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It commented on the “Hey Hi” (AI) hype and many other plans of the EPO’s management. When the notorious hype wave isn’t (mis)used to promote European_software_patents (the buzzwords du jour keep changing all the time) it’s used to promote understaffing or layoffs (putting more work pressure/ burden on remaining examiners, forcing them to grant in a rush, sometimes due to inability to find prior art under unreasonable time constraints). “It commented on the “Hey Hi” (AI) hype and many other plans of the EPO’s management.”Rather than comment on what the CSC has to say (we might do a video about this separately), let’s quote what the CSC told colleagues: The CSC has been invited to share its view in the public consultation on the EPO’s Strategic Plan 2028. A new strategic plan is an opportunity to pave the way towards a better future for the Office, where staff is treated as its main asset and is motivated to support and ideally identifies itself again with the mission and objectives of the Office. As the statutory social partner representing EPO staff, we have shared our views with the Office, in this open letter to the President of the Office. Here is the content of the document in (X)HTML/plain text/GemText (depending on the medium used to read this post): European Patent Office | 80298 Munich | Germany centralSTCOM@epo.org Reference: sc23055cl Date: 15/05/2023 Mr António Campinos President of the EPO By email § OPEN LETTER⠀➾ § Consultation on the EPO’s Strategic Plan 2028 – CSC contribution⠀➾ Dear Mr President, The CSC has been invited to share its view in the public consultation on the EPO’s Strategic Plan 2028. A new strategic plan is an opportunity to pave the way towards a better future for the Office, where staff is treated as its main asset and is motivated to support and ideally identifies itself again with the mission and objectives of the Office. As the statutory social partner representing EPO staff, we would like to share our views with you in the appended annex. We have also used the consultation form available online for the convenience of your services. We are looking forward to your careful analysis and remain at your disposal for an exchange before you submit the final document to the December Administrative Council session. Yours sincerely, Alain Dumont Chairman of the Central Staff Committee Annex: Contribution of the CSC to SP2028 ===================================================================== § Contribution of the CSC to SP2028⠀➾ D1 – People As a long-term priority, the EPO must ensure that its employment policies go hand in hand with social progress, thus making sure that digitisation provides tangible and shared benefits to employees, among others: higher work flexibility, better work/life balance, enhancement and support of equality of opportunities and treatment, better work organisation, as well as the creation and preservation of meaningful jobs. As a knowledge based organisation, staff should not be viewed as a financial liability, but rather as its main asset. Hence, recruitment is an important investment in the future of the organisation and crucial to ensure that the EPO can attract the best talent. However, there is no point in recruiting the best people without a solid investment in their training and development to ensure their long- term success and motivation within the EPO. Only this will allow the EPO, not only to remain competitive in the work market, but also to fulfil its social responsibility. The replacement ratio, which is currently too low in all areas of the Office in view of the ageing population, can lead to a lack of diversity and a loss of knowledge within the organisation. It is important to ensure that the EPO attracts a diverse range of candidates, and that the EPO invests in training and development to keep up with the latest tools and technologies. While secondments and young professional programs can, in specific cases and areas, be beneficial for the organisation, it is also important to invest in recruiting regular permanent staff who can bring long-term stability and knowledge to the EPO. The same applies to the outsourcing of tasks, which must be done responsibly to ensure that it does not lead to a loss of knowledge or control over important processes. It is furthermore reminded, that early trends in 2010 to shift essential examination steps to examiners of national patent offices already raises the question as to whether such patents would be legally tenable and that, by acceding to the European Patent Convention, the contracting states ceded sovereign rights to the Organisation, and only to it, and granted it far-reaching immunity for its official activities. Therefore, each of them may also expect that all essential procedural steps of patent examination will be carried out by the EPO. The EPO will need to compare with other organisations/companies to see whether we find the best talents. For sustainability reasons, staff should either be employed on a permanent basis directly, or at least be converted earlier. This would provide stability, avoid the loss of training investments in new talents and reduce the costs associated with high turnover rates. The health of EPO staff must remain a priority. The EPO should aim at further preventing and mitigating occupational health and safety risks, also those psychosocial risks associated ===================================================================== with the new ways of working, including for example risks derived from social isolation or from the continuous use of computers and digital technology. Special attention should be paid to adequate training, support and work adaptations to older employees, in the framework of an ageing policy, should be a priority for maintaining the work capacity in a tight work market defined by declining demographics. The EPO should engage in a genuinely constructive and open dialogue with all social partners with the aim of identifying work-related needs of staff while encompassing positive evolutions of the working conditions in the European society. The possibility to telework within the “New Ways of Working” scheme has given employees more flexibility and contributed to their work- life balance. This flexibility can lead to higher job satisfaction and lower rates of early retirement. Another aspect to reduce the number of early retirements would be to grant requests for working part-time, especially to colleagues who have reached the age of 55. These colleagues would then be able to contribute with their experience to a valuable knowledge transfer for the benefit of the Organisation. ===================================================================== D2 – Homes One important issue is how to create a sense of belonging for newcomers while maintaining it for current employees. Here we see some opportunities we could make use of as an organisation within the scope of this initiative. We should continue funding AMICALE events and get-togethers. Decorating “Offices for a day” could be an effective way to make staff feel better when they book an office at a low cost for the EPO. We could also build nice, decorated areas around the coffee corners. Creating and improving the sense of belonging have a positive impact on staff, such as improving well-being, leading to fewer sick leave, better functioning teams, units, and divisions, and staff being more willing to go the extra mile. It has been communicated, both internally and to the Administrative Council, that every employee who comes at least three days per week to the EPO premises will have the right to a single dedicated office. However, this promise is currently not being fulfilled, and “Bringing Teams Together” (BTT) seems to result in the creation of two different classes of colleagues: those with designated offices/ workplaces and those without. Even those who fulfil the conditions don’t get a dedicated place, and some of the ones who have it don’t use it. Allocation of offices is malfunctioning and creates issues among colleagues. Regarding the exploration of how to use unused space, we expect that this will be in favour of staff, the most valuable asset of the EPO. Renting spaces should not come at the cost of less office space for colleagues who choose the office as the preferred option to work, nor at the cost of AMICALE facilities. Shifting the workplace from physical to virtual spaces can offer more flexibility to our colleagues, which is widely appreciated. However, this shift is sometimes perceived as compulsory. The physical conditions for employees have deteriorated, with fewer meetings in person, no dedicated offices, fewer canteens, and fewer AMICALE physical events. We are worried about the risk of digital isolation. The move to digital communities in our external stakeholder relationships might negatively affect the power of these networks and the long- term relationships established with professional and national offices partners who are now meeting more and more physically after the end of the pandemic. ===================================================================== D3 – Technologies SP2028 focuses on digital transformation and its impact on the Patent Granting Process (PGP). However, there are signs that the emphasis on throughput and efficiency may come at the expense of quality. While digital transformation can bring many benefits, it is essential to ensure that the quality of patents granted and EPO internal databases is not compromised. From the social perspective, the EPO must ensure that digitalisation provides tangible and shared benefits to employees, including better work organisation and the creation and preservation of meaningful jobs. The European Patent Convention (EPC) must be strictly followed and changes in the way that divisions interact with applicants may have legal implications which may require changes to the EPC. In such a case, a Conference of Ministers should be considered to ensure that any changes are made in a transparent and agreed manner and that the interests of all stakeholders are taken into account. Additionally, the current fee structure may need to be changed to align with the new technology-driven PGP process. The EPO should explicitly aim at a human-controlled digitalisation, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). Integration of AI in the EPO processes should only take place in consultation with staff and their representatives, in order to prevent risks to staff and to their fundamental rights associated with its potential misuse. Furthermore, all staff of the EPO should be offered adequate and sufficient training in the use of the modern technologies, with special focus on AI and information security. Transitional measures for older staff closer to retirement should be envisaged (e.g. the possibility for them to keep on working with paper files). As the EPO moves towards embedding its processes in technology, there is an increased risk of security threats. It is critical to ensure that appropriate security measures are in place to safeguard sensitive information and maintain the integrity of the systems. A complete audit of all internal EPO processes from the perspective of the information security should be urgently tasked to independent partners. The results should be supplemented with the introduction of regular upgrades leading to the identification, prevention and mitigation of new threats. Moreover, there are concerns about the transition phase, particularly regarding the increased workload for examiners while recruiting is reduced, and the tools are not yet ready to deliver the expected results. On the positive side, the move towards a paperless process is a welcome development. Structured data entry into the PGP process may potentially help to deliver high quality grants, which will help to improve the quality of future incoming patent applications. However, it is crucial to ensure that the tools are ready and fully functional to achieve these objectives and provide the flexibility required in the procedures. For this purpose, the whole digital workflow and tools should be regularly audited from the functional and ergonomic point of view, both before release and during the production cycle. ===================================================================== The New Ways of Working (NWoW) with the paperless workflow and teleworking introduced during SP2023 brought about that examiners and formalities officers use and must use software tools in an unprecedented frequency and intensity, be it in a stand-alone manner or in collaboration with others. The staff representation considers ergonomics & useability pre- conditions for sustainability and a necessity to make SP2028 a success, as they are essential to safeguard health and well-being when working digitally, in the EPO premises, at home and elsewhere. This requires an intense involvement of the COHSEC as the competent statutory body from the onset and the active support by BIT. Given the potential risks associated with digital transformation, it is essential to have a robust plan B in place in case the tools are not ready in time. Failing this, production pressure in the core business area would be excessive and the quality of the patents granted could be compromised. For the definition of new types of jobs, future work capacity needs as well as future process changes derived from the digitisation, the EPO should engage in a direct, open and constructive dialogue with the social partners. In conclusion, the SP2028 must balance the benefits of digital transformation with the need to maintain quality, ensure compliance with the EPC, and prioritise security. The transition phase must be carefully managed to avoid overburdening examiners and other staff and ensure that the tools are fully functional before being deployed. Automation gains shall not be capitalised before they are delivered. while their benefits should be shared with staff, in terms of better working conditions. Finally, a robust contingency plan must be in place to ensure business continuity in case of unforeseen events. While the measures to be implemented should be regularly identified in close cooperation with the social partners, we can already identify and propose some urgent concrete exemplary steps: - Find a replacement for the “screen coach” (which was promised long time ago) - Convert the filing process to a real digital filing system. Scanning of documents should no longer be necessary. A tool like eDrex is not state of the art and should not be necessary. If any text editor can be used when the filings are in a text format, then this could lead to changes in the fee structure because the filing is no longer page oriented. - A digital filing tool should be able to generate warnings regarding typical errors like “spirit of the invention” or “incorporated by reference” or claim-like clauses. - Do not switch off tools that are still working properly. ===================================================================== D4 – High-quality products and services The EPO should start by defining what “quality” means for the EPO, its stakeholders and the public, and determine which definitions are relevant and necessary. Establishing methods to measure these different concepts of quality is also crucial. The EPO’s commitment to “enhanc[ing] our dialogue with users, listen [ing] to their views and respond[ing] to their needs” is commendable. However, the decision to stop consulting with users (such as IMPACT, PATCOM, and SACEPO) is inconsistent with this commitment. Representatives of the industry have consistently expressed their interest that the EPO’s quality be maintained or even improved, so that legal certainty is created, and litigation is minimised, which saves substantial risks as well as costs for stakeholders and society at large. In SP2028, the driver 4 introduces the concept of “simultaneous working” for rapid interactions, which is presented as potentially offering gains in efficiency and time. It must be clarified at which steps in the patent granting process this new kind of interactions with the users is envisaged, what its legal status will be and whether it is compatible with the requirements of the EPC, in order to avoid opening new paths of litigation. In the view of the representatives of the industry, the patent quality mainly depends on the time that examiners can invest on each patent application, which should not be artificially reduced. Unfortunately, experience shows that the introduction of new software tools has been accompanied by expectations far beyond the actual efficiency gains that such tools can deliver, which has had damaging effects on quality. The success of the EPO’s goals for SP2028, including the delivery of a transparent Patent Granting Process powered by digital tools and the best talents, is heavily dependent on the availability of these tools. What could happen when the talented staff which will be in charge of providing the services with these tools will be less and less (reduction on recruitment rates)? What is the plan B in case these tools are not in time available to support the Patent Granting Process? The EPO should also prioritise analysing the lessons learned from SP2023, consolidating the areas of improvement and addressing any remaining issues, particularly in the area of quality. ===================================================================== D5 – Partnerships and Networks for quality, impact and knowledge The main declared mission of the EPO is to support innovation, competitiveness and economic growth across Europe. Therefore, focusing mainly on cooperation with SMEs and national offices outside the EPC member states would go against its own mission, unless the activities within this new focus would support the EPO’s mission. The resources (staff and money) are limited, therefore, if they are invested mainly on activities outside of Europe, the Office runs the risk to neglect its core activities in Europe. It would potentially also have a negative impact on the EPO’s established relationships with the main industries and the member states. Neglecting these longstanding partnerships could lead to a loss of trust and a perception that the EPO is shifting away from its mission to address new activities which are honourable but outside the scope of the EPOs mission. The EPO can only deliver high-quality patent services if it continues to assess the needs of all its stakeholders. For this reason, the regular exchange with established networks of experts and stakeholders that have been reliable partners to the EPO for the past 50 years is of key importance. Disregarding their expertise and contributions could harm the EPO’s reputation. Therefore, it is important for the EPO to balance its efforts to engage with SMEs and national offices outside the EPC member states with its existing relationships with the main industries and national member states, according to its mission. The EPO should continue to leverage the expertise and contributions of its established networks while seeking new partnerships and collaborations to further enhance its patent services. The establishment of the Observatory is a positive signal. However, we see the risk of an overlap with tasks and activities, which are already carried out in other EPO divisions, such as PD 54 Patent Intelligence. It should be avoided to blur responsibilities and activities. Notice the part about needing to comply with the EPC — something that the EPO hasn’t done for over a decade. 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version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/05/22/epo-strategic-plan-sp2028-meme/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Captain_António’s_Strategic_Plan_SP2028⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 9:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Captain_planet_with_everybody:_No_desk,_No_time,_No_rights, No_independence,_No_rewards,_No_worries!⦈_ Treat your staff like trash, and sooner or later your organisation will get trashed Summary: The EPO‘s António_Campinos has a vision and it’s not particularly inspiring ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣯⣖⣷⣦⣬⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⢿⠿⣽⣻⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣤⣽⣿⣿⠷⡾⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⢯⣿⣷⣿⣿⣻⣮⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣰⣷⣾⡶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⣿⣯⣭⣿⣿⣷⡤⣤⣦⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⣭⡍⣭⢁⣤⣬⡝⣿⢩⣭⣤⡀⣤⣤⢠⣤⣤⡀⣤⢤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣥⣿⣿⣿⣯⣷⡿⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣾⣿ 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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⡟⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⡿⢀⢸⣿⣿⢹⣿⡟⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡇⣿⣿⣁⣤⡝⣿⡇⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢘⣃⣙⢻⣬⣛⣛⣅⡐⠂⣛⡻⠜⠛⣧⣬⣛⣛⠁⢘⠛⣙⣋⣛⣛⣛⣃⣛⣃⢟⣛⣻⡌⢛⣛⠁⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣸⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣮⠁⣶⢦⣨⣵⡄⣉⣀⡀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣝⢿⣇⣯⢿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⣷⠛⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢃⣼⣷⡎⢹⣿⣴⠛⣿⡿⢆⠸⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠀⢾⣿⡞⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 662 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/05/22/ibm-and-fedora/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/05/22/ibm-and-fedora/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ IBM_Versus_GNU/Linux_Community_(Including_Fedora)⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, IBM, Red_Hat at 12:59 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: This recent_video covers Fedora and how IBM sabotages_the_community ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 685 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/05/22/ibm-loves-microsoft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/05/22/ibm-loves-microsoft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ IBM_Loves_Microsoft⠀✐ Posted in IBM, Microsoft at 1:03 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 5 days ago: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇The_best_of_both_worlds:_How_Microsoft_and_Red_Hat_are revolutionizing_enterprise_IT⦈_ Summary: This recent_trend_from_IBM/Red_Hat gives room for concern ⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠁⠉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠘⠒⠶⠒⠒⠀⠀⠊⠒⠐⠒⠒⠀⠀⠓⠒⠒⠓⠖⠒⠂⠀⠐⠓⠒⠂⠂⠚⠚⠀⠀⠊⠒⠒⠒⠒⠘⠐⠲⠒⠒⠂⠒⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣤⣦⡀⢀⣀⠀⠀⡀⡀⡀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠶⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣢⠀⠀⠀⢰⣴⠀⠀⠀⠀⣖⣲⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⡦⠀⠀⠀⠶⡀⠀⠀ ⠀⠙⠾⠭⠷⠘⠙⠛⠛⠃⠋⠛⠛⠂⠀⠀⢠⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⡤⣤⠀⠀⣤⢤⣄⠀⢠⣄⣤⣤⣤⣄⠀⣄⣤⣤⡄⠀⣄⣤⢠⠀⠀ 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Microsoft_Layoffs_Still_Ongoing_This_Week_in_Nuance_Communications⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft at 7:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz The_latest on Microsoft_layoffs that only_one_news_site_wrote_about, based on leaked communications: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Nuance_layoffs_by_Microsoft⦈_ Summary: The Microsoft-friendly (or Microsoft-sponsored) media isn’t mentioning this, but there are still Microsoft layoffs this week and those have nothing to do with prior layoff waves ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⢺⢊⣿⣿⢸⡏⠟⠯⡍⣽⢹⡏⣟⢛⠛⢟⢻⢉⢉⠛⣿⠹⡻⢟⠛⣻⡏⡋⡻⡛⡻⡻⢻⢻⢛⠋⡛⢟⢻⢻⢛⣻⡟⡋⡛⡟⠻⣟⡟⢟⠟⠿⠻⠹⣋⢝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣾⣿⣿⢸⣿⣼⣶⣧⣭⣼⣧⣥⣜⣰⣮⣽⣼⣼⣥⣿⣤⣤⣥⣤⣽⣧⣥⣧⣥⣧⣥⣮⣬⣠⣡⣧⣮⣽⣬⣼⣽⣧⣥⣧⣥⣽⣿⣴⣼⣬⣧⣭⣴⣽⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣐⣼⣿⣿⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣰⡸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣬⣾⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Holding_Criminals_Accountable_—_Part_I_—_Sirius_Crimes_Reported_to British_Authorities,_Formally_Registered_With_References_(Many_Victims), Here’s_What_It_Means_and_What_Happens_Next 2. Holding_Criminals_Accountable_—_Part_II_—_Still_No_Action_From_Action Fraud 3. Holding_Criminals_Accountable_—_Part_III_—_Why_Police_Action_is_the_Only Option_Now 4. Holding_Criminals_Accountable_—_Part_IV_—_British_Prime_Minister “Launches_Crackdown_on_Fraud”,_So_Now_Prove_It 5. Holding_Criminals_Accountable_—_Part_V_—_20_Days_Later,_UK_‘Action_Fraud’ Shows_No_Signs_of_Action 6. Holding_Criminals_Accountable_—_Part_VI_—_26_Days_Later_and_Still Inaction/No_Action_by_the_Police_That_Had_Endless_Resources_for Coronation_Ceremony 7. Holding_Criminals_Accountable_—_Part_VII_—_Fraud_Since_2011_(If_Not Earlier)_Merits_Criminal_Prosecution 8. YOU ARE HERE ☞ Lots More to Come After Police Inaction 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Sirius_management:_here's_your_pension⦈_ Summary: The crimes of Sirius_‘Open_Source’ are being ignored by the police, but that does not mean that holding Sirius accountable is not possible MERELY two weeks from now it’ll be half a year since I left Sirius ‘Open Source’. I’ve since then demonstrated that crimes were committed and I received official letters (several from pension providers) to prove it. The police — as I dare say I expected all along — did nothing about it, but there are 4 more avenues we’ll turn to. There will be big scandals ahead, that’s for sure, assuming we can hold people accountable before they and the company vanish completely. Not only myself but others (former colleagues) suspected something was amiss. Proving it, however, was a big endeavour, owing partly to how pension fund managers operate in the UK (immensely arrogant; not even responding to mail!). “It looks like the pension scheme failed to alert you and failed to alert the regulator,” one person told me recently. “If the employer becomes insolvent, will the incompetence at Standard Life make them liable to cover the loss?” “There will be big scandals ahead, that’s for sure, assuming we can hold people accountable before they and the company vanish completely.”“They try to claim not to know us,” I responded. “This may be a sign that they know they could be liable,” I was told by this person (whose identity and role we prefer to keep private). “Do they have record of any of the employees at all?” He kept on asking crucial questions: “Is there even one employee who has ever received correspondence direct from Standard Life in the past, either by email or by post?” Standard Life and the IFA were in cahoots, and we have official papers to prove it. We shared some of these before. “Standard Life and the IFA were in cahoots, and we have official papers to prove it.”“If you can get evidence that they knew of even one employee then that might be sufficient for all of you to launch a class action together against Standard Life,” the person noted. The pension fraud of Sirius would not have been possible without ‘outside help’… There are several steps ahead of us now, “but the stronger the proof against them,” the person argued, “the harder it is for them to make excuses and the more serious their sentences / director bans.” “This is useful too, especially if they owe you expenses or salary.” The company owed me money, aside from the money stolen for over 5 years (stolen from colleagues too). To quote the British government: “Anyone who’s owed money (the ‘creditor’) can make a statutory demand. You do not need a lawyer.” “Either way, this saga is far from over. We’re only warming up.”Before that, however, we have 3 more escalation points to explore if not exhaust. This can take several more months. Setting the record straight is very important. “There have been some cases where the courts looked beyond the company and seized personal assets of the directors,” the person said, citing this_case. There are some caveats however. To quote the person: You would need to get legal advice and probably have some evidence along these lines: - who was the director at the time you started employment? They should have enrolled you in the pension - any other directors since then - assets of each director (house, shares, 2nd homes, cars, etc) – if they really have no assets then it may not be worth your time. - evidence of criminal acts / decisions / gross negligence leading to the current problem. E.g. did they ever actively send you emails referring to the promised pension? Do you have records of discussing the pension during the hiring process? Same for all the other employees you are in contact with. If the director is also the owner of the company then their share of the company is an asset and in the event that this person faces personal bankruptcy, you could ask to take the company from the liquidator. You need to remember that the purpose of limited companies is to shield director and shareholder’s assets in the case of mistakes and accidents. If you are going to challenge that principle then you really need to have convincing evidence that they knew they were doing something wrong. As a reminder, there are documented cases of the company employing people without an actual work contract (likely illegal) and failing to pay contractors for their work. Sirius is registered as a “limited” company (“SIRIUS CORPORATION LIMITED” and “SIRIUS OPEN SOURCE LTD”). They probably foresaw this mess. Either way, this saga is far from over. 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pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Science # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Some_new_books⠀⇛ New to me, that is. Two new thrift store books, $1/ ea: the life-changing magic of tidying up (2014), Marie Kondo and The Land Breakers (1964), John Ehle Both are hardcover. My wife has the digital version of the Marie Kondo book, and tells me that the book itself suggests being given away, so it’s not odd to see it at a thrift store. Seems like sound advice. It’s a book about letting things go. Maybe it was secretly written by the League of Thrift Store Masters, as propaganda to replenish their shelves? # ⚓ Etymology⠀⇛ It’s probably not a familiar word if you’re an American, maybe more of a British/Canadian thing, but today I learned that “Tory” (as a nickname for Conservatives) is derived from the Irish tóraidhe; appropriately, “bandit”. # ⚓ All_Day_Outside⠀⇛ On Saturday I went up to my parents’ for a family get together with my dad’s sister, my mom’s sister, and my mom’s aunt. I don’t much care for my mom’s side of the family and while I tried coming at them with an open mind and heart, it being a number of years since I’d last seen them, they proved to repeat the same negative traits that has pushed me away from them. My dad and his sister agreed so we ended up spending a lot of time together, hiding from my mom’s half. One of the things I did to stay busy away from the family was prepping an old metal horse trough to be turned into a raised planter box. I had to drill a few holes in the bottom for drainage and load it, as well as a bucket of composted horse manure, into the back of my car. I unloaded it all as soon as I got home that night. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Pixel,_Audio_Clipping,_etc⠀⇛ Yesterday I mentioned I was having audio issues with my Pixel. I never got it sorted out on the default Camera app, despite all the suggestions I found on reddit. So I tried plan B: downloaded Open Camera from the Play Store, tried a few recordings on a few different instruments. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Factorizing_x^5-5x-3⠀⇛ Just another “.tex” file that shows how to factorize some quintic polynomial. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ A_read-only_web_front-end_for_a_news_server⠀⇛ # ⚓ Everybody_Has_a_Take_on_Bubble._Here’s_Mine⠀⇛ But to have arrived at this non-take, I have had a couple of hot or not so hot takes. I participated on Geminispace.org quite a bit. But my foremost reason to participate was because I agree with @skyjake in dog- fooding Gemini for issue tracking for Lagrange. So I had a snack. Because I added my email address to Geminispace.org, I received notifications. I participated in more subspaces. The slow web got faster. Uneasily faster. But the gained value from staying in the loop had more upside than downside; collaboration increased. Still, there was the lingering feeling that I moved from a cozy zen retreat to the hustle and bustle of a metropolis. All those feelings still apply after a week. # ⚓ Feedback_and_Validation,_Engagement_and_Performance⠀⇛ Sometimes I miss the direct and immediate feedback of social media. Most times I’m happy to not hunting down notifications. Sometimes I miss validation for something I wrote or created. Most times I’m happy with just expressing myself. # ⚓ Re:_Everybody_Has_a_Take_on_Bubble._Here’s_Mine⠀⇛ In any case, why should Gemini cater to only one of these groups and not the other? The protocol is simple for sure, but it’s perfectly capable of serving the needs of both groups. Anyone regardless of their preferred communication style can enjoy the other benefits of Gemini, such as privacy, lack of bloated web technologies, no unsolicited ads, and being in control of the overall experience with their client selection, to name a few. This is total speculation, but I feel like the long-form gemlog-preferring group is much smaller than the microbloggers. There are many reasons, but an important one is that serious long-form blogging is more like an art form in that takes dedication and focus, and these things are in short supply. Microblogging is something that many more people are able to partake in, enabling them to express their thoughts and feelings in a way that seems impactful. Here we should be very careful before making value judgements about which form of communication is “better”: one may favor thoughtfulness, and the other immediacy and feedback loops, but both have their strengths and weaknesses. # ⚓ Re:_Bubble⠀⇛ The sourdough protostarter is not really bubbling, yet, and mostly smells of flour. I suspect the environment is more about bleach than yeast, a win from the War on Bacteria. There aren’t any wheat fields visible, though there may be some off in somewhat walking distance range? I’m already doing the “leave the water in a jar for a day so it smells less like a swimming pool” thing. [...] Not sure why bread is still stuck on bubble sort, presumably someone would have invented a better method by now? Okay, that joke was a bit of a stretch. You did not need to hear any of this! =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1409 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_22/05/2023:_Qt_6_in_KDE_Neon_Unstable,_GNU_Parallel_20230522,_and_More Microsoft_Layoffs⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:39 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Python # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh * Leftovers o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ SlashGear ☛ You_Can_Turn_Your_Old_PS2_Into_A_Linux_Computer: Here’s_How⠀⇛ If you still own a classic PlayStation 2 game console, it doesn’t have to just lay in your closet gathering dust, and there is quite a good chance that you’ll be able to turn it into a functioning desktop computer. After its official release by Sony in the spring of 2000, the PlayStation 2 was such a hit that it became the highest-selling video game console of all time, with sales exceeding 155 million units. Sony’s beloved console owes its success to its excellent game library, the revolutionary built-in DVD player feature, the ability to run almost all the PS1 games, and some stellar advertising. Sony also added a feature that can make a PS2 turn into a PC that runs on the Linux Operating System. They made this official in 2002 by launching a comprehensive package called the “Linux for PlayStation 2″ kit. This kit included the Linux Software Installation disks, a 40GB IDE hard drive, an official Sony mouse and keyboard, a Sony PS2 network adaptor, and a special VGA cable to connect to a monitor. o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_USA_–_Alabama⠀⇛ We cover user groups that are running in the US state of Alabama. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Accepting_the_Future_|_LINUX Unplugged_511⠀⇛ How we found peace with the Linux community’s perpetual debates; and our tricks for finding the signal from the noise. # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Using_an_Android_phone_as_a_desktop replacement_(2023_edition)⠀⇛ Because… Why not? # ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ KDE_workshop_at_UOM:_Making_a_Difference_–_5/ 22/2023,_7:30:04_PM⠀⇛ How to contribute and jump start your career in Free Software with the KDE Community Join us for a hybrid event, either online or in- person at the University of Macedonia in Greece. A workshop on how you can make a difference in the world of free software by getting involved with the KDE Community. Learn about our vision and community structure, and discover our impact on today’s world. You will also hear from our community members on skill development, career growth, volunteering, and personal growth. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Dave Airlie ☛ Dave_Airlie:_lavapipe_and_sparse_memory bindings:_part_two⠀⇛  Thanks for all the suggestions, on here, and on twitter and on mastodon, anyway who noted I could use a single fd and avoid all the pain was correct! I hacked up an ever growing ftruncate/madvise memfd and it seemed to work fine. In order to use it for sparse I have to use it for all device memory allocations in lavapipe which means if I push forward I probably have to prove it works and scales a bit better to myself. I suspect layering some of the pb bufmgr code on top of an ever growing fd might work, or maybe just having multiple 2GB buffers might be enough. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Tux_Paint_0.9.30_Digital_Painting_App_for_Kids Adds_Support_for_Sizes_to_Magic_Tools⠀⇛ Highlights of the Tux Paint 0.9.30 release include new re-sizing options for many of the Magic effect tools. The new sizing options give Tux Paint‘s Magic tools a boost and are enabled by default. However, the devs note the fact that this new feature can be deactivated if parents consider that it adds complexity to the program, which will revert all Magic effect tools to their previous behavior. Also new in Tux Paint 0.9.30 is the ability for Brushstroke tools and filters like Desaturate, Kaleidoscope, Metal Paint, and Tint to give users the choice of selecting the tool’s radius. This feature allows for a more finer and coarser application of effects rather than a single, hard- coded size. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ A_guide_to_io_uring⠀⇛ Nick Black has put together an extensive guide to the io_uring API and the lib_uring user-space library. # ⚓ Io_uring⠀⇛ Introduced in 2019 (kernel 5.1) by Jens Axboe, io_uring (henceforth uring) is a system for providing the kernel with a schedule of system calls, and receiving the results as they’re generated. Whereas epoll and kqueue support multiplexing, where you’re told when you can usefully perform a system call using some set of filters, uring allows you to specify the system calls themselves (and dependencies between them), and execute the schedule at the kernel dataflow limit. It combines asynchronous I/O, system call polybatching, and flexible buffer management, and is IMHO the most substantial development in the Linux I/O model since Berkeley sockets (yes, I’m aware Berkeley sockets preceded Linux. Let’s then say that it’s the most substantial development in the UNIX I/O model to originate in Linux): # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Understanding_the_Zombie_Processes_in_Linux⠀⇛ In the realm of operating systems, the term “zombie” usually evokes images of the undead, creatures trapped between life and death. Surprisingly, a similar phenomenon exists in the Linux operating system, where zombie processes lurk, haunting system administrators and developers alike. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ The_Essential_Guide_to_Understanding_Linux Process_Status⠀⇛ Linux, being one of the most popular operating systems in the world, is well-regarded for its efficiency and reliability. It is the heart of many servers, supercomputers, and embedded systems. # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ You_Can_Now_Make_Bootable_ChromeOS_Flex_USB_on Linux⠀⇛ It’s now possible to make a ChromeOS Flex USB on Linux. You thought you could already? So did — but turns out we couldn’t. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_ApacheTop_on_Ubuntu_22.04?⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to install ApacheTop on Ubuntu 22.04. It’s pretty simple to do, so let’s go. According to the GitHub profile of the tool: ApacheTop watches a logfile generated by Apache (in standard common orCombined logformat, and generates human-parsable output in realtime. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Step-by-Step_Guide_on_Deploying_an_Application on_Kubernetes_Cluster⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will provide you with a step- by-step guide on deploying an application on Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes is the de facto container orchestration tool that helps to deploy and manage applications in an efficient and scalable way. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Neon_Unstable_now_using_Qt_6_Builds_of_Frameworks_and Plasma⠀⇛ KDE neon unstable edition is built from git master. For the last few weeks we have frozen the published repo because we knew the move to Qt 6 based builds of KDE Frameworks and Plasma would break install. They will still break install but now is the time to give it a try. It is vitally important to update your neon-settings-2 package first because the Qt 5 and 6 builds have overlapping files and this will allow that. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ DashBar_is_a_Compact_All-in-One_Taskbar GNOME_Extension⠀⇛ Admittedly GNOME Shell is not short of taskbar, panel, and dock extensions. A wide range of alternatives are available, from household names1 like Dash to Panel and Dash to Dock through to niche, nuanced offerings like BaBar Lite, and now DashBar. DashBar has no preferences at all. That’s its USP; it works how the way it works, and if that way isn’t for you, use something else! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Arca Noae ☛ Arca_Noae_Package_Manager_version_1.1.0.2_has_been released⠀⇛ Arca Noae is pleased to announce the immediate availability of an updated Arca Noae Package Manager for ArcaOS, OS/2, and eComStation. (1.1.0.2) This is a minor update to the 1.1.0 release with the following bug fixes: Update SMBIOS to 1.1. Fix bug initializing conflict detection popup.. Increase text limit of quick install entryfield. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ CentOS ☛ High_Performance_Zlib_Compression⠀⇛ As a member of the Hyperscale SIG, Intel maintains a “hyperscale-intel” repository with optimized versions of packages, to help customers maximize their performance on Intel® architectures. As part of this work, we have released an optimized version of the Zlib package for both CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9 yielding significant performance gains. # ⚓ Fedora_Infrastructure_Status:_Upgrade_of_Copr_servers⠀⇛ We’re updating copr packages to the new versions which will bring new features and bugfixes. This outage impacts the copr-frontend and the copr- backend. # ⚓ NeuroFedora ☛ The_NeuroFedora_Blog:_Next_Open_NeuroFedora meeting:_22_May_1300_UTC⠀⇛ Please join us at the next regular Open NeuroFedora team meeting on Monday 22 May at 1300 UTC. The meeting is a public meeting, and open for everyone to attend. You can join us over: [...] o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Parallels_Desktop_Update_Adds_Support_for Ubuntu_23.04_VMs⠀⇛ A clutch of Ubuntu fixes features in the latest update to Parallels Desktop, a popular proprietary and paid virtualization suite for macOS. If you’re now scratching your head wondering why you’re reading about Mac software on an Ubuntu blog I have to say …You do have a point. However, not everyone uses Ubuntu (or indeed other Linux distros or desktops OSes) on bare metal. Some don’t use it out of choice/convenience, while others are limited to only being able to boot macOS because of their job, it’s a work device, etc. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Canonical_at_AWS_Summit_Washington, DC_2023 [Ed: Ubuntu or Canonical promoting proprietary software]⠀⇛ Canonical will participate in AWS Summit Washington, DC 2023 for the second time to discuss the most cutting-edge cloud solutions for the Public Sector, such as security and compliance, AI/ ML solutions and improved functionality. # ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue 788⠀⇛ Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 788 for the week of May 14 – 20, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Reading_mode_updated_with_background playback⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ YouTube_for_Android/Google_TV_adds_more Assistant_commands⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Nokia_T10_becomes_eligible_for_Android_13 upgrade_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ OnePlus_11_and_other_phones_receive OxygenOS_13.1_update_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ PostgreSQL_Group_By_Examples⠀⇛ Guide on different examples of working with the GROUP BY clause to form groups of rows from single or multiple columns when working with the SELEC statement. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ PostgreSQL_Escape_the_Single_Quote_in_String⠀⇛ How to escape the single quotes to use it within a string by doubling the single quotes or using the E backslash method or the dollar-quoted string method. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ PostgreSQL_Group_by_Hour_(Time)⠀⇛ Guide on how to group the timestamp columns using the EXTRACT and DATE_TRUNC functions and how to use the aggregate functions with group by hour in PostgreSQL. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Hispanic_LibreOffice_community_at_esLibre_Conference_2023⠀⇛ Xisco Fauli from The Document Foundation (the non- profit entity behind LibreOffice) writes: On May 12 and 13, the esLibre Conference took place in Zaragoza, Spain and the LibreOffice spanish community took the oportunity to meet in person and talk about the project. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ parallel_@_Savannah:_GNU_Parallel_20230522_ (‘Charles’)_released_[stable]⠀⇛ Subject: GNU Parallel 20230522 (‘Charles’) released [stable] GNU Parallel 20230522 (‘Charles’) has been released. It is available for download at: lbry:// @GnuParallel:4 Quote of the month: Recently learned how to use GNU parallel (from ChatGPT, no less!) and I’ve gone mad with power — Mark, Anthropomorphic Anuran @reject_resubmit@twitter New in this release: # No new features. This is a candidate for a stable release. # Bug fixes and man page updates. News about GNU Parallel: # Introduction to parallel computing https:// youtu.be/fvrHXV8yqU4?t=2874 # Script for summarizing GNU parallel joblog file https://github.com/gavinmdouglas/ parallel_joblog_summary # How to copy a single file to multiple directories in Linux or Unix https:// www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-copy-a-file- to-multiple-directories-using-cp-command/ # Search in your Jupyter notebooks from the CLI, fast. https://dev.to/attilavm/search-in- your-jupyter-notebooks-from-the-cli-fast-1408 # Parallel Job Orchestration with GNU Parallel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tVpUfND3LI # Optional Individual Submission 4 Job Handling 20266001 – GNU Parallel https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC_RPuFCcU8 # DOE Cross-facility Workflows Training – April 12, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Ke3sirM-aQQ # How to run MiXCR 4.x on multiple patient samples using GNU Parallel https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXg-WHlB_dk GNU Parallel – For people who live life in the parallel lane. If you like GNU Parallel record a video testimonial: Say who you are, what you use GNU Parallel for, how it helps you, and what you like most about it. Include a command that uses GNU Parallel if you feel like it. § About GNU Parallel GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel. If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops. GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs. For example you can run this to convert all jpeg files into png and gif files and have a progress bar: parallel –bar convert {1} {1.}.{2} ::: *.jpg ::: png gif Or you can generate big, medium, and small thumbnails of all jpeg files in sub dirs: find . -name ‘*.jpg’ | parallel convert -geometry {2} {1} {1//}/thumb{2}_ {1/} :::: – ::: 50 100 200 You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http:// www.gnu.org/s/parallel/ You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with: $ (wget -O - pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || \ fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh $ sha1sum install.sh | grep 883c667e01eed62f975ad28b6d50e22a 12345678 883c667e 01eed62f 975ad28b 6d50e22a $ md5sum install.sh | grep cc21b4c943fd03e93ae1ae49e28573c0 cc21b4c9 43fd03e9 3ae1ae49 e28573c0 $ sha512sum install.sh | grep ec113b49a54e705f86d51e784ebced224fdff3f52 79945d9d 250b42a4 2067bb00 99da012e c113b49a 54e705f8 6d51e784 ebced224 fdff3f52 ca588d64 e75f6033 61bd543f d631f592 2f87ceb2 ab034149 6df84a35 $ bash install.sh Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/ playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1 Walk through the tutorial (man parallel_tutorial). Your command line will love you for it. When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite: O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, March 2018, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014. If you like GNU Parallel: # Give a demo at your local user group/team/ colleagues # Post the intro videos on Reddit/Diaspora*/ forums/blogs/ Identi.ca/Google+/Twitter/ Facebook/Linkedin/mailing lists # Get the merchandise https:// gnuparallel.threadless.com/designs/gnu- parallel # Request or write a review for your favourite blog or magazine # Request or build a package for your favourite distribution (if it is not already there) # Invite me for your next conference If you use programs that use GNU Parallel for research: # Please cite GNU Parallel in you publications (use –citation) If GNU Parallel saves you money: # (Have your company) donate to FSF https:// my.fsf.org/donate/ § About GNU SQL GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases’ command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries. The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database’s interactive shell. When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite: O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL – A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32. § About GNU Niceload GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the limit. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Cumulative_Percentage_Pandas⠀⇛ The “cumsum()” and “sum()” functions of the “pandas” library are implemented in Python to find the cumulative percentages. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ NumPy_Gradient_Method⠀⇛ To calculate the gradient of the function or Numpy “N-Dimensional” array the “numpy.gradient()” method is utilized in Python. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ PostgreSQL_Group_by_Day_(Date)⠀⇛ Tutorial on how to group the dates per day when working with PostgreSQL using the DATE_TRUNC and the DATE_PART functions along with practical examples. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Using_the_=~_Operator_in_Bash⠀⇛ Comprehensive tutorial on the various methods of using the =~ operator in Bash to search the string values with different types of regular expressions. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Escape_a_Single_Quote_in_Bash⠀⇛ The purposes of using the single quotes in the Bash script using single quotes with both echo and printf commands to define a string data or execute a command. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Bash_Logical_AND_(&&)_Operator⠀⇛ The simple uses of the logical AND operator in Bash script to define the logical expressions in any programming language and check two or more conditions. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Bash_Substring_after_a_Specified Character⠀⇛ Practical guide on the various uses of Bash substring extraction to extract the substring from a string data after a specified character using the Bash script. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Theranos_founder_Elizabeth_Holmes loses_appeal_to_remain_free,_is_hit_with_huge_restitution bill⠀⇛ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Run_a_Large_Language_Model_on_Linux_ (and_Why_You_Should)⠀⇛ Large language models have the potential to revolutionize the way you live and work, and can hold conversations and answer questions with a variable degree of accuracy. To use one, you’d typically need an account with an LLM provider, and to login in via a website or dedicated app. But did you know you can run your own large language model entirely offline on Linux? # ⚓ Becker’s Hospital Review ☛ Microsoft_healthcare_AI subsidiary_Nuance_hit_with_job_cuts⠀⇛ Nuance Communications, a Microsoft subsidiary that provides artificial intelligence-powered speech- recognition services to physicians, is undergoing layoffs as it concentrates on its healthcare business, the Boston Globe reported. CEO Mark Benjamin notified employees of the job cuts May 19 without detailing the number of staffers or departments affected, according to an email obtained by the newspaper. Microsoft bought the company in March 2022 for $19.7 billion. # ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ Tech_layoffs:_Companies_let nearly_200,000_employees_go_in_2023⠀⇛ Last year as the world returned to normal from the COVID-19 pandemic, big names in the tech industry, such as Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, began announcing job cuts. While these made significant headlines, the smaller companies were laying off employees, citing over-hiring during the pandemic. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ SANS ☛ Another_Malicious_HTA_File_Analysis_–_Part_3,_(Sun, May_21st)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_doxxing_site_targeting journalists,_activists_still_online_almost_2_years_after authorities_alerted⠀⇛ A doxxing website targeting thousands of journalists and pro-democracy activists remains online almost two years after HKFP alerted the authorities to its existence with media enquires, and over 18 months since Hong Kong enacted an anti- doxxing law. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups- filters, imagemagick, libwebp, sqlite, and texlive- bin), Fedora (chromium and vim), Gentoo (librecad, mediawiki, modsecurity-crs, snakeyaml, and tinyproxy), Mageia (apache-mod_security, cmark, dmidecode, freetype2, glib2.0, libssh, patchelf, python-sqlparse, sniproxy, suricata, and webkit2), Oracle (apr-util and firefox), Red Hat (git), SUSE (containerd, openvswitch, python-Flask, runc, terraform-provider-aws, and terraform-provider- null), and Ubuntu (tar). # ⚓ Becker’s Hospital Review ☛ CommonSpirit_expects_to_recover most_of_its_$160M_cyberattack_costs⠀⇛ Chicago-based CommonSpirit, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the nation, upped its current estimate of losses stemming from a cyberattack in October to $160 million when it released first-quarter results May 15. The original cost amount was estimated at $150 million. The better news is that the 143-hospital system is confident of recovering much of the revised figure. # ⚓ USDOJ ☛ District_of_Arizona_|_Hacker_Sentenced_to_51_Months in_Prison_for_Stealing_Customer_Credit_Card_Numbers_|_United States_Department_of_Justice⠀⇛ Chirag Patel, 38, most recently of Norfolk, Virginia, was sentenced on May 8, 2023, by United States District Judge G. Murray Snow to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He also was ordered to pay $87,522.25 in restitution. Patel pleaded guilty to Computer Fraud. # ⚓ Following_Lockbit_Ransomware_[WINDOWS]_Hacking,_BSI_Fires Director_of_IT_and_Risk_Management⠀⇛ PT Bank Syariah Indonesia Tbk or BSI at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGMS) in Jakarta, Monday (22/5/2023) decided to appoint a new Director of Information Technology (IT) and Director of Risk Management, namely Saladin D. Effendi and Grandhis Helmi H. . Previously, the Director of Information Technology (IT) was held by Achmad Syafii and the Director of Risk Management was held by Tiwul Widyastuti, both of whom were honorably dismissed at the AGMS. Both were removed after BSI was found to be a victim of the Lockbit ransomware attack last week. Saladin D. Effendi previously served as Chief Information and Security Officer at PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk, and Grandhis Helmi H. previously served as Group Head Commercial Risk 1 at PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Smooth_sailing_or_choppy_waters_for Australia,_NZ_and_the_US_in_the_Pacific?⠀⇛ Last week’s announcement that US President Joe Biden would not travel to Papua New Guinea to meet with Pacific Islands Forum leaders was met with disappointment. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Roles_of_the_chairman_and_vice_chairman of_the_Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff⠀⇛ Major General Arnold Punaro, USMC (ret.) gives an inside look on evolution of the GNA, what factors make for a successful chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the “unfinished business” of the reforms that led to the creation of the CJCS office. # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Hundreds_of_thousands_of_pregnant women_and_new_moms_in_Sudan_have_nowhere_to_go⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ More_than_36,000_people_displaced_by_northern Italy_floods⠀⇛ More than 36,000 people have now been forced from their homes by deadly floods in northeast Italy, regional officials said Saturday, as rising waters swallowed more houses and fresh landslides isolated hamlets. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Climate_activists_turn_Rome’s_Trevi_Fountain black,_saying_deadly_floods_a_‘warning’⠀⇛ Climate activists in Italy turned Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain black on Sunday, saying floods that have killed 14 people in the country’s northeast were “a warning”. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Grupo_Mexico_Says Negotiations_With_Government_More_Difficult_After Railway_Expropriation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Urgent_service_blitz_could_fix Sydney’s_late_train_woes⠀⇛ An urgent “maintenance blitz” is needed to fix Sydney’s a growing backlog of failing rail infrastructure as the government acts to reverse the trend of late and cancelled trains across the network. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Sharp_increase_in people_dodging_public_transport_fares_in_Amsterdam⠀⇛ # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Scientists_discover_380_new_species_in_lower Mekong⠀⇛ Shrinking habitats must be protected, the World Wide Fund for Nature urges. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Honeybees_and America_in_Trouble⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Flooding_the_market_may_not_fix_rental affordability⠀⇛ Households tend to trade up and quit share housing when the market is flooded with excess supply that causes rents to fall.  A study suggests that when space for rent becomes cheaper, households respond by spreading out, quickly cancelling out the effect of extra housing supply on rental costs. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Most_of_the_companies_not repaying_Covid_loans_on_the_verge_of_bankruptcy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Clampdown_on_buy_now,_pay_later following_abuse_claims⠀⇛ A crackdown on buy now, pay later will treat the service similar to other credit products in an attempt to better protect Australian borrowers. Providers will need a credit licence in line with other lending services and adhere to minimum standards and hardship requirements. They will also have to abide by certain marketing restrictions. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ G7_triumphs_and_the_debt_ceiling quagmire_provide_a_glimpse_into_competing_futures_for_US global_leadership⠀⇛ A strong performance at the G7, juxtaposed with the United States’ debt ceiling drama, highlights the challenges facing US international leadership. # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Study reveals_more_than_80%_of_UK_business_owners_dread_labour shortages [Ed: With many people out of work, this narrative seems deeply flawed, maybe politically motivated]⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_VOA launches_online_consultation_to_improve_British_business rates_system⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_The_US_debt_ceiling crisis_is_ultimate_gift_for_China⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Private_Sector: Necessary_for_Bulge_Unemployed_Youth_in_Pakistan?⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ MAY_21:_Countdown_to_runoff:_Updates_on_Turkey’s presidential_election⠀⇛ As President Erdoğan and main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu gear up for the second round of the presidential election on May 28, we bring you updates on the aftermath of the parliamentary and presidential elections, along with the latest developments leading up to the decisive runoff. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Australia_corruption_watchdog_calls_for_audit_of public_sector_staff_following_investigation⠀⇛ An Australian corruption watchdog urged the Northern Territory (NT) government on Thursday to audit personnel records of public officers with certain role qualifications. The move follows findings of corruption within the recruitment processes in the public sector. # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ HS:_Coalition_formation_talks_to_move_into difficult_territory_this_week⠀⇛ THE COALITION FORMATION TALKS in Finland will proceed to what are expected to be the more difficult questions this week, reports Helsingin Sanomat. Petteri Orpo, the chairperson of the National Coalition, on Friday said the negotiation groups assigned to tackle contentious questions such as climate, immigration and social and health care will ramp up their efforts to find positions that are acceptable to each of the four parties involved in the talks: the National Coalition, Finns Party, Swedish People’s Party and Christian Democrats. # ⚓ Race_for_third_player’s_support_ahead_of_Turkey’s_runoff: Is_Oğan_really_a_game_changer?⠀⇛ Both the ruling and the opposition camps seek the support of the nationalist candidate who puts sending refugees back at the center of his rhetoric. But there are question marks over his ability to sway his voters to support the candidate he endorses. # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Minnesota_lawmakers_approve contentious_$3B_tax_bill,_sending_it_to_governor⠀⇛ Members of the Minnesota Senate on Sunday passed a bill containing what DFL lawmakers have described as historic tax relief. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Indigenous_voice_would_be_an ‘overcorrection’:_Dutton⠀⇛ Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has labelled the proposed Indigenous voice an “overcorrection”, telling federal parliament the referendum proposal would be a reckless roll of the dice. Debate on enshrining an Indigenous voice in the constitution got under way on Monday ahead of a referendum on the issue later this year. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Government_eyes_tougher_response_to PwC_scandal⠀⇛ Major consultancy firm PwC could face harsher punishment as the federal government signals further action to clamp down on unethical behaviour.  The government is considering new steps to restore trust with the “Big Four” consultancy firm following a high-profile tax scandal. / blockquote> # ⚓ JURIST ☛ France_appeals_court_upholds_former_President Sarkozy’s_corruption_conviction⠀⇛ The Paris Court of Appeals upheld Wednesday a prison sentence of three years, including two suspended, against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling. Following the decision, Sarkozy’s legal team denied the charges and stated they plan to appeal the matter to France’s highest court of appeals, the Court of Cassation. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Senior_officer_admits_mistake_in Higgins_investigation⠀⇛ A senior detective who investigated Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation has admitted police made a mistake providing sensitive counselling notes to prosecutors and defence lawyers. # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Green_Party_reaction_to Rishi_Sunak’s_food_and_farming_summit⠀⇛ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Greens_call_for_halt_to all_new_fossil_fuel_projects_after_1.5C_warning⠀⇛ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Greens_call_for Renters’_Reform_Bill_to_go_further_and_end_spiralling_rents⠀⇛ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_“Saying_sorry_is_not enough”:_Greens_call_for_water_companies_to_be_brought_into public_ownership⠀⇛ o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Slovakia_court_acquits_businessman_accused_2018 journalist_murder⠀⇛ The Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok, Slovakia ruled on Friday that businessman Marian Kočner was not guilty of the 2018 murders of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusinrova. The court ruled, however, that Alena Zsuzsová–an associate of Kočner–was guilty and sentenced him to 25 years prison. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Video_footage_captures_Greece_coast_guard mistreating_refugees⠀⇛ An Austrian aid worker, named Fayad Mulla, released video footage on Saturday capturing Greek officials mistreating refugees seeking asylum within the country. The New York Times verified the footage with several of the refugees, who have since been relocated to Turkey. The refugees interviewed originated from Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Greece_PM_eyes_new_polls_for_absolute_majority after_conservative_win⠀⇛ Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said his conservative party unleashed a “political earthquake” with a thumping win at Sunday’s election, as he hinted that he would seek a new ballot to obtain an absolute majority enabling it to govern alone. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Far-right_Israeli_cabinet_minister_visits sensitive_Jerusalem_holy_site⠀⇛ An extremist Israeli Cabinet minister visited a sensitive Jerusalem holy site on Sunday at a time of heightened tensions with the Palestinians. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Iranian_border_guards_killed_in_southeastern province_clash⠀⇛ Five Iranian border guards were killed in a clash with an unknown armed group trying to enter the country near the Pakistani border, state TV reported Sunday. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Making_Music_with Meaning⠀⇛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2682 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_22/05/2023:_Smolver_Security_Hole_Fixed⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:41 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Announcements * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_EILXPSM_Wordo:_LOXES⠀⇛ # ⚓ Music_Index!!!⠀⇛ This isn’t really warranting an announcement… But I decided to carve out some of my music related posts into their own page. I often cite these posts and its nice to have a quick place to find them. I want to do more music related writing (even though I am bad at it) so I figured if I carve out its own page then maybe this can incentivize me. Every post I make is going to show up in my gemlog regardless – so I’m keeping my RSS feed the same. It’ll just act as basically a “Tag filter” # ⚓ Duolingo,_Long_Weekend⠀⇛ Two weeks into Duolingo and I’m now in the Gold League (there’s like, five or six tiers). Do enough lessons/get enough points each week, and you move up. So I have. I won my Bronze League by the skin of my teeth, then Silver last week pretty easily. I assume it will just get progressively harder. But, I’m sort of impressed. So many achievements! Gems! Shiny things! Challenges, and practices! The product managers have absolutely mastered the gamification of language learning, holy hell. Incredibly slick, engaging, no rough edges. And even a wicked sense of humour. One of my old online friends, much more fluent in Irish than me, started up again after a few months away. The first sentence Duolingo gave her: “I don’t have time for five minutes a day.” o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Games_Showcase:_Hogwarts_Legacy⠀⇛ Hogwards Legacy, released this year, brings to life a world that many of us already know well. I’m not, I should say up front, a devotee of the series. I read and enjoyed some of the books, I watched and enjoyed the movies; and I think I understand why it’s been hugely successful. The world of Harry Potter is a fun, colourful place to allow one’s imagination to spend time. Still, it took me by surprise just how much I enjoy playing Hogwarts Legacy. # ⚓ Sleepy_morning⠀⇛ Ah, okay. I’m typically in Amfora, and some related documentation seems to get me in the right ballpark. Thanks! # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ One_Week_on_Bubble⠀⇛ The first week has been very useful for testing and bug fixing. Developing a multi- user system locally is a bit challenging, so many issues will only pop up when things are running live. I got up to v1.4 during the first week with some days seeing two upgrades. [...] Using Bubble for issue tracking is promisingly fast and slick. All the cross- referencing and social feature (when they work…) are as useful as expected. Perhaps this will indeed be a viable choice from a developer’s point of view, and maybe Gemini users will prefer this to going on GitHub or some other web interface? I can see myself preferring this. The search feature will need some improvement: it shows issues as regular posts… Issue trackers are hidden from All Posts so their activity is a bit hidden from view, but that is probably for the best. One can always follow the issue tracker subspace for more visibility. # § Announcements⠀➾ # ⚓ Public_Service_Announcement_–_smolver_Security Hole!⠀⇛ I have found a security defect in v1.1.0 or later in smolver: if you have client certificate authentication configured, client certificates (.pem files) could potentially be served if a URL request for the file is received. This is worsened by the fact that per-directory config files, .smol.json files, which may contain authentication configuration data, are also serveable in the same manner. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2852 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_22/05/2023:_SoylentNews_Site_to_Shut_Down_and_New_Releases_of_Pgpool-II Now_Available⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:46 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Arch_Family o Debian_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases 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 Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_May_21st,_2023⠀⇛ This week we didn’t get so many news and releases. Still, we got some interesting ones about some of the new features of the upcoming Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) and KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment. On top of that, I warn you about the end of life of Linux kernel 6.2 and inform you about the new abilities of Xfce’s default screenshot utility. Check out the hottest news of this week and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for May 21st, 2023, below. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd_Show_425:_The_goodbye_Jim_episode⠀⇛ 25:15 – This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jim_Kloss, whom I interviewed_on_the_show_in_2016. Jim was one of my dearest friends, a mentor in life, and a wonderful human being. Recorded late one evening wandering around a park in Sydney. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Enable_HTTP_Strict_Transport Security_(HSTS)_in_Nginx⠀⇛ HTTP Strict Transport Security, commonly referred to as HSTS, is an integral component in the arsenal of any tech-savvy server administrator aiming to enhance server security. In essence, HSTS is a policy mechanism that commands web browsers to interact with the server exclusively over HTTPS, thereby eliminating the possibility of any unencrypted HTTP requests. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_To_Add/Remove_Repository_In_Fedora_using DNF⠀⇛ In the world of Linux, Fedora is a highly popular distribution because of its focus on innovation, community involvement, and incorporation of new technologies. One such technology is DNF, the next- generation package management system for Fedora. DNF (Dandified Yum) is a software package manager that installs, updates, and removes packages on RPM-based Linux distributions. # ⚓ How_to_remove_Software_Center_App_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04?⠀⇛ Software Center is a graphical store app on the Ubuntu Linux system to install various open-source and free applications with one click. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Ubuntu_Budgie_on_Ubuntu 22.04_|_20.04⠀⇛ Welcome to the universe of Ubuntu Budgie, a user- friendly Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that employs the Budgie desktop environment. Ubuntu Budgie combines the stability and efficiency of Ubuntu with the innovative and sleek interface of the Budgie desktop, resulting in a powerful, flexible, and visually pleasing computing platform. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ NFS_with_Kerberos_and_NFS_without Kerberos_are_two_quite_different_things⠀⇛ In my view, the primary threat this form of Kerberos protects you from is untrusted single-user machines that claim the user has logged in to them when the user hasn’t. If you trust the machines, you can trust their claims of what user they’re acting on behalf of. If you don’t trust a machine and people log into it, it’s game over for every user that logs into the machine; the machine acquires access to their Kerberos information and can now make whatever NFS requests in their name that it wants to. If you can’t trust a multi-user machine, you shouldn’t allow people to log into it. So the primary threat you’re protecting against is an untrusted machine operated by user A claiming that it’s actually acting on behalf of user B, when user B has never touched the machine. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past Week_with_the_Outlast_Trials,_Humanity_and_Songs_of_Syx_– 2023-05-21_Edition⠀⇛ Between 2023-05-15 and 2023-05-21 there were 138 new games validated for the Steam Deck. We use numerous criteria to create this best Steam Deck Games list, such as popularity, ranking, and more. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Git_migration_completed⠀⇛ We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! # ⚓ ArchLinux ☛ Git_migration_completed⠀⇛ o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Bits_from_Debian:_Infomaniak_First_Platinum_Sponsor_of DebConf23⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf23 as a Platinum Sponsor. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Video:_8bit_PC_Audio_With_No_Sound Card!⠀⇛ In my blog series about restoring the Schneider EuroPC I mentioned that I wanted to test the parallel port using something special. The special thing was an LPT DAC to play MOD files. The first supplier for this let me down, but the second one has arrived, so here is a video using it! # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Compact_Industrial_PC_based_on_Raspberry_Pi CM4_supports_PoE⠀⇛ This month, EDATEC launched an industrial embedded computer built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. The CM4 Industrial comes with two RJ45 ports, a 4G/LTE module, certified 2.4/5.8G dual- band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and support for external antennas. # ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Use_Raspberry_PI_with_E-Ink_(E-Paper)_display⠀⇛ In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to connect and use Raspberry PI with e-ink display, for Raspberry PI computer boards. I’m not o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_14_supports_screen_recording_just_a single_app⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Why_Does_Android_Have_So_Many_Different Custom_Skins?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_transfer_contacts_to_a_new Android_phone_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Gmail:_Gmail_is_getting_new_search_UI_on_web to_match_Android_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ 7_Fast_Ways_to_Fix_‘Android_Screenshots_Not Working’_Problem⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Billions_of_Android_users_are_just_noticing_a_way to_expose_apps_silently_draining_your_battery_–_and_how_to stop_them_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_Auto_9.6_Stable_Update_Rolling_Out_to_Everyone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wear_OS_4_prepares_to_color_your smartwatches_with_an_Android_12_feature⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Today ☛ OnePlus_11_getting_new_features_with_latest Android_13_update:_All_details_–_India_Today⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion:_Motorola_Android_13_update_rollout_has_been_a disaster⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Cloned_apps_can_be_hidden_from_your_work profile_in_Android_14_Beta_2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Android_14_will_bring_app-level_screen_recording⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Android_14_will_make_the_screen_recording feature_more_privacy-friendly_–_comments⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ How_to_use_iMessage_on_Android_|_How-to⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ 6_easy_ways_to_access_your_Google_account settings_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 15_Best_Weather_Apps_For_Android_Phones⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Nicolas Fränkel ☛ Managing_Data_Residency_–_the_demo⠀⇛ I explained the concepts and theory behind Data Residency in a previous post. It’s time to get our hands dirty and implement it in a simple demo. o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ Weekly_recap_—_21_May_2023⠀⇛ Week highlights: Blender 3.6 beta is out, MLT gets more 10-bit video support, VGC Illustration gets UI update and new tools, DrMr sampler gets a new life in a fork. The GIMP team is meeting live this week somewhere in the EU, for the first time since 2019. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pgmetrics_1.15_released⠀⇛ Hello All, We’re happy to announce the release of v1.15 of pgmetrics. Changes since the v1.14 release include: # New: support for Pgpool 4.x and above. Read more here # Support for PgBouncer 1.18, 1.19. # Updated dependencies. # Performance improvement that drastically reduces the number of queries that pgmetrics makes for databases with large numbers of tables (thanks to Michał Albrycht). # Various bug fixes. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ Pgpool-II_4.4.3,_4.3.6,_4.2.13,_4.1.16_and 4.0.23_released.⠀⇛ § What is Pgpool-II? Pgpool-II is a tool to add useful features to PostgreSQL, including: # connection pooling # load balancing # automatic failover and more. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry W Jones ☛ Rebooting_the_Carolina_Code_Conference⠀⇛ The Carolina Code Conference is a welcoming and community-driven “polyglot” conference that’s set to take place in beautiful downtown Greenville, SC on Saturday August 19th, 2023 in the Greenville ONE building. This conference, which returns for the first time since 2019, invites coders of all experience levels to attend, plug into the development community, share their experiences and have a great time as well. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ 2023-02_Porter-Duff_Compositing_Operators_in_R Graphics⠀⇛ This document describes an upate to the behaviour of Porter-Duff compositing operators in R graphics. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Achieve_your_target⠀⇛ Last week I had to talk my colleagues through the architecture of an R project that we’ve been working on for a while. # ⚓ James G ☛ Announcing_stories.js:_Create_web_stories_on_your personal_website⠀⇛ I am excited to announce stories.js, a HTML component that you can add to your website to create web stories. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Links:_May_21,_2023⠀⇛ The reports of the death of automotive AM radio may have been greatly exaggerated. Regular readers will recall us harping on the issue of automakers planning to exclude AM from the infotainment systems in their latest offerings, which doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense given the reach of AM radio and its importance in public emergencies. US lawmakers apparently agree with that position, having now introduced a bipartisan bill to require AM radios in cars. The “AM for Every Vehicle Act” will direct the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration to draw up regulations requiring every vehicle operating on US highways to be able to receive AM broadcasts without additional fees or subscriptions. That last bit is clever, since it prevents automakers from charging monthly fees as they do for heated seats and other niceties. It’s just a bill now, of course, and stands about as much chance of becoming law as anything else that makes sense does, so we’re not holding our breath on this one. But at least someone recognizes that AM radio still has a valid use case. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Death_of_TCP_predicted:_News_at_11⠀⇛ The news of TCP’s demise in the data centre have been greatly exaggerated. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Watch_A_Web_Page_Fetch_Itself_Over_TLS,_Complete With_Commentary⠀⇛ TLS, byte by byte performs an unusual and interesting function: it fetches itself over HTTPS, and provides a complete annotation of what’s going on in the process, one byte at a time. Visit the site and give the button a click to watch it happen, it’s neat! * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ 12_Dead_in_El_Salvador_Soccer_Stadium_Stampede⠀⇛ It was not immediately clear what prompted the rush at Cuscatlán Stadium in the capital. President Nayib Bukele vowed to conduct a thorough investigation. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ We’ve_Got_A_Saxaboom_At_Home_Son⠀⇛ Most parents have heard a familiar story. Their lovely child comes up, having seen a celebrity rocking out with a funny $20 toy from the 80s, and asks for it. Of course, you reply, it’s just 20 dollars. However, a quick scan through eBay reveals that everyone else’s kid has also been asking for this obscure toy for a school event, which now costs around $700. [Ben] found himself in that exact position and made a crucial off-hand comment, “I bet I could make one of those.” That was how his hectic journey into the world of toy reproduction began. o ⚓ Thorsten Ball ☛ When_the_cymbals_come_in⠀⇛ At the end of his reply, in a separate paragraph, he added a but: once the drummer hits those cymbals, you won’t be able to tell the difference. I didn’t buy the pickups. But not only that. In the years since reading this last paragraph, I turned it over in my mind so many times that it morphed from a comment about guitar gear into something I turn to on a regular basis. o ⚓ NBC ☛ An_ancient_writing_system_from_the_Philippines_makes_an unlikely_comeback⠀⇛ When the Spanish colonized the Southeast Asian archipelago, they instructed Filipinos to use the Latin alphabet, and Baybayin, the written component of Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, fell out of use. But over the past two decades, young people, artists and many among the Filipino diaspora are looking to re- establish a sense of cultural pride, and they have started a movement to bring it back to life. o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia,_Estonia_agree_on_joint_airspace_protection⠀⇛ Latvia and Estonia will jointly purchase anti-air defense systems IRIS-T, creating a new “Livonia Shield” for Latvian and Estonian airspace protection, Latvian Defense Minister Ināra Murniece (National Alliance) and Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said at a press conference Sunday, May 21. o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Fire_destroys_historic_Philippine_post_office building⠀⇛ It took firefighters more than seven hours to get the inferno under control. o ⚓ Soylent News ☛ SoylentNews_Site_Shutdown⠀⇛ This is the post I never thought I would have to make. I am also writing this post on behalf of SoylentNews PBC, the legal owner of SoylentNews, and not as a member of the staff or the community. SoylentNews is going to shut down operations on June 30th. This wasn’t an easy decision to come to, and it’s ultimately the culmination of a lot of factors, some which were in my control, and some that weren’t. A large part boils down to critical maintenance to the site not properly being performed for a very long time. To pay back the mountain of technical debt we’ve built up, it would require relaunching the site from scratch. I’ll discuss this more in depth below, but I can’t personally justify the time any more, especially due to the negative impact that SN is having on my personal life. Before we shut down, at least for the foreseeable future, I’m going to outline the situation as I see it, my own personal responsibility, and what happens next. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ G-7_world_leaders_call_for_research_into_the opportunities_and_challenges_of_AI⠀⇛ In a joint statement released Saturday, international leaders at this weekend’s G-7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan called for the development of international standards that will govern new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Scientist_Figures_Out_How_Many_T._Rex_Ever Existed,_And_It’s_Terrifying⠀⇛ Simply staggering! # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Tweaking_Just_a_Few_Genes_Transforms_Scales Into_Feathers⠀⇛ This is really incredible. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Experiment_Reveals_How_The_Mediterranean Diet_Works_at_The_Cellular_Level⠀⇛ Now that’s cell service. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Number_Comes_Next?_The_On-Line Encyclopedia_of_Integer_Sequences_Knows.⠀⇛ The “mathematical equivalent to the FBI’s voluminous fingerprint files” turns 50 this year, with 362,765 entries (and counting). # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Key_to_Crypto:_Memristor_Made_by_Inkjet Printer_Unlocks_True_Random_Number_Generators⠀⇛ KAUST engineers have found a way to create a True Random Number Generator (TRNG) in a printable, inkjet form that promises groundbreaking energy efficiency. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Neil Selwyn ☛ De-digitisation_of_Swedish_schools_…_what_is Lotta_Edholm_hoping_to_prove?⠀⇛ Rather than getting distracted by moral panics over ‘screen-time’, this approach requires politicians to engage in more complicated conversations around the quality of what is being done on these screens. Rather than knee-jerk decisions to ‘ban’ devices, this approach involves a prolonged commitment to supporting students and teachers make informed choices over when it might be appropriate to be using technology, and when it might not. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Professors_rebuke_uni_bosses_for profit_obsession,_foreign_students,_sagging_standards⠀⇛ University professors have railed against the rising corporatisation of Australia’s universities. Mass redundancies, lack of accountability and diminishing quality of eduction are just some of the issues, as vice-chancellors turn the focus to the gigantic market for Indian students. Michael Sainsbury reports. Barely weeks into the academic year, in early March, ten of Australia’s stupendously remunerated university vice-chancellors, and a phalanx of advisers, left their campuses to take an all expenses paid trip with Education Minister Jason Clare to India. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Cynthia_Peeples_presents_on_legislative changes_to_education_in_Ohio⠀⇛ On Thursday, Cynthia Peeples, board director for League of Women Voters of Ohio and Honesty for Ohio Education founding director presented on the state of education in Ohio at a meeting at Kent State Social Services. # ⚓ Neil Selwyn ☛ De-digitisation_of_Swedish_schools_…_what_is Lotta_Edholm_hoping_to_prove?⠀⇛ For many outside observers like myself, Lotta Edholm’s recent announcement that the Swedish government intends to pull back from Skolverket’s much heralded digitaliseringsstrategi comes as something of a surprise. That said, recently- elected governments are often keen to roll-back policies that they inherit from their predecessors. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Intel_Suggests_Dropping_Everything_But_64-Bit From_X86_With_Its_X86-S_Proposal⠀⇛ In a move that has a significant part of the internet flashing back to the innocent days of 2001 when Intel launched its Itanium architecture as a replacement for the then 32-bit only x86 architecture – before it getting bludgeoned by AMD’s competing x86_64 architecture – Intel has now released a whitepaper with associated X86- S specification that seeks to probe the community’s thoughts on it essentially removing all pre-x86_64 features out of x86 CPUs. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Here’s_How_To_Build_A_Tiny_Compiler_From Scratch⠀⇛ Believe it or not, building a tiny compiler from scratch can be as fun as it is accessible. [James Smith] demonstrates by making a tiny compiler for an extremely simple programming language, and showing off a hello world. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Robotic_Coffee_Comes_To_Brooklyn,_But_Will_It Stay?⠀⇛ Robots are cool. Everyone knows it, and [Eater NY] highlights a coffee shop with a robotic server opening in Brooklyn. While robots able to prepare and serve drinks or food is not new, it isn’t every day a brick-and-mortar café with a robot behind the counter opens up. But expensive automation isn’t the only puzzle piece needed to make a location work. # ⚓ Axios ☛ “No_basis_in_fact”:_U.S._slams_China_claim_that chipmaker_Micron_poses_national_security_risk⠀⇛ China’s government told operators of “critical information infrastructure” to stop buying Micron Technology’s products Sunday and claimed the U.S. chipmaker threatened national security. Driving the news:The Cyberspace Administration of China’s claims that a U.S. Commerce Department spokesperson in a_statement to media Sunday evening said had “no basis in fact” followed a security review of the Idaho-based firm. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ China_Bans_Some_Chip_Sales_of_Micron,_the US_Company⠀⇛ Many analysts see the move as retaliation for Washington’s efforts to cut off China’s access to high-end chips. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ China_Tells_Tech_Manufacturers to_Stop_Using_Micron_Chips,_Stepping_up_Feud_With_United States⠀⇛ China has stepped up a feud with Washington over security by telling users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc. The country’s cyberspace agency says Micron products have unspecified “serious network security risks” that threaten China’s information infrastructure and affect national security # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Chinese_Chipmakers’_Shares_Rise After_China_Fails_Micron_in_Security_Review⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ China_Bans_Micron_Chips_in_Wake_of Cybersecurity_Review⠀⇛ Micron products will be shunned by Chinese IT infrastructure businesses as they “pose a major security risk,” concluded a state review. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ China’s_Micron_Ban_Revives_US Trade_Tensions,_Fuels_Asian_Chip_Rally⠀⇛ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ IBM_announces_new_10-year,_$100M_quantum- centric_supercomputer_initiative⠀⇛ International Business Machines Corp. today announced a new 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100,000 qubits. § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ * ⚓ The Hill ☛ World’s_worst_air_quality:_This_US_city_ranked_in_the_top 5⠀⇛ That’s according to IQAir’s Air Quality and Pollution City Ranking, which is updated hourly, the air pollution advocacy organization explains. It’s important to note that while Denver currently is among the top 5 for unhealthy air, it will likely drop back down once the aforementioned smoke disappears. As of Friday evening, Denver placed fourth on the list. Earlier in the day, it was ranked third. * ⚓ “Subscription_science”_and_real_conflicts_of_interest⠀⇛ Financial conflicts of interest (COIs) have long been recognized as a problem in science and medicine, and, over the last decade or so, increasing efforts have been made to minimize the potential bias caused by COIs. For the most part, rather than banning gifts and payments from big pharma, the approach has been transparency, with journals, conference organizers, and the like requiring disclosure of such payments received and the federal government tallying how much physicians have received from pharma and publishing the payments in the form of a searchable database. (As an aside, I searched for my name, and all that came up was a Florida optometrist with the same name. I was relieved that the database accurately reflected my knowledge that I have not received any payments from industry.) Unfortunately, as I’ve lamented from time to time, a depressing number of my fellow physicians seem to think themselves “above it all” in that they deny that COIs affect them, even though research is very clear that even small gifts can affect decision-making. Physicians are human, as much as we might like to think ourselves as better (or at least able to resist subconscious influences to which humans are prone) and thus just as susceptible to influence as anyone else, be it through financial or social incentives, no matter how much some of us might portray ourselves as medical monks, immune from base considerations of finance and human influence. * ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Maine’s_Growing_Residential_Care_System_Fails_Ailing Seniors⠀⇛ In the mid-1990s, Maine’s lawmakers and health officials made a pivotal decision to reduce the state’s reliance on nursing homes, a move intended to redirect elderly residents toward“more homelike, less institutional” alternatives. The policy change, enacted in 1993 amid a severe budget crunch, helped spark a dramatic transformation of the elder care system in Maine, where 21.7% of the population is 65 or older — the highest percentage in the country. * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Pill_Dispenser_To_Keep_You_On_Track⠀⇛ When forgetting to take medication on time can lead to a bad day or night, having a helper to keep you on track can greatly improve your life. [M. Bindhammer] faces this scenario every day, so he built his own robotic pill dispenser. * ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ The_distributor_of_the_banned_“lung_vitamin”_has emerged_behind_yet_another_suspicious_dietary_supplement⠀⇛ “Researchers make a new breakthrough: an herbal pain reliever”, proclaimed Hirado.hu, the flagship news service of Hungary’s public media, in an article published on June 8th 2022. News of Herbapirin Rapid swept through half of the Hungarian media: following the aforementioned article a few other newspapers reported on the supplement, and a couple of days later they were followed by several other sites, from Világgazdaság to Origo and Magyar Nemzet. All the articles are essentially identical word for word, i.e. said newspapers likely reproduced the distributor’s press release without any changes (incidentally, Telex did not receive such a release). * ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ This_Week_in_the_New_Normal_#63⠀⇛ Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Britain’s “astonishing” rise in heart problems Three days ago Sky News reports a story on a 50% increase irregular heart beats in the UK, … * ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Don’t_let_them_rewrite_history:_Ventilators_KILLED people…and_it_was_no_accident⠀⇛ Kit Knightly A new study from Northwestern University has concluded that the majority of “Covid19” patients put on ventilators were actually killed by bacterial pneumonia, not the alleged virus. You can read that paper here. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Some_hospitals_might_lower_urgent_care_availability:_LTV’s_De Facto⠀⇛ The Ministry of Health has prepared proposals to organize the hospital network, including a plan to exclude surgeons and anesthesiologists from 24-hour reception, reports Latvian Television’s broadcast De Facto on May 21. * ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Mysterious_Form_of_‘Mad_Cow_Disease’_Emerges_in_The US⠀⇛ An atypical case has been detected. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Smoke_from_Canada’s_wildfires_prompts_air_quality_alerts_across U.S.⠀⇛ Smoke from Canada’s_wildfires has drifted across the border and prompted air quality alerts across multiple U.S. states over the weekend. Why it matters:Wildfire smoke poses a threat_to_people’s_health even when hundreds of miles from the fire sites because of its harmful_microscopic_particles, studies show. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ What_Is_Pelvic_Floor_Therapy?⠀⇛ * ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Parasites_Thrive_in_The_US,_Despite_What_Many_Americans Think⠀⇛ The risk is not the same for everyone. * ⚓ Science Alert ☛ A_Popular_Sweetener_Had_A_Worrying_Impact_on Generations_Of_Mice⠀⇛ Next step: human studies. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Back_in_hoodies_and_gym_shorts,_Fetterman tackles_Senate_life_after_depression_treatment⠀⇛ Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to a hospital for clinical depression in February, he used to walk the halls of the Senate stone-faced and dressed in formal suits. These days, he’s back to wearing the hoodies and gym shorts he was known for before he became a senator. People close to Fetterman say his more relaxed style is a reflection of the progress he’s made after six weeks of inpatient treatment for clinical depression. He was treated with medication and fitted for hearing aids for hearing loss that had made it harder for him to communicate. His hospitalization came less than a year after he had a stroke during his Senate campaign. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ China_Issues_Guidance_for_Basic_Elderly_Care System_by_2025⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Cholera_Outbreak_Claims_Ten_More_Lives_in South_Africa⠀⇛ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Evidence_for_Therapy⠀⇛ Does talk therapy work? It’s complicated. § Proprietary⠀➾ * ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Instagram_Working_Again_After_“Technical_Issue” Gets_Resolved⠀⇛ Users had taken to Twitter and other platforms on Sunday afternoon to note that Meta Platform Inc.’s social media app had stopped functioning. It appeared to have gone down sometime around 3 p.m. PT. * ⚓ The Hill ☛ Instagram_experiences_widespread_outage⠀⇛ A spokesperson for Instagram parent company Meta acknowledged the issue in a statement to The Verge, saying, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.” * ⚓ The Verge ☛ Instagram_was_down,_but_now_it’s_working_again⠀⇛ According to the outage tracker DownDetector, the first reports of trouble started a few minutes after 6PM ET before spiking to over 175,000 reports at its peak, but by 7:30PM ET, the issue had been resolved, and it’s working again. In an email to The Verge after the outage, Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold said, “Earlier today, a technical issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Instagram. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we’re sorry for any disruption this has caused.” § Security⠀➾ * ⚓ Security Week ☛ Microsoft:_BEC_Scammers_Use_Residential_IPs_to_Evade Detection [Ed: As usual, Microsoft is trying to blame people who exploit vulnerabilities while Microsoft spreads back doors; so the culprit, Microsoft, is being framed as the protector. Unbelievable.]⠀⇛ Cybercriminals are using residential IP addresses in business email compromise (BEC) attacks to make them seem locally generated and evade detection, Microsoft says. The number of reported BEC attacks is constantly increasing, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) receiving close to 22,000 BEC complaints in 2022 (PDF), with losses totaling over $2.7 billion. As part of a BEC attack, cybercriminals use compromised or spoofed email addresses to send fraudulent requests for wire transfers to employees in charge of making or authorizing payments. The fraudsters request payments to be made to bank accounts they control. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ The_Feds_and_Their_Copycats⠀⇛ The federal government recently revealed that at least 50 U.S. government personnel working in 10 foreign countries have had their mobile devices hacked by unknown persons who employed software known as “zero-click.” * ⚓ IT Jungle ☛ Critical_Security_Vulnerability_In_PowerVM_Hypervisor⠀⇛ IBM’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) put out a notice on Wednesday, May 17, to inform the Power Systems installed base that there is a very serious security vulnerability in the PowerVM hypervisor. You can see the_PSIRT notice_at_this_link and the Security Bulletin: This Power System firmware update is being released to address CVE 2023- 30438 at_this_link. * § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ o ⚓ The Hill ☛ FBI_repeatedly_misused_surveillance_tool,_unsealed FISA_order_reveals⠀⇛ The FBI repeatedly misused a surveillance tool in searching for foreign intelligence to use in cases pertaining to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and 2020 racial justice protests, according to an April 2022 court order publicly released Friday. The order, which was released by the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, is significantly redacted but reveals thousands of violations of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the federal government to collect communications between certain targeted foreign individuals outside the U.S. o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_schools_should_set_up_CCTV cameras_in_classrooms,_police_say⠀⇛ Hong Kong police have suggested that schools install CCTV cameras on campus to enhance security and prevent crime. A new police website called SafeCity.HK lists “school security tips” included the fitting of CCTV cameras to monitor corridors, staircases, reception areas and classrooms. § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Christian_Nationalism_Has_Done_to_Wyoming_Is_a Sin⠀⇛ Wyoming’s new crop of lawmakers seems intent on stripping us of our autonomy and our ability to make decisions for ourselves. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Cannes_movie_explores_roots_of_Sudan_bloodshed,_making festival_history⠀⇛ Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania joined early frontrunners for the Palme d’Or in Cannes with her haunting “Four Daughters”, about the decision by a group of teenage girls to join the jihad in Syria. Meanwhile, Africa’s “Cannes moment” continued with the timely screening of Sudanese drama “Goodbye Julia”, whose director spoke to FRANCE 24 about the bittersweet experience of attending the world’s premier film festival while his home country is at war. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sudan’s_Warring_Sides_Agree_to_Weeklong_Ceasefire⠀⇛ The truce is the first to be signed by both sides. It followed weeks of talks in Saudi Arabia between representatives of the two rival generals vying for power in the northeast African nation. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fleeing_Afghanistan,_U.S._Allies_Risk_Journey_Through Darién_Gap⠀⇛ For thousands of Afghans, the American withdrawal from Kabul was just the beginning of a long, dangerous search for safety. * ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Australia’s_intelligence_community_must_adapt_to_stay ahead_of_the_game⠀⇛ The next independent review of Australia’s intelligence community received welcome funding in this month’s federal budget. * ⚓ [Repeat] The Conversation ☛ How_the_Manchester_Arena_attack_showed_that altruism_is_human_instinct⠀⇛ You might expect such acts of benevolence to become less frequent as personal risk increases, but this does not appear to be the case. In terrorist attacks, there are often reports of astonishing selflessness, despite life-threatening danger. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Fire_breaks_out_at_military_enlistment_office_in_eastern Moscow_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A building in Moscow that contains, among other things, a military enlistment office caught on fire on Monday morning, according to Russian state media. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘How_our_grandfathers_probably_felt_in_Berlin’:_What_Russian state_TV_has_to_say_about_the_battle_for_Bakhmut_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On May 21, Russia’s federal television stations opened their morning newscasts with reports about Bakhmut, which, they announced, had come under full Russian control. The stories followed the Russian Defense Ministry’s announcement that Bakhmut had been captured. On May 20, Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin announced that his troops had captured Bakhmut, but at that point Russian state television reports were silent on the topic. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, insist that the fight for Bakhmut continues. Meduza briefly summarizes what Russian television propaganda had to say about Bakhmut. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ 19-year-old_Volgograd_resident_arrested_for_buring_Quran, allegedly_‘on_Ukrainian_intelligence_orders’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The authorities in Volgograd arrested local resident Nikita Zhuravel on suspicion of setting a Quran on fire on camera in front of a mosque, reports the Investigative Committee. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Investigative_Committee_charges_ICC_prosecutor_in absentia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s Investigative Committee filed in absentia charges against Karim A. A. Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Rosario Salvatore Aitala, an ICC judge, who issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin’s arrest in March. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ German_police_investigate_possible_poisonings_of_Russian journalist_and_activists_in_Berlin_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Berlin police have opened an investigation into the alleged poisoning of two participants in a conference of Russian opposition leaders, which was organized by Mikhail Khodarkovsky in the German capital in late April. * ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Doo-Doo_Process:_John_Durham_Claims_to_Know_Better_than Anthony_Trenga_and_Two_Juries⠀⇛ In spite of the fact that two juries and Judge Anthony Trenga acquitted Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko, in his report, John Durham repeats his allegation that they lied. To do so, he misrepresents the evidence submitted in both cases. * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_Why_the_Conspiracy_Theory_About_Trump_and Russia_Won’t_Go_Away⠀⇛ The latest investigation into the charges that Donald Trump’s campaign worked in concert with the Russian government exposes a cynical collaboration between Trump opponents and the FBI. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky:_Russia_has_not_captured_Bakhmut_—_Meduza⠀⇛ President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky says Russian forces have not captured the city of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, where a fierce battle has raged for months. Zelensky spoke at a press conference in Hiroshima, in Japan, where he is attending the G7 summit. * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Why_the_Right_Embraces_Military-Veteran_Vigilantes⠀⇛ The right is often misconstrued as anti-war. In reality, it wants to wage its war on American soil—against people whose Americanness it won’t recognize. * ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ US_Prosecutors’_Power_Under_Espionage_Act_Grows_With Teixeira_Detention⠀⇛ * ⚓ European Commission ☛ President_von_der_Leyen_at_Session_VIII_of_G7, ‘Ukraine’⠀⇛ European Commission Statement Hiroshima, 21 May 2023 Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians themselves. But a just peace that does not reward the aggressor, who invaded in the middle of the night. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ China_Summons_Japanese_Ambassador_Over Actions_at_G7⠀⇛ * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_summons_Japanese_ambassador_over_actions_at G-7⠀⇛ China is protesting over ‘hype around China-related issues’ at the G-7 summit over the weekend. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China_expresses_‘strong_dissatisfaction’_with_G7 communique⠀⇛ China on Saturday expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with a communique issued by G7 leaders that took aim at Beijing on issues including the South China Sea, human rights and alleged interference in their democracies. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Biden_says_he_expects_China_relations_thaw_‘very_shortly’⠀⇛ US President Joe Biden said Sunday that ties between Washington and Beijing should thaw “very shortly”, after the United States shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon this year. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Chinese_Embassy_in_Britain_Asks_London_to Stop_Slandering_China_to_Avoid_Damage⠀⇛ * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ G7_ends_with_Ukraine_in_focus_as_Zelenskyy_meets world_leaders_and_Russia_claims_disputed_gains⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has huddled with some of his biggest backers as the Group of Seven summit closed in Hiroshima. Zelenskyy is building momentum for his country’s war effort even as Russia claimed a battlefield victory that was quickly disputed by Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader’s in-person appearance in his trademark olive drab underscored the centrality of the war for the G7 bloc of rich democracies. It also stole much of the limelight from other priorities, including security challenges in Asia and outreach to the developing world, that the leaders focused on at the three-day gathering. Hosting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says the G7 is committed to “strong backing for Ukraine from every possible dimension.” * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Japanese_atomic_bomb_survivors_worry_Zelenskyy’s G7_visit_overshadows_nuke_disarmament_message⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s participation in the Group of Seven summit is making some atomic bomb survivors feel the visit is overshadowing their pursuit of nuclear abolishment. Zelenskyy needs to bolster international support to take back Russian-seized territory in the war that began last year, and he is seeking more lethal weaponry from the G7 economic powers. Atomic bombing survivors say Zelenskyy’s inclusion at the summit, where discussion is expected to focus on more provisions of weapons, doesn’t fit Hiroshima’s pacifist identity and sends the wrong message. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Zelenskyy_denies_Ukrainian_city_of_Bakhmut occupied_by_Russian_forces⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces are not occupying Bakhmut. Zelenskyy’s comments on Sunday at the Group of Seven summit in Japan cast doubt on Moscow’s insistence that the eastern Ukrainian city had fallen. Zelenskyy said that “Bakhmut is not occupied by the Russian Federation as of today.” The fog of war made it impossible to confirm the situation on the ground in the invasion’s longest battle. And a series of comments from Ukrainian and Russian officials added confusion to the matter. Zelenskyy’s response in English to a question earlier at the summit about the status of Bakhmut suggested that he believed the city had fallen to Russian forces and he offered solemn words about its fate. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Is_NATO_Crowding_the_Russian_Bear_Into_a_Nuclear_Corner?⠀⇛ Western officials who salivate over the prospect of inflicting a decisive, humiliating defeat on Russia in its war with Ukraine remain oblivious to the dangers entailed in that scenario. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Tens_of_thousands_of_Moldovans_rally_in_favour_of_EU membership⠀⇛ Tens of thousands of Moldovans rallied on Sunday to demand European Union membership for their country, whose bid to join the bloc has been accelerated by the war in neighbouring Ukraine. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Zelensky_compares_Bakhmut’s_‘total_destruction’_to_Hiroshima in_1945⠀⇛ Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky compared Bakhmut’s “total destruction” after months of continuous battles and shelling to the Japanese city of Hiroshima after the nuclear strike of 1945. This comes following conflicting reports on the status of Bakhmut, as Russia claimed having taken the city while Ukraine denied it had fallen. Follow our blog to see how the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). * ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Foreign_Ministers_Debate_New_Russia_Sanctions⠀⇛ The Russian invasion of Ukraine is set to preoccupy European Union foreign ministers on May 22 at a meeting in Brussels with new sanctions under discussion. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ South_Korea,_Germany_to_Sign_Information Pact_to_Boost_Defence_Cooperation⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ South_Korean,_German_Leaders_Agree_to Cooperate_on_Supply_Chains,_North_Korea⠀⇛ The leaders of South Korea and Germany have pledged more cooperation in building stable supply chains and addressing the challenges posed by nuclear-armed North Korea * ⚓ RFA ☛ In_North_Korea,_‘Judas’_is_nickname_for_informer_and_betrayer⠀⇛ Reference to disciple who betrayed Jesus persists in atheist country that has tried to stamp out Christianity * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bulgarian_Protesters,_Some_Carrying_Russian_Flags,_Vandalize_EU Building_In_Sofia⠀⇛ Bulgarian protesters, some carrying Russian flags, vandalized a building in the capital, Sofia, that houses European Union officials as they called for their government to halt aid to Ukraine. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_FSB_Detains_Chechen_Who_Sought_To_Flee_To_Kazakhstan⠀⇛ Russia’s Federal Security Service has detained a 19-year-old resident of Chechnya who sought to flee to Kazakhstan after he faced potential criminal charges for his unwillingness to serve in Ukraine. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Claims_Full_Control_Of_Bakhmut,_A_Claim_Disputed_By Kyiv,_As_Zelenskiy_Compares_Its_Destruction_To_Hiroshima⠀⇛ Russia claims it has taken full control of Bakhmut, the epicenter of the war in eastern Ukraine over the past several months, in what would be Moscow’s first major victory since last summer. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Launches_Overnight_Air_Attack_on Ukraine’s_Dnipro_–_Governor⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Brazil’s_Lula_Says_Meeting_Fell_Through Because_Ukraine’s_Zelenskiy_Was_Late⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Says_F-16_Transfer_to_Ukraine_Would Raise_Questions_of_NATO’s_Involvement⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Zelenskiy_Likens_Bakhmut’s_Devastation_to Hiroshima_After_World_War_Two⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia’s_Prigozhin_Says_Bakhmut_Territories Captured_as_Promised,_Will_Leave_Zone⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Ukraine_Aims_to_Encircle_Bakhmut_as_Russia Says_It_Captures_City⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Biden:_Zelenskiy_Has_Promised_Ukraine_Won’t Use_F-16_Planes_to_Go_Into_Russia⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Zelenskiy_Says_He_Is_Confident_Ukraine_Will Get_F-16_Fighter_Jets_From_West⠀⇛ * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ G7_summit_ends:_Ukraine_in_focus_as_Zelenskyy_meets_world leaders⠀⇛ A three-day Group of Seven meeting focused on support for Ukraine’s war effort, security challenges in Asia, and outreach to the developing world. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Through_Ukraine,_Tech_Start-Ups_Make_Their_Move_Into the_U.S._Defense_Industry⠀⇛ Small, fast-moving U.S. tech firms are using the war in Ukraine to demonstrate a new generation of military systems but face the challenge of selling them to a risk-averse Defense Department. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Zelenskiy_Plays_Down_Not_Meeting_Brazil’s Lula_at_G7_Summit,_Blames_Scheduling⠀⇛ * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia’s_War_on_Ukraine_Latest:_Ukraine_Says Closer_to_Encircling_Bakhmut⠀⇛ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Russia_Claims_Victory_in_Bakhmut,_Ukraine_Sees Opportunity_Amid_Ruins⠀⇛ Military analysts say that if Moscow continues to send reinforcements to defend the city, that could weaken Russian forces’ ability to hold off a broader counteroffensive that Ukraine has been planning. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Ukraine’s_Zelensky_denies_that_Russian_forces_are_occupying Bakhmut⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr_Zelenskyon Sunday rejected Russia’s claim that it had fully captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Bahkmut. Why it matters:Western officials and others have_said Bakhmut offers little strategic importance, but the city — and who controls it — has taken on symbolic meaning after nearly a year of fighting and heavy losses on both sides. The city has also been largely destroyed. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Estonia,_Latvia_plan_joint_purchase_of_German medium-range_IRIS-T_air_defense_systems⠀⇛ Estonia and Latvia are jointly planning to acquire German air defense systems for the protection of the airspace of the two NATO nations in what would be the biggest defense cooperation deal between the Baltic neighbors that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defense ministers said on Sunday.  According to the provisional deal, deliveries of the medium- range IRIS-T SLM air defense system – manufactured by weapons maker Diehl Defence of Germany – could begin next year and the systems be operational in 2025. The value of the deal and detailed information about the numbers of the system weren’t disclosed as talks with the supplier are still ongoing, defense ministries of the two countries said. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Russia’s_Claim_to_Capture_Bakhmut_Means_for_the Ukraine_War⠀⇛ Capturing Bakhmut would be Russia’s most significant territorial gain in Ukraine since last summer, but its ability to hold the city or advance further is in question. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Zelensky_Says_Images_of_a_Ruined_Hiroshima_Remind_Him of_Bakhmut⠀⇛ While it “wouldn’t be fair” to compare Hiroshima to what is happening in his country, Ukraine’s president said the city’s atomic bomb museum offered grim echoes of fresh devastation. * ⚓ LRT ☛ Latvia_battles_to_curb_Russian_media_influence⠀⇛ Latvia is fighting to counter the spread of Moscow’s disinformation. Given its large Russian-speaking community, this is a tough task. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Does_Ukraine_Want_F-16s?⠀⇛ Ukraine’s sizable contingent of fighter jets come with a few problems. President Volodymyr Zelensky said F-16s would “greatly enhance our army in the sky.” * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_Ukraine_Needs_Those_F-16s⠀⇛ The need for control of the nation’s airspace is one of the war’s largely untold stories. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tens_Of_Thousands_Rally_In_Moldovan_Capital_In_Pro-EU Demonstration⠀⇛ Tens of thousands of people rallied in the Moldovan capital in support of closer ties to the European Union, as Moldova’s pro- European government continues struggles with political crosscurrents from Russia. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ German_Police_Investigating_Mysterious_Illnesses_Of_Russian Activist,_Journalist_In_Berlin⠀⇛ German police said they were investigating sudden, unexplained illnesses suffered by a Russian opposition activist and a Russian journalist who attended a conference in Berlin in April. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Announces_More_Aid_for_Ukraine_as_G7_Powers_Meet in_Japan⠀⇛ President Volodomyr Zelensky of Ukraine received vows of resolute support and promises of further weapons shipments even as Russian forces claimed to have seized the war-torn city of Bakhmut. * ⚓ YLE ☛ WWII_Finnish_“unknown_soldiers”_laid_to_rest_in_Lappeenranta⠀⇛ This summer’s search for the remains of Finnish soldiers in Russia has been called off. * ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Peter_Baker_Discovers_that_Russia_Sows_Partisan Antagonism_and_Then_Helps_Them_Do_So!⠀⇛ Peter Baker thought his naive observation about the way that Putin uses sanctions to foster divisions in the US was worth giving Russia an opportunity to claim that January 6 defendants were really just persecuted dissidents. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Latest_Sanctions_on_U.S._Officials_Turn_to Trump_Enemies⠀⇛ Among the 500 people singled out for travel and financial restrictions were Americans seen as adversaries by former President Donald J. Trump. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Estonia,_Latvia_Plan_Joint_Purchase_of German_Medium-Range_IRIS-T_Air_Defense_Systems⠀⇛ Estonia and Latvia are jointly planning to acquire German air defense systems for the protection of the airspace of the two NATO nations in what would be the biggest defense cooperation deal between the Baltic neighbors that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defense ministers said on Sunday * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Peace,_Food_and_Fertilizer:_African_Leaders’ Challenge_Heading_to_Talks_With_Moscow,_Kyiv⠀⇛ A delegation of six African leaders set to hold talks with Kyiv and Moscow aim to “initiate a peace process” but also broach the thorny issue of how a heavily-sanctioned Russia can be paid for the fertilizer exports Africa desperately needs, a key mediator in the talks said * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Extremist_Israeli_Cabinet_minister_visits sensitive_Jerusalem_holy_site⠀⇛ An extremist Israeli Cabinet minister has visited a sensitive Jerusalem holy site at a time of heightened tensions with the Palestinians. The visit by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Sunday, his second known visit since becoming a member of Israel’s most right-leaning government ever, drew condemnations from the Palestinians and neighboring Jordan and Egypt. The visit comes days after Israelis marked Jerusalem Day, which celebrates Israel’s capturing of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. Flag-waving nationalists marched through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City, some singing racist anti-Arab chants, while hundreds of Jews visited the sensitive hilltop shrine. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Hezbollah_Stages_Wargames_for_Media,_Asserts Readiness_to_Confront_Israel⠀⇛ The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has extended a rare media invitation to one of its training sites in southern Lebanon, where its forces staged a simulated military exercise * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ US_to_Sign_New_Security_Pact_With_Papua_New Guinea_Amid_Competition_With_China⠀⇛ The United States is scheduled to sign a new security pact with Papua New Guinea as the U.S. continues to jostle with China for influence in the Pacific * ⚓ France24 ☛ US_and_Papua_New_Guinea_to_sign_security_agreement_amid China_concerns⠀⇛ Papua New Guinea will sign a defence pact with the United States on Monday, as it hosts Washington’s top diplomat and India’s prime minister for separate talks that will focus on China’s rising influence. § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ * ⚓ Quillette ☛ The_Wrongful_Exoneration_of_Adnan_Syed_Part_I:_A Straightforward_Murder_Case⠀⇛ So, a serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict, including the many facts elided by Syed’s advocates. That is what Part I of this two-part essay will do. Serial used first names for the main figures in the case (most of whom were teenagers when the crime was committed), and in what follows, I’ll do the same. Shorter documents will be linked to in whole, while citations from longer documents will be identified by the .pdf page number (e.g., “39p”). * ⚓ Quillette ☛ The_Wrongful_Exoneration_of_Adnan_Syed_Part_II:_The_Legal and_Media_Circus⠀⇛ Few observers would have objected had a remorseful Adnan been released on parole after 23 years of excellent prison conduct. Instead, he was freed based on his own false claims and the biased media coverage they generated. Hae Min Lee’s surviving family have had to watch as her murderer is feted as a folk hero and victim-protagonist of a story in which she has been marginalized. Many of those who celebrated Adnan’s release still have no idea how strong the evidence against him was. Even so, they donated money, wrote letters and op-eds, and denounced the supposed cruelty and injustice of the system that convicted him. They were all deceived. There is hope, though. A century ago, US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called sunlight “the best of disinfectants.” Before the Internet, readers and viewers had no way of judging wrongful-conviction stories except by visiting the court archives, tracking down witnesses, and spending a small fortune to copy case files. The Internet has changed this. It can expose both genuine injustices and manufactured ones. When a flawed or biased documentary gains enough traction, it will now be dissected by an online audience. Already, there are books and podcasts and documentaries (also of varying quality) rebutting the arguments made in famous true-crime documentaries, to say nothing of blogs and Internet forums where, in addition to white-knuckle rants, there are analyses far more penetrating and plausible than anything Netflix or HBO has produced. § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Technology_Will_Not_Restore_Our_Pre-Climate_Crisis Future⠀⇛ As we begin the second year of “In Real Time,” the future doesn’t look very promising. Almost one-third of U.S. states have plunged into one-party authoritarian rule, and many are gripped by hostility to any form of climate action. Over the past year, voters and activists across the nation have managed to slow the anti-democratic slide, but nothing has altered the federal government’s stolid inaction when it comes to fossil fuels. And greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tropical_Storm_Mawar_Heads_Toward_Guam⠀⇛ Forecasters said the storm is strengthening as it approaches the Mariana Islands, with sustained winds of 80 miles per hour. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Italy’s_Meloni_visits_flood-stricken_northeast_after_early return_from_G7⠀⇛ Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni donned wellington boots and visited flooded homes in northeast Italy Sunday, after returning early from the G7 summit in Japan following floods which left 14 people dead. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Trevi_Fountain_Water_Turns_Black_in_Rome Climate_Protest⠀⇛ * ⚓ European Commission ☛ Floods:_EU_mobilises_emergency_equipment_to assist_Italian_authorities⠀⇛ European Commission Press release Brussels, 21 May 2023 Following a new request for assistance from Italy, the EU has mobilised offers of pumping equipment from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Poland, Romania… * ⚓ Science Alert ☛ France_Prepares_For_4_°C_Rise:_“We_Can’t_Escape_The Global_Reality”⠀⇛ “Europe is warming fast.” * ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Walking_our_talk_on_climate_action⠀⇛ Last year in Berlin, the great Kenyan long-distance runner Eliud Kipchoge broke the world marathon record, clocking 02:01: 09 and beating his previous time by 30 seconds. * § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ o ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ China’s_Wuling_Motors_Cuts_Mini_EV Starting_Prices_to_as_Low_as_29,800_Yuan⠀⇛ * § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ o ⚓ The Hill ☛ How_an_81-year-old_fisherman’s_quest_could_transform public_riverbed_access_in_Colorado⠀⇛ The Colorado Supreme Court is weighing in on whether members of the public can access waters that traverse private lands — by evaluating the case of Roger Hill, who claims he was pelted by rocks for doing so more than a decade ago. Hill, an 81-year-old Colorado Springs resident, filed a lawsuit in 2018 against landowners Mark Warsewa and Linda Joseph, arguing that they had “no right to exclude him from his favorite fishing spot” which is located on their property near the south-central Colorado town of Cotopaxi. o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Animal_rights_activists_protest_octopus farm_plans_in_Spain⠀⇛ Animal rights activists have gathered in Madrid to protest plans for the construction of a large-scale octopus farm. They said Sunday that there are no laws in the country or the European Union to guarantee the welfare of octopuses in captivity. The farm is scheduled to be built next year in Spain’s Canary Islands. Protesters showed concern for jailing these solitary clever animals in pools. But the company behind the project claims their scientific research guarantees the welfare of the octopuses whose meat is considered a delicacy in many countries. * § Overpopulation⠀➾ o ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ What’s_Next_for_Earth_Art_Call:_Social_Justice⠀⇛ What’s Next for Earth is a participative art project on Instagram that invites artists to respond to a bi-monthly topic, reflecting on the human predicament. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Government_gutted_as_PwC,_Big_4_pick_up_$1.4b_a year_for_giving_advice⠀⇛ The Centre for Public Integrity has published analysis of political donations and government contract work for Big 4 firms EY, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC. What’s the scam? The scam is legalised corruption on an industrial scale, a $1.4b a year scale. In Booming Business for Big Four Comes At a High Cost, the Centre has issued a tight bit of analysis but nothing we haven’t been rabbiting on about for years: rising donations, surging income from the outsourcing of government. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Minnesota_Passes_Bill_Seeking_to_Ensure_Minimum_Wage for_Gig_Workers⠀⇛ Lyft and Uber have opposed the legislation, threatening to reduce operations or leave the state if it is enacted. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Survey_of_Economists:_Inflation_Will_Stay High_This_Year,_and_So_Will_Fed’s_Key_Interest_Rate⠀⇛ The Federal Reserve will make only modest progress in its fight against inflation for the rest of this year, even while keeping its benchmark interest rate at a 16-year high, a group of business economists predict in a new survey * ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australia_to_regulate_buy-now-pay-later_sector⠀⇛ The government will unveil the draft legislation for consultation late in 2023. * ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Should_Actors_Be_Paid_for_Auditions?⠀⇛ The streaming era has placed new burdens on actors to tape themselves, and an oft-forgotten clause in the SAG contract states that actors should be compensated for this work. * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Legislature_OKs_bill_to_boost_transportation funding_with_gas_tax_hike,_new_package_delivery_fee⠀⇛ Under an $8.8 billion transportation package approved by the Senate and House on Sunday, Minnesota’s gas tax would be indexed to the rate of inflation. * ⚓ IT Wire ☛ NBN_Co_publishes_three-year_indicative_pricing_roadmap⠀⇛ In a statement released on Friday, the NBN Co said its SAU Variation proposal committed the company to publishing a new three-year rolling Pricing Roadmap by 1 May every year. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Liberals_Are_Persuading_Themselves_of_a_Debt_Ceiling Plan_That_Won’t_Work⠀⇛ The limit Congress imposes is dumb, but Biden can’t just wave it away. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_and_McCarthy_Set_to_Resume_Debt_Ceiling Negotiations⠀⇛ Discussions aimed at avoiding a default have bogged down as Republicans press their demand for spending caps, work requirements for public benefit programs and other proposals in exchange. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Markets_edgy_as_US_debt_ceiling_talks_near_crunch time⠀⇛ Asian stocks and Wall Street futures struggled on Monday as US debt ceiling negotiations approached crunch time after stalling last week, while lingering banking fears and fresh geopolitical worries also capped sentiment. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Bankers_are_better_behaved_at_home_than_in_the_office⠀⇛ Bankers are better behaved when they work from home and engage in an astonishing amount of financial misconduct when they work from the office. That’s the message from a_new_paper examining misconduct reports at a top-5 UK bank. By the numbers:The researchers looked at misconduct reports filed on 162 traders working during lockdown, between March 2020 and March 2021. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Biden:_GOP_must_move_off_‘extreme’_positions,_no debt_limit_deal_solely_on_its_‘partisan_terms’⠀⇛ President Joe Biden says Republicans in the U.S. House must move off their “extreme positions” on the now-stalled talks over raising America’s debt limit. He says there’ll be no agreement to avert a catastrophic default only on their terms. In an effort to get negotiations back on track, Biden plans to call U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from Air Force One on the way back to Washington after a Group of Seven summit in Japan. World leaders at the gathering expressed concern about the dire global ramifications if the United States were to be unable to meet its financial obligations. Biden told reporters: “I’m hoping that Speaker McCarthy is just waiting to negotiate with me when I get home.” * ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden_and_McCarthy_to_meet_Monday_for_debt_ceiling_talks⠀⇛ President_Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will meet Monday to continue debt ceiling negotiations. * ⚓ YLE ☛ Divorces_decline_among_60-somethings⠀⇛ Divorces among people aged 60-69 rose from 2000 to 2020, according to Statistics Finland. * ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ On_debt_ceiling,_Biden,_McCarthy_to_meet Monday_as_negotiators_‘keep_working’_to_resolve_standoff⠀⇛ Another round of debt talks has wrapped up at the U.S. Capitol. White House and House Republican staff met for 2 1/2 hours Sunday evening. President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plan to meet Monday in search of a deal to avert an economy-wrecking federal default. They are upbeat about a possible debt ceiling compromise as Washington races to raise America’s borrowing limit before the funds could be depleted early next month. The leaders spoke by phone Sunday while president was returning home from Japan. McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol that the call was “productive.” Biden back in Washington said it “went well.” * ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Digital_transformation_expert_on_mass_layoffs:_I would_have_expected_more_from_tech⠀⇛ Digital business transformation expert and erstwhile COBOL programmer Kamales Lardi has spent a lot of time in the tech industry, including consulting with large corporates and SMEs who are going through a process of making cuts. But mass layoffs are hitting mid-career tech pros and harming the businesses who make them, she told The Register in an interview last week, implying the current trend of mass layoffs is a logical misstep. * ⚓ ‘The_cost_of_firing_is_paid_by_those_who_stay’:_Former_HCL_CEO_Vineet Nayar⠀⇛ Amid the season of layoffs, Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL and now Founder and Chairman of Sampark Foundation, delves into the reasons behind the phenomenon and provides valuable advice for employees and leaders on navigating these challenging times. * ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Ghana_beyond_aid’_no_longer:_West_Africa’s_former_model student_forced_to_turn_to_IMF⠀⇛ Formerly praised for its stability and good governance, Ghana has been facing a severe economic crisis since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. To prevent Accra from defaulting on its debt, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday approved a $3 billion loan in exchange for austerity measures. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Biden_says_Republican_debt_ceiling_offer ‘unacceptable’⠀⇛ US President Joe Biden has called the latest Republican offer in talks on lifting the government’s debt ceiling “unacceptable” but says he would be willing to cut spending together with tax adjustments to reach a deal. Before leaving Hiroshima, Japan, after a meeting of G7 leaders, Biden suggested some Republicans in Congress were willing to […] * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Biden_Looks_to_Revive_Debt_Ceiling_Talks⠀⇛ The president, during a press conference in Japan, said he was looking at invoking the 14th Amendment to clear the impasse but was uncertain it could be done in time. * ⚓ WhichUK ☛ The_4_most_convincing_scams_we’ve_seen_in_2023,_so_far⠀⇛ We expose the fiendish frauds which could trip up even the most careful of internet users – find out what they are so you don’t get caught out § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ How_do_you_stop_people_accessing_data_they_shouldn’t?⠀⇛ It seemed to be an almost irresistible honey-pot. Imagine being able to look up the REDACTED bill of a pop-star. Or your neighbour. Or your no-good cheating ex. Or… you get the idea. It’s no wonder that countless people felt compelled to risk their own jobs. Training had some effect. We repeatedly warned what would happen if you were caught. We patiently explained how every interaction was logged. But that wasn’t enough. Some people forgot. Or thought they could outsmart us. Or had a human moment of fragility and slipped. * ⚓ NBC ☛ Montana_banned_TikTok._Creators_in_the_state_are_bracing_for what’s_next.⠀⇛ She’s among the countless content creators in the state who will be impacted when the bill, SB 419, goes into effect in January 2024. The legislation makes it illegal for app stores to give users the option to download TikTok and for the company to operate within the state. Violations of a ban include every time a user is offered the ability to download the app. Each violation could carry a $10,000 penalty. Enforcement would be handled by the Montana Justice Department. The ban is already facing a legal battle — on Wednesday, a group of five TikTokers sued the state, arguing the law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights. * ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Creators_File_Lawsuit_to_Challenge Montana’s_Ban_on_the_App⠀⇛ After Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a TikTok ban into law—it now has its first legal challenge. The ban doesn’t go into effect until January 1, but the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine have already filed a suit calling it unconstitutional. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ East_Timor_votes_in_parliamentary_election aiming_to_break_political_impasse⠀⇛ Vote counting is underway in East Timor’s parliamentary election with two former independence fighters considered for the post of prime minister. Two main political parties _ the incumbent Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, or Fretilin, and the opposition National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, or CNRT _ are believed to be in a close race for the 65-seat National Parliament. No parties have formed any pre-election coalitions, but analysts said the CNRT, a party led by former prime minister and independence leader Xanana Gusmao, is favored to win following a successful presidential campaign in 2022 that saw its candidate, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, back in office. * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Journalist_Details_15_of_the_Most_Damning_Allegations_in Sexual_Misconduct_Complaint_Against_Giuliani⠀⇛ After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rudy Giuliani’s admirers in the mainstream press hailed him as “America’s mayor.” Giuliani, in those days, had a reputation for being a moderate Republican who had no problem making bipartisan deals with Democrats. * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ In_2022,_Exonerations_Hit_a_Record_High_in_the U.S.⠀⇛ Globally, potential innocence has long outweighed potential guilt. That philosophy of justice may not be one that the majority of Americans endorse. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Senior_police_officer_in_Lehrmann_case_to_front inquiry⠀⇛ A senior police officer who investigated Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation will front an independent inquiry into how the justice system responded to her case.  The inquiry was set up by the ACT government after accusations by police and prosecutors about each other’s conduct during the high-profile investigation and trial. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_makes_first_French_presidential_visit_to_Mongolia⠀⇛ Emmanuel Macron on Sunday made a brief but symbolic visit to Mongolia, the first by a French president to the country nestled between China and Russia that is of growing strategic interest in the West. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Deputy_Education_Minister,_46,_Dies_On_Return_Flight From_Cuba⠀⇛ Russia’s deputy minister for science and higher education died on May 20 during a return flight from Cuba, where he was participating in meetings as part of a government delegation, RBK reported. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Moscow_to_Hold_Russia-China_Security_Talks on_Monday_-RIA⠀⇛ * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Georgian_Activists_Disrupt_Wedding_Party_Attended_By_Russian Foreign_Minister’s_Daughter⠀⇛ Georgian activists disrupted a wedding reception that was reportedly attended by the daughter of Russia’s foreign minister outside the capital, Tbilisi. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Russia_Calls_G7_Summit_Incubator_for_Anti- Russian_and_Anti-Chinese_‘Hysteria’⠀⇛ MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday dismissed the G7 summit in Japan’s Hiroshima as a “politicised” event that it said had… * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Indian_PM_to_fly_down_under_despite_Quad cancellation⠀⇛ Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has touched down in Australia after three days of meetings with world leaders in Japan on the sidelines of the G7 summit. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Tensions_in_heavily_GOP_Tenn._county_after conservative_takeover_reflect_wider_battle_over_elections⠀⇛ Conservative groups that have targeted and won majorities on local boards and commissions across the United States over the past couple years are now pressing agendas that include election distrust, skepticism of government and a desire to have religion play a greater role in public decision-making. The consequences are becoming apparent in places such as Sumner County, Tennessee, where a local Constitutional Republicans group won a majority last year on the county commission. Members have waged a political war on fellow Republicans they view as insufficiently conservative and are feuding with the county’s election commission in ways that could affect preparations for the 2024 presidential election. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Civil_Rights_Groups_Warn_Tourists_About Florida_in_Wake_of_‘Hostile’_Laws⠀⇛ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ NAACP_Issues_Travel_Advisory_for_Florida_in_Response to_DeSantis_DEI_Bill⠀⇛ The N.A.A.C.P. urged people to consider Florida’s policies on diversity and race under Gov. Ron DeSantis when thinking of traveling there. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Uber_Suspends_DEI_Chief_After_Employees_Complain_of Insensitivity⠀⇛ The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Rise_of_the_Black_Republican⠀⇛ This week marks a milestone for African American Republicans in politics: Sen._Tim_Scott (R-S.C.), the only Black Republican in the Senate, will formally launchhis_presidential_campaign in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday. /blockquote> * ⚓ France24 ☛ Heavy_fighting_in_Khartoum_hours_after_Sudan_rivals_agree_to upcoming_ceasefire⠀⇛ Residents of Sudan’s capital again awoke to heavy clashes Sunday morning just hours after rival generals agreed to an upcoming one-week ceasefire amid ongoing talks in Saudi Arabia. * ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ UK_Business_Minister_to_Visit_Qatar,_Saudi Arabia_and_UAE⠀⇛ * § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ o ⚓ Taiwan News ☛ Taiwan_taekwondo_medalist_celebrates_with_Chinese flag⠀⇛ A Taiwanese taekwondo athlete who waved a Chinese flag after winning a bronze at the Asia-Pacific Masters Games (APMG) in South Korea was not officially registered with Taiwan’s team, the Sports Administration said Saturday (May 20). § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ HRW ☛ Indonesia:_Student_Media_at_Risk⠀⇛ The Indonesian government should support the national Press Council’s efforts to protect university media outlets and mediate their disputes with school authorities, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 22, 2023, more than 150 college journalists will begin a week-long conference in Solo, Central Java, to discuss intimidation, attacks, and forced closures of university media, and the need for government action. “Student journalists in Indonesia face abuses ranging from intimidation and censorship to defamation charges and newsroom shutdowns, and they have been left defenseless in this onslaught against press freedom,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The government and Press Council need to expose this media crisis and act to protect and support these student journalists.” § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ScheerPost_Finalist_in_Nine_SoCal_Journalism_Award Categories⠀⇛ The Los Angeles Press Club recently announced the finalists for its 65th annual Southern California Journalism Awards naming ScheerPost staff and contributors as finalists in nine categories. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 13_Hongkongers_convicted_of_rioting_over_2019 protests,_including_one_who_said_he_was_a_photojournalist⠀⇛ A Hong Kong man who claimed to be covering a protest in 2019 as a photojournalist has been convicted of taking part in a riot after the judge ruled that his testimony was “not credible.” He was among the 13 defendants found guilty in court on Saturday. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Greece_Votes,_Leader_Says_Blocking_Migrants_Built ‘Good_Will’_With_Europe⠀⇛ Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has taken a tough line on migrants as he turns around the country’s economy. It’s a trade-off that voters and the European Union seem more than willing to abide. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Greece_Elections:_New_Democracy_on_Track_to_Win_Most Votes⠀⇛ Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party did not win enough votes to form a one-party government. But he appeared to rule out talks to form a coalition, setting the stage for a second vote in weeks. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Rahm_Emanuel_Pushes_Japan_on_Gay_Rights⠀⇛ The U.S. ambassador has enthusiastically embraced his host country. But critics say he has overstepped diplomatic bounds with his advocacy on equality. * ⚓ Naked_search_torture_on_Boshorus_University_students⠀⇛ University students who were taken into custody because they hung photos critiquing the inability of the government during the February 6 earthquakes were subjected to naked search torture. § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Students_and_young_engineers_are_fed_up_with_Big Tech⠀⇛ Major tech companies including Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, along with scores of smaller companies such as Twitter and Snap, have spent the last year trying to combat slowing growth and rising interest rates with layoffs of hundreds of thousands of tech workers. Many of those same workers spent the last several months looking for new positions, only for rejections to meet them. * ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Google_search_competitor_Neeva_shuts_down_to_focus_on enterprise⠀⇛ The alternative search engine startup Neeva Inc. has announced that it’s shutting down its consumer product, just three days after reports emerged that it’s holding talks with Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. about a potential acquisition. In a blog post on Saturday, Neeva co-founders Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan said “building search engines is hard.” * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ A_Decade_of_Pirate_Bay_Proxy_War:_Did_ISP Blocking_Slay_the_Hydra?⠀⇛ After building a reputation as the galaxy’s most resilient torrent site, The Pirate Bay is now the most blocked torrent site on the internet. More than a decade ago an explosion of Pirate Bay proxy sites helped to break through the blockades, but how are they doing today? As rightsholders commit to the long haul, is the hydra still fighting fit in 2023? o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia_to_meet_Coldplay_concert_organiser over_ticket_scalpers⠀⇛ In a tweet on May 17, Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil described the ticket resale prices as “outrageous”. o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ The_Most_Common_Reasons_Why_Copyright Takedowns,_Penalties,_and_Lawsuits_Happen_—_According_to_a_Top Music_Licensing_Expert⠀⇛ Music copyright is complicated — and takedowns, penalties, and lawsuits for copyright infringement are all too common. But 99% of takedowns, penalties, and lawsuits related to copyright violations can be avoided, according to a leading music licensing expert EasySong. o ⚓ YLE ☛ Käärijä_gig_draws_746,000_audience⠀⇛ The rapper is one of Finland’s most popular artists. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5352 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_22/05/2023:_GNU_Diffutils_3.10_and_TCMS_12.3⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:24 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o FSFE o GNU_Projects o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Education o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Exploring_Linux_Advancements:_GSoC_2023_Showcases Promising_Projects⠀⇛ Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program initiated by Google that encourages students worldwide to contribute to open-source software development. Under the GSoC program, selected students to work on coding projects with open-source organizations (as mentoring org) for three months during their summer break. Here are some of the key projects for the Linux desktops and applications which is planned as part of GSoC 2023. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Forbes ☛ The_Free_Way_To_Speed_Up_An_Old_Mac⠀⇛ Linux Mint is a great operating system: nimble, friendly and packed with apps. With macOS Catalina, it took three minutes for my Mac to boot and be ready for action. And even then, apps were often sluggish or unresponsive. With Linux Mint installed, the system’s ready to go in around two minutes, apps open quickly, and everything from general web browsing, to tapping out documents, to watching videos on Netflix is just much smoother. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Josh_Bressers:_Episode 376_–_Open_Source_Summit,_who_built_your_open_source,_and AI⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about the Open Source Summit in Vancouver. Josh was there and we pick on two observations. Firstly that security keeps trying to use fear as a feature, except it doesn’t work. Secondly we discuss AI and how people are talking about it. It is changing things, how much is yet to be seen. # ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_513⠀⇛ **aalib** , **accountservice** , **adwaita-icon- theme** packages from the Slackware **l** software series, and a whole lot about ALSA and Linux audio. shasum - a256=113c92560273d6cb4ba230f3dcf5d465d62218126eaa59da3227dfee1143400b o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.4-rc3_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Here we are, another week gone by, and another rc released. Nothing really huge stands out there. Roughly half the patch is drivers, with - as usual - networking and gpu being the bulk of it, but there's various other driver fixes in there too (usb, sound, media, ...). The other half is the usual fairly random stuff: tooling, arch updates (arm, s390, x86), core networking, documentation, filesystems... The appended shortlog gives a flavor of the details for anybody who is interested. Please do continue testing, Linus o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_Tomcat_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ Apache Tomcat or Tomcat is open-sourced application written in Java used for rendering Java web pages and executing Java web servlets. Tomcat is developed and maintained by an open community of developers, which is growing on a daily basis. In this tutorial will install Tomcat on Debian 11 and show you how to configure a reverse proxy with Apache as a web server. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-20_How_to_Fix_the_“sudo:_command_not found”_Error_on_Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-20_How_to_Install_the_Latest_Version of_BlueZ_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-20_How_to_Prevent_Brute-Force_Attacks on_Linux_Using_Fail2ban⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Is_Google_Chrome_the_Only Browser_You_Can_Use_on_a_Chromebook?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Should_You_Only_Use_Google Chrome_on_a_Chromebook?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_GNU_Less_Keyboard Shortcuts⠀⇛ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Resize_Images_on_Ubuntu_Using Nautilus⠀⇛ Looking for a quick and easy way to resize multiple images on Ubuntu? You could use an image resizing app that handles batch conversions. Several terrific ones can be found in Ubuntu’s repos, many utilising the power of Imagemagick (which itself can be used standalone from the command line). Those methods are valid and in most cases preferable as they offer advanced configuration, cater to edge cases, and are able to perform additional actions at the same time. But you can also resize images straight from Nautilus, Ubuntu’s file manager. # ⚓ Beebom ☛ How_to_Find_and_Remove_Duplicate_Files_in_Linux⠀⇛ Are you running low on space on your Linux machine, but have no clue what keeps eating away at your precious storage? Duplicate files could be a major reason why you are facing low storage issues. Worry no more, as we will discuss some amazing tools to find and remove duplicate files in Linux in this article. These can help you to optimize your storage and improve the performance of your system. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Beta News ☛ Break_free_from_Windows_and_embrace_the_liberating experience_of_Bodhi_Linux_7.0_Beta⠀⇛ Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta has arrived, armed with a host of changes and improvements that make it an enticing alternative to the Windows operating system. Built on the solid foundation of Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, this lightweight distribution aims to offer users a seamless and hassle- free computing experience. With its customizable Moksha desktop environment, extensive package selection, and commitment to user privacy, Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta is poised to liberate users from the clutches of Windows. Under the hood, Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta utilizes the latest kernel versions, including the standard 5.15.0-71- genericm, the HWE (Hardware Enablement) 5.19.0-41, and System76′s 6.2.6. These kernel upgrades enhance hardware compatibility and ensure optimal performance on a wide range of systems. Additionally, the inclusion of Ubuntu backports and essential software updates such as EFL 1.26.99-2 further solidify Bodhi Linux’s commitment to providing a cutting-edge computing experience. o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_UBports_20.04_on_PinePhone⠀⇛ I’ve said it before and want to underline again that this build of UBports 20.04 for the PinePhone is a community effort and not official. As such, it does a number of things differently. The focus of this port has been to get the operating system to boot and perform some low-level functions on the PinePhone. It hasn’t introduced much hardware functionality yet, such as GPS, screen rotation, and flashlight activation. These will come with time, probably before the port is declared officially supported. I mention this because other devices which run UBports typically have a full range of working hardware and most of the bugs have been corrected. However, I didn’t have a supported device on hand, so I went with this unofficial port of UBports 20.04. It mostly works the same as version 16.04, but with some key improvements. It’s faster, responds more quickly, and it looks like the time sync issue has been fixed. The regressions all seem to be specific to hardware support/drivers which I suspect will be fixed in the coming months. I wouldn’t recommend the PinePhone as a daily driver as a phone, probably with any operating system. However, I will say that with it running a full GNU/Linux platform, it works pretty well as an ARM-powered testing device and as a small home server. It’s silent, it has a built-in battery, it has a touch screen for times when we need local access, and it has a slot for SD cards, giving it expanded disk space. I’m quite content using mine as a backup and test server at home. Plus it fits in my pocket if I want to relocate the device. In this way, I think of the PinePhone as a flexible single-board computer, such as a Raspberry Pi, more than as a phone. And, while running UBports 20.04, it feels well suited to this niche role. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Deepin_OS_deepin_V23_Beta_is_officially_released!⠀⇛ deepin is an open-source desktop operating system based on Linux. As the first desktop operating system in China rooted in its community, the deepin community is thrilled to announce the official release of deepin V23 beta! Come and experience it, and contribute your thoughts and feedback. Let’s work together to create a beautiful and user- friendly operating system! o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Announcing_the winners_of_the_17th_annual_Red_Hat_Innovation_Awards⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Know_before_you_go: Red_Hat_Summit_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Red_Hat_Device_Edge RPM-OSTree_updates⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_The_best_of_both worlds:_How_Microsoft_and_Red_Hat_are_revolutionizing enterprise_IT [Ed: Red Hat is ignoring Microsoft's track record at its own peril]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Where_to_find_Red_Hat at_OpenInfra_Summit_2023_in_Vancouver⠀⇛ # ⚓ Release_Notes_For_Rocky_Linux_9.2⠀⇛ During the testing of Rocky Linux 9.2 for Power (Little Endian) AKA ppc64le, the Rocky Release Engineering and Testing teams identified a serious issue with the version of python3.9 bundled with release 9.2 of RHEL and Rocky Linux that is considered a Release Blocker per our policies. Due to the nature of this bug and the potential it has to break existing installations of Rocky Linux on Power, we have made the decision as a community to hold back only the ppc64le architecture for Rocky Linux 9.2 and release the other three architectures as they have passed our testing procedures and met criteria. Notably, we have not been able to reproduce the python3.9 bug on any other architecture (x86_64, aarch64, or s390x), and believe that the bug is architecture specific. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Tails ☛ Tails_5.13⠀⇛ Use LUKS2 by default for all new Persistent Storage and LUKS encrypted volumes. LUKS2 provide stronger cryptography by default. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $25_Sipeed_Tang_Nano_20K_FPGA_board_can simulate_a_RISC-V_core,_run_Linux,_retro_games⠀⇛ The Sipeed Tang Nano 20K is a low-cost FPGA development board based on Gowin GW2AR-18 FPGA with 20,736 logic cells and 64Mbit RAM, which coupled with 64MBit QSPI flash provides enough resources to simulate a 32-bit RISC-V core booting Linux or playing retro games in an emulator. The FPGA board comes with a USB-C port for power and to load the FPGA bitstream through a BL616 microcontroller that also acts as a USB to serial chip, an HDMI port and an RGB LCD interface for video output, two user buttons, and two rows GPIOs to connect peripherals such as gamepads (through adapters). o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-20_How_to_Use_Your_Android_Phone_as_a Speaker_for_Your_Windows,_Mac,_or_Linux_Computer⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ 2023-05-13_[Older]_Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile Linux_Update_(19/2023):_Flash_postmarketOS_from_your browser⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Android_used_to_unleash_my_creativity_in_ways_iOS doesn’t⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Turn_Off_TalkBack_on_Android_Devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ I_tried_the_ultimate_Android_device_you_didn’t know_existed_–_and_it’s_NOT_a_smartphone_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ What_to_expect_from_Android_14_Beta_now that_it’s_on_non-Pixel_phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Android_14_will_make_the_screen_recording feature_more_privacy-friendly_–_comments⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Screen_Recording_on_Android_14_Will_Be_More Privacy-Friendly_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 5_Of_The_Best_AI_Art_Generator_Apps_For Android⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Nyxt_3.0_Browser_Is_Here_After_Two_Years_of Development⠀⇛ Nyxt is a one-of-a-kind beast. Proclaimed itself as “the hacker’s browser,” heavily inspired by Emacs and Vim, Nyxt offers a user experience unlike anything you’ve seen before. Designed to enhance productivity and efficiency for advanced users who prefer navigating the web using keyboard shortcuts and commands, you won’t find any of the typical Firefox or Chrome-like experiences here. Recently, after nearly two years of heavy development, the final stable version of Nyxt 3.0 is here. So, let’s see what’s new. o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ Kiwi_TCMS:_Kiwi_TCMS_12.3⠀⇛ We’re happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.3! o § FSFE⠀➾ # ⚓ FSFE ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_European_citizens_demand_Router Freedom⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSFE ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Report:_The_end-user_perspective on_Router_Freedom⠀⇛ o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ diffutils_@_Savannah:_diffutils-3.10_released_ [stable]⠀⇛ This is to announce diffutils-3.10, a stable release. As usual, thanks to Paul Eggert for doing most of the work. There have been 31 commits by 3 people in the 18 weeks since 3.9. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón (1) Jim Meyering (9) Paul Eggert (21) Jim [on behalf of the diffutils maintainers] ================================================================== Here is the GNU diffutils home page: http://gnu.org/s/diffutils/ For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/ ?p=diffutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v3.10 or run this command from a git-cloned diffutils directory: git shortlog v3.9..v3.10 Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils- 3.10.tar.xz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils- 3.10.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/diffutils- 3.10.tar.xz https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/diffutils- 3.10.tar.xz.sig Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: c16a9cf107ad1f0f791b6d00852dc5e961c1c451 diffutils-3.10.tar.xz kOXpPMck5OvhLt6A3xY0Bjx6hVaSaFkZv+YLVWyb0J4= diffutils-3.10.tar.xz Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum - a sha256 --check from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007. Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify diffutils-3.10.tar.xz.sig The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key: pub rsa4096/0x7FD9FCCB000BEEEE 2010-06-14 [SCEA] Key fingerprint = 155D 3FC5 00C8 3448 6D1E EA67 7FD9 FCCB 000B EEEE uid [ unknown] Jim Meyering uid [ unknown] Jim Meyering uid [ unknown] Jim Meyering If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. gpg --locate-external-key jim@meyering.net gpg --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/ release-gpgkeys.php?group=diffutils&download=1' | gpg --import - As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU keyring: wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify diffutils- 3.10.tar.xz.sig This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.72c.20-9c018 Automake 1.16i Gnulib v0.1-6209-g5d2fe2472f NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 3.10 (2023-05-21) [stable] ** Bug fixes cmp/diff can again work with file dates past Y2K38 [bug introduced in 3.9] diff -D no longer fails to output #ifndef lines. [bug#61193 introduced in 3.9] o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_The_Role_of_Open- Source_Intelligence_in_the_War_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Language_choice_in_initrd_now_translated⠀⇛ The first time that you boot Easy, there is text- mode GUI asking for choice of language. There is a snapshot here: https://bkhome.org/news/202301/first-bootup-2- letter-language-asked-in-initrd.html The names of the countries are all in English. The problem I had then was the ‘dialog’ utility was not displaying UTF-8 characters. It is supposed to be able to, but wasn’t. The initrd is using PSFU console fonts, but that is not the problem. I discovered that ‘dialog’ does not like LANG=C, it wants LANG set to a UTF- 8 locale. OK, I set “LANG=en_US.UTF-8″ just to run ‘dialog’, and that fixed it. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-05-19_Everything_old_is_new_again⠀⇛ o ⚓ Michael Urspringer ☛ 2023-05-19_My_first_POTA_activation⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Gallery:_The_best_photos_from around_the_world⠀⇛ o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Unistellar’s_New_Smart_Telescope Turns_Anyone_Into_a_Backyard_Astrophotographer⠀⇛ o ⚓ Antipope ☛ 2023-05-20_Shrinking_the_world⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Earliest_evidence_of kissing_pushed_back_1,000_years⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_How_the_Manchester Arena_attack_showed_that_altruism_is_human_instinct⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Humans_were_using fire_in_Europe_50,000_years_earlier_than_we_thought_– new research⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Did_life_evolve_more than_once?_Researchers_are_closing_in_on_an_answer⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Fast_X:_why_cars don’t_really_explode_when_they_crash⠀⇛ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_The_First_Humans_Out_of Africa_Weren’t_Quite_Who_We_Thought⠀⇛ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_​Wageningen_University punishes_professor_who_gave_undue_credit_to_Saudi university⠀⇛ o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_Myths_and_pseudoscience are_causing_HIV_to_spread⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Drop_in_cancer_diagnoses_in_2020 possibly_linked_to_COVID-19_disruptions:_Statistics_Canada⠀⇛ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Back_It_Up!_Google_Will_Soon Purge_Inactive_Accounts⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-19_Google_Clarifies_That_It_Will_Not Delete_Old_Accounts_with_YouTube_Videos⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Google’s_account_purge_will spare_YouTube_channels_with_videos⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Prepare_for_Ads_When You_Pause_YouTube_Videos⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_YouTube_Brings_Unskippable_30- Second_Commercials_to_Your_TV⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_YouTube_TV_had_major_issues at_the_worst_possible_time_last_night⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Cisco_Releases_Security_Advisory for_Small_Business_Series_Switches⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_CISA_and_Partners_Release BianLian_Ransomware_Cybersecurity_Advisory⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Cisco_Releases_Security_Advisory for_Small_Business_Series_Switches⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_CISA_Adds_Three_Known_Exploited Vulnerabilities_to_Catalog⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Five_Industrial Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Rockwell_Automation_FactoryTalk Diagnostics_(Update_B)⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Carlo_Gavazzi_Powersoft⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Mitsubishi_Electric_MELSEC_WS Series⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Hitachi_Energy’s_MicroSCADA_Pro/ X_SYS600_Products⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Johnson_Controls_OpenBlue Enterprise_Manager_Data_Collector⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Three_Industrial Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Snap_One_OvrC_Cloud⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Rockwell_ArmorStart⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Rockwell_Automation_FactoryTalk Vantagepoint⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Amazon_Says_Its_AI Already_Knows_What_to_Stock_for_You_Nearby⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_Former_Trudeau_security adviser_says_he_never_saw_CSIS_report_on_Chong, criticizes_intelligence_leaks⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Most_states_halt_use_of Google_and_Apple’s_COVID-19_exposure_notification system⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ The_government_can’t_seize_your_data_— but_it_can_buy_it_|_TechCrunch⠀⇛ Congress needs to ban the government from buying up sensitive geolocation data entirely — not just preventing its seizure. # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Cybersecurity:_Online scams_pay_off_as_chance_of_being_caught_is_barely_1 percent⠀⇛ o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Dutch_PM:_Good_news_U.S._will let_Ukrainian_pilots_train_on_F-16_fighter_jets⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-05-20_[Older]_Denmark_to_help_train_Ukrainian_F-16 pilots:_minister⠀⇛ # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_How_America’s_Divide-And-Rule Strategy_in_the_Middle_East_Backfired⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_88-year-old_Australian_freed_7 years_after_being_kidnapped_in_West_Africa⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_China_Expands_its Reach_to_Europe_and_Africa⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_New_murder_trial_ordered_for Ontario_woman_Jennifer_Pan_in_plot_to_kill_parents⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Letters_From_Saudi Arabia:_Rolling_Into_Medina⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-12_[Older]_Letters_From_Saudi Arabia:_The_Hejaz_City_of_Tabuk⠀⇛ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Saudi_Arabia:_Ensure_Respect_for Civil_Society_Vision⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-21_[Older]_Syrian_torturers_from_Assad regime_reportedly_living_freely_in_the_Netherlands⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-12_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Counteroffensive_needs_time,_Zelenskyy_says⠀⇛ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-05-12_[Older]_Ukrainian_journalist_Tetyana Tsyrulnik_slapped_while_covering_Victory_Day_commemorations⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_Ukraine’s_Zelenskyy meets_Germany’s_chancellor_in_Berlin_—_live_updates⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_Ukraine’s_Zelenskyy thanks_Germany_for_support_—_as_it_happened⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_Ukraine:_Tensions_in occupied_Enerhodar_as_evacuation_looms⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_Ukraine:_Tensions_rise near_Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_power_plant⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_Ukrainian_athletes against_boycott_of_international_events⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Zelenskyy_makes_surprise_trip_to_UK⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-12_[Older]_Climate_efforts_at_Suncor_may_take a_backseat_under_new_CEO⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_Lithium,_coined_‘the_new_oil,’_is shifting_global_markets._Here’s_what_you_need_to_know_about it⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_After_early_heat,_experts_say Prairies_to_face_climate_challenges_in_season_ahead⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Climate_Smart Agriculture_Can_Help_Balochistan_bounce_back⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Republican_Senators_Challenge NASA_on_‘Woke’_Policies_Related_to_Climate_and_Diversity⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Capping_Emissions_Could_Create 35,000_Jobs_in_Texas_(If_Lawmakers_Would_Only_Listen)⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Climate_protesters_occupy University_of_Amsterdam_building⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_The_Cosmic_Dance_of_the Sun_and_Climate_Change⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_With_mouth-watering foods,_mountain_farms_in_Europe_seek_climate_readiness⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Climate_change_will_hurt. Fortunately_for_us,_we_can_still_be_the_lucky_country⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_El_Niño_Is_Coming—and_Global Economies_Could_Lose_Trillions⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_No_accounting_for_the_cost_of climate_disasters_like_forest_fires⠀⇛ # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_UN_Report_Shows_How_to_Slash Plastic_Pollution⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_How_to_Rapidly Reduce_Fossil_Fuel_Use_(or_Why_Rationing_Works_Better Than_Markets)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Decolonizing_Puerto Rico_Through_Solar_Power⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Qantas_offering ‘neighbour-free’_flights_on_select_routes [Ed: 'neighbour-free' = more pollution per passenger]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_This_Lawsuit_Could Change_How_the_Forest_Service_Fights_Wildfires⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Meta_just_told_employees_its latest_round_of_massive_layoffs_starts_next_week⠀⇛ # ⚓ Business Today ☛ Nearly_2,00,000_employees_let_go_worldwide in_2023_as_job_losses_plague_tech_sector⠀⇛ According to data from layoffs tracking site Layoffs.fyi, approximately 695 tech companies have resorted to laying off around 198,000 employees thus far in the current year # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_What’s_lurking_within_the shadows_of_the_global_financial_system?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_American_Capitalism Has_Produced_Its_Most_Remarkable_Innovation_Yet:_Breadlines⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ Amazon_cuts_jobs_in_India:_Microsoft,_Google and_other_tech_MNCs_that_have_or_may_cut_jobs⠀⇛ The year 2023 seems to be brutal for the tech industry. Reports suggest that nearly 2 lakh tech employees — from Big Tech firms to startups — have lost their jobs globally. Almost all big IT companies have announced job cuts — Facebook-parent Meta, Google, Microsoft, Vodafone, Accentuare and many others. Some companies have announced plans to lay off more employees in the coming months. As per the data by layoffs tracking site Layoffs.fyi, 695 tech companies have cut around 1.98 lakh jobs so far this year. Here are some of the biggest technology companies that have cut jobs in India as well as those who may in the coming days. # ⚓ Essel Group ☛ Hundreds_of_thousands_lose_jobs_in_2023_as tech_giants_race_to_cut_costs⠀⇛ Hundreds of thousands have lost jobs across sectors in 2023 as technology behemoths raced to cut costs. The job cuts in the technology sector neared 90,000 in January 2023 and came down to 39,471 in February, 37,662 in March, 19,807 in April and 11,491 in the month of May so far, according to layoffs tracking platform Layoffs.fyi. The platform showed that 695 tech companies have executed job cuts of around 198,000 employees so far in 2023. In 2022, over 1,000 tech companies laid off more than 161,000 employees. This indicates about a 19 per cent increase in the number of tech professionals who have lost their jobs in 2023 compared to the previous year. # ⚓ HT Digital Streams Ltd ☛ Landlords_turn_up_the_heat_in India’s_Silicon_Valley⠀⇛ Bengaluru: On 27 April, a Twitter user who goes by the handle @kadaipaneeeer, tweeted: “Marks don’t decide your future, but it definitely decides whether you get a flat in Bangalore or not”. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Congrats,_US_college_grad._Now_good luck_finding_that_dream_job⠀⇛ After interning at a bank, Mr Fadi Ghazi was over the moon to get a job offer. The only problem: The bank was First Republic – one of the lenders that just collapsed spectacularly. His offer was rescinded. Mr Ghazi is one of the millions of college seniors in the United States graduating into the “real world”. For many, today’s job market is not exactly living up to their big freshman-year dreams. The job prospects these days are nowhere near as bad as they were for students who graduated into the Great Recession and, in many cases, still carry the economic scars. But after Covid-19 turned the nation’s campuses upside down and disrupted virtually every aspect of college life, the Class of 2023 is having one more can-you-believe-our-luck moment. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_The_Speech_That_Biden Should_Give:_‘I’ve_Changed_My_Mind’⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_MP_Michael_Chong_says_Canada_needs to_‘catch_up’_to_allies_on_national_security_threats⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_The_Price_of_Being Principled_in_the_Philippines⠀⇛ # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_YouTube’s recommendations_are_leading_kids_to_gun_videos,_report says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-13_[Older]_Meta_fixed_a_Facebook bug_that_sent_automatic_friend_requests_to_users⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_Jack_Dorsey’s_Bluesky_Is Trying_to_Save_the_Internet._It_Wants_Your_Feedback, Please.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_7_Times_Elon_Musk_Said ‘Do_as_I_Say,_Not_as_I_Do’_About_Remote_Work⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_San_Francisco_is reportedly_investigating_Twitter_over_possible_building code_violations⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_Elon_Musk_won’t_stop tweeting_his_way_into_trouble⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Look_Out_Bluesky, Instagram’s_Twitter_Clone_Could_Launch_in_June⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Twitter_Employees_Got_a Saudi_Dissident_Kidnapped,_Lawsuit_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Meta’s_rumored_Twitter competitor_could_launch_as_early_as_next_month⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_San Francisco_Officials_Are_Investigating_if_Elon_Musk’s ‘Twitter_Hotel’_Plan_Broke_Laws⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_SCOTUS_Says_It_Won’t Mess_With_Section_230,_for_Now⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Twitter_Blue subscribers_can_now_upload_videos_as_long_as_two hours⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pew Reseach Center ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Pew_Research Center:_‘Majority_of_U.S._Twitter_Users_Say_They’ve Taken_a_Break_From_the_Platform_in_the_Past_Year’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_The_Supreme_Court_decides not_to_break_the_internet⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_US_adults_are_spending less_time_on_Twitter_since_Elon_Musk_took_over⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Twitter,_Company_That Doesn’t_Pay_Its_Bills,_Acquires_Job_Search_Startup Laskie⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Judge_Says_Elon_Musk Still_Can’t_Tweet_Whatever_He_Wants⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNBC ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Elon_Musk_Hires_New_Twitter CEO:_NBCUniversal_Ad_Chief_Linda_Yaccarino⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_The_Morning_After: Twitter_has_a_new_CEO⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older] Elon_Musk_announces_new_Twitter_boss_as_Linda Yaccarino⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-13_[Older]_Twitter_Conspiracy_Bozos Are_Freaking_Out_Over_Elon’s_WEF-Friendly_CEO_Pick⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-12_[Older]_Twitter_Can’t_Moderate Gore_Any_More_|_Future_Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-13_[Older]_Turkey’s_voters ‘are_more_vulnerable_to_disinformation’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-14_[Older]_Twitter_limits_access to_some_tweets_in_Turkey_ahead_of_tightly_contested election⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Hyundai_will_pay_$200 million_after_a_TikTok_challenge_exposed_a_huge security_flaw⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_How_Montana’s_TikTokers Are_Fighting_Back_Against_the_State’s_Ban⠀⇛ # ⚓ NYPost ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_10-year-old_struggles_to open_CD_case_in_viral_TikTok:_‘What_is_it?’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Montana_First U.S._State_to_Ban_TikTok⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_TikTok_creators_sue Montana_over_statewide_ban_of_the_app⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_America_Is_Getting TikTok_All_Wrong⠀⇛ # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Montana says_1st-in-nation_TikTok_ban_protects_people._TikTok says_it_violates_their_rights.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Montana_just_banned_TikTok. Will_it_actually_work?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_9_questions_about_the attempts_to_ban_TikTok,_answered⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Montana_Bans_TikTok⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Montana’s_governor signs_bill_banning_TikTok⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_‘Kidfluencers’_Could_Get Compensation_Protection_Under_New_Bill⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Outcry_over daughter’s_coronation_trip_TikToks_forces_minister’s resignation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-13_[Older]_Instagram_and_Facebook Are_Using_Fears_of_a_TikTok_Ban_to_Poach_Influencers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-12_[Older]_Tinder_Says_Stop_Hyping Your_TikTok_and_Insta_Handles⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Elon_Musk gives_in_to_government_pressure,_censors_tweets_before_Turkey election⠀⇛ o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Slovak_court_acquits businessman_of_journalist’s_murder⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-12_[Older]_Amazon_Is_Still Running_an_Injury_Mill_for_Workers⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_WestJet_pilots_issue_72-hour strike_notice,_poised_to_begin_job_action_Friday⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_WestJet_CEO,_pilots’_union_head clash_over_compensation_as_strike_looms⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_WestJet_offers_cancellation, flight-change_waiver_as_pilot_strike,_lockout_looms⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_9_questions_about_Biden’s_border policy,_answered⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Ukraine:_‘Large-scale corruption’_in_Supreme_Court_reported⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Ukraine_detains_Supreme Court_head_in_corruption_probe⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_What_Ukraine’s_Supreme Court_bribery_scandal_means⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Ukraine_updates:_Grain deal_extended_for_another_two_months⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Warner_CEO_Booed_at_Boston University_as_Supporters_of_Writers’_Strike_Picket_Outside⠀⇛ Scores of Boston University students turned their backs on the head of one of Hollywood’s biggest studios as he gave the school’s commencement address in a stadium where protesters supporting the Hollywood writers’ strike picketed outside o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Supreme_Court_rules_in Twitter_and_YouTube’s_favor_in_terrorism_liability_cases⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_No_Refuge_From_Free_Wi- Fi⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_UK_CMA_must_regain trust_as_politicians_question_wisdom_of_Microsoft- ActivisionBlizzard_block_—_inappropriate_Twitter_statements don’t_help [Ed: Microsoft_lobbying attacking the messenger again]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_European_Commission focuses_on_consumers,_approves_Microsoft’s_acquisition_of Activision_Blizzard–subject_to_commitments–while_UK_CMA_won’t be_able_to_defend_its_miscarriage_of_justice [Ed: The officials do not seem to know Microsoft pays for such blogs and bloggers]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Will_regulators’ disregard_for_legal_bounds_of_merger_control_lead_to_more appeals_and/or_to_more_Illumina-Grail-style_gun_jumps? [Ed: Based on how much he writes about this, Microsoft is paying him again]⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_EUIPO_Board_of_Appeal_holds numeric_pattern_insufficiently_distinctive_to_be_a_trade mark⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Book_review:_Research_Handbook on_Intellectual_Property_and_Cultural_Heritage [Ed: Intellectual Property is a misleading propaganda term that should be avoided. What actual law does this cover?]⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Book_Review:_Trade_marks contrary_to_public_order_and_morality_+_discount_code [Ed: Review or marketing?]⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Can_a_third_party_rely_on_the 12-month_grace_period_for_prior_design_disclosure?⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_The_free_evaluation_of_evidence of_prior_use_(T_0042/19) [Ed: Kangaroo courts without any real independence]⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Here’s why_Google_might_avoid_offering_Bard_in_the_EU,_Canada⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_A_third_former_Apple_employee has_been_charged_with_stealing_self-driving_car_tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Ex-Apple_Engineer_Flees_to China_After_Allegedly_Stealing_Autonomous_Car_Tech_Data⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Lawsuit_Claims_Apple_Users_Are Charged_More_for_Delivery_on_DoorDash⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_Apple_rejected_1,679,694_App Store_submissions_in_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-20_[Older]_Former_ACT_|_The_App (le)_Association_policy_officer_admits_small_companies_don’t pay_people_like_him:_panel_debate_on_EU_SEP_Regulation proposal [Ed: ACT is a_Microsoft_front_group, not Apple, but Florian lobbies for Microsoft again]⠀⇛ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ 2023-05-12_[Older]_Amicus_Briefing_in_Amgen_v. Sanofi:_The_Rest_of_the_Story_–_Part_II⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-15_[Older]_OPPO_has invalidated_another_two_Nokia_patents_this_month: European_Patent_Office_revoked_patents_and_rejected proposed_amendments⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-12_[Older]_Netherlands_calling_with a_10%_discount_on_C5′s_Pharma_&_Biotech_Patent Litigation_Conference [Ed: Shilling litigation giants under the cover of "discount"]⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-05-17_[Older]_Senate_Once_Again_Tries_to_Address Drug_Pricing⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-17_[Older]_UK_IPO_update_on_new patent_service [Ed: Might be important in case EPO collapses in the coming years due to corruption and mismanagement]⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Supreme_Court_Decides Amgen_v. Sanofi;_Status_Quo_Extended⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Amicus_Briefing_in_Amgen_v. Sanofi:_The_Rest_of_the_Story_–_Part_III⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-05-15_[Older]_Solicitor_General_Files_Brief Advocating_Certiorari_Grant_in_Teva_Pharmaceuticals_v. GlaxoSmithKline;_Court_Declines_Invitation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-05-16_[Older]_Telit_drops antitrust_lawsuit_against_Avanci_and_Nokia_over component-level_licensing_of_standard-essential_patents started_by_Thales_in_Munich,_also_withdraws_U.S. discovery_requests⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_The_Supreme_Court’s Warhol_decision_could_have_huge_copyright_implications for_‘fair_use’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-18_[Older]_Supreme_Court_Says_Andy Warhol_Ripped_Off_Photographer_in_Copyright_Case⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Twitter_reportedly accuses_Microsoft_of_violating_its_data_use_policy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-19_[Older]_Twitter_Sends_Microsoft Mean_Letter_Because_Elon_Is_Mad [Ed: In light of the LinkedIn lawsuit, this is sheer hypocrisy]⠀⇛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 6894 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_22/05/2023:_Titan_Uploads_and_INN⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Diarrhea_Grill⠀⇛ I have quit reading columns about street foods recommended by a can driver who tells the readers about places where you can find cheap affordable food. I haven’t quit because the column is not interesting but because of anonymous comments people leave there. There are always those people who tell you that they’ve got diarrhea. Wow! Interesting! Now I’ve got a good idea: go to those places without the people who tell you that they’ve got diarrhea there! # ⚓ Status_report⠀⇛ I have been a bit inactive here. There are several reasons: work (it is not going to improve, unfortunately), some personal stuff (we have been replacing the old heating system with a bit more modern one) and some illness. # ⚓ Summer_is_here⠀⇛ This week I did a Pebble battery replacement. It was fortunate, one could say, that the battery had swollen in my Pebble Time Round as it had, because it separated the display from the body, which saved me a lot of work trying to pry the watch open with a spudger. Once it’s open, there are two connectors and three small screws and there’s the battery in the middle. # ⚓ Happy_Mother’s_Day⠀⇛ Thursday morning at 04:16 there was a 5.2 earthquake in Chiba, which rattled us in Tokyo as well. It woke me up and while the shaking wasn’t really bad, it wasn’t much fun, either. There is an alert that goes off on mobile phones a few seconds before an earthquake strikes – woop woop woop earthquake! woop woop woop earthquake! woop woop woop earthquake! – and it can be terrifying if it goes off early in the morning and wakes one from a deep sleep (I know from experience.) I keep my phone in a different room though, so this time just the shaking woke me up. # ⚓ Settled_in;_new_home,_new_chapter⠀⇛ I wrote a few months ago about how I was moving in with my partner[2] and how I wanted to pick up a copy of The Beatles’ Rubber Soul (1969) to mark the occasion – done [1]. We’ve been living together for a little over four months now and I think we’re both really happy with the situation. As it was her place for a while before the both of us, we didn’t want it to stay feeling like hers and not ours, so we’ve redecorated some parts and shuffled some things around. I bought the motorised legs component for a standing desk and mounted this on an old IKEA wooden desktop I had to build an optional standing desk in the second bedroom that doubles up as a home office. # ⚓ Ask_Ms_Anna⠀⇛ A more humane, less profit driven, more family- oriented system would look very different. My co- workers wouldn’t be burning out, calling in, and falling ill like falling dominoes. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ MiniDisc_updates⠀⇛ About a year ago, my Sony MZ-R700 MiniDisc player which I bought in 2020 abruptly stopped working. It still powers up just fine, the motor spins, but inevitably the little LCD display proclaims “DISC ERROR”. It does this with absolutely every MD I own, blank, recorded, standard play, long play, the works. No idea why. There’s nothing visually obviously wrong when I look inside the open door. Maybe the laser diode is dead, I dunno. Anyway, bit of a bummer after approximately two years of ownership by me. # ⚓ I_dream_of_GEnie⠀⇛ Seeing the handle ‘JeanG3nie’ on a regular basis in these parts (and they actually replied to me once, oh my!) has me remembering an online system from General Electric Corporation in the late 1980s (maybe early 1990s) called “GEnie”. Wish I could remember more of what it was like, what my username was, etc. # ⚓ Driving_to_RAM⠀⇛ Did something a little crazy this weekend, but I’m glad because of it. We had a friend get married in the next state over, so my wife and I made a trip out of it. Five hours out, a couple hours spent at the reception, and five hours back all in the same day. It was super nice to see our friend again, especially since the last time I had seen her was a couple years ago at my wife and I’s wedding when she had made an even longer trip out to see us. This gave us a nice chance to reciprocate. The reception was nice and the drive was fun, even if we didn’t get back home until almost 3 AM. We’re night owls anyway. # ⚓ Spell_checking_in_NeoVim⠀⇛ I had an email reply to one of my posts this morning which pointed out a spelling error. Well, there was more to the reply, but for the sake of this post that’s the important bit. Anyway, what’s funny is that I was just last night looking at the possibility of adding spellcheck to my NeoVim configuration. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ titan-upload.sh⠀⇛ I also implemented the bare minimum in diohsc to allow it to use titan links which require a client certificate, by setting appropriate environment variables when using the ‘browse’ command to call external commands (like the above script). All this prompted by the use of titan in Bubble, the first titan links I’ve actually been tempted to follow. Implementing explicit titan support in diohsc would cross a clear line, so I’m glad that calling an external command turned out to be sufficient. # ⚓ INN,_again⠀⇛ A year ago, I tried setting up INN because I wanted to use NNCP to exchange net news. Like Usenet. Like UUCP. But it didn’t quite work: 2022-02-06 Struggling with INN. # ⚓ words_of_a_zinester_(call_for_zine_submission)⠀⇛ Preface, sorry if self-promote-y, but Ctrl- ZINE (^Z) is by/for all on the Smol Web, and there’s no profit/monetary incentive here, so I just want to bring attn to something real fast. In IRC me and another ^C member were discussing topics for the zine, and we thought someone should write up a post (from any perspective, from any “approach”) about old “away” messages on old services. So, like a MySpace away message/status, an AOL auto- response/away message, MSN Messenger, whatever. # ⚓ Exploring_Federation_and_Public_Communication_On Gemini⠀⇛ I recently read this very nice post by JeanG3nie, and I share their viewpoints and believe that the Gemini community should establish a federation specification. I believe simplicity should be our guiding principle, and attempting to replicate ActivityPub would be both unproductive and unpopular. I’ve formulated a concept that is basically a public mailing list with some additional elements. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Print_and_Play⠀⇛ I’ve discovered the world of print-and-play board games. Oh my god, it is full of stars. This might very well be the next step in simplifying our lives. Already we’ve returned to board- and card games, rather than computer games, as part of our entertainment. # ⚓ On_the_Longevity_of_Developed_Software⠀⇛ One of the things I often think about as a software developer is that much of what I make does not last very long. I am lucky if the product of my labour lasts more than a few years. I am not alone in these thoughts: there was a recent thread on HackerNews along much the same lines[1], categorising all developed software that lasts long enough as tech debt. It is quite fashionable, as many do in that thread, to believe that this is entirely due to failings of the industry. Be it because of a preference for trendy technologies that come ago, or from poor design choices that prioritise short-term solutions over long- term planning, and no-doubt those are significant factors. However, I think there is another factor at play that is a far more optimistic one: simply the fact that there is genuine innovation in the world of software development and much of the need to replace working systems is driven by us wanting to replace systems that just weren’t as well built as what we build today. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 7202 ➮ Generation completed at 02:43, i.e. 75 seconds to (re)generate ⟲