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http://techrights.org/2023/05/06/calm-before-the-storm/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/05/06/calm-before-the-storm/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ What_We’ve_Heard_Since_December:_The_Biggest_Microsoft_Layoffs_Will_be Starting_This_Summer⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft, Rumour at 5:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 10_hours_ago: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Biggest_cuts_are_yet_to_come._Next_round_will_be_soon_and more_than_prior._Hold_onto_your_butts⦈_ Summary: With deep_staff_cuts happening in Azure and Microsoft_itself questioning_the_future_of_Xbox (both already had many layoffs_this_year), one is left wondering how many rumours like the above it takes to simply reckon that some people high up at Microsoft know “too much”; this morning I heard about a Microsoft manager who is dumping his shares (he lost faith in the company) and I keep hearing about many layoffs coming in July (the commonality in 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Local_copy | CID (IPFS): QmUrfvwG6HwDJEu2RhtmCfm4VrFypj9mxDAqLWcvJnTgHo ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 253 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/05/06/xbox-sales-really-bad/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/05/06/xbox-sales-really-bad/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Why_Microsoft_Was_Trying_to_Buy_Activision_and_‘Look_Big’_in_2022_(XBox_Was Failing,_XBox_as_a_Whole_Might_Die_Soon)⠀✐ Posted in DRM, Hardware at 9:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz XBox is far from the top, as shown below, and sales of XBox have collapsed in recent years (Microsoft keeps the recent numbers secret because it’s embarrassing) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇XBox_sales_really_bad⦈_ Summary: There have been several speculations online lately (we’ve also cited several) that XBox would be shut down if it carried on along the present trajectory; it also looks like the record-breaking takeover bid (Activision) was a last-ditch_effort at comeback through exclusives (Microsoft fell_way behind_in_this_regard) Further to this_previous_post and some recent Daily Links [1, 2], we’ve decided to belatedly study publicly-available data and charts, seeking to figure out what led to articles such as this one: (not the only such article so far this month) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Is_Xbox_Shutting_Down_in_2023?⦈_ We can now better understand this. Comparing 2023, 2022, and 2021, it becomes apparent that the Microsoft’s_XBox business reached somewhat of a standstill (layoffs had already begun as the debt-saddled_Microsoft must reduce expenses). It wasn’t_this_bad_half_a_decade ago, but contrary to what Microsoft lobbyists like Florian_Müller focus on, we need to explore what happened to XBox, where many chiefs resigned last month in quick succession (they know how bad things really are; this is a matter of public record, not speculation). In 2021 Microsoft’s_sales_of_consoles completely_collapsed. “When Microsoft refuses to reveal some numbers (e.g. number of active users of WSL) it always means the numbers are appalling and outright embarrassing.”“If Wikipedia can be considered even remotely accurate,” an associate noted, it does not look particularly good. “Jan 18, 2022 was when they made their bid for Activision,” the associate added, quoting this_recent_article (“PlayStation has 80% of the European video games market – 70% worldwide”) from the British media, Metro News. Here is the key part: Given Microsoft refuses to release sales figures for the Xbox its impossible to verify these percentages… And “there it is,” the associate said, “the XBox is a failure.” When Microsoft refuses to reveal some numbers (e.g. number_of_active_users_of WSL) it always means the numbers are appalling and outright embarrassing. “Nintendo’s stats are hidden too,” the associate said, citing this_article: It should also be noted that this already impressive figure does not take into account Nintendo game sales, as the publisher has always been weirdly prudish when it comes to revealing its own bottom line. Microsoft’s gaming ambitions seem to be on their deathbed. No wonder Bill Gates-funded media (e.g. BBC) was lobbying against UK/CMA, basically giving a platform to “furious” executives who issue threats and try to blackmail Britain (via Gates-bribed outlets and the above-mentioned lobbyists). “DRM issues set aside, “Linux” might be a big part of the console market in the future.”“Xbox was only ever a testbed for DRM on commodity hardware and was never meant to turn an individual profit,” the associate concluded, “though Microsoft would have wished for that benefit too.” “Furthermore there some kind of “Steam” console on the market, too, also beating the Xbox.” It runs Arch Linux with KDE. It’s the Steam Deck. DRM issues set_aside, “Linux” might be a big part of the console market in the future. Today’s games are mostly proprietary, many are cross-platform (unlike a couple of decades back), “but again,” the associate added, “the XBox was never about games but instead about working out DRM on the standard PC commodity hardware for later infection in the main OS.” This was said here many times before, for over a decade already [1, 2, 3, 4]. █ ⣿⣿⢻⣿⢛⠿⠿⢻⠿⠿⡿⢿⡿⠿⢿⠻⠿⠿⣿⠿⡟⣿⡿⣿⠿⡿⢿⠿⣿⠿⡿⢿⠿⠿⠿⢿⡿⡿⢿⠿⡿⠿⠿⢻⠿⡿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⡿⢿⡿⡿⠻⠟⠿⢿⡿⠿⢿⡿⢿⢛⡟⣿⢿⡿⣿⣟⢻⡛⣟⢛⡛⣿ ⣿⣿⣬⣿⣼⣤⣯⣼⣼⣧⣦⣼⣧⣤⣼⣤⣤⣤⣿⣭⣧⣿⣴⣿⣬⣧⣴⣥⣿⣀⣧⣼⣧⣧⣦⣼⣮⣧⣽⣼⣧⣴⣥⣼⣤⣧⣾⣦⣶⣮⣤⣧⣧⣽⣴⣼⣴⣥⣦⣼⣧⣬⣼⣧⣵⣼⣇⣯⣼⣗⣼⣧⣼⣥⣥⣭⣬⣿ ⣿⣿⣋⠛⡿⣛⢋⠙⠛⡻⣻⣟⠿⣻⣙⢻⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢯⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡏⢹⣶⣶⣶ ⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡛⣿⡇⠁⢸⣿⡧⠬ ⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⣉⣉⣉⣩⣿⣩⣉⣹⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣟⣉⣯⣿⣿⣿⡇⠛⠛⠛⠃⠀⢸⣿⠀⢠ ⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠃⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⠟⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⠀⢸ 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Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Sony_Won_the_Console_Wars_a_Long_Time_Ago⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Hardware, Microsoft at 7:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz This is what_it_looks_like_based_on_Web_access (not the best metric, but one Microsoft would rather hide): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Console_Operating_System_Market_Share_Worldwide_Feb_2022_- May_2023:_XBox_share_very_low⦈_ Summary: XBox_has_given_Microsoft_monumental_losses and with the Activision deal falling through we can expect many more XBox layoffs (there were plenty such_layoffs_so_far_this_year) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢋⣩⣍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢋⣭⡙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⡏⣴⣶⡜⡇⢰⣶⢸⣅⠲⢶⡏⣴⣶⠸⡇⣿⠀⠒⠈⣿⣿⡁⣿⣿⣿⢘⡇⣶⣦⢸⠇⠒⠂⢻⢠⣶⡷⠖⠂⣷⢰⣾⠀⡇⣴⣶⢸⡇⠶⠆⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣌⣛⣛⣧⣘⣛⣱⣇⣸⣿⣸⣛⣛⣠⣧⣙⣛⣼⣇⣿⣌⣛⣛⣿⣿⣧⣙⣛⣃⣼⡇⣙⣋⣼⣇⣛⣛⣿⣸⣿⣄⣛⣁⣿⣘⣻⣀⣇⣿⣿⣸⠇⣒⣛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣦⣭⣥⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Gemini_Links_06/05/2023:_Personal_Posts_and_an_Extended_Downtime⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:35 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ On_the_count_of_three⠀⇛ Way too hungover again. Wife rejection in bed last night. Nobody replying online. My wife signed us up for too much activity in the next 24 hours. Others’ verbiage is looking all the same. Nothing intriguing. [...] And again in the labor of enduring others. # ⚓ The_thoughts_come_marching_two_by_two⠀⇛ Real-izing (yes, making real) it was all just thoughts believed (yes, a name for a (the?) mechanism of making real) to be (see? “to be” – aka to be real..) another thought that calls itself “I” despite being merely another thought – albeit the thought around which all the others revolve, i.e. are with respect to, i.e. are in terms of. By the way, the previous is – in part – an instance of practicing getting out of jury duty. The current theory is a glassy-eyed ramble that only people who love coding in Lisp could parse might do the trick. # ⚓ “The_Obstacle_is_the_Way”_book_notes⠀⇛ The obstacle in your path can become your path to success. Instead of being paralyzed by challenges, see them as opportunities to learn and grow. Remember, the things that hurt us often instruct us. We spend a lot of time trying to get things perfect and look at the rules, but what matters is that it works; it doesn’t need to be after the book. Focus on results rather than on beautiful methods. In Jujitsu, it does matter that you bring your opponent down, but not how. There are many ways from point A to point B; it doesn’t need to be a straight line. So many try to find the best solution but need to catch up on what is in Infront of them. Think progress and not perfection. # ⚓ Odds-and-Ends_Photos_2023-05-06_(Fairbanks,_AK,_USA)⠀⇛ Here are a photos from the last few weeks, which didn’t make it into other posts. # ⚓ I_think_I’m_paranoid⠀⇛ For all its faults, one neat thing about Watchmen that stuck with me is how the ads change in the end, from Nostalgia to some future optimistic campaign. I think there’s a lot of truth to that. Not in optimism, but how coldheartedly the money follows fads. # ⚓ Low_Carb_Cooking⠀⇛ Recently I’ve gotten a new gust of wind in my sails and I have been trying to lose some weight. For the past couple years I’ve been primarily focusing on increasing my exercise level to burn fat, which to a certain extent has worked, but I always still had a layer of fat on my belly that I could never burn through. It certainly decreased in size whenever I got back into the routine of working out, but never got to the level where I’d be truly happy to be shirtless in public. Part of the problem is that I would justify eating worse foods, saying that I’ll just have to work extra hard the next day, a promise I didn’t always keep. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Trying_to_use_a_QWERTY_Nokia_Series_40_for_email_and_SSH⠀⇛ I have already been a user of a Blackberry Classic / Q20 for a year. I described some of my experiences about it in wiki page on my wiki. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Extended_Downtime⠀⇛ Rob’s Gemini Capsule was offline for a full week, from Friday to Friday. The downtime also caused my contact e-mail address to fail, resulting in bounced messages. We moved to a house in a different city over the weekend, which necessitated us signing up with a new ISP. Our previous ISP gave us a static public IP address by default that resolved directly to our home router, so setting up self-hosting services was trivial. Our new ISP requires a business-level account to receive a static IP address, and they charge an extra fee to bridge that public IP directly to our home router. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 745 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_06/05/2023:_Microsoft_Executive_Admits_Losing_the_Console_Wars⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:41 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Privatisation/Privateering o Security # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Collabora ☛ Introducing_Multiview_for_NVK⠀⇛ NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware that is part of Mesa, now supports the Vulkan extension VK_KHR_multiview. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_10_Best_Free_Photo_Management,_Organizer, and_Gallery_Apps_for_Linux⠀⇛ Your digital footprint is constantly expanding as you’re using photos everywhere, from social media posts to your recent purchase receipts. Keeping track of all these images can be hectic if you rely on just the file management apps. Luckily, a lot of powerful photo management, organizer, and gallery apps are available for Linux to help you better organize and manage your photos. These apps can save you time and effort, especially when dealing with a large photo collection. Let’s look at some of the best free photo management apps for Linux. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 8_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Terminal-Based Internet_Radio_Apps⠀⇛ Internet radio (also known as web radio, net radio, streaming radio, and online radio) is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet. Why do we like internet radio? There are no sign-up or subscription charges. There’s a huge range of stations available from around the world. If you like classical music, pop music, folk music, news, talk radio, and much more, internet radio has something for everyone wherever you live (providing you have a net connection). Internet radio offers every format that is available on traditional broadcast radio stations. There’s a wide range of free and open source software that lets you listen to internet radio. With so many different possibilities available it’s easy to get lost trying to find the right one for you. This article recommends our favourite terminal- based internet radio apps. We only include free and open source software. If you’re looking for software with a GUI, check out this separate article. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Everything_Essential_About_the_tmp Directory_in_Linux⠀⇛ If you have been using Linux for a while, you must have come across the /tmp directory. # ⚓ Warp ☛ The_data_structure_behind_terminals⠀⇛ Grids – two-dimensional arrays of characters – are the universal building blocks of terminals. The basic operations we expect from our terminals – entering a command, receiving output, scrolling through a file – are, at their core, operations on grids. This piece is an attempt at explaining the terminal from the bottom up, starting from the grid. The goal is to spell out some of the not-so- obvious performance calculus behind terminal grids: what are the operations being optimized and at what cost? # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Some_early_praise_for_using_drgn for_poking_into_Linux_kernel_internals⠀⇛ I used drgn on an Ubuntu 22.04 test NFS server, by creating a Python 3 venv, installing drgn into the venv, and then running it from there (after installing the necessary kernel debugging information from Ubuntu); this worked fine and ‘drgn’ gave me a nice interactive Python environment where with minimal knowledge of drgn itself I could poke around the kernel. Specifically, I could poke into the various data structures maintained by the kernel NFS NLM system, with the goal of being able to see which NFS client owned each NFS lock on the server (or in this case, a lock, since it was a test server and I established only a single lock to it for simplicity). # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Flock()_and_fcntl()_file_locks_and Linux_NFS_(v3)⠀⇛ Unix broadly and Linux specifically has long had three functions that can do file locks, flock(), fcntl(), and lockf(). The latter two are collectively known as ‘POSIX’ file locks because they appear in the POSIX specification (and on Linux lockf() is just a layer over fcntl()), while flock() is a separate thing with somewhat different semantics (cf), as it originated in BSD Unix. In / proc/locks, flock() locks are type ‘FLOCK’ and fcntl()/lockf() locks are type ‘POSIX’, and you can see both on a local system. # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Build_your_own_private_WireGuard_VPN_with PiVPN⠀⇛ I am frequently away from home (whether on family vacation, a business trip, or out around town), but I have a number of important resources on my home network—as any homelabber does. There are services I like to access remotely like my NAS with my giant media library, my edit server with all my active projects, and especially Home Assistant, which lets me monitor all aspects of my home. Some people rely on individual cloud services from IoT vendors and have a bunch of apps to connect to each type of device independently. As someone who has dealt with numerous security breaches for numerous services, I know not to trust 50 different cloud-connected devices in my home. That’s why I’m a ‘self-hosted’ homelabber, and why I try to find devices that don’t leave my local network. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Cartridges_is_another_Linux_game_launcher and_it’s_super-clean⠀⇛ If there’s one thing we’re not short on, it’s launchers. There’s some kind of launcher for everything including Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Bottles and more. Now there’s also Cartridges. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Typing_Tempo_challenges_you_in_a_41-key typing_rhythm_game⠀⇛ If you enjoy rhythm games and think you’re a master typist, you may want to take a little look over at the new release of Typing Tempo. Giving you 41 keys worth of button-mashing, you likely don’t need an introduction to rhythm games. You hit the correct key at the right time to progress through each track. Looks like it can get pretty challenging in the harder modes too. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GOG_reveal_some_stats_on_how_they’re doing⠀⇛ Game store GOG has a new blog post up detailing how they’re doing, and it seems like things are starting to go a bit better for them. Back in 2021, I reported on how in the CD PROJEKT financials, it showed that GOG was losing money, so it seems they may be starting to turn things around a little bit. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Dead_by_Daylight_now_works_on_Linux_desktop and_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ Some potentially great news for Dead by Daylight fans, as it seems Behaviour Interactive have finally made the switch with their anti-cheat to allow Steam Deck and Linux desktop players in. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_to_mentor_3_students_in_Google_Summer_of_Code 2023⠀⇛ For many years now, Haiku is a regular participant in the Google Summer of Code program, which offers paid mentorship to people willing to work full time on Haiku for a few months. Google handles the payments, while mentors from our developer team handle the onboarding of the new contributors and guide them through the project. o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ GSoC_2023⠀⇛ This year, Haiku, Inc submitted an application in a wide scope. It includes project ideas from Haiku (the core operating system), but also from several related projects. This is the case for some “umbrella organizations” in GSoC for several years already, and allows smaller projects to get their share of students as well. In the case of Haiku, the core system is getting mature, and there is now space for projects working on various applications. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Flathub’s_Latest_Feature:_Exclude_Non-Free_Apps in_Searches⠀⇛ Flathub has gained popularity among Linux users as a one-stop shop for searching, installing, and updating Flatpak apps, offering over 2,000 apps from over 1,500 collaborators. As our media informed you recently, the platform started a wholly revamped version with new features such as a more pleasant way to navigate and find out apps, verified apps, and more comprehensive app information. But now Flathub has gone a step further, allowing filtering in the search results of non-free apps. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_NFS_Server_and_Client_on AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛ NFS can be installed and configured easily on most Linux systems for both NFS Server and Client. Almost every Linux distribution provides NFS packages by default on their repository. The package name is different, but the configuration is still the same for almost Linux distributions. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Sustainable_supply_chains:_challenges, drivers_and_architectures⠀⇛ A common definition of environmental sustainability is meeting the resource and services needs of current and future generations without compromising the health of the ecosystems that provide them. In addition to ongoing discussions around government regulation, investors and asset managers are increasingly demanding carbon disclosure from their portfolio companies. Investment in environmental funds is soaring—with some reports pegging it at over $40 trillion. Even though specific actions taken by businesses are arguably still limited in overall impact, it’s nonetheless an increasingly prominent part of vendor, partner and customer discussions. # ⚓ Jesse Sandberg ☛ FreeIPA_pki-tomcatd_Service:_STOPPED⠀⇛ After an update in March a small bug swam under my radar until the moment I had to get rid of a host in FreeIPA and Web UI just gave an internal server error 500 on delete command. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ The_power_of_GitOps:_a_comprehensive framework_for_modern_IT_operations [Ed: Puff piece, paid for as usual, for Red Hat to later to reference like "press". "Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE." Yeah right.]⠀⇛ Hernandez and Harriet Lawrence (left), principal product manager at Red Hat, spoke with theCUBE guest analysts Rob Strechay and Joep Piscaer at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how GitOps is taking shape as an ideal operational framework. (* Disclosure below.) # ⚓ Local_Agencies_Can_Improve_Citizen_Services_with_Edge Computing⠀⇛ For years, most data processing has happened in a centralized location, such as a data center or the cloud. These “towers” have traditionally been the only locations capable of providing the processing power needed to generate actionable intelligence serving the employees and citizens in satellite offices, or the “trenches.” # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ The_future_of_Red_Hat_security_data⠀⇛ Red Hat security data is a central source of truth for Red Hat products regarding published, known vulnerabilities. The availability of accurate information in security data can help provide the correct risk assessment process in customers’ vulnerability management programs, which further helps with vulnerability patching prioritization. We work diligently to continuously improve our security data by adding more information to the existing data, introducing new data formats and cooperating with other vendors, including security scanner vendors, regarding the general approach to security data exchange. With new software flaws, vulnerabilities (assigned with CVE IDs) and exploits published daily, vulnerability information is almost immediately available to everyone, including customers and potential attackers. Based on various risk reports, including the recently published Red Hat Product Security risk report 2022, the volume of vulnerabilities with an assigned CVE ID grew 25% year-to-year from 2021 to 2022. Considering these numbers, it becomes evident that the “fixing everything” approach is unrealistic, primarily since just over 4% of published vulnerabilities represent a real risk to organizations. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Re:Role_|_The_Developer_Advocate_And_The Exchange⠀⇛ There are a lot of ways to get the word out about your product. But the tech industry needs something more. Building a community where users and developers can talk to you, ask questions, and provide suggestions—that doesn’t happen on its own. Developer advocates do the hard work of nurturing communities, doing a lot of showing and telling. And when that community starts talking to each other, and brings new people in on their own? That’s the dream. The company, its business activities and its employees depicted in this podcast are fictional and are not intended to represent or depict any current or former business organization or any individuals living or dead. Any resemblance to any individual or organization is purely coincidental. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $60_M5Stack_CoreS3_ESP32-S3_IoT_controller comes_with_2-inch_display,_VGA_camera,_multiple_sensors⠀⇛ M5Stack CoreS3 is a battery-powered ESP32-S3 IoT controller with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, a 2-inch touchscreen display, a 0.3MP camera, a microSD card slot for storage, several sensors, plenty of I/Os, a USB Type-C OTG port, as well as a 9V to 24V DC input port. That’s the second ESP32-S3 IoT controller from M5Stack we’ve seen this year, as the CoreS3 follows the smaller M5Stack AtomS3 with a 0.85-inch display, only a few I/Os, and fewer features overall although it does come with an IR transmitter that’s missing from the larger CoreS3. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Holograms_Display_Time_With_ESP32⠀⇛ Holograms and holographic imagery are typically viewed within the frame of science fiction, with perhaps the most iconic examples being Princess Leia’s message to Obi-Wan in Star Wars, or the holodecks from Star Trek. In reality, holograms have been around for a surprising amount of time, with early holographic images being produced in the late 1940s. There are plenty of uses outside of imagery for modern holographic systems as well, and it’s a common enough technology that it’s possible to construct one using an ESP32 as well. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_217:_The_Unintentional_Space And_3D_Printing_Episode⠀⇛ Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi definitely didn’t plan on devoting most of this episode to 3D printing and space stories, but let’s be honest, it was bound to happen sooner or later. After an update on the Hackaday Prize, the discussion moves on to a pair of troubled spacecraft and the challenges of exploring the final frontier. From there you’ll hear about a chocolate 3D printer we’ve had our eyes on for years, the tools you should have next to your own (non-chocolate) 3D printer, and a bit of contemplation of what it really means to design for 3D printing versus traditional manufacturing methods. But it’s not all plastic fantastic — by the end of the episode you’ll also hear about some particularly bold high-altitude aviators and the surprisingly short time we have left with the humble barcode. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ Android_14:_5_biggest_features_we_expect_at Google_I/O_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung’s_Android_14_(One_UI_6)_update_won’t kill_background_apps_aggressively_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Express ☛ Nokia_is_back_with_new_Android_phone_that’s_going to_be_tough_to_beat_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_and_Samsung_partner_to_fix_one_of Android’s_biggest_annoyances⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ What_Google_I/O_needs_to_fix_most_about_Android is_its_reputation_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lifewire ☛ The_15_Best_Android_Auto_Apps_of_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 8_Best_Budget_Android_Phones_Under_$100⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ What_You_Need_To_Do_If_Your_Android_Phone_Gets Stuck_Updating⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Samsung_will_kill_background_apps_less_often in_Android_14⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_reveals_Android_phones_run_slower_if_you make_long_list_of_mistakes_–_check_your_settings_right_now_| The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Google_issues_‘severe’_warning_for_all_Android owners_–_act_fast_to_avoid_‘dozens’_of_dangerous_attacks_| The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Automotive_is_getting_Material Design⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PgBouncer_1.19.0_released⠀⇛ PgBouncer 1.19.0 has been released. This release contains several small new features and some important bug fixes. A new option auth_dbname and a new command SHOW STATE have been added, as well as additional facilities to manage cancel requests. A bug introduced in version 1.18.0 that affected a number of users has been fixed, so users of that version are especially encouraged to upgrade. See https://www.pgbouncer.org/2023/05/pgbouncer-1-19-0 for more information, the detailed changelog, and download links. PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ LibreOffice_7.5.3:_Coming_Soon_to_a Repository_Near_You⠀⇛ The folks at LibreOffice, the cross-platform free and open-source office productivity suite which I consider to be the best office productivity suite on the market, on Thursday announced the release of LibreOffice 7.5.3. While downloads are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS, Linux users will probably want to wait for the new version to show up in their distribution’s repository, which should happen within a couple of days with most distros. For most users, there’s no reason to hurry to upgrade for this one anyway, since this is primarily a bug-fix release. The exception here would be users who have to share documents with MS Office users. While LibreOffice has had the ability to open and save documents in Microsoft’s largely closed format going back 20 years or so when it was proprietary freeware called StarOffice, it’s been on a roll lately and has been rapidly improving its ability to deal with complex Office formatting. LibreOffice 7.5.3 is no exception. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Olimex ☛ AgonLight_Weekend_Programming_Challenge_–_ISSUE 2⠀⇛ The code must run on AgonLight. There are no restriction how you will code your solution: Assembler, Forth, C, BBC Basic, Turbo Pascal for CP/M any tool is possible. If your tool need special installation you should provide brief note how to do it so we can verify your solution. # ⚓ Evan Ovadia ☛ How_To_Survive_Your_Project’s_First_100,000 Lines⠀⇛ In 2021, I came across the same code. “That’s odd,” I said, “This really should be simpler,” and I started refactoring. Then I proceeded to run into that same wall. It was only then that I remembered my first attempt. This is why we leave comments! # ⚓ Chris James ☛ HTMX_is_the_Future⠀⇛ Five years ago, I wrote The Web I Want, where I bemoaned the spiralling costs of SPAs. It was originally prompted by watching my partner’s 2- year-old ChromeBook grind to a halt on a popular website that really could’ve been static HTML. In the article, I discussed how I wished more of the web stuck to the basic hypermedia approach, rendering HTML on the server and using progressive enhancement to improve the experience. Reading back on this has made me very relieved the likes of HTMX have arrived. # ⚓ Brad Taunt ☛ Stop_Using_Hamburger_Menus⠀⇛ The biggest headache when coming across these menus on the web is the complete disregard for accessibility. Performance and solid user experience is almost always thrown out the window in favour of a “prettier” design layout. You might have made the overall design “cleaner” for your users, but you sacrificed all usability to do so. I challenge you to visit a webpage or web app with a hamburger menu and try to navigate solely with your keyboard and screen-readers (or better yet – try these screen readers on mobile!). Within seconds you will find a whole mess of issues. Now try the same test with JavaScript disabled… Yikes. “But I Have No Choice!” I see this argument pop-up frequently when taking to design leaders or developers. I call bullshit on this excuse. You absolutely have the choice to avoid implementing bad designs – that’s your job! Either you’re not fighting hard enough against those pushing for it, or you’re just trying to build a “pretty” portfolio. # ⚓ Buttondown ☛ When_to_prefer_inheritance_to_composition⠀⇛ First of all, new blog post: Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now. AHK’s been a core part of my toolkit for years now and the new, backwards incompatible version is a whole lot better. But most of the article is about how much v1 sucked, which is more entertaining and more useful to non- AHKers. You think Javascript is bad? Javascript’s nothing compared to v1. I wanted to write a newsletter that was topical to the post, but none of my ideas really gelled, so instead here’s something else on my mind: when is OOP inheritance better than composition? I’ll assume you’ve all heard “prefer composition to inheritance”, which is generally good advice, and I’m interested in where the advice doesn’t apply. # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ CVE_as_JSON⠀⇛ It started as just a test to see if I could use the existing advisory data we have for all curl CVEs to date and provide that as JSON. Maybe, I thought, if we provide it good enough it can be used to populate other databases automatically or even get queried easier by tools. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Love_and_patience,_I_discover,_go_hand_in_paw⠀⇛ “I like to think I have an affinity for befriending animals. But Rocky was a difficult case,” our essayist writes o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Mean_Girls:_‘Cause_Haters_Always_Gonna_Hate⠀⇛ Amidst a national wave of frenzied assaults by right- wingers suddenly obsessed with the existential threat posed by trans people and their genitals, the saga of Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr played out with a bitter, petty coda that would’ve been ludicrous if it wasn’t so ugly. Barred from the House for truth-telling, Zephyr took to working on a bench outside the chamber – until some spiteful, smirking wives of GOP pols commandeered it to spend their days dutifully harassing someone who freaks them out. o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Reunited:_Stolen_art_goes_home,_and_why_lonely habitats_need_company⠀⇛ Progress roundup: New York’s Antiquities Traffic Unit returns hundreds of objects, the Amazon’s isolated habitats grow stronger when linked, and more. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ PSA:_If_You’re_Late_To_Work,_Try_Blaming_The_Pixies⠀⇛ I’m a weird guy, but you all knew that already. One of the ways in which I’m particularly weird is that I have not used any sort of an alarm clock in roughly 20 years (I’m in my 40s). For whatever reason, I can decide in my mind when I want to wake up and then it just sort of happens. All of which is to say that this story about an alarm clock app is largely foreign to me. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] The Atlantic ☛ The_Machine_Zone:_This_Is_Where_You_Go When_You_Just_Can’t_Stop_Looking_at_Pictures_on_Facebook⠀⇛ My own intuition is that this is not love. It’s something much more technologically specific that MIT anthropologist Natasha Schüll calls “the machine zone.” “It’s Not About Winning, It’s About Getting Into the Zone” Schüll spent more than a decade going to Las Vegas and talking with gamblers and casino operators about slot machines, which have exploded in profitability during the digital era as game designers have optimized them to keep people playing. What she discovered is that most people playing the machines aren’t there to make money. They know they’re not going to hit the jackpot and go home. As Roman Mars put it in a recent episode of his awesome podcast, 99% Invisible, on Schüll’s research: “It’s not about winning; it’s about getting into the zone.” # ⚓ [Old] Wired ☛ Go_With_The_Flow⠀⇛ According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, great Web sites are not about navigating content, but staging experience A compelling Web site transforms a random walk into an exhilarating chase. The key, says psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is a finely tuned sense of rhythm, involvement, and anticipation known as “flow.” Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced “CHICK-sent- me-high-ee”), a professor at the University of Chicago, has spent more than 25 years researching flow, a state of “intense emotional involvement” and timelessness that comes from immersive and challenging activities such as software coding or rock climbing. His work is studied by marketing specialists like Vanderbilt University’s Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak, who write that flow is “a central construct when considering consumer navigation on commercial Web sites.” In books like Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Csikszentmihalyi explores the implications of flow __ for personal and societal evolution. # ⚓ [Old] NPR ☛ Stuck_In_The_Machine_Zone:_Your_Sweet_Tooth_For ‘Candy_Crush’⠀⇛ If you have a smartphone — or if you’ve ever used the Internet — you’ve probably heard of Candy Crush Saga. It’s a mobile game in which you line up pieces of colorful candy in rows to score points. The game is simple, but addictive. Very addictive. # ⚓ [Old] The Guardian UK ☛ Social_media_copies_gambling methods_‘to_create_psychological_cravings’⠀⇛ Social media platforms are using the same techniques as gambling firms to create psychological dependencies and ingrain their products in the lives of their users, experts warn. These methods are so effective they can activate similar mechanisms as cocaine in the brain, create psychological cravings and even invoke “phantom calls and notifications” where users sense the buzz of a smartphone, even when it isn’t really there. # ⚓ Game Discover Co ☛ Where_does_the_drive_to_monetize ‘compulsion_loops’_in_games_end?⠀⇛ When I had a chance to talk to Dow Schüll recently, I was struck by how she also saw video games as potentially different to gambling. She highlighted the narrative nature of games, and told me that in contrast, “…the slot machine is pure repetition, pure death drive, if you want to put it in psychoanalytic terms. There’s no sort of symbolic dimensions and evolution of the self. It’s just doing the same thing over and over again without an end – without closure or destination.” It’s true – there is much more to video games than pressing a button, repeatedly, forever. But the idealized concept of the ‘flow state’ still exists in video games. And the question is what we do with players monetarily when in a flow state – especially in systemic games with leveling up and repetitive gameplay. # ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ It’s_time_we_treated_social_media platforms_like_Facebook_as_the_addiction_machines_they_really are⠀⇛ Most of us would be ashamed if we knew how much time we actually spent on social media every day. App monitoring firm App Annie revealed that the average person spends 4.8 hours on their phone every day, which makes up a third of our total waking hours. [...] Similarly, the “infinite scrolling” feature of apps like Facebook and TikTok means that the dopamine- releasing, short-form content never ends. At least cigarettes and alcohol run out. The same cannot be said of content on social media platforms. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists:_No,_The_Sun_Has_Not_Changed Color_(And_Stop_Staring_at_It)⠀⇛ That statement alone is enough to make you stop scrolling and consider going outside to look directly at the sun, which seems to be what she’d recommend. Down the thread, she reveals that she’s into “sun-gazing,” a practice that is exactly how it sounds and that she’s been practicing for at least two years, and might be a contributing factor to why one might see things a little differently as an adult as compared to when they were young and spent less time frying their corneas. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ As_WHO_Ends_Emergency,_World_Urged_Not_to Repeat_‘Mistakes_of_This_Pandemic_in_the_Next’⠀⇛ The World Health Organization’s declaration Friday that Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency elicited fresh calls for learning from the pandemic and dramatically expanding access to prevention and treatment for diseases in the future. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Contract_Pharmacies_Help_340B_Patients; Drug_Companies_Are_Restricting_Them⠀⇛ Drugcompanies keep making excuses for why they do not have to live up to their 340B statutory obligations. Since 2020, 21 drug companies have restricted the number of contract pharmacies where 340B nonprofits can fill patient prescriptions. Their attack undermines the intent of the 340B statute. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Doctors_have_performed_brain surgery_on_a_fetus_in_one_of_the_first_operations_of_its kind⠀⇛ She doesn’t know it yet, but a baby girl living somewhere near Boston has made history. The seven- week-old is one of the first people to have undergone an experimental brain operation while still in the womb. It might have saved her life. Before she was born, this little girl developed a dangerous condition that led… # ⚓ France24 ☛ Nestlé_to_stop_extracting_water_from_two_wells in_drought-hit_France⠀⇛ Global food and beverage giant Nestlé said Thursday that it would stop extracting from two mineral water wells in eastern France due to drought and increasingly unpredictable weather conditions. [...] Water restrictions are currently in place for 20 out of 96 departments on the mainland, with three judged to be in crisis in the southeast of the country. # ⚓ Did_“Died_Suddenly”_just_die_suddenly_as_a_conspiracy theory?⠀⇛ One of the more pernicious and—let’s just say it—downright ridiculous conspiracy theories to have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic is the “died suddenly” conspiracy theory. The basic idea is that young, healthy people all over the world have “died suddenly” as a result of sudden cardiac death caused by—you guessed it!—COVID-19 vaccines. The “died suddenly” conspiracy theory takes many forms, such as blaming the sudden on-field cardiac arrest of an elite athlete like Damar Hamlin on vaccines to conspiracy “documentaries” positing a wave of death due to the vaccines, to embalmers misleadingly claiming that they’re seeing more clots than ever, to anti vaxxers swooping down on the families of those who died suddenly to blame their deaths on vaccines, a phenomenon for which the term “ghouling” was coined. Antivaxxers are even branching out with the “died suddenly” conspiracy theory to blame a wave of deaths of zoo animals on COVID-19 vaccines, because why limit your anti vax conspiracy mongering just to humans? # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ WHO_Declares_Covid-19_Global_Health Emergency_Officially_Over⠀⇛ The World Health Organization chief announced Friday that it is “with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency.” o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_engineer,_31,_jumps_to_his_death_from_the_14th_floor tech_company’s_NYC_headquarters⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deccan Herald ☛ Cognizant_to_lay_off_3,500_non-billable corporate_personnel⠀⇛ IT major Cognizant, on Thursday, said it will lay off 3,500 employees, or approximately 1 per cent of its workforce, as it sees revenues slowing down in 2023. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Meesho_cuts_15%_workforce_to_prune_costs;_Tim Cook_sees_India_at_a_‘tipping_point’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Microsoft_exec_admits_the_console_wars_are over:_‘We_lost_the_worst_generation_to_lose’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Azure_API_Management_Vulnerabilities Allowed_Unauthorized_Access⠀⇛ Three vulnerabilities in the Azure API Management service could be exploited to perform various types of malicious actions, cloud security company Ermetic reveals. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Victims’_reluctance_to_report_ransomware stymies_efforts_to_curb_cyberattacks,_say_federal_officials [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Two years after a coalition of cybersecurity companies, public sector organizations and federal agencies came together to form the Ransomware Task Force at the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology, these digital crimes remain an ongoing and serious problem with attacks seemingly increasingly severe. Attacks on cities, universities and hospitals continue making headlines every week. In just the past few days, officials in Dallas have struggled to bring services back online after a ransomware attack there crippled services in one of the biggest cities in the country. And over the past year, ransomware gangs have appeared to become more brazen in their attempts to get their victims to pay extortion demands, even as some attacks appeared to subside potentially do to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_may_charge_different_prices_for Office_with_or_without_Teams⠀⇛ Last month, sources said the Redmond-based biz was considering whether to stop bundling Teams with Office following complaints by several businesses, including Slack, that Microsoft had tied the messaging app to its market dominant productivity suite, forcing it on customers, locking out rivals and obfuscating the cost for users. # ⚓ ACM ☛ Deere_Seeks_Satellite_Network_to_Connect_Far-Flung Farms⠀⇛ It expects to choose a satellite operator later this year and to start marketing the satellite service to growers by the end of next year. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Watch:_Finland’s_Eurovision_hopeful_Käärijä_makes Fortnite_appearance⠀⇛ Finland’s Eurovision selection Käärijä — considered to be one of this year’s favourites to win the song contest — is getting a boost from the video game Fortnite. Finnish software company Zoan created an experience inside the popular video game, where players can visit a virtual rendering of Helsinki’s Senate Square with Käärijä signs and stages. # ⚓ Eric McClure ☛ Discord_Should_Remove_Usernames_Entirely⠀⇛ There are several issues being brought up with the username change. One is that users are very upset about usernames being ascii-only alphanumeric, presumably because they do not realize that Discord is only ever going to show their usernames for the purposes of adding friends. Their Display Name is what everyone will normally see, which can be any arbitrary unicode. Discord only spent a single sentence mentioning the problem with someone’s username being written in 𝕨𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕥𝕖𝕩𝕥 and I think a lot of users missed just how big of a problem this is. Any kind of strange character in a username would be liable to render it completely unsearchable, could easily get corrupted when sent over ascii-only text mediums, and essentially had to be copy+pasted verbatim or it wouldn’t work. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Slack_adding_generative_AI_to_interact with_colleagues,_so_you_don’t_have_to⠀⇛ Many organizations have been wary about letting employees use generative AI tools in case they leak trade secrets or private information. One employee from Samsung, for example, admitted to copying and pasting buggy source code from the company’s semiconductor database download program in the hopes that ChatGPT might offer a fix. Slack promises, however, that text processed or generated by Slack GPT will not be used to train language models. o § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Profiteering_Against_the_Public_Interest: Privatization_of_Health_Care_by_Unitedhealth_Group⠀⇛ Privatization of public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid has been proceeding rapidly in recent years with little coverage by the media of its harms to patients, the public and taxpayers. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, evolution, and odoo), Fedora (java-11- openjdk), Oracle (samba), Red Hat (libreswan and samba), Slackware (libssh), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, apache2-mod_auth_openidc, cmark, containerd, editorconfig-core-c, ffmpeg, go1.20, harfbuzz, helm, java-11-openjdk, java-1_8_0-ibm, liblouis, podman, and vim), and Ubuntu (linux-aws, linux-aws- hwe, linux-intel-iotg, and linux-oem-6.1). # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Uber’s_former_Chief_Security_Officer sentenced_to_three_years_probation_for_covering_up_massive data_breach⠀⇛ Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to serve a three-year term of probation and ordered to pay a fine of $50,000, announced First Assistant United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and FBI San Francisco Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp. The sentence was handed down by the Hon. William H. Orrick, United States District Judge, after a jury found Sullivan guilty of two felonies in October 2022. # ⚓ Adna_School_District_Defrauded_$346,000_in_Phishing_Scam⠀⇛ The Adna School District was defrauded of $346,000 through what school officials have called a “sophisticated phishing scam,” according to Adna Superintendent Thad Nelson. The district announced the fraud in a detailed email to The Chronicle on Thursday, noting that after the activity was confirmed, the district notified the FBI, the Washington state Auditor’s Office and the Lewis County Treasurer’s Office as well as the district’s insurance carrier and financial institution. # ⚓ NHS_launches_probe_after_five-year-old_takes_records_of_150 patients_to_school_to_use_as_‘drawing_paper’⠀⇛ The NHS has launched a probe after a pupil took printed records containing details of 150 patients to school to use as drawing paper. Bedfordshire Hospitals Foundation Trust confirmed it is investigating how the child got hold of the personal documents. # ⚓ Catholic_Health_patients_may_have_fallen_victim_to_data breach_by_a_consultant’s_employee⠀⇛ Some of Catholic Health’s long-term care residents may have fallen victim to a data breach that took place over the summer. The health organization says Minimum Data Set Consultants (MDS), a firm that provides consulting services to skilled nursing facilities, was the target of the breach. # ⚓ ABC ☛ San_Bernardino_County_pays_$1.1M_ransom_after cyberattack_disrupts_Sheriff’s_Department_systems⠀⇛ San Bernardino County paid a $1.1 million ransom to hackers who infiltrated the Sheriff’s Department computers, officials acknowledged Friday. Last month, the department admitted a hack encrypted many of its files, disrupting systems and blocking access to data. County officials told ABC News on Friday that the county carries insurance for such attacks and its share of the ransom came out to just over $511,000. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Can_You_Use_a_Smart_Home_Without_Internet? [Ed: Homes should never ever depend on having a network connection of any type]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Social_media_company_VK_reportedly developing_app_to_replace_Tinder_in_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian social media company VK is developing a new dating app, according to the newspaper Vedomosti. The service is reportedly slated to be released this summer, when Tinder has pledged to leave the Russian market. # ⚓ Franz Dill ☛ UK_Age_Verification⠀⇛ The Government has indicated that it will introduce new responsibilities on online platforms which host pornography to reduce underage access through website age verification laws. These new measures will form part of the Online Safety Bill, which is to be introduced into Parliament. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Itermann Wansing GbR ☛ On_the_security_of_the_Linux disk_encryption_LUKS⠀⇛ In the past few days, there have been uncertainties and concerns about the LUKS (“Linux Unified Key Setup”) disk encryption, which is widely used on Linux. We publish our assessment of this here. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ ANF News ☛ Protest_in_Stockholm:_“We_must_not_allow Erdoğan’s_laws_to_be_introduced_in_Sweden”⠀⇛ The new law was passed in the 349-member Swedish parliament with 268 votes in favour. Meanwhile, a group of intellectuals and political figures gathered at Stockholm’s Mynttorget to protest the introduction of the law. Former Member of Parliament and Kurdish activist Amineh Kakabaveh expressed her outrage, saying: “I see the new law as a mere favour to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.” The politician, who was born in 1972 in the Seqiz city of Eastern Kurdistan, criticised the Swedish parliament for acting in the interests of the government in Ankara. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Islamist_Militants_In_Pakistan_Kill_Six_Soldiers Near_Afghan_Border⠀⇛ The outlawed Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella group of several Sunni militant groups, claimed responsibility. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Jordan_Neely’s_Death_and_a_Critical_Moment_in the_Homelessness_Crisis⠀⇛ After the homeless young man was killed on the subway, there has been a rare flash of national attention on the issue. Can the outrage be harnessed for actual change? # ⚓ France24 ☛ Capitol_attack:_Four_far-right_Proud_Boys convicted_of_‘seditious_conspiracy’⠀⇛ A jury on Thursday convicted four members of the far-right Proud Boys militia group including its former leader Enrique Tarrio of seditious conspiracy, finding they plotted to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a failed bid to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Italy’s_foreign_minister_cancels_Paris_trip_over ‘unacceptable’_migration_comments⠀⇛ Italy’s foreign minister cancelled a trip to Paris Thursday after a French minister criticised Rome’s migration policy, in a fresh spat over the contentious issue between the two nations. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Blinken_says_deal_within_sight_after_Armenia_and Azerbaijan_peace_talks⠀⇛ Azerbaijan and Armenia have made “tangible progress” towards reaching a consensus in talks over the past few days, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday, adding a final agreement was within sight. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin-backed_news_channel_reports_Russia_used tear_gas_grenades_on_Ukrainian_troops_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In a Tuesday segment on the ongoing fighting in Spirne, a village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, reporters from Russia’s state-run news station Channel One reported that Russian soldiers have been using grenades containing a type of tear gas called Cheremukha against Ukrainian soldiers. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Guilty:_Four_Proud_Boys_Convicted_of Seditious_Conspiracy_for_Role_in_Jan._6_Insurrection⠀⇛ Four members of the far-right Proud Boys organization, including former leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted Thursday of seditious conspiracy for trying to keep Donald Trump in office by force after his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden. The men could face decades in prison for their actions. A fifth defendant was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy but convicted on other charges. We look at the Proud Boys, their role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and where the extremist group goes from here, with HuffPost senior editor Andy Campbell, author of We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In a New Era of American Extremism. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Seymour_Hersh:_My_Meeting_With_Pakistan’s Pervez_Musharraf⠀⇛ What the general told me about Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the early days of the Obama administration. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Serviceman_stripped_of_rank,_sentenced_to_13_years in_secret_treason_trial_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The classified trial of Sergeant Artyom Semyonov, who served in Russia’s Belgorod region, concluded in Moscow today. A military court found Semyonov guilty of high treason. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Dispatch_from_Vahdat_In_Tajikistan,_Afghan refugees_dream_of_starting_fresh_in_Canada_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ France24 ☛ At_least_8_dead,_13_wounded_in_second_mass shooting_in_Serbia⠀⇛ At least eight people were killed and 13 injured in a drive-by shooting near Belgrade late Thursday, state-run media reported, a day after nine people were shot dead at an elementary school in the Serbian capital. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ ‘They_Just_Need_a_Safe_Place_to_Be:’_How Public_Transit_Became_the_Last_Safety_Net_In_America⠀⇛ The surge in homelessness on transit systems creates a conundrum for agencies used to the old way of doing things. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Report_Discloses_CIA_Cyberattacks_Against_Other Countries⠀⇛ The Central Intelligence Agency has been involved in overthrowing or attempting to overthrow over 50 legal governments of other countries. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Several_Teachers_Killed_In_Outburst_Of_Sectarian Violence_In_Northwestern_Pakistan⠀⇛ At least seven people, including schoolteachers, have been killed in two separate shooting incidents in northwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan. [...] The incident enraged people in the area, and they entered a school in which they believed people belonging to opposing sectarian groups were working as teachers. They opened fire, killing six people including four teachers, Imran said. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_Stopping_the_spread_of_Sudan’s bloodshed⠀⇛ The United Nations (UN) warns that Sudan’s bloody conflict could soon seep through the country’s borders and spread. Its Secretary-General António Guterres said the ‘catastrophic conflagration within Sudan … could engulf the whole region and beyond.’ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Islamist_Militants_In_Pakistan_Kill_Six_Soldiers Near_Afghan_Border⠀⇛ Islamist militants killed six Pakistani soldiers in an exchange of fire with the military in a northwestern tribal district bordering Afghanistan, the army said on May 4. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Serbia_Announces_Extensive_Gun_Controls_In_Wake_Of Belgrade_School_Shooting⠀⇛ Serbia’s government is instituting an extensive revision of existing private gun permits and other measures as the Balkan country mourns the victims of a mass shooting — its first ever at a school — that has sent shock waves through the country. # ⚓ LRT ☛ US_to_increase_naval_presence_in_the_Baltic_Sea⠀⇛ The United States will increase its naval presence in the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry announced on Thursday. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ China’s_defence_spending_growth_continues apace⠀⇛ China, India and Japan are leading a surge in military spending in the Asian region with geopolitical tensions pushing South Korea, Australia and Taiwan, among others, to follow suit. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Shoigu!_Gerasimov!_Where’s_the_fucking_ammo?’ Evgeny_Prigozhin’s_obscene_tirade_blames_top_military officials_for_the_mercenary_cartel’s_‘senseless_losses’_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Administration_in_occupied_part_of_Zaporizhzhia region_announces_‘relocation’_of_residents_from_18 settlements_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The administration of the part of Zaporizhzhia currently occupied by Russian forces announced the “relocation” of some inhabitants from areas near the front lines. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prosecution_mounts_‘justification_of_terrorism’ case_against_theater_director_Zhenya_Berkovich_and_playwright Svetlana_Petriychuk_—_Meduza⠀⇛ With the theater director Zhenya Berkovich and the playwright Svetlana Petriychuk currently in custody, the prosecution is mounting a “justification of terrorism” case against the two artists. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Crimean_Bridge_fully_reopens_to_railway_traffic following_last_year’s_explosion_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Crimean Bridge’s second railway track reopened to traffic on May 5, according to the Kremlin website. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Defense_Minister_Shoigu_orders_military_supplies to_be_kept_‘under_special_control’_after_Prigozhin’s_video criticizing_Russia’s_military_command_for_ammo_shortages_— Meduza⠀⇛ According to the Russian military, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu ordered the supply of weapons for the “special military operation” to be kept “under special control.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Oil_refinery_in_Russia’s_Krasnodar_region_hit_by second_drone_attack_in_two_days_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A fire broke out at the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region on Friday morning after the facility was attacked by drones for the second time in two days, Russia state media reported. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Evgeny_Prigozhin_says_Wagner_Group_will_leave Bakhmut_after_May_9_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin said Friday that his mercenaries will hand over their positions in Bakhmut to units from the Russian Defense Ministry, and that the group’s remaining fighters will be sent to support bases in the rear. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ What_We_Know—and_Don’t_Know—About_Bill Gates_and_Jeffrey_Epstein⠀⇛ Four years after the relationship between Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein was first made public, surprisingly little is known about it, largely because Gates and his public-relations team have consistently refused to answer basic questions, concealed information, and said things that aren’t exactly true. Gates has expressed exasperation at being asked questions about Epstein, claiming to have answered them “for the hundredth time,” but never has said how many times the two met, or when. And because much of what he has said has proved to be, at best, misleading, his explanations of the nature of the relationship lack credibility. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Michigan News ☛ Letter_from_the_Editor:_Michigan_needs dedicated_environmental_journalists._‘Lake_Effect’_newsletter shows_our_passion⠀⇛ Ellison’s beat takes him everywhere – geographically, and topically. You may remember his investigative work on the basically free groundwater Nestle draws from Michigan’s aquifers, his investigation into legacy water contamination caused by Wolverine Worldwide in Rockford, or the ongoing controversies around Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac and PFAS contamination at the former Wurtsmith Air Force base in Oscoda. # ⚓ HRW ☛ Iraq_Gas_Flaring_Tied_to_Cancer_Surge⠀⇛ Flaring occurs when fossil fuel companies burn off excess methane gas from oil operations rather than capturing the gas in pipelines. When burned, the powerful greenhouse gas – more than 80 times more potent at global warming than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period – is released into the atmosphere. After Russia, Iraq accounts for the most flared gas in the world. Flaring also releases toxic pollutants known to harm human health, including benzene, a human carcinogen that can cause leukemia. An Iraq Health Ministry report leaked to the BBC attributed pollution from the oil industry, among other sources, as the cause of a 20 percent rise in cancer in Basra between 2015 and 2018, and revealed cancer cases in the region to be three times higher than publicly disclosed figures. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Fossil_Fuel_Industry_Doesn’t_Want_This Climate_Charter_to_Succeed⠀⇛ El Paso, Tex., earns its nickname as the Sun City. By some counts, it is the sunniest metro area in America, baking beneath the Chihuahuan Desert with only rare respite. You might think, then, that El Paso would be a prime location for solar power to thrive as a cheap, viable source of energy. # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ The_Regions_Most_At-Risk_for_‘Statistically Impossible’_Heat_Extremes⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ HSR_versus_highway_media_coverage⠀⇛ Case in point, Alan Fisher did a great video that caught my attention because it mentions California’s High Speed Rail system. The HSR is mired in controversy, with much hand- wringing in the press over its utility and value. Yet a new interstate with significantly higher cost overruns, disruption, and environmental impact warrants nay a peep in the American media. Alan does a deep dive into why he thinks that is. # ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ Australia’s_first_all- electric_4WD_camper_truck_offers_sustainable adventures⠀⇛ For hardcore adventure enthusiasts, an electric camper with off-roading abilities will set a benchmark for nature-based 4WD camping. The iteration promises reduced running costs, zero emissions, and a quieter and smoother touring experience for its users. According to RedSands, the transition helps as 80 percent of its clients are from Europe, “where EVs are more mainstream, and Governments are more dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation,” said a blog post from the company. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Federal_minister_cancels_two Queensland_coal_projects⠀⇛ Two proposed Queensland coal mines have been cancelled after failing to prove their environmental credentials. The China Stone Coal mine project is a proposal by MacMines Austasia to construct and operate a coal mine in Belyando. In 2018, further information was requested about the potential impacts on threatened species and water resources. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ RDM_starts_construction_of_solar_power plant_at_its_Somerset_West_facility⠀⇛ Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) has begun the construction of a R72 million solar farm at its Somerset West facility, as part of the company’s aim to be carbon neutral by 2035 and independent from loadshedding. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Nord_Stream_Explosions:_New Revelations_About_Motive,_Means,_and_Opportunity⠀⇛ At 00:03 GMT on a hazy dark morning last September, Peter Schmidt was among the first to put out an alert. A seismologist at Sweden’s National Seismic Center, his job was to read long wavy lines on a computer screen and raise the alarm in case of an earthquake. “Our calculations show a magnitude of 2.3,” Schmidt said. But oddly, this didn’t look like an earthquake. Instead, it was an enormously powerful explosion. “With an energy releases this big, there isn’t much else than a blast that could cause it.” Its epicenter was deep beneath the Baltic Sea just off the Danish island of Bornholm, a black, watery void except for a long cement- covered gas pipeline known as Nord Stream 2. Now through gaping holes in it and its twin, Nord Stream 1, gigantic bubbles of methane gas were heading to the surface instead of to the homes of millions throughout Europe at the start of a long, cold winter. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ‘Missed_opportunity’_for Glencore_on_coal_disclosures⠀⇛ Big investors are disappointed Australia’s largest coal producer Glencore won’t support a push for information about the future of coal. A resolution filed by a group of institutional investors aimed to get Glencore to explain at its upcoming annual general meeting how thermal coal aligns with growing international ambitions to switch electricity supply to renewable sources. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ New_York_fiscal_budget_phases_out_fossil fuel_use_in_new_buildings⠀⇛ The New York State Assembly Tuesday enacted the State Fiscal Year 2023-24 Budget which will phase out the use of fossil fuels in buildings beginning in 2025. The budget also mandates that new buildings exclusively use electric heating and cooking. # ⚓ H2 View ☛ Hong_Kong_trials_first_hydrogen_refuelling station⠀⇛ Hong Kong is set to trial its first hydrogen refuelling station ahead of its anticipated operational launch in the second half of 2023. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘This_Land_Is_Our_Life’:_Indigenous Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo_People_Defend_Forest_From_Illegal Destruction_in_Peru⠀⇛ The Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo people of the Peruvian Amazon are organizing themselves to protect their ancestral forests and waters from illegal fishing, logging, and coca growing amidst conservation and development efforts from both the government and international nonprofits that they say are ineffective at best and actively harmful to Indigenous ways of life at worst. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Spring_awakening_of_adders_in Finland:_Understanding_and_appreciating_these sensitively_classified_species⠀⇛ The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation has urged people to treat snakes with curiosity and calmness. As part of the Spring Monitoring program, snakes, such as the adder, are observed as they emerge from hibernation in the spring. Adders can be seen basking in the sun, preparing to shed their skin, after which the mating season begins. Male adders wake up in the spring earlier than females, and they can sometimes be observed wrestling with one another. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ EPA_Report_on_Neonics_Proves_US_Has ‘Five-Alarm_Fire’_on_Its_Hands,_Green_Groups_Say⠀⇛ A newly published assessment from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns that three of the most commonly used neonicotinoid insecticides threaten the continued existence of more than 200 endangered plant and animal species. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Government_study_recommends_China_build_second capital_in_Xinjiang⠀⇛ ‘It would end the historical concept that the region is the Uyghur people’s motherland,’ expert says. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Why_France_and_Germany_will_not_‘decouple’ from_China⠀⇛ With China increasingly assertive in pursuing its economic and geopolitical interests abroad, US–China tensions are rising, leading many traditional American allies to consider following Washington’s lead in pursuing economic ‘decoupling’ from China. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Ukraine_declares_Hungarian_OTP_bank_an international_sponsor_of_terrorism⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ First_Republic_Bank:_The_Second_Largest_Crash in_History,_Another_Example_of_Bailout⠀⇛ First Republic Bank, holding USD 233 billion in assets, collapsed and was sold to banking giant JP Morgan Chase. First Republic is the third bank to fail in the US since March, surpassing the spectacular failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Interest_bill_on_government_debt_soars to_$18b⠀⇛ The total interest bill on federal government debt is expected to add up to about $110 billion over the next five years – about $700 a second. This is more than the Commonwealth spends on child care or infrastructure, according to figures from the treasurer’s office. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ WA_housing_affordability_is deteriorating,_says_report⠀⇛ Housing affordability in Western Australia has significantly deteriorated over the past two years due to rising interest rates and limited supply, with experts warning there’s no end in sight. Loan delinquency among new mortgage holders has tripled and new-build starts fell by a third last year, according to Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre research. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Treasurer_trains_on_budget_balance_as debt_bill_soars⠀⇛ The interest bill on federal government debt is expected to add up to about $110 billion across the next five years – or $700 a second. The figure is more than the Commonwealth spends on child care or infrastructure, according to figures from the treasurer’s office. # ⚓ Morningstar US ☛ Atlassian’s_stock_drops_as_layoffs_erode cloud-customer_‘seats,’_but_AI_could_further_boost_data- center_side⠀⇛ Atlassian Corp. shares fell Friday after the collaboration- and productivity-software company said it expected business to get worse as companies keep cutting jobs, but some analysts pointed to a rising data-center business as a lifeline. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Bearer_of_Bad_News⠀⇛ Roger Lee has cataloged hundreds of thousands of tech job cuts on his site Layoffs.fyi. He still believes the industry will “100 percent” bounce back. # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Look_at_all_the_great_stuff_we_lost_because of_inflation_scare-talk⠀⇛ Call me a conspiratorialist if you must. But when CEOs get on earnings calls and brag about how covid, war, and scare-stories about inflation let them hike their prices and rake in never-before- seen profit margins, I think it’s reasonable to blame inflation on greed, not on workers getting a couple of relief checks during the lockdown. Amazingly, this is a controversial position! For more than a year, Very Serious People have dismissed the greedflation hypothesis – that CEOs aren’t lying when they boast about using pretexts to hike prices – is a conspiracy theory used to dupe people who Just Don’t Understand Economics. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Digital_Services_Act_–_conducting independent_audits⠀⇛ The purpose of this delegated regulation is to set out the necessary rules for the procedures, methodology and templates used for the audits of very large online platforms and very large online search engines as required under the Digital Services Act (Article 37). It also takes account of the voluntary auditing standards referred to in Article 44. [...] Feedback period 05 May 2023 – 02 June 2023 (midnight Brussels time) # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Liberal_Party_Policy_Proposal_Would_Limit Online_Publication_to_Material_“Whose_Sources_Can_Be Traced”⠀⇛ The Liberal Party policy convention is underway in Ottawa with delegates preparing to debate a series of policy proposals that could ultimately make their way into their national election platforms. Party members voted on the top 20 proposals for discussion and included one involving the media and online information that seems obviously unconstitutional and a direct threat to a freedom of the press. The proposal, purportedly aimed at addressing misinformation, calls for more government funding for the media and that the government explore options to “hold on-line information services accountable for the veracity of material published on their platforms and to limit publication only to material whose sources can be traced.” # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Gmail_is_getting_blue_verified_checkmarks_like Twitter,_should_help_spot_impersonators⠀⇛ Google is introducing a blue tick verification feature to Gmail. It is for users who have verified themselves on Gmail’s BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) feature. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Donald_Trump_Is_Proud_of_Being_a_Sexual Predator⠀⇛ He just can’t help himself. # ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ How_to_Stop_Republicans_From_Tanking_the Economy_Over_the_Debt_Ceiling⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Orbán:_I_don’t_have_a_vivid_enough imagination_to_think_that_a_nuclear_power_can_be_defeated⠀⇛ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ In_E._Jean_Carroll’s_“Heroic”_Rape_Trial Against_Trump,_His_Team_Calls_No_Witnesses._Will_He Testify?⠀⇛ Former President Donald Trump’s legal team rested its case Thursday in the rape, battery and defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll without calling a single witness. Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s. Carroll was able to file the case against Trump decades later because New York opened a one-year window on the statute of limitations for adult survivors of sexual assault. Trump says he may still ask to testify before jury deliberations are set to begin next week. The lawsuit against Trump is a major effort to counter the “long-standing tradition in our culture of protecting powerful men from consequences for sexual assault and sexual harassment,” says Deborah Tuerkheimer, law professor at Northwestern University and the author of Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Dennis_Kucinich:_WWIII_on_the_Installment Plan⠀⇛ The Invention of a Wartime Presidency to Save the Biden Administration. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Russia_Says_Ukraine_Tried_to_Kill_Putin_in Drone_Attack,_Ukraine_Denies_Involvement⠀⇛ Moscow says Putin was not at the Kremlin at the time of the attack, Ukraine denies involvement. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ North_Carolina_Republicans_Just_Took Gerrymandering_to_a_Whole_New_Level⠀⇛ Gerrymandering is a political practice as old as America itself. It’s the time-honored tradition in which politicians draw district boundaries to maximize their own party’s power and limit the influence of their opponents. When it comes to gerrymandering, few states have honed the craft as well as North Carolina, but on April 28, the new Republican majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court took things to a whole new level. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ How_Bluesky’s_Invite_Tree_Could_Become_A_Tool_To Create_Better_Social_Norms_Online⠀⇛ At this moment, Bluesky has caught lightning in a bottle. It’s already an exciting platform that’s fun and allows vulnerable communities to exist. This sense of safety has allowed folks to cut loose, and people are calling it a “throwback to an earlier internet era.” I think that’s right, and in some respects that retro design is what is driving its success. In fact, one aspect of its design was used pretty extensively to protect some of the internet’s early underground communities. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Trying_To_Monetize_Bigots_Is_A_Great_Way_To_Go Broke⠀⇛ Lots of people thought they could create a better Twitter after they (incorrectly) assumed Twitter was violating their First Amendment rights (lol) by refusing to host their Nazi-adjacent banter. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Jay_Inslee’s_Lesson_in_Bowing_Out_Gracefully⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Richard_Glossip_Gets_Stay_of_Execution_From US_Supreme_Court⠀⇛ Anti-death penalty campaigners applauded Friday as the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution in the case of Richard Glossip, a death row inmate who has maintained he had nothing to do with the 1997 murder of his boss at a motel in Oklahoma City. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Florida_Parents_Vow_Legal_Fight_After_GOP Passes_‘Dangerous’_Attack_on_Gender-Affirming_Care⠀⇛ Florida Republicans on Thursday approved a draconian bill that, among other things, would enable the state to take trans children away from their parents if they are receiving gender- affirming healthcare, even though such care is consistent with the guidance of every major medical organization in the United States. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ GOP_Hungrily_Reading_Orban’s_Playbook_to Consolidate_Corrupt_Neofascist_Oligarchy⠀⇛ People watch with their mouths agape, trying to understand the scandal of Donald Trump leading a criminal insurrection to hold onto power even though he’d lost the election; of Supreme Court justices on the take; of political figures putting into law religious doctrine about the role of women in society. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ How_Much_Longer_Can_Biden_Policy_on_Ukraine Be_Maintained?⠀⇛ After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the United States quickly moved to support the government in Kyiv. With Joe Biden in the White House, having replaced someone who made no effort to conceal his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, this U.S. support was no surprise. Prior to the invasion, the Biden administration had been warning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly for a month and privately for several months of the likelihood of an intervention. It had helped Ukraine bolster its defense with $400 million in military aid in 2021, on top of the $2 billion provided between 2014 and 2020. After Russia invaded, that figure skyrocketed to over $31 billion (plus more than twice that amount in non- military assistance). # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nazi_Germany_and_the_Contemporary Republican_Party⠀⇛ [T]wo equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. —Jules Henri Poincaré # ⚓ The Nation ☛ “To_Hell_With_Kings!”⠀⇛ The monarchy-industrial complex will be on full display this weekend, as the United Kingdom crowns its latest king.1 # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_RNC’s_Embarrassing_AI-Generated_Attack Ad⠀⇛ If it seems like right-wing campaign rhetoric is running on autopilot these days, it is. Last week, the Republican National Committee greeted President Joe Biden’s announcement of his reelection bid with a slapdash montage of themes and images generated via artificial intelligence and forecasting the American republic’s descent into dystopian mire in the event of a second Biden term. And this week, Donald Trump released a Facebook campaign ad contending that Biden was already presiding over “an America in decline.” In order to dramatize this baleful condition, the spot highlighted a pair of images dating from Trump’s own term in office. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Clarence_Thomas_Is_Protected_by_Powerful Enablers_From_Both_Parties⠀⇛ In May 2001, a Supreme Court justice gave a speech to the bar association in his hometown of Savannah, Ga., in which he made a curious comment about his job, one of the most powerful positions in the United States government. “The job is not worth doing for what they pay,” Clarence Thomas said. “The job is not worth doing for the grief. But it is worth doing for the principle.” The comment on “pay” might seem crass in referring to a lifetime appointment that carries excellent benefits. In 2001, Thomas raked in $178,300 per year. In 2022, his salary was a hefty $274,200. Few Americans would sneeze at such an income—although it is true that Thomas could almost certainly make more money as a lawyer in the private sector. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_District_Council_reform ‘destroys_final_bastion_of_democracy,’_Paul_Zimmerman_says, will_not_stand_again⠀⇛ A veteran Hong Kong District Councillor has said that he will not run for the next term following the government’s plan to restrict democratically- elected seats, saying the reform would “destroy the final bastion of democracy” in the city and result in “a loss for everyone. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_lawmaker_questions_plan_to require_public_registration_to_access_remote_court_hearings⠀⇛ A representative from a Hong Kong solicitors’ group and a lawmaker have questioned the Judiciary’s plan to ask members of the public to register in advance if they wish to observe court cases remotely. The suggestion was part of the plan to introduce remote hearings for court proceedings. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ West_Virginia_Gov._Jim_Justice_Runs_for Senate_Amid_Stacks_of_Unpaid_Bills⠀⇛ For years, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has been dogged by allegations that his family businesses haven’t paid their debts, including fines for environmental violations at their coal plants. One bank is even seeking to garnish his salary as governor to cover an unpaid personal guarantee of a business loan, court documents show. But these disputes are likely to resurface in what will be one of the most hotly contested races for control of the U.S. Senate in 2024. Last week, Justice, a Republican who is immensely popular in the state, announced that he will challenge U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who is often the swing vote on key legislation. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Rep._James_Clyburn_Protected_His_District at_a_Cost_to_Black_Democrats⠀⇛ The meeting was arranged in secret. On Nov. 19, 2021, the chief of staff for South Carolina’s Senate Judiciary Committee texted Dalton Tresvant, a key aide to Rep. Jim Clyburn, the state’s most powerful Democrat. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Guardian’s_Hungarian_reporter_kicked_out of_CPAC_Hungary_mid-interview⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Trump_talks_about_historic_battle_against globalists_and_communists_in_his_video_message_to Hungarians⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ DeSantis_and_Netanyahu_Are_Anti-Democratic Brothers-in-Arms⠀⇛ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, ahead of his expected presidential run, flew all the way to Israel to give the keynote address at an event at the Museum of Tolerance April 27. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Corruption._Plain_and_Simple’:_Ginni Thomas_Took_Secret_Payments_Ahead_of_Landmark_Voting_Rights Case⠀⇛ U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas are under fresh scrutiny as yet another revelation, this one reported by the Washington Post on Thursday evening shows Ginni received tens of thousands of dollars in off-the- book compensation from a powerful right-wing nonprofit shortly before the group “soon would have an interest before the court”—a pivotal voting rights case. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] France24 ☛ Iranian_journalists_remain_imprisoned for_reporting_on_Mahsa_Amini’s_death⠀⇛ Iran is one of the most repressive countries in terms of press freedom, according to an annual report released Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders, which ranked it 177th of 180 nations. Since the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Tehran, 72 journalists have been arrested and 25 remain imprisoned, most of them women. FRANCE 24 takes a look at the cases of two journalists who remain behind bars over their reporting on the young Kurdish woman’s death. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Freedom_to_Learn:_Nat’l_Day_of_Action Targets_Ron_DeSantis,_“Anti-Woke_Cabal”_over_Book_Bans_& More⠀⇛ This week, protests were held across the United States against right-wing efforts to ban books and antiracism education in schools. Fourteen protesters with Florida’s Dream Defenders were arrested Wednesday for staging a peaceful sit-in inside the office of Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis at the end of the state’s legislative session, in which he backed efforts to ban abortion after six weeks, deny gender-affirming care for youth, roll back rent control, censor discussions of LGBTQ issues and Black history in schools, and crack down on immigrants and unions in his political crusade against “wokeness.” We speak with one of the arrested protesters, Nailah Summers- Polite, co-director of Dream Defenders, and Kimberlé Crenshaw, the legal scholar well known for her work in the field of critical race theory, about the Freedom to Learn protests and the push to preserve the integrity of the AP African American studies course attacked by DeSantis and other far- right activists. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Laos:_Activist_shooting_shows_risks_to government_critics⠀⇛ Kenneth Roth, a former Human Rights Watch (HRW) executive director, initially posted a tweet condeming the activist’s “killing.” Luangsuphom is one of the few outspoken critics of the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and operates the Kub Kluen Duay Keyboard (Driven By Keyboard) Facebook page that discusses local issues. # ⚓ HRW ☛ Greece_Stuck_at_Bottom_of_EU_on_Press_Freedom⠀⇛ United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor, drew similar conclusions following a visit to Greece in June 2022 to assess the situation for rights defenders in the country, including journalists. In her report, presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March, Lawlor noted that news reports that are “inconvenient or unflattering for the government, including reporting on serious human rights violations, do not get sufficient coverage on many media outlets,” and journalists have faced “criminal lawsuits and strategic lawsuits against public participation for their investigative reporting on corruption and environmental pollution.” # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Jonah_Peretti_Has_Regrets_About_BuzzFeed News⠀⇛ The site’s founder and C.E.O. valued fun and experimentation on the Internet, but never found a way to make “free journalism purpose-built for social media” profitable. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Rupert_Murdoch_Saves_Face⠀⇛ “Out, damned spot,” he bellows. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Australian_PM_‘Frustrated’_With_US_Over Assange⠀⇛ The Australian prime minister told ABC, “I share the frustration. I can’t do more than make very clear what my position is,” that a diplomatic solution to Assange’s case must be found. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Fabian_Scheidler:_Why_the_Release_of_Julian Assange_Is_Crucial_for_Our_Future⠀⇛ This is a speech delivered by Fabian Scheidler at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on World Press Freedom Day. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Jen_Psaki_Admits_That_Press_Were_“Incredible Partners”_to_Biden_White_House⠀⇛ Jen Psaki admits that the media were “partners” to the Biden White House, and describes their relationship as “collaborative.” Also, Wall Street Journal White House reporter Sabrina Siddiqui says the press is not meant to be confrontational to nor have an adversarial relationship with the government. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Popular_IKEA_Chair_Turns_Computer Monitor_Off,_Baffling_Everyone [Ed: VICE has resorted to clickbait headlines which, instead of explaining the story, bait the reader]⠀⇛ A programmer was confused when his office chair started zapping his 4K monitor. Then he found other people complaining about the same problem. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Alex_Jones_Would_Like_You_to_Know_He_Was Brutally_Pranked_by_a_Guy_Pretending_to_Be_Tucker_Carlson⠀⇛ “He thinks it’s funny to call up Alex Jones and say ‘suck my titties.’ # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Tina_Brown_on_Sir_Harry’s_legacy_and assembling_investigative_journalism_dream_team⠀⇛ Investigative journalists will assemble for the Sir Harry Summit in May. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Podcast_45:_Tina_Brown_on_Sir_Harry’s legacy_and_the_future_of_investigative_journalism⠀⇛ Tina Brown on the future of investigative journalism and Prince Harry’s holy war. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ The_best_picket_signs_of_the_Hollywood_writers’ strike⠀⇛ More than 11,000 movie and television writers have stopped working after contract negotiations stalled out between their union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the trade association that represents Hollywood’s studios and production companies. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Striking_Writers_Are_on_the_Front_Line of_a_Battle_Between_AI_and_Workers⠀⇛ “If we don’t strike for this right now, the AI technology will advance so quickly that it will no longer be possible to negotiate a fair contract in the context of AI.” # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ John_M._Crisp:_What’s_missing from_the_LGBTQ+_debate_is_tolerance⠀⇛ Americanism: Decency implies an obligation to respect the choices of others. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ex-Wife_Of_Nazarbaev’s_Jailed_Nephew_Gets_Seven Years_In_Prison⠀⇛ A court in the Kazakh capital, Astana, has sentenced the former wife of a jailed nephew of the Central Asian country’s former authoritarian president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, to seven years in prison on charges of abduction and actions aiding the commission of a crime. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Iowa_Becomes_Second_GOP-Controlled_State This_Year_to_Roll_Back_Child_Labor_Protections⠀⇛ Along with passing forced pregnancy laws and measures to punish parents for supporting their transgender children, the Republican Party is pushing numerous bills to loosen child labor regulations—and on Thursday Gov. Kim Reynolds confirmed she plans to make Iowa the second GOP- controlled state to enact such a proposal this year. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Internet_Photo:_The_Number_of_Holes⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_declares_Anti-Corruption_Foundation chairwoman_Maria_Pevchikh_‘foreign_agent’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s Justice Ministry added the chairwoman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Maria Pevchikh, and her associate Georgy Alburov, to its list of foreign agents. The news outlet Taiga.info was also added to the list. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Bright_Falcon’_behind_bars_A_new_political_trial targets_theater_director_Zhenya_Berkovich_and_prize-winning playwright_Svetlana_Petriychuk_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A Moscow court has remanded theater director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, extending their pretrial detention to two months in response to a request from investigators. Both artists were arrested on Thursday, May 4. Initially, they figured as “witnesses” in a terrorist propaganda case, in which the prosecution alleges that Berkovich’s production of Petriychuk’s play, Finist the Bright Falcon, contained signs of “justifying terrorism.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Former_Democrat_Gives_North_Carolina_GOP Deciding_Vote_to_Enforce_12-Week_Abortion_Ban⠀⇛ A pro-forced pregnancy bill passed in North Carolina late Thursday is likely to become law despite the objections of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper thanks largely to a sudden decision by state Rep. Tricia Cotham last month to join the Republican Party after years as a pro-choice Democrat—giving the GOP a veto-proof majority. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Artist_Who_Taught_Me_About_Justice⠀⇛ In my first job after college, I was an assistant to Harry Belafonte. There was nobody better to learn from about justice and the arts. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Cops_Issue_Warning_To_Students_Playing_A_Game With_Fake_Guns,_Fail_To_Mention_Cops_Are_Most_Likely_To_Kill Them⠀⇛ There have always been panics. And those panics are often the result of government entities deciding now is the time to be alarmed by things someone claimed they saw on social media. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Women’s_Rights_Activist_Flees_Uzbekistan_Fearing For_Her_Life⠀⇛ Irina Matvienko, a noted defender of women’s rights in Uzbekistan, says she has fled the country after unknown individuals threatened online to kill her. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Activist_Starts_Hunger_Strike_In_Kazakhstan Demanding_Release_Of_Karakalpaks_Jailed_In_Uzbekistan⠀⇛ A Karakalpak activist residing in the Kazakh Caspian Sea port city of Aqtau has launched a hunger strike demanding the immediate release of dozens of fellow activists jailed in Uzbekistan over last year protests in Karakalpakstan. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_rewrites_district_poll_rules,_citing_2019 protest_vote_‘disaster’⠀⇛ The new rules will ensure that only ‘patriotic,’ pro-China candidates can run in local elections # ⚓ RFA ☛ Lao_activist_who_was_shot_over_weekend_still_alive, Human_Rights_Watch_says⠀⇛ ‘Jack’ Anousa had been reported dead, but family and others tell HRW that he is alive # ⚓ RFA ☛ Top_opposition_official_says_he’s_not_worried_about court’s_arrest_warning⠀⇛ Prominent labor activist Rong Chhun joined the Candlelight Party as its vice president earlier this year. # ⚓ RFA ☛ UN_working_group_issues_opinion_on_detention_of Vietnamese_political_prisoner⠀⇛ Activist is serving a 10-year sentence for ‘spreading materials against the state.’ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Report:_Almost_700,000_people_in_Myanmar_have_fled their_homes_since_January⠀⇛ U.N. office is planning to provide humanitarian assistance to 4.5 million in the country this year. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Armenia,_Azerbaijan_Make_Progress_On_Difficult Issues_At_U.S.-Hosted_Talks,_Blinken_Says⠀⇛ Azerbaijan and Armenia made “tangible progress” toward reaching a consensus at U.S.-hosted talks this week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on May 4. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Age_discrimination_persists_among_Australian workers_despite_legal_protections,_study_shows⠀⇛ Despite legal protections against age discrimination and record-high job vacancies, a significant number of Australian organizations are reluctant to recruit potential employees over the age of 50, a new survey revealed.  # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Rights_Groups,_Iranian_Activists_Create_Coalition To_Continue_Pressure_Over_Violations⠀⇛ Rights organizations and activists say they have joined forces to form the Keep It On coalition to ensure pressure remains on the authorities to stop ongoing human rights violations in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchistan Province. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ TX_Churches_Made_Barred_Donations_to_Abilene City_Council_Candidate⠀⇛ Three churches in West Texas have made financial contributions to a pastor running for a hotly contested seat on the Abilene City Council, a clear violation of federal rules prohibiting nonprofits and churches from endorsing candidates, financial disclosure records show. Fountaingate Merkel Church, Remnant Church and Hope Chapel Foursquare Church donated a combined $800 to the campaign of Scott Beard, senior pastor at Fountaingate Fellowship church, who is running for a seat on the seven-member City Council in Saturday’s election. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ ProPublica_Selects_11_for_Investigative Editor_Training [Ed: "11 distinguished journalists" under the clout of Bill Gates bribes]⠀⇛ We are excited to announce the names of the 11 distinguished journalists chosen to launch ProPublica’s new investigative editor training program. The ProPublica Investigative Editor Training Program was established to expand the ranks of editors with investigative experience in newsrooms across the country, with a focus on journalists from underrepresented backgrounds. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Aristocrats⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ UPC_CMS_platform_for_practice_of_EIF_functionalities [Ed: UPC is illegal, but Bristows spent many years spreading lies about it and promoting illegal agenda using fabricated rumours etc. Now it's taking over other blogs, e.g. Kluwer Patent Blog, to spread those very same talking points that fake "progress" (for illegal, unconstitutional 'court')]⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Jury_finds_Ed_Sheeran_did_not_copy_Marvin Gaye_classic_‘Let’s_Get_It_On’⠀⇛ A federal jury in New York concluded Thursday that British singer Ed Sheeran didn’t steal key components of Marvin Gaye’s classic 1970s tune “Let’s Get It On” when he created his hit song “Thinking Out Loud,” prompting Sheeran to joke later that he won’t have to follow through on his threat to quit music. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ RIAA_Counters_Yout.com_Stream-Ripper Brief_at_U.S._Court_of_Appeal⠀⇛ Hoping to have his stream-ripping service declared legal, in 2020 the operator of Yout.com proactively took on the RIAA. After the court ruled in favor of the recording labels in 2022, Yout took the case to appeal and in February filed its opening brief. This week the RIAA filed a 62-page response; it concedes not even a single, solitary inch. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Germany_Wants_To_Include_Copyright Infringement_Under_Its_Planned_‘Digital_Violence’_Law⠀⇛ The hyperbolic rhetoric that is a feature of the copyright industry, which tries absurdly to characterize making an additional digital copy as “theft”, can lead to some serious legislative harm. For example, Germany is currently aiming to bring in a new law against “digital violence” – things like bullying and stalking, but also identity abuse and theft. In the worst cases of digital violence, it may lead to real violence, with lives threatened. That makes legislation to curb it reasonable. But along the way, something unreasonable is happening, spotted here by Netzpolitik (translation by DeepL): [...] # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ U.S._Hits_Z-Library_With_New_Domain Name_Seizures⠀⇛ The U.S. Government’s crackdown against Z- Library continues. After a few months of relative silence from law enforcement agencies, a new round of domain name seizures has begun. These efforts have taken out the shadow library’s main login panel but the site is not planning to throw in the towel. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Shanna_Hollich_—_Open_Culture VOICES,_Season_2_Episode_13⠀⇛ Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Shanna is the Library Director and Copyright Consultant at the Guthrie Memorial Library. They also work on global copyright policy advocacy together with Creative Common and other organisations. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Generative_AI:_Opportunities, Concerns_&_Solutions_from_MozFest_2023⠀⇛ Known as a “premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world,” MozFest provided a great opportunity to bring together over 50 people to generate insights into what we should be thinking about generative AI as we work to help shape policy to build a better internet. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3673 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_06/05/2023:_Proton_8.0-2_and_Much_More⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:41 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Programming/Development o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Software_Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 5_Best_PDF_to_Word_Converters_for_Linux⠀⇛ Portable Document Format or PDF is one of the most popular file formats, mainly due to its unified standard across platforms and devices, compatibility, and small size. There are a lot of powerful tools to view PDF files, so any Linux user can find something based on their own preferences. However, when it comes to editing, PDF files have certain limitations. # ⚓ Dima Kogan ☛ Dima_Kogan:_mrcal_2.3_released!⠀⇛ Today I released mrcal 2.3 (the release notes are available here). Once again, in the code there are lots of useful improvements, but nothing major. The big update in this release is the documentation. Much of it was improved and extended, especially practical guides in the how-to-calibrate_page and the recipes. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_more⠀⇛ This article spotlights alternative tools to more. # ⚓ Why_pirating_CrossOver_makes_you_a_turd [Ed: The language used here by WINE is problematic]⠀⇛  Periodically, we come across links to pirated versions of CrossOver or instructions for how to pirate CrossOver yourself. While we know that all software companies have to combat piracy efforts, this still really bums us out. We are a small open- source software company full of passionate people who take so much pride in our projects and products. Our work is challenging, interesting and rewarding. Dealing with people who steal from us is none of those things. # ⚓ Proton_8.0-2_has_been_released⠀⇛  Valve has just published Proton 8.0-2 as the newest version of this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ CLI:_Check_if_there_are_jobs_running⠀⇛ I recently automated the installation of updates on my openQA development instance. The goal was to make the instance updates itself over night, but only if it is idle, i. # ⚓ Jonathan Dowland ☛ Jonathan_Dowland:_sidebar_dividers_for mutt⠀⇛ I wanted to start using (neo)mutt’s sidebar and I wanted a way of separating groups of mail folders in the list. # ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Working_with_Text_Files_from_Raspberry_PI Terminal:_a_Beginners_Guide⠀⇛ Editing text files on Raspberry PI (like .txt or .conf files) may appear a tricky job for those that are moving their first steps on # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ What_are_the_core_concepts_in_Kubernetes?⠀⇛ What are the core concepts in Kubernetes? Kubernetes, aka K8s, is the current de facto container orchestration platform providing a robust set of tools for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. # ⚓ How_to_Install_OpenHABian_on_a_Raspberry_Pi_to_Make_a_Kick- ass_Home_Automation_Hub⠀⇛ Ever had too many IoT devices all at once? Having to synchronize all those would be a pain without a home automation hub. Here’s how you do it with the OpenHABian and Raspberry Pi! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Linux_Fu:_Supercharge_Bash_History⠀⇛ Having a history of shell commands is a great idea. It is, of course, enormously handy when you have to run something repetitively or you make a simple mistake that needs correction. However, as I’ve mentioned in the past, bash history isn’t without its problems. For one thing, by default, you don’t get history in one window from typing in another window. If you use a terminal multiplexer or a GUI, you are very likely to have many shells open. You can make them share history, but that comes with its own baggage. If you think about it, we have super fast computers with tons of storage compared to the “old days,” yet shell history is pretty much the same as it has been for decades. But [Rcaloras] did think about it and created Bashhub, a history database for bash, zsh, and probably some other shells, too. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Convert_ePub_file_to_PDF_Format_on_Linux⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to convert EPUB file to PDF on Linux easily. EPUB files are used for creating digital publications and e-books. It became an official IDPF standard in September 2007, replacing the old Open eBook standard. # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ Bash_script_to_lock_screen_on_Linux⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to write a bash script that will lock the screen on linux once you execute it. The goal of this script is to simply lock the screen when you need, it basically acts like a switch but the difference is that you wont need # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Create_a_Wi-Fi_Hotspot_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ In this guide I show you how to create a wifi hotspot on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and the recent Ubuntu 23.04 release. Why would you want to do this? Well, before able to share your internet connection with other people (though more commonly, other devices) is a basic feature that most operating systems (desktop and mobile) offer. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Clementine_Music_Player_on Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04⠀⇛ Clementine Music Player is a powerful, open-source, and versatile music player and library management tool that has captured the hearts of audiophiles around the world. This feature-rich software offers users a sleek and intuitive interface, making it easy to navigate and manage large music collections. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Fotoxx_on_Ubuntu_22.04_| 20.04⠀⇛ Fotoxx is a versatile and feature-rich photo editing software designed specifically for Linux users, including those who use Ubuntu. Packed with an extensive array of tools and functionalities, Fotoxx provides a comprehensive solution for all your photo editing needs. # ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ How_to_Search_and_Find_Files_for_Text Strings_in_Linux⠀⇛ You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By utilizing these commands, you can quickly locate the desired files and retrieve the information you need. § Using the “grep” Command The grep command is a built-in Linux command that allows you to search for lines that match a given pattern. By default, it returns all lines in a file that contain a specified string. The grep command is case-sensitive, but you can use specific parameters to modify its behavior. /blockquote> o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ 9000_Games_(Verified_and_Playable)_on_the Steam_Deck_with_a_Heavy_Focus_on_Validating_Games_from_2021 and_2022⠀⇛ It’s time! As you know based on our previous analysis, every month and a half or a bit more (in this case over two months) there’s a 1000 new games added to the list of Verified and Playable games… o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Kaidan_0.9:_End-to-End_Encryption_&_XMPP_Providers⠀⇛ It’s finally there: Kaidan with end-to-end encryption via OMEMO_2, Automatic_Trust Management and support of XMPP_Providers! Most of the work has been funded by NLnet via NGI_Zero_PET and NGI_Assure with public_money provided by the European Commission. We would also like to thank Radically_Open Security (especially Christian Reitter) for a quick security evaluation during the NGI Zero project. Even if Kaidan is making good progress, please keep in mind that it is not yet a stable app. Do not expect it to work well on all supported systems. Moreover, we do currently not consider Kaidan’s security as good as the security of the dominating chat apps. There is a new overview_of_features Kaidan supports. Have a look at that or at the changelog for more details. # ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ Planning_the_future_of_Plasma⠀⇛ # Stabilizing Plasma 6 so we can all start living on it full-time # Discussing significant UX changes we want to make in Plasma 6 # API changes for Frameworks 6 that are relevant for Plasma # Design vision for Kirigami and various Kirigami-related topics # Improving our test infrastructure # ⚓ KDAB ☛ KDDockWidgets_1.7.0_Released⠀⇛ We are happy to announce the release of KDDockWidgets version 1.7.0! What is KDDockWidgets? KDDockWidgets is a development framework for custom-tailored docking systems in Qt, to use when you need advanced docking that is not supported by QDockWidgets. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Creator_10.0.1_released⠀⇛ We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 10.0.1! # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Safe_Renderer_2.0.1_Released⠀⇛ We have released Qt Safe Renderer 2.0.1 for commercial license holders today. As a patch release, QSR 2.0.1 does not add any new functionality but provides bug fixes done on top of QSR 2.0. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Material_3_Changes_in_Qt_Quick_Controls⠀⇛ In Qt 6.5, Qt Quick Controls’ Material style received_an_update_to_Material_3, the latest version of Google’s_open-source_design system. This post will highlight the changes made to each control so that you can adapt your applications accordingly. It will also highlight more general changes and new API, such as the new Material.containerStyle and Material.roundedScale attached properties. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ This_Week_in_GNOME/Felix_Häcker: #94_Configuring_Columns⠀⇛ Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 28 to May 05. # ⚓ Felipe_Borges:_GNOME_will_be_mentoring_9_new contributors_in_Google_Summer_of_Code_2023⠀⇛ We are happy to announce that GNOME was assigned nine slots for Google_Summer_of_Code projects this year! GSoC is a program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. A number of long term GNOME developers are former GSoC interns, making the program a very valuable entry point for new members in our project. In 2023 we will mentoring the following projects: [...] * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Introduction_to_Kali_Linux:_Everything_You_Need_to Know⠀⇛ Kali Linux is a popular Linux distribution that is widely used in the cybersecurity community. It is known for its powerful tools and capabilities that make it an excellent choice for security professionals, ethical hackers, and cybersecurity researchers. If you plan to start your Kali Linux journey, you should know a few basic information about Kali Linux. Here’s a summary. o ⚓ elementaryOS_Updates_for_April,_2023⠀⇛ This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements. § Mail The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential crashes, plus a ton of code cleaning under the hood and even a few performance improvements. The composer now always opens in a separate, non-modal window making it much easier to reference a message you’re replying to or manage multiple drafts at the same time. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the week_2023/18⠀⇛ Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This week, timing is on our side – and we pushed out 8 snapshots in 7 days. Of course, this could only happen because openQA was so very swift in testing yesterday’s snapshot – it passed the entire QA run in just a bit over 3 hours (314 test runs). The snapshots published were numbered 0427 through 0504 and they contained these changes: # openSUSE:Factory is now using suse_version 1699 (unless you need to distinguish it from ALP, keep using > 1500 or >= 1550 as done in the past. No need to use the new version just yet in normal cases # gnome-shell / mutter 44.1 (late joiners for GNOME 44.1) # Boost 1.82 # postfix 3.8.0 # Mesa 23.0.3 # Wayland 1.22.0 # Linux kernel 6.3.1 # libvirt 9.3.0 # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Announcing_the_release_of_SUSE Customer_Center’s_new_landing_page⠀⇛ At SUSE, we are committed to providing our customers and partners with the best possible support and resources. That’s why we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new landing page for the SUSE Customer Center (SCC). o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_– Week_18_2023⠀⇛ This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora Facts:_2023-18⠀⇛ Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_New_AWS_storage_type_for Fedora_Linux⠀⇛ If you filter Fedora Linux AWS images using a script, you might notice a change in the image names. The Fedora Cloud SIG recently updated the image publishing configuration to use the latest generation storage option and simplify the image listings. # ⚓ Major Hayden ☛ Major_Hayden:_Fedora_on_Oracle_Cloud⠀⇛ Add a Fedora x86_64 or aarch64 image to Oracle Cloud and launch an instance. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Rachel ☛ Fulfilling_a_reader’s_request_for_my_“dot_files”⠀⇛ I got a bit of feedback the other day from Nate asking if I had dot files. I certainly do. I assume what they meant is if I have particular customizations, and then if I would care to share them. I definitely have a bunch of particular changes, and as for sharing them, why not. It lets me get a bunch of shots in at things that have become annoying over the years, and that means it’s perfect for stirring up the hornet nests with a Friday night post. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Fanless_media_player_integrates_Tiger_Lake- UP3_CPUs⠀⇛ ADLINK presented today a fanless embedded media player built around the 11th Gen Intel Core processors. The EMP-510 can handle up to four simultaneous displays, two 2.5 Gigabit ethernet interfaces and other serial ports. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Low-cost_evaluation_board_for_LPC86x microcontrollers⠀⇛ The LPC860-MAX by NXP is an evaluation board targeting applications such as motor control, wearables and other consumer products. The eval board is equipped with a 32-bit ultra-low power Arm Cortex-M0+ and up to 54x GPIOs. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ ROS_development_on_Linux,_Windows_and_macOS⠀⇛ Historically ROS has been developed on top of Ubuntu, relying on the distribution as a stable base providing tools (like GCC, CMake, Python to name a few) and libraries (such as Boost, Eigen, PCL) and following its release cycle (a distribution per year, an LTS every two years). This synergy has worked great for more than 15 years and saw the project and the community behind it vastly grow.  However, being tied to a specific Linux distribution raises all kinds of difficulties. Developing for several ROS distributions can be challenging since they each are tied to an Ubuntu distribution. This challenge increases in particular for ROS newcomers that might not even be familiar with Linux. Similarly, developing ROS on Windows or macOS is anything but a pleasant experience. You may see the following message,launch failed: The following errors occurred:                                    timed out waiting for initialization to completeIt simply indicates that a Multipass internal timeout expired. The VM does actually continue its setup in the background and you will be able to use it. To get rid of this message, set a larger timer, e.g. `–timeout 600 # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Dedicated_GPU_For_Your_Favorite_SBC⠀⇛ The Raspberry Pi is famous for its low cost, versatile and open Linux environment, and plentiful I/O, making it a perfect device not only for its originally-intended educational purposes but for basically every hobbyist from gardeners to roboticists to amateur radio operators. Most builds tend to make use of the GPIO pins which allow easy connections to various peripherals and sensors, but the Pi also supports PCI devices which means that, in theory, it could use a GPU in much the same way that a modern computer would. After plenty of testing and development, [Jeff Geerling] brings us this custom graphics card interface for the Raspberry Pi. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Welcome_back_to_CamJam⠀⇛ After a long hiatus due to COVID lockdowns, CamJam — the meet-up for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts in Cambridge, UK — returned last month. The event at Makespace Cambridge was completely sold out, with lots of local tinkerers and professional geeks keen to get back and chat with each other about what they’ve been making over the past couple of years. Often called Raspberry Jams, these community-led events happen all around the world. You can find one near you, or start your own. # ⚓ ROS Industrial ☛ ROS-Industrial_Focused_Technical_Project Robotic_Blending_Milestone_5_Launches⠀⇛ The ROS-Industrial Consortium, championed by the Steel Founders’ Society of America (SFSA), has launched the Focused Technical Project (FTP) Robotic Blending Milestone 5. This builds on the prior Robotic_Blending_Milestone_4, which demonstrated high-mix material surface finishing and edge processing of arbitrarily shaped and contouring parts, largely targeting piece-parts to be welded. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Olimex ☛ Our_most_complex_OSHW_board_–_the_iMX8QuadMax Tukhla_project_first_prototypes_are_assembled_and_they boot!⠀⇛ The Tukhla project was completed in April 2021. However, due to the COVID-19 semiconductor madness, we were unable to assemble prototypes because of the lack of semiconductors. The development of this project is financed by Ignitial SAS, a company based in France. Finally we got enough chips to complete the first three prototypes and we assembled them last week before the May’s Holidays. # ⚓ [Old] PiKVM Handbook ☛ PiKVM_Handbook⠀⇛ Welcome to the PiKVM Handbook – a complete documentation of Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi. Here you will find comprehensive information about all aspects of the operation of PiKVM, get answers to your most difficult questions and be able to solve the problems that have arisen. # ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Schneider_Euro_PC:_Restoration_Part_5⠀⇛ For those who missed it in the previous post, the +12v and -12v lines are only used for the ISA card slot, these each have a tantalum capacitor and one of them failed short-circuit when powered, which caused a fizz noise and a familiar smell to excrete from the machine. Given what the capacitors are for, I don’t see any reason to replace with tantalum types. I instead replaced with electrolytic capacitors. I didn’t really need to replace them at all as those lines are pretty stable and any card that uses them should have their own large decoupling. But I thought it would be good to get it back to spec. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ CYBER:_Apple_II_and_How_the_Computer Became_Personal⠀⇛ That story is the subject of the new book The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal. This week on Cyber, author Laine Nooney comes on to talk about The Apple II Age and how the little machine ushered in a new world of personal computing. Nooney is also an assistant professor of Media and Information Studies at New York University and the founding editor of ROMchip: A Journal of Games Histories. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ What_is_the_difference_between_Firefox_Developer_Edition and_Chrome?⠀⇛ It is important to know the dissimilarities between Mozilla’s FireFox developer edition and Google’s Chrome browser if you are in the web development field. Firefox and Chrome are two favored browsers used by millions of people around the globe. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_Nightly:_Short_but_Sweet_–_These_Weeks_in Firefox:_Issue_137⠀⇛ § Highlights # aminomancer and Negin from the OMC team are making it possible to embed the new migration wizard nicely in about: welcome! This_metabug tracks that effort. # bnasar added support for a new keyboard shortcut_to_toggle_PiP_fullscreen_mode # You can now press the “f” key or double click the PiP window to toggle fullscreen mode # At long last, after much experimentation, the_about:home_startup cache is being (cautiously) rolled out to users on the release channel! The about:home startup cache improves the loading time of about:home on browser start. If all goes well, we expect (almost) all users to have the cache enabled by default in Firefox 113. We may continue to do a few holdback studies just to double-check the performance of the cache in the wild. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ LibreOffice_7.5.3_Released:_Third Maintenance_Update_Brings_119_Bug_Fixes_to_Popular_Open- Source_Office_Suite⠀⇛ Today, The Document Foundation unveiled the release and widespread availability of LibreOffice 7.5.3, which serves as the third maintenance update to the current LibreOffice 7.5 open-source and complimentary office suite series. Approximately five weeks after the launch of LibreOffice 7.5.2, LibreOffice 7.5.3 arrives with a new set of bug fixes for those who have successfully updated their GNU/Linux system to the LibreOffice 7.5 series. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ Why_is_GitHub_Actions_installing_Go_1.2_when_I specify_Go_1.20? [Ed: Why are you using GitHub Actions? It's proprietary, unsafe, and misused by an enemy of Free software, programmers, Go.]⠀⇛ o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Walk_or_wait:_US_ruling_calls_for_more_audio pedestrian_signals⠀⇛ A U.S. federal judge has ruled that Chicago’s lack of audible traffic signals for blind pedestrians violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ruling may inspire other cities as well to improve their roads’ accessibility. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Listen_both_ways:_Blind_walkers winning_safer_road_crossings⠀⇛ A federal judge’s ruling blasting Chicago planners for not equipping more of their intersections with audible signals that help blind pedestrians cross busy streets has given advocates a victory they call long overdue. The recent ruling could push other major U.S. cities to install accessible pedestrian signals. The decision mirrors a previous federal ruling in New York, which is ahead of schedule in complying with a judge’s mandate to retrofit most of its signalized crosswalks in the next decade. Fewer than three dozen of Chicago’s nearly 3,000 intersections with visual crossing signals are equipped with audible cues. A future hearing could determine how many intersections must be upgraded and when. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Keeping_tradition_alive:_Taiwan_artisans still_make_their_living_by_hand⠀⇛ From hand painting movie posters to fashioning chicken feather dusters, some artisans want to do it the traditional way. o ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Artificial_Intelligence…_is_really_just_“Someone Else’s_Intelligence”⠀⇛ Someone else’s writing, painting, coding, speaking… someone else’s work. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ ‘Fast-tracked’_science_bill_provokes criticism_from_academics⠀⇛ The law was hailed as a “milestone in the history of the country” by advocates, while many in the scientific community decried its flaws. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ The_Physics_That_Explain_Why_Peanut_Butter Is_a_Delicious_Liquid⠀⇛ No, really. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Physicists_Discovered_a_Quantum_Trick_For Reaching_Absolute_Zero⠀⇛ There might be a way after all. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_College_President_Defends_Seeking_Money From_Jeffrey_Epstein⠀⇛ Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, said, “Among the very rich is a higher percentage of unpleasant and not very attractive people.” # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 5_Hong_Kong_primary_schools_lose funding_for_first-year_classes,_education_chief_says⠀⇛ Five Hong Kong primary schools will not receive funding for Primary One classes in the upcoming school year after not enough students enrolled, the city’s education chief has said. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ ProPublica:_US_Supreme_Court_Justice_Thomas_failed to_disclose_conservative_donor_paid_great-nephew’s_tuition⠀⇛ ProPublica Thursday reported that US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose that conservative donor Harlan Crow’s holding company paid thousands of dollars in tuition for Thomas’s great-nephew, whom Thomas was raising “as a son. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Hardware_Addicts_75:_Inside_the_Machine:_A Deep_Dive_into_the_Hardware_Powering_AI⠀⇛ Welcome to Hardware Addicts, a proud member of the TuxDigital Network. Hardware Addicts is the podcast that focuses on the physical components that powers our technology world. In this episode, we discuss the hardware that powers AI like ChatGPT and Google Bard. Then we head to Camera Corner where Wendy will discuss Ricoh W6-6. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tactical_Build_Makes_Machining_Splined_Shaft_A Snap⠀⇛ Quick, what’s 360 divided by 23? It’s easy enough to get the answer, of course, but if you need to machine a feature every 15.652 degrees around a shaft, how exactly would you accomplish that? There are a number of ways, but they all involve some degree of machining wizardry. Or, you can just make the problem go away with a little automation. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Op-Amp_Challenge:_Light_Up_Breadboard_Shows_Us The_Signals⠀⇛ Most Hackaday readers will no doubt at some point used a solderless breadboard for prototyping. They do the job, but sometimes their layout can be inflexible and keeping track of signals can be a pain. There’s a neat idea from [rasmusviil0] which might go some way to making the humble breadboard easier to use, it’s a breadboard in which each line is coupled via an op-amp buffer to an LED. In this way it can be seen at a glance some indication of the DC voltage present. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ RTX_4060_Ti_8GB_128-bit_Bus_Config Seemingly_Confirmed_in_New_Listings⠀⇛ A new Russian listing has leaked the memory specifications for Nvidia’s upcoming mid-range GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card, with an underwhelming 128-bit bus making up just 288GBps of rumored bandwidth. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ AMD_to_Make_‘New’_2019-Era_3000G_APUs_to Sell_Old_Motherboards⠀⇛ AMD is reportedly spinning up as many as 30,000 new 3000G APUs in an effort to help move existing stock of old AM4 motherboards. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Health_minister_in_the_hot_seat_over_high drug_prices⠀⇛ Transcript: Don Davies: The lobbying registry reveals that you and members of your political office met with pharmaceutical companies and lobbyists 15 times between October and December 22 alone. Why would you meet 15 times with industry and not once with an agency in your own portfolio? # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Houston-area_Shell_chemical_plant catches_fire⠀⇛ A chemical plant in the Houston area has caught fire, sending a huge plume of smoke into the sky. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said Friday the fire was at a Shell USA Inc. facility in Deer Park, a suburb east of Houston. Harris County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Thomas Gilliland says officers received a service call just after 3 p.m. Friday to help divert traffic around the plant. Gilliland says fire crews from the plant and nearby plants are responding, as well as the Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office, who is leading the response. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ W.H.O._Ends_Covid_World_Health_Emergency Designation⠀⇛ The decision has little practical effect but is a significant moment in the struggle against a virus that has killed millions and upended lives throughout the world. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Science_Reveals_Cause_of_Rare Heart_Trouble_in_Young_Men_Who_Get_COVID_Vaccines⠀⇛ # ⚓ Axios ☛ WHO:_COVID-19_no_longer_global_health_emergency⠀⇛ COVID-19 is no longer a global_health_emergency, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared Friday. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ After_7_million_deaths_and_800_million_cases,_the WHO_declared_the_covid_emergency_over⠀⇛ It’s been 1191 days since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared covid-19 a pandemic (or, officially, a public health emergency of international concern) on Jan. 30, 2020. /p> # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Mississippi_impeding_funds_for Jackson’s_water,_group_says⠀⇛ A federal civil rights group complaint says Mississippi is intentionally creating hurdles that prevent the majority-Black capital city of Jackson from receiving enough money to repair its long- troubled water system. The Southern Poverty Law Center announced Friday that it had filed the civil rights complaint to the federal government. It is asking the Treasury Department to investigate Mississippi’s rules for distributing $450 million to water systems operated by cities, counties and rural water associations. The money came from the federal government. The complaint is the latest of several efforts to bring federal pressure to force improvements for Jackson’s water system, which nearly collapsed last year. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ ‘Los_Chapitos’_claim_they_are ‘scapegoats’_in_letter_to_media⠀⇛ Sons of ex-cartel boss “El Chapo” asserted they have not “produced or commercialized” fentanyl in a letter sent to a television news program. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Tourism_organization_says_medical tourism_sector_is_evading_taxes⠀⇛ The organization’s president told a newspaper that the growing Mexican medical tourism industry is avoiding up to US $500M annually in taxes. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Nigeria_Forms_National_Media_Team_to_Help_Fight Malnutrition⠀⇛ “…the Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture asserted that malnutrition poses a grave risk to the survival…” # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Bird_flu_confirmed_in_Daugavpils⠀⇛ Avian influenza, or bird flu, has been detected in wild birds dead in Daugavpils, representatives of the Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) told LETA on May 5. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Covid-19_global_health_emergency_over: WHO⠀⇛ The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Covid-19 pandemic is over as a global health emergency. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Italy’s_toxic_paradise:_The_beaches_of_Rosignano Solvay⠀⇛ On the Italian coast, in the central region of Tuscany, the seaside resort of Rosignano looks like a picture-postcard paradise with turquoise sea and shimmering white sand. But this landscape is a result of its close proximity to a large factory producing soda ash. For over a century, the Belgian chemical company Solvay has managed the site, with the authorisation to discharge up to 250,000 tons of waste – pumped directly onto the beach. Although legal and monitored, this activity still has considerable environmental and health implications. Life in Rosignano revolves around a battle between the chemical giant and a number of local residents. Our reporters went to meet them. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Amid_drug_shortages,_Lithuanian_minister_proposes_EU common_stocks⠀⇛ As Europe faces a shortage of medicines, Lithuanian Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys says the EU should collectively keep stocks of crucial medications to resolve the problem. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Newly_Developed_Hydrogel_Can_Wipe_Out Brain_Cancer_in_Mice⠀⇛ An astonishing success rate. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Doctors_Conduct_Brain_Surgery_on_Fetus_in Womb_in_World_First⠀⇛ A breakthrough that could save lives. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Astonishing_Discovery_Finds_10,000_Mostly Unknown_Viruses_in_Baby_Poo⠀⇛ Virus species never seen before. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ WHO:_End_of_International_Health_Emergency_for COVID-19⠀⇛ WHO first issued its highest level of alert for COVID-19 on January 30, 2020. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Covid_emergency_is_over_but_virus_still_a danger,_says_WHO⠀⇛ The Covid-19 pandemic, which for over three years has killed millions of people, wreaked economic havoc and deepened inequalities, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the WHO said Friday. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Explainer-Title_42_Is_Ending_at the_U.S.-Mexico_Border._What_Is_It_and_What_Happens_Now?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reason ☛ WHO_Declares_Global_COVID-19_Public_Health Emergency_Over⠀⇛ It’s been over for most Americans for a long time already. # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Statement_by_President_von_der_Leyen on_the_end_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic [Ed: It's NOT over. It's here. It's spreading.]⠀⇛ European Commission Statement Brussels, 05 May 2023 Welcoming the WHO’s announcement that COVID-19 no longer constitutes a global health emergency, President Ursula von der Leyen made the following statement… o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Leaked_Internal_Google_Document_Claims_Open Source_AI_Will_Outcompete_Google_And_OpenAI⠀⇛ In the world of large language models (LLM), the focus has for the longest time been on proprietary technologies from companies such as OpenAI (GPT-3 & 4, ChatGPT, etc.) as well as increasingly everyone from Google to Meta and Microsoft. What’s remained underexposed in this whole discussion about which LLM will do more things better are the efforts by hobbyists, unaffiliated researchers and everyone else you may find in Open Source LLM projects. According to a leaked document from a researcher at Google (anonymous, but apparently verified), Google is very worried that Open Source LLMs will wipe the floor with both Google’s and OpenAI’s efforts. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Uber’s_former_security_chief_was_spared_a_jail sentence_for_trying_to_hide_a_2016_hack⠀⇛ Uber’s former chief security chief has avoided jail time in a case linked to the coverup of a 2016 hack. The judge found his previous work in data security outweighed the harm he did by hiding the data breach. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Pro-Russian_Hackers_Claim_Downing_of_French Senate_Website⠀⇛ The French Senate’s website was offline on Friday after pro-Russian hackers claimed to have taken it down, in just the latest such cyberattack since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ New_Android_Trojans_Infected_Many_Devices in_Asia_via_Google_Play,_Phishing⠀⇛ The recently identified Fleckpe Android trojan has infected over 600,000 users in Southeast Asia via Google Play. # ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope 242_released⠀⇛ The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 242. This version includes the following changes: [...] # ⚓ SANS ☛ Exploratory_Data_Analysis_with_CISSM_Cyber_Attacks Database_–_Part_1,_(Sat,_May_6th)⠀⇛ # ⚓ SANS ☛ Guildma_is_now_abusing_colorcpl.exe_LOLBIN,_(Fri, May_5th) [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ While analyzing a Guildma (AKA Astaroth) sample recently uploaded to MalwareBazaar, we came across a chain of LOLBIN abuse. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Fortinet_Patches_High-Severity Vulnerabilities_in_FortiADC,_FortiOS⠀⇛ Fortinet has released patches for two high-severity vulnerabilities impacting FortiADC, FortiOS, and FortiProxy. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Critical_Siemens_RTU_Vulnerability_Could Allow_Hackers_to_Destabilize_Power_Grid⠀⇛ Siemens recently patched a critical vulnerability affecting some of its energy ICS devices that could allow hackers to destabilize a power grid. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Why_CISOs_should_support_renewal_of_FISA’s_section 702⠀⇛ Because it’s a good new cybersecurity tool # ⚓ Pen Test Partners ☛ Bullied_by_Bugcrowd_over_Kape CyberGhost_disclosure⠀⇛ TL;DR The CyberGhost VPN client suffers from an elevation of privilege vulnerability and is filed under CVE-2023-30237.  # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Western_Digital_to_Bring Services_Back_Online_Soon_After_Security_Breach⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ Microsoft_Patches_Serious_Azure_Cloud Security_Flaws⠀⇛ Microsoft has patched three vulnerabilities in its Azure cloud platform that could have allowed attackers to access sensitive info on a targeted service, deny access to the server, or scan the internal network to mount further attacks, researchers have found. Researchers from the Ermetic Research Team discovered the flaws in the Azure API Management Service, which allows organizations to create, manage, secure, and monitor APIs across all of their environments, they revealed in a blog post published May 4. The flaws — all rated high-risk — include two Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities and a file upload path traversal on an internal Azure workload. # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ AI_companies_spamming_abuse_email addresses⠀⇛ This is another example of how AI companies externalise their costs. If you didn’t take economics at uni, these sites explain the concept: Britannica International_Monetary_Fund Wikipedia For now, I have to live with it. I’m not going to put a blanket ban on security notices coming from domains ending in ai, because that would still be irresponsible. But they’ll have to start proving their worth pretty soon. # ⚓ 10_Best_Linux_Vulnerability_Scanners_to_Scan_Linux_Servers –_2023⠀⇛ Are you searching for Linux Vulnerability scanners that can recognize, characterize, and categorize to Scan Linux Servers, etc? Regarding the security holes, this article can provide a solution to get the details about the most comprehensive Linux Vulnerability Scannerto scan Linux servers for malware and vulnerabilities. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Android_Security_Update_Patches_Kernel Vulnerability_Exploited_by_Spyware_Vendor⠀⇛ Google’s latest Android security updates patch over 40 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-0266, a kernel flaw exploited as a zero-day by a spyware vendor. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ IoT_news_of_the_week_for_May_5, 2023⠀⇛ Washington state has enacted a law to protect health data: Most people are unaware that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) only protects health data shared by doctors and insurance companies. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Why_smart_homes_aren’t_smart_(yet) [Ed: Spyhomes]⠀⇛ The 1999 Disney film Smart House, aside from being 90 minutes of campy fun, was actually pretty prescient about contemporary smart homes. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Police_to_replace_bodycam_system⠀⇛ Finland’s police officers are currently able to decide if bodycam footage should be saved or not. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Judge_Dismisses_F.T.C._Lawsuit Against_Kochava,_a_Location_Data_Broker⠀⇛ The ruling was a blow to the commission’s intensifying efforts to crack down on the sale and use of sensitive personal information. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Leaked_Data_Reveal_the_US_is_an_Unchecked Surveillance_Empire⠀⇛ Espionage is a means by which the U.S. interferes in other countries and achieves its own political goals. # ⚓ NYOB ☛ noyb_win_at_CJEU:_Right_of_access_may_include documents_and_database_extracts⠀⇛ The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled: the right of access is broad and can also include the provision of documents and database extracts. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ Military_moves_to_improve_mental_health_care_access as_suicides_remain_high⠀⇛ The Department of Defense on Friday signed a long- awaited policy to make it easier for service members to access mental health care. The big picture: The policy implements the Brandon Act, signed into law by President Biden in 2021, as the military continues to grapple with mental health issues and suicide within its ranks. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Iran_Consolidates_All-Round_Ties_With_Syria⠀⇛ The new developments suggest that the region is moving from the regional clashing stage to the regional interaction stage. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Joel_Fitzgibbon’s_fight_with_NATO_over_its Afghanistan_strategy⠀⇛ Joel Fitzgibbon recalls being shocked when he became defence minister in 2007 to discover that after years fighting in Afghanistan Australia did not have access to NATO’s planning documents for military operations there. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Presumed_guilt?_Unpacking_Japan’s_99.9% conviction_rate.⠀⇛ Japan’s criminal justice system gets results – but is it justice? Victims of wrongful convictions are speaking out for reform. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Tantardini_in_Longitude_on_Central_and Eastern_European_involvement_in_space⠀⇛ Marco Tantardini discusses the role of Eastern Europe in the space activities of the EU. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Sudan_conflict_straining_fragility_of_its neighbors⠀⇛ The conflict between Sudan’s rival military factions is triggering massive population displacements that are stressing the region’s already fragile coping systems. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Court_convicts_rapper_on_two_counts_of_rape⠀⇛ The victims were a 13-year-old girl and an adult woman. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ UN:_South_Sudan_struggling_to implement_power-sharing_deal⠀⇛ U.N. experts say South Sudan is facing violent clashes and increasing disillusionment and frustration as it struggles to implement the most challenging provisions of a fragile 2018 power- sharing agreement. They identified the challenges in a new report obtained Friday by The Associated Press as integrating rival military forces, drafting a new constitution, and preparing for South Sudan’s first election as an independent country in December 2024. The experts say the country’s stability “will likely turn on the government’s ability to reward the patience of those who remain committed to peace, rather than those who have sought to reshape it through violence.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘A_Nightmare’⠀⇛ We explain the background of the military conflict in Sudan. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Vucic_Vows_Tough_Gun_Control_Measures_After_Second Serbian_Mass_Shooting⠀⇛ At least eight people were killed and 14 wounded in a mass shooting that took place near Belgrade, the second such incident in Serbia in less than two days, as President Aleksandar Vucic proposed measures that he said amounted to “a practical disarmament” of Serbian civilians. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Activist_Dies_After_An_Attack_That Teachers’_Union_Calls_An_‘Assassination’⠀⇛ An Iranian teacher and labor activist has died from injuries he suffered in an attack by unknown assailants in the southeastern province of Sistan- Baluchistan. # ⚓ France24 ☛ President_Joe_Biden’s_national_security_adviser to_visit_Saudi_Arabia⠀⇛ President Joe Biden’s national security adviser said on Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia at the weekend for talks with Saudi leaders as well as Indian and Emirati officials. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Sudanese_army_says_envoys_sent_to_Saudi_Arabia for_truce_talks⠀⇛ The Sudanese army said late Friday that it had sent envoys to Saudi Arabia to discuss “details of the truce in the process of being extended” with its paramilitary foes. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Sudan’s_Warring_Sides_Send Envoys_for_Talks_in_Saudi_Arabia⠀⇛ Sudanese officials say that the country’s two warring generals have sent their envoys to Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at firming up a shaky cease- fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed Sudan to the brink of collapse # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Warring_Parties_in_Sudan_to_Hold_Talks_in Saudi_Arabia⠀⇛ American officials say they hope representatives of two rival Sudanese generals will agree to an enduring cease-fire and to allow humanitarian aid into the country. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Understanding_the_building_blocks_for Australia’s_quantum_future⠀⇛ Australia is undergoing an exciting period of strategic technology policy review and development. The release of its first National Quantum Strategy this week committed the government to building the world’s first error-corrected quantum computer. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ World_military_expenditure_continues_to_climb while_African_defence_expenditure_drops⠀⇛ Global military expenditure continued to increase last year, remaining well over the $2 trillion mark, although defence expenditure in Africa fell for the first time since 2018. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Wagner_threatens_Bakhmut_pullout_over_ammunition spat_with_Russian_army⠀⇛ Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russian paramilitary group Wagner, on Friday threatened to pull his fighters from the front line in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine starting May 10, saying ammunition shortages meant they faced “senseless death”. Russia has incurred significant losses in Bakhmut since starting its offensive there in August. Follow our blog to see how the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_dispatch:_31_years_after gruesome_siege,_Sarajevo_is_still_a_city_in_sorrow⠀⇛ Mykyta Vorobiov is a student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He is currently in Zagreb, Croatia, He recently spent a few days in the city of Sarajevo, in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Ukraine’s_President_Zelensky_calls_for_Putin_to_be sentenced_for_war_crimes_during_Hague_visit⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be brought to justice for his war in Ukraine. Zelensky was addressing The Hague during a visit to the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling for a new international tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Court_Arrests_Crimean_Tatar_Woman_For Alleged_Spying_As_She_Traveled_To_Visit_Ailing_Father⠀⇛ A Moscow court on May 5 arrested a Ukrainian citizen, Crimean Tatar Lenie Umerova, for alleged spying. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Wagner_Chief_Threatens_To_Pull_Forces_Out_Of Bakhmut,_Escalating_Feud_With_Russian_Officials⠀⇛ Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has threatened to pull out all of his mercenary forces from the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a dramatic escalation of his ongoing feud with the Russian Defense Ministry over supplies and support. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian,_Russian_Delegates_Scuffle_At_Black_Sea Conference_In_Istanbul⠀⇛ Ukrainian and Russian delegates scuffled at a Black Sea conference in the Turkish capital of Istanbul over the unfurling of a flag during an interview on May 4. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Fight_For_Bakhmut_Picks_Up_Ahead_of_May_9 Celebration_In_Russia⠀⇛ The Ukrainian military reported on May 5 that fresh Russian reinforcements were being brought into Bakhmut, a city in the Donetsk region where fighting has intensified. The region has been at the epicenter of Moscow’s push in eastern Ukraine, while Russia continued the shelling of southern Ukraine. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Will_Putin_Retaliate_Against_the_U.S.?⠀⇛ As Moscow seeks revenge for American aid to Ukraine, the 2024 U.S. Presidential election presents a Trump-size target. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Engineers_Reduce_Risk_of_Dam Bursting_Near_Russian-Held_Ukraine_Nuclear_Plant_-TASS⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Analysis-Russia’s_Mercenary_Boss Deepens_Fog_of_Ukraine_War_While_Deflecting_Blame⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Unease_Over_Ukraine_War_Grows_Amid Attacks_and_Leadership_Rifts⠀⇛ With a Ukrainian offensive looming, explosions in Crimea and inside Russia have rattled Moscow, sparking bureaucratic infighting among military commanders. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Mercenary_Leader_Threatens_to_Pull Forces_From_Bakhmut_Next_Week⠀⇛ Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, who founded the Wagner group, has long made incendiary threats over a lack of ammunition. It was unclear if he would follow through with his threat. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Dnipro_River,_Axis_of_Life_and_Death in_Ukraine⠀⇛ The river has helped to define Ukraine’s history and culture, and remains vital to daily sustenance, even as it also serves as a front line in war — as it has countless times over thousands of years. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ They_refused_to_fight_for_Russia._The_law did_not_treat_them_kindly.⠀⇛ Since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of Russian men have faced criminal charges for becoming war refuseniks. That has not stopped others from going to unusual lengths to avoid battle. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_wants_to_push_forward._Black, soupy_mud_is_making_that_difficult.⠀⇛ The unusually wet ground is one obstacle that the Ukrainian military, for all of its ingenuity, is finding difficult to overcome as it prepares for a counteroffensive against Russian forces. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_and_Ukrainian_Delegates_Fight_Over Ukrainian_Flag_at_a_Conference⠀⇛ Two altercations over Ukrainian flags occurred at a regional parliamentary conference in Ankara, the Turkish capital. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ To_secure_the_Black_Sea,_the_West_must help_Moldova_stand_up_to_Russian_aggression⠀⇛ Moldova is working on orienting itself more closely with the West, but it needs support to fend off Russian pressure and attempts to gain influence. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian_War_Report:_Prigozhin_threatens Wagner_withdrawal_from_Bakhmut⠀⇛ Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened to withdraw forces from Bakhmut following conflict with Russian military leadership over resources. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Kaunas_mayor’s_company_earns_record_profits_in Russia⠀⇛ Vičiūnų Grupė (Vičiūnai Group), controlled by Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis and his business partner Liudas Skierius, earned a profit of 24.8 million euros in Russia in 2022. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Theater_Director_Berkovich_Sent_To_Pretrial Detention_For_Alleged_Justification_Of_Terrorism⠀⇛ A Moscow court ruled on May 5 to send theater director Yevgenia Berkovich to pretrial detention until at least July 4 on suspicion of justification of terrorism in her production of the play Finist — The Brave Falcon about Russian women who married Muslim men and moved to Syria. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Poland_Summons_Russian_Ambassador_Over Assassination_Comment⠀⇛ The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in protest on May 5 after a former Russian official suggested it would be acceptable to assassinate Poland’s ambassador to Russia. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Chief_Of_Memorial’s_Branch_In_Perm_Detained_At Moscow_Airport_On_His_Way_To_Turkey⠀⇛ The chief of the Memorial human right group’s branch in the Russian city of Perm, Aleksandr Chernyshov, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on May 5. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Invites_Tajik_Counterpart_To_Attend_May_9 Victory_Day_Events_In_Moscow⠀⇛ Tajikistan’s presidential press service said on May 5 that Russian President Vladimir Putin had invited his Tajik counterpart, Emomali Rahmon, to attend events in Moscow on May 9 dedicated to the World War II Victory Day. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ China_&_Russia_Pledge_to_Boost_Cooperation_at Shanghai_Meeting⠀⇛ Lavrov said that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia in March has injected great impetus into the development of bilateral relations. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Says_New_Drone_Attack_Causes_Fire_At_Ilsky Oil_Refinery⠀⇛ A drone attack on the Ilsky oil refinery in southern Russia, the second in as many days, has caused a fire, TASS news agency reported on May 5. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Dozens_Of_Countries_Reaffirm_Opposition_To_Russian, Belarusian_Athletes’_Participation_As_Neutrals⠀⇛ The ministers in charge of sports from dozens of countries in Europe, North America, and Asia issued a statement on May 4 saying they continue to oppose the participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus as neutrals in international sports competitions. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Yevgeny_Prigozhin_Becomes_a_Player_in Russia_After_Years_in_the_Shadows⠀⇛ Yevgeny V. Prigozhin has used his leadership of the Wagner mercenary force and social media to turn brutality into a personal brand. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Mali’s_junta_to_hold_referendum_on_new constitution_in_June⠀⇛ Mali’s ruling junta announced Friday a referendum on a new constitution would be held in the west African nation on June 18. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_2_Students_Rescued_Dozens_of_People from_the_Fighting_in_Sudan⠀⇛ As feuding generals turned the Sudanese capital into a war zone, two university students navigated a battered Toyota through the chaos to rescue dozens of desperate people. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Marcos_says_Philippine_military_bases_won’t_be_used to_attack_China⠀⇛ Philippine president says the U.S. has never asked Manila to contribute troops should war break out over Taiwan. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ China_to_Strengthening_Green_Development_With Zambia⠀⇛ “…China has initiated a proposition for the formation of a green working group to oversee trade relations…” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Trees_That_Survived_Hiroshima⠀⇛ The ginkgo — a species native to China with fan- shaped leaves that turn a vibrant gold in the fall — is one of the oldest and most resilient trees on Earth. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ DOJ_Subpoenaed_Over_Five_Months_of_Mar-a- Lago_Surveillance_Video⠀⇛ The gaps that CNN and NYT report that Jack Smith is attempting to understand might pertain to something other than Walt Nauta moving boxes in and out of the storage room. They might show someone else walking into it. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ How_the_Proud_Boy_Conspiracy_Might_Network Out_in_the_Wake_of_the_Seditious_Conspiracy_Verdict⠀⇛ The verdict in the Proud Boy Leaders case not only provides accountability for the men who led the mob on January 6. it provides prosecutors with a way to network in the remaining Proud Boy “tools” used by those Leaders. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Proud_Boys_1/6_verdict_boosts Justice_Dept._in_Trump_probe⠀⇛ The seditious conspiracy convictions of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three lieutenants bolsters the Justice Department’s high- profile wins in its historic prosecution of the Capitol attack. The verdict handed down Thursday could further embolden the Justice Department and special counsel Jack Smith as his team investigates efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to undo President Joe Biden’s victory. Smith’s work is now proceeding rapidly. Just last week, a federal grand jury heard hours of testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence. Trump loomed large over the monthslong Proud Boys trial at the U.S. Courthouse in Washington, where the Capitol can be seen in the distance from the windows. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Man_gets_14_years_in_1/6_case, longest_sentence_imposed_yet⠀⇛ A Kentucky man with a long criminal record has been sentenced to a record-setting 14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray and a chair as he stormed the U.S. Capitol with his wife. Peter Schwartz’s prison sentence is the longest so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases. The judge who sentenced Schwartz on Friday also handed down the previous longest sentence — 10 years — to a retired New York Police Department officer who assaulted a police officer outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said Schwartz was a “soldier against democracy.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Peter_Schwartz_Gets_14_Years_for_Jan._6 Police_Attacks,_Longest_Sentence_So_Far⠀⇛ The sentence was delivered the same day prosecutors recommended 25 years in prison for Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in the attack. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_We_Know_About_Jordan_Neely,_the_Man Choked_to_Death_on_the_NYC_Subway⠀⇛ On May 1, a 24-year-old man named Daniel Penny choked Jordan Neely, 30, to death on a New York City subway train. Mr. Penny has not been charged. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_to_Respond_to_a_Stranger_in_Mental Distress⠀⇛ Experts explain what to do if you feel threatened and how to offer help if the situation calls for it. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_military_strength_likely_half_of_current estimates:_USIP_scholar⠀⇛ Desertions and defections have weakened the army, suggesting that junta victory is not assumed. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Indonesian_FM:_Jakarta_has_quietly_engaged_with Myanmar_stakeholders,_including_NUG⠀⇛ ASEAN chair Indonesia has had at least 60 engagements so far this year, Retno Marsudi says. # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_says_peace_deal_within_sight_after Armenia–Azerbaijan_talks⠀⇛ Azerbaijan and Armenia have made “tangible progress” towards reaching a consensus in talks over the past few days, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday, adding a final agreement was within sight. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pashinian_Points_To_Lingering_Differences_Between Armenia,_Azerbaijan_After_U.S.-Sponsored_Peace_Talks⠀⇛ Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian still sees a “huge difference” between the wording of a draft peace agreement for Armenia and Azerbaijan and the two sides’ positions despite reported progress in bilateral talks hosted by the United States this week. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Trade_Minister_says_Canada_sees no_need_to_escalate_energy_dispute_with_Mexico⠀⇛ Canada is satisfied with progress being made between Canadian energy companies and the Mexican government, says Minister Mary Ng. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Green_hydrogen:_Loaded_up_and_ (long-haul)_trucking⠀⇛ California and Texas are two potential markets to advance hydrogen-fueled trucking. Both states have excellent potential and can decarbonize heavy-duty transportation. # ⚓ H2 View ☛ OCI_Global_and_NuStar_to_deliver_ammonia_to US_Midwest⠀⇛ OCI Global and NuStar Energy have entered into an agreement for OCI Global to transport ammonia on a new segment of NuStar Pipeline Operating Partnership L.P.’s Ammonia Pipeline System. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ U.S._Bitcoin_Mining_Consumed_50 Billion_kWh_of_Energy_in_2022⠀⇛ The White House’s recently-published DAME tax proposal report brings to light estimates showing that national Bitcoin mining consumed more power than all of the United State’s computers combined. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Fortum_formally_objects_to_seizure_of_Russian assets⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in April allowing Moscow to temporarily seize the Russian assets of Finnish energy firm Fortum. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Bicycle_sales_brake_after_pandemic_in Latvia⠀⇛ After a rapid upturn in bicycle sales during the pandemic, demand is stable this spring, but it is far from the pandemic levels. The good news is that this summer merchants no longer face logistical problems, Latvian Radio reported on May 5. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ No_more_gas_stoves?_New_York_is_first state_to_ban_gas_in_new_buildings.⠀⇛ New York state’s ban on natural gas in new construction has critics, but also supporters who say it’s an important step toward net- zero emissions. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Get_Ready_to_See_More_of_the Northern_Lights⠀⇛ Over the past few months, viewings of the lights have increased in areas farther south than usual. That’s going to continue into 2025. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Damning_evidence_emerges_in_Cambodian_monkey smuggling_case⠀⇛ Footage showing a senior Cambodian official communicating with smugglers is part of U.S. case against him o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ European Commission ☛ State_aid:_Commission_approves_€2.6 billion_Swedish_scheme_to_support_companies_in_the_context_of Russia’s_war_against_Ukraine⠀⇛ European Commission Press release Brussels, 05 May 2023 The European Commission has approved a €2.6 billion (SEK 29 billion) Swedish scheme to support companies active in southern Sweden in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_SEC_just_paid_a_whistleblower_its_largest-ever reward⠀⇛ An anonymous whistleblower who helped the US Securities and Exchange Commission catch a mysterious bad actor was paid_$279_million_dollars as a reward for their assistance. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ La_Jornada_reports_Citibanamex_sale appears_imminent⠀⇛ The newspaper cited unnamed sources in a report Friday that said Citigroup is closing in on selling the bank for more than US $7 billion. # ⚓ Kılıçdaroğlu_promises_to_increase_lowest_civil_servant salary_to_2.5_times_the_minimum_wage⠀⇛ The presidential candidate and 1994 Bureaucrat of the Year asserts that he will increase the minimum salary that a civil servant receives to 21,265 lira (988 Euro) if he is elected. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_You_Should_Forget_What_You_Think_You Know_About_Housing_in_L.A.⠀⇛ Los Angeles, a city known for its conventional single-family homes, may offer some of today’s most innovative solutions for multifamily housing. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania’s_Tripartite_Council_approves_minimum_wage increase_to_€924⠀⇛ Lithuania’s Tripartite Council, representing the country’s government, employers, and trade unions, on Friday approved a proposal to increase the minimum monthly wage by 10 percent to 924 euros next year. # ⚓ LRT ☛ LRT_English_Newsletter:_Yes-but-no_recession⠀⇛ LRT English Newsletter – May 5, 2023 # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Sweden_to_Double_Wage_Requirement_for_Migrant Workers⠀⇛ “The proposal aims to reduce fraud and exploitation linked to work-related immigration…” # ⚓ Carl Svensson ☛ A_Life_Less_Ads⠀⇛ Angry man yells at late stage capitalism. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Brother_of_Lebanon_central_bank_chief_questioned in_European_fraud_investigation⠀⇛ The brother of Lebanon’s central bank governor appeared on Thursday at a hearing in Beirut with European investigators probing whether the siblings embezzled and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds over more than a decade, a judicial source said. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Zimbabwe_is_launching_a_local_digital_currency alternative_to_the_US_dollar⠀⇛ Zimbabwe is introducing local digital tokens in the hope of reducing reliance on the US dollar. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Budget_matters_amid_cost_of_living crisis_across_nation⠀⇛ As federal budget day looms, a chasm has emerged between what’s happening in people’s lives and traditional economic indicators. # ⚓ ACLU ☛ Why_Fair_Housing_is_Key_to_Systemic_Equality⠀⇛ Few fights are more pivotal to ending systemic inequality than the fight for fair_and_stable housing. When Martin Luther King, Jr. launched a campaign to end slums in 1966, he connected the struggle to obtain decent housing with the need to end what he called slum schools, work, health care, and all forms of racial segregation. Today, fair housing remains the key to addressing deepening income inequality and forced displacement from our communities, as the long-lasting reach of discriminatory housing practices constantly shape who has access to quality education, health care, security, opportunity, and wealth. Let’s break down why fair housing is critical to the fight for systemic equality. # ⚓ UScellular_lays_off_staff_as_it_continues_to_lose customers⠀⇛ At the end of the TDS/UScellular earnings call today, one investor summed up the situation from his perspective as someone who has held shares in the company for 32 years. He purchased the stock at $14.34 and said he’s lost half of his investment. He’s listened to executives talk with enthusiasm about future results that don’t seem to come, and he wonders: Why not put the business up for sale and have someone else manage the assets? The stock is at a 32-year low, he said. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Senators_Call_on_USPS_to_Delay Controversial_Pay_Cut_for_Rural_Carriers_Determined_By Mystery_Algorithm⠀⇛ The pay cut affecting two-thirds of rural carriers at a time when the USPS is struggling to deliver mail in rural areas due to a labor shortage is scheduled to go into effect next week. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_countries_with_the_largest_and_smallest_cash and_gold_reserves⠀⇛ As the world undergoes varying crises—climate disasters, the covid-19 pandemic, supply chain and banking turbulence—countries with fewer resources have relied on their foreign reserves to keep their economies afloat. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 186_US_Banks_Could_Collapse:_USA_Today⠀⇛ The recent declines in bank asset values very significantly increased the fragility of the U.S. banking system to uninsured depositor runs. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Workers_to_get_real_wage_lift_ahead_of schedule⠀⇛ Australian workers can expect to see their pay packets growing faster than consumer prices by early next year. An improvement in real wages, which accounts for the corroding effect of inflation on pay increases, was previously earmarked for midway through 2024. Thanks to surging inflation, workers have been hit with staggering declines in real wages. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ ECB_Slows_Pace_of_Rate_Hikes_Amid_Lowering_Yet Sticky_Inflation⠀⇛ “The inflation outlook continues to be too high for too long,” the European Central Bank acknowledged. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ RBA_flags_inflation_concern_over tighter_rental_squeeze⠀⇛ Renters are already feeling the squeeze but population growth and sluggish home building could push prices even higher. Low vacancy rates and strong demand have already sent capital city rents soaring nearly 12 per cent in the last 12 months. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ CNN:_COVID_Crushes_the_Buffets_ (Unfortunate_Embedded_Video)⠀⇛ CNN can’t get their basic editing done anymore. I’ve been catching typos and other problems all over their site. It’s turned into a spam farm designed to post gray goo (synthetic content, very bad, possibly written by ChatGPT) and ads for Amazon products. # ⚓ TTB:_‘Saying_‘we_can_now_beat_the_doctors’_is_clear abetment’⠀⇛ A voter supporting the ruling AKP said in a street interview, “25 years ago, doctors used to scold us. Now we can disfavor the doctors and beat them. We are so comfortable.” Turkish Medical Association is going to be making a criminal complaint against the Youtube channel that broadcast the interview. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_47:_Pro-establishment media_reports_fuelled_concerns_over_plan_to_veto_gov’t budget,_democrat_tells_court⠀⇛ Concerns over the idea of using lawmakers’ constitutional powers to vote down government budgets stemmed from reports by pro-establishment media outlets, a former Hong Kong politician has said in his testimony against dozens of democrats in a landmark national security trial. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_national_security_police seize_Tiananmen_Crackdown_statue_for_‘inciting_subversion’ probe_–_reports⠀⇛ The Pillar of Shame – a monument commemorating those who died amid the 1989 Tiananmen Crackdown – has been seized by Hong Kong’s national security police investigating an “incitement to subversion” case, local media have reported. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Payoffs_Set_Up_Turkey’s_Buildings_to Fall_When_an_Earthquake_Hit⠀⇛ Turkish families got wealthy off a construction system rife with patronage. A Times investigation reveals just how fatally shaky that system was. # ⚓ Turkey’s_youth_deprived,_disillusioned_and_discontent_ahead of_May_14_elections,_report_shows⠀⇛ The proportion of young people satisfied with their lives has dropped to 46 percent in the last five years, and as many as 80 percent of young people experience relative poverty, a new report from the Habitat Association indicates. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Tories_suffer_‘terrible’_night_with_English local_election_losses⠀⇛ British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were facing a bleak set of local election results with voters punishing his party over political scandals, sluggish economic growth and high inflation, early results showed on Friday. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ England’s_Local_Elections_Test_Rishi Sunak’s_Popularity⠀⇛ The Labour Party scored several significant victories in Conservative strongholds in votes viewed as a test of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s popularity. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_ice_hockey_body_slams sports_federation’s_‘unjustified’_allegations_over_anthem blunder⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s ice hockey body has called allegations made by the city’s top sporting committee that it placed insufficient importance on ensuring the correct anthem was played at a recent international match “unjustified. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Georgia_Trump_Investigation,_Most_Fake Electors_Take_Immunity_Deals⠀⇛ Prosecutors are nearing charging decisions after investigating whether former President Donald J. Trump and his allies illegally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 election. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Haymarket_motoring_titles_cut_12%_of_staff as_car_industry_reaches_66-year_low⠀⇛ The teams behind What Car? and Autocar are restructuring to cope with turbulence in the industry. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Big-name_exits_at_Mail_on_Sunday_and_Metro as_dozens_accept_redundancy⠀⇛ The cuts come after the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday were brought “much closer together”. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Poland_makes_its_case_for_European leadership⠀⇛ A close read of Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau’s comprehensive foreign policy statement reveals a country that stands on the side of freedom, even as it faces difficulties with European partners. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Digital_identities_and_border_cultures: The_limits_of_technosolutionism_in_the_management_of_human mobility⠀⇛ A paper to better inform the conversation around technology’s impact on democracy by evaluating technosolutionism and its application to the management of human mobility. # ⚓ France24 ☛ France_plays_down_latest_row_with_Italy_on migration⠀⇛ The French government sought to play down a fresh row with Italy over migration on Friday, saying Rome was an “essential partner” after a spat with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. # ⚓ France24 ☛ India’s_PM_Modi_to_join_Macron_for_France’s Bastille_Day_military_parade⠀⇛ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join President Emmanuel Macron in Paris for France’s Bastille Day military parade on July 14, the two countries said in a joint statement Friday. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Serbian_president_vows_to_‘disarm’_country_after second_mass_shooting_in_two_days⠀⇛ Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic vowed on Friday to launch a large-scale disarmament plan to remove hundreds of thousands of guns from the country following two mass shootings in less than 48 hours. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Jacob_Siegel:_‘Disinformation’_Is_the_Hoax of_the_Century⠀⇛ From Russiagate to COVID discourse, elites in government and the media are trying to control and centralize free speech and open inquiry. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ As_Congress_Rushes_To_Force_Websites_To_Age Verify_Users,_Its_Own_Think_Tank_Warns_There_Are_Serious Pitfalls⠀⇛ We’re in the midst of a full blown mass hysteria moral panic claiming that the internet is “dangerous” for children, despite little evidence actually supporting that hypothesis, and a ton arguing the opposite is true. States are passing bad laws, and Congress has a whole stack of dangerous “for the children” laws, from KOSA to the RESTRICT Act to STOP CSAM to EARN IT to the Cooper Davis Act to the “Protecting Kids on Social Media Act” to COPPA 2.0. There are more as well, but these are the big ones that all seem to be moving through Congress. # ⚓ Four_Kurdish_lawyers_arrested_in_‘terror’_investigation⠀⇛ Since April 25, some 52 people have been arrested and 98 people have been released as part of the investigation # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Jails_Artists_Amid Crackdown_on_Dissent⠀⇛ A Moscow court has ordered pretrial detention for a theater director facing charges of justifying terrorism, # ⚓ RFA ☛ Censorship_in_Hong_Kong_has_led_to_‘war’_on_libraries and_publishers⠀⇛ With help from informers, books are being pulled from shelves under national security law. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Vietnam_asks_Australia_to_recall_a_coin_that_bears South_Vietnamese_flag⠀⇛ The coin honors Australian veterans of the Vietnam War, which the South lost in 1975 # ⚓ Jonathan Faber ☛ AI,_get_ready_to_meet_the_Right_of Publicity_(that’s_it,_that’s_the_post)⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Activist_Gholian_Handed_Two-Year_Sentence For_Comments_About_Khamenei⠀⇛ Iranian labor activist Sepideh Gholian has been handed a two-year prison sentence for chanting a slogan against Iran’s supreme leader shortly after her recent release from detention. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kazakh_Activist_Gets_Five_Days_In_Jail_For Violating_Court’s_Ruling⠀⇛ A court in Almaty has sentenced Kazakh activist Alnur Ilyashev to five days in prison for violating a court-imposed ban on taking part in public gatherings. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Two_journalists_given_prison_sentence_over_reports_on prosecutor⠀⇛ The journalists have been found guilty of “marking people who participated in the fight against terrorism as a target.” # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Will_Turkish_elections_lead_to_greater_press freedom?⠀⇛ Harsh restrictions on press freedom in Turkey have left independent media decimated. Many journalists hope the opposition will win upcoming elections. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz_Journalist_Hospitalized_In_Intensive_Care After_Attack⠀⇛ A journalist working for Yntymak (Solidarity) television and radio company in Kyrgyzstan’s southern city of Osh has been severely beaten and is in a local hospital’s intensive care unit. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ One_of_the_first_Starbucks_locations_to_organize has_voted_to_dissolve_its_union⠀⇛ A Starbucks location in downtown Buffalo—one of the first locations to join a nationwide labor organizing effort—has voted to dissolve its union after submitting a decertification petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week, according to Bloomberg. # ⚓ American Oversight ☛ News_Roundup:_The_Latest_Attacks_on Individual_Rights⠀⇛ # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ State_Legislatures_Go_Rogue⠀⇛ The political scientist Jacob Grumbach on what to make of Republican lawmakers expelling or censuring their political opponents. Plus, a tribute to the American journalist imprisoned by Russia as a spy. # ⚓ ACLU ☛ Showing_Up_to_Protect_the_Right_to_Seek_Asylum⠀⇛ Every year, people, including families with small children, come to the U.S. seeking safety from violence and persecution. The U.S. is bound by both international and domestic laws — born out of the tragedies of World War II — to allow those with a “well-founded fear of persecution” on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group to apply for asylum. Yet over the last several decades, multiple administrations, guided by political rather than humanitarian considerations, have turned their backs on people fleeing persecution. As a result, countless refugees have been forced to remain outside the U.S. or returned to their countries of origin only to be abducted, tortured, and even killed. The ACLU has been at the forefront of the fight to defend asylum every step of the way — and we will never back down. Here’s a look at how we’ve shown up to protect this critical right over the years. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Hundreds_of_Cambodian_migrant_workers_arrested_in Thailand⠀⇛ Photos on social media from last month showed some workers linked together in chains. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Activists_demand_release_of_Uyghurs_held_in_Thai immigration_detention_center⠀⇛ Protests held outside Thai embassies, consulates in Germany and the United States # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Iran_Targets_Businesses_to_Stop_Women_From Ignoring_Hijab_Law⠀⇛ As more Iranian women go without the head scarves mandated by law, efforts by the government to force businesses to promote compliance points to a growing struggle in the months ahead. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Adidas_will_lose_more_than_$770_million_if_it can’t_sell_its_mountain_of_unsold_Yeezys⠀⇛ Adidas has given an update on the size of its Yeezy problem. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Australia_senator_files_legal_action_against_One Nation_leader_over_racist_tweet⠀⇛ Australian Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi announced Wednesday that she filed proceedings in the Federal Court against One Nation leader Pauline Hanson over one of Hanson’s tweets, which Faruqi alleges breached the Racial Discrimination Act. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_In_Afghanistan:_Ban_On_Women_Working_For_UN Seriously_Impedes_Work_In_Country⠀⇛ The United Nations in Afghanistan has reiterated its condemnation of a decision by the Taliban-led government to ban Afghan women from working for the UN, saying the move “seriously undermines our work, including our ability to reach all people in need.” # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ NUJ_votes_to_drop_‘mother’_and_‘father’ titles_for_chapel_leadership⠀⇛ Official NUJ materials will now refer instead to chapel “chairs”. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_slams_Canada’s_‘slander’_after ambassador_summoned_over_intimidation_claims⠀⇛ China slammed what it called “groundless slander and defamation” by Canada on Friday after Ottawa summoned Beijing’s ambassador over accusations a Chinese diplomat sought to intimidate a Canadian lawmaker and his family. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Appeals_Court_Dismisses_Lawsuit_Accusing_Twitter of_Sex_Trafficking⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Graduate_student_strike_at_Temple University_raises_questions_over_teaching_assistant stipends⠀⇛ Graduate students at Temple University were on strike during the spring semester demanding improved wages. The strike ended after the students negotiated a union contract that will raise their annual salary to $27,000 by 2026. At Kent State, graduate students receive tuition remission and partial coverage in health insurance. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Indian_Olympians_Persist_in_Demanding Arrest_of_Wrestling_Chief⠀⇛ Athletes vow to continue a protest after a clash with the police, saying politicians are covering for an official accused of sexually harassing female wrestlers. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Death_of_Hong_Kong_Star_Ferry captain_draws_attention_to_workers’_25-day_shift_pattern⠀⇛ The death of a Star Ferry captain during a shift on Wednesday has drawn attention to the firm’s 25-day work roster. However, workers wished to keep the arrangement – which affords them five days off after working for 25 consecutive days – according to the Star Ferry. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Chinese_fast_fashion_giant_Shein_denies low_prices_due_to_forced_labour⠀⇛ With 9,000 employees worldwide and counting, Shein has big plans for further expansion. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ As_‘Guardians_of_the_Galaxy’_ends,_Marvel keeps_asking_‘What_if?’⠀⇛ How has “Guardians of the Galaxy” influenced diversity and creativity in Marvel offerings? Our commentator reflects on the legacy of the film trilogy as the last volume debuts in theaters. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Writers’_strike:_Has_the_gig_economy_come_for Hollywood?⠀⇛ The first writers’ strike in 15 years comes down to an all-too-familiar dispute in Hollywood: How much are writers worth? # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Supreme_Court_ethics_breach?_New_gift_to Justice_Thomas_surfaces.⠀⇛ Harlan Crow, the same GOP donor who gave luxury gifts to Justice Clarence Thomas, also paid private school tuition for a child Mr. Thomas raised. The latest revelation raises more questions about Supreme Court ethics and disclosure requirements. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Enough_is_enough’:_Bipartisan_bill_sets guardrails_for_social_media⠀⇛ Two Democrats and two Republicans in the Senate are working together to introduce legislation that would protect children from the dark corners of the online world. The bipartisan bill would prevent children under the age of 13 from using social media. # ⚓ Nearly_300_people_detained_in_operations_targeting_HDP_in_a month,_says_official⠀⇛ Four separate investigations have been recently launched against the HDP and other Kurdish-focused organizations. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Project_INVICTUS:_Inside_the_UK’s_Human Rights_Busting_Campaign_to_Spy_on_Refugees⠀⇛ Leaked documents reviewed by MintPress reveal how The British Home Office has been clandestinely spying on refugees’ smartphones under the guise of “combatting human trafficking.” # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_FM_questions_Polish_PM’s_awards_to controversial_Poles_in_Lithuania⠀⇛ Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Thursday met with Polish Ambassador to Lithuania Konstanty Radziwiłł and raised the issue of the Polish state awards given to Waldemar Tomaszewski and Stanislaw Pieszko, the 15min.lt news website reported on Friday. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Understanding_the_Global_Digital_Compact⠀⇛ What are the implications of the UN’s Global Digital Compact? # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Statement_on_internet shutdowns_in_Manipur_in_response_to_ongoing_violence⠀⇛ Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) calls on the authorities in Manipur to review its decision to suspend mobile internet in the state and to comply with Supreme Court of India’s guidelines on internet shutdowns. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Mercedes_Locks_Better_EV_Engine_Performance Behind_Annoying_Subscription_Paywalls⠀⇛ Last year BMW took ample heat for its plans to turn heated seats into a costly $18 per month subscription in numerous countries. As we noted at the time, BMW is already including the hardware in new cars and adjusting the sale price accordingly. So it’s effectively charging users a new, recurring fee to enable technology that already exists in the car and consumers already paid for. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Snoop_Dogg_Tells_Artists_to_Boycott Streaming_Music_Services_—_“Where_the_F*ck_is_the_Money?”⠀⇛ Snoop Dogg has commented on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, saying music artists should do something similar.  Writers are on strike and seeking fairer pay in the streaming era. On a panel earlier this week, Snoop Dogg couldn’t help weigh in. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ California_is_seeking_to_take_down_Ticketmaster’s monopoly⠀⇛ A California bill is taking aim at the US’s largest ticket seller, whose position of dominance of the market has often left concertgoers frustrated at the prices and availability of tickets. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Patent_case:_Raytheon_Company, EPO⠀⇛ From the company name of an appellant alone it can generally not be derived that the appellant does not meet the conditions of Rule 6(4,5) EPC for payment of the reduced appeal fee. # ⚓ Evaluation_of_the_feedback_on_the_Guidelines_2023 [Ed: Guidelines at the EPO are illegal, they're in violation of the EPC, but the corrupt management is trying to make it seem like the public plays a role]⠀⇛ SACEPO Working Party on Guidelines discusses users’ comments and improvements # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $18,000_for_Dominion_Harbor_entity, Monument_Peak_Ventures,_prior_art⠀⇛ Unified added 9 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Monument_Peak_Ventures, an NPE and Dominion Harbor entity. The contests will all end on June 30, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ Via_Licensing_and_MPEG_LA_unite_to_form_Via Licensing_Alliance_patent_pool⠀⇛ Via Licensing and MPEG LA have joined forces to launch a new patent pool, Via Licensing Alliance (Via LA), which will consolidate a large portfolio of patents and IP licensing programmes, as well as the pools already existing under the umbrella of each brand. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Jury_Clears_Live_Nation_and Ticketmaster_in_$120_Million+_Patent_Infringement Lawsuit⠀⇛ A jury has officially cleared Live Nation and Ticketmaster of liability in an over $120 million patent infringement suit.> # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Are_Beer_and_Restaurant Services_Related_for_Section_2(d)_Purposes?⠀⇛ The USPTO refused to register the mark CHICKEN SCRATCH for “beer” on the ground of likely confusion with the identical mark registered for “restaurant services.” Applicant R.S. Lipman argued that the cited mark is weak because it describes registrant’s services, which provide “chicken dishes made from scratch.” The Board pooh- poohed that argument, but what about the “something more” requirement? Did the USPTO clear that hurdle? In_re_R.S._Lipman_Brewing Company,_LLC, Serial No. 88209633 (May 3, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Michael B. Adlin). # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ What_Acrimonious_Copyright Lawsuit?_Ed_Sheeran_Announces_New_Album_&_Apple_Music Live_Performance⠀⇛ Ed Sheeran is celebrating his success in an acrimonious copyright infringement litigation lawsuit with brand-new material. He’ll lead this year’s offering of Apple Music Live performances, too. Apple says Ed Sheeran will perform his new album in full for the first time on Apple Music and Apple TV+ on May 10. # ⚓ Ed_Sheeran_celebrates_trial_win_with_surprise_street concert⠀⇛ The Grammy-winning singer stood on top of a car in Soho while belting out some of his biggest hits such as “Thinking Out Loud” and “Perfect.” # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Ed_Sheeran_serenades_NYers_with_pop-up concert_on_SoHo_street_after_trial_win⠀⇛ “I am just a guy with a guitar who loves writing music for people to enjoy. I am not and will never allow myself to be a piggy bank for anyone to shake,” Sheeran said. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 6845 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.06.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_06/05/2023:_Serving_Gemini_in_Dart⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:37 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Mortal_Taste⠀⇛ On the advice of a friend, I got a subscription to James Hawes’ Turret House Press, a Montreal-based small press. I like to subscribe to small presses where I can, especially Canadian. I usually have a bunch of lit mag subscriptions, and then a few small press subscriptions, getting everything they publish in a year. It’s a lot, and it’s sometimes hard to keep up, but it’s amazing to try to navigate the currents of a small amount of everything being published. Some of it’s amazing. Some of it’s not to my taste, and all of it’s worthwhile. So I got my first Turret House package the other day, and one of the items is “Mortal Taste”, a selection of poems by the late Artie Gold (from a manuscript thought lost, but recently found in the McGill University archives), and poetic responses by George Bowering. # ⚓ On_Bare_Earth⠀⇛ I like to walk barefoot, at least in the yard. Have for a long time. Nothing extreme, no barefoot 5K’s or anything like that, just bare feet on the ground. The beach too, when I’m there. But who doesn’t love that? The other day, I walked outside and noticed something: the earth was very warm. This was due to the spring weather, and sun, of course. But it was the first time I felt it this season, and it made me think a little. # ⚓ christyotwisty’s_5_questions_for_May,_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Car_Detailing⠀⇛ Car Detailing is a really fun, rewarding hobby, BUT it can be VERY time consuming. However, that would depend on how deep you dive into the rabbit hole, it’s similar to ricing your favorite WM Install. The Car Detailing Industry has millions of products, all slightly different, but very similar. The amount of product options to choose from are overwhelming. This is where this post comes in. Considering my Chemistry education along with my Formulation Chemistry experience it allows me look the compounds listed in a product’s Safety Data Sheet (SDS) and determine the active ingredient(s) along with their functions. However,sometimes there are some ingredients omitted from the SDS due to some “trade secret” agreements, but you can really quickly see what chemicals are the ones doing the “work”, thus be able to compare products in a more qualitative way. # ⚓ Yeaw!_My_Ureter_Had_Ruptured!⠀⇛ I feel like a Kafka character: “I am sorry, sir, but it appears that a kidney stone had ruptured your ureter. Please go home and act as usual, but schedule an appointment to see a urologist”… And so, one week ago, I went home, wondering what to do now. Do I need surgery? Is my kidney damaged? Also, there was a lot of pain. They say passing a kidney stone is the most painful thing you can survive, and having it rupture your ureter is even worse. TLDR: Go a drink some water, and keep drinking water to dilute the stones your kidneys are making. # ⚓ May_6:_Mommy._Bus._Philly!⠀⇛ Right thumb’s numb from cutting up a dozen paper- board egg cartons with scissors into long wiggly mulch. Hoed up a little mountain of weeds, Matthew carried a few buckets of them up the hill to compost. Washing machine’s disassembled downstairs. The new water pump should arrive this weekend. Chickpeas soak on the windowsill, and steel cut oats for tom- orrow’s breakfast before Ilona takes 1st daughter to farmer’s market. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AEVLPUH_Wordo:_FRYER⠀⇛ # ⚓ Flugelhorn_Playing_Tips⠀⇛ (Many people think Gemini needs more non-tech content or more variety, and I agree. Here’s some content about a pretty random topic. Is it too random? :D) I have a concert in June and it’s my debut concert as a trumpet+flugelhorn doubler. I think I’m ready, and I think I finally know how to play the flugelhorn well (or at least, well enough) and how to transition between the instruments without losing my tone and my stamina after 1-2 times. The plan is to amaze the audience by playing a slow and emotional Rachmaninoff piece on the flugel, with its velvety and sexy tone, then switch to a fast, bright, sharp and loud Handel concerto on the trumpet. # ⚓ a_pipe,_a_pub,_and_ponderance⠀⇛ I’m thinking, since things are “working out”, as I hoped they would, in regards to moving to Farmington, Missouri (I have been stranded in S St Louis County for fxxx knows how long), that I may revisit writing sometime after I move there. I am bitter and gross feeling all the time, usually because I should have *already* been in Farmington if caseworkers had done their job right. And the isolation and isolation trauma caused soon after things falling through in November left me ugly/ hostile to the world. o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Serving_Gemini_In_Dart⠀⇛ When I said I’d try serving Gemini using Dart, I figured it was at least a half-day project. It turned out to be more like five minutes. [...] The one feature I wanted from my custom server was a way to offer a “one click feedback” mechanism; a way to approximately measure how many people read and liked a post. # ⚓ the_light,_free,_and_open_web⠀⇛ As Gemini adopters I think most of you would agree that the future of the web is small and light but also powerful and meaningful. I think this is the way that not only userland but also products and tools, most notably val.town[1] and hyperspace.so[2], are moving. These sites are cool little glimpses into what can be: a fast and light internet but with massive power and extreme usability. This is how I imagine the web would be if it was stuck in the 90s but continued to grow in power with JavaScript, WebAssembly and more. The Deno team wrote a great blog post about how Server-Side Rendering (SSR) is the future of deploying and serving[3] and how we’re essentially returning to the 90s where everything was rendered on the server and where you receive lightweight applications that are simply “hydrated” on your side for interactivity purposes, and only if necessary. [...] I love my place here on the small web, but I wish everyone else could have one too and I’m not sure that’s possible. My longing for the light, free, and open web continues. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 7096 ➮ Generation completed at 02:42, i.e. 49 seconds to (re)generate ⟲