𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, December 03, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Mon 4 Dec 02:49:20 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/2023/12/03/ ╒═══════════════════ 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 - 'Confidential Computing'? More Like a Giant Back Door. ⦿ Techrights - GNOME Foundation is in Reliable Hands (Executive Director) ⦿ Techrights - IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 02, 2023 ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/_Confidential_Computing_More_Like_a_Giant_Back_Door.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/GNOME_Foundation_is_in_Reliable_Hands_Executive_Director.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/irc-log-021223.shtml ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/Links_03_12_2023_CRISPR_as_Patented_Minefield_Lots_of_Greenwash.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/Links_03_12_2023_New_Hey_Hi_AI_Vapouware_and_Palantir_NHS_Collu.shtml ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 54 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/_Confidential_Computing_More_Like_a_Giant_Back_Door.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/_Confidential_Computing_More_Like_a_Giant_Back_Door.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 'Confidential Computing'? More Like a Giant Back Door.⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2023, updated Dec 03, 2023 Far from the first time: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇CacheWarp AMD CPU Attack Grants Root Access in Linux VMs⦈ MICROSOFT and x86 oligopolies love this misleading misnomer: 'Confidential Computing'! What does this even mean? It means "OUTSOURCE TO US AND TRUST US!!!" There have been many warnings about it, but the so-called "media" outlets (big publishers or the puff piece industry) belittle or ignore those. That's just the_latest_one. Source is legitimate. Does this sound familiar? We keep_hearing such_stories about 'Confidential Computing' and some media gets paid to shill 'Confidential Computing' like it's the best thing since sliced bread. Companies led by GAFAM pay the Linux_Foundation's Jim Zemlin, who is totally not technical, to market this thing. Confidential! Wow! Cloud! Wow! Amazing! Modern! The future! Is it also "smart" and "Hey Hi" with "blockchain" in the "metaverse"? Just like UEFI, what's described as extra "secure" may in fact be the exact opposite (wolf in sheep's clothing). It's opaque, proprietary, secret (blackbox module you can neither audit nor modify). It's promoted by the_NSA's_main tentacles and by companies like Canonical on behalf of Microsoft [1, 2]. They even hijack_the_acronym_(in_technology),_CC. It's promoted by Microsoft_moles who call everyone who doubts the security of such a thing "racist", "sexist" etc. Yes, that actually happened... Oh, by the way, those moles have no background in security or even a computing- related degree. They're there to provoke. They're_like_face-saving_mules_and trolls. Do not listen to them about security. This past summer in Italy Dr. Stallman openly_complained_that_the_term "security"_had_lost_its_meaning. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⢿⠿⢿⣿⡿⢿⠿⢿⢿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣛⣚⣆⣏⣖⣇⣎⣇⣬⣌⣌⣟⣆⣇⣾⣲⣹⣇⣇⣇⣮⣸⣸⣣⣿⣸⣺⣨⣵⣘⣃⣿⣹⣸⣖⣇⣾⣢⣉⣖⣇⣱⣿⣸⣹⣰⣖⣌⣇⣎⣆⣮⣔⣿⣨⣹⣱⣸⣰⣱⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⡿⢿⡿⢿⢿⢿⠿⡿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⡟⣿⢿⠿⢿⢿⢿⢿⣿⡟⡟⡟⠿⢻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣵⣧⣧⣽⣮⣽⣤⣼⣤⣧⣼⣿⣧⣿⣿⣧⣭⣼⣼⣼⣬⣼⣵⣿⣷⣽⣧⣷⣼⣤⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠽⣐⣂⣈⣻⣿⣭⣿⣿⣭⣽⣯⣽⣯⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣠⡲⡀⢈⢄⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣼⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 135 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/GNOME_Foundation_is_in_Reliable_Hands_Executive_Director.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/GNOME_Foundation_is_in_Reliable_Hands_Executive_Director.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ GNOME Foundation is in Reliable Hands (Executive Director)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2023, updated Dec 03, 2023 Growing_some_good_food_in_one's_garden? 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Garden Snails As Food — Can’t Beat ‘Em? Eat ‘Em! Holly's Homestead is your source for info about modern homesteading. I'm converting my modest home in Oakland, CA into a micro-farm. Follow me as I make changes that let me live close to the Earth but high off the hog. I'll share ideas for things we can all do right now to be more independent, reduce our impact on the Earth, save money, and enjoy good health. By taking action in our own backyards, we are the home front against global warming. Thanks for coming along!⦈ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Holly Million on Nov 4, 2013: Garden Snails As Food — Can't Beat 'Em? Eat 'Em!⦈ OK, then... ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠐⠃⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⣴⣶⣾⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠈⣿⣿⣿⡟⢭⣿⣿⣿⢗⣤⣴⣎⠁⢀⣻⢽⣿⠿⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠋⠂⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠃⢀⢀⢀⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠿⣿⡿⠁⠈⣍⣻⣿⣿⡷⠀⠏⣳⡨⠚⢿⣿⣿⢷⢬⣤⣷⣾⣶⣄⠉⠰⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠔⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢽⣿⣿⣿⣄⣀⡔⠲⣿⢟⠾⢋⣨⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣠⣤⣄⠛⠿⠿⣿⡿⢰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠈⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠺⠉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⡇⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⢟⣵⡜⣿⣿⡿⠋⢉⣩⣽⣿⣟⣫⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⢀⢌⣏⣻⡽⡿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⡀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣝⢿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣷⣶⣤⡈⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣴⠻⠿⠿⠁⠹⠛⢿⡿⢿⢻⣿⡄⣴⣿⡁⣀⣌⢩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢺⣿⣅⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠿⠿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣸⣷⣅⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣸⣷⣆⣱⣦⡀⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⢽⣇⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢱⣿⣿⣮⡟⣿⣿⣯⣭⢸⣇⢿⡷⣹⣷⣟⣽⣿⣯⣭⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣽⣿⣙⡸⣿⣿⡿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣷⣬⣥⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⡰⠞⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⣲⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠻⣷⣦⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠜⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⠻⠳⣆⢛⠋⠁⣰⣼⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡶⠯⣿⢿⠟⠀⠈⠁⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⠯⣍⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠈⠀⠉⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠟⣿⢟⣛⣿⣿⠗⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⢸⣿⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣯⣭⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣽⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣴⣾⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⡿⣗⢿⣷⠦⠀⢀⣀⣘⠿⠿⠿⠟⠊⣃⣤⣴⣭⡚⠋⠉⠈⠀⠿⡡⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠈⠇⠈⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⢿⣿⠿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣾⢷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⡿⢿⢲⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢐⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⠀⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣟⢿⣀⣀⣀⣐⠀⠀⠀⠔⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣟⣟⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠙⠛⡏⣛⣵⢠⣌⣼⣽⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣴⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣶⣿⣎⣿⣿⡿⠁⠁⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⠷⣾⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣯⣯⣿⣼⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⠿⠟⠛⠁⠙⣵⣾⣿⣿⣿⡍⠁⠈⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⢿⣿⠿⣷⣾⣷⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡂⠀⢀⣹⠿⠿⠋⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣷⢿⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢷⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⣇⢀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠁⠙⠟⠂⠀⠰⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣻⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣟⣿⢿⣻⣿⣿⣻⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣗⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⢃⣦⣤⣦⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⢾⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣽⣭⣭⣿⣿⣭⣽⣽⣯⣿⣽⣿⣽⣽⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣶⠀⠢⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠹⠿⠷⢖⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣟⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣶⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣽⣿⣯⣯⣯⣧⡼⣯⡿⣿⣭⣯⣿⣯⣧⣿⣽⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣷⣾⣶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⡿⣿⣾⡷⣷⣷⣶⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣷⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⡛⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣟⢛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠏⣑⢄⠷⢰⡰⣸⡠⢼⢰⠸⣿⡲⣹⢰⠊⡢⡸⠀⠇⡮⣸⡿⢨⠸⡬⣸⡿⢸⣇⢆⣅⢆⣇⠇⣿⣯⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣶⡮⡍⡏⡍⣧⡇⣽⣿⢐⢸⢫⣹⠭⢫⢨⣿⣼⢐⣺⢩⢩⢹⡖⣨⣿⢐⣺⢭⢫⢨⣿⣼⢐⣺⢩⢩⡽⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣶⣷⣷⣾⣷⣾⣷⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣿⣿⣶⣾⣾⣶⣶⣷⣿⣿⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣿⣿⣶⣾⣾⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢲⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣾⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠿⠛⠛⠿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⠿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⢿⣿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⢿⢿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣧⣾⣤⣤⣂⣦⣤⣤⣤⣬⣦⣤⣧⣤⣶⣯⣦⣤⣎⣤⣼⣼⣤⣴⣵⣼⣽⣤⣤⣴⣽⣥⣝⣯⣦⣧⣬⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣷⡀⠀⠁⠀⣸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⡏⠙⡝⠙⠉⠙⡏⡹⢹⣏⡫⡋⠛⢹⣛⣛⡏⠭⠉⢩⣭⢽⠉⠋⠏⡭⣿⠉⠉⣩⣹⠉⠏⡭⣿⠉⠉⣹⣿⠻⡿⡻⠛⣟⢹⡝⢯⢹⡟⢛⡫⢹⢹⣛⣽⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 217 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/irc-log-021223.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/03/irc-log-021223.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 02, 2023⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GN 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNOME_Gedit⦈_ #techrights_log #boycottnovell_log 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GN 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNOME_Gedit⦈_ #boycottnovell-social_log #techbytes_log Enter_the_IRC_channels_now ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 249 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 03/12/2023: CRISPR as Patented Minefield, Lots of Greenwashing Abound⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Trekking,_Mexico_style⠀⇛ Mexico has no national trekking trails, but two long- distance hikers in Jalisco decided to create their own. o ⚓ Tom MacWright ☛ Recently⠀⇛ Something I’ve been encountering time and time again is the difficulty of getting both “good vibes” and “good ideas” in the same movement. For example, fighting greedy housing developers has great vibes, a clear-cut enemy, lots of likeable compatriots, potential for good visuals. Sometimes it’s correct – developers are no saints, and they’re sometimes the bad guys – but a lot of the time it’s wrong. Fighting new development no matter what is the essence of NIMBYism. YIMBYism often has bad vibes: we have to deal with loud, often-wrong twitter personas like Matt Yglesias speaking for the movement. There’s a lot of “well-actually” corrections and gesturing toward charts and numbers. But, most of the time it’s right. Every time you look at recent history, building housing has led to more housing, and not building housing has led to more homelessness. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Tiny_Particle_Accelerator_Just_Achieved_a Major_Energy_Milestone⠀⇛ 10 GeV in a 4-inch chamber. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_Adorable_Penguin_Sleeps_More_Than 10,000_Times_Each_Day⠀⇛ Wait, what? # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Print_Your_Own_Brain_Lamp_From_MRI_Data⠀⇛ MRIs generally fall somewhere on the scale from boring to stressful depending on why you’re having one and how claustrophobic you get. Regardless, they’re a wonderful diagnostic tool and they’ve saved thousands if not millions of lives over the years. In a fun use of the technology, [mandalaFractals] has shown us how to make a 3D- printed brain lamp using an MRI scan of the head. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ China's_Building_an_Epic_Underwater_Data Center_With_The_Power_of_6_Million_PCs⠀⇛ The first of its kind. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Radio_Emissions_Over_Sunspots_Challenge_Models Of_Stellar_Magnetism⠀⇛ Sustained radio emissions originating from high over a sunspot are getting researchers thinking in new directions. Unlike solar radio bursts — which typically last only minutes or hours — these have persisted for over a week. They resemble auroral radio emissions observed in planetary magnetospheres and some stars, but seeing them from about 40,000 km above a sunspot is something new. They don’t seem tied to solar flare activity, either. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Sunspots_Are_Coming_(Again)⠀⇛ There are a bunch of ways to estimate the age of a radio amateur, by the letters in their callsign, by their preferred choice of homebrewing technology, or sometimes by their operating style. One that perhaps doesn’t immediately come to mind is to count how many solar cycles they remember, and since the current cycle 25 is my fourth I guess I’ve seen a few. Cycle 25 is so far shaping up to be quite an active one especially of late, which popular media are describing as bombarding us with flares from a “sunspot archipelago” and the more measured tones of spaceweather.com giving us warning of X-class flares heading in our direction, today! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cat-o-Matic_3000_Serves_Your_Feline_Masters⠀⇛ When you have three cats and three humans, you have one problem: feeding them on a schedule without over or under feeding them. Even if there was only one human in the equation, the Cat-o-Matic 3000 would still be a useful tool. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ LED_Tester_Also_Calculates_Resistor_For_Target Voltage⠀⇛ [mircemk] built a slick-looking LED tester with a couple handy functions built in. Not only can one select a target current to put through an LED, but by providing a target voltage, the system will automatically calculate the necessary series resistor. If for example the LED is destined for 14 V, this device will not only show how the LED looks at the chosen current, but will calculate the required resistor to get the same results on a 14 V system. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ WATCH:_Decoding_the_WHO’s_New_Pandemic ‘Agreement’_&_New_World_Dis-Order⠀⇛ James Corbett and Dr. Meryl Nass return to “Good Morning CHD” to chronicle the latest Oct. 30 draft of the WHO Pandemic Treaty — now pegged the pandemic ‘agreement’. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Five_senators_ask_Biden_to_impose_China travel_ban_after_respiratory_illness_cases⠀⇛ China is experiencing a spike in respiratory illness cases among children. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ No_new_infectious_diseases_found_in investigations,_China's_National_Health_Commission_says⠀⇛ No new infectious diseases have been found so far in investigations of respitory illness, Mi Feng, an official with China's National Health Commission said in a press conference on Saturday. # ⚓ RFA ☛ In_China,_1_in_5_could_face_severe_drought,_UN_data says⠀⇛ Globally, hundreds of millions will suffer extreme drought conditions if temperatures rise by 1.5 degrees Celsius. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ For_The_First_Time_Since_The_Pandemic,_Life Expectancy_in_The_US_Is_Rising⠀⇛ But it's not all good news. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ October_remittances_highest_ever recorded_in_a_single_month⠀⇛ Remittances to Mexico have been on a record- breaking trend since the start of the pandemic, but the peso's strength has affected purchasing power. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ News_diary_4_–_10_December:_Train_drivers strike,_Johnson_at_Covid_inquiry⠀⇛ A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘We_can_never_go_back_to_normal’:_A year_on_from_China’s_‘white_placard’_zero-Covid_protests⠀⇛ A year after historic protests broke out on Shanghai’s bustling Wulumuqi Road, only a subtly increased police presence on main junctions betrays anything out of the ordinary. # ⚓ Reason ☛ The_DeSantis-Newsom_Debate_Was_Really_a_Debate About_COVID⠀⇛ Too bad that was only a small part of the 90-minute affair. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Man_gets_severe_burns_at_self-proclaimed_'medical' facility⠀⇛ A retail company that sells electrical goods calls itself a medical center and offers free health improvement procedures. Latvian Television's broadcast 4. studija was approached by a viewer who suffered severe burns at this establishment, LTV reported in its November 30 show. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ U.S._Senator:_What_Do_Our_Cars_Know?_And_Who_Do They_Share_that_Information_With?⠀⇛ “As cars increasingly become high-tech computers on wheels, they produce vast amounts of data on drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and other motorists, creating the potential for severe privacy violations. This data could reveal sensitive personal information, including location history and driving behavior, and can help data brokers develop detailed data profiles on users.” Not only does the letter articulate the privacy harms imposed by vehicles (and trust us, cars are some of the least privacy- oriented devices on the market), it also asks probing questions of companies regarding what data is collected, who has access, particulars about how and for how long data is stored, whether data is sold, and how consumers and the public can go about requesting the deletion of that data. Also essential are the questions concerning the relationship between car companies and law enforcement. We know, for instance, that self-driving car companies have also built relationships with police and have given footage, on a number of occasions, to law enforcement to aid in investigations. Likewise both Tesla employees and law enforcement had been given or gained access to footage from the electric vehicles. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ U.S._government_sanctions_prolific_North Korean_cyber_espionage_unit⠀⇛ The veteran hacking crew has been at the heart of Pyongyang's efforts to gather intelligence by breaching computer systems. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ US_Sanctions_North_Korean_Cyberespionage Group_Kimsuky⠀⇛ The US has announced sanctions against North Korean cyberespionage group Kimsuky over its intelligence gathering activities.  # ⚓ Security Week ☛ In_Other_News:_Utilities_Targeted_by Hackers,_Aerospace_Attacks,_Killnet_Leader_Unmasked⠀⇛ Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Utilities in US and Europe targeted in attacks, aerospace hacks, and Killnet leader unmasked. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea_launches_first_spy satellite_with_SpaceX⠀⇛ December 02, 2023 4:14 AM A SpaceX rocket on Dec 1 launched South Korea’s first military spy satellite, intensifying a space race on the peninsula after Pyongyang launched its own first military eye in the sky last week. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_says_interference_in satellite_operations_would_be_considered_declaration_of_war⠀⇛ North Korea said it would respond to any US interference in space by eliminating viability of US spy satellites. # ⚓ RFA ☛ US,_allies_impose_sanctions_on_N_Korea_following satellite_launch⠀⇛ The move comes after Pyongyang last week successfully launched its first reconnaissance satellite. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ North_Korea_says_interference_in_its_satellites would_be_declaration_of_war⠀⇛ North Korea said it would mobilize its war deterrence if any attack against its strategic assets were imminent. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Kazakh_jailed_on_spy_charge_in_China_seeks_transfer to_Kazakhstan⠀⇛ Chinese judicial authorities sentenced him to 20 years in prison in 2018. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Congress_hears_of_Beijing’s_‘discourse_power’⠀⇛ Even US companies, scared of being frozen out of China’s huge market, are toeing its political line, experts say. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Taiwan’s_Tsai_Ing-wen_says_China invasion_unlikely_for_now,_as_Beijing_overwhelmed_by ‘internal_challenges’⠀⇛ China is not likely to consider a major invasion of Taiwan for now due to domestic challenges, the island’s president Tsai Ing-wen said Wednesday, although Beijing is trying to sway its upcoming election. # ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korean_‘stormtroopers’_are_ill-equipped_for harsh_winter_weather⠀⇛ The soldiers were sent north to build houses in the fall, but will have to stay through winter without warm clothes. # ⚓ Stanford University ☛ Protests_mark_South_Korean_president and_Japanese_prime_minister’s_Stanford_visit⠀⇛ The two world leaders’ discussion centered around cooperation between the nations and the future of science and technology. Outside the auditorium, anti-APEC protesters voiced opposition to the summit and expressed disapproval of the two leaders. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge_Says_Montana’s_TikTok_Ban_Is_Obviously Unconstitutional⠀⇛ This wasn’t hard to predict. When Montana passed its TikTok ban in April we called it “laughably unconstitutional.” Montana’s very silly Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, who claimed to have been the driving force behind the bill, had insisted that the state would be vindicated in court. As we noted when the bill passed, his public defense of the bill was to admit that the point of the bill was to shut down content he didn’t like online, damning his own case. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Judge_Halts_Montana's_First_Amendment-Violating Fentanylware_(TikTok)_Ban⠀⇛ The ban, scheduled to take effect on January 1, is likely unconstitutional in multiple ways, the judge held. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Rebel_attack_against_Myanmar’s_military escalates._Is_China_involved?⠀⇛ A major offensive launched by ethnic militias has forced Myanmar’s military dictatorship to fall back on almost every front. It is a critical moment for the army, which ousted democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Turku_court_reduces_Burger_King_knife_wielder's sentence⠀⇛ The offence was the 25-year-old man's first criminal conviction in Finland. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Interior_Ministry_places_movement_restrictions_on Inkoo_port_area⠀⇛ The port area is currently home to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal ship. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_protester_self-immolates_outside_the Israeli_Consulate_in_Atlanta.⠀⇛ A security guard tried to intervene but was unsuccessful, officials said. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Guinea-Bissau_army_says_holding_leader_of_rebel security_unit_after_clashes⠀⇛ Guinea-Bissau's army said Friday it was in control after a gun battle in the capital between units of the security forces, underscoring the political divisions in the small West African nation with a history of instability. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Fake’_label_appears_on_anti-mobilization Telegram_channel_run_by_draftees’_wives_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Texas_Judge_Orders_Release_of_Uvalde_Shooting Records⠀⇛ A state district judge in Travis County has ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to release law enforcement records related to the May 2022 Uvalde school shooting, more than a year after a consortium of news organizations sued for access. The ruling by 261st Civil District Court Judge Daniella DeSeta Lyttle calls on DPS to fulfill 28 records requests filed by the news organizations, which include ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, subject to redactions such as personal information of police officers and blurring the faces of minor victims in crime scene photographs. # ⚓ Stanford University ☛ Strawser_|_The_Faculty_Senate_and VPSA_are_keeping_secrets_at_students’_expense⠀⇛ The Faculty Senate and VPSA's lack of transparency around nominations to the Academic Integrity Working Group harms student interests, Strawser writes. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Still_a_lot_of_work_to_do_to_gain the_trust_of_VA_whistleblowers⠀⇛ The VA’s Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP) – set up in the aftermath of the department’s secret wait-list scandal – got off to a very rocky start. It had scandals of its own. According to the government watchdog Project on Government Oversight (POGO), VA has reformed OAWP in ways that have made real progress toward building whistleblower confidence. But there is still a whole lot of work to do. Joe Spielberger is policy counsel at POGO. A few weeks ago, he testified before the House Veterans Affairs Committee about what is needed at OAWP. He speaks here with Federal News Network Deputy Editor Jared Serbu. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Opening_speech_by_Executive_Vice- President_Sefcovic_at_the_High-Level_Plenary_of_the_Local Climate_Action_Summit⠀⇛ I was very pleased... # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Mapped:_Big_Ag’s_Routes_to_Influence_at COP28⠀⇛ As this year’s climate summit gets underway in Dubai, powerful food and farming companies are well positioned to ensure their interests are protected. They will use their connections to network, lobby – and even raise investment. These agri-giants will be rubbing shoulders with over 80,000 participants – the highest attendance of any climate conference – which these days comes with increased media fanfare and activity, including protests, side events, drinks and dinners happening in and around the main event. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Corporate_Promotion_of_Carbon_Capture_and Storage_Contradicts_Science,_Study_Finds⠀⇛ The vast majority of corporate advocacy promoting carbon capture and storage is misaligned with climate science, new research shows.  According to an analysis released today by InfluenceMap, over 80 percent of corporate policy engagement on CCS between 2021 and 2023 does not meet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s science-based policy guidance, which includes recommended methods for limiting warming to 1.5°Celsius or well-below 2°C – the targets established by the Paris Agreement. The study shows that IPCC recognizes a role exists for carbon capture technologies. However, the UN’s climate science body has stated that global fossil fuel production and use must decline substantially, and that CCS is not a feasible justification to deepen reliance on these dirty fuels that are driving climate breakdown.  # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ West_Virginians_Could_Get_Stuck Cleaning_Up_the_Coal_Industry’s_Messes⠀⇛ West Virginia’s fund to clean up abandoned coal mines is in such dire shape that it threatens to stick taxpayers with hundreds of millions — perhaps even billions — of dollars in cleanup costs. And yet, little is being done to turn things around. The bankruptcy of just one significant mining company could wipe out the fund, according to the state’s top regulatory official. And auditors for the Republican-controlled Legislature said at least five major companies were “at risk” of dumping cleanup costs on the state. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Scrap_metal_ban_is_not_working_and should_not_be_extended_–_SEIFSA⠀⇛ The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) has noted with concern submissions to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) calling for the extension to the scrap metal export ban, designed to curb infrastructure theft, which is scheduled to come to an end this December. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Proposed_dog_meat_ban_in_South Korea_reignites_heated_debate_over_centuries-old practice⠀⇛ Some question if the ban is necessary for a sunset industry o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania’s_banks_pay_€102m_in_second_windfall_tax instalment⠀⇛ Eight Lithuanian commercial banks and credit unions have paid 101.6 million euros in the so-called solidarity tax, a temporary levy on excess profits, the State Tax Inspectorate told BNS on Thursday. # ⚓ Black_Friday_is_over._Here’s_what_we_learnt.⠀⇛ We hope our posts about making your products last struck a chord with you this November. At Fairphone, we’re all about supporting you to hang on to your tech for as long as possible. It’s our way of tackling the whole electronic waste issue! # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Redeveloping_Dushanbe_Construction_is_booming_in Tajikistan’s_capital_—_but_at_what_cost?_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sunday Times UK ☛ Octavius_Black_steps_down_as_MindGym boss_in_‘challenging’_market⠀⇛ Octavius Black is preparing to step aside as chief executive of MindGym, the workplace training company he created more than 20 years ago. The author and entrepreneur, 55, a contemporary of David Cameron at Eton, will leave the role to become executive chairman after the company’s annual meeting in July next year. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Broadcom_to_let_go_1,800+_VMware_employees amid_push_for_increased_profitability⠀⇛ Broadcom Inc. is letting go more than 1,800 VMware employees amid an effort to boost the virtualization giant’s earnings significantly. The San Francisco Chronicle reported the job cuts on Thursday, citing regulatory filings. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Cloudbrink’s_co-founder_takes_his_company to_court_over_allegations_of_financial_fraud⠀⇛ A simmering dispute between the co-founder of Silicon Valley startup Cloudbrink Inc. and the executive brought in to run the company became public knowledge on Wednesday with the filing of a lawsuit. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ DC_Circuit_Rules_that_a_President’s_Speech as_Candidate_Is_Not_Official⠀⇛ The DC Circuit just held that when a President campaigns for re-election, he acts as an office seeker, not an office holder entitled to absolute immunity. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Media_Watch:_Chinese_firms_running_fake_S Korean_news_sites⠀⇛ South Korea’s spy agency warns it could be part of Beijing’s online influence operations. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ A_high_school’s_deepfake_porn scandal_is_pushing_US_lawmakers_into_action⠀⇛ On October 20, Francesca Mani was called to the counselor’s office at her New Jersey high school. A 14-year-old sophomore and a competitive fencer, Francesca wasn’t one for getting in trouble. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ St._Petersburg_artist_Sasha_Skochilenko,_who replaced_store_price_tags_with_antiwar_messages,_appeals seven-year_prison_sentence_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ TV_channel_fined_by_St._Petersburg_court_for showing_music_video_with_‘LGBT_propaganda’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Yes,_The_First_Amendment_Protects_Displaying_The ‘Thin_Blue_Line’_Flag_Even_In_Publicly_Owned_Buildings⠀⇛ Most people seem to understand the First Amendment protects their right to say stupid or offensive things, especially when they’re the ones saying them. These same people often forget the First Amendment does not protect them from counter- speech, during which they may be publicly decried as stupid or offensive. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_Only_Those_Who_Pay_Him_Deserve Free_Speech⠀⇛ Okay, okay, I think this is the last of my posts about Elon Musk’s unhinged appearance at the DealBook Summit with ill-prepared interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin. We already covered his cursing out advertisers, while predicting that “earth will judge” them, as well as his statement that AI copyright lawsuits don’t matter because “Digital God” will be here before it’s over, but I also wanted to cover one more exchange, in which Musk effectively says that only those who give him money deserve “free speech” (his definition of free speech). # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Mirror_strikes_victory_for_honest_opinion as_Dyson_loses_£1m_libel_bid⠀⇛ High Court judge says Brian Reade comment piece did not cause 'serious harm'. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_journalist_incommunicado,_feared_detained in_Beijing⠀⇛ South China Morning Post reporter Minnie Chan is unreachable after an assignment in October. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Maintaining_Online_Copy_of_Court_Opinion_Isn't Libelous,_Even_When_It's_Reversed⠀⇛ A district court refuses to enter default judgment against caselaw publisher Leagle, concluding that the plaintiff's claims against Leagle were legally insufficient. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Hunter_Biden_Gets_a_Step_Closer_to Vindicating_Twitter’s_Takedown_Decision⠀⇛ On the same day that, in sworn testimony before Congress, Michael Shellenberger claimed "there's no evidence" that the hard drive Rudy Giuliani shared with the NY Post was manipulated, Vish Burra asserted (laughing) that he would hack Hunter Biden again. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Press_group_concerned_over_report_of South_China_Morning_Post_journalist_missing_after_China trip⠀⇛ South China Morning Post (SCMP) reporter Minnie Chan has gone missing after a work trip to China, Japan’s Kyodo News reported on Thursday citing unnamed people close to the matter. A local press group has expressed concern over the apparent disappearance. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ South_China_Morning_Post_says ‘missing’_reporter_is_safe_after_press_group_raises_alarm; threatens_legal_action⠀⇛ South China Morning Post (SCMP) journalist Minnie Chan is on personal leave concerning a private matter, the newspaper has said, after a local press group raised concerns about her reported disappearance following a work trip in China. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Popular_Uzbek_Blogger_Gets_Eight_Years_In_Prison_On Charges_He_Rejects⠀⇛ A court in Uzbekistan's eastern region of Ferghana sentenced blogger Olimjon Haidarov on December 1 to eight years in prison on charges of extortion, defamation, and libel. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Retiree_Arrested_For_Criticizing_Local_Officials Will_Have_Her_Case_Heard_By_The_Supreme_Court⠀⇛ We’ve long known the Fifth Circuit is the worst circuit to hear your case involving rights violations by law enforcement. Despite one particularly blistering dissent from Judge Don Willett calling qualified immunity a “rigged game” litigants almost always lose, the Fifth Circuit continues to coddle cops and overreaching government officials to give them what they want at the expense of rights of the governed. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Investigation_Exposes_Yet_Another_Small_Town That_Is_Little_More_Than_A_Law_Enforcement_Honeypot⠀⇛ Law enforcement for profit is an ugly proposition. Most of us immediately think of civil asset forfeiture, which is generally just cops going shopping for stuff they want or cash to buy the stuff they want that isn’t subject to outside oversight. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Uzbekistani_journalist_wins_country’s_first-ever gender_discrimination_case_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Director_Of_Kyrgyz_Opera_And_Ballet_Theater Arrested_For_Alleged_Abuse_Of_Office⠀⇛ The Kyrgyz State Committee of National Security (UKMK) said on December 1 it arrested the director of the Kyrgyz Opera and Ballet Theater, Almazbek Istambaev, on a charge of abuse of office. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Kazakh_Security_Chief's_Cousin's_Appeal Against_10-Year_Prison_Term_Rejected⠀⇛ A court in Kazakhstan has rejected an appeal filed by a cousin of the jailed former head of Kazakhstan's Committee of National Security (KNB) against his conviction and 10-year prison term on charges of bribery and embezzlement. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Nepal_registers_its_first_same-sex marriage⠀⇛ Same-sex couple Surendra Pandey, second left, and Maya Gurung pose for a photograph with their marriage registration certificate at Dordi village council office on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. Sunil Babu Pant/AP Reuters —  Local authorities in a village in Nepal registered the Himalayan nation’s first same-sex marriage on Wednesday, officials and activists said, five months after the Supreme Court issued... o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_To_Vote_On_New_Rules_Cracking_Down_On_Shitty Cable_TV_Fees⠀⇛ For decades, cable TV giants have nickel-and-dimed customers with a rotating assortment of bullshit cable TV fees, whether it’s “regulatory recovery” fee (a misleadingly named fee designed to have you blaming government for industry greed), regional sports fees (charged whether or not you watch sports), or the completely meaningless “broadcast TV fee” (which has ballooned at several times the rate of inflation). # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Criminal_complaint_filed_against_man_sharing child_abuse_images_on_Ekşi_Sözlük⠀⇛ First Women and Children Association, filed a complaint with the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office, demanding the identification and prosecution of the user who shared photos and videos of child abuse on the online platform Ekşi Sözlük. The platform issued a statement indicating that the mentioned content has been removed and criminal complaint made for the identification of the individual. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ The_first_CRISPR_cure_might kickstart_the_next_big_patent_monopoly_battle⠀⇛ That’s a real nice CRISPR cure you have there. It would be a pity if anything happened to it.  Okay. Drop the tough-guy accent and toss the black fedora aside. But I do believe that similar conversations could be occurring now that a historic gene-editing cure is coming to market, as soon as this year.… # ⚓ JUVE ☛ Bayer_and_Weickmann_successfully_defend Nexavar_patent_monopoly_in_the_second_instance⠀⇛ The dispute concerns Bayer’s patent monopoly EP 23 05 255, which expired in December 2022. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $6,000_for_InfoGation_navigation patents_prior_art⠀⇛ Unified Patents added three new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent_6,292,743, U.S._Patent_8,898,003, and U.S._Patent_10,107,628, all owned by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The patents generally relate to navigation systems. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Atlantic_IP_entity,_Foras Technologies,_parallel_processor_patent_monopoly_reexam granted⠀⇛ On November 29, 2023, less than three 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 7,502,958, owned and asserted by Foras Technologies, Ltd., an NPE and entity of Atlantic_IP_Services_Limited. The ‘958 patent monopoly relates to lockstep processor technology where two processors are paired together, and the two processors perform exactly the same-operations and the results- are compared.(e.g., with an XOR gate). # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Are_these_Two_Design_Marks Confusable_(for_Rice)?⠀⇛ Global Commodities petitioned for cancellation of a registration for the mark shown below left, claiming likely confusion with its registered mark shown below right, both for "rice." Since the goods are identical, a lesser degree of similarity between the marks is needed to support the Section 2(d) claim, but are the marks close enough to cause source confusion? Global Commodities,_Inc._v._Capital_Distributors, LLC_and_Capital_Imports,_LLC., Cancellation No. 92078857 (November 29, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Mark A. Thurmon). # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Tedium ☛ In_Search_Of_New_Lows⠀⇛ Why did seven-string guitars become a nu- metal staple in the late 1990s? It turns out they nearly went forgotten—but a guitar nut in Bakersfield decided he wanted to follow a specific sound. Today in Tedium: I’m going to reveal two things about myself in today’s Tedium that may change your opinion of me. First off, in the year 2000, I stood in line on one of the hottest days of the year in the streets of downtown Detroit to get a free ticket to a Limp Bizkit show on a tour infamously sponsored by Napster. (And I mainly did it because I was a Napster fan, and we did a lot of things we regretted in the name of nu metal.) And second, many years later, I played a key role in maintaining Fred Durst’s Wikipedia page. I don’t know why I did it—my thinking was that, because this guy was a joke at the time, as a journalist, if I could be objective about the work of Mr. Durst, I could be objective about anything. Anyway, I thought about these things this week when I was presented a strangely compelling 45- minute video of Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland selling off his gear, and I wondered: “Where are all the seven-string guitars?” Now, I have to answer that question. Today’s Tedium ponders why seven-string guitars came to shape nu-metal. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Canada_and_Surveillance_Giant_Google_strike deal_to_compensate_news_publishers_under_Online_News Act⠀⇛ The Canadian federal government on Wednesday announced an agreement with Surveillance Giant Google that will see the tech company compensate news Canadian news publishers. This marked a shift from Google’s initial stance of potentially blocking all Canadian news content following the introduction of the new Online News Act. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_GLNWSUO_Wordo:_MOIST⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hexcrawling_the_dungeon⠀⇛ Next time I see or make a dungeon map I wanna overlay a grid of 60′ hexes on top of whatever 10′ or 5′ square grid there is, if any. To me that’ll be a lot more useful for the exploration turns, or “ticks” as we call them (a tick is ten minutes, a round is six seconds), so I’m gonna call it “tick hexes”. I don’t need to worry about distance that way, since my rule is that in one turn, you can do searching & interacting in one 10×10×10 cube as long as that is within this or an adjacent tick hex, in accordance with how dungeon speed works in our game. # ⚓ Moon_observing_Fairbanks,_AK,_USA_2023-12-01_(publ._2023- 12-02)⠀⇛ o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ President_Xi,_Send_The_Nukes!_—_What_Is_To_Be_Done_Now?⠀⇛ On a private forum today, one of my oldest friends, who is, regrettably, a centrist Democrat, posted a note asking those of us who are critical of Joe Biden to put up or shut up – to tell him what we would have progressives do next, or get the fuck off the forum. The rest of this post is my reply, written in one draft over the course of which I drank several glasses of box wine. It's being written before I've seen any election returns, though polls have closed in the Eastern and Central time zones. This is probably the last installment of ``President Xi, Send the Nukes'', though never say never again. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Hello,_World!⠀⇛ Denizens of Gemini, is this thing on? I'd just like to thank Sandra San for pointing me in the right direction and so now I've found my way here. # ⚓ Status_Report:_Building_the_HTTP/2_Client_for Drogon⠀⇛ I left my last job by the start on November, 2023 and have a week of free time before I join the new one. With time on hand, I decided to finish a feature request I made years ago in Drogon. A HTTP/2 client - And server, but that'll happen later. I never expected to get it almost finished in like 5 days. The protocol looks duanting at first. It requires you to implement your own flow control and multiplexing. But it's actually not that bad. The protocol is designed in a way to be very diffifult to desync. And the flow control is in fact, very simple. Totally not like the complicated TCP states and backup algorithms. # ⚓ Ja_la_vivo_progresas⠀⇛ I hope everything's going well for you! Things are good here. I've decided to dust off SeaMonkey for my school stuff. All the computer systems they use here are ever-so- slightly out of date in a wonderfully comfy way, that is, it's easier to use SeaMonkey Mail than some terrible webmail via Internet Explorer (chrome). # ⚓ Saying_hello_to_imaginary_friends⠀⇛ I an honestly see reverting back to pre- internet times, including buying only with cash, only locally, and paying bills only via paper through the mail. And this isn't just a philosophic point. I'm truly tired of what's become the online/paperless lie. Maintaining logins/passwords, and repeatedly enduring various two-factor dances is seemingly like way more work than I'm recalling paper billing being. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1527 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 03/12/2023: New 'Hey Hi' (AI) Vapouware and Palantir/NHS Collusion to Spy on Patients Comes Under Legal Challenge⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 03, 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 AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Not_Your_Mother's_Spam_Mail⠀⇛ This is a full video player, fit with a screen and speaker, that played this company's commercial immediately upon opening it. Stock footage of people dressed in business professional walking in and out of offices with inspirational orchestral swells in the background and a voiceover with the company's elevator pitch. We tore open the packaging to look at the hardware, and here's what we found: [...] We'd never seen this type of mail before, and it seemed odd to us that a company would send out something equivalent to junk mail that was so expensive, wasteful and bothersome to whoever opened it. So we did some further research. o ⚓ James G ☛ Advent_of_Technical_Writing:_Navigation_Structure⠀⇛ Over the next 24 days, I am going to share one lesson I have learned when writing technical documents. My experience pertains almost exclusively to software technical writing. I expect that much of what I write will be more applicable in that domain, but I hope my advice can generalise. This series will use a lot of "I"s, because I want to write with direct reference to my experience. You may have your own style that deviates from mine; therein lies the beauty of writing. But perhaps you will learn something from what I write! o ⚓ James G ☛ Advent_of_Technical_Writing:_Navigation_Links⠀⇛ As you write and organize technical documentation, there is an important muscle to build up: creating effective navigation link text. Navigation links are what you may include in a sidebar or a top navigation bar. These may be different than the actual title of a page, since you often have more space in a page title. o ⚓ The Verge ☛ Here’s_how_a_bridal_photo_captured_a_single_person_in three_poses_at_once⠀⇛ It’s multiple images, stitched together using Coates’ iPhone 12’s “pano” feature. Faruk figured this out by peeking at the shot’s metadata and seeing its resolution is cropped from the main camera’s normal resolution down to 3028 x 3948, which happens when a picture is taken in panoramic mode. o ⚓ Tedium ☛ In_Search_Of_New_Lows⠀⇛ Why did seven-string guitars become a nu-metal staple in the late 1990s? It turns out they nearly went forgotten—but a guitar nut in Bakersfield decided he wanted to follow a specific sound. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Mark Dominus ☛ Uncountable_sets_for_seven-year-olds⠀⇛ My friend mentioned that his kid had been unhappy with the associated discussion of uncountable sets, since the explanation he got involved something about people whose names are infinite strings, and it got confusing. I said yes, that is a bad way to construct the example, because names are not infinite strings, and even one infinite string is hard to get your head around. If you're going to get value out of the hotel metaphor, you waste an opportunity if you abandon it for some weird mathematical abstraction. (“Okay, Tyler, now let !!\mathscr B!! be a projection from a vector bundle onto a compact Hausdorff space…”) # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Scientists_Discover_Star_System_So_Perfect_It Seems_Like_Art⠀⇛ These "sub-Neptune" exoplanets — planets with a radius larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune — revolve in precise ratios relative to each other. Here, the first and closest planet to the host star completes three orbits in the time the next planet takes to complete two orbits. This is called a 3: 2 resonance, repeated here for the first four planets. Meanwhile, the two outermost sub-Neptunes are in a 4:3 resonance, so the furthest planet completes only one orbit while the closest whizzes through six — like beautiful cosmic art. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Food_Preserving_Technique_May_Have_Sparked Human_Brain_Growth,_Scientists_Say⠀⇛ Researchers propose that a taste for fermented morsels may have triggered a surprising jump in the growth rate of our ancestors' brains. In fact, a shift from a raw diet to one that included food items already partially broken down by microbes may have been a crucial event in our brain's evolution, according to a perspective study by evolutionary neuroscientist Katherine Bryant of Aix-Marseille University in France and two US colleagues. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Manuel Moreale ☛ More_new_mindsets,_fewer_new technologies⠀⇛ Make yourself a blog, write, share, connect with others. Be curious, click around, follow random links, see where they take you. And write to people. Don’t be afraid of sending an email to someone you don’t know. If someone’s out there on the web, it probably means they want to be found. # ⚓ Jamie Brandon ☛ 0042:_consulting_lessons,_there_are_no strings_on_me,_buttondown,_focus_goof,_jsfuck,_1ml⠀⇛ Anyway, I'd be much wealthier if I could just take peoples money and give them what they ask for without caring if I'm delivering something worth the cost. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Greece ☛ Robots_trained_to_be_porters⠀⇛ The project to use robots in airport baggage and shelving has research challenges that need to be addressed. “Training robots to handle more diverse objects is required. Baggage has a very wide variety, from heavy suitcases to backpacks. How the robot will grab them and how to reposition them needs work,” he noted. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Pneumonia,_bird_flu,_other_outbreaks_prompt_concerns of_new_contagion_in_Asia⠀⇛ Few events have affected states’ security and prosperity more than a pandemic. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Do_You_Have_Mouth_Cancer_Symptoms?_An Expert_Explains_How_to_Check⠀⇛ Early detection saves lives. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Government_bans_"dark_patterns"_on_ecommerce platforms;_notifies_guidelines⠀⇛ According to the notification, dark patterns have been defined as any practice or deceptive design pattern using user interface or user experience interactions on any platform that is designed to mislead or trick users to do something they originally did not intend or want to do, by subverting or impairing the consumer autonomy, decision making or choice. # ⚓ [Old] The Washington Post ☛ Students_can’t_get_off_their phones._Schools_have_had_enough.⠀⇛ This year, the district went a step further, expanding to the high school level. There, students slip their phones into locking Yondr pouches (about $16 each) that they carry with them all day and that they can open by tapping it against a magnetic device as they leave. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ PFAS_forever_chemicals_found_in_English drinking_water_–_why_are_they_everywhere_and_what_are_the risks?⠀⇛ To make matters worse, the PFAS chemicals that do degrade often break down into the more recalcitrant PFAS types, which then cycle around the environment endlessly. # ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Kansas_and_Missouri_have_256,000_lead pipes._EPA_wants_them_removed_within_10_years.⠀⇛ “Lead in drinking water is a generational public health issue, and EPA’s proposal will accelerate progress towards President Biden’s goal of replacing every lead pipe across America once and for all,” EPA administrator Michael Regan said in a news release. For much of the 20th Century, utilities were permitted to install lead service lines, the pipes that carry water from water mains under the street into homes. The EPA banned them in 1986, but utilities have never been required to remove existing pipes. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Why_the_Entire_AI_World_Was_Talking_About_"Q" This_Week⠀⇛ Still, details surrounding this supposed Q program haven’t been shared by the company, leaving only the anonymously sourced reports and rampant speculation online as to what the true nature of the program could be. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Uber_Eats_Mocked_for_Grotesque_AI-Generated_Food Pictures_on_Menu⠀⇛ As the web continues to fill up with bottom-tier AI-generated content — see our reporting this week that Sports Illustrated had been publishing articles by fictional authors with AI-generated headshots — here's a new one: Uber Eats seemingly publishing a restaurant's menu with, instead of real photos of the food, ones that were cooked up using some sort of AI system. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Health_crusaders_prep_legal challenge_over_NHS_mega_contract_with_Palantir⠀⇛ According to NHS England, the "data platform" is the software it plans to use to help NHS organizations collate the operational data currently stored in separate systems in order to help staff access the information they need. This data includes the number of beds in a hospital, the size of waiting lists for elective care services, or the availability of medical supplies. The idea is every hospital trust and integrated care system (ICS) will have their own platform, but they will be able to connect and share information between them. The controversial contract is set to last up to seven years. [...] o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Montana_Fentanylware_(TikTok)_Ban_Likely_Violates First_Amendment,_Intrudes_on_Federal_Foreign_Affairs_Power⠀⇛ Judge Donald Molloy's opinion Thursday in Alario v. Knudsen (D. Mont.) preliminarily enjoined Montana's ban on TikTok, which the state had defended largely on the theory that Fentanylware (TikTok) was owned by a Chinese corporation and "gathers significant information from its users, accessing data against their will to share with the People's Republic of China" [...] # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_president_urges_to_stop_‘ecocide’_at COP28⠀⇛ The Lithuanian president called for stopping “ecocide” and focusing efforts on mitigating the consequences of harmful actions already taken. Nausėda said that “Russia's brutal war in Ukraine has caused enormous damage to the environment, and the aggressor’s actions are incompatible with international law and go against the world’s joint efforts to stop climate change”, his office said in a press release. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Western_leaders_must_choose:_Arm_Ukraine or_enable_Putin’s_genocide⠀⇛ The Kremlin began preparing these genocidal policies well in advance of the full-scale invasion. Russian security officers reportedly compiled detailed lists of Ukrainian community leaders who would be targeted by advancing Russian forces in a bid to prevent any coordinated Ukrainian opposition to the takeover of the country. These registers included elected local officials, priests, journalists, teachers, activists, and military veterans. A clear pattern of abductions and disappearances has subsequently been witnessed in every region of Ukraine under Russian occupation. Meanwhile, in liberated villages, towns, and cities, the Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly encountered mass graves, torture chambers, and widespread reports of missing persons. Throughout Russian-occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian monuments have been pulled down and replaced with commemorations of Russian imperial and Soviet history, while symbols of Ukrainian statehood have been systematically removed from public spaces. Moscow has imported Russian teachers to indoctrinate Ukrainian schoolchildren, pushing them to reject their nationality and embrace an alternative imperial identity. Entire parks and museums have been created to aid in this process, with children also forced to express thanks and gratitude to the Russian soldiers engaged in destroying their homeland. Predictably, the Ukrainian language is no longer taught in schools and has been banished from public life throughout Russian-occupied Ukraine. # ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_asks_EU_court_to_suspend_EU_gatekeeper label_until_its_ruling⠀⇛ Chinese conglomerate ByteDance's TikTok has asked Europe's second highest court to suspend its designation as a gatekeeper under onerous new EU tech rules until judges rule on its challenge against the label. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires TikTok and other designated gatekeepers Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft to make their messaging apps interoperate with rivals and let users decide which apps to pre-install on their devices. # ⚓ EuroNews ☛ ‘Sacrificing_us_at_the_altar_of_their_greed’: Richest_10%_in_EU_emit_as_much_carbon_as_poorest_50%⠀⇛ “Their increasingly luxurious lifestyles and escalating opulence are wreaking havoc on our planet," says Oxfam EU tax expert Chiara Putaturo. “Meanwhile ordinary people are burdened with rising costs and the dire consequences of heatwaves, floods, and landslides caused by human greed.” These outsized emissions of Europe’s richest will cause 67,800 heat-related excess deaths by 2100, the equivalent of almost 850 deaths every year. # ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ Amazon_Signs_Deal_With Musk's_SpaceX_To_Launch_Internet_Satellites⠀⇛ Amazon aims to build a constellation of 3,236 satellites by 2025 in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to beam broadband [Internet] globally under project Kuiper # ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok_takes_first_steps_in_turning_on Norwegian_data_centre⠀⇛ The Norwegian data centre will be in the town of Hamar where TikTok will store data spread over three buildings and the first phase will start operating from next summer. # ⚓ CBC ☛ Former_Afghan_interpreter_for_Canadian_Armed_Forces arrested_by_the_Taliban,_family_says⠀⇛ He said his father did not like to talk about his work for the military too much, but was always proud of his service. The family had been in hiding for two years, ever since they were unable to board flights that left Kabul in August 2021 when NATO forces fled Afghanistan following its takeover by the Taliban. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Roblox_used_by_extremists_to_recruit_children, police_warn⠀⇛ Roblox, a virtual universe gaming platform where users can program games for others to play, has seen scenarios such as Nazi concentration camps, Chinese communist re-education camps for Muslims, and Islamic state-style conflict zones. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ He_Won_Election_to_Canada’s_Parliament. Did_China_Help?⠀⇛ A Canadian rapporteur said there was “well-grounded suspicion” that Han Dong, a member of Parliament from Toronto, may have benefited from support from the Chinese Consulate. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ COP28:_117_Countries_Agree_to Triple_Renewable_Energy,_to_Push_Out_Fossil_Fuels⠀⇛ The pledge was among a slew of COP28 announcements on Saturday aimed at decarbonizing the energy sector - source of around three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions - that included expanding nuclear power, cutting methane emissions, and choking off private finance for coal power. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Report:_Saudi_Arabia_Plans_to_Get_African Countries_“Hooked”_on_Fossil_Fuels⠀⇛ Top Saudi Arabian officials, led by Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, have formulated a covert plan to make countries across Africa and Asia dependent on fossil fuel products, a new bombshell investigation has revealed. # ⚓ Essel Group ☛ Riyadh_covertly_working_on_plans_to artificially_boost_oil_demand_globally:_Report⠀⇛ The investigation has been carried out by the Centre for Climate Reporting and Channel 4 News, a British TV channel. It revealed that Riyadh aspires to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, under its so-called oil demand sustainability programme (ODSP). # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_signs_decree_to_increase_Russian military_by_nearly_170,000_personnel_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zaporizhzhya_Nuclear_Plant's_Grid_Connection Cut_In_Another_Reminder_Of_'Precarious'_Safety Situation⠀⇛ Ukraine and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said two power lines connecting the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant to the country’s electricity grid were cut overnight, again highlighting the risk of an accident at the plant. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine's_Security_Service_Cancels_Former President's_Trip_To_Meet_With_Orban⠀⇛ Ukrainian border guards prevented former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country on what Poroshenko said was a business trip that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said was to start with a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Shelling,_Drone_Strikes_Cause_Death, Damage_In_Ukraine's_Donetsk,_Kherson,_And_Odesa Regions⠀⇛ At least two civilians were killed in Ukraine's Donetsk and Kherson regions in shelling by Russian troops that also caused damage to infrastructure and property, regional officials said on December 2. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Estonian_prime_minister_says_residents obtaining_Russian_citizenship_after_start_of_full-scale war_are_security_threat,_could_face_deportation_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Congress_Must_Pass_Aid_For_Ukraine_To_Avoid Interruption_Of_U.S._Support,_White_House_Says⠀⇛ The U.S. Congress should act swiftly to provide aid to Ukraine before the end of the month to avoid an interruption in support provided by the United States, White House national-security spokesman John Kirby said. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Repels_Russian_Drone_Attack_On_Odesa Region⠀⇛ Russian troops attacked the Odesa region with 11 Iranian-made kamikaze drones overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force Command reported early on December 2. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Second_Batch_Of_Ukraine_Troops_Finish Training_On_Patriot_In_Germany⠀⇛ Germany's army, the Bundeswehr, has trained a second group of Ukrainian soldiers on the Patriot air-defense system. After more than six weeks, the training of around 70 men and women was nearing completion. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Niinistö:_China_plans_to_cooperate_in_gas pipeline_investigation⠀⇛ The Finnish president also posits that Russia's intention to divide the West's support of Ukraine may have the opposite effect and end up bolstering support for Ukraine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Crossing_the_Dnipro:_What_a Ukrainian_Military_Operation_Might_Mean⠀⇛ Ukrainian troops have taken positions on the east bank of the Dnipro River, posing a threat to Russia’s dominance of the region. Here is a look at the battlefield and the strategic implications. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Plane_with_left_engine_failure_makes emergency_landing_at_Moscow_airport_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Officials'_use_of_private_jets_at_public_expense to_be_tightened_up⠀⇛ The reason is the sharp reaction of the public to the 36 flights made by current Minister of Foreign Affairs Krišjānis Kariņš (New Unity) during his tenure as prime minister, which together cost more than 1.3 million euros to taxpayers. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Is_cryptocurrency_enabling_Hamas? Efforts_to_halt_terror_funding_revive.⠀⇛ Now U.S. and other Western governments have refocused on the problem. This goes especially for terrorists’ use of digital money – or cryptocurrency – that can be flashed around the world without the scrutiny of banks or regulators. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Physicists_Propose_Way_to_Harvest Incredible_Energy_From_Black_Holes_In_Wild_Paper⠀⇛ That might not be a problem for the super tiny black holes Mai and Yang describe, since they don’t spin, but instead the black holes don't have charge and therefore wouldn’t work as a battery. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ 22_Countries_Pledge_to_Triple Nuclear_Capacity_in_Push_to_Cut_Fossil_Fuels⠀⇛ Britain, Canada, France, Ghana, South Korea, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates were among the 22 countries that signed the declaration to triple capacity from 2020 levels. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Why_solar-powered_canoes_could_be_good_for_the future_of_the_rainforest⠀⇛ The boats, inspired by traditional Indigenous designs, vary in size and can carry up to 20 passengers. With electric motors and roofs covered in solar panels, they can travel at 10 to 12 miles an hour for up to 60 miles. Each cost between $25,000 and $40,000, most of which was provided by U.S.-based foundations such as the Inter-American Development Bank. Kara Solar says that with technological advances, prices are coming down. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ China's_Building_an_Epic_Underwater Data_Center_With_The_Power_of_6_Million_PCs⠀⇛ Firstly there's the space saved in terms of land: apparently, the plan is to put 100 of these data center blocks in place by 2025, which will take up around 68,000 square meters (about 732,000 square feet) of construction space, according to Chinese agency CCTV. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ Electric_arc_furnaces:_the technology_poised_to_make_British_steelmaking_more sustainable⠀⇛ Steel is an incredible material and for good reason. It’s the world’s most commonly used metal because it’s strong, durable and recyclable, making it the perfect material for everything from skyscrapers to electric vehicles and solar panels. More than 1.8 billion tonnes of crude steel were produced globally last year. That number is only expected to grow as the world transitions to a more sustainable future. The UK uses around 12 million tonnes of steel each year. And in 2022, it produced just under 6 million tonnes, contributing to around 2.4% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ El País ☛ Bottlenose_dolphins_have_a_seventh_sense: They_can_feel_electricity⠀⇛ The Guiana dolphin’s electroreceptive abilities led Guido Dehnhardt, the director of the Marine Science Center of the University of Rostock (Germany), to think that other dolphins could have this seventh sense, too. Dehnhardt, one of those responsible for the 2011 discovery, was convinced that bottlenose dolphins must also have this skill. “Both species follow a benthic feeding strategy,” he explains via email. This means that both eat fish that live at the bottom of the ocean. So, if the Guiana dolphin is capable of detecting the electricity generated by fish, why wouldn’t the bottlenose dolphin be able to do it too? # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_to_Still_Be_Reminded_of_Your Insignificance_Even_When_Light_Pollution_Makes_It Impossible_to_See_the_Stars⠀⇛ Consider how you thoroughly fail to understand how the Internet works. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_blocks_ex-president_from_leaving_country amid_alleged_plan_to_meet_pro-Putin_Hungary’s_Orban⠀⇛ Ukraine's security service said on Saturday it had prevented former president Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country on grounds that Russia planned to exploit a planned meeting with Hungary's prime minister to hurt Ukrainian interests. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Facebook_Has_a_Gigantic_Pedophilia_Problem⠀⇛ Earlier this year, the newspaper teamed up with researchers at Stanford and the University of Massachusetts Amherst and found that Instagram's algorithms were connected to an entire distribution network of underage sex content. At the time, Meta formed a child-safety task force to address the glaring issue — but even after five long months, the company still has a lot of work to do, the WSJ found, with the company's platforms still actively promoting pedophilic content. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft's_$3.2_billion_UK_investment_to drive_AI_growth [Ed: Bribery_again]⠀⇛ The funding, first announced at a summit hosted by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday, will more than double Microsoft's data centre footprint in Britain, providing the infrastructure crucial for new AI models to work. # ⚓ India Times ☛ OpenAI's_Sam_Altman,_sugarcoating_the apocalypse⠀⇛ Sam AltmanAP My favorite "Twilight Zone" episode is the one where aliens land and, in a sign of their peaceful intentions, give world leaders a book. Government cryptographers work to translate the alien language. They decipher the title - "To Serve Man" - and that's reassuring, so interplanetary shuttles are set up. But as the cryptographers proceed, they realize - too late - that it's a cookbook. That, dear reader, is the story of OpenAI. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ X_Users_Falsely_Portray_Footage_From Colombia_as_Venezuela-Guyana_Border_Clash⠀⇛ Social media users have seized on these tensions to spread disinformation. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_singer_who_burned_ID_in_protest_against war_in_Ukraine_sent_to_pre-trial_detention_on_charges_of ‘rehabilitating_Nazism’_and_‘insulting_believers’_feelings’⠀⇛ Sharlot is charged with two counts of “rehabilitating Nazism” and one count of “violating the right to freedom of conscience and religion.” The case was initiated due to videos posted on Sharlot’s Instagram, including one in which he burned his Russian ID and said he was against the war and one in which nailed his military ID and a photo of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill to a crucifix. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ CPJ_alarmed_by_disappearance_of_Yemeni_journalist Naseh_Shaker⠀⇛ Shaker was last heard from on November 19, when he spoke to his mother at around 5:30 a.m. from the southern city of Aden. He had traveled there overnight from his home in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, to fly to Lebanon, where he was due to attend a security training course on November 21, according to his brother, Abdullah Ahmad Shaker, who spoke to CPJ, and multiple news reports. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Nine_Days_of_Rail_Disruption Unleashed_as_Aslef_Industrial_Action_Takes_Hold⠀⇛ Disputes over working conditions, pay disparities and concerns regarding safety protocols have failed to find a resolution, leading to this protracted period of industrial unrest. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ More_Than_400_People_Punished_Under_Shari'a_Law_In Afghanistan,_Rights_Group_Says⠀⇛ Qisas punishments are for offenses seen as violations of the boundaries set by God such as murder, theft, and adultery. Convicts can be executed, flogged, stoned to death, or have limbs amputated. # ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Call_for_a_society_free_of_rights_violations⠀⇛ Andhra Pradesh High Court Judge K. Manmadha Rao on December 2 (Saturday) emphasised the need to create a society free from oppression of rights. Speaking at a conference on ‘Human Rights Awareness’, organised by the Department of Business Administration in Prasad V. Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Kanuru, to mark International Human Rights Day (December 8), Justice Manmadha Rao said human rights are not just fundamental entitlements, but they are also safeguards for every individual. He underscored the universal, inalienable nature of human rights and said they were responsibilities rather than mere rights. He urged students to develop awareness on human rights at an early age. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ David Revoy ☛ My_brushstrokes_against_AI-art⠀⇛ But even if it sounds like I'm praising some aspect of AI-generated imagery, make no mistake: I'm still very much against it. I remind you that thousands of my artworks have been analysed over the last 20 years and are part of the LAION-5B database. All without my consent. In this respect, I could ironically say that all generative AI stuff can be considered derivative of my work, even if only to a 0.00001% degree of derivation. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ 80_Pirate_IPTV_Sellers_Face_$3.5m Bill_After_Failing_to_Charge_Customers_VAT⠀⇛ Millions of people have moved away from traditional broadcasters and embraced the world of pirate IPTV, where content is plentiful, cheap, and mostly illegal. Pirate suppliers are able to undercut their legal counterparts for numerous reasons, including doing away with irritations such as adding VAT to customers' bills. After attracting attention from tax authorities, 80 pirate IPTV sellers now face a $3.5m tax bill, but the bad news is unlikely to stop there. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ AuraGem_Chat⠀⇛ I have created a live chat in Gemini. This is obviously not the first time this has been done, but it was a fun project! It does save a history, but only for a day. After 24 hours, the whole history is cleared. # ⚓ This_week_—_Blog_Customization_2:_Electric_Boogaloo_&_Week 10's_Revenge⠀⇛ TL;DR: I had a long weekend, so I coded some accessibility and performance improvements for this blog. I also decided to start a Gemini mirror. I finally settled on a Pixelfed instance, and joined several online things. I have good news: first, I finally got an external learning institution to collaborate with our organization for my training program. YAY! What's left for me to do is wait for management to release the important documents, then I can discuss the details of the program with the trainers from the institution. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ This_Blog_is_Temporarily_Under_Construction⠀⇛ TL;DR: The original version of this blog is undergoing a long overdue overhaul; please bear with me. There's no weekly blog post for today, because I'm overhauling the appearance of old blog posts like I promised way back in Week 16. It's taking longer than I expected, mainly because I overhauled some other parts of the blog as well, so I'm spending the entire weekend for that as well as other tasks for the blog. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 2577 ➮ Generation completed at 02:49, i.e. 3 seconds to (re)generate ⟲