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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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ System76_Shows_First_Pics_of_Fully Customized_Linux_Laptop_Prototype⠀⇛ Consumer Linux hardware pioneer System76 is readying its first fully own-designed laptop. Codenamed “Virgo” the firm hopes to move beyond whitebook customizer status, with a range of fully bespoke Linux portables. Teasing this important milestone in the company’s evolution, Founder and CEO of System76, Carl Richell, took to Twitter with some images of prototype parts. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS_Episode_#503:_The_Weekender CIII⠀⇛ It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 100_Awesome_and_Must-Have_TUI_Linux_Apps⠀⇛ This article selects 100 TUI apps that largely reflects software our volunteers use as their daily drivers. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Journal:_Self-hosted_User-friendly_Journaling System_With_Sharing_option⠀⇛ Journal Is A Self-hosted Private Journaling System # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Cowyo:_Wiki_System_For_Minimalists⠀⇛ cowyo is a truly remarkable self-contained wiki server that makes jotting notes an incredibly easy and lightning-fast process. The most impressive feature of cowyo is its unrivaled simplicity, making it a perfect choice for anyone who values an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. But that’s just the beginning. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Boost_Note_Has_Evolved_from_a_Note-taking_App_to a_Powerful_Project_Management_Tool⠀⇛ Boost Note is a document driven project management tool that maximizes remote DevOps team velocity. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Rento:_Is_an_Open-source_Knowledge_Base⠀⇛ Raneto is an open-source Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files to power your Knowledgebase. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.14:_Immutable_Linux_Distros, Gedit_Tweaks,_Color_Styles_in_Linux_Mint_&_More⠀⇛ Ever heard of an immutable Linux system? Learn about them in this edition of FOSS Weekly. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Building_a_Self-Hosted_Microblog⠀⇛ This resulted in my spending more time fiddling with my Micro.blog site, or its related back-end, instead of actually…you know…posting. I decided there had to be a better way, but I had a few requirements for my self-hosted microblog: [...] # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 21_Tar_Command_Examples_in_Linux⠀⇛ The Linux “tar” stands for tape archive, which is used by a large number of Linux/Unix system administrators to deal with tape drive backup in Linux. The tar command in Linux is used to rip a collection of files and directories into a highly compressed archive file commonly called tarball or tar, gzip and bzip in Linux. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Open,_Extract_and_Create_RAR_Files_in Linux⠀⇛ RAR is the most popular tool for creating and extracting compressed archive (.rar) files. When we download an archive file from the web, we required a rar tool to extract them. RAR is available freely under Windows operating systems to handle compressed files, but unfortunately, the rar tool doesn’t pre-installed under Linux systems. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Most_Commonly_Asked_Questions_in_Linux Interviews⠀⇛ If you have already achieved your Linux certification and are looking forward to securing a Linux job, it pays a great deal to prepare for an interview that tests your knowledge of the ins and outs of Linux. In this guide, we present to you some of the most commonly asked questions in Linux interviews and answers. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Migrate_CentOS_7_to_AlmaLinux_8_Using ELevate_Repo⠀⇛ CentOS 7 reaches the end of life on June 30th, 2024 marking the end of the CentOS Project after CentOS 8 was prematurely discontinued back on December 31st in favor of CentOS Stream. Thankfully, you can migrate from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8 or any major Enterprise 8.x RHEL distributions such as Oracle Linux 8, Rocky Linux 8, or CentOS Stream 8 using the Elevate Project.Table of Contents1What is Elevate?Preliminary StepStep 1: Update CentOS 7 SystemStep 2: Install Elevate Repository in CentOS 7Step 3: Install Leapp Utility in CentOS 7Step 4: Migrate CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8Conclusion # ⚓ How_to_Install_AnyDesk_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Need to install AnyDesk on your Ubuntu machine? This guide will walk you through the process step- by-step, making it easy to get up and running. # ⚓ How_to_Create_Proxy_Server⠀⇛ Want to create your own proxy server? This step-by- step guide will show you how to set up a proxy server on your computer or server. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ A_Comprehensive_Guide_to_Transferring_Files_Over SSH⠀⇛ Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol used for secure communication and remote command execution between computers. One of its most common use cases is transferring files securely over a network. # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Jetty_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to explain to you in step-by-step detail how to install Jetty on Ubuntu 22.04 [...] # ⚓ LinuxTuto ☛ How_to_Install_Varnish_with_Nginx_on_AlmaLinux 9⠀⇛ Varnish is a popular open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy [...] # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Pluma_Text_Editor_on_Ubuntu_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Pluma Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Are you looking for a reliable and easy-to-use text editor for your Ubuntu 22.04 system? Look no further than Pluma! Pluma is a … # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Sublime_Merge_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Sublime Merge on Debian 11. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_WildFly_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WildFly on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, WildFly is a flexible, lightweight, and open-source application server that is written in Java. # ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Fix_“Mount_Point_Does_Not_Exist_Error” In_Linux⠀⇛ If you are a Linux user then you might come across this error “mount point does not exist” when you try to mount your device. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Best_way_to_copy_large_folders_on_Linux⠀⇛ Hello, friends. Today we are going with a post dedicated to Linux newbies and not so newbies. Today, we will tell you the best way to copy large folders on Linux. # ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Install_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Server Edition⠀⇛ This step by step tutorial explains how to create a Ubuntu bootable USB drive and how to install install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server version with screenshots. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Installation_of_Ubuntu_22.04_Server_with_LAMP Stack⠀⇛ Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on April 21, 2022, for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud, and Ubuntu Core with a five years long term support guaranteed… # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Migrate_CentOS_7_to_AlmaLinux_8_Using ELevate_Repo⠀⇛ CentOS 7 reaches the end of life on June 30th, 2024 marking the end of the CentOS Project after CentOS 8 was prematurely discontinued back on December 31st in favor of CentOS Stream. Thankfully, # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ trurl:_Command-line_tool_for_URL_Parsing_and Manipulation_URL⠀⇛ Daniel Stenberg has created a new tool for the open source community that allows for easy parsing and manipulation of URLs. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Activity_&_Contract_Report,_March_2023⠀⇛ Thanks again to all who contribute to Haiku, and especially those donors who make my contract possible! Later this month, I intend to write up a long and technical article about Haiku’s kernel condition variables, which have some interesting properties not found on most other operating systems, and for which I rewrote the implementation between the beta3 and beta4 releases. So, stay tuned for that! o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Red_Hat_at_30:_Success_with_a_Whiff_of_Open Source_and_Linux⠀⇛ Red Hat’s 30th anniversary is a testament to the power of Open Source and the strength of the Linux community. Happy Birthday, Red Hat! # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Council_policy proposal: equalize_“auxiliary”_positions⠀⇛ At our hackfest earlier this year, the Council agreed that we want to drop the distinction between full and auxiliary positions on the Council. Instead, we should have all members on an equal footing. The concerns expressed by some on the former Fedora Board (the predecessor to the Council) haven’t come to pass. But we have seen a negative impact: people in these roles feel less empowered to act, and unsure about their standing as a “real” member of the Council. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Community_Blog monthly_summary:_March_2023⠀⇛ This is the latest in our monthly_series summarizing the past month on the Community Blog. Please leave a comment below to let us know what you think. # ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel_Pocock:_Brno_suicides:_in_defence_of Red_Hat_&_Fedora⠀⇛ In 2022 I was one of the bloggers who analyzed the tragic Debian_Day_Volunteer_Suicide. Shortly after that, people began asking me to publish something about suicides in Brno. In the Debian case, all of us Debian Developers have full access to the debian-private history so we can all verify the authenticity of the messages. I’ve never worked for Red Hat and I’ve never been to Brno so there is no easy way for me to verify an email and publish it on my blog. Furthermore, in the case of Frans Pop, it is hard to deny a connection to Debian because he resigned to_commit_suicide_the_night_before_the_Debian_Day anniversary. Red Hat employs_1180_people_in_Brno, that is a large enough number that if one person did commit suicide it may be completely unrelated to their workplace. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Find_mistakes_in_your_playbooks_with Ansible_Lint⠀⇛ Find mistakes in your playbooks with Ansible Lint # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ IT_hiring:_Why_your_tech_stack matters⠀⇛ The stock market can rise and fall; a pandemic can overtake the globe; overall employment rates can fluctuate wildly – but one thing will stay the same: the demand for tech talent. Over the last decade – and especially in the last few years – the tech sector has shown itself to be curiously invulnerable to wider trends in employment. Unemployment in the sector has hovered at around 2 percent, even with the recent layoffs and much to the frustration of recruiters, who work tirelessly to secure top talent in an ultra- competitive field. Accordingly, the usual perks employers use to lure in high-quality candidates – say, lax remote work policies, employee perks, salary, and benefits – are less effective when it comes to recruiting tech candidates. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Cybersecurity_hiring:_Drive transformation_through_new_talent_pipelines⠀⇛ The evolving technology landscape has spurred business transformation across industries – driving efficiency and unlocking new opportunities for companies to scale and increase impact. But as businesses evolve, potential threats are expanding too. Business leaders must navigate an increasingly complex, ever-changing world of cybersecurity imperatives that require innovative approaches to mitigate these new risks. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Build_the_foundation_for_you_zero_trust_strategy with_Ubuntu_confidential_computing [Ed: Canonical promotes clown computing outsourcing disguised as "privacy" (it's not)]⠀⇛ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Installation_of_Ubuntu_22.04_Server_with_LAMP Stack⠀⇛ Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on April 21, 2022, for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud, and Ubuntu Core with a five years long term support guaranteed on software and updates until April 2032. The scope of this tutorial is to present a classic installation of Ubuntu 22.04 Server made from a CD media or a USB bootable stick and also, a basic installation of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) packages stack with basic configurations.Table of Contents1Download Ubuntu 22.04 ServerStep 1: Installing Ubuntu 22.04 ServerStep 2: Basic Network ConfigurationsStep 3: Install LAMP Stack in Ubuntu 22.04 o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_W_Brings_Retro_Nintendo Controllers_to_Switch⠀⇛ Acting as the bridge between the past and the present, this Raspberry Pi Pico W project uses original Nintendo controllers with its latest console. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $15_Adafruit_Feather_RP2040_with_DVI_Output Port_connects_to_your_HDMI_TV_or_monitor⠀⇛ “Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI Output Port” is another Raspberry Pi RP2040 board with an HDMI port that can output DVI video signal (no audio) to most TVs or monitors with an HDMI input port thanks to the PicoDVI project. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Cardboard_drones_running_open_source flight_software_take_off_in_Ukraine_and_beyond⠀⇛ The Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System (PPDS) costs less than $3,500 apiece, a price made possible by the craft’s use of FOSS and commercial- off-the-shelf hardware. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Guide:_How_to_Install_GCAM_8.8_in_all_Android smartphones⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ YouTube_Music_rolling_out_Library_grid_view_on Android_[U]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Xiaomi_13_Ultra_is_confirmed_for_an_April launch_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Google_releases_Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2.1, brings_improvements_to_your_Pixel’s_modem_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_2.1_Released_to_Update_Pixel_Modems⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 5_best_practices_for_PatternFly,_an_open_source design_system⠀⇛ Have you ever admired the facets of a gemstone? The angles and slants are a thing of beauty. You can see that a multi-faceted gemstone shines brighter than a flat one. You may also see this kind of beauty when analyzing a multi-faceted design system. A design system is a collection of guidelines, standards, and resources for creating consistent and unified user interfaces (UI). Like the facets of a diamond, an open source design system rich with diverse contributions and community engagement ultimately leads to better product experiences. The PatternFly project is an open source design system for Red Hat products. But open source doesn’t end with PatternFly’s code. Behind PatternFly is a team of people who create designs completely in the open. From designers and developers to researchers and writers, we work together to operate as an open source community. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ I_like_how_Gemini_handles_links⠀⇛ I’ve been spending more time on Gemini, and enjoying the experience. It’s not just a lightweight protocol for computers, it’s quick to download and easy to read for us too. You don’t realise just how much we’ve sacrificed on the modern web until you use something that unabashedly usable. # ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Mullvad_Browser⠀⇛ There is a new application available for Sparkers: Mullvad Browser What is Mullvad Browser? The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ credcheck_v1.0_released⠀⇛ § PostgreSQL credcheck extension The credcheck PostgreSQL extension provides general credential checks, which will be evaluated during the user creation, during the password change and user renaming. By using this extension, a set of rules can be defined: # allow a specific set of credentials # reject a certain type of credentials # enforce use of an expiration date with a minimum of day for a password # define a password reuse policy o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Gigabit_Mini_VPN_Router_(TPE-R1400) from_ThinkPenguin,_Inc._now_FSF-certified_to_Respect_Your Freedom ⠀⇛ The Free Software Foundation (FSF) awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Free Software Gigabit Mini VPN Router (TPE-R1400) from ThinkPenguin, Inc. The RYF certification mark means that this product meets the FSF’s standards in regard to users’ freedom, control over the product, and privacy. This is ThinkPenguin’s first device to receive RYF certification in 2023, adding to their vast catalogue of certified devices from previous years. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ 7_Reasons_Why_Laravel_Framework_is_the_Best_for_Your Website⠀⇛ Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web application framework that uses the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern to create web applications. Taylor Otwell created it in 2011, and it has since become one of the most popular PHP frameworks, widely used by developers worldwide. # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ GDC_2023:_Retrospective⠀⇛ We attended the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this year. # ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Are_your_memory-bound_benchmarking_timings normally_distributed?⠀⇛ When optimizing software, we routinely measure the time that takes a given function or task. The typical assumption is that we get a normal distribution, and so we should therefore report the average time. # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppArmadillo 0.12.2.0.0_on_CRAN:_New_Upstream_Minor⠀⇛ Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into production environments. RcppArmadillo integrates this library with the R environment and language–and is widely used by (currently) 1052 other packages on CRAN, downloaded 28.6 million times (per the partial logs from the cloud mirrors of CRAN), and the CSDA_paper (preprint /_vignette) by Conrad and myself has been cited 522 times according to Google Scholar. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael_Ablassmeier:_tracking_changes_between_pypi package_releases⠀⇛ I wondered if there is some tracking for differences between packages published on pypi, something that stores this information in a format similar to debdiff.. I failed to find something on the web, so created a little utility which watches the pypi changelog for new releaes and fetches the new and old version. # ⚓ Python Speed ☛ Polars_for_initial_data_analysis, Polars_for_production⠀⇛ In this article we’ll use both two APIs and see how Polars lets you transition from looking at the data to something we can run even more efficiently in production. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Replace_String_in_File⠀⇛ To replace a string in a file, open the file with open(), read the data with read(), replace the data with replace() and store it back in the file with write(). # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Read_File_Into_String⠀⇛ To read a file into a string in Python, use the read() method, the readlines() method with string concatenation and the read_text() method from Path package. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_UnboundLocalError⠀⇛ UnboundLocalError is caused when a local variable is accessed before the assignment of value. Or due to the confusion between local and global scope. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Generate_a_Random_Boolean_Value⠀⇛ To generate random boolean values in Python, first generate random numeric values and then use the bool() method to convert them into a boolean. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_String_to_a_Dict⠀⇛ To convert a Python String into a Dictionary, use the json.loads() method, the ast.literal_eval() method, or generator expressions. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_String_Escape_Quotes⠀⇛ To use quotes within a string in Python, use a different set of quotes to declare the string and in between a string or use backslash “\” before quotes. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Print_Numpy_Array_with Precision⠀⇛ To print the values of the Numpy Array with specific precision in Python, use the set_printoptions() method and define the precision argument. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Make_a_web-safe_color_guide_with Bash⠀⇛ When computer displays had a limited color palette, web designers often used a set of web-safe colors to create websites. While modern websites displaying on newer devices can display many more colors than the original web-safe color palette, I sometimes like to refer to the web-safe colors when I create web pages. This way I know my pages look good anywhere. You can find web-safe color palettes on the web, but I wanted to have my own copy for easy reference. And you can make one too, using the for loop in Bash. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Andrew Helwer ☛ Inlining_SVGs_for_Dark_Mode⠀⇛ I will here indulge in the traditional practice of using my blog to talk about how I’m using my blog. This page is built with the Hugo static site generator. I recently updated it to use the latest version of the beautifulhugo theme, which unbeknownst to me included a dark mode colorscheme. Recent browsers use the prefers-color-scheme option to automatically choose light or dark mode CSS styles, if the website supports it. And my website did support it, not that I knew it until people started commenting that my syntax-highlighted code blocks were unreadable! I figured out how to toggle light/dark mode in Firefox (ctrl+shift+I to open the inspector pane then click the sun/moon icons), perused my website, and found an even greater problem: my treasured vector diagrams that I put so much time & effort into were completely invisible against a dark background! Here’s a quick post about supporting dark mode on my blog by inlining SVGs and setting their color with the currentColor CSS variable. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ James G ☛ Fun_with_words:_Computer_science_jargon⠀⇛ Earlier this week, I evaluated whether I should create a Fun with Words series on this blog in which I talk about interesting and amusing words and phrases ^1. I was looking through my open tabs in Firefox on my phone and saw an idea for a Fun with Words theme: jargon in computer science comprised of two words that are not usually next to each other. Specific? Yes indeed. Fun? Yes! o ⚓ James G ☛ Writing_moods⠀⇛ At last night’s Homebrew Website Club meetup, I noted that I struggled to find the utility of a digital gardens for myself. Ender ^1 said that digital gardens are a different “mood” for writing. We discussed Maggie Appleton’s ^2 “topography over timelines” principle, and other features that make digital gardens distinct. The “mood” framing made a lot of sense to me. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ JWST_Captures_Details_of_The_Four_Most Distant_Galaxies_Ever_Seen⠀⇛ Only 320 million years after the Big Bang. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ World_First:_Monkeys_Fall_Pregnant_With Engineered_Embryo_Structures⠀⇛ A controversial breakthrough. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Researchers_Studied_a_Circadian_Clock_in Real_Time_in_a_First_For_Science⠀⇛ It’s complicated. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists_Find_‘Mountains’,_Widespread Structures_Near_Earth’s_Core⠀⇛ The core of our planet could be surrounded by the warped remnants of an ancient sunken ocean floor, a new study says. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Medieval_Monks_Could_Have_Unknowingly Recorded_The_Ferocity_of_Volcanic_Activity⠀⇛ “Like blood, then turned into darkness.” # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Snake_Discovered_That_Actually_Does Cartwheels,_And_We_Have_Pics_to_Prove_It⠀⇛ Later, losers! # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Physicists_Simulated_a_Black_Hole_in_The Lab,_And_Then_It_Started_to_Glow⠀⇛ Wait, what? o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ What_can_high_schools_learn_from_their_post- pandemic_upperclassmen?⠀⇛ The resumption of in-person schooling didn’t generate an automatic return to normalcy. What can school systems learn from students nearing the end of their K-12 experience? # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ MSc_–_completed!⠀⇛ I’ve got to say, it has been… an experience. I’ve relentlessly blogged about the process. The academic content was pretty good, but the administration by QA.com was nothing short of atrocious. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ CAN_do_attitude:_How_thieves_steal_cars using_network_bus⠀⇛ It all started when a Toyota RAV4 belonging to one of the tech gurus suffered suspicious damage to the front wing and headlight housing, and was eventually successfully stolen. Some sleuthing and reverse engineering revealed how the motor was finally nicked. # ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ The_hardware_we_need_for_our_cloud_exit_has arrived⠀⇛ It’s been a long time since I last saw a physical piece of hardware used to run our services at 37signals. I vaguely remember doing a tour of our Chicago data center over a decade ago, but somewhere along the line, I just lost interest in the iron itself. Now the interest is back, because hardware is fun again, so let me share my excitement with you! # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Secure_Computing_with_Zymbit’s_D35⠀⇛ In addition, there’s a built-in accelerometer that can be used alongside other tamper prevention methods if you so choose, to detect if the device was picked up, or was subject to shock attacks. There’s an entire API to interact with the physical security features. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Finland_Is_Still_Officially_The_Happiest Place_on_Earth._Here’s_Why⠀⇛ It starts with equality. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Giant_Study_Pinpoints_Specific_Gut_Bacteria Linked_to_Alzheimer’s⠀⇛ We found something. # ⚓ Axios ☛ HIPAA_can’t_keep_up_with_digital_health⠀⇛ Nearly three decades old, HIPAA appears obsolete and riddled with new technology-induced gaps. Why it matters: With regulators unable and politicians unwilling to address the shortcomings of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, private companies are offering a fix. # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Vaccines_aren’t_toxic_but_Facebook_mom groups_are⠀⇛ I’d like to issue a PSA to all of the parents who outlawed “SpongeBob SquarePants” in the late aughts: A yellow cartoon sponge did not awaken the signs of my adolescent ADHD. It was Club Penguin’s Pizzatron 3000, thank you very much. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists_Find_Earliest_Direct_Evidence of_People_Doing_Drugs_in_Europe⠀⇛ 3,000 years ago in a Spanish cave, humans were tripping. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Lithium_in_Drinking_Water_Identified_as Potential_Risk_Factor_For_Autism⠀⇛ The effects could start before birth. # ⚓ PHR ☛ Global_Medical_and_Human_Rights_Groups_Call_on Türkiye_to_End_Persecution_of_Doctors⠀⇛ In a letter issued today, four international medical and human rights organizations call on Turkish authorities to drop the baseless charges against the leadership of the Turkish Medical Association (TMA) at a time when doctors are urgently needed to tend to victims of the 6 February earthquake that have caused over 56,000 deaths in Türkiye… o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ ChatGPT_Is_Pretty_Bad_At_Poetry, According_To_Poets⠀⇛ Poets say rumors of their obsolescence at the hands of AI has been greatly exaggerated. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Amazon_Shut_Down_DPReview._The_Community Is_Saving_It⠀⇛ In response to Amazon’s shuttering of the bedrock digital photography community, developers are taking steps to protect the crowdsourced data and revive the community on brand new websites like DPRevied. # ⚓ ChatGPT_Goes_Haywire:_AI_Chatbot_Falsely_Accuses_Innocent Highly-Respected_Law_Professor_for_Sexually_Harassing Students⠀⇛ Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, was left shocked when he realised ChatGPT named him as part of a research project on legal scholars who sexually harassed someone. o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_to_lead_through_change_with_open leadership⠀⇛ Change is hard. It often brings discomfort, anxiety, and confusion. Even as an Agile enthusiast, I sometimes feel I’m not welcoming change the way I should. Change is often hard because the predecessor of change is chaos. Being in chaos is a natural part of the change process and an integral part of evolution. If chaos is handled poorly, it may result in inefficiencies, stress, demotivation, loss of direction, and poor performance. However, it also presents an opportunity to rethink, reorganize, refresh, reboot, experiment, and invent. Open leadership is critical here. The Open Organization defines open leadership as a mindset and set of behaviors that anyone can learn and practice. Open leaders think and act in service to another person, group, team, or enterprise attempting to accomplish something together. Open leaders acknowledge change, lead it with a generative-lean-agile mindset, and welcome it with intuition, focus, and enthusiasm. # ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Musk_partially_delivers_on_his_Twitter open-source_promise_Premium⠀⇛ At the heart of Twitter’s business model is the recommendation algorithm. It is a set of rules that enables the platform to deliver content based on users’ interests and preferences. It is with the help of this system that advertisers promote their brands. Content flows into a user’s timeline through two channels. One pipeline channels content posted by people that the user follows and the other is filled with posts flowing from accounts that could potentially interest the user. The latter timeline, called ‘For You’, acts as a predictive tool to suggest feeds that a user may be interested in. It helps the micro-blogging site find answers to questions like — what is the probability a user will engage with another user in the future, what communities on Twitter might a user be interested in and what tweets are trending within them. Answers to such questions help the platform recommend relevant content. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Ransomware_gang_releases_new_data_stolen from_the_City_of_Oakland [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The Play ransomware group shared 600 gigabytes of data on its leaks site in its second release, including Oakland Police Department files, council members’ communications and city staff’s medical records. By contrast, the first release of stolen data in March was a more modest 10 gigabytes. The ransomware attack took place on Feb. 8, knocking some of the city’s information technology systems offline. The city declared a state of emergency on Feb. 16 because of ongoing network outages caused by the attack. The attack did not affect 911 services, but certain nonemergency systems were forced offline. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Cisco_Patches_Code_and_Command_Execution Vulnerabilities_in_Several_Products⠀⇛ Cisco has released patches for high-severity vulnerabilities impacting Secure Network Analytics and Identity Services Engine (ISE) products. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Microsoft_leads_effort_to_disrupt illicit_use_of_Cobalt_Strike,_a_dangerous_[cracking]_tool_in the_wrong_hands [Ed: Gross and negligent inversion of narratives; the culprit here is Microsoft, Microsoft isn't the solution]⠀⇛ The action against illicit versions of legitimate Cobalt Strike applications represents the culmination of a year-long investigation. [...] Cobalt Strike, an adversary emulation tool that information security professionals use to evaluate network and system defenses to enable better security, like other legitimate hacking tools, is regularly abused by cybercriminals as part of attacks ranging from financially motived cybercrime to high-end state-aligned attacks. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Thieves_Use_CAN_Injection_Hack_to_Steal Cars⠀⇛ An innocent-looking portable speaker can hide a hacking device that launches CAN injection attacks, which have been used to steal cars. [...] Specifically, the thieves pulled off the bumper and unplugged the headlight cables in an attempt to reach wires connected to an electronic control unit (ECU) responsible for the vehicle’s smart key. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Success_of_Genesis_Market_Takedown_Attempt Called_Into_Question⠀⇛ Law enforcement announced the takedown of Genesis Market, but the impact on the cybercrime marketplace’s infrastructure may be limited. # ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ Several_Distros_Release_Important Advisories_for_Actively_Exploited_Linux_Kernel_Use_After_Free Vuln⠀⇛ Several high-impact security vulnerabilities were recently discovered and fixed in the Linux kernel. These flaws could result in memory exhaustion, system crashes, denial of service (DoS), the exposure of sensitive information, cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, privilege escalation attacks, or the execution of arbitrary code. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ ACLU ☛ Tesla_Camera_Scandal_is_the_Latest_Lesson_in Dangers_of_Letting_Companies_Record_You⠀⇛ Tesla employees passed around videos taken in car owners’ private garages and other interesting recordings captured by the cameras built in to the company’s vehicles, Reuters_reported today. “We could see them doing laundry and really intimate things. We could see their kids,” according to one of nine former employees who told the news agency about the practice. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Wants_Android_Users_to_Have More_Control_Over_Their_Data⠀⇛ Developers of Android applications will be required by Google to allow users to delete their account and data from within the app and online. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Special_Report:_Tesla_workers_shared sensitive_images_recorded_by_customer_cars⠀⇛ Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Smile!_UK_cops_reckon_they’ve ironed_out_gremlins_with_real-time_facial_recog⠀⇛ The report [PDF] from the National Physical Laboratory found that when face-match thresholds in Neoface were set to 0.6 (the default setting), correct identification occurred 89 percent of the time someone walked into a recognition zone. False positive rates, per the report, were just 0.017 percent. # ⚓ India Times ☛ UK_fined_TikTok_nearly_USD_16_million for_misusing_children’s_personal_data⠀⇛ TikTok has been fined almost $16m by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching data protection laws, including misusing children’s data. The regulator estimated that more than one million users, under age 13, used the platform in contradiction of its own rules last year. The fine covers breaches committed between May 2018 and July 2020. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ UK_Government_Fines_TikTok Nearly_$16_Million_‘For_Misusing_Children’s_Data,’_Says the_Platform_‘Should_Have_Done_Better’⠀⇛ The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which bills itself as “the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights,” just recently announced the multimillion- dollar fine against TikTok. Of course, it’s long been known that the highly controversial video-sharing app has a generally young userbase. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ Open_Letter:_Defend_encryption_and_put_human rights_at_the_core_of_cyber-crime_related_policies:_A civil_society_response_to_the_leaked_notes_of_the_EU-US Senior_Officials_Meeting_on_Justice_and_Home_Affairs_on 16_and_17_March [PDF]⠀⇛ The undersigned organisations work to defend human rights in the digital era. We are writing this joint letter as we are deeply concerned with with the disregard for international human rights standards and the planned attacks against encryption in the leaked notes from the EU-US Senior Officials Meeting on Justice and Home Affairs, held in Stockholm on 16 and 17 March. # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Charter_Suggests_Network Authentication_Layer_for_Equipment_Certification⠀⇛ Charter Communications is recommending the Federal Communications Commission require device manufacturers seeking equipment authorization to add a layer of authentication security to protect against cyberthreats. In a letter to the commission on Friday, the telecommunications company suggested the commission require, as a condition of certification, devices pass a security authentication step to connect to the user’s network. When an [Internet]-connected device connects to a network, it can also access sensitive information being shared on it – leaving the door open to malicious activity. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ New_World_Order:_The_International_Criminal Court_and_War_on_Russia⠀⇛ It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Over_1,000_now_face_charges_in_connection_to_Jan._6 riots⠀⇛ In the 27 months since a mob of Trump supporters breached_the_Capitol, more than 1,020 people have been charged in connection to the insurrection and around 533 have pleaded guilty, the Department of Justice said Thursday. # ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._admits_Afghanistan_evacuation_should_have begun_sooner⠀⇛ The U.S. acknowledged its evacuations_from Afghanistan in 2021 should have begun sooner — but largely blamed the Trump administration, according to a newly releasedNational Security Council document outlining key moments. Why it matters:The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021 — a pain_point in Biden’s presidency that’s drawn bipartisan criticism — has also become a growing target_of GOP-led_congressional_investigations. # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Biden_review_of_chaotic_Afghan withdrawal_blames_Trump⠀⇛ It does acknowledge that the evacuations should have started sooner. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ UN_rejects_Taliban_order_barring_women_from working_in_its_ranks⠀⇛ The United Nations has said it will not accept a Taliban order this week that bars women in Afghanistan from working for the U.N. In response, the U.N. said it will be working with Afghan authorities to end the “unparalleled violation.” # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Review_Of_Chaotic_Afghan_Withdrawal_Blames Trump⠀⇛ An interagency review led by the National Security Council of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan largely lays the blame on former President Donald Trump, saying President Joe Biden was “severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor.” # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ How_Putin_saved_NATO⠀⇛ When Finland cleared the last hurdle for NATO membership last week, major Western newspapers buried the story. Yet Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto justly celebrated ‘these historic days’—the end of 75 years of neutrality. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Arab_states_are_normalizing_with_the Assad_regime._This_is_the_Middle_East’s_1936_moment.⠀⇛ Now diplomatic relations are set to be restored between Syria and two behemoths of the Arab League: Egypt and Saudi Arabia, who are the holders of the all-important veto on Assad’s return to regional respectability. # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_promises_resolute_response_after_Tsai-McCarthy meeting⠀⇛ Chinese and US aircraft carriers are sailing near Taiwan as Beijing accuses Washington of ‘crossing the line’. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Forces_Hold_Bakhmut_As_Russian_Strikes_In Kherson_Injure_Civilians⠀⇛ Ukrainian and Russian forces battled on April 6 in the eastern city of Bakhmut, while in the Kherson region Russian strikes injured seven people. # ⚓ LRT ☛ China_cannot_be_peace_mediator_for_Ukraine_– Lithuanian_FM⠀⇛ China cannot act as a peace mediator over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as Beijing’s peace plan would result in the loss of Ukraine’s sovereignty, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has said. # ⚓ India Times ☛ US,_Microsoft_reach_settlement_over_tech firm’s_sanctions_violations⠀⇛ Microsoft has agreed to remit about $3 million to settle its potential civil liability for more than 1,300 apparent sanctions violations in relation to restrictions on Cuba, Iran, Syria and Russia involving the export of services or software from the US to sanctioned jurisdictions, the US Treasury Department said in a statement. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ American Oversight ☛ American_Oversight_Adds_Wake_TSI_to Lawsuit_Against_Fulton_County,_Pa.,_for_Election_Review Records⠀⇛ # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Aimar_Ventsel:_Why_are_the Russians_not_protesting?⠀⇛ That Russia is locked in an existential struggle is evidenced in the coffins coming back from Ukraine and fresh graves in the cemeteries. And those losses are adding to the hatred people have for the West, not the Kremlin. The fact that TV Rain, which now has 15 million viewers in Russia after moving to the Netherlands, changes nothing. Of course, Russian residents are not in favor of the war. They do not like it that they and their country are criticized in the West. They also do not like the fact they can no longer travel to Europe for vacation and studies. That several Western products that people had gotten used to have disappeared is also highly inconvenient, as is the fact that the ballooning cost of living is a problem for most people in Russia. However, none of it matters one little bit. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Scott Feeney ☛ One_day_of_harassment,_intimidation,_and vandalism_from_Monkeybrains_and_Mission_Kids⠀⇛ Unfortunately, our efforts are strongly opposed by two newcomer businesses that feel entitled to park there for free, indefinitely: the private preschool Mission Kids and the ISP Monkeybrains. This Tuesday, their opposition crossed over into personal insults, harassment, intimidation, threats of violence, and the destruction of two of our garden beds—all over the course of three hours from noon to 3pm. These businesses know they have no serious legal argument to any rights to the parcel and that the neighbors don’t support their land grab. They’re desperate to hold onto their free parking, so they’re trying to create a toxic environment for our volunteers and visitors so we give up. # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Scientists_call_for_more_action to_reduce_pharmaceutical_residues_in_water⠀⇛ Estonia has lower amounts of pharmaceutical residues in its waters than other more populous countries. However, scientists say the country should nevertheless develop a strategy to further reduce these levels. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ The_threat_spectrum⠀⇛ Planet A Updates to Australia’s emissions reduction ‘safeguard mechanism’ will limit new gas and coal investments while hard-capping total greenhouse gas emissions. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Electric_scooter_parking_reform begins_in_Helsinki_city_centre⠀⇛ From now on, shared electric scooters and bicycles may only be parked in designated places in the city centre and parts of the inner city. Leaving an electric scooter or bicycle in other places in the area is unequivocally a parking violation. The parking reform will be implemented with regional road signs prohibiting the parking of shared electric scooters and bicycles. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Finnair_to_discontinue_routes_to Turku_and_Tampere⠀⇛ FINNAIR on Wednesday announced its decision to discontinue flights to Turku and Tampere as of 1 May 2023. The Finnish majority state-owned airline revealed that the flights – the shortest in its domestic route network – will be replaced with coach services primarily because of the economic and environmental issues arising from their low passenger load factors, around 35 per cent. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ “Only_in_Australia”:_Glencore greenwash_scraps_coal_mine_for_even_more_toxic_blue hydrogen⠀⇛ Anglo-Swiss coal giant Glencore has confirmed it intends to transform the Wandoan mega coal mine into a feedstock for dirty hydrogen production in the Surat Basin hydrogen project. That means even more pollution than using the fuels directly, Callum Foote reports. Glencore has confirmed it will not pursue what would have been one of Queensland’s largest thermal coal mines and is instead doubling down on what analysts say is an increasingly dubious coal-fired hydrogen and ammonia project. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ IDA ☛ Community_of_Xichong_recognized_as_first International_Dark_Sky_Community_in_China⠀⇛ XICHONG, Shenzhen, China – Xichong, Shenzhen, is now an International Dark Sky Community certified by DarkSky International. Becoming the first International Dark Sky Community in China, this recognition is a milestone for Shenzhen to achieve […] # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Envious_and_Deceived:_8_Billion_and Counting_–_A_Synopsis⠀⇛ On my daughter Abby’s ninth birthday, I promised her “the greatest gift of all: I’m going to teach you ancient Greek. And just wait until you go to college—you’ll have your pick.” By the time she entered her senior year, Abby was singing Homer, while I dreamt of admissions officers hand-springing over her application. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Why_are_animal-to-human_diseases_on_the_rise?⠀⇛ But above all, the expansion of human activities and increased interactions with wildlife increase the risk that viruses capable of infecting humans will “find” their host. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Asian_stocks_slide_as_global_recession worries_weigh⠀⇛ Asian stocks and US equity futures have sunk while bonds and the safe-haven US dollar and Japanese yen were bid as mounting evidence of a US slowdown fuelled worries for a global recession. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Aussies_count_coins_and_avoid_rain with_Easter_at_home⠀⇛ Nearly two-thirds of Australians are staying home this Easter as a combination of cost of living pressures, wet weather and travel warnings scupper holiday plans for the long weekend. # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ What’s_happening_to_the_cost_of_renting?⠀⇛ With demand outstripping supply in the rental market, tenants continue to be hit with high rent # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico_joins_10_countries_in_regional anti-inflation_agreement⠀⇛ The 11 nations agreed to a joint statement addressing increased regional trade and cooperation in an effort to mitigate inflation. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Layoffs_via_Zoom,_once_novel,_will_outlast_the pandemic⠀⇛ Born out of necessity in the pandemic, the once- reviled virtual layoff seems here to stay. Why it matters:Thepractice of firing_people_via Zoom or email is picking up steam alongside an uptick in layoffs — particularly among the professional classes where many folks are still working either fully or partly remotely. =================================================== # “Asking somebody to commute into an office they rarely go to anyway, just to let them know they lost their job in a public setting feels cruel in a way that it never did before,” says Andy Challenger, senior vice president at outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Jobless_claims_aren’t_as_low_as_they_seemed⠀⇛ Pretty much every Thursday morning this year, we’ve had a head-scratching mystery about the number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits being exceptionally_low, amid reports of layoffs and a softer job market. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Dogecoin_Holders_Thank_Elon_Musk_for_the Pump,_Now_Waiting_for_the_Dump⠀⇛ “If he doesn’t say anything, but just removes the logo, will everyone get out at that point?” mused one Dogecoin investor. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Some_German_companies_now_offering_work from_vacation_destinations⠀⇛ New forms of work are only slowly gaining acceptance in Germany. Some 8 percent of German companies offer their employees the opportunity to also work from their vacation destination, finds the latest Randstad ifo Personnel Manager Survey. In some cases, this involves a reduction in working hours. “In the competition for skilled workers, this can be a means of giving employees a better work-life balance,” saysJulia Freuding from the ifo Institute’s Fürth Branch. # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ UPDATE_2-Jes_Staley_attacks_JPMorgan,_demands separate_trial_over_Jeffrey_Epstein⠀⇛ Jes Staley, the former JPMorgan Chase & Co private banking chief and Barclays Plc chief executive, accused JPMorgan of “slanderous” attacks as he seeks to delay a trial in the bank’s lawsuit accusing him of concealing what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein. # ⚓ The_war_for_talent_is_over⠀⇛ For nearly two decades, the battle for talent has shaped how firms around the world are run and governed. With firms deriving value mainly from their human capital, rather than from the physical assets they owned, a talented workforce came to be coveted more than plants or machines. In 2001, the celebrated management consultant Peter Drucker published an article entitled The Next Society, in which he argued that giving more freedom to what he called knowledge workers is essential, as the key battle of this century is the war for talent. And he was almost right. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Sales_of_new_flats_have_slowed_to_a_crawl, reports_YLE⠀⇛ THE NUMBER of tower cranes on the horizon – an indication of how well the economy is doing, according to an old adage – has decreased, reports YLE. Data from Statistics Finland reveal that building contractors began construction on a total of 1,734 flats in January, signalling a drop of 835 from January 2021. At the same time, the number of vacant newly built flats is high partly because of a high number of newly completed flats and partly because of a slowdown in sales. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ruble_Drops_To_Prewar_Value_Against_Dollar⠀⇛ The ruble fell against the U.S. dollar in trading on April 6 to the value it held just before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Alex_Saab:_The_Venezuelan_Diplomat Kidnapped_by_the_United_States_with_Alex_Saurez⠀⇛ Alex Saurez, author of “The Diplomat,” a book about the US kidnapping of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab, joins Lee Camp to discuss the exreajudicial kidnapping, the court case that followed, and much more. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ The_Tampico_Affair:_how_Mexico_saw_the US’_1914_invasion⠀⇛ As the anniversary of the U.S. taking Veracruz nears, we look at how Mexicans reacted to the fourth invasion of Mexico in under a century. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_president_describes_joining_Communist Party_as_‘youthful_indiscretion’⠀⇛ Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has described joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as a “youthful indiscretion”. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Senior_Twitter_Lawyer_Resigns,_the_Latest in_a_Series_of_Executive_Departures⠀⇛ A senior lawyer at Twitter submitted his resignation on Thursday, four people familiar with the matter said, becoming the latest in a string of executives to leave the company since Elon Musk took it over nearly six months ago. The lawyer, Christian Dowell, rose to the top of Twitter’s legal department in recent months after the company’s legal leaders resigned or were fired by Mr. Musk. Mr. Dowell had been intimately involved in Twitter’s recent negotiations with the Federal Trade Commission, two people familiar with those discussions said. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Bans_Heat_Up_As_Australian Government,_More_US_States_Enact_Ban⠀⇛ Australia banned TikTok this week from all federal government-owned devices, citing security concerns, as the latest US-allied country to take action against the Chinese-owned short video app. Additionally, more US states, including Arizona and Florida, continue to ban TikTok at the federal level. These bans highlight the growing concerns that the Chinese government could use the platform, owned by ByteDance Ltd., to harvest user data to advance its political agenda. But in the case of Australia, the ban risks renewing diplomatic tensions between the country and China, its largest trading partner. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Cybersecurity_skills_deficit:_Critical positions_remain_unfilled;_rise_in_security_incidents [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ According to the Fortinet 2023 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report, challenges facing enterprises related to the cybersecurity skill deficit are affecting organizations worldwide. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Accused_of_Spreading Disinformation_at_U.N._Security_Council⠀⇛ Moscow used its rotating presidency of the Security Council to host a session on deported Ukrainian children, leading some officials to walk out. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Macron’s_meeting_with_Xi_could affect_the_direction_of_the_war.⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Macron_Appeals_To_Chinese_President_To_Help End_War_In_Ukraine⠀⇛ French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Beijing to talk sense into Russia over the war in Ukraine, telling his Chinese counterpart that Russia’s aggression had dealt a blow to international stability. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Riley_Reid’s_Twitter_Hacked_and Posting_Extremely_Racist_Things_for_Days_to_2_Million Followers⠀⇛ One of the biggest pornstars in the world has been hacked to spread hateful content and Twitter hasn’t done anything about it for days. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Anti-war_Russians_struggle_to_be_heard⠀⇛ The Kremlin has worked hard to create the impression of overwhelming Russian public support for the invasion of Ukraine but anti-war sentiment may become more visible if Putin’s army suffers further battlefield defeats, writes Christopher Isajiw. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Media_Briefing:_Proposed_UN_Cybercrime_Treaty Negotiations_Headed_in_Troubling_Direction,_Sidestepping Human_Rights_Protections_and_Threatening_Free_Expression,_EFF and_Allies_Warn⠀⇛ # ⚓ Essel Group ☛ Salman_Khan_wants_OTT_censorship:_‘Vulgarity, nudity….should_stop’⠀⇛ Salman Khan made some controversial remarks regarding OTT content at an event recently after he urged filmmakers to make “clean content”. The Bollywood actor asked for censorship of digital platforms and said that filmmakers should not cross the limit. # ⚓ Quillette ☛ Beijing’s_Campus_Offensive⠀⇛ Chinese-supported student groups in the West are being used to control discussion about China, censor critics, and lead protests against invited speakers o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Ambassador,_Russian_Diplomat_Discuss_Arrested Reporter⠀⇛ U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy and a top Russian diplomat met on April 6 to discuss a Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested last week on espionage charges. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ News_UK_accounts:_Sun_losses_hit_£127m_due to_legal_costs_while_Times_titles_double_profits⠀⇛ Much of the losses at Sun publisher News Group Newspapers were down to provisions made for legal cases. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ABC_sued_over_Higgins_and_Tame_address to_Press_Club⠀⇛ Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has hit the ABC with a defamation lawsuit more than a year after it aired Brittany Higgins’ speech about violence against women. The litigation is part of Mr Lehrmann’s continuing attack against media reporting of Ms Higgins’ rape claims. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Inside_the_3_so-called_‘catch_and_kill’_payments_in Trump’s_indictment⠀⇛ In August 2015, shortly after announcing his candidacy for president, Donald Trump convened a meeting at his namesake Manhattan skyscraper to hatch a plan to “suppress negative stories” that might threaten to derail his White House bid, prosecutors claimed in charging documents on Tuesday. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ UN_Tells_Afghan_Staff_to_Stay_Home_Until_Taliban Clarifies_Ban_on_Female_Aid_Workers⠀⇛ This week’s order by the Taliban to fire all female employees was the first time the world body has received such an order since its inception in 1945. The order followed the Islamist group’s previous edicts terminating women’s right to work, education and many other basic liberties. # ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Pretrial_Detention_Punishes_Poor_People_for Being_Unable_to_Afford_Bail⠀⇛ The selected essays below comprise the observations, reflections, and insights from students in the Bail Practicum after they litigated bail hearings for people who were detained because they are poor. In every case, students are not just advocates but direct witnesses to the harm, suffering, and deeply rooted unfairness embedded within the criminal legal system. These essays point to the myriad harms of pretrial detention that will persist unless transformative action is taken by the county. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan’s_crackdown_on_truck_driver overtime_raises_fears_of_economic_breakdown⠀⇛ It has sparked fears of a critical shortage of truck drivers that could leave a third of all cargo undelivered. # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Are_robot_waiters_the_future? Some_restaurants_think_so⠀⇛ Many think robot waiters are the solution to the industry’s labor shortages. But others say they aren’t much more than a gimmick. # ⚓ ACLU ☛ In_Michigan,_a_Historic_Victory_for_Abortion Rights⠀⇛ Last year’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade proved to be a major galvanizing moment for people who support abortion rights in communities across the country as some bans already on the books began to go into effect. One of those states is Michigan, where a grassroots coalition had growing concerns about an archaic 1931 abortion ban that could go into effect if the Supreme Court overturned Roe, and had already been working to prepare. Their tireless work put abortion rights on the ballot with Proposition 3, which secures the right to reproductive freedom in Michigan, protecting abortion, prenatal care, birth control, and all reproductive health care. # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Justice_Thomas_reportedly_took undisclosed_luxury_trips⠀⇛ He didn’t report them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Clarence_Thomas_took_luxury_trips_from_billionaire GOP_donor_without_disclosure:_report⠀⇛ Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has traveled aboard a major Republican donor’s superyacht and personal jet for more than 20 years. # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic:_Clarence_Thomas_and_the generosity_of_a_far-right_dark-money_billionaire_(06_Apr 2023)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Axios ☛ Supreme_Court_ethics_criticism_grows_louder_with Clarence_Thomas_investigation⠀⇛ A ProPublica investigation alleging Justice Clarence_Thomas accepted luxury trips from an influential Republican megadonor is fueling calls for strict ethics guidelines on the Supreme Court. Why it matters: Recent controversies involving big donors and chummy D.C. friendships have put a harsh spotlight on the high court as public trust in the institution falls_to_historic_lows. # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ The_complexities_of_growing_up_in_an immigrant_household⠀⇛ One. Two. Three.  I closed my eyes as each number echoed in my head and my anxiety grew. I focused on my internal counting, hoping to prevent a shut down. However, it couldn’t mask the sound of my family circling around me as they spoke about a deportation in our local Mexican store. # ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Modern_cars,_touch_interfaces_–_Highway_to Hell⠀⇛ I don’t wanna be driving no smartphone, do you? Here’s an article discussing the pointless trend of all-touch dashboard consoles in modern cars, focusing on safety, ergonomics, efficiency, proven driving test results with touch versus buttons, other considerations, and more. Enjoy. [...] As you well know, I love cars. I also hate stupidity. The question is, which of the two emotions is stronger? Recently, I started having to face this question while driving more recent models from various manufacturers. I noticed a steady and worrying trend of the “cockpit digitalization”, that is more and more stuff being moved away from physical controls into pointless touch interfaces. At first, it was trivial things. But now, it’s come down to important things like media and climate control. This prompted me to write this article. While I normally “only” do car reviews in my car section, that does not mean I have to exclusively limit myself to just this domain. Furthermore, I think this topic is so important that is merits discussion. Well, not really discussion. More sort of disdain. Let us begin. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ The_Internet_Freedom Foundation’s_statement_on_the_notification_of_the_IT Amendment_Rules,_2023⠀⇛ IFF’s statement on the notified IT Amendment Rules, 2023, in relation to online gaming and fact checking by a government unit. Read our concerns regarding the impact on online free speech here. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_brave_new_world_of_procedurally- generated_stores⠀⇛ Have you ever had a sense of déjà vu browsing the web, as though you’ve seen something before? Wait, as opposed to a sense of déjà vu having not seen something before? How does that make sense? Where am I? What am I looking at? Have I made this mistake before? Well today I’m thrilled, excited, and amazed to introduce you to the Lese store! Not your thing? What about Razo? Too expensive? I’m sure Buto has you covered. Or Zono. Or Dazo. Or Bupo, surely you can trust a name like that. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Inside_Amazon_Studios:_Big_Swings Hampered_by_Confusion_and_Frustration⠀⇛ Like Apple, Amazon is not a traditional entertainment company but a huge retailer with a side hustle in Hollywood. Amazon’s view is that the more hours you spend watching Prime Video, the more likely you are to renew your membership and the more likely you are to shop on the site. As Amazon, like Netflix, pursues overseas growth in the wake of saturation in the U.S., Salke notes that in some countries like South Africa and Argentina, Amazon’s programming is the tip of the spear, entering the territory before retail sales or fast, free shipping is even available. “International is everything,” she says. “It is our business to deliver global shows for a global audience.” # ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Amazon_Web_Services_and_Microsoft_Azure_face antitrust_probe⠀⇛ The UK’s communications watchdog has called for a probe into Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance of the country’s cloud computing market in the latest challenge to the tech giants from global regulators. Ofcom said on Wednesday it was “particularly concerned” by the practices of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, which together control between 60 and 70 percent of the UK cloud market. It has proposed referring the sector to the Competition and Markets Authority for further investigation. Cloud computing is dominated by Amazon and Microsoft, and has become a crucial driver of revenue at the tech giants. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Litigation_Financing_Transparency_Must_be_a_Global Effort⠀⇛ Despite varying widely, the structure of legal systems among democratic, free countries are built on consistent underlying principles. Promoting equality, freedom, and justice is a common theme among them. # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Sunrise_hickups_at_the_Unified Patent_Court [Ed: The biggest issue with the Unified Patent Court is that it's illegal, unconstitutional, and a corruption of the justice/court system, not some technical glitch]⠀⇛ The Unified Patent Court is struggling once more with technical issues. In the meantime, the registrar has stated he cannot give legal advice on the UPC’s opt-out procedure. Two days ago, the court announced that technical maintenance was needed due to technical difficulties, and that the CMS would not be available for three days [...] # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Gilead_Sciences_v_NuCana_–_two trials_for_the_price_of_one_(or_two)⠀⇛ On 21 March 2023, Meade J gave a bumper judgment in the revocation action brought by Gilead in respect of two of NuCana’s patents from the same family (EP (UK) 2 955 190 and EP (UK) 3 904 365, the “Patents”), which relate to nucleoside analogues. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Three_USPTO Refusals_Was/Were_Reversed?⠀⇛ In re Cameron Sexton for State Representative, Serial No. 90211624 (March 31, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Cindy B. Greenbaum). [Refusal to register PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS for poster, t-shirts, political information services, political fundraising services, and on-line journals featuring politics, on the ground that the proposed mark fails to function as a trademark.] # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Federal_Circuit_Narrows Scope_for_Copyrighting_Software_Function⠀⇛ The copyright lawsuit between the data- software company SAS Instituteand its scrappy copycat World Programming has been interesting to follow over the past several years, and the Federal Circuit has now issued a controversial opinion in the case.  SAS Inst. v. World Programming Ltd., — F.4th — (Fed. Cir. 2023).  The majority opinion authored by Judge Reyna and joined by Judge Wallach affirmed the lower court ruling that SAS failed to establish copyrightability of its claimed program elements.  Writing in dissent, Judge Newman argued that the majority’s rejection of copyrightability represents a “far-reaching change” not supported by either precedent or good policy.  I called this outcome controversial. The outcome would also be controversial had Judge Newman’s position prevailed. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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After five years and numerous versions, though, it would appear that user-space shadow stacks on x86 might just be supported in the 6.4 kernel release. Getting there has required a few changes since we last caught up with this work in early 2022. Shadow stacks are a defense against return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks, as well as others that target a process’s call stack. The shadow stack itself is a hardware-maintained copy of the return addresses pushed onto the call stack with each function call. Any attack that corrupts the call stack will be unable to change the shadow stack to match; as a result, the corruption will be detected at function-return time and the process terminated before the attacker can take control. The above- linked 2022 article has more details on how x86 shadow stacks, in particular, work. # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_curious_case_of_O_DIRECTORY|O_CREAT⠀⇛ The open() system call offers a number of flags that modify its behavior; not all combinations of those flags make sense in a single call. It turns out, though, that the kernel has responded in a surprising way to the combination of O_CREAT and O_DIRECTORY for a long time. After a 2020 change made that response even more surprising, it seems likely that this behavior will soon be fixed, resulting in a rare user-visible semantic change to a core system call. The O_CREAT flag requests that open() create a regular file if the named path doesn’t exist (adding O_EXCL will cause the call to fail if the path does exist). O_DIRECTORY, instead, indicates that the call should only succeed if the path exists and is a directory. It is not possible to create a directory with open(); that is what mkdir () is for. So the combination of O_CREAT and O_DIRECTORY requests the kernel to create a directory (which is supposed to already exist) as a regular file — which clearly does not make sense. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Harald Sitter ☛ Firefox_and_KeePassXC_Flatpaks⠀⇛ Flatpaks are amazing and all that. But application sandboxing, so an application cannot do anything it wants, is a challenge – even more so when you have two applications that need to talk to each other. Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that native-messaging sandboxing support for Flatpak has been in development for over a year. To celebrate its anniversary I thought I’d write down how to drill a native-messaging sized hole into the sandbox. This enables the use of native messaging even without portal integration, albeit also without sane degrees of sandboxing. First off, please understand that this undermines the sandbox on a fairly fundamental level. So, don’t do this if you don’t keep your Firefox updated or visit particularly dodgy websites. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ OpenShot_3.1_Open-Source_Video_Editor_Released with_Improved_Profiles,_More⠀⇛ Coming fourth months after OpenShot 3.0, the OpenShot 3.1 update is mostly a bugfix and stability release. It improves the profiles by adding more than 400 export profiles and a new Profile UI, improves the Undo / Redo system, including grouping actions, and improves the Preview & Split Clip dialog to correct aspect ratio and sample rate. OpenShot 3.1 also comes with a huge Time Re-mapping update that includes improvements to audio resampling, bezier curve audio support, as well as better support for backwards audio, an improved Caption effect that now offers better VTT support and smaller text by default, and improved keyboard bindings, especially for the arrow keys. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ A_Quick_Guide_to_Install_and_Play_GOG_Games_on Linux⠀⇛ Want to access and play GOG games on Linux? Here’s how to do that. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 12_Ping_Command_Examples_to_Test_Your_Network⠀⇛ Ping is a simple, widely used, cross-platform networking utility for testing if a host is reachable on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It works by sending a series of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 9_Practical_Examples_of_Tail_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛ As Linux users, we often work with long-running background Linux processes, which are called daemons or services. Some of the common examples of the services are Secure Shell (sshd), Network Manager (networkd), Volume Manager # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_SCP_Commands_to_Transfer_Files/Folders_in Linux⠀⇛ Linux administrators should be familiar with the command-line environment. Since GUI (Graphical User Interface) mode in Linux servers is not common to be installed. SSH may be the most popular protocol to enable Linux # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 21_Tar_Command_Examples_in_Linux⠀⇛ The Linux “tar” stands for tape archive, which is used by a large number of Linux/Unix system administrators to deal with tape drive backup in Linux. The tar command in Linux is used to # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Open,_Extract_and_Create_RAR_Files_in Linux⠀⇛ RAR is the most popular tool for creating and extracting compressed archive (.rar) files. When we download an archive file from the web, we required a rar tool to extract them. # ⚓ How_to_use_MOTD_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_Linux_or_any version⠀⇛ Learn how to show a custom message upon login Ubuntu 22.04 / 20.04 server or desktop to users on the command terminal using the MOTD file. MOTD is a simple text file in a Linux system that is used to display some custom text message on login using the command line locally or SSH. MOTD’s full form is “Message of the Day”. The necessity of this simple MOTD is to display some alert, important information such as system maintenance, security updates, or any other relevant message to Linux users by the Admin. Suppose you have a couple of Linux systems in your office and want to display important info to all users upon their login in such a case MOTD can be a quite useful tool. The file used by the MOTD is generally located under the /etc directory of the Linux which can be edited manually to display custom messages. If you have scripting knowledge then can display dynamically generate messages. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 4_Ways_to_Fix_OpenShot_Crashing_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ It is extremely frustrating when you want to edit a video but OpenShot keeps crashing. Unfortunately, many Ubuntu users encounter this issue with OpenShot because of things like corrupt video files or misconfigured preferences. You might be wondering how you can prevent OpenShot from crashing on Ubuntu. Luckily, these issues with OpenShot are easy to fix once you know the right troubleshooting methods. # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Tired_of_Windows?_Here_is_how_to_try_Linux_Mint⠀⇛ Linux Mint is a well-known Linux distribution that offers users the chance to try it before they install it. In this guide, we will explain how to try Linux Mint and, if you like it, how to replace Windows with it. Linux Mint is a free and open-source operating system that is designed to be user-friendly and easy to use. It is based on Ubuntu, and it comes in three desktop environments: Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. It offers a number of features and applications that make it a great choice for both new and experienced users. These features include the ability to customize the desktop, a software manager that makes it easy to find and install new software, and a wide range of applications for everything from browsing the web to editing documents. Linux Mint is also known for its stability, security, and reliability. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubuntu_Lunar_Lobster_(23.04)_Beta_Released⠀⇛ The beta of Kubuntu Lunar Lobster (to become 23.04 in April) has now been released, and is available for download. This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours. Pre-releases of Kubuntu Lunar Lobster are not recommended for… # ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ Branching_KDE_PIM_for_the_final_phase of_the_Qt_6_port⠀⇛ After KDE Frameworks branched in January and Plasma followed in February to enter the final phase of the transition to Qt 6, KDE PIM is following now. The approach taken here might also be applicable for other KDE Gear modules. § KDE PIM Sprint Coordination and planning for this happened at the KDE_PIM_sprint in Toulouse last weekend, see also Kévin’s report about this. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ Felix_Häcker:_#90_Enabling Feedback⠀⇛ Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 31 to April 07. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ CachyOS:_Arch-based_Distro_for_Speed_and_Ease_of Use⠀⇛ Arch Linux is suitable for advanced users looking for a challenge to use Linux on their system. However, many Arch-based distributions have made it possible for new users to get into the distribution family by making things easier. Options like Garuda Linux, Manjaro Linux, and others make it convenient for new users. And one of the exciting options among them is CachyOS. Well, you might already know about blendOS (which is also an Arch-based distro, still in the works). It is not remotely similar, but if you are exploring Arch-based distros, you can check it out. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ OpenSUSE_MicroOS_Desktop:_a_Flatpak-based_immutable distribution⠀⇛ Immutable Linux distributions are on the rise recently, with multiple popular distributions creating their own immutable versions; it could be one of the trends of 2023, as predicted. While many of these immutable distributions are focused on server use, there are also some that offer a desktop experience. OpenSUSE MicroOS Desktop is one of them, with a minimal openSUSE Tumbleweed as the base operating system and applications running as Flatpaks or in containers. In its daily use, it feels a lot like a normal openSUSE desktop. Its biggest benefit is availability of the newest software releases without sacrificing system stability. Linux users who want to keep up with the latest software generally choose a rolling-release distribution, such as Tumbleweed, Arch Linux, or Gentoo Linux. However, this approach might introduce the risk of incompatibility between software versions or result in an unstable system. On the other hand, stable or Long-Term Support (LTS) distributions cater to the needs of users who prioritize stability over cutting-edge software. Of course, many users want the best of both worlds: the latest software versions on a stable base operating system. There are solutions that generally bypass the distribution’s native package- management system. Flatpak, Snap, and AppImage are the leading technologies for this purpose. Applications are packaged together with their dependencies, thus preventing interference with each other or the underlying distribution. With this approach, users are able to run updated software without encountering dependency woes or compromising system stability. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora Facts:_2023-14⠀⇛ # The Fedora Council is considering a proposal to_remove_the_full/auxiliary_member distinction. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Flatpak_Installer⠀⇛ I have created an installer for Flatpaks, based on the same GUI as used in the AppImage Installer. I gave the AppImage Installer the rather flippant name of “Appi”, and now equally flippant name of “Flapi” for the Flatpak Installer. I have just got it going, tested by installing OpenShot. Lots more work to do, but here are some snapshots. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Ubuntu_stops_shipping_Flatpak_by_default⠀⇛ Canonical recently announced that it will no longer ship Flatpak as part of its default installation for the various official Ubuntu flavors, which is in keeping with the practices of the core Ubuntu distribution. The Flatpak package format has gained popularity among Linux users for its convenience and ease of use. Canonical will focus exclusively on its own package-management system, Snap. The decision has caused disgruntlement among some community members, who felt like the distribution was making this decision without regard for its users. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Google_prepares_to_help_you_find_your_Android phone_even_when_it’s_powered_off_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ 9to5Google_Log_Out:_Streaming_should_replace native_Android_apps_on_Chromebooks⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ YouTube_Music_for_Android_rolls_out_real-time lyrics⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Soon_you_can_locate_your_Android_phone_even when_powered_off⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ You_will_soon_be_able_to_stream_and_control your_Android_device_from_a_Chromebook_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Sleep_problems?_Change_these_settings_on your_Android_phone_right_now_|_Technology_News,The_Indian Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ Android_is_getting_two_vital_privacy improvements⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_use_new_tools_for_Google_Chrome_on Android_tablets_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Jabra_Elite_4_review:_For_Android_users on_a_budget_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ I_used_the_Xiaomi_13_Pro_–_and_it_made_me a_better_photographer_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia Mob ☛ Nokia_T20_gets_new_Android_12_Build_| Nokiamob⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ health_@_Savannah:_GNU_Health_Hospital_Management patchset_4.2.1_released⠀⇛ Dear community GNU Health 4.2.1 patchset has been released ! Priority: High § Table of Contents # About GNU Health Patchsets # Updating your system with the GNUHealth control Center # Installation notes # List of other issues related to this patchset § About GNU Health Patchsets We provide “patchsets” to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches. Patches and Patchsets maximize uptime for production systems, and keep your system updated, without the need to do a whole installation. NOTE: Patchsets are applied on previously installed systems only. For new, fresh installations, download and install the whole tarball (ie, gnuhealth-4.2.1.tar.gz) § Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center Starting GNU Health 3.x series, you can do automatic updates on the GNU Health HMIS kernel and modules using the GNU Health control center program. Please refer to the administration manual section ( https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/ Control_Center ) The GNU Health control center works on standard installations (those done following the installation manual on wikibooks). Don’t use it if you use an alternative method or if your distribution does not follow the GNU Health packaging guidelines. § Installation Notes You must apply previous patchsets before installing this patchset. If your patchset level is 4.2.1, then just follow the general instructions. You can find the patchsets at GNU Health main download site at GNU.org (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/) In most cases, GNU Health Control center (gnuhealth-control) takes care of applying the patches for you.  Pre-requisites for upgrade to 4.2.1: None Now follow the general instructions at  https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/ Control_Center   After applying the patches, make a full update of your GNU Health database as explained in the documentation. When running “gnuhealth-control” for the first time, you will see the following message: “Please restart now the update with the new control center” Please do so. Restart the process and the update will continue. # Restart the GNU Health server § List of other issues and tasks related to this patchset # bug #64014: Update gender identity in patient evaluations and reports # bug #64009: Include signing health professional and avoid scrolling in patient evaluation # bug #64007: Summary report is not using FreeFonts family # bug #63993: Python-sql error on patient evaluation report Update gender identity in patient evaluations and reports For detailed information about each issue, you can visit :  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=health About each task, you can visit:  https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group=health For detailed information you can read about Patches and Patchsets # https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/ Patches_and_Patchsets o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Build_faster_with_Buck2:_Our_open_source_build_system⠀⇛ Buck2, Meta’s open source large-scale build system, is now publicly available via the Buck2 website and the Buck2 GitHub repository. While it shares some commonalities with other build systems (like Buck1 and Bazel), Buck2 is a from-scratch rewrite. Buck2 features a complete separation of the core and language-specific rules, with increased parallelism, integration with remote execution and virtual file systems, and a redesigned console output. All of these changes are aimed at helping engineers and developers spend less time waiting, and more time iterating on their code. # ⚓ Yuan_Yijun:_More_cli_fun⠀⇛ When Secure Boot is enabled, the “akmods-nvidia” package will build and install kmod-nvidia that is not usable right away. Previously I followed some documents to run a cli script to “sign the modules” but it stopped working recently. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Google_Bard_“AI”_Hallucinates_the Details_of_Michael_Pratt,_One_of_the_GirlsDoPorn_Criminals.⠀⇛ Michael Pratt was on the FBI’s ten most wanted list. He entered the United States from New Zealand, started a porn company, and ended up facing rape, kidnapping, sex crimes involving minors, and bankruptcy fraud. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Halo_veteran_Joseph_Staten_is_leaving Microsoft⠀⇛ A writer and designer on three previous Halo games and Destiny, Staten joined the Infinite team after the game was delayed from its original 2020 release date. # ⚓ Joseph_Staten_Reportedly_Leaving_Microsoft⠀⇛ Joseph Staten had a huge roll at Microsoft following his departure from Bungie nearly a decade ago. He voluntarily took on a creative lead role in 2020 at 343 Industries. Following the subpar gameplay shown for Halo Infinite during the Xbox Games Showcase that year. While he did course correct Halo Infinite and ensured it launched in 2021. The game was still lacking in iconic features that became mainstays in the Halo franchise. # ⚓ Seattle-area_office_market_vacancy_continues_to_rise_amid layoffs,_inflation [Ed: Mass_layoffs_at_Microsoft]⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Mageia (ldb/ samba, libapreq2, opencontainers-runc, peazip, python-cairosvg, stellarium, and zstd), Oracle (httpd and mod_http2, kernel, and nss), SUSE (conmon, go1.19, go1.20, libgit2, openssl-1_1, and openvswitch), and Ubuntu (emacs24). # ⚓ Culbertson_Memorial_Hospital_hit_by_cyber-attack⠀⇛ Culbertson Memorial Hospital officials reported Friday the hospital had been the victim of a cyber- attack last week. Officials stated they discovered a network disruption at 3 a.m. March 30 that required information systems to be taken offline. “This action disabled access to most functions while we investigated the activity,” Culbertson CEO Gregg Snyder said in a statement released Friday afternoon. “We immediately retained third-party specialists to assist us with our investigation.” # ⚓ Bankok Post ☛ Suspected_hacker_‘a_soldier’⠀⇛ A hacker who claimed to have obtained the personal data of 55 million Thais is an army officer who appears to have acted alone, authorities said yesterday. Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, minister of Digital Economy and Society, and Pol Lt Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha, chief of the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB), held a press conference yesterday amid reports that the suspect and his wife had been detained. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ MSI_Confirms_Cyberattack,_Advises_Caution With_Firmware⠀⇛ Gaming hardware manufacturer MSI confirmed today that it was the victim of a cyberattack. In a brief statement on its website, the company said that the attack hit “part of its information systems,” which have since returned to regular operations. The company advises its customers only to get BIOS and firmware updates from the MSI website and no other sources. It’s light on details, saying that after “detecting network anomalies,” MSI implemented “defense mechanisms and carried out recovery measures,” and then informed the the government and law enforcement. # ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Proskauer_Cyber_Attack_Left_Sensitive_Client Data_Unguarded⠀⇛ A data breach at Proskauer Rose exposed client data, including sensitive legal and financial information, the law firm confirmed Friday. “Our tech security team recently learned that an outside vendor that we retained to create an information portal on a third-party cloud-based storage platform had not properly secured it,” Joanne Southern, a Proskauer spokeswoman, said via email. The breach, which the firm called the result of a cyber attack, was first reported by TechCrunch. Data containing financial and legal documents, contracts, non-disclosure agreements and financial deals were released in the leak, according to the report. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Aspire_Public_Schools_reveals_2022_breach; Rochester_Public_Schools_dealing_with_current_attack⠀⇛ Aspire Public Schools in California submitted notifications to at least two state attorneys general. According to its notification, Aspire learned that an unauthorized party gained access to one Aspire email account… # ⚓ A_Visual_Journey_Through_Computer_Setups_Revealed_by_Recent Cybercrime_Raids_–_realhackhistory⠀⇛ First an admission by me, I’m not a hardware nerd. I know my way around PCs, can swap out parts as needed and can tell a MacBook from a Chrome Book but if you are expecting an exacting breakdown of the computers or tech we’re going to be looking at here you may be disappointed. Now that that’s out of the way, I’m fascinated by seeing the behind the scenes of big cybercrime operations, and especially interested in seeing the work spaces of the people involved and the equipment they are working with. Most of these people raided seem to be working from home, and sometimes sharing a living space with other gang member suspects. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ 7×7_Dental_Implant_&_Oral_Surgery_alleged victim_of_Abyss_ransomware_group⠀⇛ A leak site called “Abyss” recently added 7×7 Dental Implant & Oral Surgery Specialists of San Francisco (7×7) to their site and claimed to have 114 GB of the dental practice’s files. A file tree showing 2,891 directories and 63,557 files was posted as proof of claim. Some of the filenames suggest business-related internal documents, while others are likely employee-related files. The bulk of the files appears to be patient-related. Most of these are image files in .jpg or .dcm format. Some .pdf files appear to be referral letters or reports. # ⚓ Cointelegraph ☛ Sentiment_recovers_$870K_after_negotiations with_hacker⠀⇛ Lending protocol Sentiment has managed to recover the stolen funds from the recent hack by offering the hacker a bounty worth $95,000. In an on-chain transaction on the Arbitrum blockchain, Sentiment sent a message to the hacker offering $95,000 if the hacker returned the funds by April 6, urging the hacker to “do the right thing.“ If the hacker did not return the funds, the protocol also offered the money to anyone who could help find and prosecute the culprit. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Rebecca_Giblin_on_chokepoint_capitalism⠀⇛ The fourth and final keynote for Everything Open 2023 was given by Professor Rebecca Giblin of the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. It revolved around her recent book, Chokepoint Capitalism, which she wrote with Cory Doctorow; it is “”a book about why creative labor markets are rigged — and how to unrig them””. Giblin had planned to be in Melbourne to give her talk in person, but “the universe had other plans”; she got delayed in Austin, Texas by an unexpected speaking slot at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference, so she gave her talk via videoconference from there—at nearly midnight in Austin. She began by playing the animated teaser video for the book. It describes how the tech and content firms are choking out competition so that they can take the lion’s share of any revenue generated before it ever reaches the artists and others who actually did the creative work. The book also has lots of ideas for “how we can recapture creative labor markets to make them fairer and more sustainable”, Giblin said in the video. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Kushal_Das:_40_years_of_the_first_email_to_Sweden⠀⇛ 40 years ago today, at 14:02 on 1983/04/07 (7th April), Björn Eriksen received the first ever email in Sweden. It was from Jim McKie of European Unix Network (EUnet) in Amsterdam. Björn had a VAX 780 running BSD. The following is the actual email: * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Noguchi_Filing_System⠀⇛ The Noguchi Filing System is for keeping track of physical paper. I keep paper in envelopes on a shelf and new envelope go on the right (or on the left if you live in Japan) and if I use an envelope, it goes on the right as if it were new. Linux nerds can think of this as sorting the envelopes by atime. Envelopes always must have a date along the spine and a word or sentence describing what’s in ‘em. Optionally they can have a color, using markers or stickers. Noguchi even cut them off one inch so that the a4 documents in there stick up a bit. # ⚓ The_New_Super_Mario_Bros._Movie⠀⇛ There are a ton of these that appears pretty much everywhere in the movie. An average 10 year old who watches the movie in guidance of their parents may not understand many of them, but for someone who invests their time into this one franchise, you can see a lot of them just appearing and alpearing and appearing to you, and it’s a fan service, but a good one. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Learning_How_To_Write⠀⇛ During the second quarter of the year, I am going to make a more concerted effort to learn how to write long, fictional pieces. I have a number of ideas that I want to develop into full stories, but I find it very difficult to do so. There are a number of obstacles that hinder my ability to write, but over the next couple of months I am going to methodically try different techniques to overcome them. I’m only a few days into this new endeavour and I’ve already found a few things that have helped. # ⚓ website_overhaul⠀⇛ I am currently redoing one of my neocities websites. It was initially kept as some carrd-esque site, but I decided I want to do more with it and transfer some stuff from my other neocities there as well to make it a proper hub of my projects. # ⚓ Fixed_up_my_old_MyTouch⠀⇛ Writing on a smartphone is a pain, and yet I keep trying to do it. I finally dug my old MyTouch Q out of storage to try using it instead, since it has a very handy slide-out keyboard, only to find that the battery was so dead it wouldn’t even charge. After running around to a few different battery stores and cell phone repair shops, I resigned myself to ordering a replacement battery off eBay (which is, weirdly, a more reputable storefront than Amazon these days). And now it works again! The SIM card holder is too big for my current one, so it can’t be a proper phone, but that’s fine by me. I just want to use it for writing and maybe listening to music while I do so. # ⚓ Keep_infrastructure_free⠀⇛ A lot of essayists wanting to push the square peg of open source software into the round peg of quid- pro-quo market capitalism. # ⚓ mbox⠀⇛ Mailbox is the traditional storage format for emails on unix; a Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as Sendmail would chat up a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) such as mail.local or procmail, and eventually if everything went well the message would be appended to a file, /var/mail/spongebob perhaps. That’s the conventional BSD directory. A major disadvantage is the problem of locking–how does the MDA append a message given that at the same time another program, perhaps the user’s mail client, is editing the file? Locking! This assumes both sides use the same locking, and may become terribly complicated should the mailbox files be located on a NFS server. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ social_platforms⠀⇛ i often find myself switching platforms because i don’t feel like any of them are a perfect fit. i’ve even attempted to bring all of the work onto myself, building personal social platforms but to no avail. i’ve realized the solution is extremely simple yet almost no platform can provide that. hopefully the pub can do that for me. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ # ⚓ Re:_Making_a_90s_Website_(waffle)⠀⇛ User waffle over at midnight pub asked about making a 90′s website[1]. I was there, waffle… making crappy websites for money! Here are my tips: 1. Think in terms of tables. Kind of like css grid layouts, except not at all. Mentally chop your content up into rows and columns, and make liberal use of colspan and rowspan. Don’t be afraid of borders, they’re pretty. OR, drop the borders and use background images in the cells, which you can chop up with old software. It’s called “slicing” and it was all the rage in the 90s. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3719 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.07.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_07/04/2023:_PCLinuxOS_Magazine_and_More⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:44 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # Python # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_501:_Boot_that_Snapshot⠀⇛ Nextcloud + OpenBSD = <3, Understanding the Origins of DTrace, Bastille Templates for FreeBSD Jails, Initial support for guided disk encryption in the OpenBSD installer, Dynamic host configuration please, OpenBSD Storage Management tutorial at BSDCan 2023, Jan/Feb 2023 Column Out in the FreeBSD Journal, and more # ⚓ 2023-03-29_[Older]_FLOSS_Weekly_725:_VanillaOS_on_a_Stick_– Pietro_di_Caprio,_VanillaOS⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Oracle_Linux_and_Unbreakable_Enterprise_Kernel_(UEK) Releases⠀⇛ I’ve decided to create this blog entry just to share Oracle Linux and UEK releases, how those are associated and which UEK releases are available on different OL versions. So, maybe, this article could be useless for many people who already know which UEK releases are available on each OL release. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Loupe_Image_Viewer_is_Now_Available_on Flathub⠀⇛ The image viewer being eyed up as a potential core app in future versions of the GNOME desktop is now available on Flathub. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_7.0_on_Linux_Mint 21/20⠀⇛ VirtualBox, a powerful and widely used open-source virtualization solution, has recently released its major update – VirtualBox 7.0.0 on October 10, 2022. This release brings a plethora of new features, enhancements, and fixes, making it even more robust and user-friendly. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_Guide_to_Granting_User_Permissions_to Folders_with_Ease⠀⇛ Managing user permissions is essential for ensuring that sensitive data is protected and that users have the appropriate level of access to shared resources. In this tutorial, we will explain how to give a user permission to a folder in Linux using the chmod, chown, and chgrp commands. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Use_Emojis_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_12_Best_Note-Taking_Apps_for Chromebooks⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Understanding_the_/etc/group_File_on_Linux⠀⇛ The contents of the /etc/group file can seem cryptic at first. But all it contains is information on locally configured groups on a Linux system. # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Inkscape_Tutorial:_Line_Art_Designs⠀⇛ Again, watching YouTube for graphics tips, I came across a video on the channel Logos by Nick where he shows us how to make a simple line art logo using some of the Path tools. His was a mountain, trees and water with the sun behind it, and it was really good! I decided to go a different direction, so I used a trace I made of tuxlink’s awesome Dobie from the wallpaper he gave us recently, and made something sort of similar. When you set up your page, make sure the setting “Scale Stroke Width” is turned off. That way, when you make your stroke width 5 pixels, and then resize something, the pixel width will stay 5, making things uniform. It’s much easier than going to Fill & Stroke and changing it with every line. Also, remember to use the command Path > Object to path on the objects that you draw, since we’re using path commands. # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Exploring_LXQt:_A_Basic_Guide,_Part_3⠀⇛ In this part 3 of the series, I’ll illustrate how to add a keyboard layout, use the “Custom Command” plugin, edit images and customize your panel. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ ScummVM ☛ phone_rings_Let’s_Play_Ball!”⠀⇛ We are proud to announce that network-enabled Humongous Entertainment titles are now playable online! Anyone who has a copy of Backyard Football, Backyard Baseball 2001, and even Backyard Football 2002 (which was originally a LAN-only title) can download the latest daily_build* of ScummVM and play online games against real people! This all became possible because the three developers from the Backyard Sports Online fork had joined the team and brought their services with them to the ScummVM. These are LittleToonCat, Jim “jibbodahibbo” Westerkamp and Sam “QuestionMonkey” Kupfer. # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Game_Zone:_Dave_Gnukem_1.0⠀⇛ Who doesn’t remember the classic 1991 Apogee Software game that brought the hero Duke Nukem to the world? Yes, Duke Nukem started out as a 2D platform game. Duke Nukem 1 was a famous original 16-color 320×200 ‘classic’ game released by Apogee Software in 1991 that launched the Duke Nukem series. The original Duke Nukem 1 was created by Todd Replogle (co- creator of the Duke Nukem series), John Carmack (of id Software), Scott Miller (founder of 3D Realms), Allen H. Blum III, George Broussard, and Jim Norwood. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Screenshot_Showcase⠀⇛ # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Repo_Review:_Calcurse⠀⇛ g application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments and daily tasks. It has lots of functionality, is lightweight, fast, reliable and portable (due to being text-file based). The PCLinuxOS repositories have ver. 4.6.0 (released in March 2020). Calcurse’s name is a combination of ‘calendar’ and ‘curses’ (the name of the library used to build the user interface). Calcurse is multi-platform. It is available on Linux, three BSD distributions and macOS (via the Homebrew project). # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Repo_Review:_Buttercup_Password_Manager⠀⇛ Buttercup Password Manager is a modern and feature- rich open source password manager that was recently added to the PCLinuxOS repositories. Featuring 256 bit AES encrypted vaults, Buttercup provides a high level of security for your passwords and other sensitive information. In addition to the desktop program, mobile versions are available for iOS and Android, along with browser extensions for Firefox and Google Chrome. The user interface has a polished, well designed look to it, making Buttercup Password Manager very easy to navigate and use. Each vault opens up in a separate tab, allowing you to easily switch between them. Creating a new vault is as simple as clicking on the + button in the upper toolbar. # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Expanded_Choices:_AppImage_&_Flatpak_Packages⠀⇛ Most of the time, the sage advice around the PCLinuxOS forum is to NOT install software from outside of the official PCLinuxOS repository. It’s a trivial task to run into what is dis- affectionately called “dependency hell.” You also lack a full listing of changes made to your system, so installing even one “unofficial” piece of software could break 10 other working programs, or even render your installation unusable (or even unbootable). If things do “go South” for your installation, good luck trying to figure out exactly what went wrong, since you have no idea what changes were made to your system. Plus, unless you install software from a trusted source, you could unknowingly install malware, spyware, viruses, ransomware, cryptomining software, credential stealing software, etc. Sometimes, it can be difficult to know exactly who to trust. # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ From_The_Chief_Editor’s_Desk…⠀⇛ Personally, I’ve avoided the new AI chatbots like the dog tries to avoid fleas. AI chatbots are definitely in their infancy, and should only improve as time goes on. But we also need some controls on these chabots. In more extreme views, I sometimes have visions of an AI monstrosity like Skynet in the Terminator movies. Unless their use is restricted and their abilities rolled out more slowly to give people a chance to get use to their capabilities, the line of truth could very easily be more easily blurred and/or obliterated. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Even_Amstrad_Spectrums_Need_Their_Bugs_Fixing⠀⇛ The history of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum is one that mirrors the fortunes of the British home computer industry, one of an early 8-bit boom followed by a sharp decline as manufacturers failed to capitalise on the next generation of 16-bit machines. The grey ZX Spectrum on [Keri Szafir]’s bench is one that encapsulates that decline perfectly, being one of the first models produced under the ownership of Amstrad after Sir Clive’s company foundered. Amstrad made many improvements to the Spectrum, but as she demonstrates, there are still some fixes needed. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Clubs_Conference_2023:_Ideas_and_tools_for CoderDojos_and_Code_Clubs⠀⇛ Learn from and be inspired by CoderDojo and Code Club volunteers who shared practical tools and ideas at the Clubs Conference 2023. # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Podcast:_We_need_a_standard_for_aging_in place⠀⇛ This week’s podcast is focused on IoT infrastructure, with our first conversation explaining the upcoming 6G cellular connectivity standard. After that, we discuss sales of IoT connectivity chips and modules, and the leaders in each category before moving on to low-power wide area network news from Unabiz, which is open sourcing the code for Sigfox. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Here’s_What_It’s_Like_to_Rent_an_eSIM_on_an Android_Phone_|_PCMag⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ 9_Android_Camera_Features_To_Become Photographer!_–_Gizchina⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia Power User ☛ Nokia_XR20_5G_–_Nokia_T20_(new_Android 12_Build)_receiving_March_Security_update_2023_now_(Markets) –_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Update_to_Android’s_WhatsApp_Beta_app_makes it_easier_to_use_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ KDAB ☛ Qt_Desktop_Days_Returns_–_June_20th-21st⠀⇛ We want Qt Desktop Days to provide concrete, applicable insights that relate to desktop software development mainly – but not exclusively – with Qt, because we know there’s a lot of it out there. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Resolving_the_“Invalid_Host_header”_Error_in Vue.js⠀⇛ The “Invalid Host header” error is a common issue encountered by developers working with Vue.js applications. This error occurs when the development server receives a request with an unrecognized or mismatched host header. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Who_profits_from_open_source_maintainers’ work?⠀⇛ You might not know Jordan Harband’s name, but if you’ve developed a JavaScript application, there’s a good chance you’ve relied on a package he maintains. Harband is a software engineer who currently maintains hundreds of widely used open source packages in the JavaScript npm package registry. One of those packages alone is downloaded millions of times per week, with nearly 1.6 billion all-time downloads. Open source software is increasingly foundational to corporate IT environments, and that growing importance has come with heightened expectations for open source maintainers. But for the individuals like Harband who keep open source software afloat, maintaining their projects is both personally fulfilling and a serious struggle. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ Machine_Learning_Algorithms_in Python⠀⇛ Machine Learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence that enables computers to learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed. It involves the use of statistical algorithms and models to analyze and identify patterns in data, which are then used to make predictions or decisions. Python has become one of the most popular programming languages for implementing machine learning algorithms, thanks to its simplicity, flexibility, and robust libraries like NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn. # ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ Automated_Machine_Learning_(AutoML): An_Overview⠀⇛ AutoML, short for Automated Machine Learning, has emerged as a game-changing technology that is democratizing Machine Learning by making it more accessible and less time- consuming for non-experts. AutoML platforms use advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques to automate many of the complex tasks involved in building Machine Learning models, allowing developers to focus on more strategic tasks. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Network World ☛ Verifying_bash_script_arguments⠀⇛ Check out how you can ensure that proper arguments are passed to your bash scripts. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Bailey ☛ Sabbath_mode_and_assistive_technology features⠀⇛ Activating a device’s Sabbath mode is usually not a straightforward affair. It usually requires a very specific, non-obvious, and convoluted set of button presses that must occur in a sequence specified in the dusty corners of an instruction manual. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Woe_is_We⠀⇛ o ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Incarcerated_Deaf_Community_Finds_New_Lifeline –_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛ Prison is an institution where fundamental human rights are often treated as negotiable, rather than inalienable. These conditions are exacerbated for those living with a disability. Without video communication options, there are very limited options for those who are deaf and want to communicate with sign language. As the COVID-19 pandemic escalated, phone calls became essential for those in prison, which created a major disadvantage for deaf people who did not have access to the proper technology to make this possible. The importance of this accommodation is underscored by the fact that many convicts are incarcerated without anyone fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). With the new rule in place, the deaf and hard-of-hearing community in correctional facilities will have the opportunity to communicate using sign language. o ⚓ Project Censored ☛ New_Jersey_Corrections_Ombud_Investigates Charges_That_Guards_Organized_Prisoner_“Fight_Club”_–_Validated Independent_News⠀⇛ According to Ombudsperson Terry Schuster his office forwarded five such complaints to the Department of Corrections’ Special Investigations Division for formal investigation. In email to The Appeal, Schuster wrote that “several people” in the RHU had “alleged incidents” that “suggested a pattern” of security staff misconduct. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Everyone_Deserves_Grandeur⠀⇛ The only time I visited Milan, I emerged from a narrow street onto the Piazza del Duomo. As soon as I saw the ornate cathedral presiding over the open square, I started laughing—so much I couldn’t stop. The sight was so overwhelming, absurd even, that I couldn’t look at it for more than a few seconds at a time without bursting into a nervous, incredulous chuckle. I felt like I was looking at something forbidden, scandalous even. Over the course of my stay, I walked by it, next to it, behind it, and across it. I even paid to go inside. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ St._Clair_Bourne’s_Cinema_of_Solidarity⠀⇛ In Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1983, a Black soldier was a rare sight. What could he be doing? As a member of the occupying British Army, he was there for the same reason that five Black American civil rights activists were: because of “the Troubles,” the latest manifestation of the 800-year conflict between Ireland and Britain. But in the end, the soldier and the activists were on opposite sides. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Inside_the_Prisoner-led_Struggle_to_Win Education_for_All⠀⇛ Prisoners in Washington State are renewing their fight to democratize education amid new restrictions threatening their decade-old program. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Old VCR ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Refurb_weekend:_DEC_AlphaPC 164LX⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrotechtacular:_Voice_Controlled_Typewriter Science_Project_In_1958⠀⇛ Hackaday readers might know [Victor Scheinman] as the pioneer who built some of the first practical robot arms. But what was a kid like that doing in high school? Thanks to a film about the 1958 New York City Science Fair, we know he was building a voice-activated typewriter. Don’t believe it? Watch it yourself below, thanks to [David Hoffman]. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Reviving_A_Legend:_Mamiya_RB67_Repair⠀⇛ When it comes to professional medium format analog cameras, the Mamiya RB67 is among the most well- known and loved, ever since its introduction in 1970. Featuring not only support for 120 and 220 mm film options, but also a folding and ‘chimney’ style view finder and a highly modular body, these are just some reasons that have made it into a popular – if costly – reflex system camera even today. This is one reason why [Anthony Kouttron] chose to purchase and attempt to repair a broken camera, in the hopes of not only saving a lot of money, but also to save one of those amazing cameras from the scrap heap. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Fast_Scanning_Bed_Leveling⠀⇛ The bane of 3D printing is what people commonly call bed leveling. The name is a bit of a misnomer since you aren’t actually getting the bed level but making the bed and the print head parallel. Many modern printers probe the bed at different points using their own nozzle, a contact probe, or a non- contact probe and develop a model of where the bed is at various points. It then moves the head up and down to maintain a constant distance between the head and the bed, so you don’t have to fix any irregularities. [YGK3D] shows off the Beacon surface scanner, which is technically a non-contact probe, to do this, but it is very different from the normal inductive or capacitive probes, as you can see in the video below. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see it print because [YGK3D] mounted it too low to get the nozzle down on the bed. However, it did scan the bed, and you can learn a lot about how the device works in the video. If you want to see one actually printing, watch the second, very purple video from [Dre Duvenage]. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ CPSC_Advances_New_Portable_Generator_Safety Rule⠀⇛ The federal government is moving forward with sweeping new regulations to make portable generators safer, citing the increasing number of deaths they cause and the failure of manufacturers to protect consumers. On Wednesday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to advance a proposal that would require portable generators to emit less carbon monoxide and to shut off automatically when the deadly gas reaches a certain level. The invisible and odorless gas emitted by the devices claims an average of 85 lives a year, making generators one of the deadliest consumer products the CPSC regulates. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tube_Amplifier_Uses_Low_Voltage,_Sips_Battery⠀⇛ Much like vinyl records, tube amplifiers are still prized for their perceived sound qualities, even though both technologies have been largely replaced otherwise. The major drawback to designing around vacuum tubes, if you can find them at all, is often driving them with the large voltages they often require to heat them to the proper temperatures. There are a small handful of old tubes that need an impressively low voltage to work, though, and [J.G.] has put a few of them to work in this battery-powered audio tube amplifier. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Vetoes_Move_by_GOP,_Corporate_Dems_to Block_Water_Regulations⠀⇛ U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed legislation pass by congressional Republicans and corporate Democrats to stop the federal government from protecting public health and the planet, blocking a resolution passed by both chambers last month to gut water protections. # ⚓ Something_I_never_thought_I’d_see:_RFK_Jr._is_apparently running_for_President⠀⇛ I’ve been writing about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his antivaccine activities for a very long time now. Indeed, the few really longtime readers still left here know that my very first post for this blog that went viral was about RFK Jr. The year was 2005, and, to their eternal shame, both Salon.com and Rolling Stone simultaneously published an article by RFK Jr. entitled Deadly Immunity, and my deconstruction of his version of his version of I like to call the central conspiracy theory of the antivaccine movement, which posited that in 2000 the CDC met in an Atlanta suburb to “cover up” the evidence that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal was the cause of the “autism epidemic.” It was nonsense, of course, based on a misrepresentation of how in epidemiological studies seemingly “positive” associations disappear when confounders are properly taken into account. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_can_only_imagine_what_happened_to_him’:_The mother_of_a_non-verbal_teen_with_autism_recounts_rescuing_her son_from_a_care_facility_in_Crimea_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Battery-powered_‘shark’_cleans plastic-infested_waters⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Jayapal_Laments_Biden_Cave_to_Insurance Industry_on_Medicare_Advantage⠀⇛ Noting that progressives in Congress recently helped lead the White House to the brink of implementing far-reaching reforms to Medicare Advantage and bringing relief to taxpayers who for years have been overpaying insurers that run the program, Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Thursday criticized the Biden administration’s plan to delay making changes to the system following aggressive lobbying by the insurance industry. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ We_Had_New_York_City’s_Back_During_the Pandemic._Now_We_Need_It_to_Have_Ours.⠀⇛ “Is the food okay?” o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_EA_is_cutting_around_800_jobs in_company_restructuring⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Forget_ChatGPT_And_Play_Rock-Paper-Scissors_With Yourself_Instead⠀⇛ This isn’t like the cool AI everyone’s getting caught up with these days, but we’re sure it will make a fun party gimmick nonetheless. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_UvA_lecturer_concerned_about ChatGPT’s_potential_dangers_such_as_racist_and_sexist language [Ed: Distracts from vastly worse problems like veiled disinformation by governments, corporations; even plagiarism. As if the "isms" are the foremost problem.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Microsoft_to_pay_$3.3M_to_settle_sanctions,_export_control violations⠀⇛ Microsoft will pay more than $3.3 million to settle charges from two federal agencies its subsidiaries violated sanctions laws and export controls across their dealings in four sanctioned countries and Ukraine’s Crimea region, which is under Russian control. # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Oops:_Samsung_Employees_Leaked_Confidential Data_to_ChatGPT⠀⇛ Samsung employees are in hot water after they reportedly leaked sensitive confidential company information to OpenAI’s ChatGPT on at least three separate occasions. The leaks highlight both the widespread popularity of the popular new AI chatbot for professionals and the often-overlooked ability of OpenAI to suck up sensitive data from its millions of willing users. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ SANS ☛ Security_headers_you_should_add_into_your application_to_increase_cyber_risk_protection,_(Thu,_Apr 6th)⠀⇛ Web applications are a wide world that is currently the object of numerous cyberattacks, mostly seeking to compromise the information directly in the clients that use them. # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_CISA_Adds_Ten_Known_Exploited Vulnerabilities_to_Catalog [Ed: Microsoft tops the list!]⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_CISA_Releases_One_Industrial Control_Systems_Advisory⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Supply_Chain_Attack_Against 3CXDesktopApp⠀⇛ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Intercept_and_Inject:_DNS Response_Manipulation_in_the_Wild⠀⇛ # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Threat_researchers_dissect_anatomy_of_a Royal_ransomware_attack [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Trellix researchers have shared the details of a Royal ransomware attack on one of its customers, revealing insight into the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) employed by one of the world’s most active and dangerous ransomware operations. Royal ransomware was first detected in January of 2022 but the group ramped up its activity from September onwards. It has since become a widespread and dangerous threat and the subject of warnings from US authorities. [...] Royal used these privileges to run a PowerShell command and launch the PowerSploit post- exploitation framework via Cobalt Strike’s service on port 11925. In this case, it downloaded and executed the PowerView module. # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ ICYMI:_LastPass_Data_Breach_Post_Mortem ⠀⇛ LastPass attacks began with a hacked employee’s home computer. The investigation now reveals the password manager company’s data vault was compromised, according to an article on TechRepublic. The password manager’s company has released two security bulletins, one for LastPass users and another one for business administrators. Hopefully, most of you reading this were like me, and ditched LastPass altogether after they severely limited the “free accounts,” which included deleting all of my data from LastPass and porting everything over to BitWarden. We covered the move from LastPass to BitWarden, as well as the whole LastPass money-grab, in the April 2021 issue of The PCLinuxOS Magazine. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_These_Countries_Share the_Most_Data_With_Cops⠀⇛ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Federal_Agency_Acquired_NSO_Group_Malware Via_Front_Company_After_NSO_Was_Blacklisted_By_Commerce Dept.⠀⇛ A leak of alleged customers’ targets — a list that included journalists, human rights activists, religious leaders, government critics, and political figures — turned a trickle of news about Israel-based NSO Group into a steady stream of harrowing revelations. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Now_Is_the_Time_for_a_Federal_Ban_on Facial_Recognition_Surveillance⠀⇛ Cities and counties across the country have banned government use of face surveillance technology, and many more are weighing proposals to do so. From Boston to San Francisco, Jackson, Mississippi to Minneapolis, elected officials and activists know that face surveillance gives police the power to track us wherever we go. It also disproportionately impacts people of color, turns us all into perpetual suspects, increases the likelihood of being falsely arrested, and chills people’s willingness to participate in first amendment protected activities. Even Amazon, known for operating one of the largest video surveillance networks in the history of the world, extended its moratorium on selling face recognition to police. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ American_Companies_Are_Helping_Power Russia’s_Massive_Facial_Recognition_System⠀⇛ Russia’s fighting a war in Ukraine and a war at home. As residents express their displeasure with their government, the government’s cameras and facial recognition AI are going into overdrive to ensure Putin and his pals control the narrative. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Iowa_Becomes_Sixth_State_To_Pass_An Internet_Privacy_Law⠀⇛ While there’s a lot of talk about how getting privacy legislation right is hard (it is), or that doing it wrong could pose many problems (it could), that should never derail attention from the real reason the U.S. has no federal privacy law in 2023: Congress is blisteringly, comically corrupt. And with numerous, deep-pocketed industries lobbying it in unison, quality federal privacy law never had a chance. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Database_Shows_ICE_Is_Bypassing_Courts_And Sending_Subpoenas_To_Schools,_Charitable_Organizations, And_Abortion_Clinics⠀⇛ There’s something about some government agencies that make them revolt against the notion of checks and balances. Some federal agencies have extra privileges that make it much, much easier. A large number of agencies can issue their own subpoenas, demanding data, recordings, and other information from their targets — self-issued documents that bypass the court system entirely. # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_French_MPs_Approve Controversial_Surveillance_Tech_Under_Olympics Pretext⠀⇛ o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ House_Speaker_McCarthy_Meets_Taiwan’s_Tsai_in California⠀⇛ McCarthy has become the highest-level US official to meet with a Taiwanese president on US soil since the 1979 diplomatic shift. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ ‘The_Swedes_should_figure_out_how_to_win our_trust’_–_Gulyás⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Sparing_the_Athletes:_Revising_the_Russia- Belarus_Sporting_Ban⠀⇛ Collateral damage?  Deserving and worthy of their punishment?  The exclusion and banishment of Russian and Belarusian athletes has become the acceptable prejudice of many governments and a slew of sporting bodies.  After the invasion of Ukraine in February last year, a number banded together to find ways to punish Russia, […] # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ UN_Human_Rights_Council_Condemns_Impact_of Unilateral_Sanctions⠀⇛ The resolution presented by Azerbaijan on behalf of Non-Aligned countries noted the impact of sanctions on key rights related to life, health, and freedom from hunger. It was predictably rejected by the US and its allies. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “The_Undertow”:_Author_Jeff_Sharlet_on Trump,_the_Far_Right_&_the_Growing_Threat_of_Fascism_in U.S.⠀⇛ We speak with award-winning journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, who has spent the last decade reporting on the growing threat of fascism across the United States. In his new book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, Sharlet says the language of “civil war” has become central to right-wing rhetoric, mainstreamed by former President Donald Trump, Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_government_plans_to_extend_the state_of_danger_once_again⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Orthodox_Patriarch_Kirill_appoints_top_Russian military_priest_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), has appointed Archpriest Dimitry Vasilenkov, a cleric of the St. Petersburg bishopric, in charge of the ROC military clergy deployed in Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Volunteer_Corps_announces_a_‘visit’_to_the Bryansk_region_after_Bryansk_governor_reports_thwarting ‘Ukrainian_saboteurs’_in_the_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), a group whose members say they are Russians who fight for Ukraine, that it has “paid another visit” to the Bryansk region, according to a post on the group’s Telegram channel. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kaliningrad:_An_imperial_gem_and_a_thorn_in everyone’s_side_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prosecution_demands_25-year_prison_sentence_for Vladimir_Kara-Murza_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Vladimir Kara-Murza’s lawyer, Maria Eismont, told reporters at a Moscow municipal court that a prosecutor asked for a 25 year prison sentence for the opposition policitican. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ FSB_prosecutes_16-year-old_boy_for_alleged_railway sabotage_in_southwest_Siberia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Federal Security Service (“FSB”) has arrested a 16-year-old boy in Russia’s Kemerovo region, in connection with an alleged railway sabotage incident in the area. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Bryansk_governor_says_FSB_thwarted_attempt_by ‘Ukrainian_saboteurs’_to_cross_into_Russian_territory_— Meduza⠀⇛ Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz said Thursday that the FSB’s border service prevented an attempt by a “Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group” to cross into Russian territory. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Omsk_residents_who_left_Russia_during_mobilization report_being_summoned_for_questioning_by_FSB_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Russia’s Omsk region have begun summoning residents who left the country during mobilization for questioning, the independent outlet iStories reported on Thursday. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine’s_military_publishes_video_of_Ukrainian strike_on_Russian_territory_for_the_first_time_—_Meduza⠀⇛ For the first time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have released footage of a Ukrainian strike on Russian territory, according to the German outlet Bild. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainians_install_screen_on_border_with_Belarus and_broadcast_war_footage_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, a large screen has reportedly been set up on the border with Belarus and is being used to show footage from Russia’s war in Ukraine. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ ‘Our_Finnish_friends_still_have_a_lot_to learn_about_integrity’_–_Hungarian_State_Secretary_for Bilateral_Relations⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ iStories:_As_many_as_8,000_Russian_volunteers_and mercenaries_have_been_killed_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Over the course of nearly a year of Russia’s full- scale war in Ukraine, by publication iStories’ count, almost 8,000 volunteers and mercenaries in private military companies fighting for Russia have been killed. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_to_reconsider_a_bill_that_permits delivery_of_military_summonses_by_registered_mail_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The State Duma voted to return a bill from 2018 to consideration in a second reading. The draft legislation, if passed, would change the current procedure for conscription for mandatory military service. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Shock,_Grief_After_Unhoused_Woman_Killed and_Volunteers_Injured_in_Reno_Car_Attack⠀⇛ A Nevada man has been arrested and charged with murder after allegedly telling police he intentionally rammed his car into a group of volunteers feeding unhoused people in Reno on Monday evening, killing one woman and critically injuring two others. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Israel_Attacks_Al-Aqsa_Two_Nights_in_a_Row, Beating_Worshippers_at_Holy_Site⠀⇛ Israeli forces conducted violent raids on the Al Aqsa Mosque compound two nights in a row, beating worshipers and forcing Palestinians out of the holy site in order to make way for Jewish pilgrims on Passover. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_America’s_Remarkable Unwillingness_to_Support_Its_Veterans⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_US_War_Planners_Court China’s_Neighbors⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Bowling_Green_Whistleblower_on_Koch Influence_in_Faculty_Hiring_Faces_Dismissal_–_Validated Independent_News⠀⇛ The controversy began in 2015 when Coons sent emails to colleagues regarding the hiring of a candidate for a position in the philosophy department. At the time, Coons believed the candidate did not meet the qualifications for the position. In 2019, having been hired, the person helped the department secure a $1.6 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. In response, Wilson reported, Coons “expressed his view that the Koch money corrupted the hiring process in the department” and Coons has continued to “occasionally raise these concerns in emails to colleagues.” As Wilson noted, the Koch Foundation was known at the time to have “used its funding to influence academia.” Nevertheless, colleagues in the philosophy department did not side with Coons, and he was shunned by his department. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Unite_to_Survive’:_Mass_Banner_Drop Promotes_XR_Climate_Rally_at_UK_Parliament⠀⇛ Dozens of colorful banners were dropped across the United Kingdom on Thursday to invite people to London later this month for a four-day peaceful protest outside Parliament demanding action on the climate emergency to ensure “a future that is safe and fair.” # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Protecting_Mature_Forests_Slows_Climate Change,_So_Why_Is_Biden_Still_Allowing_Them_to_Be_Logged?⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_Has_the_Right_Become_Obsessed_With Climate-Friendly_Banking?⠀⇛ The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had “financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America,” according to Washington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it wasn’t clear who might fill that gap. MAGA politicians took great delight in the disruption of what they tediously referred to as the “woke” economy. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) typically tweeted this non sequitur: “So these SVB guys spend all their time funding woke garbage—‘climate change solutions’—rather than actual banking.” Meanwhile, Stephen Miller, the vampirish mastermind of Donald Trump’s 2017 Muslim travel ban, asked all too rhetorically how much time and money that bank had spent on what he called equity, diversity, and climate “scams.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Bombing_of_Nord_Stream_—_This_Act_of War_Against_Europe_Requires_Congressional Investigation⠀⇛ President Biden’s own statements predicting the end of Nord Stream, preliminary to  the devastating attack on its infrastructure, point to the necessity of determining whether or not the president was speaking from his singularly informed position of the Chief Executive, as Hersh indicated. # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_FTX’s_Sam_Bankman-Fried_to face_new_bribery_conspiracy_charge_in_U.S.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Global_Coal_Phaseout_Must_Speed_Up_to Avert_‘Climate_Chaos’:_Analysis⠀⇛ To avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis, the world must stop building new coal plants and shut down existing ones at nearly five times the current rate. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Aviation_Industry_Awarded_£18_Billion_of Public_Finance_Since_Paris_Agreement⠀⇛ A UK government agency has provided billions of pounds worth of financial support to the high-carbon aviation sector since the Paris climate agreement was adopted in 2015, DeSmog analysis shows. UK Export Finance (UKEF) has effectively subsidised new airports, aircraft, and maintenance, despite stating that the oil- dependent industry is unlikely to begin cutting emissions “materially” until the 2030s. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Oil_and_Gas_Worker_Survey_Sheds_Light_on Unstable_and_Unsafe_Working_Conditions⠀⇛ As a carpenter for a contractor company, Cullen Boudreaux worked in oil refineries throughout Louisiana. “I think a lot of regular people don’t realize how dangerous it really is,” he said of his experience in the oil and gas industry. Boudreaux described a time when he halted work on a project because he smelled a leak, but said that other times he was worried he would lose his job if he called out safety hazards. For five years, he chased after contract jobs at different plants. Some lasted a year and a half and others were two or three months long. Last year, Boudreaux was forced out of the industry after a back injury. “I was tired of the layoffs and the inconsistency of pay and looking for work and stuff like that,” he said. He recently took a job as a manager at a restaurant in New Orleans. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_What_the complicated_social_lives_of_wasps_can_teach_us_about the_evolution_of_animal_societies⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_In_“the_Land_of_the Revolution,”_Emmanuel_Macron_Can’t_Just_Ignore_the_Popular Will⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_FT:_Is_France_on_the road_to_a_Sixth_Republic? [Ed: Remember who controls FT. The people who do the oppressing in France.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Win-Win-Win_of_Student_Debt Cancellation⠀⇛ The Supreme Court is gearing up to weigh in on the ongoing student loan debt debate prompted by President Joe Biden’s sweeping debt cancellation plan that would help over 35 million Americans. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Progressives_Revive_Legislation_to ‘Cut_Child_Poverty_by_Nearly_Two-Thirds’⠀⇛ A trio of progressive U.S. lawmakers on Thursday reintroduced legislation that advocates say would slash the nation’s child poverty rate by nearly two-thirds. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_Kathy_Hochul_Is Committed_to_New_York’s_Billionaires⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNA ☛ Tech_layoffs_and_how_different_parts_of_the_world_are dealing_with_them⠀⇛ After several tech giants including Amazon, Meta and Microsoft fired thousands in India, Mr Agarwal is not interested in working with big tech for now. He is instead hoping to build on his experience at Twitter to set up a policy consulting firm. # ⚓ Piles_of_debt_may_factor_into_Hyland’s_sweeping_layoffs⠀⇛ # ⚓ Disney’s_Recent_Trend_Angering_Employees,_Customers_of Amazon,_Microsoft,_Boeing,_Others⠀⇛ Guests of the Walt Disney World Resort may use Microsoft Edge to plan their trips, drive in a Ford or General Motors vehicle to the parks (or board a Boeing 747 to fly to Orlando), and post vacation photos to Facebook. Aside from this, The Walt Disney Company has no real affiliation with companies like Microsoft, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Boeing, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Facebook. But in 2023, there is an undeniable tie that binds them, and it’s an unfortunate one. # ⚓ Microsoft_Ends_Measurement_Of_Chicago_Air_Pollution⠀⇛ “A citywide project that tracked Chicago’s air pollution using more than a hundred low-cost air quality sensors ended last week after the tech company Microsoft, which led the project, quietly announced to its users that it was shuttering the program,” reports MuckRock. “Microsoft’s air quality monitoring program, called Project Eclipse, began in July 2021 when it placed air sensors atop bus shelters across the city in partnership with the city of Chicago, the advertising firm JCDecaux, which designs the city’s bus shelters, Chicago’s Environmental Law and Policy Center and… community organizations. For almost two years, the sensors delivered one of the few detailed pictures of how air pollution varies by neighborhood in the U.S.” In a statement from the company, which just laid off thousands of workers: “Microsoft said it decided to close its air quality initiative after its research arm, which ‘continuously evaluates research projects to determine directions and future investment,’ had decided now was ‘a natural point to conclude the work.’” o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Feds_Say_Serial_Swatter_Had_a Discord_for_Fans_to_Follow_His_Exploits⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Cooling_off_period proposed_for_Michigan_lawmakers_to_become_lobbyists [Ed: The correct policy would be to ban all "lobbying"]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Macron_Fails_to_Persuade,_So_Opts_for Coercion⠀⇛ # ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_KDC-F_condemns_Turkish interference_in_French_internal_affairs⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Unlimited_potential_for_fraud’:_Online_voting_is the_key_to_Russia’s_election_rigging,_but_the_next presidential_election_will_require_gerrymandering_too_— Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian authorities have decided the reduce the number of election polling stations available to voters. In Moscow, ahead of the mayoral election planned for September, officials are slashing the number of municipal polling locations by almost 40 percent, as confirmed by Tsentrizberkom (“TsIK”), Russia’s state election authority. In other regions, the reduction is less stark, reaching about 10 percent. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Big,_Earnest_Love_That_Propelled Brandon_Johnson_to_Victory_in_Chicago⠀⇛ In Chicago on Tuesday, hope won out over cynicism. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump’s_Indictment:_A_Wakeup_Call_for Resurrecting_Democracy⠀⇛ Donald Trump’s indictment for criminal behavior has no precedent in American history. How could a functioning democracy choose such a man as President? # ⚓ The Nation ☛ There_Was_No_Trump_Violence_This_Week._But What’s_Coming?⠀⇛ The weekend Donald Trump wrongly claimed he’d be “arrested” within a few days, as his incitements to supporters to get violent kept coming, I found myself thinking about the best and most disturbing nonfiction book I’d recently read: Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War. It’s both perfect and impossible to describe. As the Washington Post review put it: “At the time, the storming of the US Capitol felt unbelievable. Reading ‘The Undertow,’ it feels inevitable.” This amazing book makes all of it into tragic sense.1 # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Clarence_Thomas’_Luxury_Travel_Sparks_Call for_Investigation⠀⇛ Influential Democratic lawmakers have called for immediate investigations and vowed to create stricter ethics rules following a ProPublica report that revealed Justice Clarence Thomas has, for decades, failed to disclose luxury trips he received from a real estate magnate and conservative megadonor. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee — influential for its role in vetting and confirming Supreme Court nominees — said his panel is calling for an “enforceable code of conduct” for justices. “The ProPublica report is a call to action, and the Senate Judiciary Committee will act,” Durbin said. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Clarence_Thomas_Secretly_Accepted_Luxury Trips_From_GOP_Donor⠀⇛ In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a private chef. If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could have exceeded $500,000. Fortunately for him, that wasn’t necessary: He was on vacation with real estate magnate and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too. # ⚓ Chronicle Of Higher Education ☛ Can_U.S._Research_Recover From_the_China_Initiative?⠀⇛ A year after the Justice Department shut down the Trump-era program, scrutiny of academics’ foreign ties still chills collaborations. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Impeachment_Vote_Demanded_as_Report_Exposes Clarence_Thomas’_Billionaire-Funded_Luxury_Trips⠀⇛ Progressives on Thursday urged congressional Democrats to immediately push for investigations and impeachment proceedings after bombshell reporting by ProPublica revealed that right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been taking luxury trips funded by a billionaire Republican megadonor for more than 20 years without formally disclosing them—a likely violation of federal law. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ AOC_Says_Clarence_Thomas_‘Must_Be Impeached’_Over_‘Almost_Cartoonish’_Corruption⠀⇛ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be impeached by the U.S. House in the wake of ProPublica reporting that exposed the judge’s billionaire-funded luxury vacations. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘A_Very_Dark_Day_for_Tennessee’:_House_GOP Expels_Democrat_Justin_Jones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ousted_Tennessee_Lawmaker_Justin_Jones_Vows to_Keep_Fighting_for_Gun_Control⠀⇛ Justin Jones, the Democratic Tennessee lawmaker who was expelled from the state Legislature on Thursday, said he was trying to protect all children from the scourge of gun violence—including the children of the Republican colleagues who subsequently voted to oust him—while vowing to keep fighting for gun control. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nearly_270_State_Lawmakers_Denounce_‘Anti- Democratic’_Expulsion_Effort_by_Tennessee_GOP⠀⇛ Lawmakers from 35 states on Thursday signed a letter condemning the Tennessee Republican Party as it prepared to expel three Democratic representatives who joined a protest demanding gun control legislation in the State Capitol, with the letter accusing the state GOP of racist and “anti- democratic” conduct. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-03-24_[Older]_WHO counters_Musk’s_claims_about_new_treaty_on_pandemic⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Nochnye_Snaipery_lead_singer_Diana_Arbenina reported_to_state_prosecutor_for_‘discrediting’_Russian_army —_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian rock star and Nochnye Snaipery lead singer Diana Arbenina has become the subject of a complaint directed to the State Prosecutor’s office. Its author is Vitaly Borodin, head of the Federal Security and Anti-Corruption Project, who already has a reputation for initiating prosecution cases against the independent Russian media. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Free_Speech_Absolutist_Elon_Musk_Reminds_People He_Laid_Off_That_If_They_Disparage_Him_He_May_Sue_Them⠀⇛ Elon Musk has repeatedly referred to himself as a “free speech absolutist” and promised that on his Twitter even his “worst critics” would be welcome. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ An_awkward_situation_at_the_tank_factory_In_the wake_of_Evan_Gershkovich’s_arrest_in_Yekaterinburg,_a_young couple_from_a_nearby_city_faces_treason_charges_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Following espionage charges against jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested last week in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s Federal Security Service opened an apparently related case against a married couple from the nearby industrial city of Nizhny Tagil, home to the Russian tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod. The circumstances of these latter arrests suggest that the FSB is building a treason investigation that intersects at least in part with the prosecution of Evan Gershkovich. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Rep._Rashida_Tlaib_Calls_for_End_of_Julian Assange_Extradition⠀⇛ Congressional action has finally sprung for the jailed WikiLeaks founder. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Reporters_Without_Borders_Denied_Entry_to Visit_Assange_in_U.K._Prison;_No_NGO_Has_Seen_Him_in_4 Years⠀⇛ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent the last four years locked up at the Belmarsh high-security prison in London, where he has been fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges. He faces up to 175 years in prison if convicted. This week, amid growing concerns about Assange’s health, Reporters Without Borders attempted to become the first NGO to visit with Assange since his arrest four years ago. Despite being given approval, RSF representatives, including our guest, RSF secretary-general and executive director Christophe Deloire, were denied entry. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Calls_Grow_for_Russia_to_Free_Jailed_U.S. Journalist_Evan_Gershkovich,_Accused_of_Espionage⠀⇛ We speak with Joshua Yaffa, a close friend of Evan Gershkovich, The Wall Street Journal reporter who has been jailed in Russia since his arrest last week, when he was accused of trying to obtain state secrets related to the Russian military — days after the United States indicted a Russian man in Brazil on espionage charges. Gershkovich’s parents left the Soviet Union for the United States before he was born, and he has reported in Russia since 2017. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Press freedom groups have denounced his arrest and urged Russia to immediately release him. Yaffa is The New Yorker’s Moscow correspondent, where his recent piece is titled “The Unimaginable Horror of a Friend’s Arrest in Moscow.” We are also joined by Christophe Deloire, secretary-general and executive director of Reporters Without Borders, which has called Gershkovich a “Russian state hostage.” # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_CPJ_submits_evidence_on_Hong_Kong media_freedom_to_UK_parliamentary_group⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Nigerian_journalist_Agba_Jalingo detained_on_cybercrime_charges⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Tufts_Students_Urge_University_to Address_Campus_Housing_Crisis_Driven_by_Over-Enrollment_– Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛ For several years, Tufts has admitted more students can it can house, despite student grievances regarding the consequences for campus housing options. Other universities that over-enrolled students during the COVID-19 pandemic are now faced with the challenge of  housing students arriving on campus after having deferred admission earlier in the pandemic. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Police_union:_Harder_action must_be_taken_against_structural_racism_in_the_police_force⠀⇛ # ⚓ Site36 ☛ After_criticism_of_police_violence:_France’s interior_minister_threatens_125-year-old_civil_rights organisation⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Hindu_Nationalist_Campaign_to_Promote Yoga⠀⇛ On the sunny winter morning of January 29, a group of Indian Americans dressed in white polo shirts and black trousers gathered at a softball field in Scottsdale, Ariz., to practice yoga. On blue tarpaulin sheets and yoga mats, the group of 40-odd people, including men, women, and children, performed 108 Surya Namaskar, or sun salutations, in the next three hours. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Humane_Migration_Policy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Despicable’:_Idaho_Becomes_First_US_State to_Restrict_Interstate_Travel_for_Abortion_Care⠀⇛ Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Wednesday made his state the first in the U.S. to restrict interstate travel for abortion care by signing legislation that aims to prevent minors from traveling to obtain an abortion without parental consent. # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_EU:_Stronger_Rules_Needed_for Political_Ads⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Tirana_Hassan_to_Lead_Human_Rights Watch⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-27_[Older]_Vietnam:_Drop_Charges_against Human_Rights_Activist⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Exile_or_Prison:_Egypt’s_Offer_To Critics_Abroad⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_UN_Experts_Find_War_Crimes,_Crimes Against_Humanity_in_Libya⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Burkina_Faso:_TV_News_Broadcasts Suspended⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Japan_to_Hold_Retrial_for_Decades- Old_Death_Sentence⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Myanmar_Junta_Dissolves_Political Parties⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_New_Nepal_Police_Chief_Has Questions_to_Answer_on_Torture⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Pakistan:_Prisoners_Deprived_of Adequate_Health_Care⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Sri_Lanka:_IMF_Loan_Risks_Eroding Rights⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Taliban_Expand_Civil_Society Crackdown⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Tanzania_Undermines_Right_to Health_of_Maasai_Community⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_US:_Texas_Attack_on_Migrants Reaches_New_Extremes⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_WNBA_Stars_Condemn_Sex_Abuse_of Mali_Players⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-29_[Older]_Zambia:_Repeal_Law_That_Restricts Civil_Society⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_DR_Congo:_Rampant_Intercommunal Violence_in_West⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_France,_EU:_Raise_Rights_During Top-Level_China_Visit⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Namibian_Communities_Deserve_a_Say in_German_Reparations_Deal⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_Tanzania_Undermines_Right_to Health_of_Maasai_Community⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-30_[Older]_UN_Paints_Bleak_Picture_of_Rights in_Sri_Lanka⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Bangladesh:_Halt_‘Pilot’_Plan_to Return_Rohingya⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Guatemala:_End_Arbitrary_Exclusion of_Candidates⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Kosovo:_War_Crimes_Trial_to_Begin in_The_Hague⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Rape_Survivor_Testifies_Publicly in_Guinea_Massacre_Trial⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Thailand:_Don’t_Return_Chinese Asylum_Seekers⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-03-28_[Older]_Genuine_use_and_the_principle of_permissible_alterations⠀⇛ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ RPC_builds_up_London_patent_team_with_EIP partner_hire [Ed: JUVE persists with posting of SPAM instead of news, basically ads disguised as reporting. The money for this doesn't just buy ads but also lobbying for illegal policies, using false "news" and disinformation, notably UPC propaganda. JUVE is not a publisher but a cynical scam.]⠀⇛ Matt Jones (47), who has joined international commercial law firm RPC as a partner, moves after nine years as a partner at patent boutique, EIP. His addition will strengthen the RPC patent practice, as well as contributing to its IP capacities in general. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Chipotle_Sues_Sweetgreen_For_Having_Its Own_‘Chipotle_Burrito_Bowl’⠀⇛ If there is one aspect of trademark law that should be the most understandable for business leaders and their lawyers, if not for the general public, it’s that you generally cannot get trademarks on purely descriptive terms. Yes, you can name your product Coca-Cola and get a trademark on that term, but you cannot get a trademark on “cola” or “soda” and threaten or sue everyone else who uses it to describe their own products. Simple, right? # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ISPs_Fail_to_Dismiss_Filmmakers’ Piracy_Liability_Lawsuits⠀⇛ Internet providers WideOpenWest and Grande Communications will have to defend themselves against filmmakers’ piracy liability claims. In two separate lawsuits, filmmakers accused the companies of turning a blind eye to piracy. The ISPs characterized the filmmakers as copyright trolls and requested dismissals, but the allegations failed to convince the courts. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Two_Founders_of_Piracy_Giant_Zone- Telechargement_Sentenced_in_France⠀⇛ After being founded in 2012, the popularity of French pirate download site Zone- Telechargement soon attracted interest from the authorities. In 2016, with the platform recently crowned the 11th most-visited site in France, two friends were arrested on suspicion of being the site’s founders. Seven years later, a court has now handed both men custodial sentences. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Wax_Sticks⠀⇛ Light is physically the same as sound except higher pitched (too high for ears). Green, the colloquial name for waveforms near 570 terahertz, is more treble (a.k.a. colder) than red/ orange/yellow, but more bass (a.k.a. warmer) than blue. The seven colors of the rainbow starting with red is like the seven big keys on a piano starting on A4, except one trillion times higher frequency (ten to the power of twelve). # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_IMOPVTS_Wordo:_GLIDE⠀⇛ # ⚓ Book(s)_Review:_The_Black_Fleet_Crisis⠀⇛ Earlier this week I finished reading “The Black Fleet Crisis”, a trilogy of Star Wars novels by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. Part of the Legends canon, the series consists of the books “Before the War”, “Shield of Lies”, and “Tyrant’s Test”. The story takes place in 9 ABY, or nine years after the Battle of Yavin featured in the original “Star Wars film. The leader of the isolationist Yevetha visits the center of galactic government in Coruscant, ostensibly to broker a political alliance with Princess Leia and the New Republic, but he has much more sinister plans in mind. Luke Skywalker embarks on a quest with a strange woman who promises that he will learn about the mother he never knew. Meanwhile, Lando Calrissian investigates a mysterious vagabond starship and discovers the secret of its origins. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Machine_Learning—good_and_bad_arguments_against⠀⇛ I hate machine learning so much, to the point that I’m almost willing to consider bad arguments against them! But ideally let’s stick to good arguments against them, and see how far we can get. I started hating ML from a gut feeling first, and had to come up with arguments and reasons later. Feels over reals. I think most people work this way without being aware of it. What the thinker thinks, the prover will prove. # ⚓ Daily_driving_Void⠀⇛ I’ve had Void as a second boot option for months now, and before that I had a fairly long running VM. I’ve been interested in moving to Void for a while for a couple of reasons, but the biggest would be that I wanted a distro based on Musl libc. I already made this particular jump on one machine, the Raspberry Pi 4 which runs this gemlog, my Gitea instance and an Apache server. It’s been rock solid and I haven’t had to do anything other than install updates since the first week I brought it up. I haven’t had that kind of stability in a long time. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ It_Was_a_Time_for_Patching⠀⇛ The last three weeks have been exceptionally busy and exhausting, as we’ve been throwing birthday parties for family and friends, coming down and recovering from a flu, and dealing with a teething baby. 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