𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, April 03, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 4 Apr 02:40:41 BST 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/03/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmVBWP1XyYrgiEM5MtCsaAytnbkitrsRFUTzhSgjw36gYN QmVASZRXkc3QcYipcVb7qCKuwVoj9ZQrNVYZx7nQ2RPD94 QmZ1N4Vu26u6CCCsKi27LVN42xJsBjGYE2xb1iRyPmuNqc QmUUYcWLk17SXhvNzycR7MpECHasi3J8t7VwM6z61dv2nu QmaqjhzvekN5WBAZaYzr8Ucqunzwi6SteXSx86yMNoVSdE QmVAyUDY1iWf4k82n58GPxWfdrRqQTnHSjtuTttFsnydYx QmeRe31Nm7EfUFp5BxGk2dZMjnuxLERAkHyreVL6meDH84 QmQeFJQZ3HkPF4nR4UnfSSDua2yuQG5R4xeL62uWkCNiCG QmYeqndJUEciynuvEFZb11F6xnYuspBohuERc9a9tu5gS2 QmUXUNDJQ5vi3kbs4mHpxvBEWZJbck83nNtAVMi4wJsEQ6 QmcUpvsckHPM5NPUPS6gA9ce5ym1pVc19LKaPD7q1uMf74 QmTUTyUW7xR71QVYrTQEx8WemNeazwLzEfFVgqJrMjeR1c QmQSDbMx49Qp1evxonhU6ywRqyMxJV692GP9fytMjANAK6 QmS6fwEQ3Yvttg3ziCQJcGBP3t9mEXoo8WNzghRGVcQGX8 QmWHLxvHKRKrcrbjLpzpBTTGh859JgSQJuo7AHVpAUWV7x QmWm4edZaVvNMuBZzAa4oDApS61pFXU7zhe1rpSBqcntdr QmUrwP7MBt8inhtUu4Mvpm1u98tHfeRdavasm4yZqHa9Hf QmZz4PybmqwxQvJ6383XsbijS6b7BRGW5rSKMTvsLRtRae QmZjKTQkXEAPfBEY76e1SGVHsMwytpPPn1a8p7edRrF2LX QmdoYCxjao8GwYGeyKLdbrSRj8BjRWqcG7GWs3MEZqUTbC QmVfyaoN6BBrhg7UGMEZXNQB1uog2x7QLBu3AvJQEVNTmC ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Microsoft Lays Off African Staff as Windows Market Share in Africa Falls to 15% | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 02, 2023 | Techrights ⦿ Linux Foundation is Outsourcing Linux Development and Communications to Surveillance Giants | Techrights ⦿ Environmental Sustainability at EPO Must Become More Than a Buzzword | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/african-staff-laid-off-by-microsoft/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/irc-log-020423/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/linux-foundation-is-outsourcing-linux-development-and-communications-to-surveillance-giants/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/sustainability-beyond-buzzword/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/compudopt/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/freebsd-13-2-rc6/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/krita-plans/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 58 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/african-staff-laid-off-by-microsoft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/03/african-staff-laid-off-by-microsoft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.03.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Microsoft_Lays_Off_African_Staff_as_Windows_Market_Share_in_Africa_Falls_to 15%⠀✐ Posted in Africa, Deception, Finance, Microsoft, Servers, Windows at 7:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: Microsoft is rapidly shrinking while the media is paid to run a festival about “Hey Hi” (AI), distracting from what really goes on at the company BEHIND the smokescreen of chaffbots and fake figures (e.g. about Vista 11′s adoption rates) there is a very dark reality. Last week I heard from two people connected to the company. The workers are terrified. Not only colleagues but also managers just ‘vanish’. Morale is awful. Only_15%_of_Web_accesses_in_Africa_originate_from_Windows and this exacerbates further after Microsoft was paying Kenyans just $2 an hour to work for Microsoft, reportedly trying to ‘correct’ the output from Microsoft’s epic waste of electricity, trying to put over-provisioned and under-utilised Azure to work; let’s face it, Azure is failing and many there have been laid off for 3_years_already! There are more_reports_from_TheLayoff. It’s impossible_to_keep track_of_the_number_of_waves_of_layoffs_anymore. Have over 20,000 Microsoft employees been shown the door or given notice yet? 30,000? Anyone deviating away from Microsoft’s “official” talking points is being ridiculed and dismissed as crazy. The media helps Microsoft cement a lie, belittling the crisis. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇How_very_tolerant_those_Microsofters⦈_ How many Cantrells are on Microsoft’s payroll? It was covered_in_a_local_site: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_begins_wave_of_African_layoffs_in_Kenya⦈_ More to come for sure. Microsoft is also firing_many_workers_in_India, so it’s not about the ‘price’ of workers, nor is this a case of eliminating_Seattle_area_jobs to hire in India instead (to reduce salaries). Even the buzzwords departments are being scuttled_completely (and all staff laid off). More on this: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Metaverse_layoffs_at_Microsoft⦈_ Are shareholders being properly informed about all this? 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It’s neither pragmatic nor desirable, but impractical workflows enable control from above, not by peer (like peer_review). Linus Torvalds on using webmail: “I only have a web browser, which is how I read e-mail and a couple of terminal windows open, which is where I end up doing my Git pulls and any coding although the coding part is not that common any more.” (Partial transcript) http://techrights.org/videos/Linus_Torvalds_e-mail.jYUZAF3ePFE.webm Video_download_link | original/full Summary: It seems like Mr. Torvalds, the founder of Linux, has been tragically compelled to use proprietary software for E-mail (the primary means/tool for collaboration around Linux); this concerning trend, however, would be consistent with a lot of what we’ve been seeing from Jim_'respect_Microsoft' Zemlin and his_associates_at_the_Board_of_Directors_(proprietary_software boosters) THE Linux_Foundation‘s insistence on the use of Microsoft’s proprietary GitHub has long been documented here. It’s done in defiance of racist_elements_of GitHub (it is still_getting_worse); the so-called ‘Linux’ Foundation cares about racism as much as it cares about Linux… i.e. a token or symbolic ‘care’. Git has not been abandoned entirely. kernel.org still uses it, but almost everything else is outsourced to Microsoft (GitHub is proprietary) by the so- called ‘Linux’ Foundation. “Git has not been abandoned entirely. kernel.org still uses it, but almost everything else is outsourced to Microsoft (GitHub is proprietary) by the so- called ‘Linux’ Foundation.”GPL has also not been abandoned entirely. The ‘Linux’ Foundation almost never adopts it anymore. For Linux there’s no other choice (GPLv2). But almost everything else is pushed towards non-reciprocal licensing by the ‘Linux’ Foundation. In other words, it’s made more friendly towards proprietary traps and spyware like chaffbots from Microsoft (Microsoft later_blames_“open_source”_for_bugs). There are many other issues that we won’t focus on today, including the ‘Linux’ Foundation abandoning_Free_software_for_its_own_Web_sites (this sends a self- defeating message, discrediting the mission statement!) and producing pretty much all the material using proprietary software on proprietary operating systems, no matter how often various productive people blast the Foundation for that. Check who runs the Foundation. They still_do_this, totally undeterred and un-receptive to constructive criticism. It’s Hubris. It’s madness. This morning we explained the situation when it comes to E-mail and communications in general. Back in the old days when I exchanged E-mails with Linus Torvalds he still used Pine (latest_and_final_release_in_2005). The ‘Linux’ Foundation, at least some of its staff, used Microsoft Office. This was evident from message headers. They habitually mailed me. “Back in the old days when I exchanged E-mails with Linus Torvalds he still used Pine…”What are they using now? Well, it seems like Torvalds uses ‘webmail’ instead of real E-mail, but is that truly what he chose? Was this imposed on him? Well, ‘webmail’ is notorious for all sorts of reasons (not just ‘offline’ reading), including the ability to spy on every action of the user. The ‘telemetry’ would keep track of what was pressed when, how long things were read for, and sometimes even mouse movements (JavaScript can do that). Think of it as ‘Linux’ Foundation bosses watching over Torvalds’ shoulder as he works from inside his home in Portland. Is that humane? Is this necessary? With the above trends noted, let’s consider E-mail. Only about 15 hours ago I saw the Linux_6.3-rc5_announcement and something stood out as a tad conspicuous. Linus Torvalds did not sign the E-mail with his name as he always does (indented a bit, several whitespaces from the left). I never saw this before, but it was way too minor to make a fuss about. A useful idea would be collect all E-mails for RCs/final releases, then assess if he ever left out his signature before. Basically a survey how many he signed… but I think that’s all of them in recent years; I watch them carefully every weekend (usually Sundays) and reproduce them. And no, the subject of this article isn’t the signature per se but what that gradually us to; it would come across as being overly pedantic if not “conspiratorial” to obsess over such a minor thing. “For sure the MX records now point to google.com.”What interests us more is what Torvalds nowadays uses for E-mail or what his employer is using. That might help explain a bunch of other things, including this_rant_from_7.5_years ago (“GOOGLE GMAIL ATE MY LINUX: Gobbled email enrages Torvalds”“). One associate of ours started to “wonder if that was an oversight or what [actually] happened. Have they forced a change in his mail client? Moved to Microsoft Outlook instead of regular mail?” His colleagues did use Outlook. I saw that a long time ago. Well, the project was not de-personified (it’s still called after the founder, who is a de facto Release Manager who deals mostly with communications and writes some mock/pseudo code in E-mail). As a ‘Linux’ Foundation Fellow or a Principal Developer, taking charge of kernel.org only indirectly (a Russian person handles most of the infrastructure; someone from the Ural region), does Torvalds have much of a say on what to use for E-mail in the ‘Linux’ Foundation (using a trademark he controls)? In a sense, he said they had him use webmail (an old video from the Foundation; clipped above) and one can check the headers of the original messages, relayed outwards from Linux kernel mailing lists (LKML). Last time I exchanged messages with him he was using Pine, but maybe he did change his E-mail client at some point; maybe he never uses Pine anymore. Judging by the latest message and the_message_headers, there’s lots of Google and “the mirrors for LKML seem gone (just see the_first_few_links_there),” an associate said. “If someone out there can confirm that the ‘Linux’ Foundation outsourced to GMail, that certainly can help. But the evidence above seems almost sufficient.”“Someone familiar with mail headers would have to take a look and decide how early Google is involved. It could be that Linus has been forced into GMail but that seems unrealistic to me,” the associate added. For sure the MX_records now point to google.com. As MinceR has said today, “doesn’t that confirm it?” And “from here, % dig linuxfoundation.com MX also returns stuff pointing to google.com” To reproduce this: $ dig mx linux-foundation.org | grep -E '^[[:alnum:]]' linux-foundation.org. 253 IN MX 10 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. linux-foundation.org. 253 IN MX 10 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. linux-foundation.org. 253 IN MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. linux-foundation.org. 253 IN MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. linux-foundation.org. 253 IN MX 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. “In a different list,” the associate added, “the MessageIDs indicate that Linus Tovalds is a victim of GMail. So as unrealistic as it may be, it might be the case. Independent confirmation is necessary.” “So what exactly is going on and when did the change occur?”He also used Google+ and a variety of other Google disservices. Using GMail does not seem so improbable; he would not put up a fight or much resistance. If someone out there can confirm that the ‘Linux’ Foundation outsourced to GMail, that certainly can help. But the evidence above seems almost sufficient. “If it can be confirmed,” the associate noted, “it would be important to note that LF is no longer self-hosting and one could then speculate about using inefficient web-mail in place of highly efficient (relatively speaking) clients. I’m not familiar enough with mail setup or mail headers to make more than suspicions. However the above lines could be useful if checked by someone sufficiently knowledgeable.” “Torvalds has already said, on official record/video in fact, that he uses webmail, probably not Zimbra or something that’s Free software or partially “Open Source”.”The latest message from Torvalds does not specify the client used in its_headers, unlike headers_of_other_messages. It’s fair to say that’s strange as those used to be very basic fields, albeit not quite mandatory. “The big question would be the clients,” the associate said. “It is all but impossible to use anything other than GMail’s own web-mail client. The LKML list might not have enough unredacted_detail_on_the_clients_though. [...] Web mail is very clumsy, awkward, and slow to use. People like it for those reasons though because all the soporific clicking is comforting as they get no work done… Remember that Linux_kernel_development_still_uses_E-mail (for good reasons). So what exactly is going on and when did the change occur? An associate said “it would be essential to note which year Linus Torvalds via the Linux Foundation was forced into GMail and when (if) he was forced into webmail. No one would voluntarily use web-mail for managing patches.” Based on the above-cited article, that may have happened years ago. Torvalds has already said, on official record/video in fact, that he uses webmail, probably not Zimbra or something that’s Free software or partially “Open Source”. Probably not some Web mirror/archive either. “No one would voluntarily use web-mail for managing patches.”       –Techrights Associate“Modern” webmail is good for “monitoring” (bossing) staff with “telemetry” (JavaScript is not “optional” after projects like Horde or like SquirrelMail got deprecated; the latter has_had_no_release_in_12 years). In most cases, webmail is like Slack, but it is not “Real-Time” (like IRC is); the fallbacks for JavaScript-free interfaces were also deprecated in recent years, e.g. by Twitter and Outlook ‘web’ access. Obtrusive interfaces have become harder is not impossible to dodge. Webmail “is a poor way of skimming through and triaging messages,” our associate said, whereas a proper mail client has none of these issues. Webmail “does farm clicks as [webmail's] victims “emit behaviors” for Google to monetise…” Several years ago full-time Microsoft employees who had entered the Board (Microsoft_just_bought_some_seats) lobbied/pushed_to_move_Linux,_the_kernel,_to Microsoft's_GitHub. That caused somewhat of an uproar and never happened at the end. Now that GitHub has had several waves_of_layoffs (the media barely mentioned it) we hope that such nefarious moves won’t be re-attempted. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 627 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/sustainability-beyond-buzzword/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/03/sustainability-beyond-buzzword/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.03.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Environmental_Sustainability_at_EPO_Must_Become_More_Than_a_Buzzword⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 8:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz And sure, granting loads of monopolies on alternative energy only exacerbates the climate crisis 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_greening⦈_ Summary: Battistelli’s ‘Nemesis’, Ion Brumme, wrote a letter to Battistelli’s sidekick last week; the EPO is being challenged to pursue real sustainability rather than name-drop that as a buzzword WHEN António_Campinos was parachuted into the EPO by his mate Benoît Battistelli, serving in a role he was not qualified to fill, Campinos reportedly spared not much time. He told Ion Brumme he would be better off leaving; remember that Battistelli attacked Brumme and the EPO was forced to reinstate_Brumme only years later when ILOAT finally delivered a much-needed ruling. Months ago Brumme_wrote_about_the_situation and it doesn’t look too good. Now, after another election in Munich, the Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) kicks into action. Brumme writes as Vice-Chair of LSCMN. “In this letter,” LSCMN explains, “we propose that the Office considers financially supporting the purchase of these tickets by staff up to a 100% refund.” Since Campinos fancies_talking_about_"sustainability"_all_the_time (distracting from the EPO’s abuses) maybe he should listen. Here’s the full letter from Brumme, dated about a week ago: European Patent Office 80298 Munich Germany Local Staff Committee Munich Comité local du personnel de Munich Örtlicher Personalausschuss München Email: mnstcom@epo.org Date: 29.03.2023 sc23010ml European Patent Office | LSC Munich | GERMANY President of the EPO Mr António Campinos via email PRESIDENT@epo.org OPEN LETTER Subject: Deutschlandticket – Environmental sustainability Dear Mr. President, The yearly environmental report of 2021, section 5.9 “Employee commuting and teleworking”, recites that “[i]t is important that, while improving our approach in estimating category 7 emissions, we will continue to incentivise the use of public transport and bicycles for staff travelling to our premises.” In our opinion, there is a good chance to achieve that now in Germany, with the introduction in May of the new “Deutschlandticket”. This ticket will cost €49 per month and be valid on local transport in the whole of Germany, thus in both Munich and Berlin. There is an offer for employers offering this ticket as a “JobTicket”: if the employer supports this ticket by at least 25%, the price is reduced by 5% so that the price of the Deutschlandticket for employees is at most €34.50. You have already subsidised the use of e-cars for EPO employees (and their families). By also subsiding the Deutschlandticket the Office can show that it does not neglect public transportation as a viable alternative to individual transportation when trying to limit the global environmental footprint of employees. To this end, we propose that the Office considers financially supporting the purchase of these tickets by staff up to a 100% refund. For our part we strongly recommend that our colleagues be encouraged to use this ticket to travel to work. With kind regards, Ion Brumme Vice-Chair of the Local Staff Committee Munich City, Haar und Brussels “Environmental sustainability” is something that EPO management only ever pretends to care about. For instance, it compels people to not work from the office and instead turn on the heating in a cold winter… in thousands of households. There are other examples of contradictions in policies; the staff union points them out routinely. █ ⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⡳⣝⢷⡀⠀⠀⣟⣫⣻⣟⣻⡛⠛⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣽⡾⡏⡇⠀⠀⣤⡤⣤⣀⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣏⣸⣻⢷⣧⡇⠀⠀⠶⠶⠾⠖⠴⠷⠶⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⢀⠲⠾⢾⣫⠟⠚⠀⠀⠀⠶⠖⡶⠶⠶⡶⠶⠶⠶⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣀⣈⣙⣛⣉⣁⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣾⣿⣯⣿⣤⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣴⣽⣿⣴⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣵⣷⣿⣯⣴⣿⣯⣶⣤⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣿⣯⣷⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⠿⡿⢿⠿⣿⠿⡿⢿⣿⡿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣥⣴⣿⣶⣴⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣧⣷⣦⣬⣿⣯⣶⣿⣿⣮⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⠿⠿⢿⢿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣧⣿⣦⣿⣴⣼⣼⣧⣿⣼⣧⣧⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣫⣸⣷⣅⣅⣗⣇⣿⣧⣧⣤⣼⣇⣇⣗⣧⣾⣇⣥⣾⣢⣼⣗⣧⣬⣸⣺⣭⣿⣼⣷⣤⣽⣷⣕⣥⣬⣶⣤⣸⣮⣼⣼⣼⣆⣟⣴⣴⣇⣥⣴⣇⣤⣺⣧⣤⣏⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 781 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.03.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_03/04/2023:_Compudopt_and_Red_Hat_at_30⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:14 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # Python * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Security 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 Monopolies # Patents * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Music o Technical # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ PineTab2_and_PineTab-V_Linux_tablets_will_launch April_11⠀⇛ While the Android tablet market seems to be cooling, the Linux tablet world is starting to gain some traction, thanks in large part to Pine64 and their PineTab. The company’s latest Linux tablet, the PineTab2, is set to launch on April 11 at a budget-tier price. The PineTab2, which was revealed back in December, is a low-powered tablet that supports the Linux kernel and can run a variety of Linux distributions, or “distros.” The PineTab2 is the successor to the original PineTab, which proved to be an interesting experiment that struggled with real-world usability. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Compact_Camera_Running_Linux?_What’s_Not_To_Like⠀⇛ One of the devices swallowed up by the smartphone for the average person is the handheld camera, to the extent that the youngsters are reported to be now rediscovering 20- year-old digital cameras for their retro cool factor. Cameras aren’t completely dead though, as a mirrorless compact or a DSLR should still blow the socks off a phone in competent hands. They’ve been around long enough to be plentiful secondhand, which makes [Georg Lukas]’ look at a ten-year-old range of models from Samsung worth a second look. Why has a deep dive into old cameras caught our eye? These cameras run Linux, in the form of Samsung’s Tizen distribution. His interest in the range comes from owning one since 2014, and it’s in his earlier series of posts on hacking that camera that we find some of the potential it offers. Aside from the amusement that it runs an unprotected X server, getting to a root shell is fairly straightforward as we covered at the time, and it turns out to be a very hackable device. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Essential_System_Utilities:_bottom_– graphical_process/system_monitor_for_the_terminal⠀⇛ Essential System Utilities is a series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For details of all tools in this series, please check the table at the bottom. bottom is billed as a customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. The utility draws inspiration from gtop, gotop and htop, tools which will be familiar to seasoned LinuxLinks readers. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ HP_Linux_Imaging_and_Printing_Now_Supports Linux_Mint_21.1,_Ubuntu_22.10⠀⇛ Arriving five months after the HPLIP 3.22.10 release, which was a small update only adding support for Manjaro Linux 21.3, openSUSE Leap 15.4, RHEL 9.0, Linux Mint 21.0, and MX Linux 21.2, the HPLIP 3.23.3 release brings support for new distros, including Linux Mint 21.1, Ubuntu 22.10, Fedora Linux 37, elementary OS 7, and MX Linux 21.3. It also supports the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 distributions. This means that you can now use your HP printer or scanner device on any of these new Ubuntu, Linux Mint, MX Linux, Fedora, RHEL, or elementary OS distributions if you install the latest HP Linux Imaging and Printing drivers. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Install_KDE_Plasma_on_Linux_Mint_with Very_Simple_Steps⠀⇛ Not finding Cinnamon attractive enough? Switch to KDE Plasma. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ The_Reason_Why_Valve_Is_Not_Sharing_Steam Deck_Sales_Numbers⠀⇛ As I was reviewing the predictions that we had made for the year 2022, one of them had become very hard to assess: the one about the number of Steam Deck units sold. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Package_manager_consolidation⠀⇛ I have created a tutorial about the three package managers in Easy: https://easyos.org/user/package-manager-concepts.html …and they might be joined by a fourth; Flatpak. Heading toward consolidation of these package managers, the “sfs” icon has been removed from the desktop: [...] o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Package_manager_concepts_tutorial⠀⇛ A new tutorial page: There may be a third package manager soon, as I am thinking of supporting Flatpaks. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ethical_Hacking_Distro_BlackArch_Linux_Gets_New ISO_Release_with_over_2800_Tools⠀⇛ The BlackArch Linux developers have been very quiet for the past year, but today they finally released new ISOs and OVA images that include more than 2800 penetration testing and hacking tools, as well as a new version of their text-based installer, an enhanced Vim setup, and the latest Linux 6.2 kernel. You can study all the 2842 tools included in BlackArch Linux here. The devs did not yet provide details about what else is included in the new ISO images, but they’re more than welcome for those who want to deploy BlackArch Linux on new computers without having to download hundreds of updates from the repositories. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Red_Hat_30th anniversary:_Celebrating_Red_Hat_Day_in_North_Carolina⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Red_Hat_Shares_– Security_automation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Red_Hat_Customer Portal_launches_new_UX_for_search⠀⇛ o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Mint ☛ Linux_Mint:_Monthly_News_–_March_2023⠀⇛ Many thanks to you all for your support and your donations! Today we’re revealing some of the visual changes we’ve been working on in preparation for the next release. This was well received and it provided a lot of options for users to choose from. That said, a few issues caught our attention. The huge variety of themes and color variants created clutter and made it harder for users to locate a particular theme. Some icon themes work well with some control themes but not with others. The welcome screen provides a way to quickly switch from light to dark and from one color to another but it has its own limitation: It only works with the Mint-Y theme and only in our distribution. With this in mind we decided to design a solution which could work for any theme and any distribution and which would make it much easier to browse and pick without having to go through long lists of installed themes and without worrying about compatibility. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Closing_the_digital_divide_with Compudopt_and_Ubuntu_Desktop⠀⇛ Compudoptis a US based organisation with an inspiring mission; to provide technology access and education to under-resourced youth and their communities. This goal speaks to the heart of Ubuntu’s ownmission, to bring free software to the widest audience. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Making_jackets_smarter_by_letting_them_smell⠀⇛ Few things are worse than going to exercise, coming back home, and then realizing that you have been nose blind the entire time to your own odor. In order to detect the potential stench before anyone else does, Luke Berndt and his daughter, Elena, teamed up to create the Smelling Fresh, Feeling Fresh! project. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Micro_robot_arm_controls_macro_robot_arm⠀⇛ Building a capable robot is only half of the battle. To take advantage of that robot, you’ll need a good way to control it. When it makes sense, you can pre-program movements. But when you want to control a robot in real time, you need suitable controller. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ Ranking_all_19_versions_of_Android,_from worst_to_best_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ Hide_apps:_Android_Privacy_guide:_How_to_hide apps,_files,_and_pictures_to_tackle_peeping_toms?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Acer_W_Series_4K_QLED_Android_TV_has_just arrived_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_7T_Android_12_update_broke_dual-SIM_functionality⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 10_Tips_for_New_Android_TV_Users⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Jon Udell ☛ The_Mastodon_plugin_is_now_available_on_the_Steampipe Hub⠀⇛ When Twitter changed hands last November I switched to Mastodon; ever since I’ve enjoyed happier and more productive social networking. To enhance my happiness and productivity I began working on a Mastodon plugin for Steampipe. My initial goal was to study the fediverse writ large. Which people and which servers are powerful connectors? o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Google ☛ How_WebAssembly_is_accelerating_new_web functionality⠀⇛ WebAssembly is fundamentally changing how new developer capabilities and functionality can be created on the web. In order to maintain browser interoperability, new web capabilities need to go through a rigorous standardization process and cross browser implementations. Decades of major investment has pushed the browser functionality to astonishing heights, but this process can take time and the web doesn’t need to have every capability built in. After years of investing in lower level capabilities that act as building blocks for higher level functionality, we are seeing a new dawn of expanded functionality at a dramatically expanded pace. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ YAML_could_do_better._Please_try_again_(TOML)⠀⇛ Are TOML or JSON better options than YAML? # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_re-search.py_Version 0.0.22⠀⇛ This update to re-search.py, my tool to search text files with regular expressions, brings several new regular expressions. There are 4 new regular expressions for cryptographic hashes: md5, sha1, sha256, sha512. And one new name that groups these 4 regular expressions: hashes. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Banksy:_‘Brace_Yourself!’ fetches_three_times_estimate⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_My_pragmatic shift_from_PS/2_keyboards_and_mice_to_USB_ones⠀⇛ o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_How_Long_COVID_affects the_careers_of_top_athletes⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Remote_Work_Is_Winding Down—Just_Ask_Zuckerberg⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_German_manners:_Is after_the_pandemic_before_the_pandemic?⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Deadly_overdose_crisis_escalating among_Alberta_children_and_youth,_child_advocate_warns⠀⇛ o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Github_ordered_to identify_user_who_leaked_Twitter_source_code [Ed: This is how much Twitter really values "Open Source"]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Twitter’s_Recommendation Algorithm_Is_Now_Open_Source [Ed: Openwashing or selective disclosure]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Twitter’s recommendation_algorithm_is_now_on_GitHub [Ed: Elon Musk's Twitter chooses proprietary Microsoft prison to prove "openness"]⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Nexus Android_trojan_targets_450_banking,_financial_apps;_how_to protect_your_bank_details?⠀⇛ # ⚓ 7NEWS ☛ Service_NSW_breach_exposes_personal_data_affecting thousands_of_customers⠀⇛ The personal information of Service NSW customers has been exposed to other logged-in individuals during a privacy incident, the agency says. An update released to the “My Services” dashboard on March 20 resulted in the data breach, Service NSW chief executive officer Greg Wells said in an email to affected customers shared with AAP on Monday. Personal information available through linked services that might have been visible included driver’s licence and vehicle registration details, contact information and children’s names. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ School_principal_resigns_after_writing $100,000_check_to_Elon_Musk_impersonator⠀⇛ The principal of a Florida science and technology charter school has resigned after allegedly writing a $100,000 check to an Elon Musk impersonator using school funds. Dr Jan McGee, who is listed as a founding board member of Burns Science and Technology Charter in Oak Hill, Florida, told the school’s board of directors that she had been fooled by the fake Musk after being “groomed” (in her words) for months. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Developing:_Stormous_claims_to_have attacked_hospital;_apologizes_minutes_later,_pledges_to_undo damage,_and_seeks_forgiveness⠀⇛ Stormous Ransomware added Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Indiana to their leak site today and posted a pointer to it on their Telegram channel. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Are_you_a_“Lucky_Winner”_from_Equifax? ⠀⇛ On Saturday, DataBreaches received a slightly different version of the email vx-underground posted. The “hr.” subdomain triggered a few intact neurons because I had seen hoax emails with the “hr.” subdomain in February. At the time, I had received a number of emails from various addresses, most of which had “hr.” in the senders’ addresses. Two of the February emails contained usernames in the body of the messages that suggested a BreachForums connection. One name I recognized, but the other, I didn’t. After getting about half a dozen emails, I contacted Pompompurin to ask him if he had any idea why the unrecognized forum user would be sending me somewhat angry or confusing emails. After looking at one header, Pom reminded me that HR.com had been hacked and more than 2 million records had been put up for sale on the forum last August. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_3_Face Charges_in_Death_of_Alaska_Man_After_Facebook_Post⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Belarus:_Lukashenko blames_West_for_threat_of_nuclear_war⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Committee_Head:_Support_for_US Aid_to_Ukraine_‘Overwhelming’⠀⇛ The head of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee says there is “overwhelming” support in the United States to continue supplying aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, despite vocal opposition from a hard-right faction of his own Republican Party # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Russian_mercenary_force_claims_it’s_taken_key Ukrainian_city_of_Bakhmut⠀⇛ Claim by Russian mercenary force it has seized key Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. # ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._discussing_freeze-for-freeze_approach_to_Iran nuclear_program⠀⇛ The Biden administrationdiscussed with its European and Israeli partners in recent weeks a proposal for an interim agreement with Iran that would include some sanctions relief in exchange for Tehran freezing parts of its nuclear program, according to 10 Israeli officials, Western diplomats and U.S. experts with knowledge of the proposal. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia’s_Lavrov:_West_Trying_to Drive_a_Wedge_Between_Moscow,_Beijing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Axios ☛ More_than_half_of_U.S._states_allow_permitless carry_of_concealed_guns_after_Florida_bill_becomes_law⠀⇛ Data: U.S._Concealed_Carry_Association; Map: Simran Parwani/Axios Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed into law Monday a measure that will allow people in the state to carry concealed weapons without licenses or training. ⚓ Axios ☛ What_Putin’s_partners_gain_from_standing_with_Russia_over_Ukraine⠀⇛ As much of the world backs awayfrom Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is providing cheap oil, a friend on the UN Security Council and sensitive military technology to those_partners_still standing by it. Why it matters: According to the White House, Russia is swiftly moving toward a “full-fledged defense partnership” with Iran, and now plans to dispatch a delegation to negotiate with North Korea. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to fear that China will abandon its supposed “neutrality”and back Russia more directly. § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Carbon_price_jumps_to_$65/tonne,_but_rebates will_also_rise_for_millions_of_households⠀⇛ * ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Joe_Biden’s_Rightward_Pivot_Isn’t Increasing_His_Popularity⠀⇛ * ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Danish_opposition_parties_bemoan absence_of_climate_urgency_in_Budget⠀⇛ * § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Ontario_bill_aims_to_stop_gas_station thefts_with_pay-before-you-pump_rule⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_A_warm_winter_threatens Europe’s_rivers_—_and_energy_security⠀⇛ o ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_More_Dutch_providers_offering hourly_energy_rates_so_consumers_can_aim_for_lowest_prices⠀⇛ o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Eurozone_inflation_lower_than expected,_as_energy_costs_drop⠀⇛ o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Parisians_overwhelmingly_voted_to_ban_rented_electric scooters⠀⇛ Residents of Paris overwhelmingly voted_to_ban_rented electric_scooters, with 89% choosing to restrict the devices in a low-turnout municipal election on April 2. Only 100,000 Parisians voted, a fraction of those eligible. * § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ o ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Rescued_pups_recovering_after_being found_malnourished,_nearly_frozen_in_rural_Manitoba⠀⇛ § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ Turkey’s_official_inflation_rate_drops_to_50.51_percent⠀⇛ According to an inflation monitor run by a group of economists, the inflation rate was twice as high as the official figures. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Credit_Suisse_Takeover Hits_Heart_of_Swiss_Banking,_Identity⠀⇛ * ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Who_will_end_up_paying_for_the_banking_crisis: You⠀⇛ * ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Banking_Collapses Raises_Fresh_Questions:_How_To_Benefit_from_The_Corporate_Veil?⠀⇛ * ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Don’t_Republicans_Ever_Get_Tired of_Carrying_Water_for_the_Banks?⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_After_SVB_Sale,_White House_Says_Banking_System_Is_‘Safe’ [Ed: Banks-funded politicians: banks are good! Give them your capital.]⠀⇛ * ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-26_[Older]_Silicon_Valley_Bank’s_Failure Shows_Why_We_Need_to_Expand_Public_Banking⠀⇛ * ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_High_rent_burden_for_Germany’s tenants_raises_‘red_flag’⠀⇛ * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Capitalism’s_Looming_Crises:_From Budget_Debt_Hyperbole_to_Banking_Disaster⠀⇛ * ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ T-Mobile_Says_Get_Ready_to_Lose_Your_AutoPay Discount_if_You_Use_a_Credit_Card._Bonus:_Automated_Super_Depressing McDonalds ⠀⇛ T-Mobile has had like eight data breaches in the past 5 years, and recently a banner popped up on my account stating that if I continue paying with a credit card, which has strong fraud protection, then I will lose my AutoPay discount for not switching to bank drafts or debit cards, which have weak fraud protection. I’m extremely leery about giving a company with such awful security practices direct access to my bank account, and I’ve noticed from reading Reddit posts that this is exactly what other customers say about them too. T-Mobile is obviously sick of paying for people’s credit card rewards, but thieves have made off with so much data about their customers, that do you want your bank account exposed too? Just try fixing that! To make things worse, you have to not only log in to the T- Mobile account to see the alert. You have to navigate to “Manage AutoPay” to see the warning, so for millions of customers, T-Mobile will just start raising their bill $10 a month and they’ll never notice, but T-Mobile can say “It was posted that Earth was going to be blown up to make room for a hyperspace bypass. It’s not our fault you didn’t see that!” * ⚓ Axios ☛ M&A_activity_is_took_a_dive_in_Q1⠀⇛ Data: Dealogic; Chart: Axios Visuals The further Wall Street gets from 2021, the more of an aberration it looks like. Driving the news: The value of U.S. merger and acquisition activity fell 20% from the previous quarter — and is nearly halved from Q1 of last year. =============================================================================== Why it matters: It’s one more example of the chill that the Fed’s rate hiking campaign has shot into the markets. * “The [rates] uncertainty is what dampens the appetite for dealmaking,” Suzanne Kumar, a VP with Bain & Co’s global M&A practice, tells Axios. “It’s less about the level and more about the ability to make an assumption about what interest rates will be.” ⚓ Axios ☛ Manufacturing_comes_off_its_high_boil⠀⇛ Data: FactSet; Chart: Axios Visuals So far in 2023, the flow of economic data has been a story of ups and downs: first, with several weeks of signs that the economy was slowing and inflation fading, then several weeks of data suggesting boom times were still here. * With the first_significant_economic_release_of_April (reflecting March activity), we’re back on the downward part of the roller coaster. ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_SVB_deal_soothes_markets_as_default stress_haunts_banks⠀⇛ ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_French_prosecutors_search_major_banks_in_Paris_in global_tax_fraud_probe⠀⇛ ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-25_[Older]_Banks_aren’t_out_of_the_woods_yet_and_neither_is_the economy._Here’s_why⠀⇛ ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-25_[Older]_US_Mulls_More_Support_for_Banks While_Giving_First_Republic_Time_–_Bloomberg_News⠀⇛ ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Bank_of_Canada_ready_to_step_in_if_global_financial crisis_causes_‘spillovers’_to_banks_here⠀⇛ ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Paris_banks_raided_in_€100_billion_tax fraud_probe⠀⇛ ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-26_[Older]_Following_U.S._bank_failures,_is_it_time_for_Canada to_raise_deposit_insurance_limits?⠀⇛ § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_China_and_Saudi_Arabia_are_getting_closer. Should_the_US_be_worried?⠀⇛ * ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_What_Beijing’s_Iran-Saudi_deal means⠀⇛ * ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Freedom_House:_Turkey’s_elections_among most_vulnerable_in_the_world⠀⇛ * ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_After_a_visit_to_Turkey,_Swiss_Socialist Party_calls_for_international_pressure_for_free_elections⠀⇛ * ⚓ RFERL ☛ 2023-03-25_[Older]_Armenia,_Turkey_To_Partially_Reopen_Land Border⠀⇛ * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Brazil:_Who_Is_Judge_Sergio_Moro?_Lula’s Jailer_With_No_Proof⠀⇛ * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_A_Bolsonaro_Win_is_The_Militarization_of Politics_in_Brazil⠀⇛ * ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Hong_Kong_rejects_US_report_on crackdown_on_freedoms⠀⇛ * ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Andrew_Tate_and_brother_to_be_moved to_house_arrest⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Bipartisan_US_Lawmakers Introduce_Bill_Aimed_at_Google,_Facebook_Ad_Clout⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Facebook_Users_in_the_EU_Will_No_Longer Have_to_Suffer_From_Targeted_In-App_Ads⠀⇛ * ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Finland_election:_Chronic_labor shortage_could_decide_the_vote⠀⇛ * ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_The_Twitter_I_Love_Doesn’t_Exist Anymore⠀⇛ * ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Elon_Musk_wants_to_fill_your_Twitter_feed_with paid_accounts⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Elon’s_Ego_Can_Rest_Easy_Knowing_He_Now Has_the_Most_Followers_on_Twitter⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Twitter_Details_How_Much_Money_API_Access Will_Cost_Now⠀⇛ * ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_A_new_Twitter_alternative_is_trying_to lure_users_about_to_lose_their_old_checkmark⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_10_Tweets_That_Could_Tank_Company_Stocks Amid_the_Great_Un-Verification⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Marjorie_Taylor_Greene’s_Congressional Twitter_Account_Suspended_for_‘Vengeance’_Post⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Twitter_Removes_Tweets About_‘Trans_Day_of_Vengeance’⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Twitter_Blocks_Pakistan Govt’s_Account_for_Viewing_in_India_–_Notice⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Catturd2_and_Ben_Shapiro_Reportedly_Land on_Twitter’s_List_of_35_VIP_Accounts⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Elon_Musk_Says_‘For_You’_Section_Will_Soon Be_Entirely_Users_Who_Paid_for_Twitter_[Updated]⠀⇛ * ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Elon_Musk:_Only_paid_subscribers_will_show_up in_your_Twitter_feed⠀⇛ * ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Twitter_changes_to_benefit_‘blue check’_accounts_only⠀⇛ * ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Twitter’s_secret_VIP_list_is_the_reason you_see_Elon_Musk’s_tweets_so_often⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Musk_Says_Twitter_Is_Worth_Less_Than_Half the_$44_Billion_He_Used_to_Buy_It⠀⇛ * ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_We_Could_Have_Used_Twitter_Trolls in_the_Run-Up_to_the_Iraq_War⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Should_Anyone_Believe_Elon_Is_Killing Legacy_Blue_Checks_on_April_Fools’_Day? [Ed: It was not a joke, it just started a little later]⠀⇛ * ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-26_[Older]_Elon_Musk_reportedly_values_Twitter_at $20_billion⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-26_[Older]_Elon_Musk_Puts_$20 Billion_Value_on_Twitter_–_the_Information⠀⇛ * ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Twitter_may_let_you_hide_the_fact_you_pay to_use_Twitter⠀⇛ * ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Twitter_says_it’s_killing_legacy_verified checkmarks_starting_on_April_1st⠀⇛ * ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Blue_Check_Marks_Were_Always Shameless⠀⇛ * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Elon_Musk_just_changed_Twitter’s_logo_to_the_Dogecoin_symbol⠀⇛ Twitter CEO Elon Musk has apparently changed the company’s logo to the symbol for Dogecoin—a popular cryptocurrency—in some parts of its website. * ⚓ Axios ☛ At_Elon_Musk’s_Twitter,_speech_is_anything_but_free⠀⇛ A series of changes at Twitter has laid bare what the service has become under Elon Musk: a place where speech is anything but free. What’s happening: From its shift to pay-for-play to impulsive policy changes made by Musk, the site more resembles an intrigue-filled palace than the town square that Musk says he seeks to protect. * ⚓ Axios ☛ New_York_police_prepare_for_Trump_arraignment_as_barricades_go up_near_courthouse⠀⇛ New York City police have stepped up security measures ahead of former_President_Trump’s expected arraignment on Tuesday on charges related to a 2016 hush_money_payment to Stormy Daniels. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Florence_invites_Floridians_to_see pornographic_Michelangelo⠀⇛ * ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_The_Anti-Palestinian_Censorship Machine_Runs_on_Racism⠀⇛ * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Gay_Games_Hong_Kong_unfazed by_potential_censorship,_organiser_says⠀⇛ * ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Suspects_in_hate_speech_laser_projections get_community_service_for_Breda_assault⠀⇛ * ⚓ Reason ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Journal_of_Free_Speech_Law:_“Diversity! Mandating_Adherence_to_a_Secular_Creed,”_by_Prof._Matthew_Finkin_ (Illinois)⠀⇛ § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ Altaylı:_‘Interviewing_Öcalan_is_not_something_to_be_ashamed_of,_it_is good_journalism’⠀⇛ Journalist Fatih Altaylı responded to those criticizing him pointing at a photograph showing him with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan in a column article. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Man_shot_dead_by_gendarmerie_in_Diyarbakır_after_allegedly_disobeying warning_to_stop⠀⇛ A murder suspect reportedly attempted to flee when the gendarmerie was to detain him. * ⚓ Prosecutor_turns_complainant_trans_woman_into_the_suspect⠀⇛ İstanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office filed a suit against trans woman Ajda Ender claiming she insulted her neighbors and their lawyer. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Starbucks_fired_the_employee_who_ignited_unionization_at_the company⠀⇛ Starbucks fired_a_prominent_union_leader just days after former CEO Howard Schultz was grilled_by_Congresson union-busting activity at the company. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Utah_abortion_clinic_ban:_Planned_Parenthood,_ACLU_sue⠀⇛ The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU) and the state ACLU Utah filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the state’s abortion clinic ban. Driving the news: RepublicanGov. Spencer Cox last month signed ​​HB_467 — effectively closing all abortion clinics in the state. § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_U.S._Department_of_Justice reinforces_motion_for_spoliation_sanctions_against_Google,_heavily_relies on_evidence_from_Epic_Games_case_and_points_to_Google’s_untruthfulness⠀⇛ * ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Epic_v._Google_judge_chides_Google for_unrepentance_and_lying_about_chat_deletion,_non-monetary_sanctions TBD_after_April_7_discovery_cutoff:_implications_for_United_States_et_al. v._Google⠀⇛ * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Another_Group_of_Law_Professors_File_Amicus Brief_in_Amgen_v._Sanofi⠀⇛ o ⚓ 2023-03-27_[Older]_U.S._Government_Files_Amicus_Brief_in_Amgen_v. Sanofi⠀⇛ o ⚓ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Esteemed_Scientists_File_Amicus_Brief_in_Amgen v._Sanofi_on_Respondents’_Behalf [Ed: Scientists or simply employees of patent monopolists?]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Delhi_High_Court_hands Ericsson_appellate_victory_over_Indian_electronics_maker_Intex_in standard-essential_patent_case:_FRAND_is_not_a_one-way_street; without_injunctions,_hold-out_will_occur⠀⇛ o ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Table_of_contents_and synopsis_of_European_Commission’s_draft_proposal_for_standard- essential_patent_regulation⠀⇛ o ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_European_Commission_departs from_best_practices_in_hasty_preparation_of_standard-essential patent_policy_proposal_that_is_fundamentally_flawed_and unbalanced⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Exclusive-EU_Patent Body_to_Oversee_Tech-Standard_Patent_Royalties_-EU_Draft_Rule⠀⇛ o ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Patent_licensing_firm_IPCom announces_settlement_with_LG_while_litigation_against_Samsung apparently_continues [Ed: IPCom is a notorious patent troll, not a "Patent licensing firm"]⠀⇛ o ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-03-26_[Older]_[Guest_post]_Expected_introduction_of a_full_patent_examination_in_Switzerland:_Opportunity_or_burden?⠀⇛ § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BCEIUSP_Wordo:_SYNCS⠀⇛ o ⚓ Tahini⠀⇛ One trick to making sesame tahini with an immersion blender (if you have one strong enough—I’ve tried this at friend’s houses and their blenders were too weak) is to put a few dabs of water on. The less water the better; water counter intuitively makes the seeds harder to blend (they just float apart) but makes the seeds less likely to fly away out of the blending jar. Juuuust enough so they rest heavily in the jar. I don’t measure it out, I just sprinkle a few drops. o ⚓ Happy_new_year!⠀⇛ It’s April now, but better late than never, right? I don’t really have anything to write about. I’ve been doing a lot of gopherspace lurking, popping over to gemini to water my astrobotany plant every few days. Work is keeping me too busy to do much more than that. * § Music⠀➾ o ⚓ Album_#224:_Oasis_–_(What’s_The_Story)_Morning_Glory⠀⇛ One of the pleasures of growing up is the autonomy you get. It’s different for everyone, of course, but big questions like who you spend your time with, where you live and what you do are some of the major things we gain control of. An extra one of those for me has always been ‘Where am I least likely to hear anything off (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’. o ⚓ Album_#223:_Public_Enemy_–_Apocalypse_91…_The_Enemy_Strikes Black⠀⇛ Like that album though, the style doesn’t really work for me. The sampling is skillful, the anger is clear, but it never really adds up. The low score doesn’t mean it doesn’t belong on this list: perhaps after checking the book or having a conversation I’ll go back and ‘get it’, but this isn’t for me. o ⚓ Album_#220:_Harry_Nilsson_–_Nilsson_Schmilsson⠀⇛ Leans *heavily* on the singles. To call them tentpoles would be to ignore just how saggy the first half of the album is. It ends on some absolute classics – “Without You” is fantastic, “Coconut” is… well, I hate it but it has its fans, and “Jump into Fire” is a classic rock staple. But when it’s not those hits, it’s as limp and boring as the the cover art. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ DuckDuckGo_Is_Leaking_Location_Data_And_Could_Be_Violating_FTC Guidelines⠀⇛ I’ve been using DuckDuckGo almost since it first launched. Occasionally I’d get these weird completely unrelated search results that seem to have an unreasonable understanding of my location data. o ⚓ Coaxial,_the_ancient_wonder_tech⠀⇛ Internet back in my home country was easy. You call one of the two monopolies to hook up fiber to your home, then someone runs a Belling-Lee[0] cable from the fiber hub to your modem/router, and then everything is just LAN (RJ45). If you own the house, you can even start drilling holes and looping gigantic 30m ethernet cables all over the place, but you’ll suffer a significant drop in signal. o ⚓ Contra_Touchscreens⠀⇛ I found an old post of mine on Usenet, which I’m going to quote in full here. I’m blind, and I find it a bit difficult to actually use a smartphone for the purpose of making and taking calls, mostly due to the lack of physical buttons. Conventional handsets are quite easy for a blind person to use. The keypad is familiar. The ten number keys, *, and # are all arranged in a conventional layout. To take a call, just lift it from its cradle or hit another physical button. I learned to use and dial a phone when I was about two. I also learned to dial rotary phones. There weren’t too many of those left while I was growing up, but there were a few. They’re not as convenient, because you have to count holes. In any case, the standard touch-tone phone facilitated quick and easy calling. It’s a great example of universal design. Compare this to a touch screen smart phone. If it has screen reading software, I can dial it, but it’s clunky. I don’t remember which is faster: rotary phone dialing or dialing on a touch screen. The touch screen may win, but not by much, and yet, it is a regression when compared to the physical keypad. o § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ EOL_Story⠀⇛ This has come up a few times on the tilde #gemini IRC channel, surprise that CR LF must be used at the end of line. CR LF lines are a rather an old convention, as far as the internet goes. # ⚓ Re:_Source_controlled_dotfiles⠀⇛ I’ll share my dotfile setup after a post by Senders expressing their dissatisfaction with GNU stow. When I first put my dotfiles in version control I also used GNU stow to create symlinks from the git repository to the appropriate locations in my home directory. I created a script to automatically create those symlinks for me but I was never quite satisfied with this setup. It always felt too complex and flimsy. It didn’t help that due to distro security policies for some packages their configuration files had to be regular files and not symbolic links. This meant I had to add extra logic to my stow wrapper script to copy these files instead. Nevertheless, not having any better ideas on how to do this I kept using GNU stow. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2084 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.03.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_03/04/2023:_FreeBSD_13.2_RC6_and_Haiku_Depot_Server_Technology Modernisation⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o EasyOS o BSD o Slackware_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers 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 Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_4_Main_Types_of_User_Accounts_on_Linux⠀⇛ User accounts are a key concept on Linux. Primarily, they help you manage access control on your system. In addition, they allow multiple users to log in at any given time, and they are critical for the security of a system. Without user accounts, it would be hard to control who has access to what part of a Linux system. Linux has four main types of user accounts. Here’s everything you need to know about them. o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_April_2nd,_2023⠀⇛ The last week of March was full of great news, especially for Ubuntu users who got the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 release, a major Ubuntu Touch update for their Linux phones and tablets, and a new official flavor, namely Ubuntu Cinnamon. But this week brought a lot of other goodies like a new major Blender update, a new Linux laptop for gamers from System76, and much more. Check out the hottest news of this week and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for April 2nd, 2023, below. o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_USA_–_Illinois⠀⇛ We cover user groups that are running in the US state of Illinois. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_506⠀⇛ Musing about command names, replacement commands, and system-wide functions. shasum - a256=fba235f6df4d8b4e8403d42d1f10e777ed9ed2594a74074e1db62f952d7bc7ee # ⚓ Voice_Controlled_MakuluLinux_Max_Teaser⠀⇛ A Fully Automated voice control system for MakuluLinux, this is our second Teaser Video, Enjoy … # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ The_Lunduke_Big_Tech_Show_–_Apr_2,_2023_– Hour_1⠀⇛ Listen now (48 min) | Modular laptops! Tech Layoffs! Linux-powered Street Curbs! Pure insanity! o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_6.3-rc5⠀⇛ This release continues to appear very normal and boring, which is just how I like it. The commit count says that we've started calming down right on schedule, and the diffstat looks normal too. Of course, there may be something nasty still hiding, so you never know, but at least for now we seem to be all set for a normal release in three weeks. Knock wood. If the diffstat for rc4 week was a bit unusual in how drivers didn't completely dominate, then rc5 makes up for it, with pretty much 75% of the diff being drivers. And it's all the usual ones that dominate: networking and gpu drivers make up for over half of it, and the rest is a random mix of other stragglers (x86 platform drivers, input, pinctrl, sound..). Outside of drivers, it's various random stuff. Architecture fixes (arm64 kvm, riscv, powerpc), filesystems (btrfs, cifs), core networking, documentation and tooling. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_6.3-rc5⠀⇛ The 6.3-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. “”This release continues to appear very normal and boring, which is just how I like it. The commit count says that we’ve started calming down right on schedule, and the diffstat looks normal too.”” o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Handle_any_type_of_document_with_this_open source_tool⠀⇛ Collabora Online is an open source office suite for the cloud or on-premises that protects your privacy and allows you to keep full control of your data. The software is developed by Collabora Productivity Ltd, in Cambridge, with its team working in locations worldwide. Collabora Online is based on LibreOffice Technology and is primarily licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Collabora Online works in any modern web browser, requiring no additional plug-ins or add-ons. It features a complete cloud-based office suite, including a word processor (Writer), spreadsheet program (Calc), presentation software (Impress), and an application for designing vector graphics (Draw). # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Best_Free_Linux_Screen_Capture_Tools_ (Updated_2023)⠀⇛ We recommend the best free and open source software for taking screenshots. # ⚓ SANS ☛ YARA_v4.3.0_Release,_(Sun,_Apr_2nd)⠀⇛ We wrote 2 diary entries about new features in release candidates of YARA 4.3.0. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Sean_Davis:_Enable_Color_Emoji_on_Xubuntu⠀⇛ Many of us are exiting another drab, grey winter season. As Spring ramps up and the colors of the world awaken all around us, maybe now is the time to make your Xubuntu desktop just a bit more colorful. Since Xubuntu uses GTK, you can quickly spice up your writing with emoji by using the Ctrl + . keyboard shortcut. # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Deploy_KubeSphere_for_Easy_Kubernetes Cluster_Management⠀⇛ If you’re looking for a Kubernetes platform that is tailored for hybrid multicloud, KubeSphere might be just the tool… # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_generate_SSH_keys_on_Linux⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of generating SSH keys on Linux, which is one of the most common operating systems used for server administration and development. By following these steps, you will be able to generate SSH keys and use them to securely access remote servers. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_and_use_Fish_Shell_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ This comprehensive guide will take you through the installation process and introduce you to the essential aspects of using Fish Shell on your Ubuntu machine. By the time you’re done, you’ll be navigating the command line with unparalleled ease and efficiency. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_switch_between_light_and_dark_modes_in Pop!_OS⠀⇛ Are you looking to enhance your Pop!_OS experience by seamlessly switching between light and dark modes? Look no further! This guide will walk you through the simple process of toggling between these two themes, allowing you to optimize your display for any lighting environment. # ⚓ Install_MySQL_5.7_server_and_client_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS Linux⠀⇛ The current MySQL server version to install through the Ubuntu 22.04 repository is 8.0, however, for some reason, if you need MySQL 5.7 then in this tutorial we learn how to install that. # ⚓ How_to_Secure_Apache_with_SSL_in_Rocky_Linux⠀⇛ Business owners should consider website security as one of their top priorities. The security of Websites can be implemented in many ways, and SSL/ TLS certificates are a key part. Through these protocols, sensitive information transmitted between clients and servers is encrypted to prevent unauthorized access. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Go_(Golang)_on_Linux_Mint 21/20⠀⇛ Go, also known as Golang, is an open-source programming language developed by Google engineers Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. First released in 2009, it has since gained popularity due to its simplicity, efficiency, and modern features. Go is particularly well-suited for concurrent programming, which enables it to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Enable_BBR_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛ BBR, or Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time, is a congestion control algorithm developed by Google. It aims to improve network performance by effectively managing the available bandwidth and minimizing latency, resulting in a faster, more stable, and smoother internet experience. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Steam_on_Linux_Mint_21/20⠀⇛ As a Linux Mint user, you know this operating system’s many advantages: stability, security, and customizability. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Krita_on_Linux_Mint_21/20⠀⇛ Krita is a powerful, open-source digital painting and illustration software that has become popular among artists, designers, and creators. It offers a rich feature set, including: Linux Mint users may find Krita particularly appealing due to its seamless compatibility with the Linux environment and its commitment to open-source principles. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_MyPaint_on_Linux_Mint_21/ 20⠀⇛ If you’re a Linux Mint user looking for a versatile and powerful digital painting application, look no further than MyPaint. This open-source application is designed to provide a smooth and intuitive painting experience while harnessing the full potential of your creativity. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Wine_development_release_8.5_is_now_available_for_Linux FreeBSD_and_macOS⠀⇛ The Wine development release 8.5 is now available. What’s new in this release: # Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.7. # Better error reporting in the IDL compiler. # Support for shared Wow64 Classes registry key. # More cleanups in IME support. # Support for configuring a WinRT dark theme. # Various bug fixes. The source is available now. ⚓ Run_Windows_software_on_Mac_Linux_and_ChromeOS_with_CodeWeavers_CrossOver⠀⇛ Even if you’re not a Windows user, you never know when you might need Windows to run a certain software. For instance, did you know TurboTax for Business is only available on Windows? § Games⠀➾ * ⚓ GNOME ☛ Jonathan_Blandford:_Crosswords_0.3.8:_Change_Management⠀⇛ It’s time for another Crosswords release. This is a somewhat quieter release on the surface as it doesn’t have as many user- visible changes. But like the last_release, a lot happened under the hood in preparation for the next phase. This release marks a change in focus. I’ve shifted my work to the editor instead of the game. I hadn’t given the editor much attention over the past year and it’s overdue for updates. I have a lot of features planned for it; it’s time to make progress on them. * ⚓ LinuxBuz ☛ Best_Games_to_Host_on_a_Server_(Best_Multiplayer_Games_in 2023)⠀⇛ As a gaming enthusiast, the rush of hosting your dedicated server is unmatched. § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ * § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ o ⚓ Hari Rana ☛ TheEvilSkeleton:_What_is_GNOME’s_Philosophy?⠀⇛ GNOME’s philosophy is sophisticated and there is a lot of room for forgetting important information, as design and user experience are, in my opinion, really difficult to understand, while being really easy to misunderstand as well. For starters, I will explain the key focus of GNOME. Then, I will be explaining and elaborating on how GNOME approaches it. I will also share my opinion on that matter. § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ * ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_Alpine_Linux_3.17.2⠀⇛ Something which regularly floated through my mind while using Alpine Linux was this experience reminded me of why I started using Linux regularly in the first place, back in the 1990s. Back then, when Windows 98 was king of the desktop market, I was running a minimal Linux distribution at home. The Linux experience was unusually light, clean, flexible, and transparent. It was something I could examine, tweak, and it just did what I told it to do, nothing more or less. There was a pleasant simplicity to the experience. Alpine Linux is like that. It’s small, light, and super fast. There are utilities which make the system easier to use (such as the APK package manager and OpenRC), but these tools just perform one task – well and quickly. They don’t try to add a lot of features or guess what I want them to do. Alpine has an unusually clean design while also supplying tools to make our lives easier. * ⚓ Systemd Free ☛ Advertising_policy_on_sysdfree_(the_Case_of_Artix_and Gable)⠀⇛ Dear Gable, If you just wanted to place a plug for your system of choice, like any good fan-boy would, you are welcome to do so.  But when this plug (a form of an informal advertisement for free in web-land) includes inaccuracies, false characterizations, and right-out lies, you open up an area of criticism…. * § EasyOS⠀➾ o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ How_Easy_Works_tutorials_updated⠀⇛ I have updated these two pages: https://easyos.org/tech/how-easy-works.html https://easyos.org/tech/how-easy-works-part-2.html Something that perhaps not everyone knows, especially if you come from a background of using SeaMonkey. Clicking the “page refresh” or “reload” button in Firefox and Chromium, does not completely refresh that page. It is perhaps unfortunate, but to get a complete page refresh, you have to hold down the CRTL key then click the “page refresh” button. o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ gWaveEdit_replaces_mhWaveEdit⠀⇛ A few days ago, don570 reported mhWaveEdit sound recorder and editor not working properly: https://bkhome.org/news/202303/appimage-installer-now- parsing-json-file.html Thanks to Jon (scsijon in the forum), who found a couple of alternatives, including gWaveEdit: https://github.com/wdlkmpx/gWaveEdit gWaveEdit is a fork of mhWaveEdit, and ‘wdlkmpx’ is a long-time contributor to Puppy Linux. o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Depot_Server_Technology_Modernisation⠀⇛ This article is cross-posted from Andrew Lindesay’s blog here. Java technology has been moving forward much faster in recent years with more frequent updates. Java 17 Long Term Support (LTS) was introduced in September 2021 and will be followed by Java 21 LTS in September 2023. With HaikuDepotServer (HDS) still on Java 11 introduced in September 2018, it was time to upgrade to 17 and then also make the transition from Spring 5 to SpringBoot 3 which was released in November 2022. Spring is a base technology for SpringBoot with SpringBoot providing more configuration and functionality by convention. These upgrades will bring HDS up to date with the current state of the art in backend Java and allow HDS to be maintained more easily going forward. § Steps The following are the main blocks of work undertaken to complete this modernisation. § Moving APIs Early * § BSD⠀➾ o ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD_13.2-RC6_Now_Available⠀⇛ The sixth RC build of the 13.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Installation images are available for: o 13.2-RC6 amd64 GENERIC o 13.2-RC6 i386 GENERIC o 13.2-RC6 powerpc GENERIC o 13.2-RC6 powerpc64 GENERIC64 o 13.2-RC6 powerpc64le GENERIC64LE o 13.2-RC6 powerpcspe MPC85XXSPE o 13.2-RC6 armv6 RPI-B o 13.2-RC6 armv7 GENERICSD o 13.2-RC6 aarch64 GENERIC o 13.2-RC6 aarch64 RPI o 13.2-RC6 aarch64 PINE64 o 13.2-RC6 aarch64 PINE64-LTS o 13.2-RC6 aarch64 PINEBOOK o 13.2-RC6 aarch64 ROCK64 o 13.2-RC6 aarch64 ROCKPRO64 o 13.2-RC6 riscv64 GENERIC o 13.2-RC6 riscv64 GENERICSD Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. Additionally, the root user password is set to root. It is strongly recommended to change the password for both users after gaining access to the system. Installer images and memory stick images are available here: https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.2/ The image checksums follow at the end of this e-mail. If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list. If you would like to use Git to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "releng/13.2" branch. A summary of changes since 13.2-RC5 includes: o A fix to recalculating mitigations during the amd64 wakeup code; this is believed to fix suspend/resume on some laptops. A list of changes since 13.1 is available in the releng/ 13.2 release notes: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/relnotes/ * § Slackware Family⠀➾ o ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Calibre_6.14.1_–_I_finally_made_it_past_6.11…⠀⇛ News for people who no longer read paper books! * § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ o ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Fedora_38_Breaks_Accelerated_Video Playback_in_Firefox._WordPress.com_breaks_logins_in_SeaMonkey._| BaronHK’s_Rants [Ed: All because of SOFTWARE PATENTS, which IBM lobbies FOR]⠀⇛ Fedora 38 Breaks Accelerated Video Playback in Firefox. WordPress.com breaks logins in SeaMonkey. It’s a double feature today. Apparently, in Fedora 38, they’ve made it so if you’ve already performed surgery on the rest of Fedora to re- enable accelerated video decode on your computer, with the new mesa-drivers-freeworld package on RPM Fusion (if you have non-Intel hardware) or the pile of Intel-media- driver packages, as well as the gstreamer1-vaapi packages, Firefox as an RPM or Fedora Flatpak won’t play video using hardware acceleration, so things become a slideshow. * § Debian Family⠀➾ o Thorsten Alteholz ☛ Thorsten_Alteholz:_My_Debian_Activities_in March_2023 § FTP master⠀➾ This month I accepted 78 and rejected 12 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 78. I still love this calm and peaceful time now within the Debian project, when everybody only cares for RC bugs and NEW does not grow. o ⚓ David_Bremner:_Installing_Debian_using_the_OVH_rescue environment⠀⇛ o ⚓ Steinar H Gunderson ☛ Steinar_H._Gunderson:_Nearest_multiple_of_a double⠀⇛ § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ * § Events⠀➾ o ⚓ Report_From_KDEPIM_Sprint_2023⠀⇛ The KDEPIM team like most got impacted by the pandemic and had to let go of lovely traditions. One of those being to meet in Toulouse at the beginning of spring. The last one was in 2019 so reviving that meeting was long overdue. o ⚓ Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Linux_Plumbers_Conference:_CFP Open_–_Refereed_Track_Presentations⠀⇛ The Call for Refereed Presentation Proposals for the 2023 edition of the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is now open. We plan to hold LPC in Richmond Virginia on November 13-15, 2023. Submitters should ideally be able to give their presentation in person, although presenting remotely will be possible if necessary. Expectation is that the presentation will be done live in either case, to maximize audience interaction. Please see our website or social media for regular updates. * § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ o ⚓ Emilio Cobos Álvarez ☛ XUL_Layout_is_gone⠀⇛ So this week I landed a few patches that completely removed XUL layout from the Firefox codebase. This means that (modulo a few exceptions documented below) all the Firefox UI is using regular web technology to render (mostly CSS flexbox). * § Programming/Development⠀➾ o ⚓ Patrick Louis ☛ April_2023_Projects⠀⇛ “Life is what happens in the space between”. Indeed, since the last_update_article a world pandemic has passed, truces have been signed in some countries, new wars have started in others, climate is going increasingly haywire, and the global political and economic turmoils have led to protests and revolts in countless places. The world keeps moving and I’m but a tiny spec in the grand scheme of things. Yet, you’re reading this article, so you’re interested about what I’ve been up to! o ⚓ ACM ☛ Catch-23:_The_New_C_Standard:_Sets_the_World_on_Fire⠀⇛ A new major revision of the C language standard, C23, is due out this year. We’ll tour the highs and lows of the latest draft9 and then drill down on the mother of all breaking changes. Sidebars celebrate C idioms and undefined behavior with code and song, respectively. o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Self-Guided_Learning_through_a_Wordle_Guess_Generator: Part_1⠀⇛ My learning project was a Wordle Guess Generator. I will show you how I used this project to create a self-guided learning plan. Motivated partly by my desire to have good guesses for Septle (a seven-letter guessing game), this project has been a crucial part of my journey to learn R. Practicing and learning coding skills were more important to me than devising the optimal strategy; if you are interested in “the best” Wordle strategy, then you will probably find much better answers by Googling. o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Self-Guided_Learning_through_a_Wordle_Guess_Generator: Part_2⠀⇛ I learned how to put functions in a separate file and call them from my many script. This can make long code much easier to read. Here, I’ve included the helper functions in-line and commented out the source(“code/ helper-functions.R”) in the main code. I’ve also set up switchable troubleshooting help with verbose and debug_detail parameters in my functions. Setting them to TRUE provide more info as the functions are executed. o ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ AI_Revolutionizes_Infosec⠀⇛ After two and a half decades in information security, I’ve witnessed countless failures in security efforts. Most of them can be traced back to either asking the wrong questions or lacking the necessary context for effective action. Enter AI, which promises to address these shortcomings with two fundamental advantages: Context and Question-based security products. o § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Python_Lambda_Functions_–_A_Beginner’s_Guide⠀⇛ Lambda functions are a powerful feature in Python that enables you to create small, anonymous, single-use functions. They are often used when a simple operation is required, like sorting or filtering a list. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ 10_Practical_Use_Cases_for_Lambda_Functions_in Python⠀⇛ Lambda functions, also known as anonymous functions, are a powerful feature in Python that allows you to create small, single-use functions without the need for a full function definition. They are particularly useful for simple operations, making your code more concise and readable. # ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_oledump.py_Version_0.0.74⠀⇛ A small update to plugin_msi_info to change the output format a bit. And you can select your preferred hash algorithm with environment variable DSS_DEFAULT_HASH_ALGORITHMS. oledump_V0_0_74.zip (http)MD5: FD4D73F0C1A6BE43406381C13C128D5ESHA256: 1683635FD3250DF43E2CA31C60C2C81B507B1E233C5D91C2671D147C7FD8BD14 # ⚓ Kushal_Das:_Dear_pep582⠀⇛ By now, you know that your idea has been rejected, but it came with suggestions for any future ideas. You thought you could be more useful if everyone gets it in the same way, but that will also cause more maintenance burden to the upstream authors in the future. I personally tried to stay with you during this 5 year+ long journey. A lot happened in life during that time. You helped me to make new friends, and helped many young ones during the workshops. * § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ o ⚓ India Times ☛ Barcode_turns_50_but_its_days_might_be_numbered⠀⇛ Barcodes were initially patented by Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in the United States in 1952. But it wasn’t until nearly two decades later, in 1971, that US engineer George Laurer perfected the technology and moves towards its commercialisation began. On April 3, 1973 the standard to identify products was agreed by a number of large retailers and food companies. It later became known as EAN-13, which stands for European Article Number and the number of digits in the barcode. § Leftovers⠀➾ * ⚓ Michael Urspringer ☛ Live_is_too_short_for_QRP_🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇:-)⦈ ⠀⇛ I am surprised what you can do with QRP if the band conditions are going up to the sun spot maximum … It is really fun to work only with 10 Watts. * ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Papua_New_Guinea_rocked_by_massive_earthquake⠀⇛ Papua New Guinea struck by 7 magnitude earthquake. * § Science⠀➾ o ⚓ France24 ☛ Four_tips_for_detecting_AI-generated_images⠀⇛ Apps like DALL-E and Midjourney are making it easier and easier to create realistic-looking images using artificial intelligence. In this video, Derek Thomson shares four tips on how to detect them, but warns that the technology is improving fast. * § Education⠀➾ o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnish_researchers_highlight_the_issue_of segregation_and_diversity_in_Finnish_primary_schools⠀⇛ Over 50 Finnish researchers in education sociology and education policy have written a comprehensive analysis of Finnish primary schools. The openly available book reveals the truth about Finland’s famous primary school education system, highlighting the key issue of segregation and offering solutions to tackle the problem. As previously celebrated for its success in PISA rankings, Finland is now seeing a decline in learning outcomes, o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ No_phone_jammers_in_NSW_schools⠀⇛ After floating the idea pre-election, Labor said it won’t try using phone jammers to target students. * § Hardware⠀➾ o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ AMD_and_JEDEC_Develop_DDR5_MRDIMMs_With_Speeds Up_To_17,600_MT/s⠀⇛ AMD stands behind JEDEC to help push the adoption of MRDIMM, an open standard that will substantially boost bandwidth on buffered DIMMs. o ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Yep!_I_bricked_a_Pentium_3_motherboard_(and how_I_fixed_it)⠀⇛ In my retro collection is a Pentium 3 based computer which I will be blogging about once I finish building it completely. * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Autistic_journalist_Kay_Kerr_talks_about_love_and autism_in_new_book⠀⇛ Autistic journalist Kay Kerr has followed the love lives of five autistic people in her new book Love & Autism. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘The_Last_of_Us’_Is_Right._Our_Warming_Planet_Is a_Petri_Dish.⠀⇛ Fungi are a public health blind spot. o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Work-related_stress_on_the_rise_during_COVID- 19⠀⇛ The prevalence of work-related stress has increased significantly during the COVID-19 years, according to a follow-up study conducted by the Turku University occupational health department with the support of the Finnish Work Environment Fund. The researchers found that perceived stress has become more common, especially among teaching and healthcare professionals. About 40% of employees in these fields experience work-related stress. o ⚓ Why_are_Danes_living_longer_than_most_of_their_European counterparts?⠀⇛ Danes have experienced one of the biggest increases in life expectancy in Europe over the past two decades, according to figures from the European statistical office Eurostat, analysed by Sampension. o ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Should_you_go_vegan?⠀⇛ Ramadan has just begun, and I’ve noticed an increase in non-Muslims saying they are participating. Whenever I ask any of them what their rationale is for subjecting themselves to a full month of fasting, they say it’s about showcasing their willpower, establishing solidarity with their Muslim friends or attempting to lose weight. * § Proprietary⠀➾ o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Italy_bans_ChatGPT,_orders_investigation_over privacy_breach⠀⇛ Authorities in Italy have blocked chatbot ChatGPT with immediate effect in the country. With this, Italy became the first European country to block the advanced Artificial Intelligence software, which is capable of emulating and elaborate human conversations among other actions. * § Security⠀➾ o ⚓ Jefferson_Co._School_System_victim_of_ransomware_attack_during Spring_Break⠀⇛ A ransomware attack targeted the Jefferson County School System over Spring Break. A news release states the district’s technology team took immediate steps to stop the attack and notified state and local authorities. Preliminary investigations have not revealed any evidence of a breach of sensitive personally identifiable information. However, the district will continue to investigate any possibility of compromised data and notify stakeholders accordingly if discovered. Outside cybersecurity experts and law enforcement officials are assisting. o ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Employee_and_patient_files_from_Montgomery General_Hospital_leaked_by_ransomware_group⠀⇛ DataBreaches has not reviewed the entire leak but has seen employee-related files with personnel and payroll information for former and current employees, such as Social Security numbers, pay rate, etc., patient files with medical histories, diagnoses, treatment plans, test results, and health insurance billing records with policy information, dates of services, CPT codes, and amounts charged. No large employee-related or EMR databases were seen in the cursory review of files. DataBreaches will continue to monitor the situation, but it is already clear that MGH will have some notifications to make to employees, patients, and regulators. o ⚓ Winnti_APT_Hackers_Attack_Linux_Servers_With_New_Malware ‘Mélofée’ [Ed: This focuses not on how such malware gets installed in the first place, likely not at all because of Linux]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_369_–_OpenAI_broke ChatGPT_then_tried_to_blame_open source [Ed: Proprietary+Microsoft blaming the scapegoat]⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about OpenAI having a bug in ChatGPT, then they tried to blame open source. It didn’t go very well. In this episode Josh and Kurt argue a lot, maybe someday we’ll know who was the least wrong. o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_the_U.S._Came_to_Use_NSO_Spyware_It Was_Trying_to_Kill⠀⇛ The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO. It turns out that not every part of the government has gotten the message. * § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Minnesota_court_strikes_down_law_requiring_21-year-old age_minimum_for_handgun_permit⠀⇛ A federal judge for the US District Court of Minnesota Friday struck down a Minnesota law requiring individuals to be at least 21 to obtain a permit to carry a handgun in public. o ⚓ YLE ☛ Poland_sends_100_Patria_armoured_vehicles_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ The multi-purpose Patria AMV vehicles are manufactured in Poland under a license from the Finnish defence contractor. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia’s_Wagner_group_claims_capture_of_Ukraine’s Bakhmut_‘in_a_legal_sense’⠀⇛ The head of Russia’s Wagner private military company on Monday claimed the capture of the east Ukraine town of Bakhmut “in a legal sense”, saying his units had taken the main city administration building. The fight for Bakhmut is the longest battle of Russia’s offensive in Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian forces have invested heavily in the struggle for Bakhmut even though analysts say the city carries little strategic value. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Residents_of_Avdiivka_in_Ukraine_Refuse_to_Leave Battered_City⠀⇛ Huddled in basements just over a mile away from the front lines of Avdiivka, over 1,800 residents are refusing to be rescued from one of the most active battlegrounds in eastern Ukraine. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Shelling_Kills_6_as_Assault_Stalls_in Ukraine’s_East⠀⇛ The attack came after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that permitting Moscow its monthlong presidency of the Security Council showed “the complete bankruptcy of such institutions.” o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Maria_Lvova-Belova,_the_Children’s_Rights Advocate_Accused_of_Russian_War_Crimes⠀⇛ Maria Lvova-Belova says she is running a humanitarian evacuation of abandoned Ukrainian children. The International Criminal Court accuses her of abducting them wholesale. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Taiwan_President_Tsai_Ing-wen_Balances_China_and U.S.⠀⇛ Known for her quiet pragmatism, Tsai Ing-wen has ushered in a new era of American cooperation as worries about Chinese aggression rise. o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ A_Question_of_Language_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ I learned Ukrainian just like my grandparents learned Russian—only there was no shame or pressure for me. I was restoring what my family had lost. o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland’s_membership_will_make_alliance stronger:_NATO_Gen_Secy⠀⇛ North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), General Secretary on Friday said that Finland’s inclusion will strengthen the intergovernmental military alliance and added that the body hopes to welcome Sweden as full member soon. In a video shared by the official Twitter account of NATO Spokesperson, Oana Lungescu, the NATO General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, is heard welcoming and congratulating Finland. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Despite_Biden’s_Program,_Some_Ukrainian_Refugees Fleeing_War_End_Up_Homeless⠀⇛ More than 280,000 Ukrainians have escaped the war through a program meant to resettle them into the homes of Americans. But not everyone has found a safe or welcoming place to stay. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Refusing_to_Evacuate,_Ukrainian_Residents_Go Underground⠀⇛ Huddled in basements just over a mile away from the front lines of Avdiivka, over 1,800 residents are refusing to be rescued from one of the most active battlegrounds in eastern Ukraine. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Vladlen_Tatarsky,_Russian_Military_Blogger,_Is Killed_in_St._Petersburg_Bombing⠀⇛ Vladlen Tatarsky represented a radical wing of pro- invasion bloggers and activists who backed Moscow’s war but also criticized what they saw as the flaws in the Russian Army. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Calls_Russia’s_UN_Security_Council_Presidency ‘Absurd’⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has blasted Russia’s assumption of the presidency of the UN Security Council as an “absurd and destructive” development and said that it proves “the complete bankruptcy of international institutions.” o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Calls_Russia’s_UN_Security_Council_Presidency ‘Slap_In_The_Face’⠀⇛ Ukraine expressed outrage as Russia assumed its monthlong presidency of the UN Security Council on April 1. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ War_Has_Killed_262_Ukrainian_Athletes,_Sports_Minister Says⠀⇛ Russia’s war against Ukraine has claimed the lives of 262 Ukrainian athletes and destroyed 363 sports facilities, the country’s sports minister, Vadym Huttsait, said on April 1. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Second_IRGC_Adviser_Dies_After_Israeli_Attack_in_Syria, Says_Iranian_News_Agency⠀⇛ A military adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) died of his injuries after an Israeli air strike near Syria’s capital, the Iranian semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on April 2. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kosovar_Protesters_Come_Out_In_Support_Of_Thaci,_Others On_Eve_Of_War_Crimes_Trial⠀⇛ Protesters took to the streets of Kosovo’s capital in support of ex-President Hashim Thaci and other former Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) leaders who are set to face trial on war crimes charges in The Hague beginning on April 3. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bomb_Kills_Russian_War_Blogger_In_St._Petersburg_Cafe; Moscow_Blames_Ukraine_Without_Evidence⠀⇛ Well-known Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb blast in a St. Petersburg cafe on April 2 in what appeared to be the second assassination on Russian soil of a figure closely associated with the war in Ukraine. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Court_Suspends_Work_Of_Anglo-American_School_Used By_U.S.,_U.K.,_Canadian_Embassy_Families⠀⇛ A Moscow court has suspended the work of the Anglo- American School (AAS) for 90 days for allegedly violating Russian educational requirements. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Blinken_Calls_On_Russia_To_Release_WSJ_Journalist Gershkovich,_Ex-Marine_Whelan⠀⇛ U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained last week, and American Paul Whelan, who has been imprisoned in Russia since 2018. o ⚓ LRT ☛ Old_demons_and_vast_futures_of_Lithuania’s_nuclear_past_– film_review⠀⇛ Burial (Kapinynas), directed by Emilija Škarnulytė o ⚓ LRT ☛ Will_Ukraine_end_up_like_Finland?⠀⇛ The similarities between Ukraine’s war with Russia today and that experienced by Finland some eighty years ago are hard to ignore. While Moscow continues its attempts to stop Kyiv joining NATO, its aggression has only encouraged Helsinki to join the alliance. Alex Gordon writes for the New Eastern Europe magazine, partners of LRT English. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Says_It_Won’t_Send_Fencers_To_Olympic_Qualifier_In Poland⠀⇛ Russia will not send fencers to an Olympic qualifier event in Poland this month because of “unacceptable” conditions, the head of Russia’s Fencing federation was quoted by Russian media as saying on April 2. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ British_Intelligence_Cites_Alcohol_Abuse_As_Contributor To_Russian_Losses_In_Ukraine⠀⇛ The British Defense Ministry said in its daily intelligence update on April 2 that alcohol abuse was among the noncombat causes of many deaths among Russian troops deployed in Ukraine. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Around_Two_Dozen_Civilians_Killed_In_Russian_Shelling_Of Eastern_Ukraine⠀⇛ Ukrainian officials say about two dozen civilians were killed and wounded as Russia continued its shelling of civilian-populated areas in the east and south of the country. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Griner_Urges_Biden_To_Bring_Home_Reporter_Gershkovich, Accused_Of_Spying_In_Russia⠀⇛ U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange last year, has urged the Biden administration to keep using “every tool possible” to win the release of a U.S. reporter accused of spying in Russia. o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Cop-taunting_rapper_‘Famous_Richard’_still_posting TikTok_jabs_at_NYPD_after_trying_to_lift_officers’_guns⠀⇛ Richard Sharp, aka “Famous Richard,” a reputed gangbanger who has been taunting and threatening the NYPD on social media, wasn’t letting up on Sunday. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Three_British_men_detained_by_Taliban_in_Afghanistan, says_UK_non-profit⠀⇛ Three British men have been detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan, UK non-profit group the Presidium Network said on Saturday. The group said on Twitter it had been “working closely with two of the families”. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Three_British_Men_Being_Held_In_Afghanistan,_Says_U.K. Nonprofit⠀⇛ Three British men have been detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan, U.K. nonprofit group the Presidium Network said on April 1. o ⚓ France24 ☛ High_level_of_activity_at_N._Korean_nuclear_complex, US_think_tank_says⠀⇛ Satellite imagery has indicated a high level of activity at North Korea’s main nuclear complex after leader Kim Jong Un ordered the production of weapons-grade nuclear material be ramped up, a US think tank said. o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ At_Mayan_ruins,_leaders_of_Taiwan, Guatemala_reaffirm_ties⠀⇛ By Edgar Calderon Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and her Guatemalan counterpart, Alejandro Giammattei, on Saturday took in the jungle ruins of a Mayan civilization citadel where they observed an ancient ritual before a massive stone pyramid known as El Gran Jaguar. * § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Court_crushes_whistleblower_protection_in Richard_Boyle,_Tax_Office_case⠀⇛ The South Australian District Court has dealt a fatal blow to public sector whistleblowing, basically making it impossible for anyone to safely blow the whistle. Rex Patrick explains the public interest travesty. * § Environment⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Forest_Fire_Breaks_Out_on_a_Mountain_in_Central Seoul⠀⇛ Dozens of nearby homes were evacuated as firefighters hurried to contain the blaze on one of Seoul’s most popular hiking sites. o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Parisians_vote_to_ban_for_hire_e-scooter_rentals from_French_capital⠀⇛ Parisians voted Sunday in a referendum to ban for hire e-scooter rentals in the French capital. While they have become commonplace since they were first introduced in 2018, a rising accident toll has hardened attitudes towards the “trottinette”. # ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘A_polarised_debate’:_Paris_votes_on_banning self-service_e-scooters⠀⇛ Self-service e-scooters have become commonplace on the streets of Paris since they were first introduced five years ago, but irresponsible use and a rising accident toll have hardened city hall’s attitude towards the popular mode of transport. On April 2 residents in the capital will vote on whether to ban them altogether. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fight_Over_Corruption_and_Congo’s_Mining Riches_Takes_a_Turn_in_Washington⠀⇛ Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire, is pressing President Biden to remove sanctions that were imposed on him for bribe-fueled transactions in the impoverished African country. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia,_Other_OPEC+_Producers_Announce_Surprise_Oil Output_Cuts⠀⇛ Russia, Saudi Arabia, and other OPEC+ oil producers on April 2 announced additional cuts to production of more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd), with Moscow and Riyadh each vowing to cut output by 500,000 bpd through the end of 2023. o § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ EU’s_population_projected_to_drop_by_6_pc by_2100:_Eurostat⠀⇛ The European Union’s population will decrease by 6 per cent between 1 January 2022 and 1 January 2100, equivalent to 27.3 million fewer people, according to the latest population projections issued by Eurostat. After a decrease in 2020 and 2021 due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the population of the EU started recovering during the course of 2022. * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_European_Security_Spending to_Grow_10.6%_in_2023,_Driven_by_the_Financial_Sector⠀⇛ o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ 147,000_People_with_disabilities_in_Finland_at risk_of_poverty_or_social_exclusion,_says_Statistics_Finland⠀⇛ In Finland, a quarter of people with disabilities are at risk of poverty or exclusion, according to the latest living conditions statistics from Statistics Finland. Those with disabilities are more likely to experience low income, underemployment, and severe material and social deprivation than the general population. The risk of poverty or exclusion is primarily due to low income for the majority of people with disabilities. Among working- age individuals with disabilities, underemployment is as common as low income. o ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Highest-ever_EU_trade_deficit_recorded_in_2022⠀⇛ In 2022, the EU trade in goods balance registered a large deficit of Euro 432 billion, reaching its lowest level since the start of the time series in 2002. The deficit was due, in particular, to a steep rise in the value of energy imports, which started towards the end of 2021 and continued through most of 2022, according to Eurostat. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Hope_builds_for_possible_end_to_interest rate_hikes⠀⇛ Mortgage holders will be crossing their fingers for a pause in interest rate hikes as Reserve Bank board members meet for the April cash rate decision. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Migration,_high_rents_put_brakes_on_sliding home_prices⠀⇛ Sydney has led a turnaround in national property prices after the market tracked down for 10 straight months. The 0.6 per cent uptick in national home values as measured by CoreLogic marks the first positive result after rising interest rates began forcing prices down last year. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Super_tax_break_reform_could_boost_budget: report⠀⇛ Tax breaks for retirees will soon cost more than the age pension, requiring a rethink in the federal budget, a new report says. The Grattan Institute report showed superannuation tax breaks cost the budget $45 billion a year, or about two per cent of GDP. o ⚓ NYPost ☛ McDonald’s_temporarily_shuts_US_offices,_prepares_layoff notices:_report⠀⇛ McDonald’s Corp is temporarily closing its US offices this week as it prepares to inform corporate employees about layoffs, according to a report. * § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ Axios ☛ Cohen_lawyer:_New_York_Trump_case_may_include_Karen McDougal_payment_case⠀⇛ Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen provided Manhattan prosecutors with documentation about a Trump hush-money payment to a second woman who claims to have had an affair with him, Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, told CNN this morning. # Why it matters:That suggests the case by District Attorney_Alvin_Bragg could be broader than the Stormy_Daniels_payment. ========================================================= Davis told Axios that — while he can’t discuss conversations with the D.A.’s office — he infers “100%” that Karen McDougal — the second woman and a former Playboy model— is part of Bragg’s case, whether as part of the charges or the narrative, perhaps showing a pattern of behavior. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Maggie_Haberman_on_Donald_Trump⠀⇛ We talk with a Trump reporter to prepare you for the week when he will likely be arrested. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel_Moves_Forward_With_Far-Right_Plan_for National_Guard⠀⇛ Itamar Ben-Gvir, one of the most extreme voices in the Israeli government, had long sought to create a national guard. Ministers agreed on Sunday to set up a committee to discuss next steps. o ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Stage_is_set_for_Australia_and_Japan_to_play_a decisive_role_in_the_Indo-Pacific⠀⇛ At the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting on 3 March in New Delhi, the four principals reaffirmed their countries’ ‘steadfast commitment to supporting a free and open Indo- Pacific, which is inclusive and resilient’. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2_Pro-Impeachment_Senators_Question_Motives Behind_Trump_Indictment⠀⇛ Joe Manchin, a Democrat, and Bill Cassidy, a Republican, both voted to convict Donald Trump after Jan. 6. They expressed concern on Sunday that the criminal case against him is political. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sanna_Marin’s_Party_Loses_in_Finland_Election⠀⇛ Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s party was outpolled by a rival that stressed economic concerns. Petteri Orpo of the National Coalition Party may now come to power, but coalition talks will be daunting. o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Pride_before_the_fall?_Testimony_from_witnesses in_seditious_conspiracy_trial_leaves_weaknesses_in_defense_wide open⠀⇛ The soft underbelly of the Proud Boys defense at the seditious conspiracy trial was exposed day in, day out after a tough week in court o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ WA_premier_plans_trade_trip_to_‘reconnect’ with_China⠀⇛ West Australian Premier Mark McGowan will lead a five-day trade mission to China to reconnect with the state’s largest trading partner, and unlike his Victorian counterpart he’s taking the media. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Sergei_Roldugin,_the_cellist_who_looks_after_Putin’s fortune⠀⇛ A Swiss court this week convicted four Russian bankers for allowing Sergei Roldugin to deposit tens of millions of euros in bank accounts – colossal sums for a man who is, officially, a professional cellist. But it has long been suspected that Roldugin is tasked with looking after the enormous wealth of his close friend, President Vladimir Putin. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Milatovic_declares_victory_in_Montenegro_presidential elections⠀⇛ Montenegro’s former economy minister Jakov Milatovic declared victory in a presidential election run-off on Sunday, over long-standing incumbent Milo Djukanovic, ending more than three decades of his rule in the small Balkan republic. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Vote_Too_Close_To_Call_In_Bulgaria’s_Pivotal Parliamentary_Election⠀⇛ Voters in Bulgaria are casting their ballots on April 2 in the country’s fifth parliamentary election in two years with opinion polls suggesting this latest vote will again fail to deliver a result that will break the political gridlock gripping the EU’s poorest nation. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Milatovic_Claims_Victory_In_Montenegro_As_Longtime_Leader Djukanovic_Concedes⠀⇛ Montenegrins are casting ballots on April 2 in a runoff presidential election that is a battle between a long- serving pro-Western incumbent and a newcomer promising changes in the small NATO member state in Europe that has been locked in political turmoil. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Israel_greenlights_new_national_guard_demanded_by_far- right_security_minister⠀⇛ The Israeli government approved Sunday the formation of a national guard, which opponents warn would function as a “private militia” of firebrand National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir who had pushed for the decision. o ⚓ France24 ☛ French_minister_sparks_controversy_by_appearing_– clothed_–_on_the_cover_of_Playboy⠀⇛ Can posing for Playboy be a feminist statement? A French government minister thinks so and has defended her decision to appear – clothed – on the front cover of the magazine amid a crisis in French politics not seen for several years. o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Sen._John_Fetterman_says_his_depression_made_him ‘indifferent’_to_living_in_first_interview_since_hospitalization⠀⇛ Sen. Fetterman spoke to CBS Sunday Morning about the depths of his depression and how he had become “indifferent” about living. o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Indigenous_leader_Yunupingu_dies_aged_74⠀⇛ Indigenous leader Yunupingu has died aged 74. o § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ A_State_of_Never-Ending_Crisis:_The Government_Is_Fomenting_Mass_Hysteria⠀⇛ John Whitehead “This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. * § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ o ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Disney’s_David,_or_Michelangelo’s_Mickey⠀⇛ In Ron’s Florida, anything is possible. o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Law_school_announces_Associate_Dean_Steinbach_on leave,_‘mandatory_educational_programming’_for_students⠀⇛ In a 10-page memo written to the Stanford Law School community, SLS Dean Jenny Martinez defended her decision to apologize to Judge Kyle Duncan after student-led protests interrupted his March 9 speech, garnering national scrutiny. o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Letter_to_the_Editor:_Booing_at_the_judge⠀⇛ Writing about Judge Kyle Duncan’s recent appearance at Stanford, John Riedel ’72 argues that “it would have been better to have a true debate, with someone of equal stature having the opposite point of view on stage debating the issue with the visiting judge.” o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Rights_Groups_Call_On_EU_To_Prevent_Extradition Of_Russian_Father_Of_Girl_Who_Drew_Anti-War_Picture⠀⇛ Russian human rights organizations Memorial and OVD-Info have called on the EU to prevent the extradition to Russia of a Russian man detained in Belarus after his daughter’s anti-war drawing brought attention to his social media posts against the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. * § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ o ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Unidentified_attackers_open_fire_on office_of_Albanian_broadcaster_Top_Channel,_kill_security_guard⠀⇛ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Algerian_Court_Sentences_Prominent Journalist_to_5_Years⠀⇛ A court in Algiers sentenced a prominent journalist to five years in prison with two years suspended on Sunday o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Blinken_Demands_Release_of_Evan_Gershkovich_in Call_With_Lavrov⠀⇛ Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with his Russian counterpart after the American basketball star Brittney Griner, who was detained for almost 10 months by Russia, urged the U.S. government to use “every tool possible” to secure Evan Gershkovich’s release. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Burkina_Faso_expels_reporters_from_French_newspapers ‘Le_Monde’,_‘Libération’⠀⇛ Burkina Faso has expelled correspondents from France’s ‘Le Monde’ and ‘Libération’ dailies, the newspapers said on Sunday, the latest move the junta running the west African country has taken against French media. * § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ No_More_Blank_Checks:_Saudi_Arabia_Clamps_Down on_Regional_Aid⠀⇛ The kingdom used to send money to poorer countries like Egypt with few strings attached. But it is increasingly leveraging its economic power for influence in the Middle East and beyond. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Melburnians_hanging_onto_hybrid_working routine⠀⇛ Melburnians have settled into a hybrid working routine with the majority heading into their CBD offices two or three days a week, the state’s largest business organisation says. Almost three-quarters of the city’s CBD workers are attending their offices two or three days a week, while the number of people working on-site…. * § Monopolies⠀➾ o ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_faces_$4.2_billion_advertising_lawsuit⠀⇛ In the lawsuit, Arthur claimed that because of Google’s abuse of its position, ad-tech services were inflated, and publishers’ ad sales revenues were unlawfully reduced, the report said. “The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is currently investigating Google’s anti-competitive conduct in ad-tech, but they don’t have the power to make Google compensate those who have lost out. We can only right that wrong through the courts, which is why I am bringing this claim,” Arthur was quoted as saying. It is the second such lawsuit, following a similar one filed in November last year. o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_‘A_Blow_for_Libraries’: Internet_Archive_Loses_Copyright_Infringement_Lawsuit⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Craziness_on_Copyright⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Nigeria_amends_its_Copyright Act_to_ratify_outstanding_copyright_treaties_and_address other_issues⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-25_[Older]_Internet_Archive_violated publisher_copyrights_by_lending_ebooks,_court_rules⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Humans_Vs. Machines:_the_Fight_to_Copyright_AI_Art⠀⇛ § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ Do_you_challenge_yourself_to_do_the_right_thing?⠀⇛ Do you challenge yourself to do the right thing? Do you put yourself in situations where you might fail? Do you reflect enough to identify your mistakes, even in situations where you felt you were wronged? If a complex situation arose, would you do what serves you, or what serves the greater good? If you got a pet camel from your dead uncle, would you let your friends ride it? o ⚓ How_to_Stop_a_Cold_Before_it_Takes_Hold⠀⇛ I am currently reaping the benefits of a tried and true technique of preventing an imminent cold and I wanted to share it with y’all. For some background, two days ago I felt a little tickle in the back of my throat. I didn’t have a fever, chills, or any other symptoms that would suggest I would be sick. However, I knew that I couldn’t be too careful when it came to stopping a cold. o ⚓ How_To_Buy_Shoes⠀⇛ Those who’ve lived with me know that I’ve always worn the same type of shoes each day. During the years that I needed that style for use with my uniform I developed a preference for that particular style that stuck with me ever since. It took me a few years in the beginning to find which manufacturer’s black oxfords worked best for me, but I soon settled on the Red Wing Shoes Style 101. That’s what I’ve worn ever since, buying two pair at time so I can alternate between them — shoes last much longer if they dry thoroughly between wearings. o ⚓ Sunset_2023-04-02_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)_+_Birch_Tree⠀⇛ In between the two photos, there was a few minutes of an amazing light shaft or candle effect, but unfortunately it was gone before I got to a convenient parking spot. Also, using a camera, it seems like much of the disc brightness and color vibrancy is lost. The true images will live on in my memory, at least. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ Voice_notes_and_Keyboards⠀⇛ I’ve recently found myself becoming a big fan of voice notes. I’ll usually send rambling voice notes to my friends on signal when I want to convey a lot of random information and I’m too lazy to type. Voice notes are great in a lot of circumstances, but not always. For instance, when I’m with other people, it can be weird or even rude if I’m blabbering into my phone for a minute and a half instead of silently typing. There is also the issue of coherence. I prefer writing communication over verbal because I can better organize my thoughts, edit, and clarify as I type. When I send a voice note there could be six different tangents that lead to nowhere by the time I send it. o § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Source_controlled_dotfiles⠀⇛ It’s not too uncommon to come across tech folk managing their dotfiles in source control. Conceptually, this makes a lot of sense – you tailor your configurations for certain programs, you want to be able to bring those around with you and also make sure if you break something, you can revert it. Plus, they’re just text, so it makes sense, right? Sort of. # ⚓ High-level_languages_in_production⠀⇛ I’m interested in a migration path from prototypes written in, e.g. Scheme or Prolog. So even though I really like ISLisp, it probably doesn’t satisfy the requirements for commercial, production-quality. Notably, I’ve ignored my own advice and two of these platforms are non-standardised languages. I justify this because this is deciding for a commercial product, whereas deciding for learning is better limited. Also, although it may have only been half-hearted, I never was quite satisfied with SML for a real project. For example, if I use compiler extensions (as is very likely), libraries I try to integrate may not know about these extensions to interwork with them. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4158 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.03.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_03/04/2023:_Tux_Paint_0.9.29_and_Krita_Plans⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:28 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Licensing_/_Legal o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration # Open_Data * Leftovers o Science 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 Monopolies # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 19_Best_Open_Source_WYSIWYG_HTML_Editors_in 2023⠀⇛ Every website on the internet uses HTML language and relies on using an editor to build the website. The HTML editor is a platform to edit and create the website’s content. A great way to make HTML content is often through a WYSIWYG editor, short for “What You See is What You Get.” These editors work similarly to a word processor, creating the HTML for you and giving you a preview of what to expect. Additionally, we must remember that the WYSIWYG HTML editors are open-source products for everyone. With open-source HTML editors, the concept goes beyond being a fee-to-use software. Open-source means users can access the program’s source code and undertake modifications depending on the circumstances. Some open-source WYSIWYG HTML editors also allow modified versions of their programs to be shared or sold as long as they are under the same licenses as their original counterparts. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Tux_Paint_0.9.29_Open-Source_Painting_App Brings_15_New_Magic_Tools,_Spinning_Stamps⠀⇛ Tux Paint 0.9.29 is here about ten months after Tux Paint 0.9.28 to introduce fifteen new Magic Tools, including Maze for generating random mazes, Googly Eyes for sticking eyeballs on your masterpieces, Fur for painting fur onto a drawing, as well as Circles and Rays for applying brush stroke effects. The list of new Magic Tools included in this release continues with 3D Glasses, a tool that lets you create 3D pictures that can be viewed with those red/cyan anaglyph glasses, Color Sep, a tool that separates selected colors, Double Vision, a tool that simulates diplopia, as well as Saturate and Desaturate, a tool to increase and decrease color saturation. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Ciprian Dorin Craciun ☛ SSH_authorization_keys experiments⠀⇛ Here are a few interesting use-cases for these options: [...] # ⚓ Ryan Mulligan ☛ Sticky_Page_Header_Shadow_on_Scroll⠀⇛ What if we desired something a little bit extra, like applying a box-shadow to the sticky header as soon as the page is scrolled? I thought it was worth sharing one solution that has worked well for me to accomplish this goal. Check out the following CodePen demo. As soon as the page is scrolled, a shadow fades in below the header. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Microsoft_SQL_Server_on_Ubuntu 22.04_LTS [Ed: Microsoft SQL Server does not really run on GNU/Linux. It's proprietary stuff for DrawBridge, so this is misleading at best.]⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_BlueMail_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install BlueMail on Rocky Linux 9. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_XanMod_Kernel_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install XanMod Kernel on Debian 11. # ⚓ Where_are_Crontab_Logs_in_Linux_|_How_to_View_Them?⠀⇛ If you are a Linux administrator or trying to become one, you must gather strong knowledge related to cron jobs and cron logs. The Linux System Administrator is responsible for running the scheduled tasks (known as jobs) and ensuring they work perfectly fine by monitoring their results. This verification of successful job execution is done by the Crontab logs, which are automatically created by the system. This post will act as a guide to show you all you need to know about cron logs that will help you become a Linux System administrator. What are Crontab Logs in Linux? Crontab… # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Liberating_the_MacBook_Air_2013_with_Linux –_Complete_Guide⠀⇛ Are you tired of not getting security updates? Is your old MacBook getting sluggish and you want to provide a new life to it? Look no further: Liberate it with Linux! # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Manage_Command_History_on_Linux⠀⇛ The command history helps you view commands you’ve previously run inside the terminal. Here’s how you can manage the command history on Linux. On Linux, every command you type gets saved in the history file. The history command lets you view and reuse those commands without having to retype them. You can navigate through the history list using the Up and Down keys. However, there may be times you want to delete some commands from the history or permanently disable the history saving feature. Fortunately, Linux lets you control command logging features, such as disabling it temporarily or permanently, deleting the entire history, or preventing certain commands from being saved in the history list. Let’s see how. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past Week_with_Mr_Saitou_and_Resident_Evil_4_Remake_–_2023-04-02 Edition⠀⇛ Between 2023-03-26 and 2023-04-02 there were 120 new games validated for the Steam Deck. We use a number of variables to include titles in this Best Steam Games list, such as popularity, ratings, trends and more. # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Explanation_for_the_huge_Windows_11_drop_on_Steam in_March_2023 [Ed: Vista 11's market share is mostly faked, in a number of different ways...]⠀⇛ o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Krita ☛ Krita_in_2022_and_2023⠀⇛ Like in 2021 and 2020, no members of the Krita team actually died from the ongoing pandemic. This feels a bit miraculous, but there it is. The year was pretty awful, though, with the Krita maintainer getting long COVID (that’s me, Halla…) and being too sick to do anything four days out of seven — and various other upheavals we’re not going to detail because that would not be safe, or would be too private to talk about, we really had a really tough year. The years before 2022 were mostly marked by us trying, sometimes desperately, to keep on top of the number of bug reports flowing in. A lot of bug reports, it has to be said, are basically not actionable. That’s not to blame the reporter who went through the lengths needed to register and then write up their problem. Which is really an admirable amount of effort. But too often, the problems are with the OS support for tablets, display drivers… And plain misunderstandings. And cries for user support. But there are now more open bug reports than a year ago. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Slackel_7.6_“Openbox”⠀⇛ Slackel 7.6 “Openbox” has been released. It is more than a year since the last Slackel release. It includes Linux kernel 6.1.20 and the latest updates from the Slackware “Current” tree. The new version is available in 64-bit and 32-bit versions. The 64-bit iso image supports booting on UEFI systems. # ⚓ UBports ☛ Ubuntu_Touch_OTA-1_Focal_Release_|_UBports⠀⇛ Ubuntu Touch is the privacy and freedom-respecting mobile operating system by UBports. Today we are extremely happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal, the very latest update to the system! OTA-1 will be available on the following supported Ubuntu Touch devices: # ⚓ PORTEUS_KIOSK_5.5.0_IS_LIVE⠀⇛ I’m pleased to announce that Porteus Kiosk 5.5.0 is now available for download. Major software upgrades in this release include: Linux kernel 6.1.20, Google Chrome 108.0.5359.124 and Mozilla Firefox 102.9.0 ESR. Packages from the userland are upgraded to portage snapshot tagged on 20230318: link. # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_03/31_Lite_6.4⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_04/01_Voyager_23.04- beta⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_03/31_Mabox_23.03⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_03/31_Zevenet_5.13.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_03/29_Alpine_3.17.3⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_03/29_KDE_neon_20230329⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_03/29_openmamba 20230329⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_03/30_Pisi_2.3.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_03/28_EasyOS_5.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_03/28_Finnix_125⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_03/28_Proxmox_7.3_“Mail Gateway”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_03/28_Q4OS_5.0-testing- r2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_03/24_Regata_23.0.0⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_03/26_OpenMandriva_23.03 “ROME”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-26_[Older]_03/25_Gnoppix_23.4- beta2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ 2023-03-26_[Older]_03/24_LibreELEC_11.0.1⠀⇛ o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Renesas_RZ/G2L_CPU_module_targets_HMI_and IoT_gateway_applications⠀⇛ MYIR MYC-YG2LX is Renesas RZ/G2L CPU module with up to 4GB DDR4, 32GB eMMC flash, and various I/Os such as gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, camera and display interfaces accessible through 222 castellated holes, and designed for advanced HMI, IoT edge gateways, and other embedded devices with video capabilities. MYiR Tech provides a Linux BSP based on the 5.10.83 kernel with OS images, driver source code, demo applications (charging pile application, PLC controller, engineering machinery scene), and a toolchain. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Nokia_C12_entry-level_Android_smartphone launched_in_India:_Price,_specs_and_more_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ Discord_app_lagging_or_slow_on_some_servers_after_latest Android_update⠀⇛ # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ GM_Is_Phasing_Out_Apple_CarPlay_and Android_Auto_in_Electric_Models⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Google_Pixel_7a:_Is_This_A_Mid-range_Android King?_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ XGIMI_launches_Android_TV_MoGo_2_series portable_projectors⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ 8_best_pet_apps_on_Android_for_every owner⠀⇛ # ⚓ Future Publishing Limited ☛ Xiaomi_13_Ultra_rumours_could make_it_the_best_Android_phone_camera_yet_|_T3⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Google_Keep_gets_new_productivity-focused touches_on_Android_tablets_and_foldables_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts_Weekly_recap_—_2_April_2023⠀⇛ Week highlights: new releases of Blender, QCAD, Qtractor, first pre-release of Inkscape 1.3, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, Ardour. CmykStudent added initial support for the QOI_file_format that is intended to be a replacement for PNG with lossless compression and faster encoding. There was an earlier plugin for GIMP 2.10by Piotr Fusik, that served as an inspiration. o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Why_Open-Source_a_Model?⠀⇛ A simple framework based on my short taxonomy of open source strategies (specifically applied to machine learning models). o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Open Data⠀➾ # ⚓ Sumana Harihareswara ☛ Improve_An_Open_Data_Bill_To Prevent_Heart_Attack_Deaths_in_NYC⠀⇛ New Yorkers don’t know where our nearest defibrillators are, so when people have heart attacks, we lose people we could save. A new NY City Council bill aims to open that data. We need your help to improve it and get it passed. Submit written testimony by 10am ET on Sunday, April 2nd.s * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Sound_Sculpture_Uses_Daisy_Seed_To_Generate_Audio⠀⇛ Here at Hackaday, we love a good art piece, whether that involves light or sound. Combining both is a sure-fire way to get our attention, and [Eirik Brandal] did just that with his Void Extrusion piece. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Printing_A_Brutalist_Kitchen_Timer⠀⇛ A kitchen timer is one of those projects that’s well defined enough to have a clear goal, but allows plenty of room for experimentation with functionality and aesthetics. [Hggh]’s exploration of the idea is a clean, Brutalist kitchen timer. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Astronomers_Just_Found_a_Radio_Galaxy_That Turned_Into_a_Blazar⠀⇛ More than meets the eye… o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Brad Taunt ☛ Bypassing_the_WiFi_Hardware_Switch_on_the Lenovo_X201⠀⇛ I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a “downgrade” in terms of specs and hardware, I would have to disagree. The X201 is an absolute masterpiece in laptop hardware design and only faulted by some of the constraints set by the motherboard, namely the lack to support more than 8GB of RAM. Other than that, I think it’s perfect. Well…almost perfect. There is one small annoyance: [...] # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tour_A_PCB_Assembly_Line_From_Your_Armchair⠀⇛ Those of us who build our own electronics should have some idea of the process used to assemble modern surface-mount printed circuit boards. Whether we hand-solder, apply paste with a syringe, use a hotplate, or go the whole hog with stencil and oven, the process of putting components on boards and soldering them is fairly straightforward. It’s the same in an industrial setting, though perhaps fewer of us will have seen an industrial pick-and-place line in action. [Martina] looks at just such a line for us, giving a very accessible introduction to the machines and how they are used. Have a look, in the video below the break. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Design_Files_Released_For_The_PR2_Robot⠀⇛ It’s always great fun to build your own robot. Sometimes, though, if you’re doing various projects or research, it’s easier to buy an existing robot and then use it to get down to business. That was very much the role of the Willow Garage PR2, but unfortunately, it’s no longer in production. However, as covered by The Robot Report, the design files have now been released for others to use. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese_foreign_minister_says Japanese_chip_curbs_to_drive_Beijing’s_self-reliance⠀⇛ Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang told his Japanese counterpart on Sunday that Tokyo’s new export controls on semiconductor equipment will only further drive Beijing’s quest “to become self- reliant”. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Food Not Lawns ☛ A_Brief_History_of_Food_Not_Lawns⠀⇛ 2006: Founding member Heather Flores wrote and published Food Not Lawns, How to Turn your Yard into a Garden and your Neighborhood into a Community, and from there, new local chapters starting popping up! Since then, Heather has traveled all over the US, helping new chapters get off the ground, hosting local seed swaps, and making tons of great friends! # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chemical_Plant_That_Poisoned_Philly’s_Water Forced_My_School_to_Evacuate_in_2007⠀⇛ # ⚓ [Old] CBC ☛ U.K._surgeon_gives_thumbs_down_to_medical students’_lack_of_dexterity⠀⇛ “We’re seeing increasing numbers of people who no longer have that sort of basic language using their hands, in the way that — only five or ten years ago — people used to,” he said. # ⚓ [Old] New York Times ☛ Your_Surgeon’s_Childhood_Hobbies_May Affect_Your_Health⠀⇛ “There is a language of touch that is easy to overlook or ignore,” said Dr. Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education at Imperial College London. “You know if someone has learned French or Chinese because it’s very obvious, but the language of touch is harder to recognize.” And just like verbal language, he thinks it’s easier to acquire when you’re young: “It’s much more difficult to get it when you’re 24, 25 or 26 than when you’re 4, 5 or 6.” Dr. Robert Spetzler, former president and chief executive of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, agreed. “Think about the difference between someone who has learned to ski when they were a little kid and someone who spent a long time, perhaps even the same amount of time, skiing as an adult,” he said. “That elegance that you learn when very young, doing that sport, can never be equaled by an adult learning how to ski.” # ⚓ NPR ☛ Parisians_overwhelmingly_vote_to_expel_e-scooters from_their_streets⠀⇛ The result wasn’t close. City Hall said on its website about 103,000 people voted, with 89% rejecting e-scooters and just 11% supporting them. Turnout was very low. The vote had been open to all of Paris’ 1.38 million registered voters # ⚓ Autism_prevalence_increases_to_1_in_38,_and_antivaxxers freak_out…again⠀⇛ Many years ago, long before the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything and turbocharged the antivaccine movement beyond anything any of us had ever seen or predicted, the central conspiracy theory of the antivaccine movement (as I like to call it) was that vaccines caused autism, and the CDC and FDA were covering up the evidence. In retrospect, that version of the central conspiracy theory seems almost quaint compared to the current version centered around COVID-19 vaccines (particularly mRNA vaccines), in which antivaxxers claim that these vaccines are killing, sterilizing, and inducing “turbo cancers” in millions, but the CDC and FDA (plus, Anthony Fauci) covered up the evidence that was apparently so obvious that experts missed all the signals that people with no training in medicine, epidemiology, or vaccinology could find. Back then, after having been a blogger for a couple of years, I had come to dread April, at least when it came to antivaccine misinformation. The reason was simple. April is National Autism Awareness Month, and I could always count on the antivaccine movement to ramp up its misinformation linking a combination of the MMR vaccine, “too many vaccines too soon,” and mercury from the thimerosal preservative that used to be used in a number of childhood vaccines before 2001 as the cause for the “autism epidemic.” Sure, often the vaccines were not the only thing blamed for rising autism prevalence. Often processed foods, wifi, and a number of other supposed “causes” were thrown in as well, but always at the center of causes that conspiracy theorists blamed for the increasing prevalence of autism were vaccines. Last week, unsurprisingly, the same thing happened before April 1 even arrived. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Visual_Ear_Demonstrates_How_The_Cochlear_Works⠀⇛ The cochlear is key to human hearing, and it plays an important role in our understanding of complex frequency content. The Visual Ear project aims to illustrate the cochlear mechanism as an educational tool. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ States_Try_to_Hide_Their_Execution_Methods_as Drugmakers_Hinder_Lethal_Injection⠀⇛ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Bad_Night’s_Sleep_Can_Ruin_Your_Work_Day. Here’s_What_You_Can_Do_About_It⠀⇛ Energize and focus. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Bert Hubert ☛ AI:_Guaranteed_to_disrupt_our_economies⠀⇛ Everyone is tumbling over themselves making predictions about AI. It’s going to free us from menial work, it’s going to dismantle our education, we all won’t have to learn things anymore because the AI will do it for us, criminals will trick us with it, crooks will create endless amounts of disinformation with language models, and the AI will escape and become dangerous in the real world. Who knows. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ FOSS Post ☛ Meet_Kali_Purple:_The_Defensive_Security_Linux Distribution⠀⇛ On the 13th of March, 2023, the Kali Linux team announced the availability of a new version of their security-focused Linux distribution, named “Kali Linux Purple”. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ TikTok_Attorney:_China_Can’t_Get_U.S._Data Under_Plan⠀⇛ TikTok general counsel says company is trying to make it physically impossible for any government, including China, to access to U.S. user data. # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Mozilla_Releases_Security_Update for_Thunderbird_102.9.1⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Samba_Releases_Security_Updates for_Multiple_Versions_of_Samba⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_This_Week_in_Security: Macstealer,_3CX_Carnage,_and_Github’s_Lost_Key⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Pressure on_IT_departments_to_address_cybersecurity_risks_amid concerns_over_Chinese_attacks⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ CNN ☛ ‘I’ve_never_seen_anything_like_this:’_One_of China’s_most_popular_apps_has_the_ability_to_spy_on_its users,_say_experts⠀⇛ While many apps collect vast troves of user data, sometimes without explicit consent, experts say e-commerce giant Pinduoduo has taken violations of privacy and data security to the next level. In a detailed investigation, CNN spoke to half a dozen cybersecurity teams from Asia, Europe and the United States — as well as multiple former and current Pinduoduo employees — after receiving a tipoff. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Italy_temporarily_bans_ChatGPT_over privacy_concerns⠀⇛ The move comes days after a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives, along with Twitter CEO and OpenAI confounder Elon Musk wrote an open letter to the US Federal Trade Commission calling for a six-month pause in training systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched model GPT-4. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Northern_Ireland: Peace_in_the_province_–_still_a_pipe_dream?⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ Russian_pro-military_blogger_killed_in_St._Petersburg bomb_blast⠀⇛ Well-known Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb blast in a St. Petersburg cafe on Sunday in what appeared to be the second assassination on Russian soil of a figure closely associated with the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Chris_Hedges_Report:_Photographer_Lori Grinker’s_Portraits_Don’t_Just_Capture_Her_Subjects—They Capture_History⠀⇛ From Iraq War veterans to a young Mike Tyson and her own brother’s battle with AIDS, Grinker’s photographs open a window from the personal into the political. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Craig_Murray:_The_So_Far_Non-Existent_Vulkan Leaks⠀⇛ Thirty named journalists at three major papers are covering “bombshell” revelations about Russian cyberattacks in a manner worth examining. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ China’s_Historical_Destiny_Is_to_Stand_With the_Third_World⠀⇛ On 20 March 2023, China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spent over four hours in private conversation. According to official statements after the meeting, the two leaders talked about the increasing economic and strategic partnership between China and Russia… # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Wagner_Group_head_Prigozhin_says_mercenaries_have ‘legally’_captured_Bakhmut_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Wagner mercenary group founder Evgeny Prigozhin said in a video posted Sunday night that his fighters have captured the administration building in Bakhmut, the city in Ukraine’s Donetsk region where Ukrainian and Russian forces have been locked in combat for months. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Interfax:_Suspect_in_murder_of_‘war_correspondent’ Vladlen_Tatarsky_in_custody_in_Petersburg_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Daria Trepova, a St. Petersburg resident born in 1997, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering pro-Kremlin “war correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky, reports Interfax, citing a source with knowledge of the situation. Trepova was brought to the investigator. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘War_blogger’_Vladlen_Tatarsky_killed_in_explosion in_a_Petersburg_cafe_—_Meduza⠀⇛ An explosion occurred on the evening of April 2 in the St. Petersburg cafe Street Food Bar No. 1, reports Interfax, citing local emergency services. The explosion killed one person and injured another 15. “According to the latest information, a gas cylinder may have exploded in the cafe,” said emergency services. There was no fire following the explosion. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Lavrov_asks_Blinken_not_to_paint_WSJ_journalist Evan_Gershkovich’s_arrest_‘with_a_political_brush’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, spoke on the phone on April 2, reports Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Second_Cold_War_Is_More_Dangerous_Than the_First⠀⇛ Twenty years ago, Noam Chomsky published a bestselling book called Hegemony or Survival. Since then, the stark choice he posed has only become more urgent. Depending on how humanity responds to the challenges of ecological destruction and imperialistic war, in the coming decade that terrifying question “Hegemony or survival?” may well be answered. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Hidden_War_Against_the_World’s Impoverished_Migrants_of_Color⠀⇛ As the public’s attention is fixated on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a new breed of warfare has been quietly and insidiously creeping into existence. This asymmetric warfare is characterized by the weaponization of natural spaces such as the geographical space between Colombia and Panama, El Tapón del Darién, against impoverished migrants of color. Staying informed about sudden and extreme global events is crucial, but we must resist being distracted from more insidious and subtle transformations and forms of violence happening around the world. The ongoing inhumane war waged by the world’s wealthiest nations against the planet’s impoverished peoples, currently manifesting in El Darién, also deserves our unwavering attention. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine_shell_a_locomotive_depot in_occupied_Melitopol_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Six people were wounded in a strike by Ukraine’s Armed Forces on annexed Melitopol, reports Interfax, citing the Russian-appointed administration. Emergency services of the annexed part of Zaporizhzhia say that residential buildings and a gas line were damaged in the strike. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_military_strikes_city_of_Konstantynivka, in_Donetsk,_killing_six_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Six people were killed and eight were wounded in missile strikes on the city of Konstantynivka, in the Donetsk region, reports presidential adviser Andriy Yermak. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Kids_Are_Begging,_Begging,_Begging_For Their_Lives⠀⇛ In the wake of the Nashville shooting, even as mourners gathered at the first funeral – of a 9- year-old “shining light” – and thousands of Tennesseans demanded their lawmakers “Do Something!”, GOP goons still staunchly, blindly refuse to act on or even acknowledge our national gun carnage. It’s “premature” to talk of gun control, they say; we need more doors, cops, cameras, Jesus. “You guys are banning books,” says the rest of America. “Dead kids can’t read.” # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Ukraine_asks_court_to_put_Orthodox leader_under_house_arrest⠀⇛ Ukraine’s top security agency has notified a top Orthodox priest that he is suspected of justifying Russia’s aggression amid a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox monastery. Metropolitan Pavel is the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, Ukraine’s most revered Orthodox site. He has strongly resisted an order from Ukrainian authorities for the monks to vacate the complex. Earlier in the week, the metropolitan cursed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, threatening him with damnation. Facing a court hearing in the Ukrainian capital, he strongly rejected the claim by the Security Service of Ukraine that he condoned Russia’s invasion. The SBU asked a court on Saturday to put him under house arrest pending an investigation. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ AP_Was_There:_US_crewmen_shot_down by_Soviets_arrive_home⠀⇛ Sixteen Alaska Native men have been honored for rescuing the crew of a U.S. Navy patrol plane shot down over the Bering Strait by Soviet fighter jets nearly 70 years ago. With that belated honor, The Associated Press is republishing its story filed July 3, 1955, from Oakland, California, detailing the arrival of seven of the injured Navy crew members who were flown from Alaska after their plane was shot down by Soviet MiGs the previous month. Four other crew members did not need to be transported for care, and all 11 survived after being rescued by Alaska National Guardsmen on St. Lawrence Island. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Combining_algae,_plastic_has_‘scary’ implications_for_Great_Lakes,_experts_fear⠀⇛ “The plastic gets transferred through the food chain,” Gopalakrishnan said. “The big fish, at last, may have an accumulated amount of plastic.” Gopalakrishnan and Kashian said they plan to eventually take their algae-microplastics experiment into the field. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Harris_peeks_at_peppers_on_farm_with climate_change_in_mind⠀⇛ Vice President Kamala Harris has visited a farm outside Zambia’s capital that’s using new techniques and technology to boost its vegetable crop as she highlighted ways to secure food supplies in an age of global warming. She walked past rows of peppers and inspected a drip irrigation system and called it ““an example of what can be done around the world.” In the United States, conversations about climate change usually revolve around replacing fossil fuels with clean energy. In Africa, the focus is on expanding access to food. Rising prices stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine have been damaging to poor countries, and global warming is expected to bring more challenges in the coming years. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Pļaviņas_hydropower_plant_goes_into_overflow mode⠀⇛ Over the weekend, water flow at the Pļaviņas hydroelectric power plant (HES) has reached levels too high for full energy production and the overflow gates are now open, Latvenergo told newswire LETA on April 2. # ⚓ El País ☛ Native_Americans_adopted_Spanish_horses before_colonization_by_other_European_powers⠀⇛ Today, a multidisciplinary investigation – involving almost 100 scientists from around the world and 66 centers and institutions – details how the image of a human-horse was a constant among the Indo-American tribes on the plains of the United States during the first half of the 17th century, before the rest of the European colonizers arrived. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Poles_and_wires_super-profits causing_energy_price_spikes,_and_foreign_takeovers⠀⇛ When you don’t pay tax, you can afford to pay more in a corporate takeover. That’s Brookfield’s magic. Not a cent in income tax paid by Brookfield’s BPIH on $16bn in total income over 8 years. The tax haven specialists are now pouncing on Origin Energy in a binding $18.7 billion takeover just a year after snapping up Victorian energy transmitter Ausnet for just shy of $10bn. They had a crack at AGL too. Like Hong Kong billionaires Michael Kadoorie (EnergyAustralia) and Li-ka-Shing (Spark and CKI) they know Australia’s regulators are ripe for gaming. They know super-profits are on the corporate menu for over-charging Australian consumers. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Small_areas_reopen_near Fukushima_nuclear_plant,_few_return⠀⇛ Evacuation orders have been lifted in small sections of Tomioka, a town just southwest of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, in time for the area’s popular cherry blossom season. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida joined a ceremony there on Saturday. An earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 triggered triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Massive amounts of radiation spewed from the plant, causing more than 160,000 residents to evacuate from across Fukushima. Surveys show many former residents have decided not to return because they have found jobs and educations and built relationships elsewhere. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Spy_On_Your_Cat_To_Make_Sure_It_Gets_Its Paws_In⠀⇛ [Scott Cutler] has a young cat, [Cygnus], that loves to run on a cat wheel and [Scott] had some some important questions about [Cygnus]’s usage of the cat wheel like, how often it’s used, what direction is preferred and how fast does [Cygnus] go. To answer these questions, [Scott] put some telemetry sensors onto the cat wheel and analyzed the results. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Man_fined_EUR_50,000_for_destroying_eggs_of protected_bird⠀⇛ The Vidzeme region court in Cēsis has charged a man with a hefty fine of EUR 50,000 for the deliberate destruction of at least ten eggs of an endangered species, the black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundu), Latvian Radio reported on April 2. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ These_Sea_Creatures_Don’t_Need_a Brain_to_Learn,_According_to_a_New_Study⠀⇛ No brain, no problem. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Silicon_Valley_Bank_Bailout:_The_Purpose of_Government_Is_to_Make_the_Rich_Richer⠀⇛ There is a standard tale of politics where conservatives want to leave things to the market, whereas the left want a big role for government. The right likes to tell this story because it advantages them politically… # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Amid_New_Banking_Crisis,_It’s_Time_to_Change_the Rules_of_the Game⠀⇛ # ⚓ ABC ☛ WSJ:_McDonald’s_to_close_offices_briefly_ahead_of layoffs⠀⇛ A report says McDonald’s has closed its U.S. offices for a few days as the company prepares to inform employees about layoffs. The Wall Street Journal cited an internal email from the Chicago-based fast-food giant saying U.S. corporate staff and some employees overseas should work from home while the company notifies people of their job status. McDonald’s did not immediately reply to emailed requests for comment. The report said McDonald’s would inform its employees this week about staffing decisions that are part of a wide restructuring of the company announced earlier. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Twitter_pulls_check_mark_from_main_New_York Times_account⠀⇛ Early Sunday, Musk tweeted that the Times’ check mark would be removed. Later he posted disparaging remarks about the newspaper, which has aggressively reported on Twitter and on flaws with partially automated driving systems at Tesla, the electric car company, which he also runs. Other Times accounts such as its business news and opinion pages still had either blue or gold check marks on Sunday, as did multiple reporters for the news organization. # ⚓ NDTV ☛ New_York_Times_Loses_Twitter_Verified_Badge_As_Elon Musk_Calls_It_“Propaganda”⠀⇛ The New York Times was among news media companies, firms and charities that had already lost their blue tick and were tagged as verified business accounts with a gold tick under Musk’s new system. To retain the gold tick after the rollout of the subscription service dubbed Twitter Blue, these groups would have to pay a monthly fee of $1,000 in the United States, and $50 for each additional affiliated account. The New York Times said it would not pay for a verified business account and would subscribe for a blue tick only for journalists finding it essential for their reporting needs. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ahead_of_Chicago_Runoff,_New_Ad_Spotlights ‘Trail_of_Destruction’_Left_by_Paul_Vallas⠀⇛ With Chicago’s closely watched mayoral runoff just two days away, the campaign of progressive Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson debuted an ad on Sunday featuring expert and parent testimony on conservative candidate Paul Vallas’ education record, including his stints managing school districts in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump’s_Indictment_Was_Not_the_Biggest Story_of_the_Week⠀⇛ Last Thursday’s big news story was the indictment of Donald Trump, with banner headlines in all the papers that still print on paper. The phrase I saw most often was “uncharted territory,” (and occasionally “unchartered territory”), which is somewhat true: we’ve never had a former president, much less one seeking election, under indictment. But, truth be told, it seems like these waters were fairly easy to predict. It’s been obvious for many years that Trump disregarded rules and laws, acted on whims and appetites, and was a greedy skinflint; him ending up in trouble for tax evasion to cover up an affair with a porn star seems unlikely only in its details. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Trump_indictment_ends_decades_of perceived_invincibility⠀⇛ When Donald Trump steps before a judge next week to be arraigned in a New York courtroom, it will not only mark the first time a former U.S. president has faced criminal charges. It will also represent a reckoning for a man long nicknamed “Teflon Don,” who until now has managed to skirt serious legal jeopardy despite 40 years of legal scrutiny. The spectacle that is sure to unfold will mark an unprecedented moment in American history. But on a personal level, the indictment pierces the cloak of invincibility that seemed to follow Trump through his decades in business and in politics, as he faced allegations of fraud, collusion and sexual misconduct. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Sudan_delays_signing_of_deal_to usher_in_civilian_government⠀⇛ Sudan’s military leaders and pro-democracy forces have said they will delay the signing of an agreement to usher in a civilian government. The postponement of the signing comes as key security reform negotiations between the Sudanese army and the country’s powerful paramilitary forces appear to have reached a deadlock. A meeting will be held Saturday “to set a new date for signing the final political agreement.” Sudan has been mired in chaos after a military coup removed a Western-backed power-sharing government in October 2021. Last December the military and numerous pro-democracy groups signed a preliminary deal vowing to restore the transition. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ UK_travelers_face_hours-long_waits for_ferries_to_France⠀⇛ British travelers are facing hours-long lines as they try to cross the English Channel. The Port of Dover in England blamed the delays on bad weather, heavy traffic and processing delays by French authorities. Saturday is the first day of a two- week spring vacation for most schools in Britain. While the port says bus passengers are facing the longest wait times, video showed long lines of cars and trucks as well. The port also warned ferry passengers of severe delays and said it was “deeply frustrated” by the situation, which has become a regular feature of cross-channel travel since Britain’s exit from the European Union. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Right-wing_video_site_Rumble_grows,_as does_its_misinformation⠀⇛ Video-sharing platform Rumble, flush with cash after a $400 million investment, is pushing toward its goal of becoming the YouTube for American conservatives, even as it faces criticism for allowing misinformation and conspiracy theories to proliferate. Its monthly active user base rose to 80 million at the end of December, more than double the year-earlier figure, the company said on Thursday. And although it posted a net loss of $11.4 million, annual revenues – mostly from advertising – quadrupled in the past 12 months to $39.3 million. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Restrict_Act_Critics_Call_the_Far-Reaching “TikTok_Ban”_Bill_a_“Patriot_Act_2.0”⠀⇛ o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Bangladeshi_journalist Shamsuzzaman_Shams_arrested_under_Digital_Security_Act⠀⇛ # ⚓ NPR ☛ The_Taliban_shut_down_Afghanistan’s_only_women-run radio_station⠀⇛ Station head Najia Sorosh denied there was any violation, saying there was no need for the closure and called it a conspiracy. The Taliban “told us that you have broadcast music. We have not broadcast any kind of music,” she said. Sorosh said at 11:40 a.m. on Thursday representatives from the Ministry of Information and Culture and the Vice and Virtue Directorate arrived at the station and shut it down. She said station staff have contacted Vice and Virtue but officials there said they do not have any additional information about the closing. # ⚓ El País ☛ American_journalist’s_arrest_threatens_reporting from_Russia⠀⇛ More than 30 press freedom groups and news organizations, including the Journal, The New York Times, BBC, The Associated Press, The New Yorker, Time and The Washington Post, signed a letter Friday to Anatoly I. Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., expressing concern about “a significant escalation” in your government’s anti- press actions. “Russia is sending the message that journalism within your borders is criminalized and that foreign correspondents seeking to report from Russia do not enjoy the benefits of the rule of law,” they said. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Journalist_Detained_by_Russia_Was Reporting_Stories_That_‘Needed_to_Be_Told’⠀⇛ Russia has not provided any evidence to back up the accusations, and Mr. Gershkovich, and his employer have denied the allegation. Russian state media said Mr. Gershkovich was being held at a prison in Moscow to await trial after being transported from Yekaterinburg, a city 900 miles away in the Ural Mountains where he was arrested. He is the first American journalist detained on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War and faces up to 20 years in jail. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ WSJ_reporter_Evan_Gershkovich_posted_chilling tweet_months_before_Russia_arrest_—_as_Blinken_demands release⠀⇛ Meanwhile, an ominous tweet Gershkovich posted in July — eight months before he was detained — foreshadowed his terrifying fate. “Reporting on Russian is now also a regular practice of watching people you know get locked away for years,” he eerily tweeted on July 12, 2022. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Should_journalists_be_telling_‘good’ Hong_Kong_stories?⠀⇛ By Keith B. Richburg This is a question being heard more frequently since the city’s chief executive and his team have decided that the main problem stalling Hong Kong’s re-emergence onto the global stage after three years of political turbulence and pandemic isolation is negative news stories. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ UM_asks_court_to_end_strike;_graduate employees_won’t_back_down⠀⇛ The university’s Board of Regents is seeking a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to end the Graduate Employee’s Organization strike that began on Wednesday, arguing that the walkout in the middle of the semester is “jeopardizing a student’s ability to take final exams, complete necessary course work, graduate” and complete educational degrees. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ “Woman,_Life,_Freedom”:_Syrian_Women_Are_Rising Up_Against_Patriarchy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Murder_victim,_rape_survivor,_porn star’:_How_Hong_Kong_media_treats_women_reveals_a_wider issue,_scholars_say⠀⇛ In recent weeks, Hong Kong has been gripped by a series of headlines, often tragic ones, starring women as victim or protagonist. Abby Choi’s murder made front-page news locally and around the world on February 24. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Unexpected_Pro-Civil_Liberty_Dissent_By Two_Supreme_Court_Trump_Appointees⠀⇛ Following Steven Donziger’s appeal to the appointing of three special prosecutors to his controversial contempt of court case, every justice, with the exception of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, refused to give Donziger a hearing for his appeal and let the conviction stand, raising concerns about constitutional rights. Here is the dissent by Justices […] # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ What_Unionized_Starbucks_Workers_Think_of Howard_Schultz’_Testimony_to_Bernie_Sanders⠀⇛ The latest round in the fight between Starbucks and its nascent barista network — Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) — came to a head on Wednesday with the appearance of former CEO and current board member Howard Schultz at the Senate Committee on Housing, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Retaliation_at_Its_Worst’:_Starbucks_Fires Worker_Who_Sparked_National_Union_Movement⠀⇛ Just days after former CEO Howard Schultz appeared before a Senate committee to face questioning over the company’s brazen union-busting campaign, Starbucks fired a worker credited with sparking the organizing drive that has resulted in nearly 300 unionized shops across the United States. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Asa_Hutchinson,_Enemy_of_Abortion_Rights Who_Kicked_Thousands_Off_Medicaid,_Announces_White_House Bid⠀⇛ Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Sunday that he will run for the White House in 2024, casting himself as a “different” kind of Republican than Donald Trump and his most fervent GOP allies. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Free_Google_Play_Alternative_MicroG Framed_in_Bogus_‘Vanced’_DMCA_Notices⠀⇛ MicroG is a free-as-in-freedom alternative to proprietary Google services, including the Play Store. Vanced, a popular app that provided an ad-free YouTube experience, relied on microG to operate, something also true for successor ReVanced. In a scheme to damage microG and Vanced-style apps, imposters masquerading as microG have targeted almost two dozen sites with DMCA notices. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Rightsholders_Flag_Official_EU Website_for_Copyright_Infringements⠀⇛ Copyright holders have sent hundreds of DMCA notices flagging alleged copyright infringements on Europa.eu, the official website of the European Commission. 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