𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, November 26, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sun 27 Nov 02:41:59 GMT 2022 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/26/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmbZEbJJCx2oKiHzb46Kk8u6KJxE8cDB7rPcJrBgk59rrt QmWe4ZcUCXb7gFxjGDk3PjF7HNHjTbgcquYd9u9jD5g5ge QmektpPiXCuvc8NaNmCE8j37akU1yn7EEyRiwBET52oW8A Qmde6QEourkyGGcYZLdpsAi286GrfoXVkX6CUevUzZsmmk QmQS4yFupXPo1svfrLiFxv6BB7gRHbYFynrvyydPucmB9q QmY1X6m9vp1ra3VDuZ2GjBhKAvVsGutnYCpd4oKRpMw4SV QmWPNBYGqyuq9XLTiax7rt77KVGCae8BFDeLQFksaDCp5f QmSPzNDAW3D3KqfWRdHYQEWtxEEJUVdqqtEGcu8S14rTd8 QmWTq3p2zQ7a59rDPtHBC9gQ3CEiuAhkP7zbU1HsUEK7ss QmRLzUcf7xHXgxz4uDtuuczMVFxww7tK2RUJZLCZHcajHD QmX7kxj1MQf3W96GYsRLdeSLXusC9JaFtCSoT8SGEYzW8w QmdFVj7ax5AKsqtcbpboc58Cm5tfBZrpx36B1A86FoG2NA QmXXVoEb5eBXT6aHWyHXXBkdA4rzUdUVyP1VF9WG5r9bFJ QmYw27XST29tsr6QXEMYUoACM4n1e5XYWDZTBR7vHprPbC QmRCmRWww97e75DM14B2d1qkuBNYhc3xiot1oc7iK6jHsG QmXUiAAuF6d29LyvMmGXRNKDjRWurj3DZCgK3bBz29QcKR Qmd1StkRPjLJfH1z58B1mngbGWUgMHRweuZDBGscxEa7E5 QmRLEsyXGm1nbnDXWaCXoNvF8mPMKuDNprPhp8wwBnf6Uy QmUUv6KSwgdtc3wg117KKh1ysfPCt3jmXpD1WfKhQqKPkn QmSFSd1vAYP4ohzbeKUbbo6274SVceULSU4vHM51GkMMuw QmPZMEcQqMMP8MADSrzwipLopGe8JGWV5YLBQLSWb3yJ3n ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ GNU Emacs Pointing to Microsoft Servers With Microsoft Ads (Spying) and Other Brainwash | Techrights ⦿ “Bringing Teams Together” at the EPO Means Exactly the Opposite | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Monopolies Presumed Valid | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, November 25, 2022 | Techrights ⦿ Legislating Against Free Software in the United States and in Europe, Thanks to Lobbying by Microsoft et al | Techrights ⦿ Microsoft is the Problem, Not the Solution | Techrights ⦿ Unitary Patent Lobbying: Stacked UPC Panel With 250 People in Attendance Spun as “3000 Viewers Followed the Conference” (a Lie) | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/emacs-web-browser-mode/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/epo-bringing-teams-together/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/grabinski-monopolies-meme/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/irc-log-251122/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/legislating-against-free-software/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/national-or-international-security-crisis/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/stacked-upc-panel/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/wine-7-22/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 65 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/emacs-web-browser-mode/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/26/emacs-web-browser-mode/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.26.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ GNU_Emacs_Pointing_to_Microsoft_Servers_With_Microsoft_Ads_(Spying)_and_Other Brainwash⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 12:51 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum cbd00fd9fa8f0202e13b7d5fa7bbc1be Emacs and Microsoft Issue Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/gnu-emacs-microsoft.webm Summary: An attempt to study another Gemini client resulted in a disturbing revelation; Unless something went very wrong, it seems like GNU Emacs doesn’t exercise caution with users’ privacy; it leaks out information_to_Microsoft in its Web browser mode IT WOULD BE lovely to be proven wrong and nothing would please me more than realising I had done something wrong (before I recorded this video), but on the face of it DuckDuckGo is wired into Debian’s build of GNU Emacs. Well, maybe specific to this distro and version of it, but maybe the settings come from the ‘upstream’ package, just like qutebrowser in Debian 10. Does GNU not understand that DuckDuckGo means Microsoft servers serving Microsoft “results” (censorship) and ads while leaking users’ data to Microsoft? That’s what has been happening for over a decade; it’s hardly news that DuckDuckGo is a de facto Microsoft proxy. “GNU Emacs is like the crown jewel of GNU or at least of Richard Stallman (it predates the GNU Project).”The video above concerns Elpher, which I still study for an impending review. It’s just that I lost interest in Emacs the moment I saw Microsoft in it. GNU Emacs is like the crown jewel of GNU or at least of Richard Stallman (it predates_the_GNU_Project). Sending users’ activity to Microsoft is very antithetical, hence a breach of trust. 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Staff of the EPO is still being crushed and satisfaction levels remain as low as ever [1, 2] (since Battistelli came). “When the management treats its own staff so poorly what is to be expected from its attitude towards the wider public?”Today we share a letter sent to two cronies of António_Campinos, one of whom a former colleague from_Alicante who shamelessly_promotes_violation_of_labour_regulations. The net effect is sadder staff that’s being bullied_into granting European software_patents in order to fake_"production". The term production doesn’t mean actual work, it just means granting more and more monopolies each year, irrespective of the rules that were meant to govern the Office. The Central Staff Committee (CSC) of the EPO wrote the following about last week’s “Communiqué [...] announc[ing] the revival of the “Bringing Teams Together” project which aims to empty EPO buildings to save office space.” As we mentioned_before, the premise is a lie and it’s not about saving space in the premises. There are other motivations that are kept secret (or unspoken of). Here is the CSC’s message: § Bringing Teams Together: Everybody will have to move⠀➾ Dear colleagues, In the Communiqué of 17 November 2022, the Office announced the revival of the “Bringing Teams Together” project which aims to empty EPO buildings to save office space. The project was never submitted to statutory consultation and only presented for information in the GCC meeting of 5 July 2022 (see also our GCC opinion). Before the administration runs this project, we request to be informed of the lessons learnt from previous projects such as the Isar Daylight Project and the Vienna relocation. The “Bringing Teams Together” project remains unpopular because the administration’s arguments in its defence remain unconvincing. The statement “it is very likely that everybody in these buildings will have to move” is not understandable for many teams which are already together. We believe that the exercise, in the current context, will neither improve the working atmosphere in the Office nor increase confidence in the decision of the upper management. Here is the latter sent by the CSC to Campinos ‘protegee’ Nellie Simon and Steve Rowan: European Patent Office | 80298 MUNICH | GERMANY European Patent Office 80298 Munich Germany Central Staff Committee Comité central du personnel Zentraler Personalausschuss centralSTCOM@epo.org Reference: sc22139cl Date: 18/11/2022 Ms Nellie Simon Site Manager Munich City Mr Steve Rowan Site Manager The Hague By email OPEN LETTER Revival of the unpopular “Bringing Teams Together” project Dear Ms Simon, Dear Mr Rowan, In the Communiqué of 17 November 2022, the Office has announced the revival of the “Bringing Teams Together” project which aims to empty EPO buildings to save office space. The project was never submitted to statutory consultation and only presented for information in the GCC meeting of 5 July 2022 (see also our GCC opinion). According to the Communiqué, the Office bases its decision on average building occupancy rates observed since September over a period of 10 weeks: 33% in Munich (but with peaks at 40% from Tuesday to Thursday) and 37% in The Hague. First, if new observation data were used, it constitutes evidence that the project should be discussed and creates an opportunity to submit it to the COHSEC, and to the GCC for consultation. Second, the New Ways of Working cannot be considered to have reached a steady state in such a short period. Observation of staff working patterns can only be reliable over a longer period of at least one complete year. Third, since September 2022, working in the Office premises has continued to remain unattractive: • The PschorrHöfe buildings 7 and 8 have no canteen and no cafeteria. The only available cafeteria is insufficient and causes long waiting times for a coffee or a snack. • The repair works (e.g. lifts) and new installation (e.g. LED panels) were a source of not only inconvenience but also considerable acoustic pollution. These conditions, among other reasons, forced many of our colleagues to switch to teleworking. The “Bringing Teams Together” project remains unpopular because the administration’s arguments in its defence remain unconvincing. The statement “it is very likely that everybody in these buildings will have to move” is not understandable for many teams which are already together. Before you run this project, we request to be informed of the lessons learnt from previous projects such as the Isar Daylight Project and the Vienna relocation. What can be understood from the Communiqué is that line managers will now be tasked with checking the history of presence of their team members in the Office premises and, if it is deemed insufficient since September, impose a workplace-for-the-day even if an allocated fixed workplace was requested in the first place. We believe that this exercise, in the current context, will neither improve the working atmosphere in the Office nor increase confidence in the decision of the upper management. Yours sincerely, Alain Dumont Chairman of the Central Staff Committee Cc.: Ms Edda Franz, Principal Director General Services When the management treats its own staff so poorly what is to be expected from its attitude towards the wider public? As we shall show in the next video and article, the EPO is stomping on EU citizens on behalf of corporations, the majority of which aren’t even European. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 371 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/grabinski-monopolies-meme/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/26/grabinski-monopolies-meme/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.26.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Monopolies_Presumed_Valid⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 12:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Grabinski: Monopolies. I like.⦈ Summary: The EPO is trying to put patent_maximalists in charge of a court it wishes to control, in effect dismantling independent auditory functions for the granting_of_European_Patents ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠛⠫⠏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣀⣀⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⣀⣠⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⡀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⢹⠁⢀⠈⢹⠀⠈⡇⠀⡏⠁⡀⠉⡇⠀⢀⠉⠛⠁⠀⠈⢻⠀⢸⣿⠀⢸⠁⠀⣀⡏⠀⡀⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⣷⠀⠀⠋⠵⠛⠁⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⢸⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⡇⠀⡇⠀⠈⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⢸⣿⠀⢸⠀⠀⠉⣧⡀⠁⠲⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠐⠂⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣟ ⣿⠀⢰⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠸⠀⢸⠀⢠⠀⠀⡇⠀⠇⠀⡇⠀⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠘⢻⠀⢸⠀⠀⠛⡇⠀⠆⠀⡟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟ ⣿⢶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣿⣶⣾⣶⣶⣿⣶⣴⣾⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣶⣦⣶⣿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣴⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⢣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇ 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Local_copy | CID (IPFS): QmPZMEcQqMMP8MADSrzwipLopGe8JGWV5YLBQLSWb3yJ3n ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 578 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/legislating-against-free-software/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/26/legislating-against-free-software/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.26.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Legislating_Against_Free_Software_in_the_United_States_and_in_Europe,_Thanks to_Lobbying_by_Microsoft_et_al⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, Law, Microsoft, Security at 12:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 593aae11b7e5e06b971a2f29012bf9c6 Microsoft Lobbying Against Software Freedom Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/laws-against-freesw-eu.webm Summary: There’s legislation that would discriminate against Free software, boosted by Microsoft and its creeping interests, which include the so-called ‘Linux’_Foundation (a force of corporate occupation against the GNU/Linux community and its collective interests*) About a year ago Dr._Andy_Farnell_explained_how_companies_like_Microsoft_had worked_to_privatise_the_Commons, e.g. hoarding Free software in sites like GitHub (proprietary) and then censoring, plagiarising etc. in the interests of “core infrastructure” etc. They tell us they’re protecting us while stealing from us and denying basic freedom in the digital realm. They tell us we must give up control in the interest of “security” and let ‘responsible’ companies like Microsoft manage us. Noticing a_recurring_theme here? Remember this is the company that uses crimes to impose proprietary software on people — software that already has (partly-hidden) back doors in it — ones that cannot be detected easily or removed. Microsoft is not people’s boss, but it might feel like it can boss politicians, even outside the United States. Hence this legislation_in_the_US, which can now be seen (similar shades) in the EU. Yesterday this new_episode_of_“Enterprise_Linux_Security” was published to say: “Supply chain attacks in open source software projects are a real possibility. In fact, we’ve covered actual incidents in previous episodes of this podcast. In this episode, Jay and Joao discuss developing legislation that will require the components within open source projects to be a part of a bill of materials (among other requirements).” But the malware is sent from Microsoft (GitHub/NPM) most of the time. Shouldn’t this "supply_chain" be taken out of the hands of Microsoft_and_the_NSA? Meanwhile, here in Europe the NLnet Labs team is warning that “the proposed Cyber Resilience Act” would work against Free software (which NLnet supports). This refers to this old (15 September 2022) proposal which claims it “bolsters cybersecurity rules to ensure more secure hardware and software products.” The consultation is now_closed and the very top shows a Microsoft_front_group, “ACT | The App Association (Belgium)” [sic] under “Public consultation … Feedback and consultation period 16 March 2022 – 25 May 2022″ (finished half a year ago). One reader has asked, “where the fuck is the EFF on this?” Well, EFF_has_been_busy_attacking_the_father_of_Free_software,_defaming_him while_promoting_Microsoft's_surveillance. █ _____ * The ‘Linux’ Foundation does not speak for GNU/Linux users but for antagonistic, sometimes outright hostile, corporations that look to undermine software freedom, promoting fake_security that in effect means corporations control_the_community and hijack the narrative [1, 2]. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 666 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/national-or-international-security-crisis/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/26/national-or-international-security-crisis/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.26.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Microsoft_is_the_Problem,_Not_the_Solution⠀✐ Posted in Deception, FUD, Microsoft, Security at 2:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 7adbcf370ee68a183b5aad2e87f4ff0e Microsoft Concern-Trolling on Security Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/microsoft-expert-on-ancient-boa.webm Summary: The media is doing anything it can to suppress discussion about the national or international security crisis caused by Microsoft; instead, some publishers go as far as lionising Microsoft, portraying it as the ‘Jesus’ of computer security THE VIDEO above concerns the concern-trolling by Microsoft et al, including Jim Zemlin (Linux_Foundation) idolising_the_practices_of_the_NSA's_back_doors partner as if Microsoft and security can be uttered in the same sentence (with a straight face). Microsoft and security are polar opposites and there’s ample literature explaining why. Under the guise of “national security” Microsoft lobbyists are pursuing legislation that marginalises Free software in the US and EU. This is no laughing matter, it’s just regrettable that what’s left of “the media” does not pay attention and instead participates in the FUD campaign (with misleading_and loaded_terms_like_"supply_chain"). “Microsoft and security are polar opposites and there’s ample literature explaining why.”The video shows the typical chorus from SANS (as of late), weaponising very_old_news (almost 12 months old!) to divert attention away from the biggest culprits, including back doors, ransomware, and so on (predominantly Windows issues). As of this week, the Microsoft-connected media has the_typical audacity to also portray_Microsoft_as_a_security_expert when in fact dealing with antiquated software. As an associate of ours explains, “a) Boa was discontinued in 2005, the problem is not “open source software” b) [it's ludicrous that] Microsoft [is] posing as an authority on anything” (including security and “open source”). The video above goes through these stories and ends with one_from_our_latest Daily_Links that said: Although the Boa web server has been discontinued back in 2005, a lot of businesses still continue to use the same. Companies continue to use Boa web servers as it is bundled in the software development kit (SDKs) of a product. However, according to the latest report from Microsoft, Boa web server comes with potential risks and it is easy for [attackers] to [breach] these services. More importantly, Microsoft’s research showed that Indian power companies have faced several attacks because of the web server. Do we need “Microsoft’s research” to know that running software discontinued more than 17 years ago is not a good idea? This is a symptom of undermined if not deeply corrupted media. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 748 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/26/stacked-upc-panel/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/26/stacked-upc-panel/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.26.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Unitary_Patent_Lobbying:_Stacked_UPC_Panel_With_250_People_in_Attendance_Spun as_“3000_Viewers_Followed_the_Conference”_(a_Lie)⠀✐ Posted in Courtroom, Deception, Europe, Patents at 12:35 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum b24a68e8362a1abf83f99e1ed27a7eee The Illegal They Do Immediately Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/illegal-agenda-belgium-conference.webm Summary: Bolstering the criminal acts of António_Campinos from the EPO is a supportive “conference in Brussels” which was more like staged Unified Patent Court (UPC) propaganda for lobbying purposes; Kangaroo_courts are being promoted to legitimise fake_European_Patents, granted in violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC) THE video above discusses the latest statements (fluff) from the EPO’s official site, notably this_one (warning: epo.org link) which was published less than a day ago. The except says: “More than 1 000 participants attend high-level conference in Brussels.” That’s a lie. The body itself says that only about 250 were present (and they probably rounded this up… upwards). Further down they try to use social control media to further inflate the numbers, just like the OSI did earlier this year. They use “junk” yardsticks like “clicks” or “impressions” (scrolled past) to avoid speaking of real, meaningful stuff like active participation, attendance etc. “They use “junk” yardsticks like “clicks” or “impressions” (scrolled past) to avoid speaking of real, meaningful stuff like active participation, attendance etc.”The UPC has long been promoted based on a bunch of lies and gagging of critics. The UPC is a Trojan horse for European_software_patents and many other things. It cannot withstand scrutiny if any real scrutiny was to come from the corporate/mainstream media. The aforementioned “event” was in fact only attended by fervert proponents of the UPC; not a single sceptic or critic was allowed and the panel was moderated by a Watchtroll pundit in the pockets of Team UPC (a Big Business propagandist spun as “IP journalist”). Aside from that, the self-appointed ‘judge’ and “the f***ing president” (that’s what he calls himself) makes up the rules for internal tribunals, yet again. The EPO’s disregard for the law, reluctance to obey court orders (without oversight, what would be the consequences?) and abuse of its own staff is — quite frankly as expected — extending to the general public. The same corrupt officials are now working to hijack or replace national courts, appointing ‘judges’ based on nepotism while they_still_work_for_companies_with_a_stake_in the_outcome (conflict of interest). What can the ordinary European citizen do about this injustice? Or to quote someone: “What channels to European citizens have to ask for oversight of the EPO?” Remember that the EPO rides diplomatic immunity and there are docile_allies inside_the_European_Commission. The absence of official channels by which to complain about the EPO is not a new problem and the existing, suboptimal options are contacting one’s MEP/s. Some of them make_a_point_by_highlighting_the_illegality_of_the_situation. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 836 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.26.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_26/11/2022:_Maui_2.2.1_and_Wine_7.22⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Licensing_/_Legal o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python # Java * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Fear,_Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression 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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Technical # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Computers Are Bad ☛ enlightenment_and_lighting_controls⠀⇛ One of my chief interests is lighting. 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Most of them are targeted to cater to a particular transformation, like – making your Linux desktop look like Windows 10, Window 11, etc. # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ 16_Best_Ubuntu_Themes_|_Elevate_Your_Ubuntu Experience [Ed: Page updated today, but too much outdated information still in it]⠀⇛ If you’re looking for the best Ubuntu themes, look no further! This article will help you choose the perfect theme for your Linux desktop that fits your style. With so many amazing options available, it can be tough to decide which one is right for you. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. If you want to change your desktop environment into something more aesthetically pleasing, Ubuntu Themes can help. With a few easy Terminal Commands and Tweak Tools configurations, it’s a piece of cake to use. Do not fret; I will teach you how to install all of these visually appealing Ubuntu Themes and Icons on various desktop environments. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_MariaDB_on_Rocky_Linux_9_/_CentOS 9_Stream⠀⇛ In this post, you will learn how to install MariaDB on Rocky Linux 9 / CentOS 9 Stream. MariaDB is a relational database manager that is a fork of MySQL but has gone its own personality- based way. It is well known all over the world, and we could consider it as a solid alternative to MySQL because it incorporates more engines and evolves in the right way. Let’s go for it. # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_45:_the_specificity_of_::slotted() content⠀⇛ When you pass an element to a web component through a , you can select that element using the :: slotted() pseudo-element and apply additional styles. # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_44:_logical_floating_and_clearing⠀⇛ Thanks to Flexbox and CSS Grid no one seems to talk about float and clear anymore,…except for me now because there’s news. # ⚓ Johannes Weber ☛ Linux’s_Traceroute⠀⇛ The other day I just wanted to capture some basic Linux traceroutes but ended up troubleshooting different traceroute commands and Wireshark display anomalies. Sigh. Anyway, I just added a few Linux traceroute captures – legacy and IPv6 – to the Ultimate PCAP. Here are some details: # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Unix’s_(technical)_history_is_mostly_old now⠀⇛ It’s not quite the case that nothing has happened in Unix history since the early 1990s. Very obviously, quite a lot of important social things happened around ‘Unix’, such that by the end of the 1990s what Unixes people used had changed significantly (and then in the 00s the change became drastic). Less obviously, a bunch of internal kernel technology changed over that time, so that today every remaining common Unix has good SMP and in a far better place for performance. # ⚓ Rachel ☛ The_night_of_1000_alerts_(but_only_on_the_Linux boxes)⠀⇛ Side note: the reason the alerting blew up was that the poller would only wait so long for the daemons to send their usual banner. The daemons, meanwhile, were waiting on their DNS resolution attempts to fail. The monitoring system’s poller timeout was shorter than the DNS timeout, so when DNS went down, everything went into an alert status. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Unix_swap_configuration_used_to_be_rather simple_and_brute_force⠀⇛ Modern Unixes generally support rather elaborate configuration of what swap space is available. FreeBSD supports multiple swap devices and can enable and disable them at runtime (cf swapon(8)), including paging things back in in order to let you disabling a swap device that’s in use. Linux can go even further, allowing you to swap to files as well as devices (which takes a bunch of work inside the kernel). It will probably not surprise you to hear that early Unixes were not so sophisticated and featureful, and in fact were rather simple and brute force about things. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Get_the_UUID_of_a_Disk_Partition_in Linux⠀⇛ UUID (Universally Unique Identifiers) is a property of disk partitions and is crucial while managing servers with hundreds of drives. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ WINE Project (Official) ☛ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The Wine_development_release_7.22_is_now_available.⠀⇛ The Wine development release 7.22 is now available. What’s new in this release: – 32-on-64 thunks for both Vulkan and OpenGL. – OpenLDAP library bundled and built as PE. – Support for the RAW print processor in WinPrint. – More progress on the long types printf format conversion. – Various bug fixes. The source is available at: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/7.x/wine- 7.22.tar.xz Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on https:// www.winehq.org/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details. Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ SCS_Software_celebrate_25_years_with_a mini-documentary⠀⇛ Love Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator? Two very popular games that SCS Software have been upgrading for a long time now, and they’re celebrating their 25th anniversary. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Heroic_Games_Launcher_for_GOG_and_Epic Games_v2.5.0_Beta_3_out_now⠀⇛ Probably one of my favourite open source projects, Heroic Games Launcher helps you manage your GOG and Epic Games accounts on Linux and Steam Deck. A big new release is getting closer, with v2.5.0 Beta 3 out now integrating How Long to Beat data. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_itch.io_store_is_doing_another_Creator Day_today_–_taking_no_cut_from_developers⠀⇛ Game store itch.io are doing another Creator Day, which is where they don’t take a cut from developers for any sales across the whole day (until 8AM UTC tomorrow). On top of that, they’re also doing a big sale until Tuesday, which again ends at 8AM UTC. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Maui_2.2.1_Release_–_MauiKit_—_#UIFramework⠀⇛ Today, we bring you a new special report on the Maui Project’s progress. Maui 2.2.0 was released about three months ago, and since then, we have added new features, bug fixes, and improvements to the Maui set of apps and frameworks; the Maui Shell components and new apps have been updated and pushed for a new release. The following blog post will cover changes and highlights from the last three months, which pave the road for a Maui Desktop environment for convergence. # ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_Humongous_UI improvements⠀⇛  This week we have a lot of large and impactful user interface improvements across multiple apps and Plasma, not to mention progress on the big bugs! Dragon Player–KDE’s venerable minimalistic video and audio player–has undergone a major UI overhaul, including adopting KHamburgerMenu and a welcome screen, a streamlined and more intuitive set of default toolbar buttons, and less glitchy behavior when opening videos in the Plasma Wayland session * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ lladdr-tied_Config_Support_May_Soon_Land_in ifconfig(8)_and_netstart(8)⠀⇛ It started with a thread on misc@ with the subject “Locking network card configuration” where the problem description is, when two or more network interfaces are attached to the same USB bus, their numbering may not be entirely predictable. The question is, what workarounds are possible? o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Use_an_RGB_LED_Module_With Arduino_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ Perhaps one of the most common modules in an Arduino starter kit, the RGB LED lets you create all sorts of colors with just four pins from the Arduino. This tutorial demonstrates two ways to use this module, so read on to learn how well it works! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Telnet_Gets_Stubborn_Sony_Camera_Under_Control⠀⇛ According to [Venn Stone], technical producer over at LinuxGameCast, the Sony a5000 is still a solid option for those looking to shoot 1080p video despite being released back in 2014. But while the camera is lightweight and affordable, it does have some annoying quirks — namely an overlay on the HDMI output (as seen in the image above) that can’t be turned off using the camera’s normal configuration menu. But as it so happens, using some open source tools and the venerable telnet, you can actually log into the camera’s operating system and fiddle with its settings directly. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ T-Mobile_launches_IoT_Kit_supporting_4G_LTE, Wi-Fi_and_BLE⠀⇛ T-Mobile recently launched their first developer kit designed to speed up the development of IoT applications that require “transmitting small amounts of data over long periods of time.” The DevEdge is powered by a Cortex-M4 processor, wireless connectivity, diverse sensors and it runs on a Zephyr-based SDK. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ When_Pi_Supply_Falls_Short,_Thin_Clients_Stand Tall_For_Home_Automation_And_Low_Power_Computing⠀⇛ Do you need a cheap, small computer for a low power computing project? Historically, of us would reach straight for a Raspberry Pi, even if we didn’t absolutely need the GPIO. But with prices elevated and supplies in the dumps, [Andreas Spiess] decided that it was time to look for alternatives to now- expensive Pi’s which you can see in the video below the break. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_194:_FPV_Contest,_Seven_Words, Lots_Of_Coffee,_And_Edible_Drones⠀⇛ This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos fumbled through setting up Mumble on Kristina’s new-ish computer box before hitting record and talking turkey. First off, we’ve got a fresh new contest going on, and this time it’s all about the FPVs. Then we see if Kristina can stump Elliot once again with a sound from her vast trove of ancient technologies. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Create_a_holiday_light_display_with_your Raspberry_Pi_and_ping_pong_balls⠀⇛ I love Christmas decorations and lights, and I’d been wanting to do an programmable LED project for a long time. Recently, I built a light array made of LED lights, ping pong balls, and a Raspberry Pi Zero. I thought it was worth sharing, because it ended up being relatively easy but also educational. It’s mostly my own design, with some inspiration from YouTube videos. You can find the source code and build instructions in my Git repository. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Banana_Pi_introduces_SenaryTech_SN3680_based SBC⠀⇛ Banana Pi’s new SBC board features the SenaryTech SN3680 SoC which combines a quad-core CPU, 6.75 TOPS NPU and a GE9920 GPU. The BPI-M6 also provides 4Kp60 display support, 1x GbE port, and optional wireless connectivity. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ System76_tease_the_new_Launch_Heavy keyboard⠀⇛ They’ve put up a teaser website, which gives some of the details on what to expect from it. Just like the previous two models, it will be fully customizable with their open source Keyboard Configurator app. Considering the excellent build quality of the original Launch Keyboard that I reviewed, I have high hopes for this one and the full size is great. # ⚓ Thrust Publishing Ltd ☛ The_theremin_is_getting_an_open- source_version,_the_Theremotion⠀⇛ The instrument is based on the Leap Motion Controller, an optical hand-tracking module that’s able to map individual finger movements and more complicated hand gestures than the original theremin. Theremotion is an open-source project, available via [m$] GitHub, while the Leap Motion Controller is available for about $110. # ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Acorn_RiscPC:_Restoration_Part_3⠀⇛ I mentioned in my previous post that I wanted to install a CF card based hard drive into this, eliminating the need for an old spinning-rust IDE drive. I tried for quite a while to get the following to work. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ These_Samsung_devices_are_set_to_get_the latest_Android_features_|_Gadgets_Now⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Change_your_Google_settings_on_Android_right_now or_it_could_cost_you_|_The_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ ExpressBasics:_How_to_create_‘hidden’ folders_on_your_Android_smartphone_|_Technology_News,The Indian_Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ HIIT_Down_Dog_to_Strava:_Best_Android_apps to_help_you_stay_fit_|_Technology_News,The_Indian_Express⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Bruno Rodrigues ☛ Open_source_is_a_hard_requirement_for reproducibility⠀⇛ Open source is a hard requirement for reproducibility. No ifs nor buts. And I’m not only talking about the code you typed for your research paper/report/analysis. I’m talking about the whole ecosystem that you used to type your code. (I won’t be talking about making the data available, because I think this is another blog post on its own.) Is your code open? That’s good. But is it code for a proprietary program, like STATA, SAS or MATLAB? Then your project is not reproducible. It doesn’t matter if this code is well documented and written and available on Github. This project is not reproducible. Why? Because there is on way to re-execute your code with the exact same version of this proprietary program down the line. As I’m writing these lines, MATLAB, for example, is at version R2022b. And it is very unlikely that you can buy version, say, R2008a. Maybe you can. Maybe MATLAB offers this option. But maybe they don’t. And maybe if they do today, they won’t in the future. There’s no guarantee. And if you’re running old code written for version R2008a, there’s no guarantee that it will produce the exact same results on version 2022b. And let’s not even mention the toolboxes (if you’re not familiar with MATLAB’s toolboxes, they’re the equivalent of packages or libraries in other programming languages). These evolve as well, and there’s no guarantee that you can purchase older versions of said toolboxes. And also, is a project truly reproducible (even if old programs can be purchased) if it’s behind a paywall? o ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Kick-off_for_EU_database_of_public_domain_works and_digital_access_to_scientific_works_–_Patrick_Breyer⠀⇛ With yesterday’s budget vote, the EU Parliament approved the funding of two pilot projects in the field of free knowledge initiated by the Pirate Party’s MEP Patrick Breyer in cooperation with civil society. The first pilot project “Public EU directory of works in the public domain and under free licenses“, is funding a feasibility study for the creation of a database of public domain works. The development of such a database shall provide legal certainty for platforms, providers, galleries, libraries, archives and museums, as well as other non-profit organizations that work with public domain or freely licensed content. The second project, “The Role of Copyright Laws in facilitation of distance education and research” intends to strengthen schools, universities and the cultural sector. The pilot project will assess copyright obstacles for online teaching and will focus on possible adaptions to the legal framework in order to enhance an appropriate balance of the interests of the authors and the use for educational and research purposes in the public interest. In addition, public access to culture and education shall be increased, in particular by granting licenses to libraries. o ⚓ Koos Looijesteijn ☛ Blogging_or_posting_on_social_media—what’s better?⠀⇛ I believe I reach more people with this blog than via social media. It’s hard to quantify that though, because what does it really mean to reach someone? Views don’t say that much. If we’re talking impact/effort, I recommend the approach of my one tweet that got over 900 likes: reacting with a joke to an already popular joke tweet. Reached over 30k people, took me a few seconds to post. But I forgot what it was about and I don’t think those 30k people remember. And when I post something on my Twitter timeline, it usually gets less than a hundred impressions. The platforms reward the best performing accounts with a big but short burst of users’ attention. But readers find my blog posts years after I publish them. o ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ A_revealing_Vim_addressing_mistake_that_I_made today⠀⇛ What I actually was thinking of was the :g[lobal] command, and after I realized what I’d done wrong, that’s what I used. I’ve used ‘:g’ before, but this may have been the first time I’ve used it with a range (at least recently), and evidently my mind remembered the idea but forgot the important bit of the actual ‘g’. So the real version I used, after I realized it, was only different by the addition of that one crucial character that made all of the difference: [...] o ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Mastodon_vulnerable_to_multiple_system configuration_problems⠀⇛ More specifically, Alevski recently found that the infosec.exchange instance of Mastodon was uploaded to storage buckets that failed to apply access controls. o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Miami-Dade_County,_stuck_in_a_19-year_contract_with FTX,_seeks_to_rename_its_arena⠀⇛ The county, which owns the arena, asked a federal judge to immediately end a 19-year, $135 million naming rights deal with FTX, in a motion filed Tuesday with the Delaware court where the FTX bankruptcy proceedings are taking place. Miami-Dade argued that continuing the agreement with the failed company would cause “significant hardship” for the county and hurt efforts to find a new arena sponsor. # ⚓ Koos Looijesteijn ☛ Why_is_open_source_software_so_badly designed?⠀⇛ The ‘free’ part of free, open source software refers to its licensing: something that has nothing to do with software in particular. FOSS started as a social philosophy. Here’s how the GNU Project summarizes their view on computing as follows: [...] o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ We_could_run_out_of_data_to_train AI_language_programs⠀⇛ The trouble is, the types of data typically used for training language models may be used up in the near future—as early as 2026, according to a paper by researchers from Epoch, an AI research and forecasting organization, that is yet to be peer reviewed. The issue stems from the fact that, as researchers build more powerful models with greater capabilities, they have to find ever more texts to train them on. Large language model researchers are increasingly concerned that they are going to run out of this sort of data, says Teven Le Scao, a researcher at AI company Hugging Face, who was not involved in Epoch’s work. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Congestion_control_algorithms_are_not_fair⠀⇛ The Internet has many flows. It is important to have a mechanism that decides what share of the total available bandwidth is allocated to each flow. Given the large number of flows on the Internet, it is infeasible to do this in a centralized fashion. Hence more distributed and scalable mechanisms are needed. Congestion Control Algorithms (CCAs) form a key component of this infrastructure. # ⚓ Tim Misiak ☛ Recognizing_patterns_in_memory⠀⇛ Something I find frustrating is how hard it is to teach debugging skills. I think the biggest reason is because there are many things that can only be learned through experience. This is true for anything that requires pattern recognition. Our brains are great at recognizing patterns, but it often takes a large amount of practice to be able to identify useful patterns in data. I can’t instantly give you pattern recognition skills with a short blog post, but I can tell you about some of the patterns that I look for so you can start to train your brain to see these as well. Recognizing patterns in memory can be useful as it can give you a hint for things like memory corruption, which are often some of the hardest errors to debug from a postmortem analysis. Getting a rough idea of what type data is ovewriting other data in a process can tell you where to look next for the source of memory corruption. It can help narrow down where an issue might be because the bug is usually near the code that wrote this data. # ⚓ Pete Warden ☛ Why_is_it_so_difficult_to_retrain_neural networks_and_get_the_same_results?⠀⇛ I’m writing this post because I find it fascinating that our systems have become so complex that an algorithm like matrix multiply that can be described in a few lines of pseudo-code can have implementations that produce such surprising and unexpected results. I’m barely scratching the surface of all the complexities of floating point math here, but many other causes of similar issues are emerging as we do more and more calculations on massive distributed networks of computers. Honestly that’s one reason I enjoy working on embedded systems so much these days, I have a lot more confidence in my mental model of how those chips work. It does feel like it’s no longer possible for any one person to have a full and deep understanding of the whole stack on any modern platform, even just for software. I love digging into the causes of weird and surprising properties like non-determinism in training because it helps me understand more about what I don’t know! # ⚓ Lorin Hochstein ☛ Writing_docs_well:_why_should_a_software engineer_care?⠀⇛ The first one is about building shared understanding among stakeholders of a document. One of the hardest problems in software engineering is getting multiple people to have a sufficient understanding of some technical aspect, like the actual problem being solved, or a proposed solution. This is ostensibly the only real goal of technical writings. Shared understanding is related to the idea of common ground that you’ll sometimes hear the safety folks talk about. # ⚓ Phil Eaton ☛ A_Programmer-Friendly_I/O_Abstraction_Over io_uring_and_kqueue⠀⇛ Consider this tale of I/O and performance. We’ll start with blocking I/O, explore io_uring and kqueue, and take home an event loop very similar to some software you may find familiar. This is a twist on King’s talk at Software You Can Love Milan ‘22. # ⚓ Animated_population_tree_maps_|_Guy_Abel⠀⇛ The global population hit 8 billion today. To mark the passing an absolute population total I created some animated tree map plots in R to visualize relative past and future population totals for all countries. # ⚓ Data Science Tutorials ☛ Cross-validation_in_Machine Learning_–_Data_Science_Tutorials⠀⇛ Cross-validation in Machine Learning, cross- validation is a word that everyone who works with machine learning techniques will come across at some point. We provide you with a quick overview of cross- validation in this blog post. # ⚓ Rapid_dashboard_prototyping_–_scottishsnow⠀⇛ I work in a startup called the Smart Data Foundry. We work with financial data to improve society. As a startup we have lots of ideas to try out, either internally or with collaborators. This is the idea of failing quickly – don’t spend a lot of time trying to find out if an idea works, get it to a testable state as fast as you can so you know if it is worth pursuing. Here’ a talk I gave at FOSS4GUK local 2022 which explains a couple of ways we’re approaching this. If you’d like to know more about Shiny then check out the Shiny Developer Series. # ⚓ essayreg2:_Linear_Regression_(Cloze_with_Essay_and_File Upload)⠀⇛ Exercise template for interpreting a regression with two explanatory variables based on randomly- generated data (with either a linear, semi- logarithmic, or log-log relationship) in form of a cloze including essay and file upload. # ⚓ Finnstats ☛ PCA_for_Categorical_Variables_in_R⠀⇛ PCA for Categorical Variables in R, Using Principal Component Analysis to minimize the dimensionality of your data frame may have crossed your mind (PCA). However, can PCA be applied to a data set with categorical variables? You’ll discover how to apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to data frames that include categorical variables in this course. Additionally, you’ll discover how to use the R programming language to put these alternatives into practice. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Kernel_5.15.79_compiled_with_vmd.ko builtin⠀⇛ Sometime ago, Ramachandra Iyer purchased a new HP laptop, but found that EasyOS and some of the pups would not recognize the NVME SSD at early bootup. This meant that unable to install any of these distros to the internal drive. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ An_objective_criteria_for_deprecating community_platforms_|_dean_[blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ Perl has been around for a couple of years longer than Python and Linux. Perl 5 was released in 1993, the same year as FreeBSD and NetBSD. In the 90′s for Open Source projects the “community platforms” where Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists run on Listserv or Majordomo (Mailman didn’t show up until 1999). IRC was used for text based chat but without SSL!. CVS was the open source version control system of choice or you might have been unlucky enough to use Visual Source Safe at work, whilst Subversion wouldn’t show up until 2000. But the 90′s are more than 20 years in the past and IPv6 is actually seeing meaningful adoption now. Many of the above technologies are as completely foreign to people with 10+ years of industry experience as Compact Cassettes, VHS, LaserDisc and maybe CDs or even DVDs. # ⚓ Gustaf Erikson ☛ Parsing_RFC_3339_timestamps_using strptime_in_Perl⠀⇛ An RFC 3339 timestamp can look like this: 2022-11-25T09:26:04+01:00.[2] This is the format required by the Atom and JSONfeed specifications. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Paolo Melchiorre ☛ 2022_Malcolm_Tredinnick_Memorial Prize⠀⇛ Of course I’m happy that what I tried to do for Django was appreciated, and I really thank Sarah Abderemane, not only for the wonderful words she wrote in the nomination, but also for her great commitment to Django, she is a valuable member of our community , and I was very pleased to have met her in person during DjangoCon Europe 2022 in Porto. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ What_is_the_size_of_a_byte[]_array_in Java?⠀⇛ How much memory does this array take? If you have answered “4 bytes”, you are wrong. A more likely answer is 24 bytes * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Riccardo Mori ☛ Social_paths_and_detours⠀⇛ One of the reasons why I can’t seem to write on this blog as often as I’d like is that certain tech topics I care about routinely resurface and I realise that the debate around them retreads the same ground and points discussed previously, and so I often stare at an article I’d like to respond to, and say to myself, I’ve already talked about this. They’re still talking about this, and nothing has changed or improved since the last time. I would only end up repeating myself. This is why you haven’t heard me talking about the iPad’s identity crisis in a while. It’s the same crisis as before. The iPad got lost around 2013 and it’s still lost in the woods, even if it can run faster now. o ⚓ Brr ☛ McMurdo_Postal_Mail⠀⇛ McMurdo and South Pole have APO (Army Post Office) facilities, and participants are eligible to use them for receiving and shipping personal (non-commercial) goods while in Antarctica. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Ideas—Even_the_Most_Foolish, Unfortunately—Have_Consequences⠀⇛ Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion? o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “You_Can’t_Be_Neutral_on_a_Moving_Train”: Remembering_the_People’s_Historian_Howard_Zinn_at_100⠀⇛ In a special broadcast, we remember the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago this August. Zinn was a regular guest on Democracy Now!, from the start of the program in 1996 up until his death in 2010 at age 87. After witnessing the horrors of World War II as a bombardier, Zinn became a peace and justice activist who picketed with his students at Spelman College during the civil rights movement and joined in actions such as opposing the Vietnam War. He later spoke out against the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. “I believe neutrality is impossible, because the world is already moving in certain directions. Wars are going on. Children are starving,” Zinn said in a 2005 interview. “To be neutral … is to collaborate with whatever is going on, to allow it to happen.” o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Black_Friday_Special:_Howard_Zinn_&_Voices_of_a People’s_History_of_the_United_States⠀⇛ This year marks 100 years since the birth of the historian Howard Zinn. In 1980, Zinn published his classic work, “A People’s History of the United States.” The book would go on to sell over a million copies and change the way many look at history in America. We begin today’s special with highlights from a production of Howard Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History of the United States,” where Zinn introduced dramatic readings from history. We hear Alfre Woodard read the words of labor activist Mother Jones and Howard’ son Jeff Zinn read the words of an IWW poet and organizer Arturo Giovannitti. o ⚓ Tedium ☛ A_Sealant_Story⠀⇛ An interest in home improvement is just something that seems to sneak up on you without warning sometime in your 30s. I don’t know when old Popular Mechanics issues and reruns of This Old House became a personal point of fascination, but it happened. There was a time when repainting or doing a repair was something I didn’t even think about much at all. Nowadays, I’m enthusiastic about painting, caulking, and cutting tree branches. I own a flannel shirt. I have my own forestry hat and overalls. It’s weird. Last year, we explored the history and origins of WD-40—a highly versatile compound with a surprising history—and how it imprinted itself into our minds. Earlier this year, we talked about pressure washers. And as we move into the winter time—and my voice suddenly starts taking on a New England inflection—it’s time to open the home improvement toolbox again to discuss caulk. What is it? Where did it come from? And what makes it such a compelling topic? In today’s Tedium, we seek to answer these questions and seal the leak in your knowledge about this fascinating substance. Insert your best caulk joke here. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ AIM ☛ Coding_is_Dead,_Long_Live_Programming!⠀⇛ Let’s take a look at the differences between programming and coding and how they will be impacted by low code and no code platforms in the future. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Showing_Up_Every_Day⠀⇛ Showing up every day is one of the most important lessons I’ve learned. It applies to almost everything – learning or improving a skill, fitness, solving a problem, or anything in between. In many ways, it riffs off of many different facts and ideas: [...] # ⚓ Neil Selwyn ☛ The_capitalist_nature_of_contemporary_Ed- Tech⠀⇛ Crucially, EdTech has become a key means through which public education is now being appropriated for profit – what might be seen in Marxian terms as ‘primitive accumulation’ (i.e. the appropriation of the commons).Think of the ways in which primary school apps are now littered with side-bar advertising, or how the majority of education software sells on student data to data brokers and other third parties. Think of the ways in which supposedly time-saving automations require constant behind-the-scenes attention (invisible labour) from teachers. Think of the rising popularity of online platforms where teachers are encouraged to re-sell lesson plans and resources that they have developed for their own classes. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ This_Year’s_Biggest_Strike_Is_by_48,000 Academic_Workers_at_the_University_of_California⠀⇛ By Kenzo Esquivel / Labor Notes Across the prestigious University of California system, tens of thousands of workers walked off the job last week for the nation’s largest strike of 2022, and the largest strike of academic workers in U.S. history. The energy was palpable as nearly 5,000 academic workers gathered at UC-Berkeley’s campus November […] # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ On_Black_Friday,_Amazon_Workers_in_40+ Countries_Strike_and_Protest_‘Despicable’_Treatment⠀⇛ Thousands of Amazon workers in more than 40 countries are planning to mark Black Friday by walking off the job and protesting the corporate behemoth’s abuse of employees and the climate, as well as its chronic avoidance of taxes while raking in huge profits. “Make Amazon Pay” actions are expected to include marches and rallies for union recognition in Bangladesh, strikes at nearly 20 warehouses in France and Germany, walkouts in a dozen cities in the United States, and a protest by newly unionized workers in Japan. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Bob_Moog:_the_genius_behind_the_Sixties synthesiser_revolution⠀⇛ Within four months of Harrison’s Moog arriving in the UK, The Beatles used it on four tracks on Abbey Road (although Jagger got his first). Prog rockers Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) and Yes went on to make banks of keyboards – including multiple Moogs – their calling card. The Vietnam film Apocalypse Now was sound­tracked by a Moog, the otherworldly soundscapes “at least as important as the film” itself, as director Francis Ford Coppola writes in the foreword to Switched On, Albert Glinsky’s absorbing new biography of Bob Moog. Switched On is an important musical history, but it is also a fable about how not to do business. Despite his apparent success, Moog was almost broke all his professional life. It is a tale about mindsets, specifically about how nerdy geniuses can be blind to glaringly obvious conventions (Moogs weren’t sold with user manuals, for example). It’s about how the fear of new technology creates existential dread. And it’s about how Western hubris let low-cost Japanese electronics sweep the world in the 1980s, crushing US competition in the process. # ⚓ Kian Ryan ☛ RS232_and_Null_Modem_HAT_For_The_Pi_Zero⠀⇛ Version 2 was a significant improvement. Not only do all the components fit on board, but it works and it supports CTS/RTS and optional null-modem. This board is suitable for a range of RS232 projects. The files to make your own boards are available from Github. For details on how to make it talk to the Psion, see my previous post. # ⚓ Computer World ☛ HP_to_cut_up_to_6,000_staff_in_plan_to mitigate_PC_market_softness⠀⇛ In the face of declining revenue, HP has announced it expects to lay off 4,000 to 6,000 employees by the end of fiscal year 2025, reducing its 51,000- strong global workforce by about 12%. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Circular_Binary_Clock_Uses_The_Power_To_Tell Time⠀⇛ Should a clock be round? Depends on the style of clock, we suppose. After all, we wouldn’t expect to see a digital clock with a round readout just for fun. But a binary clock — that’s another animal altogether. Whereas [JohnThinger] made just a few weeks back a linear binary clock using an RGB LED strip and an ATtiny, he decided it would look much better in the round. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Custom_Prusa_MK3_Fan_Duct_Gives_Camera_Perfect View⠀⇛ A growing trend is to mount a borescope “inspection camera” near a 3D printer’s nozzle to provide a unique up-close view of the action. Some argue that this perspective can provide valuable insight if you’re trying to fine tune your machine, but whether or not there’s a practical application for these sort of nozzle cams, certainly everyone can agree it makes for a pretty cool video. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Are_Slabtops_The_Future_Of_Computing?⠀⇛ The most popular computer ever was the Commodore 64 with its computer-in-a-keyboard form factor. If you have a longing for a keyboard computer with more modern internals, one of the easiest solutions today is to pull the screen off a laptop. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ RAK2560_WisNode_LoRaWAN_&_BLE_Sensor_Hub ships_with_a_choice_for_sensor_modules⠀⇛ RAKwireless RAK2560 WisNode Sensor Hub is a modular sensor gateway based on the RAK4630 WisDuo Stamp module with Nordic Semi nRF52840 Bluetooth 5.0 LE MCU and Semtech SX1262 LoRa/LoRaWAN transceiver and equipped with two sensor probe ports to connect a range of sensors. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Science News ☛ Pollution_mucks_up_the_lungs’_immune defenses_over_time⠀⇛ In the new study, researchers from Columbia University analyzed lung immune tissue from 84 organ donors, ranging in age from 11 to 93 years old. The donors were nonsmokers or had no history of heavy smoking. With age, the lungs’ lymph nodes — which filter foreign substances and contain immune cells — became loaded with particulate matter, turning them a deep onyx, the research team found. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Matthew Garrett ☛ mjg59_|_Poking_a_mobile_hotspot⠀⇛ First, it’s clearly running Linux (nmap indicates that, as do the headers from the built-in webserver). The login page for the web interface has some text reading “Open Source Notice” that highlights when you move the mouse over it, but that’s it – there’s code to make the text light up, but it’s not actually a link. There’s no exposed license notices at all, although there is a copy on the filesystem that doesn’t seem to be reachable from anywhere. The notice tells you to email them to receive source code, but doesn’t actually provide an email address. # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ If_a_Matter_company_stops_paying_license fees,_what_happens?⠀⇛ On a recent Internet of Things Podcast episode, we took a Matter question during our Voicemail hotline segment. This particular question was submitted via email by Jon, and since it was such a good question, we decided to tackle it. Jon asked: [...] # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Security_teams_face_‘increasing_difficulty’ ‘detecting,_stopping’_cyber_threats:_Vectra [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Over_a_thousand_Docker_container_images found_hiding_malicious_content [Ed: Terrible 'journalism' trying to tie "Linux" and "containers" to malware because some of them might contain some (not the fault of the software at all)]⠀⇛ Over a thousand container images hosted on the popular database repository Docker Hub are malicious, putting users at risk of cyberattack, experts have warned. According to a report from Sysdig, the images contained nefarious assets such as cryptominers, backdoors, and DNS hijackers. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Mac ☛ Massive_Twitter_data_breach_was_far_worse than_reported,_reveal_security_researchers⠀⇛ A massive Twitter data breach last year, exposing more than five million phone numbers and email addresses, was worse than initially reported. We’ve been shown evidence that the same security vulnerability was exploited by multiple bad actors, and the hacked data has been offered for sale on the dark web by several sources. It had previously been thought that only one hacker gained access to the data, and Twitter’s belated admission reinforced this impression … # ⚓ India Times ☛ Banks_need_to_give_customers_confidence on_privacy_of_data,_cybersecurity:_IBA_CEO⠀⇛ “Banking is a business of trust where credibility needs to be maintained. Bankers have to maintain the credibility of the institution and the privacy of customer data. Users are needed to be given confidence on cybersecurity, that their data will be kept private and there will be no thefts,” said Mehta at a panel discussion on ‘Thriving in the world of digital’ at ETBFSI Converge Summit 2022. # ⚓ Video ☛ These_Tax_Filing_Websites_are_Sending_Your Tax_Info_to_Facebook_–_Invidious⠀⇛ This week in the Privacy News, the student loan debt relief scam was just a way to collect emails for POTUS, CCTV cameras are everywhere and a new program is raising awareness, and iPhone analytics collects data that is directly tied to the consumer. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Tax_filing_websites_have_been_sending users’_financial_information_to_Facebook⠀⇛ The data, sent through widely used code called the Meta Pixel, includes not only information like names and email addresses but often even more detailed information, including data on users’ income, filing status, refund amounts, and dependents’ college scholarship amounts. The information sent to Facebook can be used by the company to power its advertising algorithms and is gathered regardless of whether the person using the tax filing service has an account on Facebook or other platforms operated by its owner Meta. # ⚓ CNBC ☛ Tax_prep_software_sent_back_personal_consumer data_to_Meta_and_Google,_report_says⠀⇛ In a report published with The Verge on Tuesday, the outlet found Meta pixel trackers in the software sent information like names, email addresses, income information and refund amounts to Meta, violating its policies. The Markup also found that TaxAct had transmitted similar financial information to Google via its analytics tool, though that data did not include names. As CNBC explained in 2018, Meta uses tiny pixels that publishers and businesses embed on their websites. The dots send a message back to Facebook when you visit. And it allows companies to target ads to people based on sites they previously visited. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Report:_Amazon_Alexa_Is_a_‘Colossal Failure’_on_Pace_to_Lose_$10_Billion_This_Year⠀⇛ It’s enough to make you think that HomePods aren’t expensive; it’s just that Alexa devices have been sold at a loss over the years. # ⚓ [Repeat] Amazon_Alexa_is_a_“colossal_failure,”_on pace_to_lose_$10_billion_this_year_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ 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. The BI report spoke with “a dozen current and former employees on the company’s hardware team,” who described “a division in crisis.” Just about every plan to monetize Alexa has failed, with one former employee calling Alexa “a colossal failure of imagination,” and “a wasted opportunity.” This month’s layoffs are the end result of years of trying to turn things around. Alexa was given a huge runway at the company, back when it was reportedly the “pet project” of former CEO Jeff Bezos. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Jewish Press ☛ Iranians_[Cracked]_Security_Footage_of Jerusalem_Bombing⠀⇛ The footage was posted on the Telegram account of a [cracker] group called Moses’ Staff on Thursday. It showed the moment of the explosion at a bus stop at the western entrance to Jerusalem, followed by a plume of smoke and people fleeing the blast. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Hungary_to_Approve_Sweden,_Finland_NATO Memberships_Early_Next_Year⠀⇛ Hungary and Turkey are the only two NATO members that have not ratified. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Did_the_Ukraine_War_Kill_‘Natural_Gas?’⠀⇛ Juan Cole examines what Russia’s war in Ukraine will mean to the future of fossil fuel-generated energy amid a climate crisis. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine’s_parliament_commissions_list_of_Russian athletes_who_support_the_war_for_future_sanctions_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A working group under the Ukrainian parliament has commissioned the sports news outlet Tribuna.com’s editorial office to compile a list of Russian athletes who have publicly supported Moscow’s war against Ukraine, the website’s founder Dmitry Navosha reported on Friday. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Forbes_Ukraine:_Russia_has_spent_$82_billion_on the_war_against_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia has spent $82 billion on its war against Ukraine, according to Forbes Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_‘met_with_the_mothers_of_soldiers’_at_his personal_residence,_Kremlin_says_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin “met with the mothers of soldiers” participating in the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s press service reported on November 25. The meeting took place at the official presidential residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ iStories:_Kremlin_expects_to_lose_100,000_soldiers by_spring_—_but_will_replace_them_with_conscripts_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia plans to stabilize the front in Ukraine this winter and then to “start anew in the spring,” the independent outlet iStories reported on Friday, citing a source close to the FSB and another one close to the Russian army’s General Staff. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_criticizes_Kyiv_authorities_for_doing_too little_to_support_citizens_without_electricity_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In his daily video address on November 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Kyiv city authorities for doing a poor job rolling out “invincibility points,” or places with heat and electricity where people can take shelter during long power outages. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_requiring_school_and university_employees_to_register_as_United_Russia_party supporters_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Authorities in multiple Russian regions have begun requiring school and university employees to register as supporters of the country’s ruling party, United Russia. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Raging_Wars,_Soaring_Hunger_Put_Women_and Girls_in_Crosshairs,_Warns_UN⠀⇛ Armed conflict, climate change, economic stressors, and humanitarian aid shortfalls are among the leading drivers of increased gender-based violence, the head of the United Nations’ refugee agency said on Friday, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls. “There is a shocking, pernicious cycle of hunger and insecurity, each exacerbating the other and fueling risks to women and girls.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Carbon_Bombing_the_Climate_Must End⠀⇛ The annual United Nations climate talks, known as the Conference of Parties (COP), have traditionally promised much but delivered little. This year’s COP27 was no different, with most observers noting that it even backtracked on commitments made at COP26 in Glasgow. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Climate_Change_Should_Have_Dominated_the Midterms._It_Didn’t.⠀⇛ Believe me, it’s strange to be an old man and feel like you’re living on a new planet. On November 7, the day before the midterm elections, I took my usual afternoon walk in New York City and I was wearing a short-sleeved shirt! That was a first for me. And no wonder, since it was 76 degrees out—beautiful, but eerie. After all, that’s just not November weather. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ COP27_Climate_Conference_Results?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Greta_Thunberg_Joins_630+_Young_People_in Landmark_Climate_Lawsuit_Against_Sweden⠀⇛ Climate leader Greta Thunberg was among 636 young adults and children who submitted a class-action lawsuit against the Swedish government at a district court in Stockholm on Friday, arguing that the country’s right-wing leaders are failing to obey the Swedish constitution as they continue allowing planet-heating fossil fuel extraction. About 2,000 people marched through Stockholm on Friday at the 223rd “school strike” against climate inaction—part of the global Fridays for Future movement Thunberg began in 2018 with a one-person protest outside Swedish Parliament. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Cleaner_Air_Is_Coming’_as_London_Expands Vehicle_Pollution_Fee_to_Entire_Metro_Area⠀⇛ Starting next August, drivers of the most polluting vehicles will have to pay $15 per day to enter an Ultra-Low Emissions Zone expanded to include all of metropolitan London, the British capital’s mayor announced Friday. “Our city is being smothered by toxic air—and it’s hurting and killing Londoners, leading to asthma, dementia, and even cancer.” # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Coinmotion_suspends_co-operation with_Finnish_cryptocurrency_lender⠀⇛ The turmoil in the cryptocurrency market appears to have spread to Finnish companies, reports Helsingin Sanomat. Coinmotion, the leading cryptocurrency investor in Finland, announced earlier this week it has disabled the cryptocurrency interest account service provided by Tesseract. Its customers can therefore no longer make new deposits to the service, but they can continue to request withdrawals from the service to Coinmotion. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Crypto_Firm_FTX’s_Ownership_of_a U.S._Bank_Raises_Questions⠀⇛ Among the many surprising assets uncovered in the bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is a relatively tiny one that could raise big concerns: a stake in one of the country’s smallest banks. The bank, Farmington State Bank in Washington State, has a single branch and, until this year, just three employees. It did not offer online banking or even a credit card. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Honey,_We_Shrunk_The_Nuclear_Reactor⠀⇛ [Power Engineering] took a trip to the Westinghouse facility that provides maintenance for nuclear reactors. The research division there has a new microreactor called eVinci and — according to the company — it is a disruptor. Technically, the device is a heat pipe-based passive cooling design that can generate 5 MW of electricity or 13 MW of heat from a 15 MW heater core. You can see a video about the device below. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Global_Wildlife_Summit_Approves_Shark Protections⠀⇛ Delegates at a global summit on trade in endangered species on Friday approved a plan to protect 54 more shark species, a move that could drastically reduce the lucrative and cruel shark fin trade. Members of the requiem shark and the hammerhead shark families will now have their trade tightly controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Amazing_News’:_Historic_Shark Protections_Approved_at_Global_Wildlife_Convention⠀⇛ Conservation advocates applauded Friday following a vote at the 19th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Panama, at which delegates from 183 countries and the European Union voted for sweeping protections for shark species. “This landmark vote marks the culmination of a decade of shark conservation progress within CITES.” o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Understanding_Haiti_as_a_Case_Study_of Capitalist_Modernity⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_US_Spends_Almost_as_Much_on_Healthcare_as the_Rest_of_the_World_Combined_and_Has_One_of_the_Worst Outcomes⠀⇛ Esteemed physician Dr. Stephen Bezruchka explains why spending the most in the midst of inequality and flawed politics produces an unhealthy prognosis. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Dollar_Dominance_is_Financial_Dominance⠀⇛ The dollar system has proven resilient in the face of recent extreme and unexpected shocks, but it has also failed to foster sustainable growth and prosperity. Can it survive its contradictions? Evidence from the latest Trade and Development Report of UNCTAD suggests better South-South and commodity producers-consumers agreements are needed, on the way to a more inclusive international monetary system. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ One_Day_of_Warren_Buffett_Wealth_Gains Could_Fund_15_Days_of_Paid_Sick_Leave_for_Rail_Workers⠀⇛ Billionaire Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest men in the world and the CEO of BNSF Railway’s parent company, saw his wealth jump by nearly $1.4 billion in a single day earlier this week, a sum that could easily fund 15 days of paid sick leave for every rail worker in the United States. BNSF is one of the major railroad giants refusing to budge in contract negotiations with rail unions as they fight for 15 days of paid sick leave. Under a White House-brokered contract that major rail unions have recently voted to reject, rail workers would not receive a single paid sick day. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Rent_Is_Too_Damned_High:_US_Tenants_Mobilize_to Demand_Rent_Controls⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ New_York_City_Bill_to_Ban_Reuse_of Lithium_Ion_Batteries_Is_‘Absolutely_Crazy,’_Right-to-Repair Advocates_Warn⠀⇛ One bill in particular is causing angst within the right-to-repair industry because it would ban the sale of all used lithium-ion batteries that have been assembled or reconditioned from cells removed from other batteries for any type of electronic device, not just two-wheeled vehicles. # ⚓ Internet Society ☛ Two_Things_the_US_Should_Do_to_Protect the_Internet_and_the_Security_of_Billions_of_People_Online⠀⇛ The Declaration for the Future of the Internet was a rally cry garnering many countries pledging to protect the Internet from threats that could lead to our worse case scenario: a splinternet. And U.S. sanction exemptions helped protect the Internet by ensuring companies can keep offering access options in places like Russia and Iran when they need it most. Now, Congress has an important duty to prevent dangerous bills like the EARN IT Act and others that undermine security and privacy from being enacted. # ⚓ Variety ☛ Twitter_Folds_Brussels_Office,_Sparking_Concern From_E.U._Policymakers_–_Report⠀⇛ Twitter has folded its Brussels office following a wave of company-wide cuts and departures. Although the Brussels office was small, it was perceived as a “crucial conduit to European policymakers,” according to the Financial Times, which was first to report the news. The last two pillars of the Brussels office, Julia Mozer and Dario La Nasa, reportedly left the company last week. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Twitter_reportedly_closes_key_Brussels office⠀⇛ According to the Financial Times, some of the staffers who left the shuttered Brussels office departed as part of the layoffs announced by Twitter earlier this month. The round of layoffs saw the company let go about half its workforce, or about 3,800 employees. Twitter executives Julia Mozer and Dario La Nasa, who were in charge of the company’s digital policy in Europe, are reportedly among the staffers who have left the Brussels office. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Twitter_has_lost_50_of_its_top_100_advertisers_since Elon_Musk_took_over,_report_says⠀⇛ Half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website. A report from Media Matters for America states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 and more than $750 million just in 2022. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_Rishi_Sunak_Signifies⠀⇛ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Milton_Allimadi_on_Media_in_Africa⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ If_DeSantis_Wins_2024_Primary,_It’s_the_Trump Nightmare_With_a_Different_Name⠀⇛ # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Twitter_Takeover_by_Elon_Musk_Forces Conflict_Over_Free_Speech_on_Social_Networks⠀⇛ Mike Masnick, founder and editor of Techdirt, argued that both sides of the aisle were attempting to control speech in one way or another, pointing to laws in California and New York as the liberal counterpoints to the laws in Texas and Florida that are headed to the Supreme Court. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Musk_says_suspended_Twitter_accounts_will_be granted_amnesty_‘next_week’⠀⇛ Musk’s latest poll-based moves are among the controversial changes he’s made to the social media platform since his $44 billion acquisition late last month. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Twitter_slipped_on_removing_hate_speech_even_before Elon_Musk_takeover,_E.U._says⠀⇛ Twitter removed 45.4% of hate speech posts it was notified about in a sample this year, down from 49.8% in 2021, European Union officials wrote in their report. Twitter performed worse on that metric than any other social media platform tested, according to the report, but some of them including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok fell behind as well compared to the previous year. # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_Twitter_Will_Grant “Amnesty”_to_Banned_Accounts_Next_Week⠀⇛ A majority (72 percent) of the 3.1 million users voted in favor of the amnesty for blocked accounts, a group that includes former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, former Trump advisors Steve Bannon and Roger Stone, right wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos, singer Azealia Banks, pharma bro Martin Shkreli and neo-fascist group the Proud Boys. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Musk_says_granting_‘amnesty’_to_suspended_Twitter accounts⠀⇛ New Twitter owner Elon Musk said Thursday that he is granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation. The billionaire’s announcement came after he asked in a poll posted to his timeline to vote on reinstatements for accounts that have not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.” The yes vote was 72%. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ US_Bans_Huawei,_ZTE_Telecoms_Gear_Over Security_Risk⠀⇛ Previously, Washington had banned Huawei from supplying US government systems and strongly discouraged the use of its equipment in the private sector, with fears that Huawei equipment could be compromised by Chinese intelligence. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ How_Xi_Jinping_leveled-up_China’s_ [cracking]_teams⠀⇛ A year after coming to power in 2013, Xi began to prioritize cybersecurity as a matter of government policy, focusing the bureaucracy, universities and the security services on purposefully cultivating talent and funding cybersecurity research. During his time in office, the Chinese state has systematized cybersecurity education, improved students’ access to hands-on practice, promoted [cracking] competitions, and collected vulnerabilities to be used in network operations against China’s adversaries. # ⚓ Variety ☛ CNN_Recruits_Insider_Inc.’s_Alex_Charalambides_as CTO⠀⇛ CNN, like other properties under the former WarnerMedia, has seen a high amount of turnover following Discovery’s acquisition to form Warner Bros. Discovery. Charalambides will assume the CTO role after the departure of CNN Digital CTO Robyn Peterson in June, when interim head of CNN Digital Alex MacCallum also exited. Those staffing changes came under CNN CEO Chris Licht, who came on board after Warner Bros. Discovery closed the WarnerMedia deal and quickly shuttered the CNN+ subscription service. # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Elon_Musk_Plans_to_Relaunch_Twitter Premium_Service_With_Different_Colored_Checks⠀⇛ In the latest version, companies will get a gold check, governments will get a gray check, and individuals who pay for the service, whether or not they’re celebrities, will get a blue check, Musk said Friday. # ⚓ rOpenSci_|_rOpenSci’s_Communication_Channels:_Twitter⠀⇛ Twitter is one of the preferred social media platforms and networks for the R community and for the data, open science and research communities. Since the beginning of rOpenSci we have used Twitter to connect with our community and other parallel communities, to share what we do, and to be part of conversations around the topics important to our mission. We aim to provide a safe and friendly space for everyone in our community, and this influences how we choose which spaces we use to interact with our community members. We’re therefore concerned about recent changes announced by Twitter (such as a reduction or loss of content moderation, among other things) which may lead to it becoming a less safe and accessible place for our community. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Opinion_|_What’s_Twitter’s_Future?_The Former_Head_of_Trust_And_Safety_Weighs_In_–_The_New_York Times⠀⇛ This month, I chose to leave my position leading trust and safety at Elon Musk’s Twitter. My teams were responsible for drafting Twitter’s rules and figuring out how to apply them consistently to hundreds of millions of tweets per day. In my more than seven years at the company, we exposed government-backed troll farms meddling in elections, introduced tools for contextualizing dangerous misinformation and, yes, banned President Donald Trump from the service. The Cornell professor Tarleton Gillespie called teams like mine the “custodians of the internet.” The work of online sanitation is unrelenting and contentious. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Twitter_vs._The_App_Stores⠀⇛ Twitter wannabe Parler was banned from the App Store for three months in 2021 for its free-for-all lack of moderation. And it appears as though Apple executives aren’t exactly fans of Musk-era Twitter. # ⚓ Overleveraging_attention⠀⇛ I think Musk is genuniely surprised he hasn’t been able (so far) to bluster his way through this. [...] I think it’s surprising because Musk’s bluster not only generates the attention he needs but acts as an ace up his sleeve, a way to guarantee a win. Musk leveraged, and then weaponized, the absolute worst tendencies of the social-era internet — fandom, brigading, the financialization of everything, the final merge of politics and identity. And Twitter was his weapon of choice. Take Tesla, a real company that makes actual cars. Not so long ago, Tesla’s market value was higher than the nine leading auto manufacturers combined, despite the fact that Tesla sold fewer cars last year than Mazda. Obviously, this was absurd, but it happened because Musk is a master manipulator of attention, the currency of the day. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Nancy_Pelosi’s_Next_Chapter⠀⇛ In the summer of 1991, as a relatively obscure member of the US House who was serving her second full term in the chamber, Nancy Pelosi traveled to China with a nine-member congressional delegation that was urging Chinese officials to release jailed dissidents. She was supposed to follow a tightly scripted schedule of tours and meetings. But Pelosi had other ideas. With two other members of the delegation, she headed to Tiananmen Square to unfurl a banner that declared, “To those who died for democracy in China.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Don’t_Be_Fooled._This_Is_What Elon_Musk_Is_Really_Up_to_With_Twitter⠀⇛ Elon Musk had good reasons to feel unfulfilled enough to buy Twitter for $44 billion. He had pioneered online payments, upended the car industry, revolutionized space travel, and even experimented with ambitious brain-computer interfaces. His cutting-edge technological feats had made him the world’s richest entrepreneur. Alas, neither his achievements nor his wealth granted him entry into the new ruling class of those harnessing the powers of cloud-based capital. Twitter offers Musk a chance to make amends. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Not-So-Silent_Progressive Majority_in_the_US⠀⇛ The world heaved a sigh of relief this month when the feared “red wave” of Republican victories in the US midterm elections failed to materialize. While the Republicans took the House of Representatives by a narrow margin, the Democrats held on to the Senate. The Republican Party’s performance was not only worse than expected; it was the worst midterm performance in decades for a party not in control of the White House.  # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_This_Far-Right_Republican_Party Is_Not_Nearly_as_Divided_as_Some_Think⠀⇛ There is an understandable eagerness to celebrate that the Republican party failed to generate a “red wave,” and even experienced some major defeats, in this year’s election. Equally understandable is the inclination to seize on post-election Republican in-fighting as a hopeful sign of the party’s weakening.  # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Microsoft_warns_about_Boa_web_server risks:_India_is_the_most_affected_country⠀⇛ Although the Boa web server has been discontinued back in 2005, a lot of businesses still continue to use the same. Companies continue to use Boa web servers as it is bundled in the software development kit (SDKs) of a product. However, according to the latest report from Microsoft, Boa web server comes with potential risks and it is easy for [attackers] to [breach] these services. More importantly, Microsoft’s research showed that Indian power companies have faced several attacks because of the web server. # ⚓ AIM ☛ Meet_the_Woman_Behind_India’s_Major_Political Narratives_on_Social_Media⠀⇛ Political campaigns in India are evolving quickly; political parties are utilising new technology, data analytics, and artificial intelligence in a variety of ways. However, one aspect of political campaigns that has not changed is the use of social media for narrative building. To understand the inner workings of such undertakings in depth, Analytics India Magazine got in touch with political campaign manager Sukriti Sharma. Sukriti has been a political and environment campaign manager, public relations consultant, and digital strategist across various agencies in India. She has also operated closely with four state governments in India and successfully managed, designed, and executed communications campaigns with powerful messaging that led to practical behaviour transformation. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Wife_of_Jailed_Belarusian_Nobel_Winner_to_Accept His_Award⠀⇛ The wife of jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, one of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners, will accept the award on his behalf at the upcoming ceremony, organizers said Friday. Bialiatski, 60, won the prestigious prize in October together with Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties, which is documenting “Russian war crimes” against the Ukrainian people. The prize will be presented to the trio at a formal ceremony in Oslo on December 10. # ⚓ Media Business Insight ☛ In_conversation:_‘Holy_Spider’_duo on_why_Iran_protests_have_made_the_film_more_resonant⠀⇛ The film, produced by Denmark’s Profile Pictures and Germany’s One Two Films, and represented for worldwide sales by Wild Bunch International, had its premiere in Competition at Cannes where Ebrahimi won the best actress award. That exposure brought condemnation from the Iranian government — and since the festival, the mounting protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s morality police have made Holy Spider look even more like a timely critique of Iranian society. # ⚓ uni Simon Frase ☛ Social_media_platforms_need_censorship⠀⇛ It seems like Elon Musk is content with Twitter becoming a battlefield. And all for what — some awful hate tweets made from anonymous accounts? Advertisers are quickly cutting their ties to the site for its failure to moderate parody accounts spreading hate and misinformation. Private companies don’t have an obligation to host your hateful conduct. The “terms of service” function of social media platforms is what keeps these sites afloat for users and advertisers alike — if you loosen it too much, it’ll lose its meaning. We’ll see if Musk figures that out. # ⚓ Dawn Media ☛ Negotiating_joy_and_dignity⠀⇛ Saim’s ‘crime’ seems to have been to humanise the khawaja sira community and to dare to cast an actual khawaja sira character in the film, rather than a man or woman playing the role of one. The other crime seems to have been not portraying the character of Biba as the butt of jokes but as a breathing functioning complex human being trying to survive in an oppressive society. # ⚓ Herald Sun ☛ Qatar_officials_shut_down_TV_broadcast_as presenter_interviews_disabled_fan_in_wheelchair⠀⇛ Alvarez was interviewing a woman in a wheelchair when the Qatari official interrupted with security guards in tow. Colleagues from the studio back in Buenos Aires said: “This is what the Qatar government is like.“ o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ IMPRISONED_NOT_SILENCED:an evening_of_solidarity_with_writers_at_risk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Symbolic_But_Significant:_Why_the Decision_to_Investigate_Abu_Akleh’s_Murder_Is_Unprecedented⠀⇛ The recent decision by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is not a game-changer, but important and worthy of reflection, nonetheless. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Amnesty International ☛ Afghanistan:_Taliban’s_cruel_return to_hardline_practices_with_public_floggings_must_be_halted immediately⠀⇛ “The Taliban continue to ignore widespread criticism as they flagrantly flout basic human rights principles in an alarming slide into what looks like a grim reminder of their rule three decades ago. These outrageous punishments are just another step in the legalization of inhuman practices by the Taliban’s cruel justice system and expose the de-facto authorities’ complete disregard for international human rights law. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ UN_Experts:_Taliban_Curbs_on_Women_Amount_to Crime_Against_Humanity⠀⇛ A group of independent experts at the United Nations has warned that Taliban restrictions on women’s rights and freedoms in Afghanistan could amount to a “crime against humanity.” The experts demanded in a joint statement Friday that the Taliban treatment of women and girls “should be investigated as gender persecution” under international law. # ⚓ ABC ☛ UN_experts_denounce_Taliban_treatment_of_women_as crime⠀⇛ Lashings in public, as well as public executions and stoning for purported crimes were common across Afghanistan during the first period of Taliban rule, from 1996 until 2001, when they were driven out in a U.S.-led invasion following the September 11 terrorist attacks. The Taliban had sheltered al- Qaida and its leader, Osama bin Laden. The experts’ statement did not specifically mention the cases of public lashings but said the Taliban have beaten men accompanying women wearing colorful clothing or without a face covering. # ⚓ AIM ☛ Amazon’s_Sexist_Hiring_Bot_is_Back_with_a_Twist⠀⇛ A leaked internal document shows that Amazon had been working on an upgrade to their hiring algorithm in secret. The AI agent, dubbed Automated Applicant Evaluation (AAE), will be able to predict which job applicants will be successful in their assigned roles. The document shows that the tech giant has been working on this technology at least for a year under the Artificial Intelligence Recruitment team in the HR division. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Turning_Point_in_the_Search_for_Victims_of Forced_Disappearance⠀⇛ Medellín, Colombia—When Alejandra Balvin walks through her childhood neighborhood in Medellín, she wonders what the flocks of tourists see in their surroundings. Some hold peace signs in the air for cheery photos in front of the famed graffiti art. Vendors sell T-shirts with Pablo Escobar’s notorious mugshot grin. The former slum’s storied violence now lends itself to an upbeat narrative of redemption. Tour guides tout that this neighborhood, Comuna 13, used to be a center of Medellin’s narco bloodshed, back when the city was the murder capital of the world. But now, with its sleek escalator into the hills, the area has become a proud emblem of transformation, with booming hostels and cafés evidencing just how far the neighborhood has come. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ On_Black_Friday,_Amazon_Workers_in_40+ Countries_Strike_and_Protest_‘Despicable’_Treatment⠀⇛ “Instead of paying its workers fairly, its taxes in full, and for its damage to our environment, Amazon is squeezing every last drop it can from workers, communities, and the planet.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘The_Nightmare_Materializes’:_Far-Right Extremist_Itamar_Ben-Gvir_to_Be_Israel’s_National_Security Minister⠀⇛ Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right Israeli lawmaker who was convicted of incitement to racism against Arabs and supporting a terrorist organization in 2007, is poised to become Israel’s national security minister after reaching a deal Friday with incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. Haaretz reported that the agreement between Likud and Ben-Gvir’s Jewish Power party is the first Netanyahu “has signed with another party as part of the coalition negotiations following this month’s elections, which saw his bloc winning the majority of votes.” Under the terms of the deal, Reuters observed, Ben-Gvir “will have an expanded security portfolio that will include responsibility for Border Police in the occupied West Bank.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Women’s_Rights_Are_Essential_to Democracy⠀⇛ o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ The_BBC’s_15_Web_Principles_–_15_years later⠀⇛ Back in 2007 – an eternity in web years – the BBC published a document showing their 15 Web Principles. I thought I’d take a look at how they stack up today. And investigate whether the BBC is still living up to them. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_the_N.F.L.’s_Big_Streaming_Deal_Is Going_Into_Overtime⠀⇛ The competitive landscape for Sunday Ticket has shifted as the talks have dragged on, the people familiar with the talks said. Sports and media executives have long considered Apple to be the front-runner, with some involved in the bidding process saying they thought the tech giant had reached an agreement. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Senate_Panel_to_Hold_Hearing_on Concert_Ticket_Sales_Following_Taylor_Swift_Eras_Tour Fiasco⠀⇛ U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mike Lee (R- UT) say they will be looking into the lack of competition in the ticketing industry. “The high fees, site disruptions and cancellations that customers experienced shows how Ticketmaster’s dominant market position means the company does not face any pressure to continually innovate and improve,” says Klobuchar. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ TeaTV,_BeeTV_&_CyberFlix_Make_Movie Piracy_Easy;_The_Hard_Bit_Comes_Next⠀⇛ Pirate movie and TV show apps are extremely popular, with some proving more popular than others. For developers of these higher- profile apps, a large audience is a dream come true. The downside features more attention from anti-piracy groups, ACE in particular. Popular Android applications TeeTV, BeeTV and CyberFlix, have popularity all wrapped up, but the hard bit comes next. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Court_Orders_U.S._Navy_to_Pay $154,400_in_Software_Piracy_Damages⠀⇛ The United States Navy must pay $154,400 in copyright infringement damages to German software company Bitmanagement. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims awarded the compensation after the Navy was shown to have copied and used software without permission. Whether Bitmanagement will celebrate this win is up for question as the damages are less than 0.1% of the $155 million it asked for. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Technical⠀➾ # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ You_can_program_functionally_in_any_computer language⠀⇛ A few days ago I wrote a comment on The Orange Site [1] that seemed to strike a chord there. The comment was about applying a few principles of functional programming [2] in any language (well, maybe not BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) from the 70s or 80s, but these versions of BASIC aren’t used much these days). There’s no need for functional application, functional composition, first class functions, monads, (“Monads! How do they work? [3]”) or even currying. No, I feel like you can get about 85% of the way to functional programming by following three simple principles. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 3461 ➮ Generation completed at 02:43, i.e. 61 seconds to (re)generate ⟲