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Open Source (or Openwashing) Helps Those Who Attack Software Freedom.⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 31, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Fox_Squirrel_Christmas_Dinner⦈_ Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Bruce Perens: “Open_Source_Has_Failed_Its_Users.” Bruce Perens has finally admitted that “Open Source has failed its users.” from the angle that users who expect to have Freedom from Open Source usually get no such thing at all. Ever since the Open Source “movement” started, it has not been about the Freedom of the user at all. The Free Software Movement is more than a decade and a half older, and Free Software is about protecting the Freedom of the user who gets a copy. “Open Source” started out in the late 1990s to persuade businesses of a “superior method to develop software which works better, and you can even have free labor too”, and by the benchmarks that the movement itself set for itself, it has been a raging success. Almost everyone on the planet today has some Open Source software, whether they realize it or not. It’s in Android, it’s in Mac OS, it’s in the iPhone, it’s in cars, it’s even in Windows, bits and pieces of this Open Source. But these companies have packaged it, often, in ways where the user cannot run a different version of it, or at least not easily, and enjoy any sort of Freedom to improve on it, or to remove malicious features and replace it with a version of the program without the malicious feature. What finally sent Bruce Perens off the edge? IBM. IBM and Red Hat. Today, Red Hat is owned by IBM and it is not at all like the Red Hat from 10 or 20 years ago. Today, we have a Red Hat that is a major parasite and a troll, and something that might as well be another Oracle, or another Google, or another Apple. Whenever they “deal with” the GPL, they have lawyers on standby trying to figure out how to sabotage the GPL and make it effectively meaningless to the user. The GNU General Public License was created as a Free Software License, to make sure that the user would always have the Freedom to use modified copies, to share the improvements in that copy, and to compile and run a different version of that copy. Over the years, and especially culminating under IBM’s ownership and tenure of “Red Hat Enterprise Linux”, Red Hat has been doing increasingly nastier things with “their” Linux kernel. They think that there’s some magic words that their lawyers can sprinkle into some other agreement that lets them retaliate against their customers for flexing their rights under the GPL, and most of their customers won’t dare to question this, much less sue Red Hat, which in my opinion, they definitely deserve for trying to pull this shit. Over the years I’ve fought off some nasty companies who just figured they could throw a Linux kernel and some other stuff over the fence and walk off and refuse to hand over the source code. Probably the biggest one was Samsung, with a Blu Ray player, model BD-C5500, around 2009-2010. I argued, as the_Vizio_lawsuit_does_now, that when they sold me one, they made a “contract” with me, that the GPL was a “contract” with the user, and that I wanted the source code or they’d better prepare to argue that it was not a contract. No court has ruled on whether the GPL is or isn’t a contract. If the GPL is a contract, as they seem to be moving in the direction that it is, then every software license is a contract, and potentially any user can sue for the distributor’s failure to perform a thing under that contract. This will not help “Open Source” users at all, because those licenses don’t involve the author or the distributor promising to do anything. In the specific case of Samsung, I was able to get them to turn over the GPL/ LGPL stuff in a ZIP file pretty quickly once I started down that road, but they should have just complied. Thanks to “Open Source” software elsewhere that didn’t protect my Freedoms at all, there was still no way to study the code and run a different version on my player. Companies hoard source code and violate licenses even when there is absolutely no practical benefit for them to do so. These companies, serial GPL violators, are usually just a “bag of dicks”. They’re usually not even trying to hide it because they can prevent you from doing something by hiding it. Red Hat even falls into this category now, under IBM, as it pertains to trying to hide the kernel and call it “theirs” even though it is GPL-licensed. A “bag of dicks” that I believe are violating “the spirit of the license” even if what they are doing is legal. The GNU GPL is Open Source, but it isn’t Open Source. The goal of the GNU GPL is to give users the Freedom to do anything they want, as users. It meets the “Open Source Definition” by that measure, but it is a disservice to refer to it as an “Open Source license”. It is a “Free Software License”. Open Source tends to degenerate into proprietary software that the user cannot actually do anything with except run, often almost immediately as soon as anyone else who finds it to be a handy program gets it and cobbles it into something else. The GNU GPLv2 was released in 1991, when computer users faced different threats. Most users of the PC were not faced with malicious software that controlled which operating system was allowed to boot. This malicious software that users face today is called “UEFI” and “Secure Boot”. On non-x86 systems, you frequently can’t turn it off at all and boot a different operating system, and on x86 systems, it’s only possible for legacy reasons which Microsoft is increasingly not supporting anymore at all. It’s designed so that Microsoft can throw a switch later and force their partners to, and they can say “All ours now….All ours now.” about the PC and leave the user with no choices except whatever Microsoft allows. And a lot of really terrible human beings have collaborated with Microsoft to “support” this system on the PC from the Linux side, and not only to support it, but to put a backdoor into the OS. This backdoor is even in Debian. The backdoor is called Linux Vendor Firmware Service. LVFS “dials home” and uploads “blacklists” of things Microsoft doesn’t want you to have on your computer, and then sneaks these blacklists into your UEFI firmware, quietly. In fact, you will only find out about LVFS doing this when it, like everything IBM and Microsoft have a hand in, breaks down and starts throwing weird indecipherable_error_messages. I recommend purging_LVFS_out_of_the_system_and_not_giving_the_OS_a_network connection_until_it_is_gone. The fact that this horseshit is even in Debian shows that Debian no longer meaningfully respects the user’s Freedom. It’s up to the user to know that Debian, even, is doing things behind their back and stop it. Bruce Perens is right that Open Source has failed its users. Why has it failed? Money is a corrupting factor. Microsoft and others have basically bought and bribed their way in. They pay generous salaries to people without any form of conscience to assist them in harming billions of computer users. So what do we do about it? Well, we will have to remain apprised of the situation. For now, do we have to panic and run for the fire escapes from the PC? No. There’s a very good chance that the computer you use right now will continue working for years, and all you should do to it is turn off “Secure Boot” and remove LVFS. In the future, we’ll have to be much more careful to buy from PC vendors that include firmware that’s not a pile of garbage that hides bugs and locks you out calling itself “Security”. OEMs like System76 appear to be concerned about your Freedom as of the time of this writing, but as always, stay informed. Things can change. The various “Pi” devices are cheap, and always getting faster. Each iteration gets multiples faster than the last one, and they can be built for between $100-150. More work is being focused on emulating x86 for Wine, and at the rate the Pi systems are improving, they should be able to run the majority of Windows software, if not now, eventually. The faster the CPU, the less the dynamic binary translation even matters. I personally, am going to use whatever keeps Microsoft’s operating system out of my life, even if it means not using the x86 PC anymore. The only thing Microsoft is bringing to computing anywhere they go is more viruses and data breaches. Recently, the Lake County, Illinois Health Department had their second data breach this year, and third in the past two years. They_implicated_Microsoft_in passing. Microsoft is responsible for thousands of data breaches. Every scammer on the planet probably has your Social Security Number and other stuff because someone else paid Microsoft to do things for them. Microsoft is an option for when you don’t give a damn about Security because it’s someone else who will suffer every time you get attacked. And some of their victims, direct customers who do get attacked later and lose something keep going back, a lot of the time. “Did Microsoft do this to you?” “Yeah, but you gotta understand, deep down, they really love me!” The kind of Nazis_and_morons that they hire to work at Azure, who brag about their drug binges and venereal disease and all the coworkers who should “be deported”, and how the Indian CEOs are ruining tech companies, who cap it off with a good stabbing on the Microsoft Campus, should have been your first clue. We absolutely cannot depend upon proprietary software companies. So instead of stewing on the fact that the “Open Source” people kind of suck because “Open Source” isn’t about Freedom, let’s move this in a more positive direction. It’s unfortunate every time a software developer chooses to use an “Open Source” license instead of a “Free Software” one with copyleft features, because it means there’s another program out there where the freeloaders in the Fortune 500 can use gulag labor to build roads only they can benefit from, so to speak. That library or that utility you release under the Open Source license instead of the Copyleft one, there might be an improved version floating around in Windows, Apple, or Android that only those companies can use. They can quietly run off with it, not even tell you they used it at all, and then you find out that Intel has created an entire malware program designed to undermine the security of the user’s OS, out of your OS, like_the_MINIX incident. Everyone with a post-2016 Intel computer is running an entire UNIX-like OS on the CPU, which is there to spy on them and act as a backdoor that is impossible for the user to remove and which the OS you see is unaware of, and cannot control. MINIX is “Open Source”. Open Source means it’s only a matter of time before a program you release like this gets turned around and used to attack the user, or at the very least, by Tech Company jerks on the Left Coast, or maybe even a Communist regime, to harm people and benefit themselves at the expense of millions or billions. Don’t be a promoter of “Open Source”. Be a promoter of “Free Software”. Make sure your users keep their rights no matter whose hands your program has passed through. This is not to say that the GPLv2 is perfect. It is not. It is deprecated by the GPLv3, which was designed with more modern threats to the users in mind. The only real opposition to GPLv3, are malicious entities that want to harm your users, and they have a lot of anti-GPL propaganda out there to try to discourage developers from choosing this license. In the context of booting a computer, the whole “systemd-boot” setup is designed to replace GRUB2, in order to impose Microsoft’s “Secure Boot” malware on the user. Microsoft refuses to directly sign anything under the GPLv3 because then they would have to tell you how to work around Secure Boot, so the current setup is using a program called “shim” to load GRUB. Shim is a binary the user is not allowed to control, and it’s licensed under an “Open Source” license, which makes it easy to attack the user’s Freedom. The problem with this setup is that it’s flakier. There’s no technical reason why GRUB2 can’t boot a PC directly. They’ve made the system crankier and more prone to weird failures purely to appease Microsoft and help them attack the user. Open Source has “failed its users”. It was designed to, so it is doing what it was made to do. █ ⣿⡖⠀⠀⠂⠠⣀⠀⢺⣿⣧⣀⡀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣽⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣬⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣟⣯⣤⣄⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠿⠻⢿⣻⠿⣻⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠒⠐⣻⢻⣇⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡶⣆⠀⠘⡟⠀⢶⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠁⣌⠀⢹⣏⣻⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⡿⢿⣏⣿⣍⠙⠉⠉⠀⢠⡄⠀⣠⣴⣶⣷⣯⣅⠹⣤⣤⠁⠀⠸⠷⣷⣤⡄⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⠀⠀⢠⣼⣿⡀⣿⣿⣿⣿⢯⣤⣤⣀⠀⠰⣶⣷⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠚⠻⢧⣈⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣾⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣧⣠⣿⡿⠛⠛⠀⠉⠃⣀⠋⠀⠀⠀⢸⣷⡿⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠉⣻⣧⣴⣻⠿⠷⠒⢸⣟⣻⣿⣿⣦⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣆⠒⠂⠀⠀⠀⢘⣿⣿⣏⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠉⠛⡖⠸⠻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢁⣠⣶⡟⢻⠛⠀⠀⢰⣬⣽⡿⢯⣧⣾⣿⣶⠿⢿⣻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⡷⠀⣠⡤⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣷⣅⠀⠀⡀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢶⣶⢿⣿⢿⣛⡿⡛⡯⢵⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢠⡿⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⣤⣤⢿⣿⣟⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣻⣯⣽⣻⣿⣙⠳⢾⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣤⣾⣫⣴⣿⣤⣾⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠂⠀⠀⠰⠟⠘⢽⡔⠃⠛⢻⣯⣉⡋⣀⣨⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠿⢛⡛⠁⠘⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠋⠸⠟⠉⠀⠠⢴⡎⢻⣿⣿⣿⣽⣯⡿⣟⣉⣋⣹⣿⣥⣤⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣟⠿⠿⠏⠠⠤⠀⠀⡁⠀⣿⣇⠀⠘⠠⣦⣽⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣟⡿⠓⠸⢿⢏⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡒⠊⠀⠀⠠⠀⣤⠴⠾⠀⠠⣟⣹⣿⠿⣿⣾⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⣟⣿⢃⣀⣼⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⢿⣟⣿ ⣿⣿⠇⣼⣿⣷⣤⣷⣾⣿⣌⣽⣤⣱⢦⣿⣿⣿⣎⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡠⠀⠀⠠⠄⠀⠀⠀⢽⠷⢖⣛⡯⢻⠇⠙⢩⣏⣹⡛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠋⠁⣘⡳⣿⣾⣻⠾⣿⣿ ⣿⣃⣾⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠻⠟⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣉⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡰⢤⠋⢉⠰⠀⣐⡞⢻⣥⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣛⢁⣀⡀⡰⠈⠾⢗⠿⣿⣚⣏⣿ ⢿⠗⣬⡈⠋⠉⠹⠿⠿⠃⠠⠀⣤⠀⠈⠹⠍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⣀⣤⣶⣶⣿⣷⣶⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠐⠒⡤⠏⢡⠦⡶⠿⢤⣦⡀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡷⠿⣿⣿⣿⣄⡬⠈⢼⡟⠘⢆⠻⣯ ⠐⠐⢿⡿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣢⢎⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠃⠋⠉⠻⠿⠋⢡⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⢀⡒⠲⠟⠁⠀⠀⢤⣘⠷⣋⣤⣶⠻⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⠛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⡀⠐⠁⠀⠀⠞ ⠀⠀⠈⢻⣴⣇⠀⠀⢴⣿⣷⠣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⡀⠸⠕⠁⠀⠸⠚⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢇⠀⠘⢻⡿⣏⠯⢗⢚⣫⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡎⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠈⠰⢵⣿⣶⠺⣿⡿⠁⠁⠀⠀⢠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠤⢀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⢉⣋⡟⠁⡈⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣷⢹⡇⠀⠈⠀⡠⠁⠚⡄⠈⠽⡋⠷⣿⣫⠹⡿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠲⣠⠰⣔⣂⢈⣹⢿⣾⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⣰⣬⠀⡯⣴⠃⡉⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣔⣃⡀⠙⠛⠿⠯⠞⠀⠈⠀⢰⣦⠘⠏⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⢄⠊⣟⡋⢚⡩⠂⣾⢿⣛⡁⠈⠈⠀⡀⠀⢤⣀ ⠐⢍⠓⢟⣿⣯⣭⠽⣻⣅⡠⡄⠀⡀⣀⠈⢉⣭⠋⢳⣯⣧⣾⡆⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠈⠀⠀⠴⠖⠿⣿⠛⡓⠀⠲⣷⡀⠐⢔⠿⣆⢩⢧⡀⢀⠀⡠⠮⡘⠯⢀⣄⠀⠸⡄⠸⣸ ⢠⡤⠱⠶⣿⣿⡿⣻⡦⣨⡼⠷⡏⣀⣺⣧⣤⠿⢷⠾⣿⡿⢿⢭⣌⢽⣍⠻⡟⠋⣈⣴⣿⣿⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣛⡛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠏⠀⠀⣀⠚⢻⠃⠀⢠⠉⠨⠒⠆⡃⢄⣈⡀⠀⢐⠔⠄⣤⣀⢠⣿⣶⣿ ⠀⠁⠂⠈⠜⣻⣷⡝⠠⣹⡿⢲⡏⠻⣷⡒⣿⣿⣮⡌⡟⣿⡅⢫⣽⣯⢰⣦⣿⣯⢬⣡⡿⠏⠉⠉⣉⠁⠈⠉⣹⢿⣿⣷⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⢭⣡⣤⣴⣦⣼⣷⣶⣄⢀⠈⡂⢠⣶⣬⣤⣤⣙⠉⠗⢦⣹⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⢠⠆⠀⡀⢞⠿⡇⣈⣡⡈⠃⣒⡖⠳⠉⠁⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⢺⡛⢜⡀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠞⣁⣤⣀⣯⠀⢄⠿⠌⠙⣽⣿⣗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠒⠃⠀⠉⠈⠻⣿⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠛⠿ ⠀⠀⠈⠒⡚⠀⠀⣀⣽⢿⠃⠭⢇⠼⡿⠮⠓⡠⣷⢻⠿⢯⣙⠻⢿⡿⢤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠦⠀⠀⠹⡷⣌⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠛⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⢀⣤⣦⢀⡀ ⠰⣶⢶⣾⣾⠾⢿⣤⡏⠀⠀⠀⢠⡙⠦⠀⣠⣔⣽⣖⡘⡿⣿⣤⣰⣾⣿⣹⣿⣿⣙⣾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣂⣀⣀⠀⡼⣷⠴⣤⣄⣀⡀⣀⠀⢀⡐⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⢻⣽⣿⣾⣿⣿⠿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠙⠋⠐⠿⠿ ⣷⢀⣐⣀⢛⣀⣽⣧⡀⠴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⢄⣼⣿⣿⣟⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣥⣼⣧⣀⣤⣠⣀⣀⣀⡼⣿⡟⣭⣟⣿⣿⣾⢦⡿⣟⣏⣹⠿⢾⠻⡿⣿⣷⢶⣶⡾⣭⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣟⣙⣺⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣯⣷⣶⣶⣭⣭⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⡬⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡭⣿⣿⡿⢿⢶⣿⣯⣛⣻⣗⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣙⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 428 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/31/GNU_Boot_December_2023_News.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/31/GNU_Boot_December_2023_News.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ GNU Boot December 2023 News⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 31, 2023, updated Dec 31, 2023 § Announcements: The last project announcement was made in the gnuboot mailing list[1][2] at a time where we didn't have a website or an announce mailing list yet. So this announce and the next ones will be published in multiple places: - On the gnuboot[3] and gnuboot-announce[4] mailing lists - On the GNU Boot website[5]. § GNU Boot 0.1 RC3: We just released GNU Boot 0.1 RC3. We also need help from testers for this release, especially because few intrusive changes were made. We also release GNU Boot 0.1 RC2 just before but some bugs that don't affect the installable images were introduced in the last minute fixes so we ended up making an RC3 as well (some tests were broken and some website pages also needed fixes). § Nonfree software found in the source release of GNU Boot 0.1 RC1. In the GNU Boot source release (gnuboot-0.1-rc1_src.tar.xz) we found the 3 files (F12MicrocodePatch03000002.c, F12MicrocodePatch0300000e.c, F12MicrocodePatch03000027.c) that contain microcode in binary form, without corresponding source code. GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 corresponding source code tarball was remade without these files (and renamed). The images for the Asus KCMA-D8, KFSN4-DRE and KGPE-D16 were also removed as they may contain the nonfree code as well. The rest of the files are unaffected. § Website: Since the last announce a lot of work was done on the code to deploy the website to make to make it easy for contributors and maintainers to do changes to the website and review them. The website has also been published. Not everything is ready in it, but it contains enough to understand how to contribute to GNU Boot. The pages that are not ready yet were also published with a special banner to indicate that. Since we now have a website, contribution instructions[6], and even a list of areas where we are looking for contributions[6], we can now accept patches. The website is also now integrated in the GNU Boot source code and we have special code to make it easy to test it locally (and deploy it semi-automatically). So it should make contributions easier. § Testing: We would also like to thank all the people who tested GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 since the last announce, especially since this can be a lot of work, especially because there are many computers to test. The following computers were tested with GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 and they all boot fine: -Lenovo Thinkpad R400, T400, T500, T60, W500, X60, X60T, X200, X301 -Asus: KGPE-D16 -Apple: MacBook 2.1 Since some popular computers were tested[7], we are now also looking for testers and contributions on the installation instructions. Even if GNU Boot 0.1 RC3 has already been published, it's probably easier to do the tests with GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 and a computer that was already tested (unless the computer is an Asus KCMA-D8, see above for more details) as there is no changes that could affect the installation instructions between 0.1 RC1 and 0.1 RC3. The following computers / mainboards weren't tested yet with the 0.1 RC1 yet so we also need testers for them (ideally on the 0.1 RC3): -Chromebook: C201 -Intel: D410PT, D510MO, D945GCLF2D -Gigabyte: D945GCLF, GA-G41M-ES2L -Asus: KCMA-D8, KFSN4-DRE -Apple: MacBook 1.1, iMac 5,2 -Lenovo Thinkpads: R500, T400s, X60s, X200s, X200T, X60T. And as stated above we also need to re-test with the RC3 the computers that were already tested with the RC1 to make sure that we didn't break anything. § GNU Boot running nonfree software: GNU Boot is still in its early stages and many of the directions the project can take are still being evaluated. So it's a good time to warn people that in some cases GNU Boot does run nonfree software on computers other than laptops, and that it may change in the future (we have to decide how to deal with this problem). The issue is that ATI and Nvidia external GPUs do contain nonfree software. That nonfree software is stored on the card in a memory chip. At least in some configurations[8], if such GPU is present, GNU Boot downloads and executes that software. Then later on in the boot, Linux-libre also downloads and execute another nonfree software from that same GPU. If we decide to block that (it's relatively easy to do that in GNU Boot) then users won't be able to use such GPU anymore. If we don't block it, many users will not know about this freedom issue and will think that they only run free software while nonfree software is being executed behind their back. This is also why the FSF RYF (Respect Your freedom) certification[9] is important: it takes care of details like that and these GPUs or systems with such GPUs are not certified by it. § Work in progress and future directions: Work also started to improve the build system to make it easier to understand and contribute. We also started adding tests along the way. Though we still use old versions of Coreboot especially for the Asus KCMA-D8, KFSN4-DRE and KGPE D16. Compiling GNU Boot images for these computers requires specific distributions like PureOS 10 (byzantium) or Trisquel 10 (nabia). We plan to try to change that after the GNU Boot 0.1 release. To do it we plan to update the versions of the software we build (like Coreboot, GRUB, etc) but also to progressively switch to Guix to build more and more parts of the images. So far we managed to use Guix to building a GRUB payload (part of that work was already upstreamed in Guix) and to build a custom Flashrom that can be used to do installation on the I945 Thinkpads (X60, T60, etc) but more work is needed (code cleanup, documentation, making it easy to use for contributors) before we can integrate that code. Integrating it now instead of waiting for the release would increase the risk of introducing new bugs and inconsistencies (for instance in the documentation), and reduce the amount of help we can get, and since it is a big task there is also the risk of never finishing it[10]. So we chose to do that step by step without breaking the documentation or current usage of GNU Boot. As for the website we are currently using Untitled, a static website generator that use files in markdown with a custom header format. We plan to migrate at least part of the website to Texinfo to generate a proper manual with it and we already have code to convert from the special markdown used to Texinfo, but the conversion sometimes needs some manual intervention. We're also not ready yet to do that conversion as keeping the markdown a bit longer might make it easier for contributors to help us fix the website. We also evaluated Haunt, a static website generator that supports markdown and Texinfo and that is also used by Guix for their website. We managed to validate that we could easily write code to make it use the custom markdown used by untitled. However we didn't invest time in trying to make it generate a website (by default it generate blog posts), so if some people already know haunt well or want to learn it and are interested in helping it could be very useful. For that the best would be to contact us on the gnuboot mailing list. This is also important because according to its author, Untitled has some design issues (and it is written in shell scripts) and so it will most likely be rewritten from scratch in another programming language by its author at some point. In the meantime we sent patches upstream to fix some of the issues we had with it and the patches were accepted. § Toward the 0.1 release: What is missing before we release GNU Boot 0.1 is basically more testing and help on the website, especially the installation instructions. § References: [1]"Testers needed for GNU Boot 0.1 RC1". [2]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnuboot/2023-09/msg00000.html [3]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuboot [4]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuboot-announce [5]https://gnu.org/software/gnuboot/web/news/gnuboot-december- 2023.html [6]https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuboot/web/git.html [7]https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64754 [8]We know for sure that when SeaBIOS is used, it will download and execute nonfree software from GPU cards that are added to the computer. But we're not sure what happens if SeaBIOS is not used. An easy way to find out is if the GPU works under GNU/Linux and that the display is initialized, then at least some nonfree bytecode has been downloaded and executed by the operating system. [9]https://ryf.fsf.org/ [10]See "General tips on maintaining GNU software" in https://www.gnu.org/software/maintainer-tips for more details about common issues when maintaining a new project. 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The lottery took steps to mitigate the attack, including taking certain systems offline and hiring cybersecurity professionals to assist with an investigation. * ⚓ Cox Media Group ☛ ‘Integrity_of_our_games_is_the_top_priority;’_Ohio Lottery_gives_update_on_cybersecurity_incident⠀⇛ Ohio Lottery officials are providing an update after experiencing a “cybersecurity incident” on Christmas Eve. As News Center 7 reported Wednesday, the incident impacted some of the Ohio Lottery’s “internal applications.” * ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ New_Black_Basta_decryptor_exploits_ransomware_flaw to_recover_files_encrypted_between_November_2022_earlier_this_month⠀⇛ Researchers have created a decryptor that exploits a flaw in Black Basta ransomware, allowing victims to recover their files for free. The decryptor allows Black Basta victims from November 2022 to this month to potentially recover their files for free. However, BleepingComputer has learned that the Black Basta developers fixed the bug in their encryption routine about a week ago, preventing this decryption technique from being used in newer attacks. The ‘Black Basta Buster’ decryptor comes from Security Research Labs (SRLabs), which found a weakness in the encryption algorithm used by the ransomware gang’s encryptors that allows for the discovery of the ChaCha keystream used to XOR encrypt a file. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣠⣄⡀⠀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠀⢀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣻⡯⠿⡿⣿⢿⣽⣿⡿⣿⣯⢯⣿⠀⢨⣿⣿⣯⣿⣟⣯⢿⣟⣯⣿⣻⣯⣿⣿⡇⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠈⠈⠉⠝⣮⠽⣊⡪⣒⣻⡷⣟⡏⠀⠰⠶⠲⠷⢶⣻⢝⡯⡤⢞⡯⡯⠿⢾⣿⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠑⠀⠊⠡⠈⠪⠚⠁⠀⠈⠉⠉⠩⠁⠈⠩⠁⠚⠃⠒⠠⠭⠻⡿⠀⠰⣿⣿⡿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠀⠸⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⠀⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1198 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 31/12/2023: Climate Issues, Wars Raging (Still)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 31, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇New_Year⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Education * Hardware * Health/Nutrition/Agriculture * Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) * Security o Privacy/Surveillance * Defence/Aggression * Environment o Energy/Transportation o Wildlife/Nature * Finance * AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics * Censorship/Free_Speech * Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press * Civil_Rights/Policing * Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) * Monopolies/Monopsonies o Patents o Trademarks * Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ I_Want_a_City,_Not_a_Museum⠀⇛ New York’s layers of laws to protect existing buildings has led to a shortage of housing. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Don’t_Give_Up⠀⇛ I’m at Chaos Communication Congress this weekend, and it’s like being surrounded by the brightest, most creative, and being honest, nerdiest crowd imaginable. And that’s super invigorating. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 37C3:_When_Apple_Ditches_Thuderbolt,_Hack_USB-C⠀⇛ [Thomas Roth], aka [Ghidraninja], and author of the [Stacksmashing] YouTube channel, investigated Apple’s Lightning port and created a cool debugging tool that allowed one to get JTAG on the device. Then, Apple went to USB-C for their new phones, and all his work went to waste. Oh well, start again — and take a look at USB-C. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 37C3:_You_Think_It’s_Bad_With_Pluto?_A_History_Of_The Planets⠀⇛ Not every talk at the Chaos Communication Congress is about hacking computers. In this outstanding and educational talk, [Michael Büker] walks us through the history of our understanding of the planets. o ⚓ YLE ☛ Majority_of_Finnish_cities_not_hosting_official_firework shows⠀⇛ Local news conglomerate Uutissuomalainen asked 20 Finnish cities, of which only seven said they would organise official firework displays. o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ HKFP_Year_in_Review:_What_did_Hongkongers Google_in_2023?⠀⇛ From extreme weather and crypto scandals, to local politics and cinema, Hong Kong experienced several events this year that captured public attention and inspired curiosity. o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Why_Gustave_Eiffel's_name remains_famous_100_years_after_his_death⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_France:_Eiffel_Tower_staff goes_on_strike⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_A_brief_history_of time_–_as_told_by_a_watchmaker⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Why_some_people_don't trust_science_– and_how_to_change_their_minds⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_This_UBC_grad_has_discovered thousands_of_likely_planets_across_our_cosmos⠀⇛ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Has_Germany's_state education_system_failed?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Retro_Gaming_Watch_flips_open_at Kickstarter_—_tiny_gaming_device_features_1.5MB_of_RAM_and Arm_Cortex_M33_CPU⠀⇛ Jason Rogers has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his retro gaming watch project, which has already reached its funding goal with plenty of time to spare. * § Hardware⠀➾ o ⚓ Doug Brown ☛ More_fun_with_Apple’s_internal_tools:_creating_a_PDS card⠀⇛ In my last post, I figured out how to use Apple’s leaked Flasher utility from the 1990s to reflash a ROM SIMM inside of my Performa 630. It’s basically the Mac equivalent of a BIOS update, but only for Apple’s developers. o ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ China's_x86_chipmaker_adopts_sophisticated_boost tech_—_Zhaoxin_enables_preferred_core_support_to_target_the_fastest cores⠀⇛ Zhaoxin aims to boost single-thread performance by enabling preferred cores support. o ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Retro_Gaming_Watch_flips_open_at_Kickstarter_— tiny_gaming_device_features_1.5MB_of_RAM_and_Arm_Cortex_M33_CPU⠀⇛ Jason Rogers has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his retro gaming watch project, which has already reached its funding goal with plenty of time to spare. * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Brain_Function_Dramatically_Boosted_by_Certain Fragrances_During_Sleep⠀⇛ An astonishing 226% increase in test results. o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Canadian_universities_aim_to_boost plant-based_options_on_menus_in_2024_to_meet_student_demand⠀⇛ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_BlendJet_recall_of_millions_of_blenders over_fire_hazard,_breaking_blades_includes_117,000_in_Canada⠀⇛ o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Nutritionist_Reveals_The_Secret_to_Making Friends_With_Salad⠀⇛ Make a new friend in 2024. o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_US_paramedics_guilty_for overdosing_Black_man_with_ketamine⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Hundreds_of_Airbus_staff_sick after_holiday_meal_in_France⠀⇛ o ⚓ BIA Net ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Banned_chlorpyrifos_detected_in_27 food_products_exported_from_Turkey⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_German_doctors_go_on_strike as_virus_season_hits⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_German_doctors_on_strike_at the_height_of_COVID,_flu_season⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Leftover_food:_Reheat_and live_to_tell_the_tale⠀⇛ * § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ o ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Microsoft_bet_big_on_AI_in_2023, but_its_AI_future_is_still_unclear [Ed: Bubble, lawsuits, and losses]⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Verge ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Bobby_Kotick_Is_Out_as_Microsoft Takes_Control_of_Activision [Ed: Leaving the corpse to Satya Nadella; India Times ☛ layoffs_already]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Apple's_12_Most_Embarrassing_Product Failures⠀⇛ o ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Gurman:_Tang_Tan,_Apple’s Departing_VP_of_iPhone_and_Watch_Design,_to_Join_LoveFrom_to_Work on_‘AI_Hardware’_With_OpenAI⠀⇛ o ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Apple's_iPhone_designer_is_leaving to_work_with_Jony_Ive_and_Sam_Altman_on_AI_hardware⠀⇛ o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Apple_reseller_Amac_facing_possible employee_strike_on_Sunday⠀⇛ o ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_The_Morning_After:_TheApple_Watch ban_and_Sony_seems_to_be_winning_the_console_war⠀⇛ o ⚓ Medium ☛ The_Ugly_Truth_About_Steve_Jobs⠀⇛ Being a cruel and abusive boss? There’s a guy for that! Berating and intimidating your pregnant girlfriend? * § Security⠀➾ o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Settles_$5_Billion_Privacy_Lawsuit Over_Tracking_People_Using_‘Incognito_Mode’⠀⇛ Google agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit claiming that it continued spying on people who used the “incognito” mode in its Chrome browser. # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Apple_reportedly_faces pressure_in_India_after_sending_out_warnings_of_state- sponsored_hacking⠀⇛ # ⚓ EFF ☛ States_Attack_Young_People’s_Constitutional_Right_to Use_Social_Media:_2023_Year_in_Review⠀⇛ Fourteen months after California passed the AADC, it feels like a dam has broken. How did we get to a point where state lawmakers are willing to censor large parts of the internet? In many ways, California’s Age Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), passed in September of 2022, set the stage for this year’s battle. EFF asked Governor Newsom to veto that bill before it was signed into law, despite its good intentions in seeking to protect the privacy and well-being of children. Like many of the bills that followed it this year, it runs the risk of imposing surveillance requirements and content restrictions on a broader audience than intended. A federal court blocked the AADC earlier this year, and California has appealed that decision. Fourteen months after California passed the AADC, it feels like a dam has broken: we’ve seen dangerous social media regulations for young people introduced across the country, and passed in several states, including Utah, Arkansas, and Texas. The severity and individual components of these regulations vary. Like California’s, many of these bills would introduce age verification requirements, forcing sites to identify all of their users, harming both minors’ and adults’ ability to access information online. We oppose age verification requirements, which are the wrong approach to protecting young people online. No one should have to hand over their driver’s license, or, worse, provide biometric information, just to access lawful speech on websites. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Fighting_European_Threats_to_Encryption:_2023_Year_in Review⠀⇛ But we pushed back in the EU, and so far, we’ve succeeded. EFF spent this year fighting hard against an EU proposal (text) that, if it became law, would have been a disaster for online privacy in the EU and throughout the world. In the name of fighting online child abuse, the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, put forward a draft bill that would allow EU authorities to compel online services to scan user data and check it against law enforcement databases. The proposal would have pressured online services to abandon end-to-end encryption. The Commission even suggested using AI to rifle through peoples’ text messages, leading some opponents to call the proposal “chat control.” EFF has been opposed to this proposal since it was unveiled last year. We joined together with EU allies and urged people to sign the “Don’t Scan Me” petition. We lobbied EU lawmakers and urged them to protect their constituents’ human right to have a private conversation—backed up by strong encryption.  * § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ o ⚓ France24 ☛ France_to_deploy_90,000_police_officers_to_patrol_New Year’s_Eve_festivities⠀⇛ Security will be tight across France on New Year’s Eve, with 90,000 law enforcement officers set to be deployed, domestic intelligence chief Céline Berthon said Friday. Of those, 6,000 will be in Paris, where French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said over 1.5 million people are expected to attend celebrations on the Champs- Elysees. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Security_Council_Calls_For_Afghan_Special_Envoy⠀⇛ The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on December 29 calling for the appointment of a special envoy for Afghanistan to increase engagement with the country and its Taliban leaders. o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Turkish_authorities_detain_32_with_suspected_links_to Islamic_State⠀⇛ Turkish authorities detained 32 people on Friday that they claimed had links to the Islamic State (IS). Authorities allege that the individuals were planning to carry out attacks on synagogues and churches as well as the Iranian embassy. o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_to_launch_new_satellites,_build drones_as_it_warns_war_is_inevitable⠀⇛ December 31, 2023 7:03 AM Leader Kim Jong Un said United States policy is making war inevitable. o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_calls_Taiwan_presidential_front_runner a_destroyer_of_peace⠀⇛ December 31, 2023 9:28 AM China's Taiwan Affairs Office also said Mr Lai had "exposed his true face as a stubborn worker for Taiwan independence". o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_ties_dominate_Taiwan_presidential debate⠀⇛ Taiwan’s presidential candidates clashed on Saturday over their positions on the self-ruled island’s relations with China, in a debate before an upcoming vote closely watched from Beijing to Washington. o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese_ex-central_bank_exec._Sun_Guofeng sentenced_to_16_years_for_graft⠀⇛ A former senior official at China’s central bank has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for corruption, Chinese media reported on Thursday. o ⚓ France24 ☛ China_expels_nine_army_officials_from_parliament_in latest_reshuffle_under_new_defence_minister⠀⇛ China has expelled nine military officials from its parliament, including four generals of the army’s strategic missile unit, in a sweeping reshuffle following the appointment of a new defence minister. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Netanyahu_says_war_with_Hamas_will_continue_‘for_many months’⠀⇛ Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel’s war with Palestinian militant group Hamas will “continue for many months until Hamas is eliminated and the hostages are returned”. Netanyahu was speaking at a news conference hours after the health ministry in Gaza said more than 21,670 people have been killed and more than 56,160 injured from Israeli strikes in the enclave since October 7, the date of the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel. o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_YPG_Spokesperson:_Turkey_must_be saved_from_this_mafia_and_terror_regime⠀⇛ o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Turkey_bombs_a_village_in Sulaymaniyah_countryside⠀⇛ o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Turkey_bombs_villages_in_Qandil⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Turkey_Conducts_Air Strikes_in_Northern_Iraq,_Syria_After_12_Soldiers_Killed⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Germany_mulls_reintroduction of_compulsory_military_service⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Israel's_ambassador_to Germany_warns_of_soaring_antisemitism⠀⇛ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Uber_Eats_creates_Palestinian_category after_Toronto_restaurant_controversy⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Sudan:_RSF_leader_visits Ethiopia_in_rare_public_trip_abroad⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Turkey_Steps_up Airstrikes_Against_Kurdish_Groups_in_Syria_and_Iraq_After_12 Soldiers_Were_Killed⠀⇛ o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Turkish_army_targets_infrastructure in_Northern_and_Eastern_Syria⠀⇛ o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Turkish_bombardments_cause_power outages_in_northern_Syria⠀⇛ o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Activists_in_Vienna_protest_attacks carried_out_by_Turkey_against_Northern_and_Eastern_Syria⠀⇛ o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Kurds_in_Frankfurt,_Kiel_and_Aachen condemn_attacks_against_Northern_and_Eastern_Syria⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Bodies_of_Kuwaiti and_Saudi_Missing_in_Iraq_Have_Been_Found⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Kuwaiti_and_Saudi Hunters_Killed_by_a_Leftover_Islamic_State_Group_Explosive_in_Iraq, Officials_Say⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Yemen's_peace_plan_boosts Houthis'_regional_influence⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Can_Bollywood_bring_India_and Pakistan_closer_together?⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_China_urges_nationals_to leave_Myanmar_border_district⠀⇛ o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Exploring_Switzerland’s Role_in_Enhancing_Security_and_Stability_in_the_Horn_of_Africa⠀⇛ o ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Hunger_strikers_in_Antalya_High Security_Prison_sentenced_to_10_days_solitary_confinement⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_France_to_Step_up Security_Measures_for_New_Year's_Celebrations⠀⇛ o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_China_private_security_to protect_overseas_interests_in_unstable_regions⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Security_to_be_reviewed_after pro-Palestinian_protesters_interrupt_Carols_by_Candlelight⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Security_Hiked_at Cologne_Cathedral_for_Christmas_Amid_Attack_Threat⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_German_police_warn_of possible_attack_at_Cologne_Cathedral⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Germany:_Man_detained_over Cologne_Cathedral_threat⠀⇛ o § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Navalny_says_he's_fine' after_arrival_in_Arctic_penal_colony⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Poland_says_Russian missile_entered_then_exited_its_airspace⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Russia,_China_ahead_in race_for_Bolivia's_lithium⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Ukraine_updates:_Russia launches_'massive_missile_attack'⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Russian Celebrities'_'Almost_Naked'_Party_Amid_Ongoing_War_Causes Massive_Outrage⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Russia_launches_huge_aerial attack_on_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_A_Look_at Russian_Missile_Attacks_on_Ukrainian_Targets_Since_the_War Began_in_February_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_An_Associate of_Russian_Opposition_Leader_Navalny_Is_Sentenced_to_9_Years in_Prison⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Kremlin_Says It_Has_List_of_Western_Assets_to_Be_Seized_if_Russian_Assets Are_Confiscated⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_NATO_Air Forces_Scrambled_Over_300_Times_in_2023_Due_to_Russian Military_Aircraft⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_One_Killed, 15_Injured_in_Russian_Missile_Attacks_on_Kyiv,_Kharkiv_- Officials⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Poland_Says 'Everything_Indicates'_a_Russian_Missile_Briefly_Entered_Its Airspace_and_Left⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Russia Launches_the_Biggest_Aerial_Barrage_of_the_War_and_Kills_30 Civilians,_Ukraine_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Russia's Biggest_Air_Attack_of_War_Kills_31_in_Ukraine,_Officials Say⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Russian_Court Sentences_Navalny_Ally_in_Siberia_to_9.5_Years_in_Prison⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Two_Killed, 15_Injured_in_Russian_Strike_on_Odesa_-_Governor⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Poland_Says Russian_Rocket_Likely_to_Have_Entered_Its_Airspace⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Sleeping_on_Russia’s naval_resurgence_in_the_Pacific⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Russian_celebrity_sued_for_hosting 'almost_naked'-themed_party_in_Moscow_after_outcry⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Russia,_US_extend_joint ISS_flights_to_2025:_Roscosmos⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Ukraine_updates:_UK says_Russian_ship_'completely_destroyed'⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Russia_will_assist_NASA_with ISS_space_flights_through_2025⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Sport Giant_Decathlon_Exposed_For_Ignoring_EU_Sanctions_Against Russia_Under_'Secret_Contract'⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Russian_Tech Company_Arenadata_Plans_to_Hold_IPO_in_2024_-_Sources⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Russian Stars'_Semi-Naked_Party_Sparks_Wartime_Backlash⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_West_to_Blame for_World_Turmoil,_Says_Russia's_Lavrov⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Factbox-What and_Where_Are_Russia's_$300_Billion_in_Reserves_Frozen_in_the West?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Russia_pivots_oil_sales to_India_amid_Ukraine_sanctions⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Russia Charges_Six_Danes_With_Being_Mercenaries_-Russian_Embassy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Fighters_hit_Russian_ship,_port_in_Crimea⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Russian Forces_Shell_Kherson_Rail_Station,_One_Policeman_Dead_- Ukraine_Interior_Minister⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Here’s_How_Russia Could_Help_Ethiopia_In_Its_Peaceful_Quest_For_A_Port⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Russia:_Alexei_Navalny located_in_Siberia_prison,_allies_say⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Russia_says_West inciting_Serbia_protests_as_dozens_arrested⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Russia, Ukraine_Report_Six_Civilians_Killed_in_Attacks_on_Kherson, Horlivka⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Belarus Leader_Says_Russian_Nuclear_Weapons_Shipments_Are_Completed, Raising_Concern_in_the_Region⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Imprisoned Russian_Politician_Navalny_Is_Now_in_a_Penal_Colony_Near_the Arctic_Circle⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Russian- Backed_Union_Signs_Free_Trade_Pact_With_Iran⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Russian Forces_Gain_Control_of_Maryinka_in_East_Ukraine,_Defence Minister_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Russian_Has the_Upper_Hand_in_Arms_Race_With_the_West_-_Russian_Minister Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Russia's Navalny_Tracked_Down_to_'Polar_Wolf'_Prison_in_the_Arctic⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Ukraine Celebrates_Christmas_on_Dec._25_for_the_First_Time, Distancing_Itself_From_Russia⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Ukraine's_Air Defence_Destroys_28_Out_of_31_Russia-Launched_Drones,_Kyiv Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Ukraine_Says It_Shot_Down_Russian_Fighter_Jets_and_Drones_as_the_Country Officially_Marks_Christmas⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_US_Welcomes Russia's_Navalny_Being_Located,_Concerned_for_His_Well- Being⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Russian_strikes_kill_4_in_Kherson⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Fire_Briefly Breaks_Out_on_Russian_Nuclear-Powered_Icebreaker⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Russian Shelling_Kills_4_as_Ukraine_Prepares_to_Observe_Christmas_on Dec._25_for_the_First_Time⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Russia, Ukraine_Exchange_Claims_Over_Downed_Military_Aircraft⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Russia_Short of_Around_4.8_Million_Workers_in_2023,_Crunch_to_Persist_- Izvestia⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Ukraine_Says It_Shoots_Down_14_of_15_Russian_Drones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Ukraine_updates:_Kyiv claims_downing_of_Russian_SU-34_jets⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Ukraine Claims_to_Down_Three_Russian_Fighter-Bomber_Jets⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_A_Pro-Peace Russian_Presidential_Hopeful_Is_Blocked_by_the_Election Commission⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Russian Shelling_Kills_One,_Injures_Seven_in_Southern_Ukraine_- Officials⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Anti-War Challenger_Duntsova_Blocked_From_Running_Against_Russia's Putin⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Britain_to Send_200_Air_Defence_Missiles_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Ukraine_updates:_War costs_Kyiv_€120_million_per_day⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Millions_in_Ukraine are_“paying_the_highest_price_for_freedom”⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Ukraine_and Hungary_Prepare_for_Zelenskiy,_Orban_Meeting_Amid_Tensions⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Ukraine Government_Donor_Letter_No_Grounds_for_Panic,_Says Ukrinform⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Missile Strikes_in_Ukraine_Show_Putin_'Must_Be_Stopped,'_Biden_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Zelenskiy Visits_Ukraine's_Embattled_Eastern_Town_of_Avdiivka⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Ukraine_Gives More_Details_of_Latest_Alleged_Killing_of_POWs⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Ukraine Official_Says_Drone_Debris_Hits_Odesa_High-Rise_Building⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Ukraine's Zelenskiy_Says_He_Discussed_Peace_Formula_With_Pope⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Ukraine, Without_Foreign_Aid,_May_Postpone_Pension_Indexation_- Minister⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_War_in_Ukraine_sparks German_rethink_on_defense,_security⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_US_Announces New_Weapons_Package_for_Ukraine,_as_Funds_Dwindle_and Congress_Is_Stalled_on_Aid_Bill⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_US_to_Provide up_to_$250_Million_in_Arms,_Equipment_to_Ukraine_-Blinken⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Commander Says_Ukrainian_Forces_Still_in_Shattered_Town⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Ukraine's_Top General_Criticises_Draft_Offices_in_Rare_Press_Conference⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Ukrainians_mark_first_Christmas_on_Dec_25⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Ukraine_Draft Law_Proposes_Lowering_Mobilisation_Age_to_25_From_27⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Ukraine Received_$1.34_Billion_Under_World_Bank_Project_-_Finance Ministry⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Ukraine_Seeks to_Terminate_Free_Trade_Deal_With_Belarus⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Ukraine:_EU_had_no idea_how_to_win,_now_what?⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Ukraine's_New Christmas_Day_Unites_Catholic-Orthodox_Family⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_EU_accession_a ‘symbolic_victory’_for_Ukraine_to_cover_up_‘real_fatigue’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Georgieva:_Ukraine’s economic_recovery_depends_on_extra_allied_aid⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Polish Farmers_to_Suspend_Protest_at_Ukraine_Border,_Truckers_Stay On⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Ukrainian Catholic_Church_Says_Document_on_Blessing_Same-Sex_Couples Does_Not_Apply⠀⇛ * § Environment⠀➾ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_How_to_Make_Recyclable Plastics_Out_of_CO2_to_Slow_Climate_Change⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Warming_Climate Could_Bring_Flesh-Eating_Bacteria_to_More_U.S._Waters⠀⇛ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Olive_oil_is_getting_more_expensive_— and_these_Italian_farmers_can_tell_you_why⠀⇛ o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Bidenomics_Puts_Business, Not_Workers,_First⠀⇛ o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Why_People_Still_Believe_Climate Disinformation⠀⇛ o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Beyond_Borders_and Billionaires_at_COP28:_Rethinking_Elite_Accountability_for_Climate Justice⠀⇛ o ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_How_7_scientists_feel_after_the_hottest year_on_record⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Ghost_forests:_Australia’s_snow gums_under_threat_from_climate_change⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_How_is_climate_change affecting_Europe's_ski_season?⠀⇛ o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Climate_Change_Linked_to_Spate_of Rare_Disease_Outbreaks_in_2023⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_2023:_Defining_moments_for the_climate_and_environment⠀⇛ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Sleep_Now_in_the_Fire:_the Year_in_Climate⠀⇛ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Climate-fuelled_wildfires_testing_the limits_of_Canada's_aging_water_bombers⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Germany:_2023_set_to_be warmest_year_on_record⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_China:_Sub-zero_Beijing breaks_December_cold_weather_record⠀⇛ o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ How_To_Build_A_Small_Solar_Power_System⠀⇛ We live in an exciting time with respect to electrical power, one in which it has never been easier to break free from mains electricity, and low-frequency AC power in general. A confluence of lower-power appliances and devices using low- voltage external switch-mode supplies, readily available solar panels and electronic modules, and inexpensive high-capacity batteries, means that being your own power provider can be as simple as making an online order. # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Energy_regulator_rejects FortisBC's_$327M_application_for_natural_gas_pipeline⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Nevada_Tribe Says_Coalitions,_Not_Lawsuits,_Will_Protect_Sacred_Sites_as US_Advances_Energy_Agenda⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_From_Ethnic_Cleansing to_Energy_Goals⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_The_federal_government_wants Canadians_to_switch_to_electric_vehicles._Are_they interested?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Europe_Is_Moving_Farther to_the_Right_on_Energy_and_Immigration⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Ontario's_automotive_workforce needs_a_boost_to_be_ready_for_the_EV_boom⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Energy Bills_in_the_UK_is_set_to_Decrease_by_a_Significant_Amount_in 2024⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Netherlands_still_vulnerable over_natural_gas_supply;_Energy_conservation_still_needed⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Conflict_of_interest questions_arise_over_minister's_work_as_energy_lobbyist⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Michigan_has_a_new_way to_fight_climate_change:_Energy_from_cow_poop_and_urine⠀⇛ # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_2023_Was_a_Big_Year_for Climate_Litigation⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Towns Reinforce_Dikes_as_Heavy_Rains_Send_Rivers_Over_Their_Banks in_Germany_and_the_Netherlands⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_German_auto_industry: Will_2024_mark_a_turning_point?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_VW's_Dieselgate:_Ex-CEO market_manipulation_trial_to_resume⠀⇛ o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Jellyfish_Can_Regrow_Their_Tentacles,_And We_Finally_Know_How⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Which_zoo_animals_are most_active_in_winter_and_what_times_are_best_to_see_them?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Wild_Images_Reveal_a_Shock_Wave_Traveling Through_a_Single_Cell⠀⇛ Simply amazing to see. # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Demand_for_gold_means_the_Amazon has_reached_'tipping_point'_of_mercury_contamination_from illegal_mining⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Brazil_Cracks Down_as_Wildcat_Miners_in_the_Amazon_Shift_Their_Operations⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_After_a_devastating_2023,_B.C.'s wildfire_service_is_already_preparing_for_next_year's wildfire_season⠀⇛ * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Costs_stack_up_as_payments_go digital,_but_some_insist_we’ll_never_go_cashless⠀⇛ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_PHOTOS_|_Thousands_in_Argentina_protest President_Javier_Milei's_proposed_economic_reforms⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Argentina:_Protesters_march against_Milei's_economic_reforms⠀⇛ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_After_years_of_turbulence,_small clothing_designers_struggle_for_a_sustainable_model⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Germany's_government_fails_to slash_growing_homelessness⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Homelessness_climbs_sharply in_rural_England⠀⇛ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Canadians_hit_hard_by_inflation_cut_back for_Christmas⠀⇛ o ⚓ Yearender_2023:_Global_layoffs_impacting_the_gaming_industry⠀⇛ It was a year of massive changes, and several layoffs took place in 2023- which shook almost every existing industry. It was recently reported that layoffs have affected at least 9,000 globally. Here are a few companies which took the massive step of letting go of people, to sustain and survive in the competitive environment. o ⚓ Mansueto Ventures ☛ Google's_CEO,_Sundar_Pichai,_Says_Laying_Off 12,000_Workers_Was_the_Worst_Moment_in_the_Company's_25-Year History⠀⇛ I've said before that if you're the CEO of a company and you decide that your best strategy moving forward is to lay off a bunch of the people who work for you, that's a failure of your leadership, full stop. In a scenario where CEOs were held accountable, you would be one of the people who lose their jobs. o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Have_you_seen_viral_videos_of_long lineups_of_people_looking_for_work?_Here's_the_possible_reason_for them⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Top_subsidiaries_of_property giant_Signa_file_for_bankruptcy⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_UK_celebrates_Brexit_dividend with_pint-sized_wine_bottles⠀⇛ * § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Former_Assistant_US_Attorney_Kevin_J. O’Brien_talks_state_Supreme_Court_ruling_on_Trump_and_the_2024 election⠀⇛ On Monday, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld a ruling from the Michigan Court of Appeals saying former President Donald Trump can appear on the Republican primary ballot in the state. o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_New_Order_of_Canada_inductees_include journalist_who_investigated_Trump's_finances,_1st_Inuk_senator⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Will_BRICS_expansion_set_a new_agenda_for_the_Global_South?⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_German_police_say_political failure_fuels_New_Year_danger⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Germany:_AfD_a_growing_threat to_democracy,_says_minister⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Congo_police_seek_to_disperse banned_election_protest⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_DRC:_Government_bans_protest against_election⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Azerbaijan_expels_French diplomats_amid_Armenia_tensions⠀⇛ o § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Kull,_Thomas:_Safeguarding democracy_from_artificial_intelligence⠀⇛ AI has opened up new possibilities for distorting the democratic process by generating fake voices in the service of special interests. * § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ o ⚓ Reason ☛ "Fake_Sherlock,"_or_Fake_Allegations_by_New_York Magazine?⠀⇛ An interesting false light lawsuit filed today, Walter v. Herbert (M.D. Pa.), over New York magazine's "The Case of the Fake Sherlock" article (see pp. 11-19 of this PDF for a paywall-free version). o ⚓ Reason ☛ October_7:_A_Turning_Point_for_Free_Speech?⠀⇛ Restricting speech about the world's most pressing problems does not make them go away, nor does it settle any disputes. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Grandparents_for_Truth_Takes_on Book_Bans_and_Censorship_in_Schools⠀⇛ o ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Federal_judge_rejects_X’s_claim that_California’s_content_moderation_law_violates_free_speech⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Suspect_arrested_in_alleged_theft of_a_Banksy_stop_sign_decorated_with_military_drones⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-24_[Older]_Second_Suspect Arrested_in_Theft_of_Banksy_Stop_Sign_Artwork_Featuring_Military Drones⠀⇛ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Suspect_arrested_after_Banksy_stop_sign decorated_with_military_drones_stolen_in_London⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_London_police_arrest_man following_removal_of_Banksy_artwork⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Police_make_new_arrest following_removal_of_Banksy_artwork⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Suspect_Arrested_in Alleged_Theft_of_a_Banksy_Stop_Sign_Decorated_With_Military Drones⠀⇛ * § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Poland_puts_state_media_into liquidation_amid_political_row⠀⇛ * § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_How_Solidarity_Got_Amazon_Workers_a Raise_Before_a_Union [Ed: The employer that injures you and throws you away, like the wife of Jeff Bezos]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_France_grounds_plane_over suspected_'human_trafficking'⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-23_[Older]_Twitter_Violated Contract_by_Failing_to_Pay_Millions_in_Bonuses,_US_Judge_Rules⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_In_Nigeria_and_Much of_Africa,_Catholic_Same-Sex_Couples_See_No_Blessings_Soon⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_After_a_new_constitution, what's_next_for_Chad?⠀⇛ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Quebec_reaches_tentative_deals_on working_conditions_with_unions_that_are_part_of_labour_alliance⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-25_[Older]_Do_India's_new_criminal_laws give_police_too_much_power?⠀⇛ * § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Amazon's_Prime_Video_to_start_showing commercials_in_February [Ed: DRM garbage gravitates towards disinformation, including "ads"]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Amazon's_Prime_Video_will_start serving_ads_on_January_29_unless_you_pay_extra [Ed: Getting no misinformation is going to become a "premium" (but you already paid!)]⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Amazon_Prime_Ads_on Movies_and_TV_Shows_Will_Begin_in_Late_January [Ed: Enjoy paying to watch ads]⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Verge ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Amazon_Prime_Video_Will_Start Showing_Ads_Next_Month⠀⇛ § Monopolies/Monopsonies⠀➾ * ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Sculptor_sues_glass_maker_over_Swedish transposition_of_Article_20_DSM_Directive_and_to_test_its_temporal application⠀⇛ * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_Optis_v_Apple_Trial_E_(Part_I): findings_on_specific_issues_and_topics⠀⇛ o ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Apple_is_selling_its_contested Watch_models_again_after_import_ban_pause⠀⇛ o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_Now’s_the_Time_to_Buy_the_Apple Watch_Series_9_Before_It_Gets_Banned_Again [Ed: No, that is not logical. Just because some trashy product infringes on software patent does not mean you should rush to buy it.]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_The_Apple_Watch_import_ban_is paused_—_for_now⠀⇛ o ⚓ MacRumors ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Federal_Appeals_Court_Pauses Import_Ban_on_Apple_Watch_Series_9_and_Ultra_2⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_2_Models_of_Apple Watch_Can_Go_on_Sale_Again,_for_Now,_After_Court_Lifts_Halt_Over_a Patent_Dispute⠀⇛ o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Biden_Won't_Save_The_Apple_Watch [Ed: Biden is not a judge, but he could work to formally ban software patents]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Apple_appeals_ban_on_Watch_Series_9 and_Ultra_2⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-12-26_[Older]_Apple_Seeks_a_Path to_Getting_2_of_Its_Best_Watches_Back_on_Shelves_During_a_Bitter Patent_Dispute⠀⇛ * § Trademarks⠀➾ o ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-12-29_[Older]_A_lion's_head_is_a_weak_trade_mark, says_General_Court⠀⇛ o ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Chanel_v_EasyCash:_Distribution_of sample_cosmetics_does_not_trigger_trade_mark_exhaustion⠀⇛ o ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Recording_a_license_agreement_in_the EU_requires_consent_of_the_currently_registered_trade_mark_owner⠀⇛ § Copyrights⠀➾ * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_New_York_Times_sues_Microsoft_and OpenAI_for_copyright_infringement⠀⇛ * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-12-28_[Older]_New_York_Times_sues_OpenAI,_Microsoft⠀⇛ * ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_ChatGPT:_New_York_Times_sues_OpenAI over_article_usage⠀⇛ * ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_The_New_York_Times_is_suing_OpenAI_and Microsoft_for_copyright_infringement⠀⇛ * ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_Chinese_court_deems_AI-generated_image_has copyright_–_Assessing_the_possibly_over-hasty_‘spring_breeze’_case⠀⇛ * ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-12-27_[Older]_“Vaccinated,_chipped,_dewormed” insufficiently_original_to_be_protected_by_copyright⠀⇛ § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ o ⚓ For_the_greater_good,_let's_do_it_the_hard_way⠀⇛ I wasn't planning on this being my 2024 resolution. I am not overly certain why I made the title. Must have felt like it last night. Nevertheless, this is the mood I'm in right now, at the end of 2023 going into 2024. o ⚓ New_year,_only_slightly_new_resolutions⠀⇛ A couple of years ago I put up a new year resolution generator... o ⚓ Hey,_2024!_No_promises.⠀⇛ The change of a digit in my calendar doesn't mean much to me. I have plans and hopes for the coming months anyway and I'm not gonna turn them into New Year resolutions. I've had to pause so many plans for the past few months because of life and finances. There's just not been room for much. Some of that pressure is easing in the near future, thankfully, which will hopefully give me the opportunity to follow through on some things. o ⚓ The_New_Year⠀⇛ Hello fellow patrons of this fine establishment! The new year is coming! o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_GIWNOUK_Wordo:_DULLS⠀⇛ o ⚓ Fungocalypse⠀⇛ Woke up from another nightmare about what happened in our D&D game. o ⚓ Toward_purple⠀⇛ Two days ago, I received a gift of fountain pen ink from an old friend. It's a color I've never used before, a dark grey with purple undertones. To use it, I had the pleasure of removing the old ink from my fountain pen, washing it, and letting it dry. o ⚓ The_answer_my_friend_is⠀⇛ o ⚓ 2024_is_starting..._A_few_ideas_before_the_year_finishes⠀⇛ Year is doing +1 in a few hours and after seeing a few messages about it (thanks for sharing) I wanted to share publicly a few ideas (it was supposed to be a private reflection that I'm too lazy to finish 🏁). * § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ o ⚓ My_Site_Now_Specifies_Language⠀⇛ I updated bergelmir (my HTTP+Gemini+Gopher+Finger server) to allow me to specify languages for pages when folks visit my site using a Gemini client. I also updated huginn (my Gemtext file to HTML + Gophermap file converter) to specify languages for pages when folks visit my site using a web browser. o ⚓ 2023⠀⇛ I was wondering whether I should make this post, but seeing one of the smol.pub users I like do it, I decided, why not? There are many highlights to this year, but I won't bother you with all of that. One interesting thing that happened, I ate a snake. It coiled desperately as I tried to open it up, even though the head had been severed for a while already. It reminded me so much to that book I read earlier this year[1] that argues that the whole organism is alive, not just some part of it such as the brain. o ⚓ Wanting_to_socialize⠀⇛ So yeah, trying to get into Matrix. The chat protocol, not the movies or whatever things the *normies* watch. I'm not sure how to choose a home server. The name makes research harder, and I'm finding more material about self hosting than about instances to go to. On Mastodon I would go on a public instance and look where the cool people have created their accounts, but Matrix rooms are not public, it's a blind guess. o ⚓ Licenses_guarantees⠀⇛ He mentioned a problem with licenses not being enough to guarantee open-source. I guess this is kind of expected, laws always have holes and never actually *prevent* things. I'm not sure that you can really fix human dishonesty with a license. Should still try though. ...and I just realized how true "everything a company has goes wrong" was. I actually can't think of a large project "owned" by a company that behaves anything like an open-source community. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2782 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 31/12/2023: Clownflare Sued, War in Ukraine Intensifies⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 31, 2023 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇New_Year,_2024,_Greeting_Card⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies/Monopsonies # Copyrights # Gemini*_and_Gopher # Personal/Opinions # Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Brandon ☛ Replacing_the_Resolutions_with_a_Theme⠀⇛ Instead of blogging, I've been studying Stoicism, writing in a personal journal, and even dabbling in some fiction writing. When I think about things I want to focus on this upcoming year, all three of these activities come to mind. So, it would easy for me to hop on this blog and proclaim to the world that I'm going to spend the next twelve months journaling, furthering my fiction writing, and studying Stoicism. But I know me, I know that the moment I put that into the world, it becomes a shadow. It follows me wherever I go. If I spend a weekend watching TV, I'll feel haunted by the fact that I'm not working towards what I said I would. If I don't feel like writing fiction or I get stuck and give up for the umpteenth time, then the feeling of failure comes rushing in. I don't want that in my life. o ⚓ [Repeat] Tedium ☛ The_Open_Letter_Still_Works⠀⇛ Honestly, I gave Substack too much credit. In my nine years of writing Tedium, I do not regret a post more than that one. I wasted time caring about Substack that I should have spent on other things. While I think the platform discussions I raised in that post were important, I quickly realized that Substack’s leadership was problematic in some serious ways. CEO Chris Best flubbing a layup of a question about moderation from Nilay Patel? It was only a hint at what was coming. o ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Thank_You_Catherine_Stihler⠀⇛ Today Creative Commons CEO Catherine Stihler is announcing the conclusion of her time leading the organization. On behalf of the Board of Directors, staff, and global community, we want to offer Catherine our sincere thanks. We are grateful to her for over three years of leadership at CC. o ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Pack_Your_Memories_Into_Your_Disaster_Bag⠀⇛ But in talking with experts about disaster preparedness, I was surprised to find that recommendations on storing personal possessions in those bags are basically nonexistent. That necessities come first makes sense: These items can make a life-and-death difference in moments of crisis. But ever since members of my immediate family were displaced, I have started thinking about a third way to prepare for the uncertainty of extreme weather and the disasters that follow—what I like to call my “climate carry-on.” o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Physicists_Designed_an_Experiment_to_Turn_Light Into_Matter⠀⇛ It would be a tangible demonstration of Einstein's famous E = mc^2 equation. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ I_leave_our_library_with_a_greater_burden_– and_that’s_my_reward⠀⇛ A State Library Victoria report in 2018 revealed that “every dollar invested in public libraries generates $4.30 of benefits to the local community”. If I could observe the benefits of libraries even before conducting research, it is clear evidence of their positive impact. Libraries improve community connection. They reduce waste as resources are passed around. They are cost- effective. That should be enough to convince higher-ups to continually fund and improve them. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ This_Simple_5-Minute_Exercise_Can_Give Reading_Skills_a_Powerful_Boost⠀⇛ By the end of the school year, the students who tried the mindfulness techniques were reading 4.41 more words correctly during a timed reading exercise, on average. Previous studies have shown links between mindfulness-based interventions and improved academic performance, but much of the research looks at grades rather than the skills required to get the grades. # ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ The_curious_joy_of_being_wrong_– intellectual_humility_means_being_open_to_new_information⠀⇛ Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like.” This quote pithily underscores the human tendency to desire growth while also harboring strong resistance to the hard work that comes with it. I can certainly resonate with this sentiment. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ SSD_prices_predicted_to_skyrocket throughout_2024_—_TrendForce_market_report_projects_a_50% price_hike⠀⇛ A report from TrendForce predicts NAND flash prices will surge by 50% in the short term, eventually resulting in higher prices for SSDs. NAND chips have already gotten more expensive in the second half of 2023, but they're set to increase even more as flash manufacturers attempt to return to profitability. The 50% figure given by TrendForce is the goal of companies like Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, which produce much of the world's NAND. From today's prices, an increase of 40% will reportedly get these companies back to breaking even, and a rise of 50% will mean profits instead of the losses that threatened bankruptcies earlier this year. # ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Blatant_self_interest_–_monitor_light⠀⇛ I took these photos one evening in my office. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ A_quack_is_launching_his_own_AI_chatbot_in_2024⠀⇛ As the misbegotten year that was 2023, which was a horrible year all around for my family, shambles reluctantly to a close, the better to usher in the New Year of 2024 (which, given the possibility of its bringing us Donald Trump as President again, threatens to be even worse than its predecessor), I was wondering what I could write about for one last post. I remember that I said that I would try to reinvigorate the blog next year, and I will. However, I’m unlikely to get to the task before January 2 or 3. In the meantime, though, I realized that I had totally forgotten to address a rather amazing tidbit that I encountered a couple of weeks ago on a quack website that has, alas, provided me with way too much material over the last two decades and has continued to descend ever further from just quackery and antivax misinformation into more generalized antiscience misinformation and conspiracy theories and just plain conspiracy theories, often mixed liberally with a hefty helping of prepper paranoia. I’m referring, of course, to Mike Adams and his misinformation empire Natural News, where three weeks ago I saw an announcement, Mike Adams announces breakthrough AI project that will bypass Big Tech censorship for health, nutrition and natural medicine: # ⚓ Ulrike_Uhlig:_How_do_kids_conceive_the_internet?_-_part_4⠀⇛ I’ve been wanting to write this post for over a year, but lacked energy and time. Before 2023 is coming to an end, I want to close this series and share some more insights with you and hopefully provide you with a smile here and there. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Advancement_of_AI:_Machine_Learning_Examples_in Real_Life⠀⇛ While ML continues to evolve, businesses take steps further to implement it in their applications. Let’s see how machine learning actually works, which machine learning examples in real life exist, and how they transform our lives. # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ AI's_Predictable_Path:_7_Things_to_Expect From_AI_in_2024+⠀⇛ My favorite example of something stochastic is a drunk guy stumbling home from the bar. Every step he takes might as well be a pseudo-random generator. You could use all the supercomputers on Earth and not be able to predict exactly where he’ll step. But if you zoom out and add time, he’ll probably end up at home. I think the future of AI is very similar. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Craze_for_AI_data_science_in_arts,_science colleges⠀⇛ As many as four trusts have applied to the university seeking permission to start new colleges in city outskirts including Mannivakkam, Avadi, New Perungalathur and Maduranthakam. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ AI_Detects_Unusual_Signal_Hidden_in_a Famous_Raphael_Masterpiece⠀⇛ Scholars have in fact long debated whether or not the painting is a Raphael original. While it requires diverse evidence to conclude an artwork's provenance, a new method of analysis based on an AI algorithm has sided with those who think at least some of the strokes were at the hand of another artist. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Navigating_the_era_of_innovation: How_artificial_intelligence and_automation_are_driving_a digital-first_government⠀⇛ Each year, approximately 400 million people, including individuals, families, businesses and organizations, benefit from the vast array of information and services offered by the federal government. Moreover, with mobile devices responsible for over half of the 80 billion hours spent interacting with public resources, it’s clear that technology has transformed the way people engage with government services. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ An_Artist_in_Residence_on_A.I.’s Territory⠀⇛ In late November, a group of visual artists filed an amended copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney and other makers of A.I. tools after a federal judge dismissed parts of the original complaint, which accused the companies of misusing the artists’ creations to train generative A.I systems. Mr. Reben said he couldn’t speak to the specifics of A.I. and the law, “but like with any new creative technology, the law needs to catch up to the unpredictable future.” o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Google_settles_$5_billion_privacy_lawsuit_over tracking_people_using_'incognito_mode'⠀⇛ The class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 said Google misled users into believing that it wouldn't track their [Internet] activities while using incognito mode. It argued that Google's advertising technologies and other techniques continued to catalog details of users' site visits and activities despite their use of supposedly "private" browsing. # ⚓ Jamie Zawinski ☛ Google_agrees_to_settle_$5bn_lawsuit claiming_it_secretly_tracked_users⠀⇛ US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, put a scheduled trial in the proposed class action, which was due to begin in February, on hold on Thursday after lawyers for Google and for consumers said they had reached the preliminary settlement. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Debbie_Dingell:_How_to_Stand_Up_to_Trump⠀⇛ Mr. Trump’s style of politics — the disrespect, prejudice, name-calling and malice that too often get swept aside as his just calling it as he sees it — makes healthy debate and discussion virtually impossible. The word “congress” by definition means coming together. Government shouldn’t be about who can make the most noise; it’s about working together to find solutions. Take it from me: What Mr. Trump is doing isn’t honesty or candor, it’s ruthless and deliberate viciousness. # ⚓ PBS ☛ Full_Episode:_Washington_Week_with_The_Atlantic_full episode,_12/29/23⠀⇛ And so there was a lot of stuff that was happening that was trial and error in that first term where he was testing the limits. A lot of them were the limits of what his fellow Republicans would be willing to tolerate. He didn't know if this type of petty corruption he was engaged in would just get a free pass or if it would be something that would earn the reprimand. And so he tested the limits. And he found out basically that there were no limits. And so headed into this second term, you have people who thought much more deliberately about how to structure what they call the administrative state. And one of the things that comes up in a lot of these articles in this issue is that there's this goal of implementing something called Schedule F, which is that you would purge not just -- you're not just talking about the cabinet appointees or the political appointees, but the civil service, the bureaucrats who populate what Trump disparages and referred to as the deep state. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Who_is_to_blame_for_our_broken_Congress⠀⇛ An overwhelming majority of Americans say they disapprove of the job Congress is doing according to a recent GALLUP poll. This should not be surprising considering that in almost a year the current Congress has passed fewer than three dozen bills, the fewest in decades for one session, and whose accomplishments little resemble those of its immediate predecessor, which was one of the most productive in history. # ⚓ CBC ☛ What_will_it_take_to_end_copper_theft_—_and_the_havoc it_wreaks_—_in_B.C.?⠀⇛ The rose-coloured hardware is found in electrical wiring, transformers and pipes, and can be sold for anywhere from $2 to $4 per pound — making homes, construction sites and public infrastructure a prime target for thieves. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Is_TikTok_a_National_Security_Threat?⠀⇛ TikTok poses a national security threat for the United States based on the app’s connection to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the highly advanced AI-based algorithm that conforms and shifts itself based on personal user data information. The China National Intelligence Act is a law that specifically states “every activity of individuals, companies, even organizations, must involve the State Intelligence Agency in carrying out its activities. With this Act, all people who occupy Chinese land, all their activities will be monitored by the State Intelligence Service” (Indrayani, I. et al., 2022). The large reach and hold that the TikTok app has on many Americans coupled with China’s surveillance abilities and wide access to user data poses a national security threat to various sectors of the US. Along with affecting the world’s leading superpower, TikTok also poses a threat to the international world order. # ⚓ NDTV ☛ Chinese_Spy_Balloon_Used_US_Internet_To_Communicate: Report⠀⇛ A US official revealed that the Chinese spy balloon, which traversed the United States in early 2023, used an American internet service provider to transmit periodic data related to navigation and location back to China, CNN reported. # ⚓ El País ☛ Maine_joins_Colorado_in_banning_Trump_from running_for_office⠀⇛ And Maine said no. The Northeastern state’s Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, decided Thursday that Donald Trump cannot run in that state’s primary because she interprets the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which incorporates a now well-known “disqualification” clause for anyone who has participated in a “rebellion or insurrection,” as preventing him from doing so. # ⚓ American Oversight ☛ American_Oversight_Files_Amicus_Brief in_Trump_Election_Interference_Case⠀⇛ U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan previously ruled that the former president is not entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution. Stressing the public interest in a prompt resolution of the case, Special Counsel Jack Smith sought immediate Supreme Court review, but the Court denied the request. Trump’s immunity claim is now before the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and his trial on the election interference charges — originally set for March — is on hold while his appeal proceeds. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Five_things_that_did_not_happen_in 2023⠀⇛ A lot happened in 2023. But for a moment consider everything that could have happened but didn’t. Think of all the outcomes that were considered likely, or even unlikely but possible, yet came to naught. Many firmly held expectations about 2023 simply never materialized. Yet these acts of imagination nonetheless had real-world effects, determining where attention was directed and resources spent. Below, Atlantic Council experts look at five events that notably did not happen in 2023 and what they reveal about the world going into 2024. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Thousands_of_vendors_fail_to_comply with_ban_on_Chinese_telecommunications_equipment⠀⇛ More than 6,000 vendors failed to comply with the requirement not to use telecommunications equipment made by specific Chinese companies like ZTE and Huawei. The Federal Acquisition Regulations Council said these companies needed two hours each to answer 16 questions explaining why and how they are mitigating any risks. To that end, the FAR Council wants to renew that information collection requirement. The council is seeking comments on the burden of filling out this questionnaire and wants to extend the information collection through April 2027. Comments are due by February 26. # ⚓ US Federal Register ☛ Information_Collection; Implementation_of_Federal_Acquisition_Supply_Chain_Security Act_(FASCSA)_Orders⠀⇛ In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations, DoD, GSA, and NASA invite the public to comment on an extension concerning Implementation of Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act (FASCSA) Orders. DoD, GSA, and NASA invite comments on: whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of Federal Government acquisitions, including whether the information will have practical utility; the accuracy of the estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. OMB has approved this information collection for use through April 30, 2024. DoD, GSA, and NASA propose that OMB extend its approval for use for three additional years beyond the current expiration date. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Michael_Cohen_says_he_unwittingly_sent_AI-generated fake_legal_cases_to_his_attorney⠀⇛ Cohen made the admission in a court filing unsealed Friday in Manhattan federal court after a judge earlier this month asked a lawyer to explain how court rulings that do not exist were cited in a motion submitted on Cohen's behalf. Judge Jesse Furman had also asked what role, if any, Cohen played in drafting the motion. The AI-generated cases were cited as part of written arguments attorney David M. Schwartz made to try to bring an early end to Cohen's court supervision after he served more than a year behind bars. Cohen had pleaded guilty in 2018 to tax evasion, campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, saying Trump directed him to arrange the payment of hush money to a porn actor and to a former Playboy model to fend off damage to his 2016 presidential bid. # ⚓ Lusaka ZM ☛ Zambia_Marks_32nd_Anniversary_of_Christian Nation_Declaration⠀⇛ Zambia commemorated the 32nd anniversary of its declaration as a Christian nation yesterday, with President Hakainde Hichilema emphasizing the pivotal role Christianity has played in shaping the nation’s values and fostering peace. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Demonization_of_Rohingya_in_Indonesia: An_Analysis_on_Social_Media_Narratives⠀⇛ Recently, the Rohingya issue in Indonesia resurfaced following their arrival on the coast of Aceh, such as Sabang, Pidie, and Bireuen, in mid- November 2023. The continuous influx of refugees has not been balanced with local resources in Aceh, particularly concerning the overcrowded conditions in the shelters, leading to widespread rejection in the region. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_civilians_in_the_city_of_Belgorod describe_the_first_hours_of_Saturday’s_attack_A_joint report_by_Meduza_and_7x7_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Gay_Russian_Anchor,_Journalist_Lobkov_Alleges Moscow_Beating⠀⇛ Longtime TV anchorman and journalist Pavel Lobkov says he was attacked in a park in an affluent downtown district in Moscow, posting photos early on December 30 that show bloody injuries to his face and hands. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ About_20_People_Detained_At_Russian_Bar Following_Drag_Performance⠀⇛ Russian police detained 20 people at a Siberian bar where the evening's entertainment included drag performances, a local Telegram channel reported. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Strike_on_Belgorod_that_killed_more_than_a dozen_'will_not_go_unpunished',_Russia_says⠀⇛ More than a dozen people were killed by Ukrainian strikes on the Russian provincial capital of Belgorod, Russia's emergencies ministry said Saturday, with the Russian defence ministry vowing the strike "will not go unpunished". # ⚓ France24 ☛ Nearly_40_dead_across_Ukraine_as_Russia launches_largest_aerial_assault_since_war_began⠀⇛ Russia launched 122 missiles and 36 drones against Ukrainian targets, officials said Friday, killing dozens of civilians across the country in what an air force official said was the biggest aerial barrage of the 22-month war. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Teenager_Sentenced_To_Four_Years_In Prison_On_Treason_Charges⠀⇛ A Russian teenager has been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of treason, the latest victim of the Kremlin's sweeping crackdown on citizens opposed to its invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Death_Toll,_Condemnation_Mount_From_Massive Russian_Bombardment_As_Kyiv_Declares_Day_Of_Mourning⠀⇛ Aerial attacks continued overnight between Russia and Ukraine but appeared to have abated early on December 30, one day after Russia carried out its most intense bombardment of Ukrainian military and civilian targets in the 22-month-long war. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukrainian_Missile_Attack_on_Belgorod Kills_at_Least_18,_Officials_Say⠀⇛ The bombardment of Belgorod on Saturday, apparently in response to an enormous air assault by Moscow a day earlier, appeared to be the deadliest single attack on Russian soil since the start of the war. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_a_Russian_Barrage_Evaded Ukraine’s_Defenses_to_Wreak_Deadly_Chaos⠀⇛ In one of the war’s largest bombardments, 35 missiles slipped through Ukraine’s air cover on Friday, killing dozens. Ukraine responded with shelling on the Russian region of Belgorod, killing at least 14. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_shells_Russia’s_Belgorod,_two children_reportedly_killed_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_says_at_least_21_dead_after_Ukrainian attack_on_Belgorod_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Foreign_Ministry_says_U.K._behind Ukraine’s_attack_on_Belgorod_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Over_20_reportedly_injured_as_Russia_strikes Ukraine’s_Kharkiv_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ VW's_Dieselgate:_Ex-CEO_market manipulation_trial_to_resume⠀⇛ Former Volkswagen (VW) chief executive Martin Winterkorn must stand trial again in an emissions cheating scandal, a German court said on Thursday. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ CNBC ☛ Student_loan_forgiveness,_tech_layoffs,_big_money stories_from_2023⠀⇛ There has been no shortage of news that affects your wallet this year. Here are the highlights. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ 2023’s_great_games_were_overshadowed_by_a_dark cloud_of_layoffs⠀⇛ Over 9,000 people are without jobs in one of the worst years for video game employment. # ⚓ Canada_Capitalises_on_U.S._Tech_Layoffs,_Attracts_H-1B_Visa Holders⠀⇛ The country’s tech market has seen a growth of 15.7% since 2020, surpassing the U.S. growth of 11.4%. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] Silicon Angle ☛ Samsung_partners_with_Red_Hat_to verify_key_data_center_scalability_tech⠀⇛ According to Yongcheol Bae, executive vice president of Memory Product Planning at Samsung, the partnership with Red Hat is an “exemplary case” of collaboration between advanced hardware and software providers. He added that the collaboration will “enrich and accelerate” the CXL ecosystem significantly. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Pentagon_Wants_Feedback_on_Revised Cybersecurity_Maturity_Model_Certification_Program⠀⇛ The CMMC program is meant to establish an assessment mechanism to verify that defense contractors and subcontractors have implemented the security measures required to protect federal contract information (FCI) and controlled unclassified information (CUI). The DoD currently demands that contractors and subcontractors implement the security protections detailed in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800–171 Rev 2. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ New_direct_hire_authority_aims_to assist_agencies_with_AI_talent_surge⠀⇛ There is more work ahead for OPM, too, to fulfill the requirements of the AI executive order. OPM is also tasked with giving agencies guidance on how they can use existing pay flexibilities or incentive pay programs to attract AI experts into government service. And OPM will additionally lead a governmentwide pooled hiring action focused on bringing AI experts into agencies. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Deepfakes_Could_Fuel 'Tsunami_of_Misinformation'_In_2024_US_Election,_AI Expert_Predicts⠀⇛ With deepfakes going mainstream and social media guardrails fading, a top artificial intelligence (AI) expert believes misinformation will be plaguing the upcoming US presidential elections. Three years after a mob stormed the US Capitol, the false election conspiracy theory that triggered the unprecedented chaos and violence continues to poison minds and threaten future peace in the form of social media posts and cable news. As if that weren't enough, experts are now warning that things are likely to get worse in the impending presidential elections in the United States. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Michael_Cohen_Used_Artificial Intelligence_in_Feeding_Lawyer_Bogus_Cases⠀⇛ The fictitious citations were used by the lawyer in a motion submitted to a federal judge, Jesse M. Furman. Mr. Cohen, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations and served time in prison, had asked the judge for an early end to the court’s supervision of his case now that he is out of prison and has complied with the conditions of his release. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ Criticize_This_African_Country’s Army_and_You_Might_Be_Drafted⠀⇛ The military junta in Burkina Faso, a West African nation struggling to defeat extremist groups, has been forcibly conscripting critics, say human rights organizations. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Hong_Kong_Activist_Flees_to_Britain, Citing_Police_Pressure⠀⇛ The activist, Tony Chung, revealed on Thursday that he had arrived in Britain, and, in several social media posts, said that he had decided to leave Hong Kong after enduring oppressive restrictions, pressure to act as informant and severe stress after his release from prison in June. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Relatives_say_imprisoned_Vietnamese_journalist’s health_declining⠀⇛ Tuan is a former editor of the Vietnam Times online newspaper and a member of the Vietnam Independent Journalists’ Association, which fought for press freedom in Vietnam but was not recognized by the Communist-led government. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Anganwadi_workers’_strike_enters_18th_day⠀⇛ Leaders of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union and AP Pragathiseela Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union and others participated in the dharna. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Sacrificing_for_the_Greater_Good⠀⇛ I think many people believe that our society has gotten so complex, with so many people, and so much need for consumption of natural resources in order to be comfortable, that what the government is forcing on us now is required to survive. § Monopolies/Monopsonies⠀➾ o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ DNS_Block:_Canal+_Sues_Cloudflare,_Google_& Cisco_to_Fight_Piracy⠀⇛ When broadcaster Canal+ obtained injunctions to block popular sports streaming sites including Footybite and Streamcheck, French ISPs were required to implement DNS blocking. In response, some users switched to third-party DNS providers, a hole that Canal+ now wants to plug. Through a lawsuit filed at a Paris court, the broadcaster hopes to compel Cloudflare, Google, and Cisco to implement similar DNS blocking measures. # ⚓ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ Boom_in_A.I._Prompts_a_Test_of Copyright_Law⠀⇛ The lawsuit contends that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat can produce content nearly identical to Times articles, allowing the companies to “free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment.” o § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ # § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ I've_Always_Jotted_And_Hopefully_Will_Continue_To Jot⠀⇛ I shall jump on a *bandwagon* now. Which *bandwagon* is this, you ask? It is the *prompt* bandwagon. I've noticed that over the last several months, or perhaps over the last several years or even perhaps over the last several epochs, other humans react to series of words called *prompts*. These reactions become creations. For example, on the only social network on which I still participate, *poetry prompts* come up in my "home" timeline frequently. It seems that I follow a good number of other humans who are both fond of poetry and who write poetry. So, the *prompt* is a impetus for the creation - in this case a poem. Being mostly oblivious to all things "pop culture", such regularities in others' habits escape me. # ⚓ Reflections_on_Energy_(part_2)⠀⇛ It looked like a shell, half buried, but as she dug through the sand around its edges, she found it was something completely different, something she'd never seen before and thought only existed in stories. She had to be imagining—it simply couldn't be a mirror of her life. It was blurry, an old mirror of burnished silver, but there was no mistaking it—every moment of her life was reflected back in that mirror. She gazed out at the ebb and flow of the ocean, and felt the residue of her life's experiences in her body. The pain in her side from the accident, the tension in her head and neck that had been there since her 20s, the skip in her heart's beat every minute or two. "Harmless," the doctor had assured her, after her scans checked out. "Just part of growing old." But it had started all at once, almost 6 years ago now, after a straight year of overwork and drinking coffee as a substitute for, well, everything she felt no control over. # ⚓ She's_gone_to_the_gemlog_now,_and_she_don't_need gemget⠀⇛ Root problem is taking the idea of an individual self seriously - i.e. as though real - which leads to behavior favoring that alleged be-ing over alleged other such be- ings and/or their environment Root problem has already been solved many times in many eras for many peoples. # ⚓ No_rolling_behind_a_screen⠀⇛ The reason I wish roll-behind-a-screen games like Sky Team or Roll For the Galaxy had found another solution is because I value the shared experience in a game so highly. The moment where everyone at the table knows you need to roll a 16 or higher, and everyone is on edge as you’re rolling that die, and end up you making it, is so awesome. Even Yahtzee can be a fun and good game if you care enough. Or in The Crew or Sail when you’re like “I sure hope you have a nine right now!” and they do, they have that nine in their hand, or they don’t, and they can show you their nine-deprived hand as you all wail and sob like sea-creatures. # § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Emulators_in_Debian_Buster_and_Bullseye⠀⇛ `fs-uae-launcher` is not available anymore. I create the configuration for fs-uae directly in `~/Documents/FS-UAE/Configurations/ Default.fs-uae`: [...] # ⚓ Retiring_My_Web_JSON_Feed_to_Style_the_Web_Atom_Feed In-Browser⠀⇛ I retired my web JSON feed to be able to style the web Atom XML feed with XSLT to educate feed beginner. People, who don’t know what an Atom or RSS feed is, and who might click on the feed links and don’t know what happens. It’s no news that people are ignorant about subscribable web feeds. And the experience is not great, either. If users don’t have a feed reader app on their devices installed already, a click on a feed link will either download the file in the background or display the raw feed. Both will confuse users. # ⚓ Teaching_Compsci⠀⇛ Some random commentary on Dijkstra's "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science", an archive of which can be found at [...] Some programmers will read this as an excuse to not write tests at all, instead of moving to formal methods. And it's not like formal methods are problem-free; one might read that they "can provide limited guarantees of correctness too, but, except in safety-critical work, the cost of full verification is prohibitive and early detection of errors is a more realistic goal." # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital_Tidying:_Finding_and_Fixing_Dead Links⠀⇛ On occasion I'll go back and check on an old post on this site, either to link it to someone or to reference it myself. As time has gone on I've found more and more frequently that older posts contain broken links. Either something the post used to reference has moved, or more frequently it's just gone for good. I've had a thought floating around in my head that this site could move away from being just a series of chronological posts to something more like a wiki, where each page is maintained and evolved over time. Maybe I'll dive more into this idea in the future, if I ever care to follow through with it. # ⚓ The_year_behind_and_the_year_ahead⠀⇛ 2023 was the year that I made a conscious effort to return to something resembling "active duty" as leader of the Gemini project. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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