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Arch_Linux_Updates_Keep_Breaking_Packages_(I’ve Given_Up_On_Pacman!)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ It has happened. I have become so frustrated with my rolling release distribution constantly breaking with updates. It seems like with every update, I have a program that I depend on break. There has to be a better way!!! # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_BackBox_Linux_8._–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install BackBox Linux 8. # ⚓ Video ☛ GNOME_Desktop_Customization_|_Fedora_37_Workstation –_Invidious⠀⇛ This video shows you how to customize the GNOME desktop on Fedora Workstations with a different layout. This customizes using the latest Fedora 37 Workstations with GNOME desktop 43 series. # ⚓ Video ☛ Lubuntu_22.10_Quick_overview_#shorts_–_Invidious⠀⇛ A Quick Overview of Lubuntu 22.10. # ⚓ Video ☛ OpenWeather_|_MUST_HAVE_Gnome_Extension_for_Ubuntu_ (NEW)_#shorts_–_Invidious⠀⇛ FULL VIDEO: Top 10 GNOME Extensions to SUPERCHARGE Your Ubuntu! # ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_482:_BSD_XFCE_Desktop⠀⇛ 5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage, OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop, BSD XFCE, Alpine Linux VM on bhyve – with root on ZFS, FreeBSD Jail Quick Setup with Networking, and more. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linaro ☛ Upstream_Linux_support_now_available_for_the_the Snapdragon_8_Gen_2_Mobile_Platform_|_Blog_|_Linaro⠀⇛ Linaro Engineers Abel Vesa and Neil Armstrong enabled upstream Linux on the recently announced Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform, the newest Snapdragon processor. The initial support was posted on November 16th on the Linux kernel mailing lists for review by the Linux developers community. With the set of patches released by Linaro engineers, it is also possible to boot an AOSP mini image. Since 2014, Linaro Engineers have been working closely with Qualcomm Engineers to enable Snapdragon platforms to work with Mainline Linux. This is a significant achievement to be able to run such a recent upstream Linux kernel right after the announcement of a new SoC, and a testimony to the close working partnership between Qualcomm and Linaro. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ [ANNOUNCE]_mesa_22.3.0-rc4⠀⇛ Hello everyone, The fourth release candidate for 22.3.0 is now available. If you find any issues, please report them here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/ new The final 22.3.0 release is now expected in one week, on November 30th, provided outstanding issues are fixed by then, otherwise another release candidate will take its place. Cheers, Eric o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_12_Best_Tools_to_Monitor_System_Health_on Linux⠀⇛ Even a small error can risk the stability of your system. Luckily, there are tools that help you monitor the health of your Linux machine. Not sure how to monitor a Linux system’s health? There are a few tools you can use to monitor a Linux system’s performance. While some of these come pre-installed on Linux, others need to be installed manually. Let’s see how you can use command-line tools to understand the underlying issues in your Linux system that keep it from performing at its best. The issue could be due to some bottlenecks in disk storage, CPU, RAM, or in the network. # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ Best_Linux_Code_Editor:_Top_11_Reviewed_and Compared [Ed: Lots wrong with this list. It starts with a dead-end and abandoned Microsoft option and later includes proprietary Microsoft spyware, VSCode.]⠀⇛ Coding is great fun. You can make useful and great apps for your operating system if you can learn how to do coding. To be a great application developer, you have to know about coding or programming in various applications. There are various types of code editors, text editors, or HTML editors for several operating systems available to make your coding capability easy and quick. At the same time, some of them have worked great across the OS. Many Linux code editors are available to create new software in Linux; those can make you an expert Linux code developer. IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) or code editors are amazing and great for building new programs or apps with tons of handy features. We are here to list the top 10 best Linux code editors, which come to us with features, auto- complete tags and classes, plugins to have extra capabilities, and even bits and pieces of code without having to type it. # ⚓ Startfetch_–_A_fetch_that_shows_the_Zodiac_Constellations⠀⇛ starfetch is a tool that prints a schematic of a given constellation and some information about it… # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Meshenger:_P2P_Voice/Video_Phone_App_With_Network Support⠀⇛ Meshenger is a P2P Voice- and video phone calls without the need for accounts or access to the Internet. There is no discovery mechanism, no meshing and no servers. Just scan each other’s QR- Code that will contain the contact’s IP address. This works in many local networks such as community mesh networks, company networks or at home. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 4_Ways_to_Install_deb_Files_in_Ubuntu_ [Beginner’s_Guide]⠀⇛ This absolute beginner’s guide explains the steps required to install deb (*.deb) files in Ubuntu. This applies to all Ubuntu-based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, elementary OS, etc. # ⚓ Beebom ☛ How_to_Install_Python_in_Ubuntu_Linux_(4_Methods)_ (4_Methods)_|_Beebom⠀⇛ Generally, Python comes pre-installed in Ubuntu, but if it’s not available on your Linux distro for some reason, you can install Python in Ubuntu in a few steps. If you’re a developer, Python is essential to build various software and websites. Other than that, a lot of Ubuntu’s software relies on Python, so you must have it for the smooth functioning of the OS. On that note, let’s go ahead and learn how to install Python in Ubuntu. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ How_to_Create_Live_USB_of_elementary_OS⠀⇛ elementary OS is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. People often feel that its look and feel is similar to macOS. I don’t know about that but if you want to try it, the first step would be creating a live USB. In this tutorial, I’ll show how to create a live USB of elementary OS in both Linux and Windows. Before you follow anything, please download the ISO file of the latest elementary OS. This is the file that we’ll be using to install the elementary OS. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Show_User_Avatar_in_Top-right_System Status_Menu_in_Ubuntu_22.10_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ For Ubuntu 22.10 and upcoming Fedora 37 with default GNOME 43 desktop, there’s now an extension to add user’s icon or figure (aka avatar) to the top-right corner system tray menu, which is also known as quick settings. With it, the ‘Quick Settings’ menu will look like the screenshot below shows you. The avatar can be either in left or right. By clicking on it, will launch System Settings (Gnome Control Center) and automatically navigate to user settings page. # ⚓ How_to_Install_MySQL_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Looking for a quick way to install MySQL in Ubuntu? Well, here you have it! # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Monit_monitoring_on_Ubuntu_22.04 –_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Learn the steps to install the Monit Monitoring system on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish to monitor a server or desktop using its GUI web interface. Monit is an open-source tool to quickly set up a monitoring system on Linux OS. The process of setting it up is easy and can provide information about server services along with basics like CPU usage, disk usage, and more. If the monitoring server service fails, it can be restarted automatically. In the event of problems, one or more recipients will be informed by email. Originally intended for a single server, M / Monit also offers a commercial version that can monitor several servers at the same time (under one interface). # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ [Quick_Fix]_Dual-boot_OS_disappeared after_installing_Ubuntu_22.10_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ After installing Ubuntu 22.10 today in my desktop PC, the dual-boot Windows 10 disappeared from the startup boot menu. If you run into similar issue, here’s the quick tip to fix it. This is definitely not bug, but a policy change since GNU Grub 2.06. The default boot-loader uses external os-prober tool to discover other operating systems on the same machine. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Install_and_Configure_OwnCloud_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ OwnCloud is a free, open-source, and self-hosted file synchronization and sharing solution. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_CMake_on_Fedora_37_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install CMake on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, CMake is an open-source, cross-platform tool that uses compiler and platform-independent configuration files to generate native build tool files specific to your compiler and platform. The suite of CMake tools was created by Kitware in response to the need for a powerful, cross-platform build environment for open-source projects such as ITK and VTK. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the CMake on a Fedora 37. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_LEMP_Stack_on_Rocky_Linux_9_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install LEMP Stack on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, LEMP is an open-source web application stack used to develop web applications. Nginx works as the web server application, MariaDB as the database server, and PHP as the dynamic scripting language that supports multiple frameworks for web applications. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the LEMP Stack on Rocky Linux. 9. # ⚓ Unix Men ☛ How_To_Use_NGINX_Proxy_Manager:_A_Beginner’s Guide_|_Unixmen⠀⇛ NGINX is an open-source web server software with reverse proxy functionalities that allow you to redirect traffic to another server. It boasts great features and is free, making it one of the most popular web-serving tools on the internet. But setting up a reverse proxy on NGINX can take a lot of time. Additionally, if you’ve never used it before, there’s a good chance you’ll run into errors or accidentally misconfigure it. This brief guide will walk you through setting up the NGINX proxy manager. Bear in mind that you will require sudo permissions and a Linux server with Docker and Docker compose installed. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Generate_Your_Own_GnuPG_Key⠀⇛ GPG is software that is generally seen as difficult to use because it was used by typically tech-savvy people in the past. However, in recent years, especially when privacy concerns are on the rise, GPG has become an easy-to-use piece of software for computer users of all levels. It’s even easier now to create your own GPG key. So what is a GPG key? How can you create one to encrypt your personal data? # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Deepin_(DDE)_on_Fedora_37/ 36/35⠀⇛ The Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) is a desktop environment for the Linux operating system that aims to provide users with a beautiful and intuitive experience. DDE is based on the Qt5 toolkit and is designed to be easy to use and customize and features a number of built-in applications, such as a file manager, music player, and video player, that are designed to be simple and sleek. Additionally, DDE offers a variety of different themes and wallpapers that can be used to change the look and feel of the desktop. For users of Fedora, DDE can be easily installed and used as an optional choice for those that like to hop between desktops. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the Deepin Desktop Environment on Fedora 37/36/35 Workstation desktop using the command line terminal, some tips, and a quick first look at the desktop environment. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_FileRun_using_Docker⠀⇛ FileRun is a self-hosted file sync- and share web- based application. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Mosquitto_MQTT_Message_Broker on_Debian_11⠀⇛ Eclipse Mosquitto is a free and open-source message broker implementation of the MQTT protocol. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Add_Gnome_Tweaks,_Extensions_App_into System_Menu_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Use Gnome Tweak tool and/or Extensions app frequently? You can add them into top-right corner system menu in Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04. Meaning you don’t have to search for and launch it every time from ‘Activities’ overview or ‘Show Applications’ screen. Like the built-in ‘Settings’ (Gnome Control Center), just click on top-right corner menu to launch your desired configuration tool. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ 10_Best_Steam_Games_on_Sale_for_Linux_Users_🎮 (November_2022)⠀⇛ Gaming on Linux has been evolving over the years, thanks to Steam’s Proton and Wine. And, many other tools like Bottles, Lutris, and Heroic Game Launcher. You can follow our guide if you haven’t tried playing Windows-exclusive games on Linux. If you are all set, you would need some great discounts on games to give them a try, right? Well, you are in luck; the yearly Steam Autumn Sale is live right now (until 29th November), with offers on much of the catalog. I have picked a few games for Linux systems that might pique your interest. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Krita ☛ New_Video!_Making_Brushes_Part_4_|_Krita⠀⇛ Ramon has just published a new video, digging deeper than ever into brush preset creation in Krita! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Feren_OS_vs._Zorin_OS:_Which_of_These_Ubuntu_Based Distros_Is_Best⠀⇛ These two Ubuntu-based distros look great, but should you choose Feren OS or Zorin OS? When you think Linux, Ubuntu is the first thing that comes to mind. While Ubuntu on its own is as excellent as it gets, it continues to host other distributions, each vying for the top spot. Feren and Zorin OS are Linux variants, each drawing power from the ever-famous Ubuntu. Both these Linux distributions are best in their respective fields and promise to meet the requirements and expectations of the end-users. If you struggle to decide between Feren and Zorin OS, read on for more details about the two distributions. o ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ What_is_Kali_Linux_and_Do_You_Need_It?_–_Make Tech_Easier⠀⇛ If you have heard a young would-be hacker talking about penetration testing, chances are, you would inevitably hear what Kali Linux is. It is a Debian-based Linux distribution that aims to be a complete toolkit for security professionals. Kali Linux includes a lot of penetration testing and security auditing tools by default. In that regard, Kali delivers, too. Many of the best open-source tools for conducting security tests are in here and ready to use. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Alpine_Linux_3.17_is_out_with_OpenSSL_3.0_and new_packages⠀⇛ Alpine Linux 3.17 is the first major release of this series, coming within a few months since its last iteration of the 3.16 series beginning this year. Usually, the Alpine team releases it twice a year. And hence this will be the final release of this year. Feature-wise, mostly the core package updates arrives in Alpine 3.17 – those are needed. The most significant update is the OpenSSL 3.0 version as default, bringing the recent high vulnerability fixes, which caused delays in some distro releases. In addition, the Alpine core repo is refreshed with an updated toolchain. Significant versions include GCC 12, bash 5.2, Perl 5.36 and Rust 1.64. Although Alpine Linux is ideal for server-based distributions, its repo has GNOME and KDE Plasma desktops. This release refreshed GNOME version 43 and KDE Plasma to 5.26 – which are the latest offerings of this distribution. However, PHP 8 is deprecated in this version. Finally, it is powered by Linux kernel 5.15.79, which is the current LTS mainline kernel available. Alpine Linux is available for download for all major architectures, including Raspberry Pi. This version is available to download using the official website below. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ PipeWire,_Flatpak,_YaST_packages_update_in Tumbleweed⠀⇛ This week saw the continuous release of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots reach 42. Packages to arrive this week include Mesa, bind, Flatpak and more. These three above packages arrived in snapshot 20221122. Mesa 22.2.4 fixed some flickering issues in Spider-Man Remastered related to RADV for AMD, and it fixed some other flaws affecting gaming. An update of bind 9.18.9 fixed a recovery related to connectivity issues during startup, and it fixed an overflow in certain resolution scenarios. Flatpak 1.14.1 added new features like a httpbackend variable that allows dependent projects like GNOME Software to detect whether they are compatible with libflatpak. The cross-distro package also fixed an issue so that applications do not inherit outdated Wayland and X11 socket addresses. After a year, hxtools moved from version 20211204 to 20221119; the collection of tools and scripts added a new utility and implemented an aspect ratio correction for selective file-dump outputs. There were a few yast2 package updates like yast2-storage-ng 4.5.14, which proposes support for LUKS2 encryption with a configurable PBKDF to be used by the D-Installer. Several other packages were updated as well. # ⚓ Visiting_the_German_Climate_Computing_Centre_(DKRZ)_in Hamburg_–_Lenz_Grimmer’s_random_thoughts⠀⇛ They recently installed a new supercomputer named HLRE-4 Levante, and it was very impressive. What surprised me most was how quiet a data center can be inside when it’s water-cooled. o § Fedora and Red Hat⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Introducing_the_Community_Design_Team_ (Part_1)_–_Fedora_Community_Blog⠀⇛ This is the first part of a two-part blog post series introducing the Community Design Team (CDT) to the Fedora Community. In this post, we’ll introduce you to all of the wonderful team members and the projects they’ve been working on. In Part 2, we’ll explain how you can reach our team, make a request, and work with us! Many of you have already been collaborating with CDT members for months now on various upstream community projects such as the Fedora Websites Revamp, the new Fedora Brand Book, the Fedora 37 artwork, and Podman’s new Podman Desktop tool. Since we formed the team, we’ve set up regular meetings, chosen our initial project set, and created a space on Fedora’s GitLab to organize our work. Now that we’ve settled in a bit and better understand how we collaborate best, we’d like to formally introduce ourselves to you as a team! # ⚓ Stratis_Storage_3.4.0⠀⇛ Stratis 3.4.0 includes one significant enhancement as well as several smaller improvements. Most significantly, Stratis 3.4.0 extends its functionality to allow users to specify a pool by its name when starting a stopped pool. Previously it was only possible to identify a stopped pool by its UUID. In addition, stratisd enforces some checks on the compatibility of the block devices which make up a pool. It now takes into account the logical and physical sector sizes of the individual block devices when creating a pool, adding a cache, or extending the data or cache tier with additional devices. The stratis pool start command has been modified to accept either a UUID or a name option, while the stratis pool list –stopped command now displays the pool name if it is available. This release also includes improvements to stratisd’s internal locking mechanism. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 10_must-read_tech_books_for_2023_| The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ Every year, we put together a list of books that we’re excited to read via recommendations from our community and research on what will be necessary for IT leaders to know in the coming year. This post will highlight 10 tech books that we think should be on your radar for 2023. (Stay tuned for our picks for the top leadership books and books for job hunters coming soon.) # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ .NET,_Go,_Kamelets,_and_more:_Top_articles_from November_2022_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ Whether you’ll soon be signing off for a fall November break or working through the end of the month, take a moment to check out Red Hat Developer’s latest top-performing articles. We’ve highlighted the tutorial guides and announcements that our developer community has engaged with the most. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Top_15_articles_sysadmins_are_thankful for_in_2022_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Enable Sysadmin has published more than 1,200 articles; these are the favorites sysadmins turn to month after month. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Proxmox_7.3_Brings_Initial_Support_for_Cluster Resource_Scheduling⠀⇛ Based on Debian 11.5, Proxmox 7.3 Virtual Environment comes with Ceph Quincy support, initial CRS support, and tags for virtual guests. Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment) is an open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It combines the KVM hypervisor, Linux Containers (LXC), software-defined storage, and networking features on a single platform. Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH recently released version 7.3 of its server virtualization management platform, Proxmox Virtual Environment, so let’s check what’s new. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_(Lunar_Lobster)_Daily_Builds_Are Now_Available_for_Download⠀⇛ Ubuntu 23.04‘s six-month-long development cycle kicked off at the end of October 2022 with the toolchain upload. Now, early adopters and application developers can download the daily build ISOs, which appeared earlier today on the official servers. As expected, these daily build images are based on the previous Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu), which was launched on October 20th, 2022. This means that ship with pretty much the same core components as the previous version, especially the kernel, but also the same desktop environment and apps. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Let’s_Go:_Ubuntu_23.04_Daily_Builds_Available to_Download⠀⇛ Having revealed the codename, configured the repos, and primed the essential foundations, developers had made the first daily builds of Ubuntu 23.04 available to download. Daily builds are (as their name says) snapshot images produced daily While intended for testing and development purposes there’s nothing to stop people from running daily builds as their main OS (I do, but ssh). # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Daily_builds_for_Ubuntu_23.04_become_available_for download_–_Neowin⠀⇛ Daily builds for Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster are now available for download, OMG! Ubuntu! Has reported. These daily builds are developmental snapshots that allow testers to try out the newest features in the upcoming Ubuntu release as soon as they become available. Daily images can be downloaded and booted from a USB stick and even installed on your computer, they are not stable, however, and you could encounter issues. According to OMG! Ubuntu!, the daily builds that are available right now, don’t really include anything new. During these early stages of development, efforts are focused on backend work such as “syncing imports” and “updating tooling”. Regardless, if you have a test machine lying around, you could install the daily image and apply the updates as they’re released to get all the new Ubuntu 23.04 features as they become available. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ AI/ML_in_retail:_how_the_shopping_experience_has changed_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ AI/ML is reinventing the reality of many industries, including retail. From brick-and-mortar stores to online marketplaces, retail companies are all increasing their investments in artificial intelligence, in order to gain a competitive advantage, better understand their customers and solve some of their long-lasting problems. Unlike some other spaces, retailers quickly moved towards a data-driven approach, using streams of data for improved speed, efficiency and better business decisions. They collect big volumes of raw data, that come in different formats, and quickly extract, load and transform it, in order to turn it into actionable insights. What are the benefits driving adoption? Let’s look at some key shifts in the industry and how AI/ML can help. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Innodisk_EXMU-X261FPGA_Machine_Vision Platform_is_based_on_AMD_Xilinx_Kria_K26_SoM⠀⇛ Going from designing and manufacturing storage chips to AI processing with a high-end FPGA seems like a risky proposition, but I’d assume the devkit relies on AMD Xilinx’ Ubuntu 18.04 image with Linux 5.4.0 and FPGA tools, and Innodisk mostly worked on the carrier board which appears to be a modified version of the Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit, as well as the Innodisk’s AI Suite SDK with an FPGA Model Zoo, iCAP (Innodisk Cloud Administration Platform), iVIT (Innodisk Vision Intelligence Toolkit), and InnoAgent to support out-of-band (OOB) remote management. Innodisk EXMU-X261 FPGA machine vision platform can notably be used for surveillance, industrial, and automation applications. The company especially highlights automated defect inspection that can be performed much faster with the kit compared to human inspection which typically takes an average of three seconds per item. Availability and pricing information was not disclosed. More details may be found on the product page and press release. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Optimize_your_thermal_design_with code_saturne_open-source_CFD_software⠀⇛ code_saturne is a free, open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software developed primarily by EDF that can be useful to check and optimize the thermal design of your projects. From time to time, we come across hardware platforms that do not perform to their best due to overheating leading to CPU throttling, and over time it may also impact the lifetime of the device. I’ve heard about computational fluid dynamics (CFD) before, but I always assumed the software was prohibitively expensive and Formula 1 even has a cost cap for CFD testing. But it turns out there’s an open-source program to do just that: code_saturne. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Always_know_current_room_conditions_with_the_Oplá IoT_Kit_and_Arduino_Cloud_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Robert John likes to keep a constant eye on the current temperature and humidity of his room, as even small fluctuations can lead to uncomfortable conditions. And although he can remotely turn the air conditioning on or off, he still needed a way to track these values throughout the day and log them for future reference. To create this smart device, Robert used an Arduino Oplà IoT Kit, as it contains a MKR WiFi 1010, a MKR IoT Carrier with a built-in screen and capacitive buttons, and a PIR sensor for detecting motion. Once connected together, he then configured a new dashboard in the Arduino IoT Cloud with two variables for the temperature and humidity, which are updated once every minute by the MKR WiFi 1010. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Introducing_Arduino’s_IoT_Bundle_and_what_it means_for_you_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ We’re excited to announce the launch of the new Arduino IoT Bundle. This is built to help you dive into the complex and fascinating world of the Internet of Things with even more confidence and possibility — giving you the hardware, software, and components you need to create your own connected IoT projects. So how does it all work? Let’s find out more. [...] The Arduino IoT Bundle is designed to bring together all the tools and knowledge you’ll need to get started with your first connected IoT devices. It’s built around the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect, and the bundle also contains electronic components and a series of step-by-step tutorials to help you get started quickly and confidently. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Banana_Pi_BPI-M6_SBC_features_SenaryTech SN3680_quad-core_Cortex-A73_AI_processor_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Realme_GT_Neo2,_GT,_and_Narzo_50_5G_get_Android 13_beta⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Cyber-mercenary_group_Bahamut_strikes_again_via fake_Android_VPN_apps_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_only_just_realizing_there’s_an essential_Android_trick_that_means_you’ll_never_miss_a notification_ever_again_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_FULL_VIDEO:_trinamiX_brings_‘Face_ID- like’_face_recognition_to_Android_via_Snapdragon_8_Gen_2_with stunning_under_OLED-screen_tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ 5_tips_on_learning_a_language_on_your_Android_phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 5_Annoying_Android_Problems_and_How_to_Deal With_Them⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Best_Android_tablets_–_The_best_deals_in November_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ New_Android_Games:_Best_New_Android_Games_This_Week⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Z_Fold_3_gets_Android_13- based_One_UI_5_update_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Galaxy_Z_Fold_2,_Z_Flip,_and_A72_get_Android 13⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Original_Galaxy_Z_Flip_gets_updated_to_Android 13_and_One_UI_5.0_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Galaxy_Z_Fold_4_is_the_fastest_Android 5G_smartphone_in_the_US⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_management_and_tycoon_games_for Android_in_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 4_Best_ASMR_Apps_on_Android_to_Help_You_Fall Asleep⠀⇛ # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ 7_Reasons_Why_I_Have_an_Android Smartphone_Instead_of�an_iPhone⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_gives_huge_free_upgrade_to_Android_phone owners_–_check_yours_now_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_noticing_amazing_Android_hack that_everyone_should_check_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ LibreOffice_7.4.3_Open-Source_Office_Suite Released_with_100_Bug_Fixes,_Download_Now⠀⇛ LibreOffice 7.4.3 is here six weeks after the LibreOffice 7.4.2 point release and includes a total of 100 bug fixes that improve document interoperability and the reliability of the LibreOffice 7.4 office suite series. For more details on these bug fixes, check out the RC1 and RC2 changelogs. LibreOffice 7.4.3 is available for download right from the official website as binary installers for DEB or RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions. Those of you running LibreOffice 7.4 from the software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution should wait for the 7.4.3 packages to arrive there. # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Release_of_LibreOffice_7.4.3 Community_–_The_Document_Foundation_Blog⠀⇛ LibreOffice 7.4.3 Community, the third maintenance release of LibreOffice 7.4, the volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity on the desktop, is immediately available from https:// www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel and Arm processors), macOS (Apple M1 and Intel processors), and Linux. LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) – beating proprietary formats for security and robustness – to superior support for MS Office files, to filters for a large number of legacy document formats, to return ownership and control to users. # ⚓ Caolán_McNamara:_macOS_Dark_Mode⠀⇛ For LibreOffice 7.5 I’ve reworked the theming on macOS to get some support for Dark Mode, as seen above. As a side effect “accent colors” work in Light Mode too. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ Perl_Weekly_Challenge_192:_Binary_Flip_and_Equal Distribution⠀⇛ # ⚓ Link-o-Rama:_Stable_Diffusion_2.0,_Tragic_birth_of_FM radio,_story_of_goth:_Dissociated_Press⠀⇛ Stable Diffusion 2.0 is out! Things in the AI art space have been moving very quickly. Still lots of ethical, business and other implications, but I’m cautiously optimistic about it. I’ve been using Midjourney to generate art for the blog and been pretty happy with that use case. # ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in_Rust 470⠀⇛ # § Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Qt_Creator_9_Released_with_Experimental Squish_Support,_C++_and_QML_Improvements⠀⇛ Qt Creator 9 is here about four months after Qt Creator 8 and introduces experimental Squish support through a new plugin that lets you open existing Squish test suites, create new test suites and test cases, record test cases, run test suites or cases and view the results in the Squish output using Squish Runner and Server. The new plugin also lets you set breakpoints before running tests in case you want to force them to stop at certain locations and inspect local variables. Since this is an experimental plugin, you need to manually enable it in Help > About Plugins > Utilities > Squish. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Creator_9_released⠀⇛ We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 9! First of all you can read the change log directly in Qt Creator now, under Help > Change Log on Windows and Linux, and under Qt Creator > Change Log on macOS! # ⚓ Qt ☛ Working_with_3D_graphics_and_visual_effects_in Qt_Design_Studio⠀⇛ To build delightful automotive experiences, designers need advanced tools enabling the creation of outstanding graphical user interfaces with minimal time and effort. Qt Design Studio includes all the resources to easily create stunning UI applications that include state-of-the-art 3D graphics and run with optimal performance on any embedded system. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ NextGenTips ☛ How_to_write_tests_in_Python_– NextGenTips⠀⇛ Testing your code often is a good thing to do. Imagine running a big project without any tests, what could be the implications if you change a feature it affects the functionality of the overall app? Will that be a good thing to do? For many, it is not. Let’s see how we can perform and write tests right from the start. When starting out as a developer often write small unit tests to guarantee that the feature you have introduced really doing the intended function. Also, make sure you write some failing tests. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Write_a_C++_extension_module_for Python_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ In a previous article, I gave an overview of six Python interpreters. On most systems, the CPython interpreter is the default, and also the poll in my last article showed that CPython is the most popular one. Specific to CPython is the ability to write Python modules in C using CPythons extensions API. Writing Python modules in C allows you to move computation-intensive code to C while preserving the ease of access of Python. In this article, I’ll show you how to write an extension module. Instead of plain C, I use C++ because most compilers usually understand both. I have to mention one major drawback in advance: Python modules built this way are not portable to other interpreters. They only work in conjunction with the CPython interpreter. So if you are looking for a more portable way of interacting with C libraries, consider using the ctypes module. # § syslog-ng⠀➾ # ⚓ Feeding_events_with_syslog-ng_PE_to_Azure_Event_Hub and_Google_Pub/Sub_–_Blog_–_syslog-ng_Community_– syslog-ng_Community⠀⇛ The syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE) application is built on the solid foundation of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (OSE). PE inherits many of the OSE features and adds cloud-related features, among others. Our latest webinar shows you how to send log messages to Azure Event Hub and Google Pub/ Sub. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Use_arrays_in_Java_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ In the Java programming language, an array is an ordered collection of data. You can use an array to store information in a structured way. It’s useful to know the various ways you can retrieve that data when you need it. It’s worth noting that in Java, an associative array (also called a dictionary in some languages) is called a hashmap. This article doesn’t cover hashmaps, but you can read all about them in my Using a hashmap in Java article. # § Ruby⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruby_3.1.3_Released⠀⇛ This release includes a security fix. Please check the topics below for details. # ⚓ Ruby_3.0.5_Released⠀⇛ This release includes a security fix. Please check the topics below for details. # ⚓ Ruby_2.7.7_Released⠀⇛ This release includes a security fix. Please check the topics below for details. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ David Revoy ☛ That_feeling_when_you_get_a_new_skill._–_David Revoy⠀⇛ I’m still training my brushwork and my speed to complete artwork. My goal, is to sort of bypass drawing or inking totally and draw later with the thin brush while painting. After many failed tests, this one is starting to bring together a lot of aspects that I like. A good reason to share it with you. I hope you’ll like it. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Middle East Eye ☛ US_Justice_Department_calls_on Supreme_Court_to_dismiss_NSO_Group’s_immunity petition⠀⇛ The US Justice Department has weighed in on a lawsuit filed against the Israeli spyware company NSO, calling on the Supreme Court to deny NSO’s petition to hear the case after an appeals court dismissed its push to assert legal immunity. The amicus brief filed on Tuesday by the US solicitor-general, the department’s fourth- highest ranking official, puts a wedge in the efforts by NSO Group to seek sovereign immunity from the lawsuit. Brian Fletcher, who is serving as acting solicitor-general, stated in clear terms that “NSO plainly is not entitled to immunity here”. “There is no established practice – or even a single prior instance – of the State Department suggesting an immunity for a private entity acting as an agent of a foreign state. And no foreign state has supported NSO’s claim to immunity,” he wrote. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_ACMA_orders_Telstra_to_comply_with financial_hardship_rules⠀⇛ The Australian Communications and Media Authority has ordered Telstra to comply with rules governing financial hardship after the telco was found to have taken credit management action against 70 customers. These customers were operating on a financial hardship arrangement with Telstra, ACMA said in a statement on Thursday, adding that credit management action needed to be suspended under the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code. Credit management action can include service suspension, disconnection, or debt collection. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Digital_books_do_wear_out_–_just like_digital_music,_digital_films_and_video_games_– Walled_Culture⠀⇛ The issue is particularly acute for this sector because ebooks potentially offer huge advantages over physical ones, which therefore encourages libraries and archives to adopt that format. Unfortunately, the latter are faced by two sets of problems: the one mentioned above, and the fact that publishers are making digital books less useful than analogue ones in order to boost their profits, as I detailed in Walled Culture the book. Of course, ebooks are not the only digital artefacts subject to the problems pointed out by Brewster. Digital music and digital films also wear out in the sense that formats change and the media they are stored on must be replaced as technology progresses. It also applies to the world of video games – a cultural area often overlooked. Moreover, video games – like ebooks – are typically locked up using Digital Rights Management (DRM), which adds a further challenge to preserving them: it’s generally against the law to circumvent that DRM, even for purposes of making backups or changing its formatting. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Healing,_having_fun,_update⠀⇛ I don’t have very much to write here. I got over my COVID symptoms and tested negative within a couple of days, so I’m glad about that. It’s been very rainy here. It’s been nice to open the windows on windy days when the temperature is hovering around 55F, and letting the apartment air out. The rainy air smells nice. # ⚓ Jobs⠀⇛ It took some time but I moved from my previous job to a new job in a $corporation. The previous place was still a big company but it had the mentality of a small startup; a lot of freedom in tools, ideas. I was able to spend a year on developing and testing ideas. Now in the $corporation it’s different. First of all, it’s a big place; you need to open a ticket for everything. You want some access to a server? Create a ticket. You want extra disk space? A ticket. You want to use google drive? Ticket. You want IMAP access? Ticket of course. Secondly, there is a focus on the here and now. Things must have a potential client who pays before we even start to theorize, let alone build them. We need to do our own PMing in a sense, think and meet with potential clients and only think about the next quarter or so. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AIUOQTL_Wordo:_KLUGY⠀⇛ # ⚓ No_nap_November⠀⇛ I’m in Synthesis, last part of nursing school. I work 40-hour weeks on an internal medicine/pulmon- ary floor, prep for state licensure exam at fast clip, write and present a paper. My day job, psychiatric hospital, low-key has a nap culture. Not weird to nap on one of break room’s two leather loveseats on 30min lunch. Break’s real, clocked out, no responsibility on the floor. I eat with patients in cafeteria or on-unit; shut eyes on break. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ I_tried_Doom_Emacs,_but_I_switched_back_to_(Neo)Vim⠀⇛ As a long-lasting user of Vim (and NeoVim), I always wondered what GNU Emacs is really about, so I decided to try it. I didn’t try vanilla GNU Emacs, but Doom Emacs. I chose Doom Emacs as it is a neat distribution of Emacs with Evil mode enabled by default. Evil mode allows Vi(m) key bindings (so to speak, it’s emulating Vim within Emacs), and I am pretty sure I won’t be ready to give up all the muscle memory I have built over more than a decade. # ⚓ Bonfire_feedback:_rewarding_users_is_good,_actually_(but not_with_follower_counts)⠀⇛ I’ve spent a delightful time on honk, until my partner’s come back with the keys I’d forgotten at home, so I could start doing something productive. I’ve also had an excellent time yesterday, teaching an autistic kid about life and earth sciences, and mathematics – while being in the closet –, and then I’ve come back home, feeling sick and unable to connect with my partner, work, or move on. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ What_I_like_and_dislike_about_Gemini⠀⇛ This is about the protocol and text format, not the community or content. What I’ve come to like and dislike about Gemini after two years isn’t necessarily what I thought I’d like. Some have stayed the same, some have changed. I like it enough that I read the Gemini version of sites that are bihosting. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1772 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.24.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_24/11/2022:_OBS_Studio_29.0_Beta⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Devices/Embedded * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # Rust * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Rachel ☛ Feedback:_environments,_old_BBSes,_Honda’s_2022 bug⠀⇛ It’s really a nasty situation if you think about it. There is a ridiculous amount of state out there, and nobody really knows what all of it is. We try to fool ourselves with these namespace hacks on Linux that some people call “containers”, but they aren’t the full story and probably never will be. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ ROCKPro64_Single_Board_Computer_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video I show off my RockPro64 Single Board Computer and explain why I think its a good SBC option lieu of raspberry pi’s being expensive due to resellers. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_driver_515.86.01_fixes_Spider-Man Remastered,_plus_black_screen_issues_on_RTX_30⠀⇛ NVIDIA has released a fresh update to their stable driver series for Linux with 515.86.01 with some fixes. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ OBS_Studio_29.0_Beta_1_adds_AV1_Encode_for AMD_/_Intel⠀⇛ OBS Studio 29.0 Beta 1 is now available, as another big update to the video recording and livestreaming app. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Wireshark_on_Fedora_37/36/ 35⠀⇛ Wireshark is a powerful and popular network communication tool that allows viewing individual recorded data packets or sorting them according to specific content. This networking software lets you see what’s going on on your computer and helps easily take apart any encrypted messages being sent around it through analysis of their contents. Examples include troubleshooting networks with performance issues and cybersecurity tracing connecting, viewing contents of suspect network transactions, and identifying bursts of network traffic for further analysis. The following tutorial will teach you how to install WireShark on Fedora 37/36/35 Linux using the command line terminal and how to configure and launch the application so you can begin monitoring your system. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_nmon_to_monitor_Linux⠀⇛ . In this post, you will learn how to install nmon on Linux. With this tool, you will be able to monitor a Linux system quickly. nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux on POWER, x86, x86_64, Mainframe & now ARM (Raspberry Pi) Thanks to nmon, You can display the CPU, memory, network, disks (mini graphs or numbers), file systems, NFS, top processes, resources (Linux version & processors) and on Power micro-partition information. Another important feature of nmon is that you can save the generated information for later analysis. In this way, you will have an extra help to determine better solutions to problems originating from the server. Easy to use, open source and powerful are some to describe nmon. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Nginx_Mainline_on_Ubuntu 22.10/22.04/20.04⠀⇛ For Ubuntu users, the default repository for Nginx might not install the latest version. However, for most users, this is satisfactory. Meanwhile, many users who seek performance and to keep up with the latest security, bug, and performance would look at installing the Nginx mainline. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Using_the_File_Tagging_Feature_in_KDE’s_Dolphin File_Manager⠀⇛ Dolphin is the default file manager of the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment. It is considered as one of the most comprehensive and feature-rich file managers available for Linux distributions. Yes. It has tons of features and you may not be aware of all of them. One such feature is file tagging. File tagging is a way of organizing files or folder by applying tags to them. This tag can then be used to search for data, and sort the files accordingly. With this feature, you can tag files into categories irrespective of their location. This gives you a new way to organize your files. While there are dedicated tools like Tagspaces for this purpose, this feature comes baked into KDE’s Dolphin file manager. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the file tagging feature in Dolphin. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_FFmpeg_on_Fedora_37/36/35⠀⇛ Anyone who has worked with audio or video knows that file format compatibility can be a significant headache. FFmpeg is a powerful tool that can help to solve this problem by decoding, encoding, and transcoding multimedia files. In addition to supporting a wide range of file formats, FFmpeg also supports several different codecs making it an ideal tool for transcoding files between multiple formats or encoding files for use with specific devices or platforms. With FFmpeg, you can easily convert your files into the format you need without worrying about compatibility issues. The following tutorial will teach you how to install FFmpeg on Fedora 37/36/35 Linux using the command line terminal with the default Fedora repository. Given Fedora is a six monthly release and focuses on pushing the latest packages as best as possible, you should ideally need to install any third-party repository or manually the framework. Lastly, the tutorial will run through some common FFmpeg command examples. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Rogue_Legacy_2_has_a_Native_Linux_port available_now,_more_stable_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ As promised recently, Rogue Legacy 2 from Cellar Door Games now has a Native Linux version available to give you the best experience possible on Steam Deck and Linux desktop. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Get_a_free_copy_of_Narita_Boy_during_the GOG_Black_Friday_sale⠀⇛ GOG are giving away another free game. This time it’s Narita Boy during the GOG Black Friday sale that’s live now. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Sid_Meier’s_Civilization_VI_gets_a_‘Leader Pass’,_breaks_it_on_Linux_and_macOS⠀⇛ Firaxis Games recently launched their new Leader Pass for Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, and it seems they broke it on both macOS and Linux. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ JSAUX_M.2_SSD_Steam_Deck_Docking_Station gets_a_sale,_adding_a_65W_charger_too⠀⇛ JSAUX have announced that their excellent M.2 Docking Station for Steam Deck that allows you to add in an SSD, is about to go on sale and they’re now bundling a charger. Mentioned in a blog post, they’re doing a nice discount between November 24th – November 28th. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_puts_up_Proton_Next_(7.0-5)_to provide_easier_testing_of_future_upgrades⠀⇛ Proton Next has been announced by Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter, as an easier way to check out and test the upcoming stable releases of new Proton versions for Linux desktop and Steam Deck. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Ryzen_Embedded_3000_based_PC_equipped_with up_to_6x_LAN_ports⠀⇛ SolidRun recently unveiled an industrial-grade PC built around the AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000 processor. The Bedrock PC comes with up to 4x 2.5GbE LAN ports, 2x 10GbE LAN ports, 3x M.2 2280 sockets and optional wireless connectivity. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Amos Wenger ☛ Cut_for_time⠀⇛ Gaining back some build performance: a hot build of my website, in development, takes 5 seconds on a pretty good machine. I’d like to try some sort of “micro-service architecture” but it’s just a bunch of binaries doing IPC between each other. Each target is built and linked independently, everyone’s happy. I’m curious to see how that would perform! # ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ The_carcinization_of_Go_programs⠀⇛ Sometimes you just need to embed this one library written in another language into your program. This is a common thread amongst programmers time immemorial. This has always been a process fraught with peril, fear, torment, and lemon-scented moist towelettes for some reason. Normally if you want to call a Rust function from Go, you have to go through some middleman like cgo. This works and is somewhat elegant for how utterly terrible a hack cgo is. # ⚓ Power_Analysis_for_a_DV_Test_–_Frequentist_and_Bayesian Estimation_in_R_–_[R]eliability⠀⇛ When testing is costly or resource intensive, it’s not uncommon for management to ask an engineer “what are the chances that we pass?”. The answer will depend on the team’s collection of domain knowledge around the product and requirement but also in how the question is interpreted. It will also be sensitive to sample size considerations. In this post, I will show how to conduct an analysis to inform the response from both a Frequentist and Bayesian perspective. Simulation will be used whenever possible to avoid the need for external references and the predictions will be used to inform a recommendation of sample size. # ⚓ DataGeeek ☛ Asia_Against_Dollar:_Forecasting_with Modeltime⠀⇛ While the US midterm election escalated, the dollar’s performance weakened; especially this situation happened against the Asian currencies. South Korean won(KRW) is the best performer among them. The Chinese yuan(CNY) was behind its counterparts because of their aggressive public health measures related to the zero-COVID protocol. Let’s add the Japanese yen(JPY) and Malaysian ringgit(MYR) to the above currencies and analyze them via the timetk package. First, we will compare the mentioned Asian FX rates between 2018-2022 years with line charts. # ⚓ Using_functional_analysis_to_model_air_pollution_data_in_R |_Nicola_Rennie⠀⇛ Let’s say you need to understand how your data changes within a day, and between different days. For example, if you have hourly pollution data that follows a regular pattern throughout a day, but follows different patterns on a Wednesday and Saturday. Functional analysis is one approach of doing just that. During my PhD, I developed methods based on functional analysis to identify outlier demand in booking patterns for trains in railway networks. To demonstrate that those statistical methods are also applicable in other areas, I started to analyse air pollution data across the United Kingdom. This blog post will discuss the idea of using functional analysis to model air pollution data with the aim of identifying abnormal pollution days. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Amos Wenger ☛ Async_fn_in_trait,_for_real_this_time⠀⇛ # ⚓ Amos Wenger ☛ Async_fn_in_trait…_not⠀⇛ I was planning on showing the in-progress async_fn_in_trait feature in the context of my website, but it turns out, I can’t! * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Books_You_Should_Read:_Why_Buildings_Fall_Down⠀⇛ People with long commutes usually come up with tricks to stay focused and alert and avoid the dangerous tendency to zone out during the drive. One trick I used to use was keeping mental track of the various construction projects I’d pass by on my way to work, noticing which piers on a new highway overpass were nearing completion, or watching steelworkers put together the complex rebar endoskeletons of a new stretch of roadway. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Getting_Adopted_Didn’t_Save_Me⠀⇛ When I was adopted out of foster care at age 6, everyone in my new family was sweet to me. At first, it seemed like there was a lot of love. In addition to my two adoptive parents, I had six new siblings. Nobody made me feel like I was different. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Turkey_Day_Sonnet_2022⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Malaise,_Mess,_and_Art_of_Black_Millennial Womanhood⠀⇛ Across genres and mediums, an alternative vision of Black millennial womanhood is emerging. Works like Issa Rae’s television show Insecure and Raven Leilani’s novel Luster revel in depression and precarity—making the young, professional Black woman’s life tragicomic. These works reject the demand for Black resiliency and present an antidote to the strong Black woman: the messy Black girl. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Brittney_Griner’s_Jail_Conditions_Speak_to_the Urgency_of_Bringing_Her_Home⠀⇛ Just as in late February, when she seemed to disappear off the map following a Moscow airport arrest for possession of a vape cartridge, we don’t know exactly where Brittney Griner is, only that she isn’t home. As she begins a shocking—even by Russian standards—nine-year prison sentence, her state of health and whereabouts are a mystery. We do know that she is at the IK-2 penal colony in Mordovia, but that’s not particularly helpful given that Mordovia is known as Russia’s “land of prisons.” In the snowy, swampy area about 250 miles southeast of Moscow, there are roughly two dozen massive jails. Her “penal colony” could be any one of these. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Supreme_Court_Denies_Trump’s_Request_to_Keep_Taxes From_Congress⠀⇛ o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ 2022_–_a_year_in_review_–_Terence_Eden’s_Blog⠀⇛ I was due to be in SF today. But Alan the Hyperprat cancelled the conference at the last minute – leaving me a couple of hundred quid out of pocket, and disappointing all the friends I’d arranged to see. Truly it is the worst thing that he has ever done to anyone ever. Anyway, follow me on Mastodon The last year has been reasonable. Obviously COVID is still casting a long shadow. Gigs are still being cancelled, and some friends are still cautious about meeting up. But we’ve been able to go to a few concerts and plays. The Elizabeth Line opening up has been transformational. A 15 minute ride to work! 25 minutes from Central London! Brilliant! o ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Artistic_Prototypes⠀⇛ I love to work this way on many of my side projects. The process of creating multiple, alternative variations — drawings, design mocks, working code in PRs, etc. — along the path to an intended single solution refines ideas through the contrast of alternative variations. For example, I have a current side project where I’ve now built one particular view in many different ways. I have PRs for a lit-html implementation, a web components implementation, a plain HTML implementation, a React implementation, and a Preact implementation. None of these PRs are production ready and each implement a design that is subtly different visually or functionally to accomplish the same goal with the strengths of each technology. Each PR has enough fidelity to provide me contrast and a sense of taste for which solution is best. They are prototype variations of an idea, and through this production of contrasting “copies” a suitable solution becomes visible — sometimes as a refinement of an existing prototype, sometimes through the mixing of different ideas across prototypes. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Suit_or_a_Suitcase⠀⇛   You ask what I’ll miss about this life. Everything but cruelty, I think. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Mike_Pompeo_Just_Proved_He_Is_the Stupidest_Person_in_the_World⠀⇛ Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just proved that he is the stupidest person in the world. He said in an interview that Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, is “the most dangerous person in the world.” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ How_To_Build_Your_Own_Analog_Phone_Network⠀⇛ Analog phones may be nearly obsolete today, but having served humanity for well over a century they’re quite likely to pop up in drawers or attics now and then. If you’ve got a few of them lying around and you think it’d be cool to hook them up and make your own local telephone system, check out [Gadget Reboot]’s latest work. His video series shows all the steps towards making a fully- functional wired phone system. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Sick_Beats:_Using_Music_And_Smartphone_To_Attack A_Biosafety_Room⠀⇛ Imagine a movie featuring a scene set in a top- secret bioweapons research lab. The villain, clad in a bunny suit, strides into the inner sanctum of the facility — one of the biosafety rooms where only the most infectious and deadliest microorganisms are handled. Tension mounts as he pulls out his phone; surely he’ll use it to affect some dramatic hack, or perhaps set off an explosive device. Instead, he calls up his playlist and… plays a song? What kind of villain is this? # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Trackball_Split_Keyboard_Will_Roll_Into_Your Heart⠀⇛ One of the nicest problems to have with a split keyboard, even a monoblock split, is deciding what to put in the middle. Most people go for either the mouse, or else their beverage of choice. Some might sub in a bowl of snacks later on in the day. Personally, we most often use the space for holding notes. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Bifurcation_of_chip_industry_will_hit China_harder:_S&P_claim⠀⇛ A bifurcation of the global semiconductor industry will be expensive and risky, and pose threats to quality and reliability as well, the rating agency S&P Global Ratings says in a research note issued earlier this month, adding that China and other Asia-Pacific producers are likely to suffer more. The agency issued its note in the wake of the imposition of new restrictions by the US on chip exports to China on 7 October. S&P pointed out that if global semiconductor support chains became less integrated, manufacturers in China, the US and Europe would be forced to construct new and overlapping foundries costing more than US$10 billion (A$14.8 billion) apiece. The risk factor arose because bifurcation would lead to disruption of supply chains for both chip makers and consumers, resulting in battles for control of upstream materials. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Innodisk_EXMU-X261FPGA_Machine_Vision Platform_is_based_on_AMD_Xilinx_Kria_K26_SoM⠀⇛ Innodisk, better known for its embedded storage and memory chips, had announced its intention to turn to the AI market earlier and started with the launch of USB camera modules last month, but the company has gone a step (or two, or three) further with the introduction of the EXMU-X261 FPGA machine vision platform. The EXMU-X261 is powered by an AMD Xilink Kria K26 system-on-module and features HDMI 1.4 video output, Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports for the cameras and other peripherals, as well as two M.2 sockets and a terminal block for expansion. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Termi2_Is_Siri_Like_It’s_1976⠀⇛ What are your plans for the long weekend? If you don’t have time or don’t want to dive into a new project, why not dust off something left unfinished, or do as Hackaday alum [Cameron Coward] did recently and upgrade an old project with a new brain. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tidy_POV_Display_Using_The_ESP32⠀⇛ Chinese Youtuber [corebb] presents the second version of his POV display. The earlier version used 5050-sized SMT addressable LEDs, which didn’t give great resolution, so he rev’d the design to use a much higher number (160 to be exact) of APA102 LEDs. These are 2mm on the side, making them a little more difficult to handle, so after some initial solder paste wobbles, he decided to use a contract assembly house to do the tricky bit for him. This failed as they didn’t ‘understand’ the part and placed them the wrong way around! Not to be deterred, he had another go with a modified solder stencil, and eventually got the full strip to light up correctly. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hardware_Store_Chemicals_Transform_Sheets_Into Waterproof_Tarps⠀⇛ For hackers in the Northern Hemisphere, the seasons of wet and cold are upon us. Staying dry is every bit as important as staying warm, so what better than a hack or two to keep us warm and dry! All you’ll need is a bed sheet, some rope, and a run to the local hardware store, and a bit of knowledge. [NightHawkInLight] has us covered with the excellent video “Recycled Bedsheets Make The Best Waterproof Tarps” as seen below the break. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Fenceline_Community_Groups_in_Louisiana’s_Cancer Alley_Celebrate_Mounting_Victories⠀⇛ “We decided to fight in courts instead of on the streets,” Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. James, explained to me on a call, describing her faith-based community organization’s latest legal victory. The decisive free speech win follows other recent notable milestones for environmental justice advocates in the petrochemical and refinery-lined river parishes between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — an area known as “Cancer Alley,” where Lavigne lives. On November 17, a week before Thanksgiving, Tulane Law’s First Amendment Clinic, announced a favorable settlement on behalf of RISE. St. James after a two-year legal battle against the St. James Parish town of Gramercy and its mayor, Steve Nosacka, an outspoken supporter of the oil and gas industry. # ⚓ “Died_Suddenly”:_Resurrecting_the_old_antivax_lie_of depopulation⠀⇛ I realize that I sometimes repeat this to the point of annoyance, but it really does need to be repeated over and over: In the age of the pandemic, everything old is new again with respect to antivaccine disinformation. The most recent example is the claims that, thanks to COVID-19 vaccines, huge numbers of people have “died suddenly,” because the vaccines are designed to result in “depopulation” (which the “global elites” apparently want for reasons that are never made coherent). This particular conspiracy theory that’s trending now about COVID-19 vaccines is an echo—hell, a rehash—of old antivax conspiracy theories. The problem is that most people, who hadn’t been paying attention in years past, don’t realize this. Coming out next month is a book pushing a similar conspiracy theory, “Cause Unknown”: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022. It’s written by Ed Dowd, described as a “former Wall Street analyst and BlackRock portfolio manager”—because that’s who should be doing amateur epidemiology, right?—who: # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Thousands_of_Health_Care_Workers_Face_Job_Loss as_COVID_Funding_Dwindles⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_We_Beat_an_Anti-Abortion_Amendment_in Deep-Red_Kentucky⠀⇛ On Election Day, Kentucky voters defeated an anti- abortion constitutional amendment in a state that’s been represented by two Republican senators for the past 25 years and has voted for Republicans in nine of the last 11 presidential elections. How did voters defy conventional wisdom and defend abortion rights? The key was organizing, through which volunteers connected deeply, authentically, and vulnerably with voters about abortion—an issue that Democrats have avoided talking about for years, while the Christian right has been using it effectively as a base-building flash point. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ European_Parliament_website_affected_by_[DDoS]_attack [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ European Parliament spokesman Jaume Duch said the website “is currently impacted from outside due to high levels of external network traffic.” He added that “this traffic is related to a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) event.” Technical teams are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. # ⚓ [Repeat] The Record ☛ Ransomware_incidents_now_make_up majority_of_British_government’s_crisis_management_‘Cobra’ meetings [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Ransomware incidents in the United Kingdom are now so impactful that the majority of the British government’s recent “Cobra” crisis management meetings have been convened in response to them rather than other emergencies. # ⚓ US Senate ☛ Threats_to_the_Homeland [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Today – we’ll also have the opportunity to discuss the significant threat that cyber-attacks pose to our national and economic security. [...] Cyberattacks are another significant issue facing every sector of our country. They are a force multiplier for our adversaries, who understand our economic and security dependence on technology. Compounding that problem is the inherent difficulty of attributing cyberattacks to specific nation- states or criminal groups. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ The_DOJ_Has_Opened_an_Investigation_Into RealPage⠀⇛ The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has opened an investigation into whether rent-setting software made by a Texas-based real estate tech company is facilitating collusion among landlords, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. The inquiry is being launched as questions have arisen about a 2017 merger between RealPage and its largest pricing competitor. The source told ProPublica some DOJ staff raised concerns about the merger but were overridden by political appointees of former President Donald Trump. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Sec_firm_MDSec_slams_Proofpoint_for_post_on_pen- testing_framework⠀⇛ European security firm MDSec has taken exception to the release of a blog post by another security outfit, Proofpoint, about its penetration testing framework Nighthawk, accusing the latter of making “unsubstantiated and speculative projections” about the framework. Nighthawk is an advanced C2 framework similar to Cobalt Strike and Brute Ratel; it can be used by both black hats and red teams and is commercially licensed. Proofpoint’s post said it had identified initial delivery of Nighthawk in September and then investigated the potential of the framework. It pointed out that it did not take very long for such tools to spread to the black hat community after they were released, writing: “Between 2019 and 2020, Proofpoint observed a 161% increase in threat actor use of Cobalt Strike. This increase was quickly followed by the adoption of Sliver – an open-source, cross-platform adversary simulation and red team platform. [...] MDSec was obviously annoyed that Proofpoint had published its post without first speaking to MDSec. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Australian_cops_‘using_psyops’_in_fight_against Medibank_attackers [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Australian law enforcement agencies appear to have resorted to psyops in a bid to send a message to network attackers that Australia is not the best place to do business. A message on a Russian language forum — written in surprisingly good English — called the attack on medical insurer Medibank Group unprofessional and speculated that it might kill off the Australian market for ransomware-as-a-service. The attackers were castigated for not encrypting the data they gained access to before exfiltrating the same and also criticised for not obtaining persistence within the system attacked. [...] “Someone has then negotiated to utilise REvil, a group that was ostensibly ‘dismantled’ by the FBI/ FSB early this year and done nothing officially since and now REvil’s Happy Blog Tor site has been magically resurrected on a new onion and Medibank’s data posted in chunks, presumably in the hope that Medibank will change its mind.” # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ 2FA,_3FA,_MFA…_What_does_it_all_mean?⠀⇛ Simply put, authentication is the act of proving you are who you say you are. To gain access to protected information, systems or locations, the user must prove their identity by providing specific access credentials. The system asks: “Who are you? Prove it.” When the user successfully authenticates (and depending on the permissions associated with their account), the system allows them to perform specific actions, access specific information or specific physical locations. # ⚓ System_misconfiguration_is_the_number_one_vulnerability,_at least_for_Mastodon⠀⇛ The number one vulnerability is system misconfiguration Today I’m going to explain why this is true and how I could have replaced everyone’s profile picture (or any other user’s uploaded content) with a meme at infosec.exchange Mastodon instance. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Yet_Another_Report_Suggests_Apple’s_Well- Hyped_New_Privacy_Standards_Are_Performative⠀⇛ For the last few years, Apple has worked overtime trying to market itself as a more privacy-focused company. 40-foot billboards of the iPhone with the slogan “Privacy. That’s iPhone” have been a key part of company marketing. The only problem: researchers keep highlighting how a lot of Apple’s well-hyped privacy changes are performative in nature. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ EARN_IT_Act_Will_Make_The_Internet_Worse For_Everyone_By_Undermining_Privacy_And_Security⠀⇛ To save the children, we must destroy everything. That’s the reality of the EARN IT Act. I mean, you can get some sort of sense of what you’re in store for just by reading the actual words behind the extremely labored acronym: Eliminating Abuse and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act. Whew. It’s a mouthful. And, given the name, it seems like this would be Congress putting funding towards supporting moderation efforts that target abusive content. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Experts_Condemn_The_UK_Online_Safety_Bill_As Harmful_To_Privacy_And_Encryption⠀⇛ In a letter published today, EFF has joined dozens of security researchers and human rights groups to send a clear message to incoming U.K. prime minister Rishi Sunak: the Online Safety Bill must not undermine encryption. As the letter notes, in its current form, the Online Safety Bill “contains clauses that would erode end-to-end encryption in private messaging.” It continues:   In the past few years, we’ve seen a number of proposals brought forward by governments that want to scan user-to-user communications for criminal content: the U.S. EARN IT Act, and the EU’s proposal to scan private chats. All of these proposals suffer from the incorrect belief that a backdoor or other workaround to read encrypted messages can be designed for use only in benevolent ways.  That isn’t the case, and never will be. Criminals, rogue employees, domestic abusers, and authoritarian governments are just some of the bad actors that will eagerly exploit backdoors like those proposed by the Online Safety Bill. Proposals like this threaten a basic human right: our right to have a private conversation.  # ⚓ EFF ☛ Top_Prosecutors_in_CA,_NY_and_DC_Are_Speaking Up_For_End-to-End_Encryption⠀⇛ In the fraught legal landscape following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, digital privacy around reproductive health has become critical. Several states are already enforcing abortion bans, and the Brennan Center for Justice has noted more than 100 state bills that were introduced in 2022 to further limit abortion access. At the same time, many states, including California and New York, have moved to protect or expand the right to abortion access, including for out- of-state persons. In this month’s elections, voters in California, Michigan, and Vermont enshrined the right to abortion in their state constitutions.  In recent months, we’ve been pleased to see statements from attorneys general in New York, California, and Washington D.C., all advising citizens to use end-to-end encrypted services when seeking abortion services.  These statements are good advice for consumers. Notably, these statements by elected law enforcement officials, seeking to protect their own constituents’ right to seek appropriate health care, stand in contrast to some federal agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Justice, that have sought to bypass or weaken encrypted services.  # ⚓ Amazon_Alexa_is_a_“colossal_failure,”_on_pace_to_lose $10_billion_this_year_–_Ars_Technica [Ed: Surveillance is the real purpose of it]⠀⇛ Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs in the company’s history right now, with a plan to eliminate some 10,000 jobs. One of the areas hit hardest is the Amazon Alexa voice assistant unit, which is apparently falling out of favor at the e-commerce giant. That’s according to a report from Business Insider, which details “the swift downfall of the voice assistant and Amazon’s larger hardware division.” Alexa has been around for 10 years and has been a trailblazing voice assistant that was copied quite a bit by Google and Apple. Alexa never managed to create an ongoing revenue stream, though, so Alexa doesn’t really make any money. The Alexa division is part of the “Worldwide Digital” group along with Amazon Prime video, and Business Insider says that division lost $3 billion in just the first quarter of 2022, with “the vast majority” of the losses blamed on Alexa. That is apparently double the losses of any other division, and the report says the hardware team is on pace to lose $10 billion this year. It sounds like Amazon is tired of burning through all that cash. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ I_Spy…_Something_Beginning_With_Con⠀⇛ Managing the lands stolen for conservation requires controlling the dispossessed, which is one reason why conservation needs intelligence gathering. Although this has received little attention, it’s bound to be an important factor in shaping its agendas. Which brings me to a tweet of mine from 24 October, “As Ukraine war is escalated by all sides (NB “all”, rather than “both”), who pays the price and who pockets it?” o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ’Terrorist_attack’:_home_of_Bondi Beach_media_identity_Jordan_Shanks_firebombed_–_Michael West⠀⇛ The 33-year-old YouTuber says he is being targeted, with a long list of suspects. Callum Foote reports on what appears to be a terrorist attack – a rare act of political violence and, if so, something more likely to happen in St Petersburg than Sydney. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ ISIS_fighters_terrorize_Mozambique, threaten_gas_supply_amid_Ukraine_war⠀⇛ In northern Mozambique, one of the Islamic State’s newest branches is fueling a brutal insurgency that has raged out of sight in small villages and remote forests since late 2017. Women are kidnapped and kept as sex slaves, boys are forced to become child soldiers, beheadings are weapons of terror. The conflict has claimed about 4,000 lives; nearly 1 million people have fled their homes, separating countless families. Victims shared their stories with The Washington Post on the condition that they be identified only by their first names, and, in R.A.’s case, by his initials, because his first name is uncommon. They still live in fear of the militants. # ⚓ The Daily Beast ☛ Don’t_Act_Surprised,_We_Knew_the_Right Was_Stoking_Violence⠀⇛ No, we just want Walsh and his coterie of right- wing extremists to acknowledge that their cottage industry of hate has helped create a toxic environment, that has radicalized unhinged individuals to use violence against targeted groups. You know, stochastic terrorism. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ We_Need_a_Fossil_Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty_to Stop_Violence_Against_African_Women_and_Our_Continent⠀⇛ COP27 has just ended and while the agreement to develop a loss and damage fund is a real victory for vulnerable nations already devastated by climate change impacts, UN climate talks once again failed to address the root cause of these impacts: fossil fuel production. We, African women on the front line, fear that the expansion of oil, coal, and especially gas will only reproduce historic inequalities, militarism, and war patterns. Presented as essential development tools for the African continent and the world, fossil fuels have demonstrated over more than 50 years of exploitation that they are weapons of mass destruction. Their pursuit systematically follows a violent pattern: appropriation of resource-rich land, exploitation of those resources, and then export of those resources by wealthy countries and corporations, to the detriment of local populations, their livelihoods, their cultures and, of course, their climate.  # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Kamala_Harris_Hits_Out_at_China_in_Speech_on Philippine_Coast_Guard_Ship⠀⇛ Harris delivered the speech in Palawan, a Philippine island province with a coast on the South China Sea. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ French_Ambassador:_US_‘Rules-Based_Order’ Means_Western_Domination,_Violating_International_Law⠀⇛ France’s ex US Ambassador Gérard Araud criticized Washington for frequently violating international law and said its so-called “rules-based order” is an unfair “Western order” based on “hegemony.” He condemned the new cold war on China, instead calling for mutual compromises. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Noam_Chomsky_on_Legacy_of_Radical_Historian Staughton_Lynd,_Who_Protested_Korea,_Vietnam_&_Iraq_Wars⠀⇛ Noam Chomsky remembers the life and legacy of longtime peace and civil rights activist, lawyer and author Staughton Lynd, who has died at the age of 92. Lynd faced professional blowback after he was a conscientious objector during the Korean War and an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and later supported U.S. soldiers who refused to fight in Iraq. We feature an extended interview excerpt from when he appeared on Democracy Now! in 2006 to discuss the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, his conscientious objector status and the 1993 Ohio prison uprising in Lucasville. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Staughton_Lynd’s_Radicalism_From_Below⠀⇛ When Staughton Lynd, Tom Hayden, and Herbert Aptheker traveled to Hanoi to declare peace with the Vietnamese people in 1965, they stopped off in Paris to meet several North Vietnamese officials. After a long discussion, a small, elderly Vietnamese man pulled Staughton aside and said to him, “Professor Lynd, you need to understand that we are going to win this war whether you help us or not. For every soldier killed by the United States military, two will join the National Liberation Front.” Staughton enjoyed telling this story about someone who had knocked him off his savior’s horse and put him in his place with only two sentences. Staughton would add, recalling the story: “That’s the kind of dialectical thinker I would like to become.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_authorities_report_shelling_of_hospital in_Zaporizhzhia_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Overnight, Russian forces shelled the maternity ward of a local hospital in Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region. According to Zaporizhzhia Governor Oleksandr Starukh, an infant was killed. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Did_Orbán_vote_for_the_sanctions? According_to_Fidesz_MPs,_it’s_not_that_simple⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ EP_resolution_declares_Russia_a_terrorist state,_Fidesz_MEPs_in_room_but_didn’t_vote⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Jonas_Jonasson:_No_creature_on_earth_is as_stupid_as_mankind⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ European_Parliament_declares_Russia_state_sponsor of_terrorism_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On November 23, the European Parliament adopted a resolution recognizing Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. The resolution was supported by 494 deputies out of 705, and 58 deputies voted against it, according to a press release from the European Parliament. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Opposition_politician_Ilya_Yashin_goes_on_trial_in Moscow_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court is hearing a case against opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who is accused of “knowingly” spreading “false information” because he streamed information about the killing of civilians in Bucha. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Mobilized_soldiers_from_Serpukhov_say_they_were thrown_into_combat_‘like_a_piece_of_meat’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Mobilized men from the city of Serpukhov, outside of Moscow, recorded a video in which they say they were sent to the front lines near Makiivka, in the Luhansk region, without preparation or the equipment they needed, and that they were shelled by their own side while they retreated. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Massacres,_robberies,_and_no_help_to_authorities_A close_look_at_one_year_of_PMC_Wagner’s_‘peacekeeping’_in_Mali —_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Alleged_Virginia_Walmart_Shooter_Who_Killed_6 Was_Employee_of_Store⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Yet_Another_Mass_Shooting_in_US_as_Gunman Kills_at_Least_6_in_Virginia_Walmart⠀⇛ A gunman opened fire inside a Chesapeake, Virginia Walmart late Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding others in the latest mass shooting in the United States, which has seen more than 600 this year alone. Reuters reported that local police “have so far not provided any details about the suspected shooter, but several media outlets have identified him as a manager at the store.” The shooter was found dead at the scene. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Don’t_Forget_White_Rage⠀⇛ Clearly, the big loser in the 2022 elections was Donald Trump.  A reported 14 candidates that he backed lost including, most notably, Senate candidate Mehmet Oz and gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania; Kari Lake for Arizona governor; and Kristina Karamo for Michigan secretary of state. However, the most revealing episode of the election jamboree was Trump’s rant against Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” DeSantis’s significant reelection victory only added to fuel to the fire that increasingly defines the growing splits within the Republican Party. Trump’s formal announcement that he plans to run for president 2024 threw down the gauntlet to DeSantis and other Republican hopefuls. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ US_Arms_Dealing_Is_Out_of_Control⠀⇛ Here’s a seldom commented upon reality of this century and this moment: The United States remains the number-one arms-exporting nation on the planet. Between 2017 and 2021, it grabbed 39 percent of the total global weapons market, and there’s nothing new about that. It has, in fact, been the top arms dealer in every year but one for the past three decades. And it’s a remarkably lucrative business, earning American weapons makers tens of billions of dollars annually. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Rex_Patrick:_Government_credibility_on the_line_amid_Boyle,_McBride_whistleblower_trials_–_Michael West⠀⇛ Relentless prosecution of whistleblowers David McBride and Richard Boyle may damage the credibility of Australia’s government on the world stage, writes Rex Patrick. Whistleblower protection laws need urgent reform. “We are committed to ensuring that Australia has effective protections for whistleblowers”, the Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus KC proclaimed at an Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference in Sydney a week ago. With the skill of a seasoned politician, he did so with a straight face. Dreyfus pledged his support for the protections knowing full well that the prosecutions of whistleblowers Richard Boyle and David McBride, by the organisations they blew the whistle on, continue relentlessly. Boyle is in the courts facing criminal charges related to his disclosure of Tax Office abuse of garnishee powers. Enduring garnishee notices issued by ATO allow the Tax Commissioner to unilaterally and completely strip the bank accounts of businesses, leaving them unable to pay employee wages, superannuation, nor supplier. It’s a death warrant. # ⚓ News AU ☛ Qatar_World_Cup_crowds_show_17,000_fans_have disappeared⠀⇛ In the four matches played so far this tournament the official crowds for all matches were listed to be well above the official capacity for each of the venues. Photos taken of grandstands during the middle of matches have also shown thousands of missing fans. # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Joshua_Frank⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Climate_change_is_making_the_weather_more_severe._Why don’t_most_forecasts_mention_it?⠀⇛ That connection between extreme weather and climate change has never been clearer, thanks to an area of science known as extreme-event attribution. It allows scientists to describe exactly how much worse a specific flood, heat wave, hurricane or drought is because of human-caused global warming. But that science is largely missing from public weather forecasts that millions of people in the U.S. rely on. As severe weather gets more common, scientists and forecasters are contending with a sneakily difficult question: How do we work together to explain the role of climate change? # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ Scientists_warn_of_health_impacts_as Great_Lakes_plastic_pollution_grows⠀⇛ Tens of millions of pounds of tiny pieces of plastic called ‘microplastics’ enter the Great Lakes each year Exposure is linked to learning and memory issues in animals; researchers fear similar effects on humans Experts say minor policy changes like banning microbeads are inadequate to combat the issue # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Filipino_Climate_Activist_Yeb_Saño_on COP27,_Climate_Reparations_&_Philippines’_New_President Marcos⠀⇛ This week U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Philippines, where she said the U.S. would defend the Philippines “in the face of intimidation and coercion” from China and vowed to expand the U.S. military presence in the country even after former bases leaked toxic waste into the environment. We recently spoke about the environment and more with Filipino activist Yeb Saño at the U.N. climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. He was previously the chief climate negotiator for the Philippines and is now executive director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia. Saño describes the “loss and damage” fund negotiated between the Global North and Global South as an “expression of human solidarity.” He also discusses Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s commitments to climate action, as well as the threats faced by Filipino environmental activists. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ In_a_Historic_Move,_Frontline_Communities_Will Be_Compensated_for_Climate_Crisis_Impacts⠀⇛ The annual UN climate negotiations concluded on Sunday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, running predictably into overtime, with a mixed outcome. Delegates celebrated the historic decision to create a mechanism by which developed countries will compensate developing countries for the havoc wreaked upon frontline communities by the climate crisis. Yet a call to phase out fossil fuels did not make it into a final draft. Given that it is the source of the emissions and the climate crisis, many scoffed at the hypocrisy of the results. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Highway_2_(Climate)_Hell⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Environmental_Justice_Must_Be_in the_Forefront_of_Any_Permitting_Reform_Efforts_by_Congress⠀⇛ In September, I joined with hundreds of people from across the country to stop a ploy initiated by my Senator, Joe Manchin (D-WV), Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to gut bedrock environmental law in order to allow highly polluting and unnecessary fossil fuel projects to be fast tracked through the permitting process. This unprecedented action would gut the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Water Act (CWA) and other social and environmental justice protections.  # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Cointelegraph ☛ Sam_Bankman-Fried_deepfake_attempts to_scam_investors_impacted_by_FTX⠀⇛ A faked video of Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has circulated on Twitter, attempting to scam investors affected by the exchange’s bankruptcy. Created using programs to emulate Bankman- Fried’s likeness and voice, the poorly made “deepfake” video attempts to direct users to a malicious site under the promise of a “giveaway” that will “double your cryptocurrency.” # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ FTX_Founder_Deepfake_Offers_Refund to_Victims_in_Verified_Twitter_Account_Scam⠀⇛ A deepfake of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried circulated on Twitter on Friday, where the founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange appeared to claim he could make users whole again by doubling their cryptocurrency in a typical giveaway scam. Making matters worse, the account was verified and mimicked SBF’s real account. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Leading_the_Nation_on_Climate,’_NY Governor_Signs_Partial_Ban_on_Crypto_Mining⠀⇛ Environmentalists celebrated after Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday approved a two-year moratorium on permits for fossil fuel plants that power cryptocurrency mining operations which use proof-of-work authentication methods to validate blockchain transactions. While the cryptocurrency industry and its allies opposed the measure—the Digital Chamber of Commerce said it was “severely disappointed” with Hochul’s decision to sign the bill into law and set a “dangerous precedent” for energy rules—environmental campaigners heralded it as a model. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_US_NRC_Seeks_Greatly Reduced_Safety_Regulations_for_‘Advanced’_Nuclear_Power Plants⠀⇛ “Guinea Pig Nation: How the NRC’s new licensing rules could turn communities into test beds for risky, experimental nuclear plants,” is what physicist Dr. Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists, titled his presentation last week. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Let’s_Rename_the_Day_After Thanksgiving_‘Extinction_Friday’⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Historic_Win’:_UN_Members_to_Start_Talks on_‘Inclusive_and_Effective’_Global_Tax_Standards⠀⇛ Tax justice advocates around the world on Wednesday celebrated the unanimous adoption of a resolution to “begin intergovernmental discussions in New York at United Nations Headquarters on ways to strengthen the inclusiveness and effectiveness of international tax cooperation.” “African countries stood together and made historic strides, breaking through the long-standing blockade by the OECD countries.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Inflation_Inequality:_The_Impact of_Soaring_Prices_on_the_Bottom-Tier_Communities_of_the South⠀⇛ 2021 was busy. # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Bob_Iger_Returning_as_Disney_CEO,_Bob Chapek_Fired_by_Board_–_The_Hollywood_Reporter⠀⇛ Of course, as Arnold noted in her statement, the novel coronavirus pandemic took its toll on the company, shutting its theme parks and cruise ships, and stopping almost all film and TV productions. # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Bullshit_Software_Projects_–_Earthly_Blog⠀⇛ Tim Horton’s is a donut and coffee place, and I worked there as a baker assistant around 2002, when I was in university. Most donuts fry for 30 seconds per side, then you flip them and do the other side. It’s hot work, spending a shift working over a deep fryer, but frying walnut crunch (since discontinued ) was my favorite part because they took 3 minutes per side, which gave me time to grab an empty cooking oil pail and sit and rest my legs while they cooked. [...] This was my introduction to busy work: work to be done for no other reason than to keep yourself looking busy. It fits into a larger category of bullshit work: work that the worker must do despite having no purpose. [...] Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by David Graeber investigating the strange phenomenon of pointless jobs. Graeber’s book even features interviews with some software developers. Once I started reading it, I felt compelled to test out his theory of BS jobs by asking around1: Did any software developers I knew, or on Lobsters, or Hacker News, have bullshit jobs? And sure enough, it didn’t take me long to hear from people who found their jobs to be pointless, and for the majority of them, it wasn’t a specific task, like mopping an already mopped floor, that was useless but an entire software development project. The world is apparently rife with pointless programming projects. # ⚓ The Wire ☛ Electoral_Bonds:_Amid_Concerns_on_Opacity, Donations_Cross_Rs_10,000-Crore_Mark⠀⇛ Several transparency activists, organisations and political parties have over the years expressed concern about the lack of transperancy around these bonds, as the identity of donors purchasing them remains a secret. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Faced_With_‘Baseless_Political_Lawsuits,’ Biden_Extends_Student_Loan_Payment_Freeze⠀⇛ “This pause extension is necessary, but also the bare minimum,” said one activist. “What 45 million borrowers truly need is a Biden administration that won’t allow fringe lawsuits and right-wing courts to undermine economic relief that’s already been approved.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Scholars,_Attorneys,_and_Advocates_to Supreme_Court:_Don’t_Let_GOP_Tank_Student_Debt_Relief⠀⇛ A broad coalition of legal scholars, attorneys, labor unions, and advocates filed amicus briefs this week imploring the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the Biden administration’s student debt cancellation program, which lower courts have put on hold as Republican officials and right-wing groups attempt to block relief for tens of millions of borrowers. The series of filings includes a 32-page brief led by the founders of the Student Loan Law Initiative, a project of the University of California, Irvine School of Law and the Student Borrower Protection Center. The law scholars argue that the Biden administration is perfectly within its right to forgive student loan debt “because Congress, through the plain language of the relevant statute, delegated precisely the authority exercised here.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ All_Eyes_on_Delaware—and_a_Promising_Challenge to_the_World’s_Richest_Man⠀⇛ So Elon Musk may not be all that fabulously ‘brilliant’ after all. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden_Extends_Student_Loan_Payment_Freeze_Amid Republican_Lawsuits⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Greedy_Behavior’_of_Profit-Hungry_Rail Industry_Blamed_for_Looming_Strike⠀⇛ A new analysis shines fresh light on U.S. railroad giants’ “greedy behavior”—from gorging on their own stock to ramping up fees to pad their bottom lines—as workers struggle for basic rights and benefits in ongoing contract negotiations that could result in the first national rail strike in decades. Updated figures compiled by the watchdog group Accountable.US and released Tuesday show that BNSF, a subsidiary of billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway that operates one of North America’s largest railroad networks, saw its net income rise 4% to $4.4 billion during the first three quarters of 2022. Union Pacific, meanwhile, saw its profits jump 11% to $5.36 billion during that period. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Warnock’s_Campaign_Is_Tired._He Needs_a_Revamped_Working-Class_Message_to_Defeat_Walker⠀⇛ The Warnock/Walker Senatorial run-off election on December 6th seems to be “more of the same” campaigning and fundraising as occurred during the general election. “More of the same” with tens of millions of dollars spent on unimaginative TV ads is not smart if Warnock wants to win without a disputed razor-thin margin. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Digital_Astroturfing_as_Corporate Propaganda⠀⇛ We might understand Astroturfing as a right-wing propaganda or a corporate public relation (PR) activity masking the true backers behind a seemingly innocent looking online message or organisation, pretending to be ordinary people engaged in a social activity or protest. The hidden organization of Digital Astroturfing can be either political (the Republican party, Tea Party, MAGA, etc.); it can be corporate advertising (a corporation); it can be religious (pretending to support a ban on abortion, for example), or it can even be straight forward corporate public relations. The raison d’être of Astroturfing is to make such engagement, protest, and support appear as if it originates from grassroots participants. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Admits_His_Content_Moderation_Council_Was Always_A_Sham_To_Keep_Advertisers_On_The_Site⠀⇛ Soon after Musk took over Twitter, he announced that no big content moderation changes would occur until after he had convened a “content moderation council” made up of “diverse” perspectives. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Tons_Of_Big_Advertisers_Are_Bailing_On_Twitter As_Hate_Runs_Rampant⠀⇛ A new report claims that more than a third of Twitter’s biggest advertisers have now pulled their ads from the platform, as the unstable and unpredictable nature of the new owner, combined with his implicit encouragement for hate, has made the site less and less welcoming to the brands with money to spend. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ White_House_expected_to_issue_executive order_reining_in_spyware⠀⇛ The letter does not define what would amount to improper use or what these security risks entail — potentially leaving opportunities for the U.S. government to still deploy spyware. Nonetheless, the measure would entail the latest effort by the Biden administration to address the privacy risks posed by highly intrusive software used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world. The prospect of an executive order limiting the use of spyware would likely set up an intense debate among law enforcement and intelligence agencies interested in the technology and surveillance watchdogs in Congress. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Twitter_faces_serious_legal_threat_from_ex-employees, experts_say⠀⇛ Twitter plans to keep many, but not all, of the laid-off workers on the payroll for two months as a means of complying with the law, Liss-Riordan said. However, the company does not intend to pay full severance beyond those months as previously promised, she added. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Adult_Performers,_Trump_Supporters_and Parodies:_Who_Is_Paying_for_Twitter?⠀⇛ The plan had attracted about 140,000 users as of Nov. 15, according to data from Travis Brown, a software developer in Berlin who has studied extremism on Twitter. But it also spurred spoof accounts, rattled advertisers and emboldened far- right influencers. Twitter has halted the program over issues with impersonation. Here is who is paying for Twitter. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Twitter_boss_Elon_Musk_keeps_conspiracy_theorist_Alex Jones_off_platform⠀⇛ Those asking for his return included the controversial [Internet] tycoon Kim Dotcom. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Actually,_Democrats_Didn’t_“Win”_the_Midterms⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Can_Raphael_Warnock_Win_an_Even_Tougher_Runoff Election?⠀⇛ The 2022 midterms are over, and Democrats did better than they had a right to expect. The president’s party almost always loses Congress two years into his first term; this time, it held the Senate and lost the House by, at press time, only six seats (with five races still to be called). Democrats won thrilling victories from Pennsylvania to Michigan to Arizona. Politically, though, they couldn’t defy their own mistakes. In New York, establishment political malpractice led to the loss of four House seats. And Georgia, the star of the 2020 cycle, came up short of the promise we saw back then. The Peach State won the White House for Joe Biden, and in 2021 it elected two Democratic senators, giving the party its crucial majority (with the vote of Vice President Kamala Harris). This time, Stacey Abrams, one of the architects of Georgia’s Democratic successes in the last cycle, lost her second race against Governor Brian Kemp, by almost 250,000 more votes than she did in 2018. And while Senator Raphael Warnock beat the former football star Herschel Walker, he fell a half-point short of the 50 percent he needed to win outright and was forced into a December runoff. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Unconscionable’:_Georgia_Supreme_Court Revives_6-Week_Abortion_Ban⠀⇛ Reproductive rights advocates responded with outrage Wednesday after the Georgia Supreme Court reinstated the state’s draconian law prohibiting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. “This ban has wreaked havoc on Georgians’ lives, and our patients deserve better.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Georgia_Supreme_Court_Rejects_GOP_Effort_to Prevent_Saturday_Voting_in_Senate_Runoff⠀⇛ Update: The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously rejected the Republican Party’s attempt to block early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP candidate Herschel Walker. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Dear_Liberals:_Stop_Your_Smug_Celebration of_the_Midterms⠀⇛ How grotesque. Yes, there was no red wave. The at least non- fascist major capitalist party, the Democrats, will keep the US Senate for two more years. MAGA candidates backed by the malignant narcissi-fascist Donald Trump did badly, something that is helping cost him support from leading Republican politicos and billionaire donors and raising questions about his viability as a 2024 presidential candidate. A bunch of ghastly election-denier/-stealer MAGA candidates vying for offices in charge of electoral processes and machinery (secretary of state, attorney general, and governor) lost in key contested states where they would have been able to monkey with the next presidential election. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_337:_Will_Elon_Kill Twitter?⠀⇛ This week, we have a special joint episode with The Neoliberal Podcast, discussing the question on a lot of minds: just what the hell is going on at Twitter now that Elon Musk is in charge? He’s owned the company for less than a month, and it’s already in chaos. Mike sits down with Neoliberal Podcast host Jeremiah Johnson to discuss why content moderation is so difficult at scale, whether Mastodon can be a real Twitter replacement, Elon’s erratic and dumb moves, and the big question: whether or not Twitter might die. # ⚓ Opinion_|_I_Don’t_Mourn_the_Queen_–_POLITICO⠀⇛ The only real difference between Black Brits and Black Americans is that Britain offshored its racist violence to the colonies. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Decolonize!⠀⇛ # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Scotland_in_Chains⠀⇛ I live in the capital of my country. I had to travel hundreds of miles to the capital of a foreign country to hear a bunch of unionist judges, the majority from a foreign country, declare that my country has no right to existence, indeed my country only exists at all in so far as it was incorporated by a foreign parliament in the Scotland Act of 1998. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Slovakia_and_Austria_react_to_Orbán’s scarf_with_map_of_Greater_Hungary⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Russia’s_retaliation,_bicycle_propaganda in_the_EU_–_Arte’s_Europe_Weekly._From_now_on,_in_cooperation with_Telex⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Lula’s_Victory_in_Brazil_and_the_Second_Pink Wave⠀⇛ Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory over Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential election is the latest evidence of the resurgence of the Latin American left. This is a one of the most hopeful stories in the world, since the left and center- left parties that now govern most of Latin America have the potential to seriously address issues like climate change and inequality. But it’s a complex story too, since the populist right is also gaining force. Bolsonaro’s supporters did well in elections below the presidential level. The right is also organizing effective opposition in many other countries in the region, forcing the left to govern in coalitions with centrists. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Judge_Cannon’s_Pro-Trump_Special_Master_Review Order_Could_Be_Shut_Down⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Carpetbagger’_Charges_Fly_as_Georgia_GOP Senate_Candidate_Walker’s_Texas_Tax_Break_Exposed⠀⇛ Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker is the beneficiary of a tax break meant for permanent Texas residents—a possible violation of both Texas law and residency rules for voting and political candidacy in Georgia, CNN reported Wednesday. Records reviewed by the network show Walker benefited from Texas’ homestead tax exemption, shaving approximately $1,200 off his 2021 tax bill on his $3 million home in the Dallas-Ft. Worth suburb of Westlake. The Texas Tribune reports the former NFL star is expected to apply for the discount again this year, and would likely save about $1,500. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Media_Misled_on_Issues_Important_to_Midterm Voters⠀⇛ “The political press blew it.” So wrote Dana Milbank of the Washington Post (11/9/22), calling the fourth estate the “biggest loser of the midterm elections.” As he points out, most of the headlines leading into Election Day forecast a “Democratic wipeout.” And, it hardly bears mentioning, such a Democratic rout didn’t occur. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Inmates_Who_Killed_a_Writer_and_a Publisher_Escape_in_Bangladesh⠀⇛ The prisoners were among those convicted in the murders of the Bangladeshi-American writer, Avijit Roy, in 2015 and of his publisher, Faisal Arefin Dipan, later that year. The killings represented an unsettling rise in extremist violence in Bangladesh. Another of Mr. Roy’s publishers and several intellectuals and bloggers critical of fundamentalist Islam were also killed that year. # ⚓ EuroNews ☛ Turkey_summons_Swedish_ambassador_over ‘insulting’_images_of_Erdogan_Access_to_the_comments⠀⇛ Turkey has summoned Sweden’s ambassador to Ankara to protest against “insulting” images of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ This_Holiday_Season,_You_Can_Find_Ways_to_Talk to_Your_Family_About_the_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ When the winter holidays start, many of us find ourselves in a season of uncomfortable conversations. It’s a time of living-room and dinner-table moments catching up with relatives and friends—all of whom may have mildly or radically different political leanings, generational perspectives, religious views, and other ways of dealing with the world than we do. # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Two_Bangladeshi_militants_on_death_row_for killing_US_blogger_escape_from_court⠀⇛ Two Islamist militants sentenced to death for killing a Bangladeshi-American blogger and his publisher, escaped from the premises of a crowded court in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Sunday. # ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ India:_Hindu_Students_Under_Attack⠀⇛ India Today’s Muslim journalist Abdul Basheer reported on this incident with the headline, “Hyderabad Student beaten by Hostel mates for insulting Prophet Muhammad.” He masterfully concealed the fact that a lone Hindu boy was terrorized by a gang of Muslims, and tried to give the incident a fake narrative that encouraged the Muslim agenda. With this reporting style, the “journalist” further reinforced the proposition that a Muslim will be a Muslim first and a doctor, lawyer, actor, or as in this case, a journalist only secondarily. The Hyderabad incident and its media treatment again prove that no amount of education can free some Muslims from their will to wage jihad. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Brazilian_journalist’s_phone_seized_by police_after_confusion_over_flag_at_FIFA⠀⇛ “Then an officer arrived and tried to intervene. He grabbed the phone from the other guy and ordered me to delete the video,” he added. Pernambuco’s governor Paulo Camara said, “Our solidarity with the Pernambuco journalist Victor Pereira. Victor is covering the Qatar Cup and had the flag of Pernambuco that he carried seized by the authorities of that country.” # ⚓ uni Oxford ☛ Strict_media_laws,_no_public_data,_sources_at risk:_what_it’s_like_to_be_a_journalist_in_Qatar⠀⇛ Chief among the human rights concerns cited by those who criticise Qatar is the condition of the migrant workers who built the stadiums, and on whom the country relies in other industries as well. The impact on Qatari women of the male guardianship law and the treatment of LGBTQ+ people are also discussed. Something mentioned less often is press freedom. In the 2022 World Press Freedom Index, Qatar ranks at 119 out of 180 countries, down from its high of 74 in 2008. In a country where no journalists have died this year and none are currently in prison but where media laws are strict and self-censorship is rampant, what is it like to be a journalist? And what should international reporters be aware of as they land in Qatar to cover the World Cup? # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ginger_Sufferings:_Gianni_Infantino’s Sportswashing_Performance⠀⇛ What followed was almost gruesome in its hilarity and could be summed up with the old biblical injunction against casting the first stone. Perhaps there was something of US President Woodrow Wilson about it, who claimed in 1915 that no one nation could judge another. (Fabulous as this was, the president proceeded to judge Imperial Germany and Kaiserism, committing the United States to World War I.) FIFA has always been of that restricted view of judgment, for good reason. It hardly counts as a sporting organisation and should be likened to a mafia-styled corporation. For its officials, corruption has been naturalised to the point of habit, and anyone willing to cast stones at it would need a quarry. # ⚓ [Old] Il Fatto Quotidiano ☛ Qatar_wants_to_silence journalists_during_the_World_Cup⠀⇛ According to RSF, the host country has Qatar slipped rules and conditions into the accreditation application to discourage the journalists from reporting on, for example, the working conditions of the migrant workers in the country. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_asks_Prosecutor_General’s_Office_to declare_student_publication_Doxa_‘extremist_organization’_— Meduza⠀⇛ The State Duma Commission for Investigating Foreign Interference in Russia’s Internal Affairs asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to declare the student publication Doxa an “extremist organization.” o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ England,_Other_Teams_Drop_Plans to_Wear_Antidiscrimination_Armbands_at_Qatar_World_Cup⠀⇛ Hours before their opening games of the 2022 World Cup, England and Wales abandoned plans to wear rainbow armbands after FIFA threatened to sanction players for breaking tournament rules. In one of the early flashpoints of the tournament, FIFA on Sunday notified seven European teams that players would be subject to sporting sanctions, including automatic yellow cards, for wearing the “One Love” armbands, which were designed to send a message against discrimination. The target was widely understood to be anti-homosexuality laws in Qatar. # ⚓ The Print ☛ Afghanistan:_Taliban_publicly_flogs_boy,_girl for_having_pre-marital_affair⠀⇛ Taliban Supremo Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada previously in a meeting with court judges said that they must not hesitate in giving Hadd and Qisas punishments as per Islamic law, according to Khaama Press. Hadd crimes are punishable by death or amputation of limbs and other harsh punishments and Qisas are ruled as per the eye for an eye law of retributive justice. Since the Taliban’s hostile takeover of Afghanistan, similar incidents have been happening frequently. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ HUD_Displaces_More_Residents_From_Cairo, Ill.⠀⇛ It was the last Friday in October, and barges filled with mounds of glistening coal sat parked in the Ohio River below Lee Esther Logan’s high-rise public housing apartment complex in Cairo, Illinois. Wispy white clouds streaked a baby blue sky. The panoramic waterfront view is one that normally gives Logan peace as she takes it in from the brown recliner on her balcony. But on the day I visited her, Logan wasn’t at peace. She was anxious. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Steven_Donziger_&_Lee_Camp:_Big_Oil_Owns_the US_Justice_System⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Unemployed⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Stop_and_Smell_the_Apocalypse⠀⇛ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Defiance_in_Iran:_Despite_Crackdown,_Anti- Government_Protests_May_Grow_into_“Nationwide_Revolution”⠀⇛ The situation in Iran is “critical” as authorities tighten their crackdown on the continuing anti- government protests after the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the so- called morality police. United Nations human rights officials report Iranian security forces in Kurdish cities killed dozens of protesters this week alone, with each funeral turning into a mass rally against the central government. “The defiance has been astounding,” says Middle East studies professor Nahid Siamdoust, who reported for years from Iran, including during the 2009 Green Movement, and calls the protests a “nationwide revolution.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Will_Iranian_Protests_Grow_Into_a_“Nationwide Revolution”_Despite_Crackdown?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Papers Please ☛ The_airport_of_the_future_is_the_airport_of today_—_and_that’s_not_good.⠀⇛ [Facial recognition at each step in airline passenger processing. Slide from presentation by Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd. to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Traveler Identitification Program symposium, October 2018]Today, the day before Thanksgiving, will probably be the busiest day for air travel in the USA since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. If you are flying this week for the first time in three years, what will you see that has changed? Unfortunately, many of the most significant changes made during the pandemic are deliberately invisible — which is part of what makes them so evil. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Alabama_Pauses_Executions_After_Numerous Prisoners_Survive_Attempts_to_Kill_Them⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chomsky:_US_Sanctions_on_Iran_Don’t_Support_the Protests,_They_Deepen_Suffering⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Immigrants_Can_Work_Jobs_at_the_University_of California,_and_Latinos_Are_Fighting_Toxic_Pollution⠀⇛ Hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought here by their undocumented parents since 2007 are not eligible for DACA. But now they may be eligible for jobs—at the University of California. UCLA law professor Ahilan Arulanantham explains. Powered by RedCircle # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DOJ_Follows_Up_Springfield_(MA)_PD_Consent Decree_With_An_Investigation_Of_The_Worcester_PD⠀⇛ Two years ago, the DOJ opened up an investigation into the Springfield, Massachusetts police department, targeting its troubled Narcotics Unit. Like far too many other drug-focused units, the Springfield Narcotics Unit was filled with officers who routinely engaged rights violations. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Over_400_Groups_Urge_Biden_to_Strengthen Protections_for_Haitian_Migrants⠀⇛ As Haitians reel from more than a year of civil and political unrest, 422 advocacy groups on Tuesday asked the Biden administration to redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status, under which people who are unable to safely return to their homeland can remain in the United States. “We have stood as frontline workers knowing that there was a possibility of death. Despite this, I live in constant fear of deportation.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Thankful_for_Montana’s_Constitution⠀⇛ When you think about the condition of most of the United States, it’s obvious why we’re now experiencing such a surge of in-migrants. Montanans have a long history of being considered kind and generous people and the so-called “rat race” hasn’t yet come to define our lives here. We are not stuck on 8-lane freeways crawling along in stop and go traffic while road rage and frustration boils. Nope, in a very short time you’re in and out of any town — and when you’re out, the real and unique “wealth” of Montana comes shining through. Consider, for instance, the stunning fact that virtually all of the native species that existed when Lewis and Clark’s expedition went through the state over 200 years ago — and that’s anything but a fluke. In fact, Montana’s long-standing dedication to conservation of public lands and waters is guaranteed by our Constitution, which has been internationally lauded for exactly that reason. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Attack_of_the_Killer_Robots⠀⇛ One chilly morning, you’re awakened by a faint buzzing noise, like the sound of swarming wasps. It gets louder and louder—until suddenly, intense flashes light up the windows of your apartment. You peek outside, just in time to see part of a residential building—your neighbors’ homes—collapse in flames. Acrid clouds of smoke billow from a hole in the side. Down below, you see the wreckage of several small delta-winged drones. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_147: Canada’s_Battle_over_Internet_Streamers_–_A_Cancon_Story_of Freedom_of_Expression,_Algorithms_and_Cultural_Policy_– Michael_Geist⠀⇛ The end for Bill C-11 at the Senate is drawing near as this week, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is scheduled to make a long awaited appearance followed by clause-by-clause review of the bill. The Senate hearings have been a model for legislative review. They have heard from a myriad of witness, read countless briefs, and immersed themselves in a hard piece of legislation. Regardless of their views, they know the issues around content regulation in the bill are real. The big remaining questions are whether those hearings result in legislative amendments and, if they do, whether the government will accept them. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ No_Billion_Dollar_Bonus:_Officials_Admit Most_Bill_C-11_Funding_Isn’t_New_and_Will_Still_Be_Controlled by_Foreign_Streamers_–_Michael_Geist⠀⇛ Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and department officials appeared before the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications yesterday on Bill C-11. I posted a Substack of my live tweeting of the Minister’s appearance, which included continued gaslighting on the applicability of the bill to user content and an acknowledgement that it could lead to algorithmic manipulation. After Rodriguez departed, officials took questions for another hour. One of the most notable exchanges involved the express admission that the much-touted estimate that the bill would generate a billion dollars is massively overstated. In fact, department officials now admit that most of that money isn’t new at all. Rather (much as I’ve argued), it is simply a re-allocation of existing expenditures in Canada that is unlikely to result in significant increased economic activity or new jobs. When Rodriguez appeared before the House committee in June, he was quick to tout claims that “we estimate that this legislation will generate close to $1 billion a year.” It turns out that was misinformation as we now know that the funds are simply shuffling around existing spending, not generating hundreds of millions of new money. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ As_Largest_Archive_Of_K-Pop_Live_Streams Goes_Offline,_What_Happens_To_All_That_Culture?⠀⇛ When people speak of culture, and preserving it, they usually mean the works of recognized artistic giants like Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Charlie Chaplin, and Miles Davis. They rarely mean things like live streams of Korean pop music, generally known as K-pop. And yet K-pop is undoubtedly an expression – some would say a particularly vibrant expression – of a characteristic modern culture. It is also subject to copyright, which brings with it problems, as this story on Mashable reveals: # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Z-Library’s_Tor_Network_Site_Has_Also Gone_Offline_(Update)⠀⇛ The troubles for Z-Library continue. The popular shadow library lost access to hundreds of domains after two alleged operators were arrested as part of a criminal investigation. The site remained accessible through the Tor network but today that’s no longer the case. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Google_Ordered_to_Remove_Pirate_Site Domains_From_U.S._Search_Results⠀⇛ A copyright lawsuit filed last week targeting DaftSex.com and PornWild.com is progressing at a surprising pace. With Google, Cloudflare, Namecheap, and EasyDNS named as defendants, the court has already ordered the suspension of several domains and their removal from Google’s search results. Interestingly, DaftSex.com was recently seized by MindGeek so is not a pirate site. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Update_for_Thanksgiving_week_2022⠀⇛ o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ A_rabbit_hole_of_webmentions⠀⇛ How hard could it be? It’s relatively straightforward, or so I thought until I started going down this particular rabbit hole yesterday [2]. The first stumbling block is sendind a webmention. The protocol itself isn’t that tough—just send a `POST` to an endpoint with the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of my post, and the URL of the post I mentioned and that’s pretty much it. But the issue I have is that I tend to link freely. This one paragraph post [3] has six links in it! When I exclude links back to my own blog, there are still three external links. Do I check each one? There are plenty of posts (like this one [4]) where sending a webmention isn’t something I want to do. So I’m having a bit of analysis paralysis [5] on how exactly I want to handle this. For now, it’s a manual process. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4409 ➮ Generation completed at 02:44, i.e. 15 seconds to (re)generate ⟲