𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, November 20, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 21 Nov 02:49:33 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/2023/11/20/ ╒═══════════════════ 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 - Automation and Backups ⦿ Techrights - False Reports to Webhost Using Impersonations is Illegal ⦿ Techrights - IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 19, 2023 ⦿ Techrights - Red Hat: We're Working With Microsoft to Bring You Proprietary Software of Microsoft ⦿ Techrights - The "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype is Getting Truly Ridiculous ⦿ Techrights - The IPFS Dilemma ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/Automation_and_Backups.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/False_Reports_to_Webhost_Using_Impersonations_is_Illegal.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/irc-log-191123.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/Red_Hat_We_re_Working_With_Microsoft_to_Bring_You_Proprietary_S.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/The_Hey_Hi_AI_Hype_is_Getting_Truly_Ridiculous.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/The_IPFS_Dilemma.shtml ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/Links_20_11_2023_Sam_Altman_Works_Directly_for_Microsoft_Cruise.shtml ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 62 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/Automation_and_Backups.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/Automation_and_Backups.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Automation and Backups⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 20, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Happy_Squirrel_At_Christmas:_A_cute_little_fox_squirrel appears_to_be_smiling_as_he_sits_in_front_of_red_and_gold_Christmas_ornaments, pine_cones,_cedar_branches,_eating_sunflower_seeds.⦈_ THIS past week we did not publish many new posts because we tidied things up, deployed some changes (code being tested) to the sites, wrote some programs, made backups, and even migrated the IRC server. This week, one can only hope, we'll be back to the older rhythm. Today, like most Mondays, we expect to be able to work on more stories. We've also corresponded with some of the press ("Big Media") to help it produce stories about subjects we habitually cover. Many of the changes are designed to make us more productive and more robust to censorship. 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That was about a year after a longstanding campaign of harassment, which was hidden behind lots of sockpuppets with Tor and/or VPNs. That was before those same militants made violent allusions and engaged in very serious hate crimes, which several of us reported to the relevant authorities. My wife and I reported this to the police. The 2 prior parts are just the edge of an iceberg that we'll show later this year and next year. Today we focus on how the sockpuppet (impersonation account too) which was shown in those 2 prior parts was then "repurposed" to harass us via the webhost, attempting a Denial of Service (DoS) by social engineering or trickery. As someone put it at the same period of time, the hosting provider will need to be notified to slap it down and the police will need to be notified about the continued harassment and attempt at DoS via social engineering - three crimes if described correctly. I guess this might even qualify as sexual harassment, which could be a fourth crime, as the perpetrator is directing these attacks at Rianne because of her gender. The webhost is not gullible enough. Instead, fortunately, the webhost shows the reports, revealing the source as the same people who are sending me abusive E- mails, falsely identifying as a journalist (shown before), and even sent one message that is clearly illegal in their home jurisdiction (possibly actionable with prosecution sans extradition). To be clear, what we deal with here is a frivolously-filed, spurious, time- wasting report from a sockpuppet account that also impersonates somebody else. It speaks of an author external to the site and we're leaving things intact, a clickable link (clearly factual and not even remotely transphobic). A guest post is being targeted here. What happens here is not just unethical; this is illegal; it's not a "joke" or "for the lols" when you resort to legal procedures or when you resort to using false names, false pretences, and patently untrue claims. Thankfully, the webhost understands the context and can judge what really goes on: Dear Customer, Many thanks for resolving the issue(s) related to this abuse complaint and letting us know. Abuse report #26073 has now been closed successfully. Kind regards, We have evidence connecting the actions of one person and a Microsoft-linked defamation mill, but that will be covered in the future. Notice how the sockpuppet account that engages in impersonation and harasses our contributors wrote to the webhost: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 03:55:58 +0100 cade.foster117@proton.me Transphobic Abuse Hi, Roy Schestowitz has published an article that is a hate crime in the UK. https://techrights.org/n/2023/10/06/ Reddit_Misapplies_NSFW_Tags_r_stallmanwasright_Too_Hot_to_Handl.shtml It attacks and demonizes trans men. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. Hiding behind Proton Mail, pretending to be somebody else and using false associations so as to attempt to seem like a journalist. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just to remove any doubts, cade.foster117@proton.me is not a real person. It is a sockpuppet account already used to abuse and harass many people (we have evidence of this, several of our writers around the world were also abused by this account). It's moreover one of the persons who had already misused the same webform system for frivolous claims, to no avail. Using sockpuppets to do this is wrong and we updated the police records with new reports, accordingly. The person behind this sockpuppet account broke a number of laws and now engages in harassment against a webhosting company. This is a case of DoS by social engineering, not only a correct analogy but a correct legal distinction too. I spoke to 4 police people that week (we are the reporters of the crimes, going back to August; the criminals attempted to reverse the narrative - possibly yet another crime) and we spoke for a number of hours to update the files. They also expedited their cases. They recognise that the abuse won't stop unless they cooperate with authorities overseas, which is where the abusers are confirmed to reside. We'll say more on that in the future. I clarified to the webhost that it should not take requests from people who abuse innocent people online, especially women and gays, telling them "gas the Jews" and "kill the Jews" while having an ambitious go at trying to trick the webhost into thinking the antisemites are the victims and death threats are merely "jokes". █ ⠀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⣠⣄⡀⣀⡀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⠀⣀⠀⣀⢀⣀⢀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⢀⡀⣠⣤⡀⠀⣀⣀⢀⣀⡀⣉⣉⠛⣛⡛⣉⢋⣉⡉⠛⣉⣉⣙⢋⣉⣉⣉⣉⣙⢛⣭⣍⢋⣉⣉⡛⣉⣉⣉⣉⣤⣙⠛ ⠀⣿⡇⠀⣿⡏⣿⢸⣿⢹⡇⣿⣧⣿⠘⠋⣿⡏⠁⢀⣿⣿⡄⣿⠀⣿⣼⣿⣼⡿⣼⣿⣇⢿⣾⠃⣿⣼⡛⠀⣿⣿⣼⣿⡇⣿⢿⡇⣿⣿⡏⢸⣿⡁⠆⣿⣯⣿⢸⣿⡉⣿⣏⣿⢸⡇⣿⡇⣿⣹⡗⢹⣿⠉⢿⣿⡛⢰ ⠀⣿⡇⠀⣿⣇⣿⢸⣿⣸⡇⣿⢻⣿⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⢿⡇⣿⣀⢿⣿⢻⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⠀⣶⣹⣿⠀⣿⡿⣿⣿⣷⣿⢾⣇⣿⣿⣷⢸⣿⣁⠂⣿⡏⣿⢸⣿⣁⣿⡏⠁⢸⣇⣿⠇⣿⢸⣷⢸⣿⠀⣶⣿⣿⢸ ⠀⠉⠁⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠉⠉⠀⠉⠈⠉⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠈⠉⠈⠁⠉⠉⠈⠉⠈⠉⠁⠉⠉⠉⠈⠉⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠉⠁⠉⠉⠉⣭⣬⣭⣭⣥⣭⣬⣭⣭⣶⣭⣥⣭⣬⣭⣭⣭⣥⣿⣦⣭⣭⣬⣭⣬⣭⣬⣭⣴⣌⠉⣥⣾ ⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣷⡶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⣿⣿ ⠛⣛⣋⣙⣛⣋⣠⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠶⠿⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⠛⠉⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿ ⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡶⠄⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿ ⣀⣀⣀⣈⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿ ⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⠀⠿⠿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣿⣿⣿⡶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣿⣿⣿⣷⠆⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣶⣶⣶⣦⣄⡀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⡌⢻⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠈⠙⠻⠿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣾⣿⡟⠁⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣷⣝⣛⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣫⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⡿⢿⡿⢿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⠿⣿⠿⣿⡿⢿⠿⢿⡿⢿⡿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣶⡶⣶⡄⣶⡆⣶⡆⠶⣶⡶⢆⠰⣶⣦⣶⡆⣶⡖⣶⡆⣶⡆⣶⣶⠶⢰⣶⢰⣶⢸⢰⣶⡆⡇⣶⣶⢶⣦⢰⣾⢿⣦⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡷⣿⡃⣿⡇⣿⡇⠀⣿⡇⣿⡆⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⡇⣿⣷⣿⡇⣿⣿⣶⢸⣿⣿⣿⢸⢸⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣧⣿⡇⢿⣧⣿⡇⠀⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠇⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣿⣤⢸⡏⢿⣿⢸⢸⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣾⣿⢸⣿⣼⡿⢠⡍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠷⠭⠭⠭⠶⠶⢭⣥⠾⠷⠭⠵⠿⠿⠮⢭⣷⡭⠭⠶⢭⣥⠭⠵⢬⣭⠭⠬⠥⠬⠭⠾⠮⠭⠵⠷⠬⠭⠭⠤⠦⠌⠉⠄⠚⠁⠛⠿⠿⠟⠻⠿⠛⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⢸⢸⣿⣿⣼⣿⡇⣸⣿⣿⠀⣿⣧⣿⠃⣿⡿⢇⡏⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢻⣧⢹⢰⣿⢻⣷⢰⣿⢻⣷⢰⣿⢻⣷⢸⣿⣷⣿⢹⣿⣿⣷⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢻⣷⢸⣿⢻⣇⣿⡿⠟⠿⣿⡿⢳⣿⢻⣷⢹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⢸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡟⣿⡀⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⡷⠆⡇⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⠾⠟⣸⠘⠻⣷⣆⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢈⣉⢸⣿⣿⣇⢸⣿⡿⠿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⠾⠿⢸⣿⠾⠏⣿⡷⠶⠀⣿⡇⠌⠻⣷⣦⢹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⢸⢸⣿⢸⡟⣿⣧⣿⡟⣿⡇⣿⡟⣿⡆⣿⣧⡄⣣⠸⣿⣼⡿⢸⣿⢰⣿⣿⠸⣿⣼⡿⠸⣿⣼⡿⠸⣿⣼⡿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⡇⣿⡸⣿⣼⡿⢸⣿⢀⣇⢸⣿⢰⡇⣿⣷⣤⠀⣿⡇⠸⣿⣼⡿⢠⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣷⣶⣴⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣴⣶⣷⣶⣴⣶⣷⣶⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 316 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/irc-log-191123.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/irc-log-191123.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 19, 2023⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 20, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GN 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNOME_Gedit⦈_ #techrights_log #boycottnovell_log 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GN 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNOME_Gedit⦈_ #boycottnovell-social_log #techbytes_log Enter_the_IRC_channels_now ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 348 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/Red_Hat_We_re_Working_With_Microsoft_to_Bring_You_Proprietary_S.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/Red_Hat_We_re_Working_With_Microsoft_to_Bring_You_Proprietary_S.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Red Hat: We're Working With Microsoft to Bring You Proprietary Software of Microsoft⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 20, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Moving your SQL Servers from CentOS Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux⦈ THIS should probably come as no surprise. This_crude_marketing_from_Red_Hat basically asks people who use a free distribution of GNU/Linux to start paying Red Hat in exchange for a relationship with Microsoft. They moreover use subtle FUD, insinuating you might have trouble with the software unless you pay Red Hat. It should moreover be noted that Microsoft SQL Server does not properly run on GNU/Linux. 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This is classic vapourware, with desperate 'journalists' riding the coattails of frauds and scammers for a quick buck, helping to give false hopes to shareholders. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Android_at_Mystery_Park_in_Interlaken,_Switzerland⦈_ THE IRC channel rants a lot today about the latest Microsoft hype about "Hey Hi" (AI). Do not be misled. It's all hype and diversion. From IRC: .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.- / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ `-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' What the news is NOT telling you today: Microsoft FIRED a lot of its so-called "HEY HI" staff this year. The company isn't doing well, it's sinking in debt, and its "chatbot" ventures cost billions in losses, not limited to media bribes (for mindless hype). All it promises shareholders at this point is vapourware. Right now Amazon spins its LAYOFFS as "bcoz HEY HI!" This rubbish from MBA factories is tiring and we should all laugh our arses off when they pull this off. To keep the hype floating, having bribed the media to the tune of hundreds of millions to distract from mass layoffs, Microsoft will maintain the fictional portrayal of some "wunderkind" "HEY HI" dude. The company is a bunch of hype- trotting MBAs, sociopaths, and scammers. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.- / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ `-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' `-`-' This is IRC, hence crude with some "all caps". Psydroid added that it's a case of "long live technofeudalism". We think the threats are overstated as part of the hype campaign and the doomsday scenarios surrounding lousy chatbots that create shoddy sentences (without any comprehension whatsoever) serve to distract from more obvious dangers, such as the passing of mere tasks (not "AI") to computers (automation), removing morality and accountability from a lot of business processes. By the way, Altman is not moving to Microsoft. He was already at Microsoft. His ousting from OpenAI reaffirms people's_suspicions_that_the_company_might_go bankrupt; it never made a buck, it's just losing loads of money and its "market value" (or valuation or "cap") is classic Ponzi. █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠴⠶⢶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣤⣴⠶⠞⠂⠀⣼⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⠛⠓⢾⡿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠉⠀⡀⢠⡄⢀⢠⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⣴⠰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣤⣤⣠⣠⠀⠀⢸⡇⣠⣠⣦⣰⣼⣷⣿⣿⣧⢸⣸⣿⣿⡅⢰⡇⡉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣽⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠲⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢰⠀⠀⢸⠀⡄⢸⡇⣄⠀⠀⢠⣼⣿⣾⣄⣶⣄⠁⢸⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⡄⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀ ⣷⣄⡙⠢⣀⠀⢤⢀⠀⢽⠀⣀⢰⡆⣾⢠⡇⢸⡇⣿⣼⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡎⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣸⡄⣷⡆⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⡿⠇ ⣹⡿⣿⣦⣌⠑⢤⡘⠧⣾⢀⣏⣸⡇⣿⢸⡇⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣦⡇⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣸⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣮⣾⠛⣿⣿⣦⣈⠢⢍⠘⡿⣻⣿⣿⣸⡧⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣧⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣆⠀⡀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⡑⠤⡚⢻⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠾⣿⣿⡆⢻⣿⣿⣿⡟⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣦⠂ ⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣌⠓⢌⠻⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⡿⣿⣷⣤⣻⣿⣿⣵⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⠿⢛⡛⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣉⠪⣙⢿⣿⣿⣿⠃⣾⢙⡴⠶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⡿⠇⢿⡌⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⡑⠬⡛⢿⠀⣧⣾⣱⢾⣵⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡿⣷⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣌⠢⠀⣻⣿⠟⠀⢉⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢴⣽⣧⡚⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢃⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣄⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠘⢾⣿⣧⣤⡀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣇⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⣶⣄⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣦⣴⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣦⣈⣛⠿⠻⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣗⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠈⠹⠟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣵⡌⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⡍⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠉⠙⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣻⢿⣟⣃⣀⡿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡾⣖⣒⣲⣖⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡙⠿⡚⢿⣝⣿⣯⣍⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣬⣠⣀⡉⠉⠛⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣦⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⡟⠋⣭⣵⠟⣋⣥⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⢾⣿⣭⣃⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢸⣆⢫⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣬⣁⡒⠩⠙⠛⠻ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠻⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣧⣶⣿⡿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡓⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⢦⣨⠍⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣤ ⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⡀⣴⣿⢋⢟⣿⣍⣩⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣧⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⡌⠙⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠈⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣾⣾⣟⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣹⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡸⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢸⣄⡀⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⢀⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣀⣀⣴⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⠙⣿⢹⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⡉⠉⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⡿⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣤⣦⣶⣦⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠸⣿⡿⡏⣿⣼⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣙⢻⠇⠘⣿⡏⢱⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⡏⠁⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣿⣾⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⣧⢠⣿⣿⡇⢹⣿⢻⣧⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣤⠀⠀⠈⣙⣻⡿⠀⠀⢹⣏⣼⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣸⣏⠂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠯⡿⠭⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣭⣿⡇⠘⠓⣿⠏⣿⣿⣿⣯⢸⣿⣻⡟⠃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⣠⣥⣤⣤⡤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢸⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢈⡝⣿⢻⠋⢻⣿⠁⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⡇⣿⣿⡆⢸⣿⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠐⡇⣿⣿⠇⢸⣿⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣧⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠁⣿⣿⡃⢸⣿⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⡇⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⡆⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⢹ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠇⣿⣿⡇⣾⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⠃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⢻⠈⠸ ⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⣿⢿⡇⣽⣿⣧⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠈⡟⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢿⠁⣿⠈⣿⢸⡿⢹⡟⣿⡇⣿⠿⣿⡿⠿⢿⡿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⠟⠿⡀⣿⢹⡗⠹⡟⠿⠀⣿⣿⣿⡖⠹⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⣿⣟⣿⠇⡟⠀⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠊⢀⣉⣀⣉⣨⣅⣬⣥⣴⣤⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⢠⣷⣿⠊⡄⢰⣶⣦⢸⣿⣿⠛⣀⢰⣶⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣿⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣭⣿⣽⣟⣙⣻⣿⣿⣿⡇⠟⠁⠉⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢋⣴⣿⣿⡄⣿⣾⣿⢏⣾⣿⣏⠀⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣦⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠛⠋⠁⠀ ⣛⠛⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⡆⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢛⣛⣛⣛⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡄⠈⠉⡭⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⢿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 540 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/The_IPFS_Dilemma.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/20/The_IPFS_Dilemma.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ The IPFS Dilemma⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 20, 2023 Calling it Inter-Planetary is overambitious (it's not even used on the Earth's moon) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Planets⦈_ THIS post is not bashing IPFS. I've been a strong proponent of censorship- resistant hosting for a very long time, but herein we'll just consider the facts as objectively as we can. Sometimes truth (or reality) hurts. We previously did some articles explaining the pitfalls and limitations, especially for those wishing to run IPFS from their own home (so as not to be at the mercy of any party other than the ISP). In 2020 we "joined" IPFS, starting with hosting from home, running on a Raspberry Pi 4 over copper. By 2021 it was already getting too much for the home network to cope with. According_to_IPFS_developers, in 2021 there was a growing number of users and the unique weekly active IPFS node number was 230K+. It didn't take long for Web browsers like Opera and Brave to add support for IPFS (Firefox needed a plugin for it) and a year ago the_core_team_said: "Active monthly users of IPFS-based dapps and tools has grown from 5 million to 50 million. The number of unique nodes continues to grow, making the network more resilient and distributed, and content more available. Meanwhile, performance is improving even as the network grows: it’s now 50x faster to find content across the network." More 'traditional' corporate actors have been twisting_this_growth_as_a_huge negative, occasionally taking note of frivolous DMCA notices (as we covered in Daily Links), never mind the legitimate ones which would be hard to obey because of how IPFS works. This will darken the image of IPFS among hosts, which can have a really bad effect - a chilling effects for server tenants. IPFS is very bandwidth- and CPU-hungry. It's designed for traffic-intensive datacentres or homes with beefy connections and decent hardware. As IPFS grows bigger scale becomes an issue - and yes, it's the same issue with so-called 'crypto'_so-called_'coins'. A FUD piece said that "[d]uring 2022, analysts from Unit 42 observed the rampant adoption of the InterPlanetary File System (aka IPFS) being used as a vehicle for malicious intent. IPFS is a Web3 technology that decentralizes and distributes the storage of files and other data into a peer-to-peer network." "Like any technology, IPFS can be abused by malicious threat actors. However, because the hosted content on IPFS is decentralized and distributed, there are challenges in locating and removing malicious content from the ecosystem, making it akin to bullet-proof hosting." Yes, even years ago we heard about some people leveraging IPFS to share child abuse files. That can be mitigated somewhat by not "pinning" any "content" that is not your own, but distributed hash table (DHT) packets/traffic still make this a "grey area". Consider the fate_of_Matrix.org_with_bridges_crossing_over to_IRC. All our objects for IPFS are in place and still grow every day (in number, not in size). For now we've left IPFS turned off, at least while we patiently assess the situation. On the one hand, IPFS has great reach. To quote the above: "There was a significant jump in IPFS-related traffic at the beginning of 2022. Palo Alto Networks detected a 178% increase in IPFS-related traffic from the last quarter of 2021 to the first quarter of 2022, while VirusTotal reported more than 6,500% increase during that same reporting period." The problem is, the image of (or perception around) IPFS grows darker. IPFS becomes known not only as an energy-hungry beast (resource hog that's a yoke on hypervisors) but also as a potential liability. We'll probably get back to IPFS at some stage, but for now we encourage the use of Gemini instead. It's not that the world isn't ready for decentralisation or that IPFS is inherently bad and/or even poorly implemented (efficiency did improve with more recent releases). It's just that it's innately risky if not dangerous to run a node, and it seems safe to predict it'll become more so over time. Authorities strongly dislike whatever they cannot control (Tor is a good example of it, especially in countries that cannot decipher it) and they use a sledgehammer to crush "dissent". In some countries they might literally use a physical sledgehammer inside a datacentre. IPFS enjoyed the momentum and hype of "Web3" (before all the media spam about chatbots and "G.A.I."), but it seems to be ebbing away somewhat. The reputation suffers. Back in 2005 or thereabouts WordPress expressed concerns that many people did not patch the software (before the software turned into a company, Automattic). The leaders of the project said that many blogs were susceptible for cracking and this might lead to webhosts restricting if not prohibiting the use/installation of WordPress. Not only is WordPress still around; it truly dominates the Web. But the company, Automattic, now remotely controls tens of millions of Web sites. Is that a good thing? 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It’s trying to make a book with the most garish cover. Not into it. It never made sense to me logically. o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Aardman_Animations_Is_Running_Out_of_Its_Iconic_Clay⠀⇛ The material is named after its creator Lewis Newplast, a schoolteacher who created it in his garden shed. The plasticine is easy to mold and able to maintain its shape. And once it’s gone, it’s gone: the outlet revealed Aardman is looking for a suitable replacement, or possibly considering creating its own substitute. As far as where they are on that front, it’s not discussed within the piece itself, and we likely won’t know until Aardman outright says as such, likely whenever that Wallace & Gromit film draws closer to release. o ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Aardman_is_about_to_run_out_of_clay_–_now_the Chicken_Run_creators_face_a_crisis⠀⇛ Ever since its founding in the early 1970s, Aardman has moulded its characters from Lewis Newplast – a modelling material named after one Mr Lewis, an art teacher from Chislehurst who concocted the stuff in his garden shed. This Plasticine-like substance is an animator’s dream: it’s easy to mould, yet keeps its shape under hot studio lights. But in March this year, the only factory that made it, on the outskirts of Torquay, shut up shop. When its closure was announced, Aardman bought up every last block of Lewis Newplast that remained in the warehouse – enough for just one more film: the new Wallace & Gromit, coming in 2024. After that, until a suitable replacement can be found, or invented, that’s it. o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Inflation_on_budget_groceries_outstrips_other_food_and drink⠀⇛ Overall annual food inflation has fallen to 9.5%, and butters and spreads are cheaper now than a year ago. However, budget-range groceries - which are relied upon by millions of those hardest hit by the cost of living crisis - have soared by 20% in a year. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ James Koppel ☛ Book_Review:_A_Philosophy_of_Software Design⠀⇛ PoSD is best read as a tactical guide of how-to’s. About a quarter of it is spent on naming and comments, and much of the rest is about specific patterns. His few attempts to jump from tactical advice to principles are either done by trying to blur together similar-sounding tips, or are hamstrung by his inability to see the meaning of a program beyond the code (more on that later). He demonstrates the lack of principles comically in Chapter 19, where he promises to apply the books’ “principles” to several software trends, and then fills the rest of the chapter with standard (but solid) advice on unit-testing and OOP, with nary a reference to the rest of the book. On the whole, the book’s advice is higher-level than beginner books like Clean Code, but most of its contents will be familiar to a senior software engineer, and the novel parts are hit-and-miss. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Pretty_sneaky,_sis⠀⇛ The “I don’t wanna win against just a blunder” crowd, what’s the next step? Using checkmate as the analogy, they could make matemate chess where “no, you can’t make that move, that would lead to checkmate the next turn”, where the goal is to create a forced-mate-in-two situation because you could otherwise “blunder” into a checkmate. And then even that version of the game wouldn’t be enough, you’d have to make a matematemate version where you have to create a forced-mate-in-three to win, and so on. Why don’t you just put the whole world in a bottle?? o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Antibiotic_resistance in_children_on_the_rise⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Germany:_4.6_million adults_addicted_to_gambling_or_at_risk⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Nearly_Two Dozen_Toddlers_Sickened_by_Lead_Linked_to_Tainted_Applesauce Pouches,_CDC_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-18_[Older]_Fast-spreading_Avian_flu_endangers more_than_just_birds,_but_is_there_a_growing_risk_to people?⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-18_[Older]_Dozens_sickened_with_salmonella after_eating_cantaloupes_in_Canada,_U.S.⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_B.C._reservist_pleads_guilty_to_2 charges_related_to_criticism_of_Armed_Forces_vaccine mandate⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Why_men_die_younger than_women⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_EU_extends_approval_of the_weedkiller_glyphosate_by_10_years⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_Germany's_top_court annuls_move_to_repurpose_COVID_funding⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ The_Swedish_Left_Failed_the_Vulnerable During_the_Pandemic⠀⇛ In this context, figuring out the most effective ways for us to face shared crisis together, in solidarity, is arguably one of the most important tasks that the global left faces. Here, the infamous case of the Swedish response to the pandemic stands as a stark example — and a cautionary tale. How did a country ruled by a social democratic party, supported by the Left Party in parliament, and nominally committed to legislating egalitarian and proworker policies end up being the poster child for an approach to the pandemic based on mass infection and natural herd immunity — an approach which left the working class and marginalized segments of society to fend for themselves as a deadly and unknown virus swept through the population? The Swedish pandemic response stands as a testament to the folly of basing our responses to global crises primarily on domestic political considerations, as well as to the danger that leftist movements become unmoored from their own basic values and principles. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Children_May_Be_'Evolutionarily_Primed'_to Need_More_Than_2_Parents⠀⇛ What is beyond debate, however, is that the nuclear family system, as Chaudhary puts it, "is a world away from the communal living arrangements of hunter-gatherer societies like the Mbendjele." # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Experts_Warn_Why_We_Need_to_Stop_Treating Back_Pain_With_Opioids⠀⇛ Prescribing opioids for low back and neck pain can also cause harms ranging from common side effects – such as nausea, constipation and dizziness – to misuse, dependency, poisoning, and death. Our findings show opioids should not be recommended for acute low back pain or neck pain. A change in prescribing for low back pain and neck pain is urgently needed in Australia and globally to reduce opioid-related harms. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Is_Noise_Cancelling_Bad_for_Your Ears?⠀⇛ Noise-cancellation is fast becoming a staple feature for those shopping for new headphones and earbuds, as many users can see the benefits of cancelling ambient noise while on their daily commute or at the gym. But new research from the World Health Organization indicates that around one billion Gen Z and Millennials are at risk of hearing loss due to excessive use of headphones — so you might wonder if using noise-cancelling technology is helping or actively hurting your ears. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ Meta’s_responsible_AI_team disbanded_as_company_shifts_focus⠀⇛ Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has dissolved its Responsible AI (RAI) team, which was tasked with ensuring the ethical and safe use of artificial intelligence across its products and platforms. The Information reported this development today, based on an internal post it accessed. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Meta_disbanded_its_Responsible_AI_team⠀⇛ Meta has reportedly broken up its Responsible AI (RAI) team as it puts more of its resources into generative artificial intelligence. The Information broke the news today, citing an internal post it had seen. # ⚓ 600_Laid_Off_US_H-1Bs_Find_Alternative_—_The_Indian Panorama⠀⇛ Canada is increasingly becoming a sought-after destination for H-1B visa holders affected by layoffs in the US tech sector. The # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Sam_Altman_isn’t_coming_back_to_OpenAI⠀⇛ After a weekend of negotiations to potentially bring back Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO following his shock firing, the company’s nonprofit board has gone another way entirely and named former Twitch CEO and co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO, according to a person familiar with the matter. He will take over as CEO from Mira Murati, who was publicly aligned with Altman. # ⚓ Sam_Altman_will_not_return_to_OpenAI_despite_investors’ attempts_to_reinstate_him,_he_is_moving_to_Microsoft⠀⇛ Despite investors’ efforts to reinstate Sam Altman as OpenAI’s CEO, he will not return to the company, reports The Information. Influential investors, including Thrive Capital and Sequoia Capital, pressured the board of directors to bring Altman back after his abrupt departure, which had a significant impact on the tech world. They also reportedly asked Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, to use its influence to reinstate Altman. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Update:_Sam_Altman_reportedly_won’t_return as_OpenAI_CEO_despite_investor_push⠀⇛ A source also told The Information that Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, who is reportedly the one who pushed for Altman’s ouster, has told staff that Altman won’t return as CEO. Sutskever also reportedly said Emmett Shear, co-founder of video streaming site Twitch, which Amazon.com Inc. bought in 2014, will take over as interim CEO. Still, this may well not be the last word, given the influence and motivation of Microsoft, among other investors, who have appeared to support Altman. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Sam_Altman_will_not_return_to_OpenAI, Twitch's_Emmett_Shear_is_interim_CEO⠀⇛ Altman will not return to the company as CEO despite efforts from the company's executives to bring him back, the report said, citing Sutskever. The report did not give any other details. Reuters could not immediately verify the statement cited by The Information. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Sam_Altman_will_not_return_as_CEO_of OpenAI,_Twitch_co-founder_Emmett_Shear_to_take_his_job: Report⠀⇛ Reports of Sam Altman not returning as CEO comes amid speculations that Microsoft Corp., with more than $10 billion stake in the company, is working with investors including Thrive Capital and Tiger Global Management to bring back Altman. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Cruise_Exec_Omitted_Pedestrian_Dragging In_Summary_of_Self-Driving_Car_Incident_to_California_DMV, Email_Shows⠀⇛ A senior Cruise executive didn’t mention that one of his company’s self-driving cars dragged a pedestrian 20 feet in a summary sent to the director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles the morning after the October 2 incident, an email obtained by Motherboard shows. This provides concrete evidence that Cruise initially misled the state regulator about what actually happened during the crash. The California DMV said in its October 24 decision to revoke the self-driving car company's license to operate that Cruise omitted footage of the pedestrian being dragged by the car, which had come to a stop after the person was thrown into its path by a separate collision, in a meeting on October 3. Cruise flatly denied this allegation. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Cruise’s_C.E.O._Quits_as_the_Driverless Carmaker_Aims_to_Rebuild_Trust⠀⇛ The resignation is a stunning fall from prominence for one of the tech industry’s most outspoken champions of self-driving cars. He leaves behind a company in deep crisis and an industry that is confronting increased public and regulatory scrutiny. Cruise pulled all of its driverless cars off the road after its license to operate them was suspended in California. With its costs spiraling, the company is considering layoffs. And it is awaiting a report from an outside law firm’s investigation into how it responded to a crash last month in which a Cruise car dragged a woman 20 feet. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ CEO_of_self-driving_cab_outfit_Cruise parks_his_career⠀⇛ At the time of writing, neither Cruise nor General Motors had posted any info about Vogt's departure. It's not hard to guess why he resigned: CEOs are supposed to do so after a string of SNAFUs like those listed above. The admission that Cruise cars are not fit to operate without a driver is an especially damning failure that suggests new leadership is needed to ensure Cruise can deliver on its mission. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Outrage_after_Taliban_member_speaks_at German_[sic]_mosque⠀⇛ Serap Güler, a member of Germany's federal parliament from Cologne who is also on the parliamentary commission into the Afghanistan mission, said she was "stunned" by the incident. "All the details of this matter must now be fully clarified," she told Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland. A spokesperson for the North Rhine-Westphalia administration also condemned the incident. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Can_AIoT_Replace_Humans_in_Future Wars?⠀⇛ This article conceptualizes the impact of AIoT on war in four categories: information and communication, fire control systems, cyber-attacks, and autonomous killer robots. Of course, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are also used in other military fields such as logistics, training, simulation, surveillance, espionage, etc., which this article does not tackle. However, the content of current article partly match with C4ISR which stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) in military terms. Finally, this article examines the limitations of artificial intelligence and whether it can replace humans or not. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ AI_Journey_is_the_talk_of_the_world: Newsweek_finds_out_whether_Musk_will_come_to_Russia_for_the AI_conference⠀⇛ Having analyzed all the known facts on the topic, journalists concluded that Ilon Musk may indeed take part in AI Journey. However, only in two cases: either he will go to Russia secretly, or he will do it at the very last moment. # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ If_At_First_You_Don’t_Secede⠀⇛ But unlike the old Confederates, they are not proposing to leave. The evolving strategy in 2023 is quite the opposite: By staying put, the right is focused on growing their philosophy and influence to the point where it will become the legitimate government — the union, if you will — and Democrats and others will be marginalized. This is much more ambitious, and more sinister, than breaking away and becoming a separate nation. The GOP wants to invert the picture that’s stood for 150 years and become the dominant force of the country, with everyone living by its rules. It’s a scenario in which the immoral will become acceptable, and the reasonable and humane will become fringe, even ridiculous. It’s the kind of complete victory the Confederates could have only dreamed of, but which the GOP, whose influence extends far beyond the South, has in its sights. # ⚓ El País ☛ Texas_prepares_a_radical_law_criminalizing immigrants⠀⇛ House Bill (HB) 4 caused days of tension in the legislative body. The state House approved it in late October, on a Thursday at 4:00 a.m. The Republican majority prevailed over attempts by Democratic politicians to derail the proposal by Congressman David Spiller, who represents an upstate county. His proposal allows anyone to be detained at any time and place on suspicion of having illegally entered Texas, a state with a population of about 10 million people of Mexican origin. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_91-year-old_Syriac_man_fatally shot_at_Mardin_home⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_Syria_ordered_by_ICJ_to take_action_against_torture⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Sudan_asks_UN_to_end political_mission_immediately⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Ethiopia_and_Eritrea: Is_a_new_war_looming?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_Patients_evacuated after_gang_surrounds_Haiti_hospital⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_World_Court_Rules_Against_Syria_in Torture_Case⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_France_issues_arrest warrant_for_Syria's_Assad_—_reports⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_National_Interest: “It’s_time_to_get_out_of_Syria”⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_US_Carries Out_Air_Strikes_in_Syria_Against_Iran-Linked_Facilities⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_German_police_raid Islamist_organizations_in_several_states⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Rwandan_genocide_trial in_France:_Push_for_accountability⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_Rwanda_migration_plan: What's_the_UK_government's_next_move?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Sudan_conflict:_EU warns_of_'another_genocide'_in_Darfur⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_EURO_2024_qualifiers: Israel_to_play_'home_games'_in_Hungary⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_Shots_Fired at_Jewish_School_in_Canada_Again,_Amid_Tensions_Over_Overseas Conflict⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Shots Fired_At_Jewish_School_In_Canada_Amid_Israel-Hamas_War⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_US_Marines_on_Okinawa ramp_up_jungle_training⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_Why_are_more_Asian Americans_buying_guns?⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Newsweek ☛ Fact_Check:_Is_Elon_Musk_Heading_to_Moscow?⠀⇛ Newsweek has contacted X and Tesla media representatives via email for comment. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ First_French_ski_reports_open,_but_only at_high_altitude⠀⇛ After the recent storms, "there is no more snow below 1,500 and 1,700 meters altitude and there has been a decline between 1,500 and 2,500 meters," said Gilles Brunot, director of the Chamonix office of Meteo France, the national weather service. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Wildfires_Are_Setting_Off_an_Arctic_Doom Loop⠀⇛ The effects of thawing permafrost spread far beyond the far North. Wildfire’s impact on frozen permafrost propels a climate feedback loop: Wildfires release methane, which accelerates climate change, which causes more frequent wildfires—and repeat. # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_US_National_Climate_Report Highlights_Climate_Harms_to_Pregnancy,_Newborns⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_Greta_Thunberg_in_London court_after_climate_demonstration_arrest⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_British_Trade_Unions Are_Organizing_to_Tackle_the_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Prominent_XR_supporters withdraw_after_Gaza_speeches_at_Amsterdam_climate_rally⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Water_board_tax_to_rise_next year_due_to_climate_change_and_inflation⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Sweden_Democrats_make_U- turn_and_agree_to_support_government_climate_targets⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_About_70,000_people_at Amsterdam_climate_march,_largest_in_the_Netherlands⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Timmermans_lashes_out_at Jetten:_"nothing_has_been_done_for_the_climate"⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Quebec_mini-budget_shows_CAQ's scattershot_approach_to_tackling_housing_crisis,_climate change⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Greta_Thunberg_slammed over_pro-Palestinian_statements_at_climate_rally⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_Amsterdam_hosts_large climate_protest_as_elections_near⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_Amsterdam Marchers_Demand_Climate_Action_as_Dutch_Election_Nears⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_Greta Thunberg_Brushes_off_Interruption_at_Massive_Dutch_Climate March_Days_Before_Election⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-11_[Older]_The_next_election_will_be_a climate_change_election_—_because_they_all_are_now⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-11_[Older]_How Researchers,_Farmers_and_Brewers_Want_to_Safeguard_Beer Against_Climate_Change⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-11-11_[Older]_Joe_Manchin_deserves_(some)_credit for_fighting_climate_change⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Waves_of_waste:_The harsh_truth_about_ocean_plastic⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Almost_all_global warming_indicators_behind_target:_report⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Do_plastic_cleanups make_a_real_difference?⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ El País ☛ Will_the_Global_South_become_a_dumping ground_for_gas_cars_or_an_EV_hotbed?⠀⇛ “Countries in the Global South risk getting trapped in dependence on fossil fuels, which could lead to a reliance on other nations for transportation fuels. These fuel imports result in substantial capital and foreign currency loss,” said Ben Scott, the author of the Carbon Tracker report. The report analyzes 12 emerging economies — Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Egypt, and Algeria. These countries have large numbers of ICE vehicles and spend billions every year importing transportation fuels. In many cases, they also lack the capacity to refine it, further worsening their trade balance. While Algeria and India are net exporters of refined petroleum products, these 12 countries as a whole imported $13.3 billion in transportation fuels in 2021. # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Ottawa's_green_grants program_for_homeowners_is_running_out_of_money_faster than_expected⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_How_Sweden_wants_to ramp_up_nuclear_energy_production_in_next_25_years⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_Enhancing International_Cooperation_for_Sustainable_Energy Transition_in_Europe⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Indonesia_Needs a_Conductor_for_the_Energy_Transition_Orchestration⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Native American_Tribes_Fight_US_Over_a_Proposed_$10B_Renewable Energy_Transmission_Line⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Why_are_India's roads_so_deadly?⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Teck_Resources_agrees_to sell_steelmaking_coal_business_in_deals_valued_at_$9B US⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_India:_Some_40 workers_trapped_after_road_tunnel_collapse⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_Berlin_says goodbye_to_its_East_German_trains⠀⇛ # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_B.C._landowner's_arson theory_rejected_as_panel_orders_him_to_pay_$450K_for causing_wildfire⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Deadly_horse_virus_prompts cancellation_of_equestrian_events_across_N.S.⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Global_Ozempic_shortage plagues_Ontario_diabetics_and_pharmacists⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_Panic_as_circus lion_roams_Italian_seaside_town⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_U.S._union_workers_at_General Motors_appear_to_have_voted_down_tentative_contract_deal⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Ontario_to_ban_unpaid_restaurant trial_shifts_as_part_of_new_labour_law_coming_today⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_Deutsche_Bahn_reduces trains,_ends_talks_as_union_strikes⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Germany:_Number_of bankruptcies_continues_to_grow⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_German_rail_union announces_20-hour_train_strike⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_Germany:_20-hour_rail strike_leads_to_major_disruption⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_Germany:_Rail_strike ends_after_20_hours⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Canadian_rent_prices_hit_new_high for_6th_month_in_a_row,_report_suggests⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_This_therapist_can't_afford_her dream_job_—_and_gave_it_up_so_she_could_pay_rent⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_Tax_havens: Corporations_win_big,_but_who_loses?⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_Office_workers_still_aren't_back in_full_force,_so_what's_next_for_Canada's_downtowns?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_EU:_Gender_pay_gap still_at_13%,_commission_says⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Meta_Splits_Up_Its Responsible_AI_Team_To_Focus_More_On_Generative_AI⠀⇛ Meta has reportedly split up its Responsible AI (RAI) team, which was formed to regulate the safety of its artificial intelligence (AI) ventures. According to an internal post cited by The Information, Meta will be putting more resources into generative artificial intelligence. The report further suggests the company will move most of the RAI members to its generative AI product team, while others will work on the company's infrastructure. # ⚓ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ More_Advertisers_Halt_Spending_on X_in_Growing_Backlash_Against_Musk⠀⇛ The entertainment company Warner Bros. Discovery and Sony have joined other prominent brands in halting their spending on X. IBM cut off its advertising on X on Thursday, while Apple, Lionsgate, the entertainment and film distribution company, and Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS, all paused their ads on Friday. The spending freeze comes as X has fought to win back advertisers who were wary of spending on the platform after Mr. Musk took it over a year ago and said he would loosen content moderation rules. Major brands tend to be cautious about placing their ads next to posts with offensive or hateful speech. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_Biden_and_Xi_hash_out economic_rivalry_at_rare_talks⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-11_[Older]_Decoding_China:_Xi_and Biden_have_to_find_common_ground⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_How_the_Biden-Xi meeting_in_San_Francisco_is_seen_in_Germany⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Trudeau_and_Xi_exchange_hellos_at APEC_summit_but_don't_formally_meet⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Canada_PM Says_He_Hopes_to_Meet_China's_Xi_One_Day_Once_Tensions Defused⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_Canada-India_trade_talks_won't resume_until_India_co-operates_with_Nijjar_investigation, minister_suggests⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-11_[Older]_FBI_seizes_New_York mayor's_phones_in_corruption_probe⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_King_Charles_launches new_food_scheme_on_75th_birthday⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Liberia:_George_Weah_in presidential_election_runoff⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_Poland:_Opposition politician_elected_speaker_of_parliament⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Tesla_Investors_Call_for_Elon Musk_to_Be_Suspended,_Apple_Pulls_Ads_on_X⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-18_[Older]_Liberia:_President concedes_defeat_in_razor-thin_vote⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Argentina_election: Choosing_between_a_rock_and_a_hard_place⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Germany's_socialist Left_Party_fights_for_its_survival⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_UK:_David_Cameron returns_to_government_as_foreign_secretary⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_US_Supreme_Court_adopts ethics_code_amid_increased_scrutiny⠀⇛ # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_YouTube_will_let musicians_and_actors_request_takedowns_of_their deepfakes⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_YouTube_Cracks_Down_on Future_'AI_Drakes'_With_Updated_Policies⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older] YouTube_Set_To_Roll_Out_New_Updates_To_Its_AI_Policy, What's_Changing?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_YouTube_Now_Sells_the_AI Soul_of_Your_Favorite_Musician⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_YouTube's_first_AI- generated_music_tools_can_clone_artist_voices_and_turn hums_into_melodies⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_From_Fake_Drakes_to Robo-Weathermen,_Here_Are_the_Top_AI_Stories_You_Missed This_Week⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-18_[Older]_Apple,_Disney, IBM_pull_ads_from_X_over_antisemitic_material⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Apple,_Disney_among brands_reportedly_pulling_ads_from_X_amid_growing antisemitic_content_backlash⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Documenta committee_resigns_in_wake_of_antisemitism_claims⠀⇛ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Distort_and_Deceive:_One_Pro-Assad Influencer's_Disinformation_War_on_Israel⠀⇛ She focused on spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories about the United States, Israel and allies while whitewashing the actions of the Assad regime and Russia during the Syrian war. [...] Sulsi is a contributing commentator to Russia-state-owned outlets RT and Sputnik, and Iran’s state-run Press TV. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_YouTube_will_now_let breastfeeding_and_twerking_videos_be_monetized⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_Lawmakers_question_Apple_over cancellation_of_Jon_Stewart's_show⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_Bar_Association_Urged_to Fight_Censorship_of_Pro-Palestinian_Voices⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_In_Federal Lawsuit,_Owner_of_Medical_Marijuana_Dispensary_Says Mississippi_Censors_Business_Owners⠀⇛ # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ 2023-11-10_[Older]_Context,_Connections &_Cracks_in_the_Facade_of_Propaganda:_A_Deeper_Look_at Israel/Palestine⠀⇛ o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_DW's_Tania_Krämer recognized_for_outstanding_journalism⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-15_[Older]_'Day_of_the_Imprisoned Writer'_remembers_persecuted_authors⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-14_[Older]_India:_Prize-winning author_Arundhati_Roy_faces_prosecution⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Lawsuit_Against_Alleged_CIA_Spying_On Assange_Visitors:_A_Rare_Court_Hearing⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_Iran:_Fears_for_the health_of_imprisoned_Peace_Prize_laureate⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Quebec_man_alleges_racial profiling,_police_brutality_at_Edmonton_International Airport⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-12_[Older]_What's_coercive_control?_This_MP wants_it_criminalized_after_seeing_the_impact_on_her_family⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ WeWork_has_failed._Like_a_lot_of_other_tech_startups, it_left_damage_in_its_wake⠀⇛ But the collateral damage of startups celebrated for "disrupting" traditional industries can go far beyond investors — hurting not just the old guard but also customers who are stuck with what's left. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Israel-Hamas_war_live: Gaza_aid_paused_amid_telecom_outage⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_Apple_joins_Meta_and ByteDance_in_contesting_the_EU’s_‘gatekeeper’_designation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-17_[Older]_The_Morning_After:_Apple_will adopt_RCS_in_2024⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_Apple_will_offer_RCS_support starting_in_2024⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ 2023-11-16_[Older]_Apple_Announces_Intention_to Support_RCS_Messages_‘Next_Year’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Witness_Testifies_That_Apple Gets_36_Percent_of_Google_Revenue_From_Safari_Search_Deal⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-13_[Older]_Google_reportedly_pays_Apple 36_percent_of_search_advertising_revenues_from_Safari⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ StreamSafely:_Anti-Piracy_Campaign_or Multi-Million_Dollar_Marketing_Machine?⠀⇛ A new phase of the StreamSafely.com anti- piracy campaign is underway. Visitors to the portal are advised that pirate streaming sites aren't what they seem and the content on offer acts as a smoke-screen for credit card fraud, identity theft, and so much more. But what about the entities behind the StreamSafely campaign; who are they and what's in it for them? Indeed, about that.... # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Artists_Push_for_US_Copyright_Reforms_on AI,_But_Tech_Industry_Says_Not_So_Fast⠀⇛ But, Perlmutter asks, as humans feed content into AI systems and give instructions to influence what comes out, "is there a point at which there's enough human involvement in controlling the expressive elements of the output that the human can be considered to have contributed authorship?" That's one question the Copyright Office has put to the public. A bigger one — the question that's fielded thousands of comments from creative professions — is what to do about copyrighted human works that are being pulled from the internet and other sources and ingested to train AI systems, often without permission or compensation. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Brrr⠀⇛ It gets quite cold now in the mornings, and so the quest has gone from staying cool to keeping warm, as it does. After this year's summer however, I'm still not complaining. I was initially worried a few weeks ago when I reformatted and went over to Ubuntu, but I have since found it to be a really nice daily driver. There are no programs I miss from MacOS; in fact I found HomeBank, for one, which is really nice for keeping track of finances. I think Gnome is quite pretty and very usable, and it all feels much lighter than MacOS. That leaves me with one last machine running MacOS, and who knows how much longer Apple will support Intel. # ⚓ Pretty_sneaky,_sis⠀⇛ There is an old commercial for the boardgame “Connect 4” where the sister wins over her brother by the brother just plain not noticing an otherwise plain-as-day and straight-forward, direct victory attempt. To the consternation of boardgame snobs everywhere, who never want to win via just a blunder, who not only want to capture the king but actually create a checkmate position where no matter what the other player tries to do, it’s over. (“No, you can’t move your knight there, your king is in check”.) We’ve seen this in the eurogame scene, where some game groups have a culture of allowing infinite takebacks and even giving advice. “We want to play against you at your best”, they say, “that’s why we have this culture.” # ⚓ Netflix's_"Pluto"_is_wonderful⠀⇛ My favorites are End of Evangelion, Texchnolyze, and Ergo Proxy. Serial Experiment Lain was cool too, but I spent most of my time just enjoying the atmosphere without having a clue what was happening. # ⚓ Warm_Regards⠀⇛ Quite the community here. Been lurking without an account for the last few days or so. Lots of interesting musings around. Not sure if I'll be terribly active, mostly just lurk while sipping on my drink. # ⚓ Gig_pig⠀⇛ Last night's performance was a blast. I somehow didn't know in advance that our friends who performed with us had a gig of their own later in the night at another venue that they wanted us to join in on. That was much simpler for us for being able to simply "plug in" instead of dealing with equipment. That said, I was up/out far too late for my age, especially sporting more than a few double Jameson's, and a THC gummy - always interesting to experience being able to sing and play guitar while unable to remember my name.... But, whoa, I didn't awaken for good until 8:23am, which is pretty damned late for a more 5:00am-ish riser. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ “Woke_commie_PC_bullshit”⠀⇛ “OOP can be better for GUI contexts, and FP can be better for CLI contexts.” “‘OOP’? ‘CLI’? I don't know what those mean. Stop making up words.” “You don't have experience with computer programming?” o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora_Workstation_as_my_primary_computer_on_my_aging_HP laptop.⠀⇛ I think I've mentioned before that I use Fedora Workstation as my primary computer on my aging HP laptop. I've been running Fedora on this laptop since I believe Fedora 28 and I've pretty much upgraded in place all the way up to Fedora 37. I should note that I've always used the base Gnome Desktop...not because I particularly like it but because it just wasn't worth the time for me to switch. I run Gnome in classic mode and for the most part it stays out of my way. # ⚓ on_difficulty_in_video_games⠀⇛ first, a couple disclaimers: i'm not talking about the shitty social dynamics that often crop up online around difficult video games here. they're interesting and important and worth discussing, but they also aren't the focus of this post. in addition, most of my experience with difficult games comes from modded celeste, and some parts of this don't generalize very far beyond that. in particular, celeste is mainly about mechanical difficulty with relatively little emphasis on reaction time, which is very different from eg. puzzle or fighting games # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Lunatic_drivetrains⠀⇛ Remember three years ago when I made a gemlog post (one of the very few which doesn't also exist as a phlog post, due to uninsteresting historical details) about unconventional bicycle drivetrains[1], and I described 2x1 and 3x1 drivertrains (as in, 2 or 3 chainrings and a single rear cog) as being "definitely the lunatic fringe of drivetrains"? # ⚓ Hello_coincidence_my_old_friend⠀⇛ which had what seemed to be useful content for helping one write smol html, as it were. *Which*, in turn, had me wondering if maybe I should be doing me some bihosting/double- posting...? Keep the html tag overhead minimal? Or per Adele's html recommendations? Decisions, decisions.... # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ the_readability_of_soft-wrapped_text⠀⇛ i think there's something important that's usually missed when discussing soft-wrapped text: text width this might just be a me thing, but i find it really unpleasant to read anything long that's all that much wider than the standard 80/72 columns that hard-wrapped text is usually at. *something* between the person writing the text and the medium where it's being displayed should do this width- limiting, and when all the tooling for viewing text is built on the assumption that that'll happen as the text is written, it means that soft-wrapped text is really unpleasant to read # ⚓ Ah,_so_that's_the_definition_of_a_unit_test⠀⇛ Via The big TDD misunderstanding (2022) | Hacker News [3], “The Big TDD Misunderstanding. 💡Originally, the term “unit” in “unit… | by Oliver Wolf | Mediu [4]” (also via Lobste.rs [5]) I think I finally have the answer to my question, “what is a ‘unit test?’ [6]” and … wow! And to think I was doing that all along at The Enterprise. When I wrote the regression tests, I set each test up to be independent—each test got its own unique test data in the various “databases” we were using (we weren't really using a database, but custom binary data files based off a periodic database dump) and in theory, we could have run the tests in random order. In fact, during my last year there, I almost added that feature to the regression test, but by then, I was so burned out with The Process™ [7] that I just never bothered. It's a shame that, because I think it would have been an interesting form of test to perform. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 2135 ➮ Generation completed at 02:49, i.e. 7 seconds to (re)generate ⟲