𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, November 30, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Fri 1 Dec 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/2023/11/30/ ╒═══════════════════ 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 - Ending Software Patents in Recent Years (Software Freedom Fighters MIA) ⦿ Techrights - Gemini Not Deflated Yet (Soon Turning 5!) ⦿ Techrights - IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 ⦿ Techrights - [Meme] One Person, Singular Pronoun ⦿ Techrights - New Article From Richard Stallman Explains Why He Says He and She for Unknown Person (Not 'They') ⦿ Techrights - Over at Tux Machines... ⦿ Techrights - Site Priorities and Upcoming Improvements ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Ending_Software_Patents_in_Recent_Years_Software_Freedom_Fighte.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Gemini_Not_Deflated_Yet_Soon_Turning_5.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/irc-log-291123.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/_Meme_One_Person_Singular_Pronoun.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/New_Article_From_Richard_Stallman_Explains_Why_He_Says_He_and_S.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Site_Priorities_and_Upcoming_Improvements.shtml ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Links_30_11_2023_Belated_End_of_Henry_Kissinger_and_Popular_Sci.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Links_30_11_2023_Google_Purging_Many_Accounts_and_Content_to_Sa.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Links_30_11_2023_Rushing_Patent_Cases_With_Shorter_Trial_Scheme.shtml ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 67 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Ending_Software_Patents_in_Recent_Years_Software_Freedom_Fighte.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Ending_Software_Patents_in_Recent_Years_Software_Freedom_Fighte.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Ending Software Patents in Recent Years (Software Freedom Fighters MIA)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Hot_Air_Balloon_Vintage_Drawing⦈_ YESTERDAY we re-posted a recently-updated_long_article_from_GNU. It was about software patents. The topic (software patents) is barely covered anywhere anymore. That's not to say resistance to them has stopped, it's just that the press is not doing much beyond "Bill Gates says" pieces (and "tweets" as headlines) anymore, or perhaps that's just the "new normal"... wherein even Blogspot blogspam means writing a short blurb about some release of some product/application (based on Microsoft GitHub, not original sites). 35 U.S.C. § 101 is still in force at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Alice-type questions have not been revisited by the SCOTUS, so enforcing software patents in American courts remains difficult or fiscally risky (you might have to end up paying the legal bills of the defendant). The EFF hardly writes about patents anymore and the Linux_Foundation mentions this word at most once a year. The FSF? Well, it barely touches the subject anymore and the site it runs to deal with the subject appears not to be maintained so much anymore: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇ESP Wiki is looking for moderators and active contributors!⦈ It was a lot busier last year. The last_change was 6_days_ago. Ciarán O'Riordan still seems_to_be_involved, but not as much as before. He's editing_the_page_about_himself_for_the_first time_in_nearly_12_years. More people ought to write about this subject. 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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 226 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Gemini_Not_Deflated_Yet_Soon_Turning_5.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Gemini_Not_Deflated_Yet_Soon_Turning_5.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Gemini Not Deflated Yet (Soon Turning 5!)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2023 Gemini numbers still_moving_up, the protocol will turn five next summer 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Hot Air Balloon Vintage Drawing⦈ THE more eagle-eyed readers may be able to tell that Gemini activity picked up much steam in recent days/weeks. Why? I have no clue, I have to admit! The articles (or pages) are mostly technical in nature; they're about 50% technical and the other half mainly personal stories about people's live, even fiction or general literature. The Web is aging badly; it's not maturing, it's just becoming more proprietary and akin to a corporate creature, i.e. inherently antithetical to and incompatible with its roots. It's good that an alternative is brewing and growing. In the past couple of days we served over 20,000 pages (or requests) over Gemini. We find it hard to believe Gemini can vanish in the next 5 years. The userbase is large enough. 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/_Meme_One_Person_Singular_Pronoun.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/_Meme_One_Person_Singular_Pronoun.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ [Meme] One Person, Singular Pronoun⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2023, updated Nov 30, 2023 Abusing people into abusing the English language is very poor diplomacy and intentional_(borderline)_trolling, i.e. the_usual which helps distract from one's very_bad_deeds 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇I don't always feed the trolls; But when I do, I use their singular pronouns⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇'They' is plural — for singular antecedents, use singular gender-neutral pronouns. ⦈ Cultural reference/context: Saint_IGNUcius_in_the_'Church_of_Emacs' (where both men_and_women_are_'members') 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Trigger warning: this article speaks about gender and - inter alia - human biology. Just over a day ago an_outline_of_changes was publicised by stallmansupport.org, a site implicitly endorsed (by verbal mentions in public talks) however not composed by Dr. Stallman: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇November 28, 2023 Various changes (thanks everyone!): Replaced the word “Dialogue” with “Justice” in the header. Replaced the top banner about the support letter with one that states the purpose of the website. Moved the dedication notice from the homepage to the About page. Other minor changes in that page. Considerably rewrote the homepage. Added an item about the Virgin of Emacs in the debunk page. Other minor changes in that page. In the debunk page, asked readers whether we should include information about the accusers. Added some information in the introduction of Commitment to social justice.⦈ The most significant change (except perhaps the front page, which is definitely better right now as 2024 fast approaches and the site is a response to 2021) was the addition of this: Added an item about the Virgin of Emacs in the debunk page. Other minor changes in that page. Back in 2009 a considerable number of fools and "useful_idiots" tried to 'cancel' Stallman (the term was yet not in use back then) and even remove GNOME from GNU. It didn't quite work and we wrote many articles about it at the time (some_of_them_indexed_in_the_wiki), but here's a_concise_new_summary_of_the phony_'scandal' (remember that men too can be virgin and there's a cultural reference herein): § Virgin of Emacs⠀➾ Saint iGNUcius. February 2009, Oslo. Photo by Gisle Hannemyr (CC BY-SA 2.0) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Saint_iGNUcius⦈_ At the end of some of his speeches, Stallman at times introduces a comedic sketch in which he presents himself as “St. iGNUcius,” a saint in the “church of Emacs.” This is because the community of Emacs users has traditionally called itself a “church,” in a humorous way, due to their total devotion to the program. The sketch includes a series of jokes related to various religions. For example, it mentions a “Foobar Mitzvah” ceremony; living a life of purity that “does not require celibacy;” exorcizing the evil of proprietary software from “possessed computers;” and the like. One of the jokes refers to the Virgin Mary. It says that anyone who has never used Emacs is a “Virgin of Emacs,” and that offering the virgin the opportunity “to lose Emacs virginity is a blessed act.” Since it referred to the Virgin Mary, the gender in the joke was female. In 2009 someone objected the virgin joke was disrespectful towards women. At the time, Stallman sent an explanatory email[6] and, after some thought, he decided to leave the virgin's gender unspecified to avoid offending anyone (video). He also has recently published a thorough account (Archived) about this matter. #virgin-gender [...] [6] Email_about_the_virgin. (Archived) ↑ I was a little surprised that Stallman "has recently published a thorough account" more than 14 years later, but having said that I've noticed Stallman still edits many pages in gnu.org. Yes, he's not idle despite the health condition and the travel. Many old pages are still being edited by him. His latest article about this issue is dated_about_6_weeks_ago and it's reproduced verbatim below: § What I learned about gender and language from talking about the Virgin of Emacs, and how I made use of that in practice Richard Stallman, 2023-10-18⠀➾ My Saint iGNUcius comedy routine consists of a series of jokes about the fictional Church of Emacs that humorously compare ideas of the free software movement with real aspects of various world religions. When I introduced the Virgin of Emacs as a character into the routine, she was female because she was an allusion to the Virgin Mary, and an "Emacs virgin" in the sense that she had never used Emacs. I added substance to that particular joke by referring to the (unfortunate) fewness of women among the users of Emacs. Of course, I improvised details in the routine's jokes each time as ideas came to me. Years ago I saw a report claiming that, on one occasion, I had referred to the sole woman in the audience as "the Virgin of Emacs." The report portrayed this as persecution and misogyny, which were certainly not in my mind. The concept of the Virgin of Emacs is not hostile, critical or negative at all. (Saint iGNUcius is not mean- spirited.) Whatever I had said in clowning, I did not intend it as anything but fun. Misunderstandings happen, and it's wise not to make too much of them. At the same time, I did not want to make women (or anyone) in my audience feel uncomfortable with that joke. So that no one would perceive the Virgin of Emacs as expressing an attitude towards women, I decided to leave the Virgin's gender unspecified. In the spirit of gender equality, which I have supported for 50 years, I decided also to stop using masculine pronouns to refer to the nonspecific people mentioned in my talks. Instead I adopted the practice of alternating between masculine and feminine. The first nonspecific person I mentioned in the talk would be "she". The next such person would be "he". Each time I introduced another unknown person, I would use the other gender. I had reached the conclusion that this was better than the "male pronouns for mixed groups" standard that I had been taught. (Nowadays I use gender-neutral singular pronouns for a person whose gender I don't know, or who doesn't have one. https://stallman.org/articles/ genderless-pronouns.html.) I adopted the same convention for speaking in French and Spanish. I think it was around that time that I started to speak of "les Droits de l'Humain" instead of "les Droits de l'Homme" when referring to "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité", which I quote to present the basic values of the Free Software Movement in French. I also published a proposal for gender-neutrality in Spanish (https://stallman.org/ articles/castellano-sin-genero.html). That's where things stand with the Virgin of Emacs — but now that we hold an annual Emacs conference, I wonder if it might be fun to invite people to publicly represent the Virgin of Emacs there and lose Emacs virginity. Specifically, we could recruit someone (regardless of gender), who has never known or used Emacs, to have a first experience of editing with Emacs under the guidance of a coach — making a video to show at the conference. In the traditional hacker spirit of Ha Ha Only Serious, we could also use this to learn seriously about how to best introduce people to editing with Emacs. ===================================================================== Please send comments on these web pages to rms@gnu.org. Copyright (C) 2023 Richard Stallman Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. ===================================================================== Despite the relentless blackmail, threats and online smear campaigns, Stallman refuses to use plural words for singular. In his Web site's front_page it says in large fonts: "They" is plural — for singular antecedents, use singular gender- neutral pronouns. Standing one's ground is not a weakness. It's what software freedom needs. 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https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Over at Tux Machines...⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2023 ⚓ Updated This Past Day⠀⇛ 1. ⚓ Open_source_email_pioneer_Roundcube_joins_the_Nextcloud_family⠀⇛ We are thrilled to announce that Roundcube project has found a new home with Nextcloud 2. ⚓ Google_Purging_Many_Accounts:_My_Experience⠀⇛ a rant about Google 3. ⚓ Links_30/11/2023:_Google_Purging_Many_Accounts_and_Content_(to_Save Money),_Finland_Fully_Seals_Border_With_Russia⠀⇛ Links for the day 4. ⚓ Red_Hat’s_RHEL_10_will_Phase_Out_Xorg_in_Favor_of_Wayland⠀⇛ RHEL 10’s plan reveals Wayland’s dominance in future Linux releases, focusing on enhanced display features 5. ⚓ Paru_2.0_Arch’s_AUR_Helper_Is_a_Major_Update_After_Long_Hiatus⠀⇛ Revamped Paru 2.0 enhances Arch Linux package management with superior PKGBUILD repo support, interactive commands, and system updates 6. ⚓ PeerTube_Gets_Better_Features_Than_YouTube_With_Version_6_Release⠀⇛ Ever wanted to run your video platform free from the clutches of Big Tech? 7. ⚓ Northern_Africa:_GNU/Linux_at_About_3%_on_Desktops_and_Laptops,_Android Reduces_Microsoft_Windows_to_Very_Little⠀⇛ a consistent downward trend for Microsoft 8. ⚓ Richard_Stallman:_Releasing_Free_Software_If_You_Work_at_a_University⠀⇛ Date: 2021/10/01 9. ⚓ FriendlyELEC_CM3588_NAS_Kit_comes_with_four_M.2_Key-M_2280_PCIe_Gen_3 x1_sockets⠀⇛ FriendlyELEC provides Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04, Android 12 TV, FriendlyWrt 21.02/23.05 (OpenWrt forks), and OpenMediaVault images, all based on a fairly recent Linux 6.1 LTS kernel 10. ⚓ TUXEDO_Sirius_16_Unveiled_as_TUXEDO’s_First_All-AMD_Linux_Gaming Laptop⠀⇛ TUXEDO Sirius 16 announced as TUXEDO Computers’ first all-AMD Linux gaming laptop featuring AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS and AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT. 11. ⚓ Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO⠀⇛ 5 stories ⚓ New⠀⇛ 12. ⚓ today's_leftovers⠀⇛ 5 more stories 13. ⚓ Open_Hardware:_Raspberry_Pi_and_“AirGradient_ONE”⠀⇛ 2 CNX articles 14. ⚓ Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO⠀⇛ Microsoft among the main culprits 15. ⚓ Kernel_Articles_in_LWN⠀⇛ 4 new articles liberated from paywall moments ago 16. ⚓ Fractal_5:_Linux_Matrix_Messaging_App_Level-Up_with_GTK_4_and_Rust SDK⠀⇛ Matrix messaging app for GNOME gets an upgrade with GTK4, Rust SDK, and more. 17. ⚓ Latest_Steam_Client_Update_Improves_Steam_Overlay_for_CS2_and_Other Games_on_Linux⠀⇛ Valve released today a new stable Steam Client update that brings various improvements for Linux gamers, as well as a couple of new features and numerous bug fixes. 18. ⚓ Kernel_and_Graphics_Leftovers⠀⇛ 3 more stories 19. ⚓ Open_Hardware_and_Linux-centric_Hardware⠀⇛ another half dozen 20. ⚓ Arduino_and_Raspberry_Pi_Projects⠀⇛ half a dozen new stories 21. ⚓ coreboot_4.22_&_4.22.01_have_been_released⠀⇛ The next release is planned for the 19th of February, 2024 22. ⚓ Servers:_Omnios_Server_and_Kubernetes⠀⇛ Some back end stuff 23. ⚓ Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO⠀⇛ mostly the latter 24. ⚓ Programming_Leftovers⠀⇛ Rust, Perl, and much more 25. ⚓ Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software:_Eleutheria,_Digital_Public_Goods Alliance_Meeting,_and_Openwashing_by_OSI⠀⇛ Some FOSS links 26. ⚓ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients_with_Retro_Commander_and Sand:Box_-_2023-11-29_Edition⠀⇛ Between 2023-11-22 and 2023-11-29 there were 16 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients 27. ⚓ Mozilla_Firefox:_Tor_Browser_13.5a2_and_Open_extensions_on_Firefox_for Android⠀⇛ Some Firefox news 28. ⚓ Armbian_23.11_Released_with_Linux_Kernel_6.6_LTS_and_Support_for_New Devices⠀⇛ The Armbian project announced today the release and general availability of Armbian 23.11 as the latest version of this GNU/Linux distribution tailored for ARM-powered embedded devices. 29. ⚓ Events:_FOSDEM,_Free_Software_Directory_Meeting,_and_IETF_118⠀⇛ 4 new links 30. ⚓ Audiocasts/Shows:_Linux_Matters_and_Coder_Radio⠀⇛ Two new episodes 31. ⚓ Lists_of_GNU/Linux_Software_and_Reflections_on_Version_4.5.0_of_syslog- ng⠀⇛ Some software news 32. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ many howtos for Wednesday 33. ⚓ 4MLinux_44_Adds_System-Wide_VA-API_Support,_Improves_Printing_Support⠀⇛ 4MLinux creator Zbigniew Konojacki announced today the release and general availability for download of a new stable and major release of his independent and lightweight GNU/Linux distribution, 4MLinux 44. 34. ⚓ The_Free_Software_Foundation's_(FSF)_International_Day_Against_DRM⠀⇛ new press release for IDAD 35. ⚓ Mesa_23.3_Linux_Graphics_Stack_Brings_the_NVK_Vulkan_Driver_for_NVIDIA Hardware⠀⇛ The Mesa 3D Project announced today the release and general availability of Mesa 23.3 as the latest version of this open- source graphics stack for GNU/Linux distributions and other platforms. 36. ⚓ KDE_Plasma_6_Desktop_Environment_Is_Now_Available_for_Public_Beta Testing⠀⇛ The KDE Project released today the first beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment for public testing three weeks after the alpha development milestone. 37. ⚓ Cinnamon_6.0_Desktop_Environment_Arrives_with_Initial_Wayland_Support⠀⇛ Work on the Cinnamon 6.0 is over and the final release landed today on GitHub, so it’s my pleasure to guide you guys through some of the most important changes included in this major update. 38. ⚓ Android_Leftovers⠀⇛ Firefox for Android is getting over 400 more extensions in December 39. ⚓ Fedora_Workstation_39_and_beyond⠀⇛ I have not been so active for a while with writing these Fedora Workstation updates and part of the reason was that I felt I was beginning to repeat myself a lot 40. ⚓ Android_Leftovers⠀⇛ 5 Best upcoming Android games in 2024 41. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ technical posts 42. ⚓ Games:_Dredge,_Steam,_and_More⠀⇛ half a dozen posts, mostly by Liam Dawe 43. ⚓ Stable_kernels:_Linux_6.6.3,_Linux_6.5.13,_Linux_6.1.64,_Linux 5.15.140,_Linux_5.10.202,_Linux_5.4.262,_Linux_4.19.300,_and_Linux 4.14.331⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 6.6.3 kernel 44. ⚓ Today_in_Techrights⠀⇛ Some of the latest articles 45. ⚓ Tails_5.20_Brings_Latest_Tor_Browser,_Ditches_AdGuard_Filter_List⠀⇛ Tails 5.20 release enhanced privacy with the Tor Browser 13.0.4 update and improved email security with Thunderbird 115.5.0 46. ⚓ Varia_is_a_Brand_New_Download_Manager_for_Linux⠀⇛ Varia is a new, open-source download manager for Linux based on Aria2, a powerful command-line download utility 47. ⚓ 14_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Terminal-Based_Music_Players⠀⇛ Linux has many music tools which offer enhanced functionality and integration with internet music services 48. ⚓ Off-Theme_Presents:_Shades_of_Purple⠀⇛ One unexpected week-long break later (sorry)… in the third installment of Off-Theme, let’s have a taste of a global theme with a rather eye-grabbing set of shades 49. ⚓ today's_leftovers⠀⇛ FSF, IBM, and more 50. ⚓ More_Security_Incidents,_Patches,_and_Microsoft_Windows_TCO⠀⇛ Windows leads to breaches 51. ⚓ Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_and_Other_Canonical/Ubuntu_News⠀⇛ 5 links for today 52. ⚓ Insider_Tips_for_Buying_a_New_Personal_Computer⠀⇛ Consider the Benefits of Linux and Chromebooks 53. ⚓ Support_for_AMD’s_next-gen_GPUs_has_been_spotted_in_recent_Linux patches⠀⇛ Previous patches referred to the GPUs as GFX10 and GFX10.2 54. ⚓ Proprietary_Qt_Releases_and_'Free'_Samples_for_Schools⠀⇛ Some Qt news 55. ⚓ Red_Hat_Plans_to_Retire_X.Org_Server_in_RHEL_10⠀⇛ Red Hat announces the removal of X.Org Server in RHEL 10, signalling a strategic move towards a more secure, feature-rich graphical environment with Wayland. 56. ⚓ Programming_Leftovers⠀⇛ Python, KDE, and more 57. ⚓ New_or_Updates_Lists_of_GNU/Linux⠀⇛ 4 lists and one ASUSTOR Data Master review 58. ⚓ Linux_Devices_and_Projects/Products:_FriendlyELEC,_Raspberry_Pi, Arduino⠀⇛ Open Hardware and such 59. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ few for now 60. ⚓ Ultramarine_Linux_39_Review:_Fedora_for_Everyone⠀⇛ A review of Ultramarine Linux 39, which brings the Fedora 39 base, the latest Kernel and customized desktops. 61. ⚓ weston_13.0.0⠀⇛ This is the official release for weston 13.0.0 62. ⚓ Switcheroo_-_Simple_&_Modern_GTK4_Image_Converter_for_Linux⠀⇛ Looking for app to convert your photo images into other formats? Try Switcheroo. 63. ⚓ Linux_Kernel_6.5_Reaches_End_of_Life,_It’s_Time_to_Upgrade_to_Linux Kernel_6.6_LTS⠀⇛ Linux kernel 6.5 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their system to the latest Linux 6.6 LTS kernel as soon as possible. 64. ⚓ Android_Leftovers⠀⇛ Google Messages Gets Support for Ultra HDR 65. ⚓ Let’s_talk_about_Fairphone’s_work_in_the_Congo⠀⇛ There has been a lot of social media buzz over the last few weeks on a myriad of issues related to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 66. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ many howtos for the day 67. ⚓ PipeWire_Hits_1.0.0_with_Improved_JACK_and_Buffer_Optimizations⠀⇛ Revamped PipeWire 1.0.0 delivers memfd/dma-buf leak resolutions, improved JACK port handling, and more 68. ⚓ Microsoft,_Worthless_Chatbots_(Misframed_as_"AI")_and_Windows_Cost_of Ownership_(TCO)⠀⇛ some Microsoft stuff 69. ⚓ Programming_Leftovers⠀⇛ 5 links for today's coding section 70. ⚓ today's_leftovers⠀⇛ 5 articles/topics 71. ⚓ Audiocasts/Shows:_Destination_Linux,_Linux_Saloon,_Linux_in_the_Ham Shack,_Linux_User_Space,_Late_Night_Linux,_WordPress_Briefing⠀⇛ half a dozen new episodes 72. ⚓ today's_howtos⠀⇛ only 4 more for the time being 73. ⚓ This_week_in_KDE:_the_Plasma_6_feature_freeze_approaches⠀⇛ At this point nearly all the planned features for Plasma 6 are done 74. ⚓ Games:_Poker,_Steam,_and_More⠀⇛ mostly by Liam Dawe 75. ⚓ Economic_Downturn_is_Good_for_(or_Favours)_BSDs_and_GNU/Linux⠀⇛ we're likely to witness growing adoption of distros, especially in developing nations 76. ⚓ Android_Leftovers⠀⇛ Extend the Lifespan of Your Android Phone Battery with These Tips 77. ⚓ Plans_for_Next_Month_and_Next_Year⠀⇛ December starts this week 78. ⚓ Today_in_Techrights⠀⇛ Some of the latest articles ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1289 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Site_Priorities_and_Upcoming_Improvements.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/11/30/Site_Priorities_and_Upcoming_Improvements.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Site Priorities and Upcoming Improvements⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2023 Latency has_improved_lately (after router work*) and pages are served very fast by contemporary standards 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇A Pingdom test⦈ TODAY the month finally ends. Good riddance, November, but not the cold snap. In the past this meant that we would have quickly created video archive/s (Gemini also!) for the full month, but lately we've not made enough videos to make that worthwhile. So maybe by the end of next month (and end of year) I will have sorted out the new pipeline, something with the static page generator, for adding new videos and video pages, sans the manual intervention/ work. In the past this task was relatively time-consuming, even with a degree of automation. Truth be said, it's not urgent, I am in no rush to make more videos, and thus making index pages for videos isn't a top priority (we have more important task to prioritise, e.g. tidying up the wiki). This month's main accomplishment was speed. There are many changes happening in the site other than addition of new articles. Some will be made more visible over time or will be announced when they're sufficiently polished. We're trying to look decades ahead, not just months or years ahead. That's why we dumped PHP. █ _____ * As the host put it: "As part of equipment lifecycle management we will be upgrading a core router in our Reading datacentre which will allow us to retire end-of-life equipment and support faster network speeds. During this maintenance one of our core routers in Reading will be powered down and upgraded which will cause some customer traffic to flow through our network via different paths. There will be ample capacity elsewhere in the network during this time and customer service should not be interrupted, but we're announcing this as a network at risk period." The change is good for IRC hosting. Low lag. ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡏⠉⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡙⢋⠏⠛⡛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣮⣴⣬⣤⣤⣤⣥⣤⣶⣤⣥⣤⣬⣥⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣬⣤⣬⣦⣷⣯⣤⣤⣤⣧⣦⣦⣤⣦⣴⣷⣧⣤⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠛⠛ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣶⣶ ⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠛⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⢟⣿⣻⡇⠀⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠉⠉ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⣿⠛⠉⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⢿⣿⢿⢿⢿⢿⢿⠿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠿⣿⠿⠿⡿⠿⡿⢿⢿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣦⣤⣀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣿⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣷⣾⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣤⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣾⣾ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⡿⠿⢿⢿⠿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⣾⣾⣶⣶⣷⣾⣤⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣴⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠍⢹⡏⠈⠁⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠈⠁⠹⡁⢹⡇⠡⡇⠸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣷⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣷⣷⣿⣷⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣋⣉⣉⣠⣈⣍⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣌⣉⣉⣉⣉⣈⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⡟⢻⠟⣿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣦⣵⣶⣾⣼⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1383 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 30/11/2023: Belated End of Henry Kissinger and 'Popular Science' Shuts Online Magazine⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Wiki_on_the_wider_web⠀⇛ Before wiki, most (not all, but most) people made web in one of two ways: bug-ridden GUI hells like Macromedia Dreamweaver, or hand-writing HTML the long way. M4 and other shortcuts weren’t something we, the slovenly post–Eternal-September arrivees, were familiar with. Wiki made “text-near, minimalist” markup mainstream. o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ The_Verdict_on_Henry_Kissinger⠀⇛ Henry Kissinger is dead. The media mill is already churning out fiery denouncements and warm remembrances in equal measure. Perhaps no other figure in twentieth- century American history is so polarizing, as vehemently reviled by some as he is revered by others. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Controlling_reality’:_Sociologist_Jennifer_Earl_on_the many_faces_of_repression_—_and_what_can_be_done_to_resist_them_— Meduza⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Telescopes_didn't_always_play_nicely_with each_other._That's_about_to_change⠀⇛ A team of researchers from the John Hopkins Institute addressed the main problem of assessing images from sky surveys taken over many years from different telescope in different locations under different conditions. The challenge has been to match observations of the same objects and when the surveys are in close proximity this can be more challenging. Existing tools have been available to crossmatch data from various catalogs such as TopCat, CDS Match and Aspects but to date, these are sow and have had higher than wished for failure rates. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ That_time_a_JPL_engineer_almost_killed_a Mars_Rover_before_it_left_Earth⠀⇛ He was into his unofficial second shift, having already logged 12 hours that Wednesday, and was tasked with verifying the integrity of the motors in the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) attached to the end of Spirit's robotic arm. [...] "The monitoring multimeter I disconnected was actually completing the circuit that powered the spacecraft's ground test telemetry. I inadvertently disabled the connection the instant I removed the leads." o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Popular_Science_Shuts_Online_Magazine_in Another_Sign_of_Decline⠀⇛ “Like most media companies, Recurrent is adapting to the evolving landscape of its audience,” Cathy Hebert, a company spokeswoman, said in a statement on Tuesday. “Whether it’s due to shifting patterns in social media, an increase in consumer demand for video or shifting advertising budgets — which have also increasingly moved toward video — it’s clear that change is a consistent theme.” # ⚓ Axios ☛ Layoffs_hit_Recurrent_Ventures_following_CEO shakeup⠀⇛ Catch up quick: Recurrent has a portfolio of about 20 brands that include Popular Science, Domino, Bob Villa and others. Last year, it acquired Dwell and Business of Home. It sold its food website Saveur to the publication's longtime editor earlier this year. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ The_biggest_drone_service_providers_of 2023_for_remote_sensing⠀⇛ The commercial drone market encompasses a range of work, including building software and hardware. But one of the biggest money-makers in the drone industry is actually flying them. And a few drone companies stand out as especially heavy hitters for being the biggest drone service providers. Drones can provide all sorts of services. Drone delivery might come to mind first, while there are other unique use cases like serving as flying billboards or putting on drone light shows. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ CT_Scanner_Reveals_The_Difference_Between_Real And_Fake_AirPods⠀⇛ These days, you have to be careful what you buy. Counterfeit hardware is everywhere, especially when you’re purchasing things sight unseen over the Internet. [Jon Bruner] recently set out to look at a bunch of fake AirPod clones, and found that the similarities between the imposters and the real thing are only skin deep. A CT scan reveals all. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Gesture-Controlled_Robot_Arm_Is_A_Nifty Educational_Build⠀⇛ Traditionally, robot arms have been controlled either by joysticks, buttons, or very carefully programmed routines. However, for [Narongporn Laosrisin’s] homebrew build, they decided to go with gesture control instead. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Chromium(III)_Telluride_As_Ferromagnetic Material_With_Tunable_Anomalous_Hall_Effect⠀⇛ Chromium(III) Telluride (Cr2Te3) is an interesting material for (ferro)magnetic applications, with Yao Wen and colleagues reporting in a 2020 Nano Letters paper that they confirmed it to show spontaneous magnetization at a thickness of less than fifty nanometers, at room temperature. Such a 2D ferromagnet could be very useful for spintronics and other applications. The confirmation of magnetization is performed using a variety of methods, including measuring the Hall Effect (HE) and the Anomalous Hall Effect (AHE), the latter of which is directly dependent on the magnetization of the material, rather than an externally applied field. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Fierce Pharma ☛ Pfizer's_cost-savings_mission_continues with_office_shuffle,_job_cuts_in_Ireland⠀⇛ While "there will be redundancies" stemming from the move, the company will minimize job cuts by "utilizing open roles and moving talent to other opportunities," the spokesperson added. The Citywest location currently employs 125 people, while the Ringsend workforce is comprised of 400 employees. Pfizer has five sites in Ireland with a total staff of about 5,000 people. As COVID sales crater, Pfizer takes $5.6B in inventory write-offs on Paxlovid, Comirnaty Pfizer’s Newbridge job cuts earlier this month impacted staffers who helped produce the company’s COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid. The scale-down came in response to “lower-than-expected utilization” for Pfizer’s COVID products, a spokesperson told Fierce Pharma at the time. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ How_to_get_someone_out_of_a_cult_–_and what_happens_afterwards⠀⇛ For some people, there is a gradual slipping away. The classic cult-like group encourages isolation from friends, family and even outside employment. But if someone does continue to engage with other activities and groups, these might reduce the appeal of an increasingly demanding group. Some people experience a sudden change in thinking when the group crosses an ethical line or when the when the duplicity of a leader’s teaching and behaviour is realised. Sometimes a group of people leave together. But, as the length and depth of involvement increases, leaving can become harder and harder. This is partially due to the “sunk costs” effect. If you spend your life savings on “training” and cut all your ties with your family, it becomes more difficult to start over. Additionally, many people are both perpetrators and victims of the group’s harmful activities. Shame and social stigma does not make it any easier to leave. # ⚓ Homeopathic_quackery_vs…a_fibroadenoma?⠀⇛ Regular readers know that my clinical specialty is breast cancer surgery, and that I am a breast cancer researcher as well. In the before time (i.e., before the COVID-19 pandemic) I used to write frequently about breast cancer and breast disease. In the nearly four years since the novel coronavirus first caused the epidemic in Wuhan China that ultimately spread to the rest of the world and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. So it was interest, amusement, and alarm that greeted my discovery of the Philadelphia Homeopathic Clinic and its page on the Homeopathic Treatment for Breast Fibroadenoma. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Sports_Illustrated_is_latest_media_to_feel_the pull_and_sting_of_AI⠀⇛ Computer-generated writers ... writing computer- generated stories? Sports Illustrated is the latest media company to see its reputation damaged by being less than forthcoming – if not outright dishonest – about who or what is writing its stories at the dawn of the artificial intelligence age. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Elon_Musk_Uses_a_Crude_Insult_to_Slam Advertisers_for_Pulling_Back_From_X.⠀⇛ About 200 big advertisers, including Disney, Apple and IBM, stopped spending on X after Mr. Musk agreed with a post that accused Jewish communities of pushing “hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” If the freeze continues, it could end up costing the company up to $75 million this quarter, according to internal documents seen by The New York Times. # ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Automated_shuttle_planned_for Detroit_is_testing_at_Mcity⠀⇛ The vehicle under test is identical to those destined for Detroit. The evaluation is taking place at Mcity — the world’s first purpose-built environment for testing connected and automated vehicles and technologies under controlled, realistic conditions. # ⚓ Six Colors ☛ A_picture_is_worth_a_thousand_permissions requests⠀⇛ And yet all of Apple’s security alerts got in the way again and spoiled the whole thing. Here’s a screenshot I took right after my new Mac booted for the first time after migration: [...] # ⚓ Simon Willison ☛ llamafile_is_the_new_best_way_to_run_a_LLM on_your_own_computer⠀⇛ A llamafile is a single multi-GB file that contains both the model weights for an LLM and the code needed to run that model—in some cases a full local server with a web UI for interacting with it. # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ It’s_now_possible_to_obtain_summaries_of_YouTube videos_through_Bard,_and_more_useful_stuff⠀⇛ As helpful as generative AI like ChatGPT and Bard are in the research process, they still make up stuff with such confidence you’ll believe it’s true. So, you are forced to check everything they tell you as ChatGPT recommends, “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Consider checking important information.” # ⚓ Futurism ☛ OpenAI_Refuses_to_Comment_on_Secretive_Q*_AI⠀⇛ While a spokesperson refused to give a statement, insiders told the magazine that OpenAI is in fact working on Q* and has already used it to solve math problems. However, they argued that the existence of the project likely wasn't enough to trigger fears among OpenAI's board that could've led to Altman's dismissal. At the end of the day, we simply have no idea if Q* will represent a breakthrough or not, let alone if it will ever be turned into a viable consumer- facing product. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Amazon_Introduces_Q,_an_A.I._Chatbot_for Companies⠀⇛ The chatbot, developed by Amazon’s cloud computing division, is focused on workplaces and not intended for consumers. Amazon Q aims to help employees with daily tasks, such as summarizing strategy documents, filling out internal support tickets and answering questions about company policy. It will compete with other corporate chatbots, including Copilot, Google’s Duet AI and ChatGPT Enterprise. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ G.M._to_Cut_Spending_on_Cruise_Self- Driving_Unit⠀⇛ General Motors is slowing the expansion of its Cruise automated driving division and significantly cutting spending at the unit after suspending operations in response to growing safety concerns about its driverless cars. The company had been planning to roll out a ride service in San Francisco and three other cities and begin testing Cruise vehicles on the streets of several other markets. It now plans to focus on only one city as it works to improve the operation of its fleet of driverless vehicles it has been testing. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Sports_Illustrated_The_Latest_To_Bare_Its_Entire Ass_Thanks_To_Laziness,_Greed,_And_Half-Cooked_‘AI’⠀⇛ The rushed integration of half-baked “AI” (aka not at all sentient language learning models) into journalism has been a gargantuan mess. Execs at companies like Red Ventures (CNET) and G/O Media (Gizmodo) have made it very clear they see LLMs primarily as a way to attack labor and cut corners, resulting in soulless and low quality product, oodles of plagiarism, and no shortage of employee ill will. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ A_toddler_was_taken_in_a carjacking._VW_wanted_$150_for_GPS_coordinates,_lawsuit says.⠀⇛ In the lawsuit filed Monday, the family said that both Volkswagen and Car-Net’s service provider, Verizon, disrupted its chances of finding Isaiah by requesting payment instead of immediately assisting. # ⚓ Pete Warden ☛ Little_Googles_Everywhere⠀⇛ Imagine asking a box on a pillar at Home Depot “Where are the nails?” and getting directions, your fridge responding with helpful advice when you say “Why is the ice maker broken?”, or your car answering “How do I change the wiper speed?”. I think of these kinds of voice assistants for everyday objects as “Little Googles”, agents that are great at answering questions, but only in a very specific domain. I want them in my life, but they don’t yet exist. If they’re as useful as I think, why aren’t they already here, and why is now the right time for them to succeed? # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Be_Careful_What_You_Tell_OpenAI’s_GPTs⠀⇛ The vulnerability comes from something called prompt leaking, where users can trick a GPT into revealing how it was built through a series of strategic questions. Prompt leaking presents issues on multiple fronts according to Polyakov, who was one of the first to jailbreak ChatGPT. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Ron_Wyden_Wants_To_Know_Why_The_DEA_Still Has_On-Demand_Access_To_Trillions_Of_Phone_Records⠀⇛ For decades, the government has used the Third Party Doctrine to obtain massive amounts of phone records without a warrant. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Neritam ☛ Social_media_is_‘undermining_our_democracies’⠀⇛ In an interview with FRANCE 24 at the Paris Peace Forum, US billionaire Frank McCourt strongly criticised tech giants, saying social media is “undermining our democracies”. The owner of French football club Olympique de Marseille told us more about his Project Liberty plan. He has invested $100 million in the initiative, which he hopes will “transform the way the [Internet] works”. # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ Keeping_1.5_alive,_phasing_out_fossil fuels_and_tackling_climate_inequality_must_be_priorities_for COP28_climate_talks⠀⇛ “Thirdly, these climate talks must recognise that it is a super-rich elite who are super-heating the planet. The UK government must be willing to challenge the grotesque inequality driving climate breakdown and reform our tax system to make the polluter pay. This means taxing the wealth of the super-rich and introducing a carbon tax on the most polluting corporations and individuals. Such taxes, introduced globally, could generate the funds needed for a generous new Loss and Damage Fund to finance climate action in the poorest countries – those suffering the most from the impacts of climate breakdown but contributing the least to the crisis.” # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Saudi_Arabia_Apparently_Scheming_to_Get_Poor Countries_Addicted_to_Oil⠀⇛ Reporting from the nonprofit journalism organization Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) and Channel 4 News found that Saudi Arabia calls the scheme an "oil sustainability program" on an English-language government website, with one of its stated goals as "increasing sustainability. But in the Arabic version, it's called an "oil demand sustainability programme" that's meant to "sustain and develop the demand for hydrocarbons as a competitive source of energy, by raising its economic and environmental efficiency." # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Donald_Trump_and_the_Jefferson_Davis Problem⠀⇛ State courts in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and elsewhere have so far declined to rule in favor of challenges asserting that Donald Trump should be disqualified from holding the presidency again under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. (Cases in Michigan and Colorado have been appealed.) Challengers assert that Mr. Trump is barred because, as stated in Section 3, he was an officer of the United States who, after taking an oath to support the Constitution, “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the country or gave “aid or comfort to the enemies thereof” before and during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Dual_Threat_of_Donald_Trump⠀⇛ Whether Trump could really see the inside of a cell is a matter of intense debate even among legal experts, but this much is clear: The federal charges he faces are grave; some of the cases against him, particularly those related to refusing to hand over classified records, seem strong; and convictions on these charges can bring prison time. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Beware_Populist_Politicians_Who_Threaten_to Kill⠀⇛ Duterte reburied Marcos, who had died in exile in Hawaii, as a hero at the national cemetery in Manila. Obliged by the Philippines’ constitution to step down after one term, he endorsed Marcos’s son, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Jr., to be his successor. The country had come full circle. Evangelista’s book is an extraordinary testament to half a decade of state-sanctioned terror. It’s also a timely warning for the state of democracy in 2024. Eight years ago, most Filipinos shrugged off Duterte’s homicidal rhetoric as political buffoonery. The horrors that followed suggest that demagogues with a violent message might well be taken at their word. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ There's_a_New_QAnon_[Blockade]_in Canada._They_Want_to_'Pick_Up'_Homeless_People.⠀⇛ The movement’s self-appointed spokesperson Gordon Berry advocated for arresting politicians and dismantling the government. Attendees of early meetings told Press Progress that the group had initially intended to send caravans to Toronto and Tofino, British Columbia in a plot to target politicians, police, and freemasons. # ⚓ New Statesman ☛ Lapland:_a_prisoner_of_geography⠀⇛ Threatened by Russia as well as climate change, Finland’s northernmost region has become a front line of western Europe’s existential crisis. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Mass_Killings_in_Darfur_Revealed_as Fighting_Between_Sudanese_Military_Factions_Escalates⠀⇛ We get an update on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, where more than 12,000 people have been killed and over 6 million displaced since April, when the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group broke out into fighting. Earlier this month, human rights groups say members of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group carried out a massacre of around 1,300 Masalit people over three days in Sudan’s West Darfur region and have subjected them to unlawful detentions, sexual violence, ill-treatment and looting. “The overall picture that survivors drew to us is horrific,” says Human Rights Watch researcher Mohamed Osman, who details how the United Arab Emirates and Egypt are suspected of backing the fighting between the groups. “What we know is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the violations that people are facing day to day,” says Sudanese activist Marine Alneel, who lays out how today’s fighting continues the country’s history of power struggles. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘We_bought_our_lives’:_Russian_soldiers_are reportedly_bribing_their_superiors_to_avoid_combat_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_Kazakhstani_President_Nursultan Nazarbayev_reportedly_reveals_second_family_in_new memoir_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_human_rights_groups_ask_Supreme Court_to_dismiss_authorities’_request_to_ban_non- existent_‘international_LGBT_movement’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Four_police_officers_reportedly_killed,_18 wounded_in_Ukrainian_strike_on_building_in_Russian- occupied_part_of_Ukraine’s_Kherson_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Paul_Whelan,_U.S._citizen_jailed_in_Russia, reportedly_assaulted_by_fellow_inmate_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_State_Duma_approves_first_reading_of bill_holding_volunteer_fighters_criminally_accountable for_military_offenses_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Authorities_in_Russia’s_Primorsky_region launch_chatbot_for_reporting_‘extremist’_neighbors_— Meduza⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Vietnam_Relied_on_Environmentalists_to Secure_Billions._Then_It_Jailed_Them.⠀⇛ When Vietnam was awarded a multibillion-dollar deal by a group of nine wealthy nations last year to work on reducing its use of coal, it agreed to regularly consult with nongovernmental organizations. Instead, the government has arrested several prominent environmentalists from those organizations who shaped policies that helped secure the funding, prompting concerns over sending money to countries that have violated human rights. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ UAE_Oil_CEO_Sultan_Al_Jaber_Uses_His_Role as_U.N._Climate_Summit_President_to_Push_Fossil_Fuel_Deals⠀⇛ As the largest-ever United Nations climate summit kicks off Thursday in Dubai, we look at how the COP28 president, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, who is also CEO of the United Arab Emirates state oil company, has used climate summit meetings to lobby countries for oil and gas deals. The Centre for Climate Reporting obtained documents from meeting briefings that include Abu Dhabi National Oil Company talking points. The Centre’s Ben Stockton lays out how the oil boss was put in charge of the climate summit, and how the UAE also hopes to use COP28 to deflect from “a record of human rights abuses.” The new revelations “call into question the integrity of COP28,” he says. Democracy Now! will broadcast from COP28 in Dubai next week. # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ Feral_goldfish_are_menacing_Great_Lakes: We’re_going_to_need_a_bigger_bowl⠀⇛ Feral goldfish have been invading much of North America, including the Great Lakes, for decades and recently their numbers seem to be rising rapidly. The reason for the uptick is not clear, but it could be because invasive carp are being better controlled, and the goldfish are taking their place. New designs for stormwater ponds, where people often dump unwanted fish, that allow the ponds to overflow into nearby waterways could also be boosting the numbers. # ⚓ CBC ☛ Canada's_fossil_fuel_industry_is_banking_on_carbon capture_to_lower_emissions._Is_it_a_viable_solution?⠀⇛ But is that realistic? And should the federal government be footing the bill, in the form a new multibillion-dollar tax credit and other incentives? The Alberta government also announced a new tax credit that could total as much as $5 billion in taxpayer money. Here is a closer look at the technology, where it is being used in Canada, and how it could play into the pivotal climate talks that begin Thursday in Dubai. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Protect_the_Planet⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Paris_metro_prices_will_almost_double during_2024_Olympic_Games⠀⇛ The prices for metro tickets will almost double from July to September 2024 to help cover the cost of expanding the transport network for the Paris Olympic Games. Millions of visitors are expected in the capital, which will run from July 26 to August 11. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Monitoring_Energy_Use_And_Saving_Money⠀⇛ On the surface, the electric grid might seem like a solved piece of infrastructure. But there’s actually been a large amount of computerized modernization going in the background for the past decade or so. At a large scale this means automatic control of the grid, but for some electric utility customers like [Alex] this means the rates for electricity can change every hour based on demand. By keeping an eye on the current rate, you can extract the most value from these utilities. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ ‘We_Need_to_Address_the_Issues_of_Burnout, Anxiety,_and_Sustaining_the_Movement’⠀⇛ Since starting a solitary strike against climate inaction in Kampala in January, 2019, aged 22, Uganda’s Vanessa Nakate has emerged as one of the world’s most celebrated youth climate justice activists. Now a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, she will be attending the COP28 U.N. climate talks, which open in the United Arab Emirates today, to demand world leaders act with the ambition the crisis demands. In January 2020, a media company cropped Nakate out of a photo featuring her friend Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, and three other young white women climate advocates, attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Nakate’s response that the news outlet “didn’t just erase a photo, you erased a continent” focused global attention on the obstacles preventing climate advocates from marginalised communities participating in international gatherings. Vanessa is the founder of Youth for Future Africa, the Rise Up Movement, and author of A Bigger Picture, a manifesto on inclusive climate action, and featured on the cover of TIME in 2021. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Fossil_Fuel_Friendly_Daily_Mail_Firm_Handed £500k_Government_Contract_to_Run_UK_COP28_Events⠀⇛ The UK’s events at this year’s COP28 summit will be hosted by a Daily Mail events firm that specialises in organising exhibitions for the oil and gas industry, DeSmog can reveal.  Government records show that dmg events, which is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), will be paid £545,000 for “commissioning and delivering pavilion and office space for the UK’s COP28 delegation taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)”. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 'Emotional'_Elephants_Smashed_a_Car to_Protect_One_of_Their_Babies⠀⇛ A herd of elephants in Malaysia smashed up a car after it struck one of their babies on Sunday night. That (frankly understandable) response shows how the highly emotional animals will do anything to protect their own, an elephant advocate said. # ⚓ CNN ☛ Elephant_herd_tramples_car_after_baby_struck along_Malaysian_highway⠀⇛ Authorities did not provide further updates about the condition of the elephant baby. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Apple_to_end_credit_card_partnership_with Goldman_Sachs:_report⠀⇛ The tech giant recently sent a proposal to the Wall Street bank to exit the contract in the next 12 to 15 months, the report said, citing people briefed on the matter. Apple and Goldman started rolling out a virtual credit card in 2019. # ⚓ Vox Media ☛ Unity_cuts_256_Wētā_FX_workers_in_third_round of_layoffs_in_2023_-_Polygon⠀⇛ Unity purchased Wētā Digital in 2021 in a $1.6 billion deal and brought over 275 employees. Now, the game engine maker is laying them all off. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Remembering_Rosalynn_Carter,_Former_First Lady_&_Pioneering_Advocate_for_Mental_Health_Journalism⠀⇛ We look at former first lady Rosalynn Carter’s decadeslong advocacy for mental healthcare in the United States. She died November 19 at the age of 96. Carter campaigned for legislation forcing health insurance to cover mental healthcare and fought to remove stigma around the topic through a fellowship program for journalists. “There are hundreds of fellows that were inspired by Mrs. Carter, and that has led to a sea change,” says Aaron Glantz, award-winning journalist and former Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism. “There was no established beat for mental health in journalism, and she’s utterly changed that. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Meta:_If_you're_in_our_house_running_AI- massaged_political_ads,_you_need_to_'fess_up⠀⇛ Meta will require advertisers to disclose whether their political ads on its platforms contain any AI-generated or digitally altered content. The Facebook giant's President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg – yeah, the guy who was once UK Deputy Prime Minister – announced the requirements on Tuesday, and argued they’re an extension of Meta’s existing stance on software-aided adjustments to content. That stance being to tackle the rise of synthetic media. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Sam_Altman_back_as_OpenAI_CEO;_Microsoft_to take_non-voting,_observer_position_on_board⠀⇛ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who had recruited Altman to Microsoft after his ouster from OpenAI, had said earlier that governance at the ChatGPT maker needs to change. # ⚓ Bjoern Brembs ☛ German_funder_DFG:_Why_the_sudden inconsistency?⠀⇛ In a world in which impact factors and other bibliometric measures still reign supreme, these are laudable policies that set the DFG apart from other institutions. In fact, these steps are part and parcel of an organization with a long tradition of leveraging its power for good scholarly practices. Even before DORA/CoARA the DFG has continually evolved their policies to minimize the effect of publication venue on the assessment of applicants. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Salvaging_Bill_C-18:_Government_Upends Legislation_To_Bring_Google_Onside_the_Online_News_Act⠀⇛ The government has announced that it has reached agreement with Google on deal that will ensure that news links are not blocked on the search engine and that the company pays $100 million to support the news sector in Canada. To be clear, this is good news for all given that the alternative was bad for news outlets, the government, Canadians, and Google. Indeed, over the past few months in discussions with representatives of media outlets, the consistent refrain I heard was that there *had* to be a deal. The harm from Facebook and Instagram blocking news links was taking a significant toll with lost revenues, lost traffic, and lost deals, meaning that something had to be salvaged from Bill C-18. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Interview:_Sam_Altman_on_being_fired_and rehired_by_OpenAI⠀⇛ During our interview, Altman repeatedly declined to answer the main question on everyones’ minds: exactly why he was fired to begin with. OpenAI’s new board, led by Bret Taylor, is going to conduct an independent investigation into what went down. “I very much welcome that,” Altman told me. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ The_CEOs_of_Meta,_X,_TikTok,_Snap,_and_Discord will_testify_before_the_US_Senate_on_child_safety⠀⇛ Some of the biggest names in tech will testify before the US Senate on January 31st, 2024 during a hearing about online child exploitation. In a Wednesday announcement, the Senate Judiciary Committee said it will hear from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X (formerly Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, and Discord CEO Jason Citron. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Elon_Musk_Pivots_From_Jews_to_Pizzagate_as Advertisers_Flee⠀⇛ If Elon Musk is actively trying to drive advertisers away from his floundering social media site X, then he’s doing a really fantastic job of it. Fresh off spurring a maelstrom of criticism over a tweet that was broadly decried as antisemitic (and which led to an outflux of advertisers), Musk has now decided to dip his toe into the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory, which seems about right. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ Speaking_Freely:_Ron_Deibert [Ed: York does not understand free speech; she attacks it when it suits her agenda]⠀⇛ Ron Deibert is a Canadian professor of political science, a philosopher, an author, and the founder of the renowned Citizen Lab, situated in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is perhaps best known to readers for his research on targeted surveillance, which won the Citizen Lab a 2015 EFF Award. I had the pleasure of working with Ron early on in my career on another project he co-founded, the OpenNet Initiative, a project that documented internet filtering (blocking) in more than 65 countries, and his mentorship and work has been incredibly influential for me. We sat down for an interview to discuss his views on free expression, its overlaps with privacy, and much more. York: What does free expression mean to you? The way that I think about it is from the perspective of my profession, which is as a professor. And at the core of being an academic is the right…the imperative, to speak freely. Free expression is a foundational element of what it is to be an academic, especially when you’re doing the kind of academic research that I do. So that’s the way I think about it. Even though I’ve done a lot of research on threats to free expression online and various sorts of chilling effects that I can talk about…for me personally, it really boils down to this. I recognize it’s a privileged position: I have tenure, I’m a full-time professor at an established university…so I feel that I have an obligation to speak freely. And I don’t take that for granted because there’s so many parts of the world where the type of work that we do, the things that we speak about, just wouldn’t be allowed. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Musk’s_Faulty_Vision_Of_‘Free_Speech’_Is_Driving Speech_Off_ExTwitter⠀⇛ I mean, it’s not like we didn’t warn Elon Musk. Free speech is not about creating a single private space where everyone gets to speak, because that doesn’t support free speech. It enables the worst of society to browbeat, harass, and abuse anyone they dislike, creating a total garbage dump that drives people away and silences them. # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ A_Note_on_Research_and_Evaluation_of Censored_News_Stories⠀⇛ Candidate stories are initially identified by Project Censored professors and students, or are nominated by members of the general public who bring them to the Project’s attention. Together, faculty and students evaluate each candidate story in terms of its importance, timeliness, quality of sources, and inadequate corporate news coverage. If it fails on any one of these criteria, the story is deemed inappropriate and is excluded from further consideration. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ US_Says_If_CIA-Backed_Embassy_Security Opened_Phones_Of_Assange_Visitors,_It_Was_Constitutional⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ John_Kiriakou:_Reflections_on_the_Deep_State’s Media_Watchdog_Tool⠀⇛ We do know, however, that the Pentagon last year gave NewsGuard $750,000 for access to its “Disinformation Fingerprints” project, which it described in the contract as “a catalog of known hoaxes, lies, and disinformation stories spreading online.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Jezebel_to_Be_Resurrected_by_Paste Magazine⠀⇛ Paste Magazine, a music and culture outlet, acquired Jezebel on Tuesday and planned to start publishing on the site again as soon as Wednesday, said Josh Jackson, a co-founder and the editor in chief of Paste. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Two-thirds_of_Telegraph_subscribers_‘less likely’_to_renew_if_UAE-linked_bid_goes_ahead⠀⇛ The survey of 532 British adults whose main choice of daily newspaper was The Daily Telegraph, including 307 print or digital subscribers, was commissioned by Stack Data Strategy. Stack is a sister company of PR firm Hanbury Strategy, which is assisting Paul Marshall’s bid for the newspaper. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Jeff_Zucker_on_Telegraph_deal:_‘This_is_me… not_Abu_Dhabi’⠀⇛ Zucker is chief executive of the investment group Redbird IMI, a joint venture between US investment firm Redbird Capital and International Media Investments which is led by UAE deputy prime minister and Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_To_Officers:_You_Can’t_Charge_Someone_With Resisting_Arrest_When_You_Broke_The_Law_With_A_Warrantless Entry⠀⇛ There are few things I enjoy more than watching cocksure cops trip over their own hubris. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Retired_St._Louis_Detective_Says_He’s_Too Sick_to_Testify_at_Murder_Trials⠀⇛ Prosecutors routinely find ways to get key detectives to testify in criminal trials, even when they are retired, sick or otherwise reluctant. Some fly retirees in from Florida or other retirement locales when necessary. Others have said they use subpoenas to force detectives to take the witness stand. But prosecutors in the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office have been unable to get retired homicide detective Thomas W. Mayer Sr. into a courtroom, even though some of the cases Mayer investigated involved the murders of children — the sort of high-profile cases cops say they especially want to win. # ⚓ Reason ☛ A_Los_Angeles_Jail_Let_a_Woman_Die_of_Withdrawal, Then_a_Coroner_Allowed_Her_Body_To_Decompose⠀⇛ According to a lawsuit filed this month, that wasn't the only way jail employees mishandled Bews' case. Not only did jail employees fail to treat Bews, despite numerous medical records stating she would need withdrawal medications, but once she had died, the jail mishandled her remains, leading to major decomposition that Bews' mother said made her daughter look "mummified" # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Rights_Group_Says_Iranian_Political_Prisoner_Karimi Executed_Along_With_Six_Others⠀⇛ "The execution of Ayoub Karimi, based on coerced confessions and without a fair trial, like the execution of other political prisoners, is a crime," said Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of Iran Human Rights. "The authorities of the Islamic republic must be held accountable for this crime." # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Judge_At_Wushu_Championships_Takes_Stand_By Shunning_Head_Scarf⠀⇛ In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Radio Farda, Arghavan Jalali Farahani explained that her decision was "a gesture of solidarity with the ongoing struggles in Iran" and a tribute to Mahsa Amini and Armita Garavand, two Iranian women who died after a confrontation with morality police over the hijab and have become symbols of resistance against the mandatory Islamic dress code. # ⚓ ANF News ☛ The_story_of_Rojîn,_kidnapped_by_ISIS_from Shengal_nine_years_ago⠀⇛ Rojîn Hadid Talal is one of the thousands of people abducted during the Shengal genocide. Rojîn, who was a child when he was abducted, returned to the Yazidi House in the Cizire Region of North-East Syria at the age of 17. The Yazidi House helped Rojîn reach his relatives in Shengal. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Why_is_IPv6_Router_Advertisement_default-enabled_by some_network_vendors?⠀⇛ IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) is a Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) ICMPv6 message that is used to communicate specific information (via flags) to IPv6 hosts (or a device that does both routing and ‘hosting’). RA messages are sent by routers periodically without solicitation and in response to Router Solicitation (RS) messages from the hosts, depending on your specific configuration and timers. IANA has an up-to-date list of all the flags that RA can be used for. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Instacart_partners_with_Peacock_to_offer streaming_content_to_US_subscribers⠀⇛ Instacart said on Wednesday it had partnered with NBCUniversal's Peacock to provide the streaming service at no extra cost to all paying U.S. subscribers of the grocery delivery firm. In return, Instacart will be featured in a custom ad spot, which will run across NBCU's linear TV, social media and streaming platforms, the company said. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Let’s_Not_Flip_Sides_On_IP_Maximalism_Because_Of AI⠀⇛ Copyright policy is a sticky tricky thing, and there are battles that have been fought for decades among public and corporate interests. Typically, it’s the corporate interests that win — especially the content industry. We’ve seen power, and copyrights, collect among a small group of content companies because of this. But there is one significant win that the public interest has been able to defend all these years: Fair Use. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Banksy_mural_worth_over_$1.2m_lost as_building_demolished⠀⇛ The mural, which adorned the Castle Amusements building, depicted a worker chipping away at one of the 12 yellow stars on the blue EU flag. Then, in 2019, the mural — which had become a tourist landmark in the town, a major gateway into the EU — disappeared overnight after being whitewashed. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ICANN_Simplifies_Requests_For_Hidden Domain_Name_Registration_Data⠀⇛ ICANN has launched a new service which aims to simplify requests for domain name registration data currently unavailable to the public. The Registration Data Request Service (RDRS) aims to provide a "simple and standardized" process for interested parties, including IP professionals, to obtain data previously available via public WHOIS databases. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Site_Blocking_Fallout_Keeps_GitHub Unusable_for_Some_Indians⠀⇛ Website blocking is used in dozens of countries to prevent the public from easily accessing pirate sites. This is also true in India, where many thousands of sites have been rendered inaccessible, including developer platform GitHub. While the underlying court order was reversed many months ago, some Indians continue to have trouble accessing parts of the website. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ADIMWSR_Wordo:_FLUFF⠀⇛ # ⚓ the_next_non-sense⠀⇛ When turning into the alley i notice a car passing on the main street has snow on the roof. The cold is here. Snow is yet to come. I walk towards the pub, half way down the alley i stop. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Against_Pinocchio⠀⇛ A camera can do some of what a painter does, in some ways better. A pocket digital calculator can do some of what a matematician does, in some ways better. A ruler can show distances better than most people can guess them. A piece of string can keep things together better than most people can. Cameras and calculators and rules and strings are not people. “AI” can refer to many things thanks to the tangles of semantics. From old school text indexing and Eliza-level parsing, to backtracking and logic engines, to amazing inscrutable engines like Watson and AlphaGo, to (in the future) p-zombie AI who claim they can think and feel, but, y’know, not really. # ⚓ Opening_desktop_links_on_Linux_with_different_browsers_and profiles⠀⇛ This is a quick note on the how I fixed something that has been bothering me for quite a long time but never took the time to fix. See, I use browser profiles to separate work and personal contexts (bookmarks, themes, etc). The issue is that only one of them is a default for clicking on links on any desktop application. I have my work profile as the default because most of my browser external clicks were coming from Slack or the terminal so when a link was meant to be open in my personal profile I would copy the link and paste it directly in the address bar. # ⚓ 30_November_2023⠀⇛ Its cold outside, really,really cold and very very snowy... perhaps this is going to be a "real" winter again after many eternal falls merging directly into spring skipping winter. I would hope so, it would be great for junior experiencing his first real winter. I would have never thought that i could "lose" myself in the "digital world" in the way that i experienced since i dabbled seriously back into the whole C64 ecosystem. Its not a week since i started to play around with the BMC64 emulator and now i can say with certainty that i am back at the same proficiency level as of my 10 - 12 year self hacking on the commodore. # ⚓ [Old]_ZFS_commands⠀⇛ The commands on this page are my notes # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Some_slight_modifications_to_how_gemini_pages_are built⠀⇛ Saw that a crawler had been looking at my gemini pages, because it was kind enough to include it's name in a request (it loaded a page like 'gemini://cybersavior.dev/ robots.txt?gemini://their.gem/faq') Looking at it, it seems they scrape pages for hash tags in the content then add it to a searchable db freeshell.de[1] . Pretty cool stuff, but the way I use tags wouldn't get picked up. So, for the purposes of gemini, I didn't really have anything for them. But, I do have a taging system, and it was an easy enough task to change how I generated the pages to make my tags "hash tags", thank muffet[2] for making this a one line change. # ⚓ Debugging_Urbit:_A_First_Attempt⠀⇛ I own an Urbit planet, but I haven't used it to communicate with anyone in several months. The reson is simple: my ship has been unbale to receive messages from anyone since mid- July, and I have no idea why. I can `|hi` other ships and can access Landscape without issues, but when I open a group the Groups app, dojo prints a dump of nouns, with the core of the problem being a bad peek operation. I've run into the same issue twice before, and in the other two instances I breached my ship and deleted my pier to try to fix the problem. These were two of no less than seven breaches I've performed to solve one problem or another. I'm getting tired of having to pay an Ethereum gas fee every time my ship starts throwing errors, so I've largely abandoned my planet over the last four monthss. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2883 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 30/11/2023: Google Purging Many Accounts and Content (to Save Money), Finland Fully Seals Border With Russia⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Science * Health/Nutrition/Agriculture * Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) * Security o Privacy * Defence/Aggression * Transparency/Investigative_Reporting * Environment o Energy/Transportation o Overpopulation * Finance * AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics * Censorship/Free_Speech * Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press * Civil_Rights/Policing * Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality * Monopolies o Trademarks o Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Opinion o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Nico_Cartron_on_French_language_misuse⠀⇛ If you’re an English-speaker in your thirties today, there’s a chance you say omelette du fromage when you want to sound French. It comes from a 1996_episode of Dexter’s Labratory where a failed experiment to quickly learn French through audio osmosis ends up with him only being able to say that one phrase. Nico Cartron emailed in a while ago to let me know that it isn’t even correct French! o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Pothole_breakdowns_hit_record_levels:_how_to_claim compensation⠀⇛ Call-outs for pothole breakdowns increase by 12% year on year o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenRreach Ltd ☛ Openreach_Public_Switched_Telephone Network_(PSTN):_Technical_Characteristics_of_The_Single Analogue_Line_Interface [PDF]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ HTML5_doesn’t_like_self-closing_void_elements⠀⇛ The HTML5 validator has started issuing information about elements with a forward-slash: Info: Trailing slash on void elements has no effect and interacts badly with unquoted attribute values. ==>
HTML has accepted XML-style self-closing tags since the XHTML 1.0 days, but clearly there are rumblings that this may change. The validator references this_document_on Microsoft's_proprietary_prison_GitHub , and even the HTML5_spec, that argue that trailing slashes in void elements are bad, because they can confuse parsers interpreting an unquoted attribute value. For example, this would return logo.svg/, which doesn’t exist: [...] * ⚓ Chris Coyier ☛ christopher.org⠀⇛ I’ve taken over the hosting of christopher.org, the main site of our dear departed friend Christopher Schmitt. It is home to seventeen years of blog posts and a good place to be reminded of all the other professional work he did, from books written, conferences spoken at, podcast appearances, etc (a lot!). Unfortunately, it doesn’t have too much about all the conferences he helped create and run under the name Environments for Humans (with Ari Stiles). For now, just know that was also a lot and perhaps his biggest success and biggest influence over the world of web design and development. * ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Calm_notifications⠀⇛ I am a fan of notifications actually. Without notifications, I can easily find myself in neurotic, addicted “checking-checking-checking” loops. Here are some properties of a good message notifications system: [...] * ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Either_the_FBI_is_recruiting_in_Iran_–_or_some_govt Google_ad_buyers_are_getting_a_lousy_deal⠀⇛ The Register asked Google why the Partner Network is not opt- in. Google's spokesperson declined to answer on the record but pointed to past data about how the company sees better click- through rates and ad conversions when Search Partner Network participation is the default. * § Science⠀➾ o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Could_This—Finally—Be_Humanity's_First_Permanent_Lunar Base?⠀⇛ On November 23, Thales Alenia Space announced a contract with ASI to develop the Multi-Purpose Habitat (MPH)—a crucial component of NASA’s Artemis program that aims to establish a sustainable long-term human presence on the Moon. This project could conceivably result in the first permanent Moon base. No costs or timelines for deployment were provided, but the module likely won’t appear on the lunar surface before the 2030s. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Even_Without_a_Meteorite,_The_Stage_Was_Set_For Dinosaurs_to_Go_Extinct⠀⇛ Talk about unlucky. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Man_Said_a_Spider_Egg_Hatched_Inside_His_Body. But_Is_That_Possible?⠀⇛ A 'foreign body' in his foot... * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Gun_violence_as_a_public_health_crisis explored_by_U.S._Senate_Democrats⠀⇛ This year alone, there have been 619 mass shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive, an organization that tracks gun violence in the U.S. Firearm-related injuries are now the leading cause of death for children and adolescents in the United States, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ 79%_of_Online_Teenagers_Use_Generative_AI Tools,_Study_Finds⠀⇛ You may be uneasy about what the future holds when it comes to generative AI, but teenagers are not. A new UK study has found that 79% of teens say they’ve used generative AI online in some form. o ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Court_Documents_Accuse_Facebook Parent_Company_Meta_of_Designing_Platforms_to_Fuel_Child Addiction⠀⇛ The revelations, outlined in legal filings, have ignited widespread concern and renewed calls for increased scrutiny of the tech industry's practices, especially when it comes to safeguarding the well-being of young users. The court documents, which were made public as part of an ongoing legal case against Meta, assert that the company employed sophisticated algorithms and features to exploit psychological vulnerabilities in children, effectively creating an environment conducive to addiction. o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Zuckerberg_accused_of_OK'ing_Insta_plastic surgery_filters_despite_fears_of_harm_to_kids⠀⇛ "Meta knows that what it is doing is bad for kids – period," said Bonta in a statement. "Thanks to our unredacted federal complaint, it is now there in black and white, and it is damning. We will continue to vigorously prosecute this matter." o ⚓ NL Times ☛ Continuing_concerns_about_Covid_consequences_in_Dutch education⠀⇛ In the second school year after the coronavirus, there are still concerns about the consequences the pandemic had on Dutch education. Some higher education students suffer from mental health problems, and kids in the upper classes of primary school and lower classes of high school are still trying to catch up on delays, according to a progress report the Education Ministers sent to parliament on Tuesday. o ⚓ El País ☛ Working_more_than_55_hours_a_week_kills_750,000_people a_year_worldwide⠀⇛ The ILO study, prepared in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), relates these deaths to the most common risks at work. The one that causes the most deaths (744,942) is exposure to long working hours of over 55 hours a week. The other risks that cause the most deaths include exposure to gases and smoke (450,381), work-related injuries (363,283), exposure to asbestos (209,481), silica (42,258), substances that cause asthma (29,641), solar ultraviolet radiation (17,936), diesel engine exhaust fumes (14,728), arsenic (7,589), and nickel (7,301) according to the figures for 2016. o ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Epigenetic_Changes_Drive_Cancer⠀⇛ DNA mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes drive tumorigenesis, but epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation, take center stage in a new era of cancer research.1 In a study published in Cancer Cell, researchers cast a wide -omics net to capture extensive DNA methylation, transcriptomic, and proteomic data from almost 700 tumors and healthy tissues. 2 Their findings help unravel the complex effects of methylation on tumor development. o ⚓ Project Censored ☛ School_Hospital_Program_Bridges_Education_and Student_Recovery⠀⇛ The discourse surrounding the rise of in-hospital school programs as a way for students to build school connectedness and receive psychiatric care is absent in the corporate media. Rather, the establishment press has largely focused on the burgeoning relationship between medical curricula and school programs. o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Russia:_Bludgeoning_the_Proles_with_“Public Health”⠀⇛ Screams of anguish echoed through the streets of Russia after Gamaleya Center Director Alexander Gintsburg announced last month that his unproven genetic slurry had “stopped protecting completely” against the Dreaded Virus. o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ New_DHS_supply_chain_center_aims_to_head off_future_crises⠀⇛ DHS's new Supply Chain Resilience Center will aim to marshal stakeholders to help avoid the type of shortages and bottlenecks that roiled the country during COVID-19. * § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Make_Sure_Your_Surveillance_Giant_Google Accounts_Are_Active,_or_They_Might_Be_Deleted⠀⇛ The company says it will start purging accounts, including services like Gmail and YouTube, that have been idle for two years or more. o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Geoffrey_Hinton:_“It’s_Far_Too_Late”_to_Stop Artificial_Intelligence⠀⇛ The so-called godfather of Hey Hi (AI) believes we need to put constraints on the technology so it won’t free itself from human control. But he’s not sure whether that’s possible. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_371:_AI_Is_Going_To_Change More_Than_You_Realize⠀⇛ The world of generative AI has been changing rapidly, and that’s not something that’s going to stop any time soon. Today, we’re joined on the podcast by Jonathan Ross, founder and CEO of Groq (no, not Elon Musk’s new bot called Grok) — a company working on a new technology stack that drastically speeds up performance of AI models — to talk about all things AI, and the many ways it’s going to change in the coming months and years. o ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Key_Advertisers_Are_Ditching_Elon Musk-Owned_X_For_Other_Social_Networks⠀⇛ It's been a few days since the flagship accounts belonging to big brands like Discovery, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Paramount and Disney shared a post on X, following Musk's perceived endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory. o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Amazon’s_'Q'_Is_Less_AI_Conspiracy,_More_Corporate Chatbot⠀⇛ Amazon is throwing its e-commerce bulk into the AI game like an enormous capybara stampeding into the outside lane of the ongoing AI rat race. The company finally shared details of its new AI chatbot assistant dubbed “Q” at its AWS re:Invent event on Tuesday. Just as can be expected from the starched suits at Amazon, Q is the kind of chatbot that only wants to talk about productivity, synergy, or whatever other business jargon. o ⚓ Futurism ☛ Sports_Illustrated_Published_Articles_by_Fake,_AI- Generated_Writers⠀⇛ According to a second person involved in the creation of the Sports Illustrated content who also asked to be kept anonymous, that's because it's not just the authors' headshots that are AI-generated. At least some of the articles themselves, they said, were churned out using AI as well. "The content is absolutely AI-generated," the second source said, "no matter how much they say that it's not." o ⚓ Axios ☛ Why_Google_is_deleting_old_accounts⠀⇛ Thought bubble, via Axios' Scott Rosenberg: "Free accounts for everyone" means that our digital landscape is littered with discarded identities that become sitting ducks for malicious actors. Now Google's trying to clean up the neighborhood. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Make_Sure_Your_Google_Accounts_Are_Active,_or They_Might_Be_Deleted⠀⇛ If you have not used one of your Google accounts for a long time, you might want to this week. Inactive accounts will start vanishing on Dec. 1. Google announced in May that it would start deleting accounts that had been idle for two years and said the policy would begin in December. o ⚓ Tedium ☛ Once_More_With_Feeling⠀⇛ Anna Indiana’s story is that she’s an AI algorithm, totally generated to produce bad music, singing about firebombing a town she’s never seen for a reason she’s not even sure about. That’s not a compelling story. If it was presented as a new technical form of process music, rather than a cheesy bedroom composer with an old Casio spitting out MIDI chords, that would arguably be more compelling. But let’s face it—that was never the goal of this exercise. It was to go viral. In that way, it was a success. o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Big-data_analytics_unicorn_Dataminr_to_shed_20% of_its_workforce⠀⇛ Dozens of jobs at the big-data insights company Dataminr Inc. are on the chopping block, following a report that it’s looking to restructure its business and reduce costs. The report from TechCrunch today revealed that the New York-based firm is looking to cut 20% of its staff, which amounts to about 150 jobs in total. * § Security⠀➾ o § Privacy⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Someone_else_has_a_go_at_reforming_US Section_702_spying_powers_–_and_nope,_no_warrant requirement⠀⇛ Section 702 is supposed to primarily allow American intelligence agencies to pore over emails, phone calls, and texts involving foreigners who are outside the USA. However, if those foreigners contact American citizens or permanent residents, Section 702 allows the Feds to assess material shared with or created by those US persons if it’s thought to relate to matters of national security or very serious crimes. In effect, S.702 can be used by Uncle Sam to go through the private communications of US citizens and green-card holders, without a warrant, in certain circumstances. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Digital_car_keys_are_here._Are_we_ready?⠀⇛ The need for global standards and solutions for smartphone and in-vehicle connectivity is what’s spurring the industry to come together to formulate a plan for the future. Recently, two industry consortiums joined forces to create a working group with the mission to create standards around digital keys: the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), which includes most major car companies, as well as Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi; and FiRa Consortium, a nonprofit that supports ultra wideband and includes Apple, Google, Cisco, Samsung, Qualcomm, and others as members. Daniel Knobloch is the vice president and a board member at CCC. Before that, he worked for over seven years as a wireless systems architect at BMW. We spoke to Knobloch about digital keys, the different types of technology they rely on, and when digital keys will replace physical keys — if at all. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. # ⚓ Fabio_Alessandro_Locati:_On_the_nature_of_the_right_to privacy⠀⇛ In the last month, Meta has started to give their European users a choice between an account for their services paid in data or one paid in Euros. Today, noyb has filed a GDPR complaint against Meta over this behavior. Noyb has very good points to sustain their filing, but I don’t want to delve too much into those since those are very well explained in their press release. I think there is a deeper problem that they quickly touch but do not address directly, which is the interpretation of the kind of right that privacy is. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Online_privacy_NGO_files_complaint_against_Meta’s paid_no-ad_subscription_service⠀⇛ An NGO dedicated to protecting online privacy rights filed a complaint Tuesday against Meta’s paid no-ad subscription service. Meta’s service prevents individual data from reaching advertising companies on their websites, for a fee of up to 251 euros. Otherwise, users can “consent” to continue to use the site with ads. # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ European_Health_Data_Space:_EU_committees vote_in_favour_of_mandatory_interconnected_electronic_patient records_for_all_citizens⠀⇛ The lead committees of the European Parliament, LIBE and ENVI, have today voted in favour of the creation of a “European Health Data Space” (EHDS), which will bring together information on all medical treatments received by citizens. Specifically, the bill will oblige doctors to upload a summary of each patient’s treatment to the new data space (Article 7). Exceptions or a right to object are not provided for, even when it comes to particularly sensitive diseases and therapies such as mental disorders, sexual diseases and disorders such as impotence or infertility, HIV or drug abuse therapies. Patients would be able to restrict access to their health records, but not their creation. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Main_Chinese_Social_Media_Platforms_Now_Require Top_Influencers_To_Display_Their_Real_Names_Online⠀⇛ As that indicates, there’s a new wrinkle in the fight against anonymity: real names are only required for top influencers on the main social media sites. That’s obviously much easier to police than trying to force hundreds of millions of users to comply. Here’s why the Chinese government is concentrating on the smaller group: [...] # ⚓ India Times ☛ Meta_will_appeal_US_judge's_ruling_in_privacy fight_with_FTC⠀⇛ Meta Platforms, which owns WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, said on Tuesday it would appeal a judge's ruling that a US regulator can seek to reduce the amount of money the social media company makes from users under 18. Judge Timothy Kelly of the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion filed by Meta on Monday for the court to hear the dispute with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ DPDI_Bill:_New_‘welfare_surveillance’ proposals_target_vulnerable_people⠀⇛ The UK government is proposing to give the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) powers to force financial institutions to hand over personal information belonging to people who claim benefits from the state. * § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ o ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Lawyers_challenge_‘suicide'_verdict_in_suspicious_death in_Kocaeli_prison⠀⇛ For the second time in two years, a “terror” convict died suspiciously in the same prison. o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Man_sentenced_to_7_years_in_jail,_40_years after_raping_a_girl_who_later_suffered_from_depression_and_died_by suicide⠀⇛ A 60-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years in jail after pleading guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl 40 years ago. The victim, who later suffered from trauma and depression, took her own life at the age of 29. Wong Chun-chuen appeared in High Court on Tuesday. o ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Somali_pirates_strike_again_as_Iranian_fishing vessel_highjacked⠀⇛ After a lull of several years, Somali pirates are back in the news with reports of them having successfully attacked and seized an Iranian fishing vessel named Almeraj 1. The seizure took place off the Somali coast near the old seaport town of Eyl. o ⚓ ADF ☛ As_Terrorists_Flee_NAF_Airstrikes,_They_Target_Vulnerable Farmers⠀⇛ ADF STAFF The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has intensified its campaign of airstrikes against extremist militant groups in the northeast. In revenge attacks, fleeing insurgents have begun targeting farmers whom they falsely blame for enabling the air attacks. o ⚓ Vox ☛ The_militarized_AI_risk_that’s_bigger_than_“killer robots”⠀⇛ The big news from the summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is definitely the pandas. Twenty years from now, if anyone learns about this meeting at all, it will probably be from a plaque at the San Diego Zoo. That is, if there is anyone left alive to be visiting zoos. And, if some of us are here 20 years later, it may be because of something else the two leaders agreed to — talks about the growing risks of artificial intelligence. o ⚓ SCMP ☛ Biden,_Xi_set_to_pledge_ban_on_AI_in_autonomous_weapons like_drones,_nuclear_warhead_control:_sources⠀⇛ In February, for instance, the United States introduced its Political Declaration on the Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy, a new legal and diplomatic framework that seeks a global consensus on the development and deployment of military AI. So far, 36 countries have backed the initiative, pledging to come together next year to explore ways to implement and improve new regulations on the matter. o ⚓ European Commission ☛ Commissioner_Olivér_Várhelyi_addressed_the participants_of_the_International_Conference_on_a_Global_Alliance to_Counter_Migrant_Smuggling⠀⇛ I think today's conferences is a unique setting that we should be using. o ⚓ YLE ☛ Wednesday's_papers:_Asylum_rejections,_more_strikes,_fit old_folks⠀⇛ Morning papers report that asylum applications by some of the recent arrivals acoss Finland's eastern order have already been rejected by immigration officials. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Weaponized_migration:_Chat_groups_show_would-be_asylum seekers_offered_transport_through_Russia_to_the_Finnish_border. Some_suspect_Moscow’s_involvement.⠀⇛ In recent weeks, there’s been a surge in Middle Eastern and African migrants trying to enter Finland from Russia. Finnish officials have accused Moscow of orchestrating an artificial influx of asylum seekers at the border as retaliation for Finland’s accession to NATO, a view which the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry has called “very strange.” Migrants are reportedly allowed into Russian territory without proper documentation, driven to checkpoints, and sent across on bicycles in freezing temperatures. On November 24, Finland closed all but one border crossing with Russia and has now announced it will close the remaining one for two weeks, starting November 30. To better understand the situation, Russian and Finnish journalists analyzed group chats on messaging apps and on social media where citizens of third countries allegedly discuss how to transit Russia in order to seek asylum in Finland. o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Finland_seals_border_with_Russia_amid_migrant crisis⠀⇛ Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Tuesday said Finland will close its final remaining border crossing with Russia, accusing the Kremlin of using migrants as part of "hybrid warfare" aimed at destabilizing the Nordic country following its entry into NATO. o ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_to_obtain_Indonesia_ecommerce_permit_after ban:_state_media⠀⇛ In September, Indonesia banned ecommerce transactions on social media, a major blow for TikTok, which had pledged to invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the region's biggest economy. o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ TikTok_obtaining_Indonesia_e-commerce_permit: State_media⠀⇛ In September, Indonesia banned e-commerce transactions on social control media. o ⚓ New Statesman ☛ Why_are_voters_so_relaxed_about_record immigration?⠀⇛ A new 38 Degrees/Survation survey using MRP calculations helpfully confirms this. We now have the data we need to map the number one issue for voters by parliamentary constituency (using the new boundaries for the next election). And at a glance, there are few surprises. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_accuses_Russia_of_poisoning_military intelligence_chief’s_wife⠀⇛ Ukraine said Tuesday it believed Russia had poisoned the wife of its military intelligence chief, in an apparent assassination attempt targeting the heart of Kyiv's leadership. o ⚓ LRT ☛ West_‘waiting_for_Pearl_Harbor’_moment_in_Russia’s_war_in Ukraine,_says_Lithuanian_FM⠀⇛ The West does not see Russia’s war in Ukraine as an immediate threat, waiting for a Pearl Harbor-like shock to happen, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on Tuesday. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Teacher_Fined_For_Reportedly_Writing_'Glory_To Ukraine'_On_Blackboard⠀⇛ Moscow's Khoroshevsky District Court has fined computer science teacher Sergei Averyanov 40,000 rubles ($450) for writing on the blackboard during class a slogan "aimed at discrediting" Russia's military, the court's press service reported on November 28. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Drone_Attack_On_Ukraine_Repelled_But_Shelling Causes_Casualties,_Damage_In_Donetsk,_Kharkiv⠀⇛ Russian shelling of Ukraine's Donetsk and Kharkiv regions caused casualties among civilians and damage to infrastructure, regional officials said on November 29, despite Ukrainian air defenses repelling a large drone attack on several parts of Ukraine. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Senate_Leader_Will_Push_For_Vote_On_Aid_For_Ukraine, Israel_As_Soon_As_Next_Week⠀⇛ NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said he expects the United States to continue its support of Ukraine in its fight to repel invading Russian forces despite opposition from some Republican lawmakers who have cast doubt on Washington's aid to Kyiv. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Gets_12_Years_In_Prison_On_Charge_Of_Joining Ukrainian_Far-Right_Group⠀⇛ A court in Russia's western city of Kursk on November 28 sentenced a native of St. Petersburg, Yevgeny Kazantsev, to 12 years in prison on a charge of joining the Right Sector, a Ukrainian far-right group. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Stickers_Demanding_Return_Of_Husbands_From_War_In_Ukraine Pop_Up_On_Vehicles_Across_Russia⠀⇛ Stickers demanding Russian husbands be returned from fighting in the Kremlin's war against Ukraine appeared on cars across Russia on November 28. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Slovak_Truckers_Threaten_Ukraine_Border_Blockade_From December_1⠀⇛ Slovak truckers are threatening to block the country's main border crossing with Ukraine from December 1 unless steps are taken to limit competition from Ukrainian hauliers, the head of the country's truckers association UNAS said. o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Donald_Trump_Confesses_He_Can’t_Distinguish_His Own_Influence_Ops_from_that_of_a_Russian_Spy⠀⇛ In a bid to get a lot of irrelevant intelligence reports, Donald Trump insinuates the specific lies he told to undermine US democracy are indistinguishable from Russia's efforts to undermine US democracy. o § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Putin_debunks_his_own_propaganda_by disarming_Russia’s_NATO_borders⠀⇛ Putin publicly blames NATO for provoking the invasion of Ukraine, but Russia's recent demilitarization of the country's borders with neighboring NATO members makes a mockery of such claims, writes Peter Dickinson. > # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Finland_to_Close_the_Last_Border_Crossing With_Russia_for_Two_Weeks⠀⇛ Relations have deteriorated markedly since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the Finns accuse Moscow of orchestrating a flow of migrants in retaliation for Finland joining NATO. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ NATO_Leaders_Try_to_Pin_Down_U.S._on Ukraine_Aid_as_Republicans_Waver⠀⇛ Continued American funding for Ukraine was a key concern for leaders in the military alliance, who met as the current allocation was running down and a Ukrainian counteroffensive appeared stalled. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Wife_of_Ukraine’s_Spy_Chief_Was_Poisoned, Officials_Say⠀⇛ Marianna Budanova, whose husband is the director of military intelligence, is recovering in a hospital, the officials said. Her husband has long accused Russia of trying to kill him. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_Ukrainian_military_intelligence_chief_says wife_of_agency’s_current_head_poisoned_with_arsenic_and mercury_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_woman_who_traveled_to_Ukraine_for_her_POW husband_says_she_plans_to_stay_and_help_other_prisoners_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_teacher_suspended_for_writing_‘Glory_to Ukraine’_and_drawing_swastika_on_board_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Czech_president_says_West_should_give_Ukraine everything_it_needs:_‘Anything_else_will_be_a_failure_on_our part’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘We_had_to_buy_time’:_A_Ukrainian_negotiator_said Moscow_offered_peace_in_exchange_for_Kyiv_ending_its_NATO bid._Russia’s_propagandists_were_thrilled._—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Duma_To_Discuss_'Loyalty'_Obligation_For Foreign_Visitors⠀⇛ Russia's Interior Ministry has outlined a bill that would oblige foreigners visiting the country to sign what it called a "loyalty agreement," the state news agency TASS said. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russians_Banned_From_Leaving_Country_Will_Have Passports_Confiscated⠀⇛ Russians banned from traveling abroad must hand in their passports within five days of the date when they were notified of the travel ban, according to a government decree from November 22 published on the official portal of legal documents. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Latvia's_Chief_Diplomat_Pursues_NATO's_Top_Job, Saying_Clear_Vision_On_Russia_Is_Needed⠀⇛ Latvian Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins has staked his claim to the top job at NATO, saying that the alliance needs a consensus builder who is committed to higher defense spending and has a clear vision of how to deal with Russia. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ex-Rosneft_Chief_Says_He_Owns_Seized_Yacht,_Seeks To_Block_Forfeiture⠀⇛ A former chief executive of Russian state oil company Rosneft has claimed ownership of a yacht seized by U.S. authorities last year as part of a crackdown on alleged sanctions violations. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Special_Envoy_Says_Kazakhstan_Significantly Reduced_Reexport_Of_Dual-Purpose_Items_To_Russia⠀⇛ David O'Sullivan, the European Union's special envoy for the implementation of sanctions, met with Kazakh officials in Astana on November 28 and said the Central Asian nation had significantly reduced the reexport of dual-purpose goods to Russia but increased other exports to its northern neighbor. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltics_to_boycott_OSCE_meeting_over_Lavrov invitation⠀⇛ Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said they will boycott the Organization for Security and Co- operation in Europe's (OSCE) Ministerial Council in Skopje, North Macedonia later this week because Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has also been invited, reported ERR News November 28. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Baltic_FMs_boycott_OSCE_meeting_to_be_attended_by Russia’s_Lavrov⠀⇛ The foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have decided not to attend the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting in Skopje, the capital of Northern Macedonia, on Thursday, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been invited to attend. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ US_Marine_veteran_Paul_Whelan_jailed_in_Russia attacked_in_prison,_family_says⠀⇛ Paul Whelan, US Marine veteran who has been imprisoned in Russia for several years on what critics have said are false charges, was attacked Tuesday by another inmate, his family said. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Finland_to_close_all_border_crossings_with_Russia for_two_weeks_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Internal_Affairs_Ministry_proposes mandatory_‘loyalty_agreement’_for_foreign_visitors_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarusian_Police_Search_Homes_Of_Self-Exiled Opposition_Figures⠀⇛ Police in Belarus searched the homes of several self-exiled opposition figures on November 28 amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Finland_To_Close_Entire_Border_With_Russia_To_Stem Flow_Of_Asylum_Seekers⠀⇛ Finland will close its entire border with Russia to travelers for the next two weeks in a bid to halt a flow of asylum seekers to the Nordic nation, the government said. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Adds_New_Diesel-Electric_Submarine_to Navy⠀⇛ This submarine has an underwater speed of 18 knots and a diving depth of 300 meters. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korean_special_economic_zone poised_for_revival_in_new_Russia_trade⠀⇛ Rason Special Economic Zone is North Korea's epicentre of growing cooperation with Russia. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland's_final_eastern_border_point_shuts_down_on Wednesday_afternoon⠀⇛ The only crossing point still open on Finland's border with Russia closes to traffic early Wednesday afternoon with asylum applications being accepted only at harbours and airports. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Turku_to_buy_former_Russian_consulate_building⠀⇛ The property's price totals 1.6 million euros. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_R_Lang_on_GNU/Linux_Mint_21 or_20⠀⇛ R Lang, a powerful language for statistical computing and graphics, offers a wide array of capabilities for data analysis, visualization, and programming. This guide will demonstrate how to install R Lang on GNU/Linux Mint 21 or 20, providing a straightforward approach for those looking to leverage R’s robust features on their GNU/Linux systems. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Perl_on_Fedora_39/38/37 Linux⠀⇛ Perl, a highly versatile and powerful programming language, is renowned for its proficiency in text manipulation and its flexibility across various computing tasks. This guide will demonstrate how to install Perl on Fedora Linux, offering a straightforward approach for both beginners and experienced users. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kazakh_Citizen_Gets_More_Than_Six_Years_In_Prison For_Joining_Wagner_Mercenary_Group⠀⇛ The Qaraghandy regional court in central Kazakhstan told RFE/RL on November 28 that a local resident, Aleksei Shompolov, had been sentenced to six years and eight months for joining Russia's Wagner mercenary group and fighting against Ukrainian forces in May in Bakhmut, where he was injured. # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Commissioner_Sinkevičius_gives_an Opening_Speech_at_the_Ukraine_Green_Recovery_Conference⠀⇛ I am extremely happy that we could all meet here today despite these difficult times. As I stand here in front of you, three words come to mind. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_sends_ten_more_buses_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ On Tuesday morning, ten buses donated by the Rīga public transport company Rīgas Satiksme began the road to Ukraine. It is the third time Riga traffic has donated its buses, but it is likely to be the last. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ WATCH:_Rīga_Security_Forum_discussion_'Turkey_vs. Ukraine_–_Who_is_more_important_to_the_EU?'⠀⇛ The fifth in a new season of geopolitical discussions under the 'Rīga Security Forum' banner was published online November 28. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ How_American_Neocons_Wrecked_the_Middle_East_and Ukraine⠀⇛ This is part 2 of “Why There Is Still No Peace on Earth: Washington’s Folly From The Persian Gulf to Ukraine.” * § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ o ⚓ International Business Times ☛ OpenAI_Board_Didn't_Receive_A Letter_About_Q*_That_Led_To_Sam_Altman's_Ouster,_Report⠀⇛ Contrary to these reports, a person familiar with the matter told The Verge that the board never received a letter about such an AI model. Aside from this, the source noted that Altman's sudden firing wasn't due to OpenAI's research progress. * § Environment⠀➾ o ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ Green_Party_calls_for_ban_on_private_jets,_“the ultimate_symbol_of_‘climate_inequality’”⠀⇛ “The Green Party wants the UK government to challenge the grotesque inequality driving climate breakdown. By pledging to impose a ban on all private jets taking off or landing at UK airports, the government would send a clear message to global leaders at COP28 that the super- rich cannot be allowed to continue with their lavish and destructive lifestyles at the expense of the rest of the global population. o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Eurostar_to_Suspend_Amsterdam_to_London Service_for_6_Months⠀⇛ The no-transfer rail connection from the Dutch capital to London will close starting in June. A new terminal for Eurostar passengers is set to open at Amsterdam’s main rail station in 2025. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Northeast_China_mine_accident_leaves 11_dead,_state_media_reports⠀⇛ Beijing, China At least 11 people were killed in an accident at a coal mine in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province on Tuesday, state media said. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Big_Meat_Unveils_Battle_Plans_for_COP28⠀⇛ Major meat companies and industry lobby groups are planning a large presence at COP28 in a few days time, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit, DeSmog can reveal. Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Why_Saudi_Arabia_Wins_Top_Prize_in_the_Bad_Sport Awards_2023⠀⇛ Imagine a World Cup Final, one team brazenly fouls in their own penalty box, but no penalty is given. The referee waves play on. It happens repeatedly and the offending team goes on to win. Interviewed after the match, the most guilty player says, “So what, I fouled, I’d do the same thing again, I don’t care!” and they face no official sanction for saying so. Sound far-fetched? If only.  Saudi Arabia is set to win the role of top sponsor of international football’s governing body, FIFA, after openly admitting that one of the reasons it engages in sponsorship is to ‘sportswash’ its national reputation for economic benefit. It even says it has no qualms in doing so. “If sport washing is going to increase my GDP by way of one percent, then I will continue doing sport washing,” said Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. Allowing the nation the honour of being your flagship sponsor is a bit like making Lance Armstrong rider of the year and the face of cycling after the Tour de France drug revelations emerged. o § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ The_United_Nations_Population_Fund Promotes_Population_Denial⠀⇛ Humanity heading for 9 billion and the UN’s chief population organization says forget about numbers. What’s going on? * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Biden_Administration_to_Overhaul_Welfare_Following ProPublica_Reporting⠀⇛ The Biden administration this fall is quietly moving to overhaul welfare, aiming to end multiple abuses of the nation’s cash assistance program for the poor that a 2021 ProPublica investigation found states have been engaging in for years. Through a package of proposed reforms to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, or TANF, the administration plans to shore up the U.S. social safety net. The regulations are intended to ensure that more federal and state welfare dollars make it to low-income families, rather than being spent on other things or not spent at all. o ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Decentralized_Finance_Isn't⠀⇛ Why does the centralization of Defi matter? First, for all the bad things concentration causes in general markets — see for example Matt Stoller's Big. But more importantly, because the technologies of decentralization impose massive costs over and above those of equivalent centralized systems. The incentive to pay these additional costs is to reap the profits centralized systems sacrifice to regulation. If you are paying the costs but not evading regulation, what is the point? I discussed this in Economic Incentives. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Germany_to_Override_Debt_Limit_to_Resolve_Budget Crisis⠀⇛ Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged financial support for economic modernization and Ukraine, but will need backing for new borrowing to fill a spending gap. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Germany’s_Much-Vaunted_Strategic_Pivot_Stalls⠀⇛ In the days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to revitalize Germany’s military. Nearly two years on, major change has yet to be felt. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ “Americans_for_Prosperity”_and_Nikki_Haley_Should Blame_Themselves_for_Donald_Trump⠀⇛ Apparently, it’s Nikki Haley time. The former South Carolina governor has surged in polling and fundraising over the last few months, to surpass Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the second-place choice in some early states in the Republican presidential primary. She’s still way behind Donald Trump, the man she served as United Nations ambassador. But on Tuesday she notched another symbolic win: an endorsement from Americans for Prosperity Action, the Koch-founded network that promises to put money and muscle behind her candidacy. “Our internal polling confirms what our activists are hearing and seeing from voters in the early primary states: Nikki Haley is in the best position to defeat Donald Trump in the primaries,” the group said in a statement. * § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ Submission_to_the_Standing_Committee_on_Public Safety_and_National_Security:_Charter_analysis_concerning cybersecurity_and_telecommunications_reform_in_Bill_C-26⠀⇛ There is evidence that signaling protocols used by telecom companies for facilitating roaming services also enable networks to obtain incredibly detailed user data. Such extent of access with the telecom service providers poses an unprecedented risk to the privacy of individuals. Owing to the extent of data available with the telecommunications providers, the telecom sector has become a primal target for cybercriminals. In an attempt to address the concerns in the telecom ecosystem, this submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security provides a critical response to the federal government’s Charter statement on Bill C-26. o ⚓ Le Monde ☛ Paris_Mayor_Anne_Hidalgo:_'I_have_made_the_decision_to leave_Twitter'⠀⇛ Today, controversy, rumor and crude manipulation rule public debate, fueled by Twitter's algorithm, where the only thing that counts is the number of "likes." Facts are irrelevant. This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbate tensions and conflicts. Furthermore, it intentionally hinders the information needed to bring about the ecological and energy transformation we much need, in favor of climate protectionist arguments driven by fossil fuel interests and boundless greed for the planet. We can keep denying, clarifying and explaining, but the noise produced by a piece of misinformation will still dwarf the echo of a proven truth. o ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Canada’s_open_secret:_International_students_are here_to_be_exploited⠀⇛ In a press conference earlier this month, Marc Miller, minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, let the cat out of the bag. “You have industry and low-skilled labour, whether it’s big box shops or others looking for cheap labour and wanting to maintain a 40-hour work week for some of the students, [competing] with the labour gap we face in this country,” he said. “We need those people working, and why not if they’re paying a whole heck of a lot of money to come to Canada and study? Why should we deny them that right?” o ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Why_Won’t_OpenAI_Say_What_the_Q*_Algorithm_Is?⠀⇛ This was made acutely apparent last Wednesday, when Reuters and The Information reported that, prior to Altman’s firing, several staff researchers had raised concerns about a supposedly dangerous breakthrough. At issue was an algorithm called Q* (pronounced “Q-star”), which has allegedly been shown to solve certain grade- school-level math problems that it hasn’t seen before. Although this may sound unimpressive, some researchers within the company reportedly believed that this could be an early sign of the algorithm improving its ability to reason—in other words, using logic to solve novel problems. o § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Elon_Musk_Endorses_Conspiracy_With_Meme Saying_‘Pizzagate_Is_Real’⠀⇛ Musk replied to this image with a story about former journalist James Gordon Meek pleading guilty to possession of child sex abuse imagery. Over the summer, a fake New York Post headline went viral online. “Award Winning ABC Journalist Who ‘Debunked’ Pizzagate, Pleads Guilty in Horrific Child Porn Case,” it said. The Post never ran such a headline and Meek never published an article debunking Pizzagate—at most, the conspiracy was merely referenced in a story about Syria that Meek co-authored with two other reporters in 2017. # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Psychological_science_can_help_counter spread_of_misinformation,_says_new_report⠀⇛ The report also describes features of social media that help misinformation spread very quickly. "Rapid publication and peer-to-peer sharing allow ordinary users to distribute information quickly to large audiences, so misinformation can be policed only after the fact (if at all)," the report says. "'Echo chambers' bind and isolate online communities with similar views, which aids the spread of falsehoods and impedes the spread of factual corrections." As a result, "most online misinformation originates from a small minority of 'superspreaders,' but social media amplifies their reach and influence." * § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Leading_Russian_Expert_On_Supercomputers_To_Be_Sent_To Psychiatric_Clinic⠀⇛ Russian academic Sergei Abramov, a noted scientist, mathematician, and a leading expert on supercomputers who is charged with financing an unspecified extremist group, will reportedly be sent to a psychiatric clinic for three weeks for an examination. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trial_Starts_in_France_for_Teenagers_Accused_of Helping_Teacher’s_Killer⠀⇛ The teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by an Islamist extremist in 2020 after showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to illustrate free speech. The case horrified the nation. o ⚓ Vox ☛ Elon_Musk’s_attempt_to_silence_his_critics_will_be_heard_by one_of_America’s_worst_judges⠀⇛ Ordinarily, this lawsuit would be the kind of stunt that legal observers could probably ignore. The First Amendment provides extraordinarily robust protections against lawsuits that target speech. But the case was just reassigned to Judge Reed O’Connor, a notoriously partisan former Republican Senate staffer, known for handing down poorly reasoned opinions giving major policy victories to right-wing litigants. O’Connor is frequently reversed by the Supreme Court, even though this Court is also quite conservative. o ⚓ NPR ☛ In_the_battle_over_books,_who_gets_to_decide_what's_age- appropriate_at_libraries?⠀⇛ For months, Carolyn Harrison and a small band of activists have been setting up folding tables with an array of what they call "bad books" outside the public library in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Harrison, co-founder of the group Parents Against Bad Books sees it, the best way to convince people that the library is stocking inappropriate books is to show them. o ⚓ RFA ☛ Laos_requires_cell_phone_registration_by_mid-December⠀⇛ Laos is requiring that all of the country’s 6.45 million cell phone users register their numbers by Dec. 16 or risk losing service, citing a crackdown on online scamming and content critical of the government. Some people welcomed the move as a way to clamp down on criminals and illegal activities, but others saw it as a threat to privacy and yet another way to stifle dissent in the one-party country. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russians_Banned_From_Leaving_Country_Will_Have_Passport Confiscated⠀⇛ Russians banned from traveling abroad must hand in their passports within five days of the date when they were notified of the travel ban, according to a government decree from November 22 published on the official portal of legal documents. [...] * § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Remembering_Pablo_Yoruba_Guzmán,_Young_Lords_Co- Founder,_Afro-Latino_Leader,_Legendary_NYC_Journalist⠀⇛ We remember the legendary activist and journalist Pablo Yoruba Guzmán, who died from a heart attack Sunday at age 73. Guzmán was the former minister of information of the Young Lords Party, the revolutionary social justice group led by Puerto Ricans in the 1960s and '70s. He later became a beloved print and television reporter, known for his street reporting. Guzmán was the “first great public relations expert of the Latino community,” says Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, also a former Young Lord. “He was one of the first Afro-Latino people in the media,” adds Johanna Fernández, associate professor of history at the City University of New York's Baruch College and author of The Young Lords: A Radical History. She says Guzmán “brought to the Young Lords a theorization of race in Latin America” and built “common cause with Black Americans.” o ⚓ CPJ ☛ Russia_extends_detention_of_US_journalist_Evan_Gershkovich by_2_months⠀⇛ “While the latest extension of the detention of U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich—who has been wrongly detained in Russia for the past eight months—was expected, it is no less outrageous,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Russian authorities must immediately release Gershkovich, drop all charges against him, and stop prosecuting the press for their work.” o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Court_Extends_Detention_of_Evan Gershkovich⠀⇛ The decision means that the journalist, Evan Gershkovich, who has denied the espionage charge against him, will remain in custody until Jan. 30. * § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ o ⚓ EFF ☛ Let_Them_Know_It’s_Time_to_Power_Up [Ed: But who pays to match? Probably very rich people, whose influence over the EFF is far greater.]⠀⇛ Thanks to a fund made by a group of dedicated EFF supporters, now through December 5th every online donation gets an instant match up to $304,200! This means every dollar you give becomes two dollars toward fighting surveillance, defending encryption, promoting open access to information, and much more. EFF makes every cent count.  o ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ A_Warning_from_1994_of_a_Two-Tiered_Society⠀⇛ o ⚓ uni Emory ☛ Laney_Graduate_students_vote_to_unionize⠀⇛ EmoryUnite! announced the results in a Nov. 28 Instagram post. In total, 909 students (92.6%) voted in favor of unionization while 73 students (7.4%) voted against unionization during the election on Oct. 17 and 18, according to the post. Of the approximately 1,700 Laney Ph.D. students eligible to vote in the election, 982 (57.8%) participated. o ⚓ RFA ☛ Head_of_Tibet’s_government-in-exile_meets_with_Canadian lawmakers⠀⇛ The leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile has met with Canadian lawmakers, government officials and Tibet supporters in Ottawa to urge their continued support for Tibetan causes, including their “freedom struggle,” and raising the issue of China’s human rights violations in the region o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Tesla_sues_Sweden_over_postal_strike⠀⇛ The Texas-based automaker is already trying to fend off strike action on several fronts in the Scandinavian country over its refusal to agree to a collective wage agreement for Tesla mechanics. Last week, postal workers initiated action by blocking deliveries to Tesla offices and repair shops. o ⚓ New Statesman ☛ At_Cop28,_the_UK_must_be_honest_about_UAE’s_human rights_record⠀⇛ First, its climate record must be put under the microscope. The climate impacts felt all around the world over this past year need little introduction: wildfires raging across Europe; Antarctic ice melting much faster than originally thought; catastrophic floods sweeping across the UK. But they do add a sense of urgency to tackle the crisis we face. Fossil fuels are by far the largest contributor to that crisis. So to see the UAE planning a vast expansion of its oil and gas production, when one of the principal aims for this summit is to secure agreement on a rapid and fair phase-out of fossil fuel use, is extraordinarily perverse. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Afghan_Women_Activists_Seek_Taliban_ICC_Trial_Over_Rights Abuses⠀⇛ Since returning to power, the hard-line Islamist Taliban has banned women and teenage girls from education in Afghanistan. It has also banned them from employment in most sectors and discouraged them from leaving their homes. On November 26, global rights watchdog Amnesty International launched an online petition saying the Taliban has started "a new era of human rights abuse and violations" that has put the country "at the brink of irreversible ruin." o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Legal_Experts_to_Examine_if_Lung_Float_Test_Should be_Used_in_Court⠀⇛ Legal experts from two universities will convene a group to study a dubious forensic test that has helped send some women to prison for murder though the women insisted they had stillbirths. Last month, ProPublica reported on what’s known as the lung float test, which some medical examiners use to help determine whether a child was stillborn or was born alive and took a breath. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Dancing_With_Broken_Hearts:_Are_Our_Toys_Still Alive?⠀⇛ To be clear, we welcome the modest mercies in Gaza: the "pause" in slaughter, release of hostages, freeing of Palestinian prisoners, most stone-throwing teenagers who've been warned they'll be re-arrested if their families show "joy." But as a handful of innocents get swapped, Palestinian children, victims of a racist hierarchy of victimhood, still suffer and die. Asks Abu al-Walid, who lost his son, daughter, seven nieces and nephews, his whole beloved "gang," "How will I live (when) these children are gone?" o ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Historic_March_in_London⠀⇛ * § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ o ⚓ RIPE ☛ Does_the_Internet_Route_Around_Damage?_-_Edition_2023⠀⇛ On 22-23 November 2023, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) had an outage on their Amsterdam peering platform. As this is generally considered one of the largest IXPs on the planet, we looked into this event from the perspective of RIPE Atlas to see what it had to tell us about the robustness of the Internet. * § Monopolies⠀➾ o § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Sermon_from_the_Bench:_TTAB_May Not_“Altar”_Course_in_Silence⠀⇛ The case involves Universal Life Church Monastery’s (ULC Monastery) trademark application for the mark GET ORDAINED covering both online retail store services (Class 35) and ecclesiastical services (Class 45) like ordaining ministers. American Marriage Ministries (AMM) filed an opposition asserting that the mark was merely descriptive and failed to function as a mark for both classes of services. However, AMM’s briefing focused solely on the ecclesiastical services and did not present any argument about the online retail store services. o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Operation_404:_USDOJ,_PIPCU,_ACE,_MPA, IFPI,_ESA,_EPL_&_More_Target_Pirate_Sites⠀⇛ The results of the sixth wave of ongoing anti- piracy campaign Operation 404, an international effort featuring USDOJ, PIPCU, ACE, MPA, IFPI, ESA, EPL, and many more, have been revealed. A total of 24 search warrants were executed across Brazil, Argentina, and the United States, 606 sites and apps, including 40 in the UK, were seized, suspended or blocked, with news of arrests still coming in. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Shopify_Files_Fresh_Lawsuit_over_DMCA Takedown_Harassment⠀⇛ At the peak of the online shopping season, Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify filed a new lawsuit to take a stand against DMCA abuse. The company filed a complaint at a Florida federal court, accusing an Orlando resident of filing dozens of false takedown notices, allegedly to advance their own commercial interests. # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Google_goes_on_the_attack_against_the “weaponisation_of_copyright_law”;_that’s_good_–_now_do_it routinely⠀⇛ This might rank as one of the more blatant cases of copyright being weaponised, but it’s certainly not the only one. It’s great that Google is tackling this scourge directly, but now the company needs to do this on a regular and routine basis. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Breaks_Hit_Different_Now⠀⇛ Last week was Thanksgiving so I got to enjoy a long four day weekend. It was my first break not as a student, and I couldn't believe how nice it felt being able to go on break without future assignments and responsibilities looming over my head. I get it, professors can't easily just put a stop to everything for a week especially when the end of the semester is only a couple weeks away. Still though, boy was it nice to not have anything to worry about. # ⚓ Arden_Vul_review_and_experiences⠀⇛ Our D&D campaign has been on hiatus for two months now but when we last left off, we were 64 sessions deep into Arden Vul (and 254 #boatmode sessions into the Crowded Sea era) after I-lost-count-but- probably-close-to-two-hundred sessions elsewhere in the same world. My take on Arden Vul is that “the content” itself (the locations, the factions, the items, the creatures) isn’t that good, and there’s some difficult themes (like slave labor). The design is what’s good, great even. Running it has been the best D&D experience of my life. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AHNPRSU_Wordo:_BUSBY⠀⇛ # ⚓ For_the_love_of_thundering_pin_drops⠀⇛ Most video content featuring humans seems to want to make me feel as though the only person ever born not blessed with horsie teeth. # ⚓ RIP_Mister_Coffee⠀⇛ Yes, I remembered to put water in it. And coffee within a filter within the filter holder. And the green LED shines upon pressing "On". But nothing ever happens. I mean, it's almost like having a Gemini capsule.... In what kind of a species is honesty a fast path to the social penalty box? # ⚓ Fusspot⠀⇛ My partner and I have had dogs for close to twenty years now. When I was in grad school, I moved out of my parents' house, and in with her; the rent was low, $450 a month (which we split), a sweetheart deal from the landlady who lived above our basement suite, who liked my partner, appreciated how quiet she was. The second year of grad school, my tuition dropped to a few hundred bucks a term, since I was done my coursework: continuation of enrolment status. Suddenly, despite making only $15k/year, I had savings. She kept talking about how much she wanted a puppy. We got a puppy. That dog was a little bundle of anxieties and health problems that nonetheless almost made it to sixteen. He passed away just over three years ago. Back in 2011, we got a second dog, figuring it'd be good for him to have a friend. And after our first dog passed, we eventually got a second dog again, about whom this gemlog is about. # ⚓ As_a_manner_of_introduction⠀⇛ Domingo didn't open, again. I liked to write my plans for the day in the passtimes thread, and then do something else entirely; a kind of ritual, maybe. It is also nice to see a registry of my shifting interests. I can probably use gemini for that. I could even keep a record, books I've found, some thoughts. For years I've only ever used anonymous media, or throwaway accounts, I have never kept much of a persistent identity in cyberspace. Whatever I would say would get drowned in the sea of anonimity. I've been meaning to improve my note-taking capabilities, so I could document some of my process here, and maybe somebody will be amused. # ⚓ Where's_the_chees.._I_mean_beef.._I_mean_real-ity?⠀⇛ What makes, for example, a textural offering "real"? That there's an alleged self/person/ individual/free-will behind it? How do you prove that's ever real-ly the case if/when biological knee-jerks can mimick the presence of a self/ person/individual/free-will? Don't we simply assume/believe such is the case? o § Opinion⠀➾ # ⚓ Islands_of_conceptuality/reality_unto_ourselves⠀⇛ One occasionally encounters verbiage describing the importance of acquiring conceptuality - aka reality - context when attempting to understanding something communicated by another. I submit that individuality might be thought of as a complete conceptuality/reality context. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Still_a_hard_DNS_problem⠀⇛ Ah, there's more information about the problem. I did mention [2] that “[i]f the record does show up, then it's a propagation issue, maybe related to caching or TTL (Time-To-Live) issues.” But to be fair, there could be a few other issues. I don't think it's an issue of the zone file was updated but the DNS (Domain Name Service) servers weren't restarted—I don't get that from the wording, and there's a quick test for that anyway—check the serial number by requesting the SOA (Start of Authority) RR (Resource Record). Another issue to check is what the root DNS servers think the authoritative DNS servers for the zone are. A quick check of `whois` could provide that information, or even a query outside the network for the NS (Name Server) RR for the domain. If they don't match the expected list of DNS servers, then either the domain expired, was transfered, or someone else in the organization updated the NS records for the domain. # ⚓ Server_change_to_gmid_&_FastCGI_with_PHP⠀⇛ I switched server from Agate to gmid, becaused I am planning on playing with dynamic content in Geminispace. The currect setup of this capsule consists of a Docker/Portainer/traefik server forwarding all traffic on port 1965 to the gmid server. The gmid is configured to forward some traffic based on a location to a php-fpm container. # ⚓ Server_change_to_gmid_&_FastCGI_with_PHP⠀⇛ I switched server from Agate to gmid, becaused I am planning on playing with dynamic content in Geminispace. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Iceman's_Blog_1.0_reboot_—_22_I'm_a_walker⠀⇛ # ⚓ Wiki_on_the_wider_web⠀⇛ Ok, geminauts, prepared to get a li’l confused since we normally use the word “web” to mean the HTTP, JavaScript-laden muck that’s not Gemini, or at least I do, but in this one I’m gonna use “web” to mean an interconnected web of texts. Even though some of, or even most of, those texts live in Gemini or on Gopher. # ⚓ The_Long_Tail_of_DNS_Record_Types⠀⇛ So when you have a black box zone file that is misbehaving, one thing to do would be to obtain the zone file (can you do a zone transfer? if so, start looking at the zone file; if not, plead with the other team for the zone file, or have them) and summarize what record types are present. This may also require looking at a parent zone file above the problematic zone, maybe. I didn't ever get access to the zone file, though someone did eventually find the problem. What had happened is that my organization had decided that a new name would help with prestige and ranking (domain engine optimization?), so a new name was decided on, as managed by some other group in the parent organization. Instead of starting with a new zone and copying over some necessary entries from the old zone (what I would have done), someone had simply(?) aliased the new zone over to the old one. Then, when it eventually became necessary to change the new zone (these things take time, and memories can become lost, like rings at the bottom of a river) the records would not take as the whole zone was still aliased to the old one. # ⚓ Yes,_that_is_a_hard_DNS_problem⠀⇛ As I last wrote, “I can see it either being something very trivial and I'll kick myself for not seeing, or it's something that I've not had experience dealing with at all,” and it does appear to be something I've not had experience dealing with at all. The DNAME RR (Resource Record) is to delegate name resolution to another server, mainly for address-to-name mappings, but also for aliases. I recall doing a form of name delegation using a non-kosher method back in the late 1990s and early 2000s (back when I was wearing a “sysadmin” hat) involving NS (Name Server) RRs but not with DNAME. DNAME didn't exist when I started with delegations, thus, no experience with it. # ⚓ Lagrange_plugins?⠀⇛ (Apologies in advance for being took lazy to scan Lagrange documentation, and for likely using clunky terminology in what follows.) Does Lagrange support adding something akin to a plugin that Lagrange would pass the gemtext about to be displayed, but then *instead* render the gemtext modified/output/ passed back by the plugin? # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Unit_testing_from_inside_an_assembler⠀⇛ “Plug plug: I've written an assembler[0] for the 6502 (with full LSP and debuggin... | Hacker News [2]” This comment (from the Orange Site about a previous post [3]) grabbed my attention. I'm fascinated by the feature, and I think that's because the test is run i̲n̲ ̲t̲h̲e̲ ̲a̲s̲s̲e̲m̲b̲l̲e̲r̲!̲ (As a side note—I think they missed an opportunity by not using `TRON` to enable tracing) I'm thinking I might try to add a feature to my my assembler [4], as I've already written a 6809 emulator as a library [5]. # ⚓ Programming_Fonts⠀⇛ There are just an AMAZING way that fonts can be illegible or ugly. You owe it to yourself to go to the Programming Fonts website, put the characters that you care about in the second line of the code sample, which is empty, and work through the list until you find a font that delights and pleases the inner you! Download from there, unpack them, and put them in ~/.fonts/ on Linux, or some crazy place on macOS (~/Library/Fonts/? / Library/Fonts/?), and your life will improve too! Oh, you MS Windows users should do the appropriate thing on your … OS, as well. # ⚓ Applying_thread_patches_with_Emacs_Notmuch⠀⇛ Thanks to the script I added, if the branch already exists, it switches to it, and if it does not exist, it makes sure the new one is branched off of main. Before, it’d always create new branches and it’d always create them off of where I already was (which got confusing if I was on a dev branch). Most of the time I actually do want to accept the patches directly on main. That’s one of the advantages of this workflow after all. And that’s what this script also allows me to do, I just enter main as the branchname to apply to. Then I can use git tools on top of that if I want to fix it up further beyond what was addressed in the review process. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5030 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 30/11/2023: Rushing Patent Cases With Shorter Trial Scheme (STS), Sanctions Not Working⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 30, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/State o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ NASA_Unveils_Spectacular_New_View_of_The Mars_Horizon⠀⇛ Breathtaking! # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Could_You_Land_a_Plane?_A_Surprising_Number of_People_Think_They_Can⠀⇛ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Bad_Night_of_Sleep?_This_20-Minute_Fix_Can Do_Wonders⠀⇛ Your brain will thank you. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Brain's_Background_Noise_Could_Explain Electroconvulsive_Therapy's_Success⠀⇛ A new direction. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Caffeine_Could_Have_a_Surprising_Effect_on The_Brain's_Ability_to_Learn⠀⇛ It's complicated. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Mystery_Solved:_We_Finally_Know_Why_The Milky_Way_Seems_So_Unique⠀⇛ Our galaxy is not like the others. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Noise_Cancelling_Isn’t_As_Easy_As_You’d_Think⠀⇛ On the face of it, producing a set of noise cancelling headphones should be a relatively straightforward project. But as [Pete Lewis] found out, things are not always as they seem. The result is a deep dive into microphone specifications, through which most of us could probably learn something. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Can_U.S.-China_Student_Exchanges_Survive Geopolitics?⠀⇛ The flow of students between the countries has been a mainstay of their relationship, even when ties have soured. Now these exchanges, too, are under threat. # ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Canada’s_open_secret:_International_students are_here_to_be_exploited⠀⇛ Minister Marc Miller said the quiet part loud: Big business needs international students for cheap labour # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Being_an_Undocumented_Teacher_in_America Comes_With_Undocumented_Struggles⠀⇛ Sharing their undocumented status can have “political, personal, and professional implications” for these teachers, indicating the burden they face when trying to create an inclusive environment in the classroom. As Syeed and Rosas wrote, “Aspirations and resilience cannot overcome the failures of racist and inequitable systems that serve to marginalize immigrants and undermine educators.”  # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Idaho_Schools_Continue_to_Struggle_to Secure_Adequate_Resources⠀⇛ Districts across the state of Idaho struggled to pass bonds needed for funding their school repairs due to a two-thirds voting requirement. Instead, lawmakers created the Public School Facilities Cooperative Funding Program, a $25 million dollar loan program intended to help the districts. However, the program proved to be difficult to use. # ⚓ Reason ☛ USC_Censors_Jewish_Professor_for_Saying_Hamas 'Should_Be_Killed'⠀⇛ The university is violating John Strauss's free speech rights. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ China_could_have_access_to_the_largest_Hey Hi_(AI)_chips_ever_made,_supercomputer_with_54_million_cores —_US_government_investigates_Cerebras'_UAE-based_partner⠀⇛ The CIA investigating whether a major Hey Hi (AI) cloud service provider, which uses Cerebras hardware, has major ties with China. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ LED_Ring_Brings_The_Bling⠀⇛ We’ve seen our share of light-up jewelry over the years, but for some reason — probably power — it’s almost always earrings or necklaces. So when we saw [ROBO HUB]’s LED ring, we had to check it out. It involves a bit of behind-the-scenes action in the form of a battery holder that you palm, but the end effect is quite cool. # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Germany_vows_to_subsidize_defective_chip maker_Intel_and_TSMC_fabs_despite_budget_crisis_—_billions_in funding_still_in_limbo⠀⇛ Germany vows to subsidize defective chip maker Intel and TSMC fabs despite a budget crisis, though defective chip maker Intel and Wolfspeed reportedly received firm fab funding commitments from the German government. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ G-code_Goes_Binary_With_Proposed_New_Format⠀⇛ G-code is effective, easily edited, and nearly ubiquitous when it comes to anything CNC. The format has many strengths, but space efficiency isn’t one of them. In fact, when it comes to 3D printing in particular file sizes can get awfully large. Partly to address this, Prusa have proposed a new .bgcode binary G-code format. You can read the specification of the new (and optional) format here. # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ AWS_Adopts_Arm_V2_Cores_For_Expansive Graviton4_Server_CPU⠀⇛ For more than a year, we have been expecting for Amazon Web Services to launch its Graviton4 processor for its homegrown servers at this year’s re:Invent, and lo and behold, chief executive officer Adam Selipsky rolled out the fourth generation in the Graviton CPU lineup – and the fifth iteration including last year’s overclocked Graviton3E processor aimed at HPC workloads – during his thrombosis-inducing keynote at the conference. # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Nvidia_RTX_4090_cards_are_reportedly_being hoarded_for_sale_to_China_by_unscrupulous_scalpers,_which could_inevitably_drive_prices_up⠀⇛ Prices of Nvidia RTX 4090 cards have been shooting up lately, and there are photos reportedly showing piles of cards being purchased for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers and traders. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Jimmy_Carter_Emerges_From_Hospice_Care_for Rosalynn’s_Memorial_Service⠀⇛ “Come hell or high water, Jimmy Carter was going to use his inner resources to be there,” the presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said of Mr. Carter’s emerging from hospice care for his wife’s memorial service. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Melania_Trump_and_Other_Living_First Ladies_Pay_Tribute_to_Rosalynn_Carter⠀⇛ United (mostly) in black, their differences were in the details. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Rosalynn_Carter’s_Life_in_Photos⠀⇛ She rose to become the most politically active first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt. Yet her life began and ended dozens of miles from any interstate highway or even a stoplight. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ UK_study_can’t_find_‘smoking_gun’_link between_internet_use_and_mental_health⠀⇛ Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute said in a study published today that they couldn’t find a “smoking gun” linking mental health harms and the use of online applications. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ U.S._Soldiers_Are_Exposing_Barracks_Full of_Mold,_Bed_Bugs,_and_Unsafe_Food_With_a_New_App⠀⇛ Hots&Cots lets service members share photos of America's crumbling military housing. # ⚓ Stanford University ☛ Emotional_support_animals_improve students’_mental_health⠀⇛ Students on campus with emotional support animals find that they greatly improve their daily life and mental health. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Texas_Supreme_Court_hears_oral_arguments_over abortion_bans_for_medical_emergencies⠀⇛ The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case challenging abortion bans that prohibit the procedure in the instance of a medical emergency. In the case, State v. Zurawski, patients and physicians challenged the state’s abortion laws as it relates to pregnancy complications where the procedure may be necessary. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Biden_campaign_readies_health_care_fight in_latest_attack_on_Trump⠀⇛ CNN — The Biden campaign is seizing on former President Donald Trump’s recent threat to repeal Obamacare, marking their latest effort to sound the alarm on the GOP frontrunner’s policy vision. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Wave_of_respiratory_infections_hits_children_in southern_China⠀⇛ A school sends an entire class home for several days, citing flu-like illness and fever in one third of them. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ New_Swine_Flu_Strain_Discovered_in_a_Human in_The_UK_For_The_First_Time⠀⇛ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ In_Japan,_civilian_feds_say_health care_crisis_still_isn’t_fixed⠀⇛ Our readers in Japan respond to a recent Federal News Network interview with the director of the Defense Health Agency -- telling us the civilian employee health care crisis in that country is far from resolved. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Hospitals_report_growing_aggression_toward_medical workers_in_Latvia⠀⇛ Aggressive patients or their relatives is a daily occurrence, according to Latvian largest hospitals and emergency service. Physical or verbal attacks on medical personnel have always been experienced but in recent years they have become more frequent, so medical institutions raise the alarm: employees do not feel safe and are unable to do their job fully, Latvian Radio reported on November 29. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China’s_publicity_blitz_amid_flu_surge has_done_little_to_allay_concerns⠀⇛ The moves came only after the World Health Organisation asked China for more details about the increase in cases. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Two_15-Year_Sentences_Illustrate_the_Ugly Interaction_of_Drug_and_Gun_Laws⠀⇛ The Supreme Court mulls how to apply a mandatory minimum for gun possession by people convicted of drug felonies. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ For_Sports_Illustrated,_Report_About_Fake Authors_Is_Latest_Stumble⠀⇛ The venerable magazine has experienced management upheaval and staff complaints in recent years. Now there’s a question over who wrote product reviews on its site. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_Moral_Can_Hey_Hi_(AI)_Really_Be? [Ed: Chatbots are NOT Hey Hi (AI)]⠀⇛ A year after Proprietary Chaffbot Company released ChatGPT, the chatbot is surprisingly good at parroting human values. It may be as ethical as it’s going to get. # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Microsoft's_2023_ugly_sweater_lets_you wear_the_famous_backdoored_Windows_XP_wallpaper⠀⇛ Microsoft's new ugly sweater for the holidays features the "Bliss" wallpaper from backdoored Windows XP # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Flasher_Mac,_25_Years_Later⠀⇛ Apple Macintosh computers of the 1990s came with a system ROM containing an Open Firmware implementation and the Mac Toolbox required to start the operating system. In many cases this was on a SIMM-like daughter board, and it would have been a true ROM that was unable to be reprogrammed. This is not the end of the story though, and [Doug Brown] set out on the trail of a Flash-based ROM module allowing the firmware on these machines to be updated. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ NYPD_Moves_Towards_Encrypting_Radio Transmissions_After_Years_Of_Decrying_Encryption_Use_By The_General_Public⠀⇛ New York City residents will, once again, be asked to foot the bill for NYPD efforts that solely benefit the nation’s largest police department. It’s not enough that they’ve been asked to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to bail out officers hit with civil rights lawsuits. It’s not enough that they’ve been asked to foot the bill for the NYPD’s repeated refusal to comply with public records laws. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Airport_baggage_handler_in_South_Korea indicted_on_208_counts_of_luggage_theft⠀⇛ The 41-year-old man was working at Incheon International Airport. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea_clears_taxi_driver_in_death of_passenger_who_jumped_out_of_moving_taxi⠀⇛ The Daegu District Court also cleared the 43-year- old driver of an SUV that hit the woman and killed her. # ⚓ ADF ☛ RSF_Advances_Give_It_Control_Over_Half_of_Sudan⠀⇛ After nearly eight months of fighting, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) appears to be consolidating its control over the five states of the Darfur region along with parts of the capital, Khartoum. # ⚓ ADF ☛ Fears_Grow_That_Violent_History_Could_be_Repeated_in Darfur⠀⇛ Montessor Saddam was staying at a camp for displaced people in Sudan’s West Darfur region when members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group attacked on November 2. Over the next three days, the RSF killed 1,300 people and wounded 2,000, local monitors told Al Jazeera. Another 310 were missing. # ⚓ RFA ☛ N_Korea_closes_diplomatic_missions_in_Bangladesh,_DR Congo:_reports⠀⇛ Pyongyang claims these shutdowns are a normal part of the business of sovereign nations. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Saudi_capital_Riyadh_chosen_to_host_World_Expo 2023⠀⇛ The Saudi capital Riyadh on Tuesday won the right to host the 2030 World Expo, defeating rival bids from Italy and South Korea as well as overcoming objections from rights activists to take hold of another global mega-event. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Kenya:_East_African_Bloc_Forum_to_Discuss_Forced Displacement⠀⇛ According to Mohamed Elduma, head of the social development unit of IGAD's Health and Social Development Division, the conference will help transform the refugee situation in the region. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Manila_authorizes_Christmas_convoy_to_cheer_up_troops in_South_China_Sea⠀⇛ The planned trip of 40 civilian boats comes amid rising territorial tensions between the Philippines and China. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese_athletes_as_young_as_7 undergo_military_training_in_Shanghai_to_‘create_iron_army’⠀⇛ Shanghai, China Hundreds of athletes as young as seven are undergoing military training in Shanghai designed to instill discipline and “good fighting ability”, the Chinese city said. The athletes will “deeply study” the Chinese military’s “sense of standards and combat spirit”, Shanghai’s sports bureau said. # ⚓ Reason ☛ War_on_Pause⠀⇛ Plus: Disease in China, botched Reagan quotes, modern racial segregation, and more... # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ramzan_Kadyrov’s_son_who_beat_defenseless_prisoner to_oversee_Chechen_battalion_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Banned_motorcycle_gang_suspected_of_continuing illegal_activities⠀⇛ Police are investigating a major series of crime related to the activities of the now-defunct Cannonball motorcycle club. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel-Hamas_War:_Talks_in_Qatar_Focus_on Extending_Truce⠀⇛ Hamas is expected to release more hostages on Wednesday, the final day of the cease-fire. Top intelligence officials from the U.S. and Israel are meeting in Qatar. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Maryland_Roommates_File_Lawsuit_After_Police_Shot Their_Dog_During_Alleged_Illegal_Home_Search⠀⇛ Officers barged into their house without a warrant, shot their dog, and mocked them, a federal civil rights lawsuit says. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Congress_Weighs_Aid_to_Israel,_Some Democrats_Want_Strings_Attached⠀⇛ Democrats are clashing with each other and the Biden administration over whether to attach conditions, including measures to avoid civilian casualties, to a major infusion of security assistance. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Dozens_killed_in_attack_by_armed_groups_in Burkina_Faso,_UN_says⠀⇛ At least 40 civilians were killed in an attack on Sunday in Djibo, in northern Burkina Faso, the UN Human Rights Office said Tuesday. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Mali_opens_terror_probe_into_jihadists,_ethnic separatists_amid_deteriorating_security⠀⇛ Mali's judiciary has announced an investigation into several ethnic separatists and Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist leaders for terrorism and money laundering, as security deteriorates in the country. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_closes_entire_eastern_border_for_two_weeks⠀⇛ "We don't accept any attempt to undermine our national security," said PM Petteri Orpo (NCP). # ⚓ RFA ☛ Post_calls_on_wanted_Hong_Kong_activist_Nathan_Law_to return⠀⇛ The post, claiming to be penned by Law's brother, suggests family members are being 'held hostage,' observers say. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Who’s_who_in_the landmark_national_security_trial_as_closing_arguments_open⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s largest trial under Beijing’s sweeping national security law alleges that 47 defendants conspired to subvert state power by organising an unofficial primary election in July 2020. The defendants include dozens of politicians and activists — and even an ordinary voter. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_national_security_police charge_man_over_wearing_alleged_‘seditious’_shirt_at airport⠀⇛ A 26-year-old man has been charged by national security police over allegedly wearing “seditious” clothes at Hong Kong’s international airport. According to a government statement issued on Wednesday, the man was arrested at the airport on Monday. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_report_reveals_surge_in_violence_in_Haiti_rural central_region⠀⇛ According to a UN report issued Tuesday, there has been a rise in gang violence in Haiti’s central rural region, an area previously considered safe from the increased instability in the country. The report includes a call for the urgent deployment of the multinational security support mission, as well as reinforcement of local police forces. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Final_debates_begin_in_Hong_Kong’s largest_security_trial⠀⇛ Defendants are charged with “conspiracy to subvert state power” over an unofficial primary election in 2020. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Landmark_Hong_Kong_national_security case_verdict_expected_in_3-4_months_-judge⠀⇛ A landmark national security trial for 16 Hong Kong democracy activists entered its final stretch on Wednesday, with a verdict expected in early 2024, nearly two years after they charged with conspiracy to commit subversion. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ India_forms_committee_to_look_into security_concerns_raised_by_US⠀⇛ India has set up a committee to look into security concerns raised by the United States, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. o § Transparency/State⠀➾ # ⚓ American Oversight ☛ American_Oversight_Statement_on Wisconsin_Court_Decision_Regarding_Secret_Impeachment_Panel Lawsuit⠀⇛ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Average_security-clearance- processing_speed,_hits_a_speed_bump⠀⇛ The federal government’s made huge progress in reducing security clearance processing times over the last several years. But there are some early signs of backsliding. As Federal News Network reported last week, the latest data shows top secret investigations took an average of 115 days in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 – up from 84 days during the same period last year. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Debates_How_Much_to_Sever Electric_Car_Industry’s_Ties_to_China⠀⇛ Some firms argue that a law aimed at popularizing electric vehicles risks turning the United States into an assembly shop for Chinese-made technology. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Turku_shipyard_completes_construction_of world’s_largest_cruise_liner⠀⇛ The Icon of the Seas is due to set sail on its maiden voyage from Miami early next year. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ ‘Elephants_trampled_on_car_doors, smashed_windscreen’:_Malaysian_family_recount_escape from_attack⠀⇛ They were worried the elephants would topple the car. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China's_Nov_factory_activity_likely contracted_for_second_month⠀⇛ China's manufacturing activity likely contracted for a second consecutive month in November, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, keeping alive calls for further stimulus measures as factory owners struggle for orders both at home and abroad. # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Zimstat_says_you_need_just_US$20_a_month_to_be considered_not_poor,_doesn’t_make_sense⠀⇛ A few weeks ago we looked at Zimstat’s Labour Force Report for Q2 2023 which showed that 61% of Zimbabweans who are formally employed earn less than ZW$100,000 (US$12.66). That is a crazy stat but we all understand that, for the urban dweller at least, side hustles are supplementing that income. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Eurozone_Economy_to_Stay_Weak_Through_Year-End: ECB_Chief⠀⇛ The ECB's future policy rates would be set at sufficiently restrictive levels for as long as necessary to meet its target of bringing inflation down to 2 percent. # ⚓ San Fancisco ☛ Broadcom_to_lay_off_over_1,200_Bay_Area_tech workers_following_$69B_VMware_deal⠀⇛ Barely a week after completing the $69 billion acquisition of the Palo Alto cloud computing company VMware, Broadcom has initiated the process of significant workforce reductions. Reports indicate that over 2,000 employees overall are slated for job losses, with a focus on downsizing more than 1,200 roles considered redundant at VMware’s offices in Silicon Valley, according to a WARN notice submitted to the California Employment Development Department. The initial separations are slated to take place on Jan. 26. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Stamp_prices_increase_for_fifth_time in_three_years⠀⇛ In today's Federal Newscast: Stamp prices will go up again, for the fifth time since 2021. A new IARPA program will try to expose perpetrators behind cyber attacks based on coding styles. And the Defense Department is seeking to update its acquisition regulations. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China's_top_diplomat_Wang_Yi_to_visit Vietnam_from_Thursday:_Sources⠀⇛ China's top diplomat Wang Yi will visit Vietnam from Thursday, two Vietnamese sources with knowledge of trip said on Wednesday. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Ruling_party_presidential_candidate_Lai_Ching-te leads_Taiwan_poll⠀⇛ The failure of a "blue-white" alliance last week looks set to split the opposition vote. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Myanmar_ex-information_minister_jailed for_incitement,_sedition⠀⇛ Ye Htut was handed a 10-year sentence under two laws criminalising incitement against the military and sedition. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Where_to_reduce_the_state?⠀⇛ Liberals still advocate for the reduction of the state, but now they no longer emphasize freedoms and democracy. What is actually desired is to reduce the public services provided by the state. This means implementing the security state that liberals want. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Musk’s_Latest_Round_Of_Bigoted_Tweets Likely_Cost_ExTwitter_$75_Million_Over_The_Rest_Of_2023⠀⇛ We keep pointing out just how incredible it is that Elon Musk is personally responsible for the destruction of so much of ExTwitter’s business model. Even if you believe that the company was too bloated, or that it’s business model needed to change, as you look at how the company is flailing, it can be tied back almost entirely to Elon Musk being a stupid, ignorant bigot on the platform that he bought. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Journalist_İsmail_Arı_acquitted_in_'libel'_case filed_by_former_minister⠀⇛ Arı had covered a tender in which Mustafa Varank's cousin secured a contract. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Qualified_privilege_defence_to_be_tested_in UK_libel_battle_between_two_Pakistani_broadcasters⠀⇛ A judge dismissed an application for summary judgment, saying the defence should be tested in court. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Court_Denies_Plaintiff_Pseudonymity_in_#TheyLied Libel_Suit_Stemming_from_Alleged_Stealthing_by_17-Year-Old⠀⇛ From a decision last week by Judge Robert Pitman in DL v. JS (W.D. Tex.): Plaintiff dated ES from September 2021 to January 2022 when they were both in high school. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_launches_probe_into_surrogacy, fake_paternity_tests_in_Wuhan⠀⇛ The suspension comes amid several investigations related to the issuance of fake birth certificates in China. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Settlement_Handed_To_11-Year-Old_Autistic Student_Who_Was_Locked_in_A_Cop_Car_For_Hours,_Hit_With $25,000_Bail⠀⇛ The problem with putting cops in schools isn’t necessarily that there are never things that happen in schools that require a law enforcement response. (Unfortunately, a lot of those things are school shootings, which cops aren’t all that capable of responding to.) o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_Moves_Slowly_To_Update_Definition_Of Broadband_To_Something_Still_Pathetic⠀⇛ For decades, the FCC has maintained an arguably pathetic definition of “broadband,” allowing the telecom industry to under-deliver substandard access. And despite some new rhetoric from the agency under Biden, that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Meta_Joins_Google_In_Turning_Its_Back_On_The Open_Web,_And_Embracing_Unconstitutional_Mandates_That Pretend_To_‘Protect_The_Children’⠀⇛ A month ago we wrote about Google effectively “pulling up the ladder” on the open internet by embracing age verification mandates as part of a regulatory approach to child safety. As we pointed out at the time, this is bizarre and stupid for a variety of reasons, but also not too surprising. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ New_cost-cap_system_for_UK_patent_monopoly disputes_to_start_in_early_2024⠀⇛ The Civil Procedure Rules Committee (CPRC) has now approved a proposal for capping costs for patent monopoly cases in the Shorter Trial Scheme (STS). The proposal submitted by the Intellectual Property Lawyers’ Association (IPLA) adopts the current procedures for the STS, adding a single total cost cap of £500,000. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ A_Question_of_First Impression:_What_Happens_When_the_PTAB_Fails_to_Meet the_Statutory_Deadline_for_Issuing_a_Final_Written Decision?⠀⇛ Section 326(a)(11) of Title 35 (the Patent Act) provides that the PTO “shall prescribe regulations… requiring that the final determination in any post-grant review be issued not later than 1 year after [institution],” and that the time can be extended by up to six months for good cause or in the case of joinder (emphasis added).  On its face, the statute seems to establish a statutory deadline of 18 months from institution (one year plus the six-month extension) for the PTAB to issue its Final Written Decision in a post-grant review (“PGR”) proceeding.  # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Prior_Art_as_of_the Effective_Filing_Date⠀⇛ The Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently designated as precedential a portion of its Penumbra v. RapidPulse decision in that provides important guidance on the use of a provisional patent monopoly application’s filing date for 102(a)(2) prior art under the America Invents Act. Penumbra, Inc. v. RapidPulse, Inc., IPR2021-01466, Paper 34 (March 10, 2023) (made precedential as to section II.E.3 on November 15, 2023).  This is a pretty long post, but key takeaways are: (1) the PTAB expressly rejected the Federal Circuit’s pre-AIA Dynamic Drinkware rule (we’ll see how it goes on appeal); (2) when using a patent/publication as prior art based on an earlier provisional filing date, a petitioner now only needs to show the provisional describes the relied upon subject matter instead of requiring claims supported under §112; (3) this lowers the bar for leveraging provisionals as invalidating prior art before the PTAB (i.e., makes it easier to invalidate patents); however, (4) it remains # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Empire_IP_entity,_Fleet_Connect, wireless_patent_monopoly_reexam_granted⠀⇛ On November 20, 2023, two months after Unified filed_an_ex_parte_reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S._Patent_7,058,040, owned and asserted by Fleet Connect Solutions, LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire_IP. The ‘040 patent monopoly generally relates to minimizing RF channel interference in a device where two RF standards operate in the same frequency bands. The patent monopoly is being asserted against devices that have the ability to communicate using LTE, 802.11, or Bluetooth. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ CAFC_Sends_Back_TTAB's_"GET_ORDAINED" Decision:_Board_Ignored_Its_Own_Policy_Regarding_Waiver of_Unargued_Claims⠀⇛ Well, this is a strange one. The CAFC reversed the Board's decision sustaining an opposition to registration of GET ORDAINED for retail store services and ecclesiastical services, remanding the case for further consideration. The Board found the phrase so commonly used that consumers will not perceive it as a source indicator pointing uniquely to the applicant. Alternatively, the Board found the phrase to be merely descriptive and lacking secondary meaning. [TTABlogged here]. However, Opposer AMM had made no argument regarding applicant's retail store services, and so the court sent the case back to the TTAB to consider why the Board did not apply its usual waiver-of- argument policy with respect to those services. Universal_Life_Church_Monastery Storehouse_v._American_Marriage_Ministries, Appeal No. 2022-1744 (Fed. Cir. November 22, 2023). # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential_No._34:_TTAB_Dismisses Monster_Energy's_Section_2(d)_Claim_On_Summary_Judgment Due_to_DIssimilarity_of_Design_Marks⠀⇛ Deeming the first DuPont factor to be dispositive, the Board granted Applicant Critical Role, LLC's motion for summary judgment, dismissing Opposer's Monster Energy's Section 2(d) claim. Monster alleged a likelihood of confusion between its registered "Claw" design mark for various goods and services, and applicant's "Circled MV" design mark for goods and services in eight classes. Monster's unchallenged dilution claim remains pending, since dilution may exist "regardless of the presence or absence of actual or likely confusion.” 15 U.S.C. Section 1043(c)(1). Monster_Energy_Company_v._Critical_Role,_LLC, 2023 USPQ2d 1382 (TTAB 2023) [precedential]. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6137 ➮ Generation completed at 02:49, i.e. 8 seconds to (re)generate ⟲