𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, July 01, 2025 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Wed 2 Jul 02:49:22 BST 2025 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2025/07/01/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmbHjgPAAcGNUG9Sej4vSKhK8DfUYokfFkXLdKwr1JtGJG QmdLsuRLzrwb58dZaSmJah6oCmNNZ6cW4ick4chqJmHjmY QmTNR3uqcbMYjPAbbHjBqyNJb3ib8kytQvdFnATzkBFVvo QmfCHrqMLfMsHXYnQeAvVuNYt91Zw2AmMJ5mx4RqsrWy3b QmR2rr1yXDANjQBEz2oGtd2UMgy9U37FHdjpUhPfAk7h5z QmWE6ucdKk9Q1pi6ce3ko9xPWd9Y4BjpLij3W7tJ5TMjG3 QmaoEDiALTYYZdaq3SQ86aQpMwUji1nqCeLbXAoszFRYvJ QmSTkZUY74BcgbgqS6JKwwNbVnbzY5uqwpgWtYonGJua8s QmXZcp3rXLYa24pYd7jUu6sPDrhziRCNCok875WLJTLysP QmUE7nd24kx2soZFbSYKDsb1ik1wpirFTRTBhDTj6w9sjh QmdKeWBhfnjgQLYU48wto7DdStpXsB5mE1yEEnWcxQ53vu QmfSnnTnjcAe3YvtRsVgAwUJfpcEk1dM5J5yjJLyv7MxqM QmQ16CkpxBbMzPZ6wZcuKBUcxH1RZ8uAEhcvdBsPRpVZe9 QmT3gTQRv33wEDtJveL8DiqiacGeRaxEbRFDUyVSJEAvDL QmTs9qcwghZPs5oBh9qzsu8a11T4s6xHrJjVNyk5miFy3X Qmdqd6mb8mj27qVvQZRR7sjshrXYYirWm9vRttLkNB5rW6 QmSjY85vxbu9nNFHUMmuK7CxRame2VYuhb523CJaK5zRkj QmZwah9nZHVvSzbJWEAMxumYDpanFPqTahnqoNP83tuZbx QmQWSrGfeYwgf6HE9N3742DJrJwq8uNSCUAz469CnuUFGe QmcgTTyseF5zFd4MLquM4PtJZzkFcBEqaUbqDe4eaUx6Na QmZMEFKvpgvjxAcV9Pwu7yF74LYZwS7ktdLFdYb988Ncfu ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Techrights - 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When Words Lose Their Intended Meaning ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Half_a_Year_Gone_What_s_to_Come_Next.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_June_30_2025.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Lawyer_X_Law_Firm_X_and_Elon_Musk_s_X_scandals_linked_by_Old_Xa.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Microsoft_Lost_400_000_000_Windows_Users_According_to_Microsoft.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Microsoft_Uses_LLM_Slop_to_Defraud_or_Rob_Shareholders.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/People_at_the_Very_Top_of_Microsoft_Know_How_Bad_Things_Really_.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/People_Who_Disagree_With_You_on_Technical_Matters_May_or_May_No.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/The_Davos_Effect_Tarnishing_the_Reputation_of_Places_Not_by_Ove.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/The_Web_is_a_Dead_End.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Too_Much_Choice_and_Too_Many_Programming_Languages.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/What_Happens_When_Your_Law_Firm_is_Preoccupied_With_Harassing_a.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/When_Words_Lose_Their_Intended_Meaning.shtml ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Gemini_Links_01_07_2025_Distraction_Free_Writing_and_Hytale_Mis.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Gemini_Links_01_07_2025_Mid_Year_and_a_Tour_of_Old_Languages.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Links_01_07_2025_Beauty_of_Blogging_and_Etiquette_of_Collapse.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Links_01_07_2025_Independence_Day_in_Taiwan_Countries_on_Softwa.shtml ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 86 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Half_a_Year_Gone_What_s_to_Come_Next.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Half_a_Year_Gone_What_s_to_Come_Next.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Half a Year Gone, What's to Come Next⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇the_hacker_march⦈_ The last article of 2025H1 was #10091 and the first one was #7326, so almost 2,800_in_total. At the same time we also worked on many future articles, which aren't released yet. Tomorrow there will be massive layoffs at Microsoft (just_in_time_for_the national_holiday) and Microsoft will, as_usual, belittle the scale and scope. Then journalists will be away on holiday, so the media won't investigate anything. Either way, it'll be a much smaller and more feeble Microsoft after that. At this point we're finding much clearer (and even darn obvious) evidence of the collusion between Matthew Garrett [1, 2] and the serial strangler from Microsoft, Mr. Graveley. We won't share it yet. The matter is under active investigation by British authorities at this point. In the second half of 2025 we expect to be done with the_Microsoft_SLAPPs (we intend_to_seek_compensation). We also plan to show failed efforts to censor the site by issuing threats to people other than us. It's really quite revealing; they really hate this site and explore every possible method and avenue in an effort to silence it. By doing so they only give us more "material" to cover, so it's a self-harming approach. 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Jul 1, 2025 Just when you thought it was safe to go to court, think again. Your lawyer might not have your best interests at heart and even worse, they may be working for the other side. In 2014, journalists discovered Victoria Police had a secret informer, a mole snitching on the underworld, identified by the code name Lawyer X. Initially, police were so concerned they sought a restraining order to prevent the media from publishing anything about the scandal. Police_even_sought_to have_the_code_name_Lawyer_X_suppressed_from_publication. It was beyond embarrassing: not only did police have the burden of protecting their secret informer, they may also have to protect her relatives who share the same name. The most notable among them, the informer's uncle, James_Gobbo, a supreme court judge who subsequently served as Governor for the State of Victoria. There is absolutely no suggestion that Lawyer X's relatives had anything to do with her misdeeds. Nonetheless, the clients she betrayed were the biggest crooks in town, until, of course, her unethical behavior gave them the opportunity to have those convictions overturned and present themselves as model citizens once again. Any relatives or former business associates of Lawyer X, including the former governor, would be in danger for the rest of their lives. James_Gobbo and his son James_Gobbo_junior are both Old Xaverians, graduates of Melbourne's elite Jesuit school for boys, like my father and I. Lawyer X was eventually revealed to be Nicola_Gobbo, a graduate of the elite girls school Genazzano FCJ College. My aunt, that is my father's sister, also went to Genazzano. Alumni communications typically refer to Old Xaverians with the symbols "OX" and the year of graduation, for example, "OX96" for somebody who graduated in 1996. Whenever a scandal like this arises, if the suspect is a graduate of one of these elite schools, the newspapers will be very quick to dramatize the upper class background. The case of Lawyer X was a head and shoulders above any other scandal: a former prefect and class captain who made a career out of partying with drug lords, having their children and simultaneously bugging their conversations for the police. Stories like this are inconvenient for those elite schools but in reality, I don't feel the schools are responsible when one of these unlucky outcomes arises. The majority of students are getting a head start in life but there is simply nothing that any school can do to prevent one or two alumni going off the rails like this. Having been through this environment myself, I couldn't believe what I was seeing in 2023 when the Swiss financial regulator (FINMA) voluntarily_published a_few_paragraphs_from_a_secret_judgment, using the code name "X" to refer to a whole law office (cabinet juridique in French) of jurists in Geneva who had ripped off their clients. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇FINMA_Judgment,_Parreaux_Thiebaud_&_Partners,_Justicia_SA, Justiva_SA,_Mathieu_Parreaux,_Gaelle_Jeanmonod⦈_ The Gobbo family, Genazzano FCJ College and alumni have finally been vindicated. The misdeeds of Lawyer X pale in comparison to the crimes of the Swiss law firm X. Remember, Lawyer X operated in secrecy, her identity only known to a small number of handlers inside the police department. Thanks to my own research, I was able to prove that the activities of Law firm X were_fully_known_to_the_bar association_and_the_financial_regulator_for_at_least_two_years before they belatedly closed the firm. Lawyer X claims she contributed evidence to the arrest_of_386_suspects_during her_time_as_a_police_informer. Law firm X had over_twenty_thousand_clients_at the_time_they_were_shut_down. They admit that client records fell_into_the hands_of_Walder_Wyss,_a_rival_law_firm engaged in legal proceedings against some of the clients who were abandoned by the Swiss jurists. Lawyer X was a woman and in her most recent bid for compensation, she claimed she was exploited by the police. Law firm X trafficked at least one woman from France to come_and_work_in_Geneva_helping_them_promote_an_unauthorized insurance_service_to_residents_of_both_France_and_Switzerland. Lawyer X was a former member of a political party. One of the jurists from Law firm X was working for the rogue law office at_the_same_time_that_he_was_a member_of_Geneva_city_council. He is a member of the same political party as the Swiss president from that era. In 1993, Lawyer X was an editor of Farrago, Australia's leading student newspaper. Law firm X used the Swiss_media_to_write_positive_stories_about their_company. When the same company was outlawed, nanny-state laws prevented the media reporting anything at all about its downfall. Ironically, one_of_my former_clients_was_also_an_editor_of_Farrago before he became Australia's Minister for Finance. The word Farrago gives a fascinating insight into the life of Lawyer X. Here is a sample sentence using the word Farrago in the Cambridge_dictionary: ... told us a farrago of lies When FINMA revealed the secret judgment shuttering Law Firm X, Urban_Angehrn, the_FINMA_director,_resigned_citing_health_reasons. His dramatic resignation helped bury news stories about the Law firm X judgment. In Australia, a number of chief commissioners have resigned. In fact, Victoria Police have been through three leaders in the last year. § Who predicted Elon Musk would acquire Twitter?⠀➾ In 2018, I attended the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, where I made this brief intervention predicting the future of Facebook and Twitter. When Elon_Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, he called it X. 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It's one of the world's most populous countries. For a couple_of_years Windows has had very serious issues there and also mass layoffs. Even entire operations of Microsoft were shut down in Nigeria. Microsoft_had_long_relied_in_corruption_there_to_undermine_GNU/Linux adoption. That one incident predates Android, which has since then reduced Windows to a mere 7% in "market share" [1, 2] and left Microsoft scrambling. 2 days ago Jowi_Morales_wrote: "Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users." Maybe in some countries some people still buy new computers with Windows on them. However, as time goes by, more people adopt smaller computers and many people replace Windows with GNU/Linux, as they don't really need a new computer. Bear this in mind when the news speaks of Microsoft layoffs tomorrow. 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"All these trolls that they have insisting xbox has a future....what will they say now?" Ryan had many XBoxes (Microsoft kept sending him more and more of them because they kept breaking; they gave him EIGHT consoles*) and now, after billions in losses (probably tens of billions of dollars in losses over the years) XBox seems to be dying_rapidly - something to the tune of 20% or more staff laid off in one go (not the first "go"; it won't be the last either). Managers know it's a disaster [1] and the "company's console business is dead" [2], says the person who jointly started XBox. "Investor-facing stuff I've read," Ryan said, basically misled investors. He added: "Up until last year they were insisting this was a growth business." Last year we pointed out that Microsoft propaganda sites pretended XBox was "up" when in fact they just added up revenues of a company Microsoft had bought. They were accompanied or supported by LLM chaff and spam online. One could easily subscribe to this illusion of an XBox 'rebound', based on lies and LLM slop which parroted these lies, not only quickly but also on the cheap. Microsoft is basically defrauding its shareholders by LLM slop. █ Related/contextual items from the news: 1. ⚓ Microsoft’s_sales_chief_takes_sabbatical_during_layoffs_plan [Ed: Must be_VERY_bad_at_Microsoft_right_now]⠀⇛ Microsoft’s chief commercial officer, Judson Althoff, will take a two-month sabbatical, according to a company spokesperson. He is expected to return in September, following the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year on June 30. The announcement comes as Microsoft plans significant layoffs, primarily affecting its sales division. 2. ⚓ Ex-Microsoft_executive:_Xbox_strategy_is_chaotic_and_company's_console business_is_dead⠀⇛ Microsoft's Xbox strategy has been rather interesting lately, to put it one way. After going all in on its Game Pass subscription plans, the company made a rather major pivot, which resulted in previously exclusive Xbox games landing on Sony's PlayStation 5. A notable example of this is Forza Horizon 5, which landed on Sony's console in April. In a similar vein, it also announced two Xbox Ally gaming handhelds powered by Windows and a multi-year partnership with AMD to build next-generation Xbox consoles. However, not all is as rosy as it would seem, as Redmond is expected to announce major layoffs across the Xbox division pretty soon. In this turbulent time, a former Microsoft executive has expressed her dissatisfaction with the situation. _____ *He wanted us to specify "those were XBox 360s and the E74 Red Ring of Death. The original XBox made a decent cheap Linux computer. It ran a variant of Debian. I never had any hardware problems out of the first generation. The games left a lot to be desired though. The Japanese have always had better games. Microsoft was never able to replicate that, although the game selection got better for the XBox 360 era, it wasn't until halfway into the console lifecycle when they did hardware refreshes to get rid of the heat and red ring of death issue. Power consumption. The launch units would heat up the wall outlet. Microsoft tried to downplay the E74 RRoD problem, but it became so widespread that they just couldn't cover it up. They must have lost a lot of money on that. I think wanting out of the hardware business makes sense for them. The hardware is too expensive and they're going to pay a bunch of those Chinese tariffs on the consoles. How many are you really going to sell when they're wll over $700? Amazon has been jacking up prices like mad. Cookware from China, the major brands, the quality stuff, solid stainless steel? It's all doubled in price in the last month or so. 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She should know. She's there at the top. She sees (or saw) memos that most employees do not see. Speaking of people at the top, who know things people below them do not, Microsoft’s Sales Chief - whatever that means in practical terms - must know a "bloodbath" is coming and is leaving the company, at least until the "dust settles" (or blood settles) [3,4]. Microsoft_is_having_financial_problems. There's no "quick fix" for that. As Tom's Hardware put it this week, "Windows_seemingly_lost_400_million_users_in the_past_three_years_—_official_Microsoft_statements_show_hints_of_a_shrinking user_base". The article says "Windows lost its crown to Android eight years ago, and it seems that it's still bleeding users." We have been saying this for a long time. There's no product that can replace the former profitability of Windows licensing and stuff that went on top of Windows. █ Related/contextual items from the news: 1. ⚓ Former_exec_says_Xbox’s_hardware_‘is_dead’_and_the_brand_has_lost_its soul⠀⇛ Microsoft’s Xbox strategy has taken some unexpected turns lately. After years of focusing on exclusives and Xbox Game Pass, the company has started pushing games like Forza Horizon 5 to PlayStation. That’s not all; Microsoft recently launched Xbox-branded ROG Ally. It also announced a multi-year deal with AMD to develop the next generation of Xbox consoles. But while the future looks ambitious on paper, not everyone’s impressed. 2. ⚓ “Xbox_is_dead,”_says_Xbox_co-founder_at_Microsoft⠀⇛ Xbox no longer has any ambitions to develop hardware. This is what Laura Fryer, former executive producer at Microsoft Games Studios and one of the founders of the original console team, says: “Personally, I think Xbox hardware is dead.” You may have followed the two big news in the Xbox world in recent weeks: the partnership with AMD to manufacture the chips for the next generation of consoles and, a little earlier, the launch of the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X portables , in collaboration with Asus — both reported here on Tecnoblog . 3. ⚓ Microsoft’s_Sales_Chief_to_Take_Sabbatical_With_Layoffs_Looming⠀⇛ Microsoft Corp.’s top sales executive is planning to take a two-month sabbatical, a move that coincides with an expected wave of terminations targeting his organization. 4. ⚓ Microsoft’s_Sales_Chief_to_Take_Leave_of_Absence_Ahead_of_Layoffs⠀⇛ * Gemini_Links_01/07/2025:_Mid_Year_and_a_Tour_of_Old_Languages * IRC_Proceedings:_Monday,_June_30,_2025 ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢳⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠯⣛⣻⣭⣸⣿⣨⣝⣉⠹⣿⢿⡛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣣⣟⢦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡩⣽⡛⢵⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣟⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣵⢿⣏⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⢫⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣫⣾⣿⣟⣼⣿⣿⣿⡁⣿⠛⣿⠿⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢃⣿⣷⣍⣿⣿⣿⡽⠞⣫⣬⢭⡭⣿⣿⡿⠿⢯⣿⣯⢭⣭⡛⠹⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⡿⠓⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣸⣟⡿⣿⣾⣿⣯⣽⣿⢡⣯⣿⣿⡿⣿⣯⢛⣛⢏⣼⣿⡉⢭⠺⡿⣟⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣾⣿⡟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⡷⣫⣾⣿⣿⣿⣟⣷⣶⣾⡷⣬⣛⢟⠁⡀⠇⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢬⣭⣭⣵⡝⣩⡻⠿⠷⠶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣥⣭⠰⠃⣘⣡⢡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣮⡝⢭⣷⡘⠿⡿⠛⢩⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠸⣫⣶⣶⣭⣬⣷⣬⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣽⣭⣾⣶⡏⡿⣷⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣌⢿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢟⣛⣛⣯⣭⠭⠥⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢛⣨⡬⠭⠭⣶⣒⣲⣯⣭⣏⣶⣶⣾⣞⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡜⠘⡾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣆⣰⡤⠴⢷⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠁⢧⣿⣫⣿⣏⣋⣽⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⡻⣿⠧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣷⣤⣏⣶⠛⠩⠍⣍⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡌⡸⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣇⠀⠀⠀⢠⣵⣶⣿⣿⣿⡏⣴⣿⣼⠿⠿⠇⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣌⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢃⢧⢻⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢫⡾⠙⢻⣿⣿⣦⣍⣩⣴⣾⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⡸⡞⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⡎⠶⣰⢡⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⢼⠿⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣘⣷⣄⠉⢻⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢇⢷⢻⣾⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡹⠻⣿⣿⣇⣀⣱⣿⡇⠀⠀⢸⠿⢸⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠴⢇⣤⣴⣶⣶⡄⣄⡀⠀⢠⣔⣺⣿⣿⡻⣷⣦⠰⣍ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢸⡸⡎⣿⣽⣿⣧⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⠗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠻⠿⠿⠟⠛⢋⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡱ ⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⣋⣉⣉⣀⣀⣀⠀⠈⠩⠭⢿⡆⣧⢳⢳⣾⣿⣿⡎⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢛⡃⡀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣶⣶⣶⣬⣍⡛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣧ ⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⠿⠿⠿⠏⠩⠁⠐⢒⣒⣊⠉⠩⢴⡾⣷⢘⠜⡎⣿⣟⣿⡷⠿⢟⣛⣯⢭⣽⠶⠶⠟⠛⢛⣈⡁⠬⡍⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣞⣛⣛⣛⣛⠛⠉⣭⣭⣉⣽⣿⣽⣇⢦⢹⣾⠷⠶⢞⡛⠛⠶⠛⠠⢤⣴⡶⠬⡛⢈⣩⣵⣾⣧⣵⡀⠀⣀⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⣼⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⠈⠀⠤⣤⡶⡶⢾⢛⣿⣁⡱⠭⡱⢂⠩⢞⡯⣩⣽⣶⡿⢟⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣛ ⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢭⡭⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣒⣒⣛⣛⣛⣯⣭⡭⣭⣵⡶⣶⣶⡶⠦⠑⢨⣙⠿⣥⡟⣮⣽⡄⣿⣒⠩⢉⣳⣅⠽⠹⣒⣀⣭⣭⣥⣴⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣇⣻⡿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠷⣖⠒⠒⡚⠒⠃⡀⢽⢷⣾⣟⣓⣘⡳⣤⡺⢥⣼⡷⢅⠳⢨⡛⢶⣏⠶⠾⣂⢑⢪⡭⢁⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⣇⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢟⣛⡩⢽⣶⣾⣿⣟⣶⢭⣤⣀⢒⡪⣭⣛⡿⠟⣂⣭⡳⢌⠙⣟⣿⠮⠉⠁⠪⡛⢮⣫⣴⢢⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢋⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢋⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣅⢶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣽⣟⡶⣦⣤⣽⣿⣶⣮⣽⣓⠙⡊⢩⣭⣭⣴⡌⠐⠠⡻⢃⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣭⣝⠚⠿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣽⣻⣿⡿⢟⣫⣵⣿⣿⣻⣿⠿⢿⣿⣦⢠⣿⣬⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠻⠿⠟⢛⣥⠲⢻⣬⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣣⣾⣿⣿⡿⢋⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣮⣕⡫⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣯⡷⢟⣋⣑⣲⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣷⣬⡿⢿⣿⣿⣙⠻⠟⣛⡉⢭⡄⠴⢒⣠⢤⡉⣤⣹⣿⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣡⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1385 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/People_Who_Disagree_With_You_on_Technical_Matters_May_or_May_No.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/People_Who_Disagree_With_You_on_Technical_Matters_May_or_May_No.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ People Who Disagree With You on Technical Matters May or May Not Agree With You on Political Things (But Usually They Do)⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025 Quit_calling everyone who doesn't agree with you on tech a "nazi" or "fascist" 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Hitler_I_did_Nazi_that_coming:_So_IBM_staff_says_people_who want_to_use_xorg_are_nazis_despite_me_being_IBM's_second-largest_client⦈_ Many times in the past we wrote about the "Lunduke issue", not only half_a decade_ago, but also as recently as last_year and this_year. What he says contributes to this false idea that people who support or oppose something technical must be "Lunduke supporters" or worse, only people who support this person hold particular technical views. This becomes a straw man argument, but it also_forms_a_stigma. Remember that Lunduke comes from Microsoft. He likes to divide the community. We'll never condone this. His tripe causes a lot of wasted effort, strife etc. There are many good people, who are neither conservative nor Republican (or whatever equivalent exists in some other country), and they don't_want_to_use Wayland. Nowadays they risk_being_banned for getting lumped in/together with "those people" (collective term for people perceived to be intolerant). As someone put it some moments ago: "Code quality has definitely been in rapid decline ever since the infestation of crazy people. This is not a mistake. Those CoCs are designed to make sure that these sorts get in and stifle projects." People who create a false stereotypes around particular technical views tend to resort to politics. The_people_who_do_this_are_exactly_what_they_accuse_others of. Their craziness is sometimes a_simple_matter_of_their_clinical_record. Bonus: they also love to attack women! I generally reject this ludicrous idea that people who wish to carry on using X (it_works) are "nazis". Those accusation typically come from the employees of the main companies that helped Hitler and profited from German Nazism. As I_put it_last_week: "So the name that shall not be mentioned these days is apparently "Lunduke". We made many articles and videos distancing ourselves from this person. We explained why. I also never responded to him when he contacted me (he had tried numerous times). Techrights is very difficult to portray as "right-wing", so some people instead attempted to say something like, "well, there are some right-wing people in the IRC channel or the IRC network" (as if we choose who comes there, we very seldom use a ban-hammer)." This site was never "right-wing". It's not even remotely right-wing, irrespective of the criteria used. What bothers me a great deal is seeing left-leaning people accusing other left- leaning people of being "nazis". And why? 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A lot of the so-called 'tech' media got infested or overtaken by chatter about weddings (and sometimes protests). This article is not about weddings. The first time I was in Davos was about 30 years ago. Back then Davos was a quiet ski resort (I took a snowboarding coach) and it was not associated with oligarchs - not to the same extent that it is now. Nowadays anytime a person says "Davos" it rhymes with "elites" or something to that effect. The World Economic Forum really took off and became a global phenomenon - or a subject of widespread scorn - just over 20 years ago. Now let's talk about Venice. The 'city' (or Republic_of_Venice with the Venetian language) is known for all sorts of special and unique things, even products like Venetian blinds. The reputation of the city is very important and if the place becomes overcrowded, then people will start saying bad things. Same if the place gets associated with "Gold Diggers". The name of the city has become an asset, even a treasure. There's "The Venetian Las Vegas" and "The Venetian Macao", for example. Seeing the Venetian Lagoon and various scenic sites, other places tried to "borrow" this location's name, which brings Geographical Indicators (GIs) to mind. Is Venice enforcing GIs? Let's hope Venice can protect its name from American robber barons. We want to hear of the Venetian Festival, Venetian glass and all those other things. 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at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/The_Web_is_a_Dead_End.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ The Web is a Dead End⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Browser_Market_Share_Worldwide⦈_ DMOZ died 8 years ago (offline, not too long after becoming inactive or stale) and today's Web is being flooded by low-quality slop and spam. It's probably too large to curate by people. Search engines drown in this ocean of garbage. Many people have noticed this. In Asia, where most humans live, more_than_3_in_4_Web_users_are_on_Google Chrome (it's not because Chrome is good; usually it's because particular sites won't work properly with anything else!) and worldwide_Chrome_has_just_attained another_record_high_at_almost_70%. Despite antitrust cases it seems like the Web and Chrome gradually become the same thing. Put another way, the Web is becoming "some thing" that's fed into an application called "Chrome" and little else. Chrome isn't about open standards but about attestation (proprietary software), DRM (also proprietary software), and various other nasty things for the "content industry" - the same industry that Google plunders under the guise of "Gemini" (it_chose_this_name_for_its_slop_engine). Apropos_Gemini: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Did_Gemini_CLI_Drop_Acid_Last_Night?_Google_Gemini proprietary!⦈_ The openwashing aside, fossforce.com should cover gemini:// the protocol, not Google's slop that uses the same name. The protocol is "foss", Google's slop is an attack on "foss". Another question arises, why the heck is fossforce.com messing about with slop in the first place? What is there to be gained by using proprietary LLMs? "Shitposting"? Anyway, the Web is going in a terrible direction ad Google plays a role in it. We need to adopt alternatives. We need to promote them too. Google is now 'googlebombing' the term "Gemini"; we don't think it's a coincidence. 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Once you can code in one language (or paradigm), adapting to the rest isn't too difficult. The syntax varies, the libraries are different, the function calls (or classes) change, but adaptation revolves around memorisation, not concepts. When it comes to frameworks, applications, or operating systems (or renderers, desktop environments etc.) it's more or less the same. If you know how to use GNOME, then learning KDE isn't too hard (the fundamentals are similar). If you can master GTK, then Qt isn't too hard (I've done both). The tools or the abstractions aren't the same, but there are commonalities. IBM is trying to build a "movement" (corporate agenda) around consolidation, uniformity, conformance, lack_of_choice etc. It does not use these terms, but this is what it is aiming for. We see this not only in_Wayland, which is also being advanced by people outside IBM (like IBM is controlling non-IBM elements, e.g. GNOME). They also promote Flatpaks and attestation. They love to troll people_who_disagree_with_them, as if people who don't agree with IBM and GAFAM must have some mental issues, then ostracised. This modus operandi is exceedingly smug and it is leading to alienation. Such alienation begets fragmentation. Culling_opposing_views also increases hostilities. At the end, instead of collaboration, there are several "camps" and they cannot stand each other. It starts_looking_like_this: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Alpine_Linux⦈_ So now they get divided along political views. Remember "Ethical_Source"? This idea that there's "Too Much Choice" or that we must all adopt Wayland is absurd. Many people have no_plans_to_adopt_"the_ecosystem_[which_seeks]_to reduce_software_choice_and_push_everyone_into_vertical_software_monocultures." A breadth and wealth of choices is what made GNU/Linux so resilient. When Microsoft killed Novell the community remained robust enough to carry on. Free software will outlive IBM. Wayland might not outlive any of the companies that participate in making it since 2008. The whole "Wayland-or-DIE" attitude is immature, misguided, and typically self-serving (the people who do that have a personal stake in the outcome because of projects they have and they're incredibly vocal). Programming languages are just different ways to produce machine-readable instructions, whether they're interpreted or compiled. The idea that we should have just one processor architecture or one "unified" programming language is dumb and dangerous. What IBM and its apologists aim for was attempted in the 1930s and it failed. Many people died, starting_with_the_disabled. People who opposed that were "trolls" or "enemies". █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇IBM_Shakes_Hands_of_Prince_Mohammed_bin_Salman⦈_ * Microsoft_Lost_400,000,000_Windows_Users,_According_to_Microsoft * People_Who_Disagree_With_You_on_Technical_Matters_May_or_May_Not_Agree With_You_on_Political_Things_(But_Usually_They_Do) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/What_Happens_When_Your_Law_Firm_is_Preoccupied_With_Harassing_a.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/What_Happens_When_Your_Law_Firm_is_Preoccupied_With_Harassing_a.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ What Happens When Your Law Firm is Preoccupied With Harassing and Trying to Extort a Humble Couple in Manchester, Even on Behalf of Violent Microsoft Staff From Another Continent⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇MataMate⦈_ Related: Law_Firm_Burgess_Mee_Does_Not_Fully_Deny_Participating_in_Abusive Litigation_for_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft | Brett_Wilson_LLP_Does_Not_Deny Microsoft_or_Another_"Third_Party"_Secretly_Funds_the_SLAPPs_Against Techrights,_Bankrolling_Despicable_People_Who_Deserve_Criticism Brett Wilson LLP is in bad shape (P. Z. and A. H. left the firm, as per days- old updates) and they have no media lawsuits since last year (back then they mostly focused on my wife and I; other cases were deemed_abusive_by_the_Judge or_went_nowhere; about 30-40% of their cases that year targeted me). They also seem to be reaching out to outside people for help with their letters, based on their metadata, which they are too_ignorant to hide. It's good to see that law firms which operate in bad faith are perishing. That's the way it should be. The firm seems to have lost over 20% of its staff in less than 2 years. █ * Lawyer_X,_Law_Firm_X_and_Elon_Musk's_X:_scandals_linked_by_Old_Xaverian * Links_01/07/2025:_"Independence_Day_in_Taiwan",_Bounties_on_Software Patents ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢯⣜⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣟⣯⣷⣧⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⢠⠋⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣏⢭⣭⣽⣟⣛⣫⣾⣿⣧⣻⣻⣵⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣭⣶⡾⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⣼⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣎⢿⣿⣿⢹⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣬⣿⣿⡿⢿⠀⣿⣿⢳⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠴⣶⣾⣧⡾⠷⠛⠛⠂⠀⠀⠀⢸⡿⣫⣾⣿⣷⣰⣆⣀⣅⣚⣿⣿⣇⣶⣧⣤⣖⣨⣀⣿⣏⡾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⢆⠾⠷⡰⣸⣼⣿⣇⡐⢘⣛⠐⠀⠀⠀⣨⣾⣿⣿⣿⡙⠙⠏⠛⡏⠉⠉⠋⠈⠻⠸⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⣮⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⢸⡗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢰⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⠀⠀⠀⠈⣭⣭⡅⣿⣿⣷⠖⣺⠷⠶⠶⠿⠚⢓⠚⡟⠶⡾⠿⠟⠛⣇⣸⣿⣿⣮⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⢿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⢷⣿⣿⣿⣮⣽⢬⣴⣶⣶⢰⣶⣶⡷⠷⢷⣶⣶⣿⣯⣽⣿⡿⣟⣥⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠒⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡄⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣷⣷⣲⣿⣿⠿⠁⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⢘⣻⡭⠵⢶⣿⣿⣮⡻⣿⣿⣿⣫⣾⣿⣿⣶⣶⣭⣽⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢱⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣭⣛⣛⣫⠁⠀⠀⢸⣿⣆⢸⣿⣿⣿⡟⣼⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣝⣵⣿⣿⡇⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣞⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢘⣣⡶⣗⠀⢀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣷⠀⠀⢸⡇⠹⣯⢻⣿⢯⡾⡅⣿⢸⣿⢯⡵⣲⣖⢇⣶⢸⣑⠲⣿⢒⣂⣿⣟⣽⢖⣒⡺⣥⡆⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢷⣿⣾⣻⣭⡆⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢆⠄⢸⡇⢛⠜⢷⣥⣟⣾⡇⣿⢸⡇⡟⣾⣿⣿⣧⢻⢸⣿⡇⡟⣿⣿⣿⢸⢱⣿⣿⣿⡼⡇⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⢫⣶⣸⣿⣿⣯⣿⠆⠄⢠⡢⣝⡻⠿⢟⣫⡾⢀⢸⡇⣿⣿⣦⣭⣜⢿⡇⣿⢸⣷⢱⣝⠿⠿⢏⣾⢸⣿⡇⣧⡻⢿⣿⡜⣮⠿⣿⡿⣹⡇⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢸⣿⣿⡇⣿⡿⢸⣿⣿⣿⢑⣼⣧⠠⢻⣶⣿⡿⣿⣿⡔⠄⣌⣁⣿⣬⢸⣿⣿⡜⣇⣛⣼⣿⣷⣽⣛⣯⣵⣜⣼⣿⣿⣮⣛⣛⣼⣿⣮⣽⣛⣭⣤⣥⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠐⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⣼⣿⣿⡇⣿⢉⢸⣿⣿⠃⣽⣿⡿⣷⡱⡻⣿⣷⣿⡟⠜⣼⢩⣯⡝⣷⢸⣿⣷⣃⢋⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣭⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⣿⣿⣿⠇⡷⡘⣮⣝⡃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣝⠌⡀⢫⢎⣾⣿⢸⡿⢻⡌⢘⣿⡿⣱⠟⣿⣿⣿⡿⣛⣿⣿⡛⣭⢻⢫⣭⣿⣬⡝⣿⡿⣻⡭⠭⣝⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⣿⣿⣿⠘⢱⣿⢯⣵⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⡿⠃⠃⠑⢿⣿⣿⢸⡇⣦⠻⣌⢟⣼⢫⠄⣿⣿⡟⡼⣵⣶⣶⡽⣿⣸⣿⣶⡇⣷⣶⡿⣝⠱⠾⠿⠾⢻⡼⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⣿⣿⣇⠀⣿⣿⣷⡍⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⡆⠀⠘⣿⣿⢸⡇⣿⣷⠙⠿⣱⣿⠀⣿⣿⡇⣷⢿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⡟⣇⣿⣿⣇⣿⢩⣭⣭⣭⣭⣵⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⣿⣿⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠟⠀⣰⣿⣿⠸⠇⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⡟⡄⠿⢹⣿⣝⡷⠯⢷⡋⠿⢹⣿⣷⣽⠾⠭⣻⣮⡳⢮⣭⠽⣖⣽⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⣿⣿⢳⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣦⣀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢸⣿⣟⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⡇⣿⣿⡸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⡸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣭⣙⣾⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⣿⣿⣷⣮⣽⣛⣥⠄⢹⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣷⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⡾⢿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⡶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡧⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⠟⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣛⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⡡⠿⠿⠟⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠋⠉⠉⠉⠛⠿⣿⣷⡿⣻⢽⢽⡟⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠓⠚⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠋⠉⠛⠛⠋⠋⠛⠛⠿⠏⣴⡿⠿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣻⣧⠐⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠠⢤⡀⢰⣠⣤⠀⠀⠀⠎⠻⠿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⠏⠺⠷⠖⠒⠒⠒ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠖⠲⠒⠶⠶⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣧⣿⣿⣷⣿⡿⠾⠿⠛⠳⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⢻⡄⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⠟⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠙⠋⠉⠉⢠⣤⡠⣤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⣯⣴⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠽⠿⠟⠃⠄⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠿⠗⠋⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⣛⡛⣱⣶⣶⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1973 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/When_Words_Lose_Their_Intended_Meaning.shtml Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/When_Words_Lose_Their_Intended_Meaning.gmi ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ When Words Lose Their Intended Meaning⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇groceries⦈_ Or how a word (or words) means to one person something totally different - typically worse - than its conveyed meaning to another Having just mentioned artificial_discords - efforts by "both sides" to divide people - let's examine the words they love to use. Language or communication is everything, not just for humans but also for other animals. One might worry when spinmeisters corrupt the language for some political (or corporate) ends. Here are examples of words that, at least in the technical spheres, don't mean what they sound like: * Manners - typically refers to showing of respect for corporations * Normal - conforming to power * Rude - asks questions or challenges a plan already decided upon in the C suite of some corporation (in private) * Simple - restricts usage to only a few use cases that best benefit the governing corporation * Modern - incorporates all the latest antifeatures and typically demands new equipment (more sales) * Old - stable, mature, and widely used (if nothing is broken, why buy new?) * Web-based - fully controlled remotely by some corporation, subjected to change at any time (without the user consenting) * App - proprietary software running on top of a remotely-controlled, always-connected, back-doored device * Trusted - administered by a third party * Secure - over-engineered (see "Trusted") * Complicated - versatile * Open - outsourced to proprietary Microsoft GitHub * Inclusive - culls whole groups of people * Diverse - artificially composed based on a quota system * Bloated - featureful * New - more bloated * Free - first one is free! * Monetiation - enshittification * Investment - the attachment of strings (obligations) Wiktionary says "deceptive or misleading messages may be referred to as "spin doctors" or "spinmeisters"," which seems like an apt description of what we're dealing with here. █ * People_Who_Disagree_With_You_on_Technical_Matters_May_or_May_Not_Agree With_You_on_Political_Things_(But_Usually_They_Do) * The_Web_is_a_Dead_End ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠩⣞⣛⣫⣭⣵⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣬⣭⣛⣿⣿⣾⡽⣿⣿⣿⡿⢱⣖⣢⣤⣤⣦⣤⣤⣔⣲⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢭⣙⣛⣛⣛⣻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⡟⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣏⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⡹⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⡟⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠿⣇⢿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢠⠶⠸⠿⢿⣮⣷⣄⡀⠀⠄⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⢿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣈⡙⣿⣿⣿⣆⢠⡀⠀⣠⡄⠀⢘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Gemini Links 01/07/2025: Distraction-Free Writing and Hytale Mismanagement⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇...⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Distraction_Free_Writing!!1⠀⇛ As part of my keyboard rabbit-hole, I've been thinking about what I'd like to do with the keyboard - mostly, it's just writing out entries for this gemlog. With occasional other writing on top of that. To that end, I've been considering distraction-free writing tools, most recently, the Freewrite Alpha. # ⚓ Towel⠀⇛ Another option is to throw a towel over the monitor and to then hammer away at the keys for a while. And where would you be without a towel? # ⚓ Hytale_Mismanagement,_Apparently⠀⇛ Just found out Hytale is being cancelled, and pretty upset by that. This reeks of insane mismanagement. Apparently, one of the former developers, DevSlashNull, came out and said the problem was not Riot (who bought Hypixel Studios in 2020), but internal problems to the Hytale team specifically. Additionally, Simon, one of the cofounders of Hypixel, blamed the producers. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Bored_and_Exhausted⠀⇛ Not gonna lie, I've done so much stuff with Gemini: a search engine, Q&A site, a music library service and radio, youtube and twitch proxies, misfin geminimail, AuraRepo, a 25% finished MMO game, a Sefaria proxy, a whole server suite, my own GUI browser, but, y'all, I am so freaking bored and exhausted at the same time. None of what I've made is exciting anymore. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. * Links_01/07/2025:_"Beauty_of_Blogging"_and_"Etiquette_of_Collapse" * Lawyer_X,_Law_Firm_X_and_Elon_Musk's_X:_scandals_linked_by_Old_Xaverian ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2183 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Gemini Links 01/07/2025: Mid Year and a Tour of Old Languages⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇sneakernet⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini # Programming # Poetry/Writing * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Papaya_obligation_🥭🏁⠀⇛ McLaren car liveries once featured papaya orange until cigarette sponsorship started to fund motor racing. But cancer is nowadays A Bad Thing and eventually papaya returned. But at the same time, Max Verstappen's fans all wear orange, which gives us the plesant irony that supporters of all three likely winners are wearing the same colour. This year McLaren are way ahead of the rest, so the races could be dull if their two drivers can't fight each other. Happily, they seem keen and able to fulfill this obligation. In Canada they had a beautiful moment. Norris dived in front of Piastri, surprisingly but not decisively, and they were side by side on the longest fastest straight. It was an edge-of-the-seat moment. Surely they can't keep this up? Piastri was back ahead at the next chicane, but slow off the corner. Then Norris just... knocked his front wing off on the back of Piastri. Excitement was deflated. # ⚓ Smoky_days⠀⇛ This summer is a little different from the last 3 or 4 in that my youngest child is weaned and sleeping through the night, so I've been able to go out jogging early in the morning. It's a wonderful way to start the day. It's currently light all night, of course, so the sun is well up when I go out around 4:30. The streets in the neighborhood are very quiet, though around 4:40 there starts to be a pretty steady trickle of people leaving for work. The temperature has been pleasantly cool, around 55 degrees F when I am out. As May has turned into June, the heavy perfume of chokecherry blossoms in the neighborhood gave way to the more pleasant scent of lilacs. # ⚓ Mid_year_review:_what_is_in_and_what_is_out_for_2025⠀⇛ After three long-ish months, I finally return to this blog. I would like to update it more often, but burnout is limiting my creativity a bit, and when I sit down to write, I just end up staring at a blank page for a while. Also, because I work at my computer all day, it's hard to find the energy and motivation to turn it on also during my free time. Anyways, this seems like a good moment to regroup and set some goals for the rest of the year, in the form of "what is in and out for the rest of the year". o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ don't_mind_me,_just_having_a_midlife_crisis_(it's_my_jam)⠀⇛ Week 4 of The Artist's Way includes a week of "reading deprivation." It's exactly what it sounds like. One does not read for a week, on the premise that blocked creatives often keep themselves that way by stuffing their heads full of other people's voices instead of listening for their own. The Artist's Way was first published in the early 1990s - a time when whiling away hours in front of Internet forums, social media, algorithmically- driven automated content delivery, and infinite- scroll pages were simply not things. With this in mind, I decided the "no reading" rule applied to anything I would ordinarily do as mental "white noise." So no forums, no reading the news, no streaming anything. (I decided movies and TV shows I already own are okay, since those don't auto-play or seek to monetize my attention.) I spent a large part of last week cleaning and rearranging my basement. It's where the very large TV lives - the one that was my husband's and that I rarely if ever use. I also hooked up the DVD/VCR deck I scavenged from last year's high school band room cleanout. I took it because the Booster president swore to me it did not work. Since it was already headed for the dumpster, I figured a detour through my basement wouldn't hurt it. # ⚓ Too_few_characters⠀⇛ Okay this is gonna be heresy to my OSR and PbtA peeps but hear me out. I think there are two kinds of game systems that work for my group. One is the rules heavy “buildy” games with lots of character options and crunch to choose from. You’re building your character out of Lego pieces, out of big ugly rock pieces even, but you have plenty of pieces to choose from. Like 5e with its dozens and dozens of subclasses and spells. The other is the more story gamey system that’s super rules light where the little crunch that’s there generates all kinds of characters. We’ve had fun with Microscope and Fiasco and Hillfolk and DitV and Cthulhu Dark, and I would imagine that games like Wushu and Fate would fit in here too. Games where a simple core system evoke millions of character options, more clay than Lego. # ⚓ The_Altair_of_Prometheus⠀⇛ One of my projects this summer involves putting together a small exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Altair 8800 which, as the first commercially successful personal computer, basically launched the microcomputer revolution in the late 70s. The exhibit will be installed for a month, in a couple of display cases abutting a square pillar just inside front entrance of our university's main library. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ No_scripting,_honest!_📜🙅⠀⇛ No one thinks scripts in Gemtext are a good idea. I implemented it just for fun, but I'm not goung to release it (and I'm basically the only user even if I did). Notice that I said Gemtext, not Gemini. If you want scripted pages in Gemini, how about HTML over Gemini? For example, any web browser could easily support that. If the Gemini protocol became suddenly very popular, that wouldn't be outlandish. Although I don't want scripts in Gemtext or Gemini, I don't think that the specs can prevent it. What prevents it now is the Gemini community and the relative obscurity of this corner of the internet. # ⚓ Topics_to_Write_About⠀⇛ Being this Internet log new, I have some pending thoughts (some are theories) to write about. I have to go deep into each of these, in order to write proper articles. So, here I will be writing the topics of these upcoming articles, so that I may not get stray away and not get lost in this path of thought. # ⚓ Mid_year_review:_what_is_in_and_what_is_out_for 2025⠀⇛ After three long-ish months, I finally return to this blog. I would like to update it more often, but burnout is limiting my creativity a bit, and when I sit down to write, I just end up staring at a blank page for a while. Also, because I work at my computer all day, it's hard to find the energy and motivation to turn it on also during my free time. Anyways, this seems like a good moment to regroup and set some goals for the rest of the year, in the form of "what is in and out for the rest of the year". # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Tour_of_Old_Languages⠀⇛ The idea certainly isn't due to me, but I may have mentioned previously that a much lower- cost way to deliver systems is to compile to native code (i.e. no JavaScript/Python/ whatever - Golang might be a reasonable choice) and use SQLite. This means you can run on a (potentially large) cloud instance instead of a K8S cluster which is drastically simpler. If you go a step further and don't need a Web app, you end up with requirements like old Visual Basic (and before that, dBase or Clipper) used to satisfy. A good way to satisfy these nowadays would be by adding a Golang interface to Tk, but there's actually something much closer to Visual Basic - PureBasic. Commercial product, but I didn't mind (I thought the price was reasonable). Has a form designer for quick prototyping, and the usual structured programming tools (i.e. no line numbers). Looks much faster to develop those line-of-business CRUD apps, *if* you can get away with running locally. # § Poetry/Writing⠀➾ # ⚓ as_if_I_might_escape⠀⇛ # ⚓ That_Constant_Wish_to_Make_a_Fanzine⠀⇛ Even though I'm an avid tabletop role-player I don't do much gaming these days, for lack of time and a consequence of prioritisation. When I do it's mostly one-shots with simple home brew mechanics. My bookshelf is very devoid of RPG products, especially commercial ones. I just had a look and it's even emptier than I though! I have a printout of the free Labyrinth Lord pdf (is there still a free version? I don't know) and a printout of the free Stars Without Number basic rules pdf. Then my own games and adventures, of course. Most of the shelf space is occupied by the RPG fanzines I've been a part of, and a few issues of some I haven't. There are a couple of pretty thick issues of a fanzine that I've edited but not gotten a physical copy of myself. Maybe I'll get those eventually. Suffice to say it's quite obvious that I love making and partaking in fanzines. I wish there were more fanzines out there, and that I had more time to read them. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. * EPO_Presentation_Bemoans_Misuse_of_Slop_in_Decision-Making_on_Patents_and in_Classification_(Which_is_Likely_Illegal_Too) * People_at_the_Very_Top_of_Microsoft_Know_How_Bad_Things_Really_Are ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2508 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 01/07/2025: "Beauty of Blogging" and "Etiquette of Collapse"⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇search_for_the_fish_pt._343⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Career/Education o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies/Monopsonies # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ APNIC ☛ Acting_on_Member_and_community_feedback_from_the_first half_of_2025⠀⇛ In the first half of 2025 alone, thousands of feedback items were reviewed and analysed. From this, five major themes have emerged as priorities for action. o ⚓ Robert Birming ☛ The_beauty_of_blogging⠀⇛ I’ve been blogging for about 20 years now — give or take a couple of breaks along the way — and I can honestly say it’s one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever stuck with. o ⚓ Rachel ☛ Feedback:_working_state,_mobile_rollovers,_and_IP filtering⠀⇛ The answer is: back when I used to do that kind of thing, I found it very useful to have a "MMDD" (hey, I'm in the US, so just pretend it's the back half of an 8601 number... you'll see why...) directory, and inside of it, I'd have some short names for whatever I was dealing with that day. o ⚓ Mat Duggan ☛ What_Does_a_Post-Google_Internet_Look_Like⠀⇛ With the rise of the [Internet] came the need to find information more quickly. The concept of search engines came into this space to fill this need, with a relatively basic initial design. o ⚓ Greg Newman ☛ Emacs_Carnival_2025-07:_Writing_Experience⠀⇛ A blog carnival is a fun way to tie together a community with shared writing prompts, and marvel at all the creative interpretations of the topic of the month. I’ve provided a couple of interpretations above, but you may think of something else entirely. That’s amazing, roll with it, that’s what makes this fun! o ⚓ Derek Kędziora ☛ Also_done_with_second_braining⠀⇛ This all aligns with my other goal of simply looking at screens less. o ⚓ Annie Mueller ☛ Dead_happy⠀⇛ The deep, underwater, dark trough of the wave makes the crest possible. Every part is essential. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Wired ☛ Student_Solves_a_Long-Standing_Problem_About_the Limits_of_Addition⠀⇛ In a 1965 paper, the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős asked a simple question about how common sum- free sets are. But for decades, progress on the problem was negligible. # ⚓ [Old] Filippo Valsorda ☛ Why_We_Don’t_Generate_Elliptic Curves_Every_Day⠀⇛ Picking trustworthy standard parameters is not prohibitively hard1, and most importantly it is a job for the relatively few people whose job is specifying cryptography, instead of falling on the many many more who use it. Given the opportunity to make some people do a lot of extra work to save a lot of people some work, we should always take it. o § Career/Education⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ The_5_Interview_Questions You_Should_Never_Answer—And_Why_They're_Illegal_in_the_US⠀⇛ Job seekers asked illegal questions during an interview have the right to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or seek legal advice, according to Joseph Osborne from Florida-based law firm, Osbourne and Francis. Here are five common questions you should never be asked under US employment law. # ⚓ Wouter Groeneveld ☛ Do_Freelance_Consultants_Earn_More_Than Their_Employee_Counterparts?⠀⇛ That means I am not interested in a brut salary or a mean yearly salary: they are useless, especially in Belgium. How much do I earn is a dubious question: is that brut or net? Is that pure salary or with extra benefits? Are we talking company car as well? My question should encompass them all, not provide a very fragmented answer that still does not give a clear overview. # ⚓ Manuel Moreale ☛ IndieWeb_Carnival:_Take_Two⠀⇛ Looking backwards, wishing things were different, seems like a wasted opportunity to me. Because life’s unfolding right in front of you at this very moment and opportunities to do things differently are waiting ahead. # ⚓ Westenberg ☛ Smart_People_Don't_Chase_Goals;_They_Create Limits⠀⇛ That was the moment I began to question the entire architecture of ambition. Not whether it worked, but whether it asked the right things of a person. Whether a life could be constructed from milestones rather than methods, from outcomes rather than orientation. Lately, I’ve paid closer attention to the boundaries that shape my work. The negative space. The rules. The constraints. I stopped asking where I wanted to go and started asking what I was unwilling to violate in order to get there. I noticed a shift: The work got harder, yes. But also clearer. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Alcohol_consumption_trends_in_Lithuania:_less drinking_but_more_drunk_driving⠀⇛ Legal alcohol consumption in Lithuania dropped to its lowest level in a decade in 2024, according to new data presented to the Seimas Committee on Health Affairs. However, the number of alcohol- related deaths rose, highlighting a concerning public health trend. # ⚓ France24 ☛ France_bans_smoking_in_parks,_beaches_and_bus stops⠀⇛ France has struggled to kick its smoking habit. A new public health decree published Saturday aims to change that. In the coming days, smoking will be banned in all French parks and sports venues, at beaches and bus stops, in a perimeter around all schools, and anywhere children could gather in public. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Thailand_warns_of_hand,_foot_and_mouth disease_outbreak⠀⇛ The country's Ministry of Public Health has detected a significant rise in HFMD cases. # ⚓ 404 Media ☛ Gone_Fishin':_404_Media_Summer_Break_2025⠀⇛ This week, we’re going to try something new at 404 Media. Which is to say we’re going to try doing nothing at all. The TL;DR is that 404 Media is taking the week off, so this is the only email you’ll get from us this week. No posts on the website (except a scheduled one for the podcast). We will be back with your regularly scheduled dystopia Monday, July 7. # ⚓ Kevin Wammer ☛ On_FOMO_and_Smartphones⠀⇛ And we're done. After 30 days, Experimental June is ending. In case you forgot what this is all about, here are the rules I wanted to follow: [...] o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Tanggula_'Free_Forever'_IPTV_Boxes_Keep Costing_Sellers_Big_Money⠀⇛ With an upfront payment starting around $200, buyers can pick up a set-top box and an IPTV subscription that lasts forever, at least as far as the sales pitch is concerned. Thanks to pervasive affiliate marketing, one of the most visible brands right now is Tanggula. Less visible are mounting lawsuits against Tanngula vendors, including a new complaint that strikes beyond local sellers. # ⚓ Macworld ☛ A_cheap_MacBook_powered_by_an_iPhone_chip? Here's_how_it_could_work⠀⇛ According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple plans to release a brand-new MacBook model that’s designed for the low-cost market. The laptop will not use an M-series chip, but an A18 Pro, the same chip found in the iPhone 16 Pro. Kuo believes it will have a 13-inch display and come in blue, pink, silver, and yellow. # ⚓ Jamie Zawinski ☛ Apple_UPS_madness⠀⇛ Any ideas? For I would like my computer to function on backup power in the future. That would be nice. # § Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ AI_jobs_are_skyrocketing,_but_you don't_need_to_be_an_expert⠀⇛ It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word' # ⚓ Digital Camera World ☛ Are_we_already_paying_for "Free"_AI_photography?_The_hidden_costs_of_generative AI_laid_bare_|_Digital_Camera_World⠀⇛ Generative AI, like AI processing in general, takes a lot of processing power. So, like, whatever… who cares? Tech gets better all the time, computers get faster, nothing bad has happened, it’s a big tech problem not mine, right? Well, hold on. Current estimates suggest that an AI processing search query takes about ten times the electricity of a regular query, and that it’s just the energy requirements we need to think about but the land, water and materials needed for the construction of semiconductor plants and data centers. This is according to a June 2024 analysis from Barclays Research, which suggests annual US data center power demands could grow from 14%-21% every year to 2030. US data-centre demand could triple by 2030, from 150-175 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2023 to as much as 560 TWh – equivalent to 13% of the current US electricity demand. # ⚓ Pivot to AI ☛ ‘AI_is_no_longer_optional’_—_Microsoft admits_AI_doesn’t_help_at_work⠀⇛ Let’s be clear: this is a confession of abject failure. Microsoft’s AI tools don’t work. Microsoft AI doesn’t make you more effective. Microsoft AI won’t do the job better. If it did, Microsoft staff would be using it already. The competition inside Microsoft is vicious. If AI would get them ahead of the other guy, they’d use it. # ⚓ Ben Werdmuller ☛ AI_won't_live_on_publisher_sites⠀⇛ Although I’m always in favor of experimentation, I don’t think most of these ideas will succeed as long-term products. I’m particularly bearish on interfaces that embed chatbots (whether they’re called that or not) in news websites. I’d like to explore why I think that — even in a world where AI becomes a core part of how we use computers, which is far from a given. # ⚓ Myst_Developer_Cyan_Worlds_Holds_More_Layoffs⠀⇛ Just three months after its first round of layoffs, Cyan Worlds , the developer behind Myst, have announced more employees were being let go. In a post on social media over the weekend, the studio said it was “sorry to say” that it had another round of redundancies. “We’ve updated our previously shared sheet to reflect folks still (or newly) looking for opportunities,” they said while sharing a spreadsheet with employee information. # § Social Control Media⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ How_social_media_is_changing_the game_for_athletes⠀⇛ Amateurism was traditionally defined as the notion of athletes playing sport for the love of it rather than for financial reasons. Historically, it was created by upper-class elite groups as a way to exclude others. Today, its definition continues to be contested, especially since many athletes have been exploited by amateurism. The concept of NIL (name, image and likeness) has only exacerbated this by encouraging athletes to promote themselves on social media. Some sport organizations now even factor social media presence into recruitment decisions. # § Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Defending_Savannah_from_DDoS_attacks⠀⇛ Savannah is under heavy attack, likely from one or more organizations using a massive botnet to build a dataset for training large language models (LLMs). Since January 2025, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been underway. With metrics for our IP blocklist reaching five million in February 2025. In this article, we will introduce Savannah and some tools and techniques that the Savannah hackers and FSF system administrators use to mitigate DDoS attacks against GNU resources and the FSF network. This series of attacks is not limited to Savannah: staff and volunteers have read about similar attacks against other software forges including Sourceware, Pagure, GitLab instances, SourceHut, and Codeberg, as well as Gitea and Forgejo instances. We hope this article can help others fight these attacks as well. o § Security⠀➾ # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ US_shuts_down_a_string_of_North Korean_IT_worker_scams⠀⇛ The feds say that they uncovered [PDF] the North Korean IT staff working at over 100 US companies using fictitious or stolen identities and not only drawing salaries, but also stealing secret data for delivery to Pyongyang's servers. They were also on the lookout for virtual currency. In one case, a fake worker is accused of stealing around $740,000 in digicash from their US employer. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Arrest,_seizures_in_latest_U.S. operation_against_North_Korean_IT_workers⠀⇛ The workers obtained employment at more than 100 U.S. companies using stolen and fake identities, costing them millions in damages and losses. The crackdown also included the seizure of websites and searches of 29 known or suspected “laptop farms” across 16 states that hosted victim company-provided laptops used to deceive companies. # ⚓ Wired ☛ Identities_of_More_Than_80_Americans_Stolen for_North_Korean_IT_Worker_Scams⠀⇛ On Monday, the Department of Justice announced a sweeping operation to crack down on US-based elements of the North Korean remote IT workers scheme, including indictments against two Americans who the government says were involved in the operations—one of whom the FBI has arrested. Authorities also searched 29 “laptop farms” across 16 states allegedly used to receive and host the PCs the North Korean workers remotely access, and seized around 200 of those computers as well as 21 web domains and 29 financial accounts that had received the revenue the operation generated. The DOJ’s announcement and indictments also reveal how the North Koreans didn’t merely create fake IDs to insinuate themselves into Western tech firms, according to authorities, but allegedly stole the identities of “more than 80 US persons” to impersonate them in jobs at more than a hundred US companies and funnel money to the Kim regime. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Scammers_have_a_new_tactic: impersonating_DOGE_[sic]⠀⇛ Scammers are impersonating the Department [sic] of Government Efficiency in an effort to steal personal information and possibly take advantage of people who believe they’ll receive direct compensation from the Elon Musk-created group’s supposed efforts to cut down on waste, fraud and abuse. An email reviewed by Scoop News Group, and subsequently analyzed by experts at the cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, revealed a new scheme that involved scammers pretending to be a DOGE [sic] agent looking to steal personal information. # ⚓ The Record ☛ Porn-site_age_checks_will_be_harder_to fight_after_ruling_on_Texas_law,_experts_say⠀⇛ The court essentially ruled that the Texas law does not violate the First Amendment by interfering with access to protected speech. The decision will have a significant impact elsewhere in the U.S., said Hayden Schottlaender, a partner specializing in state and federal regulation of technology companies at Perkins Coie, because the court said Texas’ law is “materially similar” to those in at least 21 other states. Only one sentence in the court’s majority opinion obliquely refers to data privacy and potential breaches, saying that website operators and the third-party services they work with “have every incentive to assure users of their privacy.” # ⚓ Canada ☛ Canada_rescinds_digital_services_tax_to advance_broader_trade_negotiations_with_the_United States⠀⇛ The DST was announced in 2020 to address the fact that many large technology companies operating in Canada may not otherwise pay tax on revenues generated from Canadians. Canada’s preference has always been a multilateral agreement related to digital services taxation. While Canada was working with international partners, including the United States, on a multilateral agreement that would replace national digital services taxes, the DST was enacted to address the aforementioned taxation gap. The June 30, 2025 collection will be halted, and Minister Champagne will soon bring forward legislation to rescind the Digital Services Tax Act. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Canadian_Government_Caves_on_Digital Services_Tax_After_Years_of_Dismissing_the_Risks_of Trade_Retaliation⠀⇛ At every step, there were better options. This year, the likelihood that the DST would come to a boil was obvious to anyone who was paying attention. But rather than following the UK strategy, which managed to salvage a smaller DST (2% rather than 3%) as part of a bigger agreement that includes a commitment to support UK digital access to the U.S. market and to negotiate a larger digital trade deal, Canadian officials seemingly assumed that the U.S. was bluffing and would not retaliate. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_238: David_Fraser_on_Why_Bill_C-2’s_Lawful_Access_Powers_May Put_Canadians’_Digital_Security_At_Risk⠀⇛ The Bill C-2 lawful access focus has thus far primarily centred on the creation of a new warrantless information demand power and the expansion of production orders to access information. Those provisions are found in Part 14 of the bill, but there is also a Part 15 that requires closer scrutiny. It grants law enforcement access to electronic service provider networks, including inspection, oversight, and demands regarding the equipment on their networks. At issue is everything from the use of end-to-end encryption to notifications of network vulnerabilities. # ⚓ Privacy Guides ☛ Privacy_is_Also_Protecting_the_Data of_Others⠀⇛ If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you. To make privacy work, we need to develop a culture that normalizes caring for everyone's data, not just our own. Privacy cannot solely be a personal responsibility, data privacy is team work. Whatever measures and tools you use to protect your own data, you would never be able to protect it fully without the collaboration of others. # ⚓ Michael Tsai ☛ Free_Speech_Coalition_v._Paxton⠀⇛ o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Katharine Hayhoe ☛ Are_we_really_doomed?⠀⇛ When I get these kinds of comments, I usually reply with a link to one of my favorite Global Weirding episodes, “Is it too late?”. But I made that video almost eight years ago. What’s changed since then? Has the clock finally run out? That’s why I’ve made this special edition of Talking Climate—to take a fresh look at the rise of climate doomerism, explore what the science says today, and remind us all (myself included) why there’s still every reason to act. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ An_Analysis_of_Links_From_The_White_House’s “Wire”_Website⠀⇛ As a self-professed connoisseur of websites and link blogs, this got me thinking: “I wonder what kind of links they’re considering as ‘real news’ and what they’re linking to?” So I decided to do quick analysis using Quadratic, a programmable spreadsheet where you can write code and return values to a 2d interface of rows and columns. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Europe_Heat_Wave_Drives_Record-High Temperatures,_Prompting_Health_Alerts⠀⇛ Extreme heat has gripped Europe with record-high temperatures, health alerts and wildfires, from France and Spain to Greece. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Bill_Moyers_Helped_Break_the_Media’s_Climate Silence⠀⇛ In recent days, the journalism world has been paying tribute to Bill Moyers, and rightly so. Moyers died last Thursday, June 26, at the age of 91. Obituaries and tributes have cited his work as the White House press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s and his subsequent decades of TV journalism at PBS and CBS, where his eyewitness reports, probing interviews, and incisive commentary on a vast range of subjects were lauded as equaling Edward R. Murrow’s. # ⚓ Smithsonian Magazine ☛ More_Than_One-Third_of_Tuvalu's Population_Has_Applied_for_a_'Climate_Visa'_to_Relocate_to Australia⠀⇛ “Internal relocation in Tuvalu is not an option; we are totally flat,” Feleti Teo, Tuvalu’s prime minister, said at the United Nations Oceans Conference on June 12, per CNN’s Angus Watson. “There is no option to move inland or move to higher ground, because there is no higher ground.” # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Vintage Everyday ☛ Peel_Trident:_The_Tiny_Car_With_a Space-Age_Dream⠀⇛ The Peel Trident is a microcar produced by the Peel Engineering Company on the Isle of Man between 1965 and 1966. As one of the smallest cars ever made, it was designed for urban convenience, boasting a futuristic, almost toy-like appearance with its clear bubble dome roof, compact body, and seating for two (or one adult and a child). # ⚓ [Old] BBC ☛ Warning_AI_industry_could_use_as_much energy_as_the_Netherlands⠀⇛ The artificial intelligence (AI) industry could consume as much energy as a country the size of the Netherlands by 2027, a new study warns. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Save_This_Species:_Owston’s_Civet⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea’s_President_Lee_names finance_minister,_makes_other_picks⠀⇛ South Korean presidents may appoint their nominees even without parliament approval. # ⚓ We._Communications_lays_off_2%_of_global_staff⠀⇛ # ⚓ Manton Reece ☛ What_did_it_cost?_Everything⠀⇛ There are several good segments in today’s interview with Matt Mullenweg. My favorite might be the exchange with Nilay Patel around whether Tumblr is profitable yet. It actually lines up well with my post from last year, I support the mad king. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Republicans_Seek_Votes_for_Convicted_Felon Policy_Bill_as_Senate_Begins_Debate⠀⇛ New official estimates showed the bill would swell deficits while slashing health programs and insurance coverage, posing potential problems as the legislation moved forward in the Senate. # ⚓ Wired ☛ Here_Is_Everyone_Mark_Zuckerberg_Has_Hired_So_Far for_Meta’s_‘Superintelligence’_Team⠀⇛ Over the past few months, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on a recruiting frenzy to poach some of the most sought-after talent [sic] in AI. The social media giant has invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI and hired Alexandr Wang, its CEO, to run Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. News of the memo was first reported by Bloomberg. # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ How_Cybersecurity_Fears_Affect_Confidence in_Voting_Systems⠀⇛ American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, question whether elections are conducted fairly. Some voters accept election results only when their side wins. The problem isn’t just political polarization—it’s a creeping erosion of trust in the machinery of democracy itself. # ⚓ Mike Brock ☛ The_Etiquette_of_Collapse⠀⇛ I’ve been doing a bit of writing about my unvarnished views of the moral bankruptcy of the oligarchs who have seized our public sphere—those who treat nuclear war as entertainment content while hawking luxury goods, Supreme Court justices who create doctrines of presumptive presidential constitutionality, federal police conducting explosive raids on family homes while children sleep inside. I’ve used words like “evil” to describe people who systematically dismantle democratic institutions for personal profit. I’ve reminded the powerful that their power, like all power, is temporary. The response has been illuminating—not because of disagreement with my analysis, but because of the exquisite moral priorities revealed by those who rushed to scold me for my tone. # ⚓ Matt Webb ☛ AI_could_be_conscious_tomorrow_and_we_wouldn’t care_(Interconnected)⠀⇛ But because (Eurasian) humanity already had its Copernican moment, tens of thousands of years ago, animism means that humans have always been one mere consciousness among thousands. Humanity has never felt alone and this is as humble as we get. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Senator_Chides_FBI_for_Weak_Advice_on Mobile_Security⠀⇛ But according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the advice the FBI provided to Senate staffers was largely limited to remedial tips, such as not clicking on suspicious links or attachments, not using public wifi networks, turning off bluetooth, keeping phone software up to date, and rebooting regularly. “This is insufficient to protect Senate employees and other high-value targets against foreign spies using advanced cyber tools,” Wyden wrote in a letter sent today to FBI Director Kash Patel. “Well-funded foreign intelligence agencies do not have to rely on phishing messages and malicious attachments to infect unsuspecting victims with spyware. Cyber mercenary companies sell their government customers advanced ‘zero-click’ capabilities to deliver spyware that do not require any action by the victim.” # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Former_Newsnight_presenter_warns_of misinformation_deluge⠀⇛ Speaking at the University of Leeds, where Esler studied for his MA, he said the “toleration of lying” has resulted in society being “deluged by misinformation, disinformation, deliberate falsehoods, deceit and mendacity.” He added: “Those in leadership positions attacking or undermining the truth has led to the normalisation of lying in not just our public life, in that of democracies elsewhere including the United States. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ The Record ☛ Cloudflare_confirms_Russia_restricting_access to_services_amid_free_[Internet]_crackdown⠀⇛ In November, Roskomnadzor blocked thousands of websites using Cloudflare’s Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), a privacy-enhancing feature that conceals which websites users are attempting to access. The agency claimed the technology enabled users to bypass government censorship and violated Russian law. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Prosecution_Against_Journalist_For Allegedly_Violating_Wiretapping_Law_Endangers_Right_To_Gather News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ The_Right_to_Criticize:_Honoring Independent_Journalism_at_the_Izzy_Awards⠀⇛ The Izzy awards are named after the famous and indeed infamous and intrepid muckraker I.F. ‘Izzy’ Stone… So this week, we’re featuring remarks by presenters, journalists and media scholars as well as remarks by this year’s winners. Project Censored director and radio show host Mickey Huff was the host of the awards show. He is also the distinguished director of the Park Center for Independent Media. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Inside Towers ☛ Supreme_Court_Upholds_Universal_Service Fund⠀⇛ The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the funding mechanism for the FCC’s $9 billion Universal Service Fund (USF) used to subsidize low-income phone service, rural broadband, and school, library and healthcare telecommunications connectivity. In a 6-3 decision, the court reversed a lower court ruling that the USF contribution mechanism is unconstitutional. The court also rejected a conservative group’s claims that Congress delegated away too much power in setting it up, reported The Hill. § Monopolies/Monopsonies⠀➾ o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Quanta Magazine ☛ Researchers_Uncover_Hidden_Ingredients Behind_AI_Creativity⠀⇛ Now two physicists have made a startling claim: It’s the technical imperfections in the denoising process itself that leads to the creativity of diffusion models. In a paper that will be presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2025, the duo developed a mathematical model of trained diffusion models to show that their so- called creativity is in fact a deterministic process — a direct, inevitable consequence of their architecture. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Supreme_Court_Grants_Cox's_Bid_to_Reexamine Liability_for_Pirating_Subscribers⠀⇛ The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will take up a landmark piracy liability lawsuit between Cox Communications and several record labels. The Court granted Cox's petition for a writ of certiorari. It review the contributory infringement standards that determine how ISPs should respond to pirating subscribers, as well as the associated willfulness finding. The record labels' cross- petition was denied. * Microsoft_Uses_LLM_Slop_to_Defraud_(or_Rob)_Shareholders * Gemini_Links_01/07/2025:_Distraction-Free_Writing_and_Hytale Mismanagement ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3519 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Links 01/07/2025: "Independence Day in Taiwan", Bounties on Software Patents⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2025 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇tribe_out_of_time_[comic_issue]⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Games o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary # Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)_/_LLM_Slop_/_Plagiarism # Social_Control_Media o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing # Licensing_/_Legal o Monopolies/Monopsonies # Patents # Trademarks * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Africa’s_game_revolution_is_loading⠀⇛ With the right investment, infrastructure, and visibility, Africa won’t just be a player in the global gaming industry—it will be the one pushing it forward. # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Nintendo_reportedly_pulled_products, including_Switch_2,_from_Amazon_U.S._because_of_alleged_sales dispute_—_both_companies_deny_claims⠀⇛ A new report claims Nintendo began pulling its products from Amazon last year because of a disagreement over unauthorized sales. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 3D_Time_Could_Solve_Physics'_Biggest Problem,_Says_Bizarre_New_Study⠀⇛ How am I still running late? o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ China_could_be_the_world's_top semiconductor_foundry_hub_by_2030_—_despite_US_curbs,_nation to_hold_30%_of_global_installed_capacity,_surpassing_Taiwan⠀⇛ China is projected to become the biggest manufacturer of semiconductors by 2030, but how advanced will these chips be? # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Super8_Camera_Brought_To_The_Modern_World⠀⇛ Certain styles of photography or videography immediately evoke an era. Black-and-white movies of flappers in bob cuts put us right in the roaring 20s, while a soft-focused, pastel heavy image with men in suits with narrow ties immediately ties us to the 60s. Similarly, a film shot at home with a Super 8 camera, with its coarse grain, punchy colors, and low resolution brings up immediate nostalgia from the 80s. These cameras are not at all uncommon in the modern era, but the cartridges themselves are definitely a bottleneck. [Nico Rahardian Tangara] retrofitted one with some modern technology that still preserves that 80s look. # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Can_Layoffs_Plug_High_Operating_Expenses,_Buoy Intel's_Sinking_Ship?⠀⇛ Intel Corporation INTC is reportedly winding up its automotive architecture business and laying off a significant number of employees as part of its broader restructuring process to trim operating costs and boost liquidity. The layoffs are expected to affect 15-20% of Intel's global workforce, with the company aiming to focus more on its core operations. The company expects to free up significant resources by winding down this peripheral unit, thereby making more money available for R&D funding in the core PC and data center segments. # ⚓ Can_Layoffs_Plug_High_Operating_Expenses,_Buoy_Intel's Sinking_Ship?⠀⇛ INTC is exiting its automotive business and laying off 15-20% of its global workforce to reduce expenses. # ⚓ Tom's Hardware ☛ Steam_and_Linux_gaming_is_safe:_Fedora will_not_drop_32-bit_support_after_all_—_dev_says_proposal was_'not_some_conspiracy_to_break_the_gaming_use_case'⠀⇛ The backlash stemmed from reports that the change could potentially undermine support for gaming service Steam. The developer said the proposal to eliminate 32-bit support was "...not some conspiracy to break the 'gaming use case'." Valentini clarified that the proposal aimed to address specific technical issues that package maintainers and release engineers encounter with Fedora. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Calgary_Brings_Fluoride_Back_to_Its Drinking_Water⠀⇛ Calgary removed fluoride from its water supply in 2011, but residents voted to reverse course after studies linked the move to worse dental health among children. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Meet_Jim_O’Neill,_the_longevity enthusiast_who_is_now_RFK_Jr.’s_right-hand_man⠀⇛ When Jim O’Neill was nominated to be the second in command at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Dylan Livingston was excited. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Erdoğan_pardons_elderly_Kurdish_prisoner_with severe_health_issues⠀⇛ Amid longstanding criticism over the continued imprisonment of ill PKK-linked prisoners, Erdoğan issues pardon for a severely ill prisoner during a new Kurdish peace initiative. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Report_on_Malaysia’s_gas_pipeline_fire has_residents_worried_about_future_safeguards⠀⇛ One resident wondered why monitoring systems had failed to detect the pipeline moving before it broke. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia_gas_pipeline_fire:_No_foul play,_negligence_found,_say_police⠀⇛ Ground instability led to the blast in Selangor on April 1 that destroyed homes and injured about 150 people. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_to_restart_imports_of_some Japanese_seafood_after_nearly_2-year_Fukushima_ban⠀⇛ China has lifted a ban on seafood imports from most regions of Japan, partially mending a years-long dispute over Tokyo’s handling of nuclear wastewater. China and Japan are key trading partners, but increased friction over territorial rivalries and military spending has frayed ties in recent years. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism⠀➾ # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Former_Guardian_blogger_alarmed_that work_included_in_Proprietary_Chaffbot_Company_deal⠀⇛ Freelances and news agencies not consulted or paid in publisher Hey Hi (AI) licensing deals. # § Social Control Media⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Dihydroxyacetone_Man_Says_‘We Have_a_Buyer_for_TikTok’_—_Though_Approval_from ByteDance,_China_Remains_a_Hurdle⠀⇛ Dihydroxyacetone Man says he has found a group of “very wealthy people” to buy TikTok, just after extending the divestiture deadline by another 90 days. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, The Insurrectionist said he has found a buyer for TikTok, which he described as a group of “very wealthy people.” o § Security⠀➾ # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Scammers_less_successful_in_Latvia_this_year so_far⠀⇛ According to data published by the Finance Latvia Association (FLA), customers of Latvia's four largest banks lost a total of €4.28 million in the first five months of this year through payment fraud, which is 49.2% less than in the same period last year, LETA reported on 30 June. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone_Man_Lifts_Sanctions_on Syria,_Tightening_His_Embrace_of_Its_New_Leader⠀⇛ U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former dictator, Bashar al-Assad. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Gulf_States_Lead_Push_to_Invest_in_New Syria⠀⇛ The fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened a window for wealthy Gulf countries to expand their influence as the sway of Iran diminishes. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Taiwan’s_President_Takes_on_China,_and_His Opponents,_in_Speaking_Tour⠀⇛ Lai Ching-te is ramping up his warnings about China’s threat to Taiwan. Critics say he is stoking divisions, and risking blowback from Beijing. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Explainer-How_will_the_Dalai_Lama's successor_be_chosen?⠀⇛ The choice of a successor to the Dalai Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhists, is a matter of riveting interest not only for followers of his religion, but also China, India, and the United States, for strategic reasons. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Philippines_says_military_leaders working_to_set_up_‘one-theatre’_approach_in_East,_South_China seas⠀⇛ This comes after Japan made a similar proposal to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Every_day_is_Independence_Day_in_Taiwan⠀⇛ In a speech kicking off his ‘10 Talks on the Country’ series on 22 June, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te declared that Taiwan ‘is of course a country’, citing its democratic system and separate history [...] # ⚓ France24 ☛ The_Bright_Side:_Celebrations_mark_Dalai_Lama's 90th_birthday⠀⇛ Celebrations marking the Dalai Lama’s up-coming 90th birthday kicked-off on Monday in Dharamshala, the Indian Himalayan town where he has lived in exile. Wearing his traditional maroon and yellow robes, the revered Tibetan leader listened as monks, nuns and global well-wishers offered speeches and chants. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Glastonbury_Goes_Seriously Sideways—Police_Investigating_Hate_Speech_Allegations Following_Sets_by_Bob_Vylan_and_Kneecap⠀⇛ The Glastonbury 2025 music festival became a flashpoint for controversy when performances by British punk duo Bob Vylan and Irish-language rap Group Kneecap led to accusations of hate speech. The show received a swift response from festival organizers and an investigation by British police is ongoing. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Police_inquiry_after_anti-Israel_speech_at Glastonbury⠀⇛ The Glastonbury Festival is making headlines for controversy rather than music. France 24's Jennifer Ben Brahim tells us more. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Indian_tech_hub_state_pushes_jail_terms for_‘fake_news’,_sparks_worries⠀⇛ This has stirred concerns among free speech activists that it could lead to censorship. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea’s_former_president_Yoon defies_summons_in_martial_law_probe⠀⇛ He said he needed to prepare for a later hearing. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Arrest,_seizures_in_latest_U.S. operation_against_North_Korean_IT_workers⠀⇛ The coordinated steps included searches spanning 16 states involving workers who obtained employment at more than 100 U.S. companies. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Gaza_City_Cafe_Hit_by_Deadly_Strike⠀⇛ The restaurant, a destination for Palestinians seeking a respite or internet access, was reduced to a mere shell by the blast. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fordo_Nuclear_Site_Work_Taking_Place_in Iran,_Satellate_Images_Show⠀⇛ Amid competing assessments of how badly the enrichment facility was damaged in U.S. strikes, Iran appears to be making its own inspection. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ German_Foreign_Minister_Calls_Putin's Negotiating_Stance_A_'Facade'⠀⇛ German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has accused Russia of wanting to "subjugate" Ukraine and says President Vladmir Putin has no desire to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Belarusian_opposition_hold_anti-Lukashenko rally_in_Vilnius⠀⇛ Around 200 people gathered outside the government office in central Vilnius on Saturday to demand the release of political prisoners from Belarusian prisons and vowed to continue fighting for their country’s freedom. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Police_raid_Baku_office_of_Russian_state media_agency_Sputnik_Azerbaijan_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Azerbaijan_arrests_journalists_at Russian_state_outlet_as_tensions_with_Moscow_rise⠀⇛ Authorities in Azerbaijan arrested two journalists from the local branch of a Russian state news agency on Monday in a move likely to further stoke tensions with Moscow following arrests in Russia of ethnic Azerbaijanis suspected of serious crimes. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Unacceptable_violence’:_Sudden_mass_arrests in_decades-old_murder_case_spark_diplomatic_row_between Russia_and_Azerbaijan_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘You_can’t_deny_people_living_through_hell_a chance_to_be_happy’:_Three_queer_Russians_on_finding love_after_the_Kremlin_branded_LGBTQ+_people ‘extremists’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ From_Iran-Israel_Strikes_to_Russia’s War:_How_Conflicts_Reshape_Air_Travel⠀⇛ Whether caused by a long war or brief skirmish, the closing of skies to air travel is having big effects on cost, convenience and safety. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Drifting_From_the_West’s_Orbit, Russians_Find_a_New_Role_Model_in_China⠀⇛ China has become trendy for Russians who once worshiped everything Western. Young people are learning Mandarin, and Chinese culture and goods have become ubiquitous in Moscow. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_is_quietly_supplanting Russia_as_Cuba's_main_benefactor⠀⇛ Hours over rutted roads inland from Havana, the small Cuban city of Jatibonico is a snapshot of late 19th-century living, its streets crowded with horse-drawn carriages and lacking power much of the day and night. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Women_can_be_drafted_into_the_Danish military_as_Russian_aggression_grows⠀⇛ Peering across a dense stretch of woodland outside of Denmark’s capital with camouflage paint smeared across her face, 20-year-old Katrine scans the horizon for approaching threats. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Russia’s_approach_hasn’t_changed:_they strike_where_people_are_likely_to_be’:_Moscow’s_latest attacks_in_Ukraine_kill_civilians_in_Kyiv,_Odesa, Dnipro,_and_beyond_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_opens_‘rehabilitating_Nazism’_case over_video_of_teenagers_singing_Ukrainian_anthem_and song_about_Bandera_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea's_Kim_seen_draping coffins_with_flag_at_Russia_treaty_anniversary⠀⇛ It appeared to be the repatriation of soldiers killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Photos:_Baltica_folklore_festival_in_Rīga, Daugavpils⠀⇛ Last week, from 26 to 29 June, the international folklore festival ‘Baltica’ took place in Rīga, Sigulda and Daugavpils, bringing together more than 3,000 participants from all of Latvia's regions as well as foreign guests. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kadyrov’s_teenage_son_arrives_at_wedding_in limited-edition_Mercedes-Benz,_despite_E.U._export_ban —_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ St._Petersburg_child_services_now_require proof_of_‘no_sex_change’_for_adoption_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_to_Know_About_the_Heat_Wave_in Europe⠀⇛ Health warnings were issued to tens of millions of Europeans as temperatures climbed well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or more than 40 degrees Celsius. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Rush_hour_commuter_ferries_to be_suspended_Thursday_as_Chinese_naval_fleet_arrives_in Hong_Kong⠀⇛ Nine outlying island ferry service routes will be suspended during Thursday rush hour to allow for the arrival of China’s Shandong aircraft carrier. Ferries will be suspended from around around 7:20am to 9:50am on Thursday, and again next Monday from around 10am until noon, as the fleet leaves. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Guangdong_vehicles_to_be allowed_into_Hong_Kong_urban_areas_‘in_phases’_as_gov’t vows_to_strengthen_safeguards⠀⇛ Vehicles from neighbouring Guangdong province in mainland China will be allowed into Hong Kong’s urban areas “in phases” in a move to ease travel arrangements, transport chief Mable Chan has said, adding that authorities are drafting application procedures and guidelines. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Defying_China,_Jim_Chalmers_enforces_our critical-minerals_red_line⠀⇛ Jim Chalmers is enforcing national sovereignty and defying risk of economic intimidation. The treasurer has taken court action to force a China- linked entity to divest from a key rare-earths miner. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_Senate_holds_marathon_vote_on_Convicted Felon's_'big_beautiful_bill'⠀⇛ A marathon vote is underway in the Senate over Convicted Felon's megabill, with Republicans divided over how much to cut welfare programmes to extend tax breaks. Meanwhile the UK-US trade deal has come into effect, but there's still no news on aluminium and steel. Plus, China's largest coffee chain is escalating its race against Starbucks. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Less_investment,_less_influence:_Why_the US_risks_losing_ground_in_the_Indo-Pacific⠀⇛ The US withdrawal of foreign aid to Indo-Pacific countries creates space for China to expand its influence in the region. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US-funded_Radio_Free_Asia_halts Cantonese_service_in_face_of_Convicted_Felon’s_funding_cuts⠀⇛ Radio Free Asia has halted its Cantonese-language service after 27 years due to funding cuts by US President The Insurrectionist’s administration. In a letter posted to its website on Monday, the Cantonese service said it would cease publishing news from Tuesday – the 28th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Britain to China. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Mediahuis_Belgium’s_battle_to_persuade young_to_pay_for_news⠀⇛ Subscription for under 26 to newsbrands like De Standaard has around 3,200 people signed up. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Shetland’s_only_local_newspaper_saved_from closure⠀⇛ Highland News and Media deal ends 131 years of family ownership. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ He_Made_Billions_on_Surveillance_Giant Google_and_PayPal._Now,_He’s_Betting_on_News.⠀⇛ Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter, a start-up focused on the future of work. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # § Licensing / Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Choose_the_GPL_instead_of_a_"no_attribution" license_for_your_next_program⠀⇛ While NA licenses are still free software licenses, even if you preserve the notices anyone who receives the program from you might remove them. Instead of advancing the goals of the free software movement, NA licenses have a saddening antisocial effect. If the notice is removed from a program under this kind of license, it in effect becomes nonfree to anyone who receives the program after. Such users are left on their own to find the source code and confirm freedom from the original distributors. To avoid this major risk, we recommend that you seek differently licensed free software programs that do the same job when possible. § Monopolies/Monopsonies⠀➾ o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_for_Nostromo_location-based_patent monopoly_prior_art⠀⇛ Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S._Patent_8,559,970, owned and asserted by Nostromo Holdings LLC, an NPE. The '970 patent monopoly is generally directed to providing location-based information and notifications to a user's device, based on location, user preference settings, and conditions for triggering the information delivery. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_for_Proxense_authentication_patent monopoly_prior_art⠀⇛ Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 17 of U.S._Patent_11,095,640, owned and asserted by Proxense LLC, an NPE. The '640 patent monopoly focuses on a system and method for securely and automatically authenticating users to access data or applications, notably through radio frequency identification (RFID) and electronic authentication technologies. # ⚓ The_USPTO_Acting_Director_Uses_“Settled_Expectations”_to Violate_the_Rule_of_Law⠀⇛ The America Invents Act (AIA) created a system of “inter partes review” (IPR), which was intended to make it easier for alleged patent monopoly infringers to challenge the validity of patents they’re accused of infringing, by requesting review from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Eye_Therapies_v._Slayback: Federal_Circuit_Abandons_Standard_Transition_Construction⠀⇛ Eye Therapies v. Slayback offers a concerning example of the Federal Circuit departing from well- established patent monopoly claim construction doctrine. In this case, the court abandoned the standard interpretation of the transitional phrase "consisting essentially of" after finding that the patentee's prosecution statements created sufficient grounds to narrow claim scope.  As I explain below, in my opinion, this result conflicts with the court's own Ecolab precedent and threatens to shift claim-transition interpretation from its traditional position as a canon of claim construction. # § Kangaroo Courts⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ Ortovox’s_settlement_with_Mammut_shows_UPC’s reputation_as_a_catalyst_for_settlements_grows [Ed: UPC is illegal, so they put pressure to settle using something that's not even legal]⠀⇛ A significant number of UPC disputes have concluded with a settlement since the start of the year. Following Roche’s resolution with Tandem Vital Aire and other defendants earlier this month, two more notable disputes have now reached their conclusion. o § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Three_Recent_TTAB_Inter_Partes_Decisions:_a Mixed_Bag_of_Defeats_for_the_Plaintiffs⠀⇛ Here for your consideration are three recent Board decisions. The plaintiff lost in each one: for lack of standing, failure to prove priority, and failure to prove lack of bona fide intent. California_Wheel_Distributor_Inc._v._Peregrine Automotive,_LLC., Cancellation No. 92080626 (June 26, 2025) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Thomas W. Wellington) [The Board denied this petition for cancellation of a registration of the mark REVENGE AUTO PARTS for “on-line wholesale and retail store services featuring auto parts,” because the petitioner failed to prove its statutory standing. Petitioner alleged nonuse and abandonment and claimed that it had standing to bring the petition because its application to register the mark REVENGE was blocked by the challenged registration. However, it failed to submit a copy of the file history of its application and there was no other supporting evidence.] * What_Happens_When_Your_Law_Firm_is_Preoccupied_With_Harassing_and_Trying to_Extort_a_Humble_Couple_in_Manchester,_Even_on_Behalf_of_Violent Microsoft_Staff_From_Another_Continent * Gemini_Links_02/07/2025:_Arch_Linux_and_Fulfillment_in_Gemini ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4331 ➮ Generation completed at 02:49, i.e. 13 seconds to (re)generate ⟲