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Sirius_‘Open_Source’_and_the_Money_Missing_From_the_Pension 2. Sirius_Finished 3. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_An_Introduction 4. When_the_Pension_Vanishes 5. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate_(Sirius_Financial_Crisis):_Company_May Have_Squandered/Plundered_the_Pensions_of_Many_People 6. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_Pension_Providers_That_Repeatedly_Lie to_the_Clients_and_Don’t_Respond_to_Messages 7. NOW:_Pensions_Lies_to_Its_Customers_and_Protects_Abusers 8. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_It’s_Beginning_to_Look_Like_a_Criminal Matter_and_Sirius_is_in_Serious_Trouble 9. Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_A_Long_Story_Merits_Many_Videos 10. An_Update_on_Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Pensiongate:_It’s_Looking_Worse_Than Ever Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ is collapsing, but that does not mean that it can dodge accountability for crimes_(e.g._money_that_it_silently_stole_from_its staff_since_at_least_12_years_ago) A SCREENSHOT of the PDF from Standard Life was shared_here_(with_sensible redaction)_a_few_days_ago. Things are belatedly progressing. This post has taken a long time to prepare as we need to separate gossip/ speculation from verified facts. Standard Life also claims to be pursuing the facts (since the 7th of March). As per their own update: “Dear Dr Schestowitz, I have attached our acknowledgement to your complaint. [...] If you’ve any questions, or problems accessing your acknowledgement, please email me at [redacted] and I’ll do all I can to help you.” “This post has taken a long time to prepare as we need to separate gossip/ speculation from verified facts.”They’ve basically been looking into how on Earth the company (Sirius) was claiming to be paying into Standard Life accounts that don’t even exist! The simplest explanation is, Sirius engaged in embezzlement. The management was contacted several times, being kindly offered the opportunity to explain what actually happened. Each and every time the response was schtum. For reasons we detailed here before, litigation seems imminent. Class action lawsuit is also likely, though the company is in hiding. Staff that actively oversaw and participated in the embezzlement is criminally liable, even if leaving the company later. They’ve been made aware of this (fraud, theft, forgery/ embezzlement among the possible charges). Failing that, or in addition to that, pension providers can be sued. We’ll explain the legal grounds some other day. What does this have to do with Techrights? Sirius is describing itself as Britain’s most respected and best established Open Source business. “The simplest explanation is, Sirius engaged in embezzlement. The management was contacted several times, being kindly offered the opportunity to explain what actually happened.”If this is what the “most respected and best established” boils down to, then there’s serious trouble. Sirius is a major liability and a stain. This isn’t the company I joined more than 12 years ago. “You need to lie to keep your job” or “take one for the team” or “do something unethical/illegal to keep your salary” is the hallmark or symptom of criminal management, which needs to be prosecuted, not served (except served papers). I confronted the management many times before leaving (for over a year!) and nothing improved. They kept paying the salary, but behaviour only worsened over time, so I reached out to a friend. Suffice to say, you need not be particularly charismatic to persuade workers whom you pay to also do bad things, acting out of fear (obedience for a payment). During a pandemic and financial crises (exacerbated by invasion of Ukraine) it gets even easier for bad people to compel workers to act unethically. This is a recipe for disaster. Internally, as noted here back in December, I had circulated communications to try to ameliorate things amicably. But regarding my letters, however, they never wrote anything back. The attitude was to simply ignore the issues and to ignore the reporter. At one point I mused that I could joke with the boss, “so how has that secret money from Bill Gates worked out for you, eh?” Does one reckon that if the CEO goes to prison, Bill Gates will go visit him in prison? It’s closer than the facility Jeffrey Epstein was in when Gates visited him. As far as we know, the CEO is in Spokane area/WA somewhere (not too far from Seattle). He is hiding there, possibly not just from workers but also former wives. “Internally, as noted here back in December, I had circulated communications to try to ameliorate things amicably.”Anyway, E-mails to the CEO are now bouncing. It’s a company that’s not functioning, lacks the staff to actually meet SLAs, and sooner or later will receive demands from clients that a refund is issued (not that the company has any money left). There’s only one manager left in the company, apparently living with his girlfriend or someone else somewhere in the US (we cannot verify all the pertinent details). The company can implode any day now and we might hear just days later that he has been kicked out with a suitcase (he is working double- shifts at the moment, trying to slow down the collapse, which is inevitable anyhow). The collapse of the company can devastate many people, who “have been in touch about trying to track down [...] pensions from the original Sirius pension scheme,” to quote one former colleague. “I am in the same situation and had previously given up trying to track it down.” “The Standard Life and NOW: Pensions plans/schemes are both registered with a company that has only one employee: the CEO.”We still wonder how many people are impacted by this — probably a lot. It’s hard to find or track down every single person whom you worked with over a decade ago. The Standard Life and NOW: Pensions plans/schemes are both registered with a company that has only one employee: the CEO. He moved everything else to two shells, one in the UK (Ltd.) and another in the US (Inc.). Both pension providers investigate this matter now. Two months ago we requested written assurances from NOW: Pensions that the pensions cannot be scuttled as before. For the time being, Standard Life refuses to even tell what happened (the managers there made a guess/hunch) but it seems like no money ever reached their end. Now that the company is, in effect, ‘in hiding’ (a former CEO is rushing to delete anything that ever connected him to the company) It’ll be hard to sue, but accountability is still possible. 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/03/25/sirius-payments/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/25/sirius-payments/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.25.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Money_Deducted_in_Payslips,_But_Nothing_in_Pensions⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Finance, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 3:48 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Sirius_payments⦈_ Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ has stolen money from staff (in secret) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣞⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣤⣄⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡯⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⠞⠛⢉⣥⣶⣦⡍⠙⠛⢶⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢀⣠⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠐⠁⠀⠀⢀⣼⠟⠁⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠙⢷⣄⠀⠀⢀⡀⠄⠀⠠⠤⣤⣰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Licensing_/_Legal o Programming/Development # Python o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Framework_Laptop_13th_Gen_Improves_on_Every Aspect,_Announces_New_Laptop_with_Upgradable_GPU⠀⇛ Yesterday Framework had an exciting set of announcements regarding their line-up – we don’t usually cover all sorts of press release, but this is certainly significant enough to make an exception. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ SJVN ☛ A_Decade_of_Docker⠀⇛ Today, billions of containers on clouds run the applications we use every day. And, while container technology dates back to 2000 with FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones, Docker, the open-source platform designed to simplify the creation, deployment, and run applications within containers in 2013, is what changed the world. Containers are lightweight, portable environments that bundle the application’s code, runtime, libraries, and other dependencies, ensuring consistency and efficiency across various environments. This has revolutionized the way software is developed, shipped, and deployed. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Docker_Free_Team_concerns_linger_after_mea culpa_|_TechTarget⠀⇛ Docker issued an apology and some clarification after the end of its Free Team subscription roiled the open source community last week, but concerns about the transition remain for some users. Docker clarified that it will not delete container images from Docker Hub, after the first communication from the company mentioned that data might be subject to deletion and access to accounts frozen after 30 days. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_MicroK8s_is_now_on_AWS_marketplace⠀⇛ Everyone knows that MicroK8s is an extremely lightweight, extensible, reliable, CNCF-compliant distribution of Kubernetes. What you didn’t know until now is that it is even easier to install and manage as part of your AWS marketplace experience. First, a quick reminder of why MicroK8s is great: [...] o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Birdtray_Ubuntu_PPA_Updated_With_Unread_Email_Count_And Xwayland_Fixes_(Thunderbird_Tray_Icon)⠀⇛ Birdtray is a system tray icon for Thunderbird, which shows the unread email count, with some extra features. The application has stopped working a while back—it no longer shows the unread email count with newer Thunderbird versions (both the latest Thunderbird 102.* stable and the latest beta—112 at the time I’m writing this article), and it doesn’t work properly on Wayland either. I have updated the Linux Uprising Apps PPA for Ubuntu and derivatives (and Linux distributions based on it, like Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, etc.) with fixes/workarounds for these issues, and I’ll also explain what I did so you can replicate this on other Linux distributions if you want to use Birdtray. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Key_rotation_is_not_the_same_as_key revocation_(or_invalidation)⠀⇛ This is something worth repeating: key rotation doesn’t give you key revocation, and the two are different things. Key rotation gets people to accept and use a new key; key revocation gets them to not accept the old one. Of course if you revoke the current key you generally want people to rotate into using a new one, but you can want people to rotate into a new key without any particular revocation of the old one. # ⚓ Minus ☛ When_root_on_ZFS_breaks_on_Arch_Linux…⠀⇛ Today was update day1. Then the expected unexpected happened: The ZFS module was missing from initramfs. Desktop’s dead in the water. I boot up my laptop to quickly flash an Arch live ISO onto a USB drive, and while at it also upgrade that one. Knowing that what went wrong on my desktop would likely also fail here, I pay a bit more attention and there it is, in the post-transaction hooks2. Most notably here: pacman does not exit with an error code causing yay to just keep going with AUR upgrades. # ⚓ How_to_List_All_Groups_in_Linux⠀⇛ Groups on Linux-based operating systems are used to assign a set of privileges to a group of users. There are mainly two types of groups in the Linux distribution operating systems. Whenever a Linux user creates a file or directory, then the files within it are allocated to a primary group, which has the same name as the one of the current user. Every user has at least one primary group associated with them. Whenever a new user is created, it is allocated within a primary group. Apart from their primary group, Linux users can also belong to other groups known as secondary groups. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_use_WHOIS_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛ To get some information about the existing domain name, you might have used some online WHOIS lookup tool. However, if you are a Ubuntu user then you can use your Command terminal to get information about Domain names or public IP addresses by installing the WHOIS protocol. WHOIS is an easy-to-use protocol for querying databases that store registered users or assignees of an Internet resource. It’s a reliable way to access a range of information, from domain names to IP addresses. The information WHOIS reveals the domain name’s creation and expiration dates, the registrar who manages the registration, and the contact information of the registrant, administrative contact, and technical contact. This information can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as verifying the authenticity of a website or identifying potential trademark infringement. # ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ What_Is_Linux?_An_Operating_System, Software,_Program,_and_More⠀⇛ Linux is an open source operating system that is widely used as an alternative to Windows and macOS. Learn about Linux features, how it works, and more. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Change_a_Folder_Icon_on_Linux⠀⇛ Do you want your Documents folder to look different from your Software Projects folder? Linux is very customizable in that regard and allows you to do that efficiently. Having different folder icons makes your system more intuitive and user-friendly. Plus, it’s very easy to find folders at a glance. Here’s how you can easily change directory or folder icons on Linux. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Fix:_pip_command_not_found_error_in Ubuntu_and_other_Linux⠀⇛ You might have encountered the “pip command not found” error while installing any Python package or module. This error occurs when the system cannot locate the pip package manager used to install and manage Python packages. Here’s how to fix it. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ vkd3d_1.7_is_out_now_for_the_Wine translation_layer⠀⇛ The Wine team just announced the release of vkd3d version 1.7, their Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer. Not to be confused with VKD3D- Proton, Valve’s own fork of it with a focus on gaming with Proton. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Rogue:_Genesia_is_another_horde_survivor_ (Vampire-like?)_game_worth_a_look⠀⇛ These Vampire Survivor-like horde survival games are still all the rage, and I keep discovering more. Rogue: Genesia is another, with Native Linux support and it is rated Steam Deck Playable. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Build_your_own_racecar_in_Revhead,_now_with added_Steam_Deck_support⠀⇛ Revhead, a racing sim all about actually building your own vehicle, recently had an upgrade with the developer now supporting the Steam Deck. It also has Native Linux support. Not one I’ve actually written about at all before, somehow the original release was missed in a sea of games back in 2017. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GE-Proton_7-53_is_out_now_fixing_up_Star Citizen,_Diablo_IV_and_more⠀⇛ Another fresh tasty release of GE-Proton is now available, two actually were released in the last day so here’s what’s new as of GE-Proton 7-53 for Steam Deck and Linux desktop gaming. GE-Proton is built and maintained by the community, it is not affiliated with Valve and the official Proton. See my full Proton guide for more. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Get_a_bunch_of_horror_games_in_this_latest game_bundle⠀⇛ Humble Bundle just launched another bundle full of games, and it looks like many are compatible with Steam Deck and Linux desktop with Proton. I’ll be going over the compatibility rating for each title, saving you some clicking around. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ AMD_detail_more_on_FSR_3_and_their_new_open source_FidelityFX_SDK⠀⇛ AMD had plenty to show off at GDC, and they’ve done a bit of a summary and some of it is quite exciting for future games. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fanatical_have_another_fantastic_game bundle_for_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ Fanatical are doing some great bundles lately! They have another Build your own Play On The Go Bundle for Spring 2023 now available. The point of these bundles, is to provide you options to pick and get a bigger discount across 3, 5 and 8 games together and all of them are Steam Deck Verified! o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Slimbook_Titan,_Kubuntu,_RGB_backlight keyboard⠀⇛ I figured that I only have two options. I could manually compile the controller module, load it into memory, and then manually issue brightness and pattern commands to the following path: /sys/class/leds/, specifically the qc71_laptop struct. The other option is to use the Slimbook RGB tool. Not happy with either, I must say. In the end, I decided that perhaps, for now, the easiest option is to use the software provided by Slimbook. After all, the team maintains a dozen plus utilities for their different laptop models, and they are trying to give the user the best possible experience, considering the limitations. By and large, the keyboard tool isn’t as ugly or ungainly as I’ve feared. It’s quite elegant, in fact. So I think, we might call this a happy ending. More Titan adventures coming your way soon! # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Hari Rana ☛ How_to_Propose_Features_to_GNOME⠀⇛ Recently, GNOME added an option into GNOME Settings to adjust pointer acceleration, which was a feature that the developers and designers were originally against. One person managed to convince them, by giving one reason. Thanks to them, pointer acceleration options are now available in GNOME Settings! Firstly, I’m going to summarize the relevant parts of the proposal and discussion behind the addition, and explain how it was accepted. Then, to build on top of that, GNOME’s philosophy and the importance of taking it into consideration. And lastly, how to propose features to GNOME and what to avoid. However, this article is not about whether GNOME is successful with their philosophy, and the tone of developers and designers. Additionally, this isn’t about where to propose features, rather how to formulate the proposal and what to consider. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ AppImage_Installer_can_now_update⠀⇛ AppImage Installer (aii) is a recent exciting project, see previous blog posts: # AppImage Installer_simplified_info_window — March 19, 2023 # AppImage Installer_bug-fix_and_more_apps — March 19, 2023 # Wrapping up_AppImage_Installer — March 15, 2023 # AppImage Installer_for_EasyOS — March 14, 2023 o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Trisquel_11.0_“Aramo”_release_announcement⠀⇛ Our most ambitious release to date, Trisquel 11.0 Aramo is out! After extensive work and thorough testing, we are proud to declare Aramo to be production-ready. This release brings many improvements and covers more grounds both in terms of machines supported and in installation options. Here are some highlights of the main accomplishments included in this release: # ⚓ Proxmox_VE_7.4_released!⠀⇛ we’re very excited to announce the release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4. It’s based on Debian 11.6 “Bullseye” but using a newer Linux kernel 5.15 or 6.2, QEMU 7.2, LXC 5.0.2, and ZFS 2.1.9. # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2203/21_Archman_20230321⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_ArcoLinux_23.04.03⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Kubuntu_20.04.6⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Proxmox_7.4_“VE”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_SmartOS_20230323⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Ubuntu_Budgie_20.04.6⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Ubuntu_Kylin_20.04.6⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Ubuntu_MATE_20.04.6⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Ubuntu_20.04.6⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-2403/23_Xubuntu_20.04.6⠀⇛ o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Teaching_an_odd_dog_new_tricks⠀⇛ We – that is to say the storage team at SUSE – have a tool we’ve been using for the past few years to help with development and testing of Ceph on SUSE Linux. It’s called sesdev because it was created largely for SES (SUSE Enterprise Storage) development. It’s essentially a wrapper around vagrant and libvirt that will spin up clusters of VMs running openSUSE or SLES, then deploy Ceph on them. You would never use such clusters in production, but it’s really nice to be able to easily spin up a cluster for testing purposes that behaves something like a real cluster would, then throw it away when you’re done. I’ve recently been trying to spend more time playing with Kubernetes, which means I wanted to be able to spin up clusters of VMs running openSUSE or SLES, then deploy Kubernetes on them, then throw the clusters away when I was done, or when I broke something horribly and wanted to start over. Yes, I know there’s a bunch of other tools for doing toy Kubernetes deployments (minikube comes to mind), but given I already had sesdev and was pretty familiar with it, I thought it’d be worthwhile seeing if I could teach it to deploy k3s, a particularly lightweight version of Kubernetes. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ Trisquel_GNU/Linux_11_is_Released_with Download_Links,_Mirrors_and_Torrents⠀⇛ Trisquel 11 is officially released at the time of LibrePlanet Conference 2023 on 19 March marking its nineteenth years. The website announcement is published on Monday, 20 March, by emphasizing that now it is based on Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish” LTS, will be supported for five years until 2027 and supporting even more architecture including ARM64 and POWER. Now as the tradition goes, we publish the news with the download links, mirrors, torrents and checksums including necessary how to’s like making bootable and installing it to all dear readers. Happy downloading! o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ This_internet_uptime_indicator_reduces frustration⠀⇛ Bandwidth may have increased dramatically over the past couple of decades, but internet connections are often still quite unreliable. For people with unreliable connections, it becomes a chore to check a browser over and over again to find out when the internet is back up. To avoid that hassle, Emily Velasco built this monitor. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ I_just_tried_the_first_Android_phone_you_can repair_yourself_—_here’s_what_happened_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Pixel_8_Pro_Details_Leaks, Samsung_Galaxy_A54_Review,_Android’s_Premium_Phone_Woes⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android’s_volume_slider_could_start looking_less_goofy_on_bigger_phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ OnePlus_11_March_update_is_rolling_out with_new_Android_Auto_support⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ Android_phones_could_soon_sync_apps_between devices_so_your_faves_are_always_with_you⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Android’s_Private_DNS_Feature:_Everything_You Need_to_Know⠀⇛ # ⚓ ANBERNIC_Launches_the_RG405M_Handheld_with_an_Android-based OS_–_Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Five_or_more_reasons_why_Samsung_is_the_best Android_phone_brand_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Best_Android_emulators_for_PC_and_Mac⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_14_will_introduce_a_long-awaited feature!_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ LWN ☛ Free_software_during_wartime_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Just over 27 years ago, John Perry Barlow’s declaration of the independence of Cyberspace claimed that governments “have no sovereignty” over the networked world. In 2023, we have ample reason to know better than that, but we still expect the free-software community to be left alone by the affairs of governments much of the time. A couple of recent episodes related to the war in Ukraine are making it clear that there are limits to our independence. The free-software community has, indeed, proved resilient to many events in the wider world. The dotcom bust mostly brought an end to the silliness and accelerated our work toward useful goals. The September 11 attacks (and the horrors that followed) had little direct effect on the community; the same is true of the 2008 economic crisis. The pandemic closed down much of the world, but seemingly sped up free-software development. Even the war in Ukraine and the upheavals around it have, apparently, barely touched our community. All of these events had (and are still having) horrific consequences for many of the people involved, but the development community as a whole was often able to carry on as if many of the world’s troubles were taking place in another universe. Recently, though, our community has been lightly touched in a couple of ways. The ipmitool repository at GitHub was locked, and its maintainer denied access, as a result of his status as an employee of the sanctioned Russian firm Yadro. And, in the kernel community, a developer with the Russian firm Baikal Electronics was told by a networking maintainer that “We don’t feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating to hardware produced by your organization”. The specific reasons for this discomfort were not spelled out, and no policy for the kernel project as a whole has been expressed, but one possible motivation, as described by Konstantin Ryabitsev… o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Carson_City_Linux_users_group_meets_April_15_at_library⠀⇛ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ SJVN ☛ Too_little?_Too_late?_Mozilla_throws_its_hat into_the_AI_ring⠀⇛ In 2020, Mozilla released a paper, Creating Trustworthy AI. In it, its analysts defined “trustworthy AI as AI that is demonstrably worthy of trust, tech that considers accountability, agency, and individual and collective well-being.” So, for example, this action plan seeks to eliminate bias; protect privacy and security while avoiding the centralization of AI power in the hands of a few big tech companies. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ A_steamy_dream_about_a_PL/pgSQL_blog engine⠀⇛ If you’ll stop interrupting me, I had a dream last night where I implemented a blog engine in PL/ pgSQL, broadly the Postgres equivalent to PL/SQL. I wrote posts in pgAdmin on my desktop, and the stored procedures wrote out static HTML based on the posts in the database. Other queries were passed down from nginx to generate archive pages as needed. o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Jalkut ☛ Spelunking_Apple’s_Open_Source⠀⇛ Since the earliest days of Mac OS X, Apple has complied with the licenses for the dozens of open source components it includes in the OS by posting (sometimes a little belatedly) updated versions of the source code to its Open Source at Apple web page. This resource is useful primarily to developers, but may also interest curious technophiles who want to take a peek “behind the curtain” to see how much of the magic just beneath our fingertips is made. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Databricks_open-sources_an_AI_it_says_is_as good_as_ChatGPT,_but_much_easier_to_train⠀⇛ Instead of creating its own model from scratch or using LLaMA, Databricks took a much older and open- source LLM called GPT-J, which was created by EleutherAI several years earlier. GTP-J was the foundation on which Dolly was built. The model, Databricks said, “has not made a huge splash, presumably because it does not exhibit magical instruction-following capabilities.” # ⚓ India Times ☛ Databricks_pushes_open-source_chatbot_as cheaper_ChatGPT_alternative⠀⇛ Databricks wants enterprises to train their own AI models using its software. Ghodsi said the company’s researchers had taken a two-year-old model that was freely available and trained it with a small amount of data for three hours on single computer that anyone with a credit card could rent. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Bertrand Meyer ☛ A_full,_free_online_version_of_Object Success_(1995)⠀⇛ Copyright notice: The text is not in the public domain. It is copyrighted material (© Bertrand Meyer, 1995, 2023), made available free of charge on the Web for the convenience of readers, with the permission of the original publisher (Prentice Hall, now Pearson Education, Inc.). You are not permitted to copy it or redistribute it. Please refer others to the present version at bertrandmeyer.com/success. # ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ [talk]_The_carcinization_of_Go_programs⠀⇛ So you are aware: you are reading the written version of a conference talk. This is written in a different style that is more lighthearted, conversational and different than the content normally on this blog. The words being said are the verbatim words that were spoken at the conference. The slides are the literal slides for each spoken utterance. If you want to hide the non-essential slides, please install this userstyle: No fun allowed. If this isn’t enough, please edit it to also hide this CSS class: xeblog-slides-essential. Doing this may make the presentation page harder to understand. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Introducing_the_New_Features_in_Python 3.11⠀⇛ This article will introduce you to some of the new features of Python 3.11. These features include: [...] o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Scott O’Hara ☛ The_search_element⠀⇛ Today, March 24th 2023, the HTML specification added a new grouping content element. The search element. Please be aware that this element landing in the HTML spec today does not mean it is available in browsers today. Issues have been filed to implement the search element in the major browsers, including the necessary accessibility mappings. Keep this in mind before you get all super excited and willy nilly add this new element to your pages. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Axios ☛ Finish_Line:_Confronting_bad_managers⠀⇛ It’s hard enough to give candid feedback to a friend or subordinate. Giving it to your boss is so much harder — and can get you booted if you botch it. o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Flash_floods_hit_several_areas_in_JB_after Friday’s_downpour⠀⇛ A downpour on Friday afternoon inundated several areas in Johor Bahru as areas in Malaysia’s southern state Johor continues to be stricken by floods. o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ A_surfing_town_in_Hainan_where_young_Chinese go_to_‘lie_flat’⠀⇛ Riyuewan’s future is at a crossroads after the end of China’s zero-Covid policy and borders are open. o ⚓ [Old] American University ☛ TikTok_Tanks_Concerts,_According_to Artists:_What’s_Next?⠀⇛ This new culture was raised in a vacuum, cultivated and refined in lonely highschooler bedrooms and basements all across the world. The platform was used by various communities which compounded their identities by sharing outfits, music, and art with like minded and similarly isolated people. The content, as eye catching as it is, lacks an essential ingredient to the growth of concert culture, people. With older music fans having learned from those older than them, a whole generation of teenagers were left behind; creating an education gap and a bookend in US live music history. They were robbed of the subtle guiding hand of a million judgmental stares and belligerent concert goers showing them the ropes. This time, no “old heads” were around to demonstrate how to mosh safely, drink responsibly, and act in a way that allows all to enjoy themselves. The result is rude behavior that creates an unwelcoming environment not worthy of the almost holy feeling live shows provide. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ There’s_a_Massive_‘Hole’_in_the_Sun_the Size_of_20_Earths_Right_Now⠀⇛ The “hole” isn’t really a hole, but rather is a large region much cooler than the rest of the Sun, causing it to appear black. As explained by NOAA in its alert on Wednesday, the dynamics of the coronal hole were expected to speed up the solar winds, and so the agency warned of minor-to-moderate geomagnetic storms as a result, falling under the classifications G1 and G2 (on a scale that goes all the way up to G5). o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_60,000_Education_Workers_Walked_Off_the Job_In_Los_Angeles⠀⇛ On March 21, the 25,000 custodians, cafeteria workers, campus aides, bus drivers, teaching assistants, special education aides, building and grounds workers who are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 99, walked off the job in a three-day unfair labor practices strike against their employer, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The decision by 35,000 mostly teacher colleagues—myself among them, members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)—to refuse to cross SEIU’s picket line led a total of 60,000 workers across two unions to go on strike together, hitting the streets united, and creating one of the largest labor actions Los Angeles has ever seen. In a deepening of the last 13 years of national upsurge among education workers—often called “Red for Ed”—the SEIU members’ strike added a distinctly purple (the SEIU’s traditional color) hue. # ⚓ ROS Industrial ☛ ROS_2_Training_Event_Hosted_by_RPI Featuring_New_Advanced_Topic⠀⇛ At the start of March, Tiffany Cappellari, my colleague, and I made our way to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY, to deliver ROS2 Training to members of our ROS-Industrial community. Rensselaer Polytechnic, in addition to being a prestigious academic institution, has been a proud partner in project work with many other ROS-Industrial Consortium members, collaborators, and those in need of more advanced capability. RPI kindly hosted our first in-person training of calendar year 2023. # ⚓ Teleport ☛ Teleport_at_KubeCon_+_CloudNativeCon_Europe 2023⠀⇛ Sounds great, but I can hear a good security-minded engineer ask, “If all infrastructure can be managed in one place, is this actually safe?” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ I_Won’t_Buy_A_YubiKey_🔗⠀⇛ Like Garrit, I use Bitwarden’s built in TOTP multi- factor tokens for most things, as I think it’s a good balance between security and convenience. Yes, it can probably be compromised, but it would have to be an extremely knowledgeable and motivated threat actor. So the risk is worth it for me. # ⚓ Garrit Franke ☛ I_won’t_buy_a_YubiKey⠀⇛ I’ve been thinking about this for some time now, but I ultimately don’t think the benefits outweigh the hassle of always carrying around another device that I risk losing or breaking. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Turing_Award_goes_to_Robert_Metcalfe,_co- inventor_of_the_Ethernet⠀⇛ Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was just a few years old when Metcalfe arrived and set up the lab with that internet precursor, ARPANET. But that didn’t connect the hundred new Alto personal computers and laser printers, so Metcalfe drew on his experiences with the University of Hawaii’s AlohaNet, and together with the late David Boggs built a hundred node network – now known as the first Ethernet – in two years. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ European_Health_Data_Space_amendments: Let‘s_keep_patients_in_full_control_of_their_health_files!⠀⇛ According to this poll, Europeans want to be asked explicitly for consent before doctors or researchers are given access to their patient files and data. The majority of patients thus prefer an approach different from what the European Commission (no choice) and the Rapporteurs (opt-out only) propose. Specifically, 54% of Europeans want to allow access by doctors to their patient records only with their explicit consent, whereas 37% support the principle of automatic access. When it comes to research, 75% of citizens are willing to grant researchers access to their patient records and data only with their explicit consent, while only 20% support the opposite approach of automatic access (as a rule). # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Medical_equipment_manufacturer_Bio_Business scaled_up_with_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Our tiny computers and microcontrollers do all sorts of cool things. One application sees them powering portable device monitors which allow CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machines to check oxygen levels, and display information on LCD screens for the patient. We’re also inside an oxygen concentrator that lets the user adjust their own flow while making efficient use of the oxygen in ambient air. # ⚓ NDTV ☛ Happy_“My_Kids_Can’t_Use”_It_Anymore:_Justin_Trudeau On_TikTok_Ban_In_Canada⠀⇛ Speaking at a joint news conference with U.S. President Joe Biden in Ottawa, Trudeau said: “Our concerns around TikTok are around security and access to information that the Chinese government could have to government phones. It’s just a personal side benefit that my kids can’t use TikTok anymore.” # ⚓ El País ☛ France_bans_TikTok,_Instagram_and_Twitter_from government_staff_phones⠀⇛ France announced Friday it is banning the “recreational” use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other apps on government employees’ phones because of concern about insufficient data security measures. The move follows similar restrictions on TikTok in democratic countries amid fears about the popular video-sharing app’s Chinese connections. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ UK_Plan_to_Send_Depleted_Uranium_Shells_to Ukraine_Raises_Fears⠀⇛ “You’ll have seen the concerns we’ve expressed over the years about any use of depleted uranium given the consequences of such usage. And those would apply to anyone who provides such armaments. We have made clear… concerns about any use of depleted uranium anywhere,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary, said. Depleted uranium is the main by-product of uranium enrichment and is a chemically and radiologically toxic heavy metal, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Utah_becomes_first_state_to_sign_law_limiting_kids’ social_media_use⠀⇛ Utah became on Thursday the first state to enact legislation that restricts_children_and_teens from using social media without their parents’ consent. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Why_America_was_uniquely_vulnerable_to_COVID⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ EPA_Opens_New_Public_Comment_on_Proposed Asbestos_Ban⠀⇛ The Environmental Protection Agency took an unusual step last week: It opened a new period in which the public can comment on its proposed asbestos ban. The agency had gotten new information, officials said, including a series of ProPublica reports on dangerous working conditions in factories that use asbestos to make chlorine. Asbestos has been long known to cause deadly cancers and other serious illnesses. While dozens of countries have outlawed the substance, the U.S. still imports hundreds of tons each year, mostly for use in chlorine manufacturing. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Unleashing_the_Power_of_Cloud_Native_with_Oracle_Cloud Native_Environment⠀⇛ Thanks to the hospitality of OpenVirtualization.pro community and the proficous collaboration with Storware I have the pleasure to share with you some interesting news about Oracle Cloud Native Environment, the Kubernetes distribution for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments developed and maintained by Oracle. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Oracle_job_cuts_begin_at_health_IT_arm Cerner_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Oracle is set to make a number of job cuts at Cerner, the electronic health records company it acquired last year, as its shift workloads to its cloud infrastructure. Big Red paid $28 billion for Cerner in June, promising an expansion of its health sector of activity. However, a report from Bloomberg suggests that Oracle has begun a round of layoffs in an effort to reduce costs. Staffers were told last week that jobs had been eliminated, with marketing, creative services, and technical positions affected. # ⚓ Buttondown ☛ GPT_is_revolutionary⠀⇛ In retrospect, I feel kinda bad for not paying attention to this sooner. Back in November a friend excitedly told me that ChatGPT is sentient, because it gave him good answers to a lot of “tough questions.” I tried (and failed) to explain that it was just statistical prediction and wasn’t actually conscious. It didn’t occur to me that this friend was not a programmer and couldn’t call an API to save his life, and yet had no problem accessing and using ChatGPT. That’s where the revolution happens. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Tesla_[Cracked]_Twice_at_Pwn2Own_Exploit Contest⠀⇛ On the second day of the contest in Vancouver, Canada, Synacktiv’s researchers created an exploit chain that used a heap overflow and an out-of-band (OOB) write vulnerability to pop the Tesla- Infotainment system. The [crack] was described as “Unconfined Root” and scored the Synacktiv team a $250,000 cash prize. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft_threatens_to_restrict_data_from rival_AI_search_tools⠀⇛ Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to its [Internet]-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they do not stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_breaks_geolocation,_locking users_out_of_Azure_and_M365⠀⇛ The reader’s info said the mess was caused by “a recent deployment applied to an infrastructure for regulating user geolocation had inadvertently provided incorrect IP location data.” This resulted in users who had an IP-based conditional access policy experiencing the sign-in issues mentioned above. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, libdatetime-timezone-perl, and tzdata), Fedora (flatpak and gmailctl), Mageia (firefox, flatpak, golang, gssntlmssp, libmicrohttpd, libtiff, python-flask-security, python-owslib, ruby-rack, thunderbird, unarj, and vim), Red Hat (firefox, kpatch-patch, nss, openssl, and thunderbird), SUSE (containerd, hdf5, qt6-base, and squirrel), and Ubuntu (amanda, gif2apng, graphviz, and linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux- oracle, linux-raspi). # ⚓ Matthew Garrett ☛ We_need_better_support_for_SSH_host certificates⠀⇛ Github accidentally committed their SSH RSA private key to a repository, and now a bunch of people’s infrastructure is broken because it needs to be updated to trust the new key. This is obviously bad, but what’s frustrating is that there’s no inherent need for it to be – almost all the technological components needed to both reduce the initial risk and to make the transition seamless already exist. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Garrett:_We_need_better_support_for_SSH_host certificates⠀⇛ Matthew Garrett looks at the recent disclosure of GitHub’s private host key, how it probably came about, and what a better approach to key management might look like. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Interesting_note_about_the_BreachForums situatio⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hearst Communications ☛ Our_Lady_of_the_Lake_hit_by cyberattack;_victims_say_hackers_got_Social_Security_and other_data⠀⇛ A cyberattack on Our Lady of the Lake University’s computer network compromised personal data on its faculty, students and even individuals who applied to the university but never attended. The private Catholic university on San Antonio’s West Side this week confirmed that it recently found evidence that “unauthorized access” to its network occurred about Aug. 30 and that “a limited amount of personal information was removed.” It declined to detail the types of information taken. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Justice_Department_Announces_Arrest_of “Pompompurin”_and_Disruption_of_BreachForum’s_Operation⠀⇛ Fitzpatrick’s arrest and the disruption of BreachForums comes nearly a year after the Department of Justice announced the seizure of a predecessor hacking marketplace, Raidforums, and unsealed criminal charges against RaidForums’ founder and chief administrator, who is the subject of extradition proceedings in the United Kingdom. # ⚓ CNA ☛ Rio_Tinto_data_vendor_GoAnywhere’s_possible_breach spotted_in_Jan-end⠀⇛ U.S. cybersecurity firm Fortra said suspicious activity was identified within its GoAnywhere software nearly two months ago, a day after Rio Tinto in a staff memo said personal data of some of its Australian employees may have been stolen. The internal memo seen by Reuters on Thursday revealed payroll information, like payslips and overpayment letters, of a small number of the mining giants’ Australian employees from January 2023 had possibly been seized by a cybercriminal group. # ⚓ IT Pro ☛ Pension_Protection_Fund_confirms_employee_data exposed_in_GoAnywhere_breach⠀⇛ The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has confirmed that data belonging to current and former employees has been exposed in the wake of the GoAnywhere breach. In a statement to IT Pro, the fund, which manages pension assets for nearly 300,000 clients, said it has informed affected staff and is providing support and monitoring services for those impacted in the breach. # ⚓ Warning_to_Seniors:_Personal_Data_of_254K_Medicare Beneficiaries_at_Risk_After_Breach⠀⇛ Hundreds of thousands of Americans’ personal information is at risk after Medicare’s data was breached. Now, lawmakers want answers. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., sent a letter demanding a range of documents and communications from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. # ⚓ TechHQ ☛ It’s_not_just_Windows_that_gets_malware [Ed: But not every OS has intentional back doors/bug doors for the NSA et al]⠀⇛ Seemingly immune for so long, here’s a reminder that MacOS and Linux need to protect themselves against malware, too. # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Kids_tech_camp_iD_Tech_still_silent_weeks after_data_breach⠀⇛ Parents are still looking for answers weeks after hackers stole the personal data of thousands of users from kids’ tech coding camp iD Tech, with some fearing that their children’s data was compromised in the data breach. iD Tech, which provides on-campus classes and online tech and coding courses for kids, has yet to acknowledge the breach or notify parents. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Windows,_Ubuntu,_and_VMWare_Workstation hacked_on_last_day_of_Pwn2Own⠀⇛ # ⚓ Windows_11,_Tesla,_macOS_&_Ubuntu_Desktop_Hacked_–_Pwn2Own Day_One⠀⇛ On the first day, Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 hacking challenge participants compromised Windows 11, Tesla, macOS, and Ubuntu Desktop. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ In_Push_To_Dismiss_Lawsuit,_CIA_Says Americans_Who_Visited_Assange_Had_No_Privacy_Rights⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNA ☛ Rio_Tinto_data_vendor_GoAnywhere’s_possible breach_spotted_in_Jan-end⠀⇛ The internal memo seen by Reuters on Thursday revealed payroll information, like payslips and overpayment letters, of a small number of the mining giants’ Australian employees from January 2023 had possibly been seized by a cybercriminal group. # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Expect_biometric_mass_surveillance in_Paris_in_2024:_French_Parliament_approves_automated monitoring_of_public_spaces_for_„suspicious behaviour“⠀⇛ Last week, 41 MEPs from different political groups had sent an open letter to the French Parliament, calling to stop the unprecedented plans to automate the mass surveillance of citizens’ behaviour in public using artificial intelligence. MEPs warned against the crippling effect of such mass surveillance of public spaces, which had never been conducted before in Europe, and which is setting a precedent. The signatories to the open letter include several negotiators of the proposed EU Artificial Intelligence Act which committed to ban biometric mass surveillance, including co- rapporteur Brando Benifei (Socialist Group). Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer, initiator of the letter, comments: [....] o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Finland’s_NATO_membership_approved_in_Ankara_in Parliamentary_Commission⠀⇛ Foreign Affairs Commission of the Parliament of Turkey approved the protocol for Finland’s NATO membership yesterday while Finland’s president Sauli Niinisto signed the NATO legislation of his country in a ceremony the same day. # ⚓ Axios ☛ UN_report:_Ukrainian_and_Russian_POWs_faced torture,_executions⠀⇛ The UN published a report Friday highlighting summary executions, torture, and other instances in which Russia and Ukraine violated international human rights laws in their treatment of prisoners of war. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ North_Korea_Says_It_Tested_a_Nuclear- Capable_Underwater_Attack_Drone⠀⇛ Such a test would be a first for Kim Jong-un’s weapons program. But there was no independent confirmation that it had happened. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Senators_Urge_Biden_to_Send_Evidence_of Russian_War_Crimes_to_the_ICC⠀⇛ Despite Pentagon resistance, a bipartisan group stressed that Congress had voted to legalize support for the court’s Ukraine war investigations. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Due_Diligence_Firm_Says_China Detained_Its_Employees⠀⇛ Five Chinese nationals were taken away Monday, and the company, which does corporate investigations, and its law firm have been unable to contact them. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Refuge_for_Russians_and_Ukrainians,_Bali Rethinks_Its_Open-Door_Policy⠀⇛ After multiple accounts of tourists behaving badly, its governor wants Russia and Ukraine to lose access to Indonesia’s visa-on-arrival program. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Canada,_Biden_Offers_Cooperation,_Not Threats⠀⇛ Deals on migration and trade emerge from a meeting that restored ties between the two nations after four years of tension under the former U.S. president, Donald J. Trump. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Sanna_Marin:_Finland_supports_joint_EU_ammo_for Ukraine⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Finland for its latest defence shipment. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 500,000_Rally_in_Support_of_Mexican_President and_Against_US_Intervention⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ US_Bombs_Syria_2_Weeks_After_House_Voted_Against Withdrawing_Troops⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ Aaron_Mate_at_UN:_OPCW_cover-up_denies justice_to_Syria_victims⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Michael_Moore:_Guns_Don’t_Kill_People, Americans_Kill_People⠀⇛ On the 20th Anniversary of “Bowling for Columbine” winning the Oscar, you can watch it for free # ⚓ The Nation ☛ More_Guns_Won’t_Serve_the_Cause_of_Peace⠀⇛ In April 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a retired five-star Army general who had led the landings on D-Day in France in June 1944, gave his most powerful speech. It would become known as his “Cross of Iron” address. In it, Ike warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn’t be reined in. In the immediate aftermath of the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Ike extended an olive branch to the new leaders of that empire. He sought, he said, to put America and the world on a “highway to peace.” It was, of course, never to be, as this country’s emergent military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) chose instead to build a militarized (and highly profitable) highway to hell.1 # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Preemptively_Blames_Manhattan_DA_for_His Own_Loyalists’_Violent_Protests⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ EU_governments_sued_for_violating_human_rights through_climate_inaction⠀⇛ The first case being heard next Wednesday focuses on the health impact of climate change-induced heatwaves, in a case brought by thousands of elderly Swiss women against the Swiss government as part of a six-year legal battle. Also on Wednesday, the court will hear a case brought by Damien Carême, a member of the European Parliament for the French Green party, who is challenging France’s refusal to take more ambitious climate measures. The third case, due to be heard after the summer concerns six Portuguese youths, who are taking on 33 countries – including all 27 European Union member states, Britain, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine. They, too, argue those countries have violated their rights and should be ordered to take more ambitious action to address climate change. Six other climate cases are pending. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Facing_Up_to_the_Climate_Reckoning_Ahead⠀⇛ The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the “summary for policymakers” section of the group’s forthcoming Synthesis Report, the final portion of its massive Sixth Assessment Report. Two messages in particular have stood out in both media coverage and the report itself. The 1.5 degrees C warming threshold scientists say is the line between relative stability and extreme volatility—which may be irreversible—is more likely than not to occur within around five years, even under scenarios positing very low carbon emissions. This has accompanied the urgent message that there’s still time to avert calamity. As the IPCC report notes, the consequences of crossing the 1.5º C threshold will linger for thousands of years. But halting greenhouse gas emissions entails removing fossil fuels from the world’s ships, planes, cars, farms, factories, militaries, homes, and buildings. Doing this in a few years would be like turning the world’s biggest ship 180 degrees at a moment’s notice—without using fossil fuels. The assessment report’s 3,675 pages tells us what technology has to change to avert disaster. But changing technology is a deeply political process; even swapping in renewable energy for fossil fuels has proven to be a politically fraught and difficult prospect. So how, exactly, are these massive changes supposed to happen? # ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_meat_industry_blocked_the_IPCC’s_attempt_to recommend_a_plant-based_diet⠀⇛ It’s no secret that climate change discourse is shrouded in obfuscation, disinformation, greenwashing and lies, both outright and of omission. But a recent leak of a draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on March 20 has been particularly enlightening when it comes to just how… # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Entire_Tribal_Towns_Forced_to_Relocate Due_to_Climate_Crisis_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛ Relocating entire communities at once is the most extreme way to adapt to climate change. Relocations are likely to become more common as conditions worsen, with dozens, if not hundreds, of mostly Indigenous communities forced to relocate. Managed retreats are disruptive, uprooting entire communities and cultures, adding complicated layers to each community’s exodus, from choosing new locations to allocating the funds provided by the Interior Department. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Behind_the_#StopCopCity_Domestic_Terrorism Warrants⠀⇛ The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with several other law enforcement agencies, charged 23 more people with ‘domestic terrorism’ for their alleged involvement in the ongoing effort to stop ‘Cop City’ and to defend the Weelaunee Forest in unincorporated DeKalb County… # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Oil_Companies’_Obscene_Profits⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ EU_weighs_up_future_of_wood-burning as_renewable_energy⠀⇛ The European Union’s race to rid itself of dependence on Russian fossil fuels is well underway. The International Energy Agency says widespread bids to beef up energy security “turbocharged” growth of green power in 2022, and EU parliamentarians hope to ramp up renewables targets to reach 45% of bloc- wide energy consumption by 2030. The word “renewable” often conjures up images of wind farms or solar panels — less so scenes of burning trees. But biomass, which includes firewood, plants and other organic materials, makes up 60% of the EU’s renewable energy mix according to the European Commission. As the bloc now reviews its landmark renewable power legislation, a political battle over firewood’s future is playing out in Brussels. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Pipeline_Protests_in_Utah_Could_Now_Get You_at_Least_Five_Years_in_Prison⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Nuclear_Plant_Shuts_Down_After_New_Leak Near_Mississippi_River⠀⇛ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Fossil_Fuel_Firms_Use_Permitting_Loopholes to_Fast-Track_LNG_Export_Projects_Near_Black Communities⠀⇛ Years before Hurricane Katrina levee failures flooded New Orleans, a Louisiana hurricane expert warned federal officials of the potential for the levees to break. Now, Ivor van Heerden, the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, is concerned about the disastrous and potentially lethal consequences of a hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction south of New Orleans. “Once again we’ve got politicians and state agencies ignoring the facts, just like they did with Hurricane Katrina,” van Heerden said. “We’re going to have another catastrophe.” # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ An_Australian_River_Choking_on_Fish Corpses,_and_a_Community_Full_of_Anger⠀⇛ It’s the latest clash over a river basin in New South Wales, Australia, in an arid land where social, economic and environmental interests collide over water issues. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ How_“too_big_to_fail”_banks_became_a_symbol_of safety⠀⇛ Once upon a time, “too big to fail” was shorthand to villainize big banks — these days, it’s a way to say “your money is safe.” # ⚓ Axios ☛ How_the_banking_crisis_could_ripple_through_the economy⠀⇛ The U.S. banking system appears to be stabilized, for now, following extraordinary government_actions to head off an all-out disaster after Silicon Valley_Bank’s failure. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ King_Charles_Postpones_Trip_to_France_Amid Pension_Protests⠀⇛ For President Emmanuel Macron, who has been the target of widespread fury and protests after he pushed through an increase in the retirement age, a planned royal visit was particularly ill-timed. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ No,_Bill_Maher,_Student_Debt_Cancellation_Is Not_a_“Giveaway”⠀⇛ In November, CNBC published an article arguing that borrowers benefiting from President Biden’s student debt cancellation plan will largely spend their savings on “non-essential” items, citing a poll from Intelligent.com: “73 percent of anticipated recipients say they expect to spend their debt forgiveness on non-essential items, including travel, dining out and new tech.” The article caused quite a stir, including on Real Time with Bill Maher earlier this month. Maher, citing the poll to his guest, Senator Bernie Sanders, called President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 of student loan debt per borrower a “giveaway.” o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Light Blue Touchpaper ☛ Interop:_One_Protocol_to_Rule_Them All?⠀⇛ The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on different platforms should be able to exchange messages with each other. This opens up a real Pandora’s box. How will the networks manage keys, authenticate users, and moderate content? How much metadata will have to be shared, and how? In our latest paper, One Protocol to Rule Them All? On Securing Interoperable Messaging, we explore the security tensions, the conflicts of interest, the usability traps, and the likely consequences for individual and institutional behaviour. # ⚓ The North Lines IN ☛ Social_Media_now_out_of_bound_for_J&K Employees!⠀⇛ The official communication has said that while using different social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. or Instant Messaging applications like WhatsApp, Telegram etc., employees have been seen to air disparaging views on subjects that they are expressly barred under rules to comment upon. Employees have been seen to comment or act or behave in a manner that does not conform to the acceptable standards of official conduct, as envisaged in the aforementioned guidelines and the rules. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Olivers⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Pious_Pence_and_Sanctimonious_Ron_Take_a Pounding⠀⇛ Donald Trump might be in legal trouble, but in the world of Republican politics, he’s still the top dog. Polls consistently not only show him leading in the race to become the Republican nominee but also indicate that his domination over rivals such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former vice president Mike Pence is actually increasing. This is evident in both polling aggregations such as Morning Consult and  individual polls such as Monmouth’s. As New York Times reporter Nate Cohn noted on Wednesday, Monmouth shows Trump continuing to gain in the presidential primary, with Trump up 41-27. This is longest-long-term trend from a high- quality poll in the race. Since December, Trump has gained 15 points while DeSantis has lost 12 points. # ⚓ New Statesman ☛ TikTok’s_CEO_testified_before_the_US Congress._It_did_not_go_well⠀⇛ It was not a good day for TikTok’s prospects in the US. In the hours before Chew’s testimony, a spokesperson for China’s commerce ministry announced that Beijing would “firmly oppose” a move to force the sale of TikTok. Multiple committee members seized on the comments as supposed evidence of the precise link that the company insists does not exist. “The CCP believes they have the final say over your company,” Rodgers told Chew. “I have zero confidence in your assertion that ByteDance and TikTok are not beholden to the CCP.” She described the app as a threat to national security, US citizens’ privacy and the mental health of the country’s children, telling Chew: “Your platform should be banned.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Denies_Pressuring_Companies_Like TikTok_to_Spy_on_Users⠀⇛ The Foreign Ministry rebuffed claims by U.S. lawmakers that TikTok could be a tool of surveillance for the Chinese government. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Twitter_is_about_to_start_purging_unpaid_blue ticks⠀⇛ Legacy blue tick account holders on Twitter have just over a week left to pay to retain their verification badges. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Trump_Rally_Falls_During Anniversary_of_Waco’s_Dark_Past⠀⇛ Former President Donald Trump’s rally in Waco, Texas, this weekend comes amid the 30th anniversary in the city of the infamous deadly standoff at the Branch Davidians compound # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Powder,_Threat_Sent_to_Manhattan DA_Investigating_Trump⠀⇛ A powdery substance was found Friday with a threatening letter in a mailroom at the offices of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ North_Koreans_speak_of_awful_prison conditions⠀⇛ Survivors of North Korean prisoners have spoken of the awful conditions they endured. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ ‘Death_and_destruction’:_Trump_intensifies_his attack_on_criminal_investigators⠀⇛ As tensions in the US intensify, the attorney overseeing the investigation into the former president has also received a death threat. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_I’m_Reading:_The_Rise_of_Fascism Edition⠀⇛ A comic novel from the 1930s opens a window on days when what would become a dangerous political movement was seen as a silly hobby. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Scotland’s_Leader_Apologizes_for_Past Practice_of_Forced_Adoptions⠀⇛ Nicola Sturgeon said the practice, which was relatively common until the 1970s, was among the gravest injustices in Scottish history. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Friday’s_papers:_Hungary’s_Nato_promise,_train traffic_resumes_and_TikTok’s_election_influence⠀⇛ TikTok posts by Finns Party supporters appear to be resonating with younger and first-time voters, according to Helsingin Sanomat. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Free_Speech_(or_Not)_at_Stanford⠀⇛ A federal judge spoke at Stanford Law School. Chaos ensued. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Large_Libel_Models:_An_AI_Company’s_Noting_That Its_Output_“May_[Be]_Erroneous]”_Doesn’t_Preclude_Libel Liability⠀⇛ [An excerpt from my forthcoming article on "Large Libel Models? Liability for AI Outputs."] o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Kurdish_newspaper_Xwebûn’s_account_restored_by_Twitter⠀⇛ The account of the weekly Kurdish newspaper Xwebûn with 29 thousand 488 followers that was blocked on February 22 was restored by Twitter. # ⚓ ‘I_am_going_to_work_in_the_Parliament_for_a_Truth Commission’⠀⇛ Apê Musa’s son, Dicle Anter believes that unidentified murders are the black box of Turkey. 31 years after his father, a prominent Kurdish writer, and journalist was assassinated, he will be a candidate for MP. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Siberian_Journalist_Imprisoned_For_Anti-War_Stance Says_She_Was_Beaten_While_In_Custody⠀⇛ The charge against her stemmed from her online posts about an attack by Russian military jets against a theater in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol that killed hundreds of civilians, including children. Ponomarenko said in July that while in pretrial detention she was forcibly taken to a psychiatric clinic where she was ordered to undergo a “psychiatric evaluation” and forcibly injected with unknown substances when she demanded her personal belongings or hygiene items. # ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ Protected:_Guilty_of_Journalism_– Book_Conversation_with_Kevin_Gosztola_and_Rebecca_Vincent⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Wyoming_Passes_Bill_Banning_Sale_of_Abortion Pill⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_GOP’s_War_on_Obamacare_Is_Screwing_Up_Its War_on_Abortion⠀⇛ The Supreme Court was eager to revoke reproductive rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in part so that Republican governors and legislatures would be free to come up with ever-more-draconian methods to force pregnant people to give birth against their will. Red states have answered the call and passed laws that treat pregnant people as second-class citizens, depriving them not just of bodily autonomy but also access to life-saving medical care. To call it a “race to the bottom” undersells the depths to which theocratic state governments are willing to sink to in their zeal to control women and girls. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Police_Use_“Less_Lethal”_Weapons_to_Crush_Social Movements_Across_the_World⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Starbucks_Union_Unveils_7_Unionizing_Stores During_Company_Shareholder_Meeting⠀⇛ # ⚓ Axios ☛ The_unseen_Asian_American_mental_health_crisis⠀⇛ Asian Americans’ psychological stateover the last few years has been one of hypervigilance and pretending — constantly having to act as if everything is “business as usual” even amid high- profile_anti-Asian_attacks and the aftereffects_of collective_trauma, health advocates and experts tell Axios. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Michigan_Repeals_Right-To-Work_Law⠀⇛ A decade as a right-to-work state made Michigan better off. # ⚓ New Statesman ☛ The_dirty_secret_behind_the_cost-of-living crisis⠀⇛ The first step would be to finally repudiate the myth of central bank competence on inflation. The belief that central banks can successfully manage prices, if made “independent” of governments, rests on the 15 years of economic stability before the 2008 financial crisis. The Great Moderation saw inflation level out at low levels across the developed world, and coincided with a fad for declaring central banks “independent” of their governments when making interest rate decisions. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Non-Disparagement_Clauses_Are Retroactively_Voided,_NLRB’s_Top_Cop_Clarifies⠀⇛ The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a clarifying memo on Wednesday regarding the “scope” of a February ruling by the federal agency’s board that said employers cannot include blanket non-disparagement clauses in their severance packages, nor demand laid-off employees keep secret the terms of their exit agreements. # ⚓ BoingBoing ☛ Afroman_filmed_the_cops_raiding_his_home_and made_funny_music_videos_with_the_footage._Now_they’re_suing him_over_their_hurt_feelings.⠀⇛ That the deputies tampered with his camera system brings home that the raid was malicious rather than investigatory–and serves as a reminder that security cameras should dump to the cloud, not just to a local DVR or NAS. Even the dumbest home invaders know to find and take them nowadays. # ⚓ [Old] Vice Media Group ☛ Afroman_Got_Raided_by_Cops,_So_He Put_Them_in_His_Music_Video⠀⇛ The clips I picked verified what I was saying. I didn’t want people to think I’m yelling wolf. When I lie to a cop, that’s a charge. It’s called false information to a police officer. But this guy can lie to me and it’s not a charge. It’s nothing. It’s “Oh, whoop-dee-doo, big deal and your doors on the ground, and your gate’s effed up, and I’m leaving. I lied on the warrant. I tore your house up. And fuck you, nigger. God bless America.” That’s why I picked those clips. Look at these guys going through my pockets for kidnapping victims, right? Where are the kidnapping victims in my suit pockets? Look at these guys going through my CDs. They probably stole some of my masters and then they go have them on eBay and stuff. Is that why they wanted to turn the cameras off, so they can take some memorabilia or whatever? # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Afroman_Sued_by_Law_Enforcement Officers_Who_Raided_His_Home⠀⇛ Four deputies, two sergeants, and a detective claim that Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, took footage of their faces during the raid and used it in music videos and social media posts without their consent — a misdemeanor under Ohio state law. The officers are also suing on civil grounds with claims that Foreman’s use of their likeness in videos and social media posts result in their “emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, loss of reputation, and humiliation,” asking for an injunction to take down all videos and posts containing their likeness. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Applauds_Fifth_U.S. Circuit_Court_Decision_Affirming_Constitutionality_of_FCC’s Universal_Service_Fund⠀⇛ Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms universal service fund and the FCC’s actions to connect us all are constitutional.  # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Privileged_Conversations_|_Apr._2023⠀⇛ Public Knowledge has the pleasure of inviting you to a multifaceted program focused on training and developing the next generation of tech policy experts and public interest advocates that reflects the diversity of voices and experiences in our society. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ UK_narrows_antitrust_probe_into_Microsoft’s Activision_Blizzard_acquisition⠀⇛ The U.K.’s antitrust regulator will narrow the focus of its probe into Microsoft Corp.’s plan to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7 billion. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, disclosed the development today. [...] The CMA plans to publish its final report about the deal on April 26. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Neil_Young_Says_‘Concert_Touring_Is Broken’_After_The_Cure/Ticketmaster_Debacle⠀⇛ “It’s over. The old days are gone,” Neil Young begins his complaint. He says he gets letters from fans who are angry at $3,000 tickets for a benefit concert. “That money does not go to me or the benefit. Artists have to worry about ripped off fans blaming them for Ticketmaster add-ons and scalpers,” he continues. “Concert tours are no longer fun.” Neil Young then shares a bit of a news article about The Cure and Robert Smith’s attempts to keep ticket prices low for fans. They opted out of dynamic pricing, with each ticket costing $20. But after service fees and facility fees and order processing fees, the price paid by fans was double the face value of the ticket. What should have been $80 for four tickets eventually cost $172 at checkout. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet Archive ☛ The_Fight_Continues⠀⇛ But it’s not over—we will keep fighting for the traditional right of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books. We will be appealing the judgment and encourage everyone to come together as a community to support libraries against this attack by corporate publishers. We will continue our work as a library. This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Cloudflare_Disables_Access_to ‘Pirated’_Content_on_its_IPFS_Gateway⠀⇛ Cloudflare helps to provide access to millions of websites on the regular web. The company also offers an IPFS gateway, making it easier to access content on the censorship-resistant storage network. Unlike its CDN and DNS services, Cloudflare reports that it disables IPFS access in response to copyright abuse complaints. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Style,_Copyright,_and_Generative AI_Part_2:_Vicarious_Liability⠀⇛ One of the claims raised in the suit against Stable Diffusion and Midjourney is that AI tools should be held vicariously liable for copyright infringement because their users can use the systems to create infringing works. Typically, legal liability arises where someone directly commits an act that harms another person in such a way that the law can hold that person responsible for their actions. This is “direct liability.” If a distracted driver hits a cyclist, the cyclist might ask the court to make the driver pay any damages, because the driver is directly liable for the accident. Normally, third parties are not considered responsible for the acts of other people. So, the law would probably not hold anyone but the driver liable for the accident — not a passenger, and not even one who was helping to navigate or who had asked the driver to make the trip. And unless the car was faulty, the manufacturer of the car would not be liable either, even though if no one had made the car the accident would not have happened: the car could have been used without harming anyone, but in this case it was the driver who made it cause harm.  # ⚓ The Verge ☛ The_Internet_Archive_has_lost_its_first fight_to_scan_and_lend_e-books_like_a_library⠀⇛ The two sides went to court on Monday, with HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House joining Hachette as plaintiffs. In his ruling, Judge Koetl considered whether the Internet Archive was operating under the principle of Fair Use, which previously protected a digital book preservation project by Google Books and HathiTrust in 2014, among other users. Fair Use considers whether using a copyrighted work is good for the public, how much it’ll impact the copyright holder, how much of the work has been copied, and whether the use has “transformed” a copyrighted thing into something new, among other things. # ⚓ [Old] EFF ☛ Hachette_v._Internet_Archive⠀⇛ Four publishers sued the Archive, alleging that CDL violates their copyrights. In their complaint, Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House claim CDL has cost their companies millions of dollars and is a threat to their businesses. They are wrong. Libraries have paid publishers billions of dollars for the books in their print collections, and are investing enormous resources in digitization in order to preserve those texts. CDL helps ensure that the public can make full use of the books that libraries have bought and paid for. This activity is fundamentally the same as traditional library lending, and poses no new harm to authors or the publishing industry. Libraries have never been required to get permissions or pay extra fees to lend books. And as a practical matter, the available data shows that CDL has not and will not harm the publishers’ bottom line. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Various_Thoughts_–_Astronomy_News_and_Articles⠀⇛ I read an interesting, brief article in the March 2023 Reflector magazine, called “IS THE SOLAR SYSTEM STABLE?”, exploring the question of whether our solar system should remain stable over very long periods of time. Author Berton Stephens gave a short summary of historical methods that have been used to calculate future astronomical positions. And then he discussed the challenges involved in modeling the solar system accurately. # ⚓ Treadmill_While_Working⠀⇛ Over the past few years, I’ve developed some health consequences associated with a now decades-long desk-job life. The solution is simple enough in theory, but in practice I can’t easily walk away from my income source. That’s a lie which I don’t believe–I could just walk away. We like to tell ourselves that we don’t have choices, but we do. I’ll put it this way instead: I don’t want to walk away from my income source. Instead, I want to believe I can solve the problem through more mindfulness. # ⚓ Multi-referee_campaigns⠀⇛ I’m playing in a German multi-referee game using AD&D 1st ed in Greyhawk. Each referee runs a region and characters can cross over from one region to the other. In practice, as a player, I’ve found it easier to just create a character for every region I want to play in because time records are strictly kept and yet time drifts between the regions. Currently my region is one month “ahead” of a neighbouring region, for example. I’m also playing in a mostly German and some English multi-referee game using H&H where we all have characters in a starting town and each referee runs an adjacent region or a nearby dungeon. We have Stonehell and Barrowmaze as well as two wildness hex-maps. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Is_Systemd-free_really_for_me?⠀⇛ I’ve been running Systemd-free distros for the past few years. When I first got into Linux in 2016, it seemed like all the “cool” Linux people used Systemd-free distros and hated on Systemd, but now it seems like this group is not held in the same esteem as they once were. More frequently I hear people more so making fun of this mentality and seeing it as overly dogmatic. By the time I had started using Linux Systemd was already ubiquitous so I ended up learning it in the process of learning how to use Linux. When I first tried out Void, I remember trying to start sshd and being utterly baffled when I got the message “command not found: systemctl” since on every other distro I had used, that was the way you started things. It wasn’t until then that I finally understood really what Systemd was. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Who_Goes_First?⠀⇛ Usually a sleep(3) call of some sort will be added to ensure that one thing happens after the other. This is a false promise, as the system might become busy beyond that of the sleep interval and then who knows which bit of code happens first. Usually it works out, if you don’t mind the waiting and guessing at what a suitable delay should be. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2956 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.25.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_25/03/2023:_Gordon_Moore_(of_Moore’s_Law)_is_Dead⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Server o Applications o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Framework_modular_laptop_adds_Intel_Raptor Lake,_AMD_Ryzen_motherboards,_16-inch_laptop_frame⠀⇛ When we first covered the Framework modular laptop in 2021 it came with a choice of 11th generation Intel Tiger Lake Core processors, up to 64GB RAM, up to 4TB SSD storage, a 13.5-inch display, a Full HD webcam, and a 55Wh battery. Modular electronic devices have been worked on by several companies over the years, but such endeavors usually result in failure due to costs and other difficulties. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Catching_up_with_the_Founder_and_CEO_of Portainer⠀⇛ Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting the CEO and founder of Portainer, Neil Cresswell. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_Open_Source_Note-Taking_Apps_for_Linux⠀⇛ A note-taking app allows you to record notes on the go, whether you are in class or studying, reading somewhere, at work, or in a meeting. There are so many note-taking apps you can install and use on Linux systems. In this article, we will review the 10 best open- source note-taking applications you can use on Linux systems. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Sniffnet:_Application_to_Comfortably_Monitor your_Network_Traffic⠀⇛ Sniffnet is a great tool to use if you want to easily keep an eye on network traffic. It has a simple GUI interface that lets you filter the network based on the application’s protocol and sends you an alert when a set threshold limit is reached. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Installing_and_configuring_Python_in_Linux Mint⠀⇛ In this guide, we will provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to customize the Tmux status bar in Linux. We will cover the basic syntax of Tmux status bar configuration, as well as some practical examples to demonstrate how to add, remove, and rearrange components. We will also explore some popular Tmux plugins for further customization. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Upgrade_Python_Pip_Packages_in Linux⠀⇛ Pip is a widely used package installer and manager for Python projects, and it enables you to install, update, and manage packages efficiently. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Perl_on_Rocky_Linux_9_or_8⠀⇛ Perl is a powerful and flexible programming language often used for text manipulation, web development, and system administration tasks. As a high-level language, it has a rich set of features that make it an excellent choice for various applications. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Customizing_the_Tmux_status_bar_in_Linux⠀⇛ In this guide, we will provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to customize the Tmux status bar in Linux. We will cover the basic syntax of Tmux status bar configuration, as well as some practical examples to demonstrate how to add, remove, and rearrange components. We will also explore some popular Tmux plugins for further customization. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Tmux_copy-paste_mode_tips_and_tricks_for productivity⠀⇛ In this guide, we will explore various tips and tricks for using Tmux’s copy-paste mode, including how to navigate between panes and windows, how to copy text to the clipboard, and how to paste text from the clipboard back into the terminal. # ⚓ Real Linux User ☛ Quick_Fix_–_How_to_solve_Unable_to_update Snap_Store_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_guide_to_mastering_cron_jobs_in_Linux Mint⠀⇛ In this guide, we will provide a comprehensive overview of configuring and managing cron jobs in Linux Mint. We will cover the syntax of cron expressions, how to schedule jobs, how to edit and delete existing jobs, and how to troubleshoot common issues. We will also explore some practical examples of using cron to automate routine tasks. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ A_step-by-step_guide_to_creating_custom_Tmux key_bindings⠀⇛ In this guide, we will explore the process of creating custom key bindings in Tmux, a powerful terminal multiplexer. You will learn how to map your preferred key combinations to Tmux commands, allowing you to perform tasks more efficiently. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Fail2Ban_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04⠀⇛ Fail2Ban is an open-source, widely-used intrusion prevention software that helps to protect servers from unauthorized access attempts and brute force attacks. It works by analyzing log files and banning IP addresses that exhibit malicious behavior, such as too many failed login attempts. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ Nginx_Custom_Fail2ban_Filters_and_Jails:_10 Examples⠀⇛ Nginx is a widely recognized web server and reverse proxy server, renowned for its exceptional performance, stability, and efficient resource utilization. It is extensively employed for serving web applications, load balancing traffic, and enhancing website performance. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-20How_to_install_DataGrip_on Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-21How_to_install_Discord_on Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-23How_to_install_FreeOffice_on Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-20How_to_install_DataGrip_on Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-20How_to_install_The_Mixed Island_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_WonderCMS_with_Nginx_on Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛ WonderCMS is a fast, lightweight, and efficient content management system (CMS) that simplifies website creation and maintenance. Its user-friendly interface, combined with robust features, makes it an ideal choice for users who are looking for a hassle-free way to manage their web content. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-22How_to_install_Ghostery_Dawn on_a_Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-21How_to_install_Gnome_Mahjongg on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-22How_to_install_Inkscape_on Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-20How_to_install_The_Mixed Island_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-03-23How_to_install_Pinta_on_a Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_UNRAR_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04⠀⇛ UNRAR is a powerful, versatile, and widely-used tool designed for extracting files from RAR archives. RAR, which stands for Roshal Archive, is a proprietary archive file format developed by Eugene Roshal. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Kate_Text_Editor_on_Ubuntu 22.04_or_20.04⠀⇛ Kate – KDE Advanced Text Editor – is a powerful, open-source text editor designed for developers and programmers, offering a wide array of features for handling and manipulating text files. # ⚓ How_to_detect_devices_connected_to_my_LAN?⠀⇛ Port Authority is an excellent and fast tool for Android that allows you to detect devices connected to your Local Area Network and scan its ports # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_VMware_Workstation_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VMware Workstation on Debian 11. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_check_if_a_file_does_not_exist_in_Bash⠀⇛ Bash, or the Bourne Again SHell, is a popular Unix shell used for scripting and automating tasks in Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems. One common task in Bash scripting is checking whether a file does not exist. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Docker_on_Fedora_37⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Docker on Fedora 37. As a powerful and versatile containerization platform, Docker has revolutionized the way software is developed and deployed. # ⚓ 2023-03-24Changing_the_data_directory_in_MySQL⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-24Configuring_the_MySQL_Parameters⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-24MySQL_Configuration_Using_Global_and_Session Variables⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-24Using_parameters_with_MySQL_startup_script⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-24How_to_Use_the_MySQL_Config_File_for Configuration⠀⇛ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_KubeSphere_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install KubeSphere on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Zoom_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Zoom on Rocky Linux 9. In the current era of remote work and virtual communication, video conferencing has become an essential part of our lives. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Clone_All_Remote_Branches_in_Git Repository⠀⇛ Git is an essential tool for developers, enabling efficient code versioning, management, and collaboration. One of the core functionalities of Git is the ability to clone remote repositories to your local machine. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Setting_Up_Redis_for_PHP_Session_Storage_on Linux⠀⇛ Redis is an in-memory data structure store, widely used as a database, cache, and message broker. It is particularly useful for managing PHP sessions due to its high performance, low latency, and data persistence capabilities. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Top_10_JQ_Commands_Every_Linux_Developer_Should Know⠀⇛ JQ is a versatile command-line JSON processor for Linux that allows developers to parse, filter, and transform JSON data quickly and efficiently. Its powerful features make it an indispensable tool for anyone working with JSON files on Linux systems. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Practical_Examples_of_JSON_Processing_with_JQ_in Linux⠀⇛ JQ is a powerful and flexible command-line JSON processor for Linux, designed to parse, filter, and transform JSON data. Its lightweight nature and speed make it an essential tool for developers working with JSON files. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Pushing_new_local_branches_to_remote_git repositories⠀⇛ Git is an essential tool for developers, enabling efficient code versioning, management, and collaboration. One of the key aspects of working with Git is sharing local branches with remote repositories, allowing multiple team members to contribute to the same project. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Status_Resolved_ERROR:_2002_(HY000):_Can’t connect_to_local_MySQL_server_through_socket⠀⇛ It is very frustrating when you see this ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket on your terminal when you try to open MySQL. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Install_iRedMail_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Hello, friends. Today in this post, you will learn how to install iRedMail on Ubuntu 22.04 With iRedMail, you can deploy an OPEN SOURCE, FULLY FLEDGED, FULL-FEATURED mail server in several minutes, for free. iRedMail is a tool that allows you to quickly deploy a fully open-source mail server. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ LinuxStans ☛ 2023-03-24A_Distro-Hopper’s_Guide_to_Hacking_on Linux_for_Beginners⠀⇛ o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Ubuntu_20.04.6_Released!_Fix_Secure_Boot &_Integrate_Ubuntu_Pro⠀⇛ The Ubuntu team announced the 6th point release for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. According to the release note, Ubuntu 20.04.6 fixed the Secure Boot issue for the amd64 installer: Unlike previous point releases, 20.04.6 is a refresh of the amd64 installer media after recent key revocations, re-enabling their usage on Secure Boot enabled systems. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ SparkFun_Thing_Plus_module_supports Bluetooth_5_Low_Energy⠀⇛ The SparkFun Thing Plus NINA-B306 is a compact embedded device optimized for portable and wireless applications. This product is enabled with BLE 5.0 connectivity and it features a MicroSD card slot, 6-DoF IMU, an Environmental sensor and LiPo battery management. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Dead_Raspberry_Pi_Boards,_PMICs,_And_New_Hope⠀⇛ Since the Raspberry Pi 3B+ release, the Pi boards we all know and love gained one more weakpoint – the PMIC chip, responsible for generating all the power rails a Pi needs. Specifically, the new PMIC was way more vulnerable to shorting 5V and 3.3V power rails together – something that’s trivial to do on a Raspberry Pi, and would leave you with a bricked board. Just replacing the PMIC chip, the MxL7704, wouldn’t help since the Raspberry Pi version of this chip is customized – but now, on Raspberry Pi forums, [Nefarious19] has reportedly managed to replace it and revive their Pi. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Keychain_6809⠀⇛ When you think of tiny microcontroller boards, you probably think of a modern surface mount processor. Not [Andreas Jakob]. His 5×5 cm keychain computer rocks a 6809 CPU at a blistering 1 MHz or, if you prefer, a 6309 that runs at 5 MHz. The RAM — all 32K — is in a SMD package to make it fit, but the board also sports a 27C256 EPROM which means that chip and the CPU take up most of the PCB. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_users_urged_to_check_hidden app_settings_–_look_for_‘red_alert’_signs_as_soon_as_possible |_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Why_can’t_I_sync_blocked_numbers_to_a new_Android_phone?⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Turn_On_or_Off_the_Always_On_Display for_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Clear_The_Google_Maps_App_Cache_On_Your Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Disable_App_Notifications_On_Your Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Nubia_Pad_3D:_Pre-orders_open_for_new Android_tablet_with_innovative_3D_display_–_NotebookCheck.net News⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Enjoy_An_Open-Source_Espresso⠀⇛ One of the core principles of the open-source movement is that anyone who wants to build on a piece of work, in whatever way they want, is easily able to. With source code freely available, the original project can be expanded upon, modified, updated, or simply looked at and used as inspiration. Usually we think about this in the realm of software freedom, but hardware is an important component as well. And not just electronics hardware, either. [Norm] demonstrates this espresso machine which was built on these open-source foundations. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 2023-03-21Rare_Cosmic_Event_Will_See_5 Planets_Align_in_The_Sky._Here’s_How_to_Watch.⠀⇛ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Plan_To_Jam_Mobile_Phones_In_Schools_Is Madness⠀⇛ Mobile phones in schools. If you’re a teacher, school staffer, or a parent, you’ve likely got six hundred opinions about this very topic, and you will have had six hundred arguments about it this week. In Australia, push has come to shove, and several states have banned the use of mobile phones during school hours entirely. Others are contemplating doing the same. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Gordon_E._Moore,_the_Intel_Co-Founder Behind_Moore’s_Law,_Dies_at_94⠀⇛ His prediction in the 1960s about exponential advances in computer chip technology set a course for the age of high tech. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Digitizing_Sound_On_An_Unmodified_Sinclair ZX81⠀⇛ Whatever the first computer you used to manipulate digital audio was, the chances are it came with dedicated sound hardware that could play, and probably record, digitized audio. Perhaps it might have been a Commodore Amiga, or maybe a PC with a Sound Blaster. If you happen to be [NICKMANN] though, you can lay claim to the honor of doing so on a machine with no such hardware, because he managed it on an unmodified Sinclair ZX81. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Glowscope_Reduces_Microscope_Cost_By_Orders_Of Magnitude⠀⇛ As smartphones become more ubiquitous in society, they are being used in plenty of ways not imaginable even ten or fifteen years ago. Using its sensors to gather LIDAR information, its GPS to get directions, its microphone to instantly translate languages, or even use its WiFi and cellular radios to establish a wireless hotspot are all things which would have taken specialized hardware not more than two decades ago. The latest disruption may be in microscopy, as this build demonstrates a microscope that would otherwise be hundreds of thousands of dollars. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ The_GOP_was_the_antivax_party_before_Ron_DeSantis,_but_now he’s_turbocharged_its_resistance⠀⇛ Earlier this week, Vanity Fair published and article by Katherine Egan entitled Inside Ron DeSantis’s Plan to Ride Anti-vaxxism to the White House. I was inspired, if you will, to use this story as a starting point for today’s post because, while it didn’t report anything that I didn’t already know about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his embrace of antivax politics, it was nonetheless alarming for a couple of reasons. First, it represents what I see as the cementing of resistance to public health interventions, including vaccines, as key element that is part of the Republican Party’s identity now. Second, the story seems to lack a sense of history, treating this development not as the predictable result of a process dating back at least to 2010 or so, but as some new phenomenon that’s occurred since the pandemic. It’s not. I’ll start with the blurb after the title: # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Anti-Vax_Movement_and_the_Medical_Freedom Hustle⠀⇛ In December 2021, Francis Collins, the outgoing head of the $45 billion federal National Institutes of Health declared himself utterly flummoxed. “I never imagined,” the walrus-whiskered Collins told PBS, “a year ago…that we would still have 60 million people” resisting vaccines. This article has been adapted from Matt Hongoltz-Hetling’s If It Sounds Like a Quack…: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine. Copyright © 2023. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Utah_Law_Could_Curb_Use_of_TikTok_and Instagram_by_Children_and_Teens⠀⇛ The law, which prohibits social networks from allowing minors to have accounts without parental consent, may come as welcome news to many families even as it raises privacy concerns. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Senate_Dems_Blast_Medicare_Advantage_Giants Over_‘Exorbitant’_CEO_Pay⠀⇛ Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley are calling attention to the massive profits and “exorbitant” executive salaries of top Medicare Advantage insurers such as UnitedHealthcare and Humana, which are leading a lobbying blitz against efforts to combat widespread fraud in the privately run healthcare program. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ The_FBI’s_BreachForums_bust_is_causing ‘chaos_in_the_cybercrime_underground’⠀⇛ The dramatic fall of one of the preeminent cybercrime communities on the web will have major implications for the cybercrime markets. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ It’s_a_bot-eat-bot_world_as_cyber criminals_go_hi-tech⠀⇛ So-called deepfakes are being used to manipulate voters, launch business scams or even generate fake pornography to harass and extort. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ The_Candidate_and_the_Spy:_James Bamford_on_Israel’s_Secret_Collusion_with_Trump_to_Win 2016_Race⠀⇛ In his new book, Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence, investigative journalist James Bamford reveals that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispatched a secret Israeli agent to the United States in the spring of 2016 to help Donald Trump win the presidential election. The agent met with advisers to Trump and offered to share secret intelligence with the campaign against Hillary Clinton. Bamford’s investigation finds that while American media fixated on Russia’s role in swaying the 2016 election, Israeli interference was completely ignored. He joins us from Washington, D.C., for more on what’s been uncovered during his investigation. “The Israelis got what they wanted, and Trump got what he wanted, and the American public was screwed in the meantime,” Bamford says. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Norman_Solomon_on_the_Iraq_Invasion,_20_Years Later⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_accuses_Slovakia_of_violating_a_bilateral agreement_by_sending_fighter_jets_to_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) says that Slovakia took an “unfriendly step” toward Russia and violated its international obligations when it supplied Ukraine with MiG-29 fighter jets. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Imprisoned_rocket_scientist_offers_expert_help_to Russian_military_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A pardons commission in Russia’s Tula region has recommended granting a clemency petition submitted by a rocket scientist now serving a sentence in one of the region’s penal colonies. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ No_to_war-themed_commercial_branding_The_likes_of Heroic_Bucha_Kombucha,_Azovstal_radish_varietal,_and_Heroes Don’t_Die_beer_may_have_to_leave_the_market_as_Ukraine’s legislators_seek_a_ban_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A group of Verkhovna Rada legislators has proposed a bill to ban war-themed commercial branding in Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_opposition_politician_Elvira_Vikhareva reports_she_was_poisoned_with_heavy_metal_salts_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Moscow opposition politician Elvira Vikhareva was poisoned by heavy metal salts several months ago, the Russian outlet Sova reported on Friday, citing lab tests that Vikhareva underwent after she started experiencing symptoms. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Emerging_From_the_Bomb_Shelter:_My_Life_at World’s_End⠀⇛ Indulge me for a moment. This is how “The Prophecy” in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some of my classmates in the year we graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘People_Have_Been_Protesting_Against_Cop_City_Since We_Found_Out_About_It’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed Community Movement Builders’ Kamau Franklin about the fight against Cop City for the March 17, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump_Warns_of_‘Death_and_Destruction’_If He’s_Indicted⠀⇛ Government watchdogs on Friday said former President Donald Trump has potentially placed himself in even more legal jeopardyafter he threatened violence if he’s charged in a criminal case in New York. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Putin_Is_a_War_Criminal._Full_Stop._And_So Are_Many_US_Leaders_Never_Held_to_Account⠀⇛ It’s true – Russian president Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. As I wrote when the conflict with Ukraine began: “the attack on Ukraine was a clear violation of international law, and there is absolutely no excuse for this invasion.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Congress,_Do_Your_Job,_End_US_Support_for the_War_in_Yemen⠀⇛ Having just observed the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, the United States Senate is currently considering S. 316, a bill sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) to repeal the anachronistic Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iraq, which date to 1991 and 2002. This action is long overdue, and part of a recent effort by Congress to reclaim its constitutional authority over matters of war and peace. The Biden Administration supports the measure, which is significant as Joe Biden, as a US Senator, voted for the 2002 AUMF, while he opposed the 1991 measure. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Bombs_Syria_Two_Weeks_After_House_Voted Against_Withdrawing_Troops⠀⇛ The U.S. launched airstrikes in Syria on Thursday after one American contractor was killed and five service members were injured in an attack by a drone that the Pentagon claims was of “Iranian origin.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Pure_looting,_thievery,_and_banditry’_Russia_has seized_roughly_1,000_businesses_in_Ukraine’s_annexed_regions, new_investigation_finds_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Journalists from Novaya Gazeta Europe have discovered 1,150 companies on Ukraine’s annexed territories that are registered with the Russian government. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Kenya,_Uganda_strengthen_defence_ties⠀⇛ Senior officers from the Kenyan and Ugandan defence forces met in Nairobi this week to further cement “engagement and collaboration as partners seeking sustainable security solutions”. The two-day joint defence committee (JDC) meeting follows last year’s signing of a defence co-operation agreement. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania-Belarus_border_now_100-percent_surveilled_– ministry⠀⇛ Lithuania’s entire border with Belarus is now covered by surveillance systems, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, adding that the next step is to set up a patrol trail, with 20 million euros in EU funding sought for the project. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Iran_International:_Inside_the_“Saudi- Funded”_Network_Promoting_Regime_Change_in_Iran⠀⇛ Iran International: Alan Macleod reveals how a network of Western and Saudi interests converged to create the ultimate propaganda tool in a failed bid to overthrow the government of Iran. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Daniel_Ellsberg,_the_Man_Who_Leaked_the Pentagon_Papers,_Is_Scared⠀⇛ The whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg has never run out of secrets. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UK_Lawyers_Sign_‘Declaration_of_Conscience’ Not_to_Prosecute_Peaceful_Climate_Protesters⠀⇛ More than 120 mostly English lawyers on Friday published a “declaration of conscience” pledging to withhold their services from “supporting new fossil fuel projects” and “action against climate protesters exercising their democratic right of peaceful protest.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_Blow_to_Koch_and_Exxon,_Federal_Judges Say_Minnesota_Climate_Suit_Belongs_in_State_Court⠀⇛ Minnesota on Thursday scored a significant procedural win in a lawsuit seeking to hold Big Oil accountable for lying to consumers about the dangers of burning fossil fuels and thus worsening the deadly climate crisis. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Minnesota_Nuclear_Plant_Shuts_Down_After New_Leak_Near_Mississippi_River⠀⇛ The operator of a Minnesota nuclear power plant said the facility would be taken offline Friday to repair a new leak near the Mississippi River, an announcement that came a week after the company and state officials belatedly acknowledged a separate leak that occurred in November. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_to_skip_annual_Earth_Hour_campaign_after World_Wildlife_Fund_named_‘foreign_agent’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Kremlin will not take part in this year’s Earth Hour, an annual environmental awareness campaign sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in which participants around the world turn off the lights for one hour, according to the Russian state news outlet Interfax. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Cost_of_diesel_stubbornly_high as_war_ratchets_up_price⠀⇛ Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is partly to blame for inflated diesel prices, which have soared beyond the cost of regular petrol. The price of diesel remained significantly higher than petrol in the December quarter of 2022, with supplies reduced from Russia as well as from France because of refinery strikes. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ A_Hidden_Threat_to_Bats:_Hunting⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Entire_Towns_Evacuated_as_Climate- Fueled_Wildfires_Start_‘Very_Early’_in_Spain⠀⇛ A large wildfire raging in Spain’s eastern Valencia region forced more than 1,500 people to flee their homes on Friday, providing further evidence of life-threatening consequences of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis and bolstering the case for meaningful mitigation efforts. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘No_One’s…_Having_Fun’:_Surveys_Show Soaring_US_Economic_Pessimism⠀⇛ A pair of polls published Friday revealed that the rising cost of living is causing financial strain for most Americans—especially people with lower incomes—and that pessimism about the state and future of the country’s economy is pervasive and spreading. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Behind_Trump’s_Possible_Arrest_and_the Latest_Banking_Crisis_Lurks_the_Billionaire_Oligarchy⠀⇛ What connects the two biggest stories now dominating the news — Donald Trump’s likely arrest and the Fed’s bailouts of shaky banks? # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Private_Opulence_and_Public_Squalor_in_the US⠀⇛ The Federal Reserve is not working for the people but for wealthy individuals and corporations that can afford to have a say in the rules. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ You_Can’t_Even_Tell_Who’s_Rich_Anymore⠀⇛ One of the great disappointments of contemporary life is that in times of hopelessly vast income inequality, society’s arch-capitalists—and many very rich people in general—are boring. The zenith of their boringness? How they dress. Look, for example, at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg. Extremely rich guy. If you saw him on the street, walking around in a Patagonia vest and a quarter-zip pullover paired with chinos, you’d easily mistake him for one of your dad’s friends. Bill Gates dresses more like your friend’s granddad—khakis, long-sleeved rugby shirt, loafers. Elon Musk does that infuriating 2010s tech-guy thing where he pairs an ill-fitting blazer with a T-shirt and jeans. These men, when they wear suits, look like penguins, waddling around galas and red carpets completely ill at ease with themselves. It’s not just tech billionaires, either. If you flip through People, you’ll see ungodly rich actors and actresses being snapped in Nike sweatpants, Starbucks cups in hand. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “France_Is_Furious”:_Anger_Grows_at_Macron for_Raising_Retirement_Age_as_Millions_Strike_&_Protest⠀⇛ French unions say nearly 3.5 million people took to the streets Thursday in a nationwide general strike to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Macron forced the legislation through the French National Assembly last week, using a constitutional clause to bypass a parliamentary vote. Macron’s government survived a vote of no confidence Monday by just nine votes, but public anger shows no signs of abating, with France’s major trade unions planning another nationwide protest for Tuesday. “Not only is the government trying to do this pension reform that people see as fundamentally unfair, but they’re ignoring historically large protests even by French standards,” says journalist Cole Stranger from Marseille. His new guest essay in The New York Times is headlined “France Is Furious.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ You_Can’t_Solve_the_Homelessness_Crisis Without_Housing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Deutsche_Bank,_UBS_shares_hammered amid_banking_fears⠀⇛ Banking stocks have fallen sharply in Europe with heavyweights Deutsche Bank and UBS Group pummelled by worries the worst problems in the sector since the 2008 financial crisis have not yet been contained. Deutsche Bank fell for a third day, sinking more than 11 per cent o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Rep._Ro_Khanna_on_Regulating_Banks,_TikTok, China,_Ukraine_&_His_Vote_on_the_“Horrors_of_Socialism”⠀⇛ We speak with Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, regulating the banking sector, and how Federal Reserve interest rate hikes contributed to the banking crisis. Silicon Valley Bank was based in Khanna’s district in California, and he has criticized fellow Democrats who supported a 2018 bill that weakened oversight for some banks. “We need to regulate large regional banks the same way that we regulate the Big Four banks,” says Khanna. He also talks about growing concern from lawmakers about the social video app TikTok, the Biden administration’s policy on Taiwan and Ukraine, and more. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Twitter_to_revoke_‘legacy’_verified_badges as_Twitter_Blue_rolls_out_globally⠀⇛ Twitter Inc. today announced that it will revoke “legacy” verified badges in April as it made its Twitter Blue paid verification service available globally. ⚓ Techdirt ☛ How_Forcing_TikTok_To_Completely_Separate_Its_US_Operations_Could Actually_Undermine_National_Security⠀⇛ Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting to ban TikTok, citing national security concerns. The ban ultimately went nowhere — but not before TikTok and Oracle cobbled together “Project Texas” as an attempt to appease regulators’ privacy worries and keep TikTok available in the United States. ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Jim_Jordan_Weaponizes_The_Subcommittee_On_The_Weaponization_Of_The Gov’t_To_Intimidate_Researchers_&_Chill_Speech⠀⇛ As soon as it was announced, we warned that the new “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” (which Kevin McCarthy agreed to support to convince some Republicans to support his speakership bid) was going to be not just a clown show, but one that would, itself, be weaponized to suppress speech (the very thing it claimed it would be “investigating.”) ⚓ TruthOut ☛ WI_Supreme_Court_Candidate_Defends_Campaigning_With_“Stop_the Steal”_Organizer⠀⇛ ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ UK’s_biggest_online_publishers_in_February_2023:_Guardian_and Future_drop_out_of_top_20_as_Tiktok_enters⠀⇛ Press Gazette’s ranking of the biggest online publishers in the UK, using Ipsos iris data. ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ How_and_why_digital_publishers_should_consolidate_their_tech stacks⠀⇛ How having fewer technology tools under one system can drive revenue and subscriptions. ⚓ New York Times ☛ There’s_a_Problem_With_Banning_TikTok._It’s_Called_the_First Amendment.⠀⇛ American users of the social media platform are indisputably exercising their constitutional rights when they post and consume content on the site. ⚓ FAIR ☛ What_Fox’s_Bad_Calls_on_Election_Night_2020_Say_About_2024⠀⇛ The problems Fox News had on Election Night 2020 don’t bode well for the election of 2024. ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump_Rally_in_Waco_Called_Not_a_Dog_Whistle,_But_a_‘Blaring Air_Horn’_to_Far-Right⠀⇛ While former U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign insists it is purely coincidental that his planned Saturday rally in Waco, Texas falls during the 30th anniversary of a deadly 51-day siege targeting a religious cult, some Texans and extremism experts aren’t buying it. ⚓ Meduza ☛ Political_scientist_Abbas_Gallyamov_appears_on_Russia’s_federal ‘wanted’_list_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s Ministry of Internal affairs has put political scientist and consultant Abbas Gallyamov on the federal “wanted” list, reports Mediazona. ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Scorched-Earth_Politics’:_Indian_MP_Ousted,_Sentenced_to_2 Years_Over_Modi_Insult⠀⇛ Democracy defenders sounded the alarm Friday after senior Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was ousted from his parliamentary seat a day after being sentenced to two years in prison in a dubious defamation case involving an insult against the surname of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Whitmer_Signs_‘Historic’_Workers_Rights_Bills_Into_Law_in Michigan⠀⇛ Workers’ rights advocates in Michigan on Friday applauded as Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a repeal of the state’s so- called “right-to-work” law and restored the prevailing wage standard for state-funded construction projects. ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Which_Sucker_Companies_Are_Going_To_Pay_Elon_Musk_$1,000/Month_To Get_An_Ugly_Gold_Badge?⠀⇛ Elon Musk’s next big revenue bet is that companies really, really, really want to show up as “verified.” All evidence suggests that very few Twitter users are interested in paying Elon $8/month to constantly break the site or engage in ego-driven experiments that make the general experience worse. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Utah’s_Governor_Live_Streams_Signing_Of_Unconstitutional Social_Media_Bill_On_All_The_Social_Media_Platforms_He_Hates⠀⇛ On Thursday, Utah’s governor Spencer Cox officially signed into law two bills that seek to “protect the children” on the internet. He did with a signing ceremony that he chose to stream on nearly every social media platform, despite his assertions that those platforms are problematic. * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Man_Loses_Maine_Vanity_Plates_Describing_His_Love_For_Bean Mush⠀⇛ It’s absolutely stupid just how often we’ve had to write about issues surrounding license plates. For convoluted reasons that involve how plates, which are mandated on all cars by states, are government property, that means that a state disallowing a vanity plate therefore does not violate the First Amendment. There are caveats to that that have been explored by federal courts, while other plate-holders have won in the lower courts. And, yet, the disputes over what constitutes a “vulgar” vanity plate continue unabated. * ⚓ TruthOut ☛ AOC_Slams_GOP_for_Banning_Children’s_Book_“Life_of_Rosa Parks”_for_Being_“Woke”⠀⇛ * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Slam_Passage_of_GOP_‘Book_Banning_Bill’⠀⇛ Progressive lawmakers and education advocates on Friday condemned federal Republican lawmakers’ foray into the nationwide attack on people of color and the LGBTQ+ community as the GOP-led U.S. House passed the so-called Parents Bill of Rights Act—legislation that critics said is aimed at banning books and further ostracizing marginalized communities, while providing no improvements to children’s safety at school. * ⚓ EFF ☛ Victory_at_the_Ninth_Circuit:_Twitter’s_Content_Moderation_is_Not “State_Action”⠀⇛ Twitter is a private entity, so the government and the courts cannot tell it what speech it must remove or what speech it must carry. The First Amendment restricts censorship only by the government, not private entities, unless those entities are using government power or otherwise effectively acting as the government. But in O’Handley, even if Twitter and the government were “generally aligned in their missions to limit the spread of misleading election information[, s]uch alignment does not transform private conduct into state action.” Moreover, as we argued in our amicus brief in the case, holding Twitter liable for content moderation would likely violate the platform’s own First Amendment rights. For example, when Twitter took down plaintiff Rogan O’Handley’s tweets and then his account, it made an editorial decision about what content it would publish.  O’Handley’s lawsuit, relied on the fact that the California Office of Election Cybersecurity flagged one of O’Handley’s tweets for supposedly violating Twitter’s misinformation policy. But as the Ninth Circuit explained, Twitter developed and applied that policy at its discretion, and the government did not order Twitter to take any action. The court said, and we argued in our brief, that Twitter is not a state actor unless it “ceded control” over its content moderation process to the government. In general, the government is free to talk to Twitter, and Twitter is free to listen (or not listen). § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Jailed_Russian_opposition_politician_Alexey_Navalny_sent_to ‘punishment_cell’_for_‘improperly_introducing_himself’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny, who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence, has been sent to a “punishment cell” for the 12th time in eight months. According to a post he made on Twitter, Navalny’s “offense” was “improperly introducing himself.” * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Amazon_Union_Gets_Favorable_Finding_on_Warehouse Access_for_Organizing⠀⇛ Federal labor regulators said that Amazon had illegally barred off-duty employees from work sites and that the policy was aimed at union backers. * ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Judge_Denies_Bond_for_8_People_Rounded_Up_in_Mass_Arrest_for Opposing_Cop_City⠀⇛ * ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Cop_City:_Judge_Denies_Bond_to_People_Rounded_Up_in Mass_Arrest_for_Opposing_Police_Training_Facility⠀⇛ In Atlanta, a judge has denied bond for 8 of the people indiscriminately arrested at a music festival against the proposed “Cop City” police training facility in the Weelaunee Forest. Jailed since March 5, they are charged with domestic terrorism based on scant evidence like muddy clothes or simply being in the area at the time of the festival. We’re joined by Micah Herskind, an Atlanta community organizer, who calls the charges “political prosecutions” and a blatant “attempt to repress this social movement that is trying to stop Cop City.” * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Speechless’:_US,_Canada_Agree_on_Plan_to_Turn_Away Asylum-Seekers⠀⇛ In a move that critics say will push people to attempt more dangerous border crossings, the United States and Canada on Friday are expected to announce an agreement allowing both countries to block migrants from seeking asylum at unofficial points of entry. § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Biden_Administration_Makes_It_Clear_Broadband_Consumer Protection_Has_Never_Been_Much_Of_A_Priority⠀⇛ Earlier this month we noted how a successful, often homophobic smear campaign scuttled the nomination of popular reformer Gigi Sohn to the FCC. The GOP and telecom sector, as usual, worked in close collaboration to spread all manner of lies about Sohn, including claims she was an unhinged radical that hated Hispanics, cops, puppies, and freedom. * ⚓ Internet Society ☛ Fostering_the_Next_Generation_at_the_NDSS Symposium⠀⇛ The NDSS Symposium fosters the next generation of Internet security leaders—like 16-Year-old California high school student Aditya Puri. § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ American_Farm_Bureau_Continues_To_Sell_Out_Farmers_On Meaningful_‘Right_To_Repair’_Reform⠀⇛ We’ve noted how agricultural machinery giants like John Deere have spent several years waging war on independent tractor repair shops in a bid to monopolize maintenance and drive up costs. We’ve also noted that every time industry promises to stop doing this, it turns out they’re largely full of shit. § Monopolies⠀➾ * § Trademarks⠀➾ o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Is_“THE_HARRIMAN_HOTEL”_Primarily Merely_a_Surname_for_Hotel_Services?⠀⇛ The USPTO refused to register THE HARRIMAN HOTEL for hotel, real estate, and health spa services, deeming the mark to be primarily merely a surname under Section 2(e) (4). Applicant argued that HARRIMAN is a rare surname (ranking 6694th in the 2010 Census list of surnames occurring 100 or more times), and that, because William Averell_Harriman is an historical figure, HARRIMAN would not likely be perceived by consumers as primarily a surname but rather would be seen as referring specifically to him. How do you think this came out? * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ New_Pirate_IPTV_Bill_Moved_to_Senate_as_Italy Takes_on_‘Digital_Mafias’⠀⇛ A bill designed to crack down on pirate IPTV services has been unanimously approved by Italy’s Chamber of Deputies. If passed by the Senate, telecoms regulator AGCOM, broadcasters, and anti-piracy affiliates are poised and ready to go. Pirate streams will be blocked within minutes, maybe even seconds, according to reports. Stream suppliers will face three years in prison and for those who watch them, 5,000 euro fines will be on the table. o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Neil_Young_Says_‘Concert_Touring_Is_Broken’ After_The_Cure/Ticketmaster_Debacle⠀⇛ Following The Cure’s showdown with Ticketmaster, Neil Young says the current concert touring model is broken. “It’s over. The old days are gone,” Neil Young begins his complaint. He says he gets letters from fans who are angry at $3,000 tickets for a benefit concert. § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ Monster_Trivia⠀⇛ o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CIUNOTJ_Wordo:_HILUM⠀⇛ o ⚓ Neighborhood_Twilight_2023-03-24_(Fairbanks,_UK,_USA)⠀⇛ I had plans to go see the sunset tonight, but those plans fell through, due to circumstances outside my control. I took a little walk through the neighborhood, however, and got one idyllic photo… o ⚓ Album_#211:_Fairport_Convention_–_Unhalfbricking⠀⇛ If you go to a record fair in the UK, you’d be forgiven for thinking Fairport Convention was a *genre* rather than a band. Which is exactly the sort of mainstream recognition that would make past me decide not to bother with a band. Today’s pick is past me being shown up once again. * § Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ Fix_Democracy⠀⇛ Israelis now protest a proposed reform to the Hich Court of Justice because they are afraid that Israel will become a dictatorship. I fo to some of the protests. but I do not go to block highways. When large masses of people protests that way and the government cannnot control the population by law enforcement, there’s is a folly about which you can read in Barbara W. Tuchman’s book “Yhe March of Folly”. o ⚓ Love_the_sinners,_hate_the_sin?⠀⇛ Earlier this month, conservative talking head Michael Knowles ignited a controversy over his statement, both on his TV show and at the CPAC 2023, that called for an “eradication of transgenderism.” Knowles then accused the media outlets that reported his speech as a call for genocide, of a “libel” and demanded retractions. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ Looking_at_new_search_engines⠀⇛ I happened across a small number of lesser known search engines and decided to try them out. I’m excluding any that didn’t work. o ⚓ Oracle_Cloud_might_screw_me_over⠀⇛ o ⚓ Podcast_numbers⠀⇛ 2019-03-01 Podcast Numbers talked about estimating the number of listeners for a podcast. These days my web server only keeps logs for 4 days. Thus, stats are limited. Here’s what I did for the Internet Office Hours. o § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Two_Key_Takeaways_from_“A_Philosophy_of_Software_Design”⠀⇛ This past week I’ve been reading “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout. I picked up the book after watching his talk on YouTube[1] that gives a general overview of the themes. The ebook was only a few quid and whilst its not super long its still great value for money. Probably the best serious tech book I’ve read to date, although not as fun as Ed Mastery by Michael W Lucas[2]. The main idea that Ousterhout argues is that good software design is not just about writing code that works, but also about creating code that is easy to understand, maintain, and modify over time. He has various pointers towards good design and red flags to identify bad design, but there are really two key points that I walk away with. First, the importance of thinking strategically rather than tactically, and second how the value of abstractions comes in the size of the ratio between their interface and their implementation. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Jenkins_Demo_Stand_For_Modern_Times⠀⇛ Once you’re working on large-scale software projects, automation is a lifesaver, and Jenkins is a strong player in open-source automation – be it software builds, automated testing or deploying onto your servers. Naturally, it’s historically been developed with x86 infrastructure in mind, and let’s be fair, x86 is getting old. [poddingue], a hacker and a Jenkins contributor, demonstrates that Jenkins keeps up with the times, with a hardware demo stand called miniJen, that has Jenkins run on three non-x86 architectures – arm8v (aarch64), armv7l and RISC-V. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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