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http://techrights.org/videos/libreoffice-fedora-opensource-com-layoffs.webm Summary: By abandoning OpenSource.com and OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice IBM sends out a clear signal that it doesn’t understand or simply does not care about the community of Free software users; its siege against the FSF and other institutions never ended and today we look at who’s being laid off or shown the door (the work environment is intentionally being made worse) THE way_IBM_has_been_treating_Red_Hat leaves much to be desired, especially in more recent years. The layoffs started 3 years ago, but this year there’s another wave and rants_at_thelayoff.com suggest that many may resign due to worsening work conditions. More recently people noticed [1] (see bottom of this post) that LibreOffice had become orphaned in Red Hat land. Red Hat tried to explain this [2] and comments from the community (at LWN at least) weren’t exactly favourable [3]. Later came more coverage [4-7]. “Both staff and volunteers who used to be heavily engaged in the project (and visible in Planet Fedora) are gradually disappearing.”To be clear, this mistreatment by Red Hat executives isn’t starting with IBM and LibreOffice; it’s a years-long trend we’ve been taking note of. We recently received more confirmations about OpenSource.com being killed (but cannot elaborate on that for source protection’s sake) and you won’t hear about it from the site or from its staff. There seems to be some NDA, either informal/verbal or formal/ written, somewhere out there… This is also why people don’t know which Fedora ‘consultation’ and ‘coordination’ (with the community) staff got the chop. Management folks keep their attacks on the community mostly silent. Ben Cotton wrote about it publicly. Reading between the lines, he gives away IBM’s lack of interest in Fedora. Both staff and volunteers who used to be heavily engaged in the project (and visible in Planet Fedora) are gradually disappearing. Some get banished after years of volunteer work [1, 2]. IBM is only interested in submissive slaves, not a real community. Why would anyone still invest time contributing to IBM “projects”? █ References: 1. ⚓ Red_Hat_Stop_Packaging_LibreOffice_as_RPM_for_RHEL,_Fedora⠀⇛ “The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version,” Clasen adds. LibreOffice will remain maintained and supported in all supported versions of RHEL (and Fedora) with security updates as and when needed. 2. ⚓ LibreOffice_packages⠀⇛ as you’ve probably seen, the LibreOffice RPMS have recently been orphaned, and I thought it would be good to explain the reasons behind this. The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind most of Red Hat’s desktop efforts) has maintained the LibreOffice packages in Fedora for years as part of our work to support LibreOffice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We are adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support, building out what’s needed for color-sensitive work, and a host of other refinements required by Workstation users. This is work that will improve the workstation experience for Fedora as well as RHEL users, and which, we hope, will be positively received by the entire Linux community. 3. ⚓ Red_Hat_dropping_support_for_LibreOffice_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Red Hat’s Matthias Clasan has let it be known that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, and the future of its support in Fedora is unclear as well. 4. ⚓ Red_Hat_to_Cease_Shipping_LibreOffice_in_Further_RHEL_Releases⠀⇛ Red Hat’s discontinuation of maintenance for LibreOffice will also affect Fedora, with the office suite expected to ship as a Flatpak. LibreOffice, born out of the OpenOffice.org project, has gained immense popularity over the years as a free alternative to proprietary office suites. Its compatibility with various document formats, robust features, and extensive community support has made it a favored choice for individuals, businesses, and educational institutions. 5. ⚓ Red_Hat_is_Dropping_Its_Support_for_LibreOffice_–_Slashdot⠀⇛ The Red Hat Package Managers for LibreOffice “have recently been orphaned,” according to a post by Red Hat manager Matthias Clasen on the “LibreOffice packages” mailing list, “and I thought it would be good to explain the reasons behind this.” 6. ⚓ The_IBM_Effect:_Red_Hat_and_Fedora_ditching_LibreOffice⠀⇛ IBM’s continued war on Desktop Linux has new casualties 7. ⚓ Red_Hat_says_it_will_drop_LibreOffice_from_RHEL_and_Fedora⠀⇛ He said the Red Hat Display System team, which looked after most of the company’s desktop efforts, had been maintaining LibreOffice packages for Fedora, as part of its work to support the office suite in RHEL. “We are adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support, building out what’s needed for colour-sensitive work, and a host of other refinements required by Workstation users,” Clasen added. {loadposition sam08}”This is work that will improve the workstation experience for Fedora as well as RHEL users, and which, we hope, will be positively received by the entire Linux community.” However, the downside is that “we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version. 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You can get to it with: ssh guest@consensus.circumlunar.space There’s no login, no names; you just read or write or leave. I suppose the server probably logs the IP address you connect from, but I honestly haven’t looked to see where. Plus, you could simply come from some pubnix system and voila, your IP is hidden from me if I ever go looking. Some goofballs have typed interesting things in there, and some scripts have tried to get in. The interface is very basic… and the program is written in BASIC actually. # ⚓ christyotwisty’s_5_questions_for_June_of_2023,_answered_by me…⠀⇛ Viewing accumulation of goods as a form of success. That may not be true of all in the preceding generation… but is absolutely true of the members of said generation I interact with the most. # ⚓ All_Clinicians_Are_Bastards⠀⇛ Ironically I’ve been thinking about this because I seem to have found an actually good clinician, someone with a phd in nursing and a fair bit of experience dealing with traumatized trans people. # ⚓ Re:_A_worker-owned_cooperative_concept⠀⇛ Someone called “emptyhallway” has posted about worker-owned cooperatives. The post goes into some detail about how such a thing might be structured as a company. # ⚓ My_Rat-eaten_Car_is_Back!⠀⇛ Almost exactly 11 months ago, on the 4th of July, rats had chewed through my car’s wiring harness in the middle of a hot Manhattan night. After the towers lost it and several garages refused to repair it, it wound up at a Ford dealer in New Jersey for five (5!!!) months. At that point I gave up and booked a flight out of NYC, and sure enough they called for me to come and get my car. So it wound up sitting in my cousin’s driveway for another 6 months. And now I have it back, having paid a year of insurance for no good reason. # ⚓ Coin_Microscope:_Various_Lawn_Close-Ups_2023-06-05_ (Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)⠀⇛ These photos were from a few weeks ago, when the birch buds were just opening… o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Meanwhile_In_The_Real_World⠀⇛ A dead lightbulb that has somehow been broken off in the socket can be removed with a sledgehammer. Lacking that option, needlenose pliers can be jammed up the socket (first recall to stop the electricity) and then pulled apart with just enough force to push on the remaining bit of the bulb-end from the inside, but without too much force such that twisting is impossible. Figuring out the correct twisting direction from some other bulb might also be good. (The lightswitches and side-of- the-road-driven-on in Pakistan were backwards from here, and it’s best to be sure of these things.) 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Hoping to get into more things like this instead of the social media which made me so miserable haha. # § Announcements⠀➾ # ⚓ Tea_Tea_Deluxe_1.2.7_and_Tea_Land⠀⇛ A few days ago I made some updates to my OpenTTD mod. This category of mods is called a NewGRF in OpenTTD parlance. No big things, but enough to warrant a new release. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 565 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_06/06/2023:_IceWM_3.4.0_and_Liveslak_1.7.0⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Kernel_Space o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Slackware_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Licensing_/_Legal * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression * Environment o Energy/Transportation * Finance * AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics * Censorship/Free_Speech * Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press * Civil_Rights/Policing * Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality * Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) * Monopolies o Patents * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.3.6⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 6.3.6 kernel. All users of the 6.3 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 6.3.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.3.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.32⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.115⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.182⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.245⠀⇛ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_create_an_EC2_instance_in_AWS_using Ansible_CLI⠀⇛ This is the first article in a series that covers the end-to-end process of creating an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Red_Hat_Ansible_Automation Platform. This tutorial demonstrates the steps required to set up the necessary resources to create an EC2 instance using the AWS module in Ansible Automation Platform. Follow our 3-part series: Part 1: How to create an EC2 instance in AWS using Ansible CLI # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_fix_“No_suitable_archive_manager_found” on_Linux_mint_21.1⠀⇛ On linux mint, there is an option that lets you create archives on your computer. You have to right click over the folder or file that you want to add to the archive, and it would archive these files into a archive format such as : 7z, zip, rar etc. # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_fix_“Failed_to_connect_to_server”_on_OBS on_Linux⠀⇛ OBS is an open source streaming software that you can use to stream online. It’s one of the most popular software when it comes to streaming. In this tutorial, you will learn how to fix the error “failed to connect to server” on OBS. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_DokuWiki_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ In this post, you will learn how to install DokuWiki on Ubuntu 22.04 DokuWiki is a user- friendly and flexible wiki software that is coded in PHP. It is a free and open-source software and does not use a database software like MariaDB or etc but instead saves data in a simple file format. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Grub_Customizer_on_Ubuntu_20.04_| 22.04_LTS⠀⇛ Grub Customizer is a handy graphical tool that allows you to configure and customize the GRUB bootloader in Ubuntu. With Grub Customizer, you can modify the boot menu entries, change the default operating system, rearrange menu entries, set timeout values, and more. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Bluej_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ BlueJ is a popular integrated development environment (IDE) specifically designed for introductory Java programming. It provides a simple and intuitive interface, making it an ideal choice for beginners learning Java programming on Ubuntu. This article will guide you through the process of installing BlueJ IDE on Ubuntu. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Set_Timezone_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Tor_Browser_on_Debian_12/11/ 10⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_SQLite_3_on_Debian_12/11/ 10⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PostgreSQL_15_on_Debian_12/ 11/10⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Element_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Snapd_and_Snap-Store_on Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Elasticsearch_8.x_on_Debian 12/11/10⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_UNRAR_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Enable_Contrib_and_Non-Free_Repos_on Debian_Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_RubyMine_on_Ubuntu_22.04_| 20.04⠀⇛ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_Latest_Kernel_in_Ubuntu,_Linux Mint⠀⇛ Ubuntu releases (including LTS) and Linux Mint usually ships stable mainline Linux Kernel, whichever is available before the change freeze during the development phase. Ubuntu short-term releases feature almost the latest Kernel. The long-term version of Ubuntu and Linux Mint offers the mainline LTS Kernel. The LTS Kernel usually is pretty old and doesn’t support the latest fixes and hardware support. Hence, you may want to take advantage of the latest mainline Kernel without hampering your current Ubuntu or Linux Mint installation. But installing the latest Kernel by replacing the current distro-provided one is risky. If you are sure what you are doing, then you can follow the below steps. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ IceWM⠀⇛ The latest released version is 3.4.0 (2023-06-04). # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Manjaro_Stable_Update_Delivers_GNOME 44⠀⇛ Manjaro users will be made-up to hear that GNOME 44 is now available to install. # ⚓ 10_Best_Icon_Themes_for_Ubuntu_and_Other_Linux_(2023 Edition)⠀⇛ Icon theme packs and theme sets are the easiest way to adapt the look and feel of your operating system to your taste. # ⚓ GNOME ☛ Christian_Hergert:_GJS_plugins_in_GNOME Builder⠀⇛ As I mentioned in my_last_post, Builder has switched_to_GJS as it’s dynamic language for plugins. We already support a number of compiled languages including C, C++, Rust, and Vala. Previously we had used PyGObject. Do to the lack of GTypeInstance support in PyGObject, that isn’t an option currently. I already ported all of Builder’s plugins written in Python to C over the course of a week last summer. That ended up making things both more stable and allow us to ship the GTK 4 port on time. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Librewolf_113.0⠀⇛ LibreWolf is designed to minimize data collection and telemetry as much as possible. This is achieved through hundreds of privacy/security/performance settings and patches. Intrusive integrated addons including updater, crashreporter, and pocket are removed too. LibreWolf is NOT associated with Mozilla or its products. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Modern_Python_stack_for_Leap⠀⇛ Adding Python 3.11 to Leap 15.4 and newer Leap as a default Python interpreter that’s “too old”. In Leap, python3 is Python 3.6 that reached upstream end of life at the end of 2021. # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Building_Digital_Trust:_A_Holistic Approach_to_Securing_Your_Business_in_the_Cloud_Native_World [Ed: Clown is outsourcing. Do not trust clown computing.]⠀⇛ In our increasingly digital age, digital trust is the new gold standard. o § Slackware Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Liveslak_1.7.0_released_with_fresh_batch of_Slackware_Live_ISOs⠀⇛ Liveslak has a slow release cycle these days. It’s ten months since the 1.6.0 release which added full Ventoy support. There were a few minor releases but the last one of those was already half a year ago. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Build_your_own_wireless_hand-wired_keyboards_—_a guide⠀⇛ There are few feelings more satisfying than building your own home office or gaming setup from scratch. Sitting at your workstation knowing that everything is made just the way you like it, in exactly the way you imagined — it’s pretty neat. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Google_rolls_out_passkey_support_for Workspace_and_Cloud_accounts_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Vimeo_is_retiring_its_Android_TV_app_in favor_of_casting⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ How_to_troubleshoot_when_a_hotspot_is_not working_on_Android_|_TechTarget⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_Auto’s_weather_widget_could_soon make_a_comeback_on_smaller_screens⠀⇛ # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Google_Emphasizes_Android_AI,_Large_Screens,_Pixel And_Its_New_Pixel_Fold⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ iOS_17:_8_features_Apple_‘borrowed’ from_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ 5_features_Google_Pixel_should_take_from_third_party Android_skins⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Android_14_may_bring_battery_health insights_to_phones_and_tablets_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Galaxy_Note_20_series_won’t_get_Android_14,_One UI_6.0_update_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ June_Android_13_QPR3_update_with_next_Pixel Feature_Drop_is_late⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_13_vs._Android_11:_Data_Reveal_Surprising_Shifts_in Google-Owned_OS_Adoption_/_Digital_Information_World⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Firefox_114_Released_with_DNS_over_HTTPS Tweaks,_FIDO2_Support⠀⇛ You know the deal: the world spins, a month passes, and a new version of Mozilla Firefox is released for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Firefox 114 arrives on schedule, with a few notable enhancements, a large dose of bug fixes, and additional web features that developers can take advantage of of. The “big ticket” item in this version? A new UI to manage the DNS over HTTPS exception list. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Winners_in_the_Month_of_LibreOffice,_May_2023!⠀⇛ At the start of May, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. We do these every six months – so how many people got sticker packs this time? o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ 20_Popular_Free_Software_and_Libraries_with Apache_License⠀⇛ This list collects twenty popular free software applications and libraries released under Apache License. This is a continuation to our previous list with GNU GPL that unexpectedly became very popular. We hope this helps everybody who studies free/libre open source software to know deeper. Let’s read on! The web server (software) everyone in computing knows, Apache, is the best example of software licensed under Apache License. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ TechXplore ☛ New_building_standard_paves_the_way_for collapse-resistant_structures⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechXplore ☛ Researchers_create_carbon_dioxide_measurement tool_to_calculate_emissions_caused_by_stored_digital_data⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Analog_Discovery_3_–_A_125_MS/s_USB oscilloscope,_waveform_generator,_logic_analyzer,_and variable_power_supply⠀⇛ Digilent Analog Discovery 3 is a USB oscilloscope with a sample rate of up to 125 MS/s, that can also be used as a waveform generator, logic analyzer, and/or a variable power supply up to 5V. Several other features are also enabled through its software and the USB-C oscilloscope can also act as a spectrum analyzer, a network analyzer, an impedance analyzer, a protocol analyzer, a data logger, a voltmeter, and supports in-app scripting. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Digital_Health:_Commission_and_WHO launch_landmark_digital_health_initiative_to_strengthen global_health_security⠀⇛ European Commission Press release Brussels, 05 Jun 2023 Today, the European Commission and the World Health Organization (WHO) have announced the launch of a landmark digital health partnership. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Longtime_Halo_designer_David_Ellis_departs_343_Industries [Ed: XBox_seems_to_be_dying. Many of the managers leave in droves this year. Many XBox layoffs, too.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Windows_XP’s_afterlife_shows_copyright’s copywrongs_•_The_Register⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechXplore ☛ Is_Outlook_down?_Thousands_of_users_report problems_with_Microsoft’s_email_platform⠀⇛ o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Amazon’s_AWS_is_‘Retiring’_Its_Open-Source-and-on- GitHub_Documentation_–_Slashdot⠀⇛ Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: On the AWS News Blog, AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr has published a kind of obituary for AWS Documentation on GitHub (RIP, 2018-2023). From the blog post: “About five years ago I announced that AWS Documentation is Now Open Source and on GitHub.” [...] o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ TechXplore ☛ Car_thieves_are_using_increasingly sophisticated_methods,_and_most_new_vehicles_are_vulnerable⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, cpio, mariadb-10.3, nbconvert, sofia- sip, and wireshark), Fedora (ImageMagick, mingw- python-requests, openssl, python3.6, texlive-base, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (apr-util, git, gnutls, kernel, kernel-rt, and kpatch-patch), Slackware (cups and ntp), and Ubuntu (linux-azure-fde, linux- azure-fde-5.15 and perl). # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Canopy_Children’s_Solutions_continues_to investigate_ransomware_attack_in_April⠀⇛ In early May, a new group of threat actors known as Nokoyawa added Canopy Children’s Solutions in Mississippi to their leak site. On June 2, Mississippi Children’s Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children’s Home Services, Inc., d.b.a. Canopy Children’s Solutions (“Canopy”) a press release acknowledging that on April 4, they experienced an attack that encrypted some of their files. Canopy hasn’t yet notified any individuals. They state they are in the process of “conducting a comprehensive and thorough review to identify any personal information contained therein, and to whom that information relates. Once the review is complete, Canopy will move as quickly as possible to mail letters to individuals whose information may be affected and provide detail about the types of information at issue for each individual.” # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ South_Jersey_Behavioral_Health_Resources discloses_ransomware_attack⠀⇛ South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources has disclosed that they were hit with a ransomware attack on April 3. They do not indicate what group attacked them, or what any ransom demand may have been, and DataBreaches has not seen this incident on any leak site to date. According to their notification, “The investigation remains ongoing, and at this time, SJBHR is unaware if any data related to individuals was subject to unauthorized access and/or acquisition.” They say they are notifying in — wait for it: “an abundance of caution.” The types of personal information that SJBHR maintains on its systems that could potentially be involved include an individual’s name and contact information, Social Security number, date of birth, medical record number, treating/referring physician, health insurance information, subscriber number, medical history information, diagnosis/treatment information. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Can_Exposed[.]vc_attract_BreachForum’s loyal_users?_It’s_trying_to.⠀⇛ When RAIDForums was seized by law enforcement in 2022, one of the forum users, Pompompurin, stepped up and opened BreachForums based on the RAIDForums design and policies. And when BreachForums was taken down by an administrator after Pompompurin was arrested and databases were seized, forum users waited for the administrator, “Baphomet,” to create a new and secure forum for them. But more than two months later, there has been no replacement forum for BreachForums, although there have been some attempts, like the short-lived Vice Forums that went up quickly in March but was taken down after one hour due to security issues. It never came back as a real forum. # ⚓ Wladimir Palant ☛ Introducing_PCVARK_and_their_malicious_ad blockers⠀⇛ It isn’t news that the overwhelming majority of ad blockers in Chrome Web Store is either outright malicious or waiting_to_accumulate_users_before turning_malicious. So it wasn’t a surprise that the very first ad blocker I chose semi-randomly (Adblock Web with 700,000 users) turned out malicious. Starting from it, I found another malicious extension (Ad-Blocker, 700,000 users) and two more that have been removed from Chrome Web Store a year ago (BitSafe Adblocker and Adblocker Unlimited). # ⚓ IT Jungle ☛ Fortra_Completes_Postmortem_Of_GoAnywhere Vulnerability⠀⇛ Security firm Fortra recently published an analysis of the zero-day vulnerability that impacted its GoAnywhere MFT customers earlier this year and committed itself to “continuous improvement.” Meanwhile, an analysis shows that dozens of organizations continue to run unpatched and exposed versions of GoAnywhere months after the flaw was discovered and patches became available. Fortra (formerly HelpSystems) first became aware of the remote code injection exploit vulnerability in its GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) product on January 30, as we_previously_reported, and quietly alerted customers on February 1. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Cl0p_ransomware_group_uses_zero-day_in_file transfer_app_to_steal_data⠀⇛ Data theft using a zero-day in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer has been claimed to be carried out by the Cl0p ransomware group, with the incidents starting on 27 May. The vulnerability was announced by the company that makes the software, Progress Software Corporation on 31 May, according to a_post from the Google- owned Mandiant security firm. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ First_in_space:_SpaceX_and_NASA_launch satellite_that_hackers_will_attempt_to_infiltrate_during_DEF CON⠀⇛ For the first time ever, researchers will be able to test the security of a satellite on-orbit at this year’s Hack-A-Sat contest at DEF CON. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Microsoft_to_pay_$20_million_to_settle US_charges_for_violating_children’s_privacy⠀⇛ Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that the tech company illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent, the FTC said on Monday. The company had been charged with violating the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from children who signed up to its Xbox gaming system without notifying their parents or obtaining their parents’ consent, and by retaining children’s personal information, the FTC said in a statement. # ⚓ Microsoft_expects_$425_million_privacy_fine_over LinkedIn_ad_targeting_practices_–_OnMSFT.com⠀⇛ After the recent round of layoffs and even closing down its China app, InCareer, Microsoft’s employment-focused social network platform, is back in the headlines again. Last week, Microsoft revealed that it might incur a $425 million fine over alleged privacy violations by LinkedIn. In 2018, the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) initiated an investigation to determine whether LinkedIn has been violating European data protection law regarding its targeted advertising practices. # ⚓ US Dept Of Health and Human Services ☛ HHS_Office_for Civil_Rights_Reaches_Agreement_with_Health_Care Provider_in_New_Jersey_That_Disclosed_Patient Information_in_Response_to_Negative_Online_Reviews⠀⇛ Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announces a settlement with Manasa Health Center, LLC, a health care provider in New Jersey that provides adult and child psychiatric services. The settlement resolves a complaint received by OCR in April 2020, alleging that Manasa Health Center impermissibly disclosed the protected health information of a patient when the entity posted a response to the patient’s negative online review. Following an OCR investigation, potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule include impermissible disclosures of patient protected health information in response to negative online reviews, and failure to implement policies and procedures with respect to protected health information. Manasa Health Center paid $30,000 to OCR and agreed to implement a corrective action plan to resolve these potential violations. “OCR continues to receive complaints about health care providers disclosing their patients’ protected health information on social media or on the internet in response to negative reviews. Simply put, this is not allowed,” said OCR Director Melanie Fontes Rainer. “The HIPAA Privacy Rule expressly protects patients from this type of activity, which is a clear violation of both patient trust and the law. OCR will investigate and take action when we learn of such impermissible disclosures, no matter how large or small the organization.” # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ CYBER:_The_DHS_Is_Reading Travelers’_Posts_at_the_Border⠀⇛ Also, the FBI arrested an accused swatter, Russia said the U.S. is hacking iPhones, and the FTC wants Ring to pay a fine. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Michigan_Supreme_Court_To_Decide_If Government_Can_Warrantlessly_Spy_on_You_With_Drones⠀⇛ The state court of appeals held previously that unconstitutionally collected evidence could still be used for civil enforcement. # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Press_Statement_by_Commissioner Stella_Kyriakides_at_the_launch_of_the_WHO_Global Digital_Health_Certification_Network⠀⇛ European Commission Speech Geneva, 05 Jun 2023 Dr Tedros, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to start by thanking you for inviting me to Geneva today. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Senegal_violence_threatens_country’s stability_as_experts_call_on_government_to_instill_calm⠀⇛ Senegal experts have called on the government to instill calm after days of the country’s deadliest violence in years and concerns it could have lasting consequences. Days of clashes between security forces and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko killed at least 16 people and injured hundreds. Police have arrested 500 people during the violence. Rights groups, analysts and locals said Monday that the clashes in Senegal are the worst political crisis it’s seen in decades. # ⚓ Men_killed_38_women_in_May⠀⇛ The full list of cases of male violence, femicide, violence against children, attempted murder, harassment, sexual violence, rape, and injury that were reflected in the press. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran_Won’t_Be_Allowed_To_Obtain_Nukes,_Blinken Tells_Israeli_Lobby_Group⠀⇛ U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 5 reiterated the U.S. administration’s firm stance that Iran is Israel’s top threat and will never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ IAEA_Chief_Calls_On_Iran_To_Follow_All_Nuclear Commitments⠀⇛ Iran has not sufficiently implemented commitments to more transparency regarding its nuclear program, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said in Vienna on June 5. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Assad’s_Isolation_Lifts,_Syrian Refugees_Fear_Pressure_to_Return_Home⠀⇛ Arab countries re-establishing diplomatic ties with Syria are making repatriation of Syrian refugees a top priority. “Even if they shoot me, I won’t go back,” a refugee in Lebanon said. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ In_Rare_Display_Of_Defiance,_Iranians_Dance_To_Mark Death_Of_Ruhollah_Khomeini⠀⇛ A wave of public demonstrations has swept across Iran on the anniversary of the death of Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, with Iranians dancing in the streets in a display of defiance of authority amid a crackdown on unrest that has swept the country. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Afghanistan:_All_Airports_Officially Operational⠀⇛ “…20 foreign flights per day are making use the national airfields…” # ⚓ France24 ☛ Blinken_calls_for_Israel-Saudi_normalisation_on eve_of_Riyadh_visit⠀⇛ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Monday for the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel on the eve of his visit to the Arab power. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Blinken_to_Talk_to_Saudis_About Normalizing_Ties_With_Israel⠀⇛ U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia to discuss the idea at a time when the politics in the three countries may make normalization difficult. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Venezuelan_and_Saudi_Arabian_Foreign_Ministers Hold_Meeting⠀⇛ The meeting takes place on the occasion of an official working visit led by Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 77_Schoolgirls_Poisoned_in_Afghanistan⠀⇛ “Before this incident, armed people who identified themselves as affiliated with the Taliban had been seen in the district,” Kolbarnews reported. # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_pressures_Australian_press_club_to_cancel Tibetan_exile_leader’s_speech⠀⇛ Penpa Tsering’s appearance in Canberra will go ahead as planned on June 20. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Expert_Assails_Serbia_For_Using_Mass_Killings_To ‘Stir_Up_Hatred,’_Attack_Rights_Defenders⠀⇛ Irene Khan, UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, expressed concerns over the rise in hate speech in Serbia following two mass- killing incidents in the Balkan nation. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Nigeria’s_security_situation_has_got_worse: what_Tinubu’s_administration_needs_to_do_about_it⠀⇛ Nigeria’s new president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has promised to make security a top priority of his administration. In his inaugural speech he promised, among other things, to provide security personnel with better training, equipment, pay and firepower. The new president has read the mood in the country well. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Rwanda_genocide_suspect_arrest_earns_UN praise_for_SA_law_enforcement⠀⇛ A South African law enforcement task team was on the receiving end of thanks from the United Nations (UN) following the arrest of Fulgence Kayishema, said by the world body to be one of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives. # ⚓ RFA ☛ China,_US_join_naval_drills_in_Indonesia_amid_rising tensions⠀⇛ American, Chinese and Russian warships are joining the Komodo Exercise in the Makassar Strait. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Secrecy_around_Lady_R_inquiry_raises questions⠀⇛ The judicial investigation into the Russian cargo vessel Lady R and her clandestine stop at Naval Base (NB) Simon’s Town is seen as a security issue and the panel’s report will not be publicly available. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Robert_Hanssen,_FBI_Agent_Who_Spied_For_Soviet Union,_Russia,_Dies_In_Prison_Cell_At_Age_79⠀⇛ The 79-year-old Hanssen was arrested in 2001 and pleaded guilty to selling highly classified material to the Soviet Union and then Russia. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Links_to_Putin’s_inner_circle,_horse_riding_in Lithuania:_war_proves_no_obstacle_to_life_in_Baltics_–_LRT Investigation⠀⇛ Despite Belarusian and Russian athletes being banned from sports in Lithuania, a family linked to an oligarch in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle has been living on the Baltic coast, as well as sponsoring and taking part in equestrian events. LRT Investigation Team reports. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Sanctions_Seven_Russians_For_Attempt_To Destabilize_Moldova⠀⇛ The United States has sanctioned seven leading members of a Russian influence group with links to intelligence services for their role in Moscow’s campaign to destabilize Moldova and instigate an insurrection. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Notorious_FBI_agent_Robert_Hanssen_who_spied_for Russia_dies_in_prison⠀⇛ Robert Hanssen, the notorious FBI double agent who secretly fed Russia some of America’s deepest secrets in the 1980s and 1990s, died in a top- security prison Monday, prison officials said. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Russian_parts_installed_in_Lithuania’s_strategic_gas pipeline_with_Poland_–_media⠀⇛ Russian fittings might have been installed during the construction of the strategically important Gas Interconnection Poland–Lithuania (GIPL) launched in May 2022, according to an investigation by the 15min.lt news website and investigative journalism centres in Poland, Latvia and Romania. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Jailed_Former_Warden_Of_Siberian_Penal_Colony_Gets Additional_10_Years_In_Prison⠀⇛ Andrei Vereshchak, the jailed former warden of Correctional Colony No. 15 in the Siberian city of Angarsk, was handed an additional 10 years in prison on charges of abuse of office and bribe- taking, # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Wagner_Group_Posts_Video_Of_Russian_Officer_In_Sign Of_Rising_Tensions_With_Army⠀⇛ In a sign of rising tensions between Russia’s Wagner mercenary group and the country’s official armed forces, the private company led by Yevgeny Prigozhin has released a video of a captured Russian officer where he “confesses” to ordering an attack on the mercenaries. § War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ European Commission ☛ EU_extends_trade_benefits_for Ukraine⠀⇛ European Commission Press release Brussels, 05 Jun 2023 The suspension of import duties, quotas and trade defence measures on Ukrainian exports to the European Union – known as the Autonomous Trade Measures (ATMs) – are in place for another year. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Reflections_on_Russia_and_Crimea:_The_Hate_Goes One_Way⠀⇛ This is the third part of a three-part series on our recent trip to Russia. Read part one and part two. We spent nearly 20 days in Russia, including 5 days in Crimea. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Ukrainian_forces_conducting_‘offensive actions’_at_the_front,_says_Kyiv⠀⇛ Kyiv on Monday said Ukrainian forces were conducting “offensive actions” on the front line as the country faces pressure from the West to announce the launch of a long-awaited counteroffensive. Russia meanwhile said that its forces had thwarted a major offensive at five points along the front in the southern Ukrainian region of Donetsk and killed hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops. # ⚓ France24 ☛ At_French_Open,_Ukraine_war_shatters_myth_of sport_as_an_apolitical_bubble⠀⇛ From the war raging in Ukraine to the unrest in Kosovo, geopolitical crises have cast a pall over the Grand Slam tournament in Paris, challenging conventions and shattering the notion that sport and politics can be kept apart. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Latvia_sends_cars_seized_from_drunk_drivers_to Ukraine⠀⇛ The Latvian government continues to send to Ukraine cars seized from drunk drivers. So far, a total of 66 vehicles have been handed over to Kyiv, according to the Delfi news website. # ⚓ LRT ☛ NATO_may_agree_on_Kyiv’s_pathway_to_membership_at Vilnius_summit,_says_French_official⠀⇛ France hopes Ukraine will receive a pathway to NATO membership at the Vilnius summit in July, according to Valerie Rabault, First Vice-President of the French National Assembly. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Biden_Praises_Denmark_For_‘Standing_Up’_For_Ukraine In_War_with_Russia⠀⇛ U.S. President Joe Biden thanked Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on June 5 for Denmark’s role in a Western alliance “standing up” for Ukraine as it tries to fend off Russia’s 15-month-old invasion. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Meets_With_British_Foreign_Secretary_in Kyiv,_Thanks_Britain_For_Support⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to discuss the upcoming NATO summit, Ukraine’s formula for peace, and the scheduled London conference on reconstruction of the war-torn country. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Prosecutors_Seek_18_Years_In_Prison_For Ukrainian_Activist_From_Crimea⠀⇛ Russian prosecutors asked a court in Rostov-on-Don to sentence Ukrainian activist Bohdan Zyza from Russian-annexed Crimea to 18 years in prison. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Presidential_Candidate_Nikki_Haley_Says Supporting_Ukraine_In_U.S._National_Interest⠀⇛ Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, said helping Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression is in the U.S. national interest. # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Joe_Biden_praises_Denmark_for ‘standing_up’_for_Ukraine_in_war_with_Russia⠀⇛ Biden is welcoming Denmark and Britain’s prime ministers this week. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kremlin_Says_Putin_Mobilization_Announcement Broadcast_On_Radio_Stations_Was_‘Fake’⠀⇛ The Kremlin says a radio address supposedly given by President Vladimir Putin about imposing martial law in Russia’s three regions bordering Ukraine and announcement of “a full-scale mobilization” that was broadcast on several radio stations earlier in the day was “fake.” # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_child_services_take_Ukrainian_kids_into_care while_mother_shops,_Russia_cites_case_in_anti-Western propaganda⠀⇛ Russian media have claimed the case is part of a wider phenomenon where European countries are using child protection laws to abduct Ukrainian children. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Administration_Shrugs_Off_Ukraine’s Attacks_in_Russia⠀⇛ For months, U.S. officials said cross-border operations risked a dangerous escalation. But those fears have ebbed. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Invites_Allies_to_Washington_as Fighting_Intensifies_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ President Biden hosted Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister of Denmark, at the White House on Monday, and much of the discussion revolved around providing support to Kyiv. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Nazi_Symbols_on_Ukraine’s_Front_Lines Highlight_Thorny_Issues_of_History⠀⇛ Troops’ use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Eyes_of_the_World_Are_Upon_Ukraine⠀⇛ The moral equivalent of D-Day is happening right now. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Has_Ukraine’s_Counteroffensive_Begun?⠀⇛ Here’s the latest at the end of Monday. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Your_Tuesday_Briefing:_Is_Ukraine’s Counteroffensive_Here?⠀⇛ Also, train service resumes near India’s crash site. # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Ukrainian_expatriate_helping_war-torn homeland⠀⇛ Juliya Wicklund, an America Reads program manager with the Edward Ginsberg Center, helped launch the Ukraine TrustChain, a nonprofit aimed at helping the war-torn country of Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ British_Army_Completes_Training_Of_Ukrainian Military_Chaplains⠀⇛ Ukrainian military chaplains on June 5 completed training with the British Army before heading back to the war-ravaged country to give frontline troops a “spiritual umbrella.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_New_Ukrainian_Attacks,_U.S._Officials See_Signs_of_a_Counteroffensive⠀⇛ Kyiv has not formally announced the start of operations. But Russia said that major Ukrainian attacks had begun in the Donetsk region and that it had repelled the assaults and inflicted casualties. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Says_It_Sees_‘No_Prospects’_For_Further Grain_Deal_Renewal⠀⇛ Russia’s Foreign Ministry on June 5 said it saw no prospects for extending the Black Sea grain export deal, which is set to expire in mid-July, Russian news agencies reported. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_says_it_repelled_a_large-scale Ukrainian_assault.⠀⇛ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Russia_starts_naval_exercise_in_Baltic_Sea_one_day after_Nato_drills_begin⠀⇛ Finland is participating in the annual Nato naval exercises for the first time as a member of the alliance. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ This_Famous_‘Spy’_Whale_Likes_People._That Could_Be_a_Problem.⠀⇛ A beluga whale named Hvaldimir was first spotted in 2019 wearing what looked like a camera harness. He has recently been moving toward busier waters, prompting fears for his safety. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fighting_is_raging_at_several_points_on the_front_line,_Russian_and_U.S._officials_say.⠀⇛ § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ Axios ☛ COP28_official_sees_oil_and_gas_companies_playing_key_role_at U.N._climate_summit⠀⇛ The upcoming_United_Nations_climate_summit_in_Dubai will be aimed at closing the gap between Paris Agreement’s climate goals and global emissions commitments, according toCOP28 director-general Majid al-Suwaidi. * § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ o ⚓ Quartz ☛ For_Saudi_Arabia,_the_price_of_oil_is_falling_too_low⠀⇛ Saudi Arabia is slashing its July output of oil to boost falling prices. o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ OPEC+_Countries_Adjust_Output_Targets_for_2024⠀⇛ Saudi Arabia also announced a further cut of oil production by 1 million bpd, which will start in July for a month that can be extended. o ⚓ Reuters ☛ Energy_sector’s_COVID_recovery_turns_into_massive_CEO payday⠀⇛ The pandemic, with lockdowns the norm, resulted in a steep decline in oil and gas consumption and the loss of one in six jobs in the industry. Even so, a Reuters analysis of stock-based pay granted to CEOs at 20 U.S. oil and gas companies in 2020 more than doubled by 2023 when shares vested. That steep increase highlights a system that can richly reward executives amid mass layoffs, refinery closures and slashed capital spending. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ Fundsmith_Equity_sells_Amazon_at_a_loss_after_19_months⠀⇛ Terry Smith has cut Amazon from his giant fund after just a year and a half, losing around a fifth of his investors’ money on the position. * ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Walmart_Cutting_Employee_Hours_While_Paying Private_Security_to_Sit_and_Watch_People_Commit_Arson_and_Run_Out_With_TV Sets._Bonus:_A_Software_Company_CEO_Bought_Our_Apartment_Building⠀⇛ Nothing is going right in this country. Our apartment building was just bought out by some software company CEO. He paid way too much money for it and for a while not even the trash was getting removed. We may have to move at some point anyway because of this and so I don’t even rightly know if I should tell my spouse to go ahead and transfer to a Walmart in a less fucked up part of the state or something. Once you do it you’re stuck at the new store for 12 months. Walmart bet big and bet wrong on Chicago and it turned into a money pit. Now the stores there are gone and they’re ripping out their losses from their remaining workers’ asses. Instead of just calling it after several years of not making any money in Chicago, they continued doubling down on a horrible business decision and then one week they announced “store closing on Sunday” at four locations. No reason. Certainly not “It’s the ghetto and well, looting.” CNN would never say that either (despite an eight page article), but it’s why. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Pensions_agency_welcome_record_levels_of_work-based_immigration⠀⇛ Finland’s net immigration reached a record high of almost 35,000 last year. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ Fortune ☛ 4_urgent_tasks_for_new_Twitter_CEO_Linda_Yaccarino⠀⇛ The first day on the job is always a challenge—get to know the people you’ll be working with, make a good impression, and, if you’re new Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, put out a growing cluster of fires that threaten to burn the place down. * ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_a_Fringe_Legal_Theory_Became_a_Threat_to_Democracy⠀⇛ Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 elections. What if it were to become the law of the land? * ⚓ New Yorker ☛ What_Does_the_Debt-Ceiling_Agreement_Say_About_the_U.S. Political_System?⠀⇛ The bipartisan deal showed that the government is still capable of avoiding a self-inflicted disaster, but a credit-ratings agency warns it is suffering from slow rot. * ⚓ HDP_co-chairs_to_step_down,_conceding_disappointing_election_results⠀⇛ Mithat Sancar and Pervin Buldan revealed their intention to resign at an upcoming congress after their party’s underwhelming performance in recent polls. * ⚓ Who_is_who_in_President_Erdoğan’s_new_cabinet?⠀⇛ Following his re-election, Erdoğan has undergone a significant cabinet reshuffle in preparation for his third term. * § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Russia_Says_‘Fake’_Putin_Address_Declaring Martial_Law_Was_a_‘Hack’⠀⇛ Putin appeared on TV and the radio and urged citizens to flee deeper into Russia. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Hackers_Air_Deep_Fake_Putin_Speech_Calling_for Mobilization⠀⇛ The Kremlin said it was investigating what it called a “hack” after a bogus speech aired on some radio and television networks. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ Elon_Musk_reveals_Twitter_has_discovered_a_hidden_layer_of ‘censorship’⠀⇛ Elon Musk has sat down for an interview where he discusses overall censorship and if new laws should be introduced to protect users from private companies. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russian_human_rights_group_claims_109_arrested_during_Navalny demonstrations⠀⇛ OVD-Info, a Russian human and media rights group on Sunday claimed police arrested at least 109 people during demonstrations supporting imprisoned opposition leader, Alexey Navalny. The group stated two journalists are known to be among those detained. The demonstrations in 23 Russian cities was organized by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (AFD) and coincided with Navalny’s birthday. * ⚓ Reason ☛ E.U.’s_Digital_Services_Act_Threatens_Americans’_Free_Speech⠀⇛ Online platforms should resist binding us all to the rules of censorship-happy jurisdictions. * ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_Musktown_Massacre⠀⇛ Well, it was touch and go there for a while, but it appears “free speech” has been saved again! That’s right, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, all hell broke loose at Musk Cult HQ (also known by Musk Cultists as “Musktown”). * ⚓ YLE ☛ Use_of_Erdogan_effigy_by_Helsinki_protestors_not_a_crime,_police say⠀⇛ Due to officers intervening at the March protest, the offence was filed as attempted defamation rather than defamation, which would be punishable. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_bans_‘unfriendly_countries’_journalists_from_economic gathering⠀⇛ A spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitri Peskov announced on Sunday that journalists from ‘unfriendly countries’ were banned from covering St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) which is scheduled for mid June. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland’s_Migri_and_foreign_ministry_voice_alarm_over work-based_permit_applications⠀⇛ ADDITIONAL RESOURCES for processing work-based residence permit applications are required to avoid major difficulties with work-based immigration from outside the EU, argue the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) and Ministry for Foreign Affairs, according_to_Helsingin_Sanomat. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Labor_Groups_Call_On_ILO_To_Kick_Iran_Out_Of Organization⠀⇛ Eight independent labor organizations in Iran have called for the expulsion of the country from the International Labor Organization (ILO) and its session in Switzerland that starts on June 5. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Nearly_90_Afghan_Schoolgirls_Were_Poisoned,_Officials Suspect⠀⇛ Students and staff members at two schools in northern Afghanistan fell ill with respiratory and neurological symptoms. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Secret_schools_defy_Taliban_to_offer_Afghan_girls_light and_hope⠀⇛ Clandestine classes are keeping learning alive for girls whom the ruling Taliban have banned from school amid growing restrictions on women. * ⚓ Release_of_Gezi_prisoner_Can_Atalay_still_pending_as_MP_term_begins⠀⇛ According to Article 83 of the Constitution, Can Atalay, implicated in the contentious Gezi trial, must be freed from imprisonment to fulfill his duties. § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ * ⚓ APNIC ☛ Mongolia’s_Unitel_Group_leads_IPv6_usage_in_Mongolia,_aims higher⠀⇛ Guest Post: Unitel is aiming to expand its IPv6 coverage to 80% by year’s end. * ⚓ APNIC ☛ APRICOT_2024_and_2025_locations_announced⠀⇛ The next two APRICOT events will be held in Bangkok and Dhaka. § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ * ⚓ Security Week ☛ Microsoft_Makes_SMB_Signing_Default_Requirement_in Windows_11_to_Boost_Security [Ed: This is not about security; Microsoft puts back doors in everything. This is all about restrictions and upselling.]⠀⇛ Microsoft is making SMB signing a default requirement in Windows 11 Enterprise editions, starting with insider preview build 25381. * ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_169:_Alissa_Centivany and_Anthony_Rosborough_on_Repairing_Canada’s_Right_to_Repair⠀⇛ The right to repair would seem like a political no-brainer: a policy designed to extend the life of devices and equipment and the ability to innovate for the benefit of consumers and the environment. Yet somehow copyright law has emerged as a barrier on that right, limiting access to repair guides and restricting the ability for everyone from farmers to video gamers to tinker with their systems. The government has pledged to address the issue and Bill_C-244, a private members bill making its way through the House of Commons, would appear to be the way it plans to live up to that promise.  * ⚓ TechXplore ☛ Spotify_to_cut_200_staff_working_with_podcasts⠀⇛ * ⚓ Spotify_is_laying_off_2%_of_its_workforce⠀⇛ Spotify is cutting 200 employees from its podcasting unit, which represents 2% of its workforce. The streaming company’s head of podcast business, Sahar Elhabashi, announced “the difficult but necessary decision to make a strategic realignment” Monday in a newsroom statement. She also noted the employees involved will get “generous severance packages,” extended health care coverage and immediate access to outplacement support. It’s the second time this year the company has announced layoffs. In January, it cut 600 jobs, joining multiple other tech companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft in layoffs that month. * ⚓ Spotify_is_laying_off_2%_of_its_workforce⠀⇛ Spotify is cutting 200 employees from its podcasting unit, which represents 2% of its workforce. The streaming company’s head of podcast business, Sahar Elhabashi, announced “the difficult but necessary decision to make a strategic realignment” Monday in a newsroom statement. She also noted the employees involved will get “generous severance packages,” extended health care coverage and immediate access to outplacement support. * ⚓ Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd ☛ ‘Unfortunately,_This_Means_Saying Goodbye…!’_Spotify_Sacks_200_Employees_As_Company_Undergoes_Changes_In Business_–_Details_|_Companies_News,_Times_Now⠀⇛ § Monopolies⠀➾ * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ Winners_of_Kids’_collaborative_art_competition_announced [Ed: Criminals at EPO are attempting to paint themselves (again) as caring for children]⠀⇛ Four winning schools receive funding for their initiatives to help raise children’s awareness of innovation and sustainability. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2275 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_06/06/2023:_Bubble_4.0,_Neutral_News,_and_Older_Bits⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 9:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Science # Internet/Gemini # Announcements * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Tracker_Arrives…⠀⇛ A weary traveler stands outside the pub, dusting off his clothes and checking his pockets nervously. He pulls a worn and slightly crumpled business card from his left jacket pocket, turning it over in his hand to examine both sides. The embossed logo of a door with a moon in the center stands out clearly in the dim light of the alleyway. Looking again at the front door of the Midnight, he raises a fist and knocks three times. # ⚓ train_of_thoughts⠀⇛ as a kid i was enamored of many things: succulents, rubik’s cubes, computers and also trains. the larger-than-life feeling of entering the hall of a train station, the incomprehensible announcements through the tinny speakers, the neverending onslaught of wagons dragged by freight trains, the ridiculous speeds at which these massive metal worms drag people from point a to b. unfortunately i never got around to traveling by train much as a kid. then and now going by train isn’t exactly the cheapest way to get around, and since my family was perfectly happy going everywhere by car, i didn’t have a choice. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CINORTY_Wordo:_BRIMS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Wigs_and_Sandals⠀⇛ Hearing someone disapprove of socks and sandals, or wearing pyjamas outdoors may be the fastest way to identify an idiot. The recategorization happens instantly, and they find themselves unknowingly in the company of every Victorian man who might have chided someone for not wearing a wig, or powdering their face enough. # ⚓ Neutral_News⠀⇛ “News sources are biased”, and “everyone lives in a bubble”, we all hear constantly (or perhaps that’s just my bubble). But what would a non-biased news source look like? Taking a strict middle-ground gives immediately ridiculous conclusions. Perhaps the UK’s food banks suggest some problem, but not much of a problem? This seems less wrong than saying food banks don’t suggest any problem, but still wrong. And should this neutral position exist on a per-country basis – so all the countries can have balanced, and unbiased, but totally different news stories – or planet-wide? ( – I can’t even imagine what madness that would summon) # ⚓ Apple_vs_VR⠀⇛ Facebook’s hardware efforts on the other hand have landed pretty well—the Oculus does what people want at a good price point. Their “Metaverse” software is failing because it’s not what people want at all, but we’re getting on just fine by ignoring it completely. With Google going “too cheap” and Facebook hitting “just right”, the idea of Apple entering the fray at a ridiculously high price point—$3500—is both fitting and hilarious. o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Auto_Eugenics⠀⇛ Once in a while I hear of someone who’s decided to not have children because of bad ideas. I don’t want to argue that anyone should or should not have children, but I do want to remove those bad ideas. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Will_I_outlive_NetBSD?⠀⇛ I was recently reading a detailed account of Apple UNIX, a Macintosh-compatible UNIX operating system published by Apple for Macintosh computers with m68k CPUs. The account appeared to have been written in 2001, based on one screenshot of the author’s PC desktop. The account concludes by recommending that operators of m68k-based Macintosh computers who wish to run UNIX on their machines find an alternative to Apple UNIX for a number of reasons. They recommend NetBSD. [...] Oh. Zsh came out in 1990; it’s older than Linux. Huh. # ⚓ Building_a_Meme_in_Under_a_Month⠀⇛ People have parroted the phrase ‘depends on the threat model’, so often, so quickly, and so vacuously, that I find my toes curling at the sound of it. But after a run-in with the mods on Reddit’s /r/privacy, some noteworthy gaffs came up which I think I can give a non-vacuous example of where the threat model really matters. # ⚓ Pens_Must_Die⠀⇛ I’ll miss pens when they go. I like how they feel. I like that handwriting is almost impossible to fake. I like that when I receive a letter, I can tell who sent it just from how they write the address. But it all has to go. Pens have some advantages over computers. One can generally access a pen-record faster – just open the notepad and it’s there. Modern software is so badly programmed that it’s often easier to find a page in a notepad than to open a text document. And it’s resilient – even if rain doesn’t do paper any favours, anyone can still read a page which has been rained on. Taking out a computer in the rain is just madness. # ⚓ Falling_off_the_Edge_of_the_World⠀⇛ Here is a simple dice game for y’all. Everyone needs four pawns or markers, and then you need three dice, and then make a board that has ten spaces numbered four through thirteen, plus a little starting area before the “4” space where everyone’s pawns start out, and also make sure that the “13” space is right next to the edge of the board. This is a roll-and-move game of the misère variety since you lose when you move your last piece off the board, and you win by hanging on the longest. # ⚓ Death_of_the_Duckling_–_My_new_D&D_Campaign⠀⇛ My role-playing group has 3 Game Masters, and we rotate week-to-week on who is running their campaign. I’m using the more generic ‘Game Master’, because we wander away from and back to Dungeons & Dragons, though ‘DM’ would be appropriate right now, because right now all campaigns are using the D&D system. It is usually between two Dungeon Masters, as it has been a couple of years since I ran adventures consistently. But that is changing 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ I have been putting a lot of effort in developing a new campaign, named ‘Death of the Duckling’. There is a story behind the name, but it didn’t stop the players from creating characters based on the name of the theme, with increasing references to cartoon characters such as ‘Darkwing Duck’. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Long_Covid_Meta_Analysis,_Jan_2023⠀⇛ A massive review of what we currently know about #LongCovid has been published today. Below are the highlights that jumped out at me, you can read the whole thing at nature.com[1]. # ⚓ Cloud_spotting_blues⠀⇛ tfurrows wrote a phlog post yesterday centred mostly around responding to severe weather advisories and warnings. Right at the end he mentions participating in “weather spotter / Skywarn training”, something provided by the US National Weather Service. This seems to basically be a program to “crowdsource” early detection of heavy weather (what did we call “crowdsourcing” before that became a term?). I would certainly be interested to read more about this experience! # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Out_with_the_junk_and_clunk,_in_with_open_web protocols⠀⇛ I always hear (usually from bloggers) “everybody needs a blog”, or “everyone needs a Web page”. Fair. But what everyone sort of “needs” is e-mail, which is why Gmail was such a smash hit in 2004 (and beyond). @yahoo.com and @aol.com e-mail accounts really were overzealous in their presence online (I mean, not a lot of alternatives at one point). But before 2004, in 1998-ish, people wanted a different thing altogether. Not JUST a different platform (for search, Yahoo – for chat, AOL) but a different way of using the WWW that wasn’t JUST that. Essentially, a self-made, en masse invention of Internet usage/culture. # ⚓ Migration_of_html2gmi_API_done⠀⇛ My previous hosting provider changed their pricing plan so it was time to move. If I’d known people were using it I would have tried to ensure minimal downtime but until just now I hadn’t realised this, so I took my time about it. There was an evening of wasted effort trying to shoehorn it into AWS Lambda before I decided to just add it to the VPS running this site. # ⚓ Speed_up_your_internet_by_caching_DNS_queries_for longer_–_nscd.conf⠀⇛ Every time you access a web page there will be a few dozen network requests to a few different servers. Before every network request can run there will be a connection made to a DNS server to look up the IP address of the website server. If you visit the same website again soon after your computer will remember the result of the previous DNS query and not need to ask the DNS server for the IP again. However I’ve noticed that this cache expires fairly quickly and that network requests to the same server, often only minutes later, involve a DNS query that seems redundant – DNS settings don’t change all that often. # ⚓ [Old]_How_will_the_fediverse_pay_the_bills_when_it_is 10x_bigger?⠀⇛ In the early days of the fediverse user numbers (aka hosting costs) were low and enthusiasm was high. Admins made their instance because they wanted to. Moderators volunteered because it felt meaningful (or whatever). We all had similar values and vibes were good. When the hat was passed around everyone happily threw a few bucks into it. Setting up a small instance can be done fairly easily by using a pre-configured docker image so only basic linux skills were needed. # ⚓ Migrating_Gemini_Servers⠀⇛ I’m in the process of preparing to migrate Gemini servers. This is a journey for me to learn how to do this, so I’m chronicling some things that I learned here. When all is ready, playonbsd.com will move from the current Vultr server to OpenBSD Amsterdam – for more storage space and more “OpenBSD- ness” of the whole project. # § Announcements⠀➾ # ⚓ Bubble_v4.0:_Muting,_Tag_Filters,_Monthly_Archive⠀⇛ bbs.geminispace.org has been upgraded to Bubble v4. This week’s feature update adds some useful new tools and fixes several bugs. [...] You can now mute posts, subspaces, and individual users to hide them and notifications related to them. Together with follows, this allows tailoring what one sees in their Bubble feeds with quite a lot of precision. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2663 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_06/06/2023:_Angie_1.2.0,_New_EasyOS_and_EndeavourOS_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:42 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Linux_Foundation o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linux_distro_hopping_is_a_fun_way_to_find_the_perfect desktop_operating_system_|_ZDNET⠀⇛ I’ve been using System76′s Pop!_OS Linux for about five years now. Prior to that, my distribution of choice was elementary OS. Why the change? Mostly because I purchased System76 desktop machines (first the Leopard Extreme and then the Thelio) and Pop!_OS was the default distribution. I took to Pop!_OS almost immediately. Essentially, it was System76′s take on GNOME, which offered a few extras that made perfect sense. But over time, a couple of things happened. First off, System76 started focusing on its own in-house OS, Cosmic desktop, with the goal of creating something altogether new. The problem with that was updates started to become few and fewer and then System76 decided to skip the 23.04 update completely. Of course, that’s not a terrible thing, as 23.04 was not an LTS (Long Term Support) release. And Pop!_OS 22.04 was still getting security updates. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ There_Is_No_Distro_|_LINUX_Unplugged 513⠀⇛ We attempt to swap Linux distributions live on our production server, to prove that new tooling makes the Linux distro model obsolete. # ⚓ WordPress ☛ WP_Briefing:_Episode_57:_The_Power_of_WordPress Mentorship⠀⇛ Join WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy in the 57th episode of the WordPress Briefing as she discusses the Contributor Mentorship Program to help increase the success of new contributors over time. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Blogs⠀⇛ I’ve been monitoring the issues everyone’s been reporting for GAMES_THAT_DON’T_RENDER_GOOD, and before I got sucked into doing this (huge) thing that I’m totally gonna talk about at some point, I was actually organizing some of the reports into tables and such. And investigating them. And one of the ones I was looking at was some broken_sampling in_Wolfenstein: Some weird grid lines being rendered there. And so I took out my trusty chainsaw renderdoc, and I looked at the shaders, and, well, I’m not about to bore you with the details, but they were totally unreadable. It turns out that all the “free” bitcasting zink does during SPIRV translation isn’t actually free when you gotta read it. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ KeePass_2.54_Released!_How_to_Install_in Ubuntu_via_PPA⠀⇛ The KeePass password manager released version 2.54 few days ago. Here are the new features and PPA repository for all current Ubuntu releases. KeePass 2.54 now uses the enforced configuration file for the triggers, global URL overrides, password generator profiles and a few more settings. See more about enforced configuration. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Angie_1.2.0_Web_Server_Released_with_Sticky Sessions_Support⠀⇛ The third stable release of Angie, a drop-in replacement of the popular Nginx web server, comes with some exciting new features. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Image_Manipulation_Made_Easy:_Working_with_Docker_Images via_APIs⠀⇛ From advertising to e-commerce, images play a crucial role in attracting and engaging customers. However, manipulating images can be a complex and time-consuming process that requires specialized skills and tools. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_Latest_Kernel_in_Ubuntu,_Linux Mint⠀⇛ Here are two ways to install the latest mainline Kernel in Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Ubuntu releases (including LTS) and Linux Mint usually ships stable mainline Linux Kernel, whichever is available before the change freeze during the development phase. # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Linux_Foundation_&_RISC- V_International_Launch_RISC-V_Fundamentals_Course⠀⇛ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ How_to_Prevent_Ubuntu_from_Going_into_Sleep Mode⠀⇛ Leave the system for five minutes and it goes into sleep mode? Here’s what you can do to get rid of this annoyance. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Setting_Up_Angular_on_Ubuntu:_Step-by-Step Guide⠀⇛ In an increasingly digitized world, the demand for efficient, scalable, and interactive web applications is on the rise. As a result, developers across the globe are turning to powerful tools and frameworks to build these applications. # ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ Declaratively_manage_your_Qubes_OS⠀⇛ As a recent Qubes OS user, but also a NixOS user, I want to be able to reproduce my system configuration instead of fiddling with files everywhere by hand and being clueless about what I changed since the installation time. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Git_Switch:_Functionality_and_Practical Examples⠀⇛ Since its creation, Git has become an essential tool for programmers worldwide. It aids in source code management, collaborative development, and version control, among other things. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Git_Restore:_Functionality_and_Practical Examples⠀⇛ In the wide array of commands offered by Git, a popular version control system, git restore stands as a crucial command for developers worldwide. Introduced in Git 2.23 as a new experimental command, it has become widely used for discarding changes in the working directory and the staging area. # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Use_The_Raspberry_Pi_Imager⠀⇛ With the incredible versatility of the Raspberry Pi, it’s no longer surprising how popular this single-board computer is. It’s at the core of tons of cool and weird projects, like the Raspberry Pi- based Waldo finder, International Space Station tracker, and even drive-thru signages. But it’s not only the board’s versatility that makes it a go-to choice among hobbyists and professionals alike. Both beginner and advanced learners love how generally easy it is to start developing with Raspberry Pi. It features a user- friendly OS with a setup wizard. There are also tons of guidebooks and official tutorials available, on top of a starter kit that comes complete with everything you’d need to build a basic Raspberry Pi desktop. Read More: https://www.slashgear.com/1301035/how- to-use-the-raspberry-pi-imager/ o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ The_best_tiling_window_managers_for_Linux,_and_what they_can_do_for_you⠀⇛ If you ever want to up your efficiency game in Linux, a tiling window manager might be the ticket. Here’s how these mysterious desktop GUIs work. # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ Build_the_stack_on_RISC-V⠀⇛ There’s a little RISC-V board on my desk – little in size, but it has 8GB of RAM and 1TB of storage – which is going to do some KDE build work. For some background, The_Register has a bit on what the Linux Foundation is doing in this space. It’s a modern-ish Linux kernel: [...] * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version_5.3.2 released⠀⇛ Version 5.3.1 was released on May 24: https://bkhome.org/news/202305/easyos-kirkstone- series-version-531.html 5.3.2 release notes: http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/ kirkstone/2023/5.3.2/release-notes.htm …if updating from an EasyOS installation prior to 5.3, please read the 5.2.4 release notes. An extra note about the prior-5.3 update process: After downloading the 5.3.2 difference-file, and subsequently reboot, there may be a dropout to the console early-bootup. Just type “exit” to continue the bootup. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ EndeavourOS_Released_a_Refreshed_Cassini_Nova_R2 ISO⠀⇛ EndeavourOS Cassini Nova R2 brings Calamares bugfixes, Linux kernel 6.3, and an updated package base. The Galileo release is on the horizon. # ⚓ Cassini_Nova_R2_refresh_ISO_and_a_small_insight_on_our development⠀⇛ It’s been a while since we have been in touch with you, so I thought it was time to give you a small update on what is happening behind the scenes. # ⚓ OSMC’s_June_update_is_here_with_Kodi_v20⠀⇛ We’ve been very busy behind the scenes and we’re now happy to announce the availability Kodi_v20 for all OSMC supported devices. All devices supported by OSMC on Kodi v19 remain supported for Kodi v20. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Business Wire ☛ TuxCare’s_KernelCare_Enterprise_Now Supports_Red_Hat_EUS_Kernels⠀⇛ Extending the unmatched coverage of TuxCare’s live patching solution, this new development enables organizations to further enhance security and minimize vulnerability exposure across their Linux systems. KernelCare Enterprise delivers automated live patching for all popular enterprise Linux distributions, uniquely eliminating the need for reboots, downtime, or scheduled maintenance windows. # ⚓ Red_Hat_Insights_Expands_Beyond_Analytics_to_Provide Simplified_Linux_Management⠀⇛ Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, is introducing an expanded set of management capabilities to Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, designed to help reduce enterprise Linux complexity across the hybrid cloud without slowing innovation. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_create_an_EC2_instance_in_AWS_using Ansible_workflow [Ed: Red Hat on outsourcing_to_Amazon (proprietary)]⠀⇛ In our previous article, we demonstrated how to automate the process of creating an EC2 instance on AWS using the Red_Hat_Ansible_Automation_Platform. We demonstrated how Ansible Automation Platform can streamline the process of deploying virtual machines (VMs) in AWS, making it more efficient and less error-prone. In this final installment, we will take things a step further by exploring how to simplify the process of creating EC2 instances in AWS using workflow templates. Workflow templates can help standardize the process of creating instances and reduce the amount of manual intervention. In this article, we will dive into the details of how to use a workflow template to further optimize our infrastructure management in AWS. If you are following along with our series, you may recall that we previously discussed the importance of an execution environment and setting up credentials. These are essential steps to complete before deploying a workflow template. In case you missed the previous articles, we recommend you to check them out to ensure you are ready to move forward with the next steps. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_create_an_EC2_instance_in_AWS_using Ansible_automation⠀⇛ In our previous article, we explored how to use the Red_Hat_Ansible Automation_Platform CLI to create an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This time, we will take things a step further and leverage the power of the Ansible Automation Platform to automate the process. Ansible Automation Platform is a powerful tool that enables you to manage your infrastructure more efficiently with less manual intervention. Part 1: How_to_create_an_EC2_instance_on_AWS_using Ansible_CLI Part 2: How to create an EC2 instance in AWS using Ansible Automation Part 3: How_to_create_EC2_instance_on_AWS_using Ansible_workflow o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Debian_12_is_nearly_ready,_and reassuringly_boring_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Debian 12 “Bookworm” should arrive in a little over a week from now, with a raft of updated components – and no nasty surprises. Debian 12, code-named Bookworm after one of the more obscure Toy Story characters, is scheduled for release on June 10. The developers have put out Release Candidate 4 of the new version’s installation medium, and it seems to be working pretty well, so at this point there shouldn’t be any big changes before the ship date. Generally, around the time that a new Linux distribution ships, we try to do a preview story which highlights some of the exciting new features in the forthcoming version. Unfortunately for us, that approach doesn’t work so well for Debian, because “exciting” is not really what Debian does. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Ubuntu_Mate_is_one_of_the_most_popular_Ubuntu_spins for_a_reason⠀⇛ If you’re looking for a Linux distribution with a decidedly old-school feel, Ubuntu Mate might be the ticket. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Lifewire ☛ Android_14:_News_and_Anticipated_Price_(Free), Release_Date,_Features_and_Other_Rumors⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Leak_indicates_performance_gap_between_Pixel 8_and_Android_flagships_is_going_to_widen_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ Acura_ZDX_EV_gets_Android_Auto_and_built-in Google_apps_|_Engadget⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Auto_disconnects_for_some_following updates⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Best_MagSafe_accessories_for_Android phones_2023_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ Top_7_Ways_to_Fix_An_Android_Device_That Won’t_Connect_To_Wi-Fi⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ James G ☛ selfcare.tech_Bot_on_Mastodon⠀⇛ I subscribed to the selfcare.tech_bot_on_Mastodon a few days ago. The bot has provided messages that have been of particular meaning at a time when, on reflection, I have been a lot harder on myself than I should be. o ⚓ Medevel ☛ File_centipede:_All-in-one_Multi-Protocol_File Download/_Upload_Manager⠀⇛ File Centipede is a multifunctional internet file manager that offers a comprehensive set of features to satisfy all your file management needs. This all-in-one solution allows you to easily upload and download files, and provides support for a wide range of protocols, including BitTorrent, WebDAV, FTP, and SSH. In addition o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Ketchup:_One_of_the_First_CMS_Systems_with_Go Language⠀⇛ Ketchup is a free and open-source developer-first CMS written using the Go programming language. It uses React for the frontend. * BYO (bring your own) version-controlled templates. Develop your templates outside of Ketchup, and pull them in with built-in support for git. o ⚓ Medevel ☛ GoBlog_Is_an_Open-source_Free_Blogging_System_written with_Go⠀⇛ GoBlog is a fantastic and user-friendly blogging system that is written in the Go language. It is open source and free to use for anyone. One of the amazing features of GoBlog is that it uses a powerful SQLite database to store most of the data, such as posts, comments, o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Solid_earnings_beat_and_strong_forecast_send GitLab’s_stock_soaring [Ed: Fails to mention mass layoffs in the company this year]⠀⇛ GitLab Inc.’s stock was riding high in extended trading today after the DevOps company posted strong first- quarter results that topped expectations, offered a strong forecast for the coming quarter and raised its full-year guidance. * § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ o § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Firefox_115_Beta_Brings_Cookie_Banner Reduction,_Quick_Actions_in_Address_Bar⠀⇛ Now that Mozilla officially released the Firefox 114 web browser earlier today, which will be coming soon to the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distributions, it’s time to take a closer look at the next major release, Firefox 115, which entered public beta testing today. Firefox 115 looks to bring two new features that were supposed to land in Firefox 114, but, for some reason, they didn’t make it. I’m talking about Cookie Banner Reduction, a feature implemented in the Privacy & Security panel that, when enabled, tries to reject cookie requests on cookie banners on supported websites automatically. # ⚓ Henrik_Skupin:_My_20th_Bugzilla_account_anniversary⠀⇛ It’s somewhat scary how fast the time flies by. I can remember that I wrote a post for my_15th Bugzilla_anniversary (as it feels not that long ago). But now the next mark has been reached with using Bugzilla for 20 years! A lot has happened in those last 5 years, and I’m sure that the 25th anniversary will come as well. * § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ o ⚓ LibreOffice_project_volunteers_receive_tribute_from_Mexican institute⠀⇛ By Gustavo Pacheco Early 2023 , all TDF members in the 2022 Latin America LibreOffice Conference meeting organization received at home a beautiful tribute to the success of the event: a piece in wood and mosaic glass made in Mexico especially created for this homage. * § GNU Projects⠀➾ o ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Guix:_From_development_environments_to_continuous integration—the_ultimate_guide_to_software_development_with_Guix⠀⇛ Guix is a handy tool for developers; guix_shell, in particular, gives a standalone development environment for your package, no matter what language(s) it’s written in. To benefit from it, you have to initially write a package definition and have it either in Guix proper, in a channel, or directly upstream as a guix.scm file. This last option is appealing: all developers have to do to get set up is clone the project’s repository and run guix shell, with no arguments—we looked at the rationale for guix shell in an_earlier_article. * § Programming/Development⠀➾ o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Hull:_Headless_Next.js_Starter_for_Shopify_and_Headless CMS_with_Sanity.io⠀⇛ Hull is a free open-source Next.js starter for anyone who is interested in building a content rich eCommerce shop with full SEO support. It is easy to deploy on Vercel platform, and simple to setup. Developers can also deploy it on Sanity or their own servers. o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Mastering_file_download_in_shiny⠀⇛ You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Mastering file download in shiny o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Next.js_Enterprise_Boilerplate_For_Serious_Developers⠀⇛ The Next.js Enterprise Boilerplate is an incredible open- source template designed specifically for enterprise projects. This powerful template is packed with amazing features and functionalities, carefully selected and curated to help you build high-performance, maintainable, and enjoyable applications that are both scalable and efficient. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Stan_class_at_NYR_Conference_in_July_(in_person_and virtual)⠀⇛ I (Jonah) am excited to be teaching a 2-day Stan workshop preceding the NYR Conference in July. The workshop will be July 11-12 and the conference July 13-14.   § Leftovers⠀➾ * ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Music_Monday:_Paul_McCartney,_Take_it_Away⠀⇛ It’s worth its own post, but Clara and I were chuffed at the number of incredible second-hand music stores in Japan, especially vinyl. We got immaculate Japanese Odeon pressings of Rubber Soul, and Paul McCartney’s 1982 masterpiece Tug of War, for half of what JB Hi-Fi in Australia are charging for a single re-issue! There’s something special about having an English album with Japanese inserts and sleeves. * ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Art_War!_A_Vigilante_Battles_Zabar’s_Over_a_Banksy⠀⇛ An obsessed fan, claiming the grocer wasn’t properly cleaning New York’s last public Banksy, took matters into his own hands. But could he be won over with babka? * ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Getting_frustrated_at_inanimate_IT_objects⠀⇛ I had a bit of an epiphany today. I’m not frustrated at my computers for not doing what I want, or for behaving unexpectedly, or for having increasingly-hostile interfaces and design. I’m frustrated at the people who designed them, made them, and/or signed off on them. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Airlines_are_dealing_with_a_sharp_uptick_in_unruly passengers⠀⇛ It’s going to be a busy summer season air travel. It could also be extraordinarily unruly. * ⚓ France24 ☛ In_Peru,_the_reopening_of_La_Oroya_foundry_sparks controversy⠀⇛ A city in Peru is debating the reactivation of its foundry. With a population of 33,000 and an altitude of 3,750 metres, La Oroya is South America’s former smelting capital. It was also formerly one of the most polluted cities in the world. Closed in 2009, the metallurgic complex found new owners last year, when 1,270 former workers became shareholders. The new owners intend to reactivate the site in coming months. La Oroya’s residents are now divided between dreams of renewed prosperity and fears of a return to life in a massively polluted environment. Report by Juliette Chaignon and Guillaume Gosalbes. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ ‘Latvians_There’_–_research_sheds_light_on_the_lives_of Latvians_in_Britain⠀⇛ Doctor of Communication Science, Mārtiņš Kaprāns, recently published some fascinating research into the lives of Latvians living in the United Kingdom. * § Science⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ancient_Human_Relatives_Buried_Their_Dead_in Caves,_New_Theory_Claims⠀⇛ Homo naledi, despite having tiny brains, may have lit fires and decorated walls around the graves of their dead, according to controversial new research. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Are_Looking_For_Alien_Signals_From_The Heart_of_The_Milky_Way⠀⇛ Hello? Is anyone out there? o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ NASA_Finds_Organic_Molecules_in_12_Billion- Year-Old_Galaxy,_and_a_Mystery⠀⇛ The James Webb Space Telescope spotted complex organic molecules in a galaxy that existed only 1.5 billion years after the birth of the universe. o ⚓ CER ☛ Participatory_Design_to_Support_University_to_High_School Curricular_Transition/Translation_in_FIE_2022⠀⇛ Here’s my second blog post on papers we presented during the first year of PCAS. Emma Dodoo is an Engineering Education Research PhD student working with me and co- advised with Lisa Lattuca. When she first started working with me, she wanted a project that supported STEM learning in high school. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ It’s_One_of_History’s_Most_Famous_Experiments. The_Drawings_Are_Hilarious.⠀⇛ So many things are wrong! o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Complex_Molecules_Detected_in_Ancient_Galaxy_Near The_Dawn_of_Time⠀⇛ Holy smokes! * § Education⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Oxford_Business_College_and_Others_Make_Millions Off_Immigrant_Students⠀⇛ Oxford Business College and others like it make millions, largely by recruiting immigrants. They operate in an opaque corner of the British education system. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Oklahoma_Approves_First_Religious_Charter_School in_the_U.S.⠀⇛ The school will offer online, Roman Catholic instruction funded by taxpayers. Its approval is certain to tee off a legal battle over the separation of church and state. o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Guaranteed_transfers_for_community_college? California_may_chart_a_path.⠀⇛ What’s the best way to help community college students who want a four-year degree? In California, a proposal hopes to offer transfer students access to universities that have typically been out of reach. o ⚓ Reason ☛ How_School_Choice_Can_Mitigate_Harmful_Culture_War Policies_in_Public_Education⠀⇛ Current culture wars are just one more manifestation of the reality that public education routinely devolves into indoctrination and imposition of majoritarian ideology on dissenters. But school choice can help mitigate that problem. o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Concerns_about_future_school_availability_in_eastern Latvia⠀⇛ A tenth of Latvian schools could be closed or ‘reorganized’ in Latvia in the coming years. This is provided for by the draft action plan of the Ministry of Education and Science (IZM). In Latgale, this causes concerns that only three high schools might be left in the eastern border area, Latvian Radio reported on June 5. * § Hardware⠀➾ o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ TSMC_Has_Plans_for_Price_Hikes_up_to_6%_Next Year,_Says_Report⠀⇛ TSMC has been discussing price rises with many large clients, indicating that those agreeable to the rises will be better placed to reserve production. o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Hales_on_PCIe_over_USB_(or_lack_thereof)⠀⇛ Last Friday I talked about the potential to repurpose Wi- Fi card slots on motherboards for other uses. This would be silly on a regular motherboard, but on a slot- constrained environment like Mini-ITX it offers a rare potential for internal expansion. o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $200_CHUWI_LarkBox_X_gets_Processor_N100_option⠀⇛ Initially launched with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700U mobile processor last year, the CHUWI LarkBox X mini PC is now available with an Intel Processor N100 Alder Lake-N CPU and sold on Amazon for $199. The mini PC also got its RAM bumped from 8GB DDR4 to 12GB RAM, and its storage capacity has been doubled with 512GB NVMe SSD. The rest of the specifications look to be identical with triple 4K display support, two Ethernet ports, WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 4.2, as well as four USB 3.0 ports. o ⚓ France24 ☛ France_to_invest_nearly_€3_billion_in_semiconductor factory_to_boost_local_production⠀⇛ France is ploughing 2.9 billion euros ($3.1 billion) of public money into a factory to make microchips, officials said on Monday, heating up a global race for the lucrative market. * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Paid_sick_leave_for_workers_could_prevent_40%_of restaurant_food_poisonings⠀⇛ Every year in the US, nearly 50 million people are affected by food-borne disease, according to the Centers for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention_(CDC). Those incidents lead to almost 130,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. o ⚓ PHR ☛ New_Assessment:_Survivors_of_Sexual_Violence_in_Kenya_Have Inadequate_Access_to_Mental_Health_Services⠀⇛ NAIROBI– Survivors of sexual violence in Kenya face barriers to quality mental health services in their communities, according to a new assessment co-published today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Survivors of Sexual Violence in Kenya Network (SSVKenya), which is convened by the Wangu Kanja Foundation. o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong’s_John_Lee_vows_to_bolster mental_healthcare_after_mall_murder⠀⇛ Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee has vowed to enhance mental healthcare in the city after two women were killed in a brutal stabbing at a Diamond Hill mall last Friday. A 39-year-old man with the surname Szeto was arrested soon after the incident, in which two women aged 22 and 26 died. o ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ U-M_receives_$3.1M_to_transform_post-stroke mobility_treatment⠀⇛ Supported by a $3. 1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, U-M researchers will focus on how stroke affects two fundamental properties of the ankle joint during human walking. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ For_These_Bird_Flu_Researchers,_Work_Is_a_Day_at the_Very_‘Icky’_Beach⠀⇛ The H5N1 virus poses “a great unknown threat” to birds and humans alike. Understanding and thwarting it begins with excrement collection. o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ OffG’s_Quick_Take:_Lockdown_was_NOT_a_“policy mistake”…It_was_murder.⠀⇛ Yesterday, the Telegraph reported on “new research” which claims that lockdowns saved only 1700 lives in England and Wales. A “drop in the bucket” compared to the harms done: The science of lockdowns is clear; the data are in: the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed.” o ⚓ Video ☛ Lockdowns⠀⇛ o ⚓ Video ☛ Astonishing_rise_in_atrial_fibrillation_says_BHF⠀⇛ Number of UK people with heart rhythm condition rises by 50% in a decade o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ US_judge_yanks_approval_for_Idaho_mine after_finding_that_federal_agency_violated_environmental_laws⠀⇛ A federal judge has yanked the U.S. government’s approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho. The decision comes five months after the judge ruled the U.S. Bureau of Land Management violated environmental laws when it approved the Caldwell Canyon Mine in 2019. Those include a failure to consider the indirect impact of processing ore at a nearby plant and the impact on sage grouse. The mine has been proposed by P4 Production, a subsidiary of German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG. Bayer says vacating the approval was excessive and it is considering its next steps. o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ A_hot,_tomato-and-cheese_solution_to_anguish⠀⇛ I was unaware of pizza’s therapeutic value until I had kids, our essayist writes. But now I firmly believe in the “pizza cure.” o ⚓ YLE ☛ Researcher:_Many_Finnish_men_think_meat_is_manly,_avoid vegetarian_food⠀⇛ “For some reason we’ve found ourselves in a situation where many people think masculinity requires a certain amount of steak on a plate,” the researcher noted. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Antidepressant_Psychedelics_With_No Hallucinations_May_Finally_Be_Possible⠀⇛ The potential is huge. * § Proprietary⠀➾ o ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Latest_Windows_update_causing_problems_for_many, uninstall_or_hold_off_on_installing_–_here’s_how [Ed: Tell your readers to install GNU/Linux instead; Windows is an unmitigated mess for years already]⠀⇛ Ah, the Windows update. Normally people love software updates because they bring new features with them on top of fixing bugs. However, the Windows update has never been popular, especially with techies, for various reasons. One of those reasons is that they seem to break stuff more often than not. * § Linux Foundation⠀➾ o ⚓ Fudzilla ☛ Linux_foundation_pushes_micro-grids [Ed: And composed using_proprietary_software]⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation has published its best seller The Open Source Opportunity for Microgrids: Five Ways to Drive Innovation and Overcome Market Barriers for Energy Resilience. The punchy-titled research explains how microgrids could be the next big thing. * § Security⠀➾ o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Gigabyte_Rolls_Out_BIOS_Updates_to_Remove Backdoor_From_Motherboards⠀⇛ Gigabyte has announced BIOS updates that remove a recently identified backdoor feature in hundreds of its motherboards. o ⚓ Reproducible_Builds:_Reproducible_Builds_in_May_2023⠀⇛ Welcome to the May 2023 report from the Reproducible Builds project In our reports, we outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As always, if you are interested in contributing to the project, please visit our Contribute page on our website. Holger Levsen gave a talk at the 2023 edition of the Debian_Reunion_Hamburg, a semi-informal meetup of Debian- related people in northern Germany. The slides are available online. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Zyxel_Urges_Customers_to_Patch_Firewalls_Against Exploited_Vulnerabilities⠀⇛ Zyxel urges customers to update ATP, USG Flex, VPN, and ZyWALL/USG firewalls to prevent exploitation of recent vulnerabilities. o ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Top_NAS_Devices_Are_Being_Targeted_by_This_Dangerous Malware⠀⇛ IoT cybersecurity company Sternum has identified a security vulnerability affecting Zyxel Networks’ Linux- operated NAS drives, including NAS326, NAS540, and NAS542 models, running on firmware version 5.21. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ransomware_Group_Used_MOVEit_Exploit_to_Steal Data_From_Dozens_of_Organizations⠀⇛ The recent MOVEit zero-day attack has been linked to a known ransomware group, which reportedly stole data from dozens of organizations. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ SBOMs_–_Software_Supply_Chain_Security’s_Future or_Fantasy? [Ed: Anti-FOSS lobbying by graft giants (back doors) led to this phony solution]⠀⇛ If after eighteen months, meaningful use of SBOMs is unachievable, we need to ask what needs to be done to fulfill Biden’s executive order. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ What_if_the_Current_AI_Hype_Is_a_Dead_End?⠀⇛ If we should face a Dead-End AI future, the cybersecurity industry will continue to rely heavily on traditional approaches, especially human-driven ones. It won’t quite be business as usual though. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ Dozens_of_Malicious_Extensions_Found_in_Chrome Web_Store⠀⇛ Security researchers have identified over 30 malicious extensions with millions of installs in the Chrome web store. o ⚓ Valtteri Lehtinen ☛ Ripping_Off_Professional_Criminals_by Fermenting_Onions_–_Phishing_Darknet_Users_for_Bitcoins⠀⇛ In 2018, I read about the perfect crime of stealing the money of credit card fraudsters by making fake carding sites. At the time, this felt genius to me; the attackers were apparently making a decent living while nobody was presumably coming after them. (Except maybe now someone will, as they got Krebs’d by Brian). o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ New_ways_to_reduce_the_chances_of_ransomware attacks [Ed: Don't use Windows. But this site gets money from Microsoft.]⠀⇛ Just this past week, ransom attacks have hit a major Spanish bank, a Canadian university and a legal software- as-a-service platform. So it’s good timing that two reports released in the past month from IBM Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are providing guides to how to combat the terrible tide. ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ New_tool_scans_iPhones_for_‘Triangulation’_malware infection⠀⇛ Although the malware analysis is still underway, the cybersecurity firm noted that the ‘Operation Triangulation’ malware campaign uses an unknown zero-day exploit on iMessage to perform code execution without user interaction and elevated privileges. This allows the attack to download further payloads to the device for further command execution and information collection. It should also be noted that the FSB, Russia’s intelligence and security service, linked the malware to infections of high-ranking government officials and foreign diplomats. ⚓ Fudzilla ☛ Linux-based_System76_prefers_to_shut_off_the_Intel_Management Engine⠀⇛ Open Sauce outfit worried about the closed firmware Linux computer vendor System76 has said that it prefers to disable the Intel Management Engine wherever possible to reduce the amount of closed firmware running on System76 hardware. Phoronix reports that the move will “benefit their latest Intel Core 13th Gen ‘Raptor Lake’ wares and prior generation devices.” Intel ME is disabled for their latest Raptor Lake laptops and most older platforms, with some exceptions, like having a silicon issue with Tiger Lake. ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (linux-5.10), Red Hat (cups-filters, curl, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (apache-commons-fileupload, openstack-heat, openstack-swift, python-Werkzeug, and openstack-heat, python- Werkzeug), and Ubuntu (frr, go, libraw, libssh, nghttp2, python2.7, python3.10, python3.11, python3.5, python3.6, python3.8, and xfce4- settings). ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Malicious_Chrome_extensions_with_75M_installs_removed from_Web_Store⠀⇛ Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store 32 malicious extensions that could alter search results and push spam or unwanted ads. Collectively, they come with a download count of 75 million. The extensions featured legitimate functionality to keep users unaware of the malicious behavior that came in obfuscated code to deliver the payloads. ⚓ The Register UK ☛ British_Airways,_Boots,_BBC_payroll_data_stolen_in_MOVEit supply-chain_attack [Ed: Microsoft is to blame, but of course Microsoft blames Russia (or China) to change public opinion. Microsoft executives need to be arrested for the security failings (deliberate), not approached for advice on security and even paid for their time.]⠀⇛ British Airways, the BBC, and UK pharmacy chain Boots are among the companies whose data has been compromised after miscreants exploited a critical vulnerability in deployments of the MOVEit document- transfer app. ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Pacific_Union_College_was_attacked_on_March_27._When_will they_publicly_admit_personal_info_was_compromised?⠀⇛ That Pacific Union College (PUC) experienced a cyberattack is not a secret. The college even posted a notice on their website on April 7 stating that they were experiencing “Additional complications relating to the ongoing cybersecurity issue, which has recently affected some of our internal networks, phone systems, and web services. The remainder of the notice provided the status of various types of systems and services and assured the community of updates “as new information becomes available.” ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Coincidence_or_is_something_up_in_the_courts?⠀⇛ On June 5, 2023, in the U.S. case against Diogo Santos Coelho (“Omnipotent” of RAIDForums), Lauren Pomerantz Halper was added as an attorney for the U.S. On June 5, 2023, in the U.S. case against Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (“Pompompurin” of BreachForums), Lauren Pomerantz Halper was added as an attorney for the U.S. That the same prosecuting attorney would be involved in both cases is no surprise given how the forums were run and the alleged interactions between Coelho and Fitzpatrick. But why was Halper’s appearance announced yesterday in both cases? Is something up or about to be announced? * § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ o ⚓ Latvia ☛ airBaltic_flight_Rīga-Split_turns_around_due_to technical_issues⠀⇛ On Monday, June 5, morning, shortly after taking off from the Rīga International Airport, an airBaltic flight on its way to Split in Croatia, returned to Rīga after identifying a technical defect, Latvian Television reported. o ⚓ SANS ☛ Brute_Forcing_Simple_Archive_Passwords,_(Mon,_Jun_5th)⠀⇛ [Guest dairy submitted by Gebhard] * § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Elon_Musk_says_China_detailed_plans_to regulate_AI⠀⇛ They are his first comments on his two-day visit, which saw him meet senior officials in Beijing. o ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Mirror:_No_evidence_Harry_was_hacked,_Prince Diana_claim_‘total_speculation’⠀⇛ Prince Harry’s individual case against Mirror Group Newspapers opened on Monday. o ⚓ La Quadature Du Net ☛ Criminalization_of_encryption :_the_8 december_case⠀⇛ This article was written on the basis of information relating to the so-called “8 December” case. § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ * ⚓ RFA ☛ Suicide_spike_in_North_Korea_prompts_Kim_Jong_Un_to_issue prevention_order⠀⇛ Disclosure of suicide notes criticizing country shocks officials, source tells RFA * ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Thirst_Trap_Nation:_How_E-girls_Are_Luring_Young_Boys Into_Joining_Army,_with_Alan_MacLeod⠀⇛ MintCast co-host Alan MacLeod reveals how the military exploits teens’ horniness, exposing the military’s influence in video games, movies, and partnerships with influencers. Unveiling a hidden agenda in this eye-opening discussion. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Armed_Attacks_on_Nigerian_Villages,_30_Killed⠀⇛ “…the vigilante group visited the Azam village to caution the residents…” * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Somali,_AU_Forces_Step_Up_Joint_Operations_Against_Al- Shabab⠀⇛ The government forces have intensified their attacks against al-Shabab since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud declared an all-out war against the militants in August 2022. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar’s_junta_has_sentenced_156_civilians_to_death_since_coup⠀⇛ Military seeks to instill fear in those who oppose its rule. * ⚓ The Strategist ☛ AUKUS:_three_partners,_two_pillars,_one_problem⠀⇛ Much of the AUKUS discussion to date has focused on Pillar 1, the trilateral effort to support Australia acquiring conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Biden_Administration’s_Latest_Tone-Deaf_Foreign_Policy Positions⠀⇛ U.S. leaders rarely have been noted for being able to gauge changing sentiment in the international arena and adjusting their foreign policy accordingly. The Biden administration, however, may be setting new records for the tone-deaf quality of its policies. Three incidents in the past few weeks illustrate the problem. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Grieving_mother_who_lost_son_kills_herself_after_cyberbullying, official_warnings⠀⇛ Woman’s son was hit by teacher’s car – and then blasted online * ⚓ RFA ☛ Young_overseas_Chinese_mark_1989_Tiananmen_Square_massacre⠀⇛ “Don’t let the truth be hidden in the dust.” * ⚓ RFA ☛ Senior_US_officials_visit_Beijing_in_search_of_thaw⠀⇛ The trip comes amid an uptick in near-collisions between the two militaries. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Bandits_kill_30_villagers_in_northern_Nigeria_in_protection- money_reprisal_attack⠀⇛ Armed men killed 30 people in weekend raids on six villages in Nigeria’s north, a region regularly hit by criminal violence and clashes between communities, local  police have said. * ⚓ Defence Web ☛ SA_DoD_delegation_on_US_mission⠀⇛ The third South African government group to visit the United States (US) in a short space of time touches down on Wednesday (7 June), but not much should be expected from it, a defence expert cautions. Unlike those before it, this group is not on a lobbying mission. * § War in Ukraine⠀➾ o ⚓ LRT ☛ Purpose_of_NATO_summit_is_to_address_problems,_not_to promote_Lithuania_–_president⠀⇛ The essential purpose of the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius is to address geopolitical problems, not to increase Lithuania’s visibility, President Gitanas Nauseda has said. § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ * ⚓ American Oversight ☛ Wisconsin_Court_Grants_Temporary_Injunction, Confirms_Office_of_Special_Counsel_Is_Obligated_to_Retain_Public Records⠀⇛ § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ France24 ☛ German_police_raids_on_Last_Generation_climate_activists spike_recruitment⠀⇛ Pressure is mounting in Germany on the Last Generation climate collective, whose members specialise in gluing themselves to tarmac. Following a series of police raids last month, activists say they are being unjustly criminalised but that the police action has led to a recruitment spike. As the international community marks World Environment Day, FRANCE 24 reports on a group sparking controversy in Germany. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Brazil’s_Lula_lays_out_plan_to_halt_Amazon deforestation,_make_country_“global_reference”_on_climate⠀⇛ Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has unveiled a plan to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon, a critical step in addressing the country’s significant carbon emissions from the region. This strategy, set to be implemented over four years, provides a roadmap to achieve the ambitious goal of halting illegal deforestation by 2030. Lula also announced his government will return Brazil’s international carbon reduction commitment to that set in 2015 during the Paris Agreement. At the time, Brazil committed to reducing carbon emissions by 37% by 2025. Lula’s predecessor, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, had scaled back Brazil’s commitments. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Brazil’s_Lula_unveils_plan_to_eliminate_deforestation_in Amazon_by_2030⠀⇛ Brazil’s government on Monday unveiled how it plans to meet a pledge to eliminate deforestation in the Amazon by 2030, using strengthened law enforcement against environmental crimes and other measures in the world’s largest tropical rainforest. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ UN_World_Environment_Day:_Hong_Kong_must_step_up climate_leadership_to_meet_carbon_goals,_says_NGO⠀⇛ The government must step up climate leadership to achieve its carbon neutrality goal, an environmental NGO has said, amid a heatwave in the city that has seen the death of a 66-year-old construction worker. “Extreme weather is becoming an unwanted new normal under climate change,” Friends of the Earth said in a statement last Thursday… * ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico_City_joins_global_plastic_waste_reduction commitment⠀⇛ The UN-backed scheme aims to reduce the amount of plastics in the capital, as well as increase demand for recycled plastic. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 19_people_killed_in_landslide_in_China’s_Sichuan province⠀⇛ All 19 people caught in a landslide in southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Sunday have been confirmed dead, state media reported, announcing the end of rescue efforts. Part of a mountain collapsed at around 6 am (2200 GMT Saturday) near a state-owned forestry station in Jinkouhe, near the city of Leshan, state broadcaster CCTV said. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ At_Least_42_Are_Dead_and_Thousands_Are_Displaced_After Flooding_in_Haiti⠀⇛ Officials said that western portions of the country appeared to be the most affected by the flooding caused by heavy rain over the weekend. * ⚓ France24 ☛ At_least_42_dead_and_thousands_displaced_after_flooding_in Haiti⠀⇛ At least 42 people were dead and 11 missing in Haiti after heavy rains at the weekend triggered flooding and landslides, civil protection officials said Monday. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Ten_statistics_on_global_plastic_addiction_and_its consequences⠀⇛ The UN’s annual World Environment Day on Monday comes days after negotiations on an international treaty against plastic pollution concluded Friday in Paris with 170 nations agreeing to produce a first draft of an accord by November. FRANCE 24 takes a look at the scale of the problem and its implications through 10 crucial statistics. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Atlantic_hurricane_season_2023_is_underway._Here’s_what_to expect.⠀⇛ The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season began June 1. Forecasters and experts are predicting 12 to 17 named storms could form, with five to nine developing into hurricanes. Here’s what residents along the U.S. southeastern coastline should know. * § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ o ⚓ H2 View ☛ Hydrogen_produced_from_seawater_at_Chinese_offshore project⠀⇛ Hydrogen has successfully been produced via the electrolysis of seawater on a floating offshore platform in east China’s Fuijan Province, according to multiple sources. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ India’s_Trains_Resume_Service_Near_Deadly_Crash in_Balasore⠀⇛ The restoration of service could help more families reach the area to identify the dead. Officials said about 100 victims were still unclaimed. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Probe_into_deadly_Indian_rail_disaster_opens,_trains resume_service⠀⇛ India’s official investigation into its deadliest rail crash in over two decades began on Monday, after preliminary findings pointed to signal failure as the likely cause for a collision that killed at least 275 people and injured 1,200. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ SEC_Accuses_Binance_of_Mishandling_Funds_and Lying_to_Regulators⠀⇛ The S.E.C. said the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed billions of dollars in customer funds and secretly sent them to a separate company controlled by Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao. o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ SEC_sues_Binance_and_founder_Changpeng_Zhao_over securities_law_violations⠀⇛ The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Binance Holdings Ltd. and founding Chief Executive,Changpeng Zhao with violating securities laws.  The SEC has also named a Binance affiliate, BAM Trading Services Inc., in the lawsuit. It helped the company operate the U.S. version of its cryptocurrency exchange. ⚓ Quartz ☛ Why_the_SEC_is_suing_Binance⠀⇛ The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, alleging that the company sold unregistered securities in the US. ⚓ Quartz ☛ Venture_capital_funding_for_crypto_firms_has_plummeted_in_2023⠀⇛ Fundraising in the cryptocurrency world has slowed to a crawl in the first half of this year. Just eightventure capital funds focused on crypto had raised a combined $500 million globally as of May 16, according to a_report_from_Fortune citing PitchBook data. ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Virginia_plane_crash_investigators_ask_when_pilot became_unresponsive_and_why_aircraft_flew_its_path⠀⇛ The pilot of the business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, the fighter jet pilots reported, according to three US officials briefed on the matter. The officials were not authorized to discuss details of the military operation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Authorities say four people were killed in the crash in a remote part of Virginia Sunday. The identities of the four people weren’t immediately released. Federal investigators say it will take a few days to solve the mystery of why the plane veered off course and slammed into a mountain. ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Unresponsive_pilot_seen_slumped_over_before_deadly Virginia_plane_crash,_officials_say⠀⇛ The pilot of the business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, the fighter jet pilots reported, according to three US officials briefed on the matter. The officials were not authorized to discuss details of the military operation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Authorities say four people were killed in the crash in a remote part of Virginia Sunday. The identities of the four people weren’t immediately released. Federal investigators say it will take a few days to solve the mystery of why the plane veered off course and slammed into a mountain. ⚓ France24 ☛ US_fighter_jets_chase_plane_over_Washington_airspace_before_it crashes_in_Virginia⠀⇛ The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace around Washington D.C. and later crashed into the mountains of Virginia, officials said. ⚓ teleSUR ☛ India’s_Railway_Services_Reinstated_After_Collision_in_Odisha⠀⇛ “…Ashwini Vaishnaw, has been camping at the location of the railway accident…” ⚓ H2 View ☛ Decommissioned_Tasmanian_power_station_set_to_become_green_methanol production_site⠀⇛ Bell Bay Powerfuels has signed a term sheet with Hydro Tasmania for the sale of a decommissioned power station that is set to serve as the site for a A$1.2bn ($790m) green hydrogen and green… ⚓ The_Bitcoin_Dollar_&_Crypto-Colonialism_with_Mark_Goodwin⠀⇛ § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ American_Kestrels_Are_in_a_Puzzling_Decline⠀⇛ The number of American kestrels has dropped sharply. That goes against the trend for birds of prey, broadly seen as a conservation bright spot. * ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Portrait_of_a_movement:_mural_tells_of_struggle_to save_native_corn⠀⇛ Mexico’s legal and political fight to save more than 1,000 varieties of native corn from commercial farming has been a passionate one. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Canada_Experiences_Unprecedented_Wildfire_Season⠀⇛ According to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada is expected to have enough resources to cover the summer months. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Fishing_Accident_in_Canada,_4_Children_and_1_Man_Drowned⠀⇛ “…divers and Canadian Armed Forces personnel are providing…” * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Air_quality_alert_extended_into_Tuesday_for Twin_Cities,_other_areas_of_the_state⠀⇛ The alert is in response to smoke particles coming from wildfires in Quebec, Canada, on Friday and Saturday. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Search_of_Iceberg_Alley’s_Spectacular_Show⠀⇛ Each spring, opalescent icebergs from the Greenland ice sheet pass through Iceberg Alley, off the eastern edge of Canada, on a slow-motion journey southward. * ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Inside_the_secret_lives_of_Hoover_Tower’s_peregrine falcons⠀⇛ Peregrine falcons have been spotted at Stanford since 2011, but biologists have yet to observe a successful nesting season. Although incredibly urban-tolerant birds, the falcons still face the challenges of human disturbances. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ One_year_after_their_killing,_loved_ones_pay tribute_to_duo_slain_in_Amazon_rainforest⠀⇛ A year after the killing of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest, loved ones are gathering in several Brazilian cities to honor their memory. Dozens of people showed up on Monday at demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, capital Brasilia and Bahia state’s Salvador. Gatherings also took place in London, U.K. and in the small Amazonian town of Atalaia do Norte, where both men were killed. Phillips had been conducting research for his book that was years in the making. Ahead of the first anniversary of Phillips’ disappearance, his family and friends have launched a fundraiser to complete his work. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ France24 ☛ Official_Turkish_figures_show_inflation_dips_under_40%_for first_time_in_16_months⠀⇛ Turkey’s annual inflation rate dropped below 40 percent in May for the first time in 16 months, pushed down by a temporary offer of free gas to households, official data showed on Monday. * ⚓ LRT ☛ Despite_millions_in_debt,_US_fugitive_Khawaja_lives_in_luxury Vilnius_hotel⠀⇛ Ahmad Khawaja, a former billionaire wanted by the United States, was detained in Lithuania in 2020. Released on a record-high bail, he is now living in a luxury hotel in Vilnius. * ⚓ LRT ☛ As_Lithuania’s_furniture_sector_falls,_workers_plead_for_help⠀⇛ The furniture production sector in Lithuania is shrinking, with companies putting staff on furlough. Raimundas Beinortas, director of the Association Lithuanian Forest, says the tools to help the sector are at the government’s disposal. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ California_insurance_market_rattled_by withdrawal_of_major_companies⠀⇛ Two insurance industry giants have stepped back from the California marketplace. They say that wildfire risk and soaring construction costs have prompted them to stop writing new policies. State Farm announced last week it would stop accepting applications for all business and personal lines of property and casualty insurance. Allstate announced in November it would pause new homeowners, condo and commercial insurance policies in the state. California’s unsettled market aligns with trends across the country. Insurance companies are boosting rates, limiting coverage or pulling out completely from regions susceptible to wildfires and other natural disasters. * ⚓ France24 ☛ French_protestors_left_in_last-ditch_bid_to_stop_pension overhaul⠀⇛ France’s left-wing forces and labour unions will stage another day of strikes on Tuesday to try to derail President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions overhaul, insisting that the fight to thwart the changes is not over even after it became law. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Boosting_jobs:_From_coding_camps_to_streamlining_for startups⠀⇛ Progress roundup: From Argentina to Benin, governments and industry boost employment with free education and by smoothing the path to entrepreneurship. And, we highlight a discovery for the future of electricity * ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Uber_Is_Running_Bizarre_Ads_Either_For_Or_Against Congestion_Pricing⠀⇛ The ads sound hostile to congestion pricing but Uber claims to support it. * ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Get_Rid_of_the_Debt_Ceiling_Once_and_for_All [Ed: That's like telling someone to borrow as much money as possible without ever checking the ability to pay back]⠀⇛ Regularly putting the entire economy at risk is in no way “fiscally responsible.” * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistan’s_Prime_Minister_‘Hopeful’_For_Deal_With_IMF_This Month⠀⇛ Pakistan’s prime minister said he is “very hopeful” of finalizing a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in June. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ USPS_rural_carriers_frustrated_with_new_pay system_leading_to_pay_cuts_on_most_routes⠀⇛ The Postal Service is telling lawmakers that rural carriers have the resources they need to ensure fair compensation under a new pay system that’s been in the works for more than a decade. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Industrial_production_down_7%_in_Latvia⠀⇛ Data published on June 5 by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia show that, compared to April 2022, in April 2023 industrial production output reduced by 7.0 % (according to calendar adjusted data at constant prices). * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ MN_Attorney_General_sues_St._Paul’s_largest downtown_property_owner_for_worker_overtime_pay⠀⇛ Six whistleblowers came forward alleging they worked as many as 142 hours in two weeks without time-and-a-half pay. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ Profile:_Hakan_Fidan,_Turkey’s_long-serving_intelligence_chief,_becomes foreign_minister⠀⇛ Given his extensive experience in intelligence and relations with foreign countries, Fidan’s appointment indicates a continuation of Turkey’s assertive foreign policy. * ⚓ NYPost ☛ Democrats:_I_am_not_your_human_shield,_and_it’s_not_anti-Asian to_criticize_Beijing’s_dangerous_regime⠀⇛ More and more people are realizing the People’s Republic of China is not America’s friend. * ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Biden’s_battle_for_technology_standards⠀⇛ Last month, the White House quietly released the United States government national standards strategy for critical and emerging technology, a new whole-of-US-government approach to addressing China’s expanding influence in international technology standards-setting bodies. * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Investors_have_been_“de-risking”_from_China_for years⠀⇛ The bottomline from Washington is clear: putting money in China is going to become riskier, and de-risking is only going to become more commonplace. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Jacinda_Ardern_Is_Now_a_Dame,_Recognized_for_Service to_New_Zealand⠀⇛ Ms. Ardern, who stepped down as prime minister in January, said she had considered declining the title, but accepted it as a way to show gratitude. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Republicans,_Escalating_Attacks_on_F.B.I.,_Vow_to_Hold Director_in_Contempt⠀⇛ F.B.I. officials briefed lawmakers on an unsubstantiated bribery allegation against Joe Biden when he was vice president, but did not let them leave a secure area with a document detailing it. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump_Lawyers_Visit_Justice_Dept._as_Classified Documents_Inquiry_Nears_End⠀⇛ Three lawyers representing the former president spent nearly two hours there after requesting a meeting to discuss their concerns about the department’s handling of the investigation. * ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_Dishonest_and_Incompetent_FBI_Work_John_Durham Learned_to_Love⠀⇛ The evidence submitted in the Michael Sussmann trial showed that those in the Cyber Division who first assessed the anomalies made clear errors and unconvincing claims about their awareness of the DNC’s involvement. And yet, John Durham covered that up. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Robert_Hanssen,_F.B.I._Agent_Exposed_as_Spy_for Moscow,_Dies_at_79⠀⇛ Mr. Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison in 2002, bringing to a close one of the most lurid and damaging espionage cases in American history. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump_Asks_Judge_to_Stop_E._Jean_Carroll’s_Defamation Case⠀⇛ Former President Donald J. Trump told a judge that he could not have defamed E. Jean Carroll by denying her rape accusation because a jury had found him liable only for sexually abusing her. * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Alden_discusses_US-EU_relations_to_commemorate Europe_Day⠀⇛ On May 9, Scowcroft Strategy Initiative nonresident senior fellow Alexander Alden was hosted by the Rome-based Center for American Studies to discuss United States-European Union relations on the occasion of “Europe Day”. * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Enhancing_market_size,_scalability,_and_regional integration_in_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean⠀⇛ To sustain the ongoing recovery against short-term headwinds and boost inclusive, productive, and sustainable development in the long term, governments cannot, and should not, act alone. The private sector can strengthen the hard and soft infrastructure supporting Latin America and the Caribbean’s economies, while drawing them closer together through trade, regulatory, and other integration. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ France_far-right_party_linked_to_Kremlin_by_new_parliamentary report⠀⇛ A French Parliamentary report leaked to the French press Thursday claimed Marine Le Pen’s far-right party “Rassemblement Nationale” knowingly spread Kremlin talking points. Le Pen called the report “sectarian, dishonest and politicized,” despite the fact that it was Le Pen herself who demanded an investigation into foreign interference in French politics. * ⚓ France24 ☛ French_court_sentences_two_men_who_attacked_Brigitte Macron’s_relative_to_jail⠀⇛ A French court on Monday sentenced two men to jail after convicting them on charges of beating up the great-nephew of French first lady Brigitte Macron last month outside her family’s chocolate shop. * § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Robert_Kennedy_Jr.,_With_Musk,_Pushes_Right-Wing Ideas_and_Misinformation⠀⇛ Mr. Kennedy, a long-shot Democratic presidential candidate with surprisingly high polling numbers, said he wanted to close the Mexican border and attributed the rise of mass shootings to pharmaceutical drugs. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Doctored_photos_show_Indian_wrestlers_smiling_during their_arrest⠀⇛ Two Indian sisters who are professional wrestlers were arrested on May 28 during a protest against the wrestling federation chief, who is accused of sexual harassment. The wrestling chief, however, is also a prominent member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, India’s ruling party. In the wake of the arrest, BJP supporters criticized the women for staging their arrest, circulating, as proof, a photo of the two women smiling in a police van. However, it turns out that this photo was digitally altered using a mobile application. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ RFA ☛ In_China,_AI_cameras_alert_police_when_a_banner_is_unfurled⠀⇛ The surveillance technology is just one example of the proliferation of ‘predictive policing’ in the country. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_police_arrest_activists_marking_1989_Tiananmen_massacre anniversary⠀⇛ A British flag-waving protester and an opposition party leader are arrested and a journalist is held * ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Reddit_in_Mass_Revolt_Over_Astronomical_API_Fees That_Would_Kill_Third_Party_Apps⠀⇛ Hundreds of moderators are shutting down their massive subreddits in protest of new fees that threaten apps like Apollo, Narwhal, and BaconReader. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Huge_police_deployment_thwarts_Tiananmen crackdown_commemorations_as_Hongkongers_detained_over_candles,_clothes, slogans⠀⇛ Hong Kong police have deployed en masse at key sites on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, apprehending several people in Causeway Bay, including Tsui Hong-kwong, who was among the organisers of the Tiananmen vigils, unionist Leo Tang and chairperson of pro-democracy group the League of Social Democrats (LSD), Chan Po-ying. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 1_arrested,_23_taken_away_for_investigation_by Hong_Kong_police_over_Tiananmen_crackdown_commemorations⠀⇛ A 53-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly obstructing police officers after she refused to show her identity card outside Victoria Park, the site where annual candlelight vigils for victims of the Tiananmen crackdown were once held, on the 34th anniversary of the crackdown. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Overseas_Hongkongers,_mainland_Chinese_hold Tiananmen_crackdown_vigils_as_city’s_tribute_suppressed⠀⇛ Vigils to remember those who died during the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown have been held in cities across the world, as the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese diaspora marked the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_police_urged_to_give_explanation_after journalist_taken_away_on_Tiananmen_crackdown_anniversary⠀⇛ A Hong Kong press group has urged the city’s police to provide an explanation after its former chairperson was led away by officers while she was reporting on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Chris_Licht_of_CNN_Faces_a_Crisis._Here’s_Why.⠀⇛ Mr. Licht, the network’s chief executive, said on an internal call on Monday that he would “fight like hell” to win back the trust of the network. * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Pakistan’s_embattled_Imran_Khan_faces_blackout_on local_media⠀⇛ Khan has long been the most televised politician in Pakistan. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Watchdog_requests_Latvian_public_media_financing_at_0.16%_of GDP⠀⇛ In order to ensure independent, adequate and predictable funding for public service media – Latvian Television (LTV) and Latvian Radio (LSM is also part of the public media framework) – at the European average level, the Public Electronic Mass Media Council (SEPLP) urges the Saeima to raise public media funding to 0.16% of the gross domestic product (GDP). § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ I’m_in_High_School._I_Hope_Affirmative_Action_Is Rejected_and_Replaced_With_Something_Stronger.⠀⇛ Asian students lose out with this college admissions system, but so do low-income ones. * ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ No_One_Knows_What_‘Race_Neutral’_Admissions_Looks_Like⠀⇛ How should colleges and universities replace affirmative action if the Supreme Court does indeed strike it down? * ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Snoop_Dogg_&_Dr._Dre_Postpone_Hollywood_Bowl_Shows in_Solidarity_with_WGA_Writers_Strike⠀⇛ Snoop Dogg announces postponing his 30th anniversary ‘Doggystyle’ shows with Dr. Dre at the Hollywood Bowl shows in solidarity with the WGA writers’ strike. Snoop Dogg postponed plans to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his legendary album Doggystyle with two concerts at the Hollywood Bowl now rescheduled in solidarity with the WGA strike. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_Gannett_Journalists_Go_on_Strike⠀⇛ Currently, many U.S. journalists earn so little that they need public assistance and private charity to make ends meet. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarusian_Poet_Sarokin_Dies_In_Police_Custody⠀⇛ Belarusian poet Dzmitry Sarokin, 37, has died in police custody in the country’s western city of Lida. * ⚓ SDG16:_Part_1_—_Building_the_Global_Police_State⠀⇛ The United Nations claims that the purpose of Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG16) is to promote peaceful and inclusive societies and to provide access to justice for all. Hiding behind the rhetoric is the real objective: to strengthen and consolidate the power and authority of the “global governance regime” and to exploit threats—both real and imagined—in order to advance regime hegemony. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ ‘Stop_Cop_City’_activists_pack_Atlanta_City_Hall ahead_of_crucial_vote⠀⇛ Hundreds of activists are at Atlanta’s City Hall ahead of a council vote over whether to approve tens of millions in public funding for a police and firefighter training center. Monday’s meeting is a culmination of nearly two years of activism against the project that activists decry as “Cop City.” The training center was approved by the City Council in September 2021 but requires an additional vote for more funding. More than 350 people signed up to speak by early Monday afternoon, with hundreds more unable to sign up in time, including a large crowd prevented from entering City Hall due to capacity concerns. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Turkish_Forces_Arrive_In_Kosovo_To_Bolster_NATO-Led Peacekeepers_After_Recent_Violence⠀⇛ The Turkish commando battalion requested by NATO arrived on June 5 in Kosovo to assist in quelling recent violent unrest in the Balkan country. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ New_UK_Police_code_of_conduct_recommends_recording_non-crime hate_incidents_‘only_when_necessary’⠀⇛ A new Code of Practice for UK Police came into effect Saturday that will ensure officers document hate incidents that do not constitute crimes only when absolutely necessary. The new law introduces a threshold whereby, once reached, police must record the personal information of someone for a non-crime hate incident. * ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ The_importance_of_youth_activism_and_art_depicted_in ‘GROWTHesque’⠀⇛ Leeth Singhage ’26, who has been awarded “Best Emerging Actor” by the United Solo Theater Festival, performs his solo play, the coming-of-age story of a Sri Lankan youth amid political instability. The play makes one question the meaning of community-specific art outside its original context, writes Kongtaveelert. * ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ From_the_Community_|_After_death_threats_against_its Vietnamese_community,_Stanford_stayed_silent.⠀⇛ “Repeated online threats culminated in the physical presence of a suspect on campus,” write Britney Tran, Dwight Hua and Kyle Nguyen. “However, despite the severity of the event, Stanford has yet to issue a University-wide announcement about what occurred or denounce this act of racial hate and intolerance.” * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Commission:_Florida_judge_should_be_reprimanded for_conduct_during_Parkland_school_shooting_trial⠀⇛ A Florida commission says the judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution. The Judicial Qualifications Commission said Monday that Circuity Judge Elizabeth Scherer sometimes allowed her emotions to overcome her judgement and violated several rules governing judicial conduct in her actions toward Nikolas Cruz’s attorneys. Those included unfairly chastising them after they rested their case. It will now be up to the Florida Supreme Court to decide her punishment. She is retiring June 30. Cruz received a life sentence at the conclusion of the six-month penalty trial for murdering 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_California_Accuses_Florida_of_Shipping_Migrants, More_Arrive_in_Sacramento⠀⇛ As California officials accused Florida of shipping migrants to its capital city last week, about 20 more people, mostly from Venezuela, arrived on Monday on the same chartered plane. * ⚓ NYPost ☛ Second_plane_carrying_migrants_arrives_in_California,_state officials_blame_Florida⠀⇛ A plane transporting more than a dozen migrants landed in Sacramento, Calif., on Monday, according to state officials, who say it appears the flight was organized by Florida.  Monday’s flight, which arrived in California’s capital city with 20 migrants from Texas, is the second instance of a private plane transporting migrants to the Golden State… * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ California_officials:_Florida_picked_up_asylum- seekers_on_Texas_border_and_flew_them_to_Sacramento⠀⇛ California officials say the state of Florida has twice picked up asylum-seekers on the Texas border and flown them by private jet to California’s capital. The latest flight arrived Monday with about 20 migrants. It follows the earlier arrival Friday of 16 others from Colombia and Venezuela. They are the latest apparent instances of a Republican-led state transporting migrants to one controlled by Democrats. DeSantis and other Florida officials have not confirmed their involvement in the transport. California officials are investigating the migrants’ arrival while local officials and faith-based groups seek to provide them food and shelter. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Moms_behind_bars:_Are_separated_families_punished,_too?⠀⇛ The number of mothers incarcerated dropped during the pandemic, but as prison regulations return, families are once again being separated. Some programs such as the Reunification Ride hope to strengthen family connections by supporting monthly visits. * ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Poland_Is_Not_Ready_to_Accept_a_New_McCarthyism⠀⇛ On Sunday, half a million Poles marched to defend the country’s democracy against a ruling party that has just granted itself ominous new powers. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Is_Poland’s_democracy_eroding?_Big_crowds_protest government.⠀⇛ A march on Sunday drew hundreds of thousands of Poles to the nation’s capital to protest a conservative government that critics say has eroded democratic norms. The march was held on the 34th anniversary of the country’s first democratic elections in 1989. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Racist_abuse_in_international_soccer:_Time_for_real change?⠀⇛ Racist insults toward Real Madrid soccer player Vinícius Júnior expose a persistent worldwide problem in the sport, but federations are slow to sanction teams for racism. Education and stricter penalties are needed to tackle this issue, experts say. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ The_liberation_of_Iran’s_women_athletes⠀⇛ In contrast to women leading mass protests for rights, female sports teams provide a model for freedom and equality. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Protesters_in_eastern_Germany_clash_with_police_over_activist convictions⠀⇛ Police in Leipzig, Germany on Saturday broke up a protest orchestrated by left-wing groups involving over 700 people over the sentencing given to one of four far-left activists who attacked Neo-Nazis over a period of two years. More demonstrations are expected despite local court bans on protests. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ German_Far-Right_Leader_Indicted_for_Use_of_Nazi_Vocabulary⠀⇛ Previously, Bjorn Hocke has also called for the removal of articles criminalizing incitement to racial hatred and Holocaust denial from the German penal code. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Missouri_Governor_Says_Execution_Will_Proceed_After Jurors_Waver_on_Death_Sentence⠀⇛ Michael Tisius, convicted in the murders of two jail guards, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Compassion_Guy’_Popular_in_Davis,_California_Before Fatal_Stabbing⠀⇛ After graduating from Stanford, David Breaux struggled to find his path — until he found his calling as “the Compassion Guy.” * ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_shutters_700_mobile_bank_accounts_suspected_of_funding anti-junta_forces⠀⇛ While some may have funded the resistance, many belong to civilian business owners. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Wife_of_Vietnamese_music_teacher_on_trial_calls_for_his_release⠀⇛ She says her home is under surveillance and questioned whether she would be able to attend. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ten_Arrested_In_North_Macedonia_In_People-Smuggling_Raids⠀⇛ Authorities in North Macedonia on June 5 said 10 men were arrested as suspected members of an international people smuggling ring following an investigation that lasted nearly two years. § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ * ⚓ Quartz ☛ An_Indian_state_is_offering_free_hi-speed_internet_to_2 million_of_its_poor⠀⇛ Fourteen thousand poor households and 30,000 government offices of the southern Indian state of Kerala today (June 5) were provided with high-speed internet. But the aim is higher. § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ * ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Spotify_Announces_200_Podcasting_Layoffs,_Combines Parcast_and_Gimlet,_and_Revives_Spotify_Studios_Amid_Push_for_‘A Valuable,_High-Margin_Business’⠀⇛ Amid an aggressive push for podcasting profitability, Spotify has announced yet another round of layoffs – affecting about 200 individuals working in and around its “global podcast vertical.” The Stockholm-headquartered platform unveiled the personnel reduction today, towards the end of a lengthy “adaptation of an internal update” penned by podcast exec Sahar Elhabashi. * ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Spotify_lays_off_200_employees_amid_shift_in_podcast strategy⠀⇛ Spotify Technology S.A. is letting go 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce, as part of an effort to revamp its podcast business. The company announced the layoffs today. The move comes a few months after Spotify detailed plans to cut about 600 roles in a bid to reduce operating costs. ⚓ Quartz ☛ Spotify’s_latest_layoffs_target_its_podcast_business [Ed: Spotify loses a billion dollars a year and paying Rogan $100,000,000 was an epic, costly failure]⠀⇛ Spotify is laying_off_200_employees in its podcast division. The downsizing, announced on Monday (June 5), affects roughly 2% of the streaming service’s in-person workforce. § Monopolies⠀➾ * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Poland_Rejects_E.U._Ruling,_Restarting_a European_Feud [Ed: As long as the EU stands behind the illegal, unconstitutional UPC, in violation of international conventions, Poland (which opposes UPC on economic ground) isn't more lawless than the EU. This behaviour by the EU will harm its goals.]⠀⇛ Poland’s justice minister called the E.U. court of justice “corrupt,” after it ruled a judicial overhaul was illegal. He vowed not to comply, though that could cost Poland billions. o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Top_EU_court_rules_against_Poland_in_judicial independence_case⠀⇛ The Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) ruled Monday that Poland’s 2019 court reforms violated EU laws on effective judicial protection, judicial independence and the rule of law. The court sided with the EU Commission, which launched infringement proceedings against Poland over the reforms in 2019. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Justice_minister_rejects_‘corrupt’_EU_court’s_ruling against_Poland’s_judicial_reform [Ed: EU is, indeed, highly corrupt, judging by what it has just done with the Unified Patent Court; this is going to cost the EU]⠀⇛ Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro on Monday denounced the Court of Justice of the European Union as ‘corrupt’ and rejected its ruling that a controversial Polish judicial reform violated EU law. o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Klaus_Grabinski,_the_man_without_bias [Ed: What disgusting, awful propaganda from Team UPC, published by the site that Team UPC keeps bribing. This illegal, unconstitutional kangaroo court is run by a friend of the criminals at the EPO. This is a stain on the EU. Corruption clear for all to see. With the UPC, African nations can mock EU for corruption, nepotism, and lawlessness. Publishers funded by UPC profiteers praising the UPC, which is illegal, is what one might expect in unruly dictatorships.]⠀⇛ o ⚓ European_Patent_Office_hosts_special_event_celebrating_launch_of Unitary_Patent_system [Ed: The Unitary Patent system is patently illegal. They are in effect celebrating their own crimes.]⠀⇛ Distinguished European speakers hail a new era for innovation in Europe. o ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ UPC:_brief_thoughts_from_a_French_“UPC Representative” [Ed: UPC is illegal and blogs controlled by Team UPC treat illegality as the normal now, at the expense of the reputation of the EU]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Judge_Newman_on_Saving_Patent_Law [Ed: Senile judge thinks she is "Saving Patent Law"; she protects trolls and monopolists]⠀⇛ Washington Post has published a long article titled, “Colleagues want a 95-year-old judge to retire. She’s suing them instead,” by Rachel Weiner.  Judge Pauline Newman, the oldest active federal judge in the country, has been embroiled in controversy as she resists her colleagues attempts to urge/force her to retire. The article ends with a noteworthy quote from Newman that rings true to her characteristic resilience and dedication: “I want to spend my last five years correcting my colleagues’ mistakes.” In a career spanning four decades and more than 300 dissenting opinions, Newman’s resolve is clear. o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Fitistics_fitness_tracking_patent_challenged_in reexam⠀⇛ On May 31, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S._Patent_11,185,738, owned and asserted by Fitistics, LLC, an NPE. The ‘738 patent is generally directed to tracking exercise using a handheld device to obtain data from an exercise machine or body monitoring device. The patent has been asserted against Huawei and Fossil. o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Fortress_IP_entity_Entropic_Communications packet_transmission_patent_challenged⠀⇛ On May 31, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S._Patent_8,228,910, owned by Entropic Communications, LLC, an NPE and a Fortress_IP entity. The ’910 patent relates to aggregating packets for transmission to a destination node and has been asserted against Comcast, Cox Communications, Charter_Communications, and Dish. * § Trademarks⠀➾ o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB_Sustains_Opposition_to_“PET_C_COLA”_for_Animal Supplements,_Finding_Likely_Diluton_of_._._._._Guess_What_Famous Mark?⠀⇛ This quixotic attempt to register PET C COLA, in standard form, as a trademark for animal supplements was swept aside by Opposer PepsiCo, owner of the “exceedingly famous” mark PEPSI-COLA for soft drinks. Applicant’s “test mode”  website indicated that it would be marketing itself as “the pet drink specialist” and it asserted that “Pet C Cola is the nutritional and super tasty drink for dogs and cats.” “Applicant’s adoption of a color, font, and stylization with virtually identical elements to those used by Opposer for its PEPSI-COLA script mark is ‘eyebrow raising,’ … and is strong evidence of Applicant’s intent to copy and create an association with Opposer’s mark.” And so, the Board sustained Pepsico’s Section 43(c) dilution-by-blurring claim.  PepsiCo, Inc. v. Pet C Cola Corporation, Opposition No. 91255530 (June 1, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Robert H. Coggins). o ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_takes_up_case_dealing_with_the_use_of public_figures’_names_and_likenesses_in_trademarks⠀⇛ The US Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the trademark case Vidal v. Elster, to determine whether the application of Section 2(c) of the Lanham Act to political figures violates the First Amendment.  * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ The_Fugees_Reunite_at_Roots_Picnic_as_Pras Faces_20-Year_Prison_Term⠀⇛ The Fugees reunited during Lauryn Hill’s headlining set at the Roots Picnic music festival for what may be the group’s final performance as Pras Michel faces a 20-year prison term. Concertgoers were in for a special treat during Lauryn Hill’s headlining performance at the Roots Picnic music festival. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5366 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_06/06/2023:_OpenKuBSD,_GrapheneOS,_and_More⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:35 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Programming * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Duolingo_Progress⠀⇛ Finished the first section in my Irish course on Duolingo. I’m still woeful, but I can read a bit of Irish. To a lesser extent, understand it when spoken. I’m a long ways from being able to read stuff outside the application, but, I’m getting there? It feels like progress, and it feels good to make progress on something which, if I’m being honest, is kind of a useless goal. Would it be better for my career to grind the rust off my French? Absolutely. Am I doing something else instead? Absolutely. I can talk about owls and beer (ulchabhan agus beoir). Say “I like Irish” (Is maith leom an Gaeilge). Important things. # ⚓ Tanana_River_Trail_Photos_2023-06-06_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)⠀⇛ I took these photos yesterday during my lunch-break walk. # ⚓ The_Laundry_Asymmetry⠀⇛ When preparing for a longish trip I packed six sets of socks, underwear and t-shirts, so I could do the laundry weekly (six plus the clothes I was wearing). Sadly, I miscalculated. # ⚓ Going_to_the_Psycho_Ward⠀⇛ A married man with children goes and visits his wife’s family. He tells the people there about the trip in the south of the country to which he goes by his car in the morning. Old Gruffandgrim*, his father in law, reminds him that he needs to work so he can make a living and have enough money for his trips. # ⚓ Dory_progress_and_Misfin_thoughts⠀⇛ I guess I’d call this a milestone achieved. I’ve successfully sent a couple of Misfin messages to the reference server with a small binary that uses Dory under the hood. Getting there was a little more difficult than I expected, as these things often go. # ⚓ Taking_the_Measure_of_the_Place⠀⇛ A weary and dusty traveler shuffles into the bar, slips a business card back into his jacket pocket, and takes a look around to get the measure of the place. A motley crew of vagabonds, salesmen, entertainers, writers, and freethinkers fill the Midnight, chatting in small groups over lukewarm beer. Among the various patrons of the bar, one particularly odd creature stands out, balancing upright on long tentacles with constantly moving eyestalks scanning the scene. # ⚓ Contextual_Pizza⠀⇛ I’ve been finally losing weight after years of simply refusing to deal with the problem. It was nothing too terrible–just an extra 40 pounds and change, but it definitely made itself felt in my feet and knees when running or doing tai chi. After about 4 months I’m finally getting close to the target weight I set, which upon reaching I promised myself a single piece of pizza. I shouldn’t have done that. [...] Conflating the symbolic representation with the actual is fraught in so many unexpected ways. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenKuBSD_design_document⠀⇛ I got an idea today (while taking a shower…) about _partially_ reusing Qubes OS design of using VMs to separate contexts and programs, but doing so on OpenBSD. To make explanations CLEAR, I won’t reimplement Qubes OS entirely on OpenBSD. Qubes OS is an interesting operating system with a very strong focus on security (from a very practical point of view ), but it’s in my opinion overkill for most users, and hence not always practical or usable. In the meantime, I think the core design could be reused and made it easy for users, like we are used to do in OpenBSD. # ⚓ Pixel_7a_&_GrapheneOS⠀⇛ I’m testing a phone for work, and it’s an Android, which is new to me. I swapped the OS for GrapheneOS, which is a security-focused minimalist Android distribution, and the phone hardware is a Pixel 7a. Here’s how someone fairly familiar with iPhones views a current-generation Android phone as their daily driver… # ⚓ New_order_in_/dev/pts⠀⇛ Previously, I had one global session of terminal multiplexer, and that was where everything lived — plain text accounting, news, blogging, different personal and $dayjob projects. Since you can have only so much tabs before it turns into complete mess, context switching meant closing them all and opening ones relevant to task at hand. [...] Actually, it is even more than that. Ever saw “normies” to struggling to put two browser windows side-by-side? Well, I can’t do any better on their soil. But I can use tiling window managers, and they don’t. The same satisfying feeling. I found my highground. # ⚓ Striking_mods⠀⇛ First Reddit, now Stack Overflow; moderators are fed up with the admins of the sites they dedicate their labor to. Unpaid labor, to be exact. After decades of witnessing social media platforms rise and “fall” – some underwent a significant revamp and shrank to a healthy size, others shut down permanently, few just became plain irrelevant to former users, yet still exist – and how people react to such things, the latter in particular has become ridiculously predictable, for the sole reason that too many people merely decide to be vocal, rather than vote with their feet in a quiet manner. # ⚓ The_Search_For_An_OSR_System⠀⇛ NOTE: I started writing this around New Years not long before the whole WotC OGL situation got started. I was holding off on publishing it because I wanted to find a happier ending to send it off with. The longer I wait, the more certain parts are going to make less sense, so I’m going to get it out faster. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Urge⠀⇛ One of the unhelpful things that I commonly experience when I read things about software (and very occasionally other things, but usually software) is the urge to make my own version of whatever the thing is. # ⚓ things_i_wanna_do_(in_no_order)⠀⇛ =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5603 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_06/06/2023:_OpenSUSE_Plans_for_Leap⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 9:24 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Trademarks # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023_Benchmark_Kubernetes_Report:_6_K8s_Reliability Missteps⠀⇛ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Destination_Linux_326:_Immutable_OS_Explained:_What_They Are_&_Should_You_Use_One?⠀⇛ FULL SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/ destination-linux/dl-326/ # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Destination_Linux_326:_Immutable_OS Explained:_What_They_Are_&_Should_You_Use_One?⠀⇛ This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we discuss the concept of Immutable OS, what is it and do you need it? Then we discuss why it’s time for you to RISE for RISC-V. Plus, we have our tips/ tricks and software picks. All this and more coming up right now on Destination Linux to keep those […] # ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_232⠀⇛ The future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio production, open source voice assistants suddenly seem possible, and more. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_4_cool_new_projects_to try_in_COPR_for_June_2023⠀⇛ Copr is a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. It hosts thousands of projects for various purposes and audiences. Some of them should never be installed by anyone, some are already being transitioned to the official Fedora Linux repositories, and the rest is somewhere in between. Copr gives you the opportunity to install 3rd party software that is not available in Fedora Linux repositories, try nightly versions of your dependencies, use patched builds of your favorite tools to support some non-standard use-cases, and just experiment freely. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Resonance_–_Rust-based_music_player⠀⇛ Resonance is an intuitive music player application written in Rust (with a smattering of Python), built with a clean user interface using GTK4 / Libadwaita. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ Install_OpenBSD_in_Qubes_OS⠀⇛ Here is a short guide explaining how to install OpenBSD in Qubes OS, as an HVM VM (fully virtualized, not integrated). # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_Linux_kernel_will_fix_some peculiar_argv_usage_in_execve(2)⠀⇛ In a conventional call to execve(2), the argv argument is a pointer to an array that will become the executed program’s argv, with the array terminated with a NULL element (in the grand C fashion, there is no explicit ‘length’ parameter passed). The first (0th) element of this array is the nominal name of the program and the remainder are the command line arguments. Since all programs have some name, this array is normally at least one element long. However, the execve(2) interface (plus C) allows for two additional variations on the value of argv here. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Practical_Examples_of_Using_the_Gzip_Command in_Linux⠀⇛ Compression is a very commonly performed operation by users to save disk space as well as reduce time and bandwidth while transferring large amounts of data over the network using gzip utility. gzip stands for the GNU zip and it is a very popular compression and decompression utility. One of the primary reasons for its popularity is its high compression ratio and speed, which means the compressed data remains the same after decompressing. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Use_Bash_For_Loop_with_Examples_in_Linux⠀⇛ In programming languages, Loops are essential components and are used when you want to repeat code over and over again until a specified condition is met. In Bash scripting, loops play much the same role and are used to automate repetitive tasks just like in programming languages. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Fix_“bash_syntax_error_near_unexpected token”_in_Linux⠀⇛ Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is a command-line program that accepts commands provided and executes them. It takes Linux commands directly typed into it interactively from a keyboard or from a shell script file. Bash is used in Linux and Mac systems to run the system and it is the default shell in a majority of modern Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux to mention a few. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Flatpak_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Flatpak on Fedora 38. For those of you who didn’t know, Flatpak is a universal package manager designed to work seamlessly across various Linux distributions. It enables users to install, update, and run software applications in an isolated environment, known as a sandbox. # ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ How_to_Change_Directory_in_Linux_Using_cd Command⠀⇛ Discover how to change directories in Linux using the powerful cd command. Master absolute and relative paths, and navigate the file system effortlessly. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Get_Wayland_to_Work_on_Nvidia Graphics_Cards⠀⇛ Although Nvidia has theoretically had full support for Wayland since they released their drivers in late 2021, the road hasn’t necessarily been smooth. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Comment_Multiple_Lines_in_Vim Editor⠀⇛ Vim is one of the most popular and influential command-line text editors. # ⚓ The_Top_10_Lesser_Known_Linux_Power_Commands_That_You_Won’t Be_Able_to_Live_Without⠀⇛ Intro As Linux system administrators, we continuously delve into the boundless ocean of Linux commands to manage and control systems with precision. Some commands are pretty standard and widely known. However, a few lesser-known Linux power commands can make life significantly easier for sysadmins. # ⚓ Hidden_Treasures:_Managing_Secrets_with_Kubernetes⠀⇛ Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestration system for deploying and managing containerized applications. It provides a wide range of features and functionalities that enable DevOps teams to deploy, scale, and manage applications easily. # ⚓ Seamless_Blogging:_Deploying_WordPress_on_Kubernetes Clusters⠀⇛ Blogging has become an important tool for businesses and individuals to reach their audience. It’s an effective way to share ideas, market products, and connect with people. # ⚓ Embracing_PaaS:_Setting_up_OpenShift_Origin_for_Your_Docker Projects⠀⇛ In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies need to be agile and responsive to changing market needs. One way to achieve this is by leveraging cloud computing and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. # ⚓ Expand_and_Contract:_Scaling_Your_Kubernetes_Cluster Effectively⠀⇛ Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It has become increasingly popular in modern software development due to its ability to automate the deployment and management of scalable, distributed systems. # ⚓ From_Code_to_Deployment:_Building_and_Launching_Apps_on OpenShift_with_Docker⠀⇛ Building and launching applications has become a complex process in today’s digital world. The rise of containerization has made it easier to package an application and its dependencies into a single container that can run on any platform. # ⚓ Discovering_Docker_APIs_and_SDKs:_A_Comprehensive Introduction⠀⇛ Docker is a powerful containerization technology that allows developers to bundle their applications and dependencies into portable containers that can be run anywhere, regardless of the underlying hardware or operating system. # ⚓ Streamlined_Construction:_Building_Docker_Images_Using APIs⠀⇛ Docker has revolutionized the way modern software is developed and deployed. It is a containerization platform that allows developers to package their applications along with their dependencies into a single, portable unit called a Docker image. # ⚓ Seamless_Deployment:_Launching_Docker_Containers_with APIs⠀⇛ Docker Containers have revolutionized the way we deploy and manage applications. Unlike traditional Virtual Machines that require a full-fledged operating system and consume heavy resources, Docker Containers enable us to package applications into portable, lightweight, and self-sufficient units that can run anywhere. # ⚓ Mastering_Container_Management:_Performing_Operations_Using Docker_APIs⠀⇛ In today’s fast-paced and dynamic world of software development, containerization has become an essential practice for managing applications. Containerization allows developers to create and deploy applications more quickly, efficiently, and securely. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Converting_UTC_Date_and_Time_to_Local_Time_in Linux⠀⇛ When managing a Linux system, you may frequently come across timestamps recorded in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Understanding and converting these timestamps to your local time can be essential, particularly when troubleshooting system events or running time-specific commands. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ dig_and_nslookup_commands_on_Linux⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn the basics of the dig and nslookup commands on Linux. These commands, although simple, are part of powerful network utilities. Introduction to dig and nslookup commands The tools for querying network actions are important for testing solutions and troubleshooting in everyday system use. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Diablo_4_on_Steam_Deck_is_quite_magnificent (and_desktop_Linux_too!)⠀⇛ Diablo 4 is just about to release for everyone, and after blasting through the Early Access I’ve been thoroughly impressed by how it runs on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Quasimorph_is_a_brutal_sci-fi_extraction roguelike⠀⇛ Quasimorph is a classic turn-based roguelike with an ‘extraction’ twist: you deploy into each mission with your clone, level up and collect equipment, then finish the mission to extract with your clone and loot. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ TailQuest_Defense_is_a_charming_mix_of exploration_and_tower_defense⠀⇛ After being in development for 5 years, TailQuest Defense is finally here as one of the most ambitious early Godot Engine games. Starting off when Godot 2.0 was fresh, you can read a brief bit of their history here. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Try_the_demo_of_Lueur_and_the_Dim_Settlers, a_minimalist_and_relaxing_survival_builder⠀⇛ With a minimalist art style and a more casual setting, Lueur and the Dim Settlers is a genuine little delight to play for those after a city- builder with survival elements but there’s a more relaxed game mode too. Mentioned here on GOL recently, there’s now a demo available for you to give it a try and I think this one is truly worth some of your time.  * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ [Repeat] Systemd Free ☛ A_new_low_for_the_systemd_gang_and_what it_may_mean_(libblockdev_udisks2_udiskie)⠀⇛ The struggle continues, it is not over till we say it is over. The reasons which code will change without a version number shift, in this case nearly abandoned and complete projects, are to be speculated upon. Till now it didn’t seem to be a need for such maneuvering. So why such snicky way of changing code without bumping a version number? Because it has already been audited? The version has. … You draw your own conclusions on this one, we just brand it a “new low” for systemd crap pumped out at an alarming rate to trully be audited for security. o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Kernel_Updates_Available⠀⇛ The following kernel updates are available for PCLinuxOS. kernel-5.4.245-pclos1-1- 1pclos2023kernel-5.10.182-pclos1-1- 1pclos2023kernel-5.15.115-pclos1-1- 1pclos2023kernel-6.1.32-pclos1-1-1pclos2023kernel- 6.3.6-pclos1-1-1pclos2023 # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Qbittorrent_4.5.3⠀⇛ A Bittorrent client with a polished Qt5 user interface. It aims to be as fast as possible and to provide multi-OS, unicode support. # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Bitwarden_2023.5.0⠀⇛ Open source, cross platform password manager that sync passwords but also allows accessing passwords offline. # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Dropbox_175.4.5569⠀⇛ Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers and also allows one to share files with other dropbox users. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Project_Announces_Plans_for_Another_Minor_Leap 15_Release⠀⇛ We’d like to announce that the openSUSE Release team plans to work on openSUSE Leap 15.6. openSUSE Leap 15.6 is expected to be released in early June 2024 and would reach its end of life by the end of the year 2025. This decision was based on recent discussions at SUSE Labs and openSUSE Conference, and it reflects recent changes, progress on individual projects, and our new distribution architect. This will also enable us to provide SUSE customers with an updated Package HUB module, as both SLES 15 SP5 and Leap 15.6 would be considered a feature release based on our tick-tock release model. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] IT Wire ☛ Red_Hat_says_it_will_drop_LibreOffice from_RHEL_and_Fedora⠀⇛ However, the downside is that “we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora”. Red Hat was acquired by IBM in 2018 for a sum of about US$34 billion. Less than 18 months later, the company killed off CentOS, a distribution that contained everything in RHEL minus the trademarks, which made it usable by all and sundry without payment. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue 790⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_790⠀⇛ Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 790 for the week of May 28 – June 3, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Canonical_planning_an_immutable_desktop version_of_Ubuntu⠀⇛ This could be very interesting and exciting. Canonical has confirmed they’re working towards an immutable version of Ubuntu for desktop users based on all the work they’ve done with Ubuntu Core. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Ubuntu_Summit_2023_–_Call_for Proposals⠀⇛ Do you have a revolutionary project that’s pushing the boundaries of the open source landscape? Are you an inspiring community leader who’s building a sustainable coalition for the future? o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ GEEKOM_launches_AS_6_and_AS_5_AMD-based mini-PCs⠀⇛ The company GEEKOM launched today two mini-PCs built around the Ryzen 9 and Ryzen 7 AMD processors. The AS 6 supports DDR5 memory, 8K video output, up to 2TB of storage and multiple I/ O ports. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ dbrand_bring_out_a_universal_mount_for Steam_Deck_Killswitch⠀⇛ Do you have the Killswitch case for your Steam Deck? Well dbrand have come up with their own universal mount so you can strap anything you want to the back of it. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Purism ☛ DHS_Security_Report:_Data_Security_&_Privacy_At The_OS_Level⠀⇛ Data security and end user privacy requires focusing on the operating system (OS) that supports smartphones, tablet PCs, connected products, IoT/ IIoT devices, wearable tech, and PCs. [...] Intrusive app and social media developers, plus nation-state hackers, know that one of the largest gateways to the smartphone or PC end user is through the operating system which means that Google, Apple, and Microsoft are selling access to their OS end users to intrusive app and social media developers worldwide. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Armbian_and_DietPi_May-June_news⠀⇛ Armbian launched in May their latest Linux distribution “Armbian 23.05 Suni” with various updates for the Debian community. Similarly, DietPi v8.18 has provided enhancements for the Quartz64 SBC and PiHole support for the RISC-V architecture. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Why_Google’s_Focus_on_the_Pixel_Is_Holding Android_Back⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android’s_distribution_numbers_remain_as depressing_as_ever⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ 5_new_features_in_iOS_17_were_available_on Android_a_long_time_ago⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ How_to_Enable_Virtualization_on_PC_to Support_Android_Emulator?_(Intel_and_AMD)⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Android_14_(One_UI_6.0)_release_date_for Samsung_devices_tipped_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Android_13_continues_to_add_more_users worldwide_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia Power User ☛ Nokia_T20_–_Nokia_C12_receive_new Android_12_Builds,_Nokia_G11_Plus_only_May_security_update_ [Markets]_–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Tidying_the_Freedom_Index⠀⇛ I needed to create a few plots by using the Civil Liberties and Political Rights scores from the Freedom Index. However, the data provided in Excel format was not in an easy to use presentation. This blog post shows how I reshaped the data to make it easier to work with. There is an excellent post, Cleaning Freedom House indicators, by Marta Kolczynska that I used as reference. The post is four years old, so here I am using some updated functions and I tried to make some steps more general. # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Getting_frustrated_at_inanimate_IT_objects⠀⇛ I had a bit of an epiphany today. I’m not frustrated at my computers for not doing what I want, or for behaving unexpectedly, or for having increasingly-hostile interfaces and design. I’m frustrated at the people who designed them, made them, and/or signed off on them. # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Game_of_Trees_0.89_released⠀⇛ Version 0.89 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated): [...] # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ Units_in_Go_and_Rust_show philosophical_differences⠀⇛ Let’s compare how Go and Rust represent units of time! Specifically, we’ll look at how they represent durations of time for things like thread sleeps. For this, we’ll look primarily at the standard library; other libraries may do it differently, but this is a somewhat “blessed” path, and the world of libraries is so vast. The standard libraries also are more likely to represent idiomatic usage. # ⚓ Chris ☛ Scales_of_Plan-Driven_Development⠀⇛ Balancing Agility and Discipline talks a lot about the contrast between agile development and plan- driven development. We will briefly look at the contrast at the end of this article, but first an insight that I think is much more fundamental. # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Building_Golang_With_Bazel_and_Gazelle⠀⇛ In this article, you’ll learn about the basics of building Go using Bazel and Gazelle. You’ll learn how to prepare a workspace, run, and test it; and how to develop a basic application using Bazel. To follow along, you must be familiar with the basics of Golang and how the Golang build process works. You also need to have the latest version of Go installed on your system. # ⚓ Fernando Borretti ☛ Why_Lisp_Syntax_Works⠀⇛ Lisp’s unusual syntax is connected to its expressive power. How? Not because of “homoiconicity”, a word that has no meaning but leaves people somewhat impressed, because it sounds fanciful and mathematical. It’s because of uniformity. # ⚓ Bogomil_Shopov_–_Bogo:_Me,_Myself,_and_DevOpsDays_2023 Prague⠀⇛ It’s early Tuesday morning, and I am again in the metro, going to a location in Prague I have never been to before. People are quiet on the train, thinking about their lives. I saw just a few people not looking at their phones. Have we become humanity addicted to some shiny devices and so- called “technologies”? That could be another topic. Now, I am going to the second day of DevOpsDays2023 Prague. The hotel welcomes me with many tobacco smokers outside and a strange facade. I am in the right place because I saw familiar faces and heard someone talking about Jenkins.  I took the elevator to the conference area and headed to the registration. A lovely girl said hello to me after I got my welcome pack. I said hello back. I told myself something was wrong. See, sweet girls never say hello to me like that.  Then I remembered I am in a friendly company because DevOps is not only about technologies but also about the mindset of being nice to others. I met a few great people I worked with and then went to the conference room. I expected more attendees. The room was 80% full. It may be too early. I was just on time for the first speaker. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Why_did_Usenet_fail?⠀⇛ My university experience was dominated by Usenet. It was where nerds went to socialise. I bought and sold computer equipment, published terrible poetry, and learned about LGBT matters. I lurked in the comp.lang.* hierarchy until I was confident enough to ask my Prolog questions without making it look like I was asking for help with my university assignments. And then, one day, I just stopped. There are three main reasons that I remember. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Printing_Of_Pi⠀⇛ It really isn’t necessary, but there is some geek cred to learning pi to some bizarre number of digits. One way to do that is via a piem — a mnemonic device that is easy to remember and gives you the digits. Don’t know any? [Roni Bandini] has you covered with the PiemPi machine. It prints a random piem on a thermal printer and calculates each digit on the fly. You can watch the machine in action in the video below. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Meet_Brian_Corteil:_CamJam_event_runner⠀⇛ “I am part of the team that has taking over organising CamJam from Mike Horne and Tim Richardson,” Brian tells us. “[They] organised the last couple of CamJams before 2020. Early this year, I had realized that it had been over three years since the last CamJam and I decided to it was time for CamJam to return, and the only way it would happen is if I organised it. So, I pitched the idea to hold the jam at Cambridge’s Makespace to both Mike, Tim, and Makespace. Luckily, everyone thought it was a great idea.” # ⚓ Arjen Wiersma ☛ Perfectionism_leads_to_procrastination_and paralysis⠀⇛ It’s often said that the perfect is the enemy of the good. In my quest for the ‘just right’ words to articulate my thoughts, I found this saying to be glaringly accurate. The ticking clock became a dull backdrop to my cerebral scavenger hunt. My concentration started to drift and instead of zeroing in on my research proposal, I found myself fixated on, of all things, the color scheme of my desktop environment. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Increasing_System_Memory_With_The_Flick_Of_A Switch⠀⇛ There’s an apocryphal quote floating around the internet that “640K ought to be enough memory for anybody” but it does seem unlikely that this was ever actually said by any famous computer moguls of the 1980s. What is true, however, is that in general more computer memory tends to be better than less. In fact, this was the basis for the Macintosh 512k in the 1980s, whose main feature was that it was essentially the same machine as the Macintosh 128k, but with quadruple the memory as its predecessor. If you have yet to upgrade to the 512k, though, it might be best to take a look at this memory upgrade instead. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Microsculptures_3D_Printed_With_Advanced Macromolecular_“Inks”⠀⇛ When we think about 3D printing, our mind often jumps to hot nozzles squirting out molten plastic. Other popular techniques include flashing bright light into resin, or using lasers to fuse together metal powders. All these techniques are great at producing parts with complicated geometries at desktop scales. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_Vending_Machine_Is_For_The_Birds⠀⇛ The early bird may get the worm, but [Stephen Chasey’s] birds only get to eat if they are smart. He’s created a vending machine for bird feeding. While this is a classic and simple exercise for a microcontroller, [Stephen’s] design is all op amps and 555 timers. The feeder comes on when it detects a warm body and waits for something to drop through a hole. Birds don’t have coins, so the hole will accept anything that will trigger the IR sensor within. In response, it dispenses a few peanuts. Rodents and squirrels won’t figure out the machinery, and so they can’t pilfer the peanuts meant for the pigeons — or other birds, even if they don’t start with the letter P. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Op_Amp_Contest:_Generate_Spirograph_Shapes_Using Only_Op_Amps_And_Math⠀⇛ If you’re a child of the ’80s or ’90s, chances are you’ve spent hours tracing out intricate patterns using the pens and gears of a Spirograph kit. Simple as those parts may be, they’re actually a very clever technique for plotting mathematical functions called hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. [Craig] has spent some time analyzing these functions, and realized you can also implement them with analog circuits. He used this knowledge to design a device called Op Art which generates Spirograph shapes on your oscilloscope using just a handful of op amps. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ California’s_honey_bees_await_the_famous_sunshine⠀⇛ But with temperatures in the Los Angeles area topping out around 20 Celsius (68 Fahrenheit) most days right now, and the area’s famously blue skies hidden by a blanket of cloud, it all adds to the impression that the weather is just not being very Californian this year. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Pokie_numbers_cut_amid_ongoing gambling_health_concerns⠀⇛ The Northern Territory government has lowered the number of poker machines allowed across the region as it continues to acknowledge the significant harm caused by problem gambling. The cap on gaming machines in community venues has been reduced from 1699 to 1659, excluding machines at the NT’s two casinos which are covered by separate agreements. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Ed_Bisch_Fights_to_Hold_Sacklers Accountable_for_Opioid_Epidemic_22_Years_After_Son_Died_of Overdose⠀⇛ The Sackler family, the billionaire owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, have secured immunity from all current and future civil litigation related to their role in fueling the opioid epidemic. The legal shield was granted last week by a federal appeals court in exchange for the family agreeing to pay up to $6 billion to thousands of plaintiffs in various lawsuits that are now suspended as part of the deal. While the Sacklers appear safe from further civil litigation, they could — and should — be criminally charged, says Ed Bisch, who lost his son Eddie to an OxyContin-related overdose in 2001 at age 18. “Fines without any prosecutions, there is no deterrent. They look at it as the cost of doing business,” says Bisch. We also speak to Christopher Glazek, the investigative reporter who was the first to publicly report how the Sackler family had significantly profited from selling OxyContin while fully aware that the highly addictive drug was directly fueling the opioid epidemic in America. “The Sacklers lied about how addictive the drug was, in order to convince doctors and patients that it wasn’t dangerous,” says Glazek. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ The_Software-Defined_Car⠀⇛ Developers are starting to talk about the software- defined car. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Elon_Musk_says_China_will_initiate_AI regulations⠀⇛ The Chinese government will seek to initiate artificial intelligence regulations in its country, billionaire businessman Elon Musk says after meeting with officials during his recent trip to China. Musk did not elaborate further and made his remarks in a Twitter Space with Democratic presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr on Monday. # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Is_Outlook_down?_Thousands_of users_report_problems_with_Microsoft’s_email_platform⠀⇛ Thousands of Microsoft Outlook users reported issues with accessing and using the email platform Monday morning. Microsoft 365 outage and problem reports peaked at almost 18,000 shortly after 11 a.m. ET Monday morning, according to outage tracker Downdetector. # ⚓ India Today ☛ Ex-Microsoft_employee_says_he_did_not_get_any job_offers_even_after_applying_to_more_than_1000_places⠀⇛ An ex-Microsoft employee took to LinkedIn and revealed that he has been looking for a new job since he got laid off but even after applying to more than 1,000 places, he could not secure any position. # ⚓ Microsoft_Is_Deprioritizing_Third-Party_Ad_Tech_Amid_Reorgs And_Layoffs⠀⇛ Microsoft’s purchase of Xandr from AT&T in late 2021 might have looked like an embrace of third- party ad tech. But while parts of the Xandr tech are considered valuable by Microsoft, the future of Xandr as an SSP integrated with thousands of outside publishers is in doubt. Since completing the acquisition in June of last year, Microsoft Advertising has shifted its focus to first-party products and integrations to win and secure key accounts, such as Netflix, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of recent changes within the group. [...] Yet because layoffs have affected every part of Microsoft, there are fewer people to handle support tickets. Due to the layoffs and restructuring, there are also “more demands” on the Xandr group now, said one Microsoft Advertising employee who’s been with AppNexus since 2015. Those demands come from internal stakeholders such as Microsoft Azure, Bing and other high-priority units in the company. # § Windows TCO⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_battles_through_two_365 outages_in_one_day⠀⇛ At the time of writing, the Outlook email service has been in trouble since 1830 ET (2230 UTC). An earlier incident took out multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Whistleblower_of_the_hearts:_Ten_years_ago, Edward_Snowden_exposed_secret_mass_surveillance⠀⇛ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Locked_Out_Of_NSO_Group’s_Pegasus_Spyware, DEA_Purchases_Exploits_From_Its_Non-Union,_Israeli Equivalent⠀⇛ First off, let’s just clear one thing up: the headline is a Simpson’s reference, not a dog whistle aimed at unions and/or the Jewish population of Israel. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Microsoft_to_pay_$20m_for_child_privacy violations⠀⇛ Microsoft will pay $20m (£16m) to US federal regulators after it was found to have illegally collected data on children who had started Xbox accounts. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement with the company on Monday, which also includes increased protections for child gamers. Among other violations, the FTC found that Microsoft failed to inform parents about its data collection policies. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Microsoft_will_pay_$20M_to_settle_U.S._charges of_illegally_collecting_children’s_data⠀⇛ Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console. The agency charged that Microsoft gathered the data without notifying parents or obtaining their consent, and that it also illegally held onto the data. Those actions violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the FTC stated. # ⚓ MWL ☛ Organized_Freebies⠀⇛ The pedantic will note that these books aren’t truly free. You must make an account somewhere to get them. And–yes, that’s true. I’m a business. Giving me money requires making an account somewhere. Meet me in a dark alley and slip me $20 and I’ll hand over a brown paper bag containing a book, sure, but online commerce requires accounts. For what it’s worth, my store’s privacy policy is the one I would like other retailers to use, and you can delete accounts in my store. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Paks_II_to_be_fast-tracked⠀⇛ “More, important preparatory work on expanding the Paks nuclear plant will soon be underway, and the amended contractual framework will ensure faster progress while fully respecting safety rules”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said, according to the Hungarian State News Agency, MTI. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Gun_Response_Apps⠀⇛ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Another_Los_Angeles_Sheriff’s_Department_Gang Member_Admits_The_Department_Has_Plenty_Of_Gang_Members⠀⇛ The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department doesn’t have a great track record. In addition to the usual stuff expected from law enforcement agencies (biased policing, zero accountability, civil rights abuses, excessive force deployment), the LASD has been home to deputy gangs pretty much since its inception. # § War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ VIDEO:_Rep._Jamal_Bowman_supports military_aid_for_Ukraine_but_is_unfamiliar_with_the Donbas_and_Crimea⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Explosion_at_Nova_Kakhovka_dam_threatens Ukraine’s_Kherson_region_with_devastating_floodwaters_— Meduza⠀⇛ Ukraine’s Operational Command South has confirmed that an explosion on Tuesday morning destroyed the Nova Kakhovka dam, which guards the Kherson region’s coastal cities against a reservoir with water levels currently at a 30-year high. In a statement on Facebook, the Ukrainian military accused Russian occupation forces of blowing up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. The loss of the dam is expected to unleash flood waters downstream and exacerbate Ukraine’s energy shortages after months of Russian missile strikes targeting power generation and grid facilities across the country. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ European_Union_sanctions_nine_Russian citizens_in_connection_with_sentencing_of_Vladimir Kara-Murza_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On Monday June 5, the Council of the European Union announced sanctions against nine Russian citizens who it says are responsible for the sentencing and subsequent imprisonment of opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza. On April 17, a Moscow court sentenced Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine’s_military_intelligence_reports Russian_colonel_killed_in_Belgorod_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate reports that Andrey Stesev, a colonel in the Russian Army, was killed in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, in the early hours of June 5. The agency posted a military ID bearing that name. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belgorod_governor_says_local_authorities ‘cannot_enter’_village_of_Novaya_Tavolzhanka,_which pro-Ukraine_‘partisans’_claim_to_control_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, said during a livestream on Russian social media network VKontakte that regional authorities “cannot enter” the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka.  # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_says_‘offensive_actions’_underway ‘in_several_areas’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on Telegram Monday that Ukraine’s military has begun conducting “offensive actions in several areas.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Seeing_is_believing:_A_close_reading_of combat_videos_from_Velyka_Novosilka_suggests_a_possible course_for_the_impending_Ukrainian_counteroffensive. But_it_can_all_change,_and_quickly._—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s Defense Ministry and the pro-war Telegram channels are circulating combat footage from Velyka Novosilka, claiming that it heralds nothing less than the start of a large-scale Ukrainian counteroffensive. But is this really true? Meduza’s military analysts take a close look at the evidence, the “known unknowns,” and what plausible scenarios might arise in the balance. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Fast Company ☛ Inside_Snopes:_the_rise,_fall,_and_rebirth of_an_internet_icon⠀⇛ Trolling was named after the fishing practice in which anglers bait hooks and pull them on lines through the water. Online, the bait was a bit of bad info, and a “‘good’ troll,” according to AFU, was “obviously facetious/sarcastic to anyone who has a sense of humor and some intelligence.” But because of pomposity or because people were gullible or stupid, they’d leap to correct a poster who’d spoken in jest. So they were reeled in and informed that they’d “lost.” They’d been trolled. They weren’t worthy company. In 1993, AOL began providing Usenet access to its subscribers, and tens of thousands of newbies were dumped onto the electronic bulletin board in what became known as “Eternal September.” Trolling became meaner. It became even more of an “insider’s game,” says the user experience designer Michele Tepper, an AFU alumna and author of the first academic paper on trolling. (It would mutate later, of course, into something else—something dark—and the whole web would become its playing field.) But newcomers to AFU were offered “survival guides” and warned against arguing with Mikkelson, a legend, in particular. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ ‘We_Found_Plastic_on_the_Seabed_in Antarctica_and_I_Just_Cried’⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Minister_taken_to_court_over ‘mega’_coalmine_approvals⠀⇛ An environmental group has mounted a legal challenge to federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek after she did not accept calls to consider the impact of global warming when assessing three coalmine applications in NSW and Queensland. The Environment Council of Central Queensland has filed in the Federal Court seeking a judicial review of Ms Plibersek’s decisions, claiming she has refused to accept the global warming risk associated with proposals. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Off-grid_hydrogen_box_could replace_diesel_generators⠀⇛ Millions of diesel generators could switch off across Australia if work sites, councils and isolated communities opt for a new hydrogen “power bank”. Governments may want to export hydrogen to Asia over the next decade but a Brisbane- based startup says it has technology ready to go now for local use by farms, mines and eco- tourism operators or remote mobile phone towers and water treatment plants. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Linear_Power_Supply’s_Current_Limiter_Is_A Lesson_In_Simplicity⠀⇛ Here at Hackaday we really like to feature projects that push the limits of what’s possible, or ones that feature some new and exciting technology that nobody has ever seen before. So what’s so exciting about this single-voltage linear power supply? Honestly, nothing — until you start looking at its thermally compensated current limiting circuit. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ India_Train_Crash:_What_We_Know About_the_Deadly_Accident_in_Odisha⠀⇛ Three trains, with more than 2,200 people onboard, were involved in the crash in Odisha State, the deadliest such disaster in decades. The death toll approached 300. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Amsterdam_Train_Service_Resumes After_Disruption⠀⇛ The cause of the problem, which prompted widespread travel delays starting Sunday, had still not been determined. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Complaint:_True_the_Vote_Leaders_Used Donations_for_Personal_Gain⠀⇛ Conservative activists Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips used the nonprofit True the Vote to enrich themselves, according to a complaint filed to the IRS. On Monday, the nonprofit watchdog group Campaign for Accountability called for an investigation into True the Vote, which has made repeated false claims about voter fraud in elections. The complaint said True the Vote may have violated state and federal law when the charity used donations to issue loans to Engelbrecht, its founder, and lucrative contracts to Gregg Phillips, a longtime director. The organization also failed to disclose the payments to insiders in its tax returns, including excessive legal bills paid to its general counsel at the time, who filed election-related lawsuits in four states, the complaint said. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ David_Sirota:_Working_Class_Will_Be_“Deeply Harmed”_by_Biden’s_“Big_Win”_on_Debt_Ceiling⠀⇛ President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a debt ceiling deal into law that averts a catastrophic default by the United States through January 1, 2025, hailing it as a “big win” for the country. Critics say the agreement protects wealthy corporations and tax dodgers while imposing new cuts on key social programs and expanding work requirements for some recipients of food stamps. The legislation has also been called a “dirty deal” by climate activists because it rolls back environmental regulations and fast-tracks the approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline through West Virginia and Virginia, a pet project of powerful Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin. “The working class of this country was deeply harmed by this bill,” says investigative journalist David Sirota of The Lever. He also faults Democratic leaders for not raising the debt ceiling after the midterm elections, when the party still had control of Congress. “What you see is a picture of a party that wanted this outcome,” says Sirota. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Veterans’_homelessness_to_cost billions_if_unaddressed⠀⇛ Veterans are almost three times as likely to end up on the street but three times less likely to ask for help, a new report has found. In the past year, almost 6000 or 5.3 per cent of Australia’s half a million veterans were on the streets, a rate almost three times higher than the general population. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ New_blow_for_home_owners_as_interest rates_rise_again⠀⇛ Mortgage holders have been slugged with another 0.25 percentage point interest rate rise. The Reserve Bank board has opted to keep pressure on borrowers as it grapples with still-high inflation. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ New_bargaining_system_for_workers kicks_into_action⠀⇛ The first multi-employer bargaining case will be brought to the industrial umpire under new federal laws allowing workers from different businesses to band together to negotiate higher pay rises. Unions representing workers at 20 different early childhood education employers across NSW, the ACT and Victoria will bring their case before the Fair Work Commission on Tuesday – the first day the new laws come into effect. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Reserve_Bank_gears_up_for_another close_cash_rate_call⠀⇛ The Reserve Bank board is set to make another tough interest rate decision in the fight against persistent but tempering inflation. Board members will weigh up strong but somewhat unreliable monthly inflation data – which came in at 6.8 per cent in April, up from 6.3 per cent in March – as well as signs of an easing but still robust jobs market. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Council_rates_shake_up,_as_NSW_lags behind_other_states⠀⇛ Council rate hikes could be different across rural, regional and city areas under proposed changes, but it will be up to the NSW government to bring local funding up to speed with the rest of Australia. NSW local government leaders have long been calling for an overhaul of the rate pegging system, which sets an annual limit on increased income from ratepayers. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_suspect_young_man_of_hundreds_of_payment_fraud crimes⠀⇛ The man allegedly duped more than 400 people into revealing their banking details and stole more than one million euros from them. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Affordable_housing_project_in_Latvia_gets_hit_by inflation⠀⇛ Due to a substantial increase in construction costs, the affordable rental housing project announced last year has been cut from 700 to 467 apartments. In planning other similar programs, calls are made to reduce the fragmentation of housing policy, Latvian Radio reported on June 4. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Twitter’s_U.S._Ad_Sales_Plunge_59%_as_Woes Continue⠀⇛ But Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according to an internal presentation obtained by The New York Times. The company has regularly fallen short of its U.S. weekly sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30 percent, the document said. That performance is unlikely to improve anytime soon, according to the documents and seven current and former Twitter employees. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ New_Twitter_boss_Linda_Yaccarino_starts_her job_today_at_a_difficult_time⠀⇛ Prior to taking the post, Yaccarino had worked for four years as head of NBCUniversal Media LLC’s advertising and partnership team. Back in December, Musk polled Twitter users, asking them if he should stay or go, and 57.5% said he should go. That he did, later explaining he’d like to hire a new CEO so he can concentrate on Tesla Inc. and other ventures. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Twitter_Admits_in_Court_Filing:_Elon_Musk_Is Simply_Wrong_About_Government_Interference_At_Twitter⠀⇛ It is amazing the degree to which some people will engage in confirmation bias and believe absolute nonsense, even as the facts show the opposite is true. Over the past few months, we’ve gone through the various “Twitter Files” releases, and pointed out over and over again how the explanations people gave for them simply don’t match up with the underlying documents. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_Dr._Cornel_West_Announces_He_Is Running_for_President⠀⇛ Dr. Cornel West, in his first interview since deciding to enter the U.S. presidential race, explains why he is a candidate. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ David_Sirota:_Florida_Lawmakers_Help_Ron DeSantis_Shovel_More_Cash_to_Wall_Street⠀⇛ David Sirota of The Lever talks about how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s fundraising for his 2024 presidential bid could be hindered by a federal pay-to-play rule that restricts campaign contributions from financial executives to state officials who control pension investment decisions. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Blizzard’s_‘Diablo_4’_Q&A_With_Fans_Got_Real Weird,_Real_Fast⠀⇛ Usually when we’re talking about companies engaging in astroturfing, it takes the form of companies or industry groups inputting comments supposedly from “the public” to support whatever thing they’re trying to accomplish. Utility groups creating a shell advocate organization to stifle reforms. Telecom companies employing astroturfers to smear an FCC nominee. Amazon cosplaying as a series of small businesses pretending to advocate against antitrust reforms. These are the types of things you think about when we talk about astroturfing. # ⚓ H.K.G._case:_The_request_that_H.K.G_herself_should_be directly_heard_at_the_court_was_rejected⠀⇛ Antep MP of the Labour Party Sevda Karaca said before the hearing, “There are now those in the parliament who do not want women in their corridors. We know that this new Parliament wants to justify child abuse. We are here today. H.G.K. is not alone.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Millennials_Just_Keep_Voting⠀⇛ They are voting at higher rates than younger adults once did, helping the Democratic Party. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin’s_‘martial_law’_address_broadcast_in_3 Russian_regions._The_Kremlin_says_radio_stations_were hacked,_denies_authenticity_of_recording._—_Meduza⠀⇛ A state-of-emergency address by Vladimir Putin was broadcast on the radio in three regions of southern Russia: Rostov, Belgorod, and Voronezh. Listeners heard Putin declare martial law in response to an alleged “incursion” of the Ukrainian armed forces into Russia. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Is_it_real_or_made_by_AI?_Europe_wants_a_label for_that_as_it_fights_disinformation⠀⇛ E.U. Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said the ability of a new generation of AI chatbots to create complex content and visuals in seconds raises “fresh challenges for the fight against disinformation.” She said she asked Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and other tech companies that have signed up to the 27-nation bloc’s voluntary agreement on combating disinformation to work to tackle the AI problem. # ⚓ Troy Patterson ☛ Plea_for_Action⠀⇛ A friend came to me asking for help. This friend’s Facebook account has been hacked. The hackers are now asking for money using the compromised account. This is particularly effective since this is an account that lots of people have interacted with for quite a while. So, friends and relatives are responding to requests for money. Since this is a “known” account, the request has more import. The hackers are benefitting since people are sending money. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Stack_Overflow_Moderators_Are Striking_to_Stop_Garbage_AI_Content_From_Flooding_the Site⠀⇛ “Stack Overflow, Inc. has decreed a near- total prohibition on moderating AI-generated content… tacitly allowing the proliferation of incorrect information (“hallucinations”) and unfettered plagiarism on the Stack Exchange network,” reads an open letter written by the moderators, who are all volunteers elected by the community. “This poses a major threat to the integrity and trustworthiness of the platform and its content. Effective immediately, we are enacting a general moderation strike on Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, in protest of this and other recent and upcoming changes to policy and the platform that are being forced upon us by Stack Overflow, Inc.” # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ EU_wants_tech companies_to_clearly_label_AI-generated_content⠀⇛ European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova told reporters on Monday that advanced AI tools including ChatGPT can effortlessly create complex, seemingly realistic content and visuals in a few seconds. Jourova also pointed out that people can use image generators to make realistic pictures of events that never took place. “Voice generation software can imitate the voice of a person based on a sample of a few seconds,” she added. In fact, Spotify is reportedly prepping to use the AI-trained voices of popular hosts with the help of similar technology. Jourova also warned of Russian disinformation, which is spreading like wildfire in Central and Eastern Europe. Moreover, she noted that machines did not have “any right” to freedom of speech. Jourova has asked the 44 signatories of the European Union’s code of practice against disinformation to help users identify AI- generated content. “The labelling should be done now — immediately,” she insisted. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ He_took_away_the_country’s_top_AAA_rating_in_2011._He ended_up_fearing_for_his_life⠀⇛ Chambers was the public face of the downgrade. He defended it on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° and MSNBC’s Morning Joe. And before long, he started receiving serious threats. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_CNN_Went_From_Bad_to_Worse⠀⇛ One way to make yourself look good is to keep pointing out the faults of your predecessor. Like Elon Musk at Twitter, CNN’s CEO Chris Licht loves to denigrate the previous management of his company. With both Musk and Licht, this is clearly an attempt at covering up their own failures.1 # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Moscow_Bans_‘Unfriendly’_Journalists_From Economic_Forum⠀⇛ Those who have opted to stay face escalating risks, including arbitrary detention. American reporter Evan Gershkovich, who works for The Wall Street Journal, has been detained for over two months in Russia on espionage accusations that he and the U.S. government deny. # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ The_Project_Censored_Newsletter—May_2023 –_Newsletters⠀⇛ At the risk of sounding biased, we suspect State of the Free Press 2024 may develop into the best volume yet in the Project’s venerable yearbook series. You’ll be able to judge for yourself in December when the book drops. Meanwhile, stay tuned in the coming months for more details and sneak peaks. And, if you’re wondering why the May newsletter is arriving at the very end of the month? Well, let’s just say we’ve been busy researching and writing! o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Breakthrough_In_Lawsuit_Against_Alleged_CIA Spying_On_Assange_Visitors⠀⇛ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Journalists_at_Gannett_newspapers_walk_out_over_deep cuts_and_low_pay⠀⇛ According to Jon Schleuss, the president of the NewsGuild, corporate executives have eliminated 54% of the combined workforce of Gannett Co. since it merged with GateHouse Media four years ago to make a newspaper behemoth. Financing for the merger loaded up the new Gannett Co. with debt that led to hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Hong_Kong_Court_Overturns_Conviction_of Journalist_Bao_Choy⠀⇛ A court ruled that “substantial and grave injustice” was done to Choy Yuk-ling, an investigative journalist who also goes by the name Bao Choy. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Nowhere_to_hide’:_After_murders_in_Amazon, local_journalists_at_risk⠀⇛ The tragic murder of a reporter and environmentalist in the Amazon last year underscores the invisibility of many of the forest’s risks. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Not_Everything_Is_Bigger_In_Texas:_Latest Dumbass_Anti-Drag_Bill_Appears_To_Outlaw_Breast Enhancements⠀⇛ I cannot even begin to understand the unfettered amount of dumbshittery being passed off as legislating in the public’s interest by politicians far more performative than any drag queen I’ve had the pleasure of observing. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kathleen_Folbigg_Is_Pardoned;_Australian Official_Cites_‘New_Evidence’⠀⇛ An Australian jury found that Kathleen Folbigg had smothered her children. But scientists now say that they probably died from natural causes. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_the_Internet_Hates_Gay_People⠀⇛ For kids whose formative years fell in the late 2000s and early 2010s, when home computers ebbed with the widespread availability of portable screens, the practice of covertly spelunking into salacious corners of the Web—often while our parents weren’t home—was something like a rite of passage. Chat rooms like ChatRoulette or Omegle, the old Tumblr, and, of course, porn sites, offered a window into the most mysterious aspect of adult life: sex. In my case, poking around the Internet helped me realize that the range of possible self- expression and sexual desire was much bigger than what I was taught to believe in the classrooms and hallways of my suburban Ohio school. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Broadband_Usage_Caps_Now_Drive_MORE_Broadband Usage,_Study_Finds⠀⇛ We’ve noted for years how broadband usage caps are a pointless, unnecessary cash grab by telecom monopolies looking to nickel-and-dime consumers who already pay too much for broadband. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Supreme_Court_Declines_To_Review_Important_9th Circuit_Section_230_Win⠀⇛ Would you believe it? We’ve got some more good news from the Supreme Court on Section 230. Remember that, before Gonzalez v. Google, a few of the Justices seemed to be begging for cases that would let them destroy Section 230. But then they (surprisingly) took the Gonzalez case, had to deal with many dozens of amici briefs explaining why 230 is so important, and seemed positively spooked when they actually realized that maybe this was more complex than they thought, leading them to punt on the issue. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Can_a_Phrase_That_Trolls_Trump Be_Trademarked?_The_Supreme_Court_Will_Decide⠀⇛ The Supreme Court on Monday said it will decide whether a California lawyer has the free speech right to trademark the phrase “Trump Too Small,” a reference to a taunt at the former president during the 2016 presidential campaign. In reviewing the case, the Supreme Court will revisit the constitutionality of restrictions on trademark registrations. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ A_Journalist’s_Guide_to_Creative Commons_2023⠀⇛ Whether you work for a smaller newsroom seeking high quality, newsworthy photos that are free to use, or are part of a larger operation, like Propublica, that CC licenses all news to increase access and spread, CC licenses are free, powerful tools at your disposal. Yet, some journalists may not be aware of the potential and ease of these tools. Open Newswire and Creative Commons partnered to offer a practical primer on Creative Commons for journalism, and how to make the most of CC licenses. Enjoy! # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Case_for_and_Against_Ed_Sheeran⠀⇛ Music copyright, which became law in the United States in 1831, allows composers to establish the “metes and bounds” of their intellectual [sic] property [sic], just as mechanical inventors do in obtaining patents. But a patent is granted only after examiners have determined, by way of an investigation, that an invention is truly new and useful. A music copyright is more like a virtual rubber stamp that a musician gets automatically as soon as a song is “fixed in a tangible medium of expression.” If the song is a hit and the musician is sued—because “where there’s a hit, there’s a writ,” as an old adage goes—it is up to the courts to figure out how original the work is. Copyright makes it commercially viable to be an artist. But painters can’t claim ownership of a color, and songwriters can’t monopolize notes or, for that matter, common chord progressions, modes, or rhythms. A composer is entitled to own only a particular expression or arrangement of a musical idea, not the idea itself. (The concept of an arpeggio, or of counterpoint, cannot be copyrighted.) The question is how to legally separate the two. The law, which represents the Apollonian side of human experience—the rational, analytical, and intellectual—is a leaky sieve for containing the Dionysian elements of music: the irrational, abstract, and emotional parts. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Setback_for_Bell_Canada_in_$400m Movie_Piracy_Lawsuit⠀⇛ Canada’s ‘Notice and Notice’ regime requires ISPs to forward infringement notices to subscribers, typically those linked to the sharing of movies via BitTorrent. U.S. movie companies say that since Bell Canada failed to forward around 40,000 notices, they are now entitled to CAD$400m in damages. Bell’s response included allegations of copyright misuse, abuse of process, champerty and maintenance and unlawful means conspiracy. That hasn’t gone according to plan. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 7683 ➮ Generation completed at 02:44, i.e. 34 seconds to (re)generate ⟲