𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, November 08, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Thu 9 Nov 02:49:22 GMT 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/11/08/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmbHjgPAAcGNUG9Sej4vSKhK8DfUYokfFkXLdKwr1JtGJG QmdLsuRLzrwb58dZaSmJah6oCmNNZ6cW4ick4chqJmHjmY QmTNR3uqcbMYjPAbbHjBqyNJb3ib8kytQvdFnATzkBFVvo QmfCHrqMLfMsHXYnQeAvVuNYt91Zw2AmMJ5mx4RqsrWy3b QmR2rr1yXDANjQBEz2oGtd2UMgy9U37FHdjpUhPfAk7h5z QmWE6ucdKk9Q1pi6ce3ko9xPWd9Y4BjpLij3W7tJ5TMjG3 QmaoEDiALTYYZdaq3SQ86aQpMwUji1nqCeLbXAoszFRYvJ QmSTkZUY74BcgbgqS6JKwwNbVnbzY5uqwpgWtYonGJua8s QmXZcp3rXLYa24pYd7jUu6sPDrhziRCNCok875WLJTLysP QmUE7nd24kx2soZFbSYKDsb1ik1wpirFTRTBhDTj6w9sjh QmdKeWBhfnjgQLYU48wto7DdStpXsB5mE1yEEnWcxQ53vu QmfSnnTnjcAe3YvtRsVgAwUJfpcEk1dM5J5yjJLyv7MxqM QmQ16CkpxBbMzPZ6wZcuKBUcxH1RZ8uAEhcvdBsPRpVZe9 QmT3gTQRv33wEDtJveL8DiqiacGeRaxEbRFDUyVSJEAvDL QmTs9qcwghZPs5oBh9qzsu8a11T4s6xHrJjVNyk5miFy3X Qmdqd6mb8mj27qVvQZRR7sjshrXYYirWm9vRttLkNB5rW6 QmSjY85vxbu9nNFHUMmuK7CxRame2VYuhb523CJaK5zRkj QmZwah9nZHVvSzbJWEAMxumYDpanFPqTahnqoNP83tuZbx QmQWSrGfeYwgf6HE9N3742DJrJwq8uNSCUAz469CnuUFGe QmcgTTyseF5zFd4MLquM4PtJZzkFcBEqaUbqDe4eaUx6Na QmZMEFKvpgvjxAcV9Pwu7yF74LYZwS7ktdLFdYb988Ncfu ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Techrights - Android is Not Freedom (It Never Will Be, It's Only Getting Further Away From Freedom Over Time) ⦿ Techrights - Between-the-Lines CNN: Bill Gates 'Controls' Microsoft CEO Satya Narayana Nadella ⦿ Techrights - China is Moving Away From American Technology (Including Microsoft Windows) ⦿ Techrights - Countries Where GNU/Linux Exceeds 4% Market Share on Desktops/Laptops, According to statCounter ⦿ Techrights - Demoralising Workers ⦿ Techrights - IBM: EMBRACE, EXTEND, and Microsoft Proprietary GitHub (With Project Leader on Microsoft's Payroll) ⦿ Techrights - IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 07, 2023 ⦿ Techrights - Lots More Coming About Satya Narayana Nadella, Rajiv Solanki, and Technomind Info Solutions ⦿ Techrights - [Meme] Satya Nadella and Technomind Info Solutions ⦿ Techrights - Over at Tux Machines... ⦿ Techrights - The Illusion of Choice: Apple Prison Versus Microsoft Prison ⦿ Techrights - The News is Drying Up, Journalism Perishing, But We Can Still Cope (Daily Links Always Adapting) ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Android_is_Not_Freedom_It_Never_Will_Be_It_s_Only_Getting_Furth.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Between_the_Lines_CNN_Bill_Gates_Controls_Microsoft_CEO_Satya_N.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/China_is_Moving_Away_From_American_Technology_Including_Microso.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Countries_Where_GNU_Linux_Exceeds_4_Market_Share_on_Desktops_La.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Demoralising_Workers.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/IBM_EMBRACE_EXTEND_and_Microsoft_Proprietary_GitHub_With_Projec.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/irc-log-071123.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Lots_More_Coming_About_Satya_Narayana_Nadella_Rajiv_Solanki_and.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/_Meme_Satya_Nadella_and_Technomind_Info_Solutions.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/The_Illusion_of_Choice_Apple_Prison_Versus_Microsoft_Prison.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/The_News_is_Drying_Up_Journalism_Perishing_But_We_Can_Still_Cop.shtml ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Links_08_11_2023_Lots_More_Censorship_and_Collaboration_Initiat.shtml ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 80 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Android_is_Not_Freedom_It_Never_Will_Be_It_s_Only_Getting_Furth.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Android_is_Not_Freedom_It_Never_Will_Be_It_s_Only_Getting_Furth.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Android is Not Freedom (It Never Will Be, It's Only Getting Further Away From Freedom Over Time)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Cell_Phone_-_Red_Background:_Android_mobile_cell_phone_with black_coloured_background⦈_ THE APPLE-controlled DRMed (Digital Restrictions-saddled) 'toy factory' is being_emulated_by_Google. We see this in Chrome, ChromeOS, and Android, to name only a few famous examples. It only gets worse, not better, over time. Google got "drunk" on power and overzealous about controlling, even abusing at times, billions of users worldwide. "Users"... the same term used by drug dealers... what other industry even uses such a term? What many people overlook or fail to grasp is that a lack of software freedom and Internet freedom (or "openness") begets an abject lack of free speech. It can dis-empower or disenfranchise billions of people, who are just "subjects" attached to some skinnerbox with a 5G (or whatever) connection, turned on and beaming inwards/outwards 24/7. Yesterday this site turned 17 and it received "congratulations" over E-mail, IRC, and more. People notice and appreciate the ageing. As we've said many times already (for about half a decade), the Web probably won't last another decade, at least not in a healthy form. It just won't last that long as a platform for information, hence our emphasis on Gemini (text or GemText), bulletins, and flat files for pages (static). They are means of preservation or a form of insurance (Wikileaks lost many pages in recent years; complexity contributed to the loss). An associate has expressed similar concerns about the Web, noting that it will be gone only to be replaced by a locked-in, locked-down, DRMed replacement, which "will be foisted on the world in its place." What already is happening should be a wake-up call. Just check a recent Android/AOSP build and an Android SDK to explore the options that have crept in. DRM, restrictions disguised as "security", centralisation and so on... What does it all mean to publishers online? Well, feeds are turned into "apps" (a better name for these is "crApps") and then few companies or governments that oversee these companies (or sustain them with "stimulus" funds, "defence" contracts, grants etc.) get to decide which "feed" you are "allowed" to "subscribe" to (or what "apps" are made available in the censored, trigger- happy "store"). All phone "apps" are that restrictive, we're told, and it'll certainly get worse next year due to the seeds planted by Google in Android and in Chrome (WEI is one of several creeping threats still in hibernation mode). More_and more_restrictions_of_these_kind_also_come_to_GNU/Linux, due primarily to Google and IBM pushing "sigStore" under the guise of vendor neutrality (Linux Foundation) and "security". We need to encourage and support community-run projects, not those instrumental in asserting control over "users" (like drug users). █ ⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣄⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⣭⣿⣶⣤⣤⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⡢⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 188 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Between_the_Lines_CNN_Bill_Gates_Controls_Microsoft_CEO_Satya_N.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Between_the_Lines_CNN_Bill_Gates_Controls_Microsoft_CEO_Satya_N.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Between-the-Lines CNN: Bill Gates 'Controls' Microsoft CEO Satya Narayana Nadella⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Microsoft CEO responds to news of Bill Gates’ affair with employee⦈ TO REMOVE any doubts, Mr. Nadella isn't really in charge of Microsoft, as a Microsoft_whistleblower_already_explained_to_us_several_years_ago. The controllers just need to keep some distance for optics (due to many scandals and_crimes, not to mention massive_tax_evasion_disguised_as_"philanthropy") and an already-scandals-ridden_Nadella - with old_skeletons_in_his_closet (for now, they may come out soon) - probably presents another face which can bait any critics - both from inside and outside Microsoft - to seem racist and intolerant rather than genuinely concerned. This old_article_from_CNN (2.5 years ago) said Gates "said he would continue to serve as a technology adviser to Microsoft leaders." (Who_needs_elections anyway? Monarchy is more fun) According to some reporters, Gates devoted a third of his time to micromanaging Nadella. As the son of a eugenics representative (Sr. passed away a few years ago), do not expect Gates to let someone from India truly run the company. 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Technology (Including Microsoft Windows)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2023, updated Nov 08, 2023 THIS is a very important subject, often overlooked by the corporate/mainstream media as it might cause 'panic' or 'wish' Wall Street down. A lot of the corporate/mainstream media puts lipstick on a pig, hailing companies that are deep in debt and announce greater losses, spinning that as "investing in AI" or some other malarkey. Layoffs are, of course, just "replaced by AI", i.e. innovation in the making! Andrew "bunnie" Huang, a widely_regarded_computer_expert who worked with high- profile people including Edward Snowden, has just written a rare blog post "Regarding_Proposed_US_Restrictions_on_RISC-V" (in China) - a subject we've repeatedly covered here in recent weeks/months, even 3_weeks_ago. We say "rare blog post" because he very infrequently writes blog posts anymore, except some challenges where people name the hardware in some photograph. Huang's post is worth reading because it reinforces what we've been saying here for a while. Judging by some rough numbers, Baidu_is_peaking_in_China (Microsoft Bing is down again) and it seems like 'only'_half_the_people_use Chrome - that's far less than the rest of the world. Domestic (Chinese) stuff is gaining. What's more relevant to us, however, is the relative share of GNU/Linux this month. It's estimated_to_be_nearly_5%, compared to less than 1% (where it was stuck for many years). We took note of this change recently, e.g. [1, 2], but see the graph below. The pace of change seems to coincide with political tensions, ameliorated only in Australia thus far (despite allegiance/alliance with the West, Australia is isolated away and geographically closer to China). █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Desktop Operating System Market Share China: Sept 2022 - Nov 2023⦈ ⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡿⣘⢒⡡⡒⣟⢰⢾⢱⢾⢰⠎⣿⠸⡿⡁⠶⢉⢒⡇⣾⡒⡇⣾⡇⣶⣏⠂⣿⣯⡝⡼⣱⡐⡶⡎⣒⡇⡆⣶⣿⣷⡹⡄⣗⠊⣷⡆⡱⢑⣺⢰⣿⢬⢹⢰⣼⢒⢹⣶⢑⣺⣿⢾⣿⢰⣾⢸⣶⠙⡒⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠼⢿⣿⣿⣿⡧⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⡿⢿⠿⡿⢿⣧⣭⣿⣿⣿⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠯⢉⠤⡷⢶⢾⡟⠱⡸⡸⠣⠟⢼⣿⣿⣷⡁⡱⢢⢳⡿⠣⡿⢺⠫⡯⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣴⣽⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣉⣁⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⣥⣤⣤⣄⣑⣈⠛⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣬⣤⣈⣉⣉⣉⣉⣠⣤⣴⣶⣤⣤⣄⣉⣉⠙⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣤⣤⣑⡙⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠛⠛⣑⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣈⠍⣉⣉⣤⣤⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⣴⣤⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠃⠈⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣉⣉⣉⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⢰⣶⣦⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠉⠁⢨⡏⠉⡅⣩⢋⣍⢉⡉⠏⡏⠉⢉⢩⠀⡍⠉⠋⢉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠈⠛⠋⠀⠀⣠⣼⣿⣤⣶⣤⣦⣤⣦⣤⣦⣴⣦⣴⣧⣤⣤⣼⣼⣤⣴⣤⣦⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣻⠻⠛⡇⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠋⢉⠙⠛⠻⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣛⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠋⢉⣉⣁⡀⠈⠀⠀⠉⠙⠛⠉⠀⠀⠚⠛⠛⠓⠒⠒⠁⠀⠉⠛⠛⠘⠛⢿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠋⠉⣐⣀⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣢⣤⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣩⣻⣍⣟⣏⣟⣩⣯⣹⣻⣟⣋⣫⣏⣉⣩⣹⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⣀⣀⣀⣀⣐⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠒⠒⠒⠒⠂⠔⠒⠒⠒⠢⠀⢀⣉⣁⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣐⣉⣉⣉⡉⠍⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⢀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⣠⣄⢤⣾⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣇⠛⠛⠻⠿⢟⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⡻⠿⠿⠛⠛⡛⠛⠛⠛⠫⠙⠛⠛⠛⢛⠛⠛⠿⠿⠛⠿⠿⠛⠛⡛⠛⠛⠛⠛⡛⠛⠛⠛⢛⠛⠋⣁⣠⣴⣶⣤⣤⣤⣥⣤⣤⣀⣀⣂⣤⣤⣴⣬⢡⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣧⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣤⡦⠠⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣤⣤⡄⠤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣦⣴⣤⠠⢤⣤⣤⣴⣤⣦⣤⣤⡄⠤⣤⣦⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠔⢤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣴⣤⣦⡤⠠⣤⣤⣤⣦⣴⣤⣤⣤⠄⢼⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠑⢡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠊⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⢨⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠑⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⢂⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠓⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⡢⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠳⢦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠲⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠗⢮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠲⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢢⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 375 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Countries_Where_GNU_Linux_Exceeds_4_Market_Share_on_Desktops_La.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Countries_Where_GNU_Linux_Exceeds_4_Market_Share_on_Desktops_La.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Countries Where GNU/Linux Exceeds 4% Market Share on Desktops/Laptops, According to statCounter⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide⦈ HAVING just mentioned China [1, 2], where GNU/Linux grew to 4.5% by statCounter's measures (12 months ago it was just 0.7% but this predates political_tensions), it might be helpful to see how_things_stack_up internationally. The image above, derived from this_data, shows the % ChromeOS and GNU/Linux have in different countries, sorted by the value. Notice the_US in_#2. Is GNU/Linux almost_16%_in_India? 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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Bullshit_Jobs⦈_ TODAY is a continuation of Part_I, which spoke about deterioration of workplaces, not just in the technology (and science) sector. This is an intentional trend, not some unfortunate side effect, and more people talk about it, some even go on strike. One associate spoke of the agitation against '15-minute cities', noting that social control media is being used to wind up the weak minded and gullible to hate on a livable urban environment or a livable environment in general. As noted in the previous part, when I was younger people lived closer to work and were not required (or expected) to move around a lot for whatever job they had. More people could walk to work (a short stroll). Many had the same job/employer for decades, so moving was barely needed (nor an option). Or you only needed to move once, then settle somewhere close to work. Now we have more people working on contracts, with very worker-unfriendly terms by the way, and as we repeatedly note here, even_Microsoft_does_it. That helps them fake the true scale of expectation-busting and layoffs (which they don't even label as such). The shuffling around between teams, jobs, roles, and locations can be demoralising. "I suspect that at the bottom there is some motive to prevent people from forming ties and communities or retaining either," one person told me. "Hot desking is vile, since one cannot even have work materials. I know of researchers which had to discard (burn) irreplaceable collections of specialized reference material and research data because their institutions went to hot desking. Under the old model, pre-Microsoft, they got at least 8 hours of work done during a work day. Maybe 5 or so effective hours. Now it is closer to 30 to 60 minutes, at best. so the institutions are getting nothing for their money, but wasting time may be one of the larger goals." This was thus labelled a kind of "divide-and-conquer". We're repeatedly covered this in relation to the EPO. I've noticed lately that this gets done also outside the area of "desk jobs"; at one workplace that I know increasingly well they change people rapidly from one department to the next and I am still not sure if it's an anti-union or anti-clique-forming thing. Either way, this does not seem efficient for the business as people need to specialise. Plus, based on my own experiences, one reason people might still enjoy going to work is friends that they have there. Some powwow, tea breaks, and drinks after work can give workers something to look forward to. If employers take it away and expect morale to improve, then they're merely sabotaging the business. It is despotic like the scenes of Winston at his desk in '1984'. Based on reports, open offices are back and the media only casually mentions this. After COVID-19 stopped making headlines the estate lobbyists won, having "convinced" companies that "remote workers" are "lazy" and "unproductive". Well, of course many businesses perished anyway, so they have lots of "space" left to lease to their 'human rodents', in essence caging them in glass and metal office space under sensory deprivation (or pure noise). To quote_Aaron_Swartz in 2006: You wake up in the morning, take some crushing public transit system or dodge oncoming traffic to get to work, grab some food, and then sit down at your desk. If you’re like most people, you sit at a cube in the middle of the office, with white noise buzzing around on every side. We’re lucky enough to get our own shared office, but it’s not much better since it’s huge windows overlook a freeway and the resulting white noise is equally deadening. Wired has tried to make the offices look exciting by painting the walls bright pink but the gray office monotony sneaks through all the same. Gray walls, gray desks, gray noise. The first day I showed up here, I simply couldn’t take it. By lunch time I had literally locked myself in a bathroom stall and started crying. I can’t imagine staying sane with someone buzzing in my ear all day, let alone getting any actual work done. Anti-union might be another aspect too, says a person whom I know. It's not about efficiency, ever, it's about keeping people broken and isolated and easily manipulated. Experience is needed for good service. Open plan offices are highly inefficient and overall stressful for the victims of such a layout, the person asserts. Too bad that David Graeber died before he could followup much on his research, and subsequent_book, on "Bullshit Jobs". We referred to that several times in the Sirius series, especially the part about people at Sirius being assigned to do intentionally meaningless "tasks" or "jobs" (e.g. time-tracking, lists of open tickets which nobody ever looked at). Those were useless tasks where the purpose was to pressure people. Those were actively harmful to the person and, by extension, the firm. It should be noted that this did exist when I was a teenager in the 90s (or existed in some places, but to a lesser extent). When I worked in Manchester Computing they asked us to start logging calls with summaries that nobody ever read (it was usually about remote_access_by_university_staff). This was done not in 2002 when I started the job, it was added around 2004 as a sort of "telemetry". Who was I writing these reports and logs for anyway? Did anyone really check them? Barely. By 2005 or 2006 they were already shuffling people around a lot, making their job miserable (I resigned around that time). Not to mention the bossing was inadequate, incompetent, and immature. The "telemetry" part was bad from a privacy perspective/aspect, e.g. in case of data breaches. We put down names of actual staff too, those were not students. How is putting names of university staff that needed VPN access (for library, journal, intranet access) going to improve the service? It's reckless, pointless, disrespectful etc. It's not like the case of a marketing department; since the requests came from the staff, how does logging it improve service in any concrete way? Many people whom I've spoken to since then (it was about 20 years ago) told similar stories. Places of employment pile up more and more useless tasks to ensure staff cannot rest, concentrate, or build up better/new abilities. It's not even limited to jobs done at a desk. 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https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/IBM_EMBRACE_EXTEND_and_Microsoft_Proprietary_GitHub_With_Projec.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/IBM_EMBRACE_EXTEND_and_Microsoft_Proprietary_GitHub_With_Projec.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ IBM: EMBRACE, EXTEND, and Microsoft Proprietary GitHub (With Project Leader on Microsoft's Payroll)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2023 Just yesterday: Stick_a_Fork_in_Firefox,_It's_Developed_With_Proprietary Software_of_Microsoft Now: With the project's leader essentially bought by Microsoft [1, 2], guess who's controlling more parts of the GNU/Linux system while developing them exclusively using Microsoft's proprietary software on Microsoft hosting: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Support for System V service scripts is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Luca Boccassi⦈ Also see: OpenBSD_Founder_Theo_de_Raadt_Says_Wayland_is_an_Attack_Software 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Lots_More_Coming_About_Satya_Narayana_Nadella_Rajiv_Solanki_and.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Lots_More_Coming_About_Satya_Narayana_Nadella_Rajiv_Solanki_and.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Lots More Coming About Satya Narayana Nadella, Rajiv Solanki, and Technomind Info Solutions⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2023 Microsoft is quite accustomed to having criminals in charge 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Bill_Gates,_Microsoft,_and_Jeffrey_Epstein⦈_ THE article we published yesterday about Nadella's_secrets_and_scams_(criminal past) is not a one-part, unsourced, unverified guest (and first) post. It's part of an ongoing series. We just wanted to clarify this - to make it abundantly clear that we do have material and some supportive/supporting evidence. We don't want to be shamed into rushing the series. The first part received 4 times more requests than the average post/page we publish and we're already preparing part two, which is independently being audited. To Microsoft, appointing a fraud as CEO has an upside and a downside; the upside is, they can easily remove him at any time by recalling rather than engineering a scandal, so he's never truly in charge (they can moreover blackmail him into taking particular action/s or else be unmasked; he won't blow the whistle or assert firm control). The downside is, after all the accounting_fraud and lies it can be very dangerous - not to mention harmful - to have one's CEO exposed as a fraud. But then again consider what Bill Gates had_been_doing until Microsoft shyly_removed_him_from_the_Board (but not from power). The title of today is dropping some more clues. 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They found out about Technomind Info Solutions.⦈ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠄⡀⠀⠤⠤⠄⡤⠤⢤⠀⠀⢀⠤⠤⠤⠤⠀⠀⠠⠤⠤⠤⠤⠀⡠⠤⠀⠀⡀⠀⠤⠤⠤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣶⣶⣶⣶⣖⣀⡠⢄⣴⣥⣦⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⢠⡆⠀⠈⣾⠀⠀⢰⡇⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⢰⡄⠀⠀⡤⠤⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡿⠫⠀⣚⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠓⢢⢰⠀⠀⠇⠀⢰⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣬⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⢠⡄⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⡄⠘⠈⠀⠀⠤⠀⠀⣸⠀⠀⢐⠀⠀⢁⠀⠀⢀⣴⣾⣿⡿⠟⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠋ ⡇⠀⠔⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠘⠇⠀⢀⣿⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⢸⠇⠀⠀⠓⠒⡆⠀⠀⢤⠀⠀⢻⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⢸⢀⡤⠝⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠈⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣤⣴⣾⣿⣤⣤⣼⣧⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⠤⠤⠧⠀⢰⣼⣤⢀⠘⠀⢠⣼⠀⠀⠘⠈⢇⠀⣤⣷⣆⡀⡆⣀⡴⢠⠀⣰⣿⡆⢕⣒⢀⢨ ⡀⠀⠊⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣿⣿⣯⣍⡉⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡇⠀⣾⡿⠀⠀⣾⣶⡄⢘⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣛⣽⣾⢠⣿⣿⣷⡘⢿⣷⣿ ⣇⣀⡃⢸⡿⠛⠋⢩⠵⠶⢿⣯⣭⣤⢠⣤⣰⣬⣽⣿⣧⣾⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣧⠠⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⣿⠇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠭⢭ ⠀⣭⣿⣿⣿⣶⣭⡄⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣾⣿⣷⣽⡿⢿⣿⣏⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣴ ⠀⢻⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣭⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⢿⣿⡄⠨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡉⠛⠛⠋⠉⢙⣡⣿ ⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣧⣄⠘⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠒⠒⢐⣈⣉⠉⠛ ⠀⠀⠀⠙⡋⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣟⡀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠁⠈⣁⣀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢰⣧⠀⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣶⠀⣨⣟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣾⣿⣿⣿⡷ ⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣧⠀⢀⠀⠙⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁ ⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣷⣌⠻⣆⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⣠⢞⣾⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾ ⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣀⡀⠀⣀⣤⠆⣔⣵⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠉⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣴⣿⣿⣯⠉⣽⠰⠀⠀⣴⠐⢀⣶⠀⡔⢨⠰⠀⡆⡆⢰⢰⠀⠀⡀⠂⡄⠀⢰⢰⡄⠠⠀⠀⢀⠀⡌⡟⠉⢹⠉⠉⠇⢀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣛⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⣿⢰⠀⠀⠶⠁⢸⣿⠀⢂⠸⢀⡀⠇⡇⠀⢸⠀⠀⠃⡀⠇⢀⠸⠸⡇⠀⠘⢘⠈⠀⠆⡇⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⡛⢛⡟⢛⠅⡀⡄⢠⢀⠐⡟⡍⠚⢡⠀⡄⢠⠈⡄⠄⢡⢀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⢁⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠠⡄⢀⠀⠀⡔⠒⡀⠀⢀⠀⠀⡀⡀⠀⢀⣄⡀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⠇⢸⡇⣥⠀⡗⡂⢠⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⢸⢠⢠⢸⠀⡇⡄⢸⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⢨⡇⠀⠀⠐⢈⢹⠀⠀⡇⢸⠀⠀⣯⠀⡇⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⡗⠌⢹⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠑⠒⠑⠒⠓⠚⠶⠒⠀⠁⠒⠚⠚⠊⠊⠀⠱⠑⠚⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⢰⣶⣷⣾⣶⠂⠀⠀⠐⠊⠐⠈⠀⠁⠐⢶⣈⢻⡷⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 860 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Over at Tux Machines...⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2023 ⚓ Updated This Past Day⠀⇛ 1. ⚓ Fedora_Linux_39_Is_Now_Available_for_Download,_Powered_by_Linux_Kernel 6.5⠀⇛ After several delays, the Fedora Project released today Fedora Linux 39 as the latest stable version of this Red Hat-sponsored GNU/Linux distribution for the masses. 2. ⚓ Proposed_European_Electronic_ID_Law_Raises_Concerns⠀⇛ The harmonisation of standards for electronic identification across the EU should normally be soporific enough to send even the most Club-Mate-hyped hacker straight to sleep 3. ⚓ GhostBSD_23.10.1_Now_Available⠀⇛ I am pleased to announce the release of GhostBSD 23.10.1! 4. ⚓ Linux.com:_Just_Two_Updates_in_40_Days_(Now_Run_by_Jason_Perlow_From Microsoft_and_IBM)⠀⇛ the ageist from Microsoft 5. ⚓ LXQt_1.4_Desktop_Environment_Officially_Released,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛ The LXQt project announced today the release of LXQt 1.4 as the latest stable version of this lightweight desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions written in Qt. 6. ⚓ New_Horizons_for_EL:_OpenELA_Publishes_Package_Sources⠀⇛ Bright future for Enterprise Linux with OpenELA’s RHEL- compatible sources for packages now available. More is on the way ⚓ New⠀⇛ 7. ⚓ Today_in_Techrights⠀⇛ one day's articles 8. ⚓ Security_Leftovers⠀⇛ half a dozen links for the night 9. ⚓ Chinese_Isolation_From_the_West_is_Working_Well_for_GNU/Linux Adoption⠀⇛ GNU/Linux usage is growing rapidly in China 10. ⚓ GIMP_2.10.36_Released_with_Support_for_ASE_&_ACB_Palettes,_New Gradient,_and_More⠀⇛ GIMP 2.10.36 open-source, free, and cross-platform image editing software has been officially released today as a new maintenance update to the GIMP 2.10 series. 11. ⚓ elementary_OS_8_to_Ship_with_Wayland_by_Default,_Based_on_Ubuntu_24.04 LTS⠀⇛ The year of the Wayland desktop is almost here and elementary OS is the last distribution to announce plans for switching to Wayland by default with its next major release, elementary OS 8. 12. ⚓ today's_leftovers⠀⇛ 3 more links 13. ⚓ Security,_FUD,_and_Windows_TCO⠀⇛ many reports and misinformation too 14. ⚓ Programming_Leftovers⠀⇛ many leftovers here 15. ⚓ Microsoft_Abuses_and_Lies⠀⇛ 5 new articles 16. ⚓ Audiocasts/Shows:_Late_Night_Linux_and_Mozilla_IRL_(Promoting Buzzwords,_As_Usual)⠀⇛ 2 new episodes 17. ⚓ EasyOS:_Kernel_5.15.137_and_NVIDIA_SFS_compiled⠀⇛ New EasyOS release soon 18. ⚓ Open_Hardware_and_Devices:_Raspberry_Pi,_RISC-V,_Arduino,_and_More⠀⇛ Hardware side news 19. ⚓ Canonical_Focus_on_Buzzwords_and_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter⠀⇛ 2 stories from Ubuntu camp 20. ⚓ Red_Hat_and_Fedora_News_and_Spin⠀⇛ The IBM camp 21. ⚓ CloudNativePG_1.21.1,_1.20.4_and_1.19.6_and_PostgreSQL_Encryption⠀⇛ Some postgres news 22. ⚓ Firefox_Development_Outsourced_to_Microsoft/NSA_GitHub_(Proprietary), Firefox-Based_Tor_Browser_13.0.3_is_Out_for_Android⠀⇛ Mozilla at it again 23. ⚓ GoReleaser_v1.22,_Wikipedia_Reader_1.1,_and_More_Software⠀⇛ 4 software links 24. ⚓ 'Linux'_Foundation_is_pushing_'attestations'_(DRM),_preventing_users running_programs_of_choice⠀⇛ More Sigstore stuff 25. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ many howtos for the day 26. ⚓ Upgrade_to_Fedora_39_from_Fedora_38_Workstation_(GUI_and_CLI)⠀⇛ https://www.debugpoint.com/upgrade-fedora-39-from-fedora-38/ 27. ⚓ Fedora_39_Officially_Released:_This_is_What's_New⠀⇛ Fedora 39 release brings you GNOME 45, streamlined Qt theming, official Azure Cloud support, and numerous updates. 28. ⚓ Garuda_KDE_Dr460nized_might_be_the_coolest-looking_Linux_distro available⠀⇛ If the aesthetics of your computing environment is just as important as the efficiency and reliability 29. ⚓ Top_5_Most_Stable_Linux_Distros_in_2023_(Download_Links)⠀⇛ If you are wondering why the term “stable” comes with a GNU/ Linux operating system or distro then it is due to the availability of many of these variations per the requirement of the user 30. ⚓ Android_Leftovers⠀⇛ MediaTek drops efficient cores in Dimensity 9300 Cortex-X4/A720 mobile SoC 31. ⚓ 5_best_Linux_distributions_in_2023⠀⇛ Thinking about switching from MacOS, Windows, or ChromeOS to Linux? You have a ton of distributions or "flavors" of the OS to choose from 32. ⚓ Results_of_Use_Case_Survey_Published⠀⇛ The openSUSE Project ran a use-case survey during the month of October and results are now available via a 254-page report and a summary of the survey’s findings is on the community’s wiki 33. ⚓ Matrix-based_Element_plots_move_from_Apache_2.0_to_AGPLv3⠀⇛ The change means a fork of two server projects: Synapse - an open source Matrix homeserver – and Dendrite – a second- generation Matrix homeserver intended as a more scalable, reliable and efficient alternative to Synapse 34. ⚓ Games:_Dumpster_Diving,_EmulationStation,_Snacktorio,_and_More⠀⇛ 8 stories from Liam Dawe on Monday 35. ⚓ Today_in_Techrights⠀⇛ one day's articles 36. ⚓ 5_best_Linux_distributions_in_2023⠀⇛ you can't forget about Linux 37. ⚓ Impression_Image_Writer_Adds_In-App_Distro_Downloads⠀⇛ Impression is a excellent image writing tool for Linux desktops, and with its latest release it’s become even more useful 38. ⚓ GSConnect_Extension_Updated_to_Support_GNOME_45⠀⇛ A new version of GSConnect, the GNOME Shell extension that integrates with KDE Connect, is now available — and it supports GNOME 45 39. ⚓ Intel_NUC_13_Pro_Mini_PC_Running_Linux:_Gaming⠀⇛ This is a multi-part blog looking at an Intel NUC 13 Pro Mini PC running Linux 40. ⚓ LXQt_1.4.0_Desktop:_Best_New_Features⠀⇛ A new version of the popular lightweight desktop environment LXQt 1.4.0 is now out. Here's what's new. 41. ⚓ Transform_Your_KDE_Plasma_Desktop_into_a_Work_of_Art!_Explore_the Mondrian_Theme.⠀⇛ Give your KDE Plasma desktop an artistic look with the new Mondrian theme with abstract lines & colours. 42. ⚓ Misogynistic_Attacks_on_Tux_Machines_Less_Than_a_Day_Before_Techrights Started_Explosive_New_Series,_Based_on_Suppressed_Information_Received_to be_Released⠀⇛ yesterday we received yet more agitations 43. ⚓ Security_and_Windows_TCO⠀⇛ The cost of Windows 44. ⚓ Reducing_Raspberry_Pi_5’s_power_consumption_by_140x⠀⇛ By default, the Raspberry Pi 5 (like the Pi 4 before it) leaves the SoC powered up (just in a shutdown state) when you shut down the Pi 45. ⚓ Open_Hardware:_Respberry_Pi,_Arduino,_and_More⠀⇛ another half a dozen new stories 46. ⚓ Security:_Debian,_Apple,_and_Microsoft⠀⇛ 4 stories 47. ⚓ today's_leftovers⠀⇛ half a dozen articles of various lengths 48. ⚓ Programming_Leftovers⠀⇛ Python and more 49. ⚓ Events:_Ubuntu_Summit_2023_and_Meet_the_Kdenlive_team_in_Zürich⠀⇛ 2 short stories 50. ⚓ Tomeu_Vizoso_and_Dave_Airlie_on_Their_Latest_Linux_Graphics_Work⠀⇛ Two new reports 51. ⚓ Games:_Text_Adventure_Documentary,_Android_Games,_and_More⠀⇛ 4 stories related to games 52. ⚓ Software:_Evernote_Alternatives,_FreeTube,_Fastfetch,_and_More⠀⇛ On applications for GNU/Linux 53. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ many howtos for today 54. ⚓ Devices:_Rockchip,_RISC-V,_ZimaCube,_Open_source_hardware_(OSHW)⠀⇛ Linux-friendly hardware 55. ⚓ Vero_V_is_here⠀⇛ Today, after half a decade of constant work and some interruptions to the supply chain due to a global pandemic 56. ⚓ I'm_giving_up_on_Enterprise_Linux_on_the_desktop⠀⇛ three years ago, I reluctantly replaced my Slackware Linux installations with the offerings from Linux Enterprise providers Canonical and Red Hat 57. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ only 5 for now 58. ⚓ Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers⠀⇛ Mostly Windows 59. ⚓ Growing_Interest_in_GNU/Linux_and_BSDs⠀⇛ Up to 4% in Malaysian desktops/laptops last month 60. ⚓ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_November_5th,_2023⠀⇛ The 161st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 5th, 2023. 61. ⚓ System_Cleaner_BleachBit_Sees_First_Release_in_2_Years⠀⇛ BleachBit, the popular free system cleaner, has just released a major update — its first since 2021 62. ⚓ Android_Leftovers⠀⇛ i.MX 8M Plus SBC with Dual GbE & TSN support 63. ⚓ Roadmap_to_elementary_OS_8:_Goals_&_Release_Details⠀⇛ Find out what to expect as the elementary OS team shifts its focus to OS 8. 64. ⚓ LXQt_1.4.0_lightweight_Qt_Linux_desktop_environment_is_here⠀⇛ The LXQt team has officially unveiled LXQt 1.4.0, marking a significant step forward for the “Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment 65. ⚓ IPFire_2.27_-_Core_Update_181_is_available_for_testing⠀⇛ It is time to test the latest version of IPFire 66. ⚓ Review:_Porteus_5.01⠀⇛ Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB distribution based on Slackware Linux 67. ⚓ today's_leftovers⠀⇛ Red Hat, programming, and more 68. ⚓ PCLinuxOS_Magazine_Looks_at_Applications⠀⇛ 3 new articles 69. ⚓ ReactOS_Project_Newsletter_103_-_Late_2023_news⠀⇛ just out 70. ⚓ Install_Debian_12_"Bookworm":_Step-by-Step_for_Beginners_[+Dual_Boot]⠀⇛ Learn how to install Debian 12 "Bookworm" as standalone and dual-boot system. 71. ⚓ Security_and_Windows_TCO⠀⇛ Some stories and more 72. ⚓ Our_Gift_for_the_Season⠀⇛ So what took so long? ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1372 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/The_Illusion_of_Choice_Apple_Prison_Versus_Microsoft_Prison.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/The_Illusion_of_Choice_Apple_Prison_Versus_Microsoft_Prison.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ The Illusion of Choice: Apple Prison Versus Microsoft Prison⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Water_Amusement_Park:_View_from_above,_two_whale_tanks.⦈_ THE overwhelmingly large majority of people in every developed (rich) county have been connected to the Net - a propaganda, surveillance and censorship apparatus of unprecedented scale - and then conned into false dichotomies. To them, like the two whale tanks on the side, there's a "choice"... Android or iOS? Windows or MacOS? But how good are those choices? Are people presented with two brands that are controlled by similar handlers, such as the NSA and other extensions of the US administration? To us, since the early days, it was a paradigm issue, not a "brand" issue. We're totally_OK_with_the_BSDs_too. The goals are almost the same, but the trajectories (e.g. licences) differ a little. A remaining challenge for us - for all of us - is to convince people that the solution isn't to drop one "brand" in favour of another but to radically change one's expectations regarding data ownership/control, machine access, and freedom to run anything (even if the Linux_Foundation puts forth DRM-like obstructions, under the guise of "security"). We'll cover this issue separately. Abolish the prisons, encourage and reward good behaviour. The prisons should be reserved for people like Bill Gates and Nadella, whom he is reportedly micromanaging one third of his time. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠟⣛⡻⣿⣿⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⠩⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣷⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢰⣶⣾⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣿⣷⣶⣿⠐⠻⠀⢿⣿⣸⡏⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⡀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣛⣛⣛⣛⢻⣻⢿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣖⣿⣯⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⠀⠀⣈⣏⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠿⠻⠿⢿⣿⣷⣿ ⡿⠿⣿⣬⠻⠿⢛⠛⣋⣉⣷⡿⠿⣿⢿⣿⣻⣻⣿⣿⣯⣭⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⡋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠛⠻ ⣒⣒⣫⣿⣭⣭⣽⣷⣾⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣘⣰⣷⡀⡝⠻⢿⣿⣿⣷⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⢿⣿⣿⡛⠛⠛⠛⠙⡩⠙⠉⠀⠀⠀⢸⣹⢷⣄⡀⠙⢻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣴⣶ ⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠻⠿⢿⢿⢟⢛⢛⠙⠭⠉⠉⠐⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢠⣸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠐⠴⣤⣅⣀⢀⡙⠻⣶⣼⡀⠉⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣚⣛⡛⠋⠉⠉⠉⢀⣰⡀⠸⡿⠿⠿⡟⠓⠀⠃⠠⠄⠈⣈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠓⠈⠉⣿⠟⠀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣿⣿⣷⣿⣄⡀⠉⡫⣶⣄⡄⢹⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⡀⠐⠂⠀⠄⢸⣔⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠁⠀⣀⣀⡀⣡⣤⠀⣠⣠⡾⠉⢉⣙⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣎⡈⠙⠿⣿⣤⡀⡍⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣷⣤⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠞⠛⠛⢓⣶⣤⣤⣷⣤⣽⣿⣿⣯⣷⣴⣾⠏⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⠉⠓⠻⣷⣤⣀⠋⠛⢿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡁⠀⠀⢠⣶⡷⠿⠉⠉⠉⠁⣚⣛⣻⣯⣤⣤⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣑⢴⣿⡟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⠀⠈⠉⢻⣗⢦⣰⠈ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡀⠈⠳⣝⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡛⣛⢙⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣭⣄⡀⢰⠙⠻⣷ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣄⢈⠳⣍⠫⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⣰⣿ ⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⡳⣌⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⠙⠉⠉⠀⠉⠁⠹⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⡑⢬⡻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣮⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿ ⣿⣿⣿⣞⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣱⣤⡉⠇⣙⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣭⣿⣿⣶⣾⣝⣿⣿⡿⡿⡆⠲⠀⡀⠀⠀⠄⢀⠠⣼⡹ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠂⠐⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⢿⣿⠛⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣆⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⡀⣩⣻⣿⣿⡿⢟⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣍⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣭⠙⣿⣀⣇⠀⠈⠀⠀⢸⠉⠉⢹⠛⠛⢻⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣟⠛⠛⠁⣺⠛⣿⣿⣭⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠃⠀⠀⠊⠙⠻⣯⣿⣿⣿⡣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣤⣽⠷⠕⠀⠉⢙⠛⢻⠿⡷⢶⣾⣶⣤⣼⣤⣀⣸⡀⠀⢀⠸⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠉⠀⠀⠈⠉⠋⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠋⠉⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣷⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⢶⠀⢠⠀⠠⣶ ⠿⢟⣛⡟⠛⣧⣤⣼⣛⣿⣗⣾⣧⡖⣫⣿⣿⣾⡏⠉⢙⣟⣛⣛⡿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠹⢿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣴⣿⣿⣷⣦⡄⠪⠀⠀⢰⠛⠋⠀⠀⠉⠈ ⠘⠛⢋⠁⠸⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣻⡄⣴⠟⢳⡦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⣿⣇⡐⠶⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣳⣿⣴⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣠⣤⠘⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠂⠀⠈⠀⠀⣀⡆⠀⡠⠋⠉⠉⠉⠙⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⢀⣷⡀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⣠⣬⣍⣄⣄⠀⠀⣠⡄⠀⢠⡤⡀⠀⢀⡉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢼⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢄⣀⡤⠴⠿⢿⡷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⡏⢳⡞⠛⣯⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠽⠿⠿⠛⠓⠛⠛⠃⠂⠘⠻⠃⠸⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡉⠉⣥⣬⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢀⣴⣾ ⠳⣦⣤⣤⡾⠋⠀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣤⣴⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣤⣀⣤⢤⣾⣧⣸⣿⣤⡘⠗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣭⣭⣍⣀⣤⣼⡟⠁⣤⣤⢴⣥⣴⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠻⠁⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠼⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠘⠁⠀⠀⠋⠉⠘⠻⢻⠻⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠲⠸⠇⠀⢀⡉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣄⡄⠀⠀⠶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡃⣦⣄⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⡒⠋⠀⢠⢶⣿⡏⠹⣿⣭⣅⢸⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣱⢦⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣂⣄⠤⢻⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1456 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/The_News_is_Drying_Up_Journalism_Perishing_But_We_Can_Still_Cop.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/08/The_News_is_Drying_Up_Journalism_Perishing_But_We_Can_Still_Cop.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ The News is Drying Up, Journalism Perishing, But We Can Still Cope (Daily Links Always Adapting)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 08, 2023 Drying up, not getting wetter 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Nautical_Porpoise_And_Fish Vintage:_Vintage_style_newsprint_background_with_overlays_of_a_dolphin,_fish, coral,_sea_urchin_and_coral⦈_ TO repeat something we've said countless times before, every single week - not just every month - we can see a measurable decrease in the amount of news published 'out there' on the Web. This is measurable in the sense that given a set of 1,000+ RSS feeds one can tally up (or down) the declines and plot a curve. The number of new (as in newly-launched) Web sites that do journalism is a lot smaller than those shutting down/winding down. This past weekend and the weekend before that I had to redo and rework my RSS reading tools, as did others who are affiliated and actively involved. The changes are in Git, but they're not profound. Every single week it becomes a greater challenge to locate and curate news of relevance to tech, albeit this problem isn't limited to any one domain. It is not a tech issue; it is a news desert issue. This week I spoke to an investigative journalist over the telephone (yes, they still exist even if a 'dying breed'), working as a freelancer for a very large publication. The article, however, won't be in English and thus not accessible to us. One positive aspect of that interaction is that it motivated us to make some further improvement to the site's archives, dealing better with arcane (to us) characters. Our old wiki and WordPress archives aren't in a final form yet - it is an ongoing process. Editing/improving ~40,000 pages 'in bulk' is a big task. One advantage we have is, we're generally technical people, so we can fix our own problems rather than hire "expensive" people like other sites do. This means running this site isn't too hard and, unlike many other sites, we won't be shutting down any time soon; subsequently we become more visible on the Web, sometimes the latest remaining copy on some stories/topics. Mozilla is in rather_poor_shape, so it seems like only "a matter of time" before Chrome 'owns' the Web and the Web becomes almost synonymous or interchangeable with Chromium clones/derivatives (including Chrome). We become more pessimistic each time we study the trends because they show more and more restrictions being added, even_to_GNU/Linux. We're seeing Web DRM and other forms of DRM being sold as "security" (hence, no criticism is permitted). The Web probably peaked around 15-20 years ago. 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Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Fabian Sanglard ☛ 0x3_reasons_to_write_and_publish⠀⇛ If you spent time studying a topic, and struggled to understand parts of it, here are three good[1] reasons to write about it. And publish[2]. o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Silver_reveals_luxury_tastes_of_Vikings_and trade_talents_of_ancient_Greeks⠀⇛ Her research project, called SILVER, got underway in March 2019 and is due to run into 2024. It also involves Dr Stephen Merkel, an earth-sciences expert at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and a coin specialist named Jani Oravisjӓrvi at the University of Oulu in Finland. ‘Cultural chameleons’ The three researchers have analysed trace metals, including lead found in silver coins gathered from museums, using lasers for micro-sampling. Examining different variants – or isotopes – of lead helped to shed light on the source ores and, with it, to provide new information on the origins of the Viking Age. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Filippo Valsorda ☛ Enough_Polynomials_and_Linear_Algebra_to Implement_Kyber⠀⇛ Anyway, over the years of implementing RSA and elliptic curves, we collectively learned quite a bit about modular arithmetic, large finite fields, and group logic. We did it wrong for many years, and now I think we mostly know how to do it right. Except now the post-quantum algorithms are coming, and they use lattices and matrices and polynomials. So, how much linear algebra and polynomial algebra do you need to know to implement these post-quantum cryptography primitives? Turns out, surprisingly little! The word “lattice” doesn’t even show up in the spec except in the name. # ⚓ Bjoern Brembs ☛ Heading_for_#SfN23_with_two_posters⠀⇛ Our first poster will be up on Tuesday morning and shows results from operant self-stimulation experiments using optogenetics and dopaminergic neurons. Some of this work is already available as a preprint, but this poster contains essentially all the work done after that manuscript was peer- reviewed. This poster will be presented by our Bachelor student Luisa Guyton: # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ 4,000_days_of_Curiosity:_Rover_still 'strong'_despite_worn_joints,_vision_issues⠀⇛ For the wheels, engineers admitted that they misjudged the conditions encountered on the Martian surface. For the eyes, the plan is to gently encourage the filter wheel back to its standard position. If that fails, then there's always the 100mm right camera, but according to the team, nine times the number of images would be needed for the same area. Many issues have been resolved or at least mitigated through software updates - the addition of a traction control algorithm, for example, helped decrease wear and tear on wheels from sharp rocks. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ BoingBoing ☛ School_teacher_supplemented_$42k_salary_with $1_million_OnlyFans_earnings_over_the_summer⠀⇛ "A lot of people asking why didn't you just get a part time job somewhere. That seems like that would've worked better but teachers also take all of their work home. We don't get to stop working when we leave the school day. We don't get to grade all 130 students' papers during the day. It's just not possible when you're teaching, so we take that work home with us on the evenings and on the weekends. Getting a second job is really not possible." # ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ Why_We_Need_to_Ban_College_Legacy AdmissionsChildren_of_the...⠀⇛ Children of the super rich are more than twice as likely to get into America’s most elite universities as middle-class students with the exact same test scores. This fast-tracks them to become the next generation of CEOs and lawmakers, and helps keep wealth and power in the hands of people who started out wealthy and powerful. # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ XRPs_Around_the_World!⠀⇛ With the recent release of the Experiential Robotic Platform, or XRP, we wanted to get it into the hands of as many similarly tech-minded folks around the world as possible, and what better way to do that than by pairing up with FIRST Robotics? Hear all about my trip to Singapore for FIRST Global! o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D-Printed_LED_Wall_Clock_Does_Lots_With Little⠀⇛ This wall clock built by [Alf Müller] is lovely, using two NeoPixel rings to mark the time by casting light onto a 3D-printed ring. The blue shows the minutes, made more discrete by a grid inside the ring. The green shows the hours.  [Alf] has provided the code so you can rework the color scheme.  It might be interesting to add seconds with the red LEDs, or perhaps a countdown triggered by a touch sensor… # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Open_Brain_Surgery_For_EBikes_And_EScooters⠀⇛ Personal Electric Vehicles (PEVs) all contain the same basic set of parts: a motor, a battery, a motor controller, some sensors, and a display to parse the information. This simplicity allowed [casainho] to develop a custom controller setup for their own PEVs. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ It’s_A_Marble_Clock,_But_Not_As_We_Know_It⠀⇛ [Ivan Miranda] is taking a very interesting approach to a marble clock. His design is a huge assembly that uses black and white marbles to create a (sort of) dot matrix display. It’s part kinetic art and part digital clock, all driven by marbles. # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ China_Increases_Investment_in_Domestic Memory_Maker_to_$5.4_Billion:_Report⠀⇛ Changxin Xinqiao Memory Technologies gets $5.4 billion from Big Fund. # ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ The_best_Remote_ID_module_for_drone pilots⠀⇛ Remote ID modules are small devices that can be attached to your drone to broadcast its location and other information to other aircraft and air traffic control. And if you’re seeking to be Remote ID compliant (which you should be, as it’s a legal requirement in the U.S.), then you very likely may be seeking the best Remote ID module to add to your drone: Remote ID is a new Federal Aviation Administration requirement for all drones flying in the United States. In short, drones must provide identification and location information that can be read by others, whether it’s law enforcement or simply other drone pilots. Some have referred to the Remote ID rules as a sort of electronic licensing plate system for drones. # ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ China_develops_drone_that_‘group chats’_battle_strategy_like_humans⠀⇛ The drones have various sensors and advanced algorithms tailored for low-altitude exploration, real-time obstacle avoidance, and precise visual positioning. This design empowers the drones to comprehensively observe their environment from various perspectives and positions, facilitating efficient data collection and task execution. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Smart_Ring_Measures_Blood_Pressure⠀⇛ Continuous blood pressure monitoring has always been a major challenge for the biohacking community. Those giant arm cuffs aren’t exactly the kind of thing you want to wear all day and the wrist monitors aren’t super great either. So, [Kaan] and his research team set out to create a better continuous blood pressure monitor. This time as a ring. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Postnatal_depression_support_issues_raised_after mother's_disappearance⠀⇛ One in ten women may develop postpartum or postnatal depression after giving birth, experts say. The issue of postpartum depression and care has been raised following the tragedy with missing Anna Jansone and the death of her daughter Luīze. Specialists say that the attention paid to the mental health of young mothers in Latvia is insufficient, Latvian Television reported November 7. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ NGOs_urge_more_support_for_youth struggling_with_mental_health_amid_rising_student_suicides_in Hong_Kong⠀⇛ Five NGOs in Hong Kong have called for more support for youth struggling with their mental health amid a sharp surge in student suicide cases. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_has_EU's_largest_life_expectancy_gender gap⠀⇛ Eurostat figures published November 6 confirm that Latvia is the place where women outlive men by the greatest amount of time – at least as far as the European Union is concerned. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Judge’s_order_cancels_event_that would_have_blocked_sole_entrance_to_a_Kansas_abortion clinic⠀⇛ A demonstration planned by a Roman Catholic diocese in Kansas that would have blocked the only entrance to a Wichita abortion clinic Saturday morning was canceled. That came after a judge issued an order Friday to stop it. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Catholic Diocese of Wichita had been granted a city permit to close the street in front of the Trust Women clinic on Saturday for a “Mass for Life” demonstration. The event would have left open the entrance to another clinic on the street that seeks to dissuade people from getting abortions. A judge granted Trust Women clinic's request for a temporary restraining order. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ New_HHS_challenge_prize_program seeks_to_improve_local_environmental_justice⠀⇛ The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has launched a new challenge. It is seeking what it calls community-level solutions for health inequities. Prizes will total a million dollars. For how it works, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with the Interim Director of the HHS office of Environmental Justice, Sharunda Buchanan. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ VA’s_historic_hiring_surge_leads_to all-time_record_for_veteran_care_and_benefits⠀⇛ The Department of Veterans Affairs says major hiring efforts across the department allowed it to set all-time records for providing health care and benefits to veterans. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ High_Fluoride_Levels_in_Natural_Water Supplies_Could_Harm_Developing_Brains⠀⇛ Something to keep an eye on. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Bystander_Effect:_Autism_May_Make_People More_Immune_to_Phenomenon⠀⇛ Not as susceptible? # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Your_Body's_'Secret_Age'_Reveals_More_About Dementia_Risk_Than_Your_Birthday⠀⇛ How old are you really? # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Bizarre_First:_Viruses_Seen_'Biting'_Onto Other_Viruses_Like_Tiny_Vampires⠀⇛ "I can't believe this." # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Strawberries_Could_Have_a_Surprising_Effect on_Our_Brains_as_We_Age⠀⇛ A sweet thought. # ⚓ La Prensa Latina ☛ Mobile_phone_use_linked_to_low_sperm count_in_young_men⠀⇛ Male sperm count has fallen by over 50% globally in the last 50 years, leaving researchers scrambling to understand why. Could it be pollution, PFAS and other potential toxins in our food and water, an increase in obesity and chronic disease, or even the ever-present mobile phone? # ⚓ California ☛ Western_States’_planned_water_cuts_are_enough to_avert_a_Colorado_River_crisis,_for_now⠀⇛ At stake is a water supply for 40 million people, seven states, 30 federally recognized Tribal Nations, and 5.5 million acres of agriculture. A combination of an ample Rocky Mountain snowpack, wet weather and the states’ planned cuts averted imminent declines that could have threatened water deliveries and power production, federal officials say. But they warned that long-term threats to the vital supply remain. # ⚓ YLE ☛ THL_admits_rolling_out_Covid_booster_too_late [Ed: How effective are these anyway?]⠀⇛ Finland has seen a recent rise in reports of Covid cases as well as the number of people requiring hospital treatment for the virus. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Can_You_Keep_a_Secret?⠀⇛ Escambia County, Alabama, District Attorney Stephen Billy has charged Atmore News publisher and co- owner Sherry Digmon and reporter Don Fletcher with revealing grand jury secrets. The charges are based on a story about an investigation into whether federal COVID-19 funds were improperly paid to seven former Escambia County School System employees. The school system's payroll… # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ IRS_to_launch_callback_option_for most_taxpayers_seeking_help_next_filing_season⠀⇛ The IRS is making these upgrades to avoid the kind of backlogs in paper tax returns and correspondence it saw at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those backlogs led to unprecedented backlogs and tax refund delays. # ⚓ UK_Excess_Deaths:_Still_About_10%_More_Deaths_Than_Before COVID-19⠀⇛ Looking back at what what ONS released yesterday morning o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ The Gamer ☛ Ubisoft_Lays_Off_124_Workers_To_Improve "Efficiency"⠀⇛ Ubisoft lays off 124 employees in the name of "enhanc[ing] collective efficiency", adding to the already huge number of job losses in the gaming industry this year. While reassuring fans that the cuts won't affect the game production teams, it's still a huge number of workers to lose their jobs, particularly so close to the holidays. Ubisoft hasn't give us much information on the matter, other than saying that the decision was not "taken lightly", and that it is providing "comprehensive support" to those losing their jobs. # ⚓ Ubisoft_Montreal_Is_The_Latest_Studio_Hit_With_Layoffs_- Insider_Gaming⠀⇛ Another studio has become victim to layoffs as Ubisoft Montreal has seen staff cut in the latest cost-cutting measure across gaming # ⚓ Nextdoor_to_lay_off_25%_of_its_staff_as_part_of_cost reduction_plan⠀⇛ San Francisco-based Nextdoor will lay off 25% of its staff, the company announced in a financial report posted Tuesday. The job cuts are part of a broader cost reduction plan that targets reducing the neighborhood network social media company’s personnel expenses by $60 million. “This reduction in our team is the hardest decision we have had to make at Nextdoor,” said Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar. “While our opportunity and belief in the transformative power of community remains unwavering, and our business is financially strong with a healthy balance sheet, we must follow through on our commitment to our shareholders.” # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ AI-generated_faces_look_just_like_real ones_–_but_evidence_shows_your_brain_can_tell_the difference⠀⇛ The results from the EEG test showed that brain activity differed when people were looking at real versus synthetic faces. This difference was apparent at around 170 milliseconds after the faces first appeared onscreen. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Unemployed_Man_Uses_AI_to_Apply_for_5,000_Jobs, Gets_20_Interviews⠀⇛ Specifically, he used a tool called LazyApply to blast out 5,000 job applications "in a single click" — and managed to land around 20 job interviews. While that may sound a lot, that's a meager success rate of roughly half a percent. At the same time, though, he only got 20 or so interviews after applying to several hundred jobs the old-fashioned way. # ⚓ Wired ☛ This_AI_Bot_Fills_Out_Job_Applications_for_You While_You_Sleep⠀⇛ After Joseph paid $250 for a lifetime unlimited plan and installed LazyApply’s Chrome extension, he watched the bot zip through applications on his behalf on sites like LinkedIn and Indeed, targeting jobs that matched his criteria. Thirsting for efficiency, he installed the app on his boyfriend’s laptop too, and he went to bed with two computers furiously churning through reams of applications. By morning, the bot had applied to close to 1,000 jobs on his behalf. The tool wasn’t perfect. It appeared to guess the answers to questions on some applications, with sometimes confused results. But in a brute force kind of way, it worked. After LazyApply completed applications for some 5,000 jobs, Joseph says he landed around 20 interviews, a hit rate of about a half percent. Compared to the 20 interviews he’d landed after manually applying to 200 to 300 jobs, the success rate was dismal. But given the time Job GPT saved, Joseph felt it was worth the investment. LazyApply didn’t respond to a question about how the service works. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ It’s_shockingly_easy_to_buy sensitive_data_about_US_military_personnel⠀⇛ For as little as $0.12 per record, data brokers in the US are selling sensitive private data about active-duty military members and veterans, including their names, home addresses, geolocation, net worth, and religion, and information about their children and health conditions. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Introducing_Badger_Swarm:_New_Project_Helps Privacy_Badger_Block_Ever_More_Trackers⠀⇛ We continue to update and grow Privacy Badger’s pre-trained list. Privacy Badger now comes with the largest blocklist yet, thanks to improved tracking detection and continually expanding training. Can you guess when we started using Badger Swarm? Privacy Badger is defined by its automatic learning. As we write in the FAQ, Privacy Badger was born out of our desire for an extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker that violated consent, and that would use algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn’t tracking. But when and where that learning happens has evolved over the years. When we first created Privacy Badger, every Privacy Badger installation started with no tracker knowledge and learned to block trackers as you browsed. This meant that every Privacy Badger became stronger, smarter, and more bespoke over time. It also meant that all learning was siloed, and new Privacy Badgers didn’t block anything until they got to visit several websites. This made some people think their Privacy Badger extension wasn’t working. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ DOJ_Refuses_to_Let_Trump_Disavow_His_Mob⠀⇛ In three different ways in their responses to Trump’s motions to dismiss submitted yesterday, Jack Smith’s prosecutors emphasized that Trump should be subject to the same standards — and legal precedents — as the mob he sicced on the Capitol. One pertains to the appellate precedents already set in the application of 18 USC 1512(c)(2). DOJ cited both January 6 precedents — Fischer and Robertson — to lay out that interrupting the vote certification to secure the presidency for oneself would be evidence of corrupt intent. # ⚓ Quillette ☛ Muslim_Antisemitism_and_the_Western_Left⠀⇛ So, how does Hamas intend to solve “the Jewish problem”? The Charter states: “The Prophet… has said: ‘The time [the Day of Judgment] will not come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. [And] the stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’” We saw this happen, almost literally, on 7 October. As to its immediate political goal, the Charter is clear: Hamas seeks to turn the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea—“from the river to the sea,” a phrase echoed in many of the post-7 October demonstrations—that is, all the territory of British Mandate Palestine or the historical Land of Israel into a Sharia-governed Islamic polity. It intends “to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine,” after obliterating the Jewish state “through jihad,” as “Islam obliterated others before it.” Thunberg and Butler and their colleagues, feminists all, might also ponder the Charter’s designated role for women: [...] # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Political_advertising:_EU_won’t_ban_voter manipulation_and_microtargeting⠀⇛ Yesterday, the EU Parliament and Council agreed on new rules on transparency and targeting of political advertising. The Parliament was able to secure a publicly accessible library of online political advertising, but targeting political messages based on the individual preferences, weaknesses, situation and personality of every user will remain legal (so-called surveillance advertising). Patrick Breyer, EU lawmaker and digital freedom fighter for the Pirate Party, who co-negotiated the regulation in the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE), takes stock: [...] # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Three_Years_Later,_Fentanylware_ (TikTok)_Is_Shutting_Down_Its_$2_Billion_Creator_Fund⠀⇛ Multiple outlets have reported on TikTok’s plans to retire the three-year-old Creator Fund, though at the time of this writing, the ByteDance-owned app hadn’t acknowledged the news with a formal release or social post. In any event, the same sources have pointed to a Saturday, December 16th end for the Creator Fund. First announced back in July of 2020, this fund was initially billed as a support resource through which TikTok diehards could “realize additional earnings” for their on-platform “care and dedication.” # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Peace_is_impossible_while_Vladimir Putin_denies_Ukraine’s_right_to_exist⠀⇛ While calls to end the bloodshed in Ukraine are perfectly understandable, anyone advocating a compromise peace deal with Vladimir Putin must first reckon with the genocidal reality of Russia’s invasion, writes Taras Kuzio. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Places_Another_ICC_Judge_On_Its_Wanted List⠀⇛ Russia has issued an arrest warrant for a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) who in March issued a warrant for President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Fallen_war_volunteer_buried_in_Latvia⠀⇛ Former Latvian National Armed Forces (NBS) soldier Vitālijs Smirnovs died volunteering for Ukraine at night from September 30 to October 1 in a drone attack carried out by Russia in eastern Ukraine. On Tuesday, November 7, the urn with ashes was buried in Latvia. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Public_asked_to_fill_ten_buses_with donations_for_Ukraine⠀⇛ Riga will send ten more “Rīgas Satiksme” public transport buses to Chernihiv in Ukraine. Just like the previous times, residents have been asked to donate the things Ukrainians need to fill buses with food, hygiene goods, and other everyday items, Latvian Television reported Tuesday. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Ukraine_reports_fresh_success_in the_Battle_of_the_Black_Sea⠀⇛ Ukraine's success in the Battle of the Black Sea should convince the country's Western partners to finally abandon their cautious approach and provide the Ukrainian military with the weapons they need to defeat Russia, writes Peter Dickinson. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Zelensky_says_‘not_the_time’_for presidential_elections_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he doesn't believe it is the right time for elections as debate intensifies on holding a vote in 2024 while the country fights against Russia's invasion. # ⚓ LRT ☛ ‘Very_difficult’_discussions_ahead_on_Ukraine’s EU_membership_–_Lithuanian_FM⠀⇛ Lithuania’s foreign minister expects a positive assessment from the European Commission on Ukraine’s readiness to start negotiations on EU membership, but has no doubt that the subsequent discussions among heads of state will be difficult. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ At_Least_Five_Civilians_Killed_In_Russian Shelling_Of_Eastern,_Southeastern_Ukraine⠀⇛ At least five civilians were killed and several wounded by Russian shelling of residential areas in eastern and southeastern Ukraine over the past day, authorities said on November 8. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Senate_Democrats_Block_Republican_Bid_To Aid_Israel,_Not_Ukraine⠀⇛ U.S. Senate Democrats on November 7 blocked a Republican effort to win quick approval for a bill providing emergency aid to Israel that passed the House of Representatives last week, but that provides no assistance for Ukraine's war against Russia. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Anticipates_'Historic_Conclusion'_On EU_Membership,_Zelenskiy_Says⠀⇛ President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Kyiv is already planning the steps it will take after the European Commission issues a report on November 8 on Ukraine's progress toward membership in the European Union. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Says_Russia_Funds_Latin_America-Wide Anti-Ukraine_Disinformation_Drive⠀⇛ The United States has accused Russia of financing a Latin America-wide disinformation campaign, which feeds media contacts with propaganda and fake news aimed at weakening support for Ukraine and boosting anti-U.S. and anti-NATO sentiments. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Dozens_Of_Women_In_Moscow_Make_Rare_Public Call_For_Their_Husbands'_Return_From_Ukraine_War⠀⇛ Dozens of women rallied in Moscow on November 7, demanding that their husbands, who have been mobilized to fight in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, return home, a rare display of protest amid a crackdown on any dissent over the conflict. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Top_U.S._Officials_Urge_Congress_To_Back Request_For_Direct_Budget_Support_For_Ukraine⠀⇛ Top members of U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on November 7 urged Congress to approve his request for direct budget support for Ukraine. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Ukrainian_Attack_in_Donetsk_Leaves_at_Least 6_Dead⠀⇛ Moscow has asked the UN Security Council to hold an urgent meeting on November 8 "in connection with today's attacks, launched on Donetsk by the Kiev regime." # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Shoots_Down_17_Ukrainian_Drones_Over Black_Sea_&_Crimea⠀⇛ Ukraine has been attacking the Crimean peninsula with NATO-made drones and missiles. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Top_US_officials_Blinken,_Austin to_visit_India_for_Indo-Pacific_talks⠀⇛ U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will hold talks with India this week that officials say will focus on security challenges in the Indo-Pacific and concerns over China, rather than the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Something_Was_Wrong’:_Ukrainians Lament_Deaths_at_Medal_Ceremony⠀⇛ A gathering in plain sight of so many soldiers was reckless, critics said, and evoked a rigid adherence to Soviet-era military tradition. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Investigates_Birthday Grenade_Blast_That_Killed_Military_Aide⠀⇛ Maj. Gennadiy Chastyakov, an aide to Ukraine’s top commander, died when a grenade given to him as a gift blew up. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Ukraine_Seeks_Troops,_Women Prepare_for_the_Call⠀⇛ With so much in the war against Russia hinging on refilling the ranks of soldiers, efforts are underway to draw more Ukrainian women into the army. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Orban’s_Dream_of_an_Illiberal_Pan- European_Alliance_Is_Fading⠀⇛ The Hungarian leader’s efforts have been undermined by setbacks for some of his political allies across Europe and deep divisions over the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘He_probably_didn’t_believe_they_were_live munitions’:_Questions_abound_after_top_Ukrainian military_aide_killed_by_grenade_he_received_for_his birthday_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_says_‘now_is_not_the_time’_for elections_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Russian_aircraft_violated_Latvian_airspace⠀⇛ On November 7, Latvia's Ministry of Defense confirmed an airspace violation by Russia on November 6. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Pet_imports_from_third_countries_could_be restricted_over_rabies_concerns⠀⇛ Over the past year, a significant number of dogs and cats have been coming into Latvia from third countries, in particular Russia and Belarus. Their accompanying documents often contain irregularities and falsehoods. This raises concerns about the true state of health of the animals and therefore the risks of rabies, the Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) said November 7. # ⚓ France24 ☛ In_wave_of_anti-Semitism,_Russian_mob storms_plane_'looking_for_Israelis'⠀⇛ Several anti-semitic incidents were recorded in the Caucasus, a Russian region made up of three majority-Muslim republics, on October 28 and 29. In one of these incidents, a mob stormed an airport to search for "Israelis" and "Jews" on a flight from Tel Aviv. Our team spoke to a researcher who said that while these incidents were sparked by the war between Hamas and Israel, there is also a more complex regional context. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_withdraws_from_arms_control_treaty⠀⇛ Russia withdrew from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty on Tuesday and NATO suspended its participation, signaling a continued break-down of the status quo in global security. Russia and 22 other countries signed the treaty in 1990, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_railway_co_detects_possible sanctions_evasion_scheme_to_ship_luxury_cars_to Russia⠀⇛ Lithuania’s state-owned railway company LTG has asked law enforcement to investigate a possible violation of international sanctions, suspecting that luxury cars exported to non-EU countries may be ending up in Russia. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Husband_Of_RFE/RL_Journalist_Detained_In Russia_Says_Wife_A_'Political_Prisoner'⠀⇛ The husband of detained U.S. journalist Alsu Kurmasheva says his wife is a "political prisoner" and he called on the United States to classify her as "wrongfully detained" as she remains behind bars in Russia on a charge of failing to register as a foreign agent. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia's_Navalny_In_Solitary_Again,_Day_After Release⠀⇛ Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who is serving a total of 19 years in prison on extremism and other charges, has been placed in punitive solitary confinement for the 22nd time since August 2022. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bashkortostan's_Supreme_Court_Rejects_Appeal Of_Former_Chief_Of_Navalny's_Team_Against_Her Imprisonment⠀⇛ The Supreme Court of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan has rejected an appeal filed by Lilia Chanysheva, the former regional leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team, over the seven-and-a-half- year prison term she was handed in June amid a brutal crackdown on civil society. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Russia's_Lavrov_assails_West_over switch_to_green_energy⠀⇛ Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West on Wednesday of provoking crises on the global oil and gas market by rushing to switch to green energy and imposing pressure on other countries to do the same. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Efforts_to_revive_grain_deal bearing_no_results:_Russia's_Lavrov⠀⇛ Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that United Nations attempts to revive the Black Sea grain initiative were still bearing no results. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Russia's_Shoigu_meets_top_Chinese military_official_for_second_time_in_10_days⠀⇛ Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu held talks in Moscow on Wednesday with a senior Chinese military official and said they would discuss steps to deepen cooperation, Interfax news agency reported. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Russia's_Patrushev_says_West stoking_risk_nuclear_weapons_will_be_used⠀⇛ Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Wednesday that the "destructive" policies of the United States and its allies were increasing the risk that nuclear, chemical or biological weapons would be used. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Blinken_to_visit_South_Korea_as North_Korea,_Russia_deepen_ties⠀⇛ The two-day visit is the first by a US secretary of state in 2½ years. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Russian_company_says_broken_cable_detected before_Balticconnector_pipeline_incident⠀⇛ A break in a Russian telecommunications cable was apparently detected on 7 October, one day before the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia was damaged. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Another_20_kilometers_of_border_fence planned_to_be_built_this_year⠀⇛ By the end of the year, it is planned to construct another 19.9 kilometers (km) of fence on the Latvian-Belarusian border, the Ministry of Interior told LETA on November 7. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Number_of_attempts_to_cross_Latvian- Belarusian_border_reduce_slightly⠀⇛ Attempts to cross the Latvian-Belarusian border illegally have decreased due to the cold weather, but tensions are currently increasing on Poland's border with Belarus, State Border Guard Chief Guntis Pujāts told Latvian Television November 7. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_confiscates_oligarch's_€2.5m Kirkkonummi_property⠀⇛ The Finnish Defence Ministry granted the Russian businessman permission to buy an adjoining lot in 2020, as he already owned the main cottage. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_arrest_Dagestan’s_deputy interior_minister_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Libraries_in_some_Russian_cities_begin requiring_patrons_to_show_ID_before_checking_out_books by_‘foreign_agents’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ NATO_condemns_Russia’s_withdrawal_from Treaty_on_Conventional_Armed_Forces_in_Europe,_suspends treaty_in_response_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Hamas_says_two_women_with_Russian citizenship_found_among_hostages,_can_only_be_released if_‘Israelis_stop_the_fighting’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Our_Planet_Is_Literally_Shaking_Under_The Effects_of_Global_Warming⠀⇛ Can you feel it? # ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ Wealth_Never_Sleeps⠀⇛ Wishing away overconsumption without reducing population or affluence is a denial of math. # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Africa's_dangerous_air_pollution_levels are_a_global_problem,_says_new_research⠀⇛ Over the last 50 years African nations have suffered from rapidly deteriorating air quality, making their cities some of the most polluted in the world. Particulate matter concentration levels are now five to 10 levels greater than that recommended by the World Health Organization, with the situation predicted to worsen as populations grow and industrialization accelerates. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Prince_William_rallies_against_climate denialism_at_Earthshot_Prize⠀⇛ “I choose to believe that future generations will look back on this decade as the point at which we globally took collective action for our planet ... the moment we refused to accept the voices of denial and defeatism and instead became the architects of change towards a healthy and sustainable world,” he said. “We owe it to the generations that will follow us to work together both for their future and for the future of our planet.” # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Europe:_How_climate_change,_mass_tourism threaten_the_Alps⠀⇛ Increasingly, though, the Alps are becoming infamous for traffic jams, overcrowded villages and pleasure seekers obstructing hiking trails and skiing slopes. What used to be idyllic Alpine villages in pristine landscapes have been transformed into ugly concrete fortresses of mass accommodation. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Alarm_Bells_Sounded_For_Greenland's_Ice Sheet,_After_The_Collapse_of_3_Ice_Shelves⠀⇛ This research suggests faculty supervisors and university staff responsible for students' development and well-being are often ill-prepared to support students through online harassment experiences. This means graduate students are left frightened, discouraged and with nowhere to turn for help. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ Boom_in_space_tourism_threatens_to_boost the_amounts_of_space_junk_and_climate_emissions⠀⇛ There are also major concerns about risks posed by the increase in the general number of space missions, particularly because space junk is already a major problem in low Earth orbit. In 1978, [NASA] scientist Donald J Kessler described the “Kessler syndrome” – a potential runaway effect where a collision in space could spark many more debris impacts, leading to the destruction of multiple spacecraft, or even the majority of low Earth orbit spacecraft. Since 1999, the ISS has had to manoeuvre to avoid large pieces of space junk 32 times. Recently, the risk has been raised by a huge increase in the number of craft in low Earth orbit. In particular, since 2019, SpaceX and its competitors, such as OneWeb and Amazon Kuiper have embarked on programmes of launching tens of thousands of satellites into low Earth orbit to provide internet access. # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Doordash_Does_a_Thing_for_Safety_and_Wants Credit_for_Doing_What_Should_Be_Expected⠀⇛ I don’t know whether this should be a kudos or brickbats story. It seems that DoorDash, a company that’s responsible for lots of greenhouse gasses getting pumped into our atmosphere, announced on Friday that it’s added new safety features into the app that the company uses to dispatch its drivers to pick-up food to deliver to its customers. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Amazon_launches_programme_for deliveries_via_electric_vehicles_in_India⠀⇛ E-commerce company Amazon has launched its last-mile fleet programme in India with 100 per cent electric vehicles, under which it will provide its delivery service providers with access to customized EVs suitable for last-mile deliveries. In the initial phase of the programme, the company has introduced Mahindra Zor Grand three-wheeler EVs, each equipped with specialised enhancements for Amazon's last-mile deliveries. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Burned_Out:_Documents_Reveal_The_Gas Industry’s_Use_Of_Tobacco_Tactics_Over_Gas_Stove Emissions⠀⇛ In the 1970s, Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. In a series of studies, Goldstein and his colleagues identified a higher incidence of respiratory problems among schoolchildren from homes with gas stoves. Fifty years on, Goldstein, now emeritus professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Pittsburgh, recently told NPR “it’s way past time that we were doing something about gas stoves.”  Explanation for this 50-year delay can be found in the hundreds of pages of documents referenced in a new report by the Climate Investigations Center (CIC), covered by NPR. The report illustrates the gas industry’s multi-decade PR campaign dating back to the 1970s to manufacture controversy over the health effects of gas stove emissions and avoid regulation. This PR campaign relied on tactics used by Big Tobacco to promote doubt and uncertainty over the link between cigarettes and cancer.  # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Top_Tory_Think_Tank’s_North_Sea_Oil_and_Gas ‘Vested_Interests’⠀⇛ The influential Conservative-linked Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has been pushing for further North Sea oil and gas drilling while several of its board members hold financial interests in the industry, a DeSmog investigation has found. The news follows the government’s approval of the major Rosebank oilfield and the issuing of new North Sea licences, which the government intends to turn into a mandatory annual process, as announced in this week’s King’s Speech. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ How_an_orca_held_captive_at_the_Vancouver Aquarium_helped_changed_the_world's_view_on_killer whales⠀⇛ It's been 43 years since the death of Skana, the Vancouver Aquarium's first resident orca, who experts believe changed the way people viewed killer whales and spurred a global movement in whale conservation. Today, the resident killer whales that frequent the waters off British Columbia's South Coast are endangered, protected and beloved. But whaling once thrived in the area, particularly during the '60s and the '70s. # ⚓ Science News ☛ The_mysterious_deaths_of_dozens_of Zimbabwe’s_elephants_has_been_solved⠀⇛ The bacterium, dubbed Pasteurellaceae Bisgaard taxon 45, turned up in samples from six of 15 elephants analyzed, researchers report October 25 in Nature Communications. The pathogen is closely related to Pasteurella multocida, which is known to cause hemorrhagic septicemia, or fatal blood poisoning, but Bisgaard taxon 45 had not been previously implicated in such infections. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ Wildcats_lived_alongside_domestic cats_for_2,000_years_but_only_started_interbreeding_60 years_ago_–_new_study⠀⇛ Habitat loss and hunting are two of the biggest threats facing this species across its range, but in Scotland, hybridisation with domestic cats is now the biggest threat to this population. Interbreeding between the two species is frequent now. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ ADF ☛ U.N._Warns_of_‘Tipping_Point’_as_Hunger, Violence_Worsen⠀⇛ The number of Africans facing acute food insecurity rose from 137 million in 2022 to a record 149 million in 2023. An estimated 82% of them are in conflict-affected countries. The IPC system defines acute food insecurity as Phase 3 or higher. Nicholas Haan, creator of the IPC scale, said famine is when more than 20% of a population can’t secure enough food to sustain themselves. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Social_media_platforms_in_Indonesia keep_fighting_for_e-commerce_pie_slice_despite_ban⠀⇛ ByteDance is considering a separate platform for e- shopping. Meta and Alphabet have applied for e- commerce licences. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia_studying_regulations_for Fentanylware_(TikTok)_shop,_says_minister⠀⇛ The move could further dent the social control media company’s online shopping ambitions in South- east Asia. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Big_Tech_to_face_tougher_rules_on_targeted political_ads_in_EU⠀⇛ Big Tech firms will face new European Union rules to clearly label political advertising on their platforms, who paid for it and how much and which elections are being targeted, ahead of important votes in the bloc next year. The new political advertising rules, which were agreed by EU countries and European Parliament lawmakers late on Monday, will force social media groups such as Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms to be more transparent and accountable. # ⚓ CBC ☛ Jailed_Iranian_Nobel_winner_on_hunger_strike_after being_denied_medical_care_for_not_wearing_hijab⠀⇛ Narges Mohammadi refuses to wear a hijab, even if it means prison officials won't take her to hospital for urgently needed medical treatment. Now the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner is on hunger strike to protest her treatment. And according to her friends and supporters, other inmates are joining her. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ‘Where_will_we_go?’:_First_Nations_court_bid to_force_federal_action_on_climate⠀⇛ The first Australian climate court case brought on behalf of First Nations people has heard climate “tipping points” could be reached that would rapidly lead to irreversible changes, such as sea level rise. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Tragic_Prelude…⠀⇛ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Investigating_China’s_economic_coercion: The_reach_and_role_of_Chinese_corporate_entities⠀⇛ How is corporate ownership used in Beijing's economic influence operations, and what makes a country more susceptible to coercive attempts? # ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Is_Lending_Billions_to_Countries_in Financial_Trouble⠀⇛ Instead of lending money for highways and bridges, China has shifted to providing emergency rescues for previous borrowers. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China,_Australia_to_restart_annual meetings_as_trade_resumes⠀⇛ Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Tuesday, in what Albanese said was an annual leaders' meeting that would continue as relations between the trading partners stabilised. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Poll_makes_better_reading_for_Biden than_China's_Pooh-tin_before_expected_summit⠀⇛ Ahead of an expected meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and China's President Pooh-tin Jinping next week, a U.S. think tank says data it has collected from two dozen countries shows the American leader is winning the battle for public opinion. # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_urges_Tibetan_students_to_denounce_Dalai_Lama⠀⇛ At 'anti-separatism' workshop, teachers and students are told to pledge allegiance to the one- party state. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Guangdong_officials_ban_Model_United_Nations_over federalism_debate⠀⇛ A re-enacted debate from the 1920s on provincial autonomy sounds alarm bells in Beijing over Cantonese separatism. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Thailand_plans_to_evacuate_162_of_its_nationals_from Myanmar_via_China⠀⇛ The Thais were rescued from human traffickers in Shan state but have been stuck there amid fighting between warring sides. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Man_in_South_Korea_arrested_for assaulting_woman_for_having_short_hair⠀⇛ He also used a chair to attack a customer who tried to intervene, causing bone fractures. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Trump_Lashes_Out_at_Judge,_Attorney_General in_Fraud_Trial_That_Could_End_His_Real_Estate_Empire⠀⇛ Former President Donald Trump lashed out from the witness stand at the judge and prosecutor in his New York civil fraud case Monday. He could be forced to dissolve much of his real estate empire and bar his family from doing business in New York. “The scene was pretty incredible to witness,” says Lauren Aratani, reporter for the Guardian US who is covering the trial. The court is now determining how much the Trumps must pay in damages as the case enters the penalty phase. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_View_Tweets_Deleted_By_Anyone⠀⇛ Twitter, which is now known as X, is a fantastic platform for people to express themselves through their tweets. However, there may be times when you regret a post and decide to delete it. But what if you’re curious about tweets that have been deleted by someone else? This tutorial explores the methods and tools available to view deleted tweets by anyone, whether it’s someone you know, a stranger, or even yourself. # ⚓ PinkNews ☛ Moms_for_Liberty_members_call_cops_on_librarians after_teen_checks_out_YA_novel⠀⇛ The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office referred Tapley and Gurski to the director of safety at Santa Rosa County Florida School District before the case was closed. Commenting on the incident, Kasey Meehan, a director at PEN America, told the publication: “To see the orchestrated campaign to remove books from schools escalate to a police station is shocking. # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_urges_Tibetan_students_to_denounce_Dalai_Lama⠀⇛ China is urging teachers and students in western Tibet to pledge allegiance to the one-party state and denounce the Dalai Lama and what authorities say are his separatist ways, according to two Tibetans living inside Tibet. Officials summoned more than 400 teachers and students from elementary and middle schools in Ngari prefecture of the western Tibet Autonomous Region of China to attend a workshop on “anti- separatism” in October, the sources said. # ⚓ ANF News ☛ Norwegian_Nobel_Committee_deeply_concerned_about the_health_of_Narges_Mohammadi⠀⇛ The Norwegian Nobel Committee is deeply concerned about the health of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi after she has been denied medical treatment. “The requirement that female inmates must wear a hijab in order to be hospitalized, is inhumane and morally unacceptable,” said the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Fired_Iranian_Professor_Says_High-Tech Surveillance,_Dismissals_Used_To_'Impose_Silence'_At Universities⠀⇛ Speaking to RFE/RL's Radio Farda, Chamanara says that Iran's clerical establishment has tried to control universities since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Whenever it faces public opposition, as it does today, the authorities heap pressure on universities, he says. Through this strategy, Chamanara says, Tehran has managed to keep professors -- although not students -- in a state of relative silence. # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ West_Michigan_library_defunded_over_LGBTQ books_wins_tax_support_on_3rd_try⠀⇛ Voters in Ottawa County’s Jamestown Township approved an operating millage Tuesday for the Patmos Library by a 63 percent to 37 percent margin, with all votes counted, ending one of Michigan’s most contentious culture wars over books. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Family_Angered_After_Closure_Of Investigation_Into_Son's_Death_During_Protests⠀⇛ Adinehzadeh was one of hundreds of casualties during protests that erupted following the death of Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained for an alleged head-scarf violation. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) says more than 500 people have been killed during the unrest, including 71 minors, as security forces try to stifle widespread dissent. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ Two_journalists_assaulted_by_protestors_in_South Africa⠀⇛ A group of about seven unidentified people assaulted two journalists with local broadcaster Mpuma Kapa TV (MPKTV) around noon on October 30, while the reporters were covering protests about the alleged hijacking of government housing—where possession of the property is taken by those not on the waiting list—in the coastal city of Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape province, according to a statement by the South African National Editors’ Forum, a report by the outlet, and Sbu Maingo, one of the journalists who spoke to CPJ. # ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Kansas_officials_downplayed_involvement in_Marion_raid._Here’s_what_they_knew.⠀⇛ The Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Department of Revenue, Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the Office of the State Fire Marshal — along with the county attorney and a magistrate judge — were complicit in the Aug. 11 raid or knew it was imminent. But in the days that followed, they largely downplayed their involvement. Police reports, internal agency emails and other documents obtained by Kansas Reflector provide a clearer picture of the raid than the early one that crystallized as a fast-moving story attracted international attention. # ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Three_months_after_newsroom_raid,_Marion editor’s_advice_resounds:_Speak_out_and_don’t_be_afraid⠀⇛ In the nearly three months since law enforcement raided the Marion County Record, we’ve seen an abundance of news coverage and a handful of changes on the ground. Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody resigned after scrutiny of his career and actions around the search. Record editor and publisher Eric Meyer received the Above and Beyond Award from the Kansas Coalition for Open Government at a Friday luncheon. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation continues to look into the whole affair. Yet a new account of authorities’ unprecedented assault on free expression brings home how much remains to be done in Kansas and across the nation to protect our constitutional rights. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ Iranian_journalist_Negar_Ostad_Agha_detained reporting_on_girl’s_funeral⠀⇛ Iranian authorities must immediately release female journalist Negar Ostad Agha and cease jailing members of the press for reporting the news, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ Attacks,_arrests,_threats,_censorship:_The_high_risks of_reporting_the_Israel-Gaza_war⠀⇛ Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Investigators_Head_to_Antarctica_Research Base_After_Sexual_Violence_Claims⠀⇛ The National Science Foundation watchdog is sending agents to a U.S. research base in Antarctica after a 2022 report raised concerns about sexual misconduct. # ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ My_great_grandpa_faced_off_against_the Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Lincoln,_Kansas,_and_prevailed⠀⇛ While the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas, like elsewhere across the country, purported to support decency, the family and white supremacy, it was also a vehicle for attacking business rivals and members of the Catholic Church. I know this as fact because my great grandfather, Ira Armsbury, had a run-in with the Klan in Lincoln during the 1920s. My Great-Aunt Ila, Ira’s third daughter, told me the story in a letter dated Feb. 4, 2000. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ How_Is_Child_Marriage_Still_Legal_in_the U.S.?⠀⇛ USAID officials have declared child marriage a human-rights violation. Last year, the agency laid out a “roadmap” to end child marriage worldwide by 2030. And yet only 10 U.S states ban marriage under age 18 without exception. Five states have no minimum age of marriage as long as parental and/or judicial consent is given. The rest of the states allow child marriage with age limits—usually 16 to 17, though sometimes younger—as well as parental and/or judicial consent. # ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Government_Surveillance_Reform_Act_Would_Rein_in Some_of_the_Worst_Abuses_of_Section_702⠀⇛ While Section 702 was first sold as a tool necessary to stop foreign terrorists, it has since become clear that the government uses the communications it collects under this law as a domestic intelligence source. The program was intended to collect communications of people outside of the United States, but because we live in an increasingly globalized world, the government retains a massive trove of communications between people overseas on U.S. persons. Increasingly, it’s this U.S. side of digital conversations that are being routinely sifted through by domestic law enforcement agencies—all without a warrant.  # ⚓ EFF ☛ Article_45_Will_Roll_Back_Web_Security_by_12_Years⠀⇛ This is a catastrophe for the privacy of everyone who uses the internet, but particularly for those who use the internet in the EU. Browser makers have not announced their plans yet, but it seems inevitable that they will have to create two versions of their software: one for the EU, with security checks removed, and another for the rest of the world, with security checks intact. We’ve been down this road before, when export controls on cryptography meant browsers were released in two versions: strong cryptography for US users, and weak cryptography for everyone else. It was a fundamentally inequitable situation and the knock- on effects set back web security by decades. # ⚓ EFF ☛ This_Month,_The_EU_Parliament_Can_Take_Action_To_Stop The_Attack_On_Encryption⠀⇛ The original proposal from the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, would allow EU authorities to compel online services to analyze all user data and check it against law enforcement databases. The stated goal is to look for crimes against children, including child abuse images.  But this proposal would have undermined a private and secure internet, which relies on strong encryption to protect the communications of everyone—including minors. The EU proposal even proposed reporting people to police as possible child abusers by using AI to rifle through people’s text messages.  # ⚓ EFF ☛ Observation_Mission_Stresses_Key_Elements_of_Ola Bini's_Case_for_Upholding_Digital_Rights⠀⇛ In the context of the Internet Governance Forum 2023 (IGF) held in Japan, the Observation Mission on the Bini case, which includes EFF and various digital and human rights groups, analyzed how advocates can utilize key elements of the judgment that found Bini not guilty. The Mission released a new statement pointing out these elements. The statement also urges Ecuadorian authorities to clarify Bini's procedural status as the attorney general's office has been posing difficulties for Bini's compliance with the precautionary measures still pending against him, particularly the requirement of periodic appearances to the AG's office.   o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ The_prevalence_of_domain_parking⠀⇛ My fellow researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of Twente and I set out to identify parking services and quantify the impact of domain parking on the DNS ecosystem and evaluate their impact on the Internet’s centralization. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Internet_Access_Shouldn't_Be_a_Bargaining_Chip In_Geopolitical_Battles_-_scheerpost.com⠀⇛ We at EFF are horrified by the events transpiring in the Middle East: Hamas’ deadly attack on southern Israel last weekend and Israel’s ongoing retributive military attack and siege on Gaza. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ In_re_TikTok:_Fifth Circuit_Implicitly_Backs_Federal_Circuit’s_Use_of Mandamus_to_Transfer_Cases_Out_of_W.D.Tex.⠀⇛ The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided an important convenient venue case.  Granting TikTok’s mandamus petition to have its trade secret case transferred from W.D.Tex to N.D.Cal.  The decision does not really break ground in the venue/mandamus debate, but does solidify the Federal Circuit’s parallel approach in patent monopoly cases out of the same district.  In re Fentanylware (TikTok) Incorporated, — F.4th —-, 2023 WL 7147263 (5th Cir. 2023).  Decision. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Comments_on_the_Joint_ITA-NIST- USPTO_Collaboration_Initiative_Regarding_Standards⠀⇛ Unified Patents, LLC is a member organization dedicated to deterring the assertion of low- quality patents by non-practicing entities (“NPEs”), and by holders of self-declared standard essential patents (“SEPs”). Unified monitors ownership data, secondary-market patent monopoly sales, demand letters, post- grant procedures, and patent monopoly litigation to track NPE and SEP-holder activity, and often files post-grant proceedings challenging low-quality patents. Unified writes to advocate for ways to make licensing of SEPs more transparent and efficient, to the benefit of patent monopoly holders and licensees, and both large and small and medium enterprises (“SMEs”). Unified appreciates the recognition of the importance of incentivizing greater collaboration in improving standardization efforts and bringing increased transparency and predictability to SEP licensing.  Standards development is critical. Computing technology, from personal computers and phones to the World Wide Web and cloud systems, operate based on thousands of standards. Most of these standards have been effectively adopted without major patent- related conflicts. Given this efficiency, the U.S. should be cautious about altering the governance of standard-setting organizations. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Is_METAL_HEADS_for_Headwear Confusable_With_METAL_for_Jeans_and_Shirts?⠀⇛ Metal Jeans, Inc. opposed an application to register the mark METAL HEADS for headwear, claiming likelihood of confusion with its registered mark METAL for" ski jackets, jackets, jeans and shirts.” Third-party registrations covering both headwear and one or more of opposer's goods, along with applicant's admissions, established the relatedness of the goods. Applicant also admitted that the trade channels and classes of consumers overlap. Opposer contended that the marks are nearly identical in sight, sound, and meaning because applicant’s mark commences with the word “metal.” Applicant submitted 72 live registrations for third- party marks incorporating the word METAL for clothing, in an effort to show the weakness of opposer's mark. How do you think this came out? Metal_Jeans,_Inc._v._Destroyer Promotional_Products,_LLC, Opposition No. 91252176 (November 1,2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Angela Lykos). # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Anti-plagiarism_group_finds_Russian_pro-war singer_Shaman_copied_large_portions_of_doctoral_thesis from_Wikipedia⠀⇛ The popular Russian pro-war singer Yaroslav Dronov, who performs under the stage name Shaman, copied large portions of his final thesis at Gnessin Academy of Music from Wikipedia, according to the anti-plagiarism project Dissernet. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Anthropic_Says_Copying_Protected Works_‘As_An_Intermediate_Step_To_Create_a_Non- Infringing_Output_Can_Constitute_Fair_Use’⠀⇛ Weeks after being named in a music industry copyright monopoly suit, Anthropic has responded to a request for comment on “a number of copyright monopoly issues” pertaining to generative AI, claiming, among other things, that copying copyrighted material can in certain instances “constitute fair use.” # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ When_Even_Hollywood_Doesn’t_Want_To_Expand Copyright_Laws_To_Deal_With_AI…⠀⇛ We live in strange times. It used to be that you could set your watch to one simple thing: any time any government agency or policymaker had any question about whether or not we needed to expand copyright laws, Hollywood would answer with a resounding “YES, ABSOLUTELY!” Over the years, copyright has expanded massively, and always right there pushing that along gleefully has been the Motion Picture Association (MPA, formerly the MPAA). # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Relentless_Genshin_Impact_Leakers Face_Cognosphere's_Attorneys_Yet_Again⠀⇛ Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere has gone to court in the United States multiple times hoping to obtain the identities of people who deliberately leak details of game updates ahead of the official schedule. The company went to court again yesterday, this time focusing on four Twitter accounts posting leaked content that went on to be viewed hundreds of thousands of times. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ lust_agony_and_being_the_villain⠀⇛ There is an unwritten rule in the basements of Vatican passed on from one dying hooded figure to the next in cryptic whispers. # ⚓ Oyster_mushrooms⠀⇛ We tromped through trailless fall woods, Evy, daughter, me, Mr. Chris, dog Ender. We tromped fast over the ridge, down towards the folds in the land, down down down daughter sang, down into the holler. We disturbed oak leaves around deadfall. Found some puffballs, but they'd already went to spore. Some- thing spindly & yellow also, but not safe to eat. Endless woody turkeytails, colorful and banded as the insides of agates. # ⚓ Koyaanisqatsi⠀⇛ A couple of weeks ago I finally watched the 1982 experimental film Koyaanisqatsi, after being aware of and vaguely interested in it for several years. I watched it on YouTube, as a playlist of many separate videos. Don't be fooled by the French- titled video which appears to be the whole thing in a single video - that's actually the film played entirely in reverse. I am way too embarrassed to admit how long I made it through that version before realising what was going on. It says a lot about the film that this wasn't immediately obvious. It perhaps says less about *me* than you might immediately expect. I know full well what conventional audio played in revers sounds like, but I'm also enough of a weird experimental music buff that I'm fully aware there were times when that was all the rage and you couldn't really claim with a straight face to be an experimental artist without overindulging in it. More of a 70s thing than an 80s thing, but maybe Philip Glass was late to the party. # ⚓ Winter_Beard⠀⇛ From year to year, I sometimes grow out my beard. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CEYNTXL_Wordo:_VIBES⠀⇛ o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_Small_Operating_Systems?⠀⇛ In a past life I worked on embedded systems that ran out in the elements, on mountains and in the desert. We ran low power, crunching a lot of numbers and generally needed to be fast an efficient. Small Operating Systems and applications often time blended together. My original background at university was Operating Systems and hardware interaction. I studied to design an entire dynamic computing system where the OS and the hardware were nearly the same thing. CPUs with FPGA cores that could be programmed with application specific modules on demand. Are you about to do a lot of heavy math? Bam you now have a grid of ALU with integrators or structures to make complex matrix math very quick. Doing a lot of data movement or encryption? Now you have a lot of cache and custom DMA devices to easily map data access. Obviously general purpose computing was not the target for this technology and required a very unique operating system design. # ⚓ WhitespaceHex⠀⇛ The same text is performing two functions, which is pleasing. I can't control where the line breaks (and hence paragraphs) go because that's white space and I have to leave that wherever it's been put. # ⚓ Retrying_the_st_Terminal_Emulator⠀⇛ Way back when I lacked the tuits to recompile st. So after a bout of tuitism and maybe less sleep than normal a custom compiled version of st is installed. (I'll probably forget by the time OpenBSD 7.5 rolls around and then wonder why the terminals do not start.) # ⚓ The_Pro1_X_Arrives⠀⇛ In December 2020, I decided to join a crowdfunding campaign by UK smartphone company F(x)Tec for a new smartphone. The decide was the Pro1 X, an Android phone with a sliding physical keyboard similar to the developer-only Nokia N950. Yesterday, a month shy of three years after my contribution, the device arrived at my front door. The story of the Pro1 X is a long and harrowing one. It started as a glorified upgrade of the company's relatively-successful launch product, the Pro1, with more RAM and storage and an upgraded camera--but, critically, keeping the same Qualcomm Snapdragon SD835 processor. F(x)Tec partnered with XDA Developers to bring official LineageOS support to the Pro1 X, and in advertisements for the phone they boasted that the Pro1 X would be the world's first phone with LineageOS installed from the factory. My Samsung Galaxy Note 8 was already three years old when the Pro1 X was announced, and I decided to order one through Indiegogo. # ⚓ Why_I_wanna_try_a_rules-light_game⠀⇛ One of several reason our RPG rules grew so much (not that I was complaining, it was fun having all those rules to fall back on) was that it was a collection of rulings that we actually had needed at the table at one point or another. What I wanna test out is if maybe that won’t happen with a rules set that’s of a coarser granularity. For example, in our D&D game, we needed a rule for them to find a particular kind of moss that is a valuable spell component when foraging. So I mathed out a rule that made sense in the game world’s economy. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Guppy_Protocol_Specification_v0.4.1⠀⇛ (I don't know if anyone is interested in this, but let's give it a try. It started as a thought experiment, when I looked for 'lighter' protocols I can implement on the Pico W. I see Spartan mentioned here and there, and I wonder if there's any interest in going even more ... spartan. If you find this interesting, useful or fun, and have ideas how to improve this protocol, I'd love to hear from you at my-first- name@dimakrasner.com!) # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Automatic_commit_message_formatting⠀⇛ For just jamming off tiny drive-by changes in a git repo, I often don’t bother whipping out magit and instead use a couple of shell scripts and they take a commit message right there on the command line. # ⚓ Local_repo_copies⠀⇛ OMG, that sounds so bad! I didn’t know that many people used git that way. That sounds super fiddly. Having a couple of different local copies of the repo is usually not needed but it makes a lot of things way more straight-forward. And that goes especially when you’re new to git and don’t know every command. You can clone a fresh copy and use your normal file management and file melding tools. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 3888 ➮ Generation completed at 02:49, i.e. 10 seconds to (re)generate ⟲