𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, March 18, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sat 19 Mar 02:40:21 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/2022/03/18/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmX3rMb63HxLvj9FqPyymwV4TDWUAY1bdbtXfufZPb287E QmUWSqFs7G64P11sRgFghydAWm5vaGowUWhjb5bQ6WVLjv QmeVoLY6Zx3HEzqi2Ycfzv79DNidwPTPBUM7zgf846qztA QmcRCrUwjMkvCTjxN4RTXVgnt8vzjyT5Cf4ktnEzhysN1Z QmWigayprvGPhmqrB8DCEjNTBh2aibrVVhgyYkneAYcRUi QmX39Uj3zNHXvo6UXgn8MUmiP1s2P2jWstyvLEP12ScWQd QmeoPNJBdBB1zPmJmSvBG32dJf6VC4BkQZF2nzHHVVuvf5 QmT75DVXXmrHYM7c6YzAZqzfx7muo7EEYUX6fN1WwBf9Nb QmdiYGBfC8M4iMZ6yr1JdiNS1NyQVUiifwJG7UhVRPbe67 QmNscHDxFvmbxvDEqfr6zcuFXdDCNeUGnUgEsinsAW5Bi5 QmWj5A9BPN6L7nMrjgkoYNjnbZGohimM91FNkxYhAviCty QmWmgXjX6qkCRFkbpUB7wqzzH3832E7d68SdFuRd8Ljihu QmenaQjMKay4WtcW1q8F5f8dn422GaePUyNj9EwpC1Qt8K Qmeib5xsJPjazHycfVRna3aDnNkGHeuML9KhMk6hoSRgPN QmbARvWXXpsrpvN2KJfYbfLLChGs47XEyhnbqtmdUVunxv QmS1PgXeAzFFBvUoMCQuiwWPZKaGqTxLQq1cv9CcFGgaRd QmVwa8MkmFjRWxxPuQ3riiwsjWwCaqnmn9QXr3tY1SM5we QmUBBiKfB4pj8VFJTBXigvomzXjJA1o2AAkwhjAQe4d5Xu QmeRSCJyWXDqQ2MMcGza1eugPxCGbNZcUDe857baH1LHKx QmUPqrHFRdqGwBx8p2FCLNocU3kbtbteb4MYP57ypavVZB QmYvgv9zmTR2cBLvzpLNvAdsLo7iFFrWKJtu79JkWKTaRZ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ EPO Staff Representatives Warn Delegates of the Council That Campinos is Now Outsourcing the EPO, Just Like He Did EUIPO, in Very Clear Violation of Fundamental Rules | Techrights ⦿ EPO Union: “It is Now Time to Make a Political Statement” and “Go on Strike!” | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 17, 2022 | Techrights ⦿ An Alliance of Hate and Intolerance | Techrights ⦿ Richard Stallman’s LibrePlanet Talk From 5 Years Ago | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/03/18/epo-outsourcing/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/03/18/epo-publication-strike/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/03/18/irc-log-170322/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/03/18/lf-osi-sfc-attacking-fsf/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/03/18/rms-libreplanet/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/03/18/freebsd-13-1-beta-2/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/03/18/new-linux-rng/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 60 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/03/18/epo-outsourcing/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/18/epo-outsourcing/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.18.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ EPO_Staff_Representatives_Warn_Delegates_of_the_Council_That_Campinos_is_Now Outsourcing_the_EPO,_Just_Like_He_Did_EUIPO,_in_Very_Clear_Violation_of Fundamental_Rules⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 1:36 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇EPO strike⦈ 2018: ‘Efficiency’_in_Action:_António_Campinos is_Sending_Jobs_Abroad,_Then_Gagging_Critics Summary: The sharks who are gutting Europe’s second-largest institution say they wish “to deliver high-quality patents” while they do the exact opposite, more so in violation of the European Patent Convention, as_usual THE EPO and the Rule of Law have become inherently incompatible concepts, not just because of the UPC_lobbying (for something illegal) but because the EPC has in effect been abolished by Benoît_Battistelli and his friend (longtime partner_in_crime) António_Campinos. They’ve gone much further than granting European_software_patents; they’re attacking every member of staff at the EPO, except_themselves. They basically plunder the institution and pillage Europe, by extension… Only hours ago the staff union of the EPO (SUEPO) sent this message to members and to staff at large: Newsflash: SUEPO meeting today without the President Dear SUEPO members, Dear colleagues, In view of the SUEPO action plan culminating with a day of strike on 22 March, SUEPO met today with management representatives. Management had invited us on short notice to discuss the issues raised in the action plan but came empty-handed. No progress can be reported. However, management admitted that the number of participants in the strike will be decisive for on-going negotiations with SUEPO defending our claims. Staff must exert pressure. Participate in the actions and strike on Tuesday 22 March. Defend your rights. SUEPO Central We certainly hope that almost every member of staff will participate. It would help defend Europe and science, not just the interests of examiners. “Outsourcing much?”The Central Staff Committee (CSC) of the EPO has meanwhile published the following letter, also dated today, addressed_to_the_national delegates. “A first step towards decentralisation of the Office?” The EPO’s management misuses the word “decentralisation”; these liars and crooks try to make something illegal seem attractive, desirable, long overdue… Outsourcing much [1, 2]? “In this open letter to the Heads of Delegation in the Administrative Council,” the CSC says, “we question the orientation paper on professional mobility (CA/ 19/22 and CA/19/22 Corr.1), which could be a first step towards a decentralisation of the EPO.” Here’s the full letter: Reference: sc22029cl Date: 18/03/2022 European Patent Office | 80298 MUNICH | GERMANY To the Chairman and the Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation By email OPEN LETTER Orientation paper on professional mobility (CA/19/22 & CA/19/22 Corr.1) Dear Mr Chairman, Dear Heads of Delegation, The orientation paper on professional mobility (CA/19/22 and CA/19/22 Corr.1) is tabled for information on the agenda of the Administrative Council on 22 March 2021. The CSC would like to inform you about its first opinion on the broad content of this document and the move towards a_possible decentralisation_of_the_EPO. The President of the Office describes in paragraph 6 the goals alleged to be achieved by the mobility framework. For instance under the term “support to deliver high-quality patents”, the President intends to use Seconded National Experts (SNEs) to work in the patent granting process, in particular within divisions without formally being part of those divisions, and in violation of the EPC. Similarly, in other departments of the EPO using staff serving two different organisations (the national and the EPO) will inevitably lead to conflicts of interest. Further, it is questionable how the long-term sustainability of the finances of the EPO can be achieved through the project “professional mobility”. For instance, financing outbound secondments, financing inbound secondments (SNEs), financing interorganisational mobility programmes and offering training and short-term projects to employees from external organisations can be expected to generate more costs than benefits. ===================================================================== Secondly, this orientation paper on professional mobility bears the risk of introducing a decentralisation_of_the_EPO and thus constitutes a fundamental reform of the EPO, incompatible with the mission of the Office. Consequently, the CSC considers that a conference of ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC is overdue and urges the Heads of Delegation to inform their respective Ministries, if they wish to engage into this “professional mobility” project. Dear Heads of Delegation, the CSC and the EPO staff count on you in your supervisory role to guarantee that the mission of the EPO is fulfilled by international civil servants, in conformity with the EPC. Yours sincerely, Alain Dumont Chairman of the Central Staff Committee Cc: the President of the EPO We’ve already mentioned, even in a video as recent as days ago, that the general direction seems to be scabs [1, 2]. The EPO is being run like a bank of reckless loan sharks. This, in turn, disgraces_the_the_European_Union_(EU)_as well. █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 274 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/03/18/epo-publication-strike/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/18/epo-publication-strike/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.18.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ EPO_Union:_“It_is_Now_Time_to_Make_a_Political_Statement”_and_“Go_on Strike!”⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 10:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 43c056ec689d15e0387d2487cd573900 EPO Strike Explained Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/epo-4-days-to-strike.webm Summary: This_coming_Tuesday the EPO staff goes on strike, and as we last_noted yesterday, they have a lot to be angry about (it’s not about money but about upholding the law) THE staff union of the EPO in all EPO sites (in this case SUEPO The Hague) is calling for participation in the strike 4 days from now. Benoît_Battistelli has already attacked staff in The Hague, even French staff, for ‘daring’ to exercise such rights or for merely asking colleagues how they felt about the Office. As far as we know, António_Campinos has not (yet) resorted to such low blows, but he’s still plundering thousands of workers using the typical pretexts and excuses. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Joining EPO strike⦈ As the video above notes, the publication below — the latest among several — focuses on financial aspects. The industrial action strives to curtail many fake patents, including European software_patents, so we ought to support the examiners’ actions. “The employer-employee dynamics need to change for this problem to be tackled.”The publication shown in the above video is also replicated below (for text version and GemText version). The image on the top right shows what sort of motivational posters they’re using; the other day Munich’s branch of SUEPO altered one of its own. Here’s today’s publication: 18 March 2022 su22007hp – 0.2.1 – 0.3.1 § Why this is the moment for a Strike⠀➾ Dear members, dear colleagues, Originally, in 2020 when the SAP (Salary Adjustment Procedure) was introduced it came with the possibility of reversibility should the Office’s financial situation differ from the expected base 2 scenario of the financial study. After application of the SAP during the extraordinary economic conditions of the pandemic, the Office finds itself in an even more healthy financial situation. Two years of implementation reduces already the long-term liabilities of around €1.33 billion. Now is the moment for staff to request the reversibility of the application of the SAP. The political statement created by this strike is the means to give force to such a request. Looking ahead, in view of the Ukrainian war and sanctions, the economic outlook appears to further extend the extraordinary economic situation of high inflation and low/negative growth. The EPO staff cannot accept further deterioration of its purchasing power. This is the moment for the administration to reverse the SAP! This is the moment for us to strike! When the Education and Childcare reform was decided at the Administrative Council in June 2021, thanks to the petition signed in The Hague by 1075 colleagues, among other actions, the Dutch delegation made clear that if the reform would prove to lead to unequal treatment among sites and discrimination of staff in The Hague they expected the administration to correct and improve the reform. The administration committed itself then to monitor the outcome of the implementation and to correct any aspect of the reform if necessary. ===================================================================== Almost a year after, more and more colleagues are experiencing the unequal treatment and discrimination of The Hague staff in comparison to the other sites. The number of requests for review from The Hague illustrates well the situation parents in The Hague are facing. The time has come for us to make the political statement and bring the administration to hold to their word by correcting and improving the reform. Before the start of the new school year when most of the transitional measures are over, it is the moment for us to strike. Finally, a positive and hopeful development that we observe at SUEPO TH: a membership increase of staff who joined the office after 2009. We interpret this development as a sign that younger staff members are becoming more engaged and recognize the importance of solidarity and of organizing themselves via the union. These colleagues report that among their peers there is a growing feeling that being informed and taking part in the actions is seen as a form of actively participating in the office’s life. Most of these colleagues will take part in a strike for the first time. For this reason, we feel proud and hopeful in this moment of strike. You are already making the legal case! It is now time to make a political statement – together with our colleagues from the other sites1 – go on strike! And let the EPO stakeholders know that the EPO staff needs to be taken into account! ________ 1 Message_of_our_colleagues_in_Munich As we explained here many times before, a lot of EPO examiners strongly oppose software patents; but as they’re managed by politicians and military_men/women who haven’t the faintest clue/interest in science they’re being compelled to grant patents against their will (like orders to shoot). The employer-employee dynamics need to change for this problem to be tackled. The union leaders say: “EPO employees can no longer accept further deterioration of their purchasing power and working conditions. It is now time to make a political statement – together with our colleagues from the other sites – go on strike! Join the strike! Make Tuesday, March 22 an effectful day!” █ ⡿⣟⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣻⢻ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣵⣵⣶⡆⡇⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣇⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡆⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢲⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠇⠋⠁⡈⠛⠿⠰⠿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠛⠿⣿⣯⢸⠀⣠⣸⢊⢻⣿⢟⣉⡻⣷⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣷⠀⠁⢁⠀⡇⢀⢀⠠⣿⠇⠰⣼⡀⣹⢇⡞⢼⣧⣣⡾⣼⣿⠀⣶⢃⡿⣇⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ 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Free/Libre_Software, FSF, Microsoft, OSI at 12:45 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum f50b85c79dda79701921f18ddaa30cd9 Provocation Against Software Freedom Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/lf-osi-sfc-attacking-software-freedom.webm Summary: The corporate front groups and Microsoft-funded organisations (LF, OSI, SFC) are attacking the FSF and the uploaded image below is real, except the text; it seems clear that Microsoft money is very costly as it dooms organisations, turning them against their original goals or purported mission THE Linux_Foundation published this_fluff_yesterday, reminding us that the Linux Foundation isn’t about Linux and isn’t even about technology (mindless greenwashing_isn't_technology). Likewise, about a day earlier the_so-called ‘Linux’_Foundation signed its political statement in a worrisome way. A full- time Microsoft employee now speaks ‘for’ the ‘Linux’ Foundation. How on Earth was this allowed to happen? I discuss that in the video above. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇LF+SFC=Microsoft funding⦈ Looking at the OSI, yesterday it had an announcement_to_make regarding openwashing (comments_in_LWN), but only a couple_of_days_earlier it was promoting_proprietary_GitHub_for_Microsoft, wrongly portraying it as an open source thing. Does one hand know what the other hand is doing? The OSI is basically defunct. It’s controlled_by_Microsoft through_the_finances. If Microsoft now controls or speaks for “Linux” and for “Open Source”, then what is next? Will they just use LF and OSI figureheads to attack the FSF? Of course they will. Moreover, they’re funding the SFC, which also participates in the attack on the FSF and now advertises_“Hippocratic_License” trolls (typically promoted by the “LF” crowd), courtesy of Bradley M. Kuhn. They basically strive to exclude people. 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Smiley is a yellow face with two dots for eyes and a wide grin which is printed on buttons, brooches, and t-shirts. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ 10+_Basic_Cat_Command_Examples_In_Linux_[2022]_| Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛ cat command is used for various file management tasks like creating single or multiple files, viewing the content of a file, concatenating files, and redirecting output in terminal or files. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_Pop!_OS_on_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Ever desired a standalone operating system for your Raspberry Pi device with a clean desktop environment and an elegant graphical user- interface? Then you should try Pop! OS for your Raspberry Pi device. It’s an open source Linux distribution with a variety of features including stunning graphics, incredible gaming experience and an interactive learning environment for all the techs out there. It’s ideal fit for your Raspberry Pi device because of its fast and lightweight performance which do not damage your device CPU resources. The installation of Pop!_OS is not complicated and it will require only a few minutes to make itself ready on your Raspberry Pi device. This tutorial is introduced to provide you with the easiest method to install Pop!_OS on Raspberry Pi and if you want it for your device then you should look at the below guidelines. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_Scrapy_on_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ When it comes to technical SEO, it might be hard to understand how your website works, and proper knowledge is required on how someone can improve their website by bringing a larger audience to it. In such cases, web crawlers will play an important role in optimizing the traffic. A web crawler, sometimes known as a web spider is a bot that searches the content on the Internet. To find the information, it crawls through several websites and search engines. It begins the search with a list of recognized websites and then crawls these sites first. Crawlers are typically used by search engines to index websites and then deliver relevant web pages based on keywords and phrases. There are numerous web crawlers available, but you should choose the one that works best for your Raspberry Pi device. Scrapy is an excellent choice in this regard, as it is a fast, simple, and open source web crawling framework designed specifically for web scraping. Because of its Python-based foundation, it provides extensible support for a wide range of operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and MAC. # ⚓ Install_a_complete_WordPress_host_in_a_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Creting a personal blog can give a lot of satisfaction for all, but not all the times you can have enough money to afford the very first costs. With a WordPress on Raspberry PI you can start with the cost of a cheap boar When I received my first Raspberry PI Model A+, I was excited to test it by building up my home-made new WordPress host on it. And peppe8o.com started its very first days from an RPI hosting at home. # ⚓ Install_Ghost_CMS_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Today we will show you how to install Ghost CMS on Ubuntu 20.04 which is one of the best positioned rivals of WordPress. Let’s go for it. Ghost is a NodeJS-based CMS for creating blog oriented websites. While this means that it doesn’t have all the features of WordPress, it does make it very fast and simple to use. This makes it ideal for projects where we expect a lot of traffic or personal blogs. Being based on NodeJS means that we have to install it on a server along with nginx for access. For data management, we have MariaDB. 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Well, if you are looking for help on how to make it happen, then you should follow this tutorial. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Fix_Avrdude_Stk500_Recv_Programmer_Is Not_Responding_Error⠀⇛ When programming the microcontroller using the Arduino one can come across a number of errors especially when compiling and uploading the code to the Arduino board. The compiling errors mostly include syntax errors whereas errors during uploading of the program mainly include the connectivity issues of the Arduino board with the computer to which it is connected. The compiler errors are mostly highlighted by the Arduino IDE and are easy to resolve but the errors that occur at the time of uploading the code to the Arduino board are difficult to resolve. So we have discussed the error that is encountered by the users when uploading the code to the microcontroller. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Ping_Command_not_found_on_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛ Does your system face an issue finding the ping command? Don’t worry; we have your issue resolved! In the modern era of computers, we are connected across multiple devices via various networks. These networks help establish connections across our devices like handhelds, desktop computers, watches, and many more. We can effortlessly send considerable chunks of data from one point to another across the globe using these services. This has all become possible due to computer communication using various networks. However, sometimes our computer may not be able to reach the desired network, resulting in a discontinuity in connection from a network. This is where the ping command comes in. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Setup_Cayenne_on_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ There are lot of benefits to offer for the Raspberry Pi users unless they are well aware of what they are going to do next. In terms of building IoT projects on Raspberry Pi devices, you are obviously thinking of exploring different ways to create the projects and there you certainly need a platform which will ease your efforts. If you have massive quantity of sensor devices, actuators or other internet connected devices which you want to control from your Raspberry Pi device then you should need the services of Cayenne. The Cayenne is a mobile app and web platform that enable the users to step into the world of IoT projects. Once you have managed to set it up for your Raspberry Pi device, you can then be able to create numerous IoT projects offered in the Cayenne menu. It provides you the centralized environment to control your IoT devices on your fingertip with a single touch and go. # ⚓ How_to_Integrate_ONLYOFFICE_Docs_with_Jitsi_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Nowadays most Linux users have to switch between multiple applications all the time to get various tasks done. A web browser, an office suite, a PDF reader, a multimedia player, a video conferencing tool, a file manager, an image editor, and an email client are the minimum set of applications for everyday work. In some cases, you might need even more programs for more specific purposes. Switching between endless application programs to open the one you need can be very irritating sometimes. Just imagine being able to do a couple of different things using the interface of one solution. For example, editing a document and having a video call at once in the same window. This sounds enticing, doesn’t it? In this article, you will learn how to enable video conferencing and document editing on Ubuntu by integrating ONLYOFFICE Docs, an open-source office suite, and Jitsi, an open-source app for video and audio calls. # ⚓ Upgrading_Homelab_Kubernetes_Cluster_from_1.22_to_1.23⠀⇛ Calico 3.22 has been released with support for Kubernetes 1.23. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_use_KGraphEditor_on_Linux⠀⇛ Graphs are a great way for visualizing, interpreting, and understanding data that would otherwise seem like a random group of numbers with no relation whatsoever. They allow you to find correlations between variables, predict values for unknown quantities, and present data in an easy-to- understand manner. If you’re someone working in any STEM field, chances are you encounter these graphs almost daily. Advancements in the field of programming have allowed us to implement these graphs in the form of sophisticated data structures. One of the most widely used graph description languages is DOT. DOT allows you to show relationships between different variables/objects easily to interpret. Essentially, you would require a file viewer and editor to work with these .dot files. Fortunately, we have just the application for you. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Isometric_party-based_RPG_Black_Geyser: Couriers_of_Darkness_has_launched_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ A party-based isometric RPG like the classics! Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness from GrapeOcean Technologies is out now with Linux support. “Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness. Explore a land plagued by war, pestilence and mysterious abductions, and uncover the hidden legacy of your birth. Recruit powerful allies to your cause; achieve your goals through sorcery, stealth, a silver tongue or brute force; and discover the truth of the Black Geyser. Developed by a small indie team and inspired by cRPG classics like Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale, Black Geyser features challenging real time tactical combat with pause, deep lore and memorable companions, all set in a sprawling, unique fantasy world.” # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Ultra-fast_FPS_‘REAVER’_has_a_new_Playtest Demo_up_on_Steam_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ More FPS goodness available to check out now, with a public Playtest Demo of REAVER up on Steam and it’s looking really quite promising but it’s very fast-paced. A little bit too fast for me personally but it’s got plenty of style you might enjoy. The developer just recently adjusted it for the Linux version, which initially wasn’t running due to some problems with Steam but now it seems to run quite nicely but they would still appreciate feedback from the Playtest. # ⚓ Video ☛ It’s_possible_to_stream_PS4/PS5_games_to_your_Steam Deck._Here’s_how._–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_great_space_RPG_‘Star_Traders: Frontiers’_gets_some_Steam_Deck_upgrades_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Star Traders: Frontiers is a popular space adventure RPG from Trese Brothers and a new update is out, with some improvements ready for Steam Deck players. Announced on Steam, the developer mentioned a previous update that added tweaks for the Steam Deck screen, which they have now adjusted due to some unforeseen issue for regular players. Now instead there’s a dedicated “small screen display” option you can turn on, which will adjust the whole UI to give a better fit and clarity. Might even help those with old eyes even on bigger screens too. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GOG_update_their_stance_on_DRM-free,_Galaxy as_‘optional’_for_single-player_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ The GOG team have confirmed in a new update on their plans for the store, and it seems they will continue to note that their Galaxy client is optional. It comes at an interesting time, since there was a bit of an issue with the HITMAN release that ended up being pulled down since it required online to do a lot and unlock a lot of things. GOG is well-known as the DRM-free store, and this isn’t exactly changing but they’re tweaking what they mean by it. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD_13.1-BETA2_Now_Available⠀⇛ The second BETA build of the 13.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Installation images are available for: o 13.1-BETA2 amd64 GENERIC o 13.1-BETA2 i386 GENERIC o 13.1-BETA2 powerpc GENERIC o 13.1-BETA2 powerpc64 GENERIC64 o 13.1-BETA2 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE o 13.1-BETA2 armv6 RPI-B o 13.1-BETA2 armv7 GENERICSD o 13.1-BETA2 aarch64 GENERIC o 13.1-BETA2 aarch64 RPI o 13.1-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64 o 13.1-BETA2 aarch64 PINE64-LTS o 13.1-BETA2 aarch64 PINEBOOK o 13.1-BETA2 aarch64 ROCK64 o 13.1-BETA2 aarch64 ROCKPRO64 Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system. Installer images and memory stick images are available here: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ ISO-IMAGES/13.1/ The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail. If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use Git to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/13.1" branch. A summary of changes since 13.1-BETA1 includes: o OpenZFS has been updated to version 2.1.3. o Fixes to buf_alloc() and __sfvwrite(). o Support for obtaining early entropy from UEFI has been added. o OpenSSL has been updated to prevent a consistent loop under certain circumstances. [FreeBSD-SA-22:03.openssl] o Updates to fsck(8) and fsck_ffs(8) to ensure the correct exit code is returned for missing devices. o A race condition in if_epair(4) on multi- core systems has been addressed. A list of changes since 13.0-RELEASE is available in the releng/13.1 release notes: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/ relnotes/ Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete, and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 13.1- RELEASE cycle progresses. # ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD_13.1-BETA2_Now_Available⠀⇛ # ⚓ Klara ☛ Controlling_Resource_Limits_with_rctl_in FreeBSD⠀⇛ The tool (and service) to configure and enforce resource limits is the rctl(8) command and the /etc/rc.d/rctl service. The service(8) itself is very simple and just applies resource limits that are configured in the rctl.conf(5) file – which is located in /etc/rctl.conf. You can use rctl to manage consumption limits on many system resources, including but not limited to CPU utilization, process and shared memory, and total number of threads or processes. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Ubuntu_revamp_its_logo_after_12 years⠀⇛ The first impression of the new logo makes me wonder why Ubuntu needed to change the logo, which was looking far better in terms of visual appeal. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ 1.51-inch_transparent_OLED_display_works over_GDI_or_SPI_interface_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ We’ve seen transparent, see-through displays at least since 2010 for retail applications, and over the years, these types of transparent displays or variants have made it to consumer devices like smartwatches and notch-free smartphones. But I don’t think I had ever seen transparent displays for the maker market, and DFRobot Fermion is 1.51-inch transparent OLED display with 128×64 resolution that is connected to the host MCU via SPI or GDI (General Display Interface) interface. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ LOLIN_C3_Mini_ESP32-C3_board_is_compatible with_Wemos_D1_Mini_shields_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Wemos LOLIN C3 Mini board is powered by Espressif ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V microcontroller and follows the company’s earlier Wemos D1 Mini (ESP8266) and LOLIN S2 Mini (ESP32-S2) form factor for compatibility with the original stackable Wemos D1 shields. The tiny board comes with 4MB flash embedded in the ESP32-C3 chip, a USB Type-C connector, reset and user buttons, as well as sixteen through holes for GPIOs, VBUS, 3.3V, and ground signals. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Electrocomponents PLC ☛ Restoring_a_Tadpole SPARCbook_3_Part_1:_Introduction⠀⇛ A previous series of articles followed the restoration of a SPARCstation IPX, noting how Sun UNIX workstations were a much-coveted object of geek desire in the early 1990s. However, Tadpole laptops which boasted a RISC processor were a great deal rarer than such workstations, with an almost legendary status and you were lucky if you even got to see one in the flesh. In this series of posts, we’ll take a look at restoring a third-generation Tadpole SPARCbook, which was introduced in 1994 at a starting cost of $10,950 — which with inflation would make the price tag equivalent to almost $20,000 or £15,000 in today’s money! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Open-Source_Farming_Robot_Now_Includes Simulations⠀⇛ Farming is a challenge under even the best of circumstances. Almost all conventional farmers use some combination of tillers, combines, seeders and plows to help get the difficult job done, but for those like [Taylor] who do not farm large industrial monocultures, more specialized tools are needed. While we’ve featured the Acorn open source farming robot before, it’s back now with new and improved features and a simulation mode to help rapidly improve the platform’s software. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ 170_research_papers_about_teaching programming,_summarised⠀⇛ # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Bluetooth_battery_tester_also_serves as_DC_programmable_load_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Automotive_logo_quietly_makes its_debut_in_update_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ The_new_Samsung_Galaxy_A53_5G promises_four_years_of_Android_OS_updates_for_$450_| Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Best_Swedish_Casino_Sites_For Android_Devices⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Web⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Use_TinyCP?⠀⇛ If you use Linux, you might be familiar with some control panel applications. Such applications provide an interface through which you can manage your system. Like any other built-in control panel, there are various settings and configurations that you can control using these applications. TinyCP is one of the control panel applications available to you. It is a lightweight web-based control panel that can be used to perform multiple administrative functions. With TinyCP, you can manage the software packages on your system, run various web applications, set up file sharing servers, manage emails, databases, and much more. Currently, TinyCP is available for Ubuntu and Debian users only. If you use either of these and wonder how to set up and use TinyCP as your primary system control panel, you have come to the right place as we will explain everything from installing to performing some basic functions TinyCP. # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Mozilla_Addons_Blog:_A_new_API_for submitting_and_updating_add-ons⠀⇛ The addons.mozilla.org (AMO) external API has offered add-on developers the ability to submit new add-on versions for signing for a number of years, in addition to being available to get data about published add-ons directly or internally inside Firefox. # ⚓ Tor ☛ Tor_in_the_News,_2021⠀⇛ For the past few years, we’ve shared a post in early February summarizing the news and coverage related to Tor that was published during the previous year. This year, we’re a bit late, and we apologize, but there’s a good reason— we have been busy making sure censored people have access to Tor and teaching others how to help censored users by installing the Snowflake web extension. In 2021, we announced three new Tor Board Members: Alissa Cooper, Desigan Chinniah, and Kendra Albert. We shared our plans to build a ‘VPN like’ service to help mobile users connect their apps through Tor, starting with Android, at our 2021 State of the Onion. And at the end of the year, we presented at CCC, where we shared about the Network Health team’s work to make our network safer. We also spoke about the importance of Snowflake in the ‘arms race’ against censorship and the new censorship user experience features we will launch this year. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ PHP_version_8.0.17_and_8.1.4_–_Remi’s_RPM_repository –_Blog⠀⇛ RPMs of PHP version 8.1.4 are available in remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 34 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky…) and in remi-php81 repository for EL 7. RPMs of PHP version 8.0.17 are available in remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 34 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky…) and in remi-php80 repository for EL 7. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Node.js_community_update_|_Red_Hat Developer⠀⇛ The Red Hat Node.js team dedicates a lot of time to working in the Node.js community and contributing upstream. This is a quick update on some of the interesting things going on in the project as we start 2022. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_6_QML_Book_Updates⠀⇛ The Qt 6 QML Book is about QML and related topics such as how to integrate languages such as C++ and Python to QML, the Qt for MCUs offering, and more. It has been a few months since the last update, so we’re going to talk about what happened since the last time around. If you want to go ahead and start reading immediately, you can find the free online book here. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Postgres_update_multiple_columns⠀⇛ Postgresql provides a facility for the user to update the already present data by using an update command. This command is used to update single and multiple columns in a single command. This article will contain some examples to elaborate on the working of an UPDATE statement for single or multiple columns. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Latex_Right_Arrow⠀⇛ Directions are indicated by arrow characters, which are globally recognized. Using upward- pointing arrows to show an expansion in a specific number and downward-pointing arrows to represent a drop is common. Because we don’t have Arrow Characters on our keyboard, we have to encode arrows in Latex Script. One of those arrows is the “right” arrow. Therefore, we have decided to cover the Latex examples to create right-directional arrows. Let’s start your terminal with Ubuntu’s shortcut “Ctrl+Alt+t”. After opening Ubuntu’s terminal application, try to update your system with the “apt” package within the “update” instruction. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Use_min()_Function_in_MATLAB⠀⇛ The following article explains how to use the min() function in MATLAB® to obtain the minimum element of an array and its main characteristics. The different ways of using the options that this function offers for the treatment of data in two-dimensional arrays will also be detailed. This topic includes practical examples and images to help you understand how the min() function works in MATLAB. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Memcmp_in_C⠀⇛ Memory is the very main part of any program when you have a larger amount of code on your tool. Same like that, the C language comes in very handy to compare the memory size of more than 1 variable in the code. It comes up with the “memcmp” function to perform this single task i.e., compare the memory size of two variables, strings. It will check whether the initial “n” characters of the variable indicated as the first string are fewer than, equivalent to, or larger than the initial “n” characters of the other variable i.e., string. The memcmp method returns a negative, zero, or a positive integer in the C Language. This article has been utilized to understand the memcmp() function of C in the code. Thus, let’s get started with the terminal. # ⚓ SequoiaPGP ☛ sq_JSON:_first_sketch⠀⇛ Would you like to use Sequoia sq from your script? We’d like your feedback. I’m sketching what the JSON output of sq might look like. We in the Sequoia project would like to make sure the JSON serves you well and is convenient for your code to consume. This blog post outlines the principles of how JSON output is meant to work, and has a concrete example of what it’s meant to look like. Your feedback would very much be appreciated. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Enrico_Zini:_Context-dependent_logger_in Python⠀⇛ # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Use_Enums_in_Rust⠀⇛ Enumerations or enums allow us to define a type and select a value from a list of possible variants within the list. In this article, we will explore how to work with enums in the Rust programming language. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_to_beautify_your_Java applications_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ I love that Java lets me write applications on one platform and run them on other platforms. You don’t have to mess around with platform-specific SDKs, using a different library for that one platform, or inserting little code hacks to make that other platform behave. To me, that’s how easy all modern programming ought to be. There’s great infrastructure around Java, too, like the Maven build system and SDKMan. But there’s one thing about Java I don’t love: the look and feel of its default GUI toolkit, called Swing. While some people feel there’s a charming nostalgia to Swing, for the modern computerist, it can look a little dated. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ File_Handling_in_Java⠀⇛ Java is ruling the programming world because of its extraordinary features, and extensive support for different functionalities such as databases, file handling, sockets, etc. If we talk about File Handling, it is considered as one of the most significant parts of any application because it allows us to create, modify, read, and remove any file. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Create/Write_a_File_in Java?⠀⇛ Java provides a predefined class named “File” which can be found in the java.io package. The File class assists us in working with the files as it provides a wide range of methods such as mkdir(), getName(), and many more. If we talk about file creation and writing to the file, the createNewFile (), and write() methods of the File and FileWriter classes can be used respectively. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_delete_a_file_in_Java⠀⇛ Java provides a File class that contains an extensive number of built- in file handling methods such as createNewFile(), mkdir(), getAbsolutePath() and so on. Each method performs some specific functionality, for example createNewFile() creates a new empty file, mkdir() creates a directory, etc. If we talk about the file deletion, the File class provides the delete() method that can be used either to delete a file or to remove an empty folder. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Displaced⠀⇛ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ A_professor_found_his_exam_questions posted_online._He’s_suing_the_students_responsible_for copyright_infringement.⠀⇛ In January, Chapman University business professor David Berkovitz was scrolling through Course Hero, a website where students share documents from college classes, when he came across a call-out for help on test questions that looked strikingly familiar. They were prompts he had written for a midterm and a final exam for his business law class during the previous school year. “He recognized his very unique fact patterns,” Marc Hankin, Berkovitz’s attorney, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “He found what he believes to be evidence that one or more students were seeking and receiving help actually during the exams last spring.” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D-Printed_Parts_Let_You_Assemble_Your_Own Biggest_Fan⠀⇛ It’s getting close to the time of year when we need to start carefully vetting projects here at Hackaday. After all, nobody likes to get punked by an early April Fool’s joke. But as silly as this outsized PC fan looks, it sure seems like a legit build, if a bit on the pointless side. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tracked_RC_Vehicle_Is_(Mostly)_3D_Printed⠀⇛ While wheels might seem like a foundational technology, they do have one major flaw: they typically need maintained roads in order to work. Anyone who has experience driving a Jeep or truck off-road likely knows this first-hand. For those with extreme off-road needs the track is often employed. [Let’s Print] is working on perfecting his RC tracked vehicle to take advantage of these perks using little more than 3D printed parts and aluminum stock. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printed_Molds_For_Casting_Rose’s_Metal⠀⇛ Have you ever played with Rose’s metal? It’s a fusible alloy of bismuth, lead, and tin with a low melting point of around 100 °C. Historically, it’s been used as a solder for cast iron railings and things, and as a malleable pipe filler material to prevent crimping while a pipe is bent. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Remoticon_2021_//_Arsenijs_Tears_Apart_Your Laptop⠀⇛ Hackaday’s own [Arsenijs Picugins] has been rather busy hacking old laptops apart and learning what can and cannot be easily reused, and presents for the 2021 Hackaday Remoticon, a heavily meme-loaded presentation with some very practical advice. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Doubled_Up_3D_Printer_Upgrade_Doubles_The_Fun⠀⇛ [Nathan] from Nathan Builds Robots on YouTube is no stranger to modding 3D printers, whether it’s a good idea or not, it’s just fun to find out sometimes. His latest escapade he calls the Double Ender (video, embedded below), where he not only doubles up the hotend, but the doubles up a few other bits too. The aim was to achieve dual material printing, with his specific goal to combine plain nylon and carbon fiber-loaded nylon in the same print, to get the best properties of both materials. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Owning_A_ShortWave_Radio_Is_Once_Again_A Subversive_Activity⠀⇛ An abiding memory for a teen fascinated by electronics and radio in the 1970s and 1980s is the proliferation of propaganda stations that covered the shortwave spectrum. Some of them were slightly surreal such as Albania’s Radio Tirana which would proudly inform 1980s Western Europe that every village in the country now possessed a telephone, but most stations were the more mainstream ideological gladiating of Voice of America and Radio Moscow. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Hungary ☛ Contaminated_water_of_river_flows_from_Slovakia into_Hungary_–_authorities_monitor_the_situation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘The_World_Paid_the_Price’:_Biden’s Outgoing_Covid_Czar_Rebuked_Over_Failures⠀⇛ Progressives on Thursday welcomed the announcement that Jeffrey Zients will step down as White House Covid-19 czar, with the head of a leading consumer advocacy group accusing him of failing the world by refusing to “challenge Big Pharma’s monopoly control” over lifesaving vaccines. “Zients refused to pay appropriate attention to global solutions to the global pandemic, because of political concerns or otherwise.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ An_Overhaul_of_Prison_Health_Care_Is_Long Overdue⠀⇛ “Medical is a joke,” said Davide Coggins, currently imprisoned at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in New York’s Washington County. “Unless you have diabetic issues or something simply attended to, you will suffer and decay before you get some type of treatment, if any.” This story was published in partnership with New York Focus, an independent news site investigating power in New York state and city. Sign up for their newsletter here. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_US_Is_Facing_a_Maternal_Health_Crisis. Climate_Change_Is_Making_It_Worse.⠀⇛ Esther McCant, a doula in Miami, has visited clients in sweltering apartments without air- conditioning. She has seen them exhausted from long days working on their feet in the South Florida heat. In 2017, she even helped one client, who was well into her third trimester, evacuate during a hurricane. This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News and was made possible by a grant from the Open Society Foundations. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ FAO_Economist_Warns_of_Ukraine_Conflict_Toll_on Food_Security⠀⇛ On the basis of their already elevated baseline values, wheat price would increase by 8.7 percent in a moderate-shock scenario and by 21.5 percent in a severe-shock scenario, the FAO chief economist estimated. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ MakeTech Easier ☛ Emotet_Malware_Sending_Emails Disguised_as_IRS [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Emotet is malware that infects computers by hiding in malicious emails. The malware is hidden in Microsoft Word and Excel files. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Nextcloud_gains_Rocket.chat_support_to further_elevate_the_platform_into_business_heights⠀⇛ Now, here’s the caveat. This integration is very much in the early stages of development. I’ve kicked the tires and found it to be far from ready for production environments. In fact, I’ve been unable to get the Nextcloud Rocket.chat app to connect to my in-house Rocket.chat server (which I can connect to with the Rocket.chat desktop app–so I know the server is working properly). # ⚓ ABC ☛ Supreme_Court_orders_re-vote_after_iVote_crash in_NSW_local_government_elections⠀⇛ In delivering his judgement on Thursday afternoon, Justice Robert Beech-Jones declared the results in the three council areas void. “The primary consideration is the interest of the electorate,” Justice Beech-Jones said. “The cost, stress and inconvenience to the elected cannot be elevated above the electorates’ interest in having a council elected in accordance with the Local Government Act.” # ⚓ InnovationAus ☛ Three_NSW_council_election_results scrapped_due_to_digital_voting_issues⠀⇛ The New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC) applied to the Supreme Court for the results in three councils – Kempsey, Singleton and Shellharbour Ward A – to be scrapped due to this issue, and a judge agreed to void the votes on Thursday. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ False_advertising_to call_software_open_source_when_it’s_not, says_court⠀⇛ The Graph Foundation agreed [PDF] it would no longer claim specific versions of ONgDB, its Neo4j Enterprise Edition fork, are a “100 percent free and open source version” of Neo4J EE. And last month, two other companies challenged by Neo4j – PureThink and iGov – were also required by a court ruling to make similar concessions. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’_Pushes_Antiwar_Ads,_Geo- Targeted_Malware⠀⇛ Researchers are tracking a number of open-source “protestware” projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display “Stand with Ukraine” messages for users, or basic facts about the carnage in Ukraine. The group also is tracking several code packages that were recently modified to erase files on computers that appear to be coming from Russian or Belarusian Internet addresses. # § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF_Tells_E.U._Commission:_Don’t Break_Encryption⠀⇛ The excuse for this attack on basic human rights is the same one we have seen used repeatedly in the U.S. over the last few years: crimes against children. This is the same excuse that sponsors of the anti-encryption EARN IT Act used in 2020, and again earlier this year. It’s the same excuse that was used to put overwhelming pressure on Apple to develop a phone-scanning plan that disrespected user rights. Neither of these plans have advanced, because the public is overwhelmingly opposed to such surveillance.  The plan in both the U.S. and E.U. is similar: coerce private companies to scan all user data, check what they find against government databases, and report their findings to the authorities. It’s unacceptable, and no matter what they say, it’s completely incompatible with end- to-end encryption.  Today, EFF has joined European Digital Rights (EDRi) and dozens of other civil liberties and human rights organizations, sending a letter to tell the Commissioners we can’t accept this attack on our privacy. Child abuse can be, and is, investigated and prosecuted without blanketing people with surveillance systems.  # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Information_systems_at_Europol: Fishing_the_„data_lake“_with_a_new dragnet⠀⇛ The EU police agency has completely restructured its information systems. German authorities are by far the main users for storage and query. Through a parliamentary question, the successor of Palantir software at Europol is now known. # ⚓ PIA ☛ Drawing_the_Line:_Are_Smart_Cities Compatible_with_Human_Rights_and_Privacy?⠀⇛ Sidewalk Labs may have failed, but the smart city concept remains of interest to urban planners. A post by Lina Al- Hathloul on the Access Now site points out that the idea of gathering and using huge quantities of data about what is happening in a city is particularly appealing for countries with authoritarian rulers. The post links to a study from Tina Kempin Reuter called “Smart city visions and human rights: do they go together?“. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ DOJ_Charges_Defendants_With Harassing_and_Spying_On_Chinese_Americans for_Beijing⠀⇛ For years, Chinese American dissidents in New York have suspected that China’s powerful and ubiquitous intelligence services had infiltrated their ranks and were tracking their every move. “We operate under the assumption that no secret can be kept from the Chinese Communist Party, except maybe very sensitive ones,” said Chuangchuang Chen, a law student at St. John’s University and leading pro- democracy activist in Queens. # ⚓ Papers Please ☛ Alaska_may_end_its compliance_with_the_REAL-ID_Act⠀⇛ A bill introduced in the current session of the Alaska state legislature, HB 389, would end the issuance by the state of Alaska of driver’s licenses that comply with the Federal REAL-ID Act of 2005. In addition, HB 389 would give Alaska residents “the option of having the applicant’s driver’s license photograph captured with a camera that produces a photograph in a format or with a resolution that renders the image quality insufficient for facial recognition.” The bill would require that the state Department of Administration and its Division of Motor Vehicles “shall destroy or render unusable for facial recognition purposes any photograph captured as a result of an application for a driver’s license ,” and prohibit “bulk sharing of facial images captured a result of an application for a driver’s license.” HB 389 was introduced by Rep. David Eastman (R-Mat-Su) and is co-sponsored by Rep. Ronald Gilham (R-Kenai/Soldotna). We look forward to its consideration in the state legislature in Juneau, and to the opportunity to testify on this issue, as we did when the Alaska Legislature first debated whether to comply with the REAL-ID Act in 2006, 2007, and 2008, and again in 2017 when it reconsidered its initial choice not to comply. # ⚓ Windows Central ☛ Microsoft_Edge_can_now auto-generate_image_descriptions,_improving accessibility⠀⇛ The feature is powered by Azure Cognitive Services and is available for Edge users on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Android and iOS aren’t included, at least for the time being. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Face_recognition’s_staying power⠀⇛ Why it matters: Facial recognition systems solve thorny identification problems for government agencies and businesses, but they also raise concerns over bias and privacy, particularly since the U.S. lacks strong data regulations. # ⚓ European Parliament ☛ Hearing:_GDPR_– implementation,_enforcement_and_lessons learned⠀⇛ In the hearing, MEPs and guest speakers will discuss the current state of GDPR implementation and enforcement in three thematic panels. In each panel, presentations are followed by a Q&A session with MEPs. # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Mass_surveillance_and attack_on_encryption:_Civil_society protests_against_EU_chat_control_plans⠀⇛ 35 civil society organisations, including European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the German Bar Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), are raising the alarms on legislation the EU Commission is to present on 30 March. Similar to Apple’s highly controversial “SpyPhone” scheme, the EU Commission intends to oblige all providers of e- mail, chat or message services to search for and report CSAM by bulk intercepting, monitoring and scanning the content of all citizens’ communications – even where they are so far securely end-to-end encrypted. # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Why_Vaccine_Cards_Are_So Easily_Forged⠀⇛ My proof of COVID-19 vaccination is recorded on an easy-to-forge paper card. With little trouble, I could print a blank form, fill it out, and snap a photo. Small imperfections wouldn’t pose any problem; you can’t see whether the paper’s weight is right in a digital image. When I fly internationally, I have to show a negative COVID-19 test result. That, too, would be easy to fake. I could change the date on an old test, or put my name on someone else’s test, or even just make something up on my computer. After all, there’s no standard format for test results; airlines accept anything that looks plausible. After a career spent in cybersecurity, this is just how my mind works: I find vulnerabilities in everything I see. When it comes to the measures intended to keep us safe from COVID-19, I don’t even have to look very hard. But I’m not alarmed. The fact that these measures are flawed is precisely why they’re going to be so helpful in getting us past the pandemic. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Whistleblower_Says_Intelligence_Community Members_Filled_Internal_Messaging_System_With_Hate_Speech, Support_For_Insurrectionists⠀⇛ If you work for the government and the government is leaning towards more power and less accountability, why wouldn’t you be supportive of the government, no matter who’s running the joint? That’s what happened in the Intelligence Community, according to a whistleblower who oversaw the IC’s internal chat services for nearly a decade. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Letter_to_Iran,_Regarding_the_Regulatory_System_for Cyberspace_Services_Bill⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Racist_and_Dehumanizing Double_Standards_of_War_Reporting⠀⇛ War’s grim reality is recognizable wherever it occurs. We can see it all too clearly in Ukraine—in the destruction of cities, in civilians fleeing their homes, and in the heart-wrenching casualties. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Veterans_for_Peace_Warns_Biden_That_‘A_No- Fly_Zone_Is_an_Act_of_War’⠀⇛ As Russia’s brutal assault on Ukraine continued Thursday, an anti-war group and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar reiterated demands for de-escalation and reminded President Joe Biden that declaring a no- fly zone would mean the United States entering the war, with potentially catastrophic consequences. “As we stand with the Ukrainian people, we must avoid the knee-jerk calls to make this conflict even worse.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_US_Military_Budget_Is_More Outrageous_Than_Ever⠀⇛ Congress recently announced a bipartisan budget deal to fund the federal government through 2022. It’s a lopsided budget if there ever was one. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ U.S._Accuses_Russia_of_Using_Cluster_Bombs in_Ukraine_as_Both_Refuse_to_Endorse_International_Ban⠀⇛ President Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal for the first time Wednesday for atrocities in Ukraine, as the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on whether Russian forces have been using cluster munitions in populated areas in Ukraine. Cluster bombs explode in midair and spew hundreds of smaller “bomblets.” The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said their use in Ukraine may amount to war crimes. We speak to Stephen Goose, director of Human Rights Watch’s Arms Division, about the use of cluster bombs in the war in Ukraine and how Russia, Ukraine and the United States are not signatories to the international treaty banning cluster bombs. “It’s willing to criticize other peoples’ use but insists on the right to use them itself,” Goose says of the U.S. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Syrian_Activist_Condemns_Russia_for Targeting_Civilians_&_Hospitals_from_Aleppo_to_Mariupol⠀⇛ As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth week, Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have increasingly attacked civilian areas to pound Ukrainian cities into submission, a strategy Russia has employed to devastating effect in Syria, where the Russian Air Force has bombed many cities to rubble in an effort to support the government of Bashar al-Assad since entering the war in 2015. However, the international response to suffering in Ukraine signals a “very clear difference” than in Syria, says Waad Al-Kateab, the award-winning filmmaker whose 2019 Oscar-nominated documentary “For Sama” shows how she and her family lived through five years of fighting in Aleppo. “We really see that what’s happening today in Ukraine might and should be a whole reframing for all the world” to take a stance against Russia’s wars around the world and not just in Ukraine, says Al- Kateab. She is also the founder of the #StopBombingHospitals campaign, which led a protest outside the Russian Embassy in London. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Phyllis_Bennis:_The_Best_Way_to_Help Ukraine_Is_Diplomacy,_Not_War_&_Increased_Militarization⠀⇛ President Biden announced $800 million in new military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, just days after Congress cleared a $1.5 trillion spending bill that included nearly $14 billion for Ukrainian humanitarian aid and security assistance. Experts warn that sending more lethal weapons could escalate war and result in more losses for Ukraine. “The cost on civilian lives is horrific,” says Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, who says increasing military aid in Ukraine could thwart peace talks between Russia and Ukraine — which appeared to be making progress in the past few days. Her latest piece is headlined “The Best Way to Help Ukraine Is Diplomacy, Not War.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Transcending_the_Certainties_of War⠀⇛ Peace, in the deepest sense—in the midst of war—requires a clarity and courage well beyond the boundaries of linear understanding. The warning lights flash. World War III has entered the red zone. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Weathering_the_Global_Storm:_Why Neutrality_is_Not_an_Option_for_Palestinians⠀⇛ A new global geopolitical game is in formation, and the Middle East, as is often the case, will be directly impacted by it in terms of possible new alliances and resulting power paradigms. While it is too early to fully appreciate the impact of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war on the region, it is obvious that some countries are placed in relatively comfortable positions in terms of leveraging their strong economies, strategic location and political influence. Others, especially non-state actors, like the Palestinians, are in an unenviable position. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Putin’s_False_Flag_Scenario⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ US_Peace_Activists_Must_Keep_Pressure_on_Biden to_Prevent_No-Fly_Zone_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ UN_Says_3.1_Million_Ukrainians_Have_Become Refugees_Since_Start_of_War⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Dems_Urge_McConnell_to_Rally_GOP Behind_‘Common-Sense’_Gun_Reform⠀⇛ Calling U.S. gun violence “an epidemic of catastrophic proportions,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman and 48 other House Democrats on Thursday sent a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urging him to support “common-sense reforms” that will save lives.  “Given how much is at stake, anything less than this would be a tragic, unacceptable obstruction to preventing gun violence and gun-related deaths.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_War_of_Words_Between_Between_“Rashka”_and Ukraine⠀⇛ Every March 9, Ukraine celebrates the birthday of its national poet, Taras Shevchenko, by awarding the Shevchenko Prize, the state’s arts prize. It’s usually a festive occasion, but this year’s announcement took place against the backdrop of a reminder of who Shevchenko was, and of what, in his short life, he had fought for.1 # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Arsenal_of_Democracy_or_Simply_an Arsenal?⠀⇛ Whatever else one might say of the crisis in Ukraine, the new cold war dreamscape that Washington think tanks and the Pentagon helped promulgate over the last decade against Russia or China or both is here to stay. Consider that a calamity in its own right. The end of America’s failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the disastrous results of America’s Global War on Terror launched amid a barrage of lies and self-praise, might indeed have left an opening, however slight, for a shift away from colossal military budgets and creeping militarization. Russia’s ill-planned and immoral invasion of Ukraine marks the definitive end of that possibility, however small it might have been. Putin’s actions, whatever their motivation and justification, are being seized upon by the military-industrial-congressional complex as proof positive that Pentagon budgets, already in the stratosphere, must soar higher yet. For so many of the Putin-haters (and I’m no fan), his destructive actions supposedly demonstrate why the U.S. must be prepared to double down in kind. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ OMG,_War_Is_Kind_of_Horrible⠀⇛ For decades, wise and strategic peace advocates counseled against bothering to mention the millions of men, women, and children slaughtered, wounded, made homeless, terrified, traumatized, poisoned, or starved by U.S. wars. Nobody would care about them, we were told, so mentioning them wouldn’t actually help them. It would be smarter to mention only U.S. troops, even if it perpetuated the false belief that the wars were not one-sided genocidal slaughters. It would be even smarter, we were told, to focus on the financial costs of the wars, even though the U.S. government simply invents how ever much money it wants for more wars. Money, we were told, is something that people can care about. Of course, the obvious problem wasn’t what we talked about, but that we weren’t allowed on television. Of course, the average U.S. resident is not a heartless sociopath. Of course, people care all the time about distant and different human beings. When hurricane victims are presented in the media as worthy, people donate. When a famine is blamed on nature, the money gushes forth. When cancer is depicted as arising from a pristine, unsullied environment, I just dare you to find a neighborhood that won’t run a marathon to cure it. So, in theory, I always believed that people in the United States could in fact care about war victims. Just as they could declare “We Are All French” when a bomb went off in France, they could in theory declare “We Are All Yemeni” when the U.S. and Saudi militaries terrorize Yemeni children, or announce “We Are All Afghans” when Joe Biden steals billions of dollars needed for basic survival. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Oligarchs_Have_Shaped_Our_View_of_Russia, But_It’s_Putin’s_Corrupt_Elite_That_has_Hobbled_Him_in Ukraine_War⠀⇛ But this symbol of Russia is now being replaced by a picture in which an oligarch’s giant yacht rides at anchor off some Mediterranean resort. This provides an easily recognisable visual sign of the vast wealth obtained by the oligarchs, often corruptly acquired through looting the Soviet state of its most valuable assets after its collapse in 1991. Putting their great fortunes so blatantly on display in the shape of yachts, mansions and football teams reflects a need on the part of the Russian super-rich to highlight their elite status, while obscuring the semi-criminal means by which they acquired their wealth. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ NATO_is_Not_a_Defensive_Alliance⠀⇛ In fact, the deceptively named target, as a few US news reports on the attack did note, is actually a joint NATO/Ukrainian military base near the border of NATO member Poland that has specifically long been where US and NATO military trainers have worked with Ukrainian troops, teaching them the finer points of handling the lethal equipment being supplied to them by the US and some NATO nations like France, Germany, Britain, and Turkey. (400 Florida National Guard troops were doing just that before being hustled back to Florida as Russia began threatening an invasion into Ukraine a few weeks ago.) A day before the rocket attack, and just after the Biden administration announced the approval of another tranche of $200 million worth of weapons for Ukraine, Russia warned that any arms shipments coming into Ukraine would (of course!) be considered fair targets for attack. This warning was typically described by the jingoistic corporate-owned media in the US as increasing the risk of a wider war, though the actual supplying of more lethal weapons to Ukraine by the US and its NATO allies was not so labeled. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Central_Asia_Struggles_With_the Consequences_of_Russia’s_War⠀⇛ On the sidelines of the forum, Kazakbaev also met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia Stanislav Raščan and told them that the Kyrgyz Republic wanted the Russian-Ukraine conflict to end, reiterating that his country was willing to play a role to achieve this outcome. Why is the Kyrgyz Republic so keen to get involved in Russia’s war in Ukraine? Because this landlocked Central Asian country of more than 6.5 million people is reliant on its economic ties with Russia through the Eurasian Economic Union, “an international organization for regional economic integration,” which includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic. Any Western sanctions on Russia will directly impact the Kyrgyz Republic, where 20 percent of the population lives below the national poverty line, according to 2019 figures. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has already begun to have a negative economic impact on the five Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, which were once a part of the former Soviet Union. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Cracking_Down_on_Russian_Oligarchs_Means Cracking_Down_on_U.S._Tax_Havens⠀⇛ “I say to the Russian oligarchs and the corrupt leaders who bilked billions of dollars off this violent regime: no more,” Biden said in his State of the Union address. “We are coming for your ill- begotten gains.” Targeting Russia’s elites, who have stolen trillions from their own people, is an important strategy to pressure Putin, who himself may be among the wealthiest people on the planet. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Lives_of_Millions_of_Ukrainians’_Depend_on ‘Intensified’_Diplomacy:_UN_Political_Chief⠀⇛ As Ukrainians continued to suffer from Russia’s deadly invasion, international political leaders on Thursday emphasized the importance of diplomatic discussions to end the war while also calling for probes of attacks on civilians and infrastructure. “This week, there were positive signals reported regarding the ongoing direct talks between Ukrainian and Russian representatives,” Rosemary DiCarlo, United Nations under-secretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs, said Thursday. “We welcome all such engagements.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Stop_the_Fighting_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ The war in Ukraine has reached a dangerous and precarious moment. Having failed in their initial attempt to overcome Ukrainian resistance through a conventional ground assault, the Russian invaders are now resorting to indiscriminate shelling and bombing of urban areas, producing an ever-growing toll of civilian casualties. As we go to press, Russian armored columns are attempting to encircle Kyiv and other major cities, cutting off access to food, water, and power in a brutal drive to force their surrender. Adding to the danger, Moscow has declared that further Western arms shipments to the Ukrainian defenders are a “legitimate target” of Russian attack—a threat made all too real when Russian missiles struck a Ukrainian training base near the Polish border on March 13. We stand on the precipice, then, of a major war in Europe—and one that would entail a significant risk of nuclear escalation. Preventing such an outcome and bringing relief to the suffering people of Ukraine must therefore be the world’s overriding objectives at this critical moment. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ After_Zelensky’s_Address,_Lawmakers_Call_for Military_Action⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking from his office in Kyiv, addressed both chambers of Congress on Wednesday, stressing his calls for the United States to provide more military aid and impose a no-fly zone over the country, a move that would put the world on the brink of nuclear war. As part of his plea for more weapons, Zelensky asked Congress to remember 9/11 and the Pearl Harbor attacks and presented graphic footage of the conflict and its destruction toward the end of his 18-minute video address. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Kidnapping_suspect_wanted_‘tyrant’_Gov._Whitmer_tied up_on_table,_FBI_agent_testifies⠀⇛ A key figure in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told an undercover FBI agent that he wanted to restrain the “tyrant” on a table then pose for a photo “like we just made the biggest drug bust,” according to a secret recording played for jurors Thursday. The trial of four men resumed in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after a three-day delay due to someone in the courtroom testing positive for Covid-19. # ⚓ The Daily Beast ☛ The_Play_Putting_George_W._Bush_on_Trial for_War_Crimes⠀⇛ Don’t worry if you didn’t know the 43rd president was on trial. This was an off-Broadway verdict, the conclusion to a new play called The Trial of an American President. The trial was fiction, but the vote, from nine members of the audience chosen to be the jury, was very real. In the play, Bush is charged with three overarching crimes resulting from his war against Iraq. # ⚓ Quillette ☛ The_Decline_of_American_Soft_Power⠀⇛ However, what’s more interesting is the status of the America’s soft power. Political scientist Joseph Nye coined the term “soft power” and popularized its usage in international relations circles after publishing an article in Foreign Policy in 1990 where he fleshed out the concept. In essence, soft power refers to a country’s capacity to persuade other countries to do what it desires without resorting to brute force or coercion. In Brand Finance’s Global Soft Power Index 2021, the US fell from first place to sixth place in 2021 with respect to its soft power. In order, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Switzerland occupied the top five spots in this soft power index. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Rebel_attacks_in_eastern_Congo_kill_more_than 60⠀⇛ Islamic State, to which the ADF pledged allegiance in 2019, claimed responsibility for the bombings. United Nations researchers say they have found no evidence of Islamic State control over ADF operations. # ⚓ TRT World ☛ France_shuts_down_another_mosque_for_allegedly defending_‘radical_Islam’⠀⇛ The Al Farouk Mosque in Pessac district near the city of Bordeaux was closed for allegedly defending “radical Islam” and “spreading Salafist ideology,” the Gironde governorate said in a statement on Monday. The statement accused mosque authorities of giving sermons calling for non-compliance with French laws and legitimising terrorist attacks. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Man_Who_Could_Help_Big_Oil_Derail America’s_Climate_Fight⠀⇛ This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ New_Climate_Polling_Should_Be_Warning_to Democratic_Establishment,_Group_Says⠀⇛ With negotiations over the Build Back Better Act stalled, pandemic response funding dropped from a recent omnibus spending package, and the White House showing no interest in broadly canceling student loan debt, the Sunrise Movement issued a warning to Democrats Thursday: The party ignores young voters’ demands for bold climate action at its own peril. “After two years with a trifecta and little to show for it, Democrats can’t run the same game plan and expect young people to turn out for them,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of Sunrise Movement, which campaigned aggressively for President Joe Biden and down-ballot candidates in 2020 after supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the primary. “Politicians have to earn young people’s support.” # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ New_Campaign_Aims_to_‘Stop_the_Oil Profiteering’_of_Fossil_Fuel_Giants⠀⇛ As fossil fuel companies use global crises and record inflation to hike prices, a new U.S. campaign launched Thursday aims to end the profiteering and build support for federal legislation to tax Big Oil’s windfalls. “While millions of Americans are struggling with high prices at the pump, Big Oil is making a killing.” o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders_Pans_Jeff_Bezos_as_Amazon_Workers_Walk Out_Over_Low_Pay⠀⇛ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘Communities_Should_Not_Pay_Amazon._It_Should_Be_the Other_Way_Around.’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed Good Jobs First’s Greg LeRoy about Amazon subsidies sanctions for the March 11, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Going_for_Tax_Reform_Big_Time⠀⇛ First $100 million per year would be used to get through Congress long-overdue legislation such as full Medicare for All, a living wage, preventing corporate abuses, etc. The second $100 million would be devoted to create facilities making it easy for people to band together in their various organized roles (e.g., workers, consumers, patients, savers) so they could counter corporate bosses who unite their investors and many lobbying trade groups. Now, I wish to suggest the third $100 million per year be used to make Congress change the disgracefully unfair, wasteful, and inefficient tax laws. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ We_Can_Thank_the_Wobblies_for_the_Biggest Labor_Story_of_the_Year⠀⇛ When the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, whose members are often dubbed “Wobblies”) launched a campaign to unionize Starbucks baristas in 2004, the idea was so quixotic it seemed more like performance art designed to comment on the labor movement itself than an earnest attempt to organize shops. Unionizing Starbucks baristas was like unionizing the Death Star stormtroopers: both impossible and pointless. Now, as I write in the spring of 2022, workers at over 100 locations nationwide have petitioned for recognition and the Starbucks Workers United campaign is the labor story of this young year. What changed? o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Corporal_Anselmo,_Double_Agent_of_the Brazilian_Dictatorship,_in_His_Obituary⠀⇛ By phone, the writer and journalist André Cintra told me the news five minutes ago. I was taking a nap, but I jumped out of bed. And until now I don’t know where to begin José Anselmo dos Santos’ obituary. The news, with its natural objectivity, which in this case means, with all natural ignorance of history, says that José Anselmo dos Santos died on Tuesday night at the age of 80, in Jundiaí (SP). And that he was a “double agent during the military regime”. See? They call the dictatorship and the state terror in Brazil “military regime”. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Boric’s_Challenge:_Laying_Chile’s_Ghosts_to Rest⠀⇛ Back in 1796, José Cos de Iriberri, a Chilean merchant, praised “the opulence and richness” of the land, going on to lament: “Who would think that in the midst of such abundance there would be such a scant population groaning under the heavy yoke of poverty, misery and vice.” Of course, the ghost of Iriberri (who inhabited a Spanish province of less than a million souls), would not recognize contemporary Chile, a nation of 20 million people, groaning, rather, under the yoke of typical 21st-century troubles. And yet he might observe that inequality, injustice and corruption continue to haunt his native land. Now, though, there is a chance that this could change. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ News_Org_Demands_Josh_Hawley_Stop_Using_Raised Fist_Photo_On_His_Campaign_Merch⠀⇛ We recently discussed noted fascist and fist-raiser Josh Hawley and his campaign’s decision to start selling campaign merchandise using a photo from a Politico photographer. As part of that post, we talked about how the Associated Press was looking into whether this constituted copyright infringement. I very much think it does not, given that the use is for political donations (speech), that it is at least mildly transformative, and there is zero harm done to the news organizations due to its use. On the other hand, I also very much expected a conflict over all of this. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Worse_Than_Texas’:_Extreme_Anti-Choice Bills_Advance_in_Multiple_States⠀⇛ As anti-choice policymakers across the country seek to severely restrict reproductive freedom—and as the fate of Roe v. Wade hangs in the balance pending a looming U.S. Supreme Court decision—Republican lawmakers in at least four states this week advanced bills banning or limiting abortion access. The Idaho Legislature on Monday became the first in the nation to approve a bill modeled after a Texas law that empowers citizens to sue anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion after six weeks. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Why_It’s_Obvious_Members_of Congress_Should_Not_Be_Trading_Stocks⠀⇛ In early 2020—as millions of Americans faced a terrifyingly novel virus, joblessness, uncertainty, and the tragic loss of loved ones—then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) was busy making millions of dollars on some highly suspect stock transactions. Now, Congress is finally starting to hold hearings and consider bills aimed at reining in insider trading among its own members.  # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Culture_Wars_and_the_2022_Congressional Elections⠀⇛ Instead of giving Price a warning or appropriate disciplinary actions, the school’s superintendent terminated him because the reading caused “unnecessary embarrassment or disparagement” and displayed “a lack of professionalism and impaired judgment,” violating the state’s code of ethics for educators. This incident is but one of a rapidly growing number of actions being taken by local and state officials across the country in the latest round of the long-simmering culture wars, the social struggle over acceptable – and legal — values and lifestyles.  Such battles have defined America since the nation’s founding four centuries ago.  During the 20th century, they were defined by the 1925 Scopes trial over teaching evolution, the anti-Communist loyalty oaths for teachers during the Joe McCarthy era after World War II and the conservative reaction of the tumultuous 1960s. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ohio_Supreme_Court_Strikes_Down_Gerrymandered GOP_Maps_For_the_Third_Time⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Stacey_Abrams_“Wows”_as_Earth’s_President_on “Star_Trek”⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Court_Blocks_Order_Barring_Biden_From Considering_Climate_Costs_in_Rulemaking⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Common-Sense_Decision’:_Court_Allows_Biden to_Weigh_Social_Cost_of_Carbon⠀⇛ Environmentalists applauded late Wednesday after a federal appeals court blocked a Trump-appointed judge’s order barring the Biden administration from considering the future costs of climate damage in its rulemaking and public projects. “When it comes to the climate, Biden can’t continue business as usual.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_U.S._Campaign_for_Democratic_World Federation⠀⇛ In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the most destructive war in human history, a mass movement developed among people in the United States and other lands who were determined to create the kind of united world that could avert future human catastrophe. Among their leaders were the acclaimed physicist Albert Einstein, Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, presidential advisor Grenville Clark, and feminist activist Rosika Schwimmer. In February 1947, during a massive snowstorm, 327 delegates representing several world federalist organizations from across the United States gathered in Asheville, North Carolina, to launch one of the most significant peace efforts of the twentieth century. Among those present were Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review and later president of the World Federalist Association; Thomas K. Finletter, later President Harry Truman’s Secretary of the Air Force; Florence Harriman, former U.S. ambassador to Norway; Cord Meyer, Jr., World War II decorated Marine officer and, subsequently, president of United World Federalists; and Harris Wofford, later U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Arnold_Schwarzenegger_invokes_his ‘broken’_Nazi_father_as_he_tells_Russian_soldiers_‘Putin_lied to_you’⠀⇛ “This is not the war to defend Russia that your grandfathers or your great-grandfathers fought. This is an illegal war. Your lives, your limbs, your futures have been sacrificed for a senseless war condemned by the entire world.” Addressing Vladimir Putin directly, Schwarzenegger said: “You started this war. You are leading this war. You can stop this war.” o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Conservative_Party-Linked_Facebook_Page,_Canada Proud,_a_Major_Source_of_Climate_Disinformation⠀⇛ As Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, Canada’s oil and gas industry and its supporters responded with a self-serving narrative: the Ukraine crisis means Canada must accelerate its production of fossil fuels. Leading the charge is Canada Proud, a right-wing Facebook page with close ties to the Conservative Party, which made post after post in the early days of the invasion urging the country to export more hydrocarbons to Europe.  # ⚓ The Hill ☛ National_Guard_refutes_Russian_media_claims_that Tennessee_guardsmen_killed_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ The National Guard on Thursday refuted claims it said had been made by Russian media that three Tennessee National Guard members were killed in Ukraine. Pravda, a paper owned by the Russian Communist Party, reported earlier Thursday that three “mercenaries” from the Tennessee National Guard had been killed while fighting in the conflict, according to a press release from the National Guard. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Computer_programmers_are_taking_aim at_Russia’s_propaganda_wall⠀⇛ But the Internet has sent those information-war efforts into overdrive, allowing everyday people to pitch in on imaginative efforts designed to reach strangers thousands of miles away. The volunteers behind today’s efforts say they hope to help overcome the Russian government’s suppression of the war’s devastated cities, bombed hospitals and humanitarian catastrophes. The human rights group OVD-Info says thousands of Russians have been arrested in antiwar protests since the invasion began. # ⚓ Wired ☛ Ukraine’s_Digital_Ministry_Is_a_Formidable_War Machine⠀⇛ Until the war, the ministry’s most prominent project was an app called Diia intended to deliver the “state in a smartphone” concept. It can function as an electronic passport or driver license and also provides other services, such as easy payment of traffic fines. The project sped from proposal to release, in February 2020, in just over four months and is currently used by around 14 million Ukrainians. Before the war, Fedorov checked in on the Diia project three times a week through scheduled Zoom calls that began at 7:30 pm, with discussions often continuing until midnight, Banik says. “Fedorov is a huge workaholic, but he’s a great boss; we were unafraid to take on hard challenges.” Since the war began, the ministry’s challenges and working hours have grown further. “These 15 days of war are like one very long day that never ends,” Ionan, the deputy minister, recently remarked. She and others have scrambled to adapt platforms and relationships developed to serve dreams of e- government into tools to attack Russia and support Ukraine’s besieged population. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ Russian_propagandists_turn_on_pro-Western “traitors”⠀⇛ Several new websites have sprung up to help identify such “traitors”. One such is provokatoru.net, which is Russian for “No to provocateurs”. It displays names and pictures of more than 200 artists, writers, actors and journalists who have spoken out against the war. “At a time when our soldiers are fighting the brown chimera” (a reference to the Nazi monsters who supposedly run Ukraine) “and our volunteers are supporting the suppressed people of Ukraine, these [traitors] are openly opposing our people, our government and our president,” an opening statement on the site says. It invites “the people” to add names, photographs and descriptions of more such fifth-columnists, to be reported to the authorities. # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Raadio_4_editor:_In_short, Russian-language_media_landscape_is_in_chaos⠀⇛ Thankfully, he said, police in Estonia responded quickly to the news and immediately announced that the information that was being spread wasn’t true, and that anyone who witnesses any conflicts should immediately contact the police. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Deepfake_presidents_used_in_Russia-Ukraine_war⠀⇛ Volodymr Zelensky appears behind a podium, telling Ukrainians to put down their weapons. His head appears too large for and more pixelated than his body – and his voice sounds deeper. In a video posted to his official Instagram account, the real President Zelensky calls it a “childish provocation”. But the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications had warned the Russian government may well use deepfakes to convince Ukrainians to surrender. # ⚓ Salon ☛ Putin’s_invasion_of_Ukraine_exposes_the_Fox_News- QAnon_feedback_loop⠀⇛ Welcome to the QAnon-Fox News feedback loop. Conspiracy theories first surface in the right-wing swamplands and spread through social media channels. They get picked up and then, crucially, laundered on right-wing media outlets like Fox News. Dwellers of the right-wing swamps are emboldened by seeing their ideas on Fox News and other “mainstream” conservative outlets and “ordinary” Fox News viewers (presuming they exist) are driven to social media to “learn” more, where they get hit with the harder stuff from QAnon. Rinse and repeat, and pretty soon every GOP voter in the country is full to the brim with ideas first floated by the absolute worst people on the [Internet]. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Medium ☛ Russia’s_domestic_internet_talk_isn’t_new_—_but it’s_ramping_up⠀⇛ None of this rhetoric is new. For years, the Kremlin has discussed creating a domestic Russian internet, routinely referring to the global [Internet] as a foreign project and a threat to regime security, out of the paranoid belief that foreign technology platforms and the [Internet] writ large are little more than a Western project to topple unfriendly regimes. In 2019, the Russian government formalized its intentions: it passed a new law calling for a domestic Russian internet that could be isolated in the event of a state- identified security incident. (For the Russian government, a security incident would include individuals spreading truths that reflect badly on Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.) # ⚓ Vice ☛ TikTok’s_Censorship_in_Russia_Is_Giving_Putin Exactly_What_He_Wants⠀⇛ When TikTok announced last week that it was suspending the ability of Russian users to upload new videos, the decision was seen as part of the company’s efforts to protect itself against the draconian new “fake news” law enacted by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a bid to control the narrative about the war in Ukraine. But minutes after the ban went into effect, Russian TikTok users noticed something unusual happening: Non-Russian content was also no longer viewable. That meant videos posted by TikTok superstars like Charli d’Amelio, as well as content posted by international media outlets like the BBC and VICE World News, and organizations like the UN, were blocked. # ⚓ RSF ☛ Mali_bans_local_broadcasts_by_leading_French_radio and_TV_news_outlets⠀⇛ Journalists in Mali have been warned. Reporting that annoys Mali’s military government will result in threats, expulsions and broadcasting bans. In a communiqué signed by Col. Abdoulaye Maïga, the minister for territorial administration and decentralisation, the junta said it was suspending RFI and France 24 following a report that RFI broadcast in two parts on 14 and 15 March about summary executions and looting by Malian soldiers and the Russian security personnel now accompanying them on their operations against terrorists in Mali. # ⚓ Medforth ☛ Indonesia:_Anti-blasphemy_law_reinstated,_72 Christians_imprisoned⠀⇛ Although there has always been an anti-blasphemy law in Indonesia, it has been observed that convictions in this area have been increasing, which is evidence of the return of blasphemy as a social indicator that influences people’s way of thinking, analyses Aleteia. Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world with 264 million people, is the largest Muslim country in the world – ahead of India and Pakistan. And although the country is historically known for practising a moderate Islam, as the religion was introduced through trade relations rather than weapons, a radicalisation of Islam has been observed for a number of years. This was made possible by the arrival of successful preachers who introduced the rhetoric of Wahhabi Islam imported from the Gulf states. # ⚓ India ☛ ‘The_Kashmir_Files’:_Pallavi_Joshi_Reveals Challenges_While_Shooting;_‘Fatwa_Was_Issued’⠀⇛ Joshi said that filming for ‘The Kashmir Files’ was the easiest part and probably the smallest part of it. She mentioned that they all dedicated four years to the film but the shooting was done within a month. She said that when she was shooting in Kashmir, a fatwa was issued on their names while shooting the last scene of their film. Pallavi said that she told Vivek to finish the last scene quickly and head to the airport. She asked her husband to not say anything and focus on finishing the shoot as they won’t get another chance to come back. Soon after this, the actor asked the whole team to start packing their bags to leave from there. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Laura_Murray_(no_relation!)⠀⇛ We should all congratulate Laura Murray on her emphatic victory against the Daily Telegraph and the dreadful apartheid Israel stooge Lord Ian Austin, who I am happy to say have been forced to pay substantial damages. (Update: I originally stated Laura had won her libel case – this was incorrect as the libelers caved in before the case got to court). # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Niger_Media_Pay_Tribute_to_Press_Freedom Defender⠀⇛ Niger’s media have paid tribute to Gremah Boucar, a radio journalist lauded for his efforts to promote and defend press freedom. Boucar was repeatedly threatened and jailed for his journalism in Niger. He persevered nonetheless. When he died March 8 at a hospital in Tunisia, the 63-year-old left behind the privately owned Anfani radio and TV network and a legacy of fighting to deliver uncensored news across Niger. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Australian_politicians_must_act_to_save_Assange before_it_is_too_late⠀⇛ As has been reported, former US president Barack Obama’s administration considered whether it could bring criminal charges against Assange and WikiLeaks for publishing classified information. As American journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote: “It ultimately decided it would not do so, and could not do so, consistent with the press freedom guarantee of the First Amendment. “After all, the Obama DoJ concluded, such a prosecution would pose a severe threat to press freedom because there would be no way to prosecute Assange for publishing classified documents without also prosecuting The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and others for doing exactly the same thing.” o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Green_Groups_Praise_Progressive_Dems’_Call for_Climate_Emergency_Declaration⠀⇛ Grassroots climate advocates praised the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Thursday for pushing President Joe Biden to use his executive authority to declare a national climate emergency, a move that would unlock an array of specific tools needed to combat planetary warming. “There’s no question that we’re in a climate emergency,” Jean Su, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s (CBD) energy justice program, said in a statement. “The caucus is absolutely right that President Biden should declare it so we can build the energy security that only renewable energy can bring.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Bernie_Insiders_Give_Thumbs_Up_to_Ro_Khanna 2024_Presidential_Run⠀⇛ Progressive U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna is being encouraged by leading figures behind Sen. Bernie Sanders’ back-to-back Democratic presidential bids to launch his own run for the White House in 2024 should President Joe Biden not seek another term, Politico reported Thursday. Khanna (D-Calif.), a 45-year-old, Philadelphia-born and Justice Democrat-backed lawmaker, has represented Silicon Valley since 2017. He also served as the national co-chair for Sanders’ (I- Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 16_GOP_Lawmakers_Vote_Against_Increasing Awareness_of_US_Internment_Camps⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Progressive_Urge_Biden_to_Take_55_Executive Actions_to_Advance_Domestic_Agenda⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ We_Need_to_Build_a_Labor_Movement_That’s_Willing to_Break_the_Law⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Starbucks_Brought_Former_CEO_Howard_Schultz_Back to_Union_Bust,_Workers_Say⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Disney_Workers_Walk_Out_Over_Company’s Silence_on_“Don’t_Say_Gay”_Bill⠀⇛ Demanding the Walt Disney Company use its considerable influence in Florida to stop the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill from going into effect, workers at the company are staging walkouts this week with plans to launch a full- scale nationwide work stoppage next Tuesday. The “Disney Do Better Walkout” is being organized by the company’s LGBTQIA+ community and allies, who warned in an open letter this week that CEO Bob Chapek’s response to the legislation has “utterly failed to match the magnitude of the [bill's] threat to LGBTQIA+ safety.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Real_Irish-American_History They_Don’t_Teach_You_in_School⠀⇛ Author’s note on the following essay which has been re-posted for many years at Common Dreams as a St. Patrick’s Day tradition: # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Hand_Biden_List_of_55 Executive_Actions_Because_‘Working_People_Can’t_Wait’⠀⇛ With the pivotal midterm elections looming, the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Thursday unveiled a slate of more than 50 executive actions it is urging President Joe Biden to pursue as much of his domestic policy agenda remains stalled in Congress—thanks in large part to right-wing members of his own party. “Working people can’t wait for relief from rising costs—and that Democrats must use all the tools available to provide it, quickly.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Can_a_Thriller_Capture_the_Feeling_of_Being Watched?⠀⇛ Long before the advent of reality TV, the rise of social media influencers, and the first invasive rush of 24/7 paparazzi, Jenny Holzer somehow managed to predict all these developments in one of her provocative and spooky fine-art texts. “A real torture would be to build a sparkling cage with 2- way mirrors and steel bars,” the artist wrote in Inflammatory Essays (1979–1982). “In there would be good-looking and young girls who’ll think they’re in a regular motel room, so they’ll take their clothes off and do the delicate things that girls do when they’re sure they’re alone. Everyone who watches will go crazy because they [won’t believe] what they’re seeing but they’ll see the bars and know they can’t get in. And, they’ll be afraid to make a move because they don’t want to scare the girls away from doing the delicious things they’re doing.” Holzer cannily does not specify exactly who this set-up is a torture for—the audience, denied the opportunity to actually touch the objects of their voyeuristic desire, or the pretty prisoners who do “the delicate things that girls do” without realizing they are caged. The resulting image, halfway between a runway show and the premise of a stylized slasher film, suggests a balance between the observer and the observed that could explode into either eroticism or violence at even the slightest tipping of the scales. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Saudi_Arabia:_A_Masterclass_on How_to_Not_Reform_Through_Mass_Executions⠀⇛ Saudi Arabia’s March 12 announcement that it executed 81 men marks the country’s largest mass execution since 2019, indicating Riyadh’s continued disinterest in reforming its flawed and arbitrary judicial system. The decision to commit the mass execution of detainees on a range of vague and broad charges offers yet another example of the Riyadh’s rejection of basic human rights and again disproves Mohammed bin Salman’s (MbS) “reformer” charade. Unfortunately, world leaders and policymakers in Washington will continue to coddle the Gulf monarch while denouncing the same actions of equally brutal leaders across the Arab world. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Saudi_Arabia_puts_81_to_death_in_largest_mass execution_in_kingdom’s_modern_history⠀⇛ Ali Adubusi, the director of the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, alleged that some of those executed had been tortured and faced trials “carried out in secret.” “These executions are the opposite of justice,” he said. # ⚓ Metro UK ☛ TikTok_star_‘shot_dead_by_brother_for_wearing crop_tops_in_honour_killing’⠀⇛ A TikTok star in Iraqi Kurdistan who defied conservative Islamic conventions by wearing crop tops and a crucifix was allegedly shot dead by her brother. Eman Sami Maghdid, known to her 47,000 followers as Mari or Maria, is thought to have been murdered in an ‘honour’ killing. # ⚓ Gulf News ☛ Two_Saudis_executed_for_killing_mother_who tried_to_stop_them_from_joining_Daesh⠀⇛ Dubai: Two Saudi brothers were executed after almost seven years in jail for murdering their mother who tried to stop them from joining Daesh in Syria, local media reported. The duo were among 81 people put to death on Saturday in kingdom’s largest mass execution. Most were individuals convicted of terrorism and capital crimes, including members of Daesh and Al Qaida, the Saudi Press Agency said yesterday quoting a ministry of interior statement. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ California_Legislators_Introduce_Bill_To_Blame Internet_Companies_For_Kids_Liking_Their_Products⠀⇛ Ridiculous, unhinged, anti-internet legislation is a bipartisan affair. The latest such examples is California’s new (awkwardly named) Social Media Platform Duty to Children Act. As you can likely tell from the name, this is yet another moral panic “think of the children!” bill. It argues that social media is addictive and that we need to “hold companies responsible” for that so-called addiction. It kicks off by quoting some research — but cherry picking which research and taking some of the findings out of context — to insist that social media is unquestionably bad for kids. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Minnesota_Pushing_Bill_That_Says_Websites_Can_No Longer_Be_Useful_For_Teenagers⠀⇛ The various “for the children” moral panic bills about the internet are getting dumber. Over in Minnesota, the legislature has moved forward with a truly stupid bill, which the legislature’s own website says could make the state “a national leader in putting new guardrails on social media platforms.” The bill is pretty simple — it says that any social media platform with more than 1 million account holders (and operating in Minnesota) cannot use an algorithm to recommend content to users under the age of 18. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ No,_U.S._Broadband_Isn’t_Miraculously_Getting Cheaper⠀⇛ Hoping to pretend that the U.S. broadband industry is vibrant and competitive, every so often the broadband industry will issue a broad proclamation that U.S. broadband is secretly amazing and super affordable. Unfortunately data uniformly, clearly shows that it’s not. The availability of fast speeds remains spotty, prices remain high, and customer service, while improving glacially, is generally terrible. # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ It’s_not_over_until_it’s_over:_sanctions_must stop_Telenor’s_sale_to_the_Myanmar_military_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ Access Now, outraged by today’s announcement that the Myanmar Investment Commission has approved the sale of Telenor Myanmar, is calling for international actors to implement sanctions and stop the company’s irresponsible disposal of its Myanmar operations to a company whose 80% majority shareholder is military-linked Shwe Byain Phyu Group. “It’s not over until it’s over,” said Wai Phyo Myint, Asia Pacific Policy Analyst at Access Now. “The Telenor sale approval does not come as a surprise, but it is a major kick in the guts for human rights defenders on the ground. The purchaser, Shwe Byain Phyu, may not be sanctioned now — but it needs to be. International actors must recognize and take action against the company’s multiple and flagrant links to the military.” Telenor’s sales agreement is with M1 Group, which will buy Telenor Myanmar through its Singapore- registered entity Investcom Pte Ltd — the majority of which will be owned by military-linked Shwe Byain Phyu Group. Telenor noted that it had “not been party to any dialogue between M1 and its local partner,” even as it claims that it screened the transaction as sanctions compliant. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Netflix_Starts_Cracking_Down_Harder_On_Password Sharing⠀⇛ Back when Netflix was a pesky upstart trying to claw subscribers away from entrenched cable providers, the company had a pretty lax approach to users who shared streaming passwords. At one point CEO Reed Hastings went so far as to say he “loved” password sharing, seeing it as akin to free advertising. The idea was that as kids or friends got on more stable footing (left home to job hunt, whatever), they’d inevitably get hooked on the service and purchase their own subscription. # ⚓ PIRG ☛ Deere_in_the_Headlights:_How_software_that_farmers can’t_access_has_become_necessary_to_tractor_repair⠀⇛ Modern farm equipment runs on software. But when manufacturers restrict access to the software tools needed to repair broken tractors, farmers are left out in the cold. They are forced to rely on dealerships to fix their equipment, which can lead to lengthy delays and inflated repair bills. With fields to be plowed, planted and harvested, farmers don’t have the time to wait for a dealer. They need to be able to fix their own stuff. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Why_Netflix_is_starting_to_crack_down_on password_sharing⠀⇛ Netflix has for years ignored the fact that many of us are mooching off our friends’ and families’ accounts. But the streaming king now appears to be reconsidering its look-the-other-way policy, a shift that comes as Netflix’s growth slows and its annual production budget for churning out new hits creeps ever higher. In other words, Netflix needs more money. The company this week announced that it’s testing a password-sharing crackdown that could curb the number of accounts mooching off account holders outside their own households. As part of this test, Netflix will soon offer users in Chile, Costa Rica, and Peru the ability to add up to two additional members to their Netflix membership as sub- accounts. In Costa Rica, this will cost about $3 on top of the monthly cost of Netflix. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Netflix_plans_to_start_charging_for_password_sharing, and_customers_aren’t_happy⠀⇛ Netflix said it won’t ban password sharing, but those who do it will have to pay. It will be testing the change in three countries — Chile, Costa Rica and Peru. For 2,380 Chilean pesos, 2.99 U.S. dollars and 7.9 Peruvian sol, respectively, users can add up to two profiles. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Microsoft_faces_EU_antitrust_complaint_about_its cloud_computing_business_|_Reuters⠀⇛ U.S. tech giant Microsoft (MSFT.O) is facing an antitrust complaint filed by three European rivals in the booming cloud computing business, one the plaintiffs said on Thursday. The complaint, filed with the European Union’s competition watchdog months ago, alleges that Microsoft’s contractual and business practices make it costly and difficult for users of its cloud computing services to opt for those of a competitor, a source close to the matter said. French cloud computing services provider OVHcloud (OVH.PA) confirmed in a statement that it had joined the complaint against Microsoft. A spokesperson for the company declined to give the names of the two other European plaintiffs. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Variety ☛ Dua_Lipa’s_Dual_Lawsuits_Explained: Musicologists_Break_Down_‘Levitating’_Similarities⠀⇛ Variety spoke with musicologists E. Michael Harrington, who consulted on Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” case and was approached by Linzer and Brown in their attempt to defeat Lipa; and Judith Finell, who delivered the landmark expert testimony on behalf of the Marvin Gaye estate in the infamous “Blurred Lines” case. # ⚓ TechXplore ☛ An_information_shock_is_needed_to_make firms_understand_that_music_is_changing⠀⇛ The music industry, in little more than 20 years, has gone through two technological shocks linked to digitization: first the advent of downloads, which have replaced physical supports, then that of streaming, with the passage from the possession of a content to the right of access to a catalog. Paola Cillo and Gianmario Verona (Department of Management and Technology), in a study with Paola Zanella (CUNEF University), document that, in the case of streaming, it took an information shock (the inclusion of streaming in Billboard’s “The Hot 100″ ranking) for the industry to react to the ongoing change, by modifying its strategies. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Better_Internet_Series: Architecture_and_Open_Standards⠀⇛ # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Episode_13:_Open_Culture_VOICES_– Melissa_Terras⠀⇛ Welcome to episode 13 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online. In this episode, we’re joined by Melissa Terras, a leading international figure in the field of Digital Humanities. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, and director of its Centre for Digital Scholarship. Her research focuses on the digitization of cultural heritage, including its technologies, procedures, and impact, and how this intersects with internet technologies.  She is a Turing Institute Fellow 2018-2022.  # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Episode_14:_Open_Culture_VOICES_– Karin_Glasemann⠀⇛ Welcome to episode 14 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online. In this episode, Karin Glasemann, Digital Coordinator at Nationalmuseum Sweden, joins us. Karin is responsible for streamlining internal digitization processes and ensuring that the public can find, access, use and reuse the digitized collections. She holds a PhD in history and has initiated the Nationalmusuem’s Public Domain policy and several collaborations with Wikimedia Sweden, which boosted the Nationalmuseum’s digital presence. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ WIPO’s_Pirate_Site_Blocklist_Expands to_4,042_Active_Domain_Names⠀⇛ The pirate site blocklist for advertisers, maintained by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), has grown to well over 7,000 domains names, of which 4,000 are active. To make the “WIPO Alerts” system more transparent, the public can now search to check if a specific site is listed and, if so, by which country it was flagged. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Two_More_‘Ringleaders’_of_Torrent Site_‘Asgaard’_Sentenced_in_Denmark⠀⇛ Following investigations by anti-piracy group Rights Alliance, police have been rounding up people who played prominent roles at Danish private torrent site Asgaard. This week two more people were convicted of copyright infringement offenses. Both were handed conditional prison sentences, ordered to pay compensation, and have to complete community service. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3878 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.18.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_19/3/2022:_KStars_3.5.8_Released,_New_Linux_RNG⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:24 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ New Indian Express ☛ Upgraded_free_software_push_for_school IT_resources⠀⇛ Over 2 lakh computers deployed in schools will now run on an upgraded Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)-based Operating System (OS) developed by the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE). Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan released the upgraded KITE GNU/Linux OS Suite here on Thursday. The OS Suite can be used as a complete computing platform not only by students and teachers in schools, but also in home computers, government offices, DTP centres and by software developers. The new OS Suite has all the important updates of the popular Ubuntu OS. It also features a lot of FOSS-based applications which are not part of the Ubuntu 20.04 repository. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ AMD_and_more_join_AlmaLinux_OS_Foundation •_The_Register⠀⇛ The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is pulling in new members from the world of mainframes, hosting and IT services to contribute to the project and deliver a community-supported Linux compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The non-profit organization that oversees AlmaLinux said four new entrants had arrived, with AMD, BlackHOST, and KnownHost joining at the Silver Member level, and Sine Nomine Associates joining the Gold tier. The foundation expects the contributions from these new members to help in bring AlmaLinux closer to full parity with RHEL. # ⚓ Phoronix ☛ AMD_Now_Backing_AlmaLinux_As_This_Increasingly Popular_RHEL/CentOS_Alternative⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux.org ☛ Home_Streaming_Server⠀⇛ I am making a DLNA Server to be able to stream audio, video and pictures within my house. This article will go over the details of what I have done for my system. I hope some of you can duplicate this if you need to, as well as comment on improving the server. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Chrome_OS_Flex_|_Everything_You_Need_To_KNOW!_– Invidious⠀⇛ Chrome OS Flex is a NEW and superfast, Linux-based operating system created by Google. It is a web- first system meaning it focuses on working with web applications. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Devs_of_new_filesystem_try_for_Linux kernel_again_•_The_Register⠀⇛ The lead developer of the bcachefs filesystem is gunning to get it accepted into the Linux kernel… again. The story of bcachefs is quite long-running, and this isn’t the first time – nor even the first time this year the project has attempted this. The filesystem has been around for a while; The Reg first reported on it in 2015. But it looks like it’s getting closer to its goal. Filesystems are serious stuff, and getting them right takes time. As of November 2021, bcachefs gained snapshot support. With the latest update, the on-disk structures have changed. This means that when you mount a volume, the driver will update the format – so you can’t go back. This is the sort of issue that would hinder integration into the mainline kernel. Bcachefs grew out of the existing bcache module, which allows you to use a fast drive (probably an SSD) as a cache for a slower drive, such as a RAID volume. It’s more complex than it sounds, which, as ever, shows up if it goes wrong. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Sprint⠀⇛ Today we’re a Lavapipe blog. Lavapipe is, of course, the software implementation of Vulkan that ships with Mesa, originally braindumped directly into the repo by graphics god and part-time Twitter executive, Dave Airlie. For a long time, the Lavapipe meme has been “Try it on Lavapipe—it’s not conformant, but it still works pretty good haha” and we’ve all had a good chuckle at the idea that anything not officially signed and stamped by Khronos could ever draw a single triangle properly. But, pending a single MR that fixes the four outstanding failures for Vulkan 1.2 conformance, as of last week, Lavapipe passes 100% of conformance tests. Thus, pending a merge and a Mesa bugfix release, Lavapipe will achieve official conformance. And then we’ll have a new meme: Vulkan 1.3 When? o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Control_Your_Razer_Devices_On_Linux_With_OpenRazer_& Polychromatic_–_Front_Page_Linux⠀⇛ With this quick article I want to share my discovery of the amazing Razer hardware, and why I think it is an excellent choice for Linux users. Before I discuss the main topic of this article, I want to take a step back. I am aware that not everyone is a fan of mechanical keyboards and gaming mice. Switching from a normal keyboard to a mechanical keyboard, and from a regular mouse to a gaming one, is a quality of life improvement that cannot be described with words. My personal opinion is that the relatively low price and great impact in everyday computing is totally worth the cost. But you don’t have to take my word. Instead, I encourage everyone to go out to a store that sells mechanical keyboards and gaming mice, and give them a quick try. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ 4_CLI_based_Linux_Performance_Monitoring Tools:_top,_htop,_ps_and_vmstat⠀⇛ Linux is a very stable operating system with strong security features. On several occasions, we may need to observe the performance of our system, maybe because of some technical glitch or as a part of a routine health checkup. Performance measurement gives us a quick insight into how our system is doing, e.g. performance logs can tell us what processes are running, how much memory is in use, how much CPU is being used etc. This information also helps us in making decisions related to effective resource planning, debugging system issues etc. Most Linux distros provide command-line tools and graphical ones to accomplish this task. Some of these come pre-shipped with the OS and some may need to be installed. These tools are classified as either real-time monitoring tools or log-based tools. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_the_ManageEngine_OpManager end-to-end_management_platform_on_Linux⠀⇛ OpManager is an outstanding platform for network and device monitoring. Jack Wallen shows you how to get it up and running on Linux. # ⚓ Install_and_Setup_Teleport_Access_Plane_on_Linux_– kifarunix.com⠀⇛ In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and setup Teleport access plane on Linux. According to the documentation page, Teleport is a Certificate Authority and an Access Plane for your infrastructure. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Jamovi_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Jamovi on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ Generating_a_clouds.yaml_file_|_Adam_Young’s_Web_Log⠀⇛ In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and setup Teleport access plane on Linux. According to the documentation page, Teleport is a Certificate # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Set_Up_Remote_Logging_on_Linux_Using rsyslog⠀⇛ Having a separate remote Linux server for storing logs has its benefits. Here’s how you can set up a remote log aggregation server using rsyslog. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Squid_Proxy_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Squid Proxy on Debian 11. For those of you who didn’t know, Squid is one of the most used proxy servers for controlling internet access from the local network and securing the network from illegitimate traffic and attacks. Squid also reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by- step installation of the Squid Proxy on a Debian 11 (Bullseye). # ⚓ Ansible_Lab_Setup_With_Vagrant_And_Virtualbox_In_Linux_– OSTechNix⠀⇛ Ansible is an automation platform used in the area of orchestration, configuration management, deployments, provisioning, etc. If you are a beginner who wants to learn ansible or someone planning to take ansible certification, then you need to have a home lab setup to practice ansible. Setting up a home lab manually is a time-consuming task. There are a couple of automated solutions like Docker, Vagrant, Cloud solutions that can be used to build the ansible lab. In this guide, we will learn an automated way to setup Ansible lab with Vagrant and VirtualBox in Linux. # ⚓ Quickly_add_a_new_user_to_all_groups_the_default_user_is in⠀⇛ # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_install_Zammad_Community_in_ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Zammad is a web-based, open source user support/ ticketing solution. It is an open source web based helpdesk and customer support system build to help you manage customer communications via several channels like twitter, telephone, chat, facebook, and e-mails. The Zammad helpdesk software is released under GNU AGPLv3 license. With its REST API, you can link other programs easily and get real-time information on all your channels and operations. Zammad is developed in the programming languages Ruby and JavaScript. The name Zammad comes from the Bavarian dialect and means “together”. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_Secure_Nginx_with_Letsencrypt_on_Ubuntu 20.04⠀⇛ Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority (CA) that provides free certificates for Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption. It simplifies the process of creation, validation, signing, installation, and renewal of certificates by providing a software client—Certbot. It was developed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) and trusted by all major browsers. It is used to automate the process of certificate creation, validation, signing, implementation, and renewal of certificates for secure websites. The certificate is valid for only 90 days, so you will need to renew it manually or or set up the auto renewal system, Let’s encrypt supports automated certification issuance for Apache, Nginx, Plex, and HAproxy. We will cover nginx in this guide. # ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_Install_OpenCart_on_Ubuntu_–_OSNote⠀⇛ OpenCart is a free shopping cart system and is one of the most popular open-source carts. It is a complete website solution that provides not only an ecommerce platform, but also an administration system to control your online store, and secure it against hackers . OpenCart includes all the features you would expect from a high-quality ecommerce system, including order management, real-time stock updates, full SEO support, shopping cart functionality – plus many others. OpenCart is backed by an enthusiastic team of developers who are always working on new bug fixes and solutions to keep the cart up-to-date with current technologies. OpenCart online shopping cart system built upon Adobe’s ColdFusion framework, featuring a multitude of additional features over other carts such as: advanced product search engine; customizable templates; customer loyalty programs, and a whole lot more! OpenCart makes it easy to get your site up and running within a few minutes – whether you are new to e-commerce or not. It’s also one of the most comprehensive solutions on the market today and has an excellent reputation. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_LibreNMS_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_– Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Tutorial to learn the steps and commands for installing LibreNMS on Debian 11 Bullseye or Debian 10 Buster Linux using command terminal to monitor network devices. The monitoring of network environments is becoming more and more demanding as the complexity increases. Powerful systems such as LibreNMS usually provide a solid basic functionality, but they are often overwhelmed with special tasks such as monitoring or backing up configurations. LibreNMS has long integrated RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco Config Differ), which specializes in monitoring Cisco router configurations. Using a simple router table with the login data stored there, the tool gains access to the configuration settings and can inform the administrator of any changes by e-mail. LibreNMS is an open-source network monitoring system that can also graphically process the determined network data. In addition, the tool has a warning system that can also be used together with other tools. LibreNMS can be controlled with apps via Android and iPhone. # ⚓ LateWeb ☛ Easy_way_to_recover_deleted_files_in_Ubuntu_with PhotoRec⠀⇛ PhotoRec is an open-source software utility to recover lost or deleted media files like photos, videos, documents, etc from CD-ROMs, Hard disks, and digital camera memory. PhotoRec is associated with TestDisk. The TestDisk is used to recover deleted partitions and make non-bootable disks bootable again and photoRec recovers deleted media files or document files. It supports and can recover more than 480 file extensions. When you accidentally deleted the file you better not add more media or document files to that memory or hard drive as you might overwrite your lost data. In this article, we will install and use PhotoRec to recover deleted files in ubuntu 20.04 LTS. # ⚓ LateWeb ☛ A_Simple_way_to_install_FastPanel_in_Ubuntu Linux⠀⇛ Fastpanel is a web-hosting control panel. It provides web-based intuitive, point-and-click interfaces for common tasks such as transferring files, installing applications, updating PHP versions, and creating email accounts. Fastpanel is written in PHP5, uses the PEAR DB database layer, and includes over 100 database functions (including MySQL-specific functions such as “orelse” or “bcp”) as well as a large number of other useful functions (including file management, image conversion, HTTP authentication, and session handling). Fastpanel is compatible with all major web servers on Unix/Linux platforms: Apache 1.3+, Nginx 0.7+, and Lighttpd 1.5+. Have you ever wanted to install FastPanel on Ubuntu? Have you been scared to try it because you thought it would be a huge pain to get started? We’ve done all the hard work for you. Read this guide, then follow along, step by step. In no time, FastPanel will be up and running on your Ubuntu server in minutes. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Clear_Linux_36010_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install Clear Linux 36010. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Vuze_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Vuze on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Vuze is the easiest to use and the best torrent download software on the internet. Vuze is written in Java and uses the Azureus Engine. It’s a cross-platform application available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Vuze BitTorrent client on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_sysadmins_can_rethink_study_habits for_training_or_certification_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Starting a new training series? You may find the fast-paced sysadmin life changes how you learn and retain information. Most of my recent IT career has been about fighting fires and being pulled into time-sensitive projects. I have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and I understand the basics of how my organization operates. I’ve learned through trial-by-fire, as I battle split-brain clusters and broken storage arrays. When I decided to start new a training series for my position, though, I worried that I might not know how to study effectively anymore. I’ve been juggling about five classes and planning for two upcoming trips. Due to these interruptions, I found myself at a loss every time I went back to my classes. For me, repetition is key, so I am now on my third pass through my lesson plans. I’ve reworked every exercise and lab along the way. I am discovering that, as I get into each exercise, all my older knowledge comes back. # ⚓ How_to_Change_Hostname_in_RHEL_8_/_CentOS_8⠀⇛ Hostname is the name or label of a computer or a network device. Computer or network device has it own IP address but it is very difficult for the humans to remember it that’s why hostname is set on computer and network devices. Hostname is a human readable string which one can easily remember. # ⚓ How_to_Disable_‘su’_Access_for_Sudo_Users⠀⇛ The su command is a special Linux command that allows you to run a command as another user and group. It also allows you to switch to the root account (if run without any arguments) or another specified user account. All users by default are allowed to access the su command. But as a system administrator, you can disable su access for a user or group of users, using the sudoers file as explained below. The sudoers file drives the sudo security policy plugin which determines a user’s sudo privileges. The sudo command allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (by default, as the root user). # ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Grafana_Monitoring_Software_on Ubuntu_20.04_–_VITUX⠀⇛ Grafana is a multi-platform open-source analytics and visualization platform to monitor computer systems. Grafana lets you create and share dashboards and has a thriving ecosystem of over 100 plugins for data collection, storage, visualization, and sharing. In this article, we’re going to show you how to install Grafana on Ubuntu 20.04 so that you can get the most out of your data. So let’s get started with the setup! # ⚓ How_to_install_Zorin_OS_on_a_PC_or_Mac_–_Real_Linux_User⠀⇛ I hope you read all the previous Zorin OS tutorials so you already know how to create a bootable USB drive with Zorin OS and how to start and use the Zorin OS Live environment. Based on that experience it should be relatively easy to start the actual installation process and successfully install Zorin OS on your computer. The icon to start the installation process is already available and ready to use on the desktop of your Zorin OS live environment, or you can choose to install directly after you booted from the USB drive. So in this tutorial I will explain how to install Zorin OS on a PC or Mac. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Microsoft_announce_Xbox_Cloud_Gaming_for Steam_Deck_with_Edge_(Beta)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Microsoft_Edge’s_new_Linux_beta_supports_cloud-streamed games_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ The_Kudu_Laptop:_What_System76_Does_Best_– Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ System76 had unveiled their new Kudu laptop earlier in February. I was fortunate enough to be able to get a review unit (albeit it’s not new; it’s refurbished. I didn’t get any stickers!). Featuring a Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and a RTX 3060, I’m once again a spoiled gamer for just a few weeks. It’s fairly similar to the Tuxedo Stellaris I had reviewed several months ago, with the same processor, same RAM capacity, same storage, but a few classes behind on the RTX family. Here’s my thoughts on the device. # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Google_Confirmed_Steam_is_Coming_to ChromeOS._Finally!⠀⇛ We have been covering this topic for a long time, and Google has finally admitted that Steam is on its way to ChromeOS. Short of an actual release, it’s a confirmation, validating one of our predictions for 2021, albeit a little late. It all happened during the Google for Games Developer Summit, shown in one of the slides without too much of specific comments about it… # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Home_Wind_is_a_free_minimalist,_relaxing and_cozy_city_builder_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Home Wind released into Early Access recently as a free city-builder, although not really like many others as it takes a much more relaxed approach. Tested on Linux with Proton 7, it works perfectly. It actually reminds me of ISLANDERS, in fact the basic mechanics are very close, with you placing down buildings trying to build up a score by what they’re near. Not particularly challenging but that’s the point. Home Wind wants you to slow down, make a cuppa and build up some points as you stare at its lovely hand-painted styled artwork and I’m all for it. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Boatswain_is_a_new_Stream_Deck_compatible app_for_Linux_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ While Elgato continue to ignore the Linux market, developers from around the community end up creating applications to fill the gap. Now there’s Boatswain, which allows Linux users to control Elgato Stream Deck devices. It’s not the first of its kind, with streamdeck_ui also being an option (I covered it back in 2019) that is still being updated. More options are good though! Why make a new one anyway? In a blog post, the developer mentioned they “did not find these apps adequate to my usage”. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 9_Stunning_Icon_Themes_for_Linux_to_Refresh Your_Desktop⠀⇛ If you want to revamp your Linux desktop, you might overlook the icon design, which forms an integral part of a system’s theme. However, an eye-catching icon theme accentuates your desktop design and makes computing aesthetic and engrossing. Whether you are new to Linux customization or continue to be a seasoned user, you can’t oversee these nine icon packs to give your desktop environment a facelift. # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Jasem’s_Ekosphere:_KStars_v3.5.8_Released⠀⇛ KStars v3.5.8 is released on 2022.03.19 for MacOS, Linux, and Windows. This is a mostly bugfix release with a couple of exciting new features. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Libadwaita_1.1,_Libhandy_1.6_–_Just_another_blog⠀⇛ Libadwaita 1.1 and Libhandy 1.6 are now released to match the upcoming GNOME 42. # ⚓ #35_Software_Reviews_·_This_Week_in_GNOME⠀⇛ Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 11 to March 18. # ⚓ Status_update,_18/03/2022_–_Sam_Thursfield⠀⇛ This month has had a big focus on music! I just released a 4 track EP called Rust In Peace, which you can listen to on various popular music platforms and (better still) download it from Bandcamp. The COVID19 pandemic is not over (I can name 5 folk who have been COVID+ just this week), but its effects on society are becoming less, to the point I could even do a launch gig for the EP in the amazing Café Arume in Santiago – my first real “gig” since 2018. [..] I am also hoping to travel to Italy next month to attend Linux App Summit 2022 in person, so, see you there? Talk submissions for LAS (online + face to face) are open until midnight tonight (18th March), so perhaps its not too late to submit a talk or lightning talk! o § Distributions⠀➾ # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ Why_Nvidia_Should_Acquire_SUSE [Ed: Truly bizarre idea from an IBM-funded shill, Timothy Prickett Morgan]⠀⇛ Here we are, on the Friday before the flagship GPU Technology Conference hosted by Nvidia is set to kick off. And we are without a doubt excited in anticipation of what we conjecture will be a deluge of compute and networking hardware and puzzling over what this Omniverse really means (like many of you). But for some reason, out thoughts keep coming back to software, and how Nvidia is building out an increasingly complete and ornate set of systems software to run HPC, AI, data analytics, visualization, and now world- simulating applications. # ⚓ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the_week_2022/11_– Dominique_a.k.a._DimStar_(Dim*)⠀⇛ Another week filled with 7 snapshots, and this despite of one snapshot being discarded. We have published 0310, 0311, 0312, 0313, 0314, 0316, and 0317 (0315 was skipped due to some elevated risk of braking systems with a dracut update; maintainers are looking into this) # ⚓ SUSE_Reports_Strong_Revenue_Growth_In_Q1_2022⠀⇛ # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Boston_University_sees_success with_new_educational_tools_built_with_Red_Hat_OpenShift Data_Science⠀⇛ Introducing students to modern computing systems can be complicated and challenging. When Boston University faculty members Jonathan Appavoo, computer science (CS) professor, and Orran Krieger, electrical and computer engineering (ECE) professor, were looking for a new, simplified way to educate their students on the critical concepts of computing systems, they turned to Red Hat OpenShift Data Science. Red Hat OpenShift Data Science provided theCS and ECE departments at Boston University a scalable environment for students while ensuring a personalized Linux playground that only requires a web browser to get started and provides a platform for hosting open source textbook and interactive lectures. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Regulatory_compliance_at_scale with_Red_Hat_Insights⠀⇛ How do you determine if your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) infrastructure is compliant with security standards? Today, it’s entirely possible that you are using OpenSCAP to scan your RHEL hosts to find out if they meet a particular security policy. Unfortunately, this gets complicated fast. Consider this situation: The security team wants to implement a specific policy that contains hundreds of rules. However, it determines that specific rules do not apply and should not be scanned. Furthermore, the policy may have several rules that apply to a particular version of a host. That same policy may have another number of rules that apply to a different version of the host. # ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ IBM_emeritus_Irving_Wladawsky-Berger: The_Impact_of_Open_Source_on_the_EU_Economy⠀⇛ In the 1990s, open source was generally viewed as experimental approach to software development mostly used by research and academic communities on emerging projects like the Internet and Linux. Open source has since evolved to become a well-accepted model of economic production across just about all private- and public-sector communities around the world. But, while widely used, what’s been the economic impact of open source on nations and firms? This question was addressed in a recent study on the impact of open source on the European economy. “The increasing relevance of Open Source (OS) during the last two decades requires an update of an in-depth analysis of its current role, position and its potential for the European economy,” said the European Commission (EC) in its report on The impact of open source software and hardware on technological independence, competitiveness and innovation in the EU economy. “Whereas Open Source Software (OSS) has become mainstream across all sectors of the software industry during the past 20 years, Open Source Hardware (OSH) is still in an emerging phase. However, the business ecosystem for OSH is developing.” The EC conducted a comprehensive analysis of the commercial uses, costs, and benefits of OSS and OSH. “On the basis of this information, the study assesses the potential for the European Union (EU) to achieve its policy goals (including economic growth, greater competitiveness, innovation, and job creation) through the use, promotion and support of OSS and OSH.” The report includes a detailed, quantitative cost-benefit analysis of the economic impact of open source investments; a survey on the views of over 900 stakeholders; a number of concrete case studies; and several public policy recommendations to the EC and the EU members countries. Let me summarize each of these areas. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ IT_hiring:_7_tips_to_retain passionate,_high-performing_talent⠀⇛ According to the U.S. Labor Department, there were 11.3 million job openings at the end of January 2022. This reflects a fact that many of us already know: There is an enormous demand for talent across all industries. Tech leaders must continuously find new ways to retain and attract the best talent to compete. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation_reality check:_6_requirements_for_success_|_The_Enterprisers Project⠀⇛ Over the past three years, no single trend has influenced the world around us more than digital transformation. From remote work to emerging technologies to a dramatic expansion of e-commerce solutions, people and organizations throughout the world are exploring new ways to automate their everyday lives in pursuit of improved performance and efficiency. Setting goals for automation and digitalization may seem simple, but the nuts and bolts of their implementation can be surprisingly complicated. A digital transformation initiative could be hampered by the transition from legacy technologies, cybersecurity risks, or even just employees who are resistant to change. Even a limited transformation involves tremendous complexity, as IT teams must navigate hybrid work environments, a combination of company-owned and private devices, and a growing range of third-party microservices that can help to automate individual business functions. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ LMDE_5_“Elsie”_Is_Now_Available_For_Download [Ed: No, it is not final. Reading comprehension issues?]⠀⇛ LMDE or Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 “Elsie” Is Now Available For Download Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 is based on the Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye”. You will find Linux 5.10 LTS kernel in LMDE 5. Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 will have a Cinnamon 5.2 desktop environment by default. # ⚓ DebConf22_registration_and_call_for_proposals_are open!_–_Bits_from_Debian⠀⇛ Registration for DebConf22 is now open. The the 23rd edition of DebConf will take place from July 17th to 24th, 2022 at the Innovation and Training Park (ITP) in Prizren, Kosovo, and will be preceded by DebCamp, from July 10th to 16th. Along with the registration, the DebConf content team announced the call for proposals. Deadline to submit a proposal to be considered in the main schedule is April 15th, 2022 23:59:59 UTC (Friday). DebConf is an event open to everyone, no matter how you identify yourself or how others perceive you. We want to increase visibility of our diversity and work towards inclusion at Debian Project, drawing our attendees from people just starting their Debian journey, to seasoned Debian Developers or active contributors in different areas like packaging, translation, documentation, artwork, testing, specialized derivatives, user support and many other. In other words, all are welcome. # ⚓ Louis-Philippe_Véronneau:_Debian_Clojure_Team_Sprint —_May_13-14th_2022⠀⇛ I’m happy to announce the Debian Clojure Team will hold a remote sprint from May 13th to May 14th 2022. The goal of this sprint is to improve various aspects of the Clojure ecosystem in Debian. As such, everyone is welcome to participate! # ⚓ Outreachy-And_it’s_a_wrap!⠀⇛ Debci exist to make sure packages work currently after an update, How it does this is by testing all of the packages that have tests written in them to make sure it works and nothing is broken This project entails making improvements to the platform to make it easier to use and maintain. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_22.04_Lets_You_Pick_A_Custom Accent_Colour⠀⇛ This personalisation staple is found in many other desktop environments and operating systems out there, including macOS and Windows 11. But a similar feature had, until now, not been offered in Ubuntu. However, thanks to a spurt of last minute activity Ubuntu developers managed to land all of the pieces required to get the feature working in Ubuntu 22.04 (ahead of that all- important user-interface freeze deadline, the point past which no major UI changes should be made to Ubuntu without a very good reason). # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ In_Ubuntu_22.04_Light_Means_Light_— Everywhere⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ubuntu_22.04’s_Default_Wallpaper_|_Itsubuntu.com [Ed: Plagiarist?]⠀⇛ If you are a Ubuntu user then you must be eagerly waiting for the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the upcoming LTS version from Ubuntu. Meanwhile, at the moment the new default wallpaper that you will see in the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release has been revealed. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the latest version from Ubuntu that is going to be made available in 2022. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ‘Jammy Jellyfish’, will be made available on April 21, 2022. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the Long Term Support release. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Pixels_on_Android_13_might_be_able to_turn_your_photos_into_3D_‘cinematic’_wallpapers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Android_TV_12_Will_Be_Coming Soon⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Android_12_finally_arrives_for_the ASUS_ROG_Phone_5_and_ROG_Phone_5s_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ OnePlus_Nord_3_specs_leak: Another_rebrand_on_the_cards?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_will_alert_you_when_an app_is_draining_your_phone’s_battery_in_the background⠀⇛ # ⚓ India ☛ Google_Is_Going_To_Make_It_Easier_To_Find Apps_For_Android_Tablet⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Dozens_of_budget_Android_phones_are at_risk_due_to_a_critical_security_flaw⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Take_Screenshots_on_Android_When the_App_Doesn’t_Allow_It⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_preview_links_in_Google Chrome_for_Android_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_car_mounts_for_Android_in 2022⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Build_up_your_skills,_and_learn exciting_new_things!⠀⇛ LibreOffice is made by a worldwide community of volunteers, certified developers and many other people. Every summer, we participate in the Google Summer of Code programme: this is focused on introducing contributors to open source software development, and last year LibreOffice received a bunch of new features and improvements thanks to the work of several contributors. # § FSF⠀➾ # § Licensing/Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kuhn:_Copyleft_Won’t_Solve_All_Problems, Just_Some_of_Them⠀⇛ Over on the Software Freedom Conservancy blog, Bradley M. Kuhn considers the question of the interaction between copyleft and the “ethical source” effort that seeks to use copyleft-like licensing to bring about additional changes, beyond just software freedom; the Hippocratic License is an example of such a license. In his view, copyleft and ethical software are not really compatible, even though many in free- software world (including Kuhn) are highly sympathetic to the goals, especially in light of the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Static_File_Startup_[2022-03-18]⠀⇛ Erin was experimenting with old fashioned web technology and discovered you can just serve files with a regular web server, like straight from a directory, and these web servers are like free and super easy to set up. # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ 12_Best_Git_GUI_Tools_and_Extensions_for Developers_and_Programmers⠀⇛ If you’re a programmer or a software developer, or even more if you work in a field where you need to interact a lot with Git, there is no donut you’ve been looking for tools that can reduce the workload for you and can automate some of your repetitive tasks. Git is mostly used for storing software codes, revising the codes, distributing them to many clients. These tasks might sound easy to do, but in the real world, with a time limitation, you might need to be more efficient while handling Git. There are many authentic Git GUI tools and Git extensions for both Linux, Windows, and Mac that can genuinely reduce a huge amount of your load. [...] GitKraken is one of the oldest and most user- friendly GUI Git tools for both Linux, Mac, and Windows. It has the GIT integration for VS Code, Jira, and the desktop client. This tool provides you with 7 days of full pro features to explore the application before you make a full purchase. The commit node history of the GitKraken tool allows you to see the nodes, file trees in the Git directory. You can easily maintain the Git repository’s recent changes and track your files on the Git universe. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Coding_in_a_war_zone:_A_Ruby developer’s_life_in_Kharkiv_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Victor Shepelev, known as @zverok on Twitter and GitHub, is a Ruby developer and software architect who lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since Russia invaded his country on February 24, 2022, he’s had more pressing concerns than writing code, such as keeping his family safe and helping his fellow citizens survive. In a blog post on Tuesday, he wrote about his situation in the hope that public attention will encourage international political action to help Ukraine prevail. Kharkiv (Ха́рків in Ukrainian) is the second largest city in Ukraine and home to about 1.4 million people, or about 2.6 million if you count the entire province (oblast), at least in peacetime. Therein, one can find the Derzhprom building and Freedom Square, Pokrovskyi Monastery, Dormition Cathedral, the Kharkiv Zoo, and numerous other landmarks now eclipsed by Ukraine’s collective struggle to survive. For locals, the Kharkiv Metro has become a destination for its resilience against Russian bombs. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ Access_the_Tesla_API_with_Perl!⠀⇛ For several years, I spent much time writing code for the Raspberry Pi, including hardware level register C code so that we can use various Integrated Circuit chips and sensors with Perl. A couple of years ago, I acquired much larger and much more expensive toy, an all-wheel drive, full auto-pilot Tesla Model-X SUV, so of course, I want to write Perl code to access and manipulate it. In the ensuing two years, I developed several microcontroller-based devices for the car, including one that knows where the car is, and its battery charge and state, and dispslays this information via an LED light strip and an OLED screen inside of my garage, along with an audible alarm that sounds for 1/8th of a second every three seconds if the battery is below a certain threshold so I don’t forget to plug the charger in. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Tedium ☛ Seat_Belt_History:_The_Patent_That_Was_Given_Away⠀⇛ Traveling, in one way or another, is a series of belts. Perhaps you’re traveling in a car, and you’re putting on a seat belt to ensure your safety. Perhaps you’re one of those infamous customers of size on an airplane and you’re forced to ask the flight attendant for a seat belt extender. Maybe you’re just walking around town with your Chrome Industries bag, which features a prominent seat belt buckle. Either way, the seat belt has become a key part of our lives, a strap of nylon webbing that has saved a whole lot of lives in the roughly 100 or so years since they’ve been embedded into the mainstream. But at a time of year when weekend road trips are likely to be picking up (well, at least with electric vehicles, something about gas prices), now’s a good time as any to talk about ’em. Buckle up, because today’s Tedium is all about seat belts. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ US_Court_Rules_That_Misrepresenting Software_As_Open_Source_Is_False Advertising⠀⇛ The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in February affirmed a lower court decision concluding that it’s false advertising to claim that software is “open source” when it’s not licensed under an open source license. The court’s decision last month held that the defendants, The Graph Foundation, PureThink and iGov misrepresented ONgDB as a free version of Neo4j EE licensed under the APGLv3, and that the price differential was likely to influence customers’ purchasing decisions. By adding the non-free Commons Clause the software could not be characterized as “open source”, therefore advertising it to be so was unlawful false advertising. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ False_advertising_to call_software_open_source_when_it’s_not, says_court⠀⇛ Last year, the Graph Foundation had to rethink how it develops and distributes its Open Native Graph Database (ONgDB) after it settled a trademark and copyright claim by database biz Neo4j. The Graph Foundation agreed [PDF] it would no longer claim specific versions of ONgDB, its Neo4j Enterprise Edition fork, are a “100 percent free and open source version” of Neo4J EE. And last month, two other companies challenged by Neo4j – PureThink and iGov – were also required by a court ruling to make similar concessions. ONgDB is forked from Neo4j EE, which in May 2018 dropped the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) and adopted a new license that incorporates the AGPLv3 alongside additional limitations spelled out in the Commons Clause license. This new Neo4j EE license forbade non-paying users of the software from reselling the code or offering some support services, and thus is not open source as defined by the Open Source Initiative. # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Enterprise Talk ☛ Linux_Foundation and_CNCF_unveil_Cloud-Native Developer_Bootcamp [Ed: Is Linux Foundation paying spamfarms now?]⠀⇛ A new Cloud Native Developer Bootcamp has been launched by the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). # ⚓ Globe Newswire ☛ Kandy_Joins Project_“CAMARA_–_The_Telco_Global API⠀⇛ American Virtual Cloud Technologies, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AVCT) announced that its Kandy Communications business unit (Kandy), has joined the new, open source project: “CAMARA – The Telco Global API Alliance.” The global partnership will address challenges in porting and reproducing API services across heterogenous operator and cloud architectures. Kandy provides global carrier/ operator grade white-label cloud communications services including CPaaS, UCaaS, CCaaS, Microsoft Teams Direct Routing as a Service, SIP Trunking services, and a rich portfolio of real-time communications APIs and supporting functions. CAMARA is the latest project introduced by The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, and by the GSMA, a global organization unifying the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop, and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Linux_botnet_abuses_log4j_to_attack Arm,_x86-based_devices_|_TechRadar [Ed: They try hard to bring "log4j" into headlines]⠀⇛ We’re months into the disclosure of the log4j vulnerability and new attacks are still popping up. Cybersecurity researchers from Qihoo 360, a Chinese cybersecurity company, have just discovered a new Linux botnet, taking advantage of the flaw to distribute rootkits and steal sensitive data. They named the botnet B1txor20, and claim it uses the log4j vulnerability to target Linux Arm and 64-bit x86 systems. “In addition to traditional backdoor functions, B1txor20 also has functions such as opening a Socket5 proxy and remotely downloading and installing a rootkit,” the researchers said. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-treq), Fedora (openvpn, pesign, rust-regex, and thunderbird), Oracle (expat), Red Hat (kpatch-patch- 4_18_0-147_58_1), Slackware (bind and openssl), SUSE (python-lxml), and Ubuntu (apache2). # ⚓ LWN ☛ Donenfeld:_Random_number_generator enhancements_for_Linux_5.17_and_5.18⠀⇛ Jason Donenfeld has published a lengthy look at the changes to the Linux random-number generator (RNG) for Linux 5.17 and the upcoming 5.18 kernel. It covers his efforts “to modernize both the code and the cryptography used” and also peers into the future for changes that may be coming. # ⚓ Random_number_generator_enhancements_for_Linux 5.17_and_5.18⠀⇛ The random number generator has undergone a few important changes for Linux 5.17 and 5.18, in an attempt to modernize both the code and the cryptography used. The smaller part of these will be released with 5.17 on Sunday, while the larger part will be merged into 5.18 on Monday, which should receive its first release candidate in a few weeks and a release in a few months. As I wrote to Linus in the 5.18-rc1 pull request yesterday, the goal has been to shore up the RNG’s existing design with as much incremental rigor as possible, without, for now, changing anything fundamental to how the RNG behaves. It still counts entropy bits and has the same set of entropy sources as before. But, the underlying algorithms that turn those entropy sources into cryptographically secure random numbers have been overhauled. This is very much an incremental approach toward modernization. There’s a wide array of things that can be tackled in the RNG, but for the first steps, accomplished in 5.17 and 5.18, the focus has been on evolutionarily improving the existing RNG design. # ⚓ CISA ☛ CRI-O_Security_Update_for_Kubernetes_| CISA⠀⇛ CRI-O has released a security update addressing a critical vulnerability—CVE-2022-0811—in CRI- O 1.19. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected Kubernetes environment as well as other software or platforms that use CRI-O runtime containers. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_Week_In_Security:_More Protestware,_Another_Linux_Vuln,_And_TLStorm_| Hackaday⠀⇛ Up next is the announcement of another Linux Kernel vulnerability, CVE-2022- 25636, this one an out-of-bounds write in the Linux firewall code. If you’re suddenly having heart palpitations at the thought of Remote Code Execution, try to relax. This flaw is serious, but just like DirtyPipe we covered last week, it’s entirely limited to a local user account that can run shell commands. A pair of tricks allows any user the ability to trigger the flaw with any hardware, meaning that it’s a straightforward elevation of privileges. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Ukraine_&_The_Specter_of_Bioterror_with_Robbie_Martin_and Gumby⠀⇛ Whitney is joined by Robbie Martin and researcher “Gumby” to unpack what we actually know about the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine and how the programs behind these labs originated with suspect “bioterror” claims at the end of the Cold War. # ⚓ Would_Proposed_Tech_Regulations_Foster_Foreign_Information Warfare?_–_Disruptive_Competition_Project⠀⇛ The current geopolitical moment has prompted digital services to confront state-backed information warfare on the Internet as never before. In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, multinational digital services immediately responded to protect their users in Ukraine, Russia, and beyond. These efforts involved partnering with the U.S., EU, and Ukraine against security and information threats emerging from Russia and Belarus. That response is ongoing, but the evolving regulatory environment in the United States — including legislation being considered in Congress — raises questions about whether those steps could continue. In response to the ongoing crisis, digital services have taken multiple actions. In addition to compliance with U.S. Government sanctions, digital services have suspended numerous products and services including payment systems operations in Russia, blocked Russian state media from their sites, and suspended advertising in Ukraine and Russia.¹ Many of these actions were proactive; some were carried out in partnership with governments, including the Ukrainian Prime Minister, among other policymakers. Companies are also working to ensure the safe availability of basic technological tools like apps for secured communications and private browsing, providing avenues for people in Russia, Ukraine, and elsewhere to receive truthful and reliable information about the war. For example, while the Russian government has sought to block access to legitimate Western news websites, press freedom advocates have enabled Russian and Ukrainian citizens to access news reports via VPN, messaging apps, and even creative applications of shortwave radio. As a State Department spokesperson told the Washington Post, “It is critical to maintain the flow of information to the people of Russia to the fullest extent possible”. This underscores how critical it is that digital services remain agile and capable of making timely and nuanced decisions about how to help people in the region learn the truth about the Russian government’s increasingly brutal offensive against its neighbor. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Greenpeace ☛ Squid_games_that_are_costing_the_planet –_Greenpeace_International⠀⇛ Across our global oceans, coastal communities are suffering as populations of sharks, rays, dolphins and other wildlife are decimated by industrial fishing. Huge fishing fleets targeting squid, a species that plays a vital role in the ocean food web, are industrialising international waters. # ⚓ Greenpeace ☛ Squids_in_the_Spotlight_–_Greenpeace International⠀⇛ The importance of cephalopods in sustaining marine ecosystems cannot be overstated. Worldwide, they are a key component of food webs, providing a major prey source for coveted fish species like tunas and salmon, cetaceans like dolphins, sea lions and whales, and a variety of seabirds. Squids in the Spotlight uncovers the huge scale of the global squid fishery, which has grown over 10-fold since 1950 to almost 5 million tonnes annually in the last decade and is now jeopardising marine ecosystems around the world. Operating out-of-sight in international waters, the meteoric rise of squid fishing and resulting demand for the species has no historical precedent, with some areas seeing a more than 800% increase in the number of vessels in just the last five years. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Letter_to_U.S._government:_Do_not_disrupt internet_access_in_Russia_or_Belarus⠀⇛ The signatories to this letter deplore Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, condemn in the strongest possible terms the grave violations committed by Russian forces there, and applaud efforts by the Biden Administration and other governments to respond with strong and targeted measures. However, we write to express our concerns about growing calls to interfere with the Russian people’s access to the internet, which we fear will hurt individuals attempting to organize in opposition to the war, report openly and honestly on events in Russia, and access information about what is happening in Ukraine and abroad. These measures could also unnecessarily facilitate further repression by the Russian government. Some governments, including the U.S. government, may be considering disrupting internet access in Russia through new sanctions. There is also increasing pressure, internally and externally, on information and communications technology vendors like internet, telecommunications, and cloud service providers to voluntarily restrict or block access by users in Russia. Moreover, Ukraine has made repeated requests along these lines. (These include requests to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the International Telecommunication Union, and other bodies.) o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Opposes_Bill Granting_Copyright_Office_Authority_To_Mandate_Content Monitoring_Technology_–_Public_Knowledge⠀⇛ Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies (SMART) Copyright Act of 2022.” The bill forces every digital platform or website that allows for user-generated, uploaded content to use content monitoring software designated by the Copyright Office to avoid facing copyright infringement claims. Public Knowledge opposes the bill due to its reliance on government technology mandates; the lack of technical expertise within the Copyright Office; and unconstitutional delegation of authority to a non-expert agency within the legislative branch. The following can be attributed to Nicholas Garcia, Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge: “This bill is the latest example of legislation that threatens the vibrant, open, and innovative internet in the name of intellectual property protection. This bill will force digital platforms and websites to implement technical measures that monitor all content that users upload, automatically scrutinizing everything we write, create, and upload online for the sake of copyright protection. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5728 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 44 seconds to (re)generate ⟲