𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, April 10, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 11 Apr 02:40:45 BST 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/10/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmQeFJQZ3HkPF4nR4UnfSSDua2yuQG5R4xeL62uWkCNiCG QmYeqndJUEciynuvEFZb11F6xnYuspBohuERc9a9tu5gS2 QmUXUNDJQ5vi3kbs4mHpxvBEWZJbck83nNtAVMi4wJsEQ6 QmcUpvsckHPM5NPUPS6gA9ce5ym1pVc19LKaPD7q1uMf74 QmTUTyUW7xR71QVYrTQEx8WemNeazwLzEfFVgqJrMjeR1c 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So More Victims of the Company Speak Out | Techrights ⦿ U.S. Banks, Including Chase and Synchrony, File Suspicious Activity Reports and Shut Down Accounts for ‘Logging in From Another Country’ and Transferring Retirement Funds; May Also Affect VPN Users | Techrights ⦿ Desktops/Laptops: Windows Down to 64%, GNU/Linux Rises to 6.3% | Techrights ⦿ Windows Market Share: From 80% to 26% in a Single Decade | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/irc-log-090423/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/sirius-astroturfing/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/sirius-open-source-wage-theft/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/us-banks-vpn/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/windows-down-to-64-pct/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/windows-market-share-decade/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/librearts-weekly/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/linux-6-3-rc6/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/openbsd-7-3/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 64 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/irc-log-090423/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/10/irc-log-090423/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.10.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Sunday,_April_09,_2023⠀✐ Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:01 am by Needs Sunlight Also available via the Gemini protocol at: * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-090423.gmi * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-090423.gmi * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-090423.gmi * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-090423.gmi Over HTTP: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇H 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇HTML5_logs⦈_ #techrights_log_as_HTML5 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█▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.10.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Sirius_AstroTurfing⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 10:46 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇AstroTurfing_owls⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Sirius_AstroTurf⦈_ Summary: Days after Sirius_‘Open_Source’ lowered_salaries a couple of cheerleaders appeared, boosting ads from the fake ‘founder’ of the company ⡿⡿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⢟⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣟⣟⣿⡟⠻⣛⣽⣟⣳⣿⣿⣽⣵⣻⣛⣽⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣯⣿⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣷⣥⣿⣭⣖⣇⣋⣛⣺⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣷⣤⣥⣴⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⢟⡿⢿⣿⡛⢛⣿⣯⠋⢹⣻⣛⡋⢯⡟⡷⡱⣽⣼⣿⣾⣟⣟⣷⣽⣾⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣏⣹⣻⣫⣛⣇⣷⣷⣤⣾⣿⣿⣤⣬⣶⣦⣾⢽⣿⣿⡿⣶⣿⢷⢾⣿⢾⢿⣾⡟⡿⡿⠻⢿⣿⠻⢛⣿⣯⡛⢛⢿⣿⡹⢻⣿⡟⡻⣹⣽⣿⣛⣿⣧⣟⣿⣿⣿⣸⣣⣿⣷⣿⣷⣤⣽⣾⣻⣬⣯⡿⡿⢿⢿⢿⠿⠿ ⣿⣿⣻⣿⢏⣫⣿⣯⣍⣍⣿⣻⣿⣥⣛⣧⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣵⣤⣯⣯⣾⣿⣿⣾⠿⠿⠿⡿⠶⢾⠿⠷⠿⠿⣛⠻⡟⢛⠛⠟⢛⢻⠛⠛⡋⢟⣩⡝⠯⢙⡍⠟⢛⣭⡟⣋⣮⣝⣷⢏⡻⣀⣆⣛⣾⣺⡕⣢⡡⣚⠲⠈⡭ ⢟⢛⠛⣟⡻⠯⡝⡉⠿⢯⠝⠹⠍⠩⡙⠉⠉⠂⣫⢂⠵⠢⣄⣰⢤⣪⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⣦⣊⣈⡎⡆⠽⣗⠙⠙⠘⡓⢅⢀⢋⣀⡬⣻⠼⢸⣟⣧⡗⡦⠦⣤⠳⡶⠦⣶⢵⣿⣟⣿⡐⡪⡾⣌⢩⠛⣮⣛⡻⣻⣿⠦⢇⣛ ⣷⢿⡦⡃⣼⡳⣦⠠⡹⣈⡫⣏⡀⠸⠌⡆⠡⢄⢧⢪⡘⡎⣏⢈⣼⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣶⣦⣭⣥⣪⣮⢯⢾⢬⣬⣳⢾⣯⣨⠮⢏⡶⡶⡤⢴⠚⢾⢽⣻⡾⠺⣿⣯⣷⣻⣺⣖⣿⣿ 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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 254 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/sirius-open-source-wage-theft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/10/sirius-open-source-wage-theft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.10.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Sirius_‘Friends’_Try_to_SLAPP_or_Intimidate_Victims_of_the_Company,_So_More Victims_of_the_Company_Speak_Out⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 10:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz The company’s victims_include_blind_people Saturday: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇You_trying_to_seed_doubt_and_gaslight_many_victims._You moreover_make__veiled_threats_against_people_who_speak_out_facts._Based_on_your earlier_message,_you're_a_friend_or_de_facto__promoter/fixer_of_Mark⦈_ Sunday: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇When_I_saw_the_praise_for_Sirius_I_did_cringe_to_myself because_I_also_find_them_to_be_a_scummy_company.___I_thought_I'd_avoid responding,_because_frankly_life_is_too_short.__However,_this_veiled_threat_of libel_is_simply_ridiculous,_so_now_I_am_going_to_respond._The_reason_I_find them_scummy_is_because_I_worked_on_a_project_with_them_10_years_ago,_and_they simply_didn't_pay_me_and_ignored_reminders_to_pay_the_invoice.__The_project_was ultimately_cancelled_as_the_client_changed_their_mind,_so_I_guess_Sirus_thought they_didn't_need_to_pay_me._It_wasn't_even_a_huge_sum_of_money,_but_it_was enough_to_totally_burn_their_reputation_with_me.__So_yeah,_if_they_want_to_sue me_for_libel,_bring_it_the_fuck_on._Thanks⦈_ Summary: The crimes of Sirius_‘Open_Source’ turn out to have gone further than the pension fraud; according to a new message, the company withheld payment to staff that did a lot of work and we’ve seen even worse “wage_theft” before (at one point the company was 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and_Shut_Down_Accounts_for_‘Logging_in_From_Another_Country’_and_Transferring Retirement_Funds;_May_Also_Affect_VPN_Users⠀✐ Posted in Finance at 7:40 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan U.S. Banks, Including Chase and Synchrony, File Suspicious Activity Reports and Shut Down Accounts for ‘Logging in From Another Country’ and Transferring Retirement Funds; May Also Affect VPN Users American banks are closing_customer_accounts_without_warningand many are refusing to say why. The ones named, according to the article, are Chase and Synchrony Bank. (Two of the worst banks in the country to bank with, I might add. Chase was ripping my ex blind with $11 monthly “checking account fees” until I switched him to an online bank with no fees and put an end to that.) Synchrony is an underlying bank for “PayPal Savings” and “PayPal Checking. Synchrony also runs some store cards. They have a possibly illegal practice (under Illinois BIPA) of collecting biometric data to open an Amazon Card. If you use a VPN, you may want to use “split tunneling” for a Web browser session to do your online banking. In at least one instance, according to the article, Chase Bank violated the Bank Secrecy Act, first by telling a man who had his accounts frozen in the middle of dinner and was left unable to pay the bill as a result, that it had filed a SAR (which is illegal….you cannot tell a customer you did that), and then violated the BSA again by telling him why (he had logged on to their online banking system from a foreign country while he was on vacation). There’s a lot of weird stuff going on in the US banking industry right now, including an explosion of SARs. Ironically, the article says the explosion of SARs came “after the pandemic”, which was a pandemic of a SARS virus. 🙂 In all seriousness, the banks are reporting anything that looks even kind of dodgy, apparently, because there’s no penalty to the bank to close accounts and file them, even though only 4% are possibly criminal activity, according to the New York Times article. MinceR on #TechRights IRC channel raised a very good point. Isn’t losing clients a penalty? Chase Bank has $4 trillion in assets. With that much and with the “Systemically Important Bank” regulators breathing down their necks, it’s not so serious if they start cutting some “risky” clients loose even if they’re not actually all that risky. Smaller banks that need the deposits more (like $100-200 billion in assets) and don’t have the intense SIB regulations are probably more likely to look the other way on some of this, but I don’t know that. Besides, there are risks at banking with one where less eyes are on them, like all those California Tesla “loaners” who came to bang on the window of the failed SVB thinking you can go to a failed bank and walk out with a briefcase and a million dollars cash. They found this out. Big banks treat you like shit, because they’re huge and they don’t need your weekly paycheck from cleaning the hospital that much, and small banks, well…. Who even knows what’s going on in there? You takes your chances… As the saying goes. The man who banked at Synchrony (super sketchy bank) had another problem. He dumped out his 401(k) into Synchrony and then tried to open another IRA at TD, which is not suspicious or illegal….people close retirement accounts and transfer the money into a new one all the time….the IRS even says you HAVE TO within the same tax year to avoid penalties! When he went to open the new IRA at TD and fund it, again, perfectly legal, people do it every day, Synchrony froze his account, took his money, wouldn’t tell him why, and said “We’ll get back to you within 60 days.” Uh huh…. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 495 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/10/windows-down-to-64-pct/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/10/windows-down-to-64-pct/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.10.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Desktops/Laptops:_Windows_Down_to_64%,_GNU/Linux_Rises_to_6.3%⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 8:21 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Combined_share (OpenDocument Format): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Chrome_OS_and_GNU/Linux⦈_ The overall picture: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇windows-down⦈_ Summary: The trend is revealing; amid_gains_for_Chrome_OS_and_GNU/Linux Microsoft is 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bigger 10 years ago) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Operating_System_Market_Share_Worldwide⦈_ Summary: As can be seen in the chart above, Microsoft is reaching all-time lows again in terms market share (not that the media bothers mentioning this; it’s paid to pretend chatbots are revolutionary and position Microsoft for huge growth) ⣭⣍⣛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣴⣶⣝⠻⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣛⣛⣛⣛⡛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣶⣦⡀⠀⣀⣠⣤⣬⡍⠉⢙⠉⠛⡟⠛⢻⠉⠛⡿⠛⢻⠟⠛⢿⠛⡟⢻⠛⠛⢻⠉⠛⠟⠛⢿⠻⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⠟⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⡟⠢⢙⡇⠓⡉⢀⢘⡀⠛⡄⠻⢫⡘⠟⣸⠀⠃⢸⠀⡇⢸⡀⠛⡀⠰⢺⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣌⡻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⡿⠿⠟⢿⣿⣿⡿⢛⣩⣝⡛⣋⣙⡹⢸⣿⣿ ⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡶⢀⣀⣀⡀⠶⠶⣀⡰⢒⢒⠲⠶⠆⠐⠒⠒⣀⡀⠶⠶⡶⡶⠤⣤⠀⠤⠄⢢⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢸⣿⣿ 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Links_10/04/2023:_LibreArts_Weekly_and_More⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Rust * Leftovers o Science o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_April_9th,_2023⠀⇛ This week and the next are slow in Linux news and releases due to many people celebrating Easter around the globe, but we still got some things to play with, such as a new BlackArch Linux 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As one of the most popular open-source relational database management systems, MySQL is commonly used for powering such websites. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ A_Comprehensive_Guide_to_Changing_the_Default MySQL_Data_Directory_on_Ubuntu_&_Debian⠀⇛ MySQL is a widely-used open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that powers numerous web applications and services. By default, MySQL stores its data in a predefined directory on Ubuntu and Debian systems, which may not always be suitable for your requirements. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ 10_MySQL_Performance_Tuning_Tips_for_Faster Database_Queries⠀⇛ In today’ss fast-paced digital landscape, the performance of your database can have a significant impact on your application’s overall user experience and functionality. MySQL, as a robust and versatile open-source relational database management system, is a popular choice for many developers and businesses. # ⚓ Linux_Compression_and_Archiving_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ Linux file compression commands reduce the size of files and directories by compressing them, so they are easier to store and transfer. Multiple files and directories can be grouped and stored as a single archive file with archiving commands. Command Description tar Used to create and extract archives in tar format. # ⚓ Linux_Input/Output_Redirection_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ In Linux, input/output redirection commands are used to redirect commands and scripts. This command allows you to specify the input and output locations. You can read input from a file instead of typing it rather than displaying it on the screen. The output of multiple commands can also be filtered and modified using redirection commands. # ⚓ Linux_System_Backup_and_Restore_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ Using the System Backup and Restore commands in Linux, you can create a backup copy of important data and configurations if your system fails, data is lost, or one of your configurations is corrupted. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Yandex_Browser_on_Linux_Mint 21/20⠀⇛ Yandex Browser is a fast, secure, customizable web browser developed by the Russian search engine giant Yandex. Launched in 2012, it has grown in popularity due to its sleek design, built-in ad- blocking, and numerous features that cater to user preferences. # ⚓ Linux_Remote_Access_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ In Linux, remote access commands are used to access and manage computers and servers remotely. Using these commands, users can transfer files, collaborate with others, and open remote shell sessions securely and reliably. Command Description ssh Secure Shell is a network protocol for secure remote access over an unsecured network. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Plex_Media_Server_on_Linux Mint_21/20⠀⇛ Plex Media Server is a popular and powerful media streaming platform that allows you to organize, manage, and stream your media content across various devices. # ⚓ Linux_System_Monitoring_Command_Cheat_Sheet⠀⇛ In Linux, system monitoring commands are used to monitor and analyze system performance. Using these commands, you can find out details about your system’s resources, such as CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, network activity, and running processes. # ⚓ How_to_install_Jupyter_Notebook_in_Ubuntu_VSCode? [Ed: Microsoft proprietary spyware should not be required for Jupyter]⠀⇛ Developers use Jupyter Notebook for having a web- based interactive development environment. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_cURL_on_Linux_Mint_21/20⠀⇛ cURL, which stands for Client for URLs, is a popular command-line tool for transferring data using various network protocols. It was created by Daniel Stenberg in 1997 and has since become an essential tool for web developers, system administrators, and network specialists. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Spotify_on_Linux_Mint_21/ 20⠀⇛ Spotify is a world-renowned music streaming service that offers users access to millions of songs, podcasts, and other audio content. Launched in 2008 in Sweden, it has since expanded globally, revolutionizing the way people consume and discover music. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Showfoto_on_Linux_Mint_21/ 20⠀⇛ Showfoto is a powerful, standalone image editor that’s part of the digiKam suite of open-source photo management applications. It is developed primarily for Linux-based operating systems, with support for a wide range of image formats and functionality. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 8_open_source_‘Easter_eggs’_to_have_fun with_your_Linux_terminal⠀⇛ Hunt these 8 hidden or surprising features to make your Linux experience more entertaining. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past Week_with_Tower_Escape,_Ogu_and_the_Secret_Forest_and_Deceive Inc_–_2023-04-09_Edition⠀⇛ Between 2023-04-02 and 2023-04-09 there were 129 new games validated for the Steam Deck. We use numerous criterias to create this Best Steam Games list every week, such as popularity, reviews and other sources. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Antivirus_for_Rocky_Linux?_Yes!⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to install two antivirus for Rocky Linux. Is it necessary? Probably not, but it is always better to be forewarned. Rocky Linux 9 and all other Linux distributions are quite secure, but there are many malicious attackers out there who want to breach our systems. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ IP67-rated_CM4_AI_camera_uses_Raspberry_Pi Compute_Module_4_for_computer_vision_applications⠀⇛ EDATEC ED-AIC2020 is an IP67-rated, Raspberry Pi CM4-based industrial AI camera equipped with a fixed or liquid lens and LED illumination that leverages the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 to run computer vision applications using OpenCV, Pythong, And Qt. We’ve previously written about Raspberry Pi Compute Module-based smart cameras such as the Q-Wave Systems EagleEye camera (CM3+) working with OpenCV and LabVIEW NI Vision and the StereoPi v2 (CM4) with stereo vision. But the EDATEC ED-AIC2000 is the first ready-to-deploy Raspberry Pi CM4 AI camera we’ve covered so far. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Wokwi_–_An_Arduino,_Raspberry_Pi_Pico,_and ESP32_board_simulator⠀⇛ Wokwi is an online simulator for Arduino, Raspberry Pi Pico, and ESP32 boards, or even your own custom microcontroller board designed to learn programming without the actual hardware. My girlfriend’s daughter has just attended a free 5-day online course about AI, IoT, ESP32, MicroPython, and more organized by King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) and IMAKE Innovation, a STEM education company in Thailand. I was told they had some homework for ESP32 as part of the course, so I asked her whether she wanted an ESP32 board. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Brave_for_Android_is_now_blocking_annoying_“use our_app”_prompts_on_websites⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia Power User ☛ Nokia_G20_may_get_the_Android_13_update soon_–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Harmony_OS:_set_to_defeat_Android_and_iOS_once and_for_all_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ ZTE_Axon_Pad:_April_2023_launch_for_the upcoming_Android_tablet_confirmed_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Tragic_killing_in_SF,_Twitter_sends_dogecoin soaring,_and_Android_gains_an_account_deletion_option_| TechCrunch⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts_Weekly_recap_—_9_April_2023⠀⇛ This is a shorter-than-usual recap. Week highlights: OpenShot 3.1.0 released, GIMP and Krita get new features, Jabier Arraiza is leaving Inkscape. Several nice little patches are making their way to future GIMP 3.0. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 15_Cool_Open_Source_Apps_Built_with_Flutter⠀⇛ Flutter is an open-source mobile application development framework created by Google. It allows developers to build high-performance, visually attractive mobile apps for both Android and iOS platforms using a single codebase. One of the biggest advantages of Flutter is its hot reload feature, which allows developers to make changes to # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-04-05_[Older]_p6steve:_Raku_meets_WordPress⠀⇛ # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Rust_Basics_Series_#3:_Data_Types_in Rust⠀⇛ In the third chapter of this series, learn about Integers, Floats, Characters and Boolean data types in Rust programming language. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ An_apartment_tower_of_lithium⠀⇛ In one of our last apartments in Singapore, my sister, dad and I were around when the building’s fire inspector came through to look at our smoke detectors, front door seals, sprinkler systems, and the like. Our unit was the last on his clipboard for the day, so after he finished we sat around the kitchen and offered him some tea. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Two_bodies_found_after_building_collapses_in_southern French_city_of_Marseille⠀⇛ Two bodies were found in the rubble of a building that collapsed in Marseille following a major explosion, French authorities said early Monday, as rescue workers scrambled to find at least six people still unaccounted for. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ When_It_Comes_to_Conflict,_You_May_Be_a_Teddy Bear_or_You_May_Be_a_Shark⠀⇛ Which are you? o ⚓ France24 ☛ Two_migrants_dead,_20_missing_in_Mediterranean_after boat_sinks⠀⇛ At least two migrants have died and around 20 others are missing after their vessel sank in the Mediterranean between Tunisia and Italy, German aid group ResQship told AFP Sunday. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Physicists_Extend_Qubit_Lifespan_in_Pivotal Validation_of_Quantum_Computing⠀⇛ This has never been done before. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Your_Brain_Can_Create_a_False_Memory Quicker_Than_You_Think⠀⇛ I remember it differently. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Liberalised_nicotine_pouch_regulation_could_be_short- lived⠀⇛ Freer regulation around nicotine pouches, which the regulator announced on Thursday before the Easter holiday, could be set for a rethink. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Deaths_of_couple_from_pufferfish poisoning_in_Johor:_Lab_reports_to_be_completed_in_2_to_3 weeks⠀⇛ The authorities will have to ascertain if the supplier of the fish could be charged. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Call_to_put_patients_before_profits_in budget_measures⠀⇛ Patients must be put before profits, warns a peak body representing doctors as pressure mounts for the federal budget to address rising medical costs.   Treasurer Jim Chalmers is due to hand down the budget in four weeks as the cost of living increases along with the burden on the health care system. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Early_cannabis_use_linked_to_non-psychotic mental_health_disorders_and_intentional_self-harm,_says_new study⠀⇛ A recent study byAlexander Denissoff from the University of Turku has found that early cannabis use is associated with a higher risk of hospitalization due to intentional self-harm, depression, and anxiety disorders later in life. Additionally, cannabis use has a negative impact on mental health outcomes, especially for young people who experience mild psychosis-like symptoms. The findings are based on Denissoff’s dissertation, which was recently reviewed by the University. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Teens_who_use_smartphones_for_more_than_3 hours_a_day_suffer_more_from_back_pain⠀⇛ Because of the popularity of smartphones and tablets, as well as the growth of television channels, computer games, and educational applications, children and teenagers are spending more amount of time gazing at screens, sometimes with poor posture, which can lead to back pain and other issues. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Benchmark_for_world_food_commodity_prices fall_in_March_for_12th_consecutive_month_in_a_row⠀⇛ The benchmark index of international food commodity prices declined for the 12th consecutive month in March, driven by declines in world quotations for cereals and vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) reported. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly- traded food commodities, averaged 126.9 points in March 2023, down 2.1 per cent from the previous month and 20.5 per cent below its peak level of March 2022. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Just_3_Years_of_Air_Pollution_Can_Increase Lung_Cancer_Risk,_Study_Warns⠀⇛ “Air pollution wakes these cells up in the lungs.” o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ SANS ☛ Chrome’s_Download_Tab:_Dangerous_Files,_(Sun,_Apr 9th)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Old VCR ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Crypto_Ancienne_2.2:_now supported_on_AmigaOS_and_classic_MacOS/MPW⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ “Forthwithier:”_Peter_Navarro Attempts_to_Pull_a_Fast_One_on_His_Incriminating_Use_of ProtonMail⠀⇛ Peter Navarro has still not complied with Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s March 9 order that he turn over ProtonMail records that Navarro tried to withhold because they will incriminate him, “forthwith.” # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ 5_Ways_to_Secure_Your_Online_Data_and Privacy_in_2023⠀⇛ In an increasingly interconnected world, safeguarding your online data and privacy has become more critical than ever. As technology continues to evolve, so do the threats posed by cybercriminals, hackers, and data breaches. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ DOJ_opens_investigation_into_apparent_leak_of classified_documents_from_Pentagon [Ed: Start_by investigating_Microsoft]⠀⇛ The Justice Department has opened an investigation into reports that a trove of apparently classified U.S._intelligence documents was leaked online from the Pentagon, the Defense Department said on Sunday night. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_Thug_Shaker_Leaks⠀⇛ The trove of documents originally released on a Discord server will really undermine the trust that has been a key part of US support for Ukraine in the last 14 months. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Intensity_of_China’s_exercises_matches last_year’s,_Taiwan_says⠀⇛ The comments come as the People’s Liberation Army held a third day of exercises. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ US_Navy_says_destroyer_conducted navigational_rights_mission_in_South_China_Sea⠀⇛ Meanwhile, Japan said it has been following China’s military drills around Taiwan ‘with great interest’. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Chinese_forces_simulate_‘sealing_off’_Taiwan_on third_day_of_military_drills⠀⇛ China’s military carried out aerial and naval blockade drills around Taiwan on Monday, its last scheduled day of exercises, as the US Navy said it sailed a guided-missile destroyer through waters claimed by Beijing. # ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘In_exchange_for_our_own’:_Ukrainians_collect bodies_of_enemy_soldiers_for_return_to_Russia⠀⇛ Last year, as Russia was forced out of areas of Ukraine it had occupied, thousands of Russian casualties were left behind. Since then small groups of Ukrainians, both military and civilian, have been trying to find and collect the bodies in order to send them back to Russia. FRANCE 24′s correspondent Gulliver Cragg reports from Kharkiv, Ukraine. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Saudi_delegation_in_Yemen_for_peace_talks_with Iran-backed_Houthi_rebels⠀⇛ A Saudi delegation was in Yemen’s capital on Sunday to negotiate a potential new truce with the Iran- backed Houthi rebels who control the city, diplomats said, as Riyadh sought a way out of the war. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Yemeni_chief’s_pardoning_of_his_son’s_killer hailed_as_act_of_‘mercy’⠀⇛ On February 20th, 2023, a convicted murderer was granted clemency just moments before he was scheduled to be executed in Yemen’s central Marib region. The news of the pardon has since been spreading rapidly across social media, providing a glimmer of hope in a country that has been ravaged by nine long years of war. According to our Observer, the decision to spare the man’s life was due in large part to the intervention of his mother, who camped out at the grave of the victim to beg for forgiveness. This act of mercy is being hailed as a powerful source of inspiration and a symbol of the enduring resilience of the Yemeni people. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Father_And_Daughter_Among_Ukrainian_Civilians Killed_In_Weekend_Russian_Strikes⠀⇛ A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were among at least five killed in weekend shelling by Russian forces in northeastern and southern regions of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Says_Poland_To_Provide_Ukraine_With_200 Infantry_Vehicles⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Poland will deliver 200 Rosomak infantry fighting vehicles, with half of them to arrive shortly. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Oracle,_the_Shadowy_Tech_Giant_In_League With_the_CIA_and_Israel,_with_Alan_MacLeod⠀⇛ Oracle’s intimate ties to both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli national security state should be cause for enormous concern, argues guest Alan Macleod. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Chris_Hedges:_The_Hypocrisy_of_the Christian_Church⠀⇛ This is a talk Chris Hedges gave on April 6 at a protest at Princeton Theological Seminary demanding the removal of hedge fund billionaire Michael Fisch as chair of the seminary’s trustee board. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ China_sanctions_Taiwan_ambassador_following_Taiwan president’s_recent_US_visit⠀⇛ China Friday imposed additional sanctions on Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan’s de facto ambassador and representative to the US, prohibiting her and her family from entering mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_rehearses_‘sealing_off’ Taiwan,_US_deploys_naval_destroyer⠀⇛ By Matthew Walsh with Jack Moore in Matsu, Taiwan China simulated “sealing off” Taiwan during a third day of wargames around the self-ruled island on Monday, as the United States deployed a naval destroyer into Beijing-claimed waters in a show of force. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Togo_parliament_extends_regional_state_of emergency_by_12_months⠀⇛ Togo’s National Assembly Thursday voted in favor of extending a state of security emergency in the Savanes region for another year. The measure follows a recent increase in incursions from terrorist groups near the country’s northern borders. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Iraq_Daily_Roundup:_Nine Killed⠀⇛ Fifteen people were wounded. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ So,_You_Think_the_US_Wouldn’t_Pass_Up_on_a_Peace Plan?⠀⇛ On February 24, China published its “Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.” It pledged that China is willing to assume “a constructive role in this regard. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Sunak,_Biden_to_mark_25th_anniversary_of Northern_Ireland_peace_deal⠀⇛ Northern Ireland on Monday marks the 25th anniversary of its landmark 1998 peace accords, with the UK province mired in political dysfunction and security concerns which threaten to overshadow the historic milestone. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Let’s_Not_Go_to_War_With_China⠀⇛ The word that strikes fear in the power elite is China. It’s not fear of an existential threat; rather it’s fear that America is becoming second fiddle in world politics. As a result, some believe, or say they believe, that war with China is inevitable. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Pope_Francis_appeals_to_Russians_on_Ukraine_in Easter_Mass⠀⇛ Pope Francis appeared to ask Russians to seek the truth about their country’s invasion of Ukraine in his Easter message to the world on Sunday and appealed for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians following recent violence. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_launches_deadly_strike_on_Ukrainian_city of_Zaporizhzhia⠀⇛ A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian forces struck a residential building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early on Sunday, authorities said. The US Department of Justice said Saturday that it has opened an investigation into a trove of leaked US documents, including secret assessments and intelligence reports, related to Ukraine. Follow our blog to see how the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). # ⚓ France24 ☛ Israeli_army_launches_strikes_on_Syria_after rocket_attacks⠀⇛ Israel launched artillery strikes on Syria Sunday morning, the Israeli army announced, after several rockets were fired from there and landed in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Kidnappers_handcuffed,_ball- gagged_Amsterdam_15-year-old:_report⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘Find_your_frontlines’:_Academics, journalists_and_climate_activists_call_for_collaboration_in fighting_climate_change⠀⇛ On Thursday, The Coalition for a True School of Sustainability held a roundtable discussion where climate experts across disciplines shared their insights on how to push for fossil fuel divestment. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Stanford_Law_School’s_Dean_Takes_a_Stand for_Free_Speech._Will_It_Work?⠀⇛ After a student protest, Jenny S. Martinez wrote a much-praised memo defending academic freedom. But that protest shows how complicated protecting free speech can be. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Hawai‘i_court_allows_lawsuit_against_state transportation_department_for_failing_to_reduce greenhouse_gas_emissions⠀⇛ The First Circuit Court of the State of Hawai’i Thursday rejected a motion to dismiss by the Hawai’i Department of Transportation to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the department is violating the state constitution by failing to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Global_progress_on_phasing_out_coal_in 2022_weighed_down_by_China⠀⇛ Despite the energy crisis sparked by the Ukraine war, a phasing out of coal continued across the world in 2022, according to a new report by the NGO Global Energy Monitor. Everywhere except China, where new coal production capacity under development increased, offsetting the gains in the rest of the world. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_China_floating nuclear_power_plants_in_South_China_Sea⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-04-02_[Older]_Tenants_in_The_Hague_can force_landlords_to_make_their_homes_more_sustainable⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Slumdog_billionaires:_Digital_artist uses_AI_to_reimagine_world’s_richest_in_slum-like environment⠀⇛ Gokul Pillai created a series of portraits of the billionaires, transforming their privileged lives into residents living in slums. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ ‘Super-rich’_South_Koreans_ditch_real estate_for_cash_in_2022⠀⇛ With the slowdown of the stock market, the super rich owned fewer stocks than before. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Government_to_consider_raising_retirement_age further⠀⇛ Latvia will inevitably need to consider raising the retirement age, Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš  (New Unity) said at an extraordinary government meeting April 6. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ YLE:_Over_half_of_new_lawmakers_ready_to cut_earnings-related_unemployment_security⠀⇛ OVER HALF of Finnish lawmakers are prepared to shorten the duration of earnings-related unemployment security, reports YLE. The responses of lawmakers on the voter guidance pages of the public broadcaster reveal that 57 per cent of newly elected lawmakers are in favour of and 43 per cent opposed to shortening the maximum duration of the allowance. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ HS:_Wages_of_Finnish_women_rising_faster but_remain_well_behind_those_of_men⠀⇛ THE WAGES of Finnish women have increased faster than those of men in recent years, reports Helsingin Sanomat. The Finnish Tax Administration has revealed that the median taxable income for women has increased by 14.6 per cent since 2014, while those of men have increased by 13.7 per cent. Women have seen higher pay rises than men also in the highest income decile, 15.9 per cent compared to 15.3 per cent. # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ ‘Sky_has_started_charging_me_for_my_“free_for life”_mobile_phone_plan’⠀⇛ We help a reader in a dispute with their mobile phone provider o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden’s_digital_strategy:_an_army_of_social_media influencers [Ed: AstroTurfing in "influencers" clothing; influencers is a nasty, malicious term]⠀⇛ President_Biden’s not-yet-official bid_for_re- election will lean on hundreds of social media “influencers” who will tout Biden’s record — and soon may have their own briefing room at the White House, Axios has learned. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ If_Ignorance_is_Bliss,_Awareness_is_Pain⠀⇛ I visited with a distressed friend recently. “I feel I don’t know enough,” he said with a pained expression. “I want to understand fully what’s happening, but there’s so much out there to learn.” My friend is a voracious reader and student of history. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Faust_Walks_Out_on_Easter_Morning⠀⇛ “All things transient are but a parable” Goethe, Faust These books are killing me he thought. The sun has risen, the bells toll eight. I’ve tried to learn before it’s late. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ This_Easter_in_the_New_Normal⠀⇛ This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Jacinda Ardern rewards A little insight into the quid pro quo nature of politics to kick us off. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Fascist_party_leader_charged_over_anti-semitic tweet⠀⇛ The Blue and Black movement got 0.1 percent of the vote, with 2,307 people choosing the party in the parliamentary elections last Sunday. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Hanoi_bans_guided_tours_to_its_famous_‘Railway_& Coffee_Street’⠀⇛ Hordes of tourists make it unsafe to visit the alley with a train running down the middle # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Iran_rights_group_urges_release_of_rapper- protester_Toomaj_Salehi⠀⇛ The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) Thursday urged the international community to demand the release of Toomaj Salehi, a rapper and voice of Iran’s protest movement. Iran police arrested and detained Salehi for taking part in protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, who was killed while in custody for improper dressing. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Expected’_deaths:_Dina_and_Gina⠀⇛ It is clear that the death of the university student Dina, is not an “unexpected” but “expected” one with hatred toward migrants agitated by many. The opposition parties have to speak up urgently in order to stop such hostility. # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ President,_Provost_address_unionization efforts⠀⇛ President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell wrote to the Stanford community that an open dialogue on unionization will be maintained while cautioning them on the gravity of the decision they each have to make. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Voice_would_‘lift_quality_of_life for everybody’⠀⇛ An esteemed activist says a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice would benefit all Australians and help close the disadvantage gap.   Jack Beetson, who co-founded Aboriginal education initiative Literacy for Life and sat on the referendum working group, said concerns about racial divisions were unfounded. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_district_courts_issue_competing_opinions_on abortion_pill_mifepristone⠀⇛ The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Later on Friday, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Washington issued a competing opinion ruling that mifepristone is safe and effective. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Aspiring_ethnic_minority_medical students_in_Hong_Kong_face_many_hurdles,_marginalisation among_them⠀⇛ By Maggie Holmes Kaushiki Chaturvedi spent a Saturday morning in late March inspecting human body parts in a dissection lab. “It was kind of gory, but it didn’t smell that bad,” she said. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Hundreds_of_Tunisians_protest_to_demand_release of_President_Saied’s_opponents⠀⇛ Hundreds protested in the Tunisian capital on Sunday for the release of about 20 opponents of President Kais Saied arrested since February. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 20_years_after_the_fall_of_Saddam_Hussein, Iraq’s_women_are_still_not_being_heard⠀⇛ On April 9, 2003, Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq collapsed, triggering a transition period. During this time, a new government was formed, institutions underwent significant changes and the balance of power between different factions of the population changed radically. This new regime represented an opportunity for women campaigning for gender equality. However, little has changed over the past 20 years. FRANCE 24′s Iraq correspondant Marie-Charlotte Roupie spoke to both women on the streets of Baghdad as well as those in positions of power. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Music_Distributor_Too_Lost_Adds DALL-E_2_Album_Cover_Art_Generation⠀⇛ Music distributor Too Lost has added AI album cover art generation to its suite of tools. Here’s how it works. Too Lost partnered with OpenAI to make use of its DALL-E 2 artificial intelligence art generation tool. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Paper_Birch_2023-04-09_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)⠀⇛ Fairbanks vegetation remains dormant as winter clings on, but the sun is getting high, and breakup should be in the next few weeks. From some online research today, I understand that one advantage of having bark constantly peeling, is that lichens and other things that attached to the bark are always being peeled off, leaving the bark fresh and clean. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BCISTYU_Wordo:_FICH⠀⇛ =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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You *do* have your carton of mämmi ready to go, don't you?). But before the festivities can begin, we still need to take care of business: Sunday still means another release candidate. Those rascally (and biologically confused) egg-laying rabbits must not distract us from kernel development. Things continue to look pretty regular - some subsystems may have been pointing at spring break as a possible cause of slowdown, but nothing here looks all that unusual. Not even unusually slow. Shortlog appended, Linus # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_6.3-rc6_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ The 6.3-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. # ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Intel_Meteor_Lake_Graphics_Receive_Latest Enablement_Patches_In_Linux_6.4⠀⇛ The final batch of work from Intel for the Meteor Lake graphics “drm-intel-gt-next” has been uploaded to the Linux 6.4 kernel, patiently awaiting the merge window that should open in a few more weeks. The window will open shortly after the new version of Linux (v. 6.3) becomes life for download. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Reminders_Is_A_GTK4_To-Do_List_App_That Syncs_With_Microsoft_To_Do⠀⇛ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Is_the_Shebang_(#!)_Character_Sequence in_Linux?⠀⇛ You may have seen a weird line starting with a “#!” at the beginning of Linux scripts and wondered what that was. That’s called the “shebang line” and it allows Linux to tell which interpreter to use. Here’s how it works. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Run_Linux_Commands_in_Background_and Detach_in_Terminal⠀⇛ In this guide, we shall bring to light a simple yet important concept in process handling in a Linux system, which is how to completely detach a process from its controlling terminal. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Use_‘fsck’_to_Repair_Linux_File_System Errors⠀⇛ Linux Filesystems are responsible for organizing how data is stored and recovered. One way or another, with time, the filesystem may become corrupted and certain parts of it may not be accessible. If your filesystem develops such inconsistency it is recommended to verify its integrity. This can be completed via a system utility called fsck (file system consistency check), which checks the root file system automatically during boot time or ran manually. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ A_Prometheus_Alertmanager_alert grouping_conundrum⠀⇛ We have various host-related alerts in our Prometheus and Alertmanger setup. Some of those are about things on the host not being right (full disks, for example, or network interfaces not being at the right speed), but some of them are alerts that fire if the host is down; for example there’s alerts on ping failures, SSH connection failures, and the Prometheus host agent not responding. Unsurprisingly, we reboot our machines every so often and we don’t like to get spammed with spurious alerts, so in our Alertmanager configuration we delay those alerts a bit so that they won’t send us an alert if the machine is just rebooting. This looks like: [...] # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tired_Of_Web_Scraping?_Make_The_AI_Do_It⠀⇛ [James Turk] has a novel approach to the problem of scraping web content in a structured way without needing to write the kind of page-specific code web scrapers usually have to deal with. # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_agedu_–_Linux_/_Unix_Command For_Tracking_Down_Wasted_Disk_Space⠀⇛ # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_ttyload_–_Linux/Unix_color- coded_graphical_tracking_tool_for_load_average_in_a terminal⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-04-02_[Older]_How_to_change_charset=ISO-8859- 1_to_charset=UTF8?_Rocky_9.1_server⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_How_to_install_Gacha Life_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_How_to_install_the Vivaldi_browser_on_Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_How_to_install Gyroflow_1.4.2_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_How_to_install_Zoom on_Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_How_to_install Ancient_Warfare_2_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_How_to_install_the Brave_Beta_browser_on_Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_How_to_install Natron_on_Linux_Lite_6.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_How_to_install_Mega Man_–_Robot_Master_Tournament_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Season_of_KDE_Blog_#2⠀⇛ This is a continuation of my previous_blog post where I shared my mid-journey experience while being a Season of KDE mentee. # ⚓ Testers_needed:_upgrade_Fedora_KDE_with_Discover!⠀⇛ This is a call for people out there to help us test the major version upgrades on Fedora KDE via Discover. In short: no more Dnf_System_Upgrade for us! A bit of context/history: for those of you who follow Nate’s blog you might already know what I am talking about. Thanks to the awesome work done by aleasto on this MR, we closed this bug. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Luya Tshimbalanga ☛ Luya_Tshimbalanga:_GNOME extension_Screen_Autorotate_available⠀⇛  While waiting_for_a_bug_fix_affecting majority_of_2-in-1_laptops running on GNOME Wayland session, gnome-shell-extension- screen-autorotate is now available in Fedora repository and EPEL_9. Give a try on your device Possibly this extension will get added on the incoming Fedora Design Suite 39 as default for the owners of convertible laptops. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Remy Van Elst ☛ OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86_is_finally_available_for hobbyists!⠀⇛ OpenVMS x86 is now available for (most) hobbyists! Almost a year after the official release most hobbyists can now login to the Service Portal to download their copy of OpenVMS 9.2 for x86, X86E921OE.ZIP and the PAK (license) files (x86community-20240401.zip), valid until April 2024. o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Review:_carbonOS_2022.3,_LibreELEC_11.0, Kodi_20.1⠀⇛ In short, carbonOS appears to offer an immutable root filesystem and uses OSTree to handle software management and updates. The project tries to offer a central utility for managing the operating system and offers search functions to assist users in finding things. All of this is provided in a 2.2GB ISO file. So far, carbonOS sounded promising. I soon discovered carbonOS boots in UEFI mode exclusively, Legacy BIOS mode is not supported. Booting from the live media brings up a menu offering to launch a live session, either running from the removable media or from RAM. Selecting either option immediately fails, causing the screen to briefly go blank and then display the menu again. In short, carbonOS did not boot to a point where I could try using or installing it. To be fair to the carbonOS developers, they seem to agree the distribution is not yet ready for daily use. The project’s download page carries a warning: “Please be aware that this is an early development build of carbonOS. carbonOS is still unfinished. There will be breaking changes.” I’m planning to try this interesting project again when it has had more time to mature. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Red_Hat_Satellite 6.12.3_has_been_released⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Understanding_your options_when_connecting_RHEL_systems_to_Red_Hat⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Fastest_road_from CentOS_Linux_to_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ Irving_Wladawsky-Berger:_Fostering_the Development_of_Interoperable,_Open_Source_Digital_Wallets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Flatpak_does_not_work_with_ext4_folder encryption⠀⇛ EasyOS uses ext4 encrypted folders. This includes the ‘.session’ and the ‘files’ folder. I have been fighting with the Flatpak sandbox, but have given up; it just won’t work properly with ext4 encryption. The Flatpak app runs as its own user, just like AppImages, with home folder /home/. This is in the ‘.session’ folder, hence encrypted — well, encrypted if you entered a password at first bootup. The change that I have made, just for Flatpaks, is /home/ is now a symlink to an unencrypted folder in the working-partition. No encryption, also all read and write operations are direct to the working-partition, outside the current session. From the user point of view, it is pretty straightforward, nothing complicated to think about. Just use the “Flapi” Flatpak Installer, and it is easy. You end up with a menu entry and optionally an icon on the desktop, and off you go. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ MX_Linux_MX-21.3_Wildflower_–_Thorny_elegance⠀⇛ I chose to start with the Xfce version. After all, MX Linux is all about being frugal and light. Now, now, now, this used to be an important distinction re: desktop environment a few years ago, but it isn’t anymore. Back in the day, the so-called “heavy” desktops would indeed be heavy, memory usage and performance wise. Nowadays, the underlying distro choice is probably more important when it comes to system toll, i.e., Xfce alone won’t do miracles. The gap to some of the heavy desktops has also narrowed a great deal. You want speed and all of the modern conveniences? Plasma. When it comes to lightweight, both Xfce and Plasma will deliver. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Four_Challenges_for_ML_data pipeline⠀⇛ Data pipelines are the backbone of Machine Learning projects. They are responsible for collecting, storing, and processing the data that is used to train and deploy machine learning models. Without a data pipeline, it would be very difficult to manage the large amounts of data that are required for machine learning projects. For this long, complex, fragile ML data pipeline, as we illustrated in the diagram, there are four major challenges for Data Engineers and Data Scientists: Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity. They are collectively known as 4”V”s. # ⚓ Real-time_Analytics_News_for_Week_Ending_April_8⠀⇛ Canonical announced the release of Landscape 23.03 with broader CPU architecture compatibility and improved management and monitoring capabilities for Ubuntu. Landscape 23.03 manages all Ubuntu versions and derivatives from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS onwards, in addition to Debian Bullseye. Launching and configuring Landscape is faster and simpler than ever before. With this release, out-of-the-box support for Landscape is included in Ubuntu Pro. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Cytron_CM4_Maker_Board_review_–_Part_2:_NVMe SSD,_RTC,_Buzzer,_Grove_modules,_ChatGPT…⠀⇛ We’ve already checked out Cytron’s CM4 Maker Board kit with a Raspberry Pi CM4 system-on-module and booted the system with the included 32GB “MAKERDISK” Class 10 microSD card preloaded Raspberry Pi OS in the first part of the review. For the second part of the CM4 Maker review, I’ve mostly used the 128GB NVMe SSD provided by the company and played with other features of the board including the RTC, the buzzer, some Seeed Studio grove modules, and even got help from ChatGPT for one of the Python programs I used. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ The_SI-111-N_is_a_compact_industrial_4K digital_signage_player⠀⇛ The SI-111 is a palm-size fanless 4K digital signage player featuring Atom/Celeron low power processors. The new IBASE device includes a 2.5 GbE LAN port, 1x HDMI 2.0 port and multiple serial interfaces. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ ESP32_development_board_features_1.9”_LCD and_LiPo_battery_connector⠀⇛ This month, BananaPi unveiled a compact development board equipped with a 1.9″ LCD display. The BPI- Centi-S3 is built around the ESP32-S3 microcontroller enabled with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 connectivity. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ ZTE_Axon_Pad:_April_2023_launch_for_the upcoming_Android_tablet_confirmed_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_just_realizing_Android_setting_can stop_‘bank-emptying’_text_–_check_Google_switch_is_turned_on right_now_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Brave_for_Android_is_now_blocking_annoying_“use our_app”_prompts_on_websites⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Crayon_to_LineX:_Top_5_icon_packs_for Android_you_might_have_slept_on_|_Technology_News,The_Indian Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_change_ringtone_on_an_Android phone⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Compare_Images/Videos_on_Linux_with_Identity⠀⇛ Identity plays videos clips at the same time, in sync, in the same window, and controlled by the same seek bar. You switch between them using on-screen tabs or keyboard shortcuts (e.g., 1 to show video one, 2 to show video two, and so on). o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ 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. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Heatmap_formatting_of_a_table_with_‘DT’⠀⇛ The table is in long format. Below we turn it into a table in wide format. We also convert the temperatures to Celsius degrees and we rename the months which are given as numbers in the original data. # ⚓ Rachel ☛ Escalating_via_post-it_note_just_to_get_some health_checks⠀⇛ I used to work at a place that had an internal task tracking system. Big deal, you think. Lots of places do that. Well, at this particular company, it was sometimes a pit of sorrow into which you would issue a request and never hear from it again… unless you went to some lengths. Let’s back up a little to set the stage. It’s June of some year quite a while back, and it’s about 9: 30 at night. I guess I’m on call for the “last line of defense” debugging team, and I get pinged by the manager type who’s wrangling an outage. It seems this team did some kind of code push and now they were completely down in some cluster: “0 online users” type of thing. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Earthly ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Better_Dependency Management_in_Python⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Wolverine_Gives_Your_Python_Scripts_The Ability_To_Self-Heal⠀⇛ [BioBootloader] combined Python and a hefty dose of of AI for a fascinating proof of concept: self-healing Python scripts. He shows things working in a video, embedded below the break, but we’ll also describe what happens right here. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Welcome_Arlo_and_Scott to_the_Cargo_Team⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Emily M Stark ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_EV_as_a_defense_against malicious_DV⠀⇛ o ⚓ [Old] Jordan Reger ☛ digital_preservation⠀⇛ to put it bluntly: stop developing new, especially proprietary, garbage. if that doesn’t work for you, print it out. having a physical copy that is observable with our immediate senses rather than through a document reader, browser, etc. is one way to fix this problem. however, that doesn’t work with music, videos, and other digital media. also, let’s not forget, it’s the future. paper is kind of boring compared to a computer (sorry). let’s create truly standardized version formats that are free and open, and build devices that run off of long- term energy sources and are designed to do one thing, which is to allow access to those formats. we don’t have to throw profits out the window just because there’s no money to be made on open formats and protocols — just make a good format-access client and sell it! contrary to popular belief, there’s certainly some incentive on the consumers’ end. what’s the number one thing people buy? *goods and services that make their lives easier.* in my opinion, the best way to achieve this is to create a universal digital ecosystem, regardless of how you access it. the best way to do that? free and open protocols and format standardization. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Debouncing_For_Fun_And…_Mostly,_Just_For_Fun⠀⇛ In our minds and our computer screens, we live in an ideal world. Wires don’t have any resistance, capacitors don’t leak, and switches instantly make connections and break them. The truth is, though, in the real world, none of those things are true. If you have a switch connected to a lightbulb, the little glitches when you switch are going to be hard to notice. Hook that same switch up to a processor that is sampling it constantly, and you will have problems. This is the classic bane of designing microcontroller circuits and is called switch bounce. [Dr. Volt] covers seven different ways of dealing with it in a video that you can see below. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ We_Are_Dancing_on_the_Very_Edge_of_Hell⠀⇛ Two dogs walking. One of them says to the other: “I bark and I bark, but I never feel like I effect real change.” o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Brr ☛ Sunset⠀⇛ This year at McMurdo, the 24×7 “midnight sun” period ended on February 20. There will be daily sunrises and sunsets until April 25, at which point McMurdo will enter “polar night”. The sun will stay below the horizon until August 19. Then there will be daily sunrises and sunsets until October 24, followed by another round of midnight sun. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Astronomers_accidentally_spot_runaway black_hole_leaving_trail_of_fresh_stars⠀⇛ Black holes are usually destructive. They grow by gobbling up nearby matter, and can rip apart stars and swallow clouds of gas and dust. Nothing can escape their pull once past the event horizon, not even light. That said, a team led by Yale University scientists have discovered one hole that has created a whopping 200,000-light-year-long chain of newborn stars behind it. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_University_Campuses in_India_Will_Be_a_Tool_in_the_Hands_of_Hindu_Nationalists⠀⇛ # ⚓ James G ☛ Abbreviations,_acronyms,_and_style_guides⠀⇛ [^2]: I later found an article that walks through a system they built to suggest changes to ensure a piece adheres to their style guide. An interesting aside that comes from the story is that a member on the Guardian’s digital team had written “About 13,000″ regex rules to catch issues that should be fixed prior to an article going into print. Intriguing. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Intel’s_IAPX_432:_Gordon_Moore’s_Gamble_And Intel’s_Failed_32-bit_CISC⠀⇛ In a recent article on The Chip Letter [Babbage] looks at the Intel iAPX 432 computer architecture. This was an ambitious, hyper-CISC architecture that was Intel’s first 32-bit architecture. As a stack- based architecture, it exposed no registers to the software developer, while providing high-levels pertaining to object-oriented programming, multitasking and garbage collection in hardware. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Blinks_Are_Useful_In_VR,_But_Triggering_Blinks Is_Tricky⠀⇛ In VR, a blink can be a window of opportunity to improve the user’s experience. We’ll explain how in a moment, but blinks are tough to capitalize on because they are unpredictable and don’t last very long. That’s why researchers spent time figuring out how to induce eye blinks on demand in VR (video) and the details are available in a full PDF report. Turns out there are some novel, VR-based ways to reliably induce blinks. If an application can induce them, it makes it easier to use them to fudge details in helpful ways. # ⚓ Vermaden ☛ Silent_Fanless_Dell_Wyse_3030_LT_FreeBSD Server⠀⇛ Why use quite outdated (released in 2016) Dell Wyse 3030 LT terminal under FreeBSD? There are probably many answers to that question. I recently started to use these for my backup purposes … and to be honest I am really pleased with them. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ China’s_Loongson_Unveils_32-Core_CPU, Reportedly_4X_Faster_Than_Arm_Chip⠀⇛ The 3D5000 still leverages LoongArch, Loongson’s homemade instruction set architecture (ISA) from 2020. The chipmaker was previously a firm believer in MIPS. However, Loongson eventually built LoongArch from the ground up with the sole objective of not relying on foreign technology to develop its processors. LoongArch is a RISC (reduced instruction set computer) ISA, similar to MIPS or RISC-V. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Holograms:_The_Future_Of_Speedy_Nanoscale_3D Printing?⠀⇛ 3D printing by painting with light beams on a vat of liquid plastic was once the stuff of science fiction, but now is very much science-fact. More than that, it’s consumer-level technology that we’re almost at the point of being blasé about. Scientists and engineers the world over have been quietly beavering away in their labs on the new hotness, nanoscale 3D printing with varying success. Recently IEESpectrum reports some promising work using holographic imaging to generate nanoscale structures at record speed. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-07_Pet_Dog_Dies_of_Bird_Flu_After ‘Chewing_on_a_Wild_Goose’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Despite_Meat_Industry_Lies,_Plant-Based Diets_Are_Healthy⠀⇛ The latest report from the United Nations on the direction the environment is heading is the scariest so far. In order to turn things around, the UN recommends—among other things—that each of us eat more plant-based foods. I’m willing to accept that eating plant-based food is good for the climate and for animals. But as someone who has eaten meat my entire life, I had to ask the question—is plant-based food good for me?” o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Microsoft update_brings_new_feature_Windows_11_users_didn’t_ask_for⠀⇛ # ⚓ Daniel Aleksandersen ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Phone_Link_relays your_personal_data_through_Microsoft_servers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Here’s_How_to_Find_the Original_Bitcoin_Manifesto_in_Your_Mac⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Why_journalist_Matt_Taibbi,_Substack_and_Elon Musk’s_Twitter_are_at_loggerheads⠀⇛ Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist and author famous for releasing Twitter Files, quit the microblogging platform after he claimed that it blocked access to embedding tweets in posts on the online publishing platform Substack Twitter also won’t allow any retweets, likes, or engagement with posts that contained links to Substack articles, Taibbi claimed. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Twitter_restricts_interactions_with_Substack links⠀⇛ In a statement shared with The Verge, Substack founders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie and Jairaj Seth said they are “disappointed that twitter has chosen to restrict writers’ ability to share their work.” # ⚓ MMO_Week_in_Review:_New_World_evades_Amazon_Games’ layoffs⠀⇛ Amazon Games was the latest victim of the broader Amazon corporation’s latest round of mass layoffs this week, specifically the San Diego branch whose top office John Smedley vacated earlier this year. Curiously, Amazon Games’ VP says that “the New World team in Irvine will grow as [execs] shift some resources to further support its continued development” – in perhaps yet another sign that New World is doing OK enough to keep getting resources. Meanwhile, NCsoft is suing Kakao and XL Games, No Man’s Sky launched its Interceptor update, Ghostcrawler is forming a new MMO studio, and CCP Games doubled down on its blockchain babble. Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! # ⚓ India Times ☛ Wary_VCs_step_up_diligence;_new-age_ecommerce firms_get_investor_attention⠀⇛ Amid the overall decline in venture capital funding, investors are taking more time to scrutinise startup business models before closing deals. The lack of easy funding has led to a deeper analysis of the market. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Josh_Bressers:_Episode 370_–_Open_Source_is_bigger_than_you_can_imagine⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about some data on the size of NPM. Josh wrote a blog post and a report about the amount of SEO spam in NPM was released. Open source is enormous, and it’s mostly one person. It’s hard to imagine how this all works sometimes and this lack of understanding can create challenges. # ⚓ CTV News ☛ Inside_the_international_sting_operation_to catch_North_Korean_crypto_hackers⠀⇛ A team of South Korean spies and American private investigators quietly gathered at the South Korean intelligence service in January, just days after North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea. For months, they’d been tracking $100 million stolen from a California cryptocurrency firm named Harmony, waiting for North Korean hackers to move the stolen crypto into accounts that could eventually be converted to dollars or Chinese yuan, hard currency that could fund the country’s illegal missile program. When the moment came, the spies and sleuths — working out of a government office in a city, Pangyo, known as South Korea’s Silicon Valley — would have only a few minutes to help seize the money before it could be laundered to safety through a series of accounts and rendered untouchable. # ⚓ Government Technology ☛ Major_Cyber_Insurance_Overhaul Begins_Now⠀⇛ One thing is clear about cyber insurance in the spring of 2023: The status quo is not sustainable. And now, Lloyd’s of London, a major player in the global insurance market, is calling for dramatic changes in the cyber insurance market. According to The Financial Times (FT), “From next month, Lloyd’s will require the dozens of insurers that operate in the market to include exemptions that would prevent policies paying out if a major attack is judged to be ‘state-backed.’ “Exclusions for acts of war have long been a staple of policies ranging from property to motor, shielding insurers from the potentially crippling claims that a physical conflict generates. But Lloyd’s, a powerhouse in the global industry, believes war exclusions need updating for the Internet age, when cyber warfare can be government sponsored even in the absence of conventional conflict. Failure to exclude significant state- backed attacks from policies would leave insurers exposed to ‘systemic risk,’ Lloyd’s said when it first announced the plan last summer.” # ⚓ NZZ_has_to_shut_down_the_newspaper_production_system_after a_cyber_attack⠀⇛ The “exceptional situation” is also associated with a reduction in the size of the print edition. According to media reports, the attackers are demanding a ransom for the blocked system. The “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” continues to struggle with problems two weeks after a cyber attack on its computers. The publisher shut down central systems for newspaper production and had to pre-produce the Saturday edition on Thursday. The company announced on Saturday that this “exceptional situation” was also associated with a reduction in scope. Due to the cyber attack, some systems and services are still not available. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Why_regulators_in_Canada_and Italy_are_digging_into_ChatGPT’s_use_of_personal information⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_ICE_Used_Shady_Subpoena to_Get_Data_from_Elementary_Schools,_Abortion_Clinics, and_News_Orgs⠀⇛ # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ LibreSSL_3.7.2_Released⠀⇛ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ How_organizations_can_prepare_for_post- quantum_cryptography⠀⇛ Overall, the primary concern driving preparedness from a security perspective is that encryption is breakable due to advancements in post-quantum computing for both asymmetric and symmetric cryptography. Most researchers put this possibility 10 to 15 years out from now, but they acknowledge we could be surprised by technological advancements. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rescind_Congressional_Authorization_for_the Use_of_Military_Force_in_Iraq_NOW⠀⇛ Recently, the US Senate voted on a bipartisan basis to rescind the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq. President Biden, who voted for that AUMF in 2003, has said he will sign it if it gets to his desk. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_shelling_in_Zaporizhzhia_kills_an_11-year- old_girl_and_her_father_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Overnight on April 9, Russian troops shelled the city of Zaporizhzhia. According to regional emergency services, the attack partially damaged a private home and started a fire. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine_say_Russia_is_deploying regular_forces_near_Bakhmut_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Armed Forces, says that Russia is now sending regular troops to Bakhmut where Wagner Group mercenaries have been done the bulk of the fighting for Russia. Ukraine says deploying regular troops is necessary due to heavy losses among Wagner fighters — around 100 people a day, “counting only the dead.” # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Hong_Kong_ex- police_officer_walks_free_after_fight_over_parking_space leaves_man_dead⠀⇛ # ⚓ NBC ☛ Leaked_secret_Pentagon_documents_lift_the_lid_on_U.S. spying_on_Russia’s_war_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Although U.S. officials believe the documents are most likely authentic, at least one of those obtained by NBC News appears to have been doctored, with two versions of the document appearing online, providing different estimates of Russian casualty figures. The leak will also raise fresh questions among U.S. allies about whether Washington can be trusted with secret information. It remains unclear whether the leak is the result of a hack by a foreign adversary or whether the disclosure came from within the U.S. government or through a U.S. ally with access to American intelligence reporting. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Key_takeaways_from_major_US_intelligence_leak⠀⇛ It’s not yet clear whether all the material surfacing online is legitimate, though unnamed U.S. officials have told CNN and the New York Times that the documents appear to be real. However, some have also noted that, even if the documents are authentic, some of the information in them may have been altered. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Migrant_boats_sink_off_Tunisia;_more_than 20_missing,_4_dead⠀⇛ At least 23 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were missing on Saturday, after their two boats sank off the coast of Tunisia. They were trying to cross the Mediterranean sea to Italy, said a judicial official. # ⚓ El País ☛ The_fences_dividing_Europe:_how_the_EU_uses_walls to_contain_irregular_migration⠀⇛ The European Commission, and countries such as Spain and Germany, are against the use of EU money to build more walls, believing that there are more effective tools to curb irregular immigration. But those in favor, headed by the Visegrad group comprised of the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary and supported by Italy, Greece and Austria, argue their position using a kind of domestic logic: to be able to close doors, they must first exist. Ultimately, the issue is more about where Europe is heading in the face of the migration challenge, and whether it will continue to use ever tougher policies to meet it. Right now, everything points to the affirmative. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Boat_With_400_Migrants_Adrift_Between_Greece, Malta⠀⇛ Alarm Phone said people on board were panicking, with several of them requiring medical attention. The vessel was out of fuel and its lower deck was full of water, while the captain had left and there was nobody who could steer the boat, they said. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow-linked_Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_promises to_hold_Easter_services_at_the_Kyiv_Pechersk_Lavra_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Metropolitan Epifany of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church announced that he will conduct Orthodox Easter services in the Uspensky church at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. He said the exact timing of the services is yet to be determined, but that they will probably will be held during the morning on April 16, rather than Easter night, because of Kyiv’s current curfew. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Human_Destiny_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ The deficiencies in the American character have rotted the world. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Policing_Does_Not_Have_Problems_—_It_Is_the Problem⠀⇛ Policing is neither reformable nor redeemable. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Why_Tortuguita’s_Murder_is_Only_the_Tip_of_the Iceberg⠀⇛ From the School of the Americas to Cop City, the U.S. has long been complicit in the death of environmental activists. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Plastic_pollution_is_scourge_of_English coastal_region⠀⇛ Due to their resemblance to fish eggs, birds and other sea life will eat the tiny pellets—which also absorb toxic pollutants—adversely affecting the entire food chain, Arnold says. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_World_Will_Miss_the_Climate_Change_Target. Time_to_Prepare.⠀⇛ United Nations panel shows climate change is outrunning emissions goals. Our only option is to adapt. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Balance_of_power from_decarbonisation_favours_Australia⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_More_Affordable_and Sustainable:_How_Towns_in_Belgium_Are_Producing_Their Own_Green_Power⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Real-World_Costs_of_the_Digital Race_for_Bitcoin⠀⇛ Meanwhile, in the husk of a onetime aluminum smelting plant an hour outside of Austin, row upon row of computers were using enough electricity to power about 6,500 homes as they raced to earn Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency. # ⚓ Salon ☛ Is_a_post-car_future_actually_possible? Experts_say_yes_—_here’s_how_we_could_get_there⠀⇛ If we want to live on a habitable planet in a hundred years, humanity cannot keep building cars and roads at the same pace that we have been. Environmentalists have been advocating for a shift to public transit and walking- or bicycle-oriented city planning for decades; and yet, in the United States, the necessary social and infrastructural paradigm shift clearly isn’t happening, as evidenced by how car-dependent we remain. Is a post-car future actually realistic, or a mere pipe dream? Surprisingly, experts with whom Salon spoke say that it isn’t a utopian fantasy. There are clear ways we could transition humanity to a car-free — or at least, car-lite — existence without compromising on other quality-of-life facets. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_What_the_decline_of_mountain snow_cover_means_for_Canada⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Austin Z Henley ☛ What_does_a_research_grant_pay_for?⠀⇛ TLDR: Each of my grant budgets included the university’s cut, a fraction of a month of salary for me per year, a graduate student, conference travel for both of us, and a very small amount to conduct user studies. This amounts to a little under $100,000 per year per grant. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_It’s_Time_to_Talk About_Class_in_Canada⠀⇛ # ⚓ McDonald’s_Deems_Major_Layoffs_Necessary_To_‘Accelerate_The Arches’—Employees_Can’t_Be_Happy⠀⇛ Last Monday, McDonald’s became another major company to announce layoffs amidst looming recession fears. In an internal email sent out, the mega-chain notified corporate employees and some overseas workers to stay home as they would be informing staff about their job statuses and closing offices for a few days. Earlier this year, McDonald’s released a strategic plan titled ‘Accelerating The Arches’ which detailed their growth strategy in the next chapter; now, potentially hundreds of employees are facing layoffs and pay cuts as they reign in this next chapter. # ⚓ Mirror UK ☛ Outrage_over_$16_McDonald’s_meals_as_viral video_exposes_‘exorbitant’_prices⠀⇛ A social media user has sparked outrage after exposing the sky-high prices at a McDonald’s restaurant, specifically of the popular combo meals. The video, which shows the cost of combo meals from the food menu of a McDonald’s location in Connecticut, has left users expressing disbelief over the exorbitant prices. In the video, which has attracted hundreds of views, TikTok user @xconmedia can be seen filming the menu of a McDonald’s restaurant in Connecticut, as he expresses his shock at the jaw-dropping prices. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Silicon_Valley_Bank’s History_of_Recklessness_Went_Back_Decades⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Why_Do_We_Even_Need Private_Banks?⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Why_the_Government_Is Good_at_Helping_Banks_but_Not_People⠀⇛ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_The_White_House_wants_to reverse_Trump-era_banking_deregulation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tech_sector_layoffs_for_2023_have_already_surpassed_the whole_of_last_year_amid_a_bloodbath_in_Silicon_Valley⠀⇛ Tech sector layoffs for 2023 have already surpassed the whole of last year amid a bloodbath in Silicon Valley. Almost 169,000 people have been sacked since January, compared to the 164,411 who were let go in the entirety of 2022, according to data tracker Layoffs.fyi. # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Years_of_good_times for_homeowners_grinding_to_a_halt⠀⇛ # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Danish_Royal_Family over-spent_by_8_million_kroner_in_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Corporate_Media_Celebrate_France’s Attack_on_Pensions⠀⇛ “The Party Is Ending for French Retirees.” That’s the headline the Wall Street Journal (3/14/23) went with just days before French President Emmanuel Macron invoked a special article of the constitution to bypass the National Assembly and enshrine an increase in the retirement age in national law. The Journal proclaimed: o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ The_blue_check_thumbs-up_process_is changing._Here’s_how_social_media_users_may_be_affected⠀⇛ On first rollout, Musk publicly dismissed concerns that impostors would impersonate verified people or organizations by fooling readers with a paid blue checkmark. However, some companies had to deal with the fallout from impersonation or fake accounts that paid for verification. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Why_a_bill_that_could_ban_TikTok_is_raising privacy_concerns⠀⇛ A chief concern raised by critics of the bill is that individuals who seek to use TikTok or any service banned under the rules it lays out would be punished. The digital rights groups Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fight for the Future, along with the ACLU, have all come out against the proposal. The groups are among critics that argue the bill could potentially punish individuals that seek to gain access to banned apps, possibly through VPNs, or virtual private networks. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Absolutely_Insane’:_Greg_Abbott_Seeks Pardon_for_Man_Convicted_of_Murdering_BLM_Protester⠀⇛ Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott drew widespread condemnation from legal experts after he said Saturday that he is “working as swiftly” as the law allows to pardon a man who was convicted the previous day of murdering a racial justice protester in 2020. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Far-right_MP_fined_for circulating_doctored_photo_of_ministers_hoisting_Nazi flag⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Hong_Kong_filmmakers_take_their movies_overseas_in_bid_to_evade_censorship_at_home⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reason ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Conservative_Florida_Lawmakers Want_To_Expand_LGBT_Censorship_to_Charter_Schools⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_custody_of_a_Russian_girl_who_drew_an antiwar_picture_is_still_undecided.⠀⇛ Mr. Moskalyov’s posts on the Russian social networks Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte came to the attention of the authorities last April after an art teacher at Masha’s school tried to generate support among the students for the Russian military. Masha’s contribution: a picture of a mother and daughter holding a “Glory to Ukraine” flag and standing in the path of a Russian rocket. “No to War,” she wrote underneath. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_French_police_beat,_obstruct journalists_covering_pension_protests⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_CPJ_calls_for_French_authorities to_probe_suspected_sabotage_of_French_journalist_Morgan Large’s_car⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-04-07_South_African_journalists_attacked, threatened,_harassed_in_separate_incidents⠀⇛ # ⚓ Arab News ☛ After_backlash,_Twitter_now_calls_NPR_—_and_BBC —_‘government-funded’ [Ed: Actually, both are Bill Gates funded and they constantly produce propaganda for him]⠀⇛ Twitter has backtracked after an uproar for labeling the US radio network NPR as “state- affiliated media” and now calls it “government- funded.” Elon Musk’s social media network has also applied that new label to the BBC, which is funded predominantly by British households paying a license fee. Britain’s beloved national broadcaster has reached out to Twitter for clarification, news reports said. The change in how Twitter refers to Washington- based National Public Radio happened quietly overnight Saturday and comes after the network complained that the term “state-affiliated” was disparaging and inaccurate. # ⚓ Lusaka ZM ☛ Serenje_Radio_Journalists_Attacked_by_Suspected UPND_Cadres⠀⇛ The journalists, Serenje Radio Manager Mr. Male Kapema, Finance Personnel Mr. Enoch Champo, and Reporter Sheila Kalunga, had rushed to the police station following a phone call with Serenje DC Mr. Paul Masuwa. They were attacked by suspected UPND cadres who had reportedly been imported from outside Serenje. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Washington_Says_“Journalism_Is_Not_A_Crime” While_Working_To_Criminalize_Journalism⠀⇛ The US empire does not care about press freedoms, it cares about power and domination. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_What’s_driving_Africa’s waves_of_protests?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-04-01_[Older]_Angela_Davis_Exposed the_Injustice_at_the_Heart_of_the_Criminal_Justice_System⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Internet_access_must_be_a_basic_human_right in_developing_nations:_study⠀⇛ The study outlined several areas in developed countries where internet access is essential to exercise socio-economic human rights, like education, health, housing, work and social security. For people in developing countries, [Internet] access can also make the difference between receiving an adequate level of healthcare or receiving none. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Loyal_Workers_Are_More_Likely_to_Be Exploited,_And_This_Is_Why⠀⇛ Although managers tend to value employees perceived as loyal, for example, a new study shows they also tend to exploit loyal workers when assigning unpaid work or extra tasks. These managers are not necessarily nefarious, the researchers note. Some may be oblivious, failing to grasp the ethical results of their decisions. Yet, that’s little comfort for dedicated workers, left with excessive workloads as the apparent price of their loyalty. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ AOC_Warns_of_‘National_Abortion_Ban’_if Supreme_Court_Upholds_Mifepristone_Ruling⠀⇛ Progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned Sunday that if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a right-wing federal judge’s ruling banning access to abortion pills, “it would essentially institute a national abortion ban.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Federal_Judges_Issue_Conflicting_Rulings_in_a Pill_Used_for_Medication_Abortion⠀⇛ A federal judge in Texas blocked the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. Another in Washington state issued a conflicting ruling. The matter now seems poised to head for the Supreme Court. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump_Finally_Facing_Accountability_for Some_of_His_Most_Brazen_Violations_of_the_Law⠀⇛ If there was a giant composite lawsuit against Donald J. Trump, for his over forty years of recurring criminal and civil violations, (while a corporate boss and politician) the only recourse for his lawyers would be to plead the insanity defense. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Rex_v_the_A-G:_will_Labor_keep_Liberal dirt_under_the_carpet?⠀⇛ Can a Prime Minister use a Cabinet reshuffle to sweep government dirt under the carpet? That’s a question now before the Federal Court in a case which will draw out whether Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus KC is a leader who supports transparency, or just another politician interested, first and foremost, in protecting his patch. Rex Patrick explains. When the Auditor-General finalised his audit report into the Community Sports Infrastructure Grants Program on 15 January 2020, it quickly generated a huge ‘Sports Rorts’ controversy that began to damage the political prospects of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Coalition government.   o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Community_Development_Plans_for 2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_The_Human_Factor_in_the Geopolitics_of_the_Internet⠀⇛ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_The_RIPE_Chair_Team_Reports_– April_2023⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Discovery_closes_today in_two_antitrust_matters_involving_Activision_Blizzard_(FTC merger_case_and_In_Re_Google_Play_Antitrust_Litigation)_while UK_CMA_is_preparing_remedies_working_paper⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Book_Review:_Intellectual Property_and_Development_–_Geographical_Indications_in Practice [Ed: "Intellectual Property" is a misleading propaganda term. This does not explain what the book actually covers.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_[Guest_post]_Virtual_wars: Exploring_legal_boundaries_in_the_gaming_world⠀⇛ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-04-07_Looking_beyond_ST.26:_Is_it_time for_patent_offices_to_enter_the_bioinformatic_age?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Unified_Patent Court_presumably_can’t_order_anti-antisuit_injunctions, but_can_national_courts_bar_defendants_from_seeking antisuit_injunctions_against_UPC_enforcement? [Ed: Unified Patent Court is illegal, unconstitutional and would explode upon a rival, wounding the entire EU; this is the culmination of vast institutional corruption and the huge cost of tolerating crime]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Xbox_fan’s_forum post_on_‘rapid_fire_mod’_may_save_Valve_(Steam)_$4 million_in_patent_infringement_damages_over_handheld videogame_controller:_U.S._Court_of_Appeals_for_the Federal_Circuit⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_AIPPI_UK_Event_Report: Roundup_of_2022′s_Patent_Cases [Ed: Event run and controlled by patent extremists, who very well understand they don't represent anyone but their microcosm]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_In_draft_EU_SEP regulation,_appeals_are_not_even_an_afterthought:_what if_owners_or_implementers_of_standard-essential_patents disagree_with_decisions? [Ed: The EU was abducted by patent extremists decades ago]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-04-02_[Older]_Proposed_EU_SEP regulation_will_also_harm_net_licensees:_implementers of_standard-essential_patents_must_be_careful_what_they wish_for [Ed: SEPs ought not exist in the first place and they contradict the very purpose of standards]⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Germany’s_Federal_Court of_Justice_applies_CJEU_Cofemel_guidance,_considering it_‘clear’_that_works_of_applied_art_are_to_be_treated like_other_works_and_no_new_CJEU_referral_is_needed⠀⇛ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_‘FUCKING_AWESOME’_not protectable_as_an_EU_trade_mark⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Tales_of_two_bunnies: Miffy’s_trade_mark_owner_prevents_registration_of rabbit_mark_for_sex_toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Monster_Energy_Tried_to_Make_Pokémon_Change Its_Name_Because_of_the_Word_‘Monster’⠀⇛ A report published this week in Automaton, a Japanese media outlet, claims that Monster Beverage Corporation has complained over trademark registrations for Pokémon X, Pokémon Y, Pokémon Sun, and Pokémon Moon over the years, as well as the Monster Hunter brand and the videogame Monster Hunter Generations. The mobile game Monster Strike didn’t escape Monster Beverage Corporation’s all-seeing eye, either. The company opposed the game’s full title and its abbreviation, “Monst.” # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Premier_League_IPTV_Investigations Gather_Personal_Data_on_Pirates⠀⇛ The Premier League and anti-piracy companies working on their behalf have the ability to conduct invasive online and physical investigations into those believed to be pirating. So, how far can they go, and are there any limits on information obtained in pursuit of potential pirates? In reality, there are limits. For practical purposes, none really matter. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ My_dream_car⠀⇛ My car has had a troublesome year. I’ve got a new battery, new exhaust and new timing belt. The timing belt was replaced after it had broked, which meant taking the engine out of the car, taking the heads of the block of the engine, sending them to a machine shop to get restored and then putting it all back together again. # ⚓ First_time_here_and_it’s_a_lovely_day⠀⇛ I decided to enter this Pub today. I look around and things seems tidy. And not too crowded. Nice! As an introvert, I’ve always preferred quiet places, like libraries and small coffee shops. It’s a beautiful day. I took some time to write, and I am rediscovering the power of analog writing. It seems that when I want to draft ideas or just plan something, pen and paper gives me more freedom and I get into the zone. After the idea drafting is done, then I feel inspired to type. It’s a process, and sometimes the pen and paper writing takes me out of writer’s block. I forgot that I could start on paper and finish on my computer. Works great! # ⚓ Malta_days_1_to_4⠀⇛ Written on a phone while sitting in a tent undergoing some strong winds! The past 4 days have been rather eventful. I am part of a team taking 15 Explorers, Scouts aged 14 to 18, to Malta to complete their Explorer Belt. This is an award gained for spending 10 days in a foreign country completing 1 major task and 10 minor tasks. Each tasks can be something silly like see how many people you can take a selfie with or serious about learning how local economies work. The aim is simply to explore and learn about somewhere new. There are 5 leaders on this. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ New_internet_setup⠀⇛ For the last 2 years I’ve been running some of my internet infrastructure from my closet; I had a cluster of 3 Raspberry Pis that were running my personal Mastodon instance and my home automation, in addition to a Postgres database and a message queue. Since I’m planning to move fulltime into an RV in the next couple months I had to move the services to the cloud. [...] It took me a couple days to get everything working. The hardest part was probably migrating my personal Mastodon instance, since it was running an older version (3.5.4). But I was able to migrate to 4.1.2 running on Ubuntu 22.10, storing the files in S3. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Algorithms_and_Data_Structures_in_Go_–_Part_1⠀⇛ This is the first blog post about my Algorithms and Data Structures in Go series. I am not a Software Developer in my day job. In my current role, programming and scripting skills are desirable but not mandatory. I have been learning about Data Structures and Algorithms many years ago at University. I thought it would be fun to revisit/refresh my knowledge here and implement many of the algorithms in Go. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3877 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.10.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_10/04/2023:_OpenBSD_7.3_and_4MLinux_42⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:30 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Music # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ PlanetPC_XR_mini_PC_dramatically_fails_to_meet crowdfunding_goals_(Linux_PC_with_ARM-based_processor_and integrated_touch_panel)_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ The PlanetPC XR Series is a compact desktop computer with an ARM-based processor, Ubuntu Linux software, plenty of ports and storage options. There’s also an unusual touch panel on the front that can be used to control some of the PCs functions or display information. There’s just one catch: it’s unclear if you’ll ever actually be able to get your hands on one. Planet Computers showed off prototypes of the XR Series at Mobile World Congress in February and launched a crowdfunding campaign to help raise the money to bring the PC to market. But only 14 people backed the campaign and it raised less than 1% of its funding goal. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ TUXEDO_InfinityBook_Pro_16_Review:_The_Best Linux_Laptop_You_Can_Get_(If_You_can_Afford_it)⠀⇛ There are several system manufacturers that sell Linux-powered systems. Dell and Lenovo are the mainstream vendors. Apart from that, there are a bunch of smaller but dedicated vendors who deal exclusively in Linux-based systems. One such vendor is German-based TUXEDO Computers. They have built quite a name for themselves in the last few years. They recently revealed the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 16 – Gen7 Max Performance Edition, which is a beast in terms of specification and performance. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 100_Great_and_Must-Have_CLI_Linux Applications⠀⇛ With the bamboozling quantity of open source software available to download, it’s really difficult to keep up with the cream of the cream. That’s where this compilation aims to help. This article selects 100 awesome command-line interface (CLI) apps. The compilation mostly reflects software our volunteers use as their daily drivers. We try to select as wide a mix as possible, avoiding duplication wherever possible. If you’re wondering why TUI apps are not present here that’s because they have their own apps article. If you’re looking for GUI apps, they also have their own dedicated apps article. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Gnome_Desktop Keyboard_Shortcuts⠀⇛ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_use_KDE_Plasma_Places_for_a_much_more efficient_desktop⠀⇛ The Linux desktop has a lot of ‘hidden in plain sight’ features. One such feature adds easy-to- access bookmarks to the desktop menu and the file manager. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Play_Chess_in_Your_Linux_Terminal_ (With_Multiplayer_Support_Over_SSH)⠀⇛ Chess is the original 4X RPG—giving you command of territory and an army, together with a mission to explore and expand across the board, exploit your enemy’s weakness, and then exterminate your opponent. While it’s simple to play online chess in a browser, you can also stage a two-player chess game in your terminal, either with an opponent in the same room or via SSH, meaning your opponent could be anywhere in the world—or beyond. Here’s how. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_45_Desktop_Environment_Is_Slated for_Release_on_September_20th,_2023⠀⇛ That’s right, this autumn we will enjoy another major release of the popular GNOME desktop environment, GNOME 45, which now has a release date “set in stone” for September 20th and an official release schedule that gives us details about the six-month-long development cycle. The development cycle for GNOME 45 kicks off now, but the first testing version will be ready for public testing only in a few months from writing this article. Without further ado, here are the major milestones of the GNOME 45 development cycle. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Independent_Distro_4MLinux_42_Released_with_Linux Kernel_6.1_LTS⠀⇛ 4MLinux 42 arrives a little over four months after the 4MLinux 41 release and ships with the long-term supported Linux 6.1 LTS kernel series by default, alongside the Mesa 22.2.3 graphics stack. New in this release is the raster graphics editor and Hex-a-Hop video game as downloadable extensions, AlsaPlayer, Baka MPlayer, GNOME MPlayer, GNOME MPV, and mp3blaster apps available out of the box, as well as XMMS as a default media player. This release also improves support for various image, audio, and video formats. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ OpenBSD_7.3_released⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 7.3. This is our 54th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD’s record of more than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 7.3 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system… o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_To_Install_MySQL_Server_on_Ubuntu_22.04/ Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ MySQL community server is a free open-source, popular, and cross-platform database management system, which supports both SQL and NoSQL and has a pluggable storage engine architecture. Additionally, it also comes with multiple database connectors for # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Open_source_MLOps_at_Kubecon_with_Canonical⠀⇛ …Canonical is also ready to bring open source into the landscape. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Review:_Wireless_Android_Auto_adapters_for_$50 just_work⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_Phones_Add_Clever_Auto-Archive_App_Feature⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Play_Store_‘auto-archive’_frees_space_from unused_Android_apps⠀⇛ # ⚓ April_2023_Android_Security_Update_Available_for_Google Pixel_Phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Amazing_hack_helps_your_Android_phone_run_five TIMES_faster_and_it_takes_just_seconds_–_here’s_how_to_do_it |_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Best_Android_apps_for_Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_5_Best_ChatGPT_Apps_For_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_April_security_patch_live,_download Pixel_OTA⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia Power User ☛ Nokia_G20_may_get_the_Android_13_update soon_–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛ # ⚓ BGR ☛ 8_Android_phone_settings_you_should_think_about changing_immediately⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ The_best_Android_phone_to_buy_in_2023_–_The Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_5_Best_ChatGPT_Apps_For_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Magisk_26_is_leaving_Android_Lollipop_in the_rearview⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Access_your_Android_Phone_from_PC:_How_to_do_it?⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Android_14_may_offer_more_control_over “Material_You”_customisation_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Use_Bing_AI_Chat_on_Your_Android Phone’s_Keyboard⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘Trusted_places’_still_missing_in_Smart_Lock_on_Android devices⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Tim Bray ☛ Fediverse_Cheesemaking⠀⇛ What happened was, last November, when Elon started showing his true face, I bailed out of Twitter. A few days before that I’d seen a post from Evan Prodromou: “Should we start a Canadian coop Mastodon service? There are going to be a lot of people who need accounts soon.” And I was so there, the moment I heard the idea. [...] Sustainability · It’s not that hard to build a Mastodon instance. It’s not hard (with Elon’s help) to attract people to join it. But (pardon me for being crass) how you gonna pay that Cloud bill, and who will your mods and SREs be? The most popular answer, so far, has been “Patreon and volunteers”. It’s pleasing that that happens, and it’s sustaining some pretty big instances as I write this. But once that Fresh Fediverse Flavor is no longer the new hotness, does it last? I mean, social media is a species of publishing, and the practice of publishing is full of chores that people have to do to keep the virtual presses spinning. It’s work, and people should be paid when they work. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Mozilla_Firefox_112_Web_Browser_Is_Now Available_for_Download,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛ As I reported during the beta phase, Firefox 112 is a pretty modest release and the biggest change appears to be the ability for Ubuntu Linux users to import their browser data from the Chromium web browser installed as a Snap package. Chromium will now be listed as a supported web browser when trying to import browser data using the Import and Backup feature that you access under Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks (Ctrl+Shift+O). o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Google’s_WebGPU_is_coming_to Chrome_to_boost_online_gaming_and_graphics⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Thousands_of Michiganders_could_lose_Medicaid_coverage_if_they_miss_the mail⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Johnson_&_Johnson_proposes_nearly $9B_US_settlement_for_talc_product_claims⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNN ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Study_finds_slightly_higher_risk of_autism_diagnosis_in_areas_with_more_lithium_in_drinking water,_but_experts_say_more_research_is_needed⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Hiccups_Have_a_Curious Connection_to_Cancer⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Why_Britain_Stinks⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_COVID_Caused Brain_Damage_in_2_Infants_Infected_During_Pregnancy_-US Study⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_In_a_First, EPA_Survey_Puts_a_Number_on_Lead_Pipes_Around_US⠀⇛ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Amazon_lays_off_more_than_100 employees_across_its_gaming_divisions⠀⇛ # ⚓ Around_24,250_Indian_techies_lose_jobs_at_84_startups_till date:_Know_the_reason_why?⠀⇛ Since the year got started, we are bombarded with the news of layoffs, job loss, company’s planning for cost-cutting and whatnot. There are no stopping layoffs at the Indian startups and so far, it has been reported that around 24,250 employees have lost their jobs in their homegrown start-up ecosystem. According to the latest data from leading startup coverage portal Inc42, 24,256 employees have been laid off by 84 startups to date. # ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ China_May_Not_Need_Western_Technology_Much Longer⠀⇛ Western countries have become increasingly wary of sharing technology with China, with the US and Netherlands recently imposing new restrictions on exports of semiconductors and the equipment used to make them. Meanwhile, Chinese companies are rising up the list of the world’s biggest spenders on research and development — a sign that perhaps they won’t need that Western technology much longer. # ⚓ Layoffs_In_Tech:_A_Boon_For_Other_Working_Sectors⠀⇛ Industry giants like Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft have collectively laid off more than 1,50,000 workers with the backdrop of recession risks globally. Rising inflation, geopolitical tensions, overzealous hiring amidst the pandemic are some of the estimated reasons making the ‘IT layoffs’ the new normal. # ⚓ Irish Examiner ☛ Apple_takes_the_biggest_hit_as_global computer_shipments_dive⠀⇛ Global shipments of personal computers slumped by nearly a third in the first three months this year, with Apple dropping the most among the market heavyweights as the industry struggles with a slowdown in consumer spending following the pandemic. In separate reports, market research firms IDC and Canalys blamed weak demand, excess stocks, and a bleak economic outlook for the shipment declines of 29% and 33%, respectively. “Most of the issues that plagued the industry in the second half of last year have extended into the start of 2023,” Canalys analyst Ishan Dutt said. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_CISA_Adds_One_Known_Exploited Vulnerability_to_Catalog⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_CISA_Releases_One_Industrial Control_Systems_Advisory⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Seven_Industrial Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_CISA_Adds_Five_Known_Exploited Vulnerabilities_to_Catalog⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Nexx_Smart_Home_Device⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Industrial_Control_Links ScadaFlex_II_SCADA_Controllers⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_JTEKT_ELECTRONICS_Screen_Creator Advance_2⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_JTEKT ELECTRONICS_Kostac_PLC Programming_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Korenix_Jetwave⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_mySCADA_myPRO⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Libya:_Revoke_Repressive_Anti- Cybercrime_Law⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (openimageio and udisks2), Fedora (chromium, curl, kernel, mediawiki, and seamonkey), Oracle (httpd: 2.4), Red Hat (httpd and mod_http2 and tigervnc), SUSE (ghostscript and kernel), and Ubuntu (irssi). # ⚓ Associated Press ☛ ‘Network_disruption’_probed_at California_sheriff’s_office⠀⇛ Southern California’s San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said it experienced a “network disruption” to its electronic systems last week and has referred the problem to the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. The sheriff’s department said the problem occurred Friday, but officials declined to explain what the disruption entailed. The disruption has not impacted the agency’s operations, the department said in a statement Saturday. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Thai_authorities_still_looking_for “9Near”⠀⇛ The story began last month when someone offered to sell data on 55 million Thai citizens on BreachForums. Days later, and before there was any evidence of any sale, BreachForums was taken offline after police arrested the forum’s owner, “Pompompurin.” # ⚓ Data_breach_at_Elmbrook_School_District_exposes_personal information_about_former_and_current_employees⠀⇛ A breach that exposed the names and Social Security numbers of current and former Elmbrook School District employees continued even after the district was aware of the problem. The district learned its system had been compromised on Aug. 23, 2022, according to Elmbrook School Chief Strategy Officer Chris Thompson. Files were removed from Aug. 23-27, 2022, an investigation revealed. “These were professional cyber criminals. This is not something your antivirus software cleans up. I cannot comment on the efforts required to secure our network,” Thompson said in a text message to a reporter asking why the breach continued even after the district was aware of the problem. # ⚓ Big_Pharma-partnered_Evotec_on_high_alert_after_cyber attack_takes_systems_offline⠀⇛ German biotech Evotec is on high alert after a late-week cyber attack prompted the company to shut down its network. Evotec says that unusual activity was noticed on its IT systems on April 6, prompting the company to take its digital infrastructure offline. A forensic examination of the breach is underway to learn the extent of the attack and relevant authorities have been notified, according to an update posted Monday. Evotec says that “business continuity is upheld” across the company’s sites but that systems remain unconnected and there may be delays or slower responses to partners. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older] Black_girls_3_times_more_prone_to_invasive_strip-search by_Met_police:_Report⠀⇛ # ⚓ China’s_Central_Bank_Warns_Against_ChatGPT_‘Data Leaks’⠀⇛ China’s state-sponsored payments association is warning against the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The Payment & Clearing Association of China on Monday (April 10) said that technology like OpenAI’s ChatGPT could pose “risks such as cross-border data leaks,” Reuters reported. “Payment industry staff must comply with laws and rules when using tools such as ChatGPT, and should not upload confidential information related to the country and the finance industry,” said the association, an arm of the People’s Bank of China. The warning comes as AI tools find themselves at the center of a global battle, with President Joe Biden meeting with a council of science and technology advisers last week to discuss the risks and opportunities that AI could pose for both individual users and national security. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Arresting_Development: The_ICC_Arrest_Warrant_for_Putin_is_a_Weapon_of_War⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_New_ICC_Vetting_Process_Begins_for Judicial_Candidates⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_‘Heartbreaking’:_Silicon Valley_rocked_as_tech_executive_killed_in_San_Francisco stabbing⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_“The_water_industry cannot_continue_to_be_rewarded_for_failure”:_Green_Party responds_to_new_sewage_figures⠀⇛ # ⚓ GeekWire ☛ Carbon_removal_startup_Nori_lays_off_10 employees,_citing_market_concerns⠀⇛ Nori, a Seattle startup that sells carbon credits to individuals and businesses to offset carbon emissions, laid off 10 employees last week, co- founder and CEO Paul Gambill confirmed. The cuts represent 37% of Nori’s team, leaving the startup with 17 employees. “This was not done lightly, and, like many companies right now, was done solely for planning for changing market conditions,” Gambill told GeekWire. “I wish we could have kept everyone.” # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ H2 View ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_European_consortium launches_HyEkoTank_hydrogen-powered_maritime_project⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_California_will_require half_of_heavy_truck_sales_to_be_electric_by_2035⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_Lost_in_space:_Sir_Richard Branson_humiliated_as_Virgin_Orbit_goes_bankrupt⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-04-04_[Older]_General_Motors_avoids_layoffs_as 5,000_workers_accept_buyout_offer⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Are_rich people_dishonest?_What_does_it_even_mean_to_be_honest?⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Staring_Down_a_Debt Crisis,_McCarthy_Toils_to_Navigate_G.O.P._Divisions⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-04-06_[Older]_Southwest CEO’s_Compensation_Soars_Despite_December_Debacle⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_The_2023_Forbes_billionaire ranking:_Crypto_down,_sports_up⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Why_McDonald’s_is_laying_off corporate_workers_in_a_solid_economy [Ed: Says Goldman Sachs- funded publisher. And Goldman Sachs has many layoffs as well...]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Patch ☛ Around_1,500_Jobs_Cut_In_Wisconsin_So_Far_In_2023: March_Layoffs⠀⇛ The layoffs, led mainly by the technology and financial sectors, are a signal that U.S. employers are paying attention to the Federal Reserve Board’s efforts to tame inflation by cooling the economy through interest rate hikes. # ⚓ Dawn Media ☛ Navigating_the_global_cash_crunch⠀⇛ Around 131,000 workers in US-based tech companies have been laid off in mass job cuts in 2023, according to Crunchbase tracker. Pitchbook data shows that venture capital (VC) in the United States fell for the fifth quarter straight. Even the few glimmers of hope seem to be vanishing now. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ American Oversight ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_News_Roundup:_Trump Indictment,_Update_from_Wisconsin⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-03-31_[Older]_Anti-China ‘propaganda’_stokes_fears_as_Michigan_town_weighs_Gotion factory⠀⇛ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Greens_are_achieving for_their_communities_and_people_want_more,_say_co-leaders_at Mid_Suffolk_launch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-04-05_[Older]_Greens_call_for_Right Homes,_Right_Place,_Right_Price_Charter_to_beat_housing crisis_and_protect_green_space⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-04-07_[Older]_Stop_Corporate_Child Abuse⠀⇛ # ⚓ Layoffs_Ravage_Tech:_Do_Tech_Workers_Need_Unions?⠀⇛ “Are tech unions even a thing?” A coworker asked me this after myself and thousands of others had been laid off. Rocked by the storm, dozens of us had landed in an online organizing space. Social justice activism at big tech companies is evolving into union organizing. This brutal round of layoffs may be remembered as a catalyzing event, or it may be a setback. But many tech organizing groups are popping up, maybe you’ve found yourself in one as well. Most tech workers aren’t knowledgeable about unions because the existing unions failed to organize tech decades ago. To best understand why unions in tech are necessary, it’s important to consider why this is all happening. # ⚓ Former_Banking_Honcho_James_‘Jes’_Staley_Accused_Of Sexually_Assaulting_Jeffrey_Epstein_Trafficking_Victim:_Court Documents⠀⇛ The explosive allegation is tucked away in a federal court document filed by the banking giant asking a judge to dismiss Staley’s request for a separate trial after JPMorgan sued him personally for his role in the Epstein trafficking operation. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-04-03_[Older]_Rogers_takeover_of_Shaw_finalized, deal_now_official⠀⇛ * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Magic_Moments_2:_Stormfront,_Dots⠀⇛ A few weeks ago a well announced storm front crossed the country. It hit the office building at $dayjob some time after lunch. The storm came in fast, rattling at the large office windows while spilling loads of water over them. For me this turned out to be a magic moment. I watched the rain drops, the bending trees, the lack of daylight, and more. It made me feel small, a small being protected from the outside by a sheet or two of glass. Of course, nature will get along just fine without me watching the show. # ⚓ The_beauty_of_waiting⠀⇛ Our school’s submission system takes some time to automatically grade the submission, usually less than 30 seconds, however, it has an automatic reload after that time. Nice loading bar to watch, and there’s a specific group of people I’ve convinced to not reload the page and just, enjoy the 30 seconds of time they have to themselves. Since there’s not enough time to do much else, and the time just slowly ticks, some have described it to me as a calming zen moment for them. Which seems better to me than just reloading and reloading. # ⚓ House_rules_for_Halberds_&_Helmets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pens_Must_Die⠀⇛ I’ll miss pens when they go. I like how they feel. I like that handwriting is almost impossible to fake. I like that when I receive a letter, I can tell who sent it just from how they write the address. But it all has to go. Pens have some advantages over computers. One can generally access a pen-record faster – just open the notepad and it’s there. Modern software is so badly programmed that it’s often easier to find a page in a notepad than to open a text document. And it’s resilient – even if rain doesn’t do paper any favours, anyone can still read a page which has been rained on. Taking out a computer in the rain is just madness. # ⚓ 2023_Week_10/11/12/13:_Status_and_Photos⠀⇛ The little free time I’ve had on weeknights last month was largely taken up by reading. I was a huge fan of Star Wars growing up, but I didn’t delve into the Extended Universe (now Legends) very much. Just this afternoon I completed the last book of the “Black Fleet Crisis” trilogy by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. The series was highly entertaining, but I’m ready to switch back to pure fantasy for a while. Next on my list is “Well of Ascension” by Brandon Sanderson. # ⚓ I_am_what_they_fear⠀⇛ I like going out for walks late at night. Well really I don’t have much of a preference as to when I go for my walks, but I don’t like running into people all that much. It’s not really that I don’t want to see people, it’s just that there’s this little song and dance of walking around the other person or people that I’d just rather not deal with. Also the darkness of night is somewhat comforting, knowing that I’m not easily seen. I sometimes like to play with my imagination somewhat, creating little worlds in my head and somewhat acting out interactions or the sounds of the environment. The thing is I look like a lunatic doing it, waving my hands about, making hums and brrs, so the darkness gives me a chance to act it all out without bothering anyone. That is, if I don’t run into anyone. o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ politics_and_food⠀⇛ I am currently trying again to get a better relationship with food. Since 2020 I struggle with anorexic and orthorexic behaviour with some recovery months inbetween. The orthorexic stuff is especially hard to beat because it is usually not even based on any delusions or wrong beliefs. My orthorexic behaviors are not only about how processed a food is or how much sugar it and carbs it has, but also about how much packaging it has and how recyclable it is and how much plastic it contains, what the companies stand for, and if it’s organic and vegan or not. These are simple facts a food has that aren’t wrong, and it is also a fact that certain food components can be harmful, or that we should reduce packaging and plastic use, that animal ag is harmful for the planet and not in alignment with how I see animals, and people everywhere make the choice to boycott certain companies like Nestle. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ attention_and_engagement_as_incentives_to_misbehave⠀⇛ I’ve been gone for a while, but kept thinking about Gemini and what it may mean to write here compared to write somewhere else. There’s an influence war out there. Everyone (brands, influencers, even individuals with an opinion) want a piece of your attention. You have to infer the incentives for every statement you read online. # ⚓ A_Librem_5?_–_I’m_Spoiled⠀⇛ I’ve been doing a lot of computing using my Pinephone for the past year, or more. I’ve lost track! The Pinephone works pretty well with a dock, hooked to a monitor. I’ve had to learn to scale down the apps I use for doing, well, what I do! The Pinephone isn’t great at running Manuskript, and completely blew up running LibreOffice. So I have been doing my writing with Emacs. Firefox? The Pinephone would launch it, but FF was seriously slow on the Pinephone. So for the web, I used lynx. Etc. # ⚓ Detect_left_over_users_and_groups_on_OpenBSD⠀⇛ If you use OpenBSD and administrate machines, you may be aware that packages can install new dedicated users and groups, and that if you remove a package doing so, the users/groups won’t be deleted, instead, `pkg_delete` displays instructions about deletion. In order to keep my OpenBSD systems clean, I wrote a script looking for users and groups that have been installed (they start by the character `_`), and check if the related package is still installed, if not, it outputs instructions that could be run in a shell to cleanup your system. # ⚓ OpenBSD_7.3⠀⇛ As opposed to RedHat 7.3, the OpenBSD update process is pretty trivial, and there is not a whole new operating system to learn, one that invariably breaks all your KickStart configurations and who knows what else. There are of course gotchas (like is there enough disk space to hold the upgrade sets) but I’ve seen worse in computing. Mostly worse. # ⚓ The_Wayback_Machine_for_Gemini:_🏎️_Delorean_Time_Machine⠀⇛ I’ve built Delorean, a Wayback Machine for Gemini. The archive contains content from Dec 2021 to today. Not only gemtext, but plain text, images, PDFs, binary files, really any content under 10 MB in size and that’s not excluded by robots.txt. Seriously, I pulled some Amiga m68k binaries out of it yesterday! # ⚓ Tetris_Controls⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_move_is_over,_finally!⠀⇛ Finally indeed! The move took a long time, with a lot of back and forth trips… A few very short nights and a lot of stuff to put in boxes and then put them in their new place. Nothing unusual for a move like this. I had to be back to Paris after the move of all the furnitures (except a convertible couch, a fridge and a microwave…) for a few days for family reasons… That was hard to be in an almost empty apartment but now I’m finally home in Toulouse. Even though we started renting the new apartment earlier in March, I can finally call it home since only a couple of days. For the first time in a month, my desk setup is fully back as before, with all my screens and my mechanical keyboard (even though the frame.work laptop keyboard is a great nice replacement on the move!). # ⚓ The_Inescapable_Algorithm⠀⇛ I wake, and enter my algorithm-free RSS feed. It is perfect and pure. I see a list (in the order I select) of everyone I want to follow. YouTube channels show up just like everything else, and I see only the name. With a quick shortcut-key, I tell the computer I want to watch the video later. Onto the next feed, I find a news article. I open the blog in w3m, the CLI browser, sidestepping all JavaScript. “Not today, Five Eyes!”, I chirp while downloading a podcast as an mp3 file. Then to Mastodon, to check out suggested blogs, from everyone I want to follow, feed produce in chronological order, just like the days of the TV guide. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_Why_Gemini_is_boring⠀⇛ I would add that the hand curated lists like gemini.susa.net have been abandoned. That’s understandable, because such a list is a lot of work. # ⚓ Intense_work,_strange_hotel,_New_monitors,_Macbook Air,_XMPP_clients,_Paris_trip,_hack.org_vs_gmail:_Part 2,_Gemini_capsule_on_v4,_Colo_server.⠀⇛ § Gemini capsule on v4 Swedish summer time just started. Ugh… They stole an hour of my life! Can we just stop this madness, please? It’s difficult as it is to get up in the morning. Work is quite intense. The web shop should have opened on March 23 but it isn’t open yet. I’ve been going back and forth to Gothenburg every week for a while. Wednesday last week I worked to ~23. Thursday to 0:30. I was quite tired on Friday and promptly went to sleep on the train home from Gothenburg. The mood last weekend wasn’t great and started to think that maybe computers were a mistake? This week I’ve been back in Gothenburg again, working late most evenings. Unfortunately I missed an interesting RISC-V meetup in Gothenburg where Joachim mentioned Tillitis and TKey several times. [...] My Gemini capsule is now on both IP v4 and v6 instead of being v6-only. I also moved the Gemini server to my main server in colo instead of a box at home. # ⚓ Why_Gemini_is_(not)_boring⠀⇛ There were several discussions about the boringness of the Gemini. [The famous] and not-so-famous ones. People are complaining that is too much, or too less, technical, or nontechnical content. That there is not much content at all. That it will be great to come back with more people. That It isn’t the same as one or two years ago when all Gemini projects started from scratch. We can observe the Geminispace from the inside and the outside world. Sometimes external observer is looking only through a hole created by a graphical browser. And he can only see the top of that universe. Because text presentation of data, observed most often inside a complete-graphical environment or web proxy, is only the one outer layer of that complex and strange efflorescence. We shouldn’t understand Geminispace as a catalog of text data. And we shouldn’t measure it by an occurrence that or these topics. If Geminispace can tell me a pancake with strawberries recipe? Maybe it never will do so. # ⚓ Why_Gemini_is_(not)_boring⠀⇛ # § Music⠀➾ # ⚓ Music_Spotlight:_Single_–_Dozer_–_Dust_for_Blood⠀⇛ Wow that’s a mouthful! I’ll have to come up with a more streamlined title formula for this! This is a new format for me – mostly taking my notes and first impressions and bringing sharing them with you all here! # ⚓ Album_#229:_PJ_Harvey_–_Stories_From_The_City, Stories_From_The_Sea⠀⇛ Like a few other reviewers over on 1001albumsgenerator, it’s ‘The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore’ that really cemented this as an excellent album. As a whole, it’s a very approachable intro to an artist who has such a strong following that it can be daunting to decide where to start. At its worst it’s still catchy indie with interesting lyrics, and at its best its so much more. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Listing_non-matching_files⠀⇛ I use the grep command on Unix for a long time already. Nevertheless I found out that I missed something it can do. 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