sharp_rise:_Kiinteistöliitto_survey⠀⇛ Maintenance fees for apartment buildings are increasing rapidly in Finland, according to a survey conducted by the Finnish Real Estate Federation. The survey revealed that more than 20% of housing companies are threatened by the increase in maintenance costs, with just over 2% facing significant risk. Although the majority of housing companies believe their financial situation is stable, the cost of living varies significantly from municipality to municipality. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Top_Fed_Officials_Criticize_Silicon_Valley Bank_Executives_at_Senate_Hearing⠀⇛ Officials blamed executives at Silicon Valley Bank for its failure on March 10, while adding that Federal Reserve oversight is in for a revamp. # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ More_people_migrating_to_Denmark_for work⠀⇛ Over 31,000 people arrived for a job in 2022, which was a 24 percent increase compared to the previous year… o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ OpenRequest:_Pirates_launch_citizen participation_website_and_seek_suggestions_on_preventing corruption⠀⇛ The Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament are launching OpenRequest, a unique participatory tool giving citizens the opportunity to suggest issues that should be raised in the European Parliament. For example, citizen suggestions can trigger parliamentary questions to Commission or Council, research tasks to the European Parliament’s Research Service or the sending of an open letter by Members of the European Parliament. On top of that, the OpenRequest website publicly documents the status of the proposals. The European Pirates have long advocated for more direct democracy and transparency in the European project, which this new tool promotes. In view of the recent Qatargate corruption scandal, Pirates specifically seek citizen suggestions on how the EU could better prevent corruption, conflicts of interest and intransparency. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ AI_Is_Exposing_Who_Really_Has_Power_in Silicon_Valley⠀⇛ The result is an uncomfortable disparity between who does the work that enables these AI models to function and who gets to control and profit from them. This sort of disparity is nothing new in Silicon Valley, but the development of AI is shifting power further away from those at the bottom at a time when layoffs have already resulted in a sense of wide-ranging precarity for the tech industry. Overseas workers won’t reap any of these profits, nor will the people who might have aspects of their work—or even their entire jobs—replaced by AI, even if their Reddit posts and Wikipedia entries were fed into these chatbots. Well-paid tech workers might eventually lose out too, considering AI’s coding abilities. In the few months since OpenAI has blown up, it has reminded Silicon Valley of a fundamental truth that office perks and stock options should never have been able to disguise: Tech workers are just workers. # ⚓ Mullvad VPN ☛ The_chat_control_proposal_does_not_belong_in democratic_societies⠀⇛ The European Commission is working on a legislative proposal called chat control. If the law goes into effect, all EU citizens will have their communications monitored and audited. Now is the time to stop it. # ⚓ CNBC ☛ Elon_Musk_says_only_verified_users_will_show_up_in Twitter’s_recommendation_feed_in_further_shake-up⠀⇛ Elon Musk said that only verified accounts will appear in Twitter’s “For You” recommendation feed, as the billionaire further shakes up the social media platform. # ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ Job_Platform_Indeed_To_Lay Off_Over_2,000_Employees⠀⇛ US-based job search platform Indeed on Wednesday said it will let approximately 2,200 people go. This is roughly 15 per cent of the company’s headcount. # ⚓ Variety ☛ Disney_Shuts_Down_Metaverse_Unit_as_Part_of_First Wave_of_Layoffs⠀⇛ The elimination of Disney’s Next Generation Storytelling & Consumer Experiences group, led by company veteran Mike White, affects about 50 employees, Variety confirmed. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. A Disney rep declined to comment. The shutdown of Disney’s metaverse group came Monday with the first wave of the company’s move to slash 7,000 jobs under interim CEO Bob Iger, which is part of its attempt to reduce $5.5 billion in costs. Following this week’s layoffs, there will be a larger second round of cuts next month, Iger told employees in a memo Monday. A final round of layoffs will hit “before the beginning of summer,” according to Iger. # ⚓ Variety ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_Only_Verified_Twitter_Accounts Will_Appear_in_For_You_Timeline_Starting_in_April⠀⇛ Musk’s verification policy has raised concerns about misinformation on the site, as virtually anyone willing to pay the price could attempt to impersonate a public figure under the guise of verification. However, Twitter has taken steps to prevent this by reviewing Twitter Blue accounts before granting them verification. # ⚓ India Times ☛ GitHub_fires_85%_of_its_India_workforce⠀⇛ The tech industry has been hit hard by a wave of job cuts as companies try to adjust to new market realities. GitHub, the world’s leading code-hosting platform for software development, has fired about 85% of its workforce in India. Out of 216 employees, 183 have been asked to leave, including the entire engineering team responsible for building GitHub for the world, said a source on condition of anonymity. # ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ Why_is_paid_social_media_a_bad_idea?⠀⇛ The bet is this: Can you fund a social network with user payments? In contrast to the current established wisdom that only targeted ads will do it. We don’t know! Nobody has ever tried to do it at this scale. All the attempts have usually been baked in from the beginning, thus posing a real challenge to reaching critical mass. But Musk is now going to try the experiment on a network that already has critical mass. THAT’S INTERESTING! # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We’re_Not_Gonna_Fix_It,’_Says_GOP Congressman_After_Nashville_Mass_Shooting⠀⇛ U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett was accused of saying “the quiet part out loud” after the Tennessee Republican responded to the massacre in Nashville on Monday by arguing there’s not much Congress can do to prevent mass shootings. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Corbyn_Expected_to_Run_as_Independent_After Starmer’s_Move_to_Bar_Him_From_Labour⠀⇛ Former U.K. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected to seek reelection as an independent next year after current Leader Keir Starmer and his establishment allies on Tuesday made good on their pledge to formally block the leftist member of Parliament from running under the party’s banner. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Forget_Shadow_Banning,_Now_Elon_Is_Shadow Boosting_Accounts_He_Likes,_While_Trying_To_Drive_Away_Users Who_Won’t_Pay⠀⇛ Elon Musk says he’s against a “lords and peasants” system on Twitter. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chris_Christie_Grilled_at_Town_Hall_After Positioning_Himself_as_Anti-Trump⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Youth_Organizers_Are_Uniting_Marginalized Communities_to_Stop_Atlanta’s_Cop_City⠀⇛ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Fostering_a_Fourth_Democratic_Wave:_A playbook_for_countering_the_authoritarian_threat⠀⇛ This report seeks to catalyze support for nonviolent pro-democracy movements fighting against authoritarian rule by proposing new approaches and tools to support civil resistance movements, advancing a new international norm — the “Right to Assist” pro-democracy movements — and developing strategic and tactical options to constrain authoritarian regimes. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Carlos_Moreno_Wanted_to_Improve_Cities. Conspiracy_Theorists_Are_Coming_for_Him. [Ed: When the term "Conspiracy Theorists" is used in the press it might be a straw man (to distract from the real issues). This awful article is moreover trying to insinuate that critics of "Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates", a notorious serial criminal, are just dangerous, violent cranks.]⠀⇛ Researchers like Carlos Moreno, the professor behind a popular urban planning concept, are struggling with conspiracy theories and death threats. [...] For high-profile figures, such as the infectious- disease expert Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, misinformation and the hostility it can cause have long been a part of the job description. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What’s_Hot_on_TikTok?_Defending_Its C.E.O.⠀⇛ After lawmakers grilled TikTok’s chief executive last week, the app’s users argued that the platform should not be banned in the United States over national security concerns. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Palestinians_to_Pay_the_Price_as_Netanyahu Pauses_Judicial_Overhaul_While_Further_Empowering_Far_Right⠀⇛ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to delay a push to overhaul and weaken Israel’s judiciary until the next parliamentary session. The retreat came after months of unprecedented mass protests and a general strike on Monday that shut down much of Israel. Netanyahu had earlier fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, for suggesting a delay to judicial changes. In a concession to his far-right governing allies, Netanyahu has also agreed to establish a new national guard under the control of Itamar Ben- Gvir, the ultranationalist national security minister who was once convicted of racist incitement against Palestinians and supporting a terrorist group. “He already has an immense amount of power over police forces that regularly inflict violence on Palestinians. Now there is talk of him having this national guard,” journalist Natasha Roth-Rowland, an editor with +972 Magazine, says of Ben-Gvir. We also speak with Palestinian American analyst Yousef Munayyer, who says the public outrage over the judicial plan is due to many Israelis seeing their own rights threatened for the first time. “The rights of Palestinians … have not been upheld by these courts for a very long time,” says Munayyer. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Netanyahu_Delays_Judicial_Overhaul_While_Further Empowering_Israel’s_Far_Right⠀⇛ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Where_the_accent_is_on_merit⠀⇛ Scotland’s new leader, the first Muslim to lead a Western European state, adds to a growing embrace of values over personal identity. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Putin_&_Xi’s_Moscow_agreements⠀⇛ Riley Waggaman It was a big week for Russia-China experts, who collectively managed to write 10,000 hot takes about what happened in Moscow without explaining what actually happened in Moscow. Is there a reason why all Russia-China commentary disintegrates into esoteric abstractions by the second paragraph? # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Tlaib_Leads_Call_for_$1.2_Billion_in Humanitarian_Assistance_for_Yemen⠀⇛ U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Monday led two dozen House Democrats in urging Congress to allocate at least $1.2 billion in humanitarian aid for Yemen—whose people have suffered eight years of U.S.-backed Saudi war—in next year’s budget. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Dem_Lawmakers_Back_Coalition’s_Call_for_US Human_Rights_Institution⠀⇛ Progressive U.S. lawmakers including Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Katie Porter on Tuesday joined a call for the Biden administration to take steps to form a national institution that would monitor and promote human rights within the United States, noting that the U.S. considers itself an arbiter of human rights standards across the globe. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Solar_Rorts_–_Federal_Labor_caught_in $200_million_pork_barrelling_scheme⠀⇛ Independent MP Rebekha Sharkie has just dropped a bombshell in Federal Parliament. The Labor Government has been caught in a blatant pork barrelling. Rex Patrick explains the corruption that is “Solar Rorts”. Pork barrelling is defined by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption as “the allocation of public funds and resources to targeted electors for partisan political purposes”. It’s corruption. It’s taking taxpayers’ money and directing it at projects that are intended to ‘buy’ votes to allow people to stay in power. That is, using taxpayers’ money for personal benefit. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Why_You_Fell_for_the_Fake_Pope_Coat⠀⇛ Pope Francis’s rad parka fooled savvy viewers because it depicted what would have been a low-stakes news event—the type of tabloid- y non-news story that, were it real, would ultimately get aggregated by popular social- media accounts, then by gossipy news outlets, before maybe going viral. It’s a little nugget of internet ephemera, like those photos that used to circulate of Vladimir Putin shirtless. # ⚓ New Scientist ☛ Should_you_be_worried_that_an_AI picture_of_the_pope_went_viral?⠀⇛ Should we be worried? Web culture expert Ryan Broderick has called the pope image “the first real mass-level AI misinformation case”. But the issue has actually been brewing for a few weeks, following an update to Midjourney that significantly improved the standard of output. Earlier in March, Midjourney-created images of former US president Donald Trump being arrested similarly went viral. Those images were generated from prompts provided by Eliot Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, an investigative journalism group. # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Quarter_of_5-year-olds_watch TikTok_videos_that_‘blur_fact_and_fiction’⠀⇛ Children are drawn to “dramatic” content online and videos made by professional “influencers” but often fail to distinguish between what is real and what is fake. “For the children in this study, it often seems that it matters more whom something has been said by than whether it’s true,” Ofcom said in its annual Children’s Media Lives report. The authors of the study said: “Much of the content the children were consuming seemed designed to maximise stimulation and minimise the investment required of them. Videos were fast-paced, short-form, with deliberately choppy editing. [...] For some children, TikTok is replacing Google as a primary source of information. [sic] # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Obama_warns_about_dangers_of_AI, polarisation_and_Murdoch_at_Sydney_event⠀⇛ “So much of who we are and how we understand the world is related to the stories we receive. If we are vulnerable to bad stories, we can do horrendous things,” he said. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Quillette ☛ An_Auckland_Mob_Shut_Down_a_Women’s_Rights Activist—And_Proved_Her_Point⠀⇛ British women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen, also known as Posie Parker, is the prototypically impolite gender crit, often engaging in aggressive and confrontational tactics that, at times, have turned her into something of a pariah. Yet by sheer doggedness, Keen now has managed to thoroughly discredit her trans-activist opponents, by rousing them to scenes of misogynistic violence that are even now circulating on social media as viral sensations. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Roger_Waters:_We_are_on_the_road_to Frankfurt_/_Concert_in_Frankfurt_to_be_secured_by_interim injunction⠀⇛ Roger Waters has noted with pleasure the decision of the Munich City Council that his 21.05.2023 concert in the Olympiahalle Munich will take place as planned : “I am very happy to be able to perform in Munich for my fans. A ban on my concert would have been illegal. The City of Munich’s decision is good news for freedom of speech in Germany.” # ⚓ CNN ☛ An_influential_Chinese_blogger_disappeared_from_the internet._This_woman_says_she_knows_why⠀⇛ Program Think had so closely guarded their identity that no supporters knew who the blogger was – except that they had been a programmer inside mainland China with a decade-long career in information security. Now, almost two years later, the wife of a blogger recently sentenced to seven years in a Chinese prison for “inciting subversion of state power” believes she has the answer to the question: What happened to Program Think? # ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Child’s_Drawing,_a_Dad’s_Antiwar_Posts, and_Russia’s_Latest_Orphan⠀⇛ Aleksei Moskalyov did not wait to hear his sentence for “discrediting the Russian Armed Forces” on Tuesday. Years behind bars for posts on social media seemed like a foregone conclusion in contemporary Russia. So Mr. Moskalyov slipped off his geotracking ankle bracelet and fled from house arrest. In escaping, Mr. Moskalyov, a single parent, left behind not just his home but his 13-year-old daughter, Maria — though even before the verdict had been read, she appeared lost to him. For the past month, the child, known as Masha, has been in a state-run orphanage, forbidden to communicate with her father. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ In_Internet_Speech_Cases,_SCOTUS_Should_Stick_Up For_Reno_v._ACLU⠀⇛ It was by no means certain that the internet would enjoy full First Amendment protection. The radio is not shielded from the government in that way. Nor is broadcast television. Both Congress and the President supported placing online speech under some degree of state control. In Reno v. ACLU (1997), however, the Supreme Court could find “no basis for qualifying the level of First Amendment scrutiny that should be applied to this [new] medium.” Liberty won out. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Academic_freedom_is_structurally compromised_only_in_Hungary_in_the_EU,_according_to_an_EP study⠀⇛ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_Board_to_investigate_Erdogan_effigy_removal⠀⇛ An effigy of Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan was confiscated at a demonstration in Helsinki on Saturday. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Sources_tell_Forbes_Russia_that_VK_server expansion_could_herald_YouTube_ban_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Ever since the Russian authorities cracked down on independent news outlets, foreign social networks, and all manner of anti-government speech in the wake of their full-scale invasion of Ukraine, observers have been anticipating a ban on YouTube, one of the country’s most popular sites and a haven for anti-war content. More than a year later, Russians can still access the service freely, but according to sources from the country’s telecommunications industry who spoke to Forbes Russia, the homegrown social media site Vkontakte recently began expanding its network of servers — possibly in anticipation of a future YouTube ban. Here’s what we know. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Tove_Jansson_heirs_won’t_renew_Moomin_product licenses_in_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Moomin Characters, the Finnish branded goods company run by the heirs of the popular artist and writer Tove Jansson, has declined to renew or extend Moomin product licenses for partners in Russia. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ St._Petersburg_court_forces_Russian_communists_to take_down_Jean-Paul_Sartre_anti-anticommunist_meme_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Jean-Paul Sartre’s essay “Maurice Merleau-Ponty est vivant,” written after the death of his philosopher friend, contains the following maxim: “Tout anticommuniste est un chien.” “Every anticommunist,” that is, “is a dog.” o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘He_stalked_and_terrorized_her’:_A_Moscow journalist_was_charged_with_killing_her_abusive_ex-husband. Now_she_could_lose_custody_of_her_sons._—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges_Report:_How_Mexico’s_Epidemic_of Murdered_Journalists_is_an_Ominous_Warning_to_the_Press Everywhere⠀⇛ Over 150 journalists have been assassinated in Mexico since 2000. Behind the killings is a nexus of corruption and violence that links organized crime, police, and government. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ At_Least_39_Asylum_Seekers_Dead_After_Fire_at Migrant_Jail_in_Mexico⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Erasing_stigmas:_Women_workers’_unique_right, and_an_inclusive_census⠀⇛ Progress roundup: Spain passes Europe’s first menstrual leave law, Chile’s fishers sacrifice catch for marine refuges, Singapore makes a High Line. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Bush,_Pressley_to_Co-Chair_Congressional Equal_Rights_Amendment_Caucus⠀⇛ A coalition of Democratic U.S. lawmakers led by Reps. Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley on Tuesday announced the launch of a new caucus aimed at realizing the centurylong goal of adding an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ West’s_Uneven_Response_to_Human_Rights Crimes_Exposes_Broken_Global_System:_Amnesty⠀⇛ Hypocrisy and humanity’s failure to “unite around consistently applied human rights and universal values” expose a system unfit to tackle global crises, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Monday, the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘Objectivity’_Obliterates_Empathy_and_Curiosity⠀⇛ FAIR’s commentary by Conor Smyth (2/28/23) on former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie Jr.’s anti-objectivity manifesto (Washington Post, 1/30/ 23), and New York Times columnist Bret Stephens’ overwrought response to it (2/9/23), was right on point. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fire_Kills_Nearly_40_at_Migrant_Detention Facility_Near_US-Mexico_Border⠀⇛ At least 39 migrants were declared dead Tuesday after a fire was started overnight at a detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, close to the U.S.-Mexico border. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Randall_Robinson_(1941-2023)_on_Haiti’s Unbroken_Agony,_from_U.S._Coups_to_Haiti’s_“Debt”_to_France⠀⇛ We continue to remember the lawyer and human rights activist Randall Robinson, the founder of the racial justice group TransAfrica, who died last week at age 81. Robinson was a leader in the U.S. movement against South African apartheid and was a prominent critic of U.S. policy in Haiti, including the U.S.-backed coup against President Jean- Bertrand Aristide in 2004. Democracy Now! spoke to Robinson in 2007 about that episode and how foreign powers have interfered in Haiti throughout the country’s history, beginning with the slave revolt against France that established Haiti as the first free republic in the Americas in 1804. “The Haitians believed that anybody who was enslaved anywhere had a home and a refuge in Haiti. Anybody seeking freedom had a sympathetic ear in Haiti. But because of that, the United States and France and the other Western governments, even the Vatican, made them pay for so terribly long,” said Robinson, who had just published the book An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Rule_of_Law_Is_Under_Attack_by_the Republican_Judges⠀⇛ As someone who regularly writes about the courts and the law, I often feel more like an obituary writer. Hardly a week goes by without Republican judges killing a fundamental right of Americans, often inventing a reactionary new legal doctrine from whole cloth to do so. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Huge_Blow_to_the_Rule_of_Law,’_Donziger Says_of_Supreme_Court_Decision_on_Chevron_Case⠀⇛ Environmental attorney Steven Donziger was joined by a number of U.S. Supreme Court observers on Monday in denouncing a decision by seven of the nine justices, who refused to consider Donziger’s case regarding the appointment of three special prosecutors after he was charged with criminal contempt of court. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ SCOTUS_Denies_Steven_Donziger’s_Request_for Appeal_of_Conviction_in_Chevron_Case⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ You_Strike_the_Women,_You_Strike_the_Rock,_You Will_Be_Crushed⠀⇛ What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion of the yield curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates become higher than long-term rates), the Earth nearly stops spinning. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) […] # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_the_Republican_Push_for_‘Parents’ Rights’_Is_Really_About⠀⇛ The culture war that conservatives are currently waging over education is, like the culture wars in other areas of American society, a cover for a more material and ideological agenda. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_court_overturns_acquittal_of_LGBT_rights activist_and_artist_Yulia_Tsvetkova_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A Vladivostok court has overturned the acquittal of Yulia Tsvetkova, an LGBT rights activist and artist who was charged with “distributing pornography” for sharing art that depicted vulvas, a popular Russian Telegram channel reported on Tuesday, citing Tsvetkova’s lawyer. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Swiss_court_case_ties_human_rights_to_climate change⠀⇛ More than 2,000 women are taking the Swiss government to court claiming its policy on climate change is violating their right to life and health. The case is the first time the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will hear a case on the impact of climate change on human rights. # ⚓ CNN ☛ Taliban_arrests_prominent_girls’_education_activist as_repressive_clampdown_continues⠀⇛ Some of its most striking restrictions have been around education, with girls barred from returning to secondary schools and universities, depriving an entire generation of academic opportunities. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said Wesa was arrested in the capital Kabul on Monday and called on the Taliban to clarify his whereabouts. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Climb_off_the_mandatory activation_TRAIn⠀⇛ In this post, we analyse the 40 comments submitted in response to TRAI’s consultation paper titled ‘Consultation Paper on Introduction of Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) in Telecommunication Networks’, highlighting privacy concerns, especially in the absence of a data protection law. # ⚓ James G ☛ I’m_working_on_a_new_version_of_my_printed_blog⠀⇛ In 2021, I embarked on a journey to print out the content on my blog. The scope of the project was limited. I decided to print all of my coffee posts published both on this blog as well as Steampunk Coffee, for whom I had written numerous blog posts. I decided to print only the coffee posts so that the printed version would have a theme. I was excited by the prospects of being able to hold my writings on coffee in my hands, and looked forward to a day where I could print another volume. That time has come. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Consumers_Aren’t_Buying_Automaker_Plans_To_Make Everything_A_Subscription⠀⇛ For numerous years, automakers have been keen to boost consistent monthly income by pushing users subscription services. The problem: whether it’s a specific in-car 5G wireless broadband connection (made kind of irrelevant by the fact everyone has a tetherable smartphone), or subscriptions for app- based services like remote starting: consumers aren’t really interested. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Microsoft_Yanked_Forthcoming_Game’s_PlayStation Port_To_Make_It_Exclusive⠀⇛ Timing, as they say, is everything. We’ve been talking about Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard a lot lately and for good reason. It’s a huge deal, both in terms of the size of the purchase relative to the video game industry, but also because of what it could mean for the overall competitive marketplace in the industry as well. The regulators have expressed varied levels of concern and Microsoft’s rebuttal to those concerns has mostly been to ink 10-year deals with other platforms to keep the key series Call of Duty non-exclusive, at least for that timeframe. All the while, throughout this and previous acquisitions taking place in a climate of market consolidation, Microsoft executives have made vague, non-committal statements about how it doesn’t actually want to go the exclusivity route with its titles generally. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Brazil:_leading_case_allows revival_of_a_patent_application⠀⇛ The Brazilian Patent Statute (Federal Law #9,279/96) establishes that foreign applicants must appoint and maintain a representative in Brazil for each patent application filed with the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BRPTO). Only through a patent agent—be it a person or a legal entity—can a foreign application file and prosecute an application. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ EPO_Patent_Index_2022:_most applications_concern_digital_communication [Ed: Software patents basically]⠀⇛ The European Patent Office received 193 460 applications last year, an increase of 2.5% compared to 2021 and a new record. Digital communication (+11.2% over 2021) was the field with the highest number of patent applications, followed closely by medical technology (+1.0%) and computer technology  (+1.8%). These are some numbers from the EPO’s Patent Index 2022, which was published today. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Blights_of_the_Bookish:_An Essay_on_Diseases_Incidental_to_Literary_and_Sedentary Persons_(1768)⠀⇛ In this essay on the ailments of sedentary lifestyles, reading and scholarly study have tragic and sometimes fatal consequences. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Soft_Corruption_Of_Link_Tax_Bills: Enriching_The_News_Orgs_Politicians_Want_To_Endorse Them⠀⇛ Okay, this is just getting silly. We just explained why the various attempts to tax Google and Meta to fund the owners of news organizations (often hedge funds who have a long history of pocketing any cash and cutting jobs) is a clear attack on the open web. And yet, many people keep pushing these laws. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Eric_Luth_—_Open_Culture_VOICES, Season_2_Episode_8⠀⇛ Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Eric Luth is a Project Manager at Wikimedia Sweden where he organizes collaborations, events, and exchanges of practices in the cultural sector. Wikimedia Sweden also organizes edit- a-thons for Wikipedia articles. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ China_Shuts_Down_Major_Manga_Piracy Site_Following_Complaint_From_Japan⠀⇛ Anti-piracy group CODA is reporting the shutdown of B9Good, a pirate manga site that targeted Japan but was operated from China. In response to a criminal complaint filed by CODA on behalf of six Japanese companies, which were backed by 21 others during the investigation, Chinese authorities arrested four people and seized one house worth $580,000 # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Sony_Music_Has_Serious_Concerns_About AI-Synthesized_Vocals⠀⇛ Artificial intelligence is now a mainstream topic but while most people focus on the positives, the music industry is concerned about potential threats. In IFPI’s latest Global Music Report, insiders stress that music’s ‘human’ element should stay at the forefront. According to Sony, the same applies to AI-synthesized voices, which should not replace human vocals. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ MPA,_Amazon_&_Apple_Win_$30m_in Damages_Against_Pirate_IPTV_Services⠀⇛ In 2021, Universal, Disney, Paramount, Warner and Columbia, partnered with Amazon and Apple in a lawsuit targeting two U.S-based pirate IPTV services. After the operator of AllAccessTV and Quality Restreams put up an early fight, including allegations that one of his services was disguised as a VPN provider, the studios have walked away with a $30 million damages award. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Lasagna⠀⇛ My friend told me she was making spaghetti while her boyfriend was watching hockey. The point was the normalcy of it all, even if she should be in a bit of a culture shock. My girlfriend made a lasagna for our daughter and I. She said, “Someone said that lasagna is the way to a man’s heart.” # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ADGLUSR_Wordo:_GLOAT⠀⇛ # ⚓ Fun_with_Artificial_Intelligence:_AI-generated_art_1⠀⇛ # ⚓ She_took_her_sweet_time_making_sense_to_me.⠀⇛ She took her sweet time making sense to me. But finally, in that fluorescent interrogation chamber, she put words to what came out as a groan a year prior. I listened defensively. And shut out grimey thoughts meant for someone I knew better. Who leaves the country in a fit? I should’ve seen the signs. Not a renegade or a wanderer. She came here running. # ⚓ do_i_enjoy_debating?⠀⇛ Short answer: it’s complicated Usually I would prefer sitting back and just let argument go on their own, unless the conversation gets to the point where either side points out something that’s very obviously just incorrect (not necessarily when the person is being highly emotional). # ⚓ Re:_Bullet_Points_vs_Prose⠀⇛ Luke Gearing generously posted some side-by-side comparisons of bullet points vs prose. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Switching_the_US_to_the_Metric_System⠀⇛ I’ve taken to stating measurements in metric, and then restating them in legacy units. “It’s 10 degrees, or 50 degrees in legacy units”. “It’s about a kilometer walk from here to there, or 3/ 5 of a mile in legacy units”. On another subject, everyone should definitely use YYYY-MM-DD (AKA big endian) for dates. Europeans seem to use little endian, DD/MM/YYYY. The US uses middle endian, MM/DD/YYYY, which is absolutely bonkers. # ⚓ def-briefly-mode⠀⇛ Here’s an Emacs macro that lets you easily make modes turn on briefly and then turn themselves off after a while. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ I_moved,_and_other_major_life_events⠀⇛ Actually, I moved twice since my last update, but this should be a more permanent location, I’m now a mortgage-haver. Often errantly referred to as “homeowner”, I’ve signed the next 15 years of my life away, so I think I’m a lot less likely to have another 10-month vacation to work fulltime on open source. I also got engaged and married to the beautiful woman who has been so encouraging over the last two years. (We met shortly after I started this capsule, so if you’ve also started writing in Gemini-space, maybe there are nuptials in your future?) # ⚓ web,_gemini,_ftp,_open,_distributed⠀⇛ I want to close my tabs, and it seems like a waste to just close them. So here we go. This started with someone on IRC bringing up an old topic we talk about every so often. They want some decentralized way to search the internet and my original reaction was something like, getting site authors to implement search on their own site using some common API, then users can search all of those sites through it. Usually my brain went into the OpenSearch direction where people to xml documents that define a format for searching the site, with various output formats that clients can then parse reliably, like rss, or atom. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3780 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.29.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_29/03/2023:_New_Finnix_and_EasyOS_Kirkstone_5.2⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Arch_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Programming/Development # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh * Leftovers o Education o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Privatisation/Privateering o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies o Trademarks * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ 317:_Home_Automation_with_Home_Assistant_Plus_New Alternative_to_ChatGPT⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 317:_Home_Automation_with_Home_Assistant_Plus New_Alternative_to_ChatGPT_–_Destination_Linux_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛ This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we will be discussing building an automated home, the open source way. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ OBS_Studio_29.1_Promises_AV1/HEVC_Streaming over_RTMP,_Lossless_Audio_Recording⠀⇛ OBS Studio 29.1 promises new features like support for streaming AV1/HEVC over RTMP for YouTube, support for surround sound for AJA capture cards, new lossless audio recording options for FLAC, ALAC, and PCM (including 32-bit float), as well as support for multiple audio tracks in Simple output recording. The upcoming OBS Studio release also promises features like a setting to record in fragmented MP4 and MOV video formats, new settings to select the audio encoder for streaming and recording, and a new option to preload media sources used in Stingers to memory. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 5_of_the_Best_Steganography_Tools_in Linux⠀⇛ Steganography is the art and process of putting one type of information inside another in an attempt to hide it. This is often done in situations where an individual wants to preserve secret information inside normal objects. This guide shows five of the best steganography tools currently available in Linux. It also shows you how you can hide your first message using these utilities. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 5_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Backend Electronic_Circuit_Simulators⠀⇛ Electronic circuit simulation uses mathematical models to replicate the behavior of an actual electronic device or circuit. Simulation software allows for modeling of circuit operation and is an invaluable analysis tool. Simulating the circuit with SPICE is the industry- standard way to verify circuit operation at the transistor level before committing to manufacturing an integrated circuit. The SPICE simulators help to predict the behavior of the IC under different operating conditions, such as different voltage and current levels, temperature variations, and noise. Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Firewalld:_Common_Firewall_Rules_and_Commands⠀⇛ Firewalld is a dynamic firewall utility that provides a user-friendly interface for managing firewall rules on Linux systems. It is designed to be easier to use than traditional firewalls like Iptables, while still providing powerful features for securing your network. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_configure_SOAP_web_services_with_Apache Camel⠀⇛ This article demonstrates how to configure Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) web services with the Red Hat build of Apache Camel, Quarkus version. In Apache Camel version 3, the support for the SOAP protocol is still provided by the CXF framework. Therefore, on Quarkus, we will be relying on the camel-quarkus-cxf-soap extension. ✐ A common REST to SOAP transformation use case⠀✐ With the CXF runtime, there is a distinction to make between a SOAP service and the client of a SOAP service. # ⚓ How_to_install_PNPM_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛ PNPM is an efficient alternative to NPM and Yarn package managers for Node.js packages, which works differently than them to manage modules. In this article, we learn how to install PNPM on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 Linux systems. What is the PNPM Nodejs, package manager? # ⚓ What_is_the_difference_between_vsftpd_and_ProFTPd?⠀⇛ FTP is a standard protocol that is used to transfer files widely, and FTP servers like Vsftpd and ProFTPd provide a way to use that protocol and access plus transfer files stored on a remote server. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_prevent_fork_bombs_on_your_Linux development_servers⠀⇛ Learn how to protect your Linux server from the fork bomb denial-of-service attack with this video tutorial by Jack Wallen. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Create_Lightweight_Slideshow Presentations_in_Your_Linux_Terminal⠀⇛ Slideshow presentations are an essential and unavoidable part of corporate and academic life thanks to their ability to help you plan and structure the dissemination of information to your audience. But snazzy graphics and transition effects can be a distraction from the core information, with the effort you put into making a visually appealing PowerPoint better spent elsewhere. Slides is a terminal-based presentation tool for Linux that processes Markdown files—helping you to create and present slideshows without ever leaving your terminal! # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_List_Manually_Installed_Packages_in Ubuntu_&_Debian⠀⇛ Keeping track of the packages you have manually installed on your Ubuntu system is essential for managing your software and maintaining a clean system. This article will guide you through the process of listing manually installed packages in Ubuntu using various command-line tools, such as apt, dpkg, and apt-mark. # ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Syslog-ng_101,_part_13:_Updating syslog-ng,_syslog-ng_4⠀⇛ Version 4 of syslog-ng is now available. The good news is that it is fully backwards compatible. If the version string in your configuration is set to a 3.X version, it will work as expected even after updating to version 4. Of course you might run into corner cases, but I had no problems even with complex configurations. Today, we learn about updating syslog-ng, and some of the new features of syslog-ng 4. Or you can read the rest the tutorial as a blog at: https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/ syslog-ng-101-part-13-updating-syslog-ng-syslog-ng- 4 # ⚓ Peter_Czanik:_Syslog-ng_101,_part_13:_Updating_syslog-ng, syslog-ng_4⠀⇛ This is the 13th part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about sending log messages to Elasticsearch. Today, we learn about updating syslog-ng, and some of the new features of syslog- ng 4. https://youtu.be/205eMGS51XU § Type support in syslog-ng 4 Version 4 of syslog-ng is now available. The good news is that it is fully backwards compatible. If the version string in your configuration is set to a 3.X version, it will work as expected even after updating to version 4. Of course you might run into corner cases, but I had no problems even with complex configurations. The major new feature of syslog-ng 4 is type support. When using the JSON and PatternDB parsers, syslog-ng stores the type information alongside name-value pairs. You can also set type information using rewrite rules. # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ How_to_Quickly_Merge_PDF_Files_on_Linux⠀⇛ PDF files are a common part of digital life so at some point you might want or need to merge multiple PDF files into one, single document. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_CoreFreq_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ CoreFreq is a CPU monitoring tool that provides detailed information about your processor’s performance, including real-time temperature readings, clock speeds, and utilization statistics. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ 12_Apk_Commands_in_Alpine_Linux_Package Management⠀⇛ Alpine Linux is a lightweight, security-oriented Linux distribution designed for routers, firewalls, VPN gateways, and servers. It uses the musl libc library and BusyBox utilities, making it small and efficient. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version_5.2 released⠀⇛ Easy version 5.1.1 was released on March 20, 2023, see blog announcement: https://bkhome.org/news/202303/easyos-kirkstone- series-511-released.html Since then, there has been a complete recompile of the packages, with many version bumps, including Chromium. There have also been improvements to the AppImage Installer, and more apps added. See 5.2 release notes: https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/ kirkstone/2023/5.2/release-notes.htm Each category in the AppImage Installer is starting to fill up: Download ‘easy-5.2-amd64.img’ from here: https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/ kirkstone/2023/5.2/ Or mirror in Europe by kind courtesy of NLUUG: https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/easyos/amd64/ releases/kirkstone/2023/5.2/ If you don’t know how to write a drive image file to a USB-stick, read this: https://easyos.org/install/how-to-write-easyos-to- a-flash-drive.html # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Finnix_125_Linux_Distro_Arrives_for_Sysadmins with_Linux_Kernel_6.1_LTS⠀⇛ Powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.1 LTS kernel series, Finnix 125 is here to introduce several new packages, namely the aespipe AES encrypting/decrypting pipe, iperf3 network performance measurement and tuning tool, ncdu disk utility, and netcat-traditional as the “classic” version of the netcat computer networking utility. Finnix 125 also comes with an updated apt update command that will now download both “testing” and “unstable” indices to allow users to install packages that may be hinted out of testing. However, the developer notes the fact that apt pinning is set to “testing” by default. # ⚓ Finnix ☛ Finnix_125_released⠀⇛ Today marks the release of Finnix 125, the original utility live Linux distribution. Finnix 125 includes a number of fixes, new packages and new features: # Linux kernel 6.1 (Debian 6.1.0-6) # New packages: 2048, aespipe, iperf3 (finnix/ finnix#37), ncdu, netcat-traditional, ninvaders, vitetris # Note that netcat-openbsd continues to be included and is the default nc # apt update will now download both “testing” and “unstable” indices, to allow for installing packages which may currently be hinted out of testing. Apt pinning is configured so testing will continue to be preferred to unstable, however. # Updated to memtest86+ 6.10, which now includes a UEFI version which is included in the “Utilities” boot submenu when booting on a UEFI system. Note that this is not signed and will not work with Secure Boot. # 7z will invoke the installed 7zr program, unless the user explicitly installs “p7zip- full” # Upstream Debian package updates # Many minor fixes and improvements # Note for people who embed Finnix in other systems: boot=live is no longer needed to be passed as a kernel boot command line. o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Arco Linux ☛ Looking_for_an_Office_application_on_Linux⠀⇛ Here we show you how easy it is to install either * libreoffice-still (stable) * libreoffice-fresh (cutting-edge) But there is more – follow in the coming years what office tools come and go and install them via pacman or an AUR helper like yay, paru, trizen and others. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Hybrid_work:_Culture_change required⠀⇛ Hybrid work has set new standards in the workplace. But many companies have not realized the full potential of a hybrid environment, primarily because they are still operating in the mindset of traditional workplace practices. Technical infrastructure changes to support remote work will no longer suffice as employees return to the office for part of the week. Now, organizations must ensure employees have a consistent experience regardless of location. Ensuring that your company’s culture and technical infrastructure align is critical to improving efficiencies, remaining agile, providing a better customer experience, and enhancing employee satisfaction. This pays off with improved productivity, greater revenue, and talent retention. Achieving a cohesive company culture within a hybrid environment requires close collaboration between human resources (HR) and information technology (IT). Working together, these teams can ensure their company gets the most from its investments in employees and IT infrastructure, benefitting the company now and in the future. Transitioning from a traditional company culture to one that supports hybrid work is a three-part process: [...] o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_Joins_the_Official_Flavor Family⠀⇛ Are you looking for a fresh take on the Ubuntu desktop? The final piece in the Ubuntu mosaic has been added, and Cinnamon is now an official flavor. So far, the collection of Ubuntu’s official flavors included representatives of all major desktop environments, including Kubuntu (KDE Plasma Desktop), Xubuntu (Xfce Desktop), Lubuntu (LXQt Desktop), Ubuntu MATE (MATE Desktop), and Ubuntu Budgie (Budgie Desktop). The big missing one was Cinnamon. Well, as of today, that’s no longer the case. # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_Remix_set_to_become_official flavour⠀⇛ Ubuntu 23.04 is less than a month away from release and there’s a pleasant surprise too because Canonical has decided to make Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix an official flavour in the upcoming release. Not everyone is happy with the heavily tweaked GNOME desktop that Ubuntu comes with normally so community-created flavours are also made available and granted official status by Canonical when the flavour is of good quality. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_becomes_an_official_flavor, making_Linux_Mint_obsolete⠀⇛ Linux Mint is a fairly popular operating system. But why do so many people use that Ubuntu-based distribution? People may tell you several reasons, but the reality is, many Ubuntu users are just not comfortable with the default desktop environment. Because Unity, and now GNOME, are so radically different from the traditional Windows interface, some people flocked to Linux Mint and its familiar Cinnamon desktop environment. Mate and Xfce are Mint desktop options too, but make no mistake, Cinnamon is the crown jewel of the distro. # ⚓ Phoronix ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_Becomes_An_Official_Flavor_For Ubuntu_23.04⠀⇛ Since 2019 there has been Ubuntu Cinnamon as an unofficial remix of Ubuntu paired with Linux Mint’s Cinnamon desktop environment. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Cinnamon_is_Now_an_Official_Ubuntu Flavour⠀⇛ What’s the best way to sample the Cinnamon desktop on top of an Ubuntu base? You may be minded to answer Linux Mint (and that wouldn’t be a wrong answer) but with the upcoming release of Ubuntu 23.04 there’ll be a new choice to consider. # ⚓ Mike_Gabriel:_UbuntuTouch_Focal_OTA-1_has_been_released⠀⇛ Yesterday, the UBports core developer team released Ubuntu Touch Focal OTA-1 (In fact, Raoul, Marius and I were in a conference call when Marius froze and said: the PR team already posted the release blog post; the post is out, but we haven’t released yet… ahhhh… panic… Shall I?, Marius said, and we said: GO!!! This is why the release occurred in public five hours ahead of schedule. OMG.) For all the details, please study: https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ ubuntu-touch-ota-1-focal-re… § Credits Thanks to all the developers, other contributors and funding providers that helped to reach this massive milestone. # ⚓ Accelerate_Your_Performance_Testing_on_Ubuntu_with_k6_and Postman-to-k6⠀⇛ Performance testing is crucial to software development. It ensures your application can handle high traffic and usage without crashing or slowing down. Many tools are available for performance testing, but two popular ones are k6 and Postman. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ How_to_create_a_VSCode_Linux_remote_environment [Ed: Canonical is shilling proprietary spyware of Microsoft instead of teaching people to use Free software not controlled by a company that attacks Linux from many angles]⠀⇛ What’s the best way to get a Linux environment in VSCode? o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ A_history_of_robotic_pets_(and_how_to_make_your own)⠀⇛ Humans have domesticated animals since the dawn of time. Dogs (our oldest furry friends) were owned by humans as far back as 30,000 years ago, and since then we’ve formed bonds with all kinds of different creatures. It was only in the last century, though, that we started to actually build our own pets. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ New_Firefox_Update_Improves_Performance for_Linux_Wayland_Users⠀⇛ It is extremely frustrating when your computer is too slow. Unfortunately, many Linux users had this issue when browsing with Firefox on devices that use the Wayland display server. Troubleshooting methods like clearing cookies usually get your web browser running quickly again. But how can this Firefox bug be fixed? And what can you do to prevent browser lag in the future? o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ How_to_use_a_fork_of_the_Go_compiler_with_Nix⠀⇛ Sometimes God is dead and you need to build something with a different version of Go than upstream_released. Juggling multiple Go toolchains is possible, but it’s not very elegant. However, we’re in Nix land. We can do anything*. I got accepted to Gophercon_EU and a lot of it involves doing weird things with WebAssembly and messing with assumptions people make about how filesystems work. Given that most of my audience is going to be Go programmers and that I’m already going to be cognitively complicating how core assumptions about filesystems work, I want to show my code examples in Go when at all possible. Go doesn’t currently support WASI, but there is a CL_in_progress that adds the port under the name GOARCH=wasm GOOS=wasip1. I wanted to pull this into my monorepo’s Nix flake so that I can run gowasi build foo.go and get foo.wasm in the same folder to experiment with. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Why_you_should_use_Python_and_Rust together⠀⇛ Python and Rust are very different languages, but they actually go together rather well. But before discussing how to combine Python with Rust, I want to introduce Rust itself. You’ve likely heard of the language but may not have heard details about how it works. § What is Rust? Rust is a low-level language. This means that the things the programmers deal with are close to the way computers “really” work. For example, integer types are defined by bit size and correspond to CPU-supported types. While it is tempting to say that this means a+b in Rust corresponds to one machine instruction, it does not mean quite that! Rust’s compiler’s chain is non-trivial. It is useful as a first approximation to treat statements like that as “kind of” true. Rust is designed for zero-cost abstraction, meaning many of the abstractions available at the language level are compiled away at runtime. For example, objects are allocated on the stack unless explicitly asked for. The result is that creating a local object in Rust has no runtime cost (though initialization might). Finally, Rust is a memory-safe language. There are other memory-safe languages and other zero-cost abstraction languages. Usually, those are different languages. Memory safety does not mean it is impossible to have memory violations in Rust. It does mean that there are only two ways that memory violations can happen: # A bug in the compiler. # Code that’s explicitly declared unsafe. Rust standard library code has quite a bit of code that is marked unsafe, though less than what many assume. This does not make the statement vacuous though. With the (rare) exception of needing to write unsafe code yourself, memory violations result from the underlying infrastructure. # ⚓ Buttondown ☛ Everything’s_an_API⠀⇛ Hi Everybody, April_Cools is this weekend! A bunch of people who normally write tech stuff will be writing about a bunch of other topics. If you’ve got a blog and find April Fools to be eye-rollingly trite, come join us! You don’t need to pour your heart and soul into a 10,000 epic, just write something fun and genuine and out of character for you. I’ve got a lot on my plate this week, so I’ll keep this newsletter short and sweet. Hyrum’s_law: With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody. Fair enough, but what do we mean by “API”? We always use “API” to mean the official designated interfaces, but when you get down to it, you can use anything as an interface! # ⚓ APNIC ☛ The_APNIC_Hackathon_is_back!⠀⇛ The APNIC Hackathon at APRICOT 2023 produced some impressive results on the topic ‘IPv6 Diagnostics Framework’. # ⚓ Peter_Hutterer:_New_gitlab.freedesktop.org_spamfighting abilities⠀⇛ As of today, gitlab.freedesktop.org allows anyone with a GitLab_Developer_role_or_above to remove spam issues. If you are reading this article a while after it’s published, it’s best to refer to the damspam_README for up-to-date details. I’m going to start with the TLDR first. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_to_use_Podman_in_GitLab_Runners⠀⇛ A GitLab Runner is an application that works with GitLab CI/CD to run jobs in a pipeline on GitLab’s infrastructure. They’re often used to automatically compile applications after code has been committed or to run tests on a code base. You can think of them as cloud-based Git_hooks. The main public GitLab_instance provides many easily accessible shared runners ready for use in your CI pipeline. You can find a list of shared runners in your repository’s Settings -> CI/CD - > Runners on GitLab. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Bug_fixes_for_AppImage_Installer⠀⇛ Alfons reported that in the “Other” category, the “Online Information” button didn’t work. Fixed. https://forum.puppylinux.com/ viewtopic.php?p=85384#p85384 Forum member Airdale reported liking Ungoogled Chromium and looked forward to the update feature. I replied that cannot update it: https://forum.puppylinux.com/ viewtopic.php?p=85386#p85386 I have fixed that also; however, do have a problem with updating at some repositories, so have had to hard-code to download just one version. Last night I discovered this: https://github.com/dvershinin/lastversion # ⚓ Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan_Dowland:_daily_log⠀⇛ The solution I’ve adopted for now is another Vim plugin, taskwiki, which synchronises tasks with Taskwarrior3, an external task-management tool. If I mark a task as “done”, Taskwiki updates all references to that task to reflect the new state. I can also construct queries to list all tasks matching some criteria. I have a special Vimwiki page named “Backlog” which runs the query “all tasks tagged ‘redhat’ in state ‘pending’” (Linked from the boilerplate at the top of every page I write, for quick access): = Backlog | +redhat status:pending = * [ ] buy milk (still todo) Much like the base Vimwiki plugin, Taskwiki is very opinionated, and I’ve had to tame it by disabling several of its features. I’ve also hit a couple of mildly frustrating bugs (#368, #425). I might one day have a go at writing an alternative, simpler plugin in Lua (Neovim’s native scripting language), but for now it works well enough and I don’t have the time. There’s very little in this current workflow for managing scheduling tasks, and that’s probably where the focus should be for my next iterative improvement efforts. I think Taskwarrior, the underlying tool, has some good support for that. I’d particularly like some more visual approaches for managing the backlog, such as something Kanban-style. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Validate_Email_Address_in_JavaScript⠀⇛ Email validation is a crucial part of any application that requires user registration or input of email addresses. Validating email addresses ensures that the input data is accurate, which helps prevent spam, reduces errors, and ensures that messages are delivered to the correct recipients. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ 10_Bash_Tricks_Every_Developer_Should Know⠀⇛ Bash is a popular shell scripting language used in Unix-based operating systems like Linux and macOS. It is widely used by developers, system administrators, and power users for automating tasks and managing systems. Bash offers many powerful features and shortcuts that can make your life easier and improve your productivity. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Head_of_Powerful_Teachers_Union Blasts_Republican_Attempts_to_Gut_Public_Education⠀⇛ American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said the GOP is exacerbating problems with declining enrollment, academic setbacks, and mental health and substance abuse challenges. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ The_Digital_Wellness_Lab_aims_to_mediate_between TikTok_and_parents⠀⇛ As some states try to regulate_children’s_social media_use and TikTok emerges as a geopolitical chew toy, a new clearinghouse has emerged for mediating between tech companies and those concerned about their products’ impact on kids: the Digital Wellness_Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Social_media’s_new_pay-for-play_rules⠀⇛ Social media is getting pricier for users who want to unlock special features and privileges. Why it matters: Users who once believed they were contributing their time and creativity are now being asked to pay up by cash-hungry platforms. =================================================== Driving the news: Elon Musk on Monday tweeted that beginning April 15, only tweets by verified users will show up in Twitter’s default main feed of “For You” recommendations. Verification, formerly a service Twitter offered public figures, is now available only to $8-a-month subscribers. # ⚓ Peru’s_authorities_seize_2.3_tons_of_cocaine_heading_to Turkey⠀⇛ According to officials from Peru, it was the first time they had such an incident with a Turkey-bound ship. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Cyclists’_Federation_opposes_ministry’s_proposed blood_alcohol_limit_for_bike_riders⠀⇛ Introducing a specific blood alcohol limit would ultimately do more harm than good, the federation says. # ⚓ Matt_Brown:_Ventilation_Monitoring⠀⇛ The importance of clean, fresh indoor air is one of the most tangible takeaways of the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to being an effective risk mitigation strategy for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses, clean, fresh air is necessary to enable effective cognitive performance. Monitoring indoor air quality is relatively easy to do, but traditionally has not been a key focus. I believe air quality monitoring should be accessible for any indoor space, and for highly occupied indoor spaces should be provided on a continuous basis. [...] § Next steps Many small businesses and organisations are likely to have poor air quality and opportunities for improvement similar to the example above that are waiting to be found and fixed, and the existing products available are neither focused or ideal for the needs of this market. I have spent some time over the past six months building a basic CO2_monitoring_service that I have used to deploy ventilation monitoring to our local school, and a few other local businesses. There are a number of challenges that still need to be addressed in order to scale the business up, but I think there is a reasonable chance that I can build a viable business that offers an attractive and useful solution that would accelerate the deployment of ventilation monitoring for small businesses and organisations. In an upcoming post, I will explain the foundations of the service that I have built to date, the challenges that need to be overcome and how I plan to evolve the service from the current prototype into a sustainable, bootstrapped business. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Apple_launches_buy_now,_pay_later service_in_US [Ed: Apple trying to become a lender because people lack money to spend on 'i' things]⠀⇛ Apple Inc has launched its buy now, pay later service in the United States that will allow consumers to pay for purchases over time. The service, Apple Pay Later, will allow users to split purchases into four payments spread over six weeks with no interest or fees, the company said. # ⚓ Mashable ☛ Microsoft-Owned_GitHub_Lays_Off_Entire Engineering_Team_In_India,_Impacting_142_Roles_–_Tech⠀⇛ The layoffs were not performance-related, and the affected employees have been given two months’ pay as severance. [...] This is not the first time GitHub has implemented layoffs, as the company announced the cutting of 10% of its workforce just last month. The company has also paused hiring until further notice. o § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ The_quiet_privatization_of_government_health insurance_programs [Ed: The privatisation and monopolisation of everything]⠀⇛ The biggest public health insurance programs have become increasingly privatized over the last decade, even while politicians sparred over whether government-run health care should be expanded to cover more Americans. Why it matters:Although privately run Medicare and Medicaid plans are still highly regulated and funded by the government, the commercialization has complicated efforts to rein in medical spending and unleashed fierce partisan fights like the ongoing one over Medicare Advantage. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (dino- im and runc), Fedora (qemu), Red Hat (firefox), SUSE (chromium, containerd, docker, kernel, and systemd), and Ubuntu (graphicsmagick, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oem-5.14, linux-oem-5.17, linux- oem-6.0, linux-oem-6.1, and node-url-parse). # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ SUSE_claims_new_era_of_confidential_computing through_its_adaptable_Linux_platform [Ed: This has nothing to do with security; it's about pacifying companies, via paperwork mostly, about outsourcing all their data to spying firms that are notorious for snooping; "confidential computing" dubbed, founded and led by some of the very worst offenders out there, operating via some openwashing proxy based in California]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ So_you_leaked_data_on_BreachForums,_but weren’t_the_hacker?_Can_you_be_prosecuted_for_leaking?⠀⇛ In the wake of the arrest of “Pompompurin,” BreachForums’ self-proclaimed owner and moderator, DataBreaches has been contacted by a number of anxious folks who want to know if they are at risk of being arrested for their own actions. Obviously, DataBreaches is not a lawyer or any kind of authority and can’t provide any assurances. But nor does this site feel comfortable sitting back while so many forum users from BreachForums and/or RaidForums spout incorrect information about some U.S. laws. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Illinois_Gastroenterology_Group_settles class_action_litigation_for_undisclosed_sum⠀⇛ There has been a settlement in litigation stemming from a breach previously noted on DataBreaches. Without admitting guilt or wrongdoing, Illinois Gastroenterology Group has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle claims from an October 2021 data breach first disclosed in April 2022. The incident involved unnamed threat actors accessing and exfiltrating data on more than 227,000 patients. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ A_listing_about_a_government_victim disappeared_from_LockBit’s_site._But_why?_(UPDATE1)⠀⇛ When an entity has been the victim of a cyberattack, they’d be smart not to discuss the attack via their email system or voice system if those systems could be compromised and the attackers could be monitoring them. But you’d think that there would be some records made involving incident response, such as notes or resolutions on whether the entity will pay a ransom demand or whom they are notifying, etc. Could all records be on an external counsel’s server so as to protect it from monitoring and perhaps discovery in any litigation? Perhaps. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Norwegian_data_protection_authority_fines U.S._firm_almost_$240,000_for_failure_to_notify_within_72 hours⠀⇛ It’s encouraging to see breach notification deadlines taken seriously. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has imposed a monetary penalty of NOK 2.5 million on Argon Medical Devices for breaching Article 33 (1) of the GDPR. That article requires controllers to notify the regulator of a personal data breach within 72 hours. # ⚓ French_CNIL_is_setting_the_tone_for_2023:_patients_data_and medical_research_on_its_radar⠀⇛ While the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) has consistently emphasized the importance of protecting health data, there will be even more focus for 2023 with more investigations and sanctions in this sector. The CNIL declared patient data as one of its four priority topics for investigations in 2023, and initiated its program with two official warnings issued to organizations conducting medical research (Sponsors) about their GDPR breaches. The CNIL is now more than ever underscoring the significance of compliance with data protection regulations within the realm of medical studies. CNIL has always been very attentive to the processing of health data and to their security and confidentiality. It regularly publishes content on its website (practical information sheets, guidelines and binding recommendations), and has also made health data security one of its priority topics for its investigations back in 2020 and 2021. It also regularly supports needs of health data localization within the European Union, for example in guidelines regarding early-access programs and health data warehouses. The CNIL also issues and regularly updates its standards for clinical studies, known as Méthodologies de reference (MR) like MR-001 or MR-003 for research involving human beings or MR-004 for research not involving human beings (e.g., for reuse of health data). The CNIL is now taking its efforts even further, kicking off 2023 with an intensified focus on medical research and patient data protection. # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Ethical_hackers_urged_to_respond_to Computer_Misuse_Act_reform_proposals⠀⇛ The deadline for submissions to the government’s consultation on reform of the Computer Misuse Act is fast approaching, and ethical hackers and security experts need to make their voices heard, says Bugcrowd # ⚓ A_hospital_went_dark_after_it_was_hacked._It’s_still reeling_two_years_later⠀⇛ As the second year of the pandemic was nearing an end, employees at Johnson Memorial Health hoped they could catch their breath after dealing with a weeks-long tsunami of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. But on a Friday at 3 a.m., the hospital CEO’s phone rang with an urgent call from the chief of nursing. “I remember like it was yesterday,” said Dr. David Dunkle, chief executive officer of the health system based in Franklin, Indiana. “My chief of nursing said, ‘Well, it looks like we got hacked.’” # ⚓ kpcyrd:_Writing_a_Linux_executable_from_scratch_with x86_64-unknown-none_and_Rust⠀⇛ I recently mentioned on the internet I did work in this direction and a_friend_of_mine asked me to write a blogpost on this. I didn’t blog for a long time (keeping all the goodness for myself hehe), so here we go. 🦝 To set the scene, let’s assume we want to make an exectuable binary for x86_64 Linux that’s supposed to be extremely portable. It should work on both Debian and Arch Linux. It should work on systems without glibc like Alpine Linux. It should even work in a FROM scratch Docker container. In a more serious setting you would statically link musl-libc with your Rust program, but today we’re in a silly-goofy mood so we’re going to try to make this work without a libc. And we’re also going to use Rust for this, more specifically the stable release channel of Rust, so this blog post won’t use any nightly-only features that might still change/break. If you’re using a Rust 1.0 version that was recent at the time of writing or later (>= 1.68.0 according to my computer), you should be able to try this at home just fine™. This tutorial assumes you have no prior programming experience in any programming language, but it’s going to involve some x86_64 assembly. If you already know what a syscall is, you’ll be just fine. If this is your first exposure to programming you might still be able to follow along, but it might be a wild ride. If you haven’t already, install rustup (possibly also available in your package manager, who_knows?) # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Mitigating_DDoS_using_an_anycast_playbook⠀⇛ Guest Post: How to redistribute traffic between anycast sites during a DDoS attack. # ⚓ Linux_Kernel_Vulnerabilities_in_Ubuntu_Let_Hackers_Launch DOS_Attack_&_Execute_Arbitrary_Code [Ed: An account on the machine is needed and a live session is needed too]⠀⇛ Several security vulnerabilities were recently addressed by Canonical in both Graphviz and the Linux kernel of Ubuntu. Recent discoveries include null pointer dereference vulnerabilities in Graphviz and improper handling of indirect branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs in the KVM VMX implementation of the Linux kernel. # ⚓ CSO ☛ Hackers_changed_tactics,_went_cross-platform_in_2022, says_Trend_Micro [Ed: Microsoft talking points, Microsoft- sponsored platform]⠀⇛ Payouts from ransomware victims declined by 38% in 2022, prompting hackers to adopt more professional and corporate tactics to ensure higher returns, according to Trend Micro’s Annual Cybersecurity Report. Many ransomware groups have structured their organizations to operate like legitimate businesses, including leveraging established networks and offering technical support to victims. There is an increasing level of professionalism from these groups and the adoption of more sophisticated business tactics, Trend said. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ QR_codes_could_unlock_lower-cost payments,_says_RBA [Ed: Australia wants to punish people who pay with cash and reject spyphones that track them around]⠀⇛ The Reserve Bank has flagged QR code-enabled transactions and other innovative payment technologies  to trim the cost of paying for things. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ ADF ☛ Wagner_Group_Targets_Chad_for_Sahel_Expansion⠀⇛ In its ongoing attempt to expand across the Sahel, Russia’s Wagner Group may choose Chad as its next target. Unlike other Sahelian countries, which have invited Wagner mercenaries, Chad could be Wagner’s first attempt at overthrowing a sitting government, according to analysts. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Terror_Groups_Prey_on_Vulnerable,_Cost_Continent Billions⠀⇛ Moustapha was running out of hope. The Nigerien man had a family to feed but little means to do so. Like scores of people around the continent, he was persuaded to join and fight for a violent extremist organization. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Leopard_2_and_Challenger_Tanks_Arrive_in Ukraine⠀⇛ The deliveries of advanced equipment are expected to assist Kyiv with a potential spring offensive. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_I.O.C._defers_discussion_on_whether Russian_and_Belarusian_athletes_will_compete_in_the_2024 Olympics.⠀⇛ # ⚓ ADF ☛ Eritrea_Looms_as_Potential_‘Spoiler’_of_Peace_in Ethiopia⠀⇛ As Ethiopia begins the difficult task of fostering peace and reconciliation after a devastating civil war, observers are warning that neighboring Eritrea could upend the process. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Belarus_Says_It’s_Willing_to_Host_Russian Nuclear_Weapons⠀⇛ President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia floated the idea of positioning nuclear weapons in Belarus last year, but recently raised the idea again, with more concrete details. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Father_Flees_Before_Conviction That_May_Leave_His_Daughter_in_Orphanage⠀⇛ Aleksei Moskalyov was convicted over antiwar comments on social media that came to light after his daughter made a drawing at school. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Climate_protesters_shut_out_of_banking summit [Ed: Cops protect bankers, not the planet]⠀⇛ Climate protesters have attempted to crash a banking summit where executives of the country’s biggest banks have been spruiking their decarbonisation agendas. Activists, including survivors of natural disasters, chanted and held banners calling out the big four banks’ continued funding of fossil fuel projects on Tuesday… # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Kirkuk_pipeline_to_be_closed_as_Turkey_fined_1.4 billion_dollars_in_arbitration_case_won_by_Iraq⠀⇛ The production halt of the 450,000 barrels of oil per day might be a blow to the KRG’s economy. Baghdad welcomed the decision. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._and_Japan_Reach_Deal_on_Battery Minerals⠀⇛ While the terms of the deal are limited, the agreement appears to provide a model for resolving recent trade spats between the United States and some of its closest allies. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Lawmakers_Rebuke_Biden_for_Bypassing Congress_in_Trade_Deal_With_Japan⠀⇛ A statement from two Democrats called the Biden administration’s deal “unacceptable,” saying it should have been made available to Congress and the public for review. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ South_Korea_will_give_families_$770_a_month for_one_year_to_have_a_baby⠀⇛ South Korea’s birth rate has reached alarming new lows. Births shrank to 0.78 per woman last year, from 0.81 in 2021, which already put the country lowest in the world. If that trend continues, South Korea’s population will be less than half what it is now by the end of the century. # ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ Do_three_Pacific_islands_provide lessons_for_achieving_a_sustainable_human_population?⠀⇛ These islands were more-or-less isolated, microcosms that perhaps tell us what is going to happen with the global population. Anthropological accounts also describe remarkable forms of birth control. Do they tell us anything about how to achieve sustainable populations today? # ⚓ ADF ☛ Illegal_Fish_Dumping_by_Chinese_Trawlers_Rising in_Ghana⠀⇛ It is illegal for fishing vessels to discard unwanted fish in Ghanaian waters, but the practice continues, causing waste, environmental degradation and lost income for artisanal fishermen. According to a recent report by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), captains typically discard juvenile, lower-value fish to make room for more valuable species. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Five_major_banks_in_France_have_been_raided_as part_of_a_tax_fraud_probe⠀⇛ French authorities raided five major banks on March 28 as part of a long-term investigation into alleged money laundering and tax evasion. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Substack_is_fundraising_directly_from_its writers⠀⇛ Newsletter company Substack, which reportedly struggled_to_fundraise last year amid a broader downturn in the tech market, wants its next round of financing to come directly from its pool of writers. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania’s_tax_changes_to_hit_country’s_middle class:_self-employed_and_small_firms_to_be_most_affected⠀⇛ Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė has presented tax reforms that have been in the pipeline for several years. If it goes through, small businesses and self-employed workers will be the most affected. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_mobile_operator_to_up_charges_on_Ukraine calls⠀⇛ The telecommunications company Tele2 is discontinuing discounts on call charges in Ukraine. Calls to Lithuania and within Ukraine will become six times more expensive. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Monthly_inflation_likely_to_keep drifting_down⠀⇛ The monthly consumer price index, introduced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to supplement the less volatile quarterly version, is tipped to keep falling from its December peak of 8.4 per cent annual growth. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Geico_Auto_Insurance_Tries_Picking Pockets_by_Over-Estimating_Annual_Mileage_During_Renewal⠀⇛ Geico Auto Insurance Tries Picking Pockets by Over- Estimating Annual Mileage During Renewal I received my next six month term from GEICO the other day, after receiving an email that SeaMonkey said was “suspicious” the prior month, stating that I needed to update my annual mileage estimate, or GEICO would just go ahead and reset it… # ⚓ Axios ☛ “Badwill”_hunting:_The_difference_between_the_bank failures_of_2008_and_today⠀⇛ Data: FactSet; Chart: Axios Visuals When government intervened to save Credit Suisse and Silicon_Valley_Bank, a lot of people lost a lot of money — shareholders and some bondholders are zeroed out; senior executives are unceremoniously fired. The acquiring banks, on the other hand — UBS and First Citizens — both ended up with extraordinary gains on their balance sheets. ⚓ Axios ☛ The_huge_question_created_by_SVB’s_failure⠀⇛ When bank supervisors do their best work, you will not hear about it. You will never read about how a heroic bureaucrat identified a risk to an institution’s health, flagged it to management and, as a result, the bank didn’t fail. * By design, most bank supervision work is strictly confidential, and “Local bank remains open” is not the stuff of newspaper front pages. ⚓ YLE ☛ Housing_prices_decline_again_in_February⠀⇛ Sales volumes of old apartments and row houses were also down by 32 percent in February. ⚓ New York Times ☛ Your_Wednesday_Briefing:_China’s_Billions_in_Bailouts⠀⇛ Also, a shake-up at Alibaba and a rare glimpse at a ruined city in Ukraine. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ Axios ☛ Rot_of_nation’s_core_values_quantified_by_single_poll⠀⇛ Data: Wall Street Journal/NORC poll. Chart: Axios Visuals Rarely does one poll stare so deeply into the soul of a nation and tell its story. But a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll exposes generational and political_divides that echo loudly and transformatively across our culture, politics and governance. Why it matters: Bill_McInturff, the pollster on earlier editions of this survey, told The Journal that the combined toll of political division, COVID and the lowest economic confidence in decades appear to be having “a startling effect on our core values.” ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Twitter_to_deny_features_for_non-blue_ticks_in_shake- up⠀⇛ Twitter is set to scrap features for users who do not pay a monthly fee for a blue tick verification, according to new rules shared by billionaire owner Elon Musk. ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Xi’s_‘Chilling’_Remarks:_What_the_New_Multipolar_World Means_for_the_Middle_East_and_Africa⠀⇛ If this geopolitical shift continues, the world will, once again, find itself divided into camps. While it is too early to determine, with any degree of certainty, the winners and losers of this new configuration, it is almost certain that a US-western-dominated world is no longer possible.  ⚓ ADF ☛ Experts_Urge_New_Approach_in_Countering_Coups⠀⇛ The recent outbreak of coups in West Africa has cast a spotlight on some shortcomings in transitioning back to democracy. Since 2020, military juntas have swept to power in Mali (2021, 2022), Burkina Faso (twice in 2022) and Guinea. Four failed coup attempts also took place in West Africa in 2022. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ AccessNow ☛ A_new_blow_to_freedom_of_expression_in_Tunisia⠀⇛ Tunisia’s Decree law 54 is supposed to fight cybercrime. Instead, it threatens freedom of expression and undermines democratic principles. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Litigation_‘scare_campaign’_on_voice_unfounded,_PM says⠀⇛ Concerns that the Indigenous voice to parliament will lead to multiple High Court legal challenges are unfounded, the prime minister says. * ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Roger_Waters_V._the_Machine:_Inside_the_Pink_Floyd Frontman’s_Battle_For_Free_Speech_in_Germany⠀⇛ After being blacklisted as “anti-Semitic,” Roger Waters has embarked upon a legal battle against German authorities over his support for BDS, criticism of the Israeli government and support for the Palestinian people. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ Journalist_Abdulkadir_Turay’s_release_postponed_for_three_months⠀⇛ The reporter of the now-closed Dicle News Agency responded to the board’s decision that he has no regrets. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Officers_deny_accusations_in_the_investigation_on_torture_of_child⠀⇛ Five police officers have been arrested in the scope of the investigation on the alleged torture of a 14-year-old in Lice, Diyarbakır on March 21 during the Newroz celebrations. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ West_Papua_–_a_human_rights_tragedy_right_on_our doorstep⠀⇛ It’s the decades-long human rights tragedy that Australia avoids. Abuses elsewhere get stern condemnation sometimes backed by sanctions, arms and sanctuary for refugees. But Indonesia’s brutal suppression of separatists in West Papua goes untouched. It’s too close to home. * ⚓ Court_rejects_forensic_medical_examination_request_in_the_case_on suspicious_death_in_prison⠀⇛ All requests the lawyer of the family made for taking the testimonies of all witnesses, for exploration at the scene of the event, and for a forensic medical examination were rejected. * ⚓ No_action_taken_despite_allegation_of_rape_in_repatriation_center_in Iğdır⠀⇛ A young woman from Afghanistan made a criminal complaint of sexual assault in the Iğdır repatriation center but the offenders are still kept at the same removal center with her. * ⚓ YLE ☛ MP_al-Taee:_Child_protection_services_treat_immigrant-background kids_arbitrarily⠀⇛ Finland’s Children’s Ombudsman, Elina Pekkarinen, voiced concern that families with immigrant backgrounds are overrepresented as clients in the child protective services sector. § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ Axios ☛ Tech_giants_caught_between_escalating_U.S.-China_tensions⠀⇛ Apple CEO Tim Cook for the first time since the pandemic traveled to China this weekend, where he touted the company’s strong relationship with the country at a business conference organized by the Chinese government. * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ UPC_Registry_reports_on_some_common_issues_in_use_of_CMS [Ed: Bristows, a serial liar and pusher for an illegal UPC, wants you to think that UPC issues are merely some CMS bugs. This is an attack on the constitutions and many law firms should be disbarred for lobbying against the laws of many countries.]⠀⇛ * ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ The_Brandeis_Brief_in_Patent_Cases⠀⇛ Louis D. Brandeis was a famous lawyer long before becoming a Supreme Court Justice. In the 1908 case of Muller v. Oregon, Brandeis represented the State of Oregon defending the state’s rule restricting the number of hours that women could work in certain industries.  In defense of the law, Brandeis filed a brief that presented social science research and empirical evidence to support the argument that long working hours had negative effects on women’s health and family life. * ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Bye_Bye_Functional_Claims⠀⇛ Oral arguments from Amgen v. Sanofi suggest the potential of a blockbuster Supreme Court decision further derogating functional claim limitations (all of which are also genus claims).  A key question is whether the court will include limiting language that that directs impact primarily upon the “unpredictable arts.” At oral arguments, the Supreme Court was quite hostile to the patentee counsel Jeffrey Lamken and his attempt to defend Amgen’s functionally claimed genus of antibodies.  I believe that Lamken took the wrong turn by first repeatedly telling the court that the claim covered only about 400 antibodies, before eventually admitting that a scope covering millions of yet unidentified antibodies.  § Trademarks⠀➾ * ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Three_Section_2(d)_Refusals Was/Were_Reversed?⠀⇛ The Board has affirmed 36 of the first 38 Section 2(d) refusals that it reviewed this year. Here are three more. At least one was reversed. How do you think these three cases came out? [Results in first comment]. In_re_77_Enterprises_LLC, Serial No. 87639234(March 24, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Marc A Bergsman) [Section 2(d) refusal of 77 SPORTBAR for “bar and restaurant services, namely providing of food and beverages for consumption on the premises; restaurant and sports bar services with televisions on premises,” in view of the registered mark 77 SOCIAL CLUB and design for “catering services; restaurant and bar services.”] * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Eating_your_info_vegetables⠀⇛ I agree that it can often be worthwhile getting into some things that might take a bit of an effort. For non-fiction, How to Read a Book is still good. Even though it came out in 1972, it’s core message of reading & synthesizing is still relevant, even more relevant, in today’s hypertext world. That book has a chapter on fiction, too, a good one, but nothing beats Comme un roman for ridding ourselves from the chore parts of fiction and cultivating a breezy love of reading for pleasure. # ⚓ US_Paper_Sizes_Rant⠀⇛ Instead we use a weird mix of sizes that have no relation to any other. The ISO sizes are consistent, so that, for instance, an A5 page is the same size as half an A4 page, but has the same aspect ratio, so if you reduce an A4 page down to A5 size, it fits perfectly. Reduce an 8 ½ ×11 inch page to 5½ ×8 and you leave a large part of the page empty! So stupid! I have a tendency to print stuff on 5½ ×8 size pages (that’s an almost standard US size, sometimes called Statement, Digest, Halfletter, etc.) as pamphlets, and resizing 8½×11 pages to do that just looks ugly. It’s maybe enough to make me pay the extra cost for A4 paper… o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Making_a_Simple_Podcast_TUI_with_MPV,_FZF_and_Podget⠀⇛ If you’ve read any of my glog posts about my Pinephone you may remember that I have a custom terminal interface that consists of various command line programs and scripts that do all the common things I typically do on the Pinephone. A podcast client is one thing that I hadn’t totally settled on a solution for yet. I was using Castero, which is quite nice, but wanted something simpler that just downloaded all the new episodes at once. Over the last few weeks I was mulling and searching for an easy way to make a simple terminal file select menu to launch my podcasts but I hadn’t found anything that was quite what I had in mind. Then ~lettuce goes and posts a great little thing on using fzf to make simple little terminal menus and it gave me an idea. Fzf is already installed because it is a depency of ytfzf, the youtube/ peertube TUI program I already use. So thanks lettuce for that inspiration. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5745 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.29.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_29/03/2023:_InfluxDB_FDW_2.0.0_and_Erosion_of_Human_Rights⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Software_Patents # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ System76_Announces_New_Gazelle_Linux_Laptop with_a_13th_Gen_Intel_CPU,_64GB_RAM⠀⇛ The new Gazelle Linux laptop is powered by a 13th Gen Intel Core i9 13900H CPU with 14 cores, 20 threads, 24 MB cache, integrated Intel Iris Xe graphics, and up to 5.4 GHz clock speed and features the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 dedicated graphics card, which makes it ideal for gaming and high-performance CUDA workloads on-the-go. The Gazelle comes with a sleek design in 15-inch and 17-inch thin bezel Full HD matte display flavors featuring 144Hz refresh rate, as well as wide viewing angles and vivid colors, support for up to three external displays, support for up to 64GB dual-channel 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM, as well as support for up to 4TB of PCIe 4.0 and 4TB of PCIe 3.0 NVMe storage for a total of 8TB NVMe storage. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ System76_refreshes_Gazelle_Linux_laptop_with Intel_Core_i9-13900H_CPU_and_NVIDIA_GeForce_RTX_3050_GPU⠀⇛ Today, System76 unveils the latest generation of its Gazelle laptop. The Gazelle is a powerful and versatile laptop that is perfect for a wide range of users. It is a great choice for creative professionals, gamers, and anyone who needs a powerful laptop for work or play. The Gazelle is powered by the 14-core Intel Core i9-13900H processor, which offers a max clock speed of 5.4Ghz. This new CPU provides up to 8 percent better performance compared to the previous generation of the Gazelle laptop. The computer also features an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 GPU, which delivers exceptional performance for both gaming and graphics-intensive tasks. # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ System76_Gazelle_Laptop_Has_Linux_and_an_RTX 3050⠀⇛ System76 sells a lot of desktops and laptops built with desktop Linux in mind, like the compact Meerkat desktop that was just updated. Now the company is bringing back its Gazelle mobile workstation, complete with a Core i9 CPU and RTX 3050 graphics. The Gazelle is one of the company’s high-end workstation laptops, with the previous model having a 12th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, a 15.6 or 17.3- inch screen, up to 64 GB RAM, and an RTX 3050, 3050 Ti, or 3060. The new model replaces the CPU with an Intel Core i9-13900H processor, which has 14 cores, 20 threads, and a maximum clock speed of 5.4 GHz. That’s a lot of power in a PC that is still (somewhat) portable. For graphics, System76 has trimmed back the GPU options to a single choice: the RTX 3050. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ System76_announce_new_Gazelle_laptop,_13th Gen_Intel_paired_with_NVIDIA⠀⇛ What System76 said is their “most budget-friendly laptop which features a discrete GPU”, the new Gazelle laptop has been announced. I continue to be a big fan of their work, as their hardware always looks great. They continue to be one of the leading manufacturers of Linux hardware, and software with their Pop!_OS and open firmware work too. “Designed to unleash your engineering or creative potential, you can do your best work and watch progress unfold in each stage of production across four displays (incl. up to three external displays). With its sleek design available in a 15” or 17” 144Hz display and RTX-powered graphics, the Gazelle is capable of beautiful gaming and high- performance CUDA workloads on-the-go.” — System76 o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Architecting_and_Managing_Cloud-Native Infrastructure⠀⇛ Becoming a cloud architect is a challenge. To become a cloud architect, you must have knowledge and experience above what other architects have. Cloud architects are expected to be experts in cloud technology and be the cloud thought leaders within their organization. # ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Release_Makes_Shifting_SaaS_Apps_to Private_Clouds_Simpler⠀⇛ Release today made generally available a Release Delivery platform that uses a container description to create a full environment that enables cloud applications to be deployed in a private cloud computing environment. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Simplifying_cloud-native_with_container management_and_orchestration⠀⇛ Since containers have become heavily embedded in the enterprise world, deployment difficulties and Kubernetes configuration have emerged. This begs the question: What is the right path to cloud- native? ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Beyond_Kubernetes:_Exploring_the_full_ecosystem_of_container orchestration_tools⠀⇛ Kubernetes’ place in the essential toolkit for enterprise IT has been well-established. What may be less widely known is that the container orchestration technology is now surrounded by an entire ecosystem of management tools. These include capabilities for cost optimization, pre-configured development environments, command line packages and cluster management. ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Simplification,_agility_and_scale_drive_Platform9’s_vision for_Kubernetes_and_cluster_management⠀⇛ Kubernetes and containers have driven the transformation of applications to cloud-native platforms, yet they have carried a great deal of complexity along the way. This has led to the rise of out-of- the-box solutions designed to let companies focus on key goals instead of the computerized pipes that run the business. § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ * ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_222⠀⇛ Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto, Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more. § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ * ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Install_&_Try_out_Ubuntu’s_New_Fonts_in_Ubuntu_22.04 |_20.04⠀⇛ The Ubuntu design team is working on new Ubuntu fonts and proposes to use as default in the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04. For testing purpose, the team posted the .deb packages for the new fonts in this thread. * ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Command_Line_e-Book_Readers_for_Linux,_Mac,_and_more⠀⇛ Because sometimes reading in a terminal is darned pleasant. * ⚓ ID Root ☛ The_Ultimate_Guide_to_Using_Gzip_on_Linux:_Simplify_Your_File Compression⠀⇛ Have you ever come across a large file on your Linux system that you needed to share or upload, but it was just too big? * ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_refresh_and_reload_group_membership_on_Linux_without a_reboot_or_logging_in_again⠀⇛ Do you want to refresh and reload the group membership on Linux without rebooting the Linux machine or logging in again? Try the newgrp command to log in to a new group without logging in again or reboot the system. * ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_work_with_a_list_of_dictionaries_in_Ansible⠀⇛ How to work with a list of dictionaries in Ansible * ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Zoom_Client_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛ As a Manjaro Linux user, you might seek a reliable and user- friendly video conferencing platform for daily communication. Look no further, as Zoom is the perfect solution for you! * ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_and_use_the_Cockpit_desktop_client_for easier_remote_Linux_administration⠀⇛ Make administering all your Cockpit-enabled servers even easier with the help of the Cockpit Client desktop application. * ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_and_use_Terminator_Terminal_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ In this step-by-step guide, we will show you how to install Terminator on Ubuntu and get started using its many features. From customizing your layout to using keyboard shortcuts, we will cover everything you need to know to use Terminator like a pro. § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ * § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ o ⚓ This_Month_in_Plasma_Mobile:_March_2023⠀⇛ We have been busy these past two months! The last version of Plasma 5 was released in February, and so development work has shifted toward Plasma 6. This involves porting from Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6. As a result, development is quite chaotic right now, but we are hard at work! There is no set timeline for when the first version of Plasma 6 will come out, but it is expected to be within a year. For applications, they are now part of the regular KDE Gear releases and will have a release next month (KDE Gear 23.04). In other news, we (and the rest of KDE) have a new forum! General discussion and support can now take place there, which will provide an alternative to the current matrix room and mailing list. Devin also attended SCaLE 20x in California, and was able to demo a bunch of devices running Plasma Mobile! o ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Plasma,_GwenView,_increase_sidebar_font_size⠀⇛ GwenView is the default image viewer – and sort of image manipulation – program in Dolphin. It’s pretty decent. But in Kubuntu 22.04, the way it’s configured by default, as I’ve explained it in my Slimbook Titan review, the usability is subpar. You have no menu, no buttons for quick actions. But Plasma is awesome, and you can customize things as much as you need or like. So, I quickly remedied the initial shortcomings. I added a menu, I added a bunch of buttons to the toolbar, disabled video view, added checkered background to images with transparency, and changed shortcuts for quicker action and work, like Esc for exit, s for save, c for crop, and similar. The one thing I wasn’t able to instantly fix is the sidebar. The stuff there is simply too small. The interface obeys my HD scaling all right, so there isn’t an issue there, but for some reason, the folder contents, image details or image manipulation operations listed on the left side are rendered in tiny font. The text is too small to comfortably “see”, and there isn’t a toggle/ option anywhere in GwenView’s menu. OK, let’s rectify that. o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE’s_Plasma_Mobile_Gets_Ported_to_KDE_Frameworks_6 and_Qt_6⠀⇛ While the KDE Project is also working hard on the Plasma 6 desktop environment series, Plasma Mobile users will be happy to learn that repository for Plasma Mobile packages was already ported to KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt 6. But during this porting a lot of things were rewritten and improved, including the brightness slider in the action drawer for smoother user interaction, the task switcher, which is now a KWin effect and can be opened if there’s no apps running, and the audio overlay to open much faster when pressing the audio buttons on your device. § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ * ⚓ LinuxStans ☛ Best_Linux_Distros_for_Security_and_Privacy⠀⇛ When it comes to internet security and privacy, Linux operating systems (distros) are the best option. But with so many Linux distros available, it can be difficult to know which one will provide you the anonymity you so require. * ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Proxmox_Backup_Server_2.4_Adds_LDAP_Realm_Authentication⠀⇛ Proxmox Backup Server is an open-source backup solution that allows users to back up and restore virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts. It is designed to work with Proxmox Virtual Environment, a powerful open-source virtualization platform. The software provides a web-based user interface for managing backups, creating backup jobs, and restoring data. It supports various backup types, including full, incremental, and differential backups, and can store backups locally or remotely. Today, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH released a new version of its backup management platform, Proxmox Backup Server 2.4, so let’s check what’s new. * § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ o ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Maximizing_Edge_Performance:_The_Power_of the_KubeMQ,_Rancher_Prime,_and_K3s_Integration⠀⇛ * § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ o ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ Ubuntu_Touch_OTA-1_Focal_mobile_operating_system released⠀⇛ UBports has this week announced the release of the latest update to the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system specifically created to provide users with a privacy and freedom-respecting mobile operating system. Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal is now available for the following Fairphone 4, Google Pixel 3a, Vollaphone 22, Vollaphone X and Vollaphone. * § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Powers_Commodore_64_Expansion Cartridge,_Plays_Doom⠀⇛ Bringing the power to a 40+ year old vintage computer, the Raspberry Pi provides CPU horsepower and more RAM than the Commodore 64 could ever dream of. o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_GPIO_Pinout:_What_Each_Pin_Does_on Pi_4,_Earlier_Models⠀⇛ The Raspberry Pi has 40 GPIO pins that connect to sensors, lights, motors and other devices. Here’s a map and detailed explanation of what each does, including on the Pi 4. * § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ o ⚓ Purism ☛ New_Automatic_Power-On_firmware_for_Librem_Mini⠀⇛ Our latest coreboot/SeaBIOS and PureBoot releases bring new firmware configurations for the Librem Mini v1 and v2! Many users use the Librem Mini as a headless server and have asked for firmware that would boot up automatically when powered, like an appliance. Once enabled, the setting persists as long as the RTC battery is plugged in. The setting is in the EC’s battery-backed RAM, and the new BIOS configurations enable this setting during boot. * § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_they’re_texting_on_Android totally_wrong_–_five_reckless_mistakes_no_one_should_be_making_| The_US_Sun⠀⇛ o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Download_an_Email_as_a_PDF_in_Gmail_on Android⠀⇛ o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Everything_new_in_Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_[Gallery]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_is_out_now_for_your Google_Pixel_phone⠀⇛ o ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_brings_improved_Adaptive_Charging and_welcome_bug_fixes⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_is_Here_for_Pixel_Phones⠀⇛ o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2_rolling_out_to_Pixel⠀⇛ o ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_14_will_make_it_easier_to_hide_your_phone’s_PIN from_shoulder_surfers⠀⇛ o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_14_bringing_app_actions_to_share_sheet, more⠀⇛ o ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Nexus_Android_Malware_Targets_450_Financial Applications⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers_2023- 03-29_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android_Auto_Problems_and_Bugs_Tracker:_Check_the_Latest_Status⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Sun ☛ Dozens_of_Android_apps_are_draining_your_battery_– check_‘vampire’_list_to_kill_them_as_soon_as_possible_|_The_US Sun⠀⇛ o ⚓ Business Wire ☛ Evolution_Digital_and_OpenSync_Partner_on_First Android_TV_Set-Top_Box_Integration_|_Business_Wire⠀⇛ § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ * ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ 2023_State_of_Open_Source_Report:_key_findings_and_analysis [Ed: OpenLogic_is_a_Microsoft_proxy; OSI relies on Microsofters (the people_who_took_over_OSI) to do a “2023 State of Open Source Report”]⠀⇛ * § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ o ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ InfluxDB_FDW_2.0.0_released⠀⇛ We have just released version 2.0.0 of the Foreign Data Wrapper for InfluxDB. This release can work with PostgreSQL 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. This release improves following item (from 1.2.0): [...] * § Programming/Development⠀➾ o ⚓ Rlang ☛ R_config:_How_to_Manage_Environment-Specific Configuration_Files⠀⇛ How many times have you encountered a file path issue when running your code on a different environment? Probably far too many. It doesn’t need to be the case anymore – The R config package is here to allow you to manage environment-specific configuration files. o ⚓ Qt ☛ What_is_in_Qt_Insight_1.0?⠀⇛ Qt Insight is a product analytics solution providing real-world data into how people use a software application or a digital device. The first version of Qt Insight for General Availability was released in March 2023. Qt Insight consists of three major components: The Qt Tracker software library embedded in the Qt application, the Qt Insight Cloud Services, and the Qt Insight Console for analyzing behavioral data in a web browser. § Leftovers⠀➾ * ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Pareidolia_and_pattern_matching⠀⇛ You know that feeling when you see a book online or in a store, and you buy it because it looks interesting, only for it to sit on a shelf or your ebook list forever? I’ve been plowing through them lately, and turns out that Ruben guy was right, these were interesting! Two entirely unrelated books, one about German philosophy, and another about what a glorious con Bitcoin is, mentioned the phenomena of Pareidolia. It sounded more like a small European flower than a psychological phenomena, but I wanted to check it out. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ 4_ways_to_win_at_work_during_layoffs⠀⇛ In the short span since 2023 began, more than 100,000 of the world’s most skilled workers are reported to have had their jobs abruptly terminated. * ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ First_Directly_Elected_UAW_President_Vows_‘War Against_Our_One_and_Only_True_Enemy:_Multibillion_Dollar_Corporations’⠀⇛ Shawn Fain, running as part of a reform slate of candidates, swept the ballot to take control of a union that has been marred by corruption. * ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Want_to_Curb_City_Crime?_Evict_Fewer_Tenants,_Study Says⠀⇛ Rising evictions rates pose a threat to social cohesion and public safety, a new report concludes. * § Science⠀➾ o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ JWST_Gives_Us_Our_Best_Look_Yet_at_Earth-Sized Exoplanet_TRAPPIST-1b⠀⇛ We’ve never been able to observe like this before. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Created_a_New_Recyclable_Plastic_Not Made_From_Crude_Oil⠀⇛ We need more solutions like this. * § Hardware⠀➾ o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ DRAM_Prices_Dropped_20%_in_Q1_2023,_Will_Keep Falling_in_Q2⠀⇛ TrendForce says DRAM prices down 20% in Q1 2023, will continue to fall in Q2 2023. * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Horrifying_Epidemic_of_Teen-Age_Fentanyl_Deaths in_a_Texas_County⠀⇛ Students have overdosed during class, in bathrooms, and in an elementary-school parking lot. o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ 6_surprising_foods_and_drinks_that_could_affect_your medication⠀⇛ What you eat or drink can affect how well your medication works, and can even be dangerous o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Well-Known_Buffer_Against_Cognitive_Decline_Has Zero_Effect,_Study_Finds⠀⇛ This is so puzzling. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ World_First:_Dementia_Linked_to_Brain Abnormalities_From_High_Blood_Pressure⠀⇛ It matches up. o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Hospitals:_healthcare_services_might_only_be_provided for_a_fee_this_year⠀⇛ The lack of money for regional and local hospitals causes uncertainty about their future. After a meeting of the Latvian Hospital Association on March 27, hospitals estimate that medical services might only be provided for a fee starting from the autumn, Skrunda Television reported Monday. o ⚓ The Local SE ☛ ANALYSIS:_Why_four_in_five_Swedes_off_sick_with stress_are_women⠀⇛ Gender inequality in workplaces, household chores and healthcare prejudices are all factors behind Sweden’s gender gap in stress-related sick leave, according to experts. o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Brazil_hits_700,000_virus_deaths,_2nd highest_in_the_world⠀⇛ Brazil’s government has reported the 700,000th death from COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the second most victims of the virus after the United States. Brazilian health experts say most people dying of COVID- 19 in recent days are either unvaccinated or suffer from other debilitating diseases. Health Minister Nisia Trindade criticized former President Jair Bolsonaro for his handling of the pandemic. Bolsonaro refused to take the vaccine during the pandemic and flouted health restrictions. o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Wyoming_abortion_clinic_fire_suspect_to_go free_pending_case⠀⇛ A woman accused of setting fire to a Wyoming abortion clinic will be released from jail while her case proceeds. A judge ruled Tuesday that 22-year-old Lorna Roxanne Green must live with her parents and continue as a college student. On social media, the Casper woman posted details including competing in a bike race and visiting a butterfly garden but showed no anti-abortion views. Investigators say Green told them the planned clinic in Casper was giving her anxiety and nightmares, so she decided to burn it down last May. Her attorney, Ryan Semerad, said he’s pleased Green is being released and looks forward to defending her. o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Man_charged_with_firebombing_Wisconsin anti-abortion_office⠀⇛ Federal prosecutors have charged a man with firebombing a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group’s office last year. The U.S. attorney’s office in Madison announced that 29-year-old Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury was arrested Tuesday at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged with one count of attempting to cause damage by means of fire or an explosive. Prosecutors believe Roychowdhury threw Molotov cocktails into the Wisconsin Family Action office in Madison on May 6. The attack came about a week after a draft opinion suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion leaked. The court did overturn the ruling in June. Online court records did not list an attorney for Roychowdhury. o ⚓ ’No_quick_fix’_for_Danish_cancer_waiting_lists:_health_minister⠀⇛ Health Minister Sophie Løhde said on Thursday that she “deeply regrets” missed deadlines for bowel cancer treatment at Aarhus University Hospital, but that the government does not have an immediate fix for the problem. o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ New_Avian_Flue_Case_Is_Detected_In_China’s_Canton Province⠀⇛ The infected woman, who is 56 years old, had exposed to live poultry before contracting the disease. o ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_to_discard_1.5m_Covid_vaccines,_to_donate_2.3m⠀⇛ Some 1.5 million Covid-19 vaccines are ready for disposal in Lithuania, while another 2.3 million jabs have been or will be donated to other countries, 15min.lt reported on Tuesday, citing data from the Health Ministry. * § Proprietary⠀➾ o ⚓ Elon_Musk_and_others_sign_open_letter_calling_for_pause_on_AI_— True_Story⠀⇛ The prevalence of AI has increased massively in recent years, with systems such as chatbot ChatGPT quickly becoming part of everyday life. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Surprise!_ChatGPT_Turns_Out_to_Be_Terrible_at Wordle⠀⇛ The shocking truth is revealed. * § Security⠀➾ o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ 3_reasons_why_OTA_updates_are_important_[Part_II]⠀⇛ Devices are everywhere but they all need maintenance. Maintaining household gadgets such as laptops, printers and smart watches has become easier over the years as update technology evolves. Today, users do not have to even think about updates – they can seamlessly take place in the background or overnight. These updates take place over-the-air (OTA) and have revolutionised the way that we keep hardware, software or firmware maintained. Now devices can easily stay updated, even when distributed across a city, country or continent. o ⚓ CVE-2023-28755:_ReDoS_vulnerability_in_URI⠀⇛ We have released the uri gem version 0.12.1, 0.11.1, 0.10.2 and 0.10.0.1 that has a security fix for a ReDoS vulnerability. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-28755. § Details A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects. The uri gem version 0.12.0, 0.11.0, 0.10.1, 0.10.0 and all versions prior 0.10.0 are vulnerable for this vulnerability. o ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Hackers_used_spyware_made_in_Spain_to_target_users in_the_UAE,_Google_says_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛ Security researchers say they have seen hackers targeting victims using spyware developed by a Spanish company. o ⚓ JURIST ☛ New_Zealand_intelligence_agencies_concerned_over_foreign nation_cyberattacks⠀⇛ The New Zealand Intelligence and Security Committee Monday held its annual review, with cyberattacks being the primary concern across reports. o ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Twitter_source_code_leaked_on_GitHub_has_been removed [Ed: Microsoft deletes code again... for Elon Musk and Saudi dictators ]⠀⇛ A portion of the social media site’s source code was posted on GitHub shortly after widespread layoffs at Twitter. o ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Security_Vulnerabilities_in_Snipping_Tools [Ed: Microsoft TCO]⠀⇛ Both Google’s_Pixel’s_Markup_Tool and the Windows Snipping_Tool have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited out of images. o ⚓ SANS ☛ Network_Data_Collector_Placement_Makes_a_Difference,_(Tue, Mar_28th)⠀⇛ A previous diary [1] described processing some local PCAP data with Zeek. This data was collected using tcpdump on a DShield Honeypot. When looking at the Zeek connection logs, the connection state information was unexpected. To help understand why, we will compare data from different locations on the network and process the data in a similar way. o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Amazon_opens_developer_access_to_its Sidewalk_wireless_network [Ed: Highly malicious and pervasive mass surveillance]⠀⇛ Amazon.com Inc. announced today that it will enable developers to use its Sidewalk wireless network, which allows connected devices such as smart home appliances to access the internet. Many consumers have devices from Amazon’s Echo smart speaker series in their homes. ⚓ Reason ☛ No_Pseudonymity_for_Plaintiff_in_Lawsuit_That_Would_Further Publicize_His_Criminal_History⠀⇛ From Doe v. HireRight LLC, decided yesterday by Judge Stephen McNamee (D. Ariz.): Four years ago, Plaintiff was charged with two felonies. As part of a plea agreement, he pled guilty to both charges in exchange for one of the charges being downgraded to a misdemeanor. ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Government_Is_Turning_Border_Surveillance_on_Everyday Americans⠀⇛ As the government sets its sights on migrants crossing the border, native-born Americans have also come under its watchful eye. ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ CISA_director_says_cutting_agency’s_budget_would_return_it to_‘pre-SolarWinds_world’⠀⇛ Director Jen Easterly said that if the agency’s proposed budget for FY 2024 dropped to pre-2022 totals, it would put the nation at risk. ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ U.S._Hardware_Is_Fueling_Russia’s_Facial_Recognition Crackdown_on_Anti-War_Dissidents⠀⇛ According to a new report, Russia’s facial recognition systems are powered by American technologies. § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Memorial_to_Latvia’s_defenders_pulled_over_in_Bauska⠀⇛ A monument to Latvia’s defenders against the second Soviet occupation has been toppled in Bauska, Latvian Television reported on March 27. * ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ 39_migrants_killed_in_fire_at_Ciudad_Juárez detention_center⠀⇛ A total of 68 Central American and South American men were being held at the detention center in the Chihuahua city opposite El Paso, Texas. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Dozens_killed_in_fire_at_migrant_detention_center_on_Mexico- US_border⠀⇛ At least 39 migrants died in a fire that broke out at an immigration detention center in a Mexican city on the US border, the Mexican government said Tuesday. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ 40_killed_in_fire_at_immigration_detention center_in_Mexico⠀⇛ Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed at least 40 people. That’s according to the Mexican president. It was one of the deadliest events ever at a Mexican immigration lockup. Hours after the fire broke out late Monday, rows of bodies were laid out under sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, which is across from El Paso, Texas, and a major crossing point for migrants. Ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue swarmed the scene. Twenty-nine people were injured. At the time of the blaze, 68 men from Central and South America were being held at the facility. * ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Defence_capability_and_the_‘not_used_since_Vietnam’ critique⠀⇛ One of the most used quotes in support of the argument that the Australia Defence Force has no need for tanks… * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_signs_up_for_European_joint_Ukraine_ammunition procurement⠀⇛ On Monday, March 27, 2023, Latvian Minister of Defense Ināra Mūrniece signed an agreement on Latvia’s accession to the planned procurement of the European Defense Agency (EDA) for the joint purchase of ammunition by Norway and EU member states for Ukraine. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarus_Alleges_Western_‘Pressure’_Prompted_Decision_To_Host Russian_Nukes⠀⇛ Belarus claims it was “forced” to agree to host Russian tactical nuclear weapons on its territory in response to what it called “unprecedented political, economic, and information pressure” from the West. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ IOC_To_Decide_Russian,_Belarusian_Participation_In_Paris Olympics_‘At_Appropriate_Time’⠀⇛ The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) says it will make a decision “at the appropriate time” on whether to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete at next year’s Paris Olympics. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ IAEA_Chief_Grossi_Says_Deal_To_Protect_Ukrainian_Nuclear_Plant ‘Close’⠀⇛ A deal to protect Europe’s largest nuclear power plant from a catastrophic accident due to fighting in Ukraine could be “close,” said the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Says_It_Will_Keep_Calling_For_Nord_Stream_Probe_After_UN Failure⠀⇛ The Kremlin said on March 28 that it would keep demanding an international investigation into explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea last year, after failing to win backing for a probe at the United Nations. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_and_Belarus_Strengthen_Their_Integration⠀⇛ Meanwhile, Germany delivered Ukraine the first batch of Leopard 2 tanks. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_Olympic_chief_–_IOC_will_continue_to_tread_water_on Russia_issue⠀⇛ The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not plan to make immediate decisions on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris Games, President of the Latvian Olympic Committee (LOK) Žoržs Tikmers told Latvian Radio March 28. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia-Belarus_border_fence_construction_slower_than_planned⠀⇛ The construction of a permanent fence on the Latvian–Belarusian border has been carried out throughout winter without interruption. The planned length has not been achieved though, due to insufficient freezing for the construction works to take place in swampy areas, Latvian Television reported March 28. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Police:_Nashville_shooter_fired_indiscriminately at_victims⠀⇛ Police say the Nashville school shooter legally bought seven firearms in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before killing three children and three adults at a Christian school. Police on Tuesday said the shooter did not specifically target their victims during the shooting at The Covenant School on Monday. The victims included three 9-year-olds and the head of the school. Shooter Audrey Hale was a former student at the school. Authorities say Hale was not known to them before the attack. Police say Hale was under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ We_Don’t_Have_To_Choose_Between_Nuclear_Madmen⠀⇛ The announcement by Vladimir Putin over the weekend that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a further escalation of potentially cataclysmic tensions over the war in neighboring Ukraine. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Best_Way_To_Protect_US_Troops_in_Syria⠀⇛ Last week saw a sharp increase in attacks on US troops occupying northeastern Syria, with a drone strike against a US base blamed on “pro-Iran” forces and a US counter-strike said to have killed at least 19 people. After the US retaliation, another strike by “pro-Iran” forces hit a number of US sites in Syria. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Ukraine_War_Enters_the_2024_US_Presidential_Election_– Stage_Right⠀⇛ Opposition to Joe Biden’s proxy war to destroy Russia has entered the 2024 US Presidential election – from stage Right. And the growing anti-interventionist sentiment among grass roots conservatives and libertarians is alarming Establishment warhawks on both “left” and “right.” They are furious. * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia’s_Ukraine_invasion_is_eroding_Kremlin influence_in_Kazakhstan⠀⇛ The invasion of Ukraine was meant to advance Vladimir Putin’s vision of a revived Russian Empire. Instead, it is forcing other neighboring countries like Kazakhstan to urgently reassess their own relationships with Moscow. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bulgaria_Suspects_Russian_Role_In_Bomb_Threats_Closing_Schools For_Second_Day⠀⇛ Dozens of Bulgarian schools were closed for a second day on March 28 following bomb threats with investigators saying they were looking into potential Russia-linked terror actions meant to disrupt the upcoming snap parliamentary elections scheduled for April 2. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Official_Calls_On_Kyrgyzstan_To_Prevent_Russia_From_Evading Sanctions⠀⇛ David O’Sullivan, the European Union’s special envoy for the implementation of sanctions, has called on Kyrgyzstan and other nations in Moscow’s political and economic sphere to avoid assisting Moscow’s attempts to evade sanctions imposed on Russia over its ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine. * ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania,_Estonia_deny_profiting_from_EU’s_Ukraine_aid reimbursements⠀⇛ On Tuesday, Politico reported that six EU countries, including Estonia and Lithuania, are profiting from sending military aid to Ukraine. According to the Lithuanian and Estonian governments, the report is misleading. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Fires_Supersonic_Missiles_At_Mock_Target_In_Sea_Of Japan⠀⇛ Missile ships of the Pacific Fleet fired Moskit cruise missiles at a mock enemy sea target. * ⚓ LRT ☛ UN_committee_urges_Lithuania_to_review_sanctions_on_Belarusian potash⠀⇛ A UN committee has urged Lithuania to review its decision to ban the transit of Belarusian fertilisers, saying that it leads to food insecurity in Africa and Latin America. * ⚓ LRT ☛ Estonia_raises_eyebrows_claiming_reimbursement_for_aid_to_Ukraine –_media⠀⇛ Tensions grow in the European Union over some countries’ military aid to Ukraine. Estonia is allegedly sending old weapons to Ukraine but is being reimbursed by the European Peace Facility (EPF) as if for new ones, Politico reported on Tuesday. * ⚓ LRT ☛ Amnesty_scolds_Lithuanian,_Western_‘hypocrisy’_following_Ukraine invasion⠀⇛ Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 unleashed numerous war crimes and generated a global energy and food crisis, but it also laid bare the hypocrisy of Western states that reacted to the Kremlin’s aggression, Amnesty International said in its annual report on human rights. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Amnesty_Report_Says_‘Hypocrisy’_Of_Western_States_Laid_Bare_By Russia’s_Invasion_of_Ukraine⠀⇛ Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 unleashed numerous war crimes and generated a global energy and food crisis, but it also laid bare the hypocrisy of Western states that reacted to the Kremlin’s aggression, Amnesty International said in its annual report on human rights. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Launches_Fresh_Wave_Of_Drones_Against_Ukraine⠀⇛ Russia launched another wave of Iranian-made drones on Kyiv and its surroundings, but Ukraine’s air defenses shot down almost all of them and there were no immediate reports of casualties, the military said on March 27, as heavy fighting continued in and around Bakhmut. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._To_Withhold_Some_Nuclear_Data_From_Russia_After_Moscow’s Treaty_Suspension⠀⇛ The United States has told Russia it will withhold some data on its nuclear forces in response to Moscow’s suspension of participation in the New START nuclear arms treaty. * ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korean_robbers_kill_two_women_as_crime_wave_intensifies⠀⇛ Residents say that starvation is causing more people to resort to robbery and theft. * ⚓ France24 ☛ N._Korea’s_Kim_calls_for_ramping_up_production_of_‘weapon- grade_nuclear_material’⠀⇛ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for his country to expand production of “weapon-grade nuclear materials” and build more powerful weapons, state media reported Tuesday. * ⚓ France24 ☛ UK_raises_Northern_Ireland_terror_threat_rating_to_‘severe’ ahead_of_Biden_visit⠀⇛ The UK government raised the terror threat level in Northern Ireland to “severe” on Tuesday, ahead of an expected visit by US President Joe Biden to mark the 25th anniversary of a landmark peace accord. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Scottish_parliament_confirms_Humza_Yousaf_as_new_first minister⠀⇛ Scotland’s parliament on Tuesday confirmed Humza Yousaf will replace Nicola Sturgeon as first minister, the devolved nation’s youngest and the first Muslim leader of a government in western Europe. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Two_dead_in_knife_attack_at_Islamic_centre_in_Lisbon, assailant_shot_by_police⠀⇛ An attacker armed with a knife killed two women on Tuesday at an Islamic centre in the Portuguese capital Lisbon before being shot and wounded by police, authorities said. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Myanmar_junta_dissolves_Aung_San_Suu_Kyi’s_political_party⠀⇛ Myanmar’s junta-stacked election commission on Tuesday announced Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a tough new military-drafted electoral law, state media said. * ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_IOC_recommends_return_of_Russian_athletes_to_sports but_delays_decision_on_Paris_Olympics⠀⇛ A decision on whether athletes competing for Russia and Belarus will be able to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympics will be taken “at the appropriate time”, said Olympic chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday, as he defended plans to get athletes from the two countries to join sports competitions as “neutral parties” * ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine:_Shortage_of_prosthetic_limbs_as_casualties_mount⠀⇛ As the war in Ukraine grinds on, a prosthetics clinic in Kyiv is doing its best to provide artificial limbs to the stream of wounded Ukrainian servicemen passing through its doors. But the clinic, like others around the country, is struggling to keep up with demand and fears more wounded may soon need its help amid talk of a new Ukrainian counteroffensive in the east. * ⚓ Defence Web ☛ UN_delegation_meets_senior_Ugandan_military_officers_in search_for_peace⠀⇛ A United Nations (UN) delegation seeking facts on peace and security in the troubled Great Lakes part of Africa was hosted by the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Force (UPDF) at the weekend. * ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_South_Africa’s_police_must_prioritise_trust⠀⇛ The South African public has low and declining trust and confidence in its police. This impedes efforts to reduce crime, deliver quality services, and lay the foundation for economic growth. Last year, the South African Human Sciences Research Council reported that just 27% of citizens had some trust in the police. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Belgium_arrests_eight_in_‘terror_attack’_probe_following house_raids⠀⇛ Police have detained eight people during investigations into an alleged plot to commit “terrorist attacks” in Belgium, the federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Earth_Futures_Institute_Logo_Competition⠀⇛ The UCSC Earth Futures Institute at UCSC needs a logo. The UC Santa Cruz (UCSC)Earth Futures Institute needs a logo. We would love to see your ideas. The first prize is $750, the second prize is $500, and the third prize is $250. * § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland’s_Fortum_and_Outokumpu_co-operate_on small_modular_reactors⠀⇛ FORTUM and Outokumpu have entered into a partnership to explore the possibilities of building a small modular reactor in Finland. The Finnish duo will look into a number of collaborative approaches along with the economic, regulatory and technological feasibility of small modular reactors with a view to finding answers within a couple of years, Heikki Malinen, the CEO of Outokumpu, stated to YLE on Thursday, 23 March. o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Reuters:_US_ultimatum_to_Mexico_over_energy dispute_imminent⠀⇛ The U.S. wants to see “clear progress” on the energy issue, Reuters reported Monday; an escalation could lead to tariffs against Mexico. o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Australia_should_hedge_its_bet_on_battery manufacturing⠀⇛ Australia is assured of rapid growth in exports of the key minerals needed to make modern batteries… o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Country_spotlight:_Unlocking_a_high-energy future_for_Zambia⠀⇛ Smart investment in Zambia could drive a high-energy, high-growth future as the country reforms. This could make Zambia a model for neighboring countries looking to strike out on their own energy transformations. o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Germany_has_successfully_watered_down_a_planned_EU_ban on_the_sale_of_combustion-engine_cars⠀⇛ European Union members formally approved a ban on the sale of new carbon dioxide (CO2)-emitting cars by 2035. What was meant to be a milestone legislation towards the decarbonization of the European car industry was watered down by Germany to provide an exemption for cars running on e-fuels. o ⚓ Quartz ☛ BYD_profit_surged_by_400%_last_year_as_the_electric vehicle_market_keeps_going_in_China⠀⇛ BYD—China’s largest electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer—announced that it sold a record number of cars last calendar year, boosting the company’s profit by more than four times. o ⚓ Bartosz Ciechanowski ☛ Bicycle⠀⇛ There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity. In the demonstration below, you can guide the rider with the slider, and you can also drag the view around to change the camera angle: Compared to internal combustion engines or mechanical watches, bicycles are fairly simple machines – most of their parts operate in plain sight.This article has many interactive demonstrations which are best seen on the website. o ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_US_is_accusing_Sam_Bankman-Fried_of_bribing_Chinese officials_with_crypto⠀⇛ Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been charged with bribing Chinese officials with $40 million in cryptocurrency in a new superseding indictment in the Southern District of New York (SDNY). o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ SBF_Accused_of_Bribing_Chinese_Officials_With $40_Million_in_Crypto⠀⇛ Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly sent a “bribe payment” of $40 million to a private crypto wallet to attempt to get FTX accounts unfrozen. o ⚓ JURIST ☛ FTX_founder_charged_with_bribing_China_officials_to unfreeze_assets⠀⇛ US federal prosecutors Tuesday charged Samuel Bankman- Fried, former CEO and co-founder of crypto trading platform FTX, with bribing Chinese government officials in early 2021 as part of a superseding indictment. o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Spring_favorable_for_hydropower_production_in_Latvia⠀⇛ This year, Latvia’s rivers have experienced the largest floods in the last ten years, which has allowed the Daugava hydroelectric power plant (HES) to produce a large amount of electricity, the operational information of the transmission company Augstsprieguma tīkls shows, according to weatherman Toms Bricis. o ⚓ H2 View ☛ Green_hydrogen_production_plant_begins_operations_in South_Wales⠀⇛ Protium and its partner organisations has announced the start of green hydrogen operations at Baglan Energy Park, South Wales. * § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Enormous_sperm_whale_skull_stolen_from_NSW_museum⠀⇛ NSW Police are investigating the theft of a sperm whale skull outside a museum on the South Coast. o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Cherry_blossoms_are_blooming_earlier_than_expected⠀⇛ Spring is just beginning but the cherry blossoms have already reached peak bloom in Washington, DC. The National Park Service documented peak bloom on March 23 this year, two weeks earlier than April 4, which is the historical_average peak bloom datesince 1921. * § Overpopulation⠀➾ o ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_world_“population_bomb”_might_not_go_off_after_all⠀⇛ When the global population passed the 8 billion mark on Nov. 15 last year, demographers had a peak in sight: 10.4 billion, around the year 2080. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ASX_slides_lower_as_banks_falter;_$A_jumps⠀⇛ The Australian sharemarket dropped on Wednesday as the financials sector fell, and after Wall Street slid lower. * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Singapore-China_project_in_Guangzhou_to_speed_up expansion⠀⇛ The second phase of the China-Singapore Smart Park will be completed in June ahead of its October timeline. * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ 37_million_euros_invested_in_248_startups_from_Finnish angel_investors⠀⇛ In 2022, Finnish angels invested 37 million euros in 248 growth companies, says the latest study conducted by the Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN), collecting answers from 450 private investors out of FiBAN’s 670 members. 7% of FiBAN members’ investments were made outside of Finland. The most popular countries were Estonia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. * ⚓ Reason ☛ Tariffs_on_Baby_Formula_Returned._So_Did_the_Shortages.⠀⇛ Huh, what a wild coincidence. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ airBaltic_luxury_car_purchase_raises_eyebrows⠀⇛ Transport Minister Jānis Vitenbergs (National Alliance) will demand explanations from the national airline airBaltic in relation to the costly purchase of the 2022 “E-tron” electric car in leasing for the company, the Transport Ministry Communications Department said in a release on March 28. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Survey:_Majority_supports_reduced_VAT_on_catering_in_Latvia⠀⇛ A reduction of the value-added tax (VAT) rate for public catering from 21% to 5% or 12% is supported by 83% of Latvian residents, according to a survey conducted by the Latvian Restaurant Society (LRB), the Latvian Hotel and Restaurant Association (LVRA) and the public opinion research center SKDS in March this year, LSM’s Latvian language service reported. * ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Micron_posts_biggest-ever_loss,_but_says_generative_AI will_drive_new_demand_for_memory_chips⠀⇛ Computer chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. delivered its largest quarterly loss on record today after announcing an inventory writedown of more than $1.4 billion, but its stock price stayed flat as executives stated their belief that the memory chip market has bottomed out. ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Disney_abandons_metaverse_division_amid_layoffs⠀⇛ Walt Disney Co. has reportedly ditched its metaverse division as part of a broader restructuring process that will cut the company’s operating expenses by $5.5 billion and lay off 7,000 employees over the next two months. ⚓ Quartz ☛ Disney’s_first_round_of_layoffs_knocked_the_metaverse_off_its priority_list⠀⇛ The Mouse House is moving away from the metaverse. ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Will_Not_Leave_WTO⠀⇛ “…there are grounds to remain in the organization as a full member in order to maintain stable relations with developing countries…” ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Gonfreville_Refinery_Shutdown_In_France⠀⇛ The 240 000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery supplies the entire Ile- de-France region. ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Fuel_Shortages_Reach_Almost_16%_Of_France’s_Gas_Stations⠀⇛ The departments of Loire-Atlantique, Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine and Maine-et-Loire are hardly affected by fuel shortages. ⚓ France24 ☛ A_look_back_at_when_French_protesters_defeated_government_reform plans⠀⇛ Anger at President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform shows no sign of abating, with protests, strikes and unrest set to continue and both sides digging in their heels. To shed some light on the current stand-off, FRANCE 24 looks back at the last times the unions successfully forced the government to U-turn on changing the system: over pension reform in 1995 and over a youth labour law reform in 2006. ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Abandoned_by_all’:_Why_small-town_France_is_up_in_arms_over Macron’s_pension_reform⠀⇛ France’s small and mid-size towns have been at the forefront of the battle against President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform, in some places staging the biggest rallies in living memory. In the former Yellow Vest bastion of Montargis, where protesters rallied for a tenth time on Tuesday, the deeply unpopular reform has exacerbated resentment of the government. ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Debt_ceiling_impasse:_McCarthy_presses_Biden_to negotiate⠀⇛ Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position “could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold dire ramifications for the entire nation.” The White House says McCarthy and the Republicans are to blame, refusing to put forward their own budget plan before formal negotiations. The Treasury Department has resorted to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default on the nation’s $31.4 trillion borrowing authority. But those measures will run out, possibly as early as June. ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_ramping_up_bailout_loans_to_Belt_and_Road countries,_report_says⠀⇛ China has handed out $240 billion worth of bailout loans to 22 developing countries at risk of default over the past two decades, with the trend accelerating in recent years, a report said Tuesday. ⚓ France24 ☛ French_financial_prosecutors_search_bank_offices_over_dividend stripping⠀⇛ French authorities on Tuesday searched offices of several large banks, including Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and HSBC on the suspicion of money laundering and fiscal fraud, a spokesperson of the PNF financial prosecution office told Reuters. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ France_Becomes_the_Latest_Country_to_Ban_TikTok_On Government_Devices,_Citing_National_Security_Concerns⠀⇛ Days following TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s appearance before Congress, France has become the latest country to prohibit the video-sharing app’s use on government devices. * ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Twitter_Will_Remove_Legacy_Blue_Checks_on_April_1 —_What_Does_It_Mean?⠀⇛ Twitter announces it will be winding down its legacy verification program and removing legacy verified checkmarks on April 1 in favor of its paywalled Twitter Blue. Twitter announced the end of its legacy verification program on April 1, * ⚓ Reason ☛ Banning_TikTok_Is_a_Power_the_Federal_Government_Doesn’t Deserve⠀⇛ Today, TikTok. Tomorrow, who knows? * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ N.C._board_removes_election_officials_who refused_to_certify⠀⇛ North Carolina’s state elections board has removed two county election officials who had refused to certify the 2022 election results after state officials determined they violated their duty to comply with state law. The state board voted unanimously Tuesday to dismiss Surry County elections secretary Jerry Forestieri and board member Timothy DeHaan in one of the strongest disciplinary actions taken against local officials who’ve delayed or refused to certify election results. Forestieri and DeHaan had questioned the legitimacy of state election law and court decisions disallowing photo ID checks and voter residency challenges. DeHaan ultimately signed on to certify the vote, while Forestieri did not. * ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Traffic_up_but_revenue_down_for_The_Tab_publisher_as_UK online_ad_downturn_bites⠀⇛ The Tab and Entertainment Daily publisher reported a 3% year- on-year drop in gross profits. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Australian_state_passes_landmark_legislation_giving_Indigenous population_a_first_‘voice_to_Parliament’⠀⇛ In a special sitting Sunday, the Parliament of the Australian state of South Australia passed the First Nations Voice Bill 2023, amending the state’s constitution to enable representatives elected by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of the state to directly address ministers and government departments on specific legislation and reforms… * ⚓ France24 ☛ President_Biden_warns_Israel_‘cannot_continue_down_this road’_in_judiciary_standoff⠀⇛ US President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned Israel it “cannot continue” pressing for deeply controversial judicial reforms — now on hold — which have prompted months of unrest and criticism among Western allies. * § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Montenegro’s_President:_EU’s_Neglect_Gave_Russia_A Platform⠀⇛ Montenegro’s pro-Western president criticized the European Union for allegedly allowing Russia to spread its influence in the Western Balkans, saying the volatile region has become a “platform” for anti-EU policies due to the bloc’s “negligence.” § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Displaying_swastikas,_other_hate_symbols_in_Qld_could result_in_jail⠀⇛ A series of incidents has prompted the Palaszczuk government to move to ban the display of symbols such as the swastika, including on social media. * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Wendy_Sherman_on_the_United_States’_priorities_as_it takes_the_helm_of_the_Freedom_Online_Coalition⠀⇛ US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman outlined the priorities for the world’s democratic tech alliance, from protecting fundamental freedoms online to building resilience against digital authoritarianism. * ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Latest_Bill_C-11_Debate:_Sacrificing_Freedom_of Expression_for_Quebec_Culture_Lobby_Support⠀⇛ The Bill C-11 debate continued for hours in the House of Commons yesterday with a dispiriting discussion featuring MPs from all sides ignoring or exaggerating the implications of the bill. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Congressmen_urge_Elon_Musk_to_address_rising_hate_speech_on Twitter_since_takeover⠀⇛ US Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Mark Takano (D-CA) Tuesday urged Twitter CEO Elon Musk to address the rise in hate speech on the social media platform since he purchased it in October 2022. * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Is_the_David_porn?_Come_see,_Italians_tell Florida_parents⠀⇛ The invitation comes after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Father_Of_Russian_Sixth_Grader_Who_Drew_Anti-War_Picture Escapes_House_Arrest,_Given_Prison_Term_In_Absentia⠀⇛ A man in Russia’s western region of Tula whose daughter last year drew an anti-war picture at school has been sentenced to two years in prison in absentia on a charge of discrediting Russia’s armed forces. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Performances_By_Pro-Kremlin_Opera_Singer_Canceled⠀⇛ Two venues in the United States have canceled performances by Russian opera singer Ildar Abdrazakov over his open support of the Russian government’s policies. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_ice_hockey_body_suggests_preventing play_until_correct_anthem_confirmed_after_protest_song_blunder⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s ice hockey body has said it may ask athletes not to enter the rink until they had confirmed that sporting event organisers would play the correct anthem. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Texas_Observer_journalists_raise_$270,000_in_bid_to save_publication_|_Texas_|_The_Guardian⠀⇛ Magazine’s editors asked board not to lay off anyone for a month if staff raised $200,000 after Friday’s vote to cease publication * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Hong_Kong_press_freedom_groups_condemn_harassment_of journalists⠀⇛ Press freedom groups in Hong Kong, including Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Monday condemned the region’s harassment of journalists. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_press_group_receives_more_reports_of reporters_being_tailed,_as_police_slam_‘unverified_speculation’⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s largest journalists group has said it received several recent reports of journalists being tailed, as police slammed the group over “unverified speculations” that those following journalists were suspected of being members of law enforcement. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Union_calls_for_probe_after_Hong_Kong_journalists_followed_by unidentified_men⠀⇛ Two men evade questions about their identities after following a court reporter to work * ⚓ RFA ☛ Activist_sentenced_to_6_years_for_giving_interviews_to_U.S.-based program⠀⇛ Truong Van Dung was convicted under Article 88, used to target dissidents. * ⚓ France24 ☛ FRANCE_24_strongly_deplores_the_suspension_of_its broadcasting_in_Burkina_Faso⠀⇛ FRANCE 24 was informed on March 27, 2023, via a press release from the Burkina Faso government, of the indefinite suspension of the broadcasting of its programmes in the country. FRANCE 24’s management strongly deplores this decision and refutes the unfounded accusations that call into question the channel’s professionalism. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_court_denies_bail_to_Portuguese national_under_security_law⠀⇛ A Portuguese national, who allegedly managed social media accounts for the Hong Kong Independence Party, has been ordered to remain in custody pending trial under the Beijing-enacted national security law. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Amnesty_International_annual_report:_Finland’s_border measures_threaten_asylum_rights,_double_standards_in_human_rights combat⠀⇛ Amnesty International’s yearly report on the state of human rights around the world reveals the double standards and inadequacy of the international system in combating human rights abuses in 2022. While Finland receives praise for reforms to sexual assault and abortion laws, there is still room for improvement regarding the right to protest. The Russian invasion of Ukraine had a massive impact on the realization of human rights in many ways, including war crimes committed by Russian forces, such as forced transfers and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, as well as exacerbating global energy and food crises. * ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Has_Benjamin_Netanyahu’s_Assault_on_Israeli_Democracy_Been Stopped?⠀⇛ In the face of mass protests, the Prime Minister has backed down from his plan to overhaul the judiciary—for now. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Caution_in_crisis-hit_Israel_after_Netanyahu_pauses_reform⠀⇛ Caution prevailed in Israel Tuesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to pause controversial judicial reforms which sparked a general strike and mass protests, with the crisis far from over. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Ex-Californian_sentenced_for_child_mutilation- sex_scheme⠀⇛ A former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and urged one to become his sex slave has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. Matthew Locher was sentenced in Los Angeles on Tuesday by a judge who called him “a parent’s worst nightmare.” Prosecutors say the former Redondo Beach man got into online conversations with girls suffering from mental health issues, grooming them to harm themselves and send him images. Authorities also say that, encouraged by Locher, a 12-year-old girl ran away from her Ohio home after setting it on fire in a failed bid to kill her parents. * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Jamelle_Bouie:_What_the_Republican_push_for ‘parents’_rights’_is_really_about⠀⇛ “Parents’ rights,” like “states’ rights,” is quite particular. * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Jonathan_Bernstein:_Wisconsin_judicial election_is_bad_for_democracy⠀⇛ The most expensive judicial election ever. * ⚓ Danish_government_to_increase_tax_break_for_trade_union_members⠀⇛ The Danish government says it wants trade union membership to be made cheaper by increasing tax subsidies given on membership fees. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ The_French_Keep_on_Protesting_Despite_Police_Brutality⠀⇛ During the tenth day of protest against the Macron’s pension reform, the spirits of the French continue to burn throughout the country. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ The_Macron_Administration_Lashes_Out_at_Environmental Activists⠀⇛ The verbal attack against environmental rights defenders comes amid a display of unprecedented police brutality. * ⚓ Spiegel ☛ The_Beneficiary_of_Bedlam:_Marine_Le_Pen_Surges_as_Macron’s Star_Fades⠀⇛ The intense protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform in France have put him on the defensive. Right- wing populist Marine Le Pen is reaping the benefits. * ⚓ France24 ☛ French_PM_agrees_to_talks_with_union_leaders as_740,000 protest_pension_reform⠀⇛ After a tenth day of nationwide protests against pension reforms, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has offered to meet leaders from eight unions for talks early next week. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in Tuesday’s strikes and protests across France, nearly two weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron forced an unpopular pension reform through parliament. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Fresh_strikes,_protests_kick_off_in_France_as_Macron_stands firm_on_pension_reform⠀⇛ France Tuesday braced for another day of strikes and protests with President Emmanuel Macron remaining defiant over the controversial pensions reform that has sparked turmoil in the country. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Malaysia_measures_to_abolish_mandatory_death_penalty introduced_in_parliament⠀⇛ Malaysia’s Parliament Monday began its consideration of two bills introduced to abolish mandatory death penalties for certain sentences. The Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Bill of 2023 would reverse prior laws that require a mandatory death sentence for 33 different offenses. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Prominent_Afghan_Girls’_Education_Advocate_Detained_By Taliban⠀⇛ A prominent activist for the right to education for Afghan girls, Matiullah Wesa, has been detained by the Taliban, his brother and the United Nations said on March 28. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Founder_of_Afghan_girls’_education_project_arrested_in Kabul,_says_UN⠀⇛ The founder of a project that campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said Tuesday. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Court_Cancels_Acquittal_Of_LGBTQ_Activist_In_Case_Of ‘Pornographic’_Art⠀⇛ A court of appeals in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok has canceled the acquittal of LGBTQ activist and artist Yulia Tsvetkova in a high-profile pornography case involving nude drawings and other artwork. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bosnian_Serb_Entity_Says_Controversial_Draft_Law_Will_Monitor NGOs’_Financial_Flows⠀⇛ A controversial draft law approved by the government of Republika Srpska that would require nonprofit organizations funded from abroad and active in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serb entity to register and report on their work will require them to submit their “financial flows” to the Justice Ministry. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Former_President_Ma_Ying-jeou’s_trip_to_China_undermines_Taiwan government:_critics⠀⇛ Ma’s visit comes as his opposition Kuomintang chooses rapprochement with Beijing despite rejecting Chinese rule. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Ex-president_ruffles_feathers_with_claim_that_Taiwanese_are ‘ethnically_Chinese’⠀⇛ Ma’s comments echo Beijing’s ‘unification’ claim that people in Taiwan, China come from the same family * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Public_gatherings_must_be_‘in_accordance_with the_law,’_Hong_Kong’s_John_Lee_says_after_protesters_made_to_wear_tags⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John Lee has said that all public gatherings must be conducted “orderly, peacefully and in accordance with the law. § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ * ⚓ Reason ☛ New_York_Lawmakers_Want_To_Use_a_‘Netflix_Tax’_To_Pay_for_the Subway⠀⇛ From delivery fees to streaming taxes, New York can’t stomach having MTA users actually pay for the system themselves. * ⚓ CCIA ☛ Network_Usage_Fees:_A_Tax_in_Search_of_a_Purpose⠀⇛ Pleas from broadband networks for a so-called “fair share” of content providers’ revenue…. § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Google_wins_partial_relief_in_Android_antitrust_case_in India_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛ Google received some relief in its key market of India after a tribunal court set aside four of 10 directives from the country’s competition regulator. * ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Germany_sours_on_Microsoft_again,_launches_antitrust review_•_The_Register⠀⇛ * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Hoffmann_Eitle_and_MGI_prevail_as_Boards_of_Appeal_revoke Illumina_patent [Ed: Yet more fake patents were granted by EPO]⠀⇛ Illumina’s EP 3 002 289, which the Boards of Appeal revoked due to added subject matter, is one of several patents protecting “modified nucleotides for polynucleotide sequencing”. The BoA judges argued that the literal claim construction could not be amended by reference to the description. o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Dominion_Harbor_entity_Liberty_Peak_Ventures RFID_patent_held_invalid⠀⇛ On March 23, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Liberty Peak Ventures LLCholding all challenged claims of U.S._Patent_8,066,181 unpatentable. o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ IPVal_entity_Rosen_Technologies_thermostat patent_likely_invalid⠀⇛ On March 23, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S._Patent_7,156,318, owned and asserted by Rosen Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of IP_Valuation_Partners. * § Software Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ AV1_Live_Streaming_Is_Finally_Coming_To_YouTube [Ed: Patent Pandora's box... software patents]⠀⇛ A preview of YouTube’s new AV1 live stream support was tested by EposVox, showing amazing video quality results with the new codec. o ⚓ JUVE ☛ EPO_Patent_Index_shows_green_energy_and_communication driving_record_growth [Ed: Well, "communication" as in software patents, too?]⠀⇛ Today, the European Patent Office has published its EPO Patent Index 2022. For the fifth consecutive year, the office has recorded a growth in patent applications. Numbers increased by 2.5% compared to 2021, reaching 193,460 patent applications in total. o ⚓ JUVE ☛ J_A_Kemp_hires_new_partner_to_strengthen_biotech_practice [Ed: 100% spam for a patent litigation firm, marketing disguised as "news"; for sponsors that also receive agenda/lobbying/propaganda for their money.]⠀⇛ Andreas Theisen (41), who has joined J A Kemp as a partner, is a qualified microbiologist. As such, he specialises in biological therapeutics and diagnostics, and in particular therapeutic antibodies, gene therapy and cell-therapy products. J A Kemp gains partner Theisen began his career as a technical assistant at patent attorney firm Mathys & Squire. * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Reason ☛ Defamation_and_Copyright⠀⇛ Several commenters asked: If AI companies don’t have a copyright in works created by their programs, how can they be held liable under defamation law? Defamation law and copyright law are two different bodies of law, aimed at serving different interests, and with different definitions. o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_arrests_4_over_major_anime_piracy site,_Japanese_lobby_group_says⠀⇛ A major website for pirated Japanese anime has shut down after Chinese authorities arrested four people accused of involvement, according to a Tokyo-based lobby group that hailed the move as “groundbreaking”. § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ Zettelkasten⠀⇛ A Zettelkasten is a physical slipbox of note cards. Technically my li’l box of index cards for D&D counts as a Zettelkasten although it’s not organized that way at all, instead it uses a double-alpha system. Zettelkästen enabled these researchers to do a couple of new things with text, but we don’t need them today. o ⚓ Summer_time_again⠀⇛ Recently there was another time shift. This time it was from a winter time to the summer time (oops, too much mentions of “time” in just one sentence!) so we lost one hour of sleep. Obviously, everyone is a bit sleepy this week (including myself). And my electronic gadgets dislike the shift ever more. As usual, most of Linux devices handle the change automatically (usually thanks to the NTP, I thing). Even the Pebble smartwatch changed the time without my intervention. (but it is not a Linux device, of course) o ⚓ How_I_use_index_cards_for_D&D⠀⇛ I cleaned out my box of A7 index cards. Turns out it was pretty well sorted already. I’ve been kind of messed up about what goes where, records-wise. Now, I often think A7 was a little small, so don’t take this as a reco for that size. But, I’m leaning towards sticking with them. o ⚓ aphantasia_II:_do_personal_projects_matter?⠀⇛ I recently thought about my childhood and if maybe, my ability to envision stuff wasn’t as bad in my childhood. I remember reading lots of books, big books even for a 7- 8 year old, and having at least some idea of what the characters and scenery looked like for me. When I remember these books and try to think of their plot, I see what I imagined the characters and parts of the plot or world to look like. Rather blurry and only for a few seconds, but I do. I remember being disappointed when movie versions had things differently than the image in my head. That means it must have worked back then, right? At least partially? So, what changed? [...] What held me back the most is that my self esteem was shattered back then by various different forces, and I was very much a person that needed to do everything perfectly immediately and the prospect of failing scared me hard. Everything made me immediately cry and quit, if I started at all. These are not good for developing any kind of hobby that makes you create instead of just consume other people’s work. You need to be comfortable with failure for that, and be proud and happy you worked on it at all. It helps if you have fun during the process regardless of the outcome, but mentally, I wasn’t there at all. All I cared about was the final product (and it being good enough to be posted, probably). I also find it is hard to engage in creative hobbies when you feel like you have to hide yourself away at home. My mother is the queen of unsolicited brutally honest “advice”, so I was afraid of creating anything around her or letting her see anything I do. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ Runit_vs_S6⠀⇛ Since the init subject seems to have gotten people talking, I thought it might be worth going a little more in depth about the lineage, similarities, and differences between Runit and S6. Or, at the very least, my experience in relation to the subject. [...] Interestingly, SysV Init has this same capability built in. A service can be specified in /etc/inittab with the respawn option and it will be automatically restarted if it dies. However this functionality was never adopted by any major operating system that I know of, being relegated to use only as a way of respawning tty logins through the getty and later agetty programs. Bernstein had some interesting ideas on software development that he passed on to his disciples. One of his tenets was that if an interface sucked, then you write a better interface and use that instead. Laurent Bercot definitely took that to heart and replaces a lot of libc functionality and low level primitives with his skalibs distribution, which is required for most of the other software that he writes (including S6 and Execline). o ⚓ Why_can’t_I_just_setup_the_damn_blog⠀⇛ I just can’t seem to set up my blog. I have plenty of things to write about, ideas I want to share, projects I want to write up. A good few of these projects are even underway right now, with post skeletons sitting in a folder in my notes application. I even have a domain name already, a fun domain hack that I originally bought for a different site. However, when it comes to the actual blog itself, I keep getting hung up on small quibbles. o ⚓ mosque_favourites⠀⇛ i’ve been going to the small little corner mosque (tucked between squat shawarma places and immigration firms) pentadaily, lately. i, being small and relentless, have given nicknames (completely in my head, i don’t actually know any of their names) to my favourite visitors. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 8191 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 40 seconds to (re)generate ⟲