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Divisions and Products Axed Entirely) | Techrights ⦿ OSI Blog Composed by Microsofters on Microsoft’s Payroll, Promoting Proprietary GitHub Using Microsoft’s Terminology | Techrights ⦿ Techrights Plans for Impending Easter Weekend | Techrights ⦿ In the UK, Windows Falls to 63% on Laptops/Desktops (All-Time Low) | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/irc-log-040423/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/microsoft-lies-in-osi-branding/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/microsoft-shutdowns-and-layoffs/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/osi-corrupted/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/techrights-easter-plan/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/uk-desktop-share/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/easyos-5-2-1/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/elementaryos-updates-midnightbsd-3-0-1/#comments 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gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/05/microsoft-lies-in-osi-branding/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ OSI:_Let’s_Repeat_Microsoft_Lies⠀✐ Posted in Deception, GPL, Microsoft, OSI at 7:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Two years before bagging bribes from Microsoft the OSI published_this: [PDF] 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇2015_OSI_on_Microsoft⦈_ Of course it has gotten a lot worse since then. For example, consider this overt case of OSI lobbying for Microsoft in the class_action_lawsuit_over GitHub_Copilot (GPL violations). This is MICROSOFT funded. This is MICROSOFT staff. This is MICROSOFT propaganda. All this for MICROSOFT GPL VIOLATIONS. Hosted by a MICROSOFT-BRIBED OSI. They buy the OSI’s platform and we know whose bank account nets those salaries. Sometimes it feels like there’s no greater foe or enemy to Open Source than the OSI itself (because of the misleading name, which complicates matters; it’s a powerful lobbying instrument). It literally works against its original mission, as last_witnessed_yesterday. ⣿⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠩⢉⠉⢉⠍⡍⢭⢩⠩⣩⢩⣭⢉⠭⣩⣭⡩⣩⡩⠉⡍⡍⡍⠉⢍⠩⣩⣩⣩⣍⢍⢍⣩⡍⢍⡍⢍⢍⣭⢍⣉⣍⢭⠩⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠈⠓⠓⠂⠐⠀⠀⠚⠃⠙⠁⠧⠂⠢⠒⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠄⠀⠤⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠄⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠓⠂⠒⣀⡒⠀⠂⠐⠀⠀⠀⠘⠚⠳⠐⠛⠀⠘⠊⠀⠘⠗⠁⠁⠑⠁⠐⠈⠁⠀⠁⠑⠓⠘⠛⠁⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠄⢄⢀⠤⠠⢀⠤⡠⠀⠤⠠⠄⠠⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠠⣤⡤⣤⡄⡤⠤⣤⢄⠤⢠⠼⡷⢢⢄⣤⢤⢰⡄⢤⣤⣴⣤⣤⢠⣦⠤⢠⡤⣤⠠⡆⠂⠠⠀⠄⠄⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡤⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠔⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠄⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣬⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⣧⣪⣷⣸⣀⣿⣇⣅⣇⣿⣂⣿⣨⣿⣘⣇⣇⣂⣇⣅⣷⣸⣇⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⠻⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠿⡿⡟⢿⢿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⢛⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠿⠿⢿⣛⣿⡿⢿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⣿⡿⡿⢻⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣶⣶⡿⣾⣿⣿⢷⢿⣿⣿⡿⣾⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⣾⣾⣿⠶⣿⣷⣷⢿⣶⢾⣿⣿⣿⣷⢾⡿⣷⣮⣾⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣷⣿⣯⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣥⣼⣿⣧⣬⣭⣿⣬⣿⣿⣿⣤⣵⣦⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣶⣾⣭⣷⣿⣯⣷⣤⣬⣯⣤⣿⣿⣮⣧⣿⣷⣿⣿⣧⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣻⣷⣿⣿⣛⣿⣞⣇⣇⣙⣁⣿⣿⣭⣟⣽⣹⣘⣿⣿⣽⣿⣟⣹⣋⣻⣿⣿⣃⣩⣙⣟⣾⣿⣁⣟⣙⣭⣇⣽⣟⡍⣍⣿⣿⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢙⠙⣛⣛⣯⣫⢛⢟⣻⣹⠟⠻⢻⡿⣻⣿⣻⣿⣿⢻⣿⢻⢟⡟⣿⢿⡏⡯⡝⢿⣿⣿⢻⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⡟⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⡿⣿⣿⣟⡿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢛⣿⣿⢿⠿⢿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⡿⠻⣿⣿⢿⠿⣷⢿⢛⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢿⣾⣾⣿⣾⣿⣷⣶⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⢶⣿⣿⣶⣿⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣧⣾⣿⣿⣶⣾⣶⣿⣾⣿⣷⣾⣿⣷⣿⣾⣷⣿⣿⣶⣾⡿⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣶⣿⣾⣾⣿⣷⣯⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣼⣿⣽⣥⣼⣿⣿⣮⣬⣶⣮⣾⣥⣾⣿⣿⣿⣽⣷⣽⣶⣿⣼⣧⣴⣥⣷⣵⣼⣽⣿⣯⣷⣿⣿⣯⣶⣯⣼⣯⣴⣿⣿⣷⣵⣼⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⡻⡿⢿⡿⢿⠿⢿⣿⢛⣿⠿⡿⣿⡿⢿⠿⣿⠿⣿⣿⠿⢿⢿⠿⣿⡿⢿⠿⣿⢿⢿⠿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣝⣷⣿⣣⣔⣺⣸⣼⣿⣓⣥⣫⣧⣫⡇⣿⣜⣧⣒⣿⣿⣼⣿⣼⣜⣿⣕⣼⣜⣿⣎⣾⣔⣾⡿⠀⠀⢀⣤⣄⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡾⣸⡏⣾⢸⣿⡆⣿⣇⣛⢿⣿⣿⠣⠜⣿⢩⡍⣿⡏⣭⢻⡏⣿⢹⡯⢭⢹⡇⣿⣿⡇⣛⢨⡟⢭⣹⡏⣫⡝⡟⣩⡝⣿⢩⣽⢨⣽⣧⠀⠀⠘⢿⠛⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣭⣿⣬⣾⣿⣧⣿⣯⣭⣾⣿⣯⣾⣷⣽⣼⣧⣿⣧⣿⣼⣷⣭⣼⣧⣽⣼⣧⣿⣿⣧⣿⣮⣷⣬⣽⡇⣮⣴⣿⣬⣴⣿⣼⣿⣮⣽⣿⣧⣀⢠⣿⣧⢀⣠⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 251 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/microsoft-shutdowns-and-layoffs/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/05/microsoft-shutdowns-and-layoffs/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Lots_of_Microsoft_Shutdowns_Reported_Today_(Whole_Offices,_Divisions_and Products_Axed_Entirely)⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft at 9:14 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Can the chaffbot generate enough media noise/smokescreen (all that “AI” chaff) to distract from all that? Hours_ago: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft,_which_also_announced_plans_to_cut_10,000_jobs recently,_is_reportedly_laying_off_100_employees_in_its_Industrial_Metaverse Core_team._The_company_is_said_to_have_virtually_shut_down_work_on_the metaverse,_despite_official_statements_that_it_remains_committed_to_it.⦈_ Yes, buzzwords as a vapourware tactic (be patient, shareholders, we’ll razzle- dazzle you in the future while we lose money now). We’ve seen this before. First_"metaverse",_now_"AI"… (they misleabel or call almost everything that) Also_today: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_abandons_project_mapping_Chicago’s_air_pollution⦈_ Turns out greenwashing PR is a luxury when the marketing budget runs thin and the “clown computing” business disputes false narratives (“AI” means a lot of unnecessary pollution). Last_night: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_Abandons_Plans_for_New_Office_in_London⦈_ That does not seem like the hallmark of a healthy company. Even its expansion plan/PR turns out to be vapourware. Summary: Microsoft’s layoffs and shrinking business footprint is a big feature this month, even if the media keeps focusing on vapourware and hype instead (Microsoft pays for misplaced media focus) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⣶⣶⡶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠦⠤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⢶⠋⠉⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠈⠈⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⠶⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠁⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣠⣤⣶⣿⣭⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣯⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣭⣿⣟⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢽⢿⢿⡿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⢿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⡻⣿⣿⢿⡿⡻⣿⠿⣿⣻⡿⣻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⠟⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⠿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡻⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Europe, Patents, Site_News at 12:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: Techrights will be publishing threatening letters from trolls this coming weekend; it’s well overdue LAST summer a copyright troll targeted Techrights [1, 2] and for full disclosure purposes we planned to disclose the letters some time around Christmas. Transparency is important if not paramount. Just before Christmas, however, that troll escalated a little by sending physical letters to our home, so we decided to delay this until Easter when it’s quieter and there’s ample time to redact and preapre. “…regardless of whether there’s something more sinister or complicated going on behind the scenes, expect more to be published around Easter Sunday.”The “case” itself is without merit, very obviously frivolous harassment, which we suspect may have comes from the EPO or is linked to Team UPC, which also issued some copyright threats only months ago [1, 2]. Either way, regardless of whether there’s something more sinister or complicated going on behind the scenes, expect more to be published around Easter Sunday. Techrights still attracts such self-defeating threats. Shedding light on them helps deter/discourage further attempts. That these threats are made in the first place can be rather revealing at times. That means Techrights makes an impact. Last year we covered_another_example_of_this. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 546 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/05/uk-desktop-share/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/05/uk-desktop-share/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ In_the_UK,_Windows_Falls_to_63%_on_Laptops/Desktops_(All-Time_Low)⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft, Windows at 7:26 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz So says this_survey that Microsoft fancies citing in self-serving contexts: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇UK_desktop_share⦈_ Summary: Now that “Microsoft_ditches_plans_for_500,000_sq_ft_London_office” it’s worth considering the company’s status in the UK (it’s also under consideration/investigation for market abuse by Ofcom right_about_now) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⢾⢉⣹⡩⡇⢫⢩⣯⡍⣯⡍⣿⣳⣶⢹⣭⢹⣉⣹⣭⢍⢩⣽⢸⣭⢙⠭⣽⣧⡒⡹⢫⡩⡇⡍⣉⡏⡍⣭⣿⡇⠻⡁⢯⣹⢩⡅⢫⢉⣩⢨⣿⣔⢺⣭⠹⣍⠋⣭⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⣾⣶⣾⢶⣷⣷⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⠿⣷⣶⣿⣶⣾⡶⣾⣿⣶⣾⣾⣾⣿⣦⣒⣽⣷⣶⣣⣿⣶⣷⣶⣶⣷⣷⣿⣿⣷⣷⣷⣶⣾⣾⣷⣷⣶⣾⣶⣿⣶⣾⣿⣾⣶⣶⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢿⢿⢰⣾⢰⢶⢑⢸⢴⢸⣿⣕⢿⡇⣶⡇⠂⡧⡆⡧⡮⡇⡎⡆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⢿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣭⣿⣿⡿⢿⠿⡿⢿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡷⢍⡠⠄⢆⡶⣿⠣⡿⢿⡺⡬⢥⣿⣽⢧⡜⠰⡀⣾⡟⢽⡺⡘⠽⠯⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣟⣟⠛⡛⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣉⡉⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⡈⠛⠿⠃⣦⣤⣠⣄⣤⣄⠙⠻⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣏⣉⣍⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣒⣀⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣓⣒⣀⣒⣀⣀⣉⠁⣀⠈⠛⠛⢛⢛⣛⡛⢛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⢛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠃⠀⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣄⠁⣠⣤⣁⣄⣈⣉⠉⢁⡀⠙⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⢻ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠀⠋⠁⣄⣄⠀⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠟⠻⠿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢴⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⢹⡏⡀⠅⠠⠅⠈⠀⠜⢡⠌⢠⠈⠈⠁⠁⡄⠁⠠⠁⡶⢒⠖⠒⡲⠒⢲⢶⢒⢲⠒⢒⠒⡶⡶⢖⢖⡖⠖⣒⢲⣶⣶⣶⡆⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⢀⣶⣾⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣇⣓⣛⣒⣒⣚⣛⣚⣛⣚⣚⣓⣚⣒⣛⣛⣒⣛⣓⣓⣒⣚⣛⣛⢛⣃⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣅⣀⣀⣹⢨⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣤⣄⣀⠀⣀⣠⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣼⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠙⠿⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⣰⣿⣶⣶⣶⣤⣄⣉⠉⠛⠋⠙⣿⣿⣿⠿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⡛⠛⠛⢿⠸⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠻⠻⠿⠟⠛⠛⠋⠋⠛⠀⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠶⠴⠄⠉⠀⠤⠴⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣾⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⠋⠛⢉⣀⠙⢀⣄⣠⣦⣤⣴⣶⣶⣦⣀⣦⣴⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠋⡉⠉⠛⠛⢁⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣿⣧⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⠿⠟⠛⠛⠋⠉⣉⣉⣉⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢰⣶⣶⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠋⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠉⠟⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠛⠻⠛⠙⠋⣉⡈⠉⠀⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠋⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠍⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠍⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⣹⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⠍⣻⢉⠉⠛⠋⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠩⢙⡏⠝⣹⠉⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡫⠝⣻⡏⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠭⢻⠙⡝⡩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⡿⡟⠿⠿⡿⠿⢿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⢿⠿⢿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣥⣾⣬⣿⣤⣤⣮⣦⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣬⣴⣧⣥⣤⣬⣾⣧⣴⣮⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣥⣤⣧⣤⣿⣭⣤⣤⣤⣤⣭⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 618 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_05/04/2023:_EasyOS_5.2.1_and_Shotcut_23.04;_Donald_Trump_in_Police Custody⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:15 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o EasyOS o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Programming/Development # Python * Leftovers o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Privatisation/Privateering o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Software_Patents # Trademarks * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ System76_CEO_teases_in-house_Linux_laptop_code- named_‘Virgo’⠀⇛ Linux hardware vendor and creator of the Pop!_OS distribution, System76, have made their own desktop for a while now but they’re moving onto a custom laptop next. Something they’ve been planning for some time, as they’ve gradually scaled up their in-house manufacturing. On Mastodon, System76 Founder and CEO Carl Richell, showed off two photos of the panel for the LCD… o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ TUXEDO_introduces_laptop_with_GeForce_RTX 4090_and_Core_i9_processor⠀⇛ Today, TUXEDO Computers launched a Linux gaming laptop equipped with the Core i9-13900HX processor, a 2.5 GbE LAN port, a 99Wh battery and an optional Cherry MX mechanical keyboard. Additionally, the Stellaris 16 Gen 5 features a 240Hz display and a Thunderbolt 4 port. The Stellaris 16 is only available with the following 13th Gen Raptor Lake processor… o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Shotcut_23.04_Video_Editor_to_Bring_Qt_6_and FFmpeg_6_Support,_Flatpak_ARM64_Build⠀⇛ Built using the latest Qt 6 and FFmpeg 6 frameworks, the upcoming Shotcut 23.04 release promises improved Wayland support, an ARM64 (AArch64) build of the Flatpak binary, timeline optimization, faster previews for most video clips without filters, and additional multi-threading in audio/video file reading. Shotcut 23.04 will also reintroduce the GPU Effects feature, which has been greatly improved to be more performant and stable. GPU Effects now comes with new functionality like end-to-end support for 10- bit sources, text filters, video scopes, stabilization, and support for showing only or all GPU filters when searching for “gpu” in Filters. # ⚓ Support_for_Istio_1.15_has_ended⠀⇛ As previously_announced, support for Istio 1.15 has now officially ended. At this point we will no longer back-port fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.15, so we heartily encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio (1.17.2) if you haven’t already. # ⚓ Announcing_Istio_1.17.2⠀⇛ This release fixes the security vulnerabilities described in our April 4th post, ISTIO-SECURITY- 2023-001. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.17.1 and 1.17.2. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ Nginx_Setup:_Run_Laravel_in_a_Reverse_Proxy, Preserve_URL⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to access a remote Laravel 10 app through a reverse proxy… # ⚓ APNIC ☛ IPv6_architecture_and_subnetting_guide_for_network engineers_and_operators⠀⇛ Guest Post: A practical guide to implementing an IPv6 architecture and subnetting system. # ⚓ Klara ☛ Managing_Disk_Arrays_on_FreeBSD/TrueNAS_Core⠀⇛ Discover strategies to manage disk arrays on FreeBSD and related platforms/operating systems. Ensure device health & easy replacements with these valuable tips. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Linux_Terminal_Basics_#8:_Move_Files_and Directories_(Cut-Paste_Operation)⠀⇛ In the eighth chapter of the Terminal Basics series, learn about moving files and directories using the mv command in Linux. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_enable_Linux_on_your_Chromebook_(and_why_you should)⠀⇛ Want to get more from your Chromebook? Add Linux support! # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_encrypt_a_file_on_Linux_(and_when_you should)⠀⇛ Looking for the easiest method for protecting a file behind a layer of encryption in Linux? Here are two easy ways. # ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Learning_syslog-ng:_a_table_of contents_for_my_tutorial_series⠀⇛ Last year, one of the returning questions I received was how to learn syslog-ng. My answer was that read_the_first_few chapters_of_the documentation,_read_my_blogs_related_to_your_use case,_and_then_read_a_few_relevant_parts_from_the rest_of_the_documentation. Our documentation is praised by users, but it is still a reference documentation. I was asked if a less detailed, more to the point, preferably video tutorial is available. # ⚓ Peter_Czanik:_Learning_syslog-ng,_the_easier_way⠀⇛ Last year, one of the returning questions I received was how to learn syslog-ng. My answer was that read_the_first_few_chapters_of_the documentation,_read_my_blogs_related_to_your_use case,_and_then_read_a_few_relevant_parts_from_the rest_of_the_documentation. Our documentation is praised by users, but it is still a reference documentation. I was asked if a less detailed, more to the point, preferably video tutorial is available. # ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Work_With_Include_And_Import_Statements In_Ansible_With_Examples⠀⇛ In this article, we will learn what import_* and include_* directives are and how to work with include and import statements in Ansible with examples. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_to_resolve_Git_merge_conflicts⠀⇛ o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Hell_Let_Loose_Coming_to_the_Steam_Deck This_Year⠀⇛ Hell Let Loose (Steam link) is a multiplayer tactical first-person WW2 shooter developed by Australian studio Black Matter and published by Team17 — the game was initially released after a Kickstarter campaign in 2017 before its release on Windows… o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Slimbook_Titan,_Kubuntu,_backup, encryption⠀⇛ I have purposefully decided to write this part of my Titan adventures as a separate article, because backups are extremely important. Of course, the specific details are not important. You can choose not to use encryption at all, or perhaps prefer VeraCrypt or TrueCrypt containers. You can use one disks or many, or copy to a network share. You can do any number of things. I merely wanted to show that you can go for an elegant and even somewhat complex setup without any great trouble in Linux. But you need to be a nerd. The rsync scripts can then run at different times, the home and system ones separately. The data is safely backed up, so if there are problems, it is relatively easy to recover. In the worst case, I would need to reinstall the system, but my personal stuff and important configurations would all survive. All of this is just a precursor to the heavy work with the data stored on Windows systems, but hey, one small step for Tux. We’ve got till 2025 to put everything in order, and so far, it’s going rather well. More on games coming soon. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ KDE_Team_Introduces_New_Community_Forum: KDE_Discuss⠀⇛ KDE, the popular free and open-source software community, has recently launched a new online discussion forum called “KDE Discuss”. The platform is built using the modern Discourse forum software and aims to provide a place for the KDE community to come together and discuss various topics. Here’s all the details. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § EasyOS⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version_5.2.1 released⠀⇛ Easy 5.2 was released on March 28: https://bkhome.org/news/202303/easyos-kirkstone- series-version-52-released.html Release notes for 5.2.1: http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/ kirkstone/2023/5.2.1/release-notes.htm # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ fr_and_ru_translation_updates⠀⇛ Thanks to JJ (esmourguit in the forum) and Dmitry (maybe in the forum) for French and Russian translation updates. Commit: [...] o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ CentOS ☛ CentOS_Hyperscale_SIG_Quarterly_Report_for 2023Q1⠀⇛ CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2023Q1 This report covers work that happened between January 9th 2023 and April 3rd 2023. For previous work, see the 2022Q3 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Update_and_upgrade_JBoss_EAP_with_Ansible⠀⇛ In this follow-up to Automate_and_deploy_a_JBoss EAP_cluster_with_Ansible, we will explain how to maintain and keep those instances updated, again in a fully automated manner, leveraging Ansible and the Ansible_collection_for_Red_Hat_JBoss_Enterprise Application_Platform_(EAP).  Indeed, it is critical to ensure that all JEE application server instances always be up to date, especially in regard to security fixes. Therefore, we’ll discuss not only how to apply patches to update the server but also how to perform an upgrade to migrate to a new major version. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation:_Key considerations_for_banking_leaders⠀⇛ Digital transformation: Key considerations for banking leaders # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 7_conversational_AI_trends_to_watch in_2023⠀⇛ If you’ve ever asked a virtual assistant like Siri or Alexa for a weather forecast or checked an order status using a chatbot or a messaging app, you’ve experienced the power of conversational AI. This artificial intelligence tool uses natural language processing (NLP) to understand and respond to human language. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Automate_PostgreSQL_database_deployment using_RHEL_System_Roles⠀⇛ Automate PostgreSQL database deployment using RHEL System Roles # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Troubleshooting_Linux_performance, building_a_golden_image_for_your_RHEL_homelab,_and_more_tips for_sysadmins⠀⇛ Troubleshooting Linux performance, building a golden image for your RHEL homelab, and more tips for sysadmins o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Get_Ready_for_Debian_12:_A_Closer_Look_at_Just- Released_RC1⠀⇛ Debian is one of the most popular, oldest, and most reliable operating systems in the Linux world. Each new release introduces several updates and features that make it even better. So, the upcoming Debian 12 “Bookworm” is no exception. It is the next major distro’s release and is set to bring many new and exciting changes to the table. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Debian_Project_Leader_election_2023:_First_call_for votes⠀⇛ Hi, This is the first call for votes on the DPL election of 2023. Voting period starts 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC Votes must be received by 2023-04-14 23:59:59 UTC This vote is being conducted as required by the Debian Constitution. You may see the constitution at https:// www.debian.org/devel/constitution. For voting questions or problems contact secretary@debian.org. The details of the candidate's platform can be found at: https://www.debian.org/vote/2023/platforms/ Also, note that you can get a fresh ballot any time before the end of the vote by sending a mail to ballot@vote.debian.org with the subject "leader2023". To vote you need to be a Debian Developer. HOW TO VOTE First, read the full text of the platform. You might also want to read discussions with the candidates at https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/ To cast a vote, it is necessary to send this ballot filled out to a dedicated e-mail address, in a signed message, as described below. The dedicated email address this ballot should be sent to is: leader2023@vote.debian.org The form you need to fill out is contained at the bottom of this message, marked with two lines containing the characters '-=-=-=-=-=-'. Do not erase anything between those lines, and do not change the choice names. There are 2 choices in the form, which you may rank with numbers between 1 and 2. In the brackets next to your preferred choice, place a 1. Place a 2 in the brackets next to your next choice. Continue until you reach your last choice. Do not enter a number smaller than 1 or larger than 2. You may skip numbers, leave some choices unranked, and rank options equally. Unranked choices are considered equally the least desired choices, and ranked below all ranked choices. To vote "no, no matter what", rank "None of the above" as more desirable than the unacceptable choices, or you may rank the "None of the above" choice and leave choices you consider unacceptable blank. (Note: if the "None of the above" choice is unranked, then it is equal to all other unranked choices, if any -- no special consideration is given to the "None of the above" choice by the voting software). Finally, mail the filled out ballot to: leader2023@vote.debian.org. Don't worry about spacing of the columns or any quote characters (">") that your reply inserts. NOTE: The vote must be GPG signed (or PGP signed) with your key that is in the Debian keyring. You may, if you wish, choose to send a signed, encrypted ballot: use the vote key appended below for encryption. The voting software (Devotee) accepts mail that either contains only an unmangled OpenPGP message (RFC 2440 compliant), or a PGP/MIME mail (RFC 3156 compliant). To avoid problems I suggest you use PGP/MIME. VOTING SECRECY This is a secret vote. After the voting period there will be a record of all the votes without the name of the voter. It will instead contain a cryptographic hash. You will receive a secret after you have voted that can be used to calculate that hash. This allows you to verify that your vote is in the list. VOTING FORM # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_2023_Debian_Project_Leader_election⠀⇛ The first call for votes for the 2023 Debian Project Leader election has gone out. The campaigning was easy to miss this year, for one simple reason: the current incumbent, Jonathan Carter, is running unopposed for another term. That suggests that turnout will be low this time but, as several developers have pointed out, there is still value in voting; it clarifies whether Carter still has the support of the project. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Canonical_releases_Landscape_23.03,_delivering simplified_licensing_through_Ubuntu_Pro⠀⇛ Landscape 23.03 manages all versions from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) onwards April 4th, 2023, London, UK: Canonical announced the release of Landscape 23.03 with broader CPU architecture compatibility, and improved management and monitoring capabilities for Ubuntu. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Express ☛ Motorola’s_new_Android_phone_promises_a_boost_the Galaxy_S23_can’t_beat_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_issues_‘critical’_alert_to_billions_of Android_owners_–_you’re_in_danger_of_‘bank_blitz’_leaving_you with_nothing_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Sunbird_Messaging’s_Waitlist_Reaches_100k Android_Users_Worldwide⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ 5_reasons_to_buy_this_affordable_wireless_Android Auto_dongle⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ The_Galaxy_S10,_S10+,_S10e_and_others_lose support_for_Android_security_updates_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Every_Google_app_with_an_Android_tablet_UI_ [U]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Add_a_Watermark_to_Photos_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ Pokemon,_Monster_Masters,_Clash_Royale,_Neo Monsters,_Evocreos:_5_best_Android_games_like_Pokemon_in April_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ DirecTV_appears_to_be_preparing_a_new_Android TV_streamer⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_LibrePlanet_talk_–_May_30_–_BigCode:_Open and_responsible_research_on_code-generating_AI_systems⠀⇛ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Extensions_for_cleaning_up_a_chaotic desktop⠀⇛ Clutter isn’t just material stuff scattered about your floor and shelves. Clutter can consume us in digital form, too — from an overabundance of browser bookmarks and open tabs to navigating a world wide web that’s littered with junk. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Firefox_Beta_on_Linux Mint_21/20⠀⇛ Mozilla Firefox is a popular and widely used open-source web browser that continually evolves to provide users with better performance, enhanced security, and innovative features. To achieve this, Mozilla offers a pre-release version of Firefox called Firefox Beta. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreOffice_project_and_community_recap:_March_2023⠀⇛ We started March by announcing the location of the LibreOffice Conference 2023: Bucharest in Romania! o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Buttondown ☛ The_Capability-Tractability_Tradeoff⠀⇛ The more things your system can represent, the less you can say about the things that are represented. ie, if you store strings as ASCII then you can’t represent “∀∃🦔”, while if you store strings as Unicode then the string’s length isn’t well- defined. We’ll say that Unicode is more capable while ASCII is more tractable. This is one of the most important tradeoffs in CS, up there with space-time tradeoffs. It has a pretty simple reason, too: the more things your system can represent, the fewer things they all have in common, and the more likely any assertion about that set will have a counterexample. # ⚓ Request_Page_Redesign_–_Two_More_Action_Types_and_Better Comments_on_Changes⠀⇛ We are back to working on the request page redesign. This time we have focused on improving comments on lines in the Changes tab, enhancing the requests with multiple actions and supporting requests that intend to delete projects/packages and to change the development package of a package. The request redesign is part of the beta program. We started the redesign of the request workflow in August 2022. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_1768.py_Version_0.0.18⠀⇛ This new version of 1768.py brings an option to try out all 256 xor keys if a non-standard XOR key is used to encode the configuration. Like this sample (key !): 1768_v0_0_18.zip (http)MD5: 323D6D20483257D76D7F9DAD07AAF630SHA256: 653CB75FF59C27FB9A2FD651DDE2EC81A4F577F7F9050353CB0B75DF6CA95773 * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Rupert_Murdoch_and_Ann_Lesley_Smith Call_off_Engagement⠀⇛ o ⚓ Robert Heaton ☛ I_thought_I_knew_what_I_was_doing_this_time:_how our_second_son_was_born⠀⇛ This is part 17 of a series about my experiences being a parent. Read the rest here. Gaby, my wife, a few weeks before the birth: Before Oscar was born, I was entirely excited that we were going to have a child. I liked my life, but it was a good time to change everything. My job was fine, but I wasn’t worried about putting it on hold or even losing it. We were about to move to London, so my social circle, hobbies, and routines were going to get warped anyway. I’d have to rebuild, with or without a baby. o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Is_the_focus_on_developer_experience_over infrastructure_damaging_the_industry?⠀⇛ Developers are the modern enterprise’s beating heart. And with things like the pervasiveness of open-source code and application programming interfaces, they’re basically served the tools and resources they need to produce at a high level. o ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Don’t_Stop_Your_Cloud-Native_Migration_Too Early⠀⇛ Cloud-native migrations can be intense. Steps are complex and intertwined and system complexity can slow you down and introduce problems and concerns. It may not be clear that everything will eventually smooth itself out. It may not be clear that your migration will be successful. o ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Upbound_Unfurls_Managed_Crossplane_Control Plane_Service⠀⇛ Upbound today made generally available a namesake multi- tenant instance of a control plane management service based on the open source Crossplane project. o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Digital_assets_startup_Bakkt_completes acquisition_of_Apex_Crypto_for_$200M [Ed: Why prop up a massive fraud perpetrated by the wife of Jim Zemlin? [1, 2]]⠀⇛ Bakkt LLC, a digital asset startup founded by New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc., announced Monday that it finalized its acquisition of crypto trading firm Apex Crypto LLC. Apex Crypto provides a turnkey platform for integrated cryptocurrency trading designed to meet the needs of financial institutions and trading customers such as neobanks. * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ Quartz ☛ TikTok’s_failure_to_monitor_children’s_use_of_the platform_is_costing_it_$16_million⠀⇛ TikTok was fined £12.7 million ($15.9 million) for failing to protect children’s data on the social media platform, said the UK’s data regulator in a statement released on April 4. o ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_FTC_ordered_Illumina_to_unravel_its_$7_billion_Grail purchase⠀⇛ >The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Illumina, a leading DNA-sequencing firm, to unravel its $7 billion acquisition of Grail, a developer of cancer-screening tests, stating the deal would hurt innovation and competition in the market. o ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ How_to_beat_burnout⠀⇛ With the end of the semester approaching, many students are experiencing burnout as they anxiously await for the semester to come to a close. “Burnout is a syndrome of work-related stress that has not been successfully managed. o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ The_New_Normal_Left⠀⇛ CJ Hopkins So, I went to London to speak to the Left … no, not “the Left” you’re probably thinking of. Not the mask-wearing, Ukrainian-flag-flying Left. Not the pronoun-using, segregationist Left. Not the WEF, WHO, FBI, CIA, DHS, and MI6-loving Left. Not the global- capitalist New Normal Left. The other Left. The old- school Left. o ⚓ NYPost ☛ The_CDC_keeps_pushing_COVID_boosters_on_kids_despite real_health_risks⠀⇛ The CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci keep pushing hard for all healthy children to have four doses of the COVID vaccine despite the lack of clinical-outcomes data to support the recommendation. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Moderate_Drinking_Has_No_Health_Benefits, Analysis_of_Decades_of_Research_Finds⠀⇛ The review found that the methodology of many previous studies was flawed and that risk of myriad health problems increased significantly after less than two drinks a day for women and after three for men. * § Proprietary⠀➾ o ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Apple_joins_Amazon,_Google,_and_Microsoft_in_tech industry_layoffs⠀⇛ Apple, which has thus far avoided the sweeping layoffs that have taken place at rival companies like Microsoft and Google, is eliminating some roles after all, according to a report in Bloomberg. The number of heads eliminated is believed to be relatively small, and they are all within the company’s “corporate retail teams,” with a focus on workers who are responsible for the “construction and upkeep” of Apple’s retail locations and other physical facilities. o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Apple_to_cut_small_number_of_jobs_in_its corporate_retail_teams⠀⇛ o ⚓ Apple_to_cut_jobs_in_corporate_retail_teams⠀⇛ Apple is cutting a small number of roles within its corporate retail teams in a streamlining effort. The layoffs relate to the tech giant’s development and preservation teams, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter. Although it’s currently unclear how many roles would be impacted, the number will likely be “very small”. According to Bloomberg, the cuts are presented internally as a way of improving operational efficiency rather than a cost-cutting measure. The event sets a precedent for Apple, which has so far managed to steer clear of job cuts affecting most other tech corporations. Additional reports suggest that eliminated roles are in the division that handles building and upkeep for Apple’s retail stores. All impacted employees can apply for other positions at the company until the end of the week or receive up to four months of severance pay. o ⚓ McDonald’s_is_laying_off_corporate_staff_to_free_up_resources_for growth,_experts_say_|_Daily_Mail_Online⠀⇛ The fast-food company is closing its offices this week to terminate staff remotely as part of a previously announced restructuring, with the number of corporate job cuts reportedly in the hundreds. o ⚓ Wired ☛ Microsoft’s_New_Campus_Drove_Up_Home_Prices._Where_Are the_Jobs?⠀⇛ The tech giant’s project in Atlanta is on an “indefinite pause,” leaving locals with the inflated prices but none of the jobs and investment. o ⚓ Tech_companies_plan_hundreds_more_Bay_Area_job_cuts_as_layoffs worsen⠀⇛ Roku, Lucid Group and Microsoft have revealed plans for fresh Bay Area job cuts, together adding hundreds of workers to the region’s worsening layoffs. o Silicon Angle ☛ IRS-approved_tax_filing_site_eFile.com_found delivering_malware_to_users_for_a_week A U.S. Internal Revenue Service-approved tax filing site called eFile.com has been found to be delivering malware to users for weeks. Suspicions that the site was serving malware first appeared on Reddit on March 18, with confirmation provided by security researcher Johannes Ullrich on April 3. o ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Google_spending_cuts_include_no_more_laptops, only_Chromebooks,_and_fewer_services⠀⇛ After laying off thousands of its employees in January, Google LLC is looking to rein in its expenses elsewhere, with a number of cost-cutting measures being implemented across the company, including reductions in spending on equipment, supplies and some employee services. ⚓ Michał Woźniak ☛ Does_ChatGPT_gablergh?⠀⇛ Imagine coming across, on a reasonably serious site, an article that starts along the lines of: After observing the generative AI space for a while, I feel I have to ask: does ChatGPT (and other LLM-based chatbots)… actually gablergh? And if I am honest with myself, I cannot but conclude that it sure does seem so, to some extent! I know this sounds sensationalist. It does undermine some of our strongly held assumptions and beliefs about what does “to gablergh” actually mean — and what classes of entities can, in fact, be said to gablergh at all. Since gablerghing is such a crucial part of what many feel it means to be human, this is also certainly going to ruffle some feathers! But here’s the thing: so far, after thousands of years of philosophical thought and scientific research, we have not been able to clearly define “gablerghing”. Thus, we simply cannot say for certain that some simpler animals, like ants, do not gablergh in some relevant sense. Gablerghing happens on a spectrum, from clearly gablerghing organisms like humans and dolphins, through animals like dogs or cats who I think we would mostly agree do gablergh, down to ants where this is maybe more fraught a statement. So why couldn’t “a_set_of_scripts_running_on_top_of_a_corpus_of statistically_analyzed_internet_content” be said to, in some sense, gablergh? Naturally, your immediate reaction would not be to make a serious thinking face and consider deeply whether or not GPT indeed “gablerghs”, and if so to what degree. Instead, you would first expect the author to define the term “gablergh” and provide some relevant criteria for establishing whether or not something “gablerghs”. Yet somehow when hype-peddlers claim that LLMs (and tools built around them, like ChatGPT) “think”, nobody demands of them clarification of what they actually mean by that, and what criteria they might possibly use (beyond “the output seems human-made”). This allows them to weaponize the complexity of defining the term “to think”, with all its emotional and philosophical baggage, and using it to their advantage. “Well you can’t say it doesn’t think” — the argument goes — “since it’s so hard to define and delineate! Even ants can be said to think in some sense!” ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ President_Biden_says_tech_firms_must_ensure_their_AI_products are_safe⠀⇛ U.S. President Joe Biden today met with his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to discuss the potential risks and opportunities introduced by rapid advancements in the development of artificial intelligence recently. § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ * ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Everything_wrong_with_Ontario’s_health_care privatization_law⠀⇛ Transcript: And here’s what’s at stake for the people of Ontario because of Bill 60. More costs for patients and more uncertainty about what those out of pocket costs might be. Private clinic surgeries have cost taxpayers more than double what they would in the public system. § Security⠀➾ * ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (duktape, firmware- nonfree, intel-microcode, svgpp, and systemd), Fedora (amanda, dino, flatpak, golang, libldb, netconsd, samba, tigervnc, and vim), Red Hat (nodejs:14), Slackware (ruby and seamonkey), SUSE (drbd, flatpak, glibc, grub2, ImageMagick, kernel, runc, thunderbird, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (amanda). * ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Fedora (openbgpd and seamonkey), Red Hat (httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, and pesign), SUSE (compat-openssl098, dpdk, drbd, ImageMagick, nextcloud, openssl, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, openssl1, oracleasm, pgadmin4, terraform-provider-helm, and yaml-cpp), and Ubuntu (haproxy, ldb, samba, and vim). * ⚓ Ukrainian_Hackers_Spend_$25,000_of_Russian_Funds_on_Sex_Toys⠀⇛ The Ukrainian hacking collective, Cyber Resistance announced yesterday that it successfully hacked into the AliExpress account of pro-Russian mil blogger Mikhail Luchin. The blogger, who runs the “Misha From Donbas” Telegram channel, apparently had a significant amount of funds he had raised to purchase drones for Russian troops. Now, what exactly did the Ukrainian hackers do to sabotage Russian military efforts? They bought a lot of sex toys with the funds. Around $25,000 dollars worth of them. * ⚓ IT News AU ☛ TAFE_data_breach_uncovered_by_SA_Police⠀⇛ TAFE South Australia has revealed a data breach that was discovered when SA Police seized “devices containing electronic scanned copies of TAFE SA student identification forms”. TAFE SA said the identification forms included credentials such as driver’s licences and passports for enrolments prior to 2021 across all campuses. * ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ UnitedLex_hit_by_d0nut_ransomware_team,_200_GB_of corporate_files_leaked⠀⇛ The d0nut ransomware team seems to be ramping up their activity and leaks. Last week, they contacted DataBreaches about Montgomery General Hospital in West Virginia. Today, they reached out to this site about UnitedLex, a firm that describes itself as helping legal teams modernize “with a consultative framework that brings together legal subject matter expertise, data science, and technology to solve operational challenges across multiple legal disciplines.” * ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ FBI_Seizes_Bot_Shop_‘Genesis_Market’_Amid_Arrests Targeting_Operators,_Suppliers⠀⇛ Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. Sources tell KrebsOnsecurity the domain seizures coincided with “dozens” of arrests in the United States and abroad targeting those who allegedly operated the service, as well as suppliers who continuously fed Genesis Market with freshly-stolen data. [...] But sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity that law enforcement agencies in the United States, Canada and across Europe are currently serving arrest warrants on dozens of individuals thought to support Genesis, either by maintaining the site or selling the service bot logs from infected systems. The seizure notice includes the seals of law enforcement entities from several countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. When Genesis customers purchase a bot, they’re purchasing the ability to have all of the victim’s authentication cookies loaded into their browser, so that online accounts belonging to that victim can be accessed without the need of a password, and in some cases without multi-factor authentication. “You can buy a bot with a real fingerprint, access to e-mail, social networks, bank accounts, payment systems!,” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused. “You also get all previous digital life (history) of the bot – most services won’t even ask for login and password and identify you as their returning customer. Purchasing a bot kit with the fingerprint, cookies and accesses, you become the unique user of all his or her services and other web-sites. The other use of our kit of real fingerprints is to cover-up the traces of your real internet activity.” * ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ New_Money_Message_ransomware_demands_million_dollar ransoms⠀⇛ A new ransomware gang named ‘Money Message’ has appeared, targeting victims worldwide and demanding million-dollar ransoms not to leak data and release a decryptor. The new ransomware was first reported by a victim on the BleepingComputer forums on March 28, 2023, with Zscaler’s ThreatLabz soon after sharing information on Twitter. Currently, the threat actor lists two victims on its extortion site, one of which is an Asian airline with annual revenue close to $1 billion. Additionally, the threat actors claim to have stolen files from the company and include a screenshot of the accessed file system as proof of the breach. * ⚓ CPR ☛ Rorschach_–_A_New_Sophisticated_and_Fast_Ransomware_–_Check_Point Research⠀⇛ While responding to a ransomware case against a US-based company, the CPIRT recently came across a unique ransomware strain deployed using a signed component of a commercial security product. Unlike other ransomware cases, the threat actor did not hide behind any alias and appears to have no affiliation to any of the known ransomware groups. Those two facts, rarities in the ransomware ecosystem, piqued CPR interest and prompted us to thoroughly analyze the newly discovered malware. Throughout its analysis, the new ransomware exhibited unique features. A behavioral analysis of the new ransomware suggests it is partly autonomous, spreading itself automatically when executed on a Domain Controller (DC), while it clears the event logs of the affected machines. In addition, it’s extremely flexible, operating not only based on a built-in configuration but also on numerous optional arguments which allow it to change its behavior according to the operator’s needs. While it seems to have taken inspiration from some of the most infamous ransomware families, it also contains unique functionalities, rarely seen among ransomware, such as the use of direct syscalls. * ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ Israeli_cyber_security_website_briefly_taken_down_in cyberattack⠀⇛ One of Israel’s largest cyber-security companies, Check Point, was taken down by a group of hackers calling themselves “Anonymous Sudan” on Tuesday afternoon. However, after a short while, the website seemed to return to operating as normal. Earlier in the day, the websites of multiple major universities in Israel were also attacked by the same group, and were down for several hours. * ⚓ Trend Micro ☛ Unpacking_the_Structure_of_Modern_Cybercrime Organizations⠀⇛ The last 20 years have seen the cyberthreat landscape transform markedly: From an era of cyberattacks with damaging payloads, the cybercrime space has evolved to one where malicious actors have organized themselves into groups, mainly driven by financial gain. Consequently, organizations now contend with a new breed of cybercriminals fiercely competing among themselves to claim a bigger stake in a highly lucrative market. Given present circumstances, malicious actors have organized themselves in ways that show a remarkable resemblance to legitimate corporations. Our research findings show that as revenues and membership of cybercriminal groups expand, their organizational structure becomes more complex because new tiers in the hierarchy inevitably arise in the process. * ⚓ Western_Digital_says_hackers_stole_data_in_‘network_security’_breach⠀⇛ Data storage giant Western Digital has confirmed that hackers exfiltrated data from its systems during a “network security incident” last week. The California-based company said in a statement on Monday that an unauthorized third party gained access to “a number” of its internal systems on March 26. Western Digital hasn’t confirmed the nature of the incident or revealed how it was compromised, but its statement suggests the incident may be linked to ransomware. “Based on the investigation to date, the company believes the unauthorized party obtained certain data from its systems and is working to understand the nature and scope of that data,” Western Digital said. * § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ o ⚓ APNIC ☛ Who_reads_your_email?⠀⇛ Guest Post: Analysing gTLD MX records for centrality. o ⚓ NYOB ☛ No_bullsh*t_opt-out:_free_noyb_tool_for_quick_and_broad Facebook_objections!⠀⇛ No bullsh*t opt-out: free noyb tool for quick and broad Facebook objections! Use the noyb tool to opt out of targeted advertising and various other claimed ‘legitimate interestes’ by Meta in a simple and legally sound way. § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Appeals_Court_Punts_on_Due_Process_Rights_for Guantánamo_Detainees⠀⇛ The case could have resolved an important question about the scope of rights for noncitizens held at the wartime prison. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Malaysia_abolishes_death_penalty._Will_other_Asian_nations follow?⠀⇛ Human rights groups have applauded Malaysia’s move to abolish the mandatory death penalty, bringing possible reprieves to more than 1,300 prisoners on death row. Previously, courts had no choice but to mandate hanging as punishment for a range of crimes. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ State_Security_Service_cracks_down_on_another_pro-Kremlin activist⠀⇛ The State Security Service (VDD) has asked the court to arrest the pro-Kremlin activist Aleksandrs Žguns, according to information at LETA’s disposal. * ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Donald_Trump_in_police_custody_ahead_of_historic court_appearance⠀⇛ Former President Donald Trump has arrived at the Manhattan district attorney’s office in lower Manhattan, where he is under arrest and in police custody before his upcoming arraignment. Trump is expected to be fingerprinted as part of the arrest, though it’s still unclear whether his mug shot will be taken. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ George_Soros_Is_a_Familiar_Villain_for_the_Right_Wing in_Trump’s_Indictment⠀⇛ Conspiracy theorists have long attributed wildly varied events to George Soros, in attacks often viewed as antisemitic. His indirect donations to a prosecutor’s campaign are animating Trump allies. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Trump_campaign_fundraises_with_fake_mug_shot_merch⠀⇛ The Trump campaign is capitalizing on the former president’s arrest_Tuesday. Driving the news:An email fromTrump’s 2024 campaign was sent advertising a t-shirt with a fake mug shot of former_President Trump, with the phrase “NOT GUILTY” below it. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Analysis:_Inside_Alvin_Bragg’s_ambitious_Trump_indictment⠀⇛ Manhattan_District_Attorney_Alvin_Bragg accused former President_Trump on Tuesday not only of falsifying business records but of doing so with the explicit intent of covering up at least three other categories of crimes. Driving the news:Those crimes, Bragg revealed at a press conference after Trump’s_historic_arraignment, including violating New York state election law; making or causing additional false statements, including to tax authorities; and exceeding the cap on federal campaign contributions. =============================================================== Why it matters:The alleged cover-up is Bragg’s reasoning for charging Trump with 34 felonies, rather than misdemeanors. In order to convict, Bragg will need to prove Trump tried to conceal crimes that he has not been charged with — and that are not actually named in the indictment. * ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Finland_joins_NATO,_doubling_military_alliance’s border_with_Russia_in_a_blow_for_Putin⠀⇛ Finland officially became the 31st member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday, marking a major shift in the security landscape in northeastern Europe that adds some 1,300 kilometers (830 miles) to the alliance’s frontier with Russia. * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finland_becomes_31st_member_of_NATO⠀⇛ Today, Finland officially became the 31st member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), marking the end of its era of military non-alignment. In a statement, President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö emphasized that the membership is not targeted against anyone and does not change the foundations or objectives of Finland’s foreign and security policy. Rather, it provides security for Finland while also strengthening its international position and room for manoeuvre. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Finland_Joins_NATO_in_a_Power_Shift_and_Rebuke_to Putin⠀⇛ The Nordic country became the alliance’s 31st member on Tuesday, spurred by the war in Ukraine, in a strategic setback for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Finland_becomes_31st_member_of_NATO⠀⇛ Finlandbecame the 31st_member_of_NATO on Tuesday— a once- unthinkable stepthat significantly changes the security landscape in Europe. Why it matters:Finland’s membership more than doubles NATO’s borders with Russia and formally ends Helsinki’s_decades_of official_nonalignment. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Niinistö:_“A_new_era_begins”_as_Finland_joins_Nato⠀⇛ Niinistö spoke outside Nato’s headquarters, as the Finnish flag was being raised for the first time, alongside the flags of the alliance’s other 30 member states. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Europe’s_little_platoons_for_change⠀⇛ Russia’s war on Ukraine has forced big changes in Europe – Finland in NATO! – but it may be small countries leading the way. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_officially_joins_Nato:_As_it_happened⠀⇛ Finnish leaders are in Brussels on Tuesday as the country is officially accepted as a member of the Nato military alliance. This blog follows the day’s events as they happen. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Pro-Russia_hacker_group_suspected_of_targeting_Finnish parliament,_Sanna_Marin_websites_with_DoS_attack⠀⇛ The denial of service attack is likely linked to Finland completing the Nato accession process on Tuesday. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Days_Into_Russia’s_U.N._Security_Council_Presidency, Britain_Draws_a_Line⠀⇛ Russia had made it clear that a Kremlin official accused of war crimes related to Ukrainian children would be addressing a Council meeting on Ukrainian children. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_We_Know_About_the_Bomb_Attack_on_a_Russian_Pro- War_Blogger⠀⇛ The killing of Vladlen Tatarsky came at a volatile moment in Russia, and could herald a further crackdown on dissent. Here’s how the case has developed so far. * ⚓ ADF ☛ Arms_Spilling_Across_Ghana-Burkina_Faso_Border⠀⇛ People walk freely between Ghana and Burkina Faso where the towns of Paga and Dakola are joined. Aside from the rickety metal barriers and gate that cut across the main road, there is little indication of where one country ends and the other begins. * ⚓ ADF ☛ Attack_on_CAR_Brewery_Hints_at_a_New_Strategy_for_the_Wagner Group⠀⇛ In recent months, a new beer began appearing in bars around Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic — a beer that analysts say carries implications for countries where Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries operate. * ⚓ ADF ☛ U.N._Report:_Situation_in_Mali_Continues_to_Deteriorate⠀⇛ A new United Nations report shows that the number of people killed in Mali continued to increase in 2022, despite pledges by the government to stamp out extremist violence. On March 22, the U.N. mission in Mali, MINUSMA, published its quarterly report for October through December 2022… ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_and_Ukraine_Use_Drones_to_Bring_Death_in_Battle_for Bakhmut⠀⇛ Using aerial drones to spot the enemy and direct artillery fire has become a staple of war for Ukraine and Russia, especially in the savage fight for control of Bakhmut. ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Announces_Another_$2.6_Billion_in_Aid_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ Most of the funds will go toward future purchases of munitions, radar and other weapons to send to Ukraine. ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ US_bipartisan_lawmakers_agree_on_more_school_safety_measures⠀⇛ Both red and blue US states are passing legislation to increase school safety measures, including panic buttons and video surveillance, following the school shooting in Tennessee. Meanwhile, a bill in Florida will allow unconcealed guns without a permit. ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_commissioner_for_children’s_rights_seeks_to_portray war_crimes_accusations_as_false.⠀⇛ An official charged by the International Criminal Court sought to portray her work as a humanitarian project. § Environment⠀➾ * § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Europe_led_the_world_in_heat_pump_sales_growth_in_2022⠀⇛ Global sales of heat_pumps grew by 11% in 2022, according to a new_report_by_the_International_Energy_Agency (IEA). But Europe saw the highest increase, almost doubling its growth compared to the previous year, from 22% to 41%. o ⚓ Quartz ☛ China_is_on_a_global_hunt_for_rare_earths⠀⇛ Faced with a growing reliance on rare_earth imports, China is doubling down on efforts to buy up more rare earth raw materials at their source. To do so, it is ramping up production at home—but it’s also aggressively investing overseas. o ⚓ Matthaei_collections_get_new_life_as_recycled_materials, biofuels⠀⇛ Researchers and staff from U-M and three other institutions are using a recent grant to study how to turn the Matthaei Botanical Gardens’ trash into useful products as well as heat and energy. * § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Researchers_find_fish_swimming_5_miles_below_ocean surface_—_deepest_ever_recorded⠀⇛ The research team were exploring the deepest depths of the trenches off the Japanese coast with a baited unmanned craft known as a lander as part of a 10-year study into the deepest populations of fish on the globe. o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Watch_the_Deepest_Fish_Ever_Observed_in_the Ocean⠀⇛ Scientists filmed a snailfish pottering about more than five miles under the ocean surface off the coast of Japan. o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ As_India’s_Project_Tiger_turns_50,_hope_for_the_big cat⠀⇛ On the surface, India’s gains on tiger conservation over the past 50 years appear modest, but the momentum growing behind the big cat gives wildlife advocates hope. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Temperatures_Rise,_Melbourne’s_Bats_Get_Their Own_Sprinkler_System⠀⇛ On the hottest days, a refreshing mist will cool down flying foxes, which have suffered mass death in Australian heat waves. * § Overpopulation⠀➾ o ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ The_imaginary_world_of_Earth4All’s_low population_projections⠀⇛ A new report from Earth4All says world population will peak below 9 billion. While it celebrates this result and says we must work to get it even lower, this unrealistically low projection itself is likely to have the opposite effect. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ Axios ☛ Jamie_Dimon_feels_pretty_sunny_about_the_economy [Ed: Jamie Dimon should be in prison. The very fact he is treated as a luminary rather than a criminal says a lot about this system.]⠀⇛ The U.S. economy is healthy — and is going to remain healthy for decades to come. So says JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in his annual shareholder letter, released Tuesday morning. Why it matters:Dimon’s sunny outlook stands in stark contrast to his dark_warnings 10 months ago, when he forecast an impending “hurricane.” * ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_founder_of_Frank,_a_student_loan_company,_was_criminally charged_for_defrauding_JPMorgan⠀⇛ The US attorney for the Southern District of New York filed criminal charges on April 4 against Charlie Javice, founder of Frank, the infamous student loan startup. Javice stands accused of defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co., which paid $175 million for her company in 2021. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Australia’s_central_bank_hit_the_brakes_on_interest_rate hikes._Will_other_countries_follow?⠀⇛ For the first time in 10 months, Australia’s central bank chose to_not_raise_interest_rates on April 4, leaving its benchmark interest rate at 3.6%. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_MPs_getting_a_pay_rise [Ed: Policymakers make policies to pay themselves better]⠀⇛ The last time lawmakers got a salary hike was in the spring of 2019, according to Finnish Parliament. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Danske_Bank_sees_improved_outlook_for_Finnish_economy⠀⇛ In its forecast, the financial institution noted that growth will however remain slow and government debt will continue to rise. * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ The_number_of_companies_declared_bankrupt_increases_by 30_percent⠀⇛ The number of bankruptcies in Finland has seen a significant increase in the first quarter of 2023, according to a report by Suomen Asiakastieto Oy, a leading credit information company. The report reveals that by the end of week 13, 676 companies had been declared bankrupt, a 30 percent increase from the same period last year, and the highest figure in the past 15 years. This development is a cause for concern, as it indicates that many Finnish companies are facing severe financial difficulties. * ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic:_Elizabeth_Warren_on_weaponized_budget models_(04_Apr_2023)⠀⇛ In yesterday’s essay, I broke down the new series from The American Prospect on the hidden ideology and power of budget models, these being complex statistical systems for weighing legislative proposals to determine if they are “economically sound.” The assumptions baked into these models are intensely political, and, like all dirty political actors, the model- makers claim they are “empirical” while their adversaries are “doing politics”…. * ⚓ ADF ☛ Kenya’s_Railway_is_at_the_Center_of_Struggle_with_China_over Debt⠀⇛ Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway was billed as a major economic driver that would benefit the region. However, six years after it opened, the railway has become a financial burden for the country and a key part of its deteriorating relationship with China. * ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ ‘Screwed’:_Uber_Claws_Back_Double_Pay_from_Drivers After_April_Fools_Glitch⠀⇛ One driver “delivered through a blizzard only to get screwed out of what I thought was extra base pay for hazardous conditions,” they said. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Sky-high_rents_make_Bengaluru_India’s_hottest_residential market⠀⇛ House-hunting in Bengaluru has gotten tougher as home rents have doubled since the beginning of 2022. * ⚓ European Commission ☛ InvestEU:_EIF_and_Lisa&_sign_guarantee_agreement to_support_Swedish_SMEs_with_a_circular_economy_business_model⠀⇛ InvestEU guarantee for Swedish financier Lisa& to make available over SEK 278 million (€24,8 million) for SMEs that support the shift to a circular economy. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ Axios ☛ View_from_Taipei:_Two_presidential_visits_captivate_Taiwan⠀⇛ TAIPEI, Taiwan — Current Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s visit to the U.S. and former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou’s unprecedented tripto China have reignited debate within Taiwan about the island’s_future — and the nature of its relationship with mainland China. Why it matters: With Taiwan’s next presidential election less than a year away — and pressure from China growing — Taiwanese voters will soon face a choice between keeping the close U.S. ties forged by Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party and reverting to the rival Beijing-friendly stance of Ma’s Kuomintang party. * ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Trump’s_Indictment_and_the_Downfall_of_America⠀⇛ Karen hunt I arrived at Lake Arenal, Costa Rica, this little hideaway paradise, last Thursday. The next day, I found that, sure enough, Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Disney’s_feud_with_Florida’s_Ron_DeSantis_keeps_escalating⠀⇛ When Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ newly-elected board took control of Disney’s special tax district, they were in for a rude awakening: The Mouse House had only surrendered control of roads and basic infrastructure maintenance, and nothing else. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Abortion,_voting_rights_in_question_in_Wisconsin_Supreme Court_race⠀⇛ The Wisconsin Supreme Court has been under conservative control for 15 years, and the race this year has become one of the most expensive contests in U.S. history of its kind. The stakes are high as the winner will serve a 10-year term. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ This_Wisconsin_Court_Race_Is_Highly_Partisan._It Wasn’t_Always_That_Way.⠀⇛ Supreme Court races were once more swayed by endorsements from legal and law enforcement officials. Now they’re indistinguishable from other elections. * § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ o ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ An_Innocent_Picture?_How_the_rise_of_AI_makes_it easier_to_abuse_photos_online.⠀⇛ Introduction The topic of this blog post is not directly related to red teaming (which is my usual go-to), but something I find important personally. Last month, I gave an info session at a local elementary school to highlight the risks of public sharing of children’s pictures at school. o ⚓ Labor_Party_officials_face_‘disinformation’_charges_over earthquake_banners⠀⇛ Two local party officials in Rize face a prison sentence and a ban from politics. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ Taliban_closes_the_Voice_of_Women_Radio_in_Afghanistan⠀⇛ Najia Sroosh, the Editor-in-Chief of the Voice of Women Radio now closed by the Taliban regime calls for the support of women in Turkey and in the world. * ⚓ Reason ☛ Devin_Nunes’_Sues_for_Libel_Over_“Investigators_Examined_Trump Media_for_Possible_Money_Laundering”_Article⠀⇛ This is Nunes’ latest libel lawsuit, just filed yesterday in Florida state court; I’m too slammed to write about it in detail, but I thought I’d pass along the Complaint (Nunes v. Guardian News & Media Ltd.). Here’s the start of the Statement of Material Facts: 11. On March 15, 2023, Guardian published an online… § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Evan_Gershkovich_Covered_Repressed_Russian Journalists._Now_They_Are_Covering_Him.⠀⇛ Evan Gershkovich’s work for The Wall Street Journal included reporting on Russians’ efforts to help others who were being repressed. Russian journalists are now scrutinizing his arrest as a brazen attack on press freedom. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_journalist_appeals_Russia_espionage_charges_amid_increasing international_condemnation⠀⇛ Attorneys for jailed US journalist Evan Gershkovich Monday appealed his arrest on charges of espionage in a Russian court. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, is currently being held in a Russian detention facility on espionage charges after being arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service on March 29 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Journalist_prevented_from_visiting_colleague_in_prison⠀⇛ A Diyarbakır prison has denied Kurdish journalist Serdar Altan a visit with his colleague. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_navy_arrests_130_Rohingya_attempting_to_flee_to Malaysia⠀⇛ Brokers buying food for the dangerous journey had revealed details of the trip to villagers. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarus_Drops_Charges_Against_Polish_Activist_More_Than_Two Years_After_Detaining_Her⠀⇛ Authorities in Belarus have dropped criminal charges against a prominent Polish minority activist and released her from house arrest. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Wanted_In_U.S._Who_Fled_Italy_Says_He_Is_Back_In Russia⠀⇛ A Russian businessman who fled house arrest in Italy, where he was facing extradition to the United States, has told the Russian state-run RIA Novosti news agency he is back in Russia. * ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Sweden_arrests_five_over_suspected_terror_plot_linked_to Quran_burning⠀⇛ Five people are being held on suspicion of planning a “terrorist act” following the burning of the Quran in Stockholm in January. * ⚓ The Local SE ☛ Swedish_court:_Police_wrong_to_refuse_permission_for Quran_burning⠀⇛ Swedish police were wrong to reject the burning of the Quran outside the embassies of Turkey and Iraq on two occasions earlier this year, an administrative court has ruled. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Tesla’s_racism_penalty_was_cut_by_98%,_but_Elon_Musk_still thinks_it’s_paying_too_much⠀⇛ Tesla has to pay just over $3 million to a Black former contract worker for failing to protect him from racial abuse—a charge for which the electric carmaker was initially awarded a $137_million_fine in 2021. § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ * ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Apartment_Dwellers_Should_Be_Able_To_Choose_Their Own_Broadband_Provider⠀⇛ If you live in an apartment building, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of being stuck with a broadband provider that you don’t want, don’t need, or can’t afford. § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ Axios ☛ After_nine_months_of_layoffs,_Big_Tech_sees_signs_of_a turnaround [Ed: Loaded, misleading headline; companies buying back their own shares is embezzlement and Wall Street is a creator of bubbles, which eventually facilitate the plunder of the middle class]⠀⇛ Data: Layoffs.fyi; Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios Tech layoffs are way up — and so are tech stocks. Two charts tell this story. The big picture:The tech industry’s layoffs began last year and have kept up a relentless stream_of_bleak_announcements — in some companies’ cases, like Meta’s, coming in multiple waves. =============================================================================== * The industry, which had overhired during the pandemic, started trimming its workforce last year, just as the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates to cool the inflation-rattled U.S. economy. Between the lines:Layoffs are often understood as an indicator of incipient recession, and stock prices typically fall in step with both of those trends. * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Skilled_Searcher_Test_Allows_Estoppel for_Unknown_References⠀⇛ Ironburg Inventions Ltd. v. Valve Corp., — F.4th —, 21- 2296 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 3, 2023) The recent decision in Ironburg Inventions Ltd. v. Valve Corp. has significant implications for post-IPR estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2). o ⚓ Precarity_at_the_European_Patent_Office⠀⇛ Due to the highly specific technical and legal skills requested from the majority of staff at the EPO, it has long been considered that fixed-term contracts were not the appropriate form of employment for this Office. The need of a lengthy and thorough training of new employees is a condition “sine qua non” to grant quality patents. This necessary time and resources investment could be lost for the organisation if fixed-term contracts were the norm, let alone the knowledge accumulated and shared by the newly recruited staff. Furthermore, at the individual level, “a Golden Cage Syndrome” exists at the EPO, since after some years of employment, staff tend to specialise in the field of patents and lose their general expertise. The expertise in the field of patents is not easily recognised in other fields. Staff leaving the EPO after some years of employment could find it very difficult to find employment elsewhere at comparable conditions. These considerations were valid in the past and are still valid today. o ⚓ Social_Security_at_the_EPO:_an_overview⠀⇛ The EPO, the second largest European organisation after the Commission in terms of the number of employees, is a substantially independent body, which is neither part of the European Union nor attached to it in any way like the EU agencies. Its member states include the 27 EU member states, but also 11 non-EU states. It is also not one of the Coordinated Organisations, although some links exist or were planned[1]. In contrast to other European international organisations, which are mostly financially dependent on their member states, the EPO is entirely self-financing through the annual fees and royalties generated by (applications for) patents and even generates money for its member states. Being a typically scientific and technical organisation, its political visibility is lower, so that the management and the Administrative Council, which represents the member states, can operate relatively far from the public eye. o ⚓ History_of_SUEPO⠀⇛ SUEPO (Staff Union of the European Patent Office) was born in 1979 out of the “Syndicat du Personnel de l’Institut International des Brevets” (SP- IIB) which was founded in 1969, following the creation of the European Patent Office (EPO) in 1977, and the merging of the IIB into the EPO. In agreement with its 1979 Constitution (SC), SUEPO comprises four local sections, at the four EPO sites: Munich, The Hague, Berlin and Vienna. A Congress, a Central Bureau and an Audit Board were established as central bodies of SUEPO. Despite the existence of these central bodies, the local sections enjoy quite a lot of autonomy and can be considered as quasi-independent entities. Some of them have legal status under their respective national law, like SUEPO-TH under Dutch law. o ⚓ Agora_Survey⠀⇛ The overall trend is clearly quite negative, and the situation appears to be deteriorating. Only on a very few items the conditions have statistically stayed the same or improved a bit (“Understanding of managers”: positive replies 87% up from 84% in the past; “Did your employer provide the necessary equipment?”: negative replies 18% down from 21% in the past survey). Despite the fact that still a majority of the respondents consider regular teleworking as a benefit, the results of this second survey and the trends confirm and amplify the alarming signals of the first survey. In particular since the beginning of the COVID crisis, 40% of the respondents had to cope with a higher workload or more working hours (31% in the first survey), and/or an increase in work related stress (49%, against 46%). A significant number cannot easily disconnect outside working hours (36%, was 34%) and the great majority of the respondents (80%, was 73%) felt, respectively, not connected (15%, was 11%) or more or less connected (65%, was 62%) to their colleagues. It is clear that these factors and negative trends will inevitably have dramatic consequences on the health and well-being of, at least a substantial number, of staff of the European Public Service, if suitable and urgent measures are not applied implemented and effectively to resit and reverse this. o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Patent_Dispute_Report:_Q1_2023_in_Review⠀⇛ § Overview No matter the world’s economic situation, patent litigation appeared to be the one constant. However, the number of assertions in Q1 has stumbled for the first time in years. While LIE (Litigation Investment Entity) assertions are down, new assignments are up (see Blackberry’s recent announcement). Are LIEs loading up on assets to be litigated later? § Highlights: # With only 588 cases thus far, 2023 litigation is projected to be down 51% compared to 2022. # Q1 saw at least 18% of NPE (Patent Assertion Entities) where the patent asserted had been assigned and funded to a LIE.   # The_Western_District_of_Texascontinued to be the most popular venue in 2023, with Judge Albright leading all patent litigation. # IP Edge’s two filings are a significant contributor to the decrease in new assertions. # Dynamic IP Deals and Jeffrey Gross have been the most litigious entities, with 24 assertions each.  # In Interdigital vs Lenovo, the UK court rejected InterDigital’s Top-Down approach while applying its own comparable analysis. # FRAND disputes will likely rise as Wi-Fi 6 adoption (and its core 3GPP technologies like beamforming, MU-MIMO, and OFDMA) increases. * § Software Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Datanet_file_backup_patent_challenged⠀⇛ On April 3, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S._Patent_8,473,478, owned and asserted by Datanet, LLC. The ‘478 patent is directed to an automatic real-time file management method and apparatus. * § Trademarks⠀➾ o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Small_Jazz_Musician_Foils_Apple_Music Trademark_Registration⠀⇛ Bertini v. Apple Inc., — F.4th — (Fed. Cir. 2023) Apple Records was founded by The Beatles in 1968 and quickly became a success, producing many hit records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Apple Computer Company was founded in the mid-1970s and almost immediately sued for trademark infringement by Apple Corps (the parent company of Apple Records).  The companies eventually settled the case with Apple Computer paying $80k and agreeing to stay out of the music business. § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ Album_#12:_Pet_Shop_Boys_–_Actually⠀⇛ This is a review posted for one I listened to before starting trying to write about every album. Initially I skipped it, because I was somewhat familiar, but later realised that part of the excercise of this list is challenging that sort of believe. ‘Actually’ beats ‘Very’ for me – in comparison it’s a little more stripped back, a little catchier, and much more consistent. o ⚓ Album_#225:_Pet_Shop_Boys_–_Very⠀⇛ The Pet Shop Boys mix together genres I don’t care or and occasionally come up with gold. Very feels like exactly what I’d have expected from a Pet Shop Boys album before listening to any – occasionally catchy, sentimental, danceable pop. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ Fixing_Slow_Shell_Launch_With_TLP⠀⇛ My laptop battery has been showing some noticeable signs of wear recently, so I’ve just setup TLP to try to get every bit of juice I can out of it. Not long after I enabled TLP I felt like I could notice my battery usage decreasing. That’s either placebo or my battery really is just that bad, and I’m not sure which it is. o ⚓ Getting_Gemini_to_the_school⠀⇛ My current school offers free Wi-Fi (and laptops) while I study there. However, the network doesn’t allow Gemini (or any protocol that isn’t HTTP or doesn’t go through port 443). So, in order to be able to continue taking care of my plant and following gemlogs while at school, I decided to make Lagrange work with this restrictive network. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2907 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_05/04/2023:_elementaryOS_Updates_and_MidnightBSD_3.0.1⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o EasyOS/OpenEmbedded o BSD o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o Red_Hat o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux_Format_301⠀⇛ We’ll keep your PCs old and new running that little bit longer with a combination of Linux Mint 21 and Linux Mint Debian Edition. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ TUXEDO_Stellaris_16_(Gen5)_is_The_Ultimate Linux_Laptop_You_Can_Find_Now⠀⇛ TUXEDO Computers is a well-known brand in the Linux space that provide customizable Linux notebooks and Desktop PCs at various price/performance points. Not to forget, it is one of the trusted places to buy Linux computers. With a recent announcement, they have launched the next evolution of their Stellaris 16-inch laptop. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ System76_Teases_In-House_Built_Laptop⠀⇛ System76, one of the most popular makers of Linux- powered laptops and desktops, has indicated they are moving forward with “Virgo,” a new laptop that will be manufactured in their Denver factory. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Makulu_Voice_Controller_Update_3⠀⇛ We have made a new Little Teaser Video showing off the voice Controller in the works. Enjoy the video… # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ The_future_of_Linux_as_a_gaming_platform⠀⇛ Listen now (19 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast – Apr 4, 2023 o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 26_Best_Free_Linux_Terminal_Emulators_ (Updated_2023)⠀⇛ A terminal emulator is computer software which emulates a dumb video terminal. We make our recommendations. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Enable_Flatpak_and_AppImage Support_in_Ubuntu_23.04⠀⇛ This simple tutorial is going to show you how to add both latpak and AppImage package format support, while Ubuntu does not support them out-of- the-box. Enable Flatpak Support in Ubuntu Ubuntu is focusing on the native deb and snap support. The developer team has officially announced that they won’t support Flatpak out-of-the-box. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Pale_Moon_Browser_on_Linux_Mint 21⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the Pale Moon browser on Linux Mint 21. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_APF_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install APF on Rocky Linux 9. As Linux enthusiasts, we understand the importance of securing our systems against potential threats. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Apache_Nifi_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache Nifi on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Are you looking to set up an efficient data processing system for your organization? # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Check_Your_BIOS_Version_on_Linux⠀⇛ Find out how to check your BIOS version on Linux and ensure your system is running at its best. It is easier than you think with our guide. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ LHB_Linux_Digest_#23.04:_Firewall_Logs, Bash_Tips_and_FREE_Docker_eBook⠀⇛ Time for a small gift. Get this Docker Beginner book and start your Docker journey. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Install_LAMP_Server_on_RHEL,_CentOS,_Rocky &_AlmaLinux⠀⇛ A LAMP stack is a collection of four different software (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) that programmers or web developers use to create and deploy websites or applications. # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Why_It_Was_Important_to_Translate_Linux Foundation_Training_Manuals_to_Ukrainian⠀⇛ The software industry plays a large role in Ukraine’s economy, with many Ukrainian developers working remotely from Ukraine for software vendors located in the EU, UK, and US. Training manuals in the Ukrainian language will help veterans of Ukraine’s military struggles against Russia take advantage of this opportunity. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients with_Shogun_Showdown_and_Saga_of_Sins_–_2023-04-05_Edition⠀⇛ Between 2023-03-29 and 2023-04-05 there were 40 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 317 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.6 % of total… * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ elementaryOS_Updates_for_March,_2023⠀⇛ March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get excited about improved stability and closed issue reports! The team has been hard at work sorting through your feedback and smoothing out all of the wrinkles. § Sideload Since sideloading is an expected and important part of installing apps on elementary OS, we’ve made a couple of changes to help you stay informed and be in control. Instead of describing sideloaded apps as “Untrusted”, we’ve updated interface copy to instead ask for your trust. Additionally, we now show some basic feedback about the kinds of broad system permissions that a sideloaded app may request. This will likely get more fine-grained in the future, but for now we can warn about apps that request advanced permissions and let you know when an app is more tightly sandboxed. o § EasyOS/OpenEmbedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ gnupg_signed-key-pair_created_in_initrd⠀⇛ Posted earlier today about compiling gnupg version 1.4.23 in OE: https://bkhome.org/news/202304/gnupg1-static- compile-in-oe.html And always require a root password be set: https://bkhome.org/news/202304/always-ask-for-root- password-at-first-bootup.html # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Always_ask_for_root_password_at_first bootup⠀⇛ At first bootup of a new installation of Easy, a password is asked for, to encrypt some folders in the working- partition. The same password is also applied to ‘root’ and ‘zeus’ users. However, some people do not enter a password, so the folders are not encrypted. That may be a deliberate choice, or they may be forced as booting from an old GRUB (v1 and early-v2) or GRUB4DOS that does not recognize an ext4 filesystem with the encrypt- feature enabled. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ gnupg1_static_compile_in_OE⠀⇛ Back around mid-2018, I investigated Flatpaks, and as part of that, used the ‘gpg’ utility, version 1.4.23, to generate a signed-key-pair in the initrd. Posted about it here: https://bkhome.org/news/201806/auto-generated- gnupg-signed-key-pair.html The latest OpenEmbedded/Yocto project, ‘oe-qky- kirkstone’, was not setup for compiling with musl. In 2018, I had OE setup to compile with musl, so as to create small statically-linked utilities, such as ‘busybox’ and ‘gpg’. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ MidnightBSD_3.0.1⠀⇛ 3.0.1 was tagged in our git repository and we’ve started building ISOs for it.? It includes several security updates such as OpenSSL 1.1.1t, doas 6.3p9, a fix for a telnetd vulnerability.? It also includes some cleanup work on rc.d scripts, fixes for periodic scripts that were incorrect around ntpd and restoring msearch/mport db backups.? ?We also updated mport to 2.2.9 which fixed the mport mirror list command. o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenMandriva News ☛ OpenMandriva_repository_mass_rebuild⠀⇛ We are currently running a mass rebuild of all packages making up OpenMandriva, because we have updated our main compiler (this is the tool that translates programmer readable code into machine code) to Clang 16. While not strictly necessary, after a big compiler update it is a good idea to rebuild everything: it makes the system more reproducable (if you rebuild a package, you get the same results), it may well speed up things (because the newer compiler generates better machine code), and last but not least it makes sure the updated compiler is working properly. # ⚓ OpenMandriva News ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_OpenMandriva_at Cloudfest⠀⇛ o § Red Hat⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat_OpenShift_sandboxed_containers for_debugging_with_elevated_privileges⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_API_burn_rate_alerts_are_calculated in_Red_Hat_OpenShift⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Kubernetes_Patterns:_The_path_to_cloud_native⠀⇛ Note: The following is an excerpt from Kubernetes Patterns,_Second_Edition by Bilgin Ibryam and Roland Huß (O’Reilly Media, March 2023). Download the e-book to learn how to solve common cloud native challenges with proven design patterns. Microservices is among the most popular architectural styles for creating cloud native applications. They tackle software complexity through modularization of business capabilities and trading development complexity for operational complexity. That is why a key prerequisite for becoming successful with microservices is to create applications that can be operated at scale through Kubernetes. As part of the microservices movement, there is a tremendous amount of theory, techniques, and supplemental tools for creating microservices from scratch or for splitting monoliths into microservices. Most of these practices are based on Domain-Driven_Design by Eric Evans (Addison-Wesley) and the concepts of bounded contexts and aggregates. Bounded contexts deal with large models by dividing them into different components, and aggregates help to further group bounded contexts into modules with defined transaction boundaries. However, in addition to these business domain considerations, for each distributed system—whether it is based on microservices or not—there are also technical concerns around its external structure, and runtime coupling. Containers and container orchestrators such as Kubernetes bring in new primitives and abstractions to address the concerns of distributed applications, and here we discuss the various options to consider when putting a distributed system into Kubernetes. Throughout this book, we look at container and platform interactions by treating the containers as black boxes. However, we created this section to emphasize the importance of what goes into containers. Containers and cloud native platforms bring tremendous benefits to your distributed applications, but if all you put into containers is rubbish, you will get distributed rubbish at scale. Figure 1-1 shows the mixture of the skills required for creating good cloud native applications and where Kubernetes patterns fit in. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ IT_leadership:_How_to_prevent overwork_and_employee_burnout⠀⇛ # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Security_automation:_3_ways_it enhances_infrastructure_protection⠀⇛ o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Survey_results:_the_usage_of_money_in_Debian [Ed: Debian also pays lawyers to confiscate Web sites of volunteers, whom Debian "elite" suddenly doesn't honour (for free speech)]⠀⇛ The Debian project has reported on a survey of developers on the use of project funds to support development work. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Ubuntu_compliance_monitoring_with Microsoft_Intune [Ed: Ubuntu is shilling Microsoft's proprietary spyware; this is consistent with Canonical's position in recent years. Highly disappointing!]⠀⇛ In recent years, data science, AI and software development have become a key focus area for organisations operating in every sector of the economy. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Canonical_at_HPE_APAC_Outcome-Based Solutions_2023⠀⇛ Canonical is proud to participate to the HPE APAC, India and Japan Outcome-Based Solutions and Master ASE Summit 2023. This event will gather presales consultants and enterprise architects to explore innovative strategies powered by HPE’s edge-to- cloud workload solutions and products. Canonical’s sponsorship of the OBSS event demonstrates its unwavering commitment to promoting open-source technology in the tech industry. The event provides an excellent opportunity for the company to showcase its innovative solutions, connect with like-minded professionals, and explore potential collaborations. Attendees can expect to gain valuable insights into open-source solutions and how they can be leveraged to drive business growth. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Portable_bioprinter_could_help_fight_cancer⠀⇛ To test experimental cancer-fighting therapies, researchers need cancerous tumors to treat. While lab animals, like mice, can provide those tumors, they come with many downsides. From ethical concerns to practical reasons, such as tumor isolation and repeatability, “natural” tumors come at a cost. Artificial tumors, made using real cells, can solve these problems. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Google_is_now_letting_you_stream_apps_from_your Android_phone_to_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ Google_will_require_that_Android_apps_let_you delete_your_account_and_data_|_Engadget⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ How_to_find_hidden_apps_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Grab_These_6_Free_Android_Mobile_Games_Before Easter_Is_Over!⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_Google_has_hidden ‘boost_button’_in_Android_phones_–_tap_it_for_long_list_of perks_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Record_Companies_in_Germany_Take_Successful Action_Against_Hosting_Provider_of_Stream_Ripping_Software, YouTube-DL [Ed: Banning free software]⠀⇛ IFPI and BVMI have managed successful action against the web hosting provider of stream ripping software YouTube- DL. The Hamburg Regional Court has issued an injunction requiring the individual to stop hosting the software. YouTube-DL allows users to download content directly from YouTube, circumventing the protection measures in place for licensed streamed content. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Crackdown_on_‘dark’_internet_design_on the_cards⠀⇛ Dark web design tricks asking consumers to jump through multiple hoops to unsubscribe – a tactic often used by online streaming services – could soon be captured under tightened consumer laws. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Tim Bray ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Rolling-mill_Oops⠀⇛ o ⚓ Tim Bray ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Sober_Carpenter⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ ‘Snowball_Earth’_May_Not_Have_Been_An Endless_Frozen_Wasteland_After_All⠀⇛ Cracks in the surface. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Blind_People_Possess_an_Acute_Awareness_of Their_Own_Heartbeat⠀⇛ An enhanced ability is revealed. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Banned_Ozone-Destroying_Chemicals Mysteriously_Hit_Record_High⠀⇛ “We do not fully understand where they are coming from.” # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ NASA_Unveils_Astronauts_For_First_Human Mission_to_The_Moon_in_Over_50_Years⠀⇛ History in the making! # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ US_Scientist_to_Live_Underwater_For_100 Days_in_Record-Breaking_Experiment⠀⇛ Nobody knows what’s going to happen. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ J&J_proposes_paying_$8.9B_to_settle talcum_powder_lawsuits⠀⇛ Johnson & Johnson is earmarking nearly $9 billion to cover allegations that its baby power containing talc caused cancer. The amount more than quadruples that which the company had previously set aside to pay for its potential liability. Under a proposal announced Tuesday, a J&J subsidiary will re-file for bankruptcy protection and seek court approval for a plan that would result in one of the largest product-liability settlements in U.S. history. The $8.9 billion that J&J would transfer to the subsidiary, LTL Management, would be payable over the next 25 years. The amount is a significant increase from the $2 billion that the company previously set aside. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_Find_Antibiotic-Free_Way_to Treat_Drug-Resistant_Infections⠀⇛ The need is urgent. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ India_doctors_continue_protests_against_healthcare bill⠀⇛ A large number of private doctors in the Indian state of Rajasthan Sunday continued their weeks- long protest against the recently passed Right to Health Bill. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_To_Understand_Anti- vaxxers,_Consider_Aristotle⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lee Yingtong Li ☛ What_drugs_are_dosed_other_than_in milligrams?⠀⇛ Warning! The intended audience of this article is medical professionals and students. I am not your doctor. This article is not medical advice. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Largest_Global_Layoffs_For_2023_So_Far:_What_Is_In_Store For_Kenya?⠀⇛ At the same time, Microsoft in Kenya has been laying off employees since the year began. Most of those laid off had been poached from giant companies such as Safaricom. Banks and other companies have also been following suit. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_ditches_plans_for_500,000_sq_ft London_office⠀⇛ Microsoft has called off the search for a swanky 500,000 sq ft office in the heart of England’s capital amid a cost-cutting drive that has seen thousands of employees forced out. According to React News, Microsoft’s office tenancy in Reading is coming to an end in 2026 so senior management were eyeing up other options. # ⚓ Amazon_Games_cuts_over_100_employees_in_latest_round_of layoffs⠀⇛ Amazon Games is cutting over 100 employees as part of the most recently announced wave of layoffs. As CNBC reports, Amazon Games Vice President Christoph Hartmann announced the news in a company memo on April 4. Hartmann wrote in the memo, # ⚓ iPink_Slips:_Apple_Deviates_from_No-Layoff_Policy_with Recent_Job_Cuts⠀⇛ Estranged from its contemporaries amid massive tech layoffs sweeping across the industry including the Big tech layoffs, Apple has now had to jump on the diabolical bandwagon of corporate furloughs. As prudent efficiencies go, corporate layoffs in technology take the off-putting biscuit. When the tech giant introduced the first-ever color graphics in the computer industry, it had ricocheted to $117 million in sales in 1980 from a modest $7.8 million in 1978. The glorious success of Apple is multidimensional, but unshakable as the company that espoused ‘innovation’. Even the 1996’s almost-bankruptcy crisis was averted when Steve Jobs decided to return to Apple to erode its standstill development. So why did Apple, the company that distinguished itself from the wave of big tech layoffs over the industry, suddenly bite the dust? # ⚓ Layoffs_hit_Apple_workforce⠀⇛ Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has joined industry counterparts in instituting layoffs this week, according to a new report by Bloomberg. The job cuts will reportedly be confined to “a small number of roles within its corporate retail teams.” The news comes one week after a security contractor retained by Apple laid off hundreds of workers, a move the company described as a shift in service providers. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (ghostscript and openimageio), Fedora (kernel, rubygem-actioncable, rubygem-actionmailbox, rubygem-actionmailer, rubygem-actionpack, rubygem- actiontext, rubygem-actionview, rubygem-activejob, rubygem-activemodel, rubygem-activerecord, rubygem- activestorage, rubygem-activesupport, rubygem- rails, and rubygem-railties), Oracle (gnutls, httpd, kernel, nodejs:16, nodejs:18, pesign, postgresql:13, tigervnc, and tigervnc, xorg-x11- server), Red Hat (gnutls, httpd, httpd:2.4, kernel, kpatch-patch, pcs, pesign, postgresql:13, tigervnc, and tigervnc, xorg-x11-server), Scientific Linux (httpd and tigervnc, xorg-x11-server), SUSE (aws- efs-utils.11048, libheif, liblouis, openssl, python-cryptography, python-Werkzeug, skopeo, tomcat, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (imagemagick, ipmitool, and node-trim-newlines). # ⚓ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Ruby_2.7.8_Released⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Ruby_3.0.6_Released⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Ruby_3.1.4_Released⠀⇛ # ⚓ National Law Review US ☛ HIPAA_Data_Breach_Costs_Company Nearly_$300,000_In_DOJ_False_Claims_Act_Settlement⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dutch News ☛ 17_arrests_in_NL_as_Operation_Cookiemonster takes_down_hacker_site⠀⇛ Seventeen people have been arrested in the Netherlands has part of a global investigation into a hacker market place named Genesis Market which was offering over two million identities for sale. In the Netherlands itself, tens of thousands of people were in ‘acute danger’ of being targeted, Dutch police said. The operation, described as an ‘unprecedented law enforcement operation’ by European police agency Europol, was led by the FBI and Dutch national force. Operation Cookiemonster led to hundreds of raids in 17 different countries and 119 arrests. Those arrested in the Netherlands were involved in plundering bank accounts, stealing crypto currencies, hijacking people’s online identities and blackmailing companies and private individuals. # ⚓ Financial Times ☛ Japan_braced_for_rise_in_ransomware attacks_after_data_breach⠀⇛ A hacking attack at Japan’s largest IT company is spilling across the country’s corporate sector, with cyber security experts warning that it could trigger a surge in attempts by organised criminal gangs to extort hefty ransoms from companies and their customers. More than 10 Japanese companies have said in the past month that they have been affected by the hacking at Fujitsu, which supplies internet infrastructure to thousands of companies. The attack took place last year and allowed outside access to emails sent through a Fujitsu-based email system. # ⚓ USDOJ ☛ Criminal_Marketplace_Disrupted_in_International Cyber_Operation⠀⇛ The Justice Department announced today a coordinated international operation against Genesis Market, a criminal online marketplace that advertised and sold packages of account access credentials – such as usernames and passwords for email, bank accounts, and social media – that had been stolen from malware-infected computers around the world. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Illinois’s_Olympia_CUSD_16_hit_by LockBit3.0 [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ LockBit3.0 claims to have hit the Olympia CUSD 16 in Illinois. So far, they have posted 4 files as proof, one of which appears to be a screencap of a directory of folders that might relate to Olympia North, Olympia South, and students, and another file with employee health-related information. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Noteboom_–_The_Law_Firm_hit_by_BlackCat⠀⇛ BlackCat claimed that they had exfiltrated sensitive data such as NDAs, documents from open cases, medical records involved in litigation, and employees’ sensitive data. # ⚓ Troy Hunt ☛ Seized_Genesis_Market_Data_is_Now_Searchable_in Have_I_Been_Pwned,_Courtesy_of_the_FBI_and_“Operation_Cookie Monster”⠀⇛ A quick summary first before the details: This week, the FBI in cooperation with international law enforcement partners took down a notorious marketplace trading in stolen identity data in an effort they’ve named “Operation Cookie Monster”. They’ve provided millions of impacted email addresses and passwords to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) so that victims of the incident can discover if they have been exposed. This breach has been flagged as “sensitive” which means it is not publicly searchable, rather you must demonstrate you control the email address being searched before the results are shown. This can be done via the free notification service on HIBP and involves you entering the email address then clicking on the link sent to your inbox. Specific guidance prepared by the FBI in conjunction with the Dutch police on further steps you can take to protect yourself are detailed at the end of this blog post on the gold background. That’s the short version, here’s the whole story: # ⚓ How_to_Perform_a_Vulnerability_Scan:_4_Steps⠀⇛ Network vulnerability scanning is the process of pinpointing weaknesses and vulnerabilities across a network, including evaluating network assets like computers and other devices — any potential target that could be exploited by threat actors should be included in these scans. # ⚓ How_to_Perform_a_Firewall_Audit:_6_Steps⠀⇛ A firewall audit is a multistep process that gives organizations insight into the status and effectiveness of the firewalls installed throughout their network. These audits provide visibility into potential vulnerabilities and the health of connections going to and from firewalls. They also uncover information about firewall changes since the last audit. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Data_protection_campaign_to_be_launched_in Latvia⠀⇛ Entrepreneurs often tend to overdo the collection of personal data from their customers and do not always adequately protect this information. Therefore, the State Data Inspectorate, in cooperation with the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LTRK), will start the education campaign “Data are value – protect them!”, Latvian Television reported on April 3. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ TikTok_fined_£12.7M_for_misuse_of_children’s data_by_UK_data_regulator⠀⇛ The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Tuesday issued TikTok a £12.7 million fine for its breach of UK General Data Protection Regulation, including TikTok’s illegal use of children’s personal data. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Australia_becomes_latest nation_to_ban_Chinese-owned_app_TikTok_on_government devices⠀⇛ Australia said Tuesday it will ban TikTok on government devices, joining a growing list of Western nations cracking down on the Chinese- owned app due to national security fears. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the decision followed advice from the country’s intelligence agencies and would begin “as soon as practicable”. # ⚓ RFA ☛ For_Myanmar’s_ethnic_groups,_ID_cards_can_help –_or_put_them_in_junta’s_crosshairs⠀⇛ Card gives access to hospitals, schools and passports, but revealing one’s identity can be risky o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Security_Service_Officer_Who_Defected Describes_President_As_‘War_Criminal’⠀⇛ An officer with the Kremlin’s bodyguard agency who defected last year over his opposition to the Ukraine invasion provided intimate details about Russian President Vladimir Putin to a London-based investigative group, describing him as “paranoid” and calling him a “war criminal.” # ⚓ RFERL ☛ ‘Heat’_Turns_Up_On_Pro-Putin_Pop_Stars_Following Latest_Zhara_Festival_Cancellation_In_Tashkent⠀⇛ An international musical festival in Tashkent that was to be headlined by more than 30 “pro-Putin” Russian musicians has been cancelled, following similar cancellations in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_Border_Guard_chief:_Belarus_has_tried_to arm_illegal_migrants⠀⇛ Belarusian border guards have attempted to arm illegal migrants crossing the Latvian border with firearms, the Chief of State Border Guard Guntis Pujāts said on Latvian Television on April 4. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Youngkin_to_meet_with_Taiwan’s leader_during_trade_mission⠀⇛ Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will lead his first international trade mission later this month, a trip to Asia that will include a meeting with the president of Taiwan. His office made the announcement Tuesday. The trip in late April will include stops in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. In addition to the meeting with President Tsai Ing- wen, Youngkin’s office says he plans to sit down with government officials, strategic business associations, company executives and industry leaders. The visit by Youngkin, who has not publicly ruled out a 2024 presidential bid, comes amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and China, which views Taiwan as its own territory. # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_slams_plan_for_Taiwan_president_to_meet_US House_Speaker⠀⇛ Tsai Ing-wen is set to meet Kevin McCarthy in California Wednesday. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Former_glamor_actress_met_with_Honduran_president_as China_sought_diplomatic_ties⠀⇛ Diana Pang tells a pro-Beijing newspaper that she was ‘doing her bit’ to help Chinese business initiatives. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Terror_groups_prey_on_vulnerable,_cost continent_billions⠀⇛ Moustapha was running out of hope. The Nigerien man had a family to feed but little means to do so. Like scores of people around the continent, he was persuaded to join and fight for a violent extremist organization. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Benny_Tai’s_‘mutual destruction’_plan_would_have_caused_‘nuclear_explosion,’ court_hears⠀⇛ Hong Kong legal scholar Benny Tai’s “mutual destruction” plan could have led to a catastrophe akin to a “worldwide nuclear explosion,” a former politician testifying against his peers in a landmark national security case involving dozens of pro-democracy figures has said. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_suspect_charged_in_St._Petersburg_bombing that_killed_pro-Kremlin_blogger⠀⇛ Russian authorities Tuesday charged a woman with the assassination of pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky. Tatarsky died on Monday in a St. Petersburg cafe explosion that has since been linked by Russian officials to Ukraine and jailed critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ France_begins_trial_of_1980_synagogue_bombing suspect_after_over_a_decade-long_delay⠀⇛ A French court Monday began hearing the criminal trial of Lebanese-Canadian Hassan Diab, who is accused of committing the 1980 bombing of the Copernic synagogue. The trial is expected to last three weeks and will be conducted in abstentia, meaning Diab will not be present for the trial. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Connecticut_veterans’_advocacy_groups_file_suit against_US_Department_of_Defense⠀⇛ Two Connecticut veterans’ advocacy groups Monday filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense (DoD) in a federal court in Connecticut. The groups asked the court to compel the DoD to release records of toxic conditions at the Karshi- Khanabad (K2) air base in Uzbekistan. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_agency_drops_recommended_literature_list after_outcry_over_Russian_authors⠀⇛ Lithuania’s National Agency for Education on Tuesday said it was scrapping a list of recommended literary works for pupils after coming under fire over Russian authors included in the Lithuanian literature program. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_passes_national_sanctions_on_Russian, Belarusian_citizens⠀⇛ The Lithuanian parliament adopted a special law on national sanctions for Russian and Belarusian citizens in response to the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Belarus_detains_Baltic,_Polish_nationals_for_spying_– media⠀⇛ Polish and Baltic nationals have been detained in Belarus for spying, head of the Belarusian KGB Ivan Tertel said on Tuesday, Belarusian state news agency BelTA has reported. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Russia’s_threats_to_deploy_nuclear_weapons_in_Belarus must_be_taken_seriously_–_president’s_aide⠀⇛ Russia’s threats to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus should be taken seriously and everything should be done to prevent their use, Asta Skaisgirytė, an advisor to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said on Tuesday. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Australia_to_‘hit_the_gym’_in_cyber exercises⠀⇛ Nationwide cybersecurity exercises will aim to make Australia a hard target for international hackers and prevent debilitating cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_inquiry_finds_‘impunity’_a_central_driver_of violence_in_South_Sudan⠀⇛ A UN human rights commission Monday reported horrific human rights violations in South Sudan. The report comes amid increased attacks and extrajudicial killings on civilians, which have gone unpunished by Sudanese authorities. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Son_Of_Armenian_Prime_Minister_Denies_Claim_He_Was Attacked⠀⇛ The son of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Ashot Pashinian, has denied reports that he was attacked. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Rights_Body_Extends_Ukraine_Inquiry_Into_Crimes Since_Russia’s_Invasion⠀⇛ The United Nations Human Rights Council overwhelmingly voted in favor on April 4 of extending and expanding the mandate of an investigative body probing possible war crimes committed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Outlines_Details_Of_New_Military_Aid_Package For_Ukraine_Valued_At_$2.6_Billion⠀⇛ The United States has unveiled details of $2.6 billion in new military aid for Ukraine to assist the country in its war against Russian forces. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Soldier_Pleads_‘Partly_Guilty’_At Russia’s_First_War_Crimes_Trial⠀⇛ A Ukrainian soldier has pleaded “partly guilty” at Russia’s first trial for war crimes in connection with its military campaign in Ukraine. # ⚓ MALE_VIOLENCE_MONITORING_REPORT_MARCH_2023:_Men_killed_23 women_in_March⠀⇛ Men inflicted violence on at least 66 women, abused 14 boys and girls, and harassed at least two women. # ⚓ MP_brings_up_death_of_Gabonese_student_in_the_parliament⠀⇛ The dead body of a 17-year-old Gabonese student in her first year in studying mechanical engineering at Karabük University in Turkey was found by the Filyos River on March 26. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Rising_Seas_Threaten_to_Cut_Off_Millions_of Americans_This_Century⠀⇛ Long before inundation, a different problem emerges. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Kazakhstan_dispatch:_Kazakhstan_government_brings landmark_environmental_lawsuit_against_Caspian_Sea_oil_field developer⠀⇛ Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 3rd year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship.  # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Fire_Breaks_Out_At_Chinese_Dam_Construction Camp_In_Pakistan⠀⇛ A fire ripped through the camp of a Chinese company managing the construction of a remote hydropower dam in northwestern Pakistan on April 4, officials said. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_mulls_electric_scooter_regulations⠀⇛ The Paris referendum on banning the rental of electric scooters has brought traffic rules to the fore again in Latvia. People surveyed on the streets don’t exactly agree with a ban, while emergency services are alarmed and the high number of accidents related to the use of scooters, Latvian Television reported on April 3. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Vilnius_will_not_follow_Paris_in_banning electric_scooters,_mayor-elect_says⠀⇛ After the French capital decided to ban scooter rent services, other cities are considering similar moves amid safety concerns. Vilnius, however, is not one of them, assured the city’s mayor-elect Valdas Benkunskas, while admitting that there is a need for more regulation. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Wild_Elephants_Appear_to_Have_Been Domesticated,_But_Not_by_Humans⠀⇛ Then who? # ⚓ RFA ☛ Activists_find_illegal_logging_evidence_in protected_area_in_northern_Cambodia⠀⇛ They observed transport trucks, armed groups of people and evidence of 219 fallen trees. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_Mexican_government_continues_nationalizing_key industries_despite_US_objections⠀⇛ The Mexican government agreed to purchase 13 power plants from the Spanish energy company Iberdrola for $6 billion on Tuesday (April 4), giving its state-owned power company, Commission Federal de Electricidad (CFE), majority control over the country’s electricity market. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_IMF_Team_in Ethiopia_for_Talks_on_New_Funding_Programme_-Bloomberg_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Relief_on_rates_but_don’t_bank_on_an end_to_rises⠀⇛ Homebuyers are being warned to brace for more mortgage misery in the months to come despite being spared an 11th interest rate rise in row. The Reserve Bank on Tuesday left interest rates unchanged but has given itself wiggle room to hike again if needed. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Mortgage-holder_confidence_cools_as RBA_holds_rates⠀⇛ Confidence among mortgage holders has continued to sink, but homeowners have been handed a temporary reprieve from further repayment rises with the Reserve Bank keeping interest rates on hold. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Chamber_of_Commerce:_banks_in_Latvia_hesitant_to lend_to_businesses⠀⇛ Compared to other countries in the region – Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, and Scandinavian countries – banks in Latvia are less open to business and business lending, Aigars Rostovskis, president of the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LTRK), said in an interview to Latvian Radio on April 4. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ EU_dispatch:_collapse_of_Credit_Suisse_bank prompts_investigations,_lawsuits⠀⇛ Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Ciara Dinneny is JURIST’s Chief European Correspondent and a trainee with the Law Society of Ireland. She files this dispatch from Dublin. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ RBA_board_finally_presses_pause_on interest_rate_rises⠀⇛ Australia’s central bank has left interest rates unchanged at 3.6 per cent in April as the economy shows signs of cooling off. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Major_builder_halts_sales_amid_‘grim’ housing_shortfall⠀⇛ Perth is facing what could be the nation’s worst housing shortfall as labour shortages and supply chain issues continue to plague the building sector. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Law_firm_layoffs_spread_as_cooling_economy_keeps clients_wary⠀⇛ Lawyers and staff at big law firms are continuing to face layoffs as global deals take a dive and client demand falters. This week Silicon Valley-founded law firm Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian cut 10% of attorneys, paralegals and staff in its U.S. offices, according to a Tuesday internal memo from managing partner David Young. He said the reduction comes “in response to current macroeconomic and market conditions.” # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Venture_capital_funding_drops_53%_in_first quarter_amid_ongoing_macroeconomic_issues⠀⇛ A new report today from Crunchbase Inc. finds that money flowing into venture capital continued to drop in the first quarter as growth investors further scaled back their investment pace amid ongoing worldwide macroeconomic issues. For the quarter that ended March 31, global funding came in at $76 billion, down 53% from the $162 billion… ⚓ WhichUK ☛ New_banking_hubs_announced_to_help_cash_access_–_are_they_enough?⠀⇛ Find out how request a review into your community’s cash needs ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Spending_cuts_worth_€6bn_could_be_detrimental_for_Finland, economist_tells_YLE⠀⇛ PASI KUOPPAMÄKI, the chief economist at Danske Bank, has expressed his reservations about the extent of fiscal adjustment pursued by the National Coalition. The National Coalition has declared its intent to generate six billion euros in savings in the next electoral term and another three billion euros in the one after that in accordance with the target set by the Ministry of Finance. ⚓ Axios ☛ 10_industries_where_job_openings_are_declining⠀⇛ Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Axios Visuals The number of job openings declined across almost all industries in February from this time last year, according to new government data. Why it matters:Employers took a chill pill, and the hiring frenzy we saw over the past two years is fading out a bit. ⚓ Axios ☛ Investors_show_concern_over_the_U.S._economy⠀⇛ Investors seem to be getting more nervous about growth. Driving the news: Another day of weak economic data. ===================================================================== * Factory orders, out Tuesday, fell_for_the_second_straight_month in February. * And job openings dropped_faster_than_expected, a possible sign the job market is cooling. 💭 Our thought bubble:The data du jour wasn’t top shelf, but the numbers were consistent with others showing that parts of the economy — like the_industrial_sector — are losing steam. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Marin_to_step_down_as_head_of_Social_Democrats_in September⠀⇛ “It has been a tremendous honour for me to lead the government as the prime minister for the past four years. The times have been exceptionally hard and taxing,” she stated at a press conference held in the Parliament House. * ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Did_George_Santos_lie_about_everything?⠀⇛ * ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Trump_can_run_for_president_from_prison._Just ask_Eugene_Debs.⠀⇛ * ⚓ Axios ☛ Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_flips_to_liberal_majority_in_race spotlighting_abortion⠀⇛ Milwaukee Judge Janet Protasiewicz on Tuesday was elected to Wisconsin’s_supreme_court, giving the key swing state’s highest court a liberal majority that could potentially expand abortion rights there, AP_reports. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 7_Hongkongers_initially_accused_of_rioting_to plead_guilty_to_unlawful_assembly_over_2019_protest⠀⇛ Seven people who were initially accused of taking part in a riot during Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy protests are set to plead guilty to a lesser charge of unlawful assembly, the court has heard. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_top_sports_federation_threatens_to suspend_ice_hockey_body_over_anthem_blunder⠀⇛ The top sports federation representing Hong Kong at the Olympics has warned that it could suspend the Hong Kong Ice Hockey Association (HKIHA) after a blunder that saw a pro- democracy protest song played instead of China’s national anthem at a recent international match. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Civil_society_groups_urge_UN_not_to_adopt_working_definition of_antisemitism_citing_misuse⠀⇛ 60 civil society groups Monday implored the UN and world leaders to step up efforts to combat antisemitism. In an open letter to the UN, the advocacy groups emphasized the need for practical anti-antisemitism measures. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Martial_arts_star_Donnie_Yen_claims_Oscars_petition_was_‘cyber- bullying’⠀⇛ Petition author says Yen is a public figure, and his comments could mislead the global public. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ Another_day_of_fines_to_TV_channels_in_Turkey⠀⇛ The Radio and Television Supreme Council of Turkey continues to fine the TV channels criticizing government policies. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Stand_News_sedition_trial:_Testimony_of_ex-chief editor_ends_after_36_days_as_closing_arguments_set_for_June⠀⇛ A Hong Kong journalist has completed his testimony over 17 allegedly “seditious” articles published by defunct news outlet Stand News while he and another editor were at the helm after 36 days on the stand. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_chief_executive_John_Lee_refuses_to comment_on_reports_of_journalists_being_tailed⠀⇛ Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee has refused to comment on reports received by the city’s largest press group that reporters had been followed by unknown men. “I will not spend time to talk about individual self-speculation or perception. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ Mohamed_Ahmed_Recipient_of_the_2023_Reset_Scholarship_in Social_Media_and_Democracy⠀⇛ The Citizen Lab is thrilled to welcome Mohamed Ahmed, the recipient of the 2023 Reset Scholarship in Social Media and Democracy.  Mohamed is a second year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (U of T) majoring in Cognitive Science. Originally from Egypt, in 2021 he moved from Calgary… * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Is_your_non-disparagement_clause_void_now?_Not_necessarily⠀⇛ A recent_decision from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding non-disparagement agreements has many US workers excited that they may now be free to publicly criticize their former employer or talk about the terms of severance agreements. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-03-26_[Older]_UK_PM_Sunak_to_Unveil Measures_to_Crack_Down_on_Anti-Social_Behaviour⠀⇛ * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Colorado_court_considers_challenge_to_sex_abuse lawsuit⠀⇛ The Colorado Supreme Court is considering whether a law allowing people who were sexually abused as children to sue their alleged abusers and employers violates the state’s Constitution. The court’s justices heard arguments on Tuesday in a case involving a woman who sued her high school basketball coach and the school district that employed him, Aurora Public Schools. A lower court judge found that the law violates the Constitution’s prohibition against retrospective laws made to address actions that have already happened. * ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Mass_protests_in_Kenya_have_a_long_and_rich_history_–_but have_been_hijacked_by_the_elites⠀⇛ Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and his coalition party, Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya, recently called for mass protests across the country. Odinga and his team have questioned the legitimacy of President William Ruto’s win in the country’s August 2022 election, and taken issue with the rising cost of living. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_declines_to_hear_appeal_from_death_row_inmate involving_prosecutorial_discretion⠀⇛ The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear David Brown v. Louisiana, a case which concerns evidence rules in criminal trials. The man who petitioned the court to hear the case remains on death row, where he has been since his 2011 criminal conviction. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_appeals_court_reinstates_religious_freedom_claim_over California’s_loyalty_oath⠀⇛ The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Monday reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a religious freedom complaint against California’s state controller. * ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_What_Carl_Sagan_Understood_About Human_Cruelty⠀⇛ * ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Is_Silicon_Valley_Beyond Redemption?⠀⇛ § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ * ⚓ APNIC ☛ A_quantum_of_(networking)_solace⠀⇛ IETF 116 discussed the current state and future of quantum networks. § Monopolies⠀➾ * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ JUVE ☛ Taylor_Wessing_launches_Vienna_patent_practice_with Schwarz_Schönherr_partner [Ed: Pure and classic spam from JUVE, pretending to be a news site while taking bribes from litigation firms in order to lie for them or, as in this case, to put up ads for them]⠀⇛ Patent litigator Thomas Adocker (47) joined Taylor Wessing at the beginning of the month, to build up the patent practice at the international law firm in Vienna. Most recently, he was a partner at IP firm Schwarz Schönherr. * § Trademarks⠀➾ o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Three_Section_2(d) Refusals_Was/Were_Reversed?⠀⇛ The Board has affirmed 41 of the first 44 Section 2(d) refusals that it reviewed this year. That’s an affirmance rate of 93%. Here are three more decision. At least one was a reversal. How do you think these three cases came out? [Results in first comment]. In_re_Bulletproof_Property_Management,_LLC, Serial No. 90625153 (March 31, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Jyll Taylor) [Section 2(d) refusal of VECTOR for “Firearms; Component parts for guns” in view of the identical mark registered for “knives; knives, namely, pocket knives, sport knives, utility knives, tactical knives, and survival knives.”] * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Launches_#BehindTheSong_With_Fraser_T Smith⠀⇛ TikTok launches #BehindTheSong with songwriter-producer Fraser T Smith. To celebrate producers and songwriters and help bring them to the forefront of the cultural zeitgeist, TikTok has announced the launch of #BehindTheSong, featuring Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Fraser T Smith. § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ A_Review_of_the_First_Half_of_the_Furyk_Saga⠀⇛ I’m not sure how I found the series, but I’ve been reading the Furyk Saga before bed for the past several months. It’s a nordic-themed fantasy novel, and clocks in at 2100 pages for the first three books. Overall I’ve really enjoyed this series thus far. The characters, the storyline, and the action scenes keep you turning the pages to find out more. What I like best is that these books don’t beat you over the head with magic right out of the gates, and even in the later two books it’s really not that heavy. The storyline can be a bit slow, especially in the first book when you’re finding out where the writer is going with the story, but even then I found that I wanted to discover what happened to the individuals and their story arcs through these developmental sections of the books. The readability also contributes to the page turns since there’s a lot of action-type language throughout versus lengthy internal character development. And finally, I like that the plot lines are not easily predicted in most cases, which is what I think kept me pushing through the slower parts of the book. I can say that I stayed up late trying to push through the last part of book for at least a few nights this past week – it got really good and action packed. o ⚓ Baseball’s_Fun!⠀⇛ We’re only a few days into the new season, but I think that the MLB’s new rules have made the game infinitely better. The rules that have made the biggest difference for me are the pitch clock and the shift ban. o ⚓ The_Shortening_of_the_Way⠀⇛ Not just baseball is getting shorter, but also cricket, which is trying to do something about the five day matches. A difference here might be “an event” versus “a way of life”. But it’s not just sportsball! Brogue is considered too long, so now there are even shorter versions of it. However, Brogue is short compared to, say, Angband. [...] Some of this could be “life happened” so there isn’t time to rush away the hours in a dungeon crawl or the eternal cricket match, but the shortening of the way in multiple fields (baseball, cricket, computer games, other?) probably points towards something else going on. Computers? Smartphones? Capitalism? Something in the water? Context switches running too hot? Surely something can be found to blame. o ⚓ Beginning_Birding⠀⇛ I have suddenly become interested in birding (“the observation of birds in their natural habitats as a hobby”). Each day for the last week you could have found me in a local park with a pair of binoculars and a bird guide, trying to tally bird sightings by species. Growing up, I was fortunate to live near the Chesapeake Bay, and to regularly see blue crabs (callinectes sapidus) and blue heron (ardea herodias). I was interested in the marsh ecosystem generally, and these creatures specificually, but unlike many of my peers would not admit to an interest in looking at living things. For reasons lost to recall, I believed these were childish and/or effiminate interests. o ⚓ Album_#226:_The_Beach_Boys_–_Surf’s_Up⠀⇛ Usually I try to write out my thoughts while listening to the album. Sort of ‘raw, live to tape’, in the hope that it’ll capture something unique or interesting to my particular perspective in this, my public music listening journal. Not today, not with this album – it slid by. Maybe that was the intention – it’s cautiously interesting and psychedelic or at least adventurous, but there’s never any real commitment to it. Like they know the weight and legacy of the Beach Boys name and have to do something MORE, but where previously they felt like they set a standard, now they’re following The Beatles or The Rolling Stones or The Who or whoever is moulding something from the past in to something more interesting. And the spark isn’t there any more. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4745 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_05/04/2023:_Fentanylware_(TikTok)_Fined_for_Abuse_and_German_Court Orders_Takedown_of_Free_Software_(Youtube-dl)⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Overpopulation o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Twitter # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Special_Variables_in_Bash_Shell Scripting⠀⇛ Recently, I covered how you can use the number of arguments in bash that involved the use of the $# variable which is one of the special variables of bash. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Automated_status_tests_need_to_have little_or_no_‘noise’⠀⇛ Unless you’re in a bad situation, your systems are almost always working; your backups are happening properly, your machines are up, your disks aren’t dangerously full, and so on. Actual failures are a small percentage of the time. This means that even with a very low false positive rate on a percentage basis, almost all of the time your tests are raising some sort of alert, they’re giving you noise, a false alert. This gives you the security alert problem; it will be very easy to get habituated to ignoring or downplaying the warning messages. The very rare occasion when they’re warning you about a real problem will be drowned out by the noise of non-problems. As a system administrator, it can feel morally wrong to not send out a warning if we detect something potentially broken. But here again, the perfect is the enemy of the good. It’s better to reliably generate warnings that people will notice and heed when something is definitely broken, even if this doesn’t send warnings in some situations when you can’t be sure. # ⚓ James G ☛ Announcing_Screenshots:_How_I_generate_meta images_for_my_site⠀⇛ I was curious about how I could generate screenshots for my personal website. I knew this would involve headless browsers, a technology wherein a browser renders a page programmatically without a user-facing representation available. I had not yet used headless browsers, so I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to build my knowledge. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Set_Up_a_Private_VPN_With_TurnKey_GNU/ Linux⠀⇛ Virtual Private Networks (VPN) offers anonymity, security, and privacy online. There are typically two types of VPN connections. The most popular is a VPN service, provided by a third-party company, and typically requires a paid subscription. The second type is a private VPN, installed and configured manually by an individual or workplace. Setting up your own private VPN can seem like a daunting task. However, there is an easy way to set up your own VPN server using a pre-configured solution from Turnkey Linux. So how can you install a private VPN at home or at your workplace? # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 8_Useful_Commands_to_Monitor_Swap_Space_Usage_in Linux⠀⇛ Linux memory management is an essential aspect of every System Administrator to improve the performance of a Linux system. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Add_Swap_Space_on_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛ The post How_to_Add_Swap_Space_on_Ubuntu_Linux first appeared on Tecmint:_Linux_Howtos,_Tutorials &_Guides . One of the simplest ways of watching against out- of-memory problems in applications is to increase some swap size in your server. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Build_NGINX_from_Sources_in_RHEL,_CentOS, Rocky_and_AlmaLinux⠀⇛ Nginx is the fastest growing Webserver today on public internet-facing servers due to its free open-source modular model, high performance, stability, simple configurations files, asynchronous architecture (event-driven), and low resources needed to run. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_View_WebP_Image_and_Convert_WebP_to_PNG_or JPEG_in_Linux⠀⇛ Developed by Google with the main objective of making loading times faster across the internet, WebP (pronounced “weppy”) is a modern image format and a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. Compared o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Death_Stranding_Director’s_Cut,_Aliens: Fireteam_Elite_and_more_in_Humble_Choice⠀⇛ Up for even more games to add to your collection? Humble Choice for April 2023 has some interesting games included. To save you clicking around, I’ll list each game along with what to expect from them on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.  # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Crusader_Kings_III:_Tours_and_Tournaments releasing_May_11th⠀⇛ Paradox Interactive confirmed today the Crusader Kings III: Tours and Tournaments DLC will release on May 11th along with a major free update for all players. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Last_of_Us_now_Unsupported_on_Steam Deck,_bad_look_for_Valve_and_Naughty_Dog⠀⇛ It’s official, Valve put The Last of Us Part 1 through Deck Verified and gave it an Unsupported status on Steam Deck. Not really a good look for either Valve or Naughty Dog. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Heroic_Games_Launcher_2.7.0_is_out_now_for Epic_Games_and_GOG⠀⇛ Heroic Games Launcher has a brand new release available for helping you manage Epic Games, GOG and more on Steam Deck and Linux desktop. Easily one of my favourite open source projects! It doesn’t just help you deal with Epic and GOG though, since you can add anything else into it too. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Hell_Let_Loose_planning_Steam_Deck support⠀⇛ The hardcore FPS Hell Let Loose had a 2023 roadmap reveal, and they’ve confirmed they’re planning to add Steam Deck support. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Asus_announce_the_ROG_Ally_gaming handheld⠀⇛ More companies are beginning to see there is a market for a PC gaming handheld, with Asus planning to release the ROG Ally. Initially, this seemed like an April Fools joke but it turned out to be real. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Debian ☛ Debian_Installer_Bookworm_RC_1_release⠀⇛ The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 12 “Bookworm”. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Introducing_Cinnamon_Desktop_“Styles”,_coming in_Linux_Mint_21.2⠀⇛ In their monthly update post, the Linux Mint team gave a sneak peek of what’s in store for the upcoming release, Linux Mint 21.2. One of the exciting new features that caught the eye was the introduction of “styles” in the Cinnamon desktop. The next iteration of Cinnamon will present a novel concept known as “styles”. Styles come in three modes: mixed, dark, and light, and each of these modes can have colour “variants”. A variant is a combination of themes that blend together. The goal of styles, modes, and variants is to make it easier to switch to a beautiful-looking interface and quickly browse through available options. You won’t have to find matching elements because styles will do that for you, no matter how many individual themes you have installed. Read more here. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ RP2040_Feather_module_comes_with_Packet Radio⠀⇛ The Adafruit Feather RP2040 RFM69 Packet Radio is a compact board providing up to 21x GPIOs, 1x STEMMA connector, LiPo connector and it’s compatible with Arduino/CircuitPython. According to the product page, this new Feather module is based on the Adafruit Feather RP2040 board launched last year. # ⚓ Frank Delporte ☛ Using_the_Raspberry_Pi_Autofocus_Camera Module_3_as_HDMI_camera⠀⇛ More than two years ago, I blogged about the use of the Raspberry Pi as an HDMI camera for the ATEM Mini. Although I have been using such a camera since then as my main Zoom camera, I wasn’t always happy with the image quality. The main problem was that the previous Raspberry Pi cameras had a fixed focus and it was quite hard to find the perfect focus. But with the new version 3 camera module with auto- focus, this should all be solved… and… it is! * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ [Old] Uli Kusterer ☛ Audio_Ducking_in_OBS⠀⇛ Well, it can. There is a technique audio engineers called “audio ducking”. It does the reverse: Whenever you speak into your microphone, it reduces the volume on another channel, to ensure it can’t go so loud you won’t be audible anymore. That’s basically the reverse of what we thought to do. OBS also has this feature, however it is very nerdily named. It is hidden in its “Compressor” filter. Here’s how to use it for audio ducking in 3 simple steps: [...] o ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ 8_best_open_source_project_management_software_for 2023⠀⇛ We analyzed our picks for the top eight open-source project management software of 2023, including their features, cost, pros and cons. We also outline the steps to follow when shopping for open-source project management tools. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ How_to_get_a_bigger_font_for Firefox’s_preview_of_link_targets_(sort_of)⠀⇛ If you hover the mouse over a link in Firefox (or pretty much any other browser), the browser will show you the URL of the link target so you can see where you’ll wind up if you click the link; this URL target appears down at the bottom of the page. Well, in theory, since there are a lot of things that can happen in between your click on a link and where you wind up. In Firefox, as far as I know that URL target is rendered in the browser’s default user interface (UI) font and font size, which is normally your platform default. On Unix, Firefox uses GTK so this is the GTK system font default. Suppose, not hypothetically, that you would like the font of this URL target to be bigger so it’s easier to read. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Bridging_the_digital_divide_in_Pacific island_states⠀⇛ The challenges for small island states are not only about small domestic markets and small numbers of ICT suppliers. Often people do not know how to take advantage of the technologies. There is often a lack of awareness of the advantages of connecting, a lack of relevant local content online in the local language and a much higher cost of connection than in most countries. Many small island states states rely on satellite connections, and a small domestic market does not offer industry enough return on investment—nothing like the large urban areas. Industry therefore needs to be incentivised; regulatory frameworks need to be harmonised. Regional cooperation is key to creating a larger community with harmonised regimes, including spectrum management and incentives to encourage investment. # ⚓ ANF News ☛ 5_Iranian_schoolgirls_poisoned_in_Urmia⠀⇛ As mass anti-government protests have been going on since the murder of a young Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini by the morality police in Tehran in September 2022, poisoning attacks against girls’ schools and dormitories have increased in recent months. Poisoning attacks are considered as part of a government plan to suppress the popular protests. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Ken Shirriff ☛ The_microcode_and_hardware_in_the_8086 processor_that_perform_string_operations⠀⇛ In this blog post, I explain string operations in the 8086, analyze the microcode that it used, and discuss the hardware circuitry that helped it out. My analysis is based on reverse-engineering the 8086 from die photos. The photo below shows the chip under a microscope. I’ve labeled the key functional blocks; the ones that are important to this post are darker. Architecturally, the chip is partitioned into a Bus Interface Unit (BIU) at the top and an Execution Unit (EU) below. The BIU handles memory accesses, while the Execution Unit (EU) executes instructions. The microcode ROM at the lower right controls the process. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Salon ☛ Your_microwave_popcorn_bags_are_full_of_harmful “forever_chemicals”⠀⇛ A recent study of popcorn bags in America and Indonesia found PFAS, or forever chemicals, in all of them o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_App_Center_has_been_down_for nearly_a_day⠀⇛ If you’re wondering why Microsoft’s Visual Studio App Center isn’t working, it’s not just you: The service’s login portal went down yesterday a little before 2200 UTC, and as of writing – nearly 18 hours on – Microsoft says the issue still hasn’t been fully resolved. o § Security⠀➾ # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Anti-plagiarism_tool_Turntin_tries to_find_AI_writing_by_students_–_with_mixed_grades⠀⇛ Initial tests carried out by the Washington Post, however, found its performance lacking. Turnitin was good at detecting AI-generated text when the whole input had been created by ChatGPT, but struggled with a mixture between human and machine-written sentences. It also incorrectly flagged parts of an essay written by a student as AI-generated. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ El País ☛ TikTok_fined_$15.9_million_by_Britain’s privacy_watchdog_over_misuse_of_kids’_data⠀⇛ The British watchdog, which was investigating data breaches between May 2018 and July 2020, said TikTok allowed as many as 1.4 million children in the U.K. under 13 to use the app in 2020, despite the platform’s own rules prohibiting children that young from setting up accounts. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ TikTok_Is_Fined_$15.9_Million_Over Misusing_Kids’_Data_in_Britain⠀⇛ The Information Commissioner’s Office said TikTok had inappropriately allowed up to 1.4 million children under the age of 13 to use the service in 2020, violating British data protection rules that require parental consent for organizations to use children’s personal information. TikTok failed to obtain that consent, regulators said, even though it should have been aware that younger children were using the service. The British investigation found that the video-sharing app did not do enough to identify underage users or remove them from the platform, even though TikTok had rules barring children under 13 from creating accounts. TikTok failed to take adequate action, regulators said, even after some senior employees at the video-sharing platform raised concerns internally about underage children using the app. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ TikTok_fined_in_UK_for_misusing_data of_minors⠀⇛ Britain’s data protection authority today hit the beleaguered Chinese social media company TikTok with a $15.9 million (£12.7m) fine, accusing the app of breaching data protection rules. The Information Commissioner’s Office, or ICO, said TikTok had allowed about 1.4 million children under the age of 13 to use the app. The firm was said to have used the data without the parents of the children giving their consent, even after some older employees had raised concerns about young people using the app. # ⚓ CSO ☛ UK_fines_TikTok_$15.8_million_for_GDPR violation_of_children’s_privacy⠀⇛ Central to the ICO’s decision to fine TikTok are the estimated 1.4 million UK children under 13 years of age, who were allowed to sign up for the platform in 2020, despite the company’s own rules barring such use. That’s a violation of UK’s General Data Protection Regulation (similar to the EU’s GDPR), the ICO said in a statement. The UK GDPR requires that companies that use personal data to offer services to children under 13 need a parent or guardian’s permission to do so. The regulator also noted that “senior employees” at TikTok were aware of underage users on the platform, and did not respond adequately to the issue. # ⚓ Her Campus Media LLC ☛ Why_Did_FSU_Ban_TikTok?⠀⇛ This ban follows the introduction of U.S. Senate Bill 686 otherwise known as the RESTRICT Act. It not only includes the banning of TikTok, but it would also give the government access to our digital devices and networks including home cameras. This act also potentially poses a threat to our right to privacy and gives the government a lot more control over our everyday lives than most of us may be comfortable with. With that being said, why not ban Twitter? This social media app also collects information on its users and was fined over $150 million in 2022 after it allegedly broke its privacy policy. Or Facebook? It had a $5 billion penalty imposed on them by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a series of new privacy regulations in 2019 due to privacy issues. Also, what about Instagram? According to Cybernews, it’s sharing almost eighty percent of your personal information with third parties. # ⚓ Cybernews ☛ Instagram_is_sharing_79%_of_your_personal data_with_third_parties⠀⇛ It’s one of the most addictive apps on our smartphones – but Instagram turns out to be a privacy nightmare for those who are using it. That’s the findings of a new analysis of the most invasive apps used commonly by users by cyber business pCloud. pCloud used the range of new privacy labels rolled out by Apple through its App Store, designed to help consumers decide what they should be wary of, to see how much of a user’s private data is gathered and shared with others. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ NBC ☛ Chinese_spy_balloon_gathered_intelligence_from sensitive_U.S._military_sites,_despite_U.S._efforts_to_block it⠀⇛ The three officials said China could have gathered much more intelligence from sensitive sites if not for the administration’s efforts to move around potential targets and obscure the balloon’s ability to pick up their electronic signals by stopping them from broadcasting or emitting signals. # ⚓ CNN ☛ Chinese_spy_balloon_was_able_to_transmit_information back_to_Beijing⠀⇛ A US intelligence official told CNN on Monday that “although analysis of the wreckage of the High Altitude Balloon remains ongoing, thus far, its flight over the United States does not appear to have provided critical new insights to the People’s Republic of China.” The US also knew what the balloon’s path would be and was able to protect sensitive sites and censor some signals before the balloon was able to pick them up, officials have said. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Public_executions_and_torture:_‘The_Taliban_have reverted_to_their_true_nature’⠀⇛ In the latest example of public punishments carried out by the Taliban, two men were forced to wear a chador, a full-length hijab traditionally worn by women as a form of public “humiliation”. But other punishments meted out by the Taliban have been far more violent, including flagellations and public executions. While Afghan activists have documented dozens of public punishments since October 2022, video evidence of them is scarce – only two videos document these brutal tactics. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Debate:_Will_Finland’s_Addition_to_NATO Make_Direct_Conflict_with_Russia_More_Likely?⠀⇛ Finland is formally joining NATO on Tuesday in a move that doubles the military alliance’s border with Russia. Finland and Russia share an 800-mile border. Finland is joining NATO a week after Turkey’s parliament voted to ratify the Nordic country’s membership. Turkey and Hungary have yet to approve Sweden as a member of NATO, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accusing Stockholm of harboring Kurdish dissidents he considers terrorists. Finland and Sweden had applied to join NATO in May 2022, just months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For more on NATO’s expansion, we host a discussion between Reiner Braun, former executive director of the International Peace Bureau and longtime German peace activist, and Atte Erik Harjanne, a member of the Finnish Parliament for the Green League. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ Amsterdam’s_Schiphol_airport_to_ban_overnight_flights by_2025⠀⇛ To meet the Paris climate agreement, the Dutch airport is introducing a few new regulations for overnight flights and private jets. In order to reduce noise pollution, the Dutch airport Schiphol will no longer allow commercial or cargo flights to depart between midnight and 6am or land between midnight and 5am. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Our_Lungs_and_Planet_Can’t_Wait’: Protesters_Demand_EPA_Pass_New_Power_Plant_Rules⠀⇛ Activists from a coalition of over 150 environmental justice groups rallied and marched in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to demand that the Biden administration “quit delaying rules to curb harmful pollution that kills thousands of Americans every year.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Green_Groups_‘Undeterred’_Despite_US Judge_Allowing_Willow_Oil_Project_to_Proceed⠀⇛ Climate campaigners on Tuesday remained resolute in their fight against ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project in Alaska—even after a federal judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction sought by environmental and Indigenous groups behind a pair of legal challenges. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ A_Brief_on_Overpopulation_–_Why_it matters_and_what_you_can_do_about_it⠀⇛ The Earth’s first billion people milestone took from the beginning of human history until the 1800s to be achieved. Then, due to the industrial revolution, humanity reached the second billion mark by 1930 (taking only 130 years), reached the third billion in 1960 (only took 30 years), then reached the fourth billion by 1974 (only took 14 years), and the fifth billion by 1987 (only took 13 years). We hit 6 billion in 1999 (which took 12 years) and hit 7 billion in 2011 (which took about 12 years). At the current growth rate, the world population will reach 9 billion by 2037 and 10 billion by 2057. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Australia_bans_TikTok_from_federal_government devices⠀⇛ Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said in a statement Tuesday that based on intelligence and security agencies’ advice, that ban would come into effect “as soon as practicable.” The so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partners — the United States, Canada, Britain and New Zealand — have taken similar steps. # ⚓ New Statesman ☛ Twitter_is_dead⠀⇛ Much has been written about the end of this type of verification – which Twitter invented and is now used almost universally online – and the type of audience Twitter now serves (as Emma Haslett wrote for the New Statesman, Twitter is becoming an “Internet of Losers”, where the desperate and status-obsessed get a taste of faux-fame because they can afford it). With this new era of Twitter advancing, and the platform as we knew it coming to an end, what, as a culture, are we losing? # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ How_Russia_killed_its_tech industry⠀⇛ In Russia, technology was one of the few sectors where people felt they could succeed on merit instead of connections. The industry also maintained a spirit of openness: Russian entrepreneurs won international funding and made deals all over the world. For a time, the Kremlin seemed to embrace this openness too, inviting international companies to invest in Russia. But cracks in Russia’s tech industry started appearing well before the war. For more than a decade, the government has attempted to put Russia’s [Internet] and its most powerful tech companies in a tight grip, threatening an industry that once promised to bring the country into the future. Experts MIT Technology Review spoke with say Russia’s war against Ukraine only accelerated the damage that was already being done, further pushing the country’s biggest tech companies into isolation and chaos and corralling its citizens into its tightly controlled domestic [Internet], where news comes from official government sources and free speech is severely curtailed. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Ari_Berman_on_the_Race_That_Could_Decide the_Fate_of_Democracy_in_Wisconsin_—_and_the_2024_Election⠀⇛ A crucial election in Wisconsin on Tuesday will decide the fate of democracy in the state and have major ramifications for the 2024 presidential election, says reporter Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. At stake is a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which currently has a 4-3 conservative majority. Although technically nonpartisan, the election is a showdown between Democratic-backed Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz and Republican- backed former state Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly. Berman says the outcome of the race could determine if abortion remains illegal in Wisconsin, as well as the future of voting laws and redistricting. “Every time the state Supreme Court under conservative control has been asked whether or not they want to expand democracy or constrict democracy, they have fallen on the side of constricting democracy,” says Berman. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘The_Law_Finally_Caught_Up_With_Donald Trump’:_Ex-President_Arraigned_on_34_Felony_Charges⠀⇛ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ History_in_the_Making:_David_Cay_Johnston on_Why_Trump’s_Arraignment_May_Renew_American_Democracy⠀⇛ On the day of Donald Trump’s historic arraignment in New York, making him the first former president ever to be criminally charged, we speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump for decades. Trump is said to face 34 felony counts for falsifying business records. The case centers in part on hush- money payments Trump made during the 2016 presidential campaign to adult film star Stormy Daniels. After his appearance before a judge in Manhattan, where he is expected to plead not guilty to all charges, Trump will fly back to his Mar-a- Lago estate in Florida, where he will speak publicly later in the day. “Hopefully this is the beginning of a revival and a renewal of American democracy,” says Johnston, co-founder of the news site DCReport and author of The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family. Johnston also teaches at Syracuse University College of Law. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Now_Do_Bush’:_Trump_Arraignment_Contrasts Typical_Impunity_for_US_Leaders⠀⇛ The historic arraignment of former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday highlighted how infrequently American political leaders are held accountable for any crimes. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ Ukraine_war:_Who_are_Russia’s_war_bloggers_and why_are_they_popular?⠀⇛ And it’s this criticism of the military authorities that makes war correspondents stand out from the all-pervasive Kremlin- controlled propaganda, which routinely embellishes progress of the “special military operation” in Ukraine. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Sweden_Court_Overturns_Ban_on_Quran_Burning Protests⠀⇛ bA Swedish court Tuesday overturned a police move to ban two Quran burning protests, as five suspected Islamists were arrested for plotting a “terrorist act” over a similar demonstration. # ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ Twitter_accused_of_censorship_in_India_as it_blocks_Modi_critics⠀⇛ Twitter has been accused of bowing to government pressure in India by blocking scores of prominent journalists, politicians and activists from its platform in recent weeks. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ NBC ☛ Lawyers_visit_U.S._journalist_detained_in_Russia⠀⇛ The Journal denies the espionage charges against Gershkovich. Tucker added: “The legal avenue is one of several avenues we are working to advocate for Evan’s release. We continue to work with the White House, State Department and relevant U.S. government officials to secure Evan’s release.” # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Let’s_talk_about_George_Charamba’s_threat_to journalists_covering_Al_Jazeera_documentary⠀⇛ What was interesting regarding that whole saga is what happened in between the episodes. Presidential spokesperson, George Charamba, using one of his many Twitter accounts threatened journalists covering the Al Jazeera documentary. He tweeted, [...] o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Grim_Milestone’_as_Over_400_Human_Rights Defenders_Murdered_Worldwide_Last_Year⠀⇛ For the first time since such killings have been tracked, more than 400 human rights defenders were murdered worldwide last year, with nearly half of these targeted killings occurring in Colombia, a report published Tuesday revealed. # ⚓ Buffalo News ☛ Starbucks_fires_Buffalo-area_union_leader two_days_after_former_CEO_is_grilled_in_Congress⠀⇛ Not two days after former CEO Howard Schultz was dragged before a U.S. Senate committee and aggressively questioned before the cameras, the Seattle-based coffee chain fired three of its local employees who were active leaders in the unionization movement. In particular, Starbucks late on Friday fired Lexi Rizzo, a longtime shift supervisor at the company’s Genesee Street store in Cheektowaga, who had led the labor campaign at that location that won one of the first unionization votes at a Starbucks store. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Future_Is_Here,_and_It’s_Being_Sent Home_To_Wait_To_Find_Out_if_You’ve_Lost_Your_Job⠀⇛ After pushing in-person work, McDonald’s sent corporate employees home this week so the company could conduct layoffs remotely—a “new tactic” that could become common in the hybrid era, HR experts say. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Expresses_Concern_Over_Ban_On_Afghan_Female Staff_In_Eastern_Province⠀⇛ [...] The UN mission expressed “serious concern” after its female staffers were prevented from reporting to work in Nangarhar Province. [...] # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Taliban_Ban_Afghan_Women_from_Working_for_UN⠀⇛ Taliban officials in Afghanistan have informed the United Nations they are banning women from working for the organization in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Tuesday about the group’s latest edict restricting the rights and movements of women in that country. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Bernice_King_Urges_Permanent_School_Strike Until_Assault_Weapons_Ban_Is_Passed⠀⇛ Rights advocate Bernice King, a daughter of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, expressed hope on the 55th anniversary of her father’s assassination Tuesday that U.S. students leading gun control demonstrations will take inspiration from civil rights protesters who forced change through prolonged direct action. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Google_Fiber_Returns_From_The_Dead_To_Deliver Actual_Broadband_Competition_To_Iowa⠀⇛ Back in 2016, Alphabet executives made it pretty clear they had grown tired of trying to disrupt the U.S. broadband industry with Google Fiber. Executives were fired, hundreds of employees were laid off, and any real expansion in the project was effectively frozen. Alphabet and Google Fiber executives then just pretended none of this had happened and nothing had changed. o § Twitter⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FTC_To_Elon:_How_‘Bout_You_Comply_With_Our Demands,_Rather_Than_Trying_To_Charm_Lina_Khan?⠀⇛ As you’ll recall, it became apparent pretty much immediately after Elon Musk took over Twitter that he had zero idea that the company was under an FTC consent decree that had just been renewed months earlier, and which had some fairly stringent rules regarding data privacy and how the company rolled out new features. Sometimes it pays to, you know, do some due diligence? # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Without_Verification,_What_Is_The_Point_Of_Elon Musk’s_Twitter?⠀⇛ Elon Musk’s Twitter fundamentally misunderstands what made Twitter useful in the first place. In an attempt to wring blood from a stone, Twitter’s announced that all the original “blue checks”—initially created as a way to verify that someone was who they said they were—will disappear on April 1st. Instead, blue checks will once again be for sale, just as they were briefly, when Musk took control. April 1 is a date that makes it hard to take anything seriously but, since this isn’t the first time Twitter’s tried this, let’s delve into the problems that selling verifications poses.  # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ How_to_update_copyright:_Nigeria shows_the_way_for_Africa_–_and_the_world⠀⇛ Nigeria’s new law is important because the country is already a leader in Africa, and is predicted to become one of the world’s top economies. What happens in Nigeria matters, because it sets an important precedent for other rising nations looking to update their outdated copyright laws to maximise the benefits of the digital world by adopting open norms. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Record_Label_Wipes_AI-Generated Eminem_Rapping_About_Cats_From_the_Internet⠀⇛ Universal Music Publishing Group issued a DMCA takedown notice against Youtuber Grandayy, claiming that the video, which uses an AI-generated version of Eminem’s voice to sing a ChatGPT-generated song about cats, infringes on its copyright. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Music_Labels_Win_Legal_Battle_Against Youtube-dl’s_Hosting_Provider⠀⇛ A German court has ordered hosting provider Uberspace to take the website of the open- source youtube-dl software offline. The ruling is the result of a copyright infringement lawsuit, filed by Sony, Warner and Universal last year. Uberspace will appeal the verdict and, meanwhile, youtube- dl’s code remains available on GitHub. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ‘Pirate’_Site_Admins_Arrested_in 2015,_Now_Acquitted_For_a_Second_Time⠀⇛ In 2015, the operators of ‘pirate’ download site Series.ly were arrested in Spain following copyright infringement complaints from rightsholders in the U.S. After a court acquitted the men of criminal wrongdoing in 2022, the rightsholders filed an appeal. The men have now been acquitted for a second time, eight years after being arrested. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ March_2023⠀⇛ March started traveling in our Caribbean cruise between Colombia and Panamá and for a full week we continued to Costa Rica, Bahamas, and back to Miami. From there we spent a week in New Orleans (where I worked a couple days) and finally another week in Orlando where I had the Elastic Engineering All Hands. After the meeting we drove down to Miami again to get our flight back to Valencia. # ⚓ systemd_killed_the_*nix⠀⇛ Saw a few good discussions about systemd, thought I’d explain my beef with it too. In the middle of last year I was applying for a new job. Found a pretty amazing new position open up at Canonical and threw my hat into the ring. Over 2 months of interviews, essays, and brain tests. Made it all the way to the last interview and turned out I just didn’t have the exact expertise they were looking for. Oh well, found a job I enjoy so no big deal. Through the whole process I was expecting to get some questions on my views of technology, the ways business and teams run, etc. Finally after maybe the 5th or 6th interview I finally got the dreaded “so what do you think about systemd?” I’ve been running Linux since the mid 90′s. When my parents upgraded our 486 to a Pentium I got a bunch of floppies from a friend at school and installed a build of RedHat he had picked up a computer convention. Since then I’ve only run Windows or OSX when it was provided as a work platform, rather when it was out of my control. In college I got a degree in Computer Engineering (half CS and half Electrical Engineering). My focus was on Hardware / Software interoperability. Designing operating systems, designing CPUs, etc. My first job was building communications hardware. Some on ARM processors where I could run Linux and others where I had to create custom operating systems. From the power button to sending packets out was my bread and butter. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5960 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_05/04/2023:_GTK_4.11.1,_Wayland_1.22,_and_Gajim_1.7.3⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 10:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Linux_Magazine’s_Latest_(New)_Issue o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Linux_Mint o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o Programming/Development # Python * Leftovers * Environment o Energy/Transportation o Wildlife/Nature * Finance * AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics * Censorship/Free_Speech * Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press * Civil_Rights/Policing * Monopolies o Patents o Trademarks o Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ System76_teases_made-in-Denver_Linux_laptop⠀⇛ System76 has been selling PCs that ship with Linux pre-installed for years. But for most of that time the company has worked with third-party manufacturers. A few years ago System76 announced plans to establish its own factory in Denver. Since then, the company has begun building its own desktops and keyboards. Now the company’s CEO says the first System76 laptop built in-house is on the way, and he’s posted pictures of an aluminum LCD panel that he says will be part of the upcoming notebook. o § Linux Magazine’s Latest (New) Issue⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Introduction⠀⇛ This month in Linux Voice. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Text-based_menus_and_information_pages⠀⇛ Whiptail interfaces add menus and information pages to your Raspberry Pi projects. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Kernel_News⠀⇛ Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the little links that bring us closer within the Linux kernel community. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ A_Deep_Dive_into_the_ELF_File_Format⠀⇛ Linux and other Unix-based systems use the ELF file format for executables, object code, and shared libraries. Take a peek inside to learn how an ELF file is organized. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ FOSS_Picks⠀⇛ Graham has finally taken delivery of a couple of RISC-V development boards for Linux experimentation. Expect plenty of cross-build tools in future issues! # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Booting_up_the_coreboot_firmware alternative⠀⇛ Coreboot is an open source firmware alternative with an emphasis on speed and simplicity. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Analyze_network_traffic_with_Sniffnet⠀⇛ Network traffic remains a closed book for many users. Sniffnet lets less experienced users monitor their network traffic with ease. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ DuckDuckGo_from_the_Terminal [Ed: Linux Magazine shilling MICROSOFT_SPYWARE in your UNIX/GNU/Linux terminal] ⠀⇛ Since 2008, DuckDuckGo has been making waves as an efficient and much more private search engine alternative to Google. The unaffiliated command- line tool ddgr is designed to make running DuckDuckGo searches from the terminal a breeze. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Find_files_and_directories_with_FSearch⠀⇛ In a crowded field of search applications, FSearch offers many interesting functions for quickly searching files and folders, with more promised in the future. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Flatpak_updates_with_systemd⠀⇛ You can automate Flatpak updates without a package manager using systemd’s services and timers. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Historical_Record⠀⇛ A new effort to record the history of open source is underway. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Better_Boundaries⠀⇛ Is the whole high-tech scene imploding? If so, it won’t be the first time, but every time it implodes, it comes back a little different, so even temporary implosions are relevant. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ This_Month’s_DVD⠀⇛ Fedora 37 Workstation and TUXEDO OS 2 # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Bookmark_organization_with_floccus_and LinkAce⠀⇛ LinkAce and floccus synchronize and manage bookmarks while storing your data locally. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ News⠀⇛ In the news: Gnome 44 Release Candidate; Flathub Vying to Become the Standard Linux App Store; Debian 12 to Ship with KDE Plasma 5.27; Planet Computers Launches ARM-Based Linux Desktop PCs; Ubuntu No Longer Shipping with Flatpak; openSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta; Linux Kernel 6.2 Released with NewHardware Support; Kubuntu Focus Team Releases NewMini Desktop; and US National Cybersecurity Strategy Released. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ A_simpler_packet_filter⠀⇛ Filter rules for firewalls can be tricky. As the successor to iptables, nftables simplifies the process of creating and maintaining firewall rules. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Repositories_for_energy-saving_software⠀⇛ A number of open source projects offer tools for analyzing energy usage in software. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ TUXEDO_OS_2_Preview_in_test⠀⇛ The popular Linux PC forge TUXEDO extends Ubuntu to include the latest KDE packages and says goodbye to Snap for its in-house TUXEDO OS distribution. The latest version is suitable for any PC. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ The_disaster_of_MIPI_cameras_on_Linux⠀⇛ Linux users have long gotten used to the standard hardware in their systems working perfectly. Recently, however, things have gotten dicey for webcams supporting the MIPI specification. We’ll tell you why and what to do about it. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Viewing_wildlife_with_a_Pi_Zero_photo trap⠀⇛ Armed with no more than a Raspberry Pi photo trap, you can discover who pays a visit to your garden at night. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ A_command-line_dictionary_tool⠀⇛ With the dict client, you can quickly search dozens of natural language dictionary databases for the perfect word. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Energy-efficient_programming_with_Go_and beyond⠀⇛ Go has a reputation for producing energy-saving applications, but you still have to know what you are doing. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Let_an_AI_chatbot_do_the_work⠀⇛ The electronic brain behind ChatGPT from OpenAI is amazingly capable when it comes to chatting with human partners. Mike Schilli picked up an API token and has set about coding some small practical applications. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.106⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 5.15.106 kernel. All users of the 5.15 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.15.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.15.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.177⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.240⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.280⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.312⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.2.10⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.23⠀⇛ o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ [ANNOUNCE]_wayland_1.22.0⠀⇛ This is the official release for Wayland 1.22. This new release adds explicit events for the preferred buffer scale and transform, adds an event to indicate the pointer's physical scroll direction, adds a few new convenience functions, and includes various spec clarifications and bug fixes. Commit history since RC1 below. Simon Ser (1): build: bump to version 1.22.0 for the official release git tag: 1.22.0 # ⚓ [ANNOUNCE]_xf86-input-libinput_1.3.0⠀⇛ xf86-input-libinput 1.3.0 is now available. The main feature in this version is support for the new 'custom' pointer acceleration profile in libinput 1.23.0. This acceleration profile is quite flexible, so it is exposed via several properties: - "libinput Accel Custom Fallback Points" and "libinput Accel Custom Fallback Step" - "libinput Accel Custom Motion Points" and "libinput Accel Custom Motion Step" - "libinput Accel Custom Scroll Points" and "libinput Accel Custom Scroll Points" For details on what these mean, please see the man page and the libinput documentation: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/ latest/pointer-acceleration.html In addition, the "libinput Accel Profiles Available" and "libinput Accel Profile Enabled" properties have been expanded to 3 values. For backwards compatibility, the "libinput Accel Profile Enabled" continues to support setting 2 values only. Alan Coopersmith (2): gitlab CI: enable commit & merge request checks gitlab CI: enable gitlab's builtin static analysis Hong Xu (1): Better explain HorizontalScrolling. Peter Hutterer (7): Drop HAVE_CONFIG_H, we always have it defined man: replace the various suffixes with their actual numbers man: use @VERSION@ for the driver version Add meson build system configure.ac: inputproto 2.4 is optional Add support for custom pointer acceleration xf86-input-libinput 1.3.0 Shin-myoung-serp (1): Correct the coordinate transform parameters for an absolute pointer Yinon Burgansky (1): Add support for the scroll movement type of the custom acceleration profile git tag: xf86-input-libinput-1.3.0 o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Gajim_1.7.3_–_Gajim⠀⇛ Gajim 1.7.3 enables you to mute notifications for specific contacts and brings some improvements and bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions! o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Detach_Child_Pop-up_windows_from Parent_in_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ In Ubuntu, Fedora and other Linux with GNOME desktop, you may found that many applications have child dialogues attached to parent windows. # ⚓ Real Linux User ☛ How_to_easily_run_multiple_Linux distributions_on_one_computer_with_Boxes⠀⇛ I’ve been writing regularly for years now about one of my favorite topics, Linux. # ⚓ What_is_the_difference_between_‘git_pull’_and_‘git fetch’?⠀⇛ Out of many different Git commands ‘Git Pull‘ and ‘Git Fetch‘ allow users to update their local repository with changes made in a remote repository. Although they are relative, however, work differently. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Percona_XtraDB_Cluster_on Debian_11⠀⇛ Percona XtraDB Cluster is a fully open-source database clustering solution for MySQL. It allows you to create a robust, high-availability MySQL server deployment that provides high performance. # ⚓ How_to_install_Erlang_on_Amazon_Linux_2_–_AWS_EC2?⠀⇛ Erlang which is also known as Erlang/OTP, or Open Telecom Platform (OTP) is a programming language with similar syntax to other functional languages such as Haskell and Lisp. It is designed to build scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. At Ericsson Telecom in Sweden, it was created by Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, and Mike Williams around 37 years ago, which makes it quite trustable. That’s why Erlang has been used to build many high-profile systems, including the telephony infrastructure of Ericsson, WhatsApp, and RabbitMQ, among others. # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_install_PHP_8.2_with_Apache_on_Debian_11 Linux⠀⇛ Debian 11 is an excellent server OS to run the LAMP stack. PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely- used open source general-purpose scripting language especially suited for web development. However, Debian 11 comes with PHP version 7.4. Here is how to install PHP 8.2 with Apache server on Debian 11 using the CLI or over ssh based session. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Copying_all_files_and_folders_to_another directory_in_Linux⠀⇛ We’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of copying all files from one directory to another using the cp command. We’ll also provide examples to help you understand how to use the command in different scenarios. By the end of this guide, you’ll have a good understanding of how to copy files in Linux using the cp command. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ 15_Practical_Examples_of_Linux_bc_Command⠀⇛ In Linux, the bc command is a versatile tool that can be used to perform complex mathematical calculations, automate tasks, and write scripts. The bc command supports a wide range of functions, operators, and variables that allow you to perform calculations with great precision and flexibility. In this article, we will discuss 15 practical examples [...] # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ bc_Command_in_Linux_With_Examples⠀⇛ In Linux, the bc command is a powerful tool for performing mathematical calculations. The bc command can be used in scripts or on the command line to perform calculations, set variables, and even write scripts. In this article, we will discuss the bc command in Linux and provide practical examples to illustrate its use. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Checkmk_on_Rocky_Linux_9_/_Alma Linux_9⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to install checkmk on Rocky Linux 9 / Alma Linux 9. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_FileZilla_on_Linux_Mint_21/ 20⠀⇛ FileZilla is an incredibly powerful and user- friendly File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client that allows users to transfer files between a local computer and a remote server. With its cross- platform compatibility, FileZilla supports Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, making it a preferred choice for webmasters, developers, and casual users alike. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Python_3.11_on_Linux_Mint 21/20⠀⇛ Python 3.11 is one of the latest iterations of the popular programming language and brings many improvements and changes to enhance the overall coding experience. Building upon the solid foundation of Python 3.10, this new version introduces several enhancements that streamline development, boost performance, and refine syntax. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VidCutter_on_Linux_Mint_21/ 20⠀⇛ As a Linux Mint user, you might seek efficient, user-friendly video editing software that caters to your needs. Look no further because VidCutter is here to save the day! This robust, open-source video editor offers many features and is perfect for novice and experienced users. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VLC_Media_Player_on_Linux Mint_21/20⠀⇛ VLC Media Player is a versatile and powerful multimedia player renowned for its ability to play virtually any media file format without the need for additional codecs. Developed by the VideoLAN organization, VLC is free, open-source software compatible with multiple platforms, including Linux Mint. # ⚓ Linux_Network_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ Using Linux network commands, you can manage and troubleshoot network connections, interfaces, routing tables, and other networking-related functions. Command Description arp This command is used to display and manipulate the kernel’s ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) cache. ifconfig This command is used to display and configure network interfaces on the system. # ⚓ User_Management_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ Linux user management commands create, modify, and delete user accounts and groups. Similarly, these commands are used to manage user account properties such as login shells, primary groups, and passwords. User management commands help system administrators control access to resources and manage user permissions on Linux systems to ensure security and accessibility. # ⚓ Linux_System_Information_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ A Linux operating system provides system information commands that provide information about various elements of the system, such as hardware, software, and configuration. A variety of information can be obtained from these commands, including kernel version, distribution name, distribution version, processor type, memory usage, networking configuration, and running processes. # ⚓ Text_Processing_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ Text Processing Commands are a set of built-in commands that are used to manipulate text. These commands allow users to quickly and efficiently search, modify, and extract data from text files. # ⚓ File_Management_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ In Linux, file management commands are used to manage files and directories. Those who regularly work with the Linux operating system, whether they are users, system administrators, or developers, will find these commands invaluable. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_OTRS_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OTRS on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Node.js_on_Fedora_37⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Node.js on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, Node.js is a powerful and flexible runtime environment for building scalable, efficient, and high-performance network applications. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_NTP_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install NTP on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, NTP is a client-server-based protocol that is used to synchronize the time between different devices on a network. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GTK_4.11.1⠀⇛ Here is the first GTK snapshot of the new development cycle. A lot of things fell into place recently, so it is worth taking some time to go through the details of what is new, and what you can expect to see in 4.12. The family of GtkListView, GtkColumnView and GtkGridView widgets was one of the big additions in GTK 4. They are meant to replace GtkTreeView, but up until now, this was clearly still a bit aspirational. In GTK 4.10, we’ve finally taken the big step to port GtkFileChooser away from tree views—a sign that list views are ready for prime time. And the next GTK 4 release will bring a number of missing features… * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Linux_Lite_6.4_Gets_Lighter_With_More_Features like_WebP_Image_Support⠀⇛ Linux Lite is known for its lightweight and Windows-like layout that provides users with a familiar operating system experience. The last major release, Linux Lite 6.2 saw the inclusion of various user interface tweaks/bug fixes, and now another release is here that also has various improvements on offer. Let me take you through the Linux Lite 6.4 release. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ SUSECON_Call_for_Papers,_and_the great_content_that_it_generates!⠀⇛ Today is the day! The eagerly awaited SUSECON Call for Papers is open! o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Computing UK ☛ Apple_and_IBM_join_Big_Tech_layoffs⠀⇛ Both Apple and IBM have started to remove staff, though at a lower rate than contemporaries like AWS, Microsoft and Meta. Let’s start with Apple. So far the iPhone maker has avoided layoffs, despite growing headcount by tens of thousands over the past five years. Other Big Tech firms have blamed over-recruiting in the pandemic as the main reason for the mass redundancies they are currently enacting. Instead Apple has preferred to cut costs by other means, for example by ending contractor relationships, delaying bonuses and limiting work travel. That’s not to say that the company has completely avoided criticism. After 18 months of threats, Apple told employees to return to the office three days a week back in February, and has since started tracking badge swipes and issuing warnings to employees who fail to do so. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_FMN_Replacement Blog_–_March⠀⇛ It’s been about two months since our last_blog_post was out. The team wants to give everyone an update on our progress and let you know that we are nearly at the finish line! § So where did we leave off? WAAAAAY back in early September 2022, we sent out an email_to_the_community to lay out the reasons for replacing Fedora Messaging Notifications (FMN). At the time of writing the last blog_post, we had deployed our code to the staging environment and were in the process of bug hunting. Some of our feature sets had been finished, like users receiving message notifications via IRC, but most were still in a “in progress” state. We were quietly optimistic about delivering the finished project on time. o § Linux Mint⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Color_Variants_&_Styles_Are_Coming_to_Linux Mint_21.2⠀⇛ Recently, Linux Mint has been focusing on its look and feel more than usual. With Linux Mint 21.1, you get a new default theme and several subtle visual refinements. And it looks like more such changes are in progress for the upcoming Linux Mint 21.2. As usual, a new monthly blog post highlighted some progress planned for the next release. # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Linux_Mint_team_adds_styles_to_Cinnamon_desktop⠀⇛ Work on the Cinnamon desktop is being performed by the Linux Mint team all of the time. This month, it unveiled significant improvements to the themes that users can pick and introduced “styles”. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ESP32-S3_based_1.28-inch_round_touchscreen display_supports_Arduino_programming⠀⇛ Makerfabs ESP32-S3 Round SPI TFT with Touch 1.28′ is a small ESP32-S3 with a 1.28-inch round color touchscreen display, a microSD card, support for USB and battery power, and two’Mabee’ extension connectors. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Raspberry_Pi_RP2040_pHAT_board_comes_with_a 40-pin_GPIO_header⠀⇛ 0xC0FFEE’s RP2040 PHAT is both a Raspberry Pi RP2040 development board and a pHAT for Raspberry Pi and Pi Zero Linux SBCs that exposes the I/Os through the 40-pin GPIO header traditionally found in Raspberry Pi single board computers. The board comes with all features of the Raspberry Pi Pico board including a USB port for power and programming, an SPI flash, and a BOOT button, but also adds a Reset button. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ How_to_take_a_voice_note_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers 2023-04-05_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Magisk_v26.0_adds_Android_14_compatibility,_while dropping_legacy_device_support⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Nokia_T21_tablet_review:_Can_build_quality and_two_Android_upgrades_save_aging�hardware?_|_Technology News,The_Indian_Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ 5_best_weather_apps_for_Android_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Using_Android_Auto_Wirelessly:_5_Reasons_to Choose_the_AAWireless_Dongle⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_open-world_games_on_Android_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Top_10_cost-effective_Android_mobile_phones_in all_price_categories⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Primebook_4G_Android_Laptop_Review_| Affordable,_with_OS_tradeoffs_–_The_Hindu⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Sweet_new_deal_makes_Google’s_old_but_not outdated_Pixel_5_a_must-buy_for_Android_purists_– PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Samsung’s_April_2023_security_patch_is live_for_the_Galaxy_Z_Fold_4_and_Flip_4_in_the_US⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Accessing_Android_apps_from_your_phone_to_your Galaxy_Chromebook_will_soon_be_possible_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Use_Google’s_Nearby_Share_to_Share Files_Between_Android_and_Windows⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Open_source_community_analysis_with_actionable insights⠀⇛ Organizations are increasingly adopting open source software development models and open source aspects of organizational culture. As a result, interest in how open source communities succeed is reaching an all-time high. Until recent years, measuring the success of open source communities was haphazard and anecdotal. Ask someone what makes one community more successful than another, and you will likely get observations such as, “The software is great, so the community is too,” or “The people in this community just mesh well.” The problem with these evaluations is not that they are necessarily wrong, but that they don’t provide information that others can use to reproduce successful results. What works for one community is not necessarily going to work for another. Research universities, businesses, and other organizations interested in determining what makes open source projects successful have begun to collaborate on finding ways to measure aspects of community in a qualitative and data-driven way. One of the more prominent efforts is CHAOSS, a Linux Foundation project focused on creating metrics, metrics models, and software to better understand open source community health on a global scale. Unhealthy projects hurt both their communities and the organizations relying on those projects, so identifying measures of robustness isn’t just an interesting project. It’s critical to the open source ecosystem. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Mullvad_VPN_and_Tor_Project_Unite_to_Create_a New_Browser_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛ Mullvad x Tor Project collaborates on building a new web browser with its VPN integration! # ⚓ CNET ☛ New_Privacy-Focused_Browser_Aims_to_Protect_Your Data_Online⠀⇛ The Tor Project and Mullvad VPN, two organizations that are all about user privacy, released a new privacy-focused web browser, called Mullvad Browser, on Monday. The browser is free to download and works on Windows, MacOS and Linux. There’s also a Firefox extension in beta you can download. “The mass surveillance of today is absurd,” Jan Jonsson, Mullvad VPN’s CEO, said in a news release. “The Mullvad Browser is all about providing more privacy alternatives to reach as many people as possible and make life harder for those who collect data from you.” o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Funny_Programming_Pictures_Part_XXVIII⠀⇛ Because, sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand pull requests. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 7_Best_Open_Source_Free_React_Landing_Page Templates⠀⇛ What is a landing page? A landing page is a specialized web page designed to create a strong first impression and encourage visitors to take a specific action. It’s not just another page on a website, but a standalone page crafted in response to a marketing campaign or offer. Landing # ⚓ Medevel ☛ EverShop_Is_an_Open-source_React_eCommerce Platform⠀⇛ EverShop is an eCommerce platform based on GraphQL and React that includes essential commerce features. It is built with React, is modular, and fully customizable. The platform is easy to install, set up, and customize. # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Maintenance_release:_Godot_4.0.2⠀⇛ As the work on Godot 4.1 continues, more fixes and enhancements become available to existing 4.0 users as patch releases. Meet Godot 4.0.2, addressing more of your reports, including several regressions from 4.0.1, and improving platform support for Android, macOS, and Windows! # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Delete_File_If_Exists⠀⇛ To remove a file only if it exists, use the remove() method and the unlink() methods. However, you need to wrap these methods in try-except statements. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_for_Python:_the_new_6.5_version_is_out!⠀⇛ You may have seen the many cool things that Qt 6.5 includes, so now we want to talk about everything being developed by the Qt for Python team. # ⚓ Built In ☛ Top_10_Python_GUI_Frameworks_for Developers_|_Built_In⠀⇛ Graphical user interface, or GUI, as it’s more commonly known, is one of the three main cornerstones of any application, along with security and performance. Maintaining the right balance between these three vital aspects can help you ensure an intuitive and seamless user experience. We can’t stress enough how important it is to have a user interface that’s minimalistic and, at the same time, robust. Gone are the days when developers would lose their minds creating the perfect user interface in the absence of powerful tools like frameworks. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ France24 ☛ Switzerland_to_host_women’s_Euro_2025_football tournament⠀⇛ Switzerland will host the 2025 Women’s European Championship, European soccer’s governing body UEFA said on Tuesday. o ⚓ Antipope ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Crib_Sheet:_Escape_from_Yokai Land⠀⇛ o ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Italian_government_seeks_to_penalize_the use_of_English_words⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Kind_Of_A_Jesus_Christ_Thing⠀⇛ As you may have heard, some big mob boss got arraigned today in New York for the first 34 of his bounteous crimes, sins, grifts and unholy transgressions, and as Biden likes to say, it’s a big fucking deal. It seems law enforcement offered to do it quietly, but the mobster wanted it splashy. So it will be, with “law enforcement zoo,” snipers, perp walk, shrieking zealots. Says one poor cop burdened with it, “It’ll be a shitshow.” Update: It was. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Letters_From_the_April_17/24,_2023,_Issue⠀⇛ The subheading to Joan Walsh’s article declares “ecstasy and community return on Bruce Springsteen’s 2023 tour” [“Our Lost Years,” March 6/13]. If that’s the case, it must be a community of the wealthy and privileged. I once had the pleasure of meeting Bruce Springsteen at a campaign stop in Columbus for John Kerry, but I cannot afford seats for his current tour. In Tampa, tickets went for $199 for the “cheap seats,” other tickets selling for $299 and soaring with “dynamic pricing” to as much as $5,000. Part of the problem is Ticketmaster’s monopoly. But performers like The Cure have found ways to respect their fans and keep ticket prices more affordable. Springsteen could certainly afford to do the same.Mary Jo Kilroy columbus, ohio2 o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Facing_Compounding_Crises,_Syria_Requires_Long- Term_Investments⠀⇛ Nothing could have prepared us for what we sawin the wake of the Türkiye-Syria earthquake. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Supercon_2022:_Chris_Combs_Reveals_His_Art-World Compatibility_Layer⠀⇛ [Chris Combs] is a full time artist who loves using technology to create unique art projects and has been building blinky artwork since about a decade now. In his 2022 Supercon talk “Art-World Compatibility Layer: How to Hang and Sell Your Blinky Goodness as Art” (Slides, PDF), [Chris] takes us behind the scenes and shows us how to turn our blinky doodads in to coveted art works. There is a big difference between a project that just works, and a work of art, and it’s the attention to small details that differentiates the two. o ⚓ EFF ☛ Podcast_Episode:_Losing_Until_We_Win:_Realistic_Revolution in_Science_Fiction⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Xiaomi_Scooter_Firmware_Hacking_Gets_Hands-On⠀⇛ Scooter hacking is wonderful – you get to create a better scooter from a pre-made scooter platform, and sometimes you can do that purely through firmware modifications. Typically, hackers have been uploading firmware using Bluetooth OTA methods, and at some point, we’ve seen the always- popular Xiaomi scooters starting to get locked down. Today, we see [Daljeet Nandha] from [RoboCoffee] continue the research of the new Xiaomi scooter realities, where he finds that SWD flashing is way more of a viable avenue that we might’ve expected. # ⚓ [Repeat, expanded] CNX Software ☛ Videostrong_HC1_Home_Care Hub_for_the_elderly_serves_as_Smart_Speaker,_Smart_Home gateway,_video_phone⠀⇛ Videostrong HC1 Home Care Hub is a Smart Home/IoT gateway designed for the elderly that also serves as a smart speaker with 10-meter far-field voice recognition, a video phone with a video built-in camera and speaker, and a 4K Android TV box. # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ RISC-V_In_The_Datacenter_Is_No_Risky Proposition⠀⇛ It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Legato_Logic_is_building_a_chip_for battery-powered_sensing⠀⇛ It’s clear there is huge demand for low- power, smarter sensors at the edge, and Legato Logic has a chip that it thinks can do just that using less than a milliwatt of power. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ New_Expansion_Module_Brings_Standard_Slots_To Ancient_Laptop⠀⇛ Upgrading and repairing vintage laptops is often a challenge — even if their basic hardware is compatible with ordinary PCs, they often use nonstandard components and connectors due to space constraints. The Sharp PC-4600 series from the late 1980s is a case in point: although it comes with standard serial and parallel ports, the only other external interface is a mysterious connector labelled EXPBUS on the back of the case. [Steven George] has been diving into the details of this port and managed to design a module to turn it into a pair of standard ISA ports. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Strikes_Back_at_Micron_Technology Even_as_It_Signals_Openness⠀⇛ Beijing’s security review of Micron Technology, which has deep roots in China, could have wide- ranging ramifications for other foreign businesses. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Silkscreen_Busy?_Put_Labels_Inside_Pads⠀⇛ When making a PCB informative and self-documenting, there’s often just not enough space to silkscreen all the labels you want, and slowly but surely, you collect a set of tricks: using different through- hole pad shapes to denote ground or power pins, standardized pinouts for connectors, your own signal name shortening notations, and so on. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Upgrade_Your_Voodoo_With_More_Memory⠀⇛ In 1996, the 3Dfx VooDoo VGA chipset changed computer graphics forever. Because of the high cost of memory, most of the boards had only 4 MB of memory — which seemed a lot back then. However, the chipset could actually handle up to 8 MB. [Bits and Bolts] couldn’t stand that his board only had 4 MB, so he did what any good hacker would do: he figured out how to add the missing memory! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Reshoring_Vacuum_Tube_Manufacturing,_One_Tube_At A_Time⠀⇛ For most of us, vacuum tubes haven’t appeared in any of our schematics or BOMs in — well, ever. Once mass-manufacturing made reliable transistors cheap enough for hobbyists, vacuum tubes became pretty passe, and it wasn’t long before the once mighty US tube industry was decimated, leaving the few remaining tube enthusiasts to ferret out caches of old stock, or even seek new tubes from overseas manufacturers. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printed_Post_Modern_Grandfather_Clock⠀⇛ Projects can often spiral, not down or up, but out. For [Derek] he started playing around with a 3D- printed escapement mechanism and thought it was a wonderful bit of engineering. But with a simple drum and weight, it only had a runtime of a few minutes. What started as a simple “can I make it run longer” spiraled into a full-blown beautiful grandfather clock. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Johnson_&_Johnson_Reaches_Deal_for_$8.9 Billion_Talc_Settlement⠀⇛ The company faces a flood of lawsuits claiming its talc products caused cancer. The proposed settlement requires approval by a bankruptcy court, but has the backing of plaintiffs’ lawyers. # ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Sleep,_exercise_and_heart_health: The_impacts_of_coffee,_according_to_a_new_study⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Scientist ☛ Self-Charging_Battery_Battles_Tumors_in Mice⠀⇛ A battery that charges itself in salty fluids starves tumors of oxygen, helping improve some drugs treat cancer, a study finds. # ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Chinese_cities_are_so_broke, they’re_cutting_medical_benefits_for_seniors⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_CNN_reached_out_to_fentanyl chemical_manufacturers_in_China._See_what_they_said⠀⇛ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Police_Union_Director_Indicted_For_Importing_And Distributing_Cop-Killing_Fentanyl⠀⇛ Nothing kills cops like fentanyl. I mean, I don’t think it’s actually killed any cops yet, but any cop in the general vicinity of it acts like they’re dying and heads off the ER, surrounded by enablers, cop shop PR staff, and journalists willing to act as stenographers. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘People_Are_Going_to_Die’:_Florida_Senate Republicans_Pass_Abortion_Ban⠀⇛ “This is a devastating day for our state and freedoms,” said one Democratic Florida state lawmaker. “This six-week abortion ban is deeply unpopular, dangerous, and un-American.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ States_Try_to_Obscure_Execution_Details_as Drugmakers_Hinder_Lethal_Injection⠀⇛ In 2011, Jeffrey Motts was executed in South Carolina. More than a decade later, the state hasn’t carried out another execution because officials have struggled to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injection. Now, to resume executions, lawmakers are debating a bill that would further shroud the state’s lethal injection […] # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Power_Struggle⠀⇛ If you squint at it long enough, the abortion debate can look like an opportunity for conservatives to act like liberals—at least rhetorically. In arguing against abortion rights, conservatives cast themselves as brave advocates for an inconvenient moral truth. By standing up for the “little guy”—that is, the fetus—they claim to take the side of the oppressed. Like the most annoying of liberals, anti-choice conservatives can also treat this “oppressed class” as an ornament for their own self-regard, insisting that in their opposition to abortion rights, they provide “a voice for the voiceless.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘A_Win_for_All_Living_Beings’:_Appeals Court_Tosses_Mountain_Valley_Pipeline_Permit⠀⇛ A U.S. appellate court panel on Monday unanimously struck down a key water permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a nearly completed fracked gas project long opposed by people living along the over-300-mile route through Virginia and West Virginia. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ In_Defense_of_Clip_Art⠀⇛ When I was a child, I spent a lot of my life in Microsoft Word and later in Microsoft Publisher, its desktop publishing equivalent, making everything from menus for fruit stands to faux Crate & Barrel catalogs. My parents bought me Greeting Card Factory software for my birthday. Graphic design, it could be said, was my passion. In each of these projects, I used clip art, the stock imagery that usually came bundled with software or on a dodgy CD-ROM you’d get at Borders called something like “50,000 Best Clip Art Images.” For children such as myself, clip art was the digital equivalent of a sticker book—it was also an incredible way to play pretend, housed in harmless office software isolated from the Internet. It was free—at the point of purchase—meaning it could be used on everything from school flyers to actual menus in actual businesses, “CurlzMT” typeface and all. If you are older than 25, you probably remember clip art’s mix of vague abstraction (e.g., gestural line figures in oversize ’90s suits holding briefcases) and goofy cartoonishness. These aesthetics remain indelible parts of early digital kitsch, along with GeoCities (itself populated with clip art) or WordArt. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Hackers_Can_Remotely_Open_Smart_Garage Doors_Across_the_World⠀⇛ A security researcher found a series of vulnerabilities with the Nexx brand of smart garage openers. He says he could remotely find garages to target, and then open them across the internet. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Developers_Are_Connecting_Multiple_AI Agents_to_Make_More_‘Autonomous’_AI⠀⇛ They hope to create an agent that can do a number of tasks on its own, such as developing a website, creating a newsletter, and writing on a Google doc. # ⚓ Business Today ☛ ‘Rollercoaster_of_emotions,’_says Microsoft_employee_fired_after_25_years_of_service⠀⇛ The year 2023 started off on a sombre note for many tech professionals as several major companies, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Salesforce, announced mass layoffs in an effort to cut costs. This wave of job cuts has left thousands of techies around the world without employment, and social media platforms are filled with stories of people sharing their layoff experiences. # ⚓ Mercury News ☛ Tech_companies_plan_hundreds_more_Bay_Area job_cuts_as_layoffs_worsen⠀⇛ Roku, Lucid and Microsoft have revealed plans for fresh Bay Area job cuts, together adding hundreds of workers to the region’s worsening layoffs. # ⚓ Google ☛ Stable_Channel_Update_for_Desktop⠀⇛ The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 112 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 112.0.5615.49 (Linux and Mac), 112.0.5615.49/50( Windows) contains a number of fixes and improvements — a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 112. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Zimbra_Flaw_Exploited_by_Russia_Against NATO_Countries_Added_to_CISA_‘Must_Patch’_List⠀⇛ CISA has added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog a Zimbra vulnerability exploited in attacks targeting NATO countries # ⚓ Gray Dot Media Group ☛ WiFi_Flaws_Allow_Network_Traffic Interception_on_Linux,_iOS,_and_Android⠀⇛ The WiFi flaw discovered by researchers from Northeastern University and KU Leuven can impact a wide range of operating systems, including Linux, iOS, and Android, leaving them vulnerable to potential interception of network traffic if exploited by hackers. Wireless networking stacks found in a wide range of operating systems were left vulnerable due to an ambiguity in the WiFi specification, explained academics from Northeastern University and KU Leuven in a paper (PDF) titled “Framing Frames: Bypassing WiFi Encryption by Manipulating Transmit Queues.” The ambiguity can allow exposure of network traffic if exploited by threat actors. # ⚓ SANS ☛ Analyzing_the_efile.com_Malware_“efail”,_(Tue,_Apr 4th)⠀⇛ Yesterday, I wrote about efile.com serving malicious ake “Browser Updates” to some of its users. This morning, efile.com finally removed the malicious code from its site. The attacker reacted a bit faster and removed some of the additional malware. But luckily, I was able to retrieve some of the malware last evening before it was removed. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Notorious_Genesis_Market_cybercrime forum_seized_in_international_law_enforcement_operation⠀⇛ The FBI led “Operation Cookie Monster” to shutter the site linked to millions of instances of fraud and cybercrime globally. # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ North_Korea_Hacking_Cryptocurrency_Sites with_3CX_Exploit⠀⇛ News: Researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky today revealed that they identified a small number of cryptocurrency-focused firms as at least some of the victims of the 3CX software supply-chain attack that’s unfolded over the past week. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ 3CX_Supply_Chain_Attack:_North_Korean Hackers_Likely_Targeted_Cryptocurrency_Firms⠀⇛ 3CX supply chain attack appears to have been conducted by North Korean hackers with the goal of targeting cryptocurrency firms. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ NATO_Seeks_Contractors_to_Test_Security_of Web_Assets⠀⇛ NATO is looking for penetration testing vendors to assess the security of its internet-facing web assets. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Self-Propagating,_Fast-Encrypting ‘Rorschach’_Ransomware_Emerges⠀⇛ The sophisticated, self-propagating Rorschach ransomware is one of the fastest at encrypting victim’s files. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ CardinalOps_Extends_MITRE_ATT&CK- based_Detection_Posture_Management⠀⇛ Tel Aviv- and Boston-based CardinalOps has extended its detection posture management capability with MITRE ATT&CK Security Layers. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ IRS_Wants_to_Buy_Internet_Mass Monitoring_Tool⠀⇛ The U.S. military and FBI have previously bought access to netflow data from a company called Team Cymru. Now the IRS wants to buy products from the company too. # ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Broad,_Vague_RESTRICT_Act_is_a_Dangerous Substitute_for_Comprehensive_Data_Privacy_Legislation⠀⇛ We’ve explained our opposition to the RESTRICT Act and urged everyone who agrees to take action against it. But we’ve also been asked to address some of the concerns raised by others. We do that here in this post. At its core, RESTRICT would exempt certain information services from the federal statute, known as the Berman Amendments, which protects the free flow of information in and out of the United States and supports the fundamental freedom of expression and human rights concerns. RESTRICT would give more power to the executive branch and remove many of the commonsense restrictions that exist under the Foreign Intelligence Services Act (FISA) and the aforementioned Berman Amendments.  But S. 686 also would do a lot more.  # ⚓ EFF ☛ Smart_locks_endanger_tenants’_privacy_and should_be_regulated⠀⇛ Smart locks come in many forms. At the most basic level, they are physical locks that can be opened with a nontraditional key like a smartphone or fingerprint. Most significantly from a privacy perspective, they allow the lock company (and sometimes landlords) to collect data each time you or any of your guests unlock your physical door. To do this, the locks themselves may be connected to the internet, or they can rely on an app you must install on your phone (the key) to transmit the data to the lock company’s servers. Depending on the model, the lock might also record other data—like an image of the person trying to unlock the door. Smart locks have become increasingly popular in recent years, specifically with landlords. For example, in 2019, tenants in New York City forced a settlement after a landlord attempted to require tenants to use smart locks. The settlement required an option for physical keys. The smart lock at issue in that case was made by a company called Latch. While Latch was not named in the lawsuit, the company changed its privacy policy to remove reference to marketing and collection of other location data. Its software is reportedly in more than 125,000 dwelling units or commercial spaces. Many other companies make smart locks as well. They are part of the growth of smart home devices. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_RESTRICT_Act_Restricts_More_Than TikTok⠀⇛ Supporters of expanding the federal police state have found a new bogeyman to scare the people into surrendering their liberty: TikTok. TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to upload their own videos. It is used by tens of millions of Americans and is one of the most popular websites in the world. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Enough_is_Enough._Tell_Congress_to_Ban_Federal Use_of_Face_Recognition⠀⇛ Now, Congress must do its part. We’ve created a campaign that will easily allow you to contact your elected federal officials and tell them to support the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Britain’s_data_watchdog_fines TikTok_$15.9_million_for_alleged_misuse_of_children’s data⠀⇛ The Information Commissioner’s Office estimated that the app allowed up to 1.4 million UK children under 13 use the platform in 2020. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ TikTok’s_Trials_and_Tribulations Continue_With_UK_Data_Protection_Fine⠀⇛ The UK’s data protection regulator fined TikTok £12.7 million for “failing to use children’s personal data lawfully” # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Twitter’s_recommendation_algorithm opens_platform_to_manipulation,_bot_attacks,_researcher finds⠀⇛ Twitter’s source code apparently revealed how it’s possible to game the company’s software to reduce access to specific accounts. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ The_complex_math_of counterfactuals_could_help_Spotify_pick_your_next favorite_song [Ed: This is all about surveillance, mind reading, brain policing etc. Don't fall for it. Don't be subjected to this.]⠀⇛ A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures for the first time the complex math behind counterfactual analysis, a precise technique that can be used to identify the causes of past events and predict the effects of future ones. # ⚓ How_to_Connect_a_Smart_Plug_to_Alexa_and_Set_a_Timer and_Power_Schedule [Ed: Surveillance in every socket]⠀⇛ Not all of your home devices are smart, and you might not want to replace them either. This is where a Wi-Fi enabled smart plug comes in handy as you just need to plug it in and connect to a mobile app. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ An_Architect’s_Dream_of_Rebuilding_a_Battered City_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Max Rozenfeld has spent much of the war imagining how the destruction of Kharkiv presents opportunities for reinventing its future. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Western_News_Media_Downplay_Ukraine_War_Crimes⠀⇛ In late March, the United Nations issued a new report on war crimes being committed by both Russian and Ukrainian forces. The document provides a shocking litany of brutal behavior on the part of both militaries, although the investigators concluded that Russian units have committed the majority of offenses. # ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel_Pocock:_Thyon,_Switzerland:_ED531 Lancaster_Australian_ANZAC_casualties,_80th_anniversary⠀⇛ The most significant loss of Australian lives in Switzerland was the crash of Lancaster ED531 at Thyon in Canton Valais. The 80th anniversary of the crash is in June 2023. Various web sites have appeared with reasons for the crash. Some suggest the aircraft collided with high-tension wires. The power poles are visible in the photos. Some web sites suggest the aircraft was shot at. Witness reports explain that the aircraft had discharged its bombs in an unpopulated area before colliding with the mountain: this would have been a normal course of action after being shot at but also after a mechanical failure. The photos show the aircraft was largely intact when it crashed. It may have been shot at but that does not prove why it crashed. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia’s_Wagner_Group_is_a_feature_not_a bug_of_the_Putin_regime⠀⇛ Russian private paramilitaries like the Wagner Group are a symptom of the institutionalized corruption at the heart of Putin’s regime and not just another instrument in Russia’s hybrid warfare toolbox, writes Allen Maggard. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Plugging_the_gap_in_critical technologies⠀⇛ ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue is already on its way to becoming the world’s premier policy summit on critical, emerging, cyber and space technologies. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ How_to_keep_Western_tech_out_of_Russian weapons⠀⇛ The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center convened a panel of experts for a virtual event in March to discuss how to prevent the use of Western technologies in Russian weapons, reports Aleksander Cwalina. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Putting_Australia_at_the_centre_of_global technology_advancement⠀⇛ Australia’s deputy prime minister and defence minister, Richard Marles, opened ASPI’s Sydney Dialogue with a warning that Australia must establish a much stronger technological base. An edited version of his speech follows. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Why_Zelensky_Will_NOT_Take_Back_Crimea⠀⇛ Seventeen months ago the US State Department officially declared the US will “NEVER” recognize Crimea as part of Russia. Three months ago Ukrainian President Zelensky vowed to “take back” Crimea. Is this possible? In June 2016 I visited Crimea with a delegation from the Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI). # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ AUKUS_has_a_people_problem⠀⇛ Unless Australia can develop its skilled workforce, it will struggle to acquire the advanced defence capabilities outlined in the AUKUS agreement. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ How_to_close_the_gap_between_Turkey_and Sweden_on_NATO_enlargement⠀⇛ Turkey is not yet ready to greenlight Sweden’s NATO accession but significant progress has been made. Here’s a possible outline of a compromise. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_warns_of_‘further_damage’_to Sino-US_relations_ahead_of_Tsai-McCarthy_Wednesday_meeting⠀⇛ An upcoming meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will “further damage” relations between Beijing and Washington, China warned Monday. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Roaming_Charges:_Spare the_AR-15,_Spoil_the_Child⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Voices_From_the_Mass Graves⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_The_F-16_is_Still_a Great_Plane._USAF_Pilots_are_Another_Story⠀⇛ # ⚓ What’s_Behind_the_New_Calls_to_Invade_Mexico⠀⇛ Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t exactly famous for her restraint, but on March 15 she posted a tweet that was berserk even by her standards. The tweet showed a photograph of an onion-shaped ball of duct tape, which Greene claimed was an “explosive found by Border Patrol Agents.” This homemade bomb, Greene argued, justified a military response.1 # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belarus_KGB_claims_having_foiled_terrorist_attack on_Russian_consulate,_arrests_2_suspects_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Belarus KGB claims having averted a terrorist attack on the Russian consulate in Grodno, a Belarusian city near the Polish and Lithuanian borders. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Daria_Trepova_remanded_in_jail,_charged_with terrorism,_while_National_Republican_Army_takes_credit_for Tatarsky_assassination_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A district court in Moscow has granted the prosecution’s motion to remand Daria Trepova, arrested after the blast that killed the pro- Kremlin war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky on Sunday. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Ukraine_and_Hungary_must_closely_work together_–_Hungarian_State_Secretary_of_Foreign_Ministry after_visit_to_Kyiv⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Local SE ☛ World_leaders_urge_Turkey_and_Hungary_to_let Sweden_join_Nato⠀⇛ Leaders from the US, the UK and Germany celebrated Finland officially joining the Nato alliance on Tuesday, while urging holdouts Turkey and Hungary to accept Sweden into the alliance. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ DeSantis_on_the_War_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ “A territorial dispute,” he said. Attacks on him for that became widespread. Assuming that he’d rather not provoke, Perhaps he’d better stick to bashing “woke.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ In_a_World_On_Fire,_What_Do_We_Owe_Each Other?⠀⇛ March 2023 marked 12 years since the beginning of the war in Syria. The exact death toll is unknown because the violence won’t stop long enough to count the dead, but reliable sources estimate that at least half a million people have died and 6.7 million more have fled their homes. March 2023 was also the first anniversary of Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has led to some 200,000 casualties. In the same month, the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo deteriorated, as armed groups intensified attacks against civilians. In Mexico, at least 38 people died in a detention center for refugees and migrants, most of whom were fleeing the crisis in Venezuela. In the Mediterranean, more than 100 people died while trying to navigate cruel border policies to seek refuge in Europe. # ⚓ France24 ☛ France_to_try_senior_Assad_allies_for_crimes against_humanity_in_Syria⠀⇛ French judges have ordered senior officials of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria to stand trial for collusion in crimes against humanity, a first in France, according to court documents seen by AFP Tuesday. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_The_Endless_Wars:_2003- 2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Israeli_air_strike_on_Damascus_kills_two civilians,_Syrian_state_media_reports⠀⇛ Two Syrian civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike Tuesday, state media reported, the fourth such attack on government-held areas of the war- torn country in less than a week. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_penitentiary_regulator_moves_to_require 48-hour_notice_of_community_prison_inspectors_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Human rights advocates in Russia believe that a new policy floated by Russia’s federal penal system regulator FSIN will be “the beginning of the end” of human rights advocacy in Russian prisons. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ When_I_left_Kyiv,_I_thought_I_would_never dance_again⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_latest_from_Arte_Weekly:_While_Europe debates_arms_shipments_to_Ukraine,_Russian_soldiers_plead with_Putin,_requesting_more_equipment⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_the_Owner_of_an_AR-15_Sees_in_Every Single_Place_He_Goes⠀⇛ To the would-be tactician, all of life is an opportunity to imagine military-style maneuvers. # ⚓ France24 ☛ France_tries_alleged_PKK_figures_accused_of extortion,_terror_financing⠀⇛ France was on Tuesday set to try 11 alleged senior members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), accused of extortion, terrorist financing and propaganda for the organisation. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Finland’s_NATO_membership_reinforces_Baltic_security, says_Lithuanian_president⠀⇛ Finland’s formal accession to NATO reinforces the security of the Baltic Sea region and the entire Eastern flank of the alliance, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has said. # ⚓ LRT ☛ ‘Warsaw_will_melt,_and_Vilnius_will_drown’_–_what’s behind_Putin_and_Lukashenko’s_nuclear_plans?⠀⇛ Just a few weeks ago, Vladimir Putin praised the non-sharing of nuclear weapons during his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Now, he is promising to deploy them in Belarus. According to experts, the move is aimed at pressuring the West and the US, but the power of Russia’s scare tactics is waning. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Charges_Woman_With_Terrorism_Over_Cafe Bombing_That_Killed_War_Blogger⠀⇛ Russia’s Investigative Committee has formally charged Darya Trepova for terrorism offenses for her alleged role in the assassination of a prominent Russian war blogger at a St. Petersburg cafe. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Afghan_Taliban_Raid_Kills_Six_Members_Of_Islamic State_Group⠀⇛ An overnight raid by Taliban forces in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh Province killed six members of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group, a Taliban spokesman said on April 4. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Finland_becomes_NATO_member_as_Russia warns_of_countermeasures⠀⇛ Finland officially became the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, after completing ratification in well under a year – the fastest membership process in the alliance’s recent history. As Western allies strengthen ties, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published on Tuesday that Russia may get “tough” with a hostile European Union. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Finland_Joins_NATO,_Russia_Warns_Of Countermeasures⠀⇛ Finland formally joined the NATO military alliance on April 4 in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, drawing a threat from Moscow of “countermeasures.” # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Will_Finland’s_political_turn_mean_a course_change_on_NATO_too?⠀⇛ Finland is joining NATO just as its center-left government lost a general election. Here’s what to expect with the center-right National Coalition Party in charge. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Finland_joins_NATO_in_historic_shift_prompted_by Ukraine_war⠀⇛ Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, in a historic strategic shift provoked by Moscow’s war on Ukraine, which doubles the US-led alliance’s border with Russia. # ⚓ France24 ☛ St_Petersburg_café_killing_exposes_Russia’s security_woes⠀⇛ Moscow has blamed Ukrainian security services and supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for the killing of a prominent Russian ultranationalist blogger in a St Petersburg café. Kyiv and Navalny’s supporters have denied the allegations. But the attack on a figure with close links to the Wagner Group has underscored blowback threats from the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Ukraine_unveils_plan_for_recaptured_Crimea_–_but West_‘reluctant’_to_help⠀⇛ Ukraine unveiled on Sunday a 12-point plan outlining how it would reintegrate Crimea back into the country if it regained the territory militarily. Kyiv has repeatedly said that seizing the peninsula back from Russia is one of its key war aims. But Washington is tacitly sceptical. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Thaci_Voices_‘Regrets_And_Pain’_For_Kosovo_War Victims_At_Hague_Trial⠀⇛ The former president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, has expressed “regret and pain” for all those who lost their lives during the war in Kosovo in the late 1990s. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lawsuit_Seeks_Records_Of_Toxic_Exposures_At_Uzbek Air_Base⠀⇛ Veterans advocacy groups sued the U.S. Department of Defense on April 3 seeking records of toxic conditions at an air base in Uzbekistan blamed for causing cancer and other illnesses among U.S. troops who served there in support of the war in Afghanistan. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Baku_Summons_Iranian_Ambassador_Over_Protest_Note Related_To_Alleged_Anti-Iranian_Media_Reports⠀⇛ Baku has summoned Iran’s ambassador in objection to a note of protest alleging that media in Azerbaijan were disseminating anti-Iranian reports. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Saving_Lives_From_Landmines_‘Cannot_Wait,’ Says_UN⠀⇛ United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called for far-reaching global action to rid the world of landmines and other lethal remnants of war that endanger civilians for generations on end and impede socioeconomic development. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Appeals_Court_Reverses_Murder_Conviction_Of_Cop Who_Killed_Suicidal_Man_11_Seconds_After_Entering_His_House⠀⇛ Huntsville, Alabama police officer William Darby was the only officer on the scene who felt a suicidal man needed to be murdered. And he was the last to arrive, uninvited, to a scene apparently under control, handled by two other officers who were doing an admirable job de-escalating the situation. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_carries_out_overnight_drone_attack_on_Odesa —_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian forces carried out a drone attack on Odesa and the wider Odesa region early Tuesday morning, according to local authorities and the Ukrainian military. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kadyrov_says_opponents_of_new_Moscow_mosque_should ‘go_to_the_trenches_with_machine_guns’_if_they_really_care about_‘protecting_Russian_land’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In a Telegram post on Tuesday, Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov referred to ongoing protests against the construction of a new mosque in Moscow as a “provocation.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Artyom_Uss,_wanted_in_the_U.S.,_arrives_in_Russia after_escaping_house_arrest_near_Milan_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Artyom (Artem) Uss, the son of Krasnoyarsk Governor Alexander Uss, is in Russia after having fled from under house arrest near Milan, RIA Novosti reports. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_consider_the_president_a_war_criminal’_An escaped_Federal_Guard_communications_officer_speaks_about Putin’s_obsession_with_secrecy_and_self-preservation_— Meduza⠀⇛ Gleb Karakulov has the rank of captain in the Russian Federal Protective Service, also called the Federal Guard or “FSO.” His identity has been verified by the investigative team of the Mikhail Khodorkovsky-founded Dossier Center, whose journalist Ilya Rozhdestvensky interviewed Karakulov after his defection to Turkey. While in the Federal Guard, Karakulov worked as an engineer in the Presidential Communications department. His duties included ensuring the secrecy of Putin’s communications. Last October, the officer escaped to Istanbul, together with his wife and daughter, taking advantage of a work-related trip to the Kazakh capital Astana, where Putin had to make an appearance. According to Dossier, Karakulov is the highest-ranking secret service officer to escape from Russia and condemn the war with Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. The Russian authorities are now prosecuting him for desertion, as reflected in the federal records that helped verify the facts of his story. Meduza is summarizing what Karakulov said in his interview with Rozhdestvensky. The full version is available from Dossier. # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_urges_Iran_to_back_political_solution_in Yemen_conflict⠀⇛ The United States called Tuesday on its longtime adversary Iran to help end Yemen’s conflict by backing a peace process, one year after a truce dramatically reduced fighting. # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_air_strike_in_Syria_kills_IS_group_chief responsible_for_planning_attacks_in_Europe⠀⇛ The US military said Tuesday it had carried out a strike in Syria killing a senior Islamic State group official responsible for planning attacks in Europe. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Allows_$1.2_Billion_Sakhalin-2_Payment_To Shell⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin has given his consent to transfer 94.8 billion rubles ($1.21 billion) to Shell for its stake in the Far East Sakhalin-2 gas project. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Planet_Will_Warm_Past_1.5°C._What_Now?⠀⇛ The 1.5°C temperature target is difficult to honestly and openly discuss. Within the climate movement, it has become a locus of anguish, confusion, and even despair. Long a symbol of mobilization and hope, 1.5° has become central to both activist campaigns and scientific analysis. Yet it’s now clear that the planet will almost certainly warm more than 1.5°C. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Completely_Contradictory’:_OECD_Slammed for_Labeling_Fossil-Based_Technologies_‘Climate-Friendly’⠀⇛ The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has agreed in principle on a new list of purportedly “green or climate-friendly” projects that are set to benefit from more favorable financial terms for export support after years of closed-door negotiations. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Unconscionable’:_Hochul_Backs_Proposal_to Gut_New_York’s_Landmark_Climate_Law⠀⇛ Climate action groups and scientists are denouncing an effort by New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to gut the state’s signature emissions reduction law—one of the most ambitious in the United States—as the governor’s office claims the move is aimed at saving money for consumers and attempts to disguise it as a technical accounting change. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ How_the_Biden_Administration_Can_Help Accelerate_Latin_America’s_Green_Transition⠀⇛ Gustavo Petro doesn’t just want to transform his own country; he wants to change the world. The new leader of Colombia, who took office last August, is targeting what he calls his nation’s “economy of death.” That means pivoting away from oil, natural gas, coal, and narcotics toward more sustainable economic activities. Given that oil and coal make up half his country’s exports — and Colombia is the world’s leading cocaine producer — that’s not going to be easy. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Making_Sense_of_the_Latest_IPCC_Report⠀⇛ The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), a UN agency with climatologists from over 70 counties included) has just come out with a new report about climate change. The news is not good. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Documents_Reveal_Oil_Giant_Shell_Knew_About Climate_Impacts_Even_Earlier⠀⇛ “Despite internal awareness, the company systematically downplayed the problem to the public, instead promoting more and more fossil fuel use despite the dangers,” said one expert. “Now, five decades later, Shell continues to dawdle and delay.” # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Carbon_offsets_stampede:_Australian polluters_are_spending_big_in_Indonesia⠀⇛ Debate over Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism has raged like a fire through a Sumatran peat forest. One of the most controversial aspects of the program is the use of carbon offsets, which some of our biggest companies are now buying in Indonesia. Zacharias Szumer reports. Following credible claims that the Australian carbon offset system is riddled with errors, many are sceptical about the whole concept of offsets. Such scepticism was no doubt bolstered by a recent Four Corner’s episode, which cast doubt on carbon offset projects in Papua New Guinea. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Corporations_Are_Recruiting_High_School Students_to_Help_Fuel_the_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ In October 2022, student activists at Harvard, MIT, and Brown pulled out the stops to challenge Big Oil, demanding during an Exxon recruitment event that the administrations divest from fossil fuels. “We showed up, we started to chant, and we did not allow them to give their presentation,” said Phoebe Barr, an organizer of the disruption. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ H2 View ☛ Japan_to_increase_its_hydrogen_ambitions⠀⇛ Japan has today (April 4) announced ambitions to increase its annual hydrogen supply to 12 million tonnes in 2040 from its current two million tonnes. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ We_Must_Ask:_Does_Fossil_Fuel Divestment_Work?⠀⇛ “After a decade of action, we are making a difference in the fight against climate change,”proclaims DivestInvest, the global divestment network. Dozens of leading climate organizations from 350.org to the World Council of Churches have enlisted as core partners or endorsers of DivestInvest. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Gas_prices_set_to_fall_from_May⠀⇛ The Latvijas Gāze (Latvian Gas, LG) company will announce the prices of its universal natural gas service in the next few days for households, which will be effective from May, but has already suggested that the price of natural gas will be some 20-40% lower than at present. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Stork_couple_settles_in_livestreamed_nest⠀⇛ A stork couple has settled in the camera- equipped nest on top of the electricity distribution network Sadales tīkls (ST) power support pole. On March 28 one of the birds had settled in the nest, but on the evening of March 31,  the other joined, ST said. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Feast_or_famine:_getting_ready for_the_snowbird_exodus⠀⇛ As the end of snowbirds’ high season draws near in many of Mexico’s expat enclaves, we- who-stay prepare for the time ahead without them. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Five_ways_the_World_Bank_can_redefine its_role_in_the_global_economy⠀⇛ With a new president on the horizon and an appetite for reform in the US and beyond, the World Bank is ready for change. It can start by focusing on these five policy priorities. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Cuba_Wins_Lawsuit_Against_Vulture_Fund_In_London High_Court⠀⇛ High Court Judge Cockerill ruled that such a fund has no legal standing to sue Cuba over the unpaid loans. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Agricultural_prices_were_up_by_a_third_in_2022⠀⇛ Data compiled by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSB) and published April 4 show that in 2022, compared to 2021, the price index of agricultural output rose by 33.9 %, mainly due to an increase of 41.7 % in the price index of animal products and of 29.3 % in price index of crop products. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ ‘Hungary_is_ready_for_the_renegotiation of_the_double_taxation_treaty,_but_Washington_isn’t’_– Szijjártó⠀⇛ # ⚓ Robert_Maxwell_Goes_to_Texas:_The_Story_of_Bluebonnet,_Part 1⠀⇛ As he tried to build a New York business empire, Robert Maxwell attempted to capitalize on the American savings and loans crisis, calling upon a dense web of arms dealers, money launderers, serious financial criminals and intelligence agents. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Globalisation_isn’t_over⠀⇛ Late last year, Morris Chang, the legendary founder of Taiwan’s (and the world’s) leading semiconductor producer, proclaimed: ‘Globalisation is almost dead.’ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Revolution_Against_Shady_Landlords_Has Begun⠀⇛ In New York, the real estate industry and the politicians in its pocket both reign supreme. These tenants have a plan to change that forever. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Into_the_Void:_cemeteries_operator losing_money_and_executives,_hides_damning_report⠀⇛ The new Minister for Land and Property, Steve Kamper, will soon have to deal with the mess of Sydney’s cemetery sector bequeathed by the former NSW government. The cemetery operator is in disarray, with a damning report looming over the heads of its executives. Callum Foote reports. Sydney’s public cemeteries are running out of space with no plans to purchase more land and hundreds of millions of dollars in maintenance liabilities yet unaccounted for. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Want_to_Turn_the_Pitiless_March_of Gentrification_Into_a_Parable_of_Progress?⠀⇛ An article in the March 3 edition of The New York Times caught my eye as an illustration of what Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields describe as “racecraft”—the alchemy that vests the fiction of race with an apparent natural existence—and how it can obscure the class character of a political program through racial mystification.1 # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_slows_reviews_of_mergers involving_US_companies:_WSJ⠀⇛ The move is seen as a response to Washington’s curbs on China’s tech industry. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_calls_on_Japan_to_correct_chip export_restrictions⠀⇛ Japan said last week it would restrict exports of 23 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Between_‘reset’_and_‘de-risk’,_EU leaders_Macron,_von_der_Leyen_pay_rare_visit_to_China⠀⇛ > For France’s Macron, the trip offers a chance for some economic wins. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Democracies_can_be_best_protected_by_de- risking,_not_decoupling⠀⇛ All our countries have long benefited from open economies. We trade freely, exchange ideas and innovate across borders. But as we’re all aware, the geopolitical climate is rapidly changing. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_faces_delicate_Ukraine_balancing_act during_China_visit⠀⇛ French President Emmanuel Macron will visit China from Wednesday, hoping to dissuade Beijing from supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but without alienating a crucial trade and geopolitical player. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Richard_Branson’s_satellite-launch_company Virgin_Orbit_files_for_bankruptcy⠀⇛ Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday after the satellite launch company failed to secure the long- term funding needed to help it recover from a January rocket failure. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Former_Aide_to_Maryland_Ex-Governor_Dies After_Shooting_Involving_F.B.I.⠀⇛ Roy McGrath, who was chief of staff to former Gov. Larry Hogan, was wanted by the F.B.I. for three weeks after he did not appear for a federal fraud trial in March. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Lying_About_Lying: Lessons_From_Boris_Johnson⠀⇛ # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Lying_about_Lying:_Why_We_Must_Revisit the_Definition_of_‘Fake_News’⠀⇛ The US-western-centric idea of fake news, waged by Republicans against Democrats and vice-versa, betrays a much larger, more ominous threat. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Adams_Orders_New_Round_of_Budget_Cuts_That Could_Erode_City_Services⠀⇛ The Police Department, schools and CUNY won’t be spared in latest round of New York City budget reductions. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Case_for_Banning_Children_from_Social Media⠀⇛ Most people seem to agree that something should be done to protect kids from what sure looks like an addictive product. But almost no one knows what that something is. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Surrogacy_Emerges_as_the_Wedge_Issue_for Italy’s_Hard_Right⠀⇛ Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ordered municipalities to stop certifying foreign birth certificates for same-sex couples who used surrogacy, leaving some babies in a legal limbo. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Truth_Social_Traffic_Has_Surged_Since Trump’s_Indictment⠀⇛ The former president has used Truth Social to respond to news about the indictment. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Going_Viral_on_TikTok_Can_Get_Students_an A_in_These_College_Classes⠀⇛ A marketing professor gave his students a challenge: If they made a video that got a million views, the final exam would be canceled. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Probe_proposes_bribery_charges_for_54_tied_to_Vietnam repatriation_scheme⠀⇛ Firms allegedly paid to get on a list of rescue flight providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Top_GOP_Leaders_Block_Title_Lending Reform_in_Georgia⠀⇛ In February, Georgia lawmaker Josh Bonner introduced a bill that he hoped would fix a thorny problem that entangles tens of thousands of state residents in debt each year. The Republican state representative from Fayetteville, a southern Atlanta exurb, aimed to close a loophole used by title lenders, who offer short-term cash to customers in exchange for a lien on their car title. The industry can currently charge triple-digit annual interest, more than three times what state law allows other financial companies. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Reflections_on_The_New_Anarchy_and_the_Real Danger_of_MAGA_Republicans⠀⇛ The cover story of the April issue of The Atlantic is a riveting essay by executive editor Adrienne LaFrance entitled “The New Anarchy: America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Chants_of_‘Fascists!’_Ring_Out_as_Tennessee GOP_Moves_to_Expel_Dems_Over_Gun_Control_Protest⠀⇛ Tennessee House Republicans on Monday initiated the process of expelling three Democratic lawmakers who joined protesters in demanding stricter gun laws following the Nashville mass shooting that left three young children and three adults dead. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Juan_González_on_Chicago_Mayoral_Race:_Can a_Progressive,_Multiracial_Coalition_Win?⠀⇛ Chicago residents are voting Tuesday in a mayoral runoff election that has been dominated by issues of public safety, with the two leading candidates coming from different ends of the Democratic Party’s political spectrum. Brandon Johnson is an organizer with the Chicago Teachers Union and backed by progressive forces in the city, and Paul Vallas is the former head of Chicago Public Schools who is endorsed by the police union. Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, who lives in Chicago, gives his analysis of the race and why it holds national implications. “It raises the question of ‘Can a progressive, multiracial coalition capture the mayoralty in the nation’s third-largest city, as Harold Washington did so 40 years ago back in 1983?’” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump’s_Indictment_Is_a_Slap_on_the_Wrist,_but Accountability_Has_to_Start_Somewhere⠀⇛ It finally happened: Former president Donald Trump was charged this afternoon with 34 counts of falsifying business records by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In a spectacle that played out almost entirely behind closed doors, but was still carried on television news like Trump was flying to the moon to be arraigned by Xenomorphs, Trump surrendered voluntarily at a downtown Manhattan courthouse, was arrested and booked, pleaded not guilty, and then went back to Mar-a- Lago on his own recognizance. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump’s_a_Major_Issue_in_the_Chicago_Mayoral Race⠀⇛ Tuesday is going to be an all-Trump, all-the-time day. The American media won’t be able to get enough of the story of the former president’s arrival in New York and his arrest and arraignment on charges stemming from hush-money payments and other alleged crimes during his 2016 campaign. But Tuesday is also an election day that will see voters decide a critical Supreme Court contest in Wisconsin and choose a new mayor of Chicago, the nation’s third- largest and frequently most politically contentious city. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Wisconsin’s_High-Stakes_Supreme_Court Race:_What_to_Watch⠀⇛ The election for a swing seat on the court is likely to determine whether abortion remains illegal in Wisconsin, as well as the future of the state’s heavily gerrymandered political maps. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Defendant-1_Charged_with_34_Counts_of Document_Falsification_to_Hide_2016_Crimes⠀⇛ Among the 34 charges is a conspiracy count that will sweep in a great deal of damning evidence.  # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Trump_Edition:_What_Is_And_What_Shall_Never Be⠀⇛ Anybody who thinks this is all cut and dried as Bragg makes it is a dope. To what extent we shall see. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Three_Things:_Colonialist_Carrotage⠀⇛ “What the heck is colonialist about carrots?” one might ask. An awful lot in the U.S. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Orange_Becomes_Him⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Tinpot_Legislators⠀⇛ Their One-Party Rule Will Be Ruinous for the Earth. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ German_Leftist_Lawmaker_Says_US_Soldiers_and Nukes_Must_Leave_Her_Country⠀⇛ On the floor of Germany’s parliament, Left Party MP Sevim Dağdelen called for the c. 38,000 US soldiers in her country to leave, and to take their nuclear weapons with them. She lamented that Washington “doesn’t actually want allies, just loyal vassals”. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Migrant_Deaths_in_Mexico_Put_Spotlight_on_US Policy_That_Shifted_Immigration_Enforcement South⠀⇛ The United States is a big part of that “extensive use” on both sides of the border. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ What_Israel’s_Crisis_Reveals_About_Its Democratic_Compromises⠀⇛ Amid widespread protests, the Prime Minister has halted a package of illiberal reforms. What are the roots of his effort—and of its rejection? # ⚓ France24 ☛ Palestinian_Authority’s_Abbas_has_‘cut_down’ every_potential_successor⠀⇛ Palestinian human rights lawyer and former diplomat Ghaith al-Omari, a prominent advocate of the two- state solution and negotiations with Israel, gave FRANCE 24 a lengthy interview on a recent visit to Paris. In this second of a two-part series, he lamented the Palestinian Authority’s stagnation under longstanding President Mahmoud Abbas. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Merged_BBC_News_TV_channel_begins operation:_What_has_changed_and_why?⠀⇛ UK-focused stories such as the sentencing of Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s killer will still be broadcast. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Music_title_Rock_Sound_saved_by_Gabriel Jagger’s_Whynow⠀⇛ All of Rock Sound’s former editorial employees were let go in January. The post Music_title_Rock_Sound_saved_by_Gabriel Jagger’s_Whynow appeared first on Press_Gazette. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ FT_takes_majority_stake_in_biopharma_B2B site_Endpoints_News [Ed: FT takes bribes from EPO and other wealthy crime syndicates (white collar). Now they control another "asset" in "media" clothing, pushing the agenda of the patent cartel associated with drugs.]⠀⇛ Endpoints News and FT have “strong alignment” in their mission and reader revenues focus. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Breaking_down_Trump’s ‘Soros’_attack_on_the_Manhattan_DA⠀⇛ # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Europeans_looking_to_doom_us_by_giving_Big Tech_power_to_determine_what’s_disinformation⠀⇛ The worst situation to be in is where you know that what you have is not ideal but you have no idea what would be ideal. We find ourselves in this predicament in way too many facets of life for my liking. We end up sounding like serial murmurers because of it. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_book_publishers_seek_to_circumvent_LGBT ‘propaganda’_ban_by_selling_books_in_other_CIS_countries_— Meduza⠀⇛ In the months since Moscow passed a law banning LGBTQ+ “propaganda,” some Russian publishing companies have begun looking for ways to access book markets in other CIS countries, Kommersant reported on Tuesday, citing industry sources. # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Stanford_president_renews_commitment_to academic_freedom_amid_law_school_controversy⠀⇛ After law students disrupted a federal judge’s speech on campus, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne underscored Stanford’s commitment to academic freedom in an email marking the first day of spring quarter. # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ From_the_Graduate_Student_Council:_We_need_a union⠀⇛ “We need an organization,” writes the Graduate Student Council, “that will endure beyond any student government’s tenure and has institutional memory of past negotiations with University leaders.” # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ How_the_first_moving_picture_originated_from a_Stanford_controversy⠀⇛ The technician and “father of the motion picture,” Eadweard Muybridge, was a photographer and alleged murderer. “Exposing Muybridge,” a 2021 documentary, unveils how Muybridge’s moving picture originated from a fickle relationship with Leland Stanford, writes Alexandra Blum. # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Statement_on_recurring internet_shutdowns_in_West_Bengal_and_Bihar_in_response_to communal_violence⠀⇛ IFF is alarmed that the governments of West Bengal and Bihar are deploying internet shutdowns as a response to recent instances of communal clashes and violence, including by impermissible means such as under Section 144 of the CrPC. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ Reporters_Without_Borders_denied access_to_visit_Julian_Assange_in_Belmarsh_prison⠀⇛ Earlier today Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF’s) Secretary-General Christophe Deloire and Director of Operations and Campaigns Rebecca Vincent arrived to visit Julian Assange inside Belmarsh prison but were denied access at the last minute.RSF’s representatives had been granted permission to visit Assange before the four-year anniversary of his imprisonment in Belmarsh, where he has been held since 11 April 2019.Christophe Deloire, RSF Secretary-General, said: “We are deeply disappointed by the arbitrary decision of the Belmarsh Prison Governor to prevent us from visiting Julian Assange, despite following all relevant prison procedures and rules. Julian Assange has the right to receive visitors in prison, and we are legitimate to visit him as a press freedom NGO. We call for an urgent reversal of this decision and to be allowed visitation access without further delay.”Rebecca Vincent, RSF Director of Operations, said: “This is the latest in a long series of ludicrous obstacles that we have faced over the past three years in campaigning for the release of Julian Assange. At every level, British authorities have defaulted to secrecy and exclusion rather than allowing normal engagement around this case – from refusing to accept RSF petitions, to making it nearly impossible to access court, and now this. What do they have to hide? Regardless, we continue our campaign to #FreeAssange.“ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Belmarsh_Warden_Blocks_Assange_From_Meeting With_Representatives_Of_Press_Freedom_Organization⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ We_demand_the_immediate_release_of_our_colleague Evan_Gershkovich_A_letter_from_independent_Russian journalists_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On March 30, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the arrest of our colleague Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen and a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Russian security forces claim he was engaged in espionage, and the Kremlin insists that he was “caught red-handed.” We, independent Russian journalists and representatives of civil society, do not believe these accusations and consider them unfounded. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Should_Have_Read_Evan_Gershkovich, Not_Imprisoned_Him⠀⇛ The Wall Street Journal reporter should be released immediately. # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Evan_Gershkovich_and_the_Perils_of Journalism_Post_Assange_Persecution⠀⇛ Russia should release Evan Gershkovich; if as part of a prisoner swap it should be speedily concluded. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Petitioners_call_for_ban_on_domestic_abuse victim-blaming_in_Editors’_Code⠀⇛ Level Up say there should be a clause on domestic abuse stories as there is for suicide reporting. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ How_automation_is_becoming_‘intelligent friend’_in_UK_local_media_newsrooms⠀⇛ With automated journalism beginning to make its mark in UK newsrooms, new research looks at how local journalists perceive and use the technology. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ UMich_requests_injunction_against_GEO, decision_delayed_until_evidentiary_hearing⠀⇛ < The University of Michigan announced Friday that it would be taking legal action against the Graduate Employees’ Organization by filing a complaint with Washtenaw County Circuit Court and seeking a preliminary injunction. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Lashes_Out_At_China_For_Support_Of_Russia_In Ukraine_War⠀⇛ EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell lashed out at China on April 4 for its support of Russia amid the invasion of Ukraine and called it “a blatant violation” of Beijing’s UN commitments. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran,_Taliban_Discuss_Release_Of_Iranian_Nationals From_Afghan_Prisons⠀⇛ The Taliban government is compiling a list of Iranian nationals imprisoned in Afghanistan for possible release following Tehran’s recent handover of hundreds of Afghan prisoners. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Rights_Groups_Call_For_‘Immediate’_Release_Of_Tajik Lawyer_Kholiknazarov⠀⇛ A group of seven international rights organizations have called on Dushanbe to immediately and unconditionally release lawyer Manuchehr Kholiqnazarov, who is serving 16 years in prison related to his human rights activities in Tajikistan. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Two_Florida_Democratic_Leaders_Arrested While_Protesting_Florida_Abortion_Ban⠀⇛ Two Florida Democratic leaders were among the protesters arrested late Monday during a demonstration against a proposed six-week abortion ban, which the Republican-controlled state Senate passed hours earlier. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Big_News_for_Democracy_Today_Will_Be_in Wisconsin—Not_New_York⠀⇛ One of the biggest challenges to the future of American democracy is unfolding today, but not in Manhattan. It’s occurring in Wisconsin. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_404_Awards:_Honoring_The_Worst_Of_The_Worst Tech_Policy_Ideas⠀⇛ Today is April 4th, or 04/04 no matter which direction you use for showing dates (and, look, while it’s ingrained in my head, I think we can all admit that the US version of month/day/year is kinda weird.). # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Mass_deportations_from_Croatia_and_Hungary: Organisations_complain_of_human_rights_violations⠀⇛ More than 130,000 people were deported from Hungary to neighbouring Serbia without an asylum application being registered. Now Croatia is returning refugees on a large scale to Bosnia and Herzegovina. # ⚓ France24 ☛ How_Marseille’s_‘cagole’_parties_are_providing_a safe_space_for_women⠀⇛ For the past year in the southern French city of Marseille, the monthly ‘Cagole Nomade Party’ has been providing women with a place to enjoy a night of music and dancing without fear of harassment, with attendees asked to sign a ‘wall of consent’ promising to follow the rules upon arrival. The event also seeks to reclaim the word ‘cagole’, a regional and normally pejorative term for a coarse or provocative woman. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Maria_Lvova-Belova:_Alexey_Moskalev’s_daughter Masha_to_be_placed_in_foster_care_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Social workers are looking to place Masha Moskaleva with a foster family, due to the criminal prosecution of her father Alexey Moskalev, arrested last week in Belarus after fleeing house arrest. Russia’s Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova told the media about several foster families now being considered for Masha, during a Tuesday press-conference. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ UPC_Registrar_cannot_advise_on_opt-out_requirements [Ed: UPC is illegal. They know it's illegal. This is a ticking time bomb for the EU.]⠀⇛ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential_No._11:_TTAB_Reverses_Six “Goods_In_Trade”_Refusals_for_NY_Times_Non-Syndicated Column_Titles⠀⇛ In six consolidated appeals, the Board reversed refusals to register the marks THE NEW OLD AGE, GOOD APPETITE, HUNGRY CITY, WORK FRIEND, LIKE A BOSS, and OFF THE SHELF for “columns” on the subjects of business, office, money, careers, and worklife balance, rejecting the USPTO’s position that each mark identifies only “individual portions of [A]pplicant’s publications” and does not identify “separate goods in trade.” The Board concluded that, in light of changes in the marketplace for the delivery of news, a new test is required for the registrability of non-syndicated columns or sections in printed publications or recorded media, and under that new test the columns qualified as good in trade. In_re_The_New_York_Times_Company, Serial Nos. 90106071, 90112154, 90112577, 90115155, 90115491, and 90115337 (March 30, 2023) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Angela Lykos). # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_the_Senate_Should_Restore_the User_Content_Amendment_and_Send_Bill_C-11_Back_to_the House_of_Commons⠀⇛ Bill C-11 took a major step forward late last week as the government cut_off_debate_yet again and forced a vote on an amended bill that rejected the Senate’s fix to concerns about user content regulation. The vote has sparked heated debates on social media, including mistaken insistence by some that the bill does not affect user content (it clearly does) or that it will censor what Canadians can say online (it will not). # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Nkem_E._Osuigwe_—_Open_Culture VOICES,_Season_2_Episode_9⠀⇛ “When the culture of openness is part of society it helps knowledge to grow” is what Nkem says to introduce her perspective on Open Culture. In this episode we learn about how the walls around culture discourage growth and discovery and how opening up knowledge and culture encourages inclusivity and fosters growth. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ CC’s_#BetterSharing_Collection_| April:_The_More_We_Share,_The_More_We_Have⠀⇛ Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For April, we’re excited to showcase “The More We Share, The More We Have (series 1/2)” by Brazilian illustrator and cartoonist, Pietro Soldi. The piece, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, was inspired by a quote from Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, journalist and tech activist: # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_349:_Link_Taxes Are_Bad,_Canada_Edition⠀⇛ Legacy media operations really, really want tech companies that send them traffic to pay them as well. From Rupert Murdoch’s link tax in Australia to the very bad JCPA in America, these requirements are nonsensical and run directly counter to the core functioning of the internet. Currently, one of the biggest pushes for such a law is happening in Canada with the government’s Bill C-18 — and it’s certainly no exception. Nobody has been following C-18 closer than law professor and researcher Michael Geist, and this week he joins us on the podcast to discuss the status of the bill and why, like similar laws around the world, it’s a very bad idea. o § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ # § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BEFILSU_Wordo:_DUOMO⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_chickadee⠀⇛ When I moved in with my him, his daughter was one and a half. Between the daycare and her mom who took her half the time, she wasn’t there much, but I cherished it. Time seemed lighter when she had left her trail of joy in the appartment. # ⚓ Daniel_Janus,_Ted_Nelson,_and_the_Web_of_Documents⠀⇛ A couple of weeks ago I read a blog entry by Daniel Janus on what he calls the web of documents, tracing the idea of a digital document repository from Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project to the current state of the World Wide Web. # § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ how_to_make_a_true_90s_website?⠀⇛ Recenly I got an idea of making a little website for sharing my drawings (im not an artist. yet.), and I wanted it to be like typical Geocities page. I shared the result with my friend. He answered “dude…” with attached screenshot of my code where I used “display: flex” for positioning. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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