𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, April 21, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sat 22 Apr 02:40:40 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/2023/04/21/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmZjKTQkXEAPfBEY76e1SGVHsMwytpPPn1a8p7edRrF2LX QmdoYCxjao8GwYGeyKLdbrSRj8BjRWqcG7GWs3MEZqUTbC QmVfyaoN6BBrhg7UGMEZXNQB1uog2x7QLBu3AvJQEVNTmC QmdMbFQYAsqCzsRJVDVUALo8U2wSJ3EzSrGbnLinTas5zn QmU1238aDxmcNHuWgKtJJvFNG2H7URvz285aoQLDu9jt8r 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https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2825/lp2023-jupiter- sunday-1620.webm Summary: The above LibrePlanet panel talk from one month ago speaks about repairs of farm equipment; the panel includes Sick Codes, Kevin Kenney, Elizabeth Chamberlain, and Paul Roberts. The video was_uploaded_by_the_FSF less than 3 days ago (slides_here; PeerTube_link); From the official page: “Farmers large and small in the U.S. are being crushed under the thumb of “BigAg” equipment makers whose late model farm machinery combines sensors, always-on Internet connections, software and Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to vacuum up and monetize proprietary farm data, while simultaneously preventing farmers from being able to service and repair their own equipment. Farmers who own late model equipment today are required to patronize “authorized” technicians at the expense of independent repair and are forced to pay astronomical prices for even routine maintenance. What’s needed is a way to free farmers from the grip of these monopolies with free software and usurious OEM-operated software ecosystems. This panel will bring together experts on farming and farm equipment, embedded device security and policy (e.g. right to repair) to discuss ways to liberate farmers with free software.” Licence: CC_BY_SA_4.0 ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 185 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/04/21/flaming-twitter/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/21/flaming-twitter/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.21.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Twitter_Up_in_Flames_(Like_a_Flaming_Rocket)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Protocol at 6:10 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 2 years ago Freenode started dying, and it’s deja vu all over again 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Elon_approves:_I'll_destroy_it_for_6_months;_Then_whine_I_am the_victim⦈_ Summary: Twitter is making moves that destroy itself every single day or at least every single week; while the media obsesses over some blue ‘NFTs’ there are vastly worse changes underway and underneath; Twitter is dismantling the very core of Twitter (to most users this isn’t visible but it is profound) The Techrights IRC network — and our IRC community — will turn 15 next month (the channel_registration_was_in_May_2008, albeit with a different name and under Freenode, i.e. a third party network). Over the years we’ve used more bots than we can remember. Some were developed by others, some were developed by us, and sometimes we modified other networks’ programs. This diverse combination of programs gave us access, usually over API pipelines, to Twitter, Identi.ca, Fediverse etc. Those were like a fashion and the APIs too kept breaking. In 2018 Twitter shut many applications out of API access and last night Twitter took that a step further: it basically suspended lots and lots of applications — to the point of breaking one of our bots. I’ve since then ‘fixed’ the issue by surgically removing any connections to Twitter, but one can imagine that others were deeply dependent on such APIs and the traffic/ activity at Twitter will nosedive. Just before midnight last night I got the following E-mail message (there was a prior one dated earlier this month): Application suspension notice Hello, This is a notice that your app – IRC bot for techrights.org – has been suspended from accessing the Twitter API. However, you can self- serve reactivate your app for free. Please take the following steps to get your app quickly running again on the new Free or Basic plans available at developer.twitter.com: 1. Subscribe to either Free or Basic via our website. 2. When signing up, you will be able to pick 1 (Free) or 2 (Basic) apps that you want to remain active. They will be reactivated automatically after you complete your sign-up. 3. Please update the code in your app to use v2 endpoints – this is valid to all endpoints except for media upload endpoints which are not currently supported on v2 so you can continue to use those on v1.1. We apologize for any inconveniences this transition might have caused. By following these steps, you can continue to seamlessly use the Twitter API. For more information, please refer to our developer community forums. Regards, Twitter Developer Platform “Subscribe to either Free or Basic via our website” means start paying the world’s corrupt billionaire some monthly fees. We strongly_urge_people_to_abandon_social_control_media. Things will be getting worse, not better. Any time still spent in these platforms is time wasted, including_in_Mastodon. This is not a drill. This is not a drill. I repeat. This is not a drill. Quit social control media. You won’t regret it. 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04.21.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Upcoming_Series:_How_Sirius_Attacked_Itself_(and_Its_Own_Staff)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Finance, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 8:39 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Last week: What_Happened_Months_Before_Seattle_Police_Sent_Almost_3,000_Pages About_Its_Arrest_for_Pedophilia_at_Home_of_Bill_Gates 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Sirius UK blames Sirius US⦈ “Sirius US” or “SiriUS” was all along a smokescreen, vapourware, maybe an attempt to debt evasion Summary: Taking note of the crimes of Sirius_‘Open_Source’, we’ll soon proceed with a new mini-series about how a company basically self-destructed, based on inside communications ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣾⣽⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣍⡃⣾⣿⣿⠀⣂⣼⣿⡏⠻⣿⣿⣿⣾⣟⣿⣻⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Video_download_link https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2800/lp2023-jupiter- sunday-1430.webm Summary: The above LibrePlanet talk by Dakota J is a physical presence talk which was_uploaded_by_the_FSF 3.5 days ago (slides_here; PeerTube_link); From the official page: “The biggest problem that faces the Fediverse right now is the same one that faces a lot of other free-software initiatives. Not mindshare, not features, but one of contribution: how do we encourage people to contribute, how do we make it easier to contribute, and how do we ensure our efforts are coordinated towards what is most needed for the ecosystem? This presentation will focus on lessons I’ve learned over the years in my involvement, lessons learned from the recent Twitter exodus, and how this ties back to the importance of organization.” Licence: CC_BY_SA_4.0 ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 555 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.21.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_21/04/2023:_FutureSQL_0.1.0_and_Wine/Proton_8.0-1⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:55 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Server o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ System76_launch_multiple_new_powerful_Linux laptops⠀⇛ Not one, not two but three product announcements from System76 today as they’re launching a range of new Linux powered laptops. First is the Serval WS that will be getting a refresh but they’re also bringing back the Adder WS and the Bonobo WS. System76 said all of them can be configured with up to 64GB RAM, have at least a 144Hz display and up to 8TB of storage. In the case of the Serval WS it has a 165Hz screen, and the Bonobo WS can have up to 12TB of storage. So there’s something that will hopefully fit every need. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Peter_Czanik:_The_syslog-ng_Insider 2023-04:_FreeBSD;_Splunk;_Deduplication;⠀⇛ The April syslog-ng newsletter is now on-line [...] o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ FutureSQL_0.1.0_released⠀⇛ I’m happy to announce the first release of FutureSQL, a library for accessing SQLite (and other databases) in Qt projects without blocking. It also features a migration system and automatic result deserialization. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyApps_totally_rewritten⠀⇛ EasyOS has a few of Roger’s (radky in the forum) superb applications, including PupApps, slightly modified by Roger to work with EasyOS and renamed to EasyApps. Apart from the name change, it is still almost entirely PupApps underneath, and is installed at /usr/local/PupApps. # ⚓ Simon Josefsson ☛ Simon_Josefsson:_Sigstore_for_Apt Archives:_apt-cosign⠀⇛ As suggested in my initial_announcement_of_apt- sigstore my plan was to look into stronger uses of Sigstore than rekor, and I’m now happy to announce that the apt-cosign_plugin_has_been_added_to_apt- sigstore and the operational project debdistcanary is publishing cosign-statements about the InRelease file published by the following distributions: Trisquel GNU/Linux, PureOS, Gnuinos, Ubuntu, Debian and Devuan. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ A_Beginner’s_Guide_to_Linux_Environment Variables⠀⇛ Hey there! If you’re new to Linux, you may have heard the term “environment variables” and wondered what they are and how they work. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_find_files_with_specific_extensions_in Linux⠀⇛ Discover how to find all files with a specific extension in Linux using powerful command-line utilities like ‘find’ and ‘grep’. This guide will walk you through the process, helping you streamline your workflow and manage your files effectively in a Linux environment. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_create_shared_folders_on_Ubuntu_for Windows_users⠀⇛ Learn how to share a folder on Ubuntu for access from Windows using the Samba protocol. This guide will walk you through the installation, configuration, and permission settings necessary for seamless cross-platform file sharing. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Unzip_a_Tar.gz_File_in_Linux⠀⇛ Tar.gz is one of the most common file compression formats in Linux today. Unlike ZIP, RAR and 7ZIP, it is a combination of two different file formats: TAR and GZIP. This tutorial shows how to unzip a tar.gz file using both graphical and command tools that are already a part of your Linux distribution. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Alias_Command:_Making_work_easier_by_using_alias for_complex_commands⠀⇛ Hello friends. We really like working in the terminal, as it is very efficient and suits both sysadmin and desktop users. However, the use of aliases sometimes goes unnoticed and is a trick that, when used well, can save a lot of time in the terminal. # ⚓ Major Hayden ☛ Major_Hayden:_Add_a_VLAN_on_a_Mikrotik router⠀⇛ Segment your home network easily with a VLAN on a Mikrotik router. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_Ubuntu_23.04_from_Ubuntu 22.10⠀⇛ Learn the step-by-step process to upgrade to Ubuntu 23.04 from Ubuntu 22.10 and enjoy the latest features and improvements! # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ LHB_Linux_Digest_#23.05:_AI_in_Linux Terminal,_Chattr,_Certbot_and_More⠀⇛ AI in Linux terminal? Yes, that’s a thing and it is getting popular. # ⚓ Relocating_binary_logs_in_MySQL⠀⇛ Introduction Hey there, fellow MySQL enthusiasts! Are you ready to dive into the exciting world of binary logs? If you’re a database administrator or just someone who loves to tinker with MySQL, you’re in the right place. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_Ubuntu_23.04_From_22.10_ (Kinetic_to_Lunar)⠀⇛ Here are the steps on how to upgrade your current Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu to Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_MusicBrainz_Picard_on_Fedora 38/37/36_Linux⠀⇛ MusicBrainz Picard is a powerful, open-source music tagging and organizing tool designed to help users easily manage their digital music libraries. Developed by the MusicBrainz community, Picard boasts various features that make it the go-to choice for many music enthusiasts. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_RawTherapee_on_Fedora_38/37/ 36_Linux⠀⇛ RawTherapee is a powerful and versatile open-source photo editing software that handles raw images captured by digital cameras. The application offers a wide range of professional-grade features and tools, making it an excellent alternative to commercial software such as Adobe Lightroom. # ⚓ Install_and_Run_Blender_3D_on_Debian_12_or_11_Linux⠀⇛ Video and Graphics editors using Linux systems can easily install open-source Blender 3D CAD application on Debian Linux such as 12 Bookworm and 11 Bullseye using the command terminal or GUI. # ⚓ How_to_install_Cockpit_in_Debian_11_or_12_servers_or desktops⠀⇛ Start accessing your command line server or desktop by installing Cockpit on Debian 12 Bookworm or 11 Bullseye using this tutorial’s given terminal commands. # ⚓ How_to_install_Build-essential_on_Debian_such_as_12_and 11⠀⇛ Those who are developers or want to build some package on Linux from its source need to have essential tools for it. And installing build- essential on Debian 12 or 11 Linux it will provide a set of packages and tools for that. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Wine_stable_release_8.0.1_is_now_available_for_Linux macOS_and_FreeBSD⠀⇛ The Wine stable release 8.0.1 is now available. # ⚓ Proton_8.0-1_released_brings_more_games_to_Linux⠀⇛ Valve’s Proton, which allows Windows games to run on Linux, has been now updated to version 8.0, bringing even more games to Linux OS and Valve’s Steam Deck. The latest update is probably one of the biggest yet and much awaited re-base, bringing an extensive list of fixes, as well as a list of new games that are now playable. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Unrecord,_Amazing_Upcoming_Game_from_Drama Studios⠀⇛ A short piece of news. We don’t usually cover news about upcoming games, and this is not even directly Linux related, so this will be a exception. # ⚓ Lutris_0.5.13-beta2_has_been_released⠀⇛  Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE ☛ Final_Weeks_Of_SoK23_With_KDE_Eco:_Writing Scripts_In_Selenium_To_Reproduce_KdeEcoTest_Script⠀⇛ Thank you once again to the KDE community for having me as part of this amazing Free & Open Source project through their annual program Season_of_KDE (SoK). Please see this and this blog post for background information about the work described here. § Final Weeks Of SoK23 In these final weeks of SoK23 I have reproduced in Selenium the entire KdeEcoTestGcomprisScript.txt script, which emulates user behavior in different GCompris activities. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Patrick_Griffis:_How_GTK3_themes_work_in_Flatpak⠀⇛ There seems to be a lot of misinformation and low quality content out there on how to use a theme with Flatpak. So I’m going to break down how it all works. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Lunar_Lobster_Released⠀⇛ Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster has been released. You can now update or download Ubuntu 23.04. Ubuntu 23.04 Lubar Lobster comes up with some new features and upgrades from existing Ubuntu. Meanwhile, It is not a Long-Term Support version. # ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Upgrade_To_Ubuntu_23.04_From_Ubuntu 22.10⠀⇛ Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” is released on Thursday, April 20, 2023. Ubuntu 22.10 is at the end of its life in July. # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_arrives_with_improved_Azure_Active Directory_support_and_Steam_snap [Ed: Neowin helps turn this into Microsoft news]⠀⇛ >Ubuntu 23.04 is now ready for you to download. It comes with some improvements to Azure Active Directory support, a new Steam snap, GNOME 44, and two new flavours: Cinnamon and Edubuntu. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Lunar_Lobster_scuttles_into public_view⠀⇛ Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed Lunar Lobster, has crawled out of beta and onto public release today. The latest reincarnation of Canonical’s widely used Linux operating system brings with it a number of added features and some refinements ranging from improvements to the standard desktop interface and Snap package manager to some additional enterprise features and Linux kernel 6.2. # ⚓ Xubuntu:_Xubuntu_23.04_released!⠀⇛ The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 23.04. Xubuntu 23.04, codenamed Lunar Lobster, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until January 2024. Xubuntu 23.04 features the latest Xfce 4.18. Xfce 4.18 delivers a stable desktop environment with a number of performance improvements and new features to enjoy. In particular, the Thunar file manager benefits from a new image preview feature, undo and redo functionality, file highlights, and recursive search. Check out the Xfce_4.18 tour for more details! Xubuntu 23.04 also welcomes Xubuntu Minimal as an official subproject. Xubuntu Minimal is a slimmed down version of Xubuntu that only includes the bare essentials: the desktop, a few Xfce components, and the Xubuntu look and feel. Longtime Xubuntu fans may better know this as Xubuntu_Core. After nearly eight years of being a supported, but community- built project, we’re happy to finally publish downloads along with the main Xubuntu version. Many thanks to the community for keeping the dream alive all these years! # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Flavors:_What’s_New?⠀⇛ Arriving alongside the Ubuntu 23.04 release are new versions of official community flavours. This time around there’s a newbie in the pack: Ubuntu Cinnamon, welcomed into the Ubuntu flavour family back in March after several years as an unofficial Ubuntu remix. In this post I share a concise overview of what new features and changes are present in the most popular Ubuntu flavours, along with downloads links so you can download them to test out yourself. # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_‘Lunar_Lobster’_Desktop Released:_Focuses_on_Enterprises_and_Everyday_Linux_Users⠀⇛ Ubuntu 23.04 not only brings many new features to the table for enterprise users, it has plenty of features to please its home-user base as well. # ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_23.04_(Lunar_Lobster) released⠀⇛ Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, is here. This release continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, partnering with the community and our partners, to introduce new features and fix bugs. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Canonical_releases_Ubuntu_23.04_Lunar_Lobster [Ed: Canonical markets Ubuntu using Microsoft proprietary vendor lock-in brands]⠀⇛ New installer, Active Directory login and gaming performance enhance Ubuntu Desktop for work and play in the latest interim release of Ubuntu. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Azure_AD_authentication_comes_to_Ubuntu_Desktop 23.04 [Ed: Canonical is promoting Microsoft surveillance and proprietary software]⠀⇛ Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to enable native user authentication with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Things_I_learned_at_Brussels_to_the_Bay:_AI_governance in_the_world [Ed: Stefano Maffulli failed to disclosure that Microsoft is bribing him (paying his salary) to lobby for Microsoft under the theme of "AI"]⠀⇛ o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PGConf.be_:_Speakers_online_&_Registration open⠀⇛ PGConf.be 2023 will be held in Haasrode, Leuven, about 25km from Brussels. The conference will take place on May 12th, 2023. Registrations_are_open. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Michał Woźniak ☛ Twitter_Unverified⠀⇛ The following is probably mostly obvious to anyone who had been using Twitter for the last decade. But for those who are just confused what the whole hubbub around Twitter “verified_checkmark” is all about, here goes! A long while ago Twitter_started_making_certain_accounts “verified”. This was supposed to combat_impersonation (and in that it was even quite effective, apparently). But since the “verified” checkmark was given_by_Twitter on_Twitter’s_sole_discretion, and since it mostly went to Large, Important Accounts (celebrities, politicians, and so on), it quickly became a status symbol of sorts. “Witness me, for I have the Verified Checkmark, therefore I am considered Important!”, that_kind_of_thing. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ There_Is_No_A.I.⠀⇛ There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Cannabis_Edible_Goes_Mainstream⠀⇛ Amid the legalization of marijuana in many states, the market for cannabis edibles has become a showcase for clever design. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Seagate_has_agreed_to_a_record_settlement_over forbidden_exports_to_Huawei⠀⇛ Seagate Technology, a data-storage company based in Dublin, Ireland, agreed to pay $300 million to the federal government after two of its subsidiaries sold hard drives to Huawei, despite US sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications company. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan_quietly_urges_US_to_calm rhetoric_on_China_chip_dangers⠀⇛ Taiwanese officials have urged their US counterparts to tone down their rhetoric about the dangers of relying on Taiwan chips. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Reducing_sitting_time_alone_doesn’t improve_endurance⠀⇛ A recent joint study by the National PET Centre and the UKK Institute found that reducing sitting time alone does not improve endurance, and that at least walking or exercising is needed to improve it. Endurance is an essential measure of heart and cardiovascular health. The best way to improve endurance is by engaging in physical activity. However, Finns tend to engage in too little physical activity, and adults sit for an average of nearly ten hours a day. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Music_has_power_to_prevent_cognitive decline:_Research⠀⇛ Normal ageing is associated with progressive cognitive decline. But can we train our brains to delay this process? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), HES-SO Geneva and EPFL has discovered that practising and listening to music can alter cognitive decline in healthy seniors by stimulating the production of grey matter. The researchers followed over 100 retired people who had never practised music before. They were enrolled in piano and music awareness training for six months. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ UNICEF_Report:_67_million_children_missed basic_vaccinations_in_the_last_three_years_due_to_COVID-19 pandemic_and_other_factors⠀⇛ A new report by UNICEF reveals that 67 million children worldwide missed basic vaccinations over the past three years, with a drop in vaccination rates recorded in 112 countries. The report, entitled “The_State_of_the_World’s_Children_2023: For_Every_Child,_Vaccination,” highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare systems, limited resources, conflicts, and instability, and the decrease in vaccination confidence. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Study_reveals_digital_peer_emotional support_improves_youth_well-being⠀⇛ Emerging adulthood (ages 19 to 25 years) is a developmental stage characterised by increased mental health problems, particularly depression and anxiety. Online peer emotional support is one mental health intervention that has demonstrated positive implications for the psychological well-being of emerging adults in current research literature. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_again_temporarily_extends availability_of_abortion_drug_mifepristone⠀⇛ The US Supreme Court Wednesday released an order temporarily extending access to the abortion pill mifepristone, giving the court more time to consider the suspension of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the drug over 20 years ago. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Singtel_Optus_hit_with_class_action_over_2022 data_breach⠀⇛ The action, initiated in the Federal Court, has been brought by two lead applicants, a school teacher and a government employee. The law firm raised_the_possibility of filing such an action in September 2022, soon after Optus had revealed the massive breach. At the time, Optus advised customers that driver licence details, proof of age/proof of identity documents, Australian and international passport details, Medicare card numbers and invalid/ incomplete ID document numbers had all been exposed. # ⚓ Rochester_Public_Schools_Reintroduce_Technology_Following Cyber_Attack⠀⇛ Rochester Public Schools (RPS) experienced a cyber attack that had significant consequences on their technology systems, which resulted in them being taken offline. However, in the wake of the attack, the staff, teachers, and students of John Marshall High School have managed to find benefits in learning without the use of screens in the classroom. Initially, when the cyber attack forced the school to implement a no-screen policy, there was some skepticism about the effectiveness of the learning process. Teachers were unsure if their students would be able to keep up without relying on technology. In contrast, students were concerned about not being able to access their assignments online. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Daggerfly_Cyberattack_Campaign_Hits_African Telecom_Services_Providers⠀⇛ Telecommunication services providers in Africa are the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-linked threat actor at least since November 2022. The intrusions have been pinned on a hacking crew tracked by Symantec as Daggerfly, and which is also tracked by the broader cybersecurity community as Bronze Highland and Evasive Panda. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Ex-Conti_members_and_FIN7_devs_team_up to_push_new_Domino_malware [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Domino is a relatively new malware family consisting of two components, a backdoor named ‘Domino Backdoor,’ which in turn drops a ‘Domino Loader’ that injects an info-stealing malware DLL into the memory of another process. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Mullvad_VPN_was_subject_to_a_search warrant,_says_customer_data_not_compromised.⠀⇛ On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant. They intended to seize computers with customer data. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ PE:_Group_Euromotors_attack_claimed_by LockBit⠀⇛ The Peruvian company Euromotors is dedicated to the sale of new and used automobiles, maintenance services, and the sale of original spare parts. Euromotors is made up of a group of 12 companies: Euromotors, Euroshop, Altos Andes, Euro Camiones, San Bartolomé, Eurorenting, Euroinmuebles, One, Eurolift, Revo Motors, Euroconnect, and International Camiones del Perú. # ⚓ Russian_hackers_exfiltrated_data_from_from_Capita_over_a week_before_outage⠀⇛ Capita have finally admitted a data breach, but still do not think they need to disclose key details of the incident to customers, regulators, impacted parties and investors. So in this piece we shall dig into the details using open source intelligence, and prove Capita was penetrated by Black Basta ransomware group using Qakbot phishing to deliver hands on keyboard access for weeks — and question if the playbooks organisations are using to handle ransomware groups are fit for purpose in 2023. # ⚓ Boston Globe ☛ State’s_second-largest_health_insurer suffers_cybersecurity_attack_–_The_Boston_Globe⠀⇛ Point32Health, the parent company for Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, said in a memo on its website that it identified a ransomware incident on Monday, affecting the systems it uses to service members, accounts, brokers and providers. A spokesman for the insurer said the outages were mainly affecting members covered under Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s commercial plans and New Hampshire Medicare plans, though it was not impacting those on the Tufts Health Plan. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Failed_“Coup-Proofing”_Behind_the_Recent Violence_in_Sudan⠀⇛ Fighting has erupted among the armed factions that deposed the country’s dictator and promised to make a democracy. What caused relations between the previously allied groups to fall apart? # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lawyer_Calls_On_Uzbek_President_To_Stop_‘Torturing Political_Prisoner’_Tajimuratov⠀⇛ Tashkent-based lawyer Sergei Mayorov has called on Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev and other officials “to stop torturing” lawyer and journalist Dauletmurat Tajimuratov, who was handed a 16-year prison sentence in late January over anti- government protests in the Karakalpakstan region last year. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Governor_Resigns_After_His_Son_Flees_Arrest In_Italy⠀⇛ The governor of the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia, Aleksandr Uss, has resigned after his son Artyom escaped house arrest in Italy, where he faced extradition to the United States, and appeared in Russia. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Border_Agency_Begins_Deployment_In_North Macedonia⠀⇛ The European Union’s border-protection agency, Frontex, began its official deployment in North Macedonia on April 20, extending its operations outside the bloc to a fifth country. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_plans_to_conduct_intensive military_drills_amid_US_tensions⠀⇛ One of the exercises will be held for three days in waters off the port city of Qingdao, said China’s Maritime Safety Administration. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_accuses_G-7_of_interference by_calling_for_denuclearisation⠀⇛ North Korea’s foreign minister Choe Son Hui issued a statement criticising the US and other G- 7 countries. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyiv_To_Terminate_Lease_Agreement_With_Russian Embassy⠀⇛ The Kyiv city council plans to terminate the land lease agreement with the Russian Embassy amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Man_Shot_to_Death_at_a_Starbucks in_Mexico_City⠀⇛ A man has been shot to death at a Starbucks coffee shop in an upscale neighborhood of Mexico City, and police say he apparently had links to a northern Mexico drug cartel # ⚓ İstanbul_governor_bans_Armenian_Genocide_remembrance_event for_second_year_in_a_row⠀⇛ “Confronting 1915 is a necessary step to build democracy, equality, and peaceful coexistence on solid foundations today,” the April 24 Commemoration Platform has said. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_Deputy_Secretary-General_proposes_conference_to discuss_recognition_of_Taliban_government_in_Afghanistan⠀⇛ UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed Monday proposed a conference in Afghanistan to discuss recognition of the country’s Taliban government. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Department_of_Defense_announces_repatriation_of Guantanamo_Bay_prisoner_to_Algeria⠀⇛ The US Department of Defense (DOD) Thursday announced the transfer of Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush, a prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay, to Algeria. With his transfer, 30 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Lee_Camp:_You_Won’t_Believe_Who_Got_The Richest_From_The_Afghanistan_War⠀⇛ The US has withdrawn from the war in Afghanistan, but the war profiteers are still raking in big bucks through the revolving door that is the military industrial complex. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ ‘We_are_running_out_of_time’:_Colombian President_calls_for_climate_action_during_Stanford_visit⠀⇛ As part of a political trip to the United States, Colombian President Gustavo Petro visited Stanford to talk about the importance of combating climate change. He also discussed the political climate in Peru. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Can_this_laptop_finally_make_tech sustainable?⠀⇛ Eco tech brand Framework has announced its latest laptop, the Laptop 16. We explain why Framework’s laptops are different and how far they go to solve the problem of electronic waste… # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Chromebooks_Are_Trash_ (Literally)⠀⇛ A new report from U.S. PIRG finds that Chromebooks’ cheap design and short lifespan means people are treating them as disposable, and is creating piles of ewaste. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Breach Media ☛ As_cost_of_living_soars_for_all,_federal workers_are_fighting_back⠀⇛ In the face of likely back-to-work legislation, public servants are on a historic strike for better wages and to defend public services # ⚓ Quartz ☛ How_Virgin_Orbit_went_bankrupt⠀⇛ Virgin Orbit has set a deadline of May 14 for bids on its business, the bankrupt rocket-maker said in a court filing this week. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ BuzzFeed_News,_which_embodied_the_duality_of modern_journalism,_is_shutting_down⠀⇛ BuzzFeed News, one of the signature news brands of the last decade, is shutting down. Jonah Peretti, co-founder and CEO of parent company BuzzFeed, told employees in an email on April 20 that the company will discontinue its namesake news vertical and focus instead on HuffPost… # ⚓ JURIST ☛ 155,000_Canada_public_sector_workers_strike_over federal_contract_negotiations⠀⇛ Over 155,000 Canadian public sector workers Wednesday went on strike as bargaining between the federal government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) continues to stagnate, potentially impacting Canadians’ ability to access some government services.  # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Survey:_cost_of_living_in_Mexico_nearly half_US_average_for_retirees⠀⇛ Real Estate platform Far Home’s study offers a snapshot of the monthly costs of living for expats residing in Mexico. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Debt_ceiling_jitters_dampen_stocks’ upbeat_mood⠀⇛ World stocks pulled further away from multi-week highs touched earlier this week, with sentiment dampened by disappointing Tesla earnings and worries about the US debt ceiling. The pan-European STOXX 600 index, which hit 14-month highs on Tuesday, was down one third of a per cent in morning trade. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Peak_oil_and_the_Flawed_Logic_of_Infinite Economic_Growth,_with_Keith_Akers⠀⇛ Gain a fresh perspective on climate change and ecological sustainability with author Keith Akers as he delves into the impacts of fossil fuel extraction, the ecological crises facing our planet, and the radical changes needed for a sustainable future. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ The_Petrodollar_in_Freefall_and_a_New Multipolar_World_Order,_with_Ben_Norton⠀⇛ Join Lee Camp and Ben Norton as they delve into the changing world order, the rebellion of Latin America against Western hegemony, the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, and much more. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Facebook_fake_review_groups_targeting_Amazon, Google_and_Trustpilot⠀⇛ A Which? Investigation reveals fake reviews are still being traded on Facebook, despite promises of a crackdown # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Jonah_Peretti_closes_Buzzfeed_News bemoaning_lack_of_investment_from_platforms⠀⇛ The company is also laying off 15% of staff across all departments. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Insider_to_lay_off_10%_of_US-based_staff_to stay_‘healthy_and_competitive’⠀⇛ The company president emailed staff to inform them at 7am Eastern time on Thursday. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Fox_News_Doesn’t_Do_Apologies⠀⇛ Rupert Murdoch may have to pay for Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies, but who’s going to reimburse American democracy? o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Imgur_Is_About_to_Wipe_a_Ton_of_Porn From_the_Internet⠀⇛ Reddit’s favorite site for sharing porn is going to automatically delete all adult content soon. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_busker_known_for_protest song_pleads_not_guilty_to_organising_prohibited_group gathering⠀⇛ A Hong Kong busker known for performing an English rendition of protest song Glory to Hong Kong has pleaded not guilty to organising a prohibited group gathering. Oliver Ma, 24, wearing a pinstripe blue and white collared shirt, denied the charge at Eastern Magistrates’ Court on Thursday morning. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_again_bars_several registered_media_outlets_from_gov’t_event,_repeatedly_evades questions_as_to_why⠀⇛ The Hong Kong government barred several government- registered media outlets from covering a National Security Education Day event last Saturday, ignoring emails and evading questions by phone when challenged as to why. It comes despite repeated calls from top officials for the media to to tell “a good Hong Kong story. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Family_outraged_after_officer_shoots_man_during cockfighting_raid_in_Cambodia⠀⇛ Report from provincial police calls shooting an ‘accidental discharge.’ # ⚓ RFA ☛ British_government_fends_off_growing_concern_over Chinese_infiltration_in_London⠀⇛ Lawmakers hit out at the government for failing to update them, as ministers cite ‘sensitive’ investigations # ⚓ Reason ☛ Democrats_Threaten_Matt_Taibbi_With_Jail_Time_Over Twitter_Files_Testimony⠀⇛ Weaponization of the federal government, indeed # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Applauds_FTC_Rulemaking Effort_To_Curb_Worker_Noncompetes⠀⇛ Public Knowledge urges the FTC to move swiftly to prohibit the use of noncompete clauses as an unfair method of competition. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ KOL409_|_IP_Law_Tutorial:_Patent_Law⠀⇛ Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 409. It occurred to me recently that although I’ve done dozens of speeches and interviews over the past 20 or so years on libertarian aspects of intellectual property, or IP, that is, on IP policy, I’ve never done any in depth lectures for libertarians on IP law itself. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ April_20_(Poem)⠀⇛ Woke up this morning to late Spring snow. Decided to write about it. # ⚓ Project_Scopes⠀⇛ Some time ago I got tired of my seemingly never- ending todo list, full of technical project ideas (not necessarily software development), personal tasks, etc., and decided to strip it down to the bare minimum. # ⚓ Sario’s_gemlog:_Back_around_again⠀⇛ So I recently went back to using a personal wiki as my main organizational/notes solution, and in the spirit of going back to previously used tools, I decided to dust off this gemlog. Will I ever post here again after this one? I don’t know but then again I seem to be circling back around to old tools on a vaguely regular basis. o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ History_of_the_Gopher_Protocol⠀⇛ The Illustrious Members of the Midnight Pub are invited to read and eventually comment (preferably in that order) the History of the Gopher Protocol, with an addendum on the Gemini and Spartan Protocols. The essay is available from the server of the Midnight Pub and can be accessed from a Gemini client or also from a World Wide Web client, at the Uniform Resource Locators… =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1830 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.21.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_21/04/2023:_More_Ads_Inside_Window,_More_Layoffs_in_Proprietary Giants⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Chromium # Mozilla o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Proprietary o Security o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o Monopolies # Patents * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ System_76_Adds_Three…Count_’em,_Three…New Linux_Laptops⠀⇛ System76 is already taking orders for two of the three new laptops it announced on Thursday, with the third expected to be ready for prime time within a few months. These are in addition to two other new laptops the company has already released since February. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ New_Oracle_Linux_developer_preview_releases_now_available⠀⇛ Oracle announces developer preview releases of Oracle Linux 9 Update 2 and Oracle Linux 8 Update 8 for the 64-bit Intel and AMD (x86_64) and 64-bit Arm (aarch64) platforms. # ⚓ Load_Balancing⠀⇛ Past a certain point, web applications outgrow a single server deployment. Companies either want to increase their availability, scalability, or both! To do this, they deploy their application across multiple servers with a load balancer in front to distribute incoming requests. Big companies may need thousands of servers running their web application to handle the load. In this post we’re going to focus on the ways that a single load balancer might distribute HTTP requests to a set of servers. We’ll start from the bottom and work our way up to modern load balancing algorithms. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Sidecarless_eBPF_service_mesh_sparks_debate⠀⇛ Service mesh products from Isovalent and Solo.io branched out this week beyond Kubernetes, but an underlying battle over the role of eBPF and the future of service mesh architectures raged on at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. Isovalent, the commercial backers of the Cilium networking project based on the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) Linux kernel utility, rolled out Cilium Mesh this week, a companion to the Cilium Service Mesh that links with resources outside Kubernetes. Not to be outdone, Istio service mesh platform vendor Solo.io launched Gloo Fabric, which supports multi-cloud network management for VM-based and serverless workloads in addition to containers and Kubernetes. # ⚓ SJVN ☛ Logz.io_Enhances_Kubernetes_360_with_Security Scanning_Integration [Ed: Has SJVN become a 'Linux' Foundation drone for proprietary disservices?]⠀⇛ Logz announced this at KubeCon Europe. They’re doing this by integrating its service with Aqua Trivy, the popular open-source vulnerability, and misconfiguration scanning solution. This enhancement will enable 360 platform users to promptly identify and resolve security issues in their Kubernetes environments. Trivy specifically scans for issues in open-source packages and dependencies, infrastructure as code, misconfigurations, and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Docker_U-Turn_|_Self-Hosted_95⠀⇛ We debate if users learned their lesson from the Docker Hub drama, and the silent self-hosting winner going from strength to strength. Proxmox gets some big updates. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ [Older]_Oracle_delivers_improved_data_reliability, container_optimizations,_and_hardware_improvements_in_the latest_Unbreakable_Enterprise_Kernel_release⠀⇛ Oracle is pleased to announce the availability of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Release 7 Update 1(UEK R7U1) for Oracle Linux. UEK R7U1 introduces innovations in areas of container memory management, improvements to UEFI secure boot procedures, advancements in NFS, and new Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extension (Intel®AMX). In addition, this release includes driver updates from key collaborators including Broadcom® Emulex®, Intel®, Marvell™, NVIDIA®, and Microsoft, and several important security improvements and bug fixes from the upstream community. Oracle Linux with UEK delivers reliability and performance for the most demanding workloads, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Database, and Oracle Exadata, bringing the same features used by Oracle to Oracle Linux customers. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_7.0.8_now_available⠀⇛ Available today, maintenance release 7.0.8 includes improvements and bug fixes for Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0. Oracle VM VirtualBox 7.0.6 delivers the April 2023 Critical Patch Update (CPU) to address security vulnerabilities. # ⚓ [Repeat]KeePassXC ☛ KeePassXC_Audit_Report⠀⇛ An audit of KeePassXC has been on the wish list since we started this project over six years ago. Today we are happy to announce the release of an audit conducted by Zaur Molotnikov, an independent security consultant, that was completed on January 19, 2023 against KeePassXC 2.7.4. This audit was conducted free of charge to the KeePassXC Team and the findings and writeup were reviewed for correctness. [...] KeePassXC provides sufficient cryptographic protection (confidentiality, integrity and authenticity) to the confidential information the user is storing in the database, given that the user selects a strong authentication method, e.g. a strong passphrase and a confidential random key file, and that the user will use KeePassXC with its latest secure file format. KeePassXC is written well and exercises defensive coding sufficiently. The memory deallocation could be improved to not to contain secrets after the database is locked though. o ⚓ TecMint ☛ Autojump_–_Quickly_Navigate_Directories_and_Linux_File System⠀⇛ Those Linux users who mainly work with Linux command Line via console/terminal feels the real power of Linux. However, it may sometimes be painful to navigate inside the Linux Hierarchical file system, especially for o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ New_EasySetup⠀⇛ I posted about the brand new EasyApps yesterday: https://bkhome.org/news/202304/easyapps-totally- rewritten.html …that is launched via clicking on the “apps” desktop icon. Prior to now, the “setup” desktop icon has launched Roger’s PupControl. This is a remarkable app; however, I want something very simple and focused, so have written EasySetup. This is a snapshot showing the “Hardware” category: A very simple uncluttered UI, everything is easy to find. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel P Gross ☛ Making_a_Linux_home_server_sleep_on_idle and_wake_on_demand_—_the_simple_way⠀⇛ It began with what seemed like a final mundane touch to my home server setup for hosting Time Machine backups: I wanted it to automatically sleep when idle and wake up again when needed. You know, sleep on idle — hasn’t Windows had that built in since like Windows 98? How hard could it be to configure on a modern Ubuntu install? To be fair, I wanted more than just sleep on idle, I also wanted wake on request — and that second bit turns out to be the hard part. There were a bunch of dead ends, but I stuck out it to find something that “just works” without the need to manually turn on the server for every backup. Join me on the full adventure further down, or cut to the chase with the setup instructions below. # ⚓ Network World ☛ How_to_create_netstat_aliases_to_help_focus on_network_activity⠀⇛ The netstat command provides a tremendous amount on information on network activity. With the -s option (netstat -s), it will display summaries for various protocols such as packets received, active connections, failed connections and a lot more. While the data is extensive enough to make you dizzy, the more you get used to what the command’s output looks like, the more you’ll become familiar with what to expect and maybe even get better at spotting what’s unusual. In this post, we’re going to look at various portions of the netstat - s command’s output using crafted aliases to make it easier. [...] To list the various types of statistics the netstat -s command provides, I ran a command like that shown below to list the protocols it displays. The grep -v “^ ” portion of the command selects only lines that don’t start with a blank. Since the details are all indented, this command shows just the protocols. # ⚓ Install_Oracle_Database_23c_on_Oracle_Linux_8⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Merge_Multiple_PDFs_Into_One_Single File_on_Linux ⠀⇛ Looking for a Linux app to merge multiple PDFs into a single file? Luckily, Linux has several PDF- editing utilities, both command-line and GUI-based. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 13_Ways_to_Secure_SSH_Server_Connections_on Linux⠀⇛ SSH is a globally-used protocol used to access remote servers. Here’s how you can strengthen your SSH connections on Linux for maximum security. # ⚓ InfoWorld ☛ How_to_use_the_ncdu_command⠀⇛ In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the ncdu command. It’s a command that you can use to see how much disk space your directories and files are using. It will list them in size (largest first) order. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ This_Week_in_GNOME/Felix_Häcker: #92_Image_Printing⠀⇛ Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 14 to April 21. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ KaOS_Anniversary:_10_Years_of_Cutting-Edge_Linux Technology⠀⇛ KaOS, a Linux distribution known for emphasizing the KDE Plasma desktop environment, has reached a momentous milestone – celebrating ten years of existence. The Linux world is dynamic, and few distributions can mark ten successful years of stable presence in the Linux field. KaOS is one of them, and while it doesn’t get the spotlight as often as the big names in the niche like Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, etc., it has consistently and predictably followed a course and enjoys a loyal group of supporters. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora Facts:_2023-16⠀⇛ # Tune in live for the return_of_the_Fedora Podcast at 2100 UTC Tuesday. # ⚓ Fedora_Infrastructure_Status:_Fedora_Magazine_outage⠀⇛ Fedora Magazine’s WordPress instance is reporting a critical error. The administrators have been notified to investigate. # ⚓ Fedora_Infrastructure_Status:_chat.fedoraproject.org outage⠀⇛ Element Matrix services are performing maintenance on chat.fedoraproject.org. During the maintenance window the service will be affected as follows: # Media uploads and downloads will stop working at the beginning of the maintenance period. # Within the maintenance period, the service will be unavailable for an estimated maximum of 15 … # ⚓ Stephen_Smoogen:_Note_To_Future_Self:_Lenovo_Laptop_USB- C_Mini_Dock_Reset⠀⇛ Hello Future Self, Past Self here leaving you a note since I forgot to do so last time. § The Problem When running Linux on a Lenovo, there are times where a firmware update will cause problems with the USB-C Mini Dock afterwards. In the previous 2 cases, the USB-C’s RTL network will no longer show up as a seen device. External monitors plugged into the dock may also not function correctly, but it only happened once so I am not sure about that. Diagnosis of the problem is that the system will complain of no internet connection, and commands will show something like the following (output altered): [...] # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_– Week_16⠀⇛ We provide you both infographics and text versions of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in-depth details look at the infographic. # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Changes_to_the_ELN kernel_RPM_NVR⠀⇛ Red Hat is excited to announce significant changes to ELN kernel RPM NVR in the kernel-ark project.  This change will be to limited to the kernel-ark ELN RPMs and does not impact Fedora.  If you don’t use Fedora ELN builds you can likely stop reading as this change won’t affect you.  § What is the kernel-ark project? The kernel-ark_project is an upstream kernel-based repository from which the Fedora kernel RPMs are built (contributions_welcomed!).  This project is also used by the Centos Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) maintainers to implement, test, and verify code that is destined to be used in Centos Stream and RHEL. In other words, the kernel-ark repository contains code that is enabled to build several different kernels which may contain unique code for different use cases.  The kernel RPMs used for CentOS Stream and RHEL are commonly referred to as the ‘ELN’ (Enterprise Linux Next) RPMs. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_How_we_designed_the_new_Ubuntu Desktop_installer⠀⇛ Back in 2021, Ubuntu Desktop engineering manager Ken VanDine talked about Canonical’s_investment_in Flutter_support_for_Linux. To demonstrate the versatility of the Flutter toolkit, we committed to  redesigning the Ubuntu installer experience as part of a larger overhaul of the underlying technology behind the Ubuntu installer.  Up until now, the Ubuntu Server and Desktop installers had two separate underlying code-bases. By unifying these experiences we reduce the maintenance overhead and enable additional Desktop functionality that Ubuntu Server already benefits from. As part of this transition, we improved the user experience to reflect the new functionality of the installer and the values of Ubuntu Desktop. By using Flutter we benefit from the ability to rapidly iterate and polish the user experience, meaning we can continue to evolve the experience more easily over time. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Optimise_your_ROS_snap_–_Part_4⠀⇛ Welcome to Part 4 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part_3 before. This fourth part is going to explain what dynamic library caching is. We will present how to use it to optimise ROS snaps, along with the different points to be careful about. Finally, we will apply it to our gazebo snap and measure the performance impact. Snaps are immutable. This means that every time we launch it, the snap is going to execute the exact same instructions and strategies. A Linux system is meant to evolve over time, thus, it uses mechanisms to support these evolutions and modularities. While such mechanisms bring reliability to a system, they can also slow down our processes during launch. § Dynamic library caching with ld-cache Here we are addressing a more advanced optimisation topic. The topic of dynamic library caching for snap has been discussed and explored in the forum. We are going to summarise what it is, apply it to our ROS snap and measure the results. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.16:_Fedora_38_&_Ubuntu_23.04 Released…⠀⇛ It’s all about Ubuntu 23.04 releases. And also about Fedora 38. And also about AI in the terminal. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ The Server Side ☛ Top_10_Chrome_extensions_for_web developers⠀⇛ For programmers who want to increase productivity and delivery a high-quality product in the shortest amount of time, here are the top 10 Chrome extensions web developers need to install: Lighthouse. JSONView. Awesome Screen Recorder. EditThisCookie. Test IE. Lorem Ipsum Generator. Octotree. WindowResizer. Accessibility Insights for Web. Vimium. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Firefox_may_soon_reject_Cookie_prompts automatically⠀⇛ Mozilla is working on a new usability feature in its open source Firefox web browser that can automate interactions with so-called Cookie banners on websites. Most websites on the Internet display cookie banners to users. Certain regulations, like the GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, by the European Union, require that sites get consent for placing cookies and data on user devices. There are numerous different cookie dialogs that users get when they visit websites. From straightforward allow or decline prompts to prompts that provide a great deal of customization or dark patterns. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Visual_Studio_Tools_— User_Survey [Ed: Qt boosting Microsoft proprietary software while turning Qt itself into proprietary again]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Andy_Wingo:_structure_and_interpretation_of_react_native⠀⇛ Hey hey! Today’s missive continues exploring the space of JavaScript and mobile application development. # ⚓ An_Interview_Process_That_Works_For_Me⠀⇛ By this point, I assume everyone is a capable programmer—their experience, skill, and focus will vary, but everyone is capable.[9] Therefore, I’m not interested in assessing how well someone rehearsed or memorized questions focused on algorithms or data structures, so common in technical interviews, and largely irrelevant to our day-to-day work.[10] I’m also not going to time them, supervise them so they don’t cheat, or force them to use an online tool like this is an academic exam. Engineers who have been working professionally, especially ones with strong professional networks, will simply not submit themselves to this type of interview process. I want to treat people professionally. I want the candidate to be comfortable, to use the tools they are accustomed to, and to have the assignment be a reflection of the quality of their professional work. Consequently, the assignment is practical and modelled on the types of distributed systems and IoT problems we work on every day. Almost every candidate finds the assignment interesting and enjoyable.[11] If they don’t, this team is not the right fit. The assignment itself is not difficult, but it does involve many trade-offs that demonstrate expertise and engineering judgement. # ⚓ Becoming_a_more_self-directing_Staff+_individual contributor⠀⇛ Being a Staff+ engineer can leave you feeling overwhelmed with duties that may sometimes fall completely outside of your perceived remit. What practices can mitigate these instances? # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Offline_Is_Just_Online_With_Extreme_Latency⠀⇛ I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program runs in the cloud and we look at it when we’re online, to one where the program runs on the device in our hands and we send data to the cloud for “durability or accessibility”. In other words, leverage the cloud without being dependent on it. It almost sounds like a form of resilient design (i.e. progressive enhancement) if you think about it — the cloud as an optional, layered enhancement of your application. Now that’s a paradigm shift! # ⚓ A_love_letter_to_make⠀⇛ So here’s to you, make – quirks and all. You may not be perfect, but you’re pretty darn close. Thank you for being the tool that I never knew I needed, and for making my life as a programmer so much easier and more enjoyable. # ⚓ Keep_Stuff_Linkable⠀⇛ You’ve spent hours reading, and a seed of an idea has germinated in your mind. You fire up your favorite text editor, plant it down, and spend a couple hours letting the idea grow out. You’ve finished! You are about to publish your freshly- grown post on the web when you get that sinking feeling in your gut: something’s missing… You scan over the post. Is anything wrong? Nope: argument is solid, formatting is A-Ok. But wait… what’s that? Where are all the links? No links, no game. (It is the web you are publishing to, after all.) Sighing, you stumble around with Google for a bit before giving up. Maybe some other time. If only there were a better way… * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ More_ads_in_Windows_11_Start_Menu_could be_last_straw_for_some⠀⇛ Microsoft is looking for user feedback on ads it’s putting into the Windows 11 Start Menu for its products and services. If responses on Reddit is any indication, the response hasn’t been great. The software vendor has for months been playing around with putting ads – or at least in the case of the Start Menu, notifications – about its services in the operating system as well as the Bing search engine, PCs, and other products. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (golang-1.11 and libxml2), Fedora (chromium, dr_libs, frr, ruby, and runc), Oracle (java-11- openjdk and java-17-openjdk), Red Hat (emacs, httpd and mod_http2, kpatch-patch, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (libmicrohttpd, nodejs16, ovmf, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (kauth and patchelf). # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Capita_customer_data_was_stolen_in_March ransomware_attack⠀⇛ Public sector outsourcer Capita has confirmed that some confidential data was stolen from a small proportion of its server estate affected by a Black Basta ransomware attack in March 2023. The incident caused major IT outages and significant impact to customer-facing services at many public sector bodies and some operators of critical national infrastructure (CNI) across the UK, with staff left unable to take calls from members of the public and others falling back on traditional pen and paper. # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Restaurants_hit_by_IT_problems_after BlackCat_attack_on_supplier_NCR [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Ransomware attack on systems of payments giant causing service outages for restaurants around the world # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_Python_Software_Foundation_on_European cybersecurity⠀⇛ This ten days old but hopefully better late than never: the Python Software Foundation has put out an article describing how the proposed European “cyber resilience act” threatens the free-software community. # ⚓ LWN ☛ “Trusted_publishers”_on_the_Python_Package_Index⠀⇛ The Python Package Index (PyPI) has, like many language-specific repositories, had ongoing problems with malicious uploads. PyPI is now launching an authentication mechanism called trusted publishers in an attempt to fight this problem. # ⚓ Introducing_‘Trusted_Publishers’⠀⇛ Starting today, PyPI package maintainers can adopt a new, more secure publishing method that does not require long-lived passwords or API tokens to be shared with external systems. # ⚓ D.C._Health_Exchange_Needs_Broker_Identity_Theft_Posse⠀⇛ The builders of the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange system once wondered whether agents and brokers would have a role in the health insurance market. Now, the managers of the ACA public exchange for the District of Columbia are turning to brokers to help persuade more users to protect themselves against the effects of a recent data breach. The breach, which was discovered March 6 and announced March 8, exposed the personal information of about 56,415 exchange users, including 17 members of Congress. Data thieves posted at least two batches of data, including the Social Security numbers and email addresses of at least some users, on identity information markets. # ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Illuminate_Education_Beats_Lawsuit_Over_Breach of_Student_Data⠀⇛ Illuminate Education Inc. defeated a proposed class action alleging it negligently failed to protect the information of more than 3 million elementary and high school students that was exposed in a late-December 2021 data breach. The plaintiffs failed to show that they had suffered concrete harm from the breach or were at immediate risk of future harm, a threshold requirement for standing to sue under Article III, Judge James V. Selna of the US District Court for the Central District of California said Wednesday. He dismissed the suit without prejudice. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ The_Fortra/GoAnywhere_breach_also_affected healthcare_entities._Here’s_what_we_know_so_far.⠀⇛ Much of what we know about which medical entities have been affected by Clop’s attack comes from Clop itself. The threat actors started listing Fortra clients and samples of stolen data on their leak site to pressure Fortra clients to pay them to delete data and not leak more. DataBreaches noted about a dozen North American entities that either definitely had or likely had protected health information acquired by Clop. In this post, we will note those Fortra clients that have already issued notifications or disclosures concerning protected health information. In a second post, we will note entities that have not issued any public disclosures about the incident. # ⚓ Global News CA ☛ Campbellford_Memorial_Hospital_employee makes_‘unauthorized’_access_to_3,500_patient_records⠀⇛ Campbellford Memorial Hospital says an employee has apologized for making “unauthorized” access to more than 3,500 patients records. Global News Peterborough has obtained a copy of one of the 3,500 letters sent to patients last week outlining a privacy breach at the hospital in the Municipality of Trent Hills. In the letter, hospital chief privacy officer Erin Keogh says a clinician “mistakenly” thought they could access health records of patients not under their care for the purposes of their own clinical education. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ ‘Thirsty’_AI:_Training_ChatGPT_Required Enough_Water_to_Fill_a_Nuclear_Reactor’s_Cooling_Tower, Study_Finds [Ed: While Microsoft calls itself green and corrupt Jim Zemlin takes Microsoft bribes to play along with this phony narrative]⠀⇛ Popular large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are energy intensive, requiring massive server farms to provide enough data to train the powerful programs. Cooling those same data centers also makes the AI chatbots incredibly thirsty. New research suggests training for GPT-3 alone consumed 185,000 gallons (700,000 liters) of water. An average user’s conversational exchange with ChatGPT basically amounts to dumping a large bottle of fresh water out on the ground, according to the new study. Given the chatbot’s unprecedented popularity, researchers fear all those spilled bottles could take a troubling toll on water supplies, especially amid historic droughts and looming environmental uncertainty in the US. Researchers from the University of Colorado Riverside and the University of Texas Arlington published the AI water consumption estimates in a pre-print paper titled “Making AI Less ‘Thirsty.’” The authors found the amount of clear freshwater required to train GPT-3 is equivalent to the amount needed to fill a nuclear reactor’s cooling tower. OpenAI has not disclosed the length of time required to train GPT-3, complicating the researchers’ estimations, but Microsoft, which has struck a multi-year, multi-billion- dollar partnership with the AI startup and built supercomputers for AI training, says that its latest supercomputer, which would require an extensive cooling apparatus, contains 10,000 graphics cards and over 285,000 processor cores, giving a glimpse into the vast scale of the operation behind artificial intelligence. That huge number of gallons could produce battery cells for 320 Teslas, or, put another way, ChatGPT, which came after GPT-3, would need to “drink” a 500-milliliter water bottle in order to complete a basic exchange with a user consisting of roughly 25-50 questions. # ⚓ Wired ☛ Stack_Overflow_Will_Charge_AI_Giants_for Training_Data [Ed: Waste of electricity also at the back end of others companies]⠀⇛ Developing the AI systems behind tools such as ChatGPT and the image generator Dall- E costs hundreds of millions of dollars—and it’s about to get more expensive. OpenAI, Google, and other companies building large-scale AI projects have traditionally paid nothing for much of their training data, scraping it from the web. But Stack Overflow, a popular internet forum for computer programming help, plans to begin charging large AI developers as soon as the middle of this year for access to the 50 million questions and answers on its service, CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar says. The site has more than 20 million registered users. Stack Overflow’s decision to seek compensation from companies tapping its data, part of a broader generative AI strategy, has not been previously reported. It follows an announcement by Reddit this week that it will begin charging some AI developers to access its own content starting in June. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ SVB_says_CEO,_CFO_resigned_this_week⠀⇛ SVB Financial Group CEO Gregory Becker and financial chief Daniel Beck resigned this week, the collapsed lender said in a regulatory filing on Friday. # ⚓ Cybernews ☛ Twitter_tells_small_advertisers_to_pay_for verification_to_continue_running_ads⠀⇛ Business accounts that spend less than $1,000 monthly must subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations badge to continue running ads on the platform. Twitter has informed advertisers that, starting Friday (21 April), their accounts must have a verified checkmark to continue running ads. Advertisers that spend $1,000 per month already have a gold check or will soon and can “continue to enjoy access to advertising without interruption at this time,” the company said. # ⚓ BuzzFeed_cutting_15%_of_staff,_shuttering_news_division⠀⇛ Struggling with economic and industry downturns, BuzzFeed is shutting down its news division and cutting dozens of jobs. In an email to staff on April 20, CEO Jonah Peretti said the digital media company plans to lay off approximately 180 employees, or 15 per cent of its total workforce. # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ AT&T’s_Biggest_Drop_Since_2000_Prompts_HSBC_to Turn_Bullish⠀⇛ Disappointing results led to a 10% slump in Thursday’s session, the biggest one-day percentage loss for AT&T since December 2000. The stock closed at its lowest since October on Thursday. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ 401(k)_Retirement_Fund_Day Trading._The_Economy,_the_IRS_and_Bond,_AGG_Bond.⠀⇛ I just don’t like what I’m seeing out there in Corporate America these days. All signs to me have my spidey sense twitching that stagnation is going to end with a huge market crash sometime later in the year. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Americans_Go_Deeper_in_Debt_Using Buy_Now,_Pay_Later_Apps_for_Groceries_and_Other_Routine Expenses_While_Banks_Start_Talking_About_Cutting_Them_Off⠀⇛ Americans Go Deeper in Debt Using Buy Now, Pay Later Apps for Groceries and Other Routine Expenses (Sorry for using MSN News, but the source, Bloomberg, is paywalled.) Americans have gone deeper into debt, using Buy Now, Pay Later Apps to buy groceries, often at horrific interest rates. # ⚓ Meta_layoffs_in_Singapore:_Promoted_a_month_ago,_laid_off this_week⠀⇛ Meta, the parent company of the social networks Facebook and Instagram, has started its second round of layoffs in Singapore. It is expected that yet another round of layoffs would come soon, perhaps in May, since Meta said in March this year that jobs would be cut in three batches. In Singapore, the first round of layoffs affected an estimated 50 people in November last year, soon after Meta announced its quest to become a more efficient company. # ⚓ India ☛ Disney_Starts_Fresh_Round_Of_Job_Cuts_Worldwide; Indian_Operations_Likely_To_Shrink⠀⇛ Entertainment giant, Walt Disney, is set for a fresh round of layoffs. Thousands of employees, including those in the entertainment division, corporate responsibilities, and staff throughout every Disney operational region are expected to be impacted by the cuts. The company is likely to inform impacted employees about the job cuts by April 24, reports said. Globally Disney is likley to downsize its workforce by 3%. Disney announced 7,000 job cutbacks earlier in February as part of its efforts to reduce its expenses by $5.5 billion as per a report by Associated Press. Disney’s CEO Bob Iger has dubbed it as part of a “significant transformation”, AP reported. # ⚓ Is_Google_Korea_no_longer_dream_workplace?⠀⇛ Google’s biggest round of layoffs across its global operations has forced workers into a game of chance to keep their jobs. Amid escalating job insecurity, a labor union has been set up at the Korean unit to organize some 850 workers and speak out their concerns. “With the ongoing job cuts within the US tech industry, employees have been concerned about their job security and decided to establish a union,” Kim Jong-sub, head of the Google Korea union, said upon its launch earlier this month. “Our purpose is to improve employment stability, working environment and welfare overall,” he said, hinting at the possibility of cooperation with unions in other countries. The union declined to reveal the exact number of its membership, citing “employee protection.” # ⚓ The National AE ☛ Lyft_plans_next_round_of_layoffs_as_part of_cost-cutting⠀⇛ Ride-sharing company Lyft is set to carry out another round of job cuts as it attempts to slash costs and restructure, it confirmed on Friday. David Risher, a former Amazon and Microsoft executive who took over as Lyft’s new chief executive this week, confirmed the layoffs in an email sent to employees on Friday. “I am confirming that we will significantly reduce the size of the team as part of a restructuring … we need to be a faster, flatter company where everyone is closer to our riders and drivers so we can deliver on this purpose,” Mr Risher said in the email, seen by The National. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ US_and_Unitary_Patent:_‘Low barrier_to_pan-Europe_rights_is_simply_too_sensible_to pass_up’ [Ed: The UPC propagandists intentionally ignore the illegality of the UPC. It's not constitutitonal either. This is a slap on the face of the EU.]⠀⇛ The start of the Unitary Patent system ‘is a big event with big economic consequence. Europe could reconstitute their economic relevance’ around it, says John White, Special Counsel of law firm Harness IP in the US. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Amgen_Scores_Partial Victory_in_Efforts_to_Maintain_OTEZLA_Exclusivity⠀⇛ Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., 2023 WL 2994166, — 4th —   (Fed. Cir. Apr. 19, 2023) In 2019, Amgen acquired worldwide rights to apremilast (OTEZLA) from Celgene $13.4 billion in cash, in connection with Celgene’s merger with Bristol-Myers Squibb. Apremilast was the only oral, non-biologic treatment for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and in 2020 apremilast generated $2.2 billion for Amgen. At the time Amgen’s acquired apremilast, Celgene was involved in Hatch-Waxman litigation with numerous generic challengers, including Sandoz. Celgene had asserted three of its 11 Orange Book-listed patents against Sandoz, and in 2020 Amgen was substituted as plaintiff. The primary patent asserted is U. S. Patent 7,427,638, which is directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising stereochemically pure apremilast. The original expiration date of this patent was in 2024, but the patent received a patent term extension of more than three years, resulting in an effective patent expiration date of February 16, 2028, according to the Orange Book. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Obviousness_and Stereochemistry⠀⇛ Amgen markets apremilast, a phosphodiesterase-4 (“PDE4”) inhibitor, which is used for treating psoriasis and related conditions, under the brand name Otezla® which is covered by three patents, U.S. Patents 7,427,638, 7,893,101, and 10,092,541. Sandoz submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) seeking approval market a generic version of apremilast. Celgene, the original plaintiff, brought this Hatch-Waxman suit, asserting that Sandoz’s generic product would infringe the ’638 and ’101 patents. The Federal Circuit affirms the district court’s findings on all issues raised. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Palm_OS_PDAs_Part_Deux⠀⇛ Were you to scroll down a bit to my older gemlog posts you’d find some posts about my Palm m500 PDA. You can also go to my Retro Computing section in my capsule and read some of my thoughts on PDAs or find all of my favorite Palm OS software that I mentioned above. I love PDAs and Palm OS PDAs specifically. I used my m500 pretty much daily for quite a while back in 2021. For probably 6 months or so I used it intensively as part of my daily routine. While I did kind of trail off from using it daily I never stopped using it completely. Probably on average I would grab it once or twice a week for playing a game in bed in the evening or plugging it in to the slim keyboard out on the porch to write a gemlog post or work on smolZINE. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3136 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 04.21.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_21/04/2023:_SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_15_Service_Pack_5,_More_Trouble_at Microsoft⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 10:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o BSD o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Python o Rust * Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Linux_Foundation o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Blog:_Kubernetes_1.27:_Query_Node_Logs Using_The_Kubelet_API⠀⇛ Kubernetes 1.27 introduced a new feature called Node log query that allows viewing logs of services running on the node. § What problem does it solve? Cluster administrators face issues when debugging malfunctioning services running on the node. They usually have to SSH or RDP into the node to view the logs of the service to debug the issue. The Node log query feature helps with this scenario by allowing the cluster administrator to view the logs using kubectl. This is especially useful with Windows nodes where you run into the issue of the node going to the ready state but containers not coming up due to CNI misconfigurations and other issues that are not easily identifiable by looking at the Pod status. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ QEMU_8.0_Virtualization_Software_Released_with New_ARM_and_RISC-V_Features⠀⇛ Coming a year after QEMU 7.0, the QEMU 8.0 release is here to improve support for ARM and RISC- V architectures. For ARM, it adds emulation support for FEAT_EVT, FEAT_FGT, and AArch32 ARMv8-R, CPU emulation for Cortex-A55 and Cortex-R52, support for a new Olimex STM32 H405 machine type, as well as gdbstub support for M-profile system registers. For the RISC-V architecture, QEMU 8.0 brings updated machine support for OpenTitan, PolarFire, and OpenSBI, additional ISA and Extension support for smstateen, native debug icount trigger, cache- related PMU events in virtual mode, Zawrs/Svadu/T- Head/Zicond extensions, and ACPI support. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ bd_–_Quickly_Go_Back_to_a_Parent_Directory Instead_of_Typing_“cd_../../..”_Redundantly⠀⇛ While navigating the file system via the command line on Linux systems, in order to move back into a parent directory (in a long path), we would normally issue the cd command repeatedly (cd ../../..) until we land in the directory of interest. This can be so tedious and boring much of the time, especially for experienced Linux users or system administrators who carry out so many various tasks, and therefore hope to discover shortcuts to ease their jobs while operating a system. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Gogo_–_Create_Directory_“Bookmarking”_in_Linux⠀⇛ Gogo is an impressive way to bookmark directories inside your Linux shell. It allows you to create shortcuts to long and complicated paths in Linux. This way, you don’t have to type or remember long and complicated paths anymore in Linux. For example, if you have a directory ~/Documents/ Phone-Backup/Linux-Docs/Ubuntu/, using gogo, you can create an alias (a shortcut name), for instance Ubuntu to access it without typing the whole path anymore. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_To_Install_and_Use_Docker_Desktop_on_Ubuntu and_Linux_Mint⠀⇛ Docker Desktop is an easy-to-use cross-platform GUI (Graphical User Interface) application used to manage Docker images, containers, and apps from your local computer. It can be utilized either independently or in conjunction with the command- line interface client. A comprehensive Docker development environment can be quickly installed and set up using Docker Desktop, which also supports a variety of programming languages and frameworks. It comes pre- installed with the most recent version of Kubernetes, the Docker engine, the Docker CLI client, Docker Buildx, Docker Compose, extensions, and the Docker Content Trust. # ⚓ Adriaan Zhang ☛ The_Trouble_with_Tuning_Systems⠀⇛ Okay, that’s not quite true. You can tune a piano, but only approximately. It turns out that the mathematics behind the 12-tone scale used in most Western music hides some sinister secrets. Let’s start with the basics. Behind every key on a piano are 1–3 strings, which have been tensioned so that when the strings are struck they will ring out at a specific frequency. Each note is associated with a distinct frequency, and keys are arranged such that the pitch of the notes increases from left to right. Of course, the burning question remains: how do we know what frequency to assign to each note? The answer to this is pretty nuanced, but luckily we get one freebie. Every tuning system requires us to start by assigning a specific frequency to an arbitrary key to use as a reference point; we call this the pitch standard. The most common pitch standard in modern times is A440, which sets the frequency of the first A above middle C to 440 Hz. # ⚓ Adam_Young:_Keeping_build_output_on_one_screen⠀⇛ When a build goes wrong, the amount of error messaging can easily scroll off the screen. Usually the error is on the first line reported. Here’s a couple ways to make it easier to read just the lines you want. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_ping⠀⇛ This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness. # ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ Set_up_PhpMyAdmin_on_Ubuntu_Server⠀⇛ PhpMyAdmin runs with the help of MySQL and Apache. You’ll need to set up both of these tools to get it working on your Ubuntu Server system. Open up a terminal on your Ubuntu Server via SSH (or physically), then use the apt update command to check for software updates. # ⚓ Beebom ☛ How_to_Install_Spotify_on_Ubuntu,_Linux_Mint,_and Other_Distros⠀⇛ When we talk about music streaming, Spotify is usually the first thing that comes to our minds. It’s one of the best music streaming services out there and is supported on multiple platforms, including Linux. While installing Spotify could take more than a few clicks depending on the distro you are running, you may prefer using, say, the Flatpak variant over Snap or DEB or vice versa. In that case, here’s how to install Spotify on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and most of the popular Linux distributions. # ⚓ Beebom ☛ Linux_File_Permissions_Explained⠀⇛ Linux is renowned for being a powerful and reliable operating system that offers unparalleled security, stability, and flexibility. In order to maintain the integrity and safety of the system, Linux implements specific settings in the form of “Permissions.” These permissions control who can access, modify, or execute the files and directories. Whether you are a new Linux user or a seasoned veteran, understanding Linux permissions is extremely important for a safe and secure system. In this article, we will dive deep into what Linux permissions are and how to keep your files and directories secured in the best way. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_the_“Last_of_Us”_Could_Never_Do⠀⇛ When the video game The Last of Us was released in 2013, its creator, Neil Druckmann, said that more than anything else, the game was about love. Recently adapted as an HBO series by Druckmann and screenwriter Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, The Hangover Part II), The Last of Us takes place in a postapocalyptic world in which a gruff Texan war veteran, Joel (Pedro Pascal), escorts a teenage girl, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), across a ravaged, abandoned Midwest teeming with plant life and haunted by extremely dangerous people. Human society has collapsed, decimated by a fungal pandemic that turns its victims into mindless, flesh-eating predators, their features replaced by mushroom-like carapaces as the disease progresses. A few walled cities are governed by the vestiges of the military; outside, in addition to hordes of the “Infected,” are raiders, cannibal cults, and overzealous revolutionaries. But Ellie represents possible salvation: She was bitten but didn’t succumb to the disease, so her body may contain the key to developing a cure. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_and_Steam_Deck_game_manager_Lutris has_a_fresh_Beta_out⠀⇛ Lutris is an all-in-one game manager to brings your games from different places under one roof, and a second Beta is now available for v0.5.13. With this release it will have support for Steam, GOG, itch.io, Humble Bundle, Battle.net, Epic Games, Emulators and much more. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Stellaris_3.8_will_add_two_co-op_modes_now in_Beta⠀⇛ I can safely say co-op is not something I ever expected for a strategy game like Stellaris but it’s coming. You can even test it now. Version 3.8 is now in Open Beta on Steam, you just opt into the 3.8 version in the Properties -> Beta window. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ If_You_Like…_Slay_the_Spire⠀⇛ When Slay the Spire launched, back in January 2019, it represented the pinnacle in what became a well recognised genre – Deck Builders. Let’s delve into that genre and see lies beneath the surface. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KaOS_Linux_Celebrates_10_Years_with_New_ISO Release_Featuring_KDE_Plasma_6⠀⇛ Yes, you’re reading it right, KaOS is one of the very first GNU/Linux distributions to offer you a live ISO image with a pre-release version of the KDE Plasma 6 desktop, which, of course, is compiled against the latest Qt 6 open-source application framework. Now, don’t expect this to be a stable environment since work on KDE Plasma 6 just started a few months ago. But it’s nice to get a glimpse of the future, and since the KaOS Linux team is dedicated to bring us the latest KDE goodies, this just happened. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Corey Stephan ☛ OpenBSD_7.3_on_a_ThinkPad_X270_(plus_my Theological_Dotfiles)_for_Scholarly_Work⠀⇛ This tutorial (for lack of a better name) is an expanded and polished form of my personal notes on how to install OpenBSD and configure my Theological Dotfiles on a Lenovo ThinkPad X270. I hope that these notes will help at least one other person configure OpenBSD for mobile research and writing. Although these notes probably would be helpful (to varying degrees) for persons using a variety of laptop computers for mobile research and writing, they will be the most relevant for other persons using ThinkPads from circa 2015-2019, especially models with hardware specifications that are similar to those of the X270. Examples include the X260, X280, T460/T560, T470/T570, T480/T580, T490/ T590, and the various X1 Carbons from the same model years. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_15_Service Pack_5_Release_Candidate_is_out⠀⇛ We are thrilled to start our Public Beta Program for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 5 with the release of PublicRC-202304. The Public SLE Beta webpage is now live! Please check it out for all the Public information. SLE 15 SP5 is a “Consolidation” Service Pack. And so, the focus is on Bug/Security fixes as well as improving our existing features however you will find new selected features in this release but we have not made any major updates of our stacks compared to SP4. # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Transform_Edge_Operations_with_SLE Micro_5.4⠀⇛ SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, a lightweight operating system, is purpose-built for containerized and virtualized workloads. It is fully integrated with Rancher and available as part of SUSE Edge 2.0. Organizations using SUSE Edge can manage both Kubernetes and operating systems (SLE Micro) from a single dashboard of Rancher. # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Cloud._Security._Automation._Join SUSE_at_SAP_Sapphire_Orlando,_May_16–17,_2023 [Ed: SUSE is associating with, promoting proprietary software]⠀⇛ For over 20 years, SAP and SUSE have delivered innovative business-critical solutions on open- source platforms, enabling organizations to improve operations, anticipate requirements, and become industry leaders. Today, the vast majority of SAP customers run their SAP and SAP S/4HANA environments on SUSE. Meet the SUSE team. SUSE is a Platinum Plus sponsor. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ In_defense_of_Fedora’s_release_cycle⠀⇛ Earlier this week, Thorsten Leemhuis published a thoughtful post about what he’d change if he magically became the supreme leader of Fedora. In that post and subsequent commentary on Mastodon and Fedora Discussion, he talked about changing Fedora’s release cycle. Since the Fedora Linux release process is my job, I figured I should explain why I disagree. If you haven’t read the post, you should. But here’s the short version: Fedora Linux uses a release model rooted in the 1990s and should move to a “modern” model. Thorsten suggests a one-month cadence for those who want the latest versions and a one-year “steady” release. Such a model has worked well for Firefox, he argues, and so it should work for Fedora. The key reason I think this is wrong is because Firefox is a development project whereas Fedora is an integration project. Integration projects don’t write a lot of code, they take the work of others and turn it into a coherent whole. This is a fundamentally different kind of work and it takes longer by necessity. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Lubuntu ☛ Lubuntu_Blog:_Lubuntu_23.04_Released!⠀⇛ After months of clawing our way through development, testing, and bug fixing, the Lubuntu team is thrilled to shell-ebrate another successful release cycle! # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Final_is_out_with_these_changes⠀⇛ Canonical released the Ubuntu 23.04 operating system (codenamed Lunar Lobster) today. Ubuntu 23.04 is based on the Linux kernel 6.2 as well as the recently released GNOME 44 desktop environment. The new version of Ubuntu will be supported for nine months. Canonical suggests that users who require longer support stay on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which is supported for 5 years. # ⚓ The Stack ☛ Ubuntu_wants_your_CIO_to_love_a_Lunar_Lobster⠀⇛ Canonical, the company behind open source operating system (OS) Ubuntu, has a large enterprise customer base – with end users typically using the Linux distribution to run servers, including in the cloud, where Ubuntu has significant market share. Ubuntu desktop adoption in the enterprise? That’s far less common… o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Mission_Space_Lab_2022-23_–_294_teams achieved_Flight_Status⠀⇛ 294 teams of young people participating in Astro Pi Mission Space Lab 2022/23 will have their experiments run in space on the ISS. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Android_now_has_a_smart_solution_for crashing_apps_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Jack_Dorsey’s_Twitter_alternative_Bluesky_launches on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia Power User ☛ Live_Update_Process_using_VPN_trick_: Nokia_X30_5G_Android_13,What’s_New?_–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ Android_14_Wish_List:_AI_Shortcuts,_Foldable_Perks and_More_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_QPR3_redesigns_3-button_navigation on_Pixel⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_3_brings_fixes_for_Wi-Fi calling,_display_behavior,_UI,_and_more⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_QPR3_Beta_3_is_rolling_out_now —_for_some⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_rolls_out_Android_13_QPR3_Beta_3_to Pixel⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Connect_To_Android_Auto_Wirelessly⠀⇛ # ⚓ InfoQ ☛ Android_Auto_Now_Supports_IoT_Apps_Running_in Cars⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 5_Of_The_Best_Chargers_For_Your_Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ 5_Best_Moon_Phase_Apps_and_Moon_Calendar_Apps_for_Android_– Guiding_Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Miura_Launches_Android_Smart_POS_Payment Device⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Twitter_alternative_“Bluesky”_gets_an_Android app_but_still_requires_an_invite_code_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Blue_tick:_Jack_Dorsey_loses_Blue_tick, brings_his_Twitter_alternative_Bluesky_to_Android_–_The Economic_Times⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Jack_Dorsey-backed_Twitter_alternative_Bluesky hits_Android_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Real-world_examples_of_the_sharing_economy⠀⇛ Some of the most familiar examples of the online sharing economy started small. Consider Airbnb, which started from three airbeds and became AirBed and Breakfast in 2008. As of 2016, 70 million guests have stayed in a stranger’s home via Airbnb. The internet-based platform connects people who have a resource not used to capacity—excess space—with others who can use it and provides a means for them to establish trust. It’s a perfect example of the sharing business model. In an earlier article, I introduced the principles behind businesses based on social connection, drawing from the book The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism by Arun Sundararajan. I will discuss several examples of the sharing business model in this article. o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ EuroBSDCon_in_September⠀⇛ If you are near Portugal this September, so is EuroBSDCon 2023.  Registration and the call for papers are both out. # ⚓ Collabora ☛ April_brings_tech_events_aplenty⠀⇛ Spring is in bloom in the northern hemisphere, and with it comes three tech events we’ll be attending – PyCon US, Shell & Display Next Hackfest, and Linaro Connect! o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Stargirl Flowers ☛ I’m_really_excited_to_share_what_I’ve been_working_on_these_last_few_months:_KiCanvas,_an interactive,_browser-based,_open_source_viewer_for_KiCAD files.⠀⇛ I’m really excited to share what I’ve been working on these last few months: KiCanvas, an interactive, browser-based, open source viewer for KiCAD files. KiCanvas is early alpha but I feel it’s time to let it out into the world for all of you to try out and break. Presently, KiCanvas functions as a standalone web application that can view files stored on GitHub – providing an easy way to share your designs with others. However, this is just the beginning of my plans for this project. You can head over to kicanvas.org right now to to try it out, but if you’d like to read on you can learn more about the history of the project and the future plans. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ MariaDB_cuts_jobs,_repeats_‘going concern’_warning_to_stock_market⠀⇛ It includes a mention of MariaDB’s February 10- Q warning that the company’s current cash and cash equivalents “would not be sufficient to fund our operations, including capital expenditure requirements for at least 12 months from… February 13, 2023, raising substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.” The March 24 statement said it anticipated that the money raised by database subscriptions and services would not be enough to meet its projected working capital and operating needs. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ MWL ☛ Updated_Penguicon_2023_schedule_and_references⠀⇛ Turns out I have additional Penguicon events. I also need a place to list the books I’ll refer to in my talk. Rather than rewrite the old blog post, I’m starting over. First, the references. o ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Game_of_Trees_0.87_released⠀⇛ A highlight of this release is the addition of gitwrapper (1), a utility facilitating co-existence with git. o ⚓ Herman Õunapuu ☛ Life_is_maintenance,_maintenance_is_life⠀⇛ Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building things. When I was still an inexperienced junior developer who barely survived operating in a Linux environment and saw backend development as a black box, I was happy to get things working at all. Nowadays, no matter what I do, I have to take maintenance into account. o ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ qlcal_0.0.5_on_CRAN:_Updates_from_QuantLib 1.3.0⠀⇛ qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided (for the R package) as a set of included files, so the package is self-contained and does not depend on an external QuantLib library (which can be demanding to build). qlcal covers over sixty country / market calendars and can compute holiday lists, its complement (i.e. business day lists) and much more. o ⚓ Jason Swett ☛ Why_tests_flake_more_on_CI_than_locally⠀⇛ In order to understand why a CI test run is more susceptible to flakiness than a local test run, we can go through all the root causes for flakiness one-by-one and consider how a CI test run has a different susceptibility to that specific flaky test cause than a local test run. The root causes we’ll examine (which are all explained in detail in this post) are leaked state, race conditions, network/third-party dependency, fixed time dependency and randomness. o ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Invalid_at_computed-value_time⠀⇛ I rewatched Lea Verous’s talk about custom properties recently and learned something I missed the first time I watched it. A declaration of a custom property can be invalid at computed-value time, if its value is invalid. Depending on the property’s type, this results in the property being set to unset, so either the property’s inherited value or its initial value, depending on whether the property is inherited or not. That’s confusing, I know; here’s an example to better understand why it’s essential to know that. o ⚓ Chris ☛ Why_Perl?⠀⇛ I sometimes get asked why I use Perl so much. Am I not a fan of strongly typed functional programming? Yeah, I am. Ask me to write something that is known, for sure, to become a big system and I’ll pick strongly typed functional programming without hesitation.11 And, of course, put me in a team that uses Blub, and I’ll pick up Blub in a heartbeat. Except php. I tried to give php an honest chance recently (“It has changed”, they said, “It is much better with modern practices”) but it was painful all the way through, even when I tried to do everything right. But most of the software I write is not for sure going to become a big system. Here’s what Perl does well: [...] o ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ Learning_OCaml:_Quoted_String_Literals⠀⇛ While learning OCaml I’ve noticed one curious feature – it has two types of string literals. The first type are the common and quite familiar “double-quoted string literals” (or perhaps simply “string literals”?): [...] o ⚓ Trail Of Bits ☛ Typos_that_omit_security_features_and_how_to_test for_them⠀⇛ The source fortification is a security mitigation that replaces certain function calls with more secure wrappers that perform additional runtime or compile-time checks. o ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_qlcal_0.0.5_on_CRAN: Updates_from_QuantLib_1.3.0⠀⇛ The fifth release of the still new-ish qlcal package arrivied at CRAN just now. qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided (for the R package) as a set of included files, so the package is self-contained and does not depend on an external QuantLib library (which can be demanding to build). qlcal covers over sixty country / market calendars and can compute holiday lists, its complement (i.e. business day lists) and much more. o ⚓ Jamie McClelland ☛ Jamie_McClelland:_Electron_doesn’t_like negative_layout_coordinates⠀⇛ I got a second external monitor. Overkill? Probably, but I like having a dedicated space to instant messaging (now left monitor) and also a dedicated space for a web browser (right monitor). But, when I moved signal-desktop to the left monitor, clicks stopped working. I moved it back to my laptop screen, clicks started working. Other apps (like gajim) worked fine. A real mystery. o ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Defining_interfaces_in_C++:_concepts_versus inheritance⠀⇛ In a previous blog post, I showed how you could define ‘an interface’ in C++ using concepts. For example, I can specify that a type should have the methods has_next, next and reset: [...] o ⚓ Porting_to_Qt6_in_practice⠀⇛ Recently I started using KTimeTracker to record the time I spent working, and I really like it. So far it’s the only productivity app that meets my needs. So I began playing with porting it to Qt6. I’m weak with algorithms, but I know my way with building programs. I made a long fluff post about compilation, even. So I was feeling confident that I would make at least some progress. o ⚓ Rlang ☛ What’s_new_in_R_4.3.0?⠀⇛ Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will you take everywhere. (Einstein) o § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Let’s_Learn_More_About_Python_Data_Classes⠀⇛ Since their introduction in Python 3.7, data classes have emerged as a popular choice for Python classes that store data. In a previous tutorial, we talked about what data classes are and some of their features, including out-of-the-box support for object comparison, type hints, and default values of fields. In this follow-up tutorial, we’ll continue to explore some more features of Python data classes. We’ll take a closer look at setting default values with default_factory, initializing new fields from pre-existing fields with __post_init__, and much more. We’ll also discuss the improved support for __slots__ in data classes since Python 3.10. o § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ The_Rust_Programming_Language_Blog:_Announcing Rust_1.69.0⠀⇛ The Rust team is happy to announce a nice version of Rust, 1.69.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. * § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ o ⚓ RIPE ☛ The_Joy_of_TXT⠀⇛ TXT records are perhaps the most flexible type of DNS records available – but have you ever wondered how they’re really used? To see if we can answer this, the TXT records of 1 million domains are examined to see if there’s any rhyme or reason as to how people employ this quirky, open-ended record type. o ⚓ Dima Kogan ☛ Dima_Kogan:_=numpy.percentile=_API_update⠀⇛ The numpy devs did a bad thing. Don’t be like the numpy devs. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ El_Mo_Drax’s_Supersonic_Rocket_Ship_Blowed_Up⠀⇛ The Starship Blowed Up. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ VCF_East_2023:_Andy_Geppert_Talks_Core_Memory⠀⇛ Do you know core memory? Our prehistoric predecessors would store data in the magnetic fields of ferrite rings, reading out the ones and zeroes by setting the magnetic field and detecting if a small current is induced in a sense wire, indicating that the bit flipped, or not detecting the current, in which case it didn’t. Core memory is non-volatile, rad hard, and involved a tremendous amount of wire weaving to fabricate. And it’s pretty cool. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Ask_Hackaday:_Split_Rail_Op_Amp_Power_Supply⠀⇛ Water cooler talk at the office usually centers around movies, sports, or life events. Not at Hackaday. We have the oddest conversations and, this week, we are asking for your help. It is no secret that we have a special badge each year for Supercon. Have you ever wondered where those badges come from? Sometimes we do too. We can’t tell you what the badge is going to be for Supercon 2023, but here’s a chance for you to contribute to its design. o ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Red_Team_Blues⠀⇛ You don’t need to understand blockchains and cryptocurrencies to enjoy the story, but I do so, below the fold, I can’t resist picking some nits with the technical details. o ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ John_Lennon_as_Gollum?_What_AI_means_for_the future_of_Hollywood⠀⇛ There’s little doubt that AI images are now plausible enough to fool both experts and the general public. Earlier this week, the German artist Boris Eldagsen turned down his Sony world photography award after revealing his prizewinning portrait of two women was AI- generated, while last month a fake picture of the Pope in a white puffer jacket (also courtesy of Midjourney) went viral on social media, where it was widely assumed to be a genuine snapshot. But now that uncannily convincing images can be extracted from these programmes by anyone with an idea and an internet connection, does that mean Hollywood-grade image-making is now within the reach of ordinary members of the public? o ⚓ YLE ☛ APN_podcast:_Is_Finland_leaving_English-speaking_kids behind?⠀⇛ The All Points North podcast explores what fierce competition for English-language high school places means for those left behind. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ MRI_Resolution_Progresses_From_Millimeters_To Microns⠀⇛ Neuroscientists have been mapping and recreating the nervous systems and brains of various animals since the microscope was invented, and have even been able to map out entire brain structures thanks to other imaging techniques with perhaps the most famous example being the 302-neuron brain of a roundworm. Studies like these advanced neuroscience considerably but even better imaging technology is needed to study more advanced neural structures like those found in a mouse or human, and this advanced MRI machine may be just the thing to help gain better understandings of these structures. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_beats_Hollywood_with_first_feature_film shot_in_space⠀⇛ The first feature film shot in space premiered in Russian cinemas on Thursday, as Moscow exulted in beating a rival Hollywood project amid a confrontation with the West. # ⚓ France24 ☛ SpaceX’s Starship, world’s biggest rocket, explodes during test flight⠀⇛ SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ NASA’s_Perseverance_Rover_Has_Lost_Its Martian_‘Pet’_After_More_Than_a_Year⠀⇛ This feels like sad news. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientists_May_Have_Finally_Worked_Out_Why Hair_Turns_Gray_–_And_Possibly_How_to_Stop_It⠀⇛ Finally! # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ There’s_Something_Weird_Going_on_in_The Sun’s_Atmosphere,_And_We_Just_Got_a_Big_Clue⠀⇛ Why is the Sun’s atmosphere hotter than its surface? o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Learning_to_code_isn’t_enough⠀⇛ Now, in 2023, North Carolina is considering making coding a high school graduation requirement. If lawmakers enact that curriculum change, they will be following in the footsteps of five other states with similar policies that consider coding and computer education foundational to a well-rounded education: Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Nebraska. Advocates for such policies contend that they expand educational and economic opportunities for students. More and more jobs, they suggest, will require “some kind of computer science knowledge.” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Temperature-Sensing_Magnetic_Stir_Bar⠀⇛ Magnetic stirring bars are the coolest piece of equipment you’ll see in a high-school chemistry lab. They’re a great way for agitating a solution without having to stand there manually and do it yourself. [Applied Science] has now made a magnetic stir bar that features an integrated temperature sensor. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Mystery_1802_Computer_Was_A_Homebrew_Project⠀⇛ [CelGenStudios] has an impressive collection of vintage hardware. One that really struck us came from a thrift store in Canada, so the original provenance of it is unknown. It looks like someone’s handmade interpretation of a SOL-20. There’s a wooden and sheet metal box containing a keyboard looted from an old dedicated word processor (back when a word processor was a machine, not a piece of software). Inside? Some vintage-looking hand-drawn PC boards, including a backplane with two boards. One contains an RCA 1802 and a little bit of memory. There’s also a video card with more memory on it than the CPU. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Making_Neon_Trees_The_Easy_Way_With_No_Oven Pumps_Required⠀⇛ Neon lamps are fun and beautiful things. Hackers do love anything that glows, after all. But producing them can be difficult, requiring specialized equipment like ovens and bombarders to fill them up with plasma. However, [kcakarevska] has found a way to make neon lamps while bypassing these difficulties. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_One_Simple_Trick_Rehabilitates_Scratchy Sounding_Speakers⠀⇛ We’ve all picked up a radio and switched it on, only to hear an awful scratchy noise emitting from the speaker. [Richard Langer] is no stranger to this problem, and has identified a cheap and unusual solution—using toilet paper! o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ 90%_of_mpox_deaths_in_the_US_have_been_Black_men⠀⇛ Between May 10, 2022 and Mar. 7, 2023, more than 30,200 people in the US contracted mpox (formerly: monkeypox). The majority of cases occurred between the end of June 2022 and early September 2022, though new infections were recorded as recently as the week of Feb. 26, 2023. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Washington_State_‘will_not_accept_gun violence,’_bans_semi-auto_guns⠀⇛ Washington State approved a bill on Wednesday and is expected to sign it into law. The ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles would prevent the sale, distribution, manufacture, and importation of more than 50 types of guns, including AR- or AK-style rifles. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘We_need_more_time’:_Supreme_Court_delays abortion_drug_decision⠀⇛ The Supreme Court pushed its self-imposed deadline of Wednesday to Friday for deciding whether women seeking access to a widely used abortion pill would face more restrictions while a court case plays out. There was no given reason for the delay. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Fight_Over_a_Drug_That_Is_Great_for Horses_but_Horrific_for_Humans⠀⇛ Drug dealers are mixing xylazine, an animal tranquilizer relied on by veterinarians, into fentanyl, with deadly results. But controlling it is tricky. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Grain_Deal_Raises_Tensions_for European_Farmers⠀⇛ When Russia’s war blocked vitally needed grains at Ukrainian ports, officials succeeded in finding other routes out. But the solution brought its own problems. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 80+_Groups_Mark_4/20_With_Call_for_Biden_to End_Federal_Marijuana_Prohibition⠀⇛ As cannabis enthusiasts across the United States and around the world celebrated 4/20 Thursday, more than 80 advocacy groups urged the administration of President Joe Biden to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and to back comprehensive legal reform. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Brazilian_soybeans_and_China’s_food security⠀⇛ China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) has announced a three-year plan to reduce the amount of soybean meal in animal feed to help decrease reliance on imports. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Pledges_$500_Million_to_Stop Deforestation_in_Brazil⠀⇛ The promise to help Brazil protect the Amazon must be approved by Congress, where Republicans are opposed to foreign climate aid. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_US_is_relying_more_on_China_for pharmaceuticals_—_and_vice_versa⠀⇛ US China trade of pharmaceutical and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is rapidly increasing. Supply chain mapping will be key to risk management # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Tackling_food_insecurity_in_Africa_will require_securing_women’s_rights._Here_are_two_ways_to start.⠀⇛ Policymakers should equalize inheritance rights and support women’s entrepreneurship as ways to enhance food security. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ British_Man_Died_of_Rare_Blood_Syndrome Linked_to_AstraZeneca’s_Vaccine⠀⇛ One expert said the blood-clotting syndrome was estimated to occur in one in 50,000 people under 40 and one in 100,000 over 40 who received AstraZeneca’s vaccine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Is_the_Plastic_in_Our_Bodies_Doing_to Us?⠀⇛ Maybe this has been our fate all along, to achieve final communion with our own garbage. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ NSO_Group_Targeted_Apple’s_FindMy_and_Homekit Features_With_New_Zero-Click_Exploits⠀⇛ The newly identified zero-click attacks affected an unknown number of targets using devices running iOS 15 or iOS 16 and at least two human rights defenders in Mexico. Two of the new exploits mentioned in the report targeted iPhone’s FindMy feature, while another exploited Apple’s iPhone’s HomeKit and iMessage functionalities. The last exploit affecting HomeKit could reportedly work even if a target had never actually configured a “home.” # ⚓ [Repeat] Michał Woźniak ☛ Twitter_Unverified⠀⇛ Turns out, no. The backlash was so strong, that Twitter even started letting those who did pay for Twitter Blue to hide the checkmark, because it started being associated with supporting Musk. Meanwhile organizations started coming out strong with “hell no we won’t pay your protection racket money”, as to them it seemed (pretty on-point I’d say) as if Chief Twit was basically saying: “fancy Twitter profile for an organization you have there; it would be a shame if someone impersonated it!” # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Sweden_Public_Radio_Exits_Twitter,_Says_Audience Already_Has⠀⇛ He cited a recent study showing only some 7% of Swedes are on Twitter daily and said the platform “has simply changed over the years and become less important for us.” “The audience has simply chosen other places to be. And, therefore, Sveriges Radio now chooses to deactivate or delete the last remaining accounts,” Gillinger said. # ⚓ Teleport ☛ Login_with_Teleport._Teleport_as_a_SAML_Identity Provider⠀⇛ While writing this post, I quickly became overwhelmed by the number of acronyms used for a simple feature, such as logging into an external app. Here are a few primers: [...] # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ransomware_Attack_Hits_Health_Insurer Point32Health [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Established in 2021 as the merger between Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, Point32Health is the second largest health insurer in Massachusetts, serving more than 2 million customers. In a notification published this week, the organization revealed that it fell victim to a ransomware attack on April 17, which forced it to take systems offline to contain the incident. o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Network World ☛ SONiC_test_lab_gains_industry_support [Ed: Microsoft front group disguised as something that it's not]⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Microsoft_Will_Name_Threat_Actors_After Weather_Events [Ed: Microsoft itself is the threat and the malicious actor. It even adds back doors to all of its stuff, based on NSA leaks.]⠀⇛ Microsoft plans to use weather-themed naming of APT actors as part of a move to simplify the way threat actors are documented. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Optus_sued_by_‘vulnerable’_victims_of data_breach⠀⇛ Former and current customers whose personal information including key identity documents was compromised during the Optus data breach have launched a lawsuit against the telco. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Phylum_Adds_Open_Policy_Agent_to_Open Source_Analysis_Engine⠀⇛ The software supply chain security firm adds the Open Policy Agent to its risk analysis engine, increasing flexibility for the creation and enforcement of custom policies on the use of open source software. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ VMware_Patches_Pre-Auth_Code_Execution_Flaw in_Logging_Product⠀⇛ VMware warns of two critical vulnerabilities — CVE- 2023-20864 and CVE-2023-20865 — in the VMware Aria Operations for Logs product. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Cisco_Patches_Critical_Vulnerabilities_in Industrial_Network_Director,_Modeling_Labs⠀⇛ Cisco this week released patches for critical- severity vulnerabilities impacting its Industrial Network Director and Modeling Labs applications. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Air_Force_Unit_in_Document_Leaks_Case_Loses Intel_Mission⠀⇛ The Air Force is investigating how a lone airman could access and distribute possibly hundreds of highly classified documents, and in the meantime has taken away the intelligence mission from the unit where the leaks took place # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ A_brief_look_at_SUSE’s_CVE_tracking process_for_automotive⠀⇛ What is a CVE? When a security vulnerability in a given software package becomes known, a response must be mounted in order to minimize the probability of malicious actors gaining access to protected computer systems and networks. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ 3CX_supply_chain_attack_was_the_result of_a_previous_supply_chain_attack,_Mandiant_says⠀⇛ The incident is the first known case of one supply chain attack leading to a second supply chain attack. # ⚓ CyberRisk Alliance LLC ☛ Linux_malware_from_Lazarus_Group resembles_tools_used_in_3CX_compromise⠀⇛ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Cascading_Supply_Chain_Attack:_3CX_Hacked After_Employee_Downloaded_Trojanized_App⠀⇛ 3CX hack is the first known cascading supply chain attack, with the breach starting after an employee downloaded compromised software from a different firm. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Lazarus_Group_Adds_Linux_Malware_to_Arsenal in_Operation_Dream_Job⠀⇛ The notorious North Korea-aligned state-sponsored actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a new campaign aimed at Linux users. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Lazarus_hackers_now_push_Linux_malware via_fake_job_offers⠀⇛ This new targeting was discovered by ESET’s researchers, who say it also helps confirm with high confidence that Lazarus conducted the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP provider 3CX. # ⚓ Linux_malware_strengthens_links_between_Lazarus_and_the_3CX supply‑chain_attack⠀⇛ # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ 3CX_Breach_Was_a_Double_Supply_Chain Compromise⠀⇛ We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP software provider 3CX, a complex, lengthy intrusion that has the makings of a cyberpunk spy novel: North Korean hackers using legions of fake executive accounts on LinkedIn to lure people into opening malware disguised as a job offer; malware targeting Mac and Linux users working at defense and cryptocurrency firms; and software supply-chain attacks nested within earlier supply chain attacks. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Fortra_Completes_Investigation_Into GoAnywhere_Zero-Day_Incident⠀⇛ Fortra has shared a summary of its investigation into the GoAnywhere zero-day incident that hit dozens of the company’s customers earlier this year. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ PaperCut_Warns_of_Exploited_Vulnerability in_Print_Management_Solutions⠀⇛ Print management solutions provider PaperCut warns that exploitation of a recently patched vulnerability has commenced. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ UK_Warns_of_Russian_Hackers_Targeting Critical_Infrastructure⠀⇛ The UK government’s information security arm warns of Russian state-aligned groups aiming to disrupt and destroy critical infrastructure in Western countries. # ⚓ SANS ☛ VMware_releases_Security_Advisory_VMSA-2023-0007, multiple_vulnerabilities_in_VMware_Aria_for_Logs_(formerly vRealize_Log_Insight)_CVSS_7.2_–_9.8,_time_to_patch_https:// www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0007.html,_(Thu, Apr_20th)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_endoflife.date_Can_Help_You_Find_Out_When Your_Tech_Support_Will_End⠀⇛ Some companies will tell you when support ends before a product is released. Canonical, for instance, gives a five-year support and updates guarantee for Ubuntu LTS releases, although this can be extended by another ten years with an Ubuntu Pro subscription. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Florida_Apologizes_After_4:45_A.M. Emergency_Alert_Test⠀⇛ The Florida Division of Emergency Management said the early morning alert was not supposed to disturb people who were asleep. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Episode_419:_Little_sensors_save_big amounts_of_water [Ed: They also take up power, cost to manufacture/sell, and then typically beam over personal data]⠀⇛ This week’s show has lots of updates and small updates. We start off with a story about a golf course near San Diego that has saved millions of gallons of water using connected soil sensors. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Getting_a_share_of_Meta’s_Cambridge Analytica_settlement_could_take_years⠀⇛ Meta owes a settlement payment to any US- based individual with a Facebook account active between May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ CPJ_joins_call_for_Turkey’s_internet_authority to_protect_end-to-end_encrypted_services⠀⇛ In October 2022, Turkey’s parliament passed a 40-article bill that included amendments providing more detail about the existing obligations of social media companies and other online service providers, such as messaging apps. This included requirements for platforms with over one million users to open local offices and assign local representatives, allowing the authorities to prosecute them, and making it easier for Turkish authorities to access users’ personal data. # ⚓ [Old] CPJ ☛ Digital_Safety_Kit⠀⇛ Journalists should protect themselves and their sources by keeping up to date on the latest digital security news and threats such as hacking, phishing, and surveillance. Journalists should think about the information they are responsible for and what could happen if it falls into the wrong hands, and take measures to defend their accounts, devices, communications, and online activity. This digital safety kit is designed to be a general starting point for journalists looking to increase their digital safety. For more detailed security advice, please see our Safety Notes. Journalists are encouraged to do a risk assessment before starting their assignments. # ⚓ [Repeat] Data Breaches ☛ Mullvad_VPN_was_subject_to_a search_warrant,_says_customer_data_not_compromised.⠀⇛ On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant. # ⚓ Mullvad VPN ☛ Mullvad_VPN_was_subject_to_a_search warrant._Customer_data_not_compromised⠀⇛ In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information. # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Chat_Control_lead_negotiator proposes_to_add_“voluntary_detection_orders”_and metadata_scanning⠀⇛ The European Parliament’s lead LIBE Committee yesterday circulated the draft report by conservative Rapporteur Javier Zarzalejos on the proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAR), also known as “chat control”. While committing to preserve end to end encryption, the Rapporteur proposes to add “voluntary detection orders” and metadata scanning. Pirate Party Member of the European Parliament and long-time opponent of the chat control proposal Patrick Breyer analyses the proposals and their implications. # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Company_that_makes_millions_spying_on students_will_get_to_sue_a_whistleblower⠀⇛ It’s been a minute since Linkletter’s case arose, so I’ll give you a little recap here. Proctorio is a massive, wildly profitable ed- tech company that sells a surveillance tool to monitor students while they take high- stakes tests from home. The tool monitors the student’s computer and the student’s face, especially their eye-movements. It also allows instructors and other personnel to watch the students and even take control of their computer. This is called “remote invigilation.” This is ghastly in just about every way. For starters, Proctorio’s facial monitoring software embeds the usual racist problems with machine-learning stuff, and struggles to recognize Black and brown faces. Black children sitting exams under Proctorio’s gimlet eye have reported that the only way to satisfy Proctorio’s digital phrenology system is to work with multiple high-powered lights shining directly in their faces. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Sufficient_response_to_voluntary_defense_service, says_minister⠀⇛ The response to the first voluntary draft into the state defense service (VAD) has been very good, said Defense Minister Ināra Mūrniece (National Alliance) in an interview with Latvian Radio on April 20. # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Ukraine_joins_the_EU_Civil_Protection Mechanism⠀⇛ European Commission Press release Brussels, 20 Apr 2023 Today Ukraine becomes a Participating State of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism – the European solidarity framework that helps countries overwhelmed by a disaster. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_parliament_overrides_presidential_veto_on sanctions_for_Russians,_Belarusians⠀⇛ The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday overrode President Gitanas Nausėda’s veto and gave its final approval for imposing different sanctions on Russian and Belarusian citizens over the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ PM_Albanese_to_attend_NATO_security summit⠀⇛ Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will attend a NATO security conference in Europe.  The conference is set to be held in Lithuania from July 11 to 12. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Is_the_Taiwan_Strait_open_to_international_vessels under_international_law?⠀⇛ Verdict: True # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Slaps_Sanctions_on_Iranian_Military Procurement_Network⠀⇛ The U.S. Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on one individual and six entities for what it said was a “sanctions evasion network” that has “facilitated Iran’s procurement of electronic components for its destabilizing military programs, including those used in unmanned aerial vehicles.” # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Estonia_Announces_Further_Military_Aid_For Ukraine⠀⇛ Estonia on April 20 announced the delivery of more weapons to Ukraine ahead of talks in the German town of Ramstein on Western military aid to the war-torn country. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_Lavrov_In_Havana_On_Latin_American_Drive To_Shore_Up_Support⠀⇛ Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on April 20 met with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Havana, the latest in a series of visits to shore up support among Russia’s closest allies in Latin America. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Junta_bombs_Myanmar_village_again_where_earlier strike_killed_200⠀⇛ No one was injured as most residents had either been killed or were in hiding. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ White_House_Says_No_Determination_On_Wagner_Being ‘Foreign_Terrorist’_Group⠀⇛ The United States has made no determination the Russian private military Wagner Group is a “foreign terrorist organization,” despite its ongoing actions in Ukraine, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said. # ⚓ France24 ☛ In_Khartoum,_corpses_litter_the_streets:_‘The fighting_keeps_residents_from_burying_them’⠀⇛ The capital of Sudan, Khartoum, has been embroiled in violent clashes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support forces (RSF) since April 15, leading to scores of casualties. Images received by the FRANCE 24 Observers team show lifeless bodies littering the streets of the city. Our Observer, a doctor in Khartoum, laments that aerial bombardments and continued fighting are making it impossible for residents to leave their homes to take the wounded to hospital or bury the dead. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Kenya_Appeals_to_World_to_Step_Up_Efforts_to_End Sudan_Crisis⠀⇛ The escalation of hostilities in Sudan could degenerate into a security crisis on a devastating scale, President Ruto said. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Over_20,000_people_flee_as_Myanmar’s_military_raids Sagaing_region_villages⠀⇛ Troops killed 5 People’s Defense Force members during fierce fighting. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Freeing_the_truth_for_freedom_of_the_seas⠀⇛ As Ukraine did with Russia’s invasion, the Philippines now exposes China’s hostile actions in the legal domain of Philippine waters and islands. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Prosecutors_to_Drop_Charges_Against_Alec Baldwin_in_‘Rust’_Shooting⠀⇛ Mr. Baldwin had been charged with involuntary manslaughter after the gun he was practicing with went off on a film set, killing the cinematographer. The film’s armorer still faces charges. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Alec_Baldwin_charge_will_be_dropped in_movie_set_shooting⠀⇛ Prosecutors in New Mexico will dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film “Rust.” However special prosecutors Kari Morrisey and Jason Lewis also said Thursday that their investigation is not over and Baldwin has not been absolved. Baldwin’s attorneys said in a statement that they are pleased with the decision to dismiss the felony charge. The film’s weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is still charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins during a rehearsal when it when off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Orbán_had_predicted_Central_Europe’s rise._He_ended_up_regretting_it.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Site36 ☛ EU_sends_military_cyber_force_to_Moldova,_second deployment_of_these_CRRTs_after_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Army_Is_Recruiting—Gen_Z_Just_Isn’t Biting⠀⇛ After more than 20 years of losing wars, recruiting for the US Army is now officially a mess. Last year, that service fell short of its goal by 15,000 recruits, or a quarter of its target. Despite reports of better numbers in the first months of this year, Army officials doubt that they will achieve their objective this time around either. The commanding general at Fort Jackson, the South Carolina facility that provides basic training to 50 percent of all new members of the Army, called the recruiting command’s task the hardest since the all-volunteer military was launched in 1973. The Army’s leaders were alarmed enough to make available up to $1.2 billion for recruitment incentives and related initiatives. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ohio⠀⇛ Who am I to say that the hawk circling above the deck wasn’t really the murdered sister of our host, as she insisted? Who says the dead stay dead, or even human—for all I know our souls stream out and leap into the nearest form, manzanita, termite, light pole, to begin the challenges of figuring out when to break into blossom, how to find a mate or glow softly each evening without a single glass of wine. Our host was downing grape juice and growing wild-eyed about the government, unable to stop reliving the day her sister died on the Kent State Commons when the Guardsmen turned in unison and fired on the students. She was right about politics and false narratives but wrong about the winged creatures swarming from the eaves as we talked. Those weren’t moths but they were sort of lovely until we realized they were busy eating her guest house on the California coast, in the pleasant weather we were enjoying thanks to the drought, grateful that smoke from the wildfires had drifted elsewhere. As she kept on I felt sympathy leak out of me until all I could think of was how to get away, to be alone with my lover and forget about my country’s many crimes, one of which was killing a college girl. Who, why not, might have been coasting the thermals all day looking to survive by killing something else. Who am I to say a word. It’s not my story. My love and I excused ourselves and went inside to make dinner. In the nearby cove the breaking waves endlessly bashed themselves against the rocks. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_want_people_to_know_he_avenged_his_wife’:_The brother_of_a_Ukrainian_civilian_killed_by_a_Russian_soldier reconstructs_the_murder_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Local_business_owners_in_Perm_publicly_apologize after_video_shows_them_making_toasts_in_support_of_Ukraine_— Meduza⠀⇛ Two business owners in Perm, Danil Guryanov and Danila Shishkin, posted Instagram stories making toasts “For Ukraine” and were shown saying “Glory to the heroes.” They soon received numerous threats on social media and were called “traitors” who could “only be saved by volunteering to go to the front.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_launches_first_drone_attack_on_Kyiv_in_25 days_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian military carried out a drone attack against Ukraine on the night of April 20–21, the Ukrainian military’s General Staff reported. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘The_Pentagon_must_be_a_mess’:_How_the_Russian political_establishment_made_sense_of_the_recent_U.S._intel leak_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In the wake of Jack Teixeira’s arrest over the publication of classified documents shedding light on the U.S. intelligence assessments of the Ukraine war, Meduza’s correspondent Andrey Pertsev spoke with a number of anonymous insiders in the Russian government, the Kremlin, and the state-controlled media, trying to grasp what consensus members of Russia’s political establishment had developed with regard to the leak, its real motives, and its most plausible effects. A source two handshakes removed from Putin, for example, encapsulated what seems to be the most widespread impression: “The West, and even the U.S., are not that single-minded about the war.” What other informed speakers had to say about the scandal happens, once again, to say a great deal about how Russia’s political elites think about the outside world. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kyiv_terminates_Russian_embassy’s_lease,_demands return_of_diplomatic_mission_premises_to_state_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Kyiv City Council has terminated the Russian embassy’s lease of the diplomatic premises in the Ukrainian capital. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_passes_law_giving_Wagner_mercenaries ‘combat_veteran’_status_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The State Duma passed a bill that will allow Wagner Group mercenaries who have taken part in the Russia-Ukraine war to receive veteran and combat disabled status. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ German_company_Henkel_reaches_agreement_to_exit Russia_for_54_billion_rubles_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The German company Henkel reached an agreement about the sale of its Russian business to a consortium of investors for 54 billion rubles (around $662 million). Russian regulators have approved the deal. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belgorod_blast_leaves_buildings_and_vehicles damaged,_one_car_lands_on_rooftop_—_Meduza⠀⇛ An explosion in Belgorod has left a large crater in the ground at one of the city’s intersections. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Latvian_Saeima_outlaws_post-Soviet_Victory_Day celebrations._Only_Europe_Day_festivities_will_be_permitted on_May_9._—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Latvian parliament has passed a bill to ban all public celebrations on May 9, the only exception being the international Europe Day. The Latvian outlet Delfi reports that the Saeima considered the legislation on an expedited basis. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Bright_flash_in_Kyiv_sky_sparks_speculations_of meteorite_or_falling_satellite_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Kyiv residents observed a “bright glow from an aerial object” on Wednesday evening, Kyiv City Military Administration head Serhii Popko reported on Telegram. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Navy_removes_Pacific_Fleet_commander_from post_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The commander of the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sergey Avakyants, has been removed from his post, according to Vladimir Putin’s envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘There’s_nothing_we_can_do_but_wait’_For_workers from_Nepal,_the_road_to_Romania_is_long_and_uncertain_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Parliament_Demands_Russia_Release_Kara-Murza, Navalny,_Other_‘Political_Prisoners’⠀⇛ The European Parliament has passed a resolution condemning the “politically motivated conviction” of Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza and the continued imprisonment of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kazakh_Forced_To_Join_Russia’s_Wagner_Mercenary Group_In_Ukraine,_Mother_Says⠀⇛ A Kazakh student at Tomsk State University in Siberia, Marghulan Bekenov, was forced to join the Russian private mercenary group Wagner in March, his mother says. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Hungary_Calls_For_EU_Aid_To_Help_Ukrainian_Grain Transit⠀⇛ Hungary on April 20 called for “progressive” aid from the EU to help move Ukraine’s grain through Central European countries whose farmers are having to compete with its cheaper imports. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran_Claims_Its_Navy_Forced_U.S._Submarine_To Surface_As_It_Entered_The_Gulf⠀⇛ Iran’s navy claims to have forced a U.S. submarine to surface as it entered the Persian Gulf in the latest report of an apparent confrontation between Iranian and U.S. forces in the Gulf. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Man_From_Russia’s_Kalmykia_Deemed_Asylum_Seeker_In Kazakhstan_After_Fleeing_Army⠀⇛ A man from the Russian region of Kalmykia has been granted asylum-seeker status in Kazakhstan after he left a military unit to avoid taking part in the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russia’s_invasion_of_Ukraine_is_also being_fought_in_cyberspace⠀⇛ While the war in Ukraine often resembles the trench warfare of the twentieth century, the battle for cyber dominance is highly innovative and offers insights into the future of international aggression, writes Vera Mironova. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belgorod_governor:_shelling_from_‘the_Ukrainian side’_has_killed_30_civilians_since_war_began_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, said that since February 24, 2022, shelling in the region has killed more than 30 civilians. He blamed Ukraine’s Armed Forces for the deaths. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_Multiple_murders_–_a_mark_of_SA’s_gun and_organised_crime_crisis⠀⇛ Early Sunday morning, 10 July 2022, gunmen entered Mdlalose tavern in Nonzamo informal settlement in Soweto, South Africa, and opened fire with automatic rifles, killing 16 patrons and injuring seven others. # ⚓ France24 ☛ UN_chief_calls_for_three-day_ceasefire_in_Sudan as_thousands_flee⠀⇛ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Sudan’s warring factions to observe a ceasefire over the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday to allow mcivilians to reach safe areas as rival forces battled for a sixth day on Thursday. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ There_can_be_no_lasting_peace_with Russia_until_Ukraine_liberates_Crimea⠀⇛ Some skeptics question the feasibility and wisdom of a military campaign to de-occupy Crimea, but no lasting peace with Putin’s Russia will be possible until the Ukrainian peninsula is liberated, argues Mariia Zolkina. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Pentagon’s_Repatriation_of_Algerian_Leaves 30_Prisoners_at_Guantánamo⠀⇛ The transfer was the sixth of a cleared prisoner in six months in a Biden administration surge to reduce the prison population. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ NATO_Chief_Jens_Stoltenberg_Says_Ukraine’s ‘Rightful_Place’_Is_in_the_Alliance⠀⇛ “I am here today with a simple message: NATO stands with Ukraine,” Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance’s secretary general, said at a joint news conference with the Ukrainian president. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Electronic_military_summonses_sent_out_in_St. Petersburg_as_part_of_‘test’_distribution_—_Meduza⠀⇛ “Test” electronic military summonses were sent out in St. Petersburg, reports outlet Fontanka, citing Sergey Kachkovsky, the city’s chief enlistment officer. # ⚓ Salon ☛ Pentagon_leak:_Dangerous_radicalization_of_American white_youth_now_a_national_security_threat⠀⇛ The whole mess over the stolen top-secret documents and the damage they’ve done to our national security is a wake-up call to the danger posed by radicalized white youth. Because many of them are comparatively sophisticated with technology, their power to burrow into important parts of the country like our military and police forces makes them inherently dangerous. # ⚓ NBC ☛ China’s_crackdown_on_deepfakes_doesn’t_stop_its_apps from_finding_U.S._audience⠀⇛ But more than anything else, deepfake technology has fueled an online economy centered on creating fake pornography. Sensity, an Amsterdam-based company that detects and monitors AI-developed synthetic media for industries like banking and fintech, found that 96% of deepfakes are sexually explicit and feature women who did not consent to their creation. An NBC News review of free deepfake apps on Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store found more than 17 deepfake apps available to download from companies based all over the world, including Russia, Ukraine, the U.K., the U.S., Italy and China. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ US_Rules_Out_Talks_on_Afghan_Taliban_Recognition at_UN-Hosted_Meeting⠀⇛ “The intent and purpose of this meeting was never to discuss recognition of the Taliban, and any discussion at the meeting about recognition of the Taliban would be unacceptable,” a U.S. official told VOA on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Florida_Legislators_Push_Bills_Aimed_At_Making It_More_Difficult_To_Film_Cops⠀⇛ A number of stupid lawmakers have attempted to basically outlaw filming cops by proposing imaginative legislation that would prevent all but the most ineffective documentation of public employees performing their public duties. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Show_President_Biden_the_Latest_IPCC Report,’_Greenpeace_Says_of_Texas_LNG_Approvals⠀⇛ Climate groups called out U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday after a federal agency gave a green light to three liquefied natural gas projects in Texas despite local opposition and scientists’ calls to swiftly transition away from fossil fuels. # ⚓ NPR ☛ The_Colorado_and_Ohio_rivers_are_among_the_‘most endangered’_in_America._Here’s_why⠀⇛ The Ohio River forms in Pittsburgh’s backyard, where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers converge to create a waterway that spans nearly a thousand miles to Cairo, Illinois. The river is much healthier than it was 50 years ago. Congress passed groundbreaking legislation, the Clean Water Act, in 1972, which helped to clean up polluted waterways like the Ohio River. The river – which supplies drinking water to 5 million people and is home to more than 150 species of fish – is still under threat, according to a report released this week from the conservation advocacy organization American Rivers. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Red_States_Are_Trying_To_Fight_The_World_On_Climate⠀⇛ Businesses dependent on fossil fuels want to keep doing the business they’ve always done and using the infrastructure they’ve already invested in, said Mark Agerton, a professor of agriculture and resource economics at the University of California, Davis. This is part of why environmental policy in the United States has moved away from “sticks” — such as putting a price on carbon or capping emissions — and toward “carrots” — such as incentivizing consumers to choose lower-emission energy in the form of subsidies and tax rebates, Agerton said. But the experts I spoke with also said that climate policy has become a partisan playing field, bound up in identity and opposition — a way of drawing lines between “their” side and “ours.” For example, America has been a net energy exporter since 2019 and a net petroleum exporter since 2020, and oil and gas production in this country has largely been on the rise since 2008. Yet the Kansas Legislature passed a resolution calling for energy independence and for the Biden Administration to stop curtailing production of oil and gas. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Investing_in_Climate_Chaos’:_Vanguard_Is Now_World’s_Largest_Funder_of_Fossil_Fuels⠀⇛ The Vanguard Group, one of the world’s largest asset management firms, has surpassed its competitor BlackRock as the planet’s leading investor in fossil fuels, according to a report released Thursday. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We_Need_a_Green_New_Deal’:_AOC,_Markey_Re- Up_Visionary_Climate_Resolution⠀⇛ Backed by climate, health, and labor groups, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey on Thursday reintroduced the Green New Deal Resolution, which the progressive leaders have been fighting for since they first unveiled it in February 2019. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Fast-warming_Europe_risks_more_droughts_as_Alps glaciers_melt_at_record_rate⠀⇛ A fierce drought melted glaciers during Europe’s hottest recorded summer last year, a phenomenon that could repeat as the continent warms at nearly twice the global rate, the EU’s climate observatory said Thursday. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ H2 View ☛ Louisiana_explores_$4.6bn_blue_ammonia production_and_export_facility⠀⇛ St. Charles Clean Fuels, a development company jointly owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Sustainable Fuels Group, is exploring the feasibility of building a $4.6bn ammonia production and export facility in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Memo_Exposes_Renewable_Energy_Trade Group’s_Close_Ties_to_Fossil_Fuel_Industry⠀⇛ The American Clean Power Association has been billed as “the nation’s top renewable energy trade group,” but lurking beneath its green luster is a dirty reality. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Govt_hires_Clayton_Utz_to_fight Rex_Patrick,_keep_gas_solution_secret⠀⇛ A Morrison government report into the obvious solution to the gas crisis – a domestic gas reservation policy – is being hidden by Energy Minister Madeleine King’s Energy Department. Rex Patrick has sought access to the document but now the government has hired big-charging law firm Clayton Utz to fight him. Rex Patrick reports.  We’re in the middle of self-inflicted gas price crises. Everyday Australians and businesses are suffering from high gas prices (which also cause high electricity prices), not because there’s a shortage of gas, but because successive governments have handed over the keys to our natural gas resources to a cartel. The cartel has profited from Australia’s gas while biting the hand that’s been feeding them. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ For_Earth_Day,_Let’s_End_our Addiction_to_Oil⠀⇛ A great way to honor Earth Day 2023 (April 22) would be to accelerate our efforts to end our destructive addiction to oil. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Bitcoin_Mining_Exposé_Strengthens_the Case_for_a_Carbon_Tax⠀⇛ Clean electricity, the backbone of the Biden administration’s strategy for slashing carbon emissions, is becoming daunting to expand. # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Tartu’s_Car-Free_Avenue returns_again_this_summer⠀⇛ Similar to other years, part of Vabaduse Puiestee will be closed to cars from the Market Building to Kaarsild Bridge. This year’s event runs from June 29-August 6. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Beach_birth:_Hawaii_blocks some_Waikiki_sands_for_seal_pup⠀⇛ The birth this week of an endangered seal at Hawaii’s most popular tourism hubs highlights the tension between protecting the islands’ fragile ecosystems and maintaining access to the pristine white-sand beaches that attract millions of visitors each year. Hawaii officials are expected to hold a news conference Thursday to remind beachgoers to stay away from the pup. Officials this week fenced off a large stretch of a popular Waikiki neighborhood to protect the Hawaiian monk seal pair. Last summer, a mother seal injured a tourist who got too close. There are fewer than 1,600 Hawaiian monk seals in the wild and it’s a felony to disturb them. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Ranger_shortage_poses_danger_for_rhino conservation⠀⇛ While official rhino poaching numbers are down, a lack of conservation personnel – specifically rangers – could see the small gains in numbers disappear. Warning bells on the lack of rangers in South Africa’s iconic Kruger National Park as well as in KwaZulu- Natal come from Democratic Alliance (DA) public representatives at national and provincial level. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ Global_balance_of_population_and_power_is shifting⠀⇛ Data: United Nations Population Fund; Chart: Rahul Mukherjee/Axios The distribution of people across our planet is changing pretty dramatically, with populations booming in sub-Saharan Africa and shrinking in parts of Europe and East Asia, including China. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnamese_workers_in_Taiwan_sacrifice_happiness_to_give_families a_better_life⠀⇛ 14 Vietnamese migrants lost their lives trying to get to Taiwan on a boat from China * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ BuzzFeed_says_it_will_close_its_news_division⠀⇛ Digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division and cut another 15 per cent of its staff across the company, adding to lay-offs made earlier this year. BuzzFeed has approximately 1200 total employees, according to a recent regulatory filing. * ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_government_to_oblige_supermarkets_to_launch promotions⠀⇛ * ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Budapest_may_face_bankruptcy,_mayor_announces⠀⇛ * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Devil’s_Deal_of_Tax-Deductible_Status⠀⇛ We’ve just passed through tax time again. (Unless, like me, you live in one of several states ravaged by recent extreme weather events brought on by climate change. In that case, you can wait until October.) It’s also that moment when the War Resisters League—slogan: “If you work for peace, stop paying for war”—publishes its invaluable annual “Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes” pie chart and publicizes a series of Tax Day events nationwide. * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Here_Are_the_Members_of_Congress_Who_Dumped_Bank_Stocks Amid_Fears_of_Financial_Crisis⠀⇛ As Democratic lawmakers renew their push for a stock trading ban on Capitol Hill, an analysis released Wednesday found that several members of Congress or their close relatives sold bank equities last month as fears of a financial crisis spread in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Senate_Finance_Chief:_Nothing_Unites_GOP_More_Than ‘Helping_Rich_People_Cheat_on_Their_Taxes’⠀⇛ The Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee said Wednesday that the House GOP’s newly released debt ceiling legislation shows that the often fractious right-wing caucus is unified around at least one common objective: “Helping rich people cheat on their taxes.” * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Lawmakers:_Expand_the_Social_Safety_Net,_Don’t_Shred It⠀⇛ Most of us rely on some cash assistance to get by at some point, whether we realize it or not. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Plan_to_Force_More_Housing_Development_in_New_York Has_Failed⠀⇛ Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan for addressing the state’s housing shortage met resistance in places like Westchester County and Long Island. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Forbes’_2023_billionaires_list_includes_22_more_Russian citizens_than_last_year_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Forbes’ annual billionaires list for 2023 includes 110 Russian citizens, which is 22 more than in 2023, the magazine’s Russian edition noted on Thursday. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ With_most_Russian_positions_frozen_in_expectation,_only_Wagner Group_is_persistently_storming_Bakhmut_Here’s_the_state_of_combat_on_our updated_map_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Meduza has adopted a consistent antiwar position, holding Russia responsible for its military aggression and atrocities. As part of this commitment, we regularly update an interactive map that documents combat operations in Ukraine and the damage inflicted by Russia’s invasion forces. Our map is based exclusively on previously published open-source photos and videos, most of them posted by eyewitnesses on social media. We collect reports already available publicly and determine their geolocation markers, adding only the photos and videos that clear this process. * ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Long-Feared_Eviction_Tsunami_Is_Here⠀⇛ When the pandemic began and businesses were abruptly shuttered en masse, cutting millions of workers off from their incomes, many predicted a huge wave of evictions. Instead, the federal government, along with state and local governments, implemented unprecedented bans on eviction, eventually followed by billions in rental assistance, to keep people housed. The bans worked, and eviction filings fell across the country, forestalling at least 1.36 million cases from being filed that otherwise would have in a typical year. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Democratic_anxiety_emerges_over_Biden’s_debt_ceiling_stance⠀⇛ Some House Democrats are beginning to question President Biden’s refusal to sit down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on the debt_limit. Why it matters:It signals that House Republicans’ debt_ceiling bill is, at least in part, having the intended effect of serving as the GOP’s starting position in debt ceiling negotiations. * ⚓ Axios ☛ McCarthy_at_risk_of_falling_short_on_GOP_votes_for_debt_ceiling bill⠀⇛ House Republicans are feeling a debt_ceiling hangover, with senior GOP sources worrying they’re significantly short on votes now that members have read the 320-page bill. Why it matters:“The whip count on this is not good,” a senior GOP source told Axios Thursday afternoon. =============================================================== o Much of the skepticism is coming from swing-district Republicans such as Reps. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), who have both indicated they are unhappy. o “The Freedom Caucus plan is wagging the conference dog,” one House Republican told Axios, referring to the right- wing members who pushed McCarthy hard to include their priorities. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Police_block_protesters_as_Macron_faces_down_hostile_crowds in_rural_France⠀⇛ French police fired teargas Thursday in a village in southern France where President Emmanuel Macron visited a school, a day after he was booed and heckled over his unpopular pension reform. * ⚓ Nasdaq ☛ Slow_Growth_in_Azure_to_Impact_Microsoft’s_(MSFT)_Q3_Earnings [Ed: More Azure layoffs at Microsoft. Azure has failed. "Growth" at Microsoft is shuffling the buckets and rebranding one product as another (newer name/bucket). If Microsoft keeps rebranding more and more things "Azure", then it'll grow in the sense that the number of things called Azure is up. Shareholders are told of growth, but they probably subsidise losses.]⠀⇛ * ⚓ Investopedia ☛ Microsoft_Earnings_Could_Fall_Flat_on_Slower_Cloud Growth [Ed: Many more Microsoft layoffs ahead of next week's results or the summer results. This company cannot grow, only fake growth.]⠀⇛ § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Twitter_begins_removing_non-paying_users’_blue checks⠀⇛ After several false starts, Twitter is removing the blue checks that help high-profile users verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform. Twitter began making good on its promise on Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them.   * ⚓ Consolidating_Control_with_Catherine_Austin_Fitts⠀⇛ * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Russian_Deputy_Culture_Minister_Arrested_On_Fraud Charges⠀⇛ A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of former Russian Deputy Culture Minister Olga Yarilova on suspicion of involvement in a fraud that led to the alleged embezzlement of 200 million rubles ($2.5 million). * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lithuanian_Lawmakers_Impose_Softer_Restrictions_On_Belarusians Than_Russians⠀⇛ Lithuanian lawmakers on April 20 reiterated their move to impose softer restrictions on Belarusian citizens and place stricter limits on Russians, overriding a bid by President Gitanas Nauseda to keep the restrictions the same for citizens of both countries. * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ GOP_State_Rep_Who_Voted_to_Expel_‘Tennessee_Three’ Resigns_Over_Sexual_Harassment_of_Intern⠀⇛ Tennessee Rep. Scotty Campbell, the vice chair of the state House Republican Caucus and a leader behind the effort last month to expel three Democrats who joined a gun control protest, resigned on Thursday weeks after a state House investigation found that he had sexually harassed at least one intern. * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Elon_Musk_Mind_Virus:_Spreading_Easily_Debunked Misinformation_That_Confirms_His_Own_Biases⠀⇛ Elon Musk has been on a tear of late, attacking the “mainstream media” at every turn. It’s true that this started about five years ago, when Tesla started getting some negative press (after about a decade of extremely positive press), and Musk seemed to absolutely lose his shit. It kinda comes with the territory, though, that every single successful tech company eventually goes through a round or two of media scrutiny, and some of it will be wrong and unfair. * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Is_TikTok_a_US_Deep_State_Front?⠀⇛ Alan MacLeod’s reporting on the influx of former government employees at TikTok, Meta, Twitter and other social media companies helps define the scope of the U.S. censorship regime. * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Microsoft_Ditches_Twitter_From_Its_Ads_Platform…_So_Elon Announces_Plans_To_Sue_Microsoft⠀⇛ Elon Musk seems to take a personal affront to anyone who says “dude, we’re not going to pay your crazy prices for stuff.” For example, he pulled the NY Times “verified” badge weeks before everyone else was set to lose it after they announced they wouldn’t pay. * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ MAGA_Pillow_Man_Ordered_to_Pay_$5_Million_to_Expert_Who Debunked_2020_Election_Lie⠀⇛ My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a die-hard supporter of former President Donald Trump who offered a $5 million reward to any cybersecurity expert who disproved his conspiracy theory about the 2020 U.S. presidential election, was ordered Wednesday by an arbitration panel to pay up after a Trump voter called his bluff. * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Small_Minds_Think_Alike:_Clarence_Thomas_and_George Santos’s_Yacht_Race_to_Corruption⠀⇛ “We sail the ocean blue and our saucy ship’s a beauty. We’re sober men and true, and attentive to our duty.” —Gilbert and Sullivan, H.M.S. Pinafore * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Critics_Say_New_Revelations_in_Judicial_Record_Bolster Case_for_Thomas_Impeachment⠀⇛ Calls for impeachment proceedings against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas intensified Thursday amid new reporting that revealed several specific conflicts of interest related to the justice’s financial ties to right-wing real estate magnate and Republican donor Harlan Crow. * ⚓ The Nation ☛ Stopping_Bibi⠀⇛ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Israel’s_Right-Wing_Government_Has_Jewish_Democrats_at a_Loss⠀⇛ American lawmakers defending Israel have often fallen back on what they call the countries’ shared democratic values. But defending the current far-right government is proving a lot harder. * ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Hungary’s_new_law_enables_to_report_rainbow_families to_authorities⠀⇛ The Hungarian parliament passed a bill last week, that makes it possible to anonymously report rainbow families to authorities, Bloomberg reports. According to the new law, citizens are allowed to report those who contest the “constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the family” and those who contest children’s rights “to an identity appropriate to their sex at birth.”  The new law is part of the Orban government’s efforts to protect the “Hungarian way of life.” The bill passed just a week after France and Germany joined thirteen other EU member states in a lawsuit against Hungary by the European Commission at the European Court of Justice over a 2021 discriminatory law that bans gay people from featuring in school educational materials or TV shows for minors.   * ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Amazon,_Walmart_Giving_to_Republican_AGs_Group_Again⠀⇛ An atmosphere of conviviality greeted Republican attorneys general arriving in New Orleans for their recent winter conference. It was Mardi Gras, and tourists traipsed through the lobby of the historic Roosevelt Hotel wearing colorful beaded necklaces and clutching cocktails. A few feet from the check-in desk, if any of the attorneys general stopped to notice it, stood a replica of former U.S. Sen. and Louisiana Gov. Huey Long’s “deduct box,” which reportedly contained more than $1 million in cash donations from businesses and wealthy individuals when the notoriously corrupt Long was assassinated in 1935. The attorneys general were in New Orleans on their own fundraising mission, albeit aboveboard. That evening, in a ballroom one flight up, the Republican Attorneys General Association hosted an invite-only Super Bowl party, where they mixed and mingled with donors, and alcohol flowed freely. There was reason to celebrate. Having endured its worst crisis since it became a standalone entity in 2014, RAGA was thriving again. * ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ It_Is_The_Union_That_Is_Collapsing⠀⇛ The collapse of the governing party of the Scottish colonial administration is a direct consequence of the Union. It shows the need for Independence. * ⚓ India Times ☛ Alphabet_to_combine_AI_research_units_Google_Brain, DeepMind⠀⇛ Going forward, the Alphabet staff will work on “multimodal” AI, like OpenAI’s latest model GPT-4, which can respond not only to text prompts but to image inputs as well to generate new content.Google has for decades dominated the search market, with a share of over 80%, but Wall Street fears that the Alphabet unit could fall behind Microsoft Corp in the fast- moving AI race. Technology from OpenAI, funded by Microsoft, powers the rival software maker’s updated Bing search engine. * ⚓ India Times ☛ Cybersecurity:_How_does_India_perform_at_the_global stage?⠀⇛ In a disappointing show, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review CyberDefense Index (CDI) 2022/23 has put India at No. 17 position out of 20. MIT’s CDI is the ‘first-of-its-kind’ annual comparative ranking of the world’s 20 largest and most digital economies on their preparation against, and response and recovery from, cybersecurity threats. It also seeks to measure how such economies are using technology as well as digital practices against hacks and cyberattacks, and how policy is promoting secure digital transactions. * ⚓ 9to5Mac ☛ Warren_Buffett:_‘If_someone_offered_you_$10,000_to_never_buy an_iPhone_again,_you_wouldn’t_take_it’⠀⇛ Buffett went on to explain that when questioned about why Berkshire Hathaway owns so many AAPL shares, it comes down to Apple being a “wonderful business” for both users and investors. “How the hell could we develop a business like that? And so, we own a lot of it,” he said. “And our ownership goes up a little bit every year because they buy back their stock. And Tim does not issue it, he buys it. And we love it.” * ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Government_Gets_the_Law_Wrong_as_it_Finally_Makes_the Case_Why_it_is_Rejecting_the_Bill_C-11_User_Content_Regulation_Fix⠀⇛ With Bill C-11 in the final stretch – Senate approval could come this week – the government finally provided a more detailed explanation for rejecting the Senate’s user content regulation fix. Indeed, after weeks of false or empty justifications for the rejection, Senator Marc Gold, the government’s representative in the Senate, at long last tried to make the case for rejecting the amendment. Leaving aside the fact that if there were problems with the amendment, it was open to the government – and is still open to the Senate – to fix any perceived problems by amending the amendment, the reality is that Senator Gold’s explanation gets the law wrong. It is sad that as the bill nears passage, the government doesn’t seem to understand or misleads on the impact of its own legislation. I realize that another long post isn’t going to change that, but the thousands of Canadian creators who spoke out on their concerns deserve better. * ⚓ DroidGazzette ☛ Spotify_CEO_Daniel_Ek_Goes_to_Washington_to_Lobby Against_Apple⠀⇛ Namely, Spotify takes issue with the fee it pays Apple when a user makes a purchase through the Spotify mobile app via the App Store and the restrictions Apple enforces on the marketing in which apps in its store are allowed to engage. Apple is notorious for charging third-party app developers as much as 30 percent in fees for sales made through the App Store. Regulators have accused the company of engaging in “anti-steering” practices, preventing services like Spotify from informing iPhone and iPad users about services they can purchase outside the App Store, mainly when those services directly compete with Apple’s ecosystem. * ⚓ American Oversight ☛ American_Oversight_Statement_on_EAC_Adviser_Cleta Mitchell’s_Anti-Voting_Presentation⠀⇛ * ⚓ France24 ☛ Pope_loses_twitter_blue_check_mark,_US_basketball_star LeBron_James_keeps_it⠀⇛ Twitter on Thursday began removing legacy blue checkmarks from user profiles, with famous people including pop icon Beyonce and Pope Francis losing their verified statuses. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ I.R.S._Official_Is_Said_to_Assert_Political_Meddling in_Hunter_Biden_Inquiry⠀⇛ An agent overseeing the agency’s portion of the investigation into the president’s son is asking Congress for whistle-blower protection to discuss what he says is misconduct in the case. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Twitter_Begins_Removing_Blue_Check_Marks_From_Verified Accounts⠀⇛ Elon Musk, the owner of the social media service, has begun to charge a subscription fee for the verification symbol. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s_Social_Media_Stars_Ditch_Russian_in_Pivot_to a_War_Footing⠀⇛ Russian was once the lingua franca of influencers in Ukraine. Now, not so much. * ⚓ Axios ☛ BuzzFeed_News_to_shut_down⠀⇛ BuzzFeed is shutting_down_its_BuzzFeed_News division as part of wider effort to turn the struggling media group around and to squeeze profits from a company that’s lost 90% of its value since it listed in 2021. Why it matters:The move underscores the broader pressure facing the digital media industry and puts a spotlight on a company that failed to move quickly to address ways to boost revenues and manage expenses. * § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ o ⚓ RFA ☛ Tibetans_abroad_rally_in_support_of_Dalai_Lama_following outrage_over_video⠀⇛ The protesters want the media to apologize for defaming the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader. o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Fox_Pays_Dominion_$787.5_Million_in_Historic Settlement_But_Won’t_Apologize_for_Election_Lies⠀⇛ We look at the historic settlement reached this week in Dominion Voting Systems’s lawsuit against Fox News for promoting lies about voting machines being rigged against Trump in the 2020 election. Fox repeatedly aired conspiracy theories even though some of the network’s most prominent hosts, including Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, as well as multibillionaire and Fox Corporation Chair Rupert Murdoch, were privately admitting they knew Trump’s election fraud claims were false. Earlier this week, shortly after a jury was picked for the trial, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million to settle the case. As part of the deal, Fox was not required to apologize for airing lies about Dominion. We look at the settlement and what is next with Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, which recently filed a Federal Elections Commission complaint against Fox News based on evidence from the Dominion lawsuit. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Lesson_of_the_Dominion_Suit?_Corporations_Won’t Save_Us_From_Fox.⠀⇛ This week, Dominion Voting Systems settled its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News Corp for $787.5 million. The settlement was reached just before lawyers for the two sides made opening statements in what was expected to be a blockbuster trial, but after Fox had lost nearly all of its pretrial motions. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Thanks_to_Dominion’s_Lawsuit,_We_Got_the_Truth_About Fox._The_Rest_Is_Up_to_Us.⠀⇛ The reason Fox News czar Rupert Murdoch resisted settling Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation suit became clearer within 24 hours of the settlement, when a rival voting firm also trashed by Fox reiterated that it was immediately going ahead with demanding $2.76 billion in its own defamation action. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Hard_Lines_in_Fox-Dominion_Deal_Talks Suddenly_Softened⠀⇛ The $787.5 million settlement, believed to be the largest in a defamation case, came together quickly. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ RFA ☛ Taiwanese_publisher_of_banned_books_is_detained_in_Shanghai⠀⇛ Island officials say Li Yanhe is ‘safe,” but decline to give details, citing the wishes of his family * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Bluesky_Plans_Decentralized_Composable_Moderation⠀⇛ We just wrote about Substack’s issue with content moderation and the Nazi bar problem. As I highlighted in that piece, any centralized service is going to be defined by their moderation choices. If you cater to terrible, abusive people, you become “the site that caters to terrible abusive people.” That’s not a comment on “free speech” because it has nothing to do with free speech. It has to do with how you keep your own corner of the internet and what people will associate with you and your brand. * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ GOP_Push_Leads_to_Nearly_1,500_School_Book_Bans_in First_Half_of_Academic_Year⠀⇛ New laws imposed by right-wing state legislatures have been a driving force behind a rise in book bans since the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, a national free expression group reported Thursday. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Taiwanese_publisher_of_banned_books_is_detained_in_Shanghai⠀⇛ A Taiwanese publisher who published many books banned in China is believed detained in Shanghai, according to a leading Chinese literary figure, sparking comparisons with the cross- border detentions and kidnappings of five Hong Kong booksellers in 2015. Li Yanhe, known by his pen-name Fucha, or Fuchsia, was detained after traveling to visit relatives in China, writer Bei Ling told Radio Free Asia on Thursday. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Lachlan_Murdoch_drops_defamation_suit_against Crikey⠀⇛ Lachlan Murdoch has withdrawn his defamation lawsuit against the publishers of online news site Crikey. The case was marked “discontinued/withdrawn” on the Federal Court website on Friday morning. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Lachlan_Murdoch_Drops_Libel_Suit_Against_Australian News_Site⠀⇛ His lawyer said the website, Crikey, intended to exploit the outcome of the Fox-Dominion defamation case in the U.S. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Lachlan_Murdoch_drops_defamation_suit_against_Aussie_website Crikey⠀⇛ Lachlan Murdoch has dropped his defamation_lawsuit against Australian news website Crikey, his lawyer confirmed in a statement Thursday. * ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ North_Carolina_Judge_Convicts_Journalists_Of ‘Trespassing’_While_Covering_Eviction_Of_Homeless_Encampment⠀⇛ * ⚓ CPJ ☛ Journalists_detained_and_attacked_in_Iraqi_Kurdistan⠀⇛ Iraqi Kurdistan authorities should immediately return equipment confiscated from the privately owned outlet Rast Media and ensure those who attacked a news crew for the local broadcaster KNN TV are held to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. * ⚓ CPJ ☛ ‘I_am_dying_every_day:’_Wife_of_killed_Pakistani_journalist Arshad_Sharif_calls_for_justice⠀⇛ Sharif had sought safety in Kenya after fleeing Pakistan in August 2022, following his ARY News interview with Shahbaz Gill, a close aide to former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was ousted from power in a parliamentary no-confidence vote in April 2022. Gill was arrested on charges of sedition for comments made about the army during the interview and ARY News channel was taken off the air. Earlier in the year, Sharif was named as one of several Pakistani journalists being investigated by authorities because of their journalistic work. * ⚓ CPJ ☛ Taliban_bans_Washington_Post_journalist_Susannah_George_from returning_to_Afghanistan⠀⇛ In a statement on Thursday, April 20, Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee said that George, the paper’s Islamabad- based Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief, was informed by the Taliban that she was barred from reporting from Afghanistan. The statement said her last reporting trip to Afghanistan was in November 2021. “The Taliban must immediately allow Washington Post journalist Susannah George to return to Afghanistan and continue her vital reporting,” said CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Beh Lih Yi. “It is absurd to ban journalists for simply reporting the news. The Taliban must stop cracking down on journalism and finally allow members of the media to work freely.” § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ RFERL ☛ New_Caucus_In_U.S._Congress_Condemns_Poisoning_Of_Iranian Girls⠀⇛ A new bipartisan caucus in the U.S. Congress is condemning the Iranian government over the recent poisoning of schoolgirls in the country, amplifying the growing criticism in Washington against the Islamic republic and its disregard for human rights. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Hun_Sen_blasts_‘lazy’_ministers_who_don’t_respond_to_his messages⠀⇛ Information minister criticized for a recent sexist Facebook post. * ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Humanizing_research,_UROP_empowers_young_academics⠀⇛ About 1,300 mentors and mentees presented their projects April 19 at this year’s UROP symposium, “Humanizing Research: The Quest for Authentic Action.” * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Is_this_the_end_of_affirmative_action?_If_so,_what_comes next?⠀⇛ The Supreme Court appears poised to end affirmative action in college admissions by the end of June. What will that mean for students and their families? * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders_Blasts_Corporations_‘Spending_Millions’_to Defeat_Worker_Champion_Julie_Su⠀⇛ Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday used his opening remarks at Julie Su’s confirmation hearing to slam the corporate-led campaign against the labor secretary nominee, characterizing it as a desperate effort to tank a public official who is “prepared to take on powerful special interests and stand up for the needs of the working class of this country.” * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Movement_to_‘Stop_Cop_City’_Is_a_Movement_for Climate_and_Social_Justice⠀⇛ Along the South River, in the southwest corner of DeKalb County, Georgia, lies a forested area of about 300 acres that has been owned by the nearby City of Atlanta for over a century. It was once part of a vastly larger wooded landscape, home to the Muskogee (Creek) people. They gave the river and forest the name “Weelaunee.” * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Obliterates_the_Police_Narrative’:_Autopsy_Shows Forest_Defender_Killed_by_Cops_Never_Fired_Weapon⠀⇛ Progressives expressed disgust Wednesday after DeKalb County released an autopsy showing that cops shot Atlanta forest defender Manuel Esteban Paez Terán 57 times and that there was no gunpowder residue on the victim’s hands—debunking the government’s claim Terán fired first. * ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Meet_the_Abortion_Provider_Whose_Wyoming_Clinic_Was Firebombed_&_Who_Worked_with_Slain_Dr._George_Tiller⠀⇛ As the Supreme Court weighs whether to keep mifepristone available nationwide, we speak with Julie Burkhart, who is on the frontlines of the fight for reproductive justice. Burkhart is president of Wellspring Health Access, the only full-service abortion clinic in Wyoming, that was firebombed by an anti- abortion activist last year, as well as co-owner of Hope Clinic in Granite City, Illinois. Burkhart previously worked for eight years with Dr. George Tiller before his assassination in 2009. She describes the difficulties of providing abortion services in two states with different political and legal landscapes. “People in every part of this country deserve to have access to reproductive healthcare and to make their own decisions and determinations about their bodies,” says Burkhart. We also continue our conversation with law professor Michele Goodwin. * ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “A_New_Jane_Crow”:_Abortion_Advocates_Brace_for_Supreme Court_Ruling_That_Could_Ban_Mifepristone⠀⇛ As the abortion pill mifepristone remains available for at least another two days after a delayed U.S. Supreme Court ruling, we discuss the case with law professor Michele Goodwin. She notes the push to force more people to give birth is taking place against a backdrop of poor maternal health outcomes. “The United States is the deadliest place in all of the industrialized world to be pregnant,” says Goodwin, who notes that people are 14 times more likely to die from carrying a pregnancy to term than from abortion. * ⚓ EFF ☛ The_EARN_IT_Bill_Is_Back,_Seeking_To_Scan_Our_Messages_and Photos⠀⇛ So it’s dismaying to see a group of U.S. Senators attempting for a third time to pass the EARN IT Act (S. 1207)—a law that could lead to suspicionless scans of every online message, photo, and hosted file. In the name of fighting crime, the EARN IT Act treats all internet users like we should be in a permanent criminal lineup, under suspicion for child abuse.  * ⚓ NBC ☛ Widow_of_man_who_died_in_custody_of_deputies_in_Oklahoma_county where_officials_talked_about_lynching_Black_people_sues_sheriff⠀⇛ A Tulsa woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit against officials in McCurtain County — the Oklahoma county where local leaders were caught on audio wishing they could still lynch Black people — saying her husband died last year from excessive force in the custody of sheriff’s deputies. Barbara Barrick, the wife of the late Bobby Barrick, said at a news conference Thursday morning, “It’s been a hard year not knowing what happened to my husband.” * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_Islamic_Republic_is_mobilizing_all_its_forces against_unveiled_Iranian_women,_but_they’re_pushing_back⠀⇛ Despite all these brutal actions by the clerical establishment, many Iranian women are taking a prominent role at the forefront of the non-violent opposition to the gender apartheid system in Iran by defying the mandatory hijab. § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ * ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Commends_FCC_Action_To_Promote_New Wireless_Technologies⠀⇛ Agency moves to ensure both incumbents and new service providers share the responsibility of mitigating interference. * ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Unfortunately,_you_can’t_escape_Zim’s_high_data_prices_by roaming_on_South_African_lines⠀⇛ Yesterday we talked about Econet hiking tariffs. It was to be expected but the fact remains, local tariffs are too high, contrary to what the mobile operators say. When we look at data prices especially, we find that we are paying tooth and nail for our data in Zimbabwe. * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Study:_Universal_Broadband_Will_Cost_$230_Billion,_Way_More Than_The_U.S._Is_Investing⠀⇛ We’ve long noted how entrenched broadband providers have historically refused to upgrade areas that don’t deliver immediate, favorable returns (quite often poor, minority, and low income neighborhoods). That, combined with a monopoly assault on competition and regulatory oversight in most markets, has left the U.S. with patchy, substandard broadband networks we’re still struggling to track the full impact of. * ⚓ APNIC ☛ The_Internet_twenty-five_years_later⠀⇛ The Internet is not quite as young and spritely as you might’ve thought. Apple’s iPhone, released in 2007, is now 16 years old, and YouTube is an ageing teenager at 18 after its initial release in 2005. These two examples are relatively recent additions to the Internet. The first web browser, Mosaic, was released some thirty years ago in 1993. Going back further, the Internet emerged from its early ARPA roots in the form of NSFNET in 1986. At the start of 1983, ARPANET had a flag day and switched over to using TCP as its end-to-end transport protocol. Going back further, in 1974 Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn published the first academic paper describing both the protocol and the underlying architectural framework of a packet-switched network that became the Internet. * ⚓ ChiselStrike ☛ Vercel_benchmarks_show_Turso_has_low_latencies everywhere:_what_the_Data_Edge_is_good_for!⠀⇛ It’s true: the internet “feels faster” once you step in the US. And it’s also true that Edge compute helps to make this better. But the moment you need to provide a dynamic experience, things get muddier. Likely your database is somewhere in the US, so fetching data from it will add a considerable amount of latency. § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ New_Colorado_Bill_Protects_Farmers’_‘Right_To_Repair’⠀⇛ Starting next year, Colorado farmers will have a much easier time repairing their equipment thanks to a new state law protecting their “right to repair.” * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Bethesda_Does_Denuvo_Backwards:_Puts_The_DRM_On_Game Released_A_Year_Ago⠀⇛ It’s been quite some time since we’ve talked about Denuvo and its once-vaunted anti-piracy DRM for video games. If I’m being totally honest, I had thought that part of the company’s business was simply gone, so poorly did the DRM perform. By the end, cracking groups were getting around Denuvo-protected games in days, sometimes a single day, and even sometimes in a matter of hours. If a DRM can be defeated in hours, what’s the point of it? § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_US-EU_Trade_and_Technology_Council:_Assessing the_record_on_data_and_technology_issues⠀⇛ The TTC must keep its forward-looking gaze, but also take steps to address challenging regulatory issues, either by oversight or direct discussion, or it will lose the essential support among stakeholders that can keep US engagement in the TTC alive. * § Trademarks⠀➾ o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ In_re_Charger_Ventures:_Federal Circuit_Affirms_TTAB_Denial_of_Trademark_Registration⠀⇛ In re Charger Ventures, — F.4th. —, 22-1094 (Fed. Cir. 2023) In this trademark case, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) denying registration of the mark SPARK LIVING for residential real estate, based upon the prior registration of SPARK for commercial real estate. The prior registration is tied to Spark Co-working spaces that started in Baltimore and have now expanded to several other cities. * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Drake_Hit_with_$10_Million_Copyright Infringement_Lawsuit_Over_‘Calling_My_Name’⠀⇛ Ghanaian rapper Obrafour is suing Drake for $10 million for sampling his 2003 track ‘Oye Ohene’ for the song ‘Calling My Name’ without permission. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ When_You_Buy_a_Book,_You_Can_Loan_It_to_Anyone._This Judge_Says_Libraries_Can’t._Why_Not?⠀⇛ Late last month a federal court ruled against the Internet Archive (IA) and its controlled digital lending (CDL) program. IA has 30 days from the district court’s judgment to file notice of appeal, and it has stated its intent to do so. At issue was whether a library could legally digitize the books it already owned and lend the digital copies in place of the print. The IA maintained that it could, as long as it lent only the same number of copies it owned and locked down the digital copies so that a borrower could not copy or redistribute them. It would be doing what libraries had always done, lend books—just in a different format. The publishers, on the other hand, asserted that CDL infringed on authors’ copyrights, making unauthorized copies and sharing these with libraries and borrowers, thereby depriving the authors and publishers of rightful e-book sales. They viewed CDL as piracy. o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Operation_Anime:_Full_Scale_of_Anti-Piracy Crackdown_Revealed_in_Japan⠀⇛ When Brazil’s Ministry of Justice announced in February that two of the largest anime piracy sites in the country had been “taken down,” we suspected there might be more to it than ‘just’ that. We can now confirm that this wave of ‘Operation Anime’ was led by anti-piracy group CODA and involved several police operations, plus “knock-and- talks” at pirates’ homes. In total, 31 sites were shut down and another five threw in the towel. o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ YouTube_Ripper_Sends_Cease_and_Desist_to_Google, Hoping_to_Stop_DMCA_Abuse⠀⇛ YTMP3.nu has sent a cease and desist notice to Google, urging it to prevent DMCA takedown abuse. The YouTube ripper believes its competitors are sending false and fraudulent takedown claims. To curb this abuse, it’s suggested that Google should begin verifying takedown senders. In addition, YTMP3.nu requests a litigation hold in anticipation of future legal action. o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Nintendo’s_War_With_1Fichier_is_Not_Over_–_But Could_Be_For_$0.00⠀⇛ This week Nintendo celebrated victory over French file- hosting service 1fichier.com. The story seemed straightforward; 1fichier refused to take pirated content down so the court found it liable for €442K in damages. With 1fichier set to file an appeal, TorrentFreak is informed that Nintendo had been offered tools to instantly take down all pirated content at zero cost. Instead, disagreement on the basics of valid takedown notices continues to fuel the dispute. § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ I_don’t_understand_social_media⠀⇛ I’ve never had an account on Twitter, but had one on Facebook long time ago. Instead, I’ve had a Mastodon account. Twice. And deleted it twice too. The idea of social media just doesn’t sit well with me. What is a difference between a social media account and a blog/Gopher hole/Gemini capsule (I’ll call it “own space” in rest of this post)? If I want to post something, I can post it on my own space. If I want to get notified when someone post something on their space, there are RSS/Atom and other solutions. o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ASGNORD_Wordo:_PARTY⠀⇛ o ⚓ Layoffs_at_work.⠀⇛ They had a round of layoffs today at work. It made me sad. I am still gainfully employed but it doesn’t make it easy. It takes me back to when I was laid off in September of 2020. Some of those feelings from before are coming back again. It does not seem fair and the reason seems understandable…money, as usual. But it does not seem right. My boss was one of those that were let go. I feel badly for him and his family. I experienced the same thing and can imagine what he is going through. When I lost my job of 17 years, I went through some rough times. I kept trying to make sense of, find some kind of reason as to why I was laid off. I could not find any. Even now, I still don’t know. I even asked and there wasn’t anything they could tell me. Sometimes I still wonder. It all just seemed so cold and impersonal, especially since I was told in a video conference meeting and I had put so much time, effort, and loyalty into my work. * § Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ What’s_up_Willow?!⠀⇛ Only a few years ago, Corporate America at least took a stand, albeit performatively and superficially, when politicians of certain states enacted legislation that was homophobic, transphobic, or misogynist. Now AB InBev is apologetic and defensive over its Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light campaign. No corporations are boycotting Missouri, Florida, Texas, or Montana these days. Corporate America has capitulated to the fascists, no longer even pretending to care (although, Walt Disney & Co. seems to have a spine still). Neither are Democratic governors and mayors of the West Coast threatening boycotts and official travel bans these days. I have not in fact heard much from the likes of Jay Inslee, Tina Kotek, and Gavin Newsom in reaction to the recent waves of hate-based legislation in the red states. o ⚓ Democracy_—_or_Lack_Thereof_—_in_the_USA⠀⇛ When republicans whine that the US is a republic not a democracy, they aren’t completely wrong. It is both, actually: a republic and a representative democracy. It is more of a republic than any sort of democracy, though. The US Constitution isn’t a democratic document. It establishes several powerful institutions of government to thwart the will of the people. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ Thoughts_on_AI_and_AI-veganism⠀⇛ I’ve come to think LLMs/GPTs/whatever are a threat to conventional search engines because the modern web is an unbelievably annoying dumpster fire. They don’t really provide better or faster answers, what they provide is an experience that is not a complete pain in the ass. This frog has been simmering for a long while now and we’re so used to it that seeing literally anything else seems revolutionary. o ⚓ Storn⠀⇛ Recently it has been too expensive to save it all. /usr/ bin on unix came about because a disk ran out of space, so more binaries had to be placed on the user (usr) drive, and the user space got moved to /home. Or something like that. And that was at AT&T, which had mountains of monopoly money to spend. The problem here is that storing information costs energy; once storn, there are additional costs to maintain that information over time. Even if there are no or few ongoing costs–maybe the government is being nice, and does not tax your land–the storage medium and interfaces will degrade. I once found some tape drives optimistically labeled “40 year backup”. There was already no tape drive available to read them with. Who knows if those tapes were still good o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Stories_of_life⠀⇛ Gopher is interesting, like so many other public or semi-public or seemingly-public spaces. People write about whatever they want. Some choose technical topics, others political. It makes sense, and it’s wild-westish, and I like it. I really enjoy the stories I find, about the lives people live. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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