𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, December 04, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 5 Dec 02:49:54 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/2023/12/04/ ╒═══════════════════ 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 - ChatGPT Hype/Vapourware (and 'Bing') Has Failed, Google Maintains Dominance in Search ⦿ Techrights - Forging IRC Logs and Impersonating Professors: the Lengths to Which Anti-Free Software Militants Would Go ⦿ Techrights - GNU/Linux Popularity Surging, So Why Did MakeUseOf Quit Covering It About 10 Days Ago? ⦿ Techrights - Web Monopolist, Google, 'Pulls a Microsoft' by Hijacking/Overriding the Name of Competitor and Alternative to the Web ⦿ Techrights - IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 03, 2023 ⦿ Techrights - [Meme] Every Real Paralegal Knows This ⦿ Techrights - [Meme] Social Control Media Giants Shaping Debates on BSDs and GNU/Linux ⦿ Techrights - Reddit (Condé Nast), Which Has Another Round of Layoffs This Month, Incited People Against GNU/Linux Users (Divide and Rule, It's 2003 All Over Again!) ⦿ Techrights - Using Gemini to Moan About Linux and Spread .NET ⦿ Techrights - Who Will Hold the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Accountable for Taking Bribes From Microsoft and Selling Out to Enable/Endorse Massive Copyright Infringement? ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/ChatGPT_Hype_Vapourware_and_Bing_Has_Failed_Google_Maintains_Do.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/Forging_IRC_Logs_and_Impersonating_Professors_the_Lengths_to_Wh.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/GNU_Linux_Popularity_Surging_So_Why_Did_MakeUseOf_Quit_Covering.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/Gulag_hijacking_Gemini.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/irc-log-031223.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/_Meme_Every_Real_Paralegal_Knows_This.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/_Meme_Social_Control_Media_Giants_Shaping_Debates_on_BSDs_and_G.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/Reddit_Conde_Nast_Which_Has_Another_Round_of_Layoffs_This_Month.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/Using_Gemini_to_Moan_About_Linux_and_Spread_NET.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/Who_Will_Hold_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Accountable_for_Ta.shtml ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/Links_04_12_2023_COVID_19_Data_Misused_Again_Anti_Consumerism_A.shtml https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/Links_04_12_2023_Mass_Layoffs_at_Spotify_Debt_Losses_Bubble_Onc.shtml ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 75 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/ChatGPT_Hype_Vapourware_and_Bing_Has_Failed_Google_Maintains_Do.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/ChatGPT_Hype_Vapourware_and_Bing_Has_Failed_Google_Maintains_Do.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ ChatGPT Hype/Vapourware (and 'Bing') Has Failed, Google Maintains Dominance in Search⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2023 "Open" "AI" is not_open, it_does_not_do_"AI", and it's a_growing_mountain_of debt_and_crises (bankruptcy_expected_next_year because no_solid_prospects_of turnaround_exist) THIS year a lot of Bing staff got laid off. There were also Bing shutdowns and relocations - that's how severe things were (not that the media covered it; it barely or very rarely did). Looking at statistics_from_statCounter, e.g. for_12 months, Google did not lose its dominance since the ChatGPT media spam or chaff campaign had begun roughly a year ago (trying to get people to think it was an amazing, revolutionary thing by re-announcing it like 5 times; people realised it was "nothing to see here, move along"). Breaking down the share of Bing by nations, it seems apparent Bing is used by nobody in some places. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Google vs Bing⦈ Here's the_data. We're not celebrating a Google monopoly here (Google hired_way too_many_Microsofters, even Microsoft_trolls like Matthew_J_Garrett). But Microsoft's frustration and resort to defamation campaigns might be connected to a lack of hope, except defrauding_shareholders_with_a_pump-and-dump_scheme based_on_vapourware (sugar-coated with buzzwords like "Clown", "Hey Hi", and "Azure"). Microsoft has no products to show, so it's rebranding existing ones, including "Bing Chat" (which almost nobody ever used). It also uses the hype to bribe_officials and let Microsoft's crime carry on. ChatGPT will probably crash and burn also because_of_lawsuits. ChatGPT is just a massive plagiarism engine. Skip the buzzwords and cargo cults; all those LLMs are akin to "web3" and "blockchain" - we no longer hear of them, do we? 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We also posted a teaser last Tuesday, dropping a few hints in advance. Just to be clear, we're going to show their misconduct for another half a year to come. There's plenty left to show. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Male_teacher_cartoon⦈_ We suggest that people (newcomers in particular) familiarise themselves with prior parts, especially the past four. It's all connected. In those 4 prior parts we showed how a sockpuppet and multi-headed imposter abused_a_reporting mechanism_in_an_effort_at_Denial_of_Service, abused_authors, and muddied_the water_some_more. This is the work of deranged_militants who don't mind the Rule of Law. They hide behind Tor and VPN. They hope that identity is obfuscated sufficiently for denial of the crime, or for plausible_deniability through doubt/uncertainty. Unfortunately for them, they keep incriminating and unmasking themselves, so it becomes simple to show who they are, based on their own words (open, albeit accidental, admissions). We'll show some examples of this next year, but for now we'll keep the series nameless, not personifying the matter but instead focusing on the attack patterns (those very same people also_attack_Richard_Stallman_and_Eben_Moglen, the people behind the GPL, or copyleft at large, and GNU). A a reminder, GNU was essential for Linux and Linus Torvalds admits it. Torvalds explained_many_times_in_the_past_why_he fancies_the_GPL. It was essential, even crucial, to the popularity and fast growth of GNU/Linux, not just at the expense of Windows but also UNIX/BSD. Some weeks ago I received an unwanted message with an attachment, wherein the sender is forging or impersonating de_Icaza, Ryan Farmer, Matthew_J._Garrett, among others. Impersonating people in IRC, in real-time, was done too (but we'll cover this separately in the future). This was the body of the message: § Anonops IRC - Techrights discussion⠀➾ Aye Mate I was in Anonops IRC when these blocks were talking about techrights. Myself, I've been a fan for years and thought you should see these people pulling wool over your eyes. -Duncan No, it was totally fake. This is no "fan". There are many more examples like that; they tend to recycle their sockpuppets and target many people with the same "sock", even to abuse legal processes by filing with fake names (sockpuppets). There are legal ramifications when resorts to this and we've considered taking legal action. What complicates it, among other things, is that suing an autistic person can be difficult in practice. We'll spare readers the old hypothesis that corporations fancy rallying or weaponising a bunch of crazies. They can do so by telling fake stories in social control media, inciting small brains in very large numbers. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Digital_illustration_of_a_man_in_a_prison_cell.⦈_In my view, the people who are doing all this (especially the rallying, i.e. the ringleaders, "command and control" so to speak) belong in a prison somewhere, but their government chooses alternatives for them, having basically realised they're hopeless and there's no prospect of redemption. The laws are lax, especially when it comes to enforcement, as soon as mental disability is brought up (the appropriate box gets ticked). There's a reason why many violent criminals are urged by their lawyers to "plead crazy" as their preferred defence strategy. It's a very powerful strategy, even if pretence is immoral and creates a stigma. Among the other fakes we've received lately: * Someone faking a source. * Faking doctors and professors, maybe to "collect" information based on false pretences. Let's just take an example of the latter. The following is almost certainly fake, so we've redacted names: > Dear Dr Schestowitz, > > I came across your articles while researching the case of Prof Eben > Moglen, for which one explanation could be character assassination > and resource binding stratagems aimed at controlling the free > software movement. > > My name is ██████████ ██████████, currently I am professor for █████████████ > in ███████████, I have a public profile that is easily visible to you if > you'd like to. > > I have recently left the UK after my open source activities there > came under serious coordinated attack by parties not yet fully > identified. > > I believe I have also spotted patterns of "honeypot resource > wasters" attracting likely open source activists (in the true sense > of the word) in order to keep them busy, e.g., well-paying but > ultimately meaningless jobs, or entanglement in legal proceedings > fueled by personal injury, exploiting then exhausting those involved > emotionally and financially, ultimately leading to destroying - by > preventing - effective resource devoted to building anything that > could successfully compete on the market with common commercial > business models. > > Based on your writings, I think Sirius Open Source could fit the > pattern, and might even be intentionally constructed for the purpose > of controlling parts of the GNU/Linux community in the UK, by > entangling them in gaslighting, court cases, public controversy, > protracted quests for justice and such. > > Would you be open for a discussion? > > While I clearly do not align with everything you say in your > articles, such as interpretation of motives or appraisal of facts - > being subjected to actual conspiracies can push one to jump to > conclusions too early too often - I feel the similarities are > striking enough to exchange stories. > > I would also ask you to keep this email confidential at least until > we have spoken. I am of course fully aware that this is not the same > thing as privacy with regards to the entities already having a path > of access to this conversation, but I do not mind playing with > partially open cards here. > > Best Regards > ██████████████ ████████████████ This imposter later added, writing to another E-mail address of mine (a private one): > Not urgent, but hoping to reduce the risk of spam filtering and such. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Child In The White Doctor Coat⦈ I was somewhat sceptical. Why was this sent from a Google account? I replied: "I am trying to first identify that this is indeed your email address, as we were approached by imposters recently. Is there a public page with this GMail account?" Well, two weeks have gone by without a reply. I then sent two messages to a verifiable address of the person in question (university address), plus another address, which had become outdated. Guess what happened. Anyway, if somebody is spying by means of social engineering of impersonation (of high authority), pretending to be an important person and bait the target into speaking out (based on false pretences), what would be the consequences? It depends on the country of the perpetrator, the bait, and the target. I've looked up the relevant laws. It doesn't look good. Is someone going to be back in jail/bail/probation? There are more examples, but these ought to suffice for now. Next Monday we'll progress to other aspects of online abuse, which in some cases breach the law. It should be absolutely apparent that whether the criminals operate online or offline does not matter. If I phone someone up, claiming to be the police or tax authorities (even as a "prank"), I can get in very serious trouble. As a side note, I still need to unsubscribe from dozens of lists that the perpetrators subscribed me to a few days ago. This too is something that was done months ago; they aren't stopping because it seems I became one of their punchbags. They think they can just bombard my inbox with spam and the police won't care. Well, the police does care. It all adds up. Eventually someone might get locked up. It doesn't matter if it's a women's prison or men's prison, it'll be tons of trouble inside a cell. Why would those people resort to so many criminal activities? How desperate are they? Is Microsoft playing a role in all this? Microsoft is connected to several of the perpetrators. We can easily prove this. One associate told me that "the failure of Microsoft ChatGPT annoys them" and "the over-provisioning and under use of Azure annoys them" (almost nobody talks about this except us). It also seems to annoy them that someone stands up and defends their other attack targets, which include Stallman and Moglen (as noted above). 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MakeUseOf Quit Covering It About 10 Days Ago?⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2023, updated Dec 04, 2023 Welcome back to Windows and Microsoft webspam 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇makeuseof on traceroute⦈ THE sad news is, MakeUseOf is no longer covering GNU/Linux. Why? We don't know. But this change was abrupt, not gradual. It's particularly sad because some of the best articles about GNU/Linux came from that site, both technical articles and advocacy-centric pieces (not provocateurs, saboteurs and concern trolls). Why did that stop? We can only make guesses. That's not to say no other site covers the subject matter and, either way, MakeUseOf was not perfect (habitual .NET, WSL or other Microsoftism*). The site used to cover "Linux" EVERY DAY. After less than a week before Thanksgiving it just stopped_quite_suddenly. The site itself is_not_dead just the Linux area/ section/category. So it seems like a policy change, as there are many writers involved in that section/"domain", it's not a case of one person leaving, rendering this "domain" vacant all of a sudden. Just days ago they covered_Traceroute_like_it's_a_Windows_thing (see screenshot at the top) and they still publish_Microsoft_stuff, including promotional Microsoft spam like "5_Microsoft_Student_Discounts_You_Shouldn’t_Miss" (it doesn't even sound like a real article). Who's paying and what for? Notice in the above how they hide the articles. I didn't see that overlay/ paywall before, which leads to suspicions of tactical overhaul and maybe management/strategy changes. No? They just quickly moved from lots of GNU/Linux average (frequency of once per day, on average) to absolutely nothing. It hasn't reversed or reverted back to the previous rhythm in about 10 days already. The closest one gets to "Linux" is this: * ⚓ 2023-11-24_[Older]_How_to_Back_Up_Google_Photos_to_Your_Computer⠀⇛ * ⚓ 2023-11-24_[Older]_How_to_Upload_Digicam_Photos_to_a_Chromebook_(And Manage_Them)⠀⇛ This is about proprietary stuff remotely controlled by a spying company. It's hardly "Linux". Notice in the above screenshot the menu bar. Microsoft is dominant there, Linux isn't even named. That's a real shame. If it's anything like Softpedia_used_to_be, the Linux articles got them the most traffic. In the case of Softpedia, Microsofters just put an end to that. It was intentional. It was sabotage. Maybe there's fear of the growth of GNU/Linux. Suffocating brand awareness would help Microsoft (Windows) the most. Referencing our_article_about_GNU/Linux_growth, one reader said: "Small numbers but good news anyway. However, more important than the numbers themselves is the fact that the market share has been gained without any OEM pre-installed systems being available to the general public. Yes, Tuxedo, System76, EmperorLinux, and so on do exist, but it is exclusively Vista on the hardware sold off the shelf at the stores. So that small percentage is both knowledgeable and initiative-taking, and growing." The_sister_site_has_just mentioned_trends_in_India. If people aren't told (or reminded) about GNU/Linux, then they might simply not explore it. Awareness is very important. Don't_let_MakeUseOf_become_the_next_Softpedia. █ ________ * WSL_is_an_attack_on_GNU/Linux. Do not use it or mention it. 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/Gulag_hijacking_Gemini.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/Gulag_hijacking_Gemini.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Web Monopolist, Google, 'Pulls a Microsoft' by Hijacking/Overriding the Name of Competitor and Alternative to the Web⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2023, updated Dec 04, 2023 Published hours_ago in a corporate_spamfarm_funded_by_monopolies: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Google reportedly postpones launch of next-gen chatbot Gemini until early next year⦈ "Google is googlebombing the name," an associate said, "just like Microsoft did to VistA" (the VA's, Free software) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/_Meme_Every_Real_Paralegal_Knows_This.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/04/_Meme_Every_Real_Paralegal_Knows_This.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ [Meme] Every Real Paralegal Knows This⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2023 People who take_photos_from_your_site_to_craft_defamatory_things_about_you while hijacking your own name clearly don't know how copyright law works 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇But she uploaded a small screenshot of a page I made!!⦈ Turns out they wrote_about_themselves.... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣀⠙⠻⣠⡄⢸⣿⣇⠀⠀⢙⣿⣿⣦⡄⢀⣀⢠⢀⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢂⡄⠜⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⢸⢸⡇⣿⡧⡓⡇⡅⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⣈⣙⣻⣿⡗⡻⢯⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡾⡿⡿⠿⡿⣿⠿⣿⠶⡾⠷⡾⢷⠿⢷⣶⠷⣷⡷⢾⠿⡿⣿⠿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⡘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⡑⠉⠾⢿⣿⣦⡀⣴⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⡇⡇⡇⣥⡇⣿⢸⠸⠀⠇⡇⡇⢽⢸⢸⡿⠀⣿⣮⢹⢰⢱⡟⡆⡇⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⢱⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠉⠫⠙⣜⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Does somebody (perhaps a third party) fan the flames? Social control media thrives in and profits from a divided population as it drives up so-called 'engagement' (so-called "screen time" or time-wasting) and thus attracts advertisers/sponsors. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Dogs_Welcome:_Photo_of_a_dog_and_sign⦈_ Today we saw two toxic and divisive posts, trying to split the GNU/Linux users along the lines of "moderates" and "fundamentalists", "fanatics" [1, 2], "zealots" and so on - going as far as to say that people who like Free-as-in- freedom software are "Anti-Semites" (which is funny given what people made GNU and the GPL). Classic divide-and-conquer or what? What's it all about? This ridiculous inciting, with a rather strident tone, can now been seen in this_new_article, insinuating that wanting games to be compiled for something other than Windows makes one a "zealot". The source? Reddit, Reddit, Reddit.... (yes, 3 times) Too much Reddit? The only site Microsoft has not (just yet) killed like Softpedia [1, 2] and maybe_others? Because it's on Microsoft's side (inside its pocket)? 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇What Happened to the Native Linux Zealots?⦈ Reddit is a very toxic site where GNU/Linux moderators are removed, mostly to be replaced by Microsofters who censor messages about software freedom like they're extreme and unreasonable, in turn (over time) driving away particular messages or worldviews from the limelight. This is their business model "MICROSOFT LOVES LINUX!" Repeat after Satya! We remind readers that Microsoft sponsors Reddit and even put actual_ (convicted)_pedophiles in that same company to publish "prepared" Microsoft puff pieces. Speaking of Reddit, its parent company and Spotify have lots of layoffs, as per this past week's headlines. Condé Nast will discard about 300 employees [1-3] and Spotify about 1,500 employees [4-6]. DRM as a business model has perils (watch out, Valve! Netflix is your warning!), so don't rely on "Steam" as a 'champion' of GNU/Linux. Native builds for GNU/Linux will, in the long term, be the way to go. It's better in every way, including for developers (if done right, from the ground up). Perhaps the rapid growth of GNU/Linux makes someone shaky over at Redmond, where there have been tons_of_layoffs_this_year and they're not_even_done_yet. Be prepared for Microsofters (like the one we responded to this morning, he uses Microsoft for E-mail) to try to incite one imaginary group inside the community against another. Matthew_Garrett and other_militants have been doing this for years, resulting in absurdly misguided posts that don't_speak_about software_but_instead_talk_about_sex. Notice I've not named the persons and sites that make those allegations. There's no point publicly shaming them; better to just address the point/s or correct the errors. It's sad we've come to this. It feels like Techrights again deals with toxic posts we saw lots of back in 2006. █ Related/contextual items from the news: 1. ⚓ Vox_and_Condé_Nast_hold_layoffs⠀⇛ Vox Media and Condé Nast held layoffs Thursday, becoming the latest media companies to make cuts in an attempt to weather a tumultuous advertising market. Vox reduced its headcount by 4%, primarily laying off staff in product, design, technology and advertising; Vox.com; and The Dodo, according to company spokesperson Lauren Starke. At least 20 people were laid off, The New York Times reported. “This reflects continued turmoil in advertising and the need to build even more loyal audience relationships given the increasing volatility of search and social platforms, among other factors,” Starke wrote in an emailed statement. 2. ⚓ Layoffs_Hit_Condé_Nast_and_Vox_Media⠀⇛ The job cuts at Condé Nast come after the company said earlier this month that it will lay off upwards of 300 employees, representing 5% of total headcount, and take other cost- reduction measures. It’s not immediately clear which areas of the company are affected by the current round of layoffs. Sources insisted that there were no layoffs at Vanity Fair on Thursday — but those may be coming in the next few days. In a post on X, Puck media reporter Dylan Byers wrote that the company’s layoffs will affect staffers “at the New Yorker (which is rare), Vanity Fair (which is being hit particularly hard), and most other brands/titles.” 3. ⚓ Vox_and_Condé_Nast_are_latest_to_announce_media_layoffs⠀⇛ Vox lays off at least 20 people in second round of cuts this year while Condé Nast to reduce staff by 5% over next few months 4. ⚓ Spotify_axes_17%_of_workforce_in_third_round_of_layoffs_this_year⠀⇛ Spotify says it's axing 17% of its global workforce, the music streaming service's third round of layoffs this year as it moves to slash costs while focusing on becoming profitable. In a message to employees posted on the company's blog Monday, CEO Daniel Ek said the jobs were being cut as part of a “strategic reorientation.” The post didn't specify how many employees would lose their jobs, but a spokesperson confirmed that it amounts to about 1,500 people. 5. ⚓ Breaking:_Spotify_will_slash_17%_of_its_workforce_in_the_second_round of_cuts_this_year_after_a_series_of_high_profile_investments_including Joe_Rogan,_Call_Her_Daddy_and_Harry_and_Meghan_costing_almost $300million⠀⇛ 6. ⚓ Spotify_to_cut_1,500_employees_in_third_layoff_round_this_year⠀⇛ Music streaming giant Spotify SPOT.N said on Monday that it will lay off around 1,500 employees, or 17% of its headcount, to bring down costs, after letting 600 of its staff go in January, and 200 more in June. 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Writing a lot about it would give the impression that it's very important or legitimate rather than widely marketed (or "publicised"). So what is it about? Someone who wrote some decent software in Gemini (good software, I will openly admit this, but written with .NET and a Microsoft chatbot backend) decided, seemingly out of the blue, to blast "Linux". This isn't the first public blasting of something (like gaming consoles with slowness and mega-updates), but this one hits 'close to home'. I am not going to name the person in this post, keeping_it_impersonal instead to spare the discomfort of admonishing people. We prefer to just focus on the context and the substance. An hour ago we wrote about the "Gemini" name getting_hijacked_by_Google, which stands to lose the most from Gemini (and now uses Microsoft tactics against the name, having_hired_loads_of_people_from_Microsoft). Two years ago we also wrote how_Microsoft_staff_was_entering_Gemini_communities to_promote_Microsoft_software_without_even_disclosing_they're_working_for Microsoft. The latest rant comes not from a Linux lover. It is a .NET booster, i.e. a person who likes Microsoft and maybe just deploys to Linux (because, let's face it, that's just vastly more reliable). "If Linux users get offended, I don't really care anymore," the_person_said, "because it's not my problem." (Also_here...) Of course not, as long as .NET does not get offended. There's clearly an effort to put this in everybody's face - to the point of using mostly neglected or barely used portals and hubs in Gemini. Revived for shameless self-promotion. Or for Linux bashing. The title is provocation: "Linux, Our Savior and Redeemer" (the strawman of comparing engineering and sharing to a religion and blind following/faith). I've long known that there are some Microsofters in prominent positions in Gemini, including this person. I just didn't say anything. I relied on some of the software. Some Microsofters vanished over the years, but very few stayed around (this has long been one of them). Well, without drawing attention to his specific post, as I was advised by a friend not to, I want to just quickly summarise the arguments. It mostly boils down to antiquated bashing I saw 20 years ago, e.g. "WiFi doesn't work" (typically a lie or Microsoft hardware). It starts with some straw man, generalisation, stigmatisation (like the religion theme). Sometimes people are being provoked with intentionally hostile questions, then the respondents are cast as "rude". The people who do this are then pushing WSL to people, i.e. Windows while pretending to do "Linux". They push people to Windows or end up promoting dual- boot... or, on the server side, pushing BSD on some VPS, as if GNU/Linux is "Cancer" and one isn't against "UNIX" (it just needs to be GPL-free). The latter is typical of the thugs and militants who attack Techrights a lot. The opening paragraph says: Being in and around the Linux community allowed me to observe several things about the community that I always find interesting, a trend that I am calling "Linux Fundamentalism". Perhaps this label would have been more applicable about 5-10 years ago, because I do believe that it is wearing off more recently as people become disillusioned by Linux, but it unfortunately still applies to a large portion of the community today. Who exactly is "disillusioned by Linux" and what is meant by "around the Linux community" rather than in it? Either way... Linux is a kernel, not an OS, and the matter at stake is software freedom (or a licence like GPL), not some brand or glorified word, which has been thoroughly diluted, partly by Microsoft. The author immediate promoted this to some hubs, got 33 comments at the time of writing, and it's basically a time-wasting flamewar. Way to waste people's time. Enjoy Microsoft and .NET. Quit comparing people who use neither to fanatics. That's just acidic or toxic (pun intended, a hint about the name). 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It wasn't always like this. The OSI's founders, while imperfect (or worse), were not Microsoft shills. But the OSI of today lacks both founders; one of them got banned for antagonising infiltration - a hostile attempt to alter the mission of the OSI to something else_completely. Even worse than Linux_Foundation. Then there's the 2017 incident (or chain of incidents). The OSI sold out, after it had already stumbled and went through a whole bunch of scandals, including self-censorship, conflict of interest, some limited Microsoft infiltrations and so on. We've written about this for many years already. In 2023 it's a heck of a circus, to put it politely, not bluntly (they deserve harsher words). The OSI should have yelled out from rooftops about Microsoft plagiarism mischaracterised as "HEY HI" (AI); instead the crooks who run the OSI took bribes from Microsoft, appointed more Microsoft moles (salaried by Microsoft!), and now regularly argue in favour of proprietary_GitHub_and_GPL_violations. OSI is the enemy of OSI's mission. Who will be held accountable for all this? Is there anything the bylaws can do about the transition from Open Source licence shield to "plagiarism as a service" for Microsoft? Are the bylaws too among_the_receivers_of_the_bribes? Either way, today we're seeing puff_pieces about Microsoft's "plagiarism as a service", as an associate calls it, pointing to another "Bill Gates says" puff piece from the New York Times about this_hype_bubble. Microsoft silenced a critic by bribing it. In return, it does far more than self-censorship; it does Microsoft advocacy. █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠴⠒⠦⠀⠴⠒⠲⣢⢶⠦⢤⡴⠤⠤⠤⡤⠤⢤⢤⠤⢤⠴⢶⡶⣶⢶⢶⣶⠶⡶⠶⣶⣶⡶⡶⠶⢶⢆⢶⡶⡄⠠⠒⢲⠖⡤⠶⠶⡦⠤⡤⡤⠤⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠉⠉⠈⠀⠉⠁⠈⠁⠈⠈⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠉⠉⠉⠀⠉⠉⠁⠀⠉⠁⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⡟⢻⢻⠿⡟⡿⢿⢻⣿⠿⡿⠿⢿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣧⣦⣾⣬⣧⣧⣿⣬⣬⣤⣧⣧⣮⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡄⢹⠃⠀⣿⠀⢹⠀⢸⠀⡇⢸⠀⠃⢸⠀⡄⢹⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡟⢻⠀⠆⢹⢀⠈⠀⢸⠀⡇⢸⢰⠀⢸⠀⡇⢸⠀⠇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠁⢰⠀⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣤⣤⣾⠀⠿⠉⢿⠀⠿⠇⢸⠿⣿⠿⡇⠸⠿⢿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣁⣄⣰⣆⣸⣸⣀⣆⣸⣄⣁⣼⣸⣆⣸⣀⣁⣼⣠⣦⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⣶⡾⣿⣤⢤⣾⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢧⡄⢸⠀⣶⠀⣾⠀⣤⡄⢸⠀⣿⠀⡇⢰⡆⢸⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⡏⣾⣷⡏⣶⣷⢼⢣⠻⣡⠏⣴⣷⣾⢇⡜⣿⣘⢾⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣤⣾⣤⣿⣤⣼⣤⣿⣧⣼⣦⣤⣤⣧⣦⣤⣾⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣵⣿⣮⣵⣾⣼⣷⣿⣼⣦⣥⣾⣾⣿⣵⣬⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⡟⠛⢻⣿⢿⣿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣧⣤⣼⣿⢀⠛⡄⡏⠋⣭⢩⠉⡍⢋⠩⢩⡍⡅⡅⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠉⠻⠿⠏⠀⠀⠀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣶⣷⣷⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣷⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠷⠂⠀⠀⣀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1387 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 04/12/2023: COVID-19 Data Misused Again, Anti-Consumerism Activism⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Science_and_Games o Technology_and_Free_Software # Programming * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ You_can_read_audiobooks⠀⇛ A few months ago I witnessed someone get chewed out on a social network for mentioning they read an audiobook. Shocking, I know! I was glad to be sitting down at the time, because I’m not sure I could take such an assertion sitting down. Wait, standing. I can’t stand for it. While sitting. Like a gentleman. o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Goodbye_to_Inasoul,_and_Banh_and_Boba⠀⇛ Our favourite Bánh mì store Banh and Boba in Sydney shut its doors today. Clara was lucky enough to see their post on social control media so we could have it one last time. This closure came just a few weeks after our favourite Filipino takeaway store Inasoul also abruptly shut down, and earlier this year we lost our local Alley LuJiaoXiang o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Are_Fake_Christmas_Trees_the_New_Normal?⠀⇛ The popularity of faux firs is soaring as the look becomes more convincing. But it isn’t necessarily good news for the environment. o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Locals_furious_at_‘pathetic’_Christmas_tree_display⠀⇛ Residents of this popular seaside town have been left furious over a “pathetic” and “embarrassing” council- decorated Christmas tree. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_The_way_a_sperm_tail moves_can_be_explained_by_mathematics_worked_out_by_Alan Turing⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Israeli_hostages_may need_to_fight_to_regain_a_sense_of_control_in_their_everyday lives_–_expert_explains⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_How_colonial_violence in_Tasmania_helped_build_scientists'_reputations_and prestigious_museum_collections⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ AMD_makes_CPU_and_GPU_comeback_in_latest Steam_Hardware_Survey_—_Red_Team_regains_lost_ground_from Nvidia_and_Intel⠀⇛ The sudden uptick in Nvidia GPU and defective chip maker Intel CPU usage from October was wiped away in November, and now things are back to normal. # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ If_You_Want_To_Sell_Hey_Hi_(AI)_To Enterprises,_You_Need_To_Sell_Ethernet⠀⇛ Server makers Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo, who are the three largest original manufacturers of systems in the world, ranked in that order, are adding to the spectrum of interconnects they offer to their enterprise customers. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Generating_Motion_Via_Nitinol_Wires⠀⇛ Generally, when we’re looking to build something that moves we reach for motors, servos, or steppers — which ultimately are all just variations on the same concept. But there are other methods of locomotion available. As [Jamie Matthews] demonstrates, Nitinol wires can be another way to help get things moving. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Physics_Lesson_I_Keep_Re-Learning⠀⇛ One of the most broadly applicable ideas I’ve ever encountered is the concept of impedance matching. If you’re into radio frequency electronics, you’re probably thinking that I mean getting all your circuit elements working to a common characteristic resistance for maximum power transfer. (If you’re not, you’re probably wondering what that jumble of words even means. Fear not!) # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Build_Yourself_A_Screw_Propelled_Robot_To_Tackle The_Dirt⠀⇛ Wheels and tracks are common choices for robot propulsion, but they’re not the only game in town. You can do some nifty things with long extruded screws , and they work pretty well in soft terrain. [gokux] set about building a small robot using this propulsion method using 3D printed parts. # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Not_Your_Mother's Spam_Mail⠀⇛ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_XRP_Delivery Challenge_Guide_Using_Servo_and_Sensors⠀⇛ o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ CARES_Center_works_to_address_food insecurity_on-campus⠀⇛ In 2020, 23% of undergraduate students nationwide experienced some form of food insecurity, as reported by the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Radical_New_Drug_Is_Poised_to_Extend_The Life_of_Large_Dogs⠀⇛ This would be amazing! # ⚓ NYPost ☛ GOP_senators_urge_Biden_to_restrict_travel_between US_and_China_amid_child_pneumonia_outbreak⠀⇛ Rubio, Vance, Scott, Tuberville, and Braun called to "immediately restrict travel" as China has had a "long history of lying about public health crises." # ⚓ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Moderna’s_COVID-19_Vaccine_Confirmed_by Governments_to_Harm_Health,_Excess_Deaths_Remain_Very_High Worldwide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ First-of-Its-Kind_Trial_Gives_New_Hope_For Treating_Multiple_Sclerosis⠀⇛ Encouraging results. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Plastic_Waste_Is_Turning_Tiny_Marine Animals_Off_Sex⠀⇛ "It will have an effect on the whole food chain." # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_develops_healthy_food_quality_label⠀⇛ The Latvian Association of Dietitians and Nutrition Specialists (LDUSA) has created a quality label “recommended by nutritionists”. As Guna Bīlande Chairman of the Association's Board of Directors, told Latvian Radio, there is considerable interest from producers in obtaining this label. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_combats_surge_of_respiratory illnesses_of_known_pathogens⠀⇛ Medical experts said vaccination efforts are still vital to stemming the spread. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_COVID_inquiry_heard Boris_Johnson_'struggled'_with_graphs_–_if_you_do_too,_here are_some_tips⠀⇛ o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_How_AI_'sees'_the world_–_what_happened_when_we_trained_a_deep_learning_model to_identify_poverty⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Microsoft_joins_OpenAI_board as_Sam_Altman_returns_as_CEO⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Growing_threats_to_Canada's security_drove_$10B_surveillance_plane_purchase, minister_says⠀⇛ # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Health_Worker_Arrested_for_Misusing_Vaccination_Data: A_Case_of_Breach_of_Trust⠀⇛ A health worker has been apprehended by the authorities for an alleged misuse and disclosure of vaccination data. The individual, whose identity has not been revealed, has been charged with accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes. The incident came to light recently, prompting swift action from the concerned authorities. The accused is scheduled to appear in the Wellington District Court on Monday to face the charges. Te Whatu Ora, the organization where the health worker was employed, has confirmed that the employee has been removed from their position. A complaint has been filed with the police, who are actively investigating the matter. Additionally, Te Whatu Ora has initiated an internal employment investigation to further understand the scope of the incident. Margie Apa, the Chief Executive of Te Whatu Ora, emphasized that the individual had worked in the health system for several years and had the necessary authorization to access the data. # ⚓ New Zealand Herald ☛ Police_arrest_man_in_connection with_alleged_Te_Whatu_Ora_mass_privacy_breach_of_Covid vaccination_data⠀⇛ A 56-year-old man was arrested this afternoon in relation to the “unauthorised disclosure and misuse of data”, police said. He is charged with accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes and will appear in Wellington District Court tomorrow. “As the case is before the court, police cannot comment further,” police said. A man believed to be a Te Whatu Ora staff member was interviewed on a New Zealand conspiracy theory site last week. He claimed he developed a database for the vaccine rollout and quoted from that work. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_begins_reconnaissance satellite_operations:_KCNA⠀⇛ North Korea says it has transmitted photos of the Pentagon, US bases and “target regions” in the South. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_Security_Council_votes_to_end_mission_in_Sudan after_‘disappointing’_results_and_rising_violence⠀⇛ The UN Security Council voted to cease the ongoing political mission in Sudan on Friday. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israeli_Intelligence_Errors_Over_Hamas Attack_Plan_Prompt_Scrutiny,_but_Little_Backlash⠀⇛ The Israeli media and The New York Times published damaging revelations suggesting that senior officers had ignored or dismissed intelligence reports about the likelihood of a major Hamas attack. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_North_Korea's Kim_Inspects_New_Spy_Satellite_Photos_of_'Target_Regions'_- KCNA⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_North_Korea's Kim_Received_Photos_Taken_by_Spy_Satellite_of_White_House, Pentagon_-KCNA⠀⇛ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Will_Israel_repeat_its_military_tactics_in southern_Gaza?⠀⇛ Israel resumed its military operation in the Gaza Strip on Friday with heavy bombardments. As strikes continue, the United States is pressuring the Israeli military to exercise restraint, particularly in the south, where nearly 2 million Palestinians are now concentrated. Will it work? # ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Khan_Yunis_is_now_a_combat_zone’:_Bombardments resume_across_the_Gaza_Strip⠀⇛ After a seven-day ceasefire, fighting has resumed in the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces report hitting “over 200 terror targets” while the Palestinian health ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave reported at least 100 deaths by the afternoon of December 1. Strikes have spread from the north to the south of Gaza, where many civilians have taken refuge. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel-Hamas_War:_Israel_Launches_Strikes and_Orders_Evacuations_in_Southern_Gaza⠀⇛ Israeli warplanes pounded targets in southern Gaza the day after a truce with Hamas collapsed. Gazan health authorities said that Israeli attacks had killed more than 15,000 people since Oct. 7. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Expels_Ex-Chile_Army_Officer_to_Face Charges_in_Killing_of_Víctor_Jara⠀⇛ Pedro Barrientos, 74, was charged in the kidnapping, torture and killing of the popular folk singer Víctor Jara days after the 1973 military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende. # ⚓ Susan_Sarandon_Apologizes_for_Her_'Phrasing'_in_Anti-Jewish Rant_at_NYC_Pro-Palestinian_Rally_After_Being_Dropped_From Agency⠀⇛ During the rally at Union Square on November 17, Sarandon spoke to the crowd and compared the experiences of Jews and Muslims in the United States, saying that Jews were "getting a taste of what it is like to be Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence." “This phrasing was a terrible mistake, as it implies that until recently Jews have been strangers to persecution, when the opposite is true,” Sarandon wrote in an Instagram post. “As we all know, from centuries of oppression and genocide in Europe to the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, PA., Jews have long been familiar with discrimination and religious violence which continues to this day.” [...] The fallout from Sarandon's remarks was swift and significant. The actress, known for her roles in films such as Dead Man Walking, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue, was dropped as a client by her Hollywood agency, UTA. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Former_state_security_agent convicted_in_torture_of_Colombian_journalist_Claudia_Julieta Duque⠀⇛ # ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Young_Yazidi_man_rescued_by Internal_Security_Forces⠀⇛ # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Poland_and Ukraine:_A_relationship_in_crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older] Zelenskiy_Says_Change_Needed_in_Ukraine's_Mobilisation System⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Disputed_Crimea gold_treasures_returned_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Zelenskyy_visits_eastern_front_line⠀⇛ # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Biden_Must_Push_for Peace_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older] Ukraine's_Zelenskiy_Calls_for_Fortifications_in_Key Frontline_Areas⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Ukraine’s_new ‘enemy’_–_war_fatigue_in_the_West⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_And_Still, Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_NATO,_Ukraine swat_away_talk_of_war_fatigue⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older] Wife_Of_Ukraine's_Spy_Chief_Poisoned_With_Heavy_Metals: Report⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Polish_truckers protest_"unfair_competition"_by_blocking_Ukraine_border crossings⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Kuleba_tells_NATO_'there_is_no_stalemate'⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Slovak Truckers_to_Block_Ukraine_Crossing,_Joining_Polish Protests⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Allard_Pierson_Museum in_Amsterdam_returns_Crimean_artifacts_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Ukraine_reports 10_deaths_in_snowstorm⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_US Senate_to_Take_up_Israel,_Ukraine_Aid_as_Soon_as_Next Week_-_Schumer⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Putin Won't_Make_Peace_in_Ukraine_Before_2024_US_Election_-US Official⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_US Funding_for_Ukraine_Arms_Has_Poured_Into_Pennsylvania, Arizona_and_Texas⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_US_and_Germany risk_owning_Ukraine’s_stalling_war_effort⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Chechen Leader_Says_He_Is_Ready_to_Send_Another_3,000_Fighters to_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-11-26_[Older]_Cory_Bernardi’s_‘far- right’_Ukraine_stance_at_odds_with_Lachlan_Murdoch’s trip_to_Kyiv⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-26_[Older]_Can_Ukraine survive_until_February_of_2024?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-26_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Zelenskyy_urges_support_to_protect_grain_exports⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-26_[Older] Republicans_Want_to_Pair_Border_Security_With_Aid_for Ukraine._Here's_Why_That_Makes_a_Deal_So_Tough⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_The_Ukraine_war is_a_‘great_bargain’_for_US_in_the_Black_Sea⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_The Debate_Over_Ukraine_Aid_Was_Already_Complicated._Then It_Became_Tangled_up_in_US_Border_Security⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Five Wounded_in_Kyiv_by_Largest_Drone_Attack_Yet_on_Ukraine -_Officials⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Swiss President_Pledges_More_Support_for_Ukraine_in_Kyiv Visit⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Ukraine Needs_More_Air_Defences_to_Protect_Grain_Exports_- Zelenskiy⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Ukraine Unveils_Monument_to_Soldier_Shot_Dead_in_Widely_Shared Video⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Ukrainian optimism_fades_at_start_of_another_winter⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Foreign_Defense Ministers_concerned_Wilders_government_will_pull support_from_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Right-wing_MAGA_politics caused_Conservatives_to_turn_backs_on_Ukraine,_Trudeau claims⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Ukraine’s Holodomor:_'There_is_nothing_worse_than_hunger'⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Ukraine:_This_96- year-old_survived_Soviet_Holodomor_famine⠀⇛ # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Cake_and_Casualties: Uzhhorod_Is_Ukraine's_Most_Peaceful_City⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Canada PM_Trudeau_Says_His_Main_Rival_Abandoning_Ukraine_Due to_Trump_Influence⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Dutch Minister_Says_She_Hopes_Aid_to_Ukraine_Will_Continue Despite_Election_Outcome⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Ukraine Prepares_Army_Mobilisation_Reforms_as_War_Drags_on_- Zelenskiy⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older] Ukrainian_Sabotage_of_Crimea_Bridge_'Overturns'_Naval Operations_-Intelligence_Head⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older] Zelenskiy_Names_'Three_Victories'_Ukraine_Needs_on International_Front⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ 7.6-Magnitude_Earthquake_Strikes Philippines_but_Tsunami_Warnings_Are_Lifted⠀⇛ The authorities in Japan and the Philippines lifted tsunami warnings in coastal regions after ordering evacuations. Power failures near the epicenter were reported. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ COP_28:_The_G77+China_Summit_Inaugurated⠀⇛ This is the first time the Group has met at a COP to agree positions for climate change negotiations. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Orpo:_Finland_contributes_€3_million_to_new_climate fund_for_developing_countries⠀⇛ Finland also joins over 20 UN countries by signing a petition calling for nuclear power capacity to be tripled by 2050. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_How_to_Carbonize_Planet Earth⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Discarded_Toys_Are_Creating an_Electronic_Waste_Crisis._Here’s_How_to_Stop_It.⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Amazon Rainforest_Destruction_Slows_Sharply_Year_to_Date,_Report Says⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Speech_by_President_von_der Leyen_at_COP28_on_tripling_renewable_energy_and doubling_energy_efficiency_by_2030 [Ed: The hypocrite in chief, making assurances and promises for a year when she is already retired and not even accountable in the reputation sense]⠀⇛ Today, the world takes an important step to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Rovaniemi_Airport_gears_up_for_record-breaking winter_|_Yle_News_|_Yle⠀⇛ The capital of Finnish Lapland expects to see up to 20 percent more flights than last winter. # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Greens_respond_to Labour_Warm_Homes_Plan⠀⇛ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Greens_call_for president_of_COP_to_go_following_oil_and_gas_deal revelations⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Fast Company ☛ Silicon_Valley’s_$445_million_robot_pizza revolution_that_wasn’t⠀⇛ “What if there was a better way to make and deliver pizza to you?” asked CNBC’s Jim Cramer—shirtsleeves rolled up, wagging his finger at the camera—as he passionately set up a segment of his popular Mad Money show in June 2018. “Turns out, there is, which brings me to Zume, Inc., a Silicon Valley–based startup trying to bring this industry to the modern era.” Cramer, on location in Mountain View, California, and standing in front of a shiny red food truck, quickly introduced Zume’s robots, cuing up footage of a robotic arm balletically moving pizzas in and out of ovens inside a warehouse. This, he intoned, was a revolution. “We automate everything else, why not pizza?” When Zume cofounder Alex Garden stepped into the frame, the frenetic energy spiked further. “If you think about the huge explosion in scenarios that food companies are trying to address today,” Garden said, meaning improving margins, finding workers, and meeting consumer demand for the convenience of delivery and healthier food, “this”—Garden pointed at the vehicle—“is the key to making it all work.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Amazon_Fined_Just_$7,000_Over Indiana_Worker’s_Death_Caused_by_Unsafe_Conditions⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Workers_Kick_Off_Black_Friday With_“Biggest_Ever_Global_Strike_Against_Amazon”⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_EU_Regulators Say_Amazon's_Acquisition_of_Vacuum_Maker_IRobot_May_Harm Competition⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_EU_Antitrust Regulators_Say_Amazon's_IRobot_Deal_May_Restrict Competition⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Amazon_Takes_the_Delivery Throne_From_UPS_and_FedEx⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_House_GOP-Led_Hearing_Is_a Trojan_Horse_for_Social_Security_Cuts,_Critics_Warn⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Social_Security_and Medicare:_Fun_with_Numbers_Time⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Alarm_bells_are_ringing louder_in_China_as_its_financial_cancer_spreads⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Big_banks_announce_layoffs_and more_bad_loans_as_TD,_Royal_and_CIBC_post_quarterly_results⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Central Banks_Risk_Tipping_UK_and_Other_Developed_Countries_Into Recession⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Mississippi Rep._Banks_Gets_Probation_on_Tax_Conviction_and_Intends_to Remain_in_Office⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ 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. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ George_Santos_Reveals_One_Truth:_It’s_Easy to_Abuse_Campaign_Finance_Laws⠀⇛ The newly ousted congressman, while an extreme case, illustrated the weaknesses of a system that relies on politicians to report their finances in good faith. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Federal_appeals_court_finds_Trump_is_not_immune from_January_6,_2021_Capitol_riot_civil_lawsuits⠀⇛ A Washington DC federal appeals court found on Friday that former US President Donald Trump is not immune from civil lawsuits for his role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Japan,_China Foreign_Ministers_Agree_Plan_to_Hold_Security_Talks,_Improve Ties⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Elon_Musk_to_Boycotting Advertisers:_Go_F*ck_Yourselves⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Facebook Parent_Meta_Sues_the_FTC_Claiming_'Unconstitutional Authority'_in_Child_Privacy_Case⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Details_From_Unsealed_Lawsuit_on Instagram_Looking_the_Other_Way_at_Preteen_Accounts_and Knowingly_Serving_Teens_Harmful_Content⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-12-01_[Older]_You_Can_Hate_Donald_Trump_and_Object_to Electronic_Voting_Machines_at_the_Same_Time⠀⇛ # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_India Warns_Facebook,_YouTube_to_Enforce_Rules_to_Deter Deepfakes_-_Sources⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Rapper's_Violent_Re-Arrest_For_Comments_In Video_Sparks_Outrage⠀⇛ The re-arrest of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has triggered a wave of outrage after reports that armed security agents beat the dissident while taking him into custody even though he is still recovering from being tortured during his previous prison time. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Explainer:_Hong_Kong’s_national security_crackdown_–_month_41⠀⇛ In the 41st month since Beijing imposed a national security law on Hong Kong, criminalising secession, subversion, collusion with foreign forces and terrorism, debate arose over whether some national security trials could be transferred to mainland China if proposed new US sanctions become law. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_US_Says_If_CIA-Backed Embassy_Security_Opened_Phones_of_Assange_Visitors,_It_Was Constitutional⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Draft_Security_Law_Targets_Civil Society_and_Journalists_in_Hungary⠀⇛ o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Village_vloggers_in_China_cash_in_on livestreaming⠀⇛ These farmers-turned-hosts bypass middlemen to pitch their agricultural products directly to customers. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Doja_Cat_Makes_the_Leap_From_the_Internet to_the_Arena_Stage⠀⇛ The extremely online 28-year-old singer and rapper’s Scarlet Tour accentuates her flair for big statements. # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Substack_adds_new_video_tools to_compete_with_Patreon_and_YouTube⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Inside_the_'arms_race' between_YouTube_and_ad_blockers⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_EPO_doubles_down_on opposition_acceleration_commitment [Ed: EPO, which commits only to crime, does not value patent quality]⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Allgenesis_Biotherapeutics_Inc._v. Cloudbreak_Therapeutics,_Inc._(Fed._Cir._2023)⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-11-30_[Older]_USPTO_Kicks_Off_Semiconductor Technology_Pilot_Program_to_Expedite_Semiconductor Manufacturing_Applications [Ed: As if more monopolies is always the solution, it's just protectionism for large companies at small ones' expense]⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Spotify_to_cease operations_in_Uruguay_over_copyright_laws⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Originality_in_copyright law:_An_objective_test_without_any_artistic_merit requirement,_recalls_Arnold_LJ⠀⇛ * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ULNOPSF_Wordo:_EXACT⠀⇛ # ⚓ Blending_the_Seams⠀⇛ “Blending over the seams” between modules is a phrase I picked up from one of Lazy Litch’s ads; the name for it I mean. The actually-doing-it part (as opposed to the knowing-what-to-call-it part), I’ve been doing from day one. It means making sure the modules you use run together and bleed into each other. Having similar NPCs between two modules actually be the same person, or having clues to one module be in the next module etc. And replacing cultures so that a reference to “Thorcin” can be swapped out to a reference to “al-Badia” if that better fits the world you’re running in, or ice can become sand. # ⚓ Prepping⠀⇛ Not in the right-wing, end-of-the-world, guns-and- ammo-and-a-thousand-cans-of-soup sense. We've spent the weekend making a big list of things to do before we take off for somewhere warmer, and it's been a long time since our last real vacation, so this feels both strange and familiar. Went to the bank yesterday, purchased a bunch of currency in case there are credit card issues (this happened to us in Switzerland, a decade and a half ago); notified the bank of start and end dates, picked up lots of sunscreen for my lily-white skin, made lists of instructions for the pet sitter. # ⚓ The_Many_Benefits_of_Anti-Consumerism⠀⇛ It's been a year of non-technical interests, as I detailed a bit on my weblog [1]. Among them were Digital Minimalism, Financial Independence (especially through Frugality), Investing, and more recently Sustainability and Zero-Waste. [...] Repairing, repurposing, and most importantly sharing our possessions can keep waste out of landfills and strengthen our communities. I'm sharing all this not to preach, judge, or otherwise posture as a better earth citizen than anyone else. I'm just as guilty of buying my own lawnmower for ~10 mows a year instead of arranging a joint custody with neighbors (albeit before having given this much thought). I bring this all up because I'm excited. My seemingly complex and varied lifestyle goals all have a simple, effective, solution to get me 90% of the way there: just buy less. # ⚓ Pondering_Pomegranates⠀⇛ The latest method is to peel the whole thing, on the assumption that the skin has seen too many miles and probably is best for the compost. This may let you see any under-the-skin bad spots to carve out and discard. Next some care is taken to nick and split the core open to get at the seeds. Some first whack at the fruit to loosen up the seeds, but that may crush them, and I did not like the results. The remaining rind and any non-peeled skin is frozen and saved for used in soups and stocks. It is a (mild?) bittering agent. Probably the rind should be dehydrated first to cut down on frost generation, but that would take additional time and energy. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Is_it_you_or_is_it_the_system?⠀⇛ I get flak from both sides around this dialectic: Some people are like “it’s only the system, you don’t have to do anything, keep nomming those cheeseburgers, the only problem is the 100 richest corporations or the 0.1% richest people”. Or, “the attention span crisis is something we can only address with collective action, all attempts at trying to address your own phone addiction is just selfish and advicing others to do the same is just cruel optimism”. And I’m like yeah, true, that’s the core of the issue, but do eat plants though, and go offline more often. We can’t throw out all aspirations of changing things in our own lives. Yeah, yeah, direct action isn’t the only tool in the box but we need all the tools we can get. o § Science and Games⠀➾ # ⚓ The_self-balancing_mathematics_of_D&D⠀⇛ In a railroad game, even one using XP and levels, where the DM serves up the encounters, they have a lot of responsibility to make the fights tight and tense. Too easy? That was the DM’s fault. Too hard? That was the DM’s fault. Even to the point that some DMs in this style might be tempted to put their fingers on the scale a li’l bit and fudge some things. A game that uses milestone levels, regardless of whether it’s railroaded or if it’s wide open, has the same problem. The DM needs to make sure the players get the tools they need to face the opposition they take on. In fact, the problem is bigger, because the DM has all the same responsibility and all the same issues, but fewer tools at their disposal since getting really really good at encounter design isn’t enough if the player characters haven’t been leveled enough. # ⚓ New_characters_are_level_one⠀⇛ I’ve said before that #boatmode, our D&D campaign that sorta came back from hiatus yesterday with session 255, wasn’t our first D&D campaign, not even our first campaign on this planet and this continuity. I started the numbering with #boatmode session one because of one defining feature: New characters are level one. Well, we use the Tasha’s Cauldron rule for “sidekicks” who don’t have XP but instead have their level follow the party average. That does help even out the party level even more than the inherent leveling-out-effect of an XP curve. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Old-School_Emacs_Regions⠀⇛ One thing I used to do all the time and almost forgot about it when markdown-mode introduced the whole “commands work one way if you have an active region and another if you don’t” thing is this: I’d be typing along merrily, then thinking “OK this next part is going to be ”, set the mark, keep typing, and then when I had typed the thing I’d hit the key that wrapped that past part in cite tags, be outside of the tags, and keep typing. That’s something that transient regions just can’t do since they, by design, deactivate the region if you type anything. # ⚓ Enforcing_Standards_with_NixOS⠀⇛ Some time ago, I stumbled into std[1], a batteries- included development stuff. It looks like something I would really like to get into, mainly because it gave off notes of Buck2[2], which is something that interests me when dealing with microservice ecosystems and polyglot frameworks. And I know I love a polyglot solution to problems. # ⚓ File_Divergence⠀⇛ A few years ago I wrote a "microblogging" script to keep an offline, Twitter-style micro-journal. The "timeline" file created by this script uses Markdown and has a simple structure: each post has a simply-ascending header, a post date, the post content itself, a list of any embedded attachments, and any reply information. I chose Markdown because it's easy to manipulate in a plain text editor but also renders well into a Web-like page. This makes the timeline itself file highly portable. The structure of the file has some shortcomings. I use Syncthing to synchronize my journal between all my devices, but sometimes I'll add a post to the journal on two different devices before they have a chance to update each other. This causes a divergence between the files, as well as between potential attachments and reply links. # ⚓ File/directory_entropy_warrior⠀⇛ It's time, once again, to wade through files/ directories created/downloaded during other life battles with sufficient haste to have made painfully disordered waste just crawling with Fear Of Losing Out via deleting a file that *might* come in handy to rectify someone *else's* eff up. We're talkin' filenames now devoid of meaning, filenames suggesting "attempt iterations" without clarity as to which was actually used in whatever circumstance/situation. # ⚓ And_then_it_happens⠀⇛ sftp'ing to tilde.club has been touch and go from the get go. It occasionally happens licketty split. But mostly the sftp invocation hangs for many minutes before connection and put's. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Merging_vs_Rebasing⠀⇛ OK, first of all, if you’re not the project lead, and the project lead has opinions, those are gonna be more important than what some rando Gemini capsule like this has to say. When in Rome, merge or rebase like the Romans do. So the whole point of git compared to 90s style VCs like cvs or svn is that every copy of a repo is in one sense “the hub”, every copy of a repo, and even every branch of every copy, is the center of its own development and can have patches and commits applied to it. And that’s awesome. That said, some of the time it’s helpful to still think of a git repo as being in one of three modes. Being at the “center”, or being at the outer end of a “spoke”, or being, in some sense, “both” (which can happen if you're a "lieutenant" on a larger project, or if upstream is late in accepting your patches and other people latch on to your version). =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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This post does not cover blog post introductions, which I write differently. Read about how I write blog post introductions. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Chris Ferris ☛ re:Invent_2023_recap⠀⇛ I’m back from re:Invent and still trying to adjust my sleep schedule (I’m on the East Coast and go to bed early; 6 pm Las Vegas time is my biological clock’s bedtime). This year was one of my favorite re:Invents. I got to meet old and new co-workers and hang out with a lot of Community Builders and AWS Heroes, talk to service teams about what they should do to make their products work more for the security 99%. I got to a couple of good chalk talks on GenAI and GenAI security, which will help inform my poking at that over the holidays. As for announcements, in the last seven days, there were 195 things posted to AWS What’s New. These are the ones I care to follow up on. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ What_Happens_When_a_Poor_State_Guts_Its Public_University⠀⇛ West Virginia’s Democrat turned Republican governor and GOP legislators have played their role in WVU’s sad drama, pointedly declining to share a penny of the state’s $1.8 billion surplus with their flagship campus. Yet this isn’t just a MAGA morality tale. Gee has waved off talk of lobbying for more state cash as a salvation for the university. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Pregnant_people,_children_face 'dire'_health_consequences_from_climate_change,_WHO_warns⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Girl_kills_self_over_pics_on_phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Earth_is_running_a_fever._And_UN_climate talks_are_focusing_on_the_contagious_effect_on_human_health⠀⇛ Under a brown haze over Dubai, the COP28 summit moved past two days of lofty rhetoric and calls for unity from top leaders to concerns about health issues like the deaths of at least 7 million people globally from air pollution each year and the spread of diseases like cholera and malaria as global warming upends weather systems. # ⚓ Iustin_Pop:_Life,_getting_sick_and_unfit⠀⇛ Like clockwork, like every autumn, got sick again. “Just” a flu, actually probably two in a row. I don’t really understand it - from January to September I’m feeling really awesome, and I manage to do sports five days a week, or more. Then September comes, and things start degrading, and then October or November, I get sick and it takes me ~3 weeks to recover, during which I’m not even managing reliably 5K steps a day (from walking), not even talking about running or swimming or biking. My Garmin statistics for November compared to October (which wasn’t a good month either) are depressing. Let’s not even bring up for example July… o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Apple_is_reportedly_ending its_partnership_with_Goldman_Sachs⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_WSJ_Reports That_Apple_and_Goldman_Sachs_Are_Parting_Ways_on_Apple_Card⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ India_turns_to_AI_to_capture_its_121 languages⠀⇛ For a few weeks this year, villagers in Karnataka read out dozens of sentences in their native Kannada language into an app as part of a project to build the country's first AI-based chatbot for Tuberculosis. There are more than 40 million native Kannada speakers in India, and it is one of the country's 22 official languages and one of over 121 languages spoken by 10,000 people or more in the world's most populous nation. # ⚓ [Old] CNBC ☛ People_are_using_A.I._chatbots_to_write_Amazon reviews⠀⇛ Now, the technology has found its way into some reviews for products sold on Amazon. A scan of listings for waist trimmers, car batteries, school textbooks, a baby car seat mirror and game- controller accessories shows what appear to be AI- generated reviews. The reviews all include the phrase "As an AI language model," a common response generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT, along with generic descriptions of the product. # ⚓ [Old] The Verge ☛ AI_is_being_used_to_generate_whole_spam sites⠀⇛ The sites identified by the organization often have generic names (like Biz Breaking News and Market News Reports) and are stuffed with programmatic advertising that’s bought and sold automatically. They attribute news stories to generic or fake authors, and much of the content appears to be summaries or re-writes of stories from established sites like CNN. Most of the sites are not spreading misinformation, said NewsGuard, but some publish blatant falsehoods. For example, in early April, a content farm named CelebritiesDeaths.com posted a story claiming that Joe Biden had died. # ⚓ [Old] NewsGuard Technologies Inc ☛ Rise_of_the_Newsbots: AI-Generated_News_Websites_Proliferating_Online⠀⇛ The websites, which often fail to disclose ownership or control, produce a high volume of content related to a variety of topics, including politics, health, entertainment, finance, and technology. Some publish hundreds of articles a day. Some of the content advances false narratives. Nearly all of the content features bland language and repetitive phrases, hallmarks of artificial intelligence. Many of the sites are saturated with advertisements, indicating that they were likely designed to generate revenue from programmatic ads — ads that are placed algorithmically across the web and that finance much of the world’s media — just as the internet’s first generation of content farms, operated by humans, were built to do. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Misuse_of_technology_to_create_deepfakes threat_to_society:_President_Murmu⠀⇛ President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said that while the use of artificial intelligence (AI) was making people's lives easier, its misuse to create deepfakes poses a threat to society. She said if technology is used properly, it will benefit society, but its misuse will affect humanity. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_rolling_out_bulk_select_feature_in Gmail_for_Android,_iOS⠀⇛ "We're introducing a feature that enables you to bulk select a batch of messages in the email thread-list with one tap using the Gmail app on Android and iOS devices," the company said in an update. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ No_new_top_boss_at_NSA_until_it answers_questions_about_buying_up_location,_browsing data⠀⇛ As we've previously reported, plenty of personal information is available for purchase from commercial data brokers by US government agencies without a warrant. The Fourth Amendment provides Americans safeguards from unreasonable search and seizures - a protection some, including Senator Wyden, would argue the Feds (and cops to that matter) violate if or when they acquire this info without a warrant. These data brokers harvest personal data from all sorts of places, mainly apps reselling your location and other info, and then bundle it up and peddle to interested parties. # ⚓ Former_Deputy_Prime_Minister_Sir_Nick_Clegg_cashes_in £5.5_million_worth_of_Meta_shares⠀⇛ Sir Nick Clegg has scooped £5.5million by selling shares in Meta, the US giant where he has a top job, according to official documents. The former deputy prime minister sold millions of shares in the company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, where he earns more than £2.8million a year as president of global affairs. Sir Nick joined in 2018 after leading the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015 and being in David Cameron’s coalition government from 2010 to 2015. He sold £710,300 worth of shares in February, £870,000 in May and £2.4million in August. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Turkey_Told NATO_That_Sweden_Ratification_Could_Come_Before_Year-End,_US Official_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_'Turkey_should_resolve_Kurdish issue_in_its_second_century,'_says_HEDEP_leader⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Israel’s_War_on_Gaza Has_Destabilized_the_Entire_Regional_Order_in_the_Middle East⠀⇛ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Paris_attack_suspect_had_expressed_'hard-core Islamic_State_ideology'⠀⇛ FRANCE 24's terrorism expert Wassim Nasr discusses the suspect, who was known to French authorities, in the deadly knife attack in Paris on December 2, 2023. "This is the same kind of case of what happened in Vienna in 2020: a national, who never went to Syria, tried to go there, went to prison, went through a deradicalization [sic] program, changed his mind on the way and committed the attack." # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Deadly_Paris_Knife_Attack_Revives Terrorism_Concerns⠀⇛ “This person was clearly ready to kill other people,” Mr. Darmanin told reporters in Paris. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Law_secretly_drafted_by_ChatGPT_makes_it onto_the_books⠀⇛ At first, the city's council president Hamilton Sossmeier disapproved of his colleague's methods and thought Rosário had set a "dangerous precedent." He later changed his mind, however, and said: "I started to read more in depth and saw that, unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend." # ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Brazilian_city_enacts_an_ordinance_that was_secretly_written_by_ChatGPT⠀⇛ Rosário told The Associated Press that he asked OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to craft a proposal to prevent the city from charging taxpayers to replace water consumption meters if they are stolen. He then presented it to his 35 peers on the council without making a single change or even letting them know about its unprecedented origin. # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Dystopia⠀⇛ Yesterday I scanned the MSM news. The UK openly boasted of running aerial surveillance over Gaza to identify targets for Israel, and it was revealed the USA has provided over 12,000 bombs and 57,000 shells to Israel. Israel killed over 300 more civilians, including over 100 more dead children. At the same time, Kamala Harris had been sobered up long enough to make a speech claiming that the US wished Israel to avoid casualties, in a desperate attempt to mask the blood on the hands of Genocide Joe. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_blocks_ex-president_from_leaving country_amid_alleged_plan_to_meet_with_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. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Slovakia_truckers_announce_plans_to_block Ukraine_border_in_protest_of_EU_rules_for_Ukrainian competitors⠀⇛ Slovak truck drivers joined Polish truck drivers on Friday and announced that they would block the Vysne Nemecke border crossing with Ukraine to protest EU policies towards Ukrainian competitors, which they call unfair. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ulyanovsk_Police_Target_Russian_Wives Pleading_For_Return_Of_Mobilized_Husbands⠀⇛ Police in the western Russian city of Ulyanovsk joined ongoing official backlash over a bumper-sticker protest involving women purportedly calling for their husbands deployed for the war in Ukraine to be sent home. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Says_Kherson_Takes_'Heavy_Fire'_From 'Temporarily_Occupied_Left_Bank'_Of_Dnieper_River⠀⇛ Ukraine's military leadership in the southern city of Kherson said on December 3 that the city was under "heavy fire" from Russian forces from the "temporarily occupied left bank" of the Dnieper River, and one person had been killed in the attacks. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ NATO's_Stoltenberg_Stresses_Ukraine_Support 'In_Both_Good_And_Bad_Times'⠀⇛ NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has stressed that it is in the defense alliance's interest to back Kyiv and it must "support Ukraine in both good and bad times," as Russia's full-scale invasion continues in its 22nd month. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_And_Poland_Open_Border_Crossing_To Ease_Blockade⠀⇛ Ukraine and Poland will open a border crossing for empty trucks on December 4 in a bid to ease a blockade by Polish hauliers, whose protests have paralyzed traffic for weeks. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyiv_Police_Cannot_Confirm_Whether_Ukrainian Lawmaker_Detained_For_Alleged_Treason_Injured_In Custody⠀⇛ Kyiv police said on December 3 that following an investigation they were unable to confirm allegations that detained Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinskiy was physically injured while in custody. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Says_Apparent_Shooting_Of Surrendering_Soldiers_A_Russian_War_Crime⠀⇛ Ukraine's military has decried the apparent killing of two surrendering Ukrainian troops by Russian forces and said it considers the incident evidence of a war crime. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Hundreds_Of_Ukrainian_Monuments_Threatened_Or Damaged_By_War_Documented⠀⇛ Scientists from the German cities of Marburg and Hanover, along with Ukrainian photographers, have documented 250 architectural monuments that have been threatened or damaged by the Russian war in Ukraine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainian_Refugees_in_Germany_Weigh Tough_Choice:_Stay_or_Go_Home⠀⇛ As refugees, they were welcomed with safety, services and jobs. As the war grinds on, giving that up is not a simple decision. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘They_posed_no_threat’_Video_appears_to_show Russian_soldiers_shooting_surrendering_Ukrainian soldiers_at_close_range_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Former_Ukrainian_president_denied_permission to_leave_country_amid_concerns_his_trip_could_fuel Russian_propaganda,_says_SBU_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Traffic_fully_restored_on_railway_in Russia’s_Far_East_after_explosion_reportedly_organized by_Ukrainian_intelligence_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kyiv_mayor_says_AFU_Commander-in-Chief Valerii_Zaluzhnyi_‘told_the_truth’_in_saying_war_has reached_‘stalemate’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Renowned_Russian_Director_Sokurov_Says Official_Ban_Means_His_Career_'Is_Over'⠀⇛ One of Russia's best-known film directors, Aleksandr Sokurov, says his "professional career...is over" because of Russia's ban on his new film. Sokurov told News.ru he's "not working on new projects" after the Culture Ministry refused to allow distribution of Fairytale (Skazka). o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ As_Dubai_hosts_climate_talks,_its_air pollution_soars⠀⇛ The air quality index reached 155 micrograms per cubic meter of PM2.5 pollution—the fine particulate matter that is most harmful, as it can enter the bloodstream—according to WAQI.info, a real-time pollution tracker. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Turkey's_climate_goals 'critically_insufficient'⠀⇛ # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_COP28:_Denmark supports_climate-monitoring_and_damage_funds_with_DKK_350 million⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_The_Biden Administration_Is_Undermining_Global_Carbon-Reduction Efforts⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_The_Netherlands_pledges_€15 million_to_the_new_climate_damage_fund_at_COP28_in_Dubai⠀⇛ # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Fascism_and_Climate_Change_Go Hand_in_Hand⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Can_We_Keep_Both_Fascism and_Climate_Doom_at_Bay_for_Decades_to_Come?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_How_the_BRICS+,_Africa Climate_Summit,_G20_and_UN_Prepare_Us_for_Planetary_Arson⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Sunak, Cameron_and_King_Charles_Will_Take_Separate_Jets_To_Attend Climate_Summit⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Britain's King_Charles_to_Push_for_Global_Action_on_Climate_in_COP28 Speech⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Most_People_Globally_Support ‘Whatever_It_Takes’_to_Limit_Climate_Change⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_German_court_rules federal_government_violated_climate_law⠀⇛ # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_The_Fallacy_of_‘Climate Friendly’_Beef⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Meat_Lobbyists_Attend_COP28 to_Contradict_Climate_Research⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Climate_glossary: Cutting_through_the_COP28_jargon⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Sunak Accused_of_Misrepresenting_UK_Climate_Aid_Ahead_of_COP28 Attendance⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Climate_Inaction_Not_an_Option_for Maldives_at_COP28⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_NASA Partners_With_IBM_To_Announce_AI_Project_To_Address_Climate Challenges⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_NASA_and_IBM_are_building_an AI_for_weather_and_climate_applications⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Young Activists_Who_Won_Montana_Climate_Case_Want_to_Stop_Power Plant_on_Yellowstone_River⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Poverty_and_Climate Overheating:_Flip_Sides_of_One_Coin⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Why_the_United_Arab Emirates_is_a_Poor_Choice_for_a_Global_Climate_Summit⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Swedish_court_waives_fine for_activist_due_to_'climate_emergency'⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Leak_Shows_UAE_Planned_to_Use COP28_Climate_Talks_to_Strike_Fossil_Fuel_Deals⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_COP28_host_used_climate_talks_to push_for_oilpatch_deals,_including_in_Canada⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Australia:_More_than 100_climate_activists_arrested_after_port_blockage⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_UAE_aimed_to_pursue_gas deals_ahead_of_hosting_COP28_climate_talks:_report⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Earth_will_soon_cross_a_scary climate_change_threshold._What_happens_next?⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-11-26_[Older]_Dutch_professor:_UN_climate summit_is_a_circus,_little_progress⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Building_Less_Parking_Space Helps_Us_Fight_Climate_Change_and_the_Housing_Crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_New_England's Decades-Old_Shrimp_Fishery,_a_Victim_of_Climate_Change,_to Remain_Closed_Indefinitely⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_Climate Protesters_Twice_Interrupt_Wagner's_`Tannhäuser'_at Metropolitan_Opera⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-01_[Older]_At_Climate Summit,_Turkey,_South_Africa_Hit_Out_at_Israel_Over_Gaza War⠀⇛ # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_Mexico_to_call_for more_climate_change_damage_funds_at_COP28⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_New_climate_fund_offers hope_to_developing_countries⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-11-30_[Older]_There’s_less_meat_at_this_year’s climate_talks._But_there’s_plenty_of_bull.⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Tomorrow_Film_Festival launches,_showcasing_inspiring_films_about_climate_change⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Canada_looks_for_breakthrough_on climate_change_'loss_and_damage_fund'_at_COP28⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_COP28:_What_to_expect from_the_UN_climate_summit⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Climate Contradictions_Key_at_UN_Talks._Less_Future_Warming Projected,_Yet_There's_More_Current_Pain⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Vice President_Harris_Will_Attend_COP28_Climate_Conference_in Dubai⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_US_Lists Wolverine_as_Threatened_Species,_Citing_Climate_Change⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Gas_deals_beyond_2050 show_reality_gap_on_Europe_Climate_Goals⠀⇛ # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Pluralistic:_Insurance companies_are_making_climate_risk_worse_(28_Nov_2023)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Africa's_youth_demand funding_to_deal_with_climate_chaos⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Stones_inside_fish ears_mark_time_like_tree_rings_–_and_now_they're_helping_us learn_about_climate_change⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Biden_Reportedly_Plans_to Skip_COP28_Climate_Summit_Kicking_Off_This_Week⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Climate_change_in_11 charts⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_President_Joe Biden_Plans_to_Skip_U.N._Climate_Talks_Beginning_This_Week_in Dubai⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_The_state_of_the_climate_crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_The_future_of_the_planet_hinges_on understanding_these_5_key_phrases⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Want_to_fight_climate_change effectively?_Here’s_where_to_donate_your_money.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-11-26_[Older]_Mud_libraries_hold_the_story_of the_Earth’s_climate_past_—_and_foretell_its_future⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Global_Trade Disruptions_in_the_Grip_of_a_Severe_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Underfunded_and Unprepared:_The_Urgency_of_Climate_Finance_in_Building Resilience⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Tackling Climate_Change_and_Alleviating_Hunger:_States_Recycle_and Donate_Food_Headed_to_Landfills⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Australia Climate_Change_Activists_Disrupt_Shipping_at_Coal_Port⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_'Regressive'_carbon_capture_tax credit_open_to_projects_that_extract_more_oil,_climate experts_say⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Climate:_Is_1.5_degrees Celsius_still_achievable?⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Inside_the_new_climate assault_on_the_oil_majors⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_UN_Chief Gives_Interview_From_Melting_Antarctica_on_Eve_of_Global Climate_Summit⠀⇛ # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Snowfall_covers_various_cities as_temperatures_plummet_across_Turkey⠀⇛ # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Weekend_deluge_claims_numerous lives_across_Turkey⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Report:_Saudi_Arabia_Plans_to Get_African_Countries_“Hooked”_on_Fossil_Fuels⠀⇛ # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_In_Lead_Up_to_COP28,_Saudis Push_Oil_on_Poor_Nations⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Bitcoin_breaks_$40,000_as_momentum_builds⠀⇛ Reports in October that the US Securities and Exchange Commission won't appeal a court ruling that found the agency had been wrong to reject an exchange-traded fund application from [cryptocurrency] firm Grayscale Investments have also driven bets that an eventual approval is nigh. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ It’s_not_just_electricity_—_Bitcoin_mines_burn through_a_lot_of_water,_too⠀⇛ The study was conducted by Alex de Vries, a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam whose previous research has tracked cryptocurrencies’ electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Those issues have moved legislators to push for more oversight of crypto mines’ environmental impact. But until recently, most of that attention has been on whether energy-intensive cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin might throw off countries’ climate goals. # ⚓ New Scientist ☛ A_single_bitcoin_transaction_uses_enough water_to_fill_a_swimming_pool⠀⇛ The environmental impact of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is increasingly being scrutinised, due to the vast amounts of electricity they consume. Now it seems that water use is also a big problem # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 47_people_die_in_landslides_in_Tanzania⠀⇛ After suffering an unprecedented drought, East Africa has been hit by weeks of torrential rains and floods. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-25_[Older]_Germany_grapples_with its_'debt_brake'⠀⇛ # ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Don’t_buy_Christmas_gifts_this year⠀⇛ Content warning: this article contains mention of depression and suicide Santa Claus was not always the white-bearded, red-suited and stocking-capped fellow we know today. This archetype, like many other beloved elements of Christmas, has consumerist roots. Santa’s modern look was standardized by a 1931 Coca-Cola advertisement. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Climate misinformation_heats_up_on_eve_of_COP28_talks⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-11-29_[Older]_Newsguard:_Ex-CIA_Agent Calls_Out_Deep_State_for_Censoring_Media⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-11-28_[Older]_Defending_the_Killing of_Palestinian_Children_Won’t_Get_You_Punished_in Hollywood⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 2023-11-27_[Older]_Chris_Hedges_Report: Zionist_Anti-Palestine_Censorship_Is_Surging_w/_Dylan_Saba⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-11-26_[Older]_Israel’s_War_on_Gaza Has_Unleashed_a_Wave_of_Repression_Against_Pro-Palestine Artists⠀⇛ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Six_pupils_go_on_trial_over_2020_murder_of French_schoolteacher_Samuel_Paty⠀⇛ The young radicalised Islamist murdered Paty after messages spread on social media that the teacher had shown his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Paty had used the magazine as part of an ethics class to discuss free speech laws in France, where blasphemy is legal and cartoons mocking religious figures have a long history. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ What_We_Are_Not_Allowed_to_Say⠀⇛ Censorship imperils cultures and civilization. When governments and elites prohibit speaking or writing without threats, shaming, or epithets meant to shut down discussion, free thinking dies. People also die. A censorship industrial complex grew around Covid hysteria, which began as a war on a virus. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ After_LBGTQ+_activism_ban,_Russian_police_raid gay_bars_in_Moscow⠀⇛ Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_court_prolongs_detention_of_Russian- American_journalist_in_‘foreign_agent’_case⠀⇛ A district court in Kazan, Russia extended on Friday the detention of Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist holding both Russian and United States citizenship, according to Russian state media. Kurmasheva faces allegations of failing to adhere to Russia’s stringent foreign agent registration law. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ 'Return_to_Office'_declared_dead⠀⇛ Yet some employers, according to data from Envoy and Hanover Research, appear to regret their return-to-office strategies. And around 42 percent of companies, according to workplace consultant Unispace, have reported losing more employees than expected after my-way-or-the-highway mandates seem to have sent workers packing. # ⚓ [Old] SSRN ☛ The_Evolution_of_Work_from_Home⠀⇛ Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That’s about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid- 1990s that we estimate in time-use data. We first explain why the big shift to work from home has endured rather than reverting to pre-pandemic levels. We then consider how work-from-home rates vary by worker age, sex, education, parental status, industry and local population density, and why it is higher in the United States than other countries. We also discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U.S. business executives anticipate modest increases in the share of fully remote jobs at their own companies and in the share of jobs with hybrid arrangements, whereby the employee splits the workweek between home and employer premises. Other factors that portend an enduring shift to work from home include the ongoing adaptation of managerial practices and further advances in technologies, products, and tools that support remote work. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Doctors_and_Pharmacists_Are_in Revolt⠀⇛ And doctors are not the only health professionals who are unionizing or protesting in greater numbers. Health care workers, many of them nurses, held eight major work stoppages last year — the most in a decade — and are on pace to match or exceed that number this year. This fall, dozens of nonunion pharmacists at CVS and Walgreens stores called in sick or walked off the job to protest understaffing, many for a full day or more. The reasons for the recent labor actions appear straightforward. Doctors, nurses and pharmacists said they were being asked to do more as staffing dwindles, leading to exhaustion and anxiety about putting patients at risk. Many said that they were stretched to the limit after the pandemic began, and that their work demands never fully subsided. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ GO Media ☛ PlayStation_To_Delete_A_Ton_Of_TV_Shows_Users Already_Paid_For⠀⇛ The promise of digital media is that it can last forever, pristine and undisturbed by the forces of entropy constantly buffeting the material world. Unfortunately, a mess of online DRM and license agreements means that we mostly don’t own the digital stuff we buy, as most recently evidenced by the fact that Sony is about to delete Mythbusters, Naked and Afraid, and tons of other Discovery shows from PlayStation users’ libraries even if they already “purchased” them. # ⚓ GO Media ☛ PS5_Slim_Disc_Drive_Comes_With_Bizarre_Online Requirements_[Update]⠀⇛ The surprise requirement was discovered through a new leak of the PS5 slim’s box as retailers begin stocking the console for its November launch. Shared with Call of Duty news account CharlieIntel, the images show a disclaimer on the box that reads, “Internet connection required to pair Disc Drive and PS5 console upon setup.” # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Spotify_to_reduce_staff_by_17%_in_second_layoff this_year_|_Reuters⠀⇛ Spotify will reduce its total headcount by around 17% across the company, it said in an email on Monday, after laying of 6% of this staff in January citing higher costs. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-11-24_[Older]_Amazon’s_Climate Pledge_Was_a_Lie⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Reuters ☛ Focus:_ChatGPT_launches_boom_in_AI- written_e-books_on_Amazon⠀⇛ But already there are concerns over authenticity, because ChatGPT learns how to write by scanning millions of pages of existing text. An experiment with AI by CNET resulted in multiple corrections and apparent plagiarism before the tech news site suspended its use. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Copyright_Infringement?_Jury_to Decide_Over_Landmark_Destiny_2_'Cheating'_Suit⠀⇛ Most people agree that using cheats to win in online games is unfair to those who don't . But do these tools actually break the law? Next week, the landmark case between cheat seller AimJunkies and Destiny 2 creator Bungie will go to trial. Among other things, the jury must decide whether AimJunkies infringed the game's copyrights. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 3787 ➮ Generation completed at 02:50, i.e. 10 seconds to (re)generate ⟲