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Efficiency isn’t among the goals and it is often falsely marketed. THE Flatpak (Fatpack) way of doing things is troublesome for technical reasons, set aside ethical and legal reasons. Aside from infighting_over_Snap_and Flatpak (AppImages are another kind of monster) there are some downsides as we noted here in the distant past [1, 2]. Nevertheless, there are now whole distros, not IBM’s by the way (not Fedora derivatives either), that adopted Flatpak as a default option (see “The_Top_8 Linux_Distros_That_Have_Adopted_Flatpak”). To avoid repeating what we covered here before or what’s said in the video above, let’s just say that Flatpaks do have their merit in some scenarios. However, one must recognise the downsides too. Like with Snap or even with AppImages, there are bloated background processes running all the time ‘in the mist’ (more than abstraction layers), taking up RAM and CPU on any distribution laden with the bloat loader. In terms of performance, it’s a regression. it is a step back. “Like with Snap or even with AppImages, there are bloated background processes running all the time ‘in the mist’ (more than abstraction layers), taking up RAM and CPU on any distribution laden with the bloat loader.”Red Hat’s Flatpak went though a number of name changes, as history tells, but the final name should have been Fatpack. It’s not a community project (“Fedora”) but part of a Red hat ambition, coinciding with ambitions like sigStore. It’s about centralisation. domination, and bloat, even domination over distros that aren’t Red Hat’s own. Canonical worked towards a similar thing at about the same time and both help shoehorn proprietary software into people’s machines. “There’s been a huge increase in articles pushing proprietary “docker” approaches to problems,” an associate told us this week. “There are a lot of problems that Flaptak claims to solve but no one addresses the wasted space caused by statically linking endless dependencies for each application again and again. Nor do any [...] approach the problem that it is mainly intended to carry a proprietary payload.” Well, they say Flatpak is good for developers, not necessarily users. They say it makes life easier, but that’s_sort_of_missing_the_point if it ends up replacing Free with proprietary. “For Flatpak,” the associate explained, “dig up the description of it or try a Flatpak-based distro on a spare machine. Flatpak is an attempt to foist packaging off onto the developers which will result in an actual reduction in time spent doing actual development. Distros do the packaging and the developers can focus on writing the program. Flatpak can continue that route but the “selling point” is that somehow the developers are going to be so eager that they’ll fall all over themselves to stop developing and spend their time packaging — for free — for IBM.” “While I don’t oppose large blobs in some rare scenarios, making it the “new normal” would be an error.”“Most developers hate administrivia. Packaging is a low-skilled activity, to boot, so it is a very good entry-level position for those who wish to begin participating in a distro or development in general. What the Flatpak fiasco is hiding is that those beginners are trying up as there are no colleges or universities where kids can learn computing any more. So every year, as people die and retire, there are fewer in absolute numbers because even basic replacement levels are not being reached.” “IBM has also driven away and dispersed a massive established community of volunteers. So this Flaptak is just a smoke screen. Seriously, given the change in IBM towards being strongly anti-Linux and anti-FOSS one can wonder if the Flaptak move is simply an attack on the time and morale of the remaining application developers. That IBM effectively disbanded the Fedora community plays into this problem. Flatpak is in itself a distro — but one for proprietary packages.” Calling it Fatpak “would be accurate,” the associate adds, “since a normal desktop quickly bloats to tens of gigbytes on the HD once you add a couple of applications. [...] Snaps are even worse…” My own personal experience and perspective is covered in the video above. 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New_Series:_Inside_the_Real_Linux_Foundation 2. What_the_2022_Tax_Filing_(From_7_Months_Ago,_for_Tax_Year_2021)_Teaches Us_About_the_Linux_Foundation 3. The_Real_Linux_Foundation_–_Part_3:_How_It_Splits_Into_Subgroups, Including_New_Ones 4. The_Real_Linux_Foundation_–_Part_4:_How_the_Foundation_Makes_Its_Money 5. The_Real_Linux_Foundation_–_Part_5:_The_Annual_Cost_of_the_Office_Has Jumped_to_Almost_8_Million_Dollars_for_Just_261_Employees_(About_$30,000 Per_Employee_Per_Year) 6. The_Real_Linux_Foundation_–_Part_6:_Raising_Money_From_Monopolies,_Living Extravagant_Lifestyles,_Crushing_Software_Communities 7. YOU ARE HERE ☞ Giving Large Contracts to Former Staff (Yes, Corruption and Graft) Summary: The Linux_Foundation has limitless examples of people who used to work for the Foundation, then left to create their own “business”, in turn getting a contact with the Foundation, enjoying a flow of money (probably without tenders and bidding, it’s all nepotism with no competitive bids) THE Linux Foundation (LF) offers Clickfraud-as-a-Service among other_services which are borderline illegal or a direct violation of site policies. How many people even know about this? Well, this_has_gone_on_for_years_already, but the people who run the Foundation enjoy impunity [1, 2, 3]. They exploit their connections to large corporations. Two examples of this would be Jennifer Cloer and Swapnil Bhartiya, who are in fact connected and fed by the same ‘machine’. 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New_Series:_Inside_the_Real_Linux_Foundation 2. What_the_2022_Tax_Filing_(From_7_Months_Ago,_for_Tax_Year_2021)_Teaches Us_About_the_Linux_Foundation 3. The_Real_Linux_Foundation_–_Part_3:_How_It_Splits_Into_Subgroups, Including_New_Ones 4. The_Real_Linux_Foundation_–_Part_4:_How_the_Foundation_Makes_Its_Money 5. The_Real_Linux_Foundation_–_Part_5:_The_Annual_Cost_of_the_Office_Has Jumped_to_Almost_8_Million_Dollars_for_Just_261_Employees_(About_$30,000 Per_Employee_Per_Year) 6. YOU ARE HERE ☞ Raising Money From Monopolies, Living Extravagant Lifestyles, Crushing Software Communities Video_download_link | md5sum a493de3051fe57e5b733f16337b1a721 LF Showing Off by Wasting Money Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/lf-grandeur.webm Summary: A Linux_Foundation “millionaires club” (people who never touched GNU/ Linux but made millions in salaries from the Linux Foundation) is a growing problem and a liability for the GNU/Linux community; today we meticulously take a look and scrutinise more closely how money gets spent in the San Francisco Bay Area, under the overtly misleading guise of “Linux” THE Linux Foundation (LF) is a morbid institution which attempts to recreate or emulate the success of The_Apache_Software_Foundation (ASF), except a lot more poorly and recklessly, raising funds from some of the fiercest enemies of its core or its original values. ASF has already been hijacked by Microsoft — at several levels in fact (Microsoft is good at entryism) — and LF snapped Mr. Apache to run a bunch of different things for about half a million dollars a year. “It is important to define the LF,” an associate has noted today. “It is not a trade group to advance Linux in industry and government. It is a trade group to advance the members’ interests within the kernel. A lot of fools and wishful thinkers wrongly assume it is the former and the harsh reality is the latter.” See The_Linux_Foundation_Has_Formally_Changed_Its_Mission, as published last year. “LF has managed to steal or privatise decades’ worth of volunteers’ work, putting them under the wing of monopolistic corporations, with a Code of Conduct slapped on top so that criticising corporate crimes becomes a punishable ‘offence’.”But it’s not greed that makes LF so harmful and dangerous. As we’ve already shown in this series, the LF tends to promote the wrong people while demoting credible people. No wonder so many LF managers have tragically died (we’ve lost count already). People who adore and admire the LF are typically not geeks but unprincipled businesspeople, i.e. people who mastered the art of exploiting geeks for great personal gain. In the video above I offer as an example the person who plundered myself and my colleagues, committing a crime, then hiding in the US (like Jim Zemlin’s wife [1, 2, 3). LF has managed to steal or privatise decades’ worth of volunteers’ work, putting them under the wing of monopolistic corporations, with a Code of Conduct slapped on top so that criticising corporate_crimes becomes a punishable ‘offence’*. In the next part we shall look some more at the last IRS filing and expose the true nature of ‘the beast’. █ _______ * If you criticise an evil company or point out that someone works for an evil company, that can wrongly_be_interpreted as a “personal attack”. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 512 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/06/14/sirius-open-source-and-government/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/06/14/sirius-open-source-and-government/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Police_Out_of_Control_(or_Oversight)_–_Part_6:_This_Scandal_Has_Become_a_Lot Bigger_Than_Sirius_‘Open_Source’⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 7:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Series parts: 1. New_Series:_The_End_of_Sirius_Open_Source 2. Sirius_Open_Source_Cannot_Retain_Staff_and_Clients_(Many_of_the_Remaining Ones_Leave_the_Company) 3. Police_Out_of_Control_(or_Oversight)_–_Part_3:_Action_Fraud_and_Reports of_Sirius_Fraud 4. Police_Out_of_Control_(or_Oversight)_–_Part_4:_The_Pokémon_Village_of Sirius_‘Open_Source’_and_British_Government 5. Police_Out_of_Control_(or_Oversight)_–_Part_5:_What’s_Left_of_the_Company is_a_Skeleton_Crew_(While_Police_is_Dragging_Its_Heels) 6. YOU ARE HERE ☞ This Scandal Has Become a Lot Bigger Than Sirius ‘Open Source’ Video_download_link | md5sum f4f239686d76f30d562cc44bb70cb997 Serious Scandal by Sirius Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-coverup-suspicions.webm Summary: What started as fraud committed by one company (since 2011 if not earlier) is becoming a blunder and major embarrassment to high-profile clients that are government agencies, in effect employing programmers and system administrators via a contractor that grossly underpays workers while secretly defrauding them (stealing money from them) THE previous_part spoke of the brain drain that had reduced Sirius_‘Open Source’ to almost nothing; even before pension_fraud_was_exposed (we broke the story here this past spring) the company had almost nothing left in terms of physical assets, monetary assets, human resources, and clients. It’s just milking what’s left of contracts signed or renewed last year. “…Sirius received millions of pounds from the British government and the government oughtn’t look the other way when people who worked on government computer systems become victims of employment crimes and embezzlement or just plain old fraud.”The really obnoxious thing is the two-faceted ‘coverup’ (to use the term loosely) by entities that should know better and should do better. If the British authorities are so desperate to save face and spare themselves negative publicity, then they should hurry up and act, showing strength of law, accountability, and drastic consequences. Instead, based on the lack of interaction (also my Member of Parliament is being ignored), it certainly seems like this scandal will just deepen, implicating a growing network of facilitators and enablers. This scandal isn’t about just Sirius anymore; Sirius received millions of pounds from the British government and the government oughtn’t look the other way when people who worked on government computer systems become victims of employment crimes and embezzlement or just plain old fraud. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 587 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/06/14/sirius-open-source-victim-shaming/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/06/14/sirius-open-source-victim-shaming/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Police_Out_of_Control_(or_Oversight)_–_Part_7:_Six_Months_After_Sirius_‘Open Source’_Gave_the_Victims_of_Its_Crimes_a_Chance_to_‘Cool_Off’⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Fraud, Free/Libre_Software at 8:20 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Series parts: 1. New_Series:_The_End_of_Sirius_Open_Source 2. Sirius_Open_Source_Cannot_Retain_Staff_and_Clients_(Many_of_the_Remaining Ones_Leave_the_Company) 3. Police_Out_of_Control_(or_Oversight)_–_Part_3:_Action_Fraud_and_Reports of_Sirius_Fraud 4. Police_Out_of_Control_(or_Oversight)_–_Part_4:_The_Pokémon_Village_of Sirius_‘Open_Source’_and_British_Government 5. Police_Out_of_Control_(or_Oversight)_–_Part_5:_What’s_Left_of_the_Company is_a_Skeleton_Crew_(While_Police_is_Dragging_Its_Heels) 6. Police_Out_of_Control_(or_Oversight)_–_Part_6:_This_Scandal_Has_Become_a Lot_Bigger_Than_Sirius_‘Open_Source’ 7. YOU ARE HERE ☞ Six Months After Sirius ‘Open Source’ Gave the Victims of Its Crimes a Chance to ‘Cool Off’ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Roy's_resignation_page_1:_There_is_no_such_thing;_Nothing was_paid;_they_had_us_sign_another;_a_decade_out_of_date;_Those_terms_are clearly_applicable_only_while_employed;_stuff_inapplicable_after_departure;_It is_not_defamatory_if_it's_true_and_honest;_you_are_not_my_boss;_The_Company does_that_on_its_own⦈_ Summary: Six months ago Sirius_‘Open_Source’ had the audacity to tell people whom it robbed that they need to “cool off” (no such obligation); imagine a rapist telling the victim to just “chill”; today we revisit the matter THE departure from Sirius half a year ago was long overdue. The company had done a number of bad things other than the_pension_fraud (which we didn’t know about at the time; there were mere suspicions). At one point I even considered leaving abruptly, seeing how colleagues were being treated/mistreated. One of them got diarrhea from the stress. He was routinely and casually bullied by fake ‘managers’. I had enumerated clients I was not happy about and discussed it privately with friends. It’s my legal right. I can talk about work (though this was not at all mentioned internally; I had kept these 100% to myself and only Rianne knows the full reasons for disdain because she worked in the same company). “What was happening to Sirius? As I noted the day I left the company, at one point that year I was even asked to look at server logs for an anti-abortion group.”Where does one even start describing what went on in the company? First there’s Bill Gates: notorious, corrupt, working in the shadows and perhaps passing a bribe? I never ever had any contact with that (perhaps LDAP) project, but that still reeks/stinks a lot. Why was there an NDA and why would an American approach a British company? The one that employs a Gates critics who is pursing police files about Gates at the time. It’s not like Microsoft did not already try this. It tried contacting the same company, explicitly complaining about me. Some other day I’ll elaborate some more on that. It’s another kind of bullying. Then we had this public sector client that was also connected to Microsoft; well, they moved from Windows to GNU/Linux but stayed on Azure; thankfully I never even logged in to that crap (but one day they MIGHT ask me, or so I worried, and then what?). For another client there was an Amazon/AWS migration planned (used to be a domestic company doing the hosting); more AWS is not the ‘skill’ we want to develop, is it? By 2022 there 3 more “problematic” clients: some Army-connected thing (US), a loan shark, a company that employs criminals and us acting as secretaries of theirs, picking up fault reports, not even solving them. What was happening to Sirius? As I noted the day I left the company, at one point that year I was even asked to look at server logs for an anti-abortion group. Was the twice-divorced CEO becoming a misogynist, too? “It’s hard to believe it has been this long, but it took about 3 months just to get to the bottom of the pension fraud (with Standard Life openly admitting it in writing).”The irony is that the CEO kept bragging about me working for the company, using that to recruit people (those people told me that). And after he defrauded me and my colleagues (some of them friends) he had the audacity to assert the victims were in fact the problem. It’s hard to believe it has been this long, but it took about 3 months just to get to the bottom of the pension fraud (with Standard Life openly admitting it in writing). Sure, it’s bad publicity for them if it drags on for months and months, but that’s not the point. It’s just a really slow process and the Sirius scandal will deepen. It will expose and implicate the state, too. Just because Sirius was a contractor and state agencies were “clients” doesn’t mean that the state had no responsibilities and obligations. We suppose this is becoming an epic liability scandal and that’s why they keep so quiet about it. They hope the victims will just forget about it or “move on” out of sheer desperation. We have a lot left to say; if it were not for source protection, it would boil over completely by now (but possibly burn some innocent people). We’ve heard from journalists, ex staff, applicants, clients… they’re really unhappy about what’s happening in Sirius right now. 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New_Series:_Why_People_Everywhere_Should_Quit_YouTube 2. YouTube’s_New_Management:_Time’s_Up,_Start_Paying_and_Watch_Ads,_Don’t Use_Free_Software 3. Why_You_Should_Quit_YouTube_–_Part_3:_Google_Exploits_Creators,_It’ll_Get Even_Worse 4. Why_You_Should_Quit_YouTube_–_Part_4:_Financial_Crunch_Time 5. Why_You_Should_Quit_YouTube_–_Part_5:_The_Real_Enemy_Has_Become_Sanity_of Users 6. YOU ARE HERE ☞ The ‘Audiences’ as the Enemies of YouTube Video_download_link | md5sum 38189a14267493d9c3e55c568c293c0f What YouTube Really Does Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/youtube-and-the-users-aspect.webm Summary: ‘Audiences’ and ‘creators’ are both harmed by YouTube, more so over time; today we focus on what it means to be a spectator alone (read-only) in the world’s largest video hosting platform, which isn’t a public service but increasingly a great disservice, extracting “value” out of exploited serfs without compensating them THE previous part, which the video above covers and describes in passing, spoke about TikTok as an emerging/emergent competitor of YouTube (and its political masters, too). It also spoke of the exploitative relationship between YouTube and “creators”, but today we focus on users (viewers) and what they stand to lose by staying on YouTube. ‘Audiences’ is what Google/Alphabet might call them; the customers/clients are advertisers/governments and what they pay for is indoctrination (changing people’s attitude, views, perceived needs or wants). To YouTube, the product on sale is the “audience” or the userbase. That’s just how managers view it; remember they don’t create videos, they just try to ‘monetise’ others’ hard work. Without bothering to properly compensate the real workers, not those who receive a salary. There’s a disproportionate and asymmetric model of rewards. To users, i.e. people who only ever “consume” videos but never create (or at least never upload) videos, the downsides of YouTube can be summed up as follows: 1. The censorship of topics/channels/videos you like. 2. Lots of unwanted marketing junk, not limited to advertisements (more on that later). 3. YouTube’s attacks on third parties, which in turn limits choice. Impending shadowbanning/sabotage of Invidious hosts will reveal the full extent of that. 4. The exploitation of “creators” whom you wish to financially reward. 5. A growing DRM creep (we covered this in previous parts), which will limit what Web browsers you can use. Double standards on uploads and downloads are part of this problem, as noted in the video above. In a nutshell, files (“protected content”) need to be decrypted on your own machine, based on the assumption you’re a “pirate”, and this harms the environment, raises your electricity bills etc. 6. YouTube is owned by questionable company, subservient to an empire or country with imperial ambitions 7. YouTube relies on proprietary code, both at the server side and the client side, and Google is chasing or mowing down Free software alternatives. As of a a few years ago, one must run proprietary JavaScript to merely open pages and see comments, not just to play videos or add a comment. 8. With management changes this year, and moreover a more marketing-focused management team, the worst is yet to come and the devil is in the details 9. Lastly (there are more factors for sure but this isn’t an exhaustive list), videos are not listed based on one’s preferences and subscriptions of choice anymore. Nothing is presented linearly and neutrally but based on what Google is pushing, e.g. arbitrarily choosing to become “viral”. You may feel like you’re in control, but you’re not. You are being covertly controlled. We’ll come back to this and elaborate in Part 8. That’s just from the point of view of people who “binge” or watch a lot of videos. The next part will speak about “creators”. They too are harmed, even more so. More people need to abandon and give up on YouTube/Spotify/Netflix (DRM and spying platforms). Social control media needs to die also, but that’s another story, albeit YouTube gradually and increasingly resembles social control media, just like TikTok. “Not sure if Netflix has a viable business model,” an associate said today, “but YouTube sure seems to lack one.” As for Spotify, it is losing a billion dollars a year and it recently announced layoffs, sell- offs, and cancellation of whole services/units. How long for will YouTube be formally ‘free’? Well, they already try to push annual subscriptions for over $100. In some countries that’s way too high a fee. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 866 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_14/06/2023:_Reddit_Latest_Social_Control_Network_to_Wane,_Microsoft Targeted_by_FTC⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_Serbia⠀⇛ We cover user groups that are running in Serbia. This article forms part of our Linux_Around_The_World_series. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_233⠀⇛ A great way to access documentation offline, moving Windows installations to new disks without breaking them, streaming VR games from a PC, replacing Pocket with a proper open source solution, living with Google’s flagship phone for a few months, and more. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Videos_from_the_2022_Tracing_Summit⠀⇛ Videos from the 2022 Tracing Summit are now available on YouTube. They include talks about Visual eBPF, Perfetto, the state of Linux tracers, libpatch, hardware trace, and more. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Looking_to_switch_to_Linux_from_Windows?_The_Feren OS_Transfer_Tool_makes_it_easy⠀⇛ Anyone looking to adopt Linux as their daily operating system should give Feren OS a try. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Poker_Tools_and_Software⠀⇛ We’ll discuss the poker tools that will help you improve your hand while playing this favorite game of chance. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ cli-chess_–_play_chess_in_your_terminal⠀⇛ cli-chess is a command-line chess program that lets you play online against human players and offline against the computer. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ ONLYOFFICE_Docs_v7.4_released:_drawing_tools, radar_charts,_combining_documents,_upgraded_ChatGPT_plugin and_other_improvements⠀⇛ The developers of ONLYOFFICE Docs rolled out a new version of their collaborative office suite that comes with a lot of new features and improvements for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and fillable forms. Let’s take a deep look at what’s new in this version of the ONLYOFFICE online and desktop editors. ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.4 offers new drawing tools allowing you to draw whatever you want in your documents, spreadsheets, presentations and fallible forms. Using the newly added Draw tab on the top toolbar, you can choose a pen or a highlighter as well as the desired colour and line thickness. If you don’t like what you get, you can always use the Eraser tool to scrub your drawings. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_install_the_latest_version_of_the_free LibreOffice_office_suite_on_Linux⠀⇛ Soon, users of RHEL-based Linux distributions (such as Fedora, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux) will find an important piece of software missing from the official repositories…the LibreOffice office suite. There’s no need to panic, as this is not an end-of- the-world scenario (far from it). Not only is this not cataclysmic, but there will also always be the means to install LibreOffice on your favorite RHEL- based operating system. On top of that, there are other office suites you can install (such as WPS Office and Softmaker Office). # ⚓ Digital Journal ☛ Optimize_Ubuntu_Email_Server Configuration_with_Herrod_Tech’s_Guide [Ed: This is spammy, obviously sponsored]⠀⇛ Herrod Technology, a leading provider of technology solutions, is pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive guide on setting up an email server on Ubuntu. Titled “How to Setup Email Server on Ubuntu: A Comprehensive Guide,” this blog post provides detailed instructions and insights for individuals and businesses seeking to configure a fully functional and secure email server on the Ubuntu operating system. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_Best_Free_Resources_to_Prepare_for CompTIA_Linux+ [Ed: This seems rather spammy, maybe even sponsored]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Discover_Your_CPU’s_True_Limits_With_Stress-Terminal_UI_for Linux_–_The_Tech_Edvocate⠀⇛ As a Linux user, it can be frustrating to not know what your system’s true limits are. Sure, you can take a guess based on the specs of your processor, but what if you want to truly push your CPU to its maximum potential? This is where Stress-Terminal UI comes in. Stress-Terminal UI is a powerful tool for Linux users that allows you to stress-test your CPU and other system components. It is a simple command- line application that runs stress tests on different parts of your system, including your CPU, RAM, and disk I/O. This allows you to determine the true limits of your system and identify any performance bottlenecks that may be hindering its performance. One of the biggest advantages of Stress-Terminal UI is that it is incredibly easy to use. Once you have installed the application, simply launch it from the command line and select the stress test you wish to run. You can choose from tests that focus solely on your CPU, or you can opt for more comprehensive tests that include RAM and disk I/ O stress tests. # ⚓ Network World ☛ Using_aliases_on_Linux_|_Network_World⠀⇛ Setting up aliases on Linux systems can save you a lot of time and trouble on the command line. This post shows how to set up and manage aliases and provides a number of examples on how and why to use them. # ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ How_to_Add_Users_to_Sudoers_in_Linux⠀⇛ Learn how to add users to the sudoers list in Linux, granting them administrative privileges securely and maintaining a robust security framework. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Switch_to_Xorg_from_Wayland_in Linux⠀⇛ For a long time, most Linux distros have slowly been transitioning their users away from Xorg and into Wayland. In most cases, this is a good thing. Wayland_is_more_secure, performs much better than X, and overcomes many of the hurdles of the older protocol. The bad news is that your applications may not function perfectly if they expect to be running in X11. # ⚓ Share_Your_Work:_How_to_Publish_Docker_Images_to_the Registry⠀⇛ Docker is a popular containerization tool that enables developers to package their applications in a portable and lightweight manner. Docker images are pre-configured snapshots of an application, which include all the necessary dependencies and configurations. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Vue.js_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ Vue.js, a progressive JavaScript framework, has emerged as a critical tool in the contemporary web development landscape. The brainchild of Evan You, an ex-Google engineer, Vue.js was born out of a vision to amalgamate the best features of Angular and React while mitigating their weaknesses. Why Vue.js? # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Sysdig_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Sysdig on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Sysdig is an open-source, powerful system monitoring and troubleshooting tool that provides in-depth visibility into your system’s processes, files, network connections, and more. # ⚓ Net2 ☛ How_to_install_Git_on_Ubuntu_18.04⠀⇛ Developers nowadays are using Git to help them control and manage their ever changing source code versions as well as to keep track of potential code changes. Git enables developers and programmers to create different branches, revert to previous code versions, make sophisticated code comparisons and many other features. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Using_head_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛ The head command is one of the several ways to display file contents or part of it. You can also do more with it. Here are some common examples to explore. # ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ How_to_Plot_Timeseries_using_highcharter library_in_R⠀⇛ Time series data is a sequence of data points that are measured at regular intervals over time. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_LEMP_Stack_on_Debian_12/11/ 10⠀⇛ In the realm of web application development, selecting the appropriate software stack can be a critical factor for the successful deployment of your application. The LEMP stack, an acronym derived from the four open-source components it employs — Linux, ENGINX, MariaDB, and PHP, is a powerful, flexible, and scalable solution for managing web servers. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_TeamViewer_on_Debian_12/11/ 10⠀⇛ TeamViewer is a comprehensive and robust software tool designed to provide seamless remote access, collaboration, and support capabilities. With its origins dating back to 2005, TeamViewer has continually adapted and grown, offering a myriad of functionalities to meet the changing needs of the tech industry. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_MATE_Desktop_on_Fedora_38/ 37/36_Linux⠀⇛ Fedora users, accustomed to the GNOME desktop environment, may find the MATE Desktop Environment a welcome shift for a number of reasons. MATE, originally an acronym for MATE Advanced Traditional Environment, offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, all wrapped into an intuitive and user- friendly package. Why MATE Stands Out? # ⚓ Join_the_Docker_Hub_Community:_Setting_up_Your_Account⠀⇛ In today’s world, technology is advancing at an incredible rate. Businesses are always looking for ways to streamline their processes, make their infrastructure more efficient, and reduce costs. One of the most popular technologies available today is Docker Hub, a cloud-based registry service that allows developers to store and manage their container images. # ⚓ Docker_Image_Registry:_A_Comprehensive_Guide_to_Logging_In and_Out⠀⇛ Docker is one of the most popular and widely used containerization platforms in the world. It allows developers to deploy their applications in a portable and efficient manner, making it an excellent choice for modern software development. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ The_`ls`_Command_in_Linux_with_Practical Examples⠀⇛ The `ls` command is a crucial tool in the repertoire of both novice and advanced Linux users. It’s a simple yet versatile command that provides a list of files and directories in the current directory by default. # ⚓ Unveiling_the_Past:_Analyzing_Docker_Image_History⠀⇛ Docker is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way software is developed and deployed. It provides an open-source platform for creating, shipping, and running applications inside containers. These containers are lightweight, portable, and self-contained environments that can run on any infrastructure without any modifications. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Guide_to_Zipping_and_Unzipping_.xz_Files_in Linux⠀⇛ If you’re working with Linux, it’s almost certain that you’ll need to deal with compressed files at some point. One of the formats you might come across is the XZ format. The .xz format is known for its high compression ratio, which can be handy when you need to save space or make file transfers more manageable. This guide will walk you through the process of compressing (zipping) and decompressing (unzipping) .xz files using the command line in Linux. # ⚓ 2_ways_to_install_Element_Desktop_Client_on_Ubuntu_22.04_| 20.04⠀⇛ Introduction: A step-by-step guide showing two ways to install the Element messaging client on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 using the command terminal. Element is an open-source application that uses Matrix protocol for offering an end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration platform. # ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ How_to_Use_AppImage_in_Linux⠀⇛ This tutorial discusses what AppImage is and how you can use it to run a Linux application across all Linux distributions. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_xargs⠀⇛ This article spotlights alternative tools to xargs, a command that builds and executes command lines from standard input. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Azuriom:_Open_Source_Gaming_CMS⠀⇛ Azuriom is a modern, reliable, fast and secure game CMS. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Moonstone_Island_set_to_release_this_Summer with_a_new_trailer⠀⇛ Moonstone Island from Studio Supersoft and Raw Fury looks sweet! It’s a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100+ islands to explore and now we have more details. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Portal_Reloaded_–_The_Cooperative_Update_is out_now⠀⇛ Ready for one more run through the testing chambers? The free and very popular mod Portal Reloaded just recently had The Cooperative Update release. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ SMITE_now_works_on_Linux_and_Steam_Deck_in the_latest_update⠀⇛ Titan Forge Games and Hi-Rez Studios have updated their popular MOBA game SMITE, and with it an improvement to allow it to now work on Linux with Easy Anti-Cheat. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Nova_Roma_is_a_new_city-builder_from_the Kingdoms_and_Castles_developer⠀⇛ Kingdoms and Castles is a great city-builder but it seems Lion Shield want to do something a bit different, so they’ve revealed Nova Roma. It was announced at the PC Gaming Show. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ After_eating_up_lots_of_game_studios Embracer_Group_set_to_close_a_bunch⠀⇛ Ah yes, game industry consolidation is great isn’t it. What could possibly go wrong when one company acquires a ton of others and then screws up? # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Gotta_Go_Fast⠀⇛ § Don’t @ Me No time for an intro because it’s time to go fast and when you’re going this fast you don’t have time to explain things or catch anyone up on what’s happening or edit out tpyos or even use punctuation let’s gooooooooooooooooooooo # ⚓ David Revoy ☛ Pepper&Carrot_Game_Jam⠀⇛ 3 days left before the Pepper&Carrot game jam starts! It’s hosted by Brett Chalupa here: → https://itch.io/jam/pepper-carrot-jam Good luck to the 17 participants who already joined, and because I cannot wait to see the results, I colored a sketch with Pepper and Carrot playing a ‘VS Fighter’ (Carrot is clearly winning). # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ The_double-edged_sword_of_online_gaming: Addiction,_education,_and_the_pursuit_of_profit⠀⇛ The rapid development and widespread accessibility of technology have opened up a world of online gaming, with millions of people around the globe logging in to play every day. While these games can be a source of entertainment and camaraderie, they also come with potential risks. In this article, we will delve into the multifaceted world of online gaming, exploring its addictive nature, educational potential, and games for money. We’ll provide examples of each, helping you to better understand the complex landscape of online gaming. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ultramarine_Linux_38_Launches_with_System76’s Scheduler,_Based_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛ Based on Fedora Linux 38, but shipping with Linux kernel 6.3 by default, Ultramarine Linux 38 (codename Tortuga) now uses System76’s CPU scheduler for prioritizing processes for improved desktop responsiveness. The devs note the fact that System76’s scheduler is included in all four editions, but only the GNOME one will automatically detect the application that’s currently in use. In addition, Ultramarine Linux 38 offers a tweaked shutdown sequence where the services were limited for faster/shorter shutdown times. # ⚓ Makulu_Max_Released_!⠀⇛ MakuluLinux Max, the worlds First AI- Voice integrated Operating system has been released, it is live. you can grab your copy from the Download Section. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version_5.4.1 released⠀⇛ Released the day after 5.4! Just one change, printing fixed, see this forum discussion: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8913 Plus some very small changes committed: https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commits/ 38b9dfa2bb52a677166f3255e66f3ffaf703feec If running 5.4, just click the “update” icon, the update to 5.4.1 is only 929KB. If you are new to EasyOS, please read the 5.4 announcement first: [...] o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ F38_election_results_for_FESCo⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Fedora_election_results⠀⇛ The Fedora project has posted the results of its elections for members of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (Stephen Gallagher, Neal Gompa, Major Hayden, and Tom Stellard), Fedora Council (Sumantro Mukherjee), and Mindshare Committee (David Duncan). # ⚓ Fedora_Infrastructure_Status:_Networking_upgrades⠀⇛ Various network switches and routers will be updated and rebooted. This will result in short times of no connectivity, possibly lasting 20minutes at a time during the outage window. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ Debian_GNU/Hurd_2023_released!⠀⇛ It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2023. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "bookworm" release (June 2023), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an official Debian GNU/Hurd port release. The installation ISO images can be downloaded from cdimage (https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/12.0/ hurd-i386/) in the NETINST and netboot Debian flavors. Besides the friendly Debian installer, a pre-installed disk image is also available, making it even easier to try Debian GNU/Hurd. The easiest way to run it is inside a VM such as qemu (https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install) Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 architecture with about 65% of the Debian archive, and more to come! * APIC, SMP, and 64bit support was improved a lot: they now do boot a complete Debian system, but some bugs remain to be fixed. * The rump-based userland disk driver seems to be working fine now, we can now boot a system without any Linux driver in the mach kernel: mach then only drives the CPU, memory, clock and irqs! * Many fixes, including some important security fixes. Please make sure to read the configuration information (https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install), the FAQ (http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html) (or its latest version ()http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/ ), and the translator primer (http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/ documentation/translator_primer.html) to get a grasp of the great features of GNU/Hurd. We would like to thank all the people who have worked on GNU/Hurd (http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html) in the past. There were not many people at any given time (and still not many people today, please join (http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ contributing.html)!), but in the end a lot of people have contributed one way or the other. Thanks everybody! o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Ubuntu_Studio_is_the_perfect_operating_system_for creators_|_ZDNET⠀⇛ Do you create content? Audio? Video? Images? If that’s what you spend your time doing, there’s a Linux distribution specifically designed for you. That distribution is another official “flavor” of Ubuntu, called Ubuntu Studio, and with it, you’ll find nearly everything you need to work on your creative endeavors. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ An_Inside_Look_at_How_Raspberry_Pis_Are Made⠀⇛ Jeff Geerling shares an inside look at how Raspberry Pi 4s are manufactured at the Sony Tech Center in Wales. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Unihertz_Jelly_Star:_Smallest_Android_13 smartphone_arrives_with_performance_–_NotebookCheck.net News⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Android_users_told_to_switch_OFF_emergency_phone feature_causing_accidental_999_call_chaos_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Mirror UK ☛ Nothing_will_rival_Samsung_next_month_as powerful_new_Android_phone_confirmed_–_Mirror_Online⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Auto_gets_a_garage_door_opener_app⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_8_Ways_to_Fix_Android_Vibrates_Randomly_for_No_Reason_– Guiding_Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_13_Beta_Program_Comes_to_a_Close_With_Android_14 Next⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Pixel_7_and_7a_get_32_fixes_with_Android_13 QPR3_update⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ June_Pixel_Feature_Drop_with_Android_13_QPR3 rolling_out⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Google_Messages_gets_home_screen_redesign rolling_out_now_to_Android_14_Beta_subscribers_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ 7_Android_14_Features_I’m_Excited_About⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Heather J Meeker ☛ Open_Atom_Foundation,_and_My_Book_in_Chinese [Ed: Shill_for_corporations,_rewriting_history]⠀⇛ I am excited to announce that my book Open Source for Business is now available for free download in Chinese. Many thanks to Open Atom Foundation, China’s first open source foundation, for preparing the translation and making it available. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ pgBackRest_2.46_Released⠀⇛ Crunchy_Data is pleased to announce the release of pgBackRest 2.46, the latest version of the reliable, easy-to-use backup and restore solution that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads. Over the last year pgBackRest has introduced many exciting new features including block incremental backup, file bundling, repository verification, backup annotations, and SFTP repository storage. IMPORTANT NOTE: pgBackRest 2.44 is the last version to support PostgreSQL 9.0/9.1/9.2. pgBackRest supports a robust set of features for managing your backup and recovery infrastructure, including: parallel backup/restore, full/ differential/incremental backups, block incremental backup, multiple repositories, delta restore, parallel asynchronous archiving, per-file checksums, page checksums (when enabled) validated during backup, multiple compression types, encryption, partial/failed backup resume, backup from standby, tablespace and link support, S3/ Azure/GCS/SFTP support, backup expiration, local/ remote operation via SSH or TLS, flexible configuration, and more. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ credcheck_v2.0.0_released⠀⇛ Release v2.0.0 adds a major feature and the compatibility with PostgreSQL 16. Upgrade require a PostgreSQL restart to reload the credcheck library. Add “Authentication failure ban” new feature PostgreSQL doesn’t have any mechanism to limit the number of authentication failure attempt before the user being banned. With the credcheck extension, after an amount of authentication failure defined by configuration directive credcheck.max_auth_failure the user can be banned and never connect anymore even if it gives the right password later. This feature requires that the credcheck extension to be added to to shared_preload_libraries configuration option. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Paul E. McKenney ☛ Paul_E._Mc_Kenney:_Parallel_Programming: June_2023_Update⠀⇛ The v2023.06.11a release of Is_Parallel_Programming Hard,_And,_If_So,_What_Can_You_Do_About_It? is now available! The double-column version is also available from arXiv.org. This release contains a new section on thermal throttling (along with a new cartoon), improvements to the memory-ordering chapter (including intuitive subsets of the Linux-kernel memory model), fixes to the deferred-processing chapter, additional clocksource-deviation material to the “What Time Is It?” section, and numerous fixes inspired by questions and comments from readers.  Discussions with Yariv Aridor were especially fruitful.  Akira Yokosawa contributed some quick quizzes and other upgrades of the technical discussions, along with a great many improvements to grammar, glossaries, epigraphs, and the build system.  Leonardo Bras also provided some much-appreciated build-system improvements, and also started up continuous integration for some of the code samples. # ⚓ LWN ☛ McKenney:_Parallel_Programming:_June_2023_Update⠀⇛ Paul McKenney has announced a new version of his book Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt/.NET — Hosting_.NET_code_in_a_Qt_application_(1/3) [Ed: Qt has been promoting a lot of Microsoft's proprietary junk lately. What's going on?]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Rlang ☛ R_Consortium_Funding_for_R_User_Groups! Highlighting_R-Ladies_São_Paulo⠀⇛ The R Consortium has begun the disbursement of grants to help R User Groups (RUGS) around the world organize, share information, and support each other. # ⚓ Niko_Matsakis:_Higher-ranked_projections_(send_bound problem,_part_4)⠀⇛ I recently posted_a_draft_of_an_RFC about Return Type_Notation to the async working group Zulip stream. In response, Josh Triplett reached out to me to raise some concerns. Talking to him gave rise to a 3rd idea for how to resolve the send bound problem. I still prefer RTN, but I think this idea is interesting and worth elaborating. I call it higher-ranked projections. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ rOpenSci_Champions_Program_Teams:_Meet_Cheryl Isabella_Lim_and_Mauro_Lepore⠀⇛ We designed the rOpenSci Champions Program with a mentorship aspect. Mentoring plays a significant role in the growth and development of both mentors and mentees alike. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ 2023.23/4_At_48⠀⇛ The TIOBE index for June 2023 puts the Raku Programming Language at #48, so inside the top 50 for the first time! With an actual mention by TIOBE’s CEO: [...] # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Bash_Basics_Series_#1:_Create_and_Run Your_First_Bash_Shell_Script⠀⇛ Start learning bash scripting with this new series. Create and run your first bash shell script in the first chapter. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_MrBeast_Became_the_Willy_Wonka_of_YouTube⠀⇛ Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, has become a viral sensation for his absurd acts of altruism. Why do so many people think he’s evil? o ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Forget_perfect_pitch,_I_had_perfect_timing_–_or_so_I thought⠀⇛ Sometimes you discover you have a true superpower. And sometimes things are not exactly what they seem. o ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ British_daredevil_arrested_after_climbing_to 73rd_floor_of_Seoul_skyscraper⠀⇛ He was said to be wearing just shorts, climbing shoes and carrying a small backpack. o ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ How_to_Talk_to_People:_What_Makes_a_House_a_Home⠀⇛ Two married couples who bought a home together have found that expanding their household led to a deeper sense of community. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Does_This_Animation_Really_Show_What ‘Happiness_Looks_Like’?⠀⇛ If only happiness could be this simple. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists_Created_a_Shape-Shifting Robot_Made_of_Triangles_for_Future_Space_Missions⠀⇛ The polygonal Mori3 robot is similar in concept to the shape-shifting robot TARS from ‘Interstellar,’ and could make repairs in space. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Around_10%_of_Latvian_adults_are_learning⠀⇛ Recent data from Eurostat shows that just under 10% of Latvia’s adult population is engaged in formal or informal training and education. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Romanian_Prime_Minister_Transfer_Moves_Forward Following_Settlement_Of_Teacher_Strike⠀⇛ Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca on June 12 submitted his resignation as part of a scheduled plan to swap premiers following the 2020 parliamentary elections that left the two leading parties with near-equal strength. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Connecting_a_CD-ROM_to_a_Sound_Blaster_32 IDE_header_in_DOS⠀⇛ Back in April I talked about connecting my Am386’s CD-ROM to the IDE header on an ESS AudioDrive ISA sound card, and using it in DOS. I wanted to see if I could repeat this with a Creative Sound Blaster 32 that also has an IDE controller. It worked! # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ AOOSTAR_AMD_Ryzen_5_mini_PC_also_works_as_a two-bay_NAS_and_2.5GbE_router⠀⇛ AOOSTAR mini PC is a 3-in-1 AMD Ryzen 5 5500U mini PC with two 3.5-inch SATA bays making it usable as a NAS, and two 2.5GbE networking interfaces to use the mini PC as a software 2.5GbE router that has recently shown up on Amazon for $399. The mini PC ships with a 512GB NVMe SSD preloaded with Windows 11 by default, as well as 16GB DDR4 memory. # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Challenger_to_x86_RISEs_to_Solve_the Software_Problem⠀⇛ A new chip architecture called RISC-V is emerging as a hot-ticket item to unseat the dominant x86 processor in computer hardware, but it has a problem — it has poor software support. To solve that problem, some of the biggest names in tech have joined hands to establish RISC-V Software Ecosystem, also called RISE, which is a consortium to promote software development for the free-to- license RISC-V instruction set architecture. The goal is to create the underlying software tools and middleware that developers will need to write applications for devices or servers with RISC- V chips. # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Stronger_EU_product_safety_rules enter_into_force_today⠀⇛ European Commission Press release Brussels, 12 Jun 2023 Today, the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR), enters into force. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ U.S._to_Let_Samsung,_SK_Hynix,_TSMC_Expand Fabs_in_China:_Report⠀⇛ U.S. set to allow South Korean and Taiwanese companies to upgrade fab operations in China using American wafer fab tools. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Japan’s_handling_of_nuclear_plant wastewater_‘selfish,’_says_labour_union,_as_Hong_Kong_mulls import_bans⠀⇛ Members of the pro-Beijing Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) have rallied against Japan’s plan to release wastewater from a nuclear power plant into the sea. They accused Tokyo of ignoring objections from the local agricultural sector and neighbouring countries. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Heated_debate_about_potential_smoking_products ban:_LTV’s_De_Facto⠀⇛ Few subjects considered in the parliament gain so much attention from lobbying organizations as changes in smoking restrictions. MPs have received a pile of objections from various associations, particularly regarding the plan to ban flavors in electronic cigarettes, the De Facto broadcast of Latvian Television reported on June 11. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Boosting_This_Amino_Acid_–_Not_Telomeres_– Might_Be_The_Secret_to_Longer_Lifespan⠀⇛ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Hundreds_of_tribal_members,_mostly Navajo,_living_on_Phoenix_streets_amid_fake_sober_home crackdown⠀⇛ Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch says Navajo law enforcement teams that fanned out over metro Phoenix in recent weeks made contact with several hundred Native Americans from various tribes living on the streets amid a state crackdown on Medicaid fraud that recruited them to unlicensed sober living homes. Branch says Monday the teams have made contact with more than 270 Native Americans, the majority of them Navajo. Many tribal members accepted offers of temporary housing before moving to legitimate facilities, while others agreed to return to their reservations. State officials believe the homes defrauded Arizona out of hundreds of millions of its federal Medicaid dollars. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Mediterranean_Diet_‘De-Ages’_Patients’ Brains_by_Up_to_9_Months_in_New_Study⠀⇛ Intriguing… # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Liepāja_hospital_accused_of_placebo_research without_consent⠀⇛ A patient at the Liepāja hospital has received a placebo medicine intended for participants in a clinical trial without the consent of the patient or their family, Latvian Television reported on June 12. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Poland_health_authorities_declare_pregnant_woman’s death_violated_patient_rights⠀⇛ Polish health authorities stated Monday a woman who died in the fifth month of pregnancy had her patient rights violated. The patient died of sepsis in hospital after going into early labor. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Obamacare_Mandate_for_Preventive_Care_Is Restored,_for_Now⠀⇛ Health plans must pay for all types of preventive care, including a pill to prevent H.I.V., while an appeals court deliberates whether to strike down part of the Affordable Care Act. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Amid_fight_over_Covenant_school shooting_records,_medical_examiner_releases_autopsy_report⠀⇛ An autopsy report says the shooter who killed three children and three adults at a Nashville Christian school died from gunshot wounds to the head, torso and other parts of the body. The autopsy released Monday said the manner of death of 28-year-old Audrey Hale was homicide. Hale opened fire at the school before being shot to death by officers. The release of the report comes as a growing collection of groups are embroiled in a complex legal battle over the release of Hale’s writings and other documents in the police investigation. On Monday, a Nashville judge declined to pause the court proceedings so that those seeking the records could wait on an appeal of a previous decision in the case. # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ From_Net_Zero_to_Glyphosate:_Agritech’s Greenwashed_Corporate_Power_Grab⠀⇛ Today, in the mainstream narrative, there is much talk of a ‘food transition’. Big agribusiness and ‘philanthropic’ foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to their much- promoted plans to ‘feed the world’ with ‘precision’ farming’, ‘data-driven’ agriculture and ‘sustainable’ production. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Twitter’s_T-Shirt_Bots_Are_Undefeated and_Verified_by_Elon_Musk⠀⇛ T-Shirt bots have been on Twitter for years, but now they’ve got blue check marks and prominent placement on your timeline. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ An_algorithm_intended_to_reduce poverty_in_Jordan_disqualifies_people_in_need⠀⇛ An algorithm funded by the World Bank to determine which families should get financial assistance in Jordan likely excludes people who should qualify, according to an investigation published this morning by Human Rights Watch. # ⚓ OS News ☛ Google_further_guts_the_Android_Open_Source Project_by_deprecating_the_dialer_and_messaging_apps_– OSnews⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Office_Open_XML_signatures_are ‘practically_worthless’_•_The_Register⠀⇛ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 10+_Free_and_Open-source_Self-hosted_Questions and_Answers_Solutions_Similar_to_Reddit_and_Stackoverflow⠀⇛ Build your own self-hosted and private Reddit clone for your community, team, school, company, and customers with these 10 open-source alternatives # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Reddit,_LLMs,_APIs,_TLAs⠀⇛ If I were a YouTube essayist, I’d say this is a story about power, language, and Digg… ing one’s grave. Wait, damn it. Beleaguered link aggregator site Reddit recently followed in Twitter’s well-received footsteps in imposing steep costs to access their API, attributed to large-language models training against their corpus of material without their permission, and for free. Hey, you and I know how that feels! It’s coached less in terms of defending individual writers from plagiarism, and more with words like “value” (don’t forget who owns your material when you post to a commercial site), but I’ll take it. Given how generative AIs and LLMs are now dickishly disseminating dull derivative dystopian detritus at scale across the web, knock-on effects are hardly surprising. Dickishly. It also raises what people like me have been saying for months: AIs depend on training data made by people who aren’t attributed or compensated. Tech pundits don’t care, though their lack of social responsibility is hardly new. I’ve been running an experiment about this, which I hope to post soon. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Reddit_Communities_Go_Dark_to_Protest_New App_Policy⠀⇛ Volunteer moderators closed off access to numerous subreddits and denounced the platform’s pricing plan for developers of popular outside apps used to navigate the site. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Thousands_of_subreddits_are_going_dark_for_at least_two_days⠀⇛ Thousands of communities on the platform will become inaccessible today (June 12), and stay that way for at least two days. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (vim), Fedora (kernel), Oracle (emacs, firefox, python3, and qemu), SUSE (firefox, java-1_8_0-ibm, and libwebp), and Ubuntu (firefox, glusterfs, and sniproxy). # ⚓ Texas_Tightens_State’s_Data_Breach_Notification_Law⠀⇛ On May 27, 2023, Texas’ Governor signed Senate Bill 768 amending Texas’ data breach notification law. The law in question, Section 521.053 of the Texas Business and Commerce Code, sets out the specific requirements any person conducting business in the state who owns or licenses sensitive personal information in a computerized format must follow in the event of any breach of system security. # ⚓ Data_breach_prompts_University_of_Pittsburgh_Medical_Center billing_contractor_to_contact_25,000_patients⠀⇛ Some 25,000 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) patients are being contacted by a Tennessee billing contractor following a data breach caused by a software bug that may have exposed names, addresses, social security numbers and other personal information. Kingsport-based Intellihartx LLC, which provides UPMC with billing and collection services, is contacting UPMC patients by mail, offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services to anyone whose records have been used illegally. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ CloudSEK_report_says_hackers_don’t_have access_to_CoWin’s_backend_database⠀⇛ A day after a Telegram bot provided access to the personal information of individuals who had reportedly registered for vaccination through the government’s CoWIN portal, an independent analysis by CloudSEK has shown that the threat actors do not have access to the entire portal or the backend database. CloudSEK is a Singapore-based contextual AI company that claims it can forewarn cyber threats. “Based on the matching fields from the Telegram data and previously reported incidents affecting health workers of a region, we assume the information was scraped through these compromised credentials,” CloudSEK said in a report. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Maimondes_Medical_Center_notifies_33,000 patients_of_hacking_incident⠀⇛ Investigation revealed that the hacker had access to the server from March 18, 2023 to April 4, 2023. Information that might have been accessed included names and addresses and limited clinical information, including diagnosis and treatment information. “In a small numbers of instances, social security number could also have been involved,” MMC wrote in a statement. # ⚓ School_community_OSG_Hengelo_closes_deal_with_hackers_after ransomware_attack⠀⇛ OSG Hengelo says that at the moment it is still unclear exactly what data the hackers have obtained. “It is still under investigation. As soon as there is more clarity about this, we will tell you,” the board says in a response to students and parents. Employees and students can now use WiFi again. In addition, almost all printers work again. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Commonwealth_Health_Physician_Network- Cardiology_notified_181,764_patients_of_network_breach⠀⇛ According to the notice by the Commonwealth Health Physician Network, the breach occurred on February 2 and continued until April 14. It was first discovered by GVC on April 13, but as some great reporting by Borys Krawczeniuk of The Times-Tribune made clear, GVC only discovered the breach then when they were alerted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Rhysida_claims_to_have_attacked_Paris_High School_in_Illinois⠀⇛ There is nothing on the district’s website to indicate any problems or breach. The only possible indicator currently found was on the district’s Facebook page in the form of a May 22 notice that their phone systems were down. There do not seem to be any follow-up posts to that although there were other posts about graduation and other normal activities. # ⚓ CNN ☛ Cyberattack_is_a_factor_in_Illinois_hospital’s closure⠀⇛ A hospital in Illinois will close on Friday due in part to a cyberattack – a rare case of a health care provider publicly linking a hack incident to its closure. The 2021 cyberattack on St. Margaret’s Health, a hospital in Spring Valley, Illinois, hobbled computer systems for months and prevented it from filing insurance claims, Linda Burt, a hospital vice president, told CNN on Monday. “It took months after we went back online to catch up with billing,” Burt said in an email. Other factors in the hospital’s closure were staffing costs brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and supply chain and inflation issues, she said. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ Israel_to_announce_plans_for_thousands_of_new settlement_units_in_occupied_West_Bank⠀⇛ The Israeli government told the Biden administration it intends to announce later this month the building and planning of thousands of new housing units in the settlements in the occupied West_Bank, three Israeli and U.S. officials told Axios. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ SA_Presidency_acknowledges_receipt_of_call for_farm_murder_commission⠀⇛ The latest spate of farm killings has seen renewed calls for action including a commission of inquiry and an appeal to the national agricultural community to “intensify” security and readiness. Since the start of June there have been at least eight farm related murders reported in Limpopo and Western Cape. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Mother_of_6-Year-Old_Who_Shot_Teacher_in Virginia_Pleads_Guilty_to_Gun_Charges⠀⇛ The mother pleaded guilty to breaking federal law by using marijuana while owning a firearm and making false statements about drug use when she bought the gun. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ NATO_Nations_Open_Giant_Air_Force_Drills in_Germany⠀⇛ More than 250 aircraft from 24 NATO countries and Japan will participate in a two-week military exercise. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ What’s_really_behind_plans_for_a_NATO office_in_Japan⠀⇛ What’s really behind Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s recent announcement that his government is exploring opening a NATO-liaison office in Tokyo? # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan_to_consider_delaying_defence spending_tax_increase_to_2025_or_beyond:_Source⠀⇛ Opposition among lawmakers effectively delayed a decision on when to implement the unpopular move. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Should_NATO_extend_Stoltenberg’s_term_as leader?⠀⇛ As NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg meets with US President Joe Biden at the White House, the question of the “who” and the “when” of changing NATO’s top leader is on the agenda. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Sweden_to_extradite_self-proclaimed_PKK supporter_to_Turkey_amid_NATO_bid⠀⇛ The Swedish government decided Monday to extradite a Turkish citizen resident in Sweden who had been convicted in 2013 of drug crime in Turkey. # ⚓ The_cost_of_exiting_the_crisis_for_Turkey⠀⇛ The increase in the exchange rate will raise the costs for industries heavily dependent on imported raw materials and intermediate goods. To balance this, reducing labor costs will be presented as a necessity. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_joins_“largest-ever”_Nato_military_exercise⠀⇛ Air Defender 23 will involve up to 250 aircraft and about 10,000 military personnel from 25 different countries. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Staffing_issues_delay_US_Virginia-class_subs program_by_two_more_years⠀⇛ “Due to delays, program officials are developing a new, more realistic schedule for Block V. They said that they expect to complete this process in early 2023,” the audit, the 21st annual review of the Department of Defence’s weapon system acquisition, said. “Program officials stated that the shipbuilders do not have sufficient workforce to complete VCS while also constructing the Columbia-class submarines and overhauling several Los Angeles-class submarines. They noted VCS construction is about 25% below staffing needs as of September 2022.”   # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Biden’s_Dilemma_at_the_Border⠀⇛ America’s broken immigration system has spawned a national fight, but Congress lacks the political will to fix it. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran’s_Raisi_Visits_U.S.-Sanctioned_Trio_Venezuela, Cuba,_Nicaragua⠀⇛ Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Venezuela on June 12 for the start of a visit to “friendly countries” that also include Cuba and Nicaragua, all under sanctions from a common adversary, the United States. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran_Puts_Eight_Teachers_On_Trial_Amid_Pressure_On Educators_Over_Protests⠀⇛ Eight Iranian teachers have been put on trial at the Islamic Revolutionary Court in the southern city of Shiraz for participating in union protests, part of a plan, the Iranian Teachers’ Union’s Coordination Council says, aimed at pressuring on educators unhappy with working conditions. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Guatemala_court_orders_release_of_soldiers convicted_of_crimes_against_humanity⠀⇛ Guatemala’s First High-Risk Appeals Chamber mandated the release of three military officers who were previously convicted of crimes against humanity Friday, directly contravening a March ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). # ⚓ YLE ☛ Vantaa_police_search_for_teen_group_suspected_of stabbing_bus_driver,_attacking_bystanders⠀⇛ Police believe a group of teenagers attacked a bus driver and two more people in Vantaa’s Länsimäki area on Sunday morning. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Police:_Maryland_fatal_shooting_of_3 happened_after_parking_dispute⠀⇛ Police say a man has been charged in a shooting that killed three men — including a father and son — and wounded three others in a neighborhood dispute over parking during a party. Charles Robert Smith, 43, of Annapolis, was charged Monday with three counts of second-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder, assault and other offenses in the shooting that happened Sunday evening. Annapolis Police Chief Edward Jackson told reporters at a media briefing that Smith surrendered to authorities Sunday night without incident. He was ordered held without bond Monday. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Vandalism_costs_e-scooter_rental_firms_thousands_of euros_a_day⠀⇛ Companies say vandalism is mainly carried out by underage kids, but older people also have been known to angrily or drunkenly knock over and break the devices. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan_civil_defence_handbook_includes tips_on_identifying_Chinese_soldiers⠀⇛ The Taiwanese soldiers are shown smiling, whereas the Chinese ones have downturned mouths and a severe expression. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_says_US_eagerness_to_engage_is_an ‘illusion’⠀⇛ It comes days before an expected visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ New_Zealand_Prime_Minister_Chris Hipkins_announces_China_trade_visit⠀⇛ New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced on Monday a visit to China later this month aimed at boosting trade ties, despite deepening concerns about Beijing’s actions in the Pacific. “Today I can announce that I’ll be leading a major trade delegation to China at the end of this month,” Hipkins said. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ California’s_Newsom_pushes constitutional_amendment_to_tighten_gun_access_amid_2024 campaign⠀⇛ California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that would enshrine into law regulations on guns, including implementing universal background checks and raising the minimum age to buy a firearm to 21. Newsom’s proposed 28th Amendment would also institute a “reasonable” waiting period for all gun purchases and ban assault rifles throughout the country. Amending the Constitution requires support from two-thirds of the members of both chambers of Congress. A proposed amendment then must be ratified by three-fourths of state Legislatures or ratifying conventions. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Militia_in_Congo_Kills_Dozens_at_Camp_for Internally_Displaced⠀⇛ The attack was attributed to a group that the United Nations says has killed hundreds of civilians in the region and forced thousands to flee. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Militia_attacks_DRC_internally_displaced_persons camp,_killing_dozens⠀⇛ The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) military announced Monday that around 40 residents of an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in the country’s northeastern Ituri region were killed in an attack by local militia groups. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘The_State_Killed_My_Brother’:_Senegal_in Uproar_After_Deadly_Protests⠀⇛ After several protesters were killed by live ammunition this month in Senegal, many in the usually stable West African nation wonder what comes next. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Who_are_the_armed_men_in_civilian_clothes_seen with_police_in_Senegal_protests?⠀⇛ During a press conference on June 4, Senegalese police showed the press a series of video clips that they claimed documented the presence of armed protesters at recent demonstrations. However, the full videos, which have been widely circulating on social media, show the same armed individuals alongside the police. So who are these armed men? And whose side are they on? # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ 16_soldiers_arrested_in_Nuevo_Laredo extrajudicial_killings_case⠀⇛ The army soldiers, in preventative custody, face a military trial and could eventually also answer to murder charges in a civilian court. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Saudi-China_Business_Conference Underscores_Strengthening_Ties⠀⇛ The kingdom hosted a lavish Arab-China business conference days after a visit from the American secretary of state, inviting companies blacklisted by the United States. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ 22_U.S._Troops_Are_Hurt_in_Helicopter ‘Mishap’_in_Syria⠀⇛ The military provided few details about the accident, saying the troops had sustained “injuries of various degrees.” # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ I_work_in_Syrian_civil_society._There were_gaps_in_our_performance_after_the_February_6 earthquake.⠀⇛ It is clear that humanitarian response planning in Syria requires a full review process that reconsiders existing approaches and involves local partners while listening to their experiences. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Netherlands,_Canada_take_Syria_to_International Court_of_Justice_over_torture_claims⠀⇛ Canada and the Netherlands have taken Damascus to the International Court of Justice over allegations of torture, the tribunal said Monday, in the first case at the UN’s top court over Syria’s brutal civil war. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Ending_a_war_through_a_wide_embrace⠀⇛ A ceasefire deal in Colombia with a guerrilla group welcomes civilians to track the ceasefire, opening a way for them to also participate in a final peace agreement. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Citizenship_fast_track:_US_military_entices immigrants_to_sign_up⠀⇛ To counter recruiting shortfalls, the United States military is enlisting immigrants by offering them a fast track to American citizenship. An important part of the effort is using recruiters with similar backgrounds to those of potential recruits. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ AUKUS_needs_trilateral_technology safeguards,_not_just_capabilities⠀⇛ We’re at an important inflection point on the AUKUS timeline. # § War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Belarusian_officers_tried_arming_migrants,_says Latvian_official⠀⇛ Belarusian authorities have offered firearms to migrants attempting to cross the border irregularly, according to the Latvian border guards. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_set_for_heatwave_conditions_by_weekend⠀⇛ Temperatures this week are expected to be about 10 degrees higher than normal for this time of year. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Anyone_for_an_ice_cream?⠀⇛ What would summer be without ice cream? Not just in sun-kissed states does everyone love the sweet, creamy treat but also people in the Baltics are avid consumers of frozen desserts. Here are some facts and figures about thus seasonal treat that you might find interesting. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistani_Authorities_Order_Evacuations_Along Arabian_Sea_Coast_As_Cyclone_Approaches⠀⇛ Authorities in Pakistan on June 12 began evacuating tens of thousands of people who are at “high risk” of an approaching cyclone that is expected to bring high winds along the coastline of the Arabian Sea regions of Pakistan and India. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Residents_in_for_months-long displacement_as_Philippine_volcano_spews_lava,_gases⠀⇛ Incandescent lava was seen flowing slowly from the mouth of the 2,462m Mayon volcano. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Most_companies’_net-zero_emission_plans_are largely_meaningless⠀⇛ The number of fossil fuel companies pledging to reach net zero has risen dramatically in the past year. Out of 112 named in a report released on June 12 by the nonprofit Net Zero Tracker, 75 have signed the Pledge to Net Zero—24 more than in 2022. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Relatives_fight_for_custody_of_kids who_survived_plane_crash_and_weeks_in_Amazon_jungle⠀⇛ A custody battle has broken out among relatives of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and 40 harrowing days alone in the Amazon rainforest. Their maternal grandparents are vying with the father of the two youngest to take care of the children, whose mother died in the May 1 crash. They have accused him of domestic abuse. The siblings range in age from 1 to 13. They are still in a hospital and are expected to stay there for several more days. Social workers are using that time to interview relatives to determine who should have custody. The head of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare says a caseworker has been assigned at the grandparents’ request. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Do_children_have_a_right_to_a_healthy_climate? Montana_case_is_a_test.⠀⇛ A lawsuit in Montana marks the first time that young people in the U.S. have gotten a chance in court to demand the right to a stable climate – part of a larger global effort by children to demand government action. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Young_Environmentalists_Bring_Climate_Case to_Trial_in_Montana⠀⇛ Sixteen young people argue that the state is robbing their future by embracing policies that contribute to climate change. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Youth_plaintiffs’_constitutional_climate_change case_against_Montana_goes_to_trial⠀⇛ Trial began Monday in a lawsuit brought by 16 youth plaintiffs alleging that the state of Montana has failed to protect them and future generations from the harmful effects of climate change. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Landmark_youth_climate_trial_begins_in_US_state of_Montana⠀⇛ The first ever constitutional climate trial in the United States opened Monday in Montana, brought by young activists suing the north-central state for violating their right to a “clean and healthful environment.” # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Leader_perspective:_Forging_a_green special_relationship_between_the_United_States_and_United Kingdom⠀⇛ The United Kingdom had long been a climate leader, but other countries have caught up. By working with its close ally the United States, the United Kingdom can reassert its climate leadership through a green special relationship that can galvanize net-zero objectives domestically and abroad. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ A_Clear_Indication_That_Climate_Change_Is Burning_Up_California⠀⇛ A new study maps the relationship between human- caused warming and California’s summer fires over the past five decades. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Critical’_Philadelphia_highway_collapses following_oil_tanker_blaze⠀⇛ An overpass on one of America’s busiest highways collapsed early Sunday after a tanker crossing underneath burst into flames, Pennsylvania’s governor said, predicting it will take months to fully restore the “critical artery.” # ⚓ H2 View ☛ EnBW,_VNG,_JERA_reveal_plans_for_ammonia cracker_study_in_Rostock,_Germany⠀⇛ Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW), VNG, and JERA today (June 12) revealed plans to conduct a study into establishing an ammonia cracker at Rostock’s port in Germany to facilitate hydrogen imports. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Driver_appears_in_court_after deadly_Australia_bus_crash,_granted_bail⠀⇛ The crash left 10 dead, and fourteen are still hospitalised, including one in intensive care. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Australian_bus_driver_released on_bail_after_being_charged_over_10_passengers’ deaths⠀⇛ Police in Australia allege a bus driver was driving too fast when his 57-seat vehicle rolled on its side and hit a guard rail in heavy fog, killing 10 wedding guests and injuring 25 others. Brett Andrew Button was driving 35 passengers on a 20-minute journey from a wedding reception at the Wandin Estate Winery to the town of Singleton late Sunday when the Volvo bus rolled at a roundabout. Button had been in police custody but was released on bail when he appeared in a Cessnock court Tuesday charged with 10 counts of dangerous driving in relation to each death and one count of negligent driving. Police alleged the “speed was too quick for him to negotiate that roundabout.” # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China’s_southern_cities_call_for power_saving_as_grid_stress_increases⠀⇛ Southern China has been hit by a combination of hot temperatures and heavy rainfalls in recent weeks. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Montana’s_fossil_fuel-friendly_policies_are facing_young_people’s_scrutiny_in_the_first_US_trial_of its_kind⠀⇛ Since 1972, Montana’s constitution has guaranteed “a clean and healthful environment.” In 2020, a group of young people sued the state for failing to uphold that right. The trial in this fight, a first in the US, begins today (June 12). # ⚓ RFA ☛ Junta_ban_on_private_oil_wells_could_affect 300,000_owners_and_workers⠀⇛ Observers say the closures are part of a bid to cut off tax revenue to opposition forces. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ Canadian_officials_warn_historic_wildfires could_“last_all_summer”⠀⇛ Some 435 wildfires_were_burning across Canada overnight as smoke from the blazes lingered in New York City and other parts of the U.S. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Birdlife_Finland:_Gulls,_crows_‘fiercely’ protect_young_in_breeding_season⠀⇛ Newborn chicks are unable to fly until around the beginning of July, which means the vulnerable birds may be on the ground when people approach. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ In_Pictures:_Inside_a_Hong Kong_shelter_for_animals_without_a_home⠀⇛ Hong Kong stray animal shelter House of Joy and Mercy does not just provide refuge for four-legged creatures. “I would call this place my home because I live here,” Ivy Tse, the centre’s founder, told HKFP. The shelter is located in a remote corner of Yuen Long. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Swedish_People’s_Party_votes_against_fur farming_ban⠀⇛ Party leader Anna-Maja Henriksson voted against the ban, citing the importance of fur farms to local economies. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Bird_Brains_Can_Sense_Magnetic_Fields With_The_Flick_of_a_Switch⠀⇛ Migration on/off. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Mind-Controlling_Fungus_Forces_Zombie Flies_Into_A_Death_Climb⠀⇛ Not exactly a stairway to heaven. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Japan’s_PM_Kishida_to_unveil_new child_care_plan_amid_election_rumours⠀⇛ He is seeking to double child-care spending, as the birth rate drops to a record low of 1.26 in 2022 from 1.57 in 1990. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ What_Would_Happen_to_The_World_if People_Vanished?⠀⇛ Earth wouldn’t miss us. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ As_climate_change_hits,_China weighs_new_water_megaprojects⠀⇛ Officials released plans to build a network of canals, reservoirs and storage facilities to boost irrigation. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ New_York_City’s_food_delivery_workers_will_be_the first_in_the_country_to_get_a_minimum_wage⠀⇛ Food delivery workers in the Big Apple will be the first in the country to get a minimum_pay_rate. # ⚓ Neritam ☛ History’s_Lessons_On_Capitalism’s_Failures⠀⇛ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Persistently_high_inflation_risk_to_Lithuanian economy,_says_IMF⠀⇛ The Lithuanian economy is expected to shrink by 1.4 percent this year, according to Borja Gracia, the IMF mission chief for Lithuania. The persistently high inflation remains a threat to the economy, he said. # ⚓ Turkey’s_latest_official_figures_report_unemployment_rate of_10.2%⠀⇛ The overall unemployment rate increased by 0.1%, while the youth unemployment rate dropped by 1.2% to reach 19.1%, according to a recent TurkStat study. # ⚓ Turkey_raises_Bosphorus_crossing_tariffs_to_boost_foreign currency_inflow⠀⇛ Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced that starting from July 1, the fee for a 10,000-ton ship will increase to 17,760 dollars, up from 16,393 dollars. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ More_Filipino_millennials,_Gen_Zs_get side_jobs:_Survey⠀⇛ More than half of Filipino millennials and Gen Zs worry they won’t be able to cover their expenses. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Hong_Kong_to_unveil_plan_to_recruit foreign_labour_amid_shortage_as_business_surges⠀⇛ The city wants to bring in at least 18,000 construction, transport and logistics workers, a local newspaper reported. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ ‘Blind_boxes’_of_discounted_unsold_food becoming_popular_in_China⠀⇛ This trend has gained popularity among young people, who eagerly grab these deals at certain moments. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Even_in_countries_where_women_are_better_educated, men_earn_more⠀⇛ There isn’t a single country in the world where women earn more than men, or even as much as them, according to new data on gender equity released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). # ⚓ Minimum_wage_negotiations_to_begin_amidst_lira depreciation⠀⇛ The Minimum Wage Determination Committee’s decisions will significantly impact minimum wage and related compensations like unemployment benefits, disability allowances, and internship allowances. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ WeWork_Faces_More_Turmoil_After_Its_CEO Departs⠀⇛ The company’s top boss, a real estate industry veteran, abruptly left in May after growing frustrated with SoftBank, its largest shareholder and lender. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ How_many_UBI_trials_do_we_need_to_prove_giving away_money_works?⠀⇛ For the next two years, 30 people in the United Kingdom will receive £1,600 ($1,984) a month from the think tank Autonomy to help researchers understand the effects of universal basic income (UBI) policies. Will the program teach us anything other UBI pilots haven’t? # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Government_extends_state_pension_top-up_deadline again_–_should_you_boost_your_contributions?⠀⇛ Workers who miss the deadline could lose out on thousands in retirement # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Pensions_dashboard:_5_things_you_need_to_know⠀⇛ Once launched, millions of workers will be able to view all of their pension pots in one place # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Another_major_lender_pulls_mortgage_deals:_what you_need_to_know⠀⇛ Santander follows HSBC and Nationwide in temporarily removing mortgage products from sale o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ WATCH:_Exploding_the_Malthusian,_Anti-Human One_Health_Myth⠀⇛ Dr Meryl Nass is joined by James Corbett to continue on from their previous discussion of the history of the World Health Organization, and the One Health Agenda, this time accompanied by Dr David Bell. Where did the global biosecurity agenda come from? # ⚓ Reason ☛ Trump’s_Federal_Indictment_Presents_New_Evidence of_Deliberate_Deceit_and_Obstruction⠀⇛ The former president’s retention of classified documents looks willful and arguably endangered national security. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Where_Presidential_Hopes_Go_to_Die⠀⇛ The former president serves up a classic combination of shocking and stupid. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Trump’s_Own_Attorney_General_Says_Indictment_Is ‘Very,_Very_Damning’⠀⇛ Plus: Mark Zuckerberg reacts to the Twitter Files, CNN’s lockdown hypocrisy, and more… # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Jill_Biden_says_‘it’s_a_little shocking’_many_Republicans_support_Trump_after_indictment⠀⇛ Jill Biden warned Democratic donors Monday that the 2024 election presents a choice between what she described as the “strong, steady leadership” of President Joe Biden or “chaos and corruption, hatred and division” of “MAGA Republicans.” The first lady was making her first solo outing of the 2024 campaign and commented on the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump, a subject her husband has tried to avoid speaking about. She expressed surprise that Trump, who is set to appear in a Florida court on Tuesday, had not lost support within his party after the indictment. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Did_Trump_Break_a_Law_That_Shouldn’t_Exist?⠀⇛ Plus: A rundown of recent nonsensical proposals for constitutional amendments # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Right_Response_to_Threats_of_Political Violence⠀⇛ Trump’s sycophants in the GOP are stepping up their efforts to spread fear in American politics, and they deserve the public’s scorn. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Will_the_Judge_in_Trump’s_Case_Recuse Herself—or_Be_Forced_To?⠀⇛ Federal law requires a judge to step away from a case in which her impartiality “might reasonably be questioned.” # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Scooter_Libby,_Whom_Trump_Pardoned,_Serves as_Precedent_for_the_CIPA_Challenge_His_Prosecution Presents⠀⇛ The CIPA processes of Josh Schulte — who was the topic of Donald Trump’s first classified compromise — and Scooter Libby — whom Trump pardoned — will be key precedents to this CIPA process. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ As_Trump_legal_woes_worsen,_2024_rivals_toe_a delicate_line⠀⇛ Former President Donald Trump’s claim that the justice system has been “weaponized” is making it hard for rivals to capitalize on his indictment. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Trump’s_response_to_felony_charges:_Rally allies_and_stoke_protests⠀⇛ With numerous felony charges on the docket for Donald Trump’s federal court appearance, the former president and his allies are trying to undermine the case. They have compared it to Hillary Clinton’s dropped email investigation and called for protests. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump_Has_Options_for_Fighting_Charges, but_They_Might_Face_Challenges⠀⇛ The former president has already tested a variety of arguments to challenge his indictment in the classified documents case. They could be hard to sustain in court. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_South_Florida,_Voters_Ponder_Trump Case⠀⇛ The complicated feelings among some residents about former President Donald J. Trump and the case against him reflect the complicated politics of the state. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump’s_Candidacy:_Evaluated_by_11_Opinion Writers⠀⇛ Times columnists and contributors evaluate the former president’s chances in the G.O.P. primary contest. # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Statement_by_President_von_der_Leyen at_the_joint_press_conference_with_Brazilian_President_Lula da_Silva⠀⇛ European Commission Statement Brasilia, 13 Jun 2023 President Lula, Thank you very much for the warm welcome, I am very glad to be here in Brasília. # ⚓ European Commission ☛ Statement_by_the_European_Commission and_the_High_Representative_on_the_occasion_of_World_Day against_Child_Labour⠀⇛ European Commission Statement Brussels, 12 Jun 2023 “The European Union has a longstanding commitment to eradicate child labour and safeguard the rights of the children. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Canada_foreign_interference_rapporteur_resigns amid_accusations_of_partiality⠀⇛ Canada’s foreign interference special rapporteur David Johnston resigned on Thursday amid accusations of partiality, citing a “highly partisan atmosphere” that emerged around his work. Johnston, a former governor-general of Canada, was appointed as the country’s first special rapporteur on foreign interference in 2020. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ News_diary_12_–_18_June:_Davie_before_Lords amid_BBC_strikes,_Trump_arraigned⠀⇛ A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ 31_Flavors_of_Stolen_Classified_Documents⠀⇛ One possible explanation for why the Intelligence Community was willing to charge Trump with hoarding 31 highly sensitive documents is that they’ve operated since September on the assumption that they’ve all been compromised. # ⚓ Axios ☛ What_to_know_ahead_of_Trump’s_arraignment_in Miami⠀⇛ Former President_Trump arrived in Miami on Monday ahead of his Tuesday court appearance for criminal charges related to his possession of classified documents. Why it matters:Trump’s_indictment was unsealed on Friday, outlining 37 felony counts against the former president. He has been outspoken against the charges, the Department of Justice and the special counsel at the forefront of the investigation. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Trump_faces_historic_legal_challenge_as documents_case_opens_in_court⠀⇛ Donald Trump is due in court Tuesday to face dozens of felony counts of mishandling US government secrets, in the most serious yet of a firestorm of criminal probes threatening to derail his bid to win back the White House. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Seoul’s_new_national_security_strategy flips_the_script,_Korean_style⠀⇛ South Korea today lives under an unprecedented tempo of North Korean missile tests and nuclear threats. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Scotland’s_Independence_Movement_Is_Down, but_Not_Out,_Analysts_Say⠀⇛ Support for Scottish independence has dipped, but backing for Scotland remaining part of the United Kingdom is fragile, too. Nicola Sturgeon’s arrest leaves the fate of the movement in flux. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Nicola_Sturgeon’s_Calamitous_Arrest⠀⇛ Just months ago, the First Minister of Scotland was a hero to progressives and independence seekers. Then she resigned—merely the start of her downfall. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Half_of_politically_repressed_status_claims rejected_in_recent_years⠀⇛ Over the last five years, a total of 70 persons have requested the politically repressed status. Of those, half have been rejected. Is the problem in the system or in the people? Latvian Radio sought answers June 13. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Netanyahu_Trial_Gets_a_Hollywood_Mention From_a_Political_Rival⠀⇛ Yair Lapid, a former colleague and now nemesis of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, testified that he had been asked to help a wealthy film producer with a tax break. # ⚓ France24 ☛ US_plans_to_rejoin_UNESCO_from_July,_ending membership_dispute⠀⇛ The United States plans to rejoin UNESCO from July this year, ending a lengthy dispute that saw Washington end its membership in 2018, the UN cultural agency announced on Monday. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Will_Rejoin_UNESCO_in_July,_Agency Says⠀⇛ The decision came after over a decade of turbulent relations between American administrations and the United Nation’s cultural organization. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ US_rejoins_the_UNESCO._What’s_China_got_to_do with_it?⠀⇛ The U.S. is rejoining the U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO after a decade-long dispute over Palestine’s membership and will pay $600 million in back dues. The move intends to counter China’s influence in UNESCO policymaking, say officials. # ⚓ France24 ☛ No_progress_on_biases_against_women_during_past decade,_UN_reports⠀⇛ Data tracking biases against women has shown no progress over the past decade, with prejudices remaining “deeply embedded” in society despite rights campaigns such as MeToo, a UN report said Monday. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ JPMorgan_is_following_Deutsche_Bank_in_settling with_Epstein’s_victims⠀⇛ JPMorgan Chase announced today (June 12) it agreed “in principle” to settling a lawsuit filed by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims that alleges the bank was complicit in his sex-trafficking operation. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ STRATCOMCOE_publishes_new_social_media_report⠀⇛ A newly-published report from the Rīga-based NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence (STRATCOMCOE) examines recent developments in the world of social media and related topics, including online artificial intelligence. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ McCarthy_and_conservatives_reach_a truce_to_allow_House_to_move_forward_on_bills⠀⇛ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears to have resolved, for now, an impasse with some of the more conservative members of his caucus who had brought the chamber to a standstill last week. McCarthy met Monday with nearly a dozen lawmakers in his office in an effort to quell a revolt and jumpstart various priorities that had stalled last week amid the GOP infighting. He called it a productive meeting where “everybody’s attitude was, ‘How do we find where we all work together?’” McCarthy promised more meetings with last week’s holdouts and a focus on reducing federal spending in the weeks ahead. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Taliban_Calls_For_Strict_Ban_On_Music_At_Kabul Wedding_Halls⠀⇛ The Taliban’s religious police have called again on wedding hall owners in Kabul to refrain from playing music and activities that contradict its Islamic rulings for weddings or similar events. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Too_early’_to_say_if_‘Glory_to_Hong Kong’_ban_would_result_in_Google_withdrawal,_data_scientist says⠀⇛ It is too early to tell if the government’s move to ban protest song Glory to Hong Kong, including online, would result in Google becoming unavailable in the city, a data scientist has said. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Banned_anthem_‘Glory_to_Hong_Kong’_gets_global_airing on_protest_anniversary⠀⇛ Rallies mark the first tear gas attack on protesters outside the city’s legislature in 2019 # ⚓ Axios ☛ Scoop:_Fox_demands_Tucker_Carlson_cease-and-desist in_new_letter⠀⇛ Fox Newshas sent a cease-and-desist letter to Tucker_Carlson as he ramps up a competing series on Twitter that drew a combined 169 million views for its first two episodes, Axios has learned. # ⚓ NCAC ☛ Supporters_Rally_Around_“It’s_Perfectly_Normal”⠀⇛ Children’s book author Robie H Harris’ and artist Michael Emberley’s million+ copy bestselling book, It’s Perfectly Normal, A Book About Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health, has been continuously challenged and/or banned since it was first published in 1994 and continues to be challenged even in recent days. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ ‘Outright_lie’:_India_denies threatening_to_shut_down_Twitter⠀⇛ PM Narendra Modi’s government has repeatedly denied engaging in online censorship. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 3_film_festival_movies_feature ‘black_images_and_muted_sound,’_after_Hong_Kong_gov’t_censors demand_cuts⠀⇛ Filmmakers who had movies shown at a local festival replaced censored scenes with “black images and muted sound,” according to organisers, after government censors demanded certain scenes be cut. # ⚓ ACLU ☛ Core_First_Amendment_Rights_are_Implicated_in_This Supreme_Court_Case_about_True_Threats⠀⇛ The internet is full of strong, impassioned, sometimes offensive language. In response to an activist’s post about being choked by a sheriff’s deputy, someone posted to Facebook, “Wow, brother they wanna hit our general. It’s time to strike back. Let’s burn this motherfucker’s house down.” And someone listening to music posted lyrics about “student bodies lying dead in the halls, a blood splattered treatise of hate.” While this speech might be offensive — or even feel threatening — to some people, to others it is an expression of a political opinion, an unfiltered reaction to a recent event, or an attempt to rally support for a cause. The freedom to share provocative ideas and spark robust debate about political issues is essential to democracy, social justice, and progress. Our right to free speech generally protects such communications. The freedom to share provocative ideas and spark robust debate about political issues is essential to democracy, social justice, and progress. However, “true threats” are not protected by the First Amendment. The government can prosecute someone who intentionally threatens another person with death or serious bodily harm, and whose language is reasonably perceived as threatening. But can a speaker be convicted of making a true threat solely because some people could reasonably perceive it as threatening, regardless of the speaker’s intent? That’s the question before the Supreme Court in Counterman_v._Colorado. # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Shadowy,_Israel-Linked_Group_Attempts_to Censor_Pro-Palestine_Spotify Artists⠀⇛ Alan Macleod uncovers how a shadowy pressure group linked to Israel is attempting to silence artists advocating for Palestinian liberation on Spotify. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Illinois_governor_signs_law_prohibiting_book_bans in_public_libraries⠀⇛ Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a first-of- its-kind bill into law on Monday which eliminates book bans, requiring public libraries in the state to ensure they offer a diverse range of materials. House Bill 2789 obligates all libraries to adopt the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Allegations_That_Particular_Conduct_Stemmed_from_a Racist_Motivation_Generally_Aren’t_Defamatory⠀⇛ (though false allegations  about the details of the conduct may be). o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Fred_Ryan,_Publisher_of_Washington_Post, Will_Step_Down⠀⇛ Patty Stonesifer, the former chief executive of Martha’s Table, will be The Post’s interim chief executive. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ In_a_Divided_Era,_the_New_York_Times’ Publisher_Makes_a_Stand [Ed: Conde Nast covering up for NY Times this month. Many puff pieces for Sulzberger of Wall Street Times.]⠀⇛ At a moment of political polarization and attacks on the media, A. G. Sulzberger goes public in defense of traditional journalistic values. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Time_Is_Running_Out_for_John_Roberts_and the_Supreme_Court⠀⇛ If the court won’t fix its ethics mess, Congress should. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Chief_Justice_Roberts_Is_Not_A_“Weather_Vain.” He’s_Just_So_Vain.⠀⇛ He probably thinks the Court is about him. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ The_Minimum_Wage_for_Delivery_Drivers_in NYC_Is_Now_$17.96_an_Hour⠀⇛ The city is raising the minimum wage for “deliveristas” to $17.96 per hour, making it the first city in the U.S. to implement such a law. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ New_York_City_Sets_New_Minimum_Wage_for Food_Delivery_Workers⠀⇛ The increase, which requires app-based delivery workers to be paid $17.96 per hour before tips, is the first such minimum wage in the country for an industry that has exploded in popularity. # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ On_language_and_belonging:_a_mother_tongue’s link_to_cultural_community⠀⇛ Although I now speak and think in English, my first words were not in this language. I was raised by a village of relatives; as a result, I grew up speaking in a patchwork of Cantonese, Mandarin and Taishanese. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Women_are_quitting_India’s_biggest_IT_firm_as_it ends_work-from-home⠀⇛ An end to Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) work- from-home policy may be pushing its woman employees to quit. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ How_to_Fix_the_Government⠀⇛ If you want to rebuild America, start with its code. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Cuban_Government_Is_Responsible_for_Death of_Oswaldo_Payá,_Report_Says⠀⇛ The findings in the death of Oswaldo Payá contradict the Cuban government’s official version of what happened 11 years ago. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_Dowries_Are_Fuelling_a_Femicide_Epidemic⠀⇛ Every year in India, many thousands are killed in marriage-payment disputes. Why does this war on women persist? # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Married_Indian_priest_allegedly_kills lover_after_she_pressured_him_to_marry_her⠀⇛ He bludgeoned the woman to death and dumped her body in a manhole. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ Open_letter:_e-Evidence_package_lacks_appropriate safeguards,_EU_Parliament_must_reject_it⠀⇛ Civil society, doctors, lawyers and journalists associations and internet service providers are calling on MEPs to reject the so-called “e- Evidence” package during the plenary vote on June 13 because the proposed system of cross-border access to data in criminal matters would severely undermine fundamental rights. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ NYPD_Commissioner_Keechant_Sewell_to Resign⠀⇛ Ms. Sewell, who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in 2022, announced her decision on Monday. She did not provide a reason for her departure. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Hard_Right_Agrees_to_Allow_House_Votes_but Threatens_Continued_Blockade⠀⇛ Republican rebels who blocked action in the House for the past week said they would allow votes on Tuesday, but warned that they would wrest control of the floor again unless leaders met their demands. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Greek_beaches_and_Moroccan_holidays:_Two signals_of_acceptance⠀⇛ Progress roundup: In Greece, wheelchair users have an easier way to enjoy the ocean. And in Morocco, a holiday recognizes the Berbers, 40% of the population. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Ohio_Cops_Raided_Afroman’s_House_Looking_for_a Dungeon_Because_of_a_Bizarre_Confidential_Informant_Tip⠀⇛ All they found was some cool cars and clothes. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico_establishes_new_work-from-home regulations⠀⇛ Employers will need to cover the costs of internet service and electricity for workers who spend more than 40% of their workday at home. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ I_spent_a_year_using_a_phone_with_no_Google Mobile_Services._Is_it_worth_it?⠀⇛ I used a phone with no Google mobile services for a year so I try and answer the question of whether or not it is possible. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_170:_The Bill_C-18_End_Game_–_What_the_Senate_Heard_About_the_Online News_Act⠀⇛ Bill C-18, the Online News Act, heads to clause-by- clause review this week at the Senate Transport and Communications Committee. The committee’s study of the bill wasn’t as extensive as Bill C-11, but it did hear from a very wide range of stakeholders and experts. Last month, I devoted the Law Bytes podcast to my appearance before the committee, including my opening statement and exchanges with various senators. This week’s Law Bytes podcast takes listeners into the committee room for clips from media big and small, independent experts, Google and Meta, and Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Almost_Six_Years_Later,_Spotify_Is Selling_Soundtrap_Back_to_Its_Founders [Ed: Spotify loses a billion dollars a year. It shows.]⠀⇛ Nearly six years after announcing the purchase of music-collaboration and -creation platform Soundtrap, Spotify is selling the 11-year-old company back to its founders. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ EU_reportedly_set_to_greenlight_Broadcom’s $61B_VMware_acquisition⠀⇛ Antitrust officials in the European Union are set to approve Broadcom Inc.’s proposed acquisition of VMware Inc., according to a new report. Reuters today cited sources as saying that the approval is expected to be conditional. Broadcom will reportedly only receive the go-ahead if it agrees to make certain antitrust commitments. ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_FTC_is_making_its_next_move_against_Microsoft’s_Activision Blizzard_acquisition⠀⇛ The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans an injunction seeking to block Microsoft Corp.’s acquisition of the popular video game company Activision Blizzard, according to an exclusive report by CNBC. ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Report:_FTC_seeking_injunction_to_block_Microsoft’s Activision_Blizzard_acquisition⠀⇛ The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly seeking an injunction to prevent Microsoft Corp.’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. from closing.  CNBC reported the FTC’s plans today, citing a person familiar with the matter. * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ First_Unitary_Patents_on_their_way_to_publication [Ed: Unitary Patent system is illegal and unconstitutional; what we have here is the corrupt EPO getting all giddy about another crime]⠀⇛ European Patent Bulletin releases data about first European patents with requests for unitary effect o ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Providing_a_Detailed_Explanation_of the_Evidence⠀⇛ The decision in Parus Holdings, Inc. v. Google LLC, — F.4th — (Fed. Cir. 2023), underscores the importance of adhering to the PTAB procedural requirements, particularly the prohibition against incorporating arguments by reference from one document into another during an IPR, as stipulated in 37 C.F.R. § 42.6(a)(3). The court’s affirmation of the PTAB’s decision not to consider arguments and evidence that violated this rule sends a clear message to future litigants: all arguments must be explicitly presented in the briefs, and the PTAB is not obligated to consider evidence or arguments that are not properly * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ South_Korean_Girl_Group_(G)I-DLE_Tops NetEase_Cloud_Music_Sales_Charts_with_300,000_Mini_Albums_Sold⠀⇛ South Korean girl group (G)I-DLE tops the NetEase Cloud Music charts with 300,000 copies sold of their latest mini-album. Chinese online music platform NetEase Cloud Music has announced that the latest mini-album from South Korean girl group (G)I-DLE has dominated the platform’s 2023 charts with 300,000 copies sold. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3976 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_14/06/2023:_The_Need_for_Proper_Keyboards⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_EUHLMOG_Wordo:_AHOLD⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tying_Shoelaces⠀⇛ For more than twenty years I thought I knew how to tie my shoelaces, but I didn’t. Looking back, it’s bizarre. Because I was tying them wrong, they often came undone. I didn’t think to work out why, and nobody thought to tell me. # ⚓ Got_room_at_the_bar?⠀⇛ First timer, nice place you’ve got here. Just got into town, didn’t even know this place existed off the main highway. Even saw a gopher on the way in. Anyways, it’s good to be out of the rain. Seems the pace here is just what I need. Think I’ll settle in for the long haul and open a tab. Let’s start off the night with a white russian, thanks barkeep. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ How_Do_You_Use_Mobile?⠀⇛ For anything actually serious, I use my laptop. And even for some of the things I regularly use my phone for, it’s frustrating. I remember chatting on my desktop in the 90s and early 00s, and no amount of acrobatics will convince me that a phone keyboard is in any way better, that switching back and forth between conversations on the same screen is Great, Actually. All my coding’s via my laptop: Visual Studio, emacs/fish via VM, that sort of thing. And at the end of the day, my phone’s often nearly at full charge. Crazy when you think about it. These things cost as much as actual computers and for a certain segment (me, and I suspect a lot of tech-types), their main use is as a general distraction device. # ⚓ Let_us_post_another⠀⇛ It’s hard getting it in a sea of not getting it, requiring a lot of pretending not getting it while constantly on the look out for signs of getting it – ready to pursue such signs with getting-it verification questions/interactions (because hope- fueled first impressions can be quite wrong). # ⚓ Keep_me_movin’⠀⇛ I went through a bunch of effort maybe half a decade ago to coerce my Android phone to take cues from a full-sized keyboard. I don’t remember the details. I think there was the usual pain having to try varieties of necessary software to eventually understand which combinations led to the best trade-offs situation. But I imagine the main problem was having to restart too many thingies to get it to work, and that leaving those things running was somehow at odds with the phone working for its usual purposes. In other words, it wasn’t at all as simple as finding the right keyboard adapters to plug into where both power and USB flow, the right software detecting such and just plain fairly quickly doing the right thing, with online acknowledgement that things went well. # ⚓ The_pipes,_the_pipes_…⠀⇛ Let’s say you have a tool that makes unsuitable noises on one of the file handles, and the fine manual is silent on how to make the noises go away. Now, some would either patch the software, or at least report an issue to upstream–maybe there could be a quiet or silent option for the tool? [...] Pipes are one way to wrangle this thing that should not be; standard error could be sent to some pipe, and then if the tool exits with a non-zero status word the error output can be shown. This of course assumes that the tool does actual exit with a non- zero status word, which is not always the case. In that case, there probably should be a patch or bug report to upstream? =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4129 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_14/06/2023:_LibreOffice_7.6_Beta_1_and_Plans_for_Debian_13⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:36 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration # Open_Access/Content o Programming/Development # Git * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ 327:_The_Great_Restock:_Raspberry_Pi’s_Silicon_Shortage Solution!⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 327:_The_Great_Restock:_Raspberry_Pi’s Silicon_Shortage_Solution!⠀⇛ This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we discuss the Raspberry Pi supply chain shortage and why this hurts open source. Then we discuss Firefox 114 and its new features. Plus, we have our tips/ tricks and software picks. All this and more coming up right now on Destination Linux to keep those penguins marching! # ⚓ Ubuntu_Podcast_from_the_UK_LoCo:_Extending_GNOME_Is_Hard⠀⇛ Writing a GNOME extension, editing without nano, and what we learned from AskUbuntu. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.3.8⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 6.3.8 kernel. All users of the 6.3 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 6.3.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.3.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.34⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.117⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.184⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.247⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.286⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.318⠀⇛ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Flemozi_–_lightweight_emoji_picker⠀⇛ Emoji originated from the smiley, which first evolved into emoticons, followed by emoji and stickers in recent years. Smiley first appeared in the 1960s and is regarded as the first expression symbols. Smiley is a yellow face with two dots for eyes and a wide grin which is printed on buttons, brooches, and t-shirts. An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The main function of emoji is to provide emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation. Flemozi is billed as a simple, fast and lightweight emoji picker for desktop operating systems. It’s written in Dart and published under an open source license. # ⚓ ISOImageWriter:_The_Ultimate_Tool_for_Writing_ISO_Files_to USB_Disks⠀⇛ Have you been running away from the default Linux USB writers while searching for one that is not CLI-based? Well, today is your lucky day because there is a new USB writer app in development and it has at least one more feature than Etcher. ISO Image Writer is a utility developed by Jonathan Riddell, primarily known for his involvement with the KDE community. It is a tool specifically designed for writing ISO images to USB drives or SD cards while making it bootable and automatically checking the ISO’s digital signatures (checksum) for authenticity. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ xplr_is_a_Productivity-focused_Terminal_File Manager⠀⇛ xplr is a terminal-based file explorer that aims to increase terminal productivity by providing a flexible, interactive interface for the command- line utilities that work with the file system. To achieve its goal, xplr aims to be fast, minimal, and, most importantly, hackable. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Teedy:_An_Open-source_free_DMS_(Document Management_System)_for_Enterprise_and_individuals⠀⇛ Teedy is an open source, lightweight document management system for individuals and businesses. Teedy’s current features include: * Responsive user interface * Built-in Optical character recognition (OCR) * LDAP authentication. * Support image, PDF, ODT, DOCX, PPTX files * Video file support * Flexible search engine with suggestions and highlighting * Full-text search in all supported # ⚓ Medevel ☛ WEM_Is_an_Open-source_Web_Resources_Management and_Manufacturing_Execution_System⠀⇛ WEM (Web Execution Management) is a free, open- source software system for Web Resources Management and Manufacturing Execution. This system is designed to manage and execute the entire manufacturing process, from raw material acquisition to finished product delivery. WEM is developed using modern web technologies and is written in Python programming [...] # ⚓ WoeUSB_–_Create_Bootable_Windows_USB_Sticks_from_Linux⠀⇛ We have written on tools. e.g. ISO Image Writer, Fedora Media Writer, and Etcher, with which you can make flash drives bootable. But even they have issues making flash drives and memory cards bootable with Windows in my experience. The tool we introduce to you today is capable of achieving this feat without stress; it’s called WoeUSB. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Install_Debian_12_on_VirtualBox⠀⇛ Follow through this tutorial to learn how to install Debian 12 on VirtualBox. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_Certificate_Authority’s_view_of Certificate_Transparency_and_CT_Logs⠀⇛ The normal behavior of a CA is that when it wants to issue a TLS certificate, it will ask various CT logs to give it Signed Certificate Timestamps (SCTs) for the CA’s pre-certificate version of the TLS certificate. It will then take those SCTs and stick them in the issued TLS certificate as a certificate extension (also). The minimal thing that CAs can do is verify that the SCTs they receive are properly signed by the CT log and are otherwise well formed to the best of the CA’s ability to tell. A CA that wants to be more thorough can save information about new SCTs and watch the relevant CT logs to verify that the log does list the (pre-)certificate before too long, or request a proof of inclusion from the CT log operator. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Yandex_Browser_on_Debian_12/ 11/10⠀⇛ As the digital world consistently evolves, so does our need for advanced web browsers that offer a seamless user experience. Yandex Browser—originated from Russia’s leading technology company, Yandex—fits this requirement with exceptional capabilities. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Upgrade_Debian_11_to_Debian_12_(Bookworm) via_CLI⠀⇛ Are you planning to upgrade to the latest release of Debian 12 (codenamed “Bookworm”), from Debian 11? But did you know that instead of downloading the Debian 12 ISO file and installing it, you can simply upgrade your existing Debian 11 to Debian 12 by following a few steps? Yes, you heard right. In this blog, we will discuss the simple procedure of upgrading Debian 11 to Debian 12. # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ Top_10_Things_to_Do_After_Installing_Debian_12 (Bookworm)⠀⇛ In our previous post, we have already covered how to install Debian 12 step by step. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced user, there are some essential tasks you should consider after the installation. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ LHB_Linux_Digest_#23.08:_LVM,_System Calls,VimDiff_and_More_Linux_Stuff⠀⇛ Learn about logical volume management, special file permissions, Vimdiff among other stuff in this edition. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ The_Beginner’s_Guide_to_Building_Your_First_RPM Package⠀⇛ If you’re starting your journey in the world of Linux and have chosen the Red Hat ecosystem, one of the fundamental skills you’ll need to master is the creation of RPM packages. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ The_Beginner’s_Guide_to_Building_Your_First Debian_Package⠀⇛ Creating a Debian package for distribution can seem like a daunting task for beginners, but once you understand the process, it’s actually quite manageable. Let’s walk you through creating your first Debian package. # ⚓ Peter_Czanik:_Syslog-ng_4.2:_extra_UDP_performance⠀⇛ No matter how awkward you feel when you hear about UDP syslog in the age of encrypted TCP connections, UDP syslog is here to stay in some special cases. The scalability issues of UDP log collection were first addressed in syslog-ng Open Source Edition (OSE) (the so-reuseport() parameter), and later a more advanced solution arrived to syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE) (the udp-balancer() source). The good news is that a new, open-source implementation is now available as part of syslog-ng 4.2.0. # ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Syslog-ng_4.2:_extra_UDP_performance⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Upgrade_from_RHEL_7_to_RHEL_8⠀⇛ As you would have already known that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 maintenance support phase will come to an end in June 2024. # ⚓ Can_we_install_EPEL_repo_on_Amazon_Linux_2023?⠀⇛ Amazon Linux 2023 is the latest upgraded version for Amazon Linux 2 users. However, users cannot directly upgrade from AWS Linux 2 to AL2023, which means they either have to opt for a clean installation or switch to some other Linux. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_Linux_Pro’s_Guide_to_File_Renaming_in 2023⠀⇛ Handling files efficiently is a critical part of Linux system administration, and renaming files is no exception. While the basic ‘mv’ command can handle most file renaming tasks, there are several other techniques that can make the process more flexible and powerful. In this guide, we will unveil six ingenious methods to rename files in Linux, as of 2023. Whether you’re dealing with a single file or a directory full of them, these methods will equip you to tackle file renaming tasks with ease and precision. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_cksum⠀⇛ This article spotlights alternative tools to cksum, a tool to compute and verify file checksums. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Check_the_Ubuntu_Version_Without the_Command_Line⠀⇛ If you are troubleshooting your Ubuntu system and are looking online for an appropriate solution, you need to first know your Ubuntu version so as to find a specific fix. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Upgrade_Apache_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ Debian, one of the most robust and widely used Linux distributions, is applauded for its stability, which emanates from its conservative approach to software packaging. It often lags in including the latest software builds, choosing stability over cutting-edge features. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Chromium_Browser_on_Debian 12/11/10⠀⇛ Presenting Chromium, the open-source, high- performance web browser project from Google that forms the backbone of numerous web browsers today. Originated in 2008, Chromium was designed with a commitment to fostering an open web ecosystem and providing a robust platform that developers and users alike can rely on. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_Maven_on_Debian_12/ 11/10⠀⇛ Delving into the realm of software project management, Apache Maven stands as a stalwart of consistency, reliability, and enhanced productivity. Born from the Apache Software Foundation, Maven’s primary purpose is to simplify the build process in project development, making it an essential tool for developers worldwide. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Fonts_on_Pop!_OS⠀⇛ The world of typography is vast and incredibly diverse, offering a multitude of ways to express ideas and create visual impact. One of the key players in this landscape is Microsoft, with their vast collection of high-quality fonts. # ⚓ How_to_install_PostgreSQL_15_Amazon_linux_2023⠀⇛ PostgreSQL is perfect for those who are looking for a powerful open-source relational database management system. It is widely used by administrators for storing and managing data. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Fix_Kali_Linux_Slow_APT_Update Speed⠀⇛ Are you facing slow update speed on Kali Linux? If yes then read this guide to speed up the upgrade and update process. After the installation part is over, the first and foremost part is to update the system repositories to get the latest updates on available applications. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ How_to_Install_PHP_8_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PHP 8 on Debian 12. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ After_eating_up_lots_of_game_studios Embracer_Group_set_to_close_a_bunch⠀⇛ Ah yes, game industry consolidation is great isn’t it. What could possibly go wrong when one company acquires a ton of others and then screws up? # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Nova_Roma_is_a_new_city-builder_from_the Kingdoms_and_Castles_developer⠀⇛ Kingdoms and Castles is a great city-builder but it seems Lion Shield want to do something a bit different, so they’ve revealed Nova Roma. It was announced at the PC Gaming Show. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ SMITE_now_works_on_Linux_and_Steam_Deck_in the_latest_update⠀⇛ Titan Forge Games and Hi-Rez Studios have updated their popular MOBA game SMITE, and with it an improvement to allow it to now work on Linux with Easy Anti-Cheat. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Portal_Reloaded_–_The_Cooperative_Update_is out_now⠀⇛ Ready for one more run through the testing chambers? The free and very popular mod Portal Reloaded just recently had The Cooperative Update release. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Moonstone_Island_set_to_release_this_Summer with_a_new_trailer⠀⇛ Moonstone Island from Studio Supersoft and Raw Fury looks sweet! It’s a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100+ islands to explore and now we have more details. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ FTC_Moves_to_Block_Microsoft’s_$69 Billion_Activision_Blizzard_Acquisition⠀⇛ The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard.  The filing in a San Francisco federal court seeks a temporary restraining order and injunction on the proposed acquisition. Activision Blizzard makes hit games like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and the recently released Diablo IV. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Microsoft_bid_to_buy_Activision_Blizzard_blocked_by temporary_restraining_order⠀⇛ A federal judge on Tuesday granted the_FTC’s request for a temporary restraining order that prevents Microsoft from closing its acquisition of gaming giant Activision_Blizzard. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Klara ☛ Linux_vs._FreeBSD:_Linux_and_FreeBSD_Firewalls_– The_Ultimate_Guide,_Part_1⠀⇛ Firewalls act as network filters, allowing some packets to flow while blocking others. This decision is usually based factors such as the packet’s source and destination address, which side initiated the network connection, and network port numbers. The Linux and FreeBSD firewalls are stateful, which means that they can also remember details of past packets to track ongoing connections. # ⚓ Brad Taunt ☛ Improving_Laptop_Battery_Performance_on OpenBSD⠀⇛ Optimizating battery life via ampd will have the most noticable impact but you can improve things even further by implementing some extra “small” performance wins. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ risiOS_38_Makes_Fedora_Even_Much_Easier⠀⇛ Based on Fedora 38, targeting new Linux users, risiOS 38 comes with revamped Quick Setup tool, improved risiTweaks, and Linux kernel 6.3. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Fedora_Linux_38 election_results⠀⇛ The Fedora Linux 38 election cycle has concluded. Here are the results for each election. Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you all candidates for running in this election! o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] 9to5Linux ☛ Tails_5.14_Brings_Automatic_LUKS2 Migration,_Captive_Portal_Detection⠀⇛ Tails 5.14 is now here with automatic migration to LUKS2 and Argon2id for users of Tails 5.12 or previous versions. Even if LUKS2 offers stronger encryption, the devs recommend users to also change the passphrase of their Persistent Storage and other LUKS-encrypted volumes. # ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Release:_Tails_5.14⠀⇛ The cryptographic parameters of LUKS from Tails 5.12 or earlier are weak against a state-sponsored attacker with physical access to your device. To use stronger encryption parameters, Tails 5.14 automatically converts your Persistent Storage to use LUKS2 encryption with Argon2id. # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Debian_12_Has_Finally_Been_Released⠀⇛ Debian marches to a beat that so many other Linux distributions follow. Over the decades since it was first released in 1996, Debian has developed a reputation for being one of the most stable operating systems on the market. Part of the reason for that is the development team takes their time between releases. Unlike Ubuntu which releases every 6 months, a new version of Debian happens yearly (sort of). So you can bet plenty of effort has gone into each release to make it rock solid. # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Debian_13_Gets_Codename,_Plans_Official Support_for_RISC-V⠀⇛ With Debian 12 released and well-received attention turns to its successor, Debian 13 — and we already know a few tantalising details about it. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ How_we’re_learning_to_explain_AI_terms_for young_people_and_educators⠀⇛ As part of our learning programme Experience AI, we created explanations of 32 key AI terms for ages 11–14. Here’s how we did this work. # ⚓ Olimex ☛ AgonLight2-Proto_simple_prototyping_board_for AgonLight2_retro_Z80_computer⠀⇛ AgonLight2-Proto is small board with dimensions 100x80mm. It allows you to fast prototype hardware concepts and ideas for AgonLight2 computer. These are the board features: [...] # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Meet_the_next_top_three_Project_Hub_entries_— anything_is_possible!⠀⇛ This is the third time that we’ve selected three outstanding projects in the Arduino Project of the Month competition, highlighting the wide range of our users’ contributions to our growing Project Hub. For April we go from tanks to tunes – because why not? Anything is possible with just a few components, a lot of curiosity, and an amazing community like ours. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Arduino-Powered_Missile_System_Uses_Ultrasound To_Aim⠀⇛ In the real world, missile systems use advanced radars, infrared sensors, and other hardware to track and prosecute their targets. [Raspduino Uno] on YouTube has instead used ultrasound for targeting for an altogether simpler desktop fire control solution. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Arduino_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ The Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment) represents a fundamental tool for makers, hobbyists, and professional developers venturing into the world of hardware prototyping and electronics. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ BIOS_POST_Card_Built_Using_Raspberry_Pi_Pico⠀⇛ A computer’s BIOS includes basic diagnostic tools for troubleshooting issues. Often, we rely on the familiar beeps from the POST system for this reason. However, error codes are also available via hardware “POST Cards” that were particularly popular in the 1990s. [Mr. Green] has now built a POST card using readily-available modern hardware. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cheap_USB_Sniffer_Has_Wireshark_Interface⠀⇛ If you’ve done any development on USB hardware, you’ve probably wished you could peek at the bits and bytes as they pass through the data lines. Sometimes, it’s the only way to properly understand what’s going on. [ataradov]’s USB sniffer is built to do just that.  o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Gmail’s_ChatGPT-like_writing_assistant_is rolling_out_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers 2023-06-14_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ The_Ultimate_Guide_to_Deleting_Cache_on Android_–_Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Android_Auto_can_finally_do_this_and_it_was about_time_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Android’s_hidden_Smart_Display_superpower |_Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Browsing_Android_apps_for_your_Galaxy_device ecosystem_just_got_a_lot_easier_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ A_Local_Large_Language_Model⠀⇛ I decided to try open source LLMs for myself, since as they run locally the privacy risk is mitigated. Below the fold I tell the story so far; I will update it as I make progress. o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Canonical_solutions_reduce_SmartNIC_time- to-market_and_drive_efficiency_in_enterprise_data_centres⠀⇛ Data centre efficiency is a central cost factor in enterprise IT environments. So, in the face of rising energy costs and increasingly resource-intensive workloads, it is more important than ever for businesses to seek out greater optimisation. Traditionally, CPUs have been used for the majority of data centre workloads, including network related tasks. However, it is possible to unlock significant improvements in efficiency, performance and capabilities by offloading some of these workloads to dedicated hardware.  o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Learn_about_LibreOffice_development_at_our_upcoming conference!⠀⇛ The LibreOffice Conference 2023 is coming up in September in Romania – and everyone is welcome to join! The organisers have created a poster with details about a workshop at the event: We invite you to a technical workshop that will teach you about LibreOffice development and Open Source in general. # ⚓ Bits_from_Debian:_Registration_and_the_Call_for_Proposals for_DebConf23_are_now_open!⠀⇛ For DebConf23, we’re pleased to announce opening of registration and call for proposal. Following is the info text - Registration and the Call for Proposals for DebConf23 are now open. The 24th edition of the Debian annual conference will be held from September 10th to September 17th, 2023, in Infopark, Kochi, India. The main conference will be preceded by DebCamp, which will take place from September 3rd to September 9th, 2023. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Canonical_extends_its_commercial_OpenStack offering_to_small-scale_cloud_environments_with_project Sunbeam⠀⇛ June 13, Vancouver, OpenInfra Summit – Canonical today announced the extension of its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with a new project Sunbeam. The project is 100% open source and is available free- of-charge. Early adopters can also opt-in for comprehensive security coverage and full commercial support under the Ubuntu Pro + Support subscriptions once they complete the deployment themselves. This enables organisations to modernise their small-scale, legacy IT estates and easily transition from proprietary solutions to OpenStack, without an expensive professional services engagement. “Historically, commercial OpenStack deployments always used to come through paid consulting engagements and no vendor was an exception here”, said Tytus Kurek, Product Manager at Canonical. “In line with our mission to amplify open source, we are committed to delivering a production-grade platform to the community that everyone could just deploy themselves. Sunbeam emerged to remove numerous barriers around the initial adoption of OpenStack and is just the first step towards an autonomous private cloud.” # ⚓ OpenSouthCode_2023:_my_experience⠀⇛ As many of you are already noticing, Málaga is becoming an important hub is Spain for innovation in general and software in particular. Open Source has its place and events like OpenSouthCode are getting traction carried out by this trend. In addition, the organisers of this event have a clear view of what the event should look like. Having FOSDEM as reference, OpenSouthCode is moving from being a local event of reference into a national event. This process will take a few years to consolidate but this first step in 2023 has been remarkable. This year OpenSouthCode has been bigger_and_better. A few sponsors supported the event and added to that support their presence through booths where they could interact with participants in a very relaxed atmosphere. KDE had a relevant participation too. KDE_Spain took_the_decision_to_organise_Akademy-es,, the event in Spanish for KDE developers and users so, in addition to a booth, a full track with KDE related topics was organised as part of OpenSouthCode. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreOffice_7.6_Beta1_is_available_for_testing⠀⇛ LibreOffice 7.6 will be released as final in mid August, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.6 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.6 started in mid December, 2022. Since the previous release, LibreOffice 7.6 Alpha1, 641 commits have been submitted to the code repository and 189 issues got fixed. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Open Access/Content⠀➾ # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ An_Open_Wave:_New_Calls_for_Open Access⠀⇛ This open access wave began in August 2022 with the release of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Public Access Memo, commonly referred to as the “Nelson Memo,” after Dr. Alondra Nelson, the Director of the OSTP at the time. The memo calls for each of the US Federal Agencies to make “articles resulting from all U.S. federally funded research freely available and publicly accessible by default in agency- designated repositories, without any embargo or delay after publication.” The memo also directs agencies to describe: “the circumstances or prerequisites needed to make the publications freely and publicly available by default, including any use and re-use rights, and which restrictions, including attribution, may apply.” Creative Commons and our partners SPARC, Harvard and American University have been working with the US agencies to help them ensure rights are retained and publicly funded research is openly licensed. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Simplifying_Model_Formulas_with_the_R_Function ‘reformulate()’⠀⇛ As a programmer, you may come across various scenarios where you need to create complex model formulas in R. However, constructing these formulas can often be challenging and time-consuming. This is where the ‘reformulate()’ function comes to the rescue! In this blog post, we will explore the purpose and usage of the reformulate() function in R, and provide you with simple examples to help you grasp its power. # ⚓ Friedrich_Vock:_RADV_Ray_Tracing:_Now_ON_by_default⠀⇛ Yes, you heard that right. Ray Tracing Pipelines. On RADV. Enabled by default. Now merged in Mesa main. This has been in the works for a loooooooooong time. Probably the longest of any RADV features so far. But what makes ray tracing pipelines so complex that it takes this long to implement? Let’s take a short look at what it took for RADV to get its implementation off the ground. # ⚓ Gentoo ☛ Weekly_report_2,_LLVM_libc⠀⇛ Hi! This week I’ve continued my work on getting Python to run. It has mostly involved defining a lot of missing functions and types for Python. These are mostly taken from musl libc, but some things are also just implemented using a no op. In LLVM libc there are currenly some headers without all the needed declarations available. That will make “HAVE_*_H” configuration tests pass, but then fail later. For some of these cases I simply did ‘#undef’ and hoped the functionality wasn’t needed. My current plan is to just get Python to build, and then go back to fix things properly, within reason. # § Git⠀➾ # ⚓ Creating_Dynamic_Commit_Message_Templates_in_Git⠀⇛ Git is a powerful tool used by developers all over the world to manage code in their projects. It provides an efficient way of tracking changes, collaborating with others, and maintaining the integrity of the codebase. However, one aspect that is often overlooked when using Git is the importance of commit messages. # ⚓ Infusing_External_Information_in_Git_Commit Messages⠀⇛ In software development, Git is a popular version control system that allows developers to track changes made to code and collaborate with other team members. One of the key features of Git is the ability to add commit messages for each change made to the codebase. # ⚓ Prevent_Specific_Commits_from_Being_Pushed:_A_Guide for_Git_Users⠀⇛ Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system that tracks changes made to source code. It was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for the development of the Linux kernel, but it has since become one of the most widely used version control systems [...] # ⚓ Git_Aliases:_Configuration_and_Usage⠀⇛ Git is a version control system that has revolutionized the way software developers work. It was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to manage the development of the Linux kernel. # ⚓ Leveraging_Git_Scripts:_Configuration_and_Usage⠀⇛ Git is a widely used version control system that allows developers to collaborate and manage their code effectively. One of the most powerful features of Git is its ability to automate tasks using scripts. Git scripts can be used to streamline repetitive tasks, create custom functionality, and automate complex workflows. # ⚓ Mastering_Commit_Templates:_Setting_Up_and_Using_in Git⠀⇛ In today’s digital age, software development has become an integral part of every industry. From small businesses to large corporations, the demand for high-quality software is constantly increasing. The efficient management of code is crucial to the success of any software project. # ⚓ Maintaining_Your_Git_Repository:_An_Introduction⠀⇛ Git is an open-source version control system that is used by developers all over the world to manage changes made to their code. # ⚓ Pruning_Remote_Branches:_A_Git_Maintenance_Guide⠀⇛ As software development grows more complex, so do the tools we use to manage it. Git is a distributed version control system that has become the industry standard for tracking changes in source code and collaborating with other developers. # ⚓ Manual_Garbage_Collection_in_Git:_When_and_How⠀⇛ Git is a distributed version control system that allows developers to collaborate on code and track changes to their projects over time. One of the core functions of Git is its garbage collection process, which manages the repository’s disk space by removing unreferenced objects and compressing loose objects. # ⚓ Disabling_Automatic_Garbage_Collection_in_Git⠀⇛ Git is a powerful version control system that enables developers to manage their codebase and collaborate with others effectively. One of the key features of Git is its automatic garbage collection mechanism. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Gannett ☛ MSU_buys_majority_stake_in_Fisher_Building_in_Detroit⠀⇛ Michigan State University has bought a majority stake in the Fisher Building in Detroit and will illuminate the iconic Art Deco building in green light each night this week to celebrate. o ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Supporting_the_Arts⠀⇛ Try and solve our hardest puzzle yet! SUNDAY PUZZLE –  Hello my crossword folks! Welcome to my second themeless puzzle for the daily! Ever since I published my first one, I’ve been especially fond of themeless puzzles, as I’m a huge fan of the flexibility you get with the fill. o ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ I_got_the_words_from_‘Cherry_Waves’_by_Deftones, Hanif_Willis-Abdurraqib,_and_the_Black_Rocks_of_Marquette⠀⇛ here at the cliff-side along the edge, etched are your handprints where i broke your nails with my steel-toed boots then kicked you into an ocean of cherry-red water, i had no choice… i’m sorry. here trying to find you again, i can’t jump in- i can’t swim because- i’m so fucking afraid- i’ll drown. o ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Regional_top_50:_Reach_newsbrands_dominate ranking_despite_overall_audience_drop⠀⇛ Press Gazette ranks the UK’s biggest regional and local newsbrands by audience size. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ There’s_a_Weird_Deformation_in_Earth’s Crust,_And_We_May_Finally_Know_Why⠀⇛ Something strange is happening under East Africa. # ⚓ Quanta Magazine ☛ Secret_Messages_Can_Hide_in_AI-Generated Media⠀⇛ But machine-generated text, of course, is not created by humans. The recent rise of generative models that focus on language, or others that produce images or sounds, suggests that perfectly secure steganography might be possible in the real world. Those models, after all, use well-defined sampling mechanisms as part of generating text that, in many cases, seems convincingly human. Sokota and Schroeder de Witt had previously been working not on steganography, but on machine learning. They’d been pursuing new ways to transmit information through various channels, and at one point they learned of a relatively new concept in information theory called a minimum entropy coupling. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Super-Cheap_Turntable_Build_For_Photographic Purposes⠀⇛ When it comes to photographing products or small items, sometimes it’s useful to get vision from all angles. Shooting a video of an item on a turntable is an ideal way to do this. [ROBO HUB] built a super-cheap turntable for just this purpose. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_Rode_And_Schwarz_Computer_Is_A_Commodore PET⠀⇛ The IEE-488 or GPIB bus for controlling instruments by computer has existed now for many decades. It’s often implemented over USB or Ethernet here in 2023, but the familiar connector can still be found on the backs of pricey instruments. In the earlier days of GPIB when a powerhouse Linux laptop was decades away, what computer did the would-be GPIB user reach for? If they were a Rode and Schwarz customer in the late 1970s the chances are it would have been the R&S PUC process controller, an 8-bit microcomputer that under its smart exterior turns out to be an enhanced Commodore PET. [NatureAndTech] has one for teardown, and you can see it in the video below the break. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Take_A_Ride_In_The_Bathysphere⠀⇛ [Tom Scott] has traveled the world to see interesting things.  So when he’s impressed by a DIY project, we sit up and listen. In this case, he’s visiting the Bathysphere, a project created by a couple of passionate hobbyists in Italy. The project is housed at Explorandia, which based on google translate, sounds like a pretty epic hackerspace. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_cost_of_food_in_Europe_is_out_of_control⠀⇛ Whether in Spain, Hungary, or Italy, food prices keep rising in Europe even as inflation relents. Food inflation reached a historic peak in March, up 19.2% over the previous year, and fell to 12.5% in May. Governments across the continent are trying to come up with solutions: Spain waived its 5% tax on food products, France reached a three-month pricing agreement with supermarkets, and Croatia mandated price controls. # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ Michigan_sounds_alarm_about_mosquitoes after_Jamestown_Canyon_virus_detected⠀⇛ Illnesses can develop within two weeks after a bite, and while most people don’t get sick, severe cases can cause infection of the brain (encephalitis) or the membranes around the brain and spinal cord (meningitis). # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Survey_finds_almost_half_of_Russian_medical workers_know_colleagues_who_have_forged_voluntary professional_certifications_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A new survey found that nearly half (43 percent) of medical workers in Russia say they know colleagues who have used forged documents to certify that they’ve obtained voluntary additional qualifications, according to the newspaper Kommersant. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ GP_shortage_facing_Australia_after ‘decades_of_neglect’⠀⇛ Australia’s peak medical body says the nation’s general practitioners have been undervalued by successive governments, with the country now paying the price for “decades of neglect”. The Australian Medical Association is calling for an overhaul in how investment in health care is framed, releasing a report linking health outcomes for Australians to economic growth and productivity. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ New_Penalties_for_Covering_Up_Patient_Abuse in_Illinois⠀⇛ Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law on Friday that strengthens the range of penalties that a state watchdog can mete out for health care employees who conspire to hide abuse or interfere with investigations by the state police or internal oversight bodies. The legislation was introduced following an investigative series by Capitol News Illinois, Lee Enterprises Midwest and ProPublica into rampant abuses and cover-ups at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, a state-run institution in southern Illinois that houses people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental illnesses. The new law applies to employees at state-run institutions and at privately operated community agencies for people with developmental disabilities and mental illnesses that operate under the oversight of the Illinois Department of Human Services and its Office of the Inspector General. # ⚓ Steve_Kirsch_uses_threats_of_doxxing_and_a_libel_suit_to silence_Dr._Canuck⠀⇛ After Monday’s post, in which I described how tech bro turned antivaxxer Steve Kirsch had gone from “just” anti-COVID-19 vaccine to what I called “irredeemably bonkers antivax,” I didn’t think I’d be writing about him again for a good long while, particularly given that he had blocked me on Twitter last week, thus making my Twitter feed much better because I don’t see him tagging me anymore and therefore don’t see his more bonkers antics. Unfortunately, something this good couldn’t last. No, Kirsch didn’t unblock me. However, I became aware of his descent much further down the antivax rabbit hole from Tweets describing how he was both doxxing and threatening to sue a pseudonymous family practice doctor who had criticized him, thus demonstrating that becoming a litigious bully seeking to use legal thuggery to intimidate critics to science is a (likely) inevitable feature, not a bug, in devolving into a crank as cranky as Steve Kirsch has become. These Tweets led me to a post on Kirsch’s Substack entitled Who is “Dr. Jonathan E. Canuck” really? # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Doctors_call_for_overhaul_of_nation’s ‘sickcare’_system⠀⇛ Australia is spending billions on a “sickcare” system that is failing to prevent chronic disease, as elective surgery wait lists blow a $4.6 billion hole in the economy every year.  The Australian Medical Association is calling for an overhaul in framing investment in health care.  # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Supreme_Court_Has_Done_Us_Dirty_on_the Clean_Water_Act⠀⇛ On May 25, the Supreme Court released a major ruling that significantly curtails the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate the nation’s wetlands under the Clean Water Act. The opinion was handed down while I was waiting for a train, so a very nice lady standing next to me had the misfortune of hearing my first- take rant as I was reading through Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion. When I finally stopped talking long enough to shove a chicken nugget into my face hole, she said, “The only war we’re capable of winning is the one against the environment.”1 # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Long_Covid_can_impact_quality_of_life_more than_some_cancers:_Study⠀⇛ Fatigue is the symptom that most affects the daily lives of long Covid patients, and it can affect the quality of life more than some cancers, according to a new study. The study was led by researchers at UCL and the University of Exeter. The research, published in BMJ Open and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), examines the impact of long Covid on the lives of over 3,750 patients who were referred to a long Covid clinic and used a digital app as part of their NHS treatment for the condition. # ⚓ Reason ☛ “Minnesota_Appeals_Court_Decides_4_Cases_on Religious_Exemptions_from_Vaccine_Mandates”⠀⇛ A post by Prof. Howard Friedman (Religion Clause), which he kindly allowed me to pass along: Yesterday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals decided four separate appeals from decisions of Unemployment Law Judges who denied unemployment benefits because an applicant refused on religious grounds to comply with an employer’s Covid vaccine mandate. Goede v. Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, (MN… # ⚓ Reason ☛ Online_Learning_During_COVID-19_Linked_With_Lower Test_Scores⠀⇛ A new study has found that the more schools kept kids online, the worse their pass rates on state standardized tests were. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Artificial_intelligence:_We_are_no_longer free_under_constant_surveillance!⠀⇛ On the day before the crucial vote on the European Parliament‘s negotiating mandate on artificial intelligence, Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer levelled serious accusations against EU governments, the EU Commission and conservative MEPs who want to allow automated facial recognition in public spaces. At the same time, Breyer justified the cross-party motion to add automated behavioural surveillance to the list of prohibited technologies. His speech in full: [...] # ⚓ CBC ☛ Reddit_is_facing_a_major_protest_from_its_own moderators⠀⇛ The blackout was also the cause of a general Reddit outage this morning, during which all content on the site was inaccessible — a Reddit spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that “a significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues.” # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Reddit_crashed_because_of_the_growing_subreddit blackout⠀⇛ More than 7,000 subreddits have gone private or read-only in response to the API pricing terms, which is forcing the developers of apps like Apollo for Reddit to shut down at the end of the month. (If the tracking links in my previous paragraph don’t work, try this one.) The new pricing will potentially be prohibitively expensive for developers, with Apollo for Reddit creator Christian Selig saying that he would have to pay more than $20 million per year to operate the app. Redditors are also unhappy with how the API changes could force some accessibility apps to shut down, though Reddit says that accessibility-focused apps will be granted an exception to the API pricing changes. (On Friday, RedReader and Dystopia announced they received exceptions.) # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Reddit_Blackout_Crashes_The_Site_As_Reddit_Users Realize_They’re_In_The_Power_Position⠀⇛ On Monday we wrote about the changes that Reddit was making to their API pricing, causing some services to shut down, and leading thousands of subreddits to choose to blackout (some temporarily, some indefinitely). Apparently, all those sites going private resulted in… Reddit itself falling over. # ⚓ EFF ☛ What_Reddit_Got_Wrong⠀⇛ Reddit has an admirable record when it comes to defending an open and free internet. While not always perfect, the success of the site is owed to its model of empowering moderators and users to engage with the site in a way that makes sense for them. This freedom for communities to experiment with and extend the platform let it continue to thrive while similar sites, like Fark and Digg, lost major chunks of their user base after making controversial and restrictive design choices to raise profitability. Reddit maintained openness in two notable ways through its history. It supported community-led moderation from volunteer workers, and it embraced developers looking for automated access to the site, through open protocols (e.g. RSS) and a free API. Content moderation doesn’t work at scale. Any scheme which attempts it is bound to fail. For sites which need continuous user growth, that is a problem. So what can they do?  Well, we know what doesn’t work:  # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Twitter_Decides_To_Stop_Paying_Google,_Despite Relying_On_It_For_Multiple_Tools⠀⇛ Last week, when Elon Musk hosted conspiracy theory nonsense peddler RFK Jr. on a Twitter Spaces, he admitted that, despite firing somewhere around 85% of Twitter staff at the point he took the company over and just no longer paying rent or many other bills, he’s still struggling to get the company to break even. This is kind of incredible, given that pre-Musk, Twitter was profitable in 16 of the previous 20 quarters. Obviously, the fact that advertisers have abandoned the platform (mostly because of Elon Musk himself) hasn’t helped. # § Windows TCO⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Ransomware_gang_Alphv_‘unlikely_to_be fussed’_about_law_firm’s_injunction_order⠀⇛ An Australian law firm’s bid to try and use a court injunction to prevent publication of material stolen during a ransomware raid is unlikely to have any effect on the attackers behind the intrusion, a security professional says. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Trustwave_report_finds_attacks targeting_Microsoft’s_MS_SQL_are_skyrocketing⠀⇛ A new report from cybersecurity company Trustwave Holdings Inc. has found that attacks targeting Microsoft Corp.’s MS SQL are skyrocketing and that database vulnerabilities are increasing across volatile regions. ⚓ The Register UK ☛ June_Patch_Tuesday:_VMware_vuln_under_attack_by_Chinese spies,_Microsoft_kinda_meh⠀⇛ An attacker can use this vulnerability to gain admin privileges without any user interaction, according to Microsoft. Once they’ve “gained access to spoofed JWT authentication tokens, they can use them to execute a network attack which bypasses authentication and allows them to gain access to the privileges of an authenticated user,” according to the security update. ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ransomware_Attack_Played_Major_Role_in_Shutdown_of_Illinois Hospital⠀⇛ The attack occurred in late February 2021 and forced the shutdown of the Spring Valley hospital’s computer network, impacting all web- based operations, including its patient portal. The Peru branch was not affected, as it operated on a separate system. The incident, the hospital said on social media, impacted its ability to bill patients and get paid in a timely manner for the provided services. The systems were down for more than three months. ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Microsoft_Patch_Tuesday,_June_2023_Edition⠀⇛ Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to fix dozens of security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. This month’s relatively light patch load has another added bonus for system administrators everywhere: It appears to be the first Patch Tuesday since March 2022 that isn’t marred by the active exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s products. ⚓ IT Wire ☛ No_zero-days_for_Microsoft_to_fix_on_Patch_Tuesday⠀⇛ “Unlike past Microsoft Exchange Server flaws that were rated higher and did not require authentication, these vulnerabilities require an attacker to be authenticated. “That said, attackers can still potentially exploit these flaws if they’re able to obtain valid credentials, which is not as difficult as you’d expect.” Adam Barnett, lead software engineer at security firm Rapid7, noted that the volume of patches was typical compared with recent months: 94 in total. “For the first time in a while, Microsoft isn’t offering patches for any zero-day vulnerabilities, but we do get fixes for four critical Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities: one in .NET/Visual Studio, and three in Windows Pragmatic General Multicast,” he added. § Security⠀➾ * ⚓ SANS ☛ Geoserver_Attack_Details:_More_Cryptominers_against_Unconfigured WebApps,_(Mon,_Jun_12th)⠀⇛ * ⚓ Security Week ☛ CosmicEnergy_ICS_Malware_Poses_No_Immediate_Threat,_but Should_Not_Be_Ignored⠀⇛ The Russia-linked ICS malware named CosmicEnergy does not pose a direct threat to OT systems as it contains errors and lacks maturity. * § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Job_scams:_fraudsters_are_posing_as_employers_and recruiters_on_Indeed_and_LinkedIn [Ed: Microsoft LinkedIn facilitating frauds]⠀⇛ We investigate how scammers are infiltrating popular job sites * § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Denmark_to_raise_age_at_which_tech_companies_can_collect minors’_data⠀⇛ Denmark’s Ministry of Business announced Monday that the government is poised to raise the minimum age at which technology corporations can lawfully obtain minors’ personal data. The government seeks to safeguard children’s privacy and mitigate the risk of unauthorized disclosure of their personal information, aligning with the prevailing international trend. The Danish government recently passed legislation that prohibits the collection and processing of personal data belonging to children below the age of 13, unless explicit consent is obtained from the individual with parental authority. However, in the European Union, comparable regulations pertain to children under the age of 16. The government’s proposed initiative seeks to align local laws with EU regulations. o ⚓ India Times ☛ Denmark_looks_to_curb_children’s_data_collection_by Big_Tech⠀⇛ Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants such as Google, Snapchat and Meta, in a bid to curb the massive accumulation of data on young people, the government said on Monday. It wants to raise to between 15 and 16 years the age at which children can consent to share personal data with tech companies, from 13 now. The companies will also require parental consent to use data from children younger than that. o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ US_senators_and_spies_spar_over_Section_702 warrantless_surveillance⠀⇛ Analysis US Senators have told intelligence agency officials that they are unlikely to renew authorization to use Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without setting stricter limits on how and when government snoops can wield its powers. A key point of contention between the lawmakers and intelligence agencies is that the surveillance powers conferred by the Act – which are supposed to be used against foreign targets who pose a threat to the United States – are also used to allow warrantless snooping on US citizens’ communications. o ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Leak:_Data_retention_and_encryption:_EU Government’s_“Going_Dark”_program_to_attack_citizen’s_rights_with PR⠀⇛ A German diplomatic correspondence that was leaked by netzpolitik.org on Friday and other documents reveal the insistence by EU member state governments in blanket mass surveillance in the form of data retention and ideas to make secure encryption illegal. The fundamental rights jurisdiction of the highest EU Court is seen as a problem, while Governments are wishing for a new narrative that would change the way we look at privacy and surveillance. The documents talk about the Swedish Presidency’s “Going Dark” program that aims to extend law enforcement capabilities with a focus on over-the-top (OTT) media services, End-to-end encryption (E2EE), the Electronic Evidence Regulation, the ePrivacy Regulation, the Media Freedom Act, the retention of citizen’s communications meta data and access to Whois data. According to the German diplomatic correspondence member state governments share a “a largely homogeneous opinion” about that program. o ⚓ NYOB ☛ Spotify_gets_fine_of_€_5_Million_for_GDPR_violations. Streaming_Service_did_not_properly_answer_requests_for_access_to data.⠀⇛ Following a noyb complaint and litigation over inactivity, the Swedish Data Protection Authoirty (IMY) has issued a fine of 58 Mln Swedish Crown (about € 5 Million) against Spotify. While users have a right to get access to all their data and information on the use of their data, Spotify did not fully comply with this obligation. The IMY was in charge of the case because Spotify has its main establishment in Sweden. The noyb complaint was joined with a complaint filed in the Netherlands by Bits of Freedom. o ⚓ India Times ☛ Spotify_fined_$5_million_for_breaching_EU_data rules⠀⇛ Music streaming giant Spotify was on Tuesday fined 58 million kronor ($5.4 million) for not properly informing users on how data it collected on them was being used, Swedish authorities said. The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection’s (IMY) said it had reviewed “how Spotify handles customers’ right of access to their personal data.” o ⚓ Guardian ☛ Spotify_fined_$5_mn_for_breaching_EU_data_rules⠀⇛ Privacy activist group Noyb said in a separate statement that the fine followed a complaint and subsequent litigation from the group, and while they welcomed the decision they lamented the tardiness of the authorities. “The case took more than four years and we had to litigate the IMY to get a decision. The Swedish authority definitely has to speed up its procedures,” Stefano Rossetti, a privacy lawyer at Noyb, was quoted saying in the statement. o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Congress_and_intelligence_officials_spar_over surveillance_reforms⠀⇛ Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee remain unconvinced that existing reforms are sufficient to address abuse of surveillance authorities. o ⚓ EFF ☛ The_FTC_Forces_Ring_to_Take_User_Privacy_Seriously⠀⇛ This action stems from a collection of privacy violations that occurred between 2017 and 2020. Ring customers brought a class action lawsuit in December 2019 after dozens of people had their Ring devices accessed by malicious actors using brute force and credential stuffing attacks, “despite warnings from employees, outside security researchers and media reports” to implement standard security measures to protect customer information. The FTC alleged that in 2017, one Ring employee had, “over several months viewed thousands of video recordings belonging to female users of Ring cameras that surveilled intimate spaces in their homes such as their bathrooms or bedrooms.” The FTC also claimed that “Ring failed to take any steps until January 2018 to adequately notify customers or obtain their consent for extensive human review of customers’ private video recordings for various purposes, including training algorithms.” EFF has long maintained that Ring–with its centralized control and storage of millions of cameras across the United States–is one massive privacy headache, especially since millions of private cameras store footage remotely and can be used as a tool of mass surveillance. Now, the FTC has put some much-needed restrictions and oversight on the surveillance company. Under the settlement, “Ring will be required to delete data products such as data, models, and algorithms derived from videos it unlawfully reviewed. It also will be required to implement a privacy and security program with novel safeguards on human review of videos as well as other stringent security controls, such as multi-factor authentication for both employee and customer accounts.”  Despite this settlement, there are still many other things the company needs to to show it is taking user privacy seriously, like ending police ability to get access to footage without a warrant or user consent, turning on end-to-end encryption by default, and ending audio collection by default.  o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Researchers_found_that_Strava’s_heatmap_feature_could lead_stalkers_to_users’_homes⠀⇛ itness tracking app Strava’s heatmap feature has raised safety concerns over potentially leading threat actors to users’ home addresses. o ⚓ ACLU ☛ Donated_Blood_or_an_Organ?_Police_Shouldn’t_Have_Easy Access_to_Your_DNA⠀⇛ In 2015, following a DUI arrest, Ian Mitcham consented to having a blood sample collected to test for blood-alcohol concentration. He was advised his sample would be destroyed after 90 days. Instead, law enforcement held onto it for three years. Then, without obtaining a warrant, a detective used this old blood sample for a completely different purpose — to extract and analyze Mr. Mitcham’s DNA while investigating another crime. As we’re arguing before the Arizona Court of Appeals tomorrow, and set forth in a friend-of-the-court_brief, this clearly violated Mr. Mitcham’s constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment. Despite this, the State makes a terrifying argument to justify its actions: that it has the power to obtain DNA profiles from any biological sample in its lawful possession, without court oversight or approval. § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ * ⚓ JURIST ☛ South_Africa_ruling_party_expels_former_secretary_general_over misconduct_and_corruption_charges⠀⇛ South Africa’s ruling political party, the African National Congress (ANC), expelled its former Secretary General Ace Magashule on Monday due to allegations of monetary misconduct, abuse of power and violations of fundamental values held by the group. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_policeman_killed_in_Naypyidaw_grenade_attack⠀⇛ An unknown group attacked a police station amid tight security. * ⚓ Revealed_footage_shows_how_military_officer_ran_over_child_in_Hakkari⠀⇛ The 5-year-old child was killed at the scene. The specialist sergeant has not been arrested. * ⚓ PKK_umbrella_group_announces_end_of_‘ceasefire’⠀⇛ The KCK had declared a cessation of hostilities after the February earthquakes and extended it due to the elections in May. * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Palestinians_Warn_Against_Israeli_Proposal_to_Divide_Al- Aqsa_Compound⠀⇛ A draft bill proposed by one of the legislators of the ruling Likud party calls for the al-Aqsa mosque compound to be divided into two parts, with illegal settlers having exclusive access to the majority of the compound. * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_Tells_Another_Bedtime_Story_To_Scare_Away_Normal Relations_With_China_and_Cuba⠀⇛ Addressing allegations of “Chinese spy base” in Cuba. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Man_Arrested_After_3_Killed_in_Nottingham,_UK_Police Say⠀⇛ The authorities said they had arrested a 31-year-old man but did not give a motive for the attacks in central England. Two of the dead were university students. A man was arrested early Tuesday on the suspicion of murder after three people, including two students, were found dead in the city of Nottingham, in central England. The arrest followed a series of attacks Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain called a “shocking incident.” * ⚓ RFA ☛ More_than_5,000_people_flee_villages_in_Myanmar’s_Tanintharyi region⠀⇛ The exodus follows the capture of locals used as human shields by junta troops. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Armed_group_attacks_Vietnamese_police_stations,_39_people arrested⠀⇛ Reasons behind attack in Central Highlands unclear but people in region have felt oppressed, cheated. * ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Fore!_reasons_why_the_Committee_on_Foreign Investment_in_the_United_States_won’t_block_the_PGA_Tour/LIV_Golf merger⠀⇛ The rule of law will likely prevent CFIUS from blocking a transaction that worries some lawmakers but does not rise to the level of a clear national security risk.  * ⚓ ADF ☛ Wagner_Group_Accused_of_Trying_to_Traffic_Weapons_Through_Mali⠀⇛ As its battlefield losses mount in Ukraine, Russia is looking to Mali as a way to obtain weapons and circumvent international sanctions. Since its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has lost more than 2,000 tanks — about two-thirds of its inventory — and 1,800 infantry fighting vehicles. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Record_110_million_people_forcibly_displaced_worldwide,_UN says⠀⇛ Data: UNHCR; Chart: Simran Parwani/Axios; Note: Chart does not include IDPs. Russia’s invasion_of_Ukraine, other conflicts like those in Syria and Sudan, and climate-fueled_crises have pushed the number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence, human rights abuses and other events to a record 110 million, the UN refugee agency said in a new report Tuesday. ⚓ RFA ☛ Russia_resumed_shipments_of_oil_to_North_Korea_in_December,_UN_data shows⠀⇛ Experts say the oil may have been in exchange for weapons that Russia could use in the Ukraine war. ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Peace_for_All_Time”:_JFK’s_Historic_1963_Call_for_Peace Helped_Lead_to_Nuke_Treaty_with_Moscow⠀⇛ President John F. Kennedy’s “peace speech” at American University 60 years ago was a searing critique of Cold War politics and laid out a hopeful vision for a world built on cooperation and empathy, even among rival countries. Kennedy called for “not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.” We feature an extended excerpt of Kennedy’s remarks and speak with The Nation publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel about how the speech remains relevant today. The Biden administration “could certainly take a page” from Kennedy’s policies, she says, urging the U.S. to avoid needless escalation during this time of renewed hostility between the United States and Russia over the war in Ukraine. ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Authoritarian_investment_in_southeastern_Europe_is_a security_threat._Here’s_what_NATO_can_do.⠀⇛ Stronger investment screening in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia will help strengthen NATO against economic weapons that are increasingly central to today’s conflicts. ⚓ Defence Web ☛ ISS:_South_Africa_does_have_the_means_to_reduce_violence⠀⇛ In May, police minister Beki Cele praised the South African Police Service’ (SAPS) ‘more boots on the ground’ approach to fighting crime. His speech left many commentators perplexed, as a review of the latest official crime statistics for January to March 2023 showed that murder is still on the rise. ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_Zealand_says_new_Nato_partnership_to_cover_climate change,_security⠀⇛ New Zealand has been a Nato partner since 2012, but is not a member. § War in Ukraine⠀➾ * ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ Vienna_Summit:_Anti-War_Activists_From_32_Countries Call_For_Diplomacy_to_End_Ukraine_War⠀⇛ Over 300 activists from 32 countries gathered in Vienna, Austria to demand an end to the war in Ukraine and issue a powerful declaration of peace. * ⚓ LRT ☛ Immigration_without_integration:_Belarusian_and_Russian_arrivals in_Lithuania_may_end_up_in_ghettos⠀⇛ Just in recent years, Lithuania has received over 100,000 migrants from its closest neighbourhood – Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia – that are forming vibrant new communities. Now, Lithuania needs a plan how to prevent them from closing off into cultural ghettoes. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Best-Selling_US_Author_Cancels_Her_Own_Book_in_Response_to Anti-Russian_PR Campaign⠀⇛ Elizabeth Gilbert, the best-selling American author, announced last week that she would soon be publishing a novel set in Russia. In light of a Russo-phobic public relations campaign unleashed against her, the Eat, Pray, Love author has since rescinded those plans. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ De-Escalation_Can_Start_with_Ending_All_Nuclear_Weapons ‘Sharing’⠀⇛ Ukraine, the United States, and NATO have condemned what they correctly called Russian President Putin’s “dangerous and irresponsible” plan to soon deploy nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Ukrainian_doctors_continue_work_in_Rēzekne,_Latvia⠀⇛ Eleven Ukrainians are currently employed at the Rēzekne Hospital in eastern Latvia. Of those, nine are doctors in a variety of specialties. They study the Latvian language and health system every day, Latgale regional television reported June 13. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_Nuclear_Chief_Says_Ukraine’s_Zaporizhzhya_Nuclear_Plant Faces_‘Dangerous_Situation’⠀⇛ The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine faces “a relatively dangerous situation” from both the Kakhovka dam breach last week and the start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on June 13. * ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘A_large_part_of_the_Ukrainian_counteroffensive_hasn’t_been put_into_action_yet’⠀⇛ With Ukraine now in the early stages of a long-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia, Philippe Gros, a senior research fellow at French security and defence think tank Foundation for Strategic Research, talks to FRANCE 24 about Kyiv’s likely military strategies. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_launches_deadly_air_strike_on_Kryvyi_Rih_in_central Ukraine,_local_governor_says⠀⇛ Russian air strikes hit several buildings in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih early Tuesday, leaving at least eleven dead and dozens wounded, local authorities said, as drone and missile attacks were reported in Kyiv and other cities. Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). * ⚓ Meduza ☛ At_least_10_killed_by_missile_attack_on_Kryvyi_Rih_Russia targets_Zelensky’s_hometown_just_a_day_after_Putin_called_strikes_on residential_areas_‘pointless’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ At least 10 people have died as a result of a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, according to Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul. * ⚓ Defence Web ☛ No_evidence_of_sanctions_against_South_Africa,_gov_says in_wake_of_Lady_R⠀⇛ Presidential spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, has batted away suggestions that South Africa may be hit with international sanctions due to its non-aligned stance regarding the Russia- Ukraine conflict and allegations the Russian vessel Lady R picked up South African arms in December. Magwenya was addressing the media at the Union Buildings on Monday. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Wants_Tighter_Controls_On_Supply_Of_Missile_Components To_Russia⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on June 13 after a deadly Russian missile attack on his hometown that foreign countries, including Ukraine’s partners, should take measures against companies that help Russia circumvent sanctions and supply it with missile components. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Regions_Targeted_Again_By_Deadly_Russian_Missile Strikes⠀⇛ Russian missile strikes killed at least six people overnight in the southern port city of Odesa and in the eastern region of Donetsk, the Ukrainian military and regional officials said early on June 14. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Allies_Pressure_Biden_to_Hasten_NATO_Membership_for Ukraine⠀⇛ Some members of the military alliance want to set a timetable for Ukraine to join, though only after the war is no longer raging. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Denounces_Agreement_With_Ukraine_on_Kerch_Strait⠀⇛ Putin is also studying the possibility of withdrawing Russia from the Black Sea grain deal as Western countries are not fulfilling their responsibilities. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Evgeny_Prigozhin_claims_Russian_Defense_Ministry_has_tried twice_to_‘destroy’_Wagner_Group_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin said in an audio recording published Tuesday that the Russian Defense Ministry has twice tried to “destroy” his paramilitary cartel. The clip was posted by Prigozhin’s press service. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_confirms_signing_decrees_to_pardon_convicts_who_fought in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ President of Russia Vladimir Putin confirmed that he signs decrees to pardon convicts that agree to fight in Ukraine. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_expects_private_military_companies_to_become_government contractors._Prigozhin_says_Wagner_Group_won’t_do_it._—_Meduza⠀⇛ President Vladimir Putin says it’s time to legalize Russia’s private military companies, in accordance with “common sense, existing practices, and the law.” The president expects Russia’s PMCs to become government contractors “as soon as possible.” * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Three_people_killed_and_13_injured_in_overnight_Russian missile_strike_on_Odesa_—_Meduza⠀⇛ At least three people have been killed and 13 more injured in a missile strike on Odesa, carried out by the Russian military the night before June 14. Ukrainska Pravda reported on the casualties in the Ukrainian port city, citing military sources. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Central_Asians_Incarcerated_In_Russia_Forced_To_Support_War Output,_Letters_Say⠀⇛ Men from Central Asia are being forced to support Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine in a penal colony in the Russian city of Samara by doing things such as producing military equipment for the country’s armed forces, two letters obtained by RFE/RL from inmates at the colony show. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Earmarks_Another_$325_Million_In_New_Military_Aid_To Ukraine⠀⇛ The U.S. Defense Department has announced an additional $325 million in security assistance “to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs.” * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Air_Strikes_Claim_Lives_In_Zelenskiy’s_Hometown⠀⇛ A Russian missile struck a five-story apartment building in the early hours of June 13 in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryviy Rih, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens. Kryviy Rih Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said Russian missiles hit civilian and infrastructure targets. Those who survived lost everything in the rubble and fire. The local administration of the city in the Dnipropetrovsk region has declared a day of mourning for the victims. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.N._Monitor_Aims_to_Cross_Front_Line_to_Inspect Ukrainian_Nuclear_Plant⠀⇛ The destruction of a hydroelectric dam last week unleashed a flood and threatened the water supply needed to cool the battle-scarred Zaporizhzhia plant. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russian_Forces_Strike_Back_Against_Ukraine’s Counteroffensive⠀⇛ Russia attacked Ukrainian troops near villages in Ukraine’s south on the same day that Russian missiles killed at least 11 people and that President Vladimir V. Putin acknowledged some Russian losses. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_approves_another_€430_thousand_aid_for_Kakhovka⠀⇛ In order to mitigate the consequences of the bombing of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in Ukraine, the government agreed on Tuesday, June 13, to grant additional humanitarian aid to Ukraine of around €430 thousand. * ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Is_Ukraine_Ready_To_Negotiate?⠀⇛ The war in Ukraine began with Ukraine ready to negotiate a peace agreement with Russia while the US was not. Could the war end the same way? Initially, the Russian invasion brought Ukraine to the table very fast, and the short war might have ended. * ⚓ Latvia ☛ Aid_convoy_heads_from_Rīga_to_Kakhovka_disaster_victims⠀⇛ On Tuesday, another humanitarian convoy, organized by the Confederation of Ukrainian Associations in Latvia “Viche”, traveled from Rīga to Ukraine, this time, with assistance for victims of the Kakhovka disaster, Latvian Radio reported. * ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Belarus_takes_delivery_of_Russian_nuclear_weapons, says_Lukashenko⠀⇛ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday said his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, at least three people were killed and 13 wounded in a Russian missile attack on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa early Wednesday according to local authorities. Follow our live blog for the latest updates on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lukashenka_Claims_Russian_Tactical_Nukes_May_Arrive_In_Belarus Within_‘Days’⠀⇛ Belarusian authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka says Russian tactical nuclear weapons will arrive in his country within “days,” earlier than previously thought for a move that has ratcheted up already strained tensions between the Kremlin and the West. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Every_Block_Is_Another_Battle:_Ukraine’s_Latest Eastern_Stand⠀⇛ Outnumbered, outgunned, out-tanked, Ukraine is putting up a scrappy defense of Marinka, another city near Bakhmut that is a few blocks from falling. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ C.I.A._Told_Ukraine_Last_Summer_It_Should_Not_Attack Nord_Stream_Pipelines⠀⇛ Dutch intelligence officials shared information with the C.I.A. in June 2022 that they had learned the Ukrainian military had been planning an operation using divers to blow up one of the pipelines. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Biden_Will_Meet_NATO_Chief_Today_to_Discuss_Ukraine and_Succession⠀⇛ Jens Stoltenberg and Biden met at the White House to prepare for next month’s summit in Lithuania. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ New_Zealand’s_Public_Broadcaster_Investigates_Pro- Russia_Changes_to_Some_Articles⠀⇛ A web editor for RNZ has been put on leave and the station has apologized for changes to articles by Reuters and the BBC that had been published on its website. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ An_altered_contact_line_by_Vremivka_reveals_Kyiv’s_further plans_With_the_collapse_of_Russian_positions_along_the_‘Vremivka_wedge,’ the_Ukrainian_army_is_still_short_of_a_breakthrough_—_Meduza⠀⇛ * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_signs_law_requiring_conscripts_to_give_up_passports during_service_period_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Vladimir Putin has signed a bill into law that will require military conscripts to give their international passports (which are necessary for foreign travel) to the authorities for storage during their service period. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_signs_law_weakening_punishments_for_police_officers_who commit_crimes_—_Meduza⠀⇛ President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a law that weakens penalties for police officers who commit crimes § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ [Repeat] RFA ☛ Shrinking_harvest_of_caterpillar_fungus_puts_squeeze_on Tibetan_herders⠀⇛ “Production is already on the decline every passing year,” a Tibetan living in Kardze’s Dege county told Radio Free Asia. “Before, collectors would easily gather at least 100 pieces of caterpillar fungus, but now the most they can collect is 40 in a day. Some even say they can collect only 10 a day.” Research published in 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal said the decline of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region was due to climate change and overharvesting. * ⚓ [Repeat] The Atlantic ☛ A_Clear_Indication_That_Climate_Change_Is Burning_Up_California⠀⇛ We know that climate change supercharges these fires thanks to the drier environments it creates, but by how much is tricky to say. Fire science is a complicated thing: A blaze might arise from a lightning strike, a hot car on tall summer grass, snapped power lines. But a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences delivers a fuller sense of the relationship between human-caused warming and California’s wildfires. It finds that climate change is responsible for almost all of the increase in scorched acreage during the state’s summer fires over the past 50 years. And its authors predict that the increase in burned area will only continue in the decades to come. The arrival of this study is a timely reminder just days after East Coasters endured a toxic haze that originated in Canada: Wildfire is an international problem, and it’s likely to get worse as time goes on. Using data from 1971 to 2021, the team behind the paper built a model to understand the relationship between wildfire and climate. The researchers then repeatedly simulated worlds with and without climate change. This allowed them to isolate the impact of human-caused climate change versus normal, naturally occuring hot years, and to look at how various factors played a role. They found that human-caused warming was responsible for nearly all of the additional area burned. * ⚓ Axios ☛ Biden’s_climate_policy_makes_the_left_sweat_2024⠀⇛ Joe Biden’s critics in the climate movement fret he could face enthusiasm problems with climate voters and young people for backing_fossil_fuel_projects. Why it matters:Lots of people who care about climate change want Joe Biden to boost renewables and curtail fossil fuel production, an approach many climate experts want. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Three_Die_In_House_Fire_In_Siberia⠀⇛ Russia’s Investigative Committee said on June 13 that a fire in a private house killed three people in the village of Poros in the Novosibirsk region of Siberia overnight. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Nordic_Nah:_independent_report_opens_new_fault lines_in_carbon_capture_and_storage’s_star_projects⠀⇛ Doubts have been raised about the long-term viability of two of the world’s most-celebrated and most-studied offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, raising new concerns over hefty government subsidies for the controversial method of removing carbon from the atmosphere. Zacharias Szumer reports. Supporters of CCS, and even some of its critics, cite the projects in Norway, Sleipner and Snøhvit, as evidence of best practice. But a new report by the independent Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) finds “the security and stability of the two fields have proven difficult to predict”, noting that carbon injected under the sea at supposedly safe levels is rising toward the surface faster than expected.  * § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tanker_Collision_Causes_Gasoline_Leak_On_Major_Siberian River⠀⇛ Up to 90 tons of gasoline have leaked into Siberia’s Lena River, one of the area’s major waterways, after two tankers collided, Irkutsk regional Governor Igor Kobzev said late on June 12. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Two_oil_tankers_(one_with_drunken_captain)_collide_on Lena,_spill_60–90_tons_of_high-octane_gas_into_Siberia’s_great river_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Two oil tankers collided on Monday, June 12, while going down Lena, one of Russia’s great Siberian rivers. According to the first assessments, 60–90 tons of high- octane AI-92 gasoline have spilled into the river as a result, as admitted by Irkutsk Governor Igor Kobzev. o ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Oil_Spill_in_Russia’s_Irkutsk_Region_Prompts Emergency⠀⇛ The authorities are assessing the volume of oil products that got into the river and working to prevent water intake from the river by downstream settlements. o ⚓ Oregon State University ☛ OSU_research_shows_how_hackers_can target_smart_meters_to_destabilize_electricity_grid⠀⇛ Like circuit breakers in a household panel, power grid components can “trip” and shut off when demand, or load, is too high or problematic for some other reason. The result is load being passed on to other parts of the grid network, which may also shut down, creating the possibility of a domino effect that can lead to a blackout. In this study, conducted with OSU College of Engineering associate professor Jinsub Kim, researchers used a model known as a time-domain grid protection simulator to demonstrate how causing load to vary back and forth in a regular pattern – known as a load oscillation attack – can compromise transmission. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Big_battery_opens_at_retired_coal-fired power_site⠀⇛ A switch has been flicked on Australia’s largest privately funded utility-scale battery at the site of a retired coal power plant in Victoria’s east. The Hazelwood battery storage system was opened by Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio in a ceremony at the former Latrobe Valley power station site on Wednesday. o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Gas_code_promises_secure_supply_at ‘reasonable’_prices⠀⇛ A mandatory gas code has been finalised to make Australian gas available for Australian users at “reasonable” prices. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the code announced on Wednesday would also give producers the certainty they need to invest in supply and ensure export commitments are met. o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Regulators_Failed_to_Act_to_Prevent_Underride Crashes⠀⇛ It was a little after 7 p.m. and Ricardo Marcos was rolling through the darkness in his gray Hyundai Elantra. Marcos had spent a long day toiling as mechanic at a trucking company in McAllen, Texas, a sunbaked city nestled right on the U.S.-Mexico border. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Binance_Spars_With_U.S._Regulators_Over_Asset Freeze⠀⇛ A judge urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to reach a compromise with Binance that would allow the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange to continue operating in the United States. o ⚓ YLE ☛ Lahti_mulls_Finland’s_first_aerial_tramway⠀⇛ A Finnish start-up company has formed a partnership with the City of Lahti to test its transport technology. * § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Glow-Worms_Can’t_Find_Their_Spark_Under_Harsh_Light Pollution⠀⇛ A team of researchers recently collected glow-worms from southeastern England and brought them into a lab setting to test artificial light’s effect on the worms’ navigation. Their results were published today in the Journal of Experimental Biology. “The ability of male glow-worms to find female glow-worms is severely affected by artificial white light,” said Jeremy Niven, a zoologist at the University of Sussex and a co-author of the research, in an email to Gizmodo. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ Axios ☛ New_report_shows_inflation_cooling,_but_some_prices_remain high⠀⇛ The consumer price index rose 4% in the 12 months through May, while the measure that strips out food and gas prices rose 5.3%, the Labor_Department_said Tuesday. ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Reserve_Bank_underpaid_almost_1200_staff⠀⇛ Nearly 1200 Reserve Bank staff have been underpaid by the major economic institution. A total of $1.15 million was owed to current and former staff due to a mistake in the way payments were calculated for leave entitlements, the RBA has confirmed. ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Consumer_confidence_plunges_to_another_three-year_low⠀⇛ Consumer confidence has sunk to another post-pandemic low following the 12th interest rate rise in 13 months. Morale has been low for several months in response to cost of living pressures and interest rate hikes and has now fallen to its lowest level since the COVID-19 lockdowns sent confidence levels plummeting in April 2020. ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Health_spending_boost_as_SA_budget_slides_into_the_red⠀⇛ The South Australian government has rolled out more budget spending on health despite a significant deterioration in the state’s finances during the past six months. Thursday’s financial blueprint will reveal a plunge into the red of $249 million for 2022/23 after the government predicted a $203m surplus in the December mid-year budget review. ⚓ The Nation ☛ One_of_#MeToo’s_Biggest_Wins_Is_About_to_Be_Tested_in_Court⠀⇛ After working in finance for several years, Patricia Olivieri was “excited,” she said, to join financial firm Stifel Nicolaus at their New Jersey offices in 2018. Her goal was to “work my way up and advance my career there,” she said. ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_Freddie_Mac_Helps_Private_Equity_Profit_From_Tenant_Misery⠀⇛ Mr. Julius Bennett, 86, stately in a long coat and fedora, walked dutifully into a courtroom on the third floor of the Bronx County Housing Court. He and a knot of stubborn neighbors had repeated this ritual several times in a snail-like series of hearings, attempting to use the court to compel their landlord to make repairs. Their case file was thick with notices of housing code violations and affidavits attesting to everything from roach and rodent infestations to buckling floors, busted plumbing, and lead paint in their apartments. Now tenants in two buildings—which house scores of families a few blocks north of Yankee Stadium—were on a rent strike, refusing to pay another dollar until conditions improved.1The reporting for this story was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Green_bonds_to_fund_car-charging_network,_clean_energy⠀⇛ Australian governments are tapping into investor hunger for AAA-rated green bonds to fund a fast-charging network for electric cars, wind farms, and greener schools and hospitals. Western Australia’s first green bond issuance has attracted more than $6 billion in bids from more than 60 investors, Treasurer Rita Saffioti announced on Wednesday. ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Nine_in_10_shoppers_are_worried_about_the_price_of_food⠀⇛ Consumers think supermarket convenience stores are a rip-off, Which? finds § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Most_Belligerent_Flack_on_Capitol_Hill⠀⇛ Nick Dyer, the deputy chief of staff to Marjorie Taylor Greene, has built a career as a political aide out of what one observer calls “pure, non-strategic contempt.” * ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Is_the_BBC_left-wing?_Not_according_to_80%_of_the British_public⠀⇛ Why the endlessly repeated “left-wing BBC” narrative fits neither the facts nor most people’s perception. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ MPs_accused_of_harming_women_over_Higgins discourse⠀⇛ Sexual assault survivors are being harmed by the sustained political brawl over Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation, the head of a peak medical body warns.  But Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has defended his party’s pursuit of the government over the possible use of the former Liberal staffer’s allegation for political gain.  * ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ MPs’_expenses_scandal_editor_William_Lewis_knighted_by Boris_Johnson⠀⇛ Lewis has been recognised for “political and public office”. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Bulgaria’s_Judicial_Council_Votes_to_Dismiss_Geshev_As_Chief Prosecutor,_Await_President’s_Signature⠀⇛ Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council on June 12 voted to dismiss controversial chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev, who previously refused to resign on national television and attacked his rivals in parliament as “political trash.” * ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ DMGT_acquisition_of_Telegraph_could_give_it_50%_daily newspaper_market_share⠀⇛ In the event DMGT wins an auction for The Telegraph, the acquisition would likely face scrutiny from regulators. * ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar’s_junta_met_jailed_NLD_chief_Suu_Kyi_twice_to_discuss peace⠀⇛ The entreaties were rebuffed and analysts say it is unlikely that she will accept. * ⚓ RFA ☛ US_government,_activists_demand_release_of_jailed_19-year-old Uyghur_student⠀⇛ She was detained for posting a video about November’s ‘white paper’ protests. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Homes_Of_Former_Russian_Lawmakers_Allegedly_Linked_To_Ex-Deputy Ponomaryov_Searched⠀⇛ Law enforcement officers in Russia have searched the homes of several former lawmakers and a politician who allegedly have ties with former parliamentary deputy Ilya Ponomaryov, the fourth wave of raids on homes of individuals linked to him since September. * ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Algerian_President_Tebboune_Travels_to_Russia⠀⇛ Presidents Putin and Tebboune are expected to discuss the situation in the Middle East and the Sahel region. * ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Accenture_plans_to_invest_$3B_into_AI⠀⇛ As global interest in artificial intelligence continues to soar in popularity, more corporations are jumping on board, including the global technology consulting firm Accenture PLC, which announced today that it plans to invest $3 billion into the technology over the next three years. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ What_Twitter’s_new_CEO_was_really_saying_in_her_memo_to staff⠀⇛ Yaccarino was quick to adopt Musk’s “Twitter 2.0” parlance, but in her initial staff note failed to explain how the platform will evolve to be anything more than an extension of its billionaire owner’s ego. * ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ The_Espionage_Act_Is_Not_The_Answer_To_Donald_Trump⠀⇛ The following independent journalism was made possible by paid subscribers. Take advantage of this discount offer and subscribe to Shadowproof’s Dissenter Newsletter today.While the United States Justice Department has increasingly wielded the Espionage Act to make an example out of government employees or contractors, federal prosecutors have been reluctant to charge current and former high-ranking officials. That makes the thirty-one Espionage Act charges against former President Donald Trump stunning.On June 8, 2023, Trump was accused by prosecutors of “unauthorized possession” of documents “relating to the national defense.” He was additionally accused of “willfully” retaining those documents and failing to turn them over to an officer or employee “entitled to receive them.”The alleged offenses fall under 793 (e) of the Espionage Act, which has featured in a number of leak prosecutions against whistleblowers and media sources. Of course, Trump is neither. He kept the documents in boxes at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.Back on August 10, 2022, days after the FBI raided Trump’s estate, I published an analysis of prior cases where the Justice Department had investigated lower-level government employees or contractors for unauthorized possession of information. In big bold letters, I shared it under the headline, “Justice Department Unlikely To Charge Trump With Violating The Espionage Act.”I was fairly certain, given the example of General David Petraeus, that Trump’s legal team would be able to negotiate with the Justice Department behind closed doors to ensure that he was not charged with violating the Espionage Act. But I was wrong, and now I realize that would have required Trump to concede that he had done something wrong by possessing the classified documents. Numerous Republicans have lashed out at the Justice Department for indicting Trump, who has a commanding lead in polls for the party’s 2024 presidential primary. Republicans contend that the Justice Department has been “weaponized” against Trump.Such a response would be easy to flat-out dismiss if it weren’t for the fact that the Justice Department has been, in one way or another, investigating Trump since 2016. * ⚓ The Nation ☛ Arraigned_in_Miami,_Trump_Is_in_Real_Trouble⠀⇛ They say you never forget your first Donald Trump arraignment. * ⚓ France24 ☛ Former_US_President_Donald_Trump_campaigns_on_despite_facing charges⠀⇛ Former President Donald Trump gave a wave and a thumbs-up to crowds outside the federal courthouse in downtown Miami after pleading not guilty to criminal charges. He then headed to a Cuban restaurant where he warmly greeted waiting supporters in a camera-ready scene that resembled a campaign stop, and later he railed against the charges before a friendly crowd of invited guests at a private golf club he owns. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Egypt_Faces_Crisis,_President_el-Sisi_Tries_Talks With_Opposition⠀⇛ The rare — and tightly constrained — outreach is a sign that President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi may be feeling the pressure of rising discontent and a sinking economy. * ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Trump_Indictment:_Scholar_of_Fascism_Says_GOP_Has Become_an_“Autocratic_Party”_Led_by_a_“Cult_Leader”⠀⇛ Donald Trump is set to surrender today at the federal courthouse in Miami to face charges for retaining and mishandling classified documents, including top-secret information about U.S. nuclear weapons programs. Trump’s supporters, including many prominent members of the Republican Party, have threatened violence and suggested revolt in response to what they see as a politically motivated targeting of the former president, while Trump himself has claimed to reporters that he is innocent of wrongdoing. His capture of the Republican base is the work of a “cult leader,” argues Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on fascism and authoritarianism, adding that today’s GOP is an “autocratic party operating inside a democracy.” Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University, also discusses the death this week of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who she says helped to mainstream far-right extremism in Italian politics. * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_The_Rape_of_Lady_Justice⠀⇛ This is an open-and-shut case of the judiciary being misused to keep Trump out of the political process. Unlike during the Russiagate years, liberal authoritarians know they are operating in broad daylight this time. * ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ SCOTUS_Ruling_in_Alabama_Case_Could_Impact_Control_of House⠀⇛ Election maps across the Deep South are likely to be redrawn because of a surprise Supreme Court ruling that upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, changes that could alter the balance of power that has given Republicans a razor-thin majority in Congress. The court’s 5-4 decision in Allen v. Milligan, written for the majority by Chief Justice John Roberts, affirmed the section of the act that prohibits maps drawn to dilute minority voting strength. It was an unexpected victory for a law passed in 1965, which has been gradually dismantled under the Roberts court. * ⚓ The Nation ☛ Lindsey_Graham_Is_No_Reasonable_Republican⠀⇛ In Washington’s high church of respectable opinion-making, Lindsey Graham’s regular turn in the guest chair of various Sunday network pundit shows was something of a sacrament: a regular, comforting ritual that assured the viewing public that God was in his heaven and difference-trimming caviling remained the natural order of things here on Earth. Throughout the Bush and Obama administrations, the establishment press eagerly hyped Graham as that great rara avis of the D.C. governing menagerie, a reasonable Republican. He owed this reputation chiefly to two things: his opposition to torture (yes, that’s how low the bar of intra-GOP dissent was set in the W. years), and his fealty to Washington’s official mascot of all things “maverick,” the late Arizona Senator John McCain. His adulation for McCain was likely a key determining factor in his erstwhile support for immigration reform and his occasional feints toward the notional center in judicial appointments. * ⚓ The Nation ☛ Mickey⠀⇛ * ⚓ New York Times ☛ Berlusconi_Seizes_Italy’s_Attention_Even_in_Death⠀⇛ A day after Silvio Berlusconi’s death, some Italians said goodbye, others said good riddance, and many debated whether the billionaire and former prime minister did more good or bad for Italy. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Is_Eclampsia?_What_to_Know_About_the_Rare Pregnancy_Complication⠀⇛ The autopsy report for the track star Tori Bowie lists this rare and sometimes fatal complication of pregnancy. * ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.K._Woman_Sentenced_to_Prison_for_Abortion_in_Eighth Month_of_Pregnancy⠀⇛ The case has prompted heated debate in England, with some arguing that abortion pills should not be available by mail and others maintaining that abortion should be fully decriminalized. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Silver_sleuth:_How_a_German_curator_returns_stolen_Jewish heirlooms⠀⇛ A museum curator has made it his mission to return silver objects stolen by the Nazis from German Jews during the Holocaust. Matthias Wagner has already returned 50 pieces to descendants and hopes to double this amount. * § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ o ⚓ RFERL ☛ France_Uncovers_Major_Disinformation_Campaign_By_Russia⠀⇛ France says it has uncovered a major disinformation campaign waged by Russia, involving the posting of false news items hostile to Ukraine made to look like they had been published by prominent French news organizations. o ⚓ France24 ☛ France_says_uncovers_major_disinformation_campaign waged_by_Russia⠀⇛ France on Tuesday said it had uncovered a major Russian disinformation campaign, with false news items hostile to Ukraine made to look like they were published by prominent French news media. o ⚓ India Times ☛ Jack_Dorsey’s_comment_on_Indian_government pressuring_Twitter_an_outright_lie:_MoS_IT_Rajeev_Chandrasekhar⠀⇛ o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ‘Yes’_campaign_need_to_call_out misinformation:_senator⠀⇛ An Indigenous senator says the ‘yes’ campaign for the voice has a responsibility to call out misinformation on the proposal. As debate on the constitutional reform is set to continue in the Senate on Wednesday night, assistant Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said she remained confident of the voice’s success. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 3_Hongkongers_face_criminal_damage_charges_over facilities_vandalised_on_Tiananmen_anniversary_in_2022⠀⇛ Two women and one man have been charged with 12 counts of criminal damage over power boxes, lampposts and other public facilities vandalised on last year’s Tiananmen crackdown anniversary. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_court_adjourns_hearing_of_gov’t application_to_ban_protest_song_‘Glory_to_Hong_Kong’⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance has adjourned a hearing about whether to grant an injunction banning pro-democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong. Judge Wilson Chan on Monday adjourned a hearing dealing with an application from Department of Justice (DoJ) for an interim injunction on the song until July 21. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Chief_Of_Navalny’s_Team_In_Bashkortostan_Jailed_for_More Than_Seven_Years⠀⇛ A court in Ufa on June 14 sentenced Lilia Chanysheva, the former head of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny’s team in Russia’s Bashkortostan region, to 7 1/2 years in prison on charges of extremism. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Defense_Ministry_reportedly_orders_Khakassian authorities_to_stop_publishing_soldiers’_obituaries_—_Meduza⠀⇛ At the request of the Russian Defense Ministry, the authorities in Russia’s Republic of Khakassia have stopped publishing obituaries for soldiers who died in Ukraine, the Radio Europe/ Radio Free Liberty affiliate Sibir.Realii reported on Tuesday. * ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Doing_Journalism_Is_a_Crime”:_Guatemalan_Publisher José_Rubén_Zamora_Faces_40_Years_Behind_Bars⠀⇛ Prominent Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora faces 40 years in prison in his sentencing hearing Wednesday for what press freedom and human rights groups say are inflated charges of money laundering. Zamora is the founder and president of the investigative newspaper El Periódico and has long reported on Guatemalan government corruption. El Periódico was forced to shut down last month after months of intensifying harassment and persecution from President Alejandro Giammattei’s right- wing government. The government has held Zamora “as a hostage” for nearly a year as part of its wider crackdown on the press, says his son José Carlos Zamora, a journalist based in Miami who is advocating for his father’s release. * ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ We_can’t_afford_to_lose_libraries⠀⇛ I don’t doubt that many of the citizens debating libraries like Patmos want the best for people in their town. Criticism is important to the governing of public organizations and should be generally protected. But the defunding of Patmos should deeply concern anyone who wants their town to be free, fair and educated. It is an attack on the people: those who cannot afford books, those marginalized for expressing their gender and sexuality and those who want strong, trusting communities. You can support libraries by harnessing their power. Use them. Invite a friend to a book date or borrow a strange instrument. If you have a suggestion or a concern, talk to a librarian or attend a community meeting. Volunteer if the opportunity presents itself. Above all else, defend our libraries as more than dusty shelves — uphold the centers of community connection and empowerment they are. * ⚓ [Repeat] RFA ☛ Banned_anthem_‘Glory_to_Hong_Kong’_gets_global_airing_on protest_anniversary⠀⇛ It was banned in 2020 as Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the city, and the Hong Kong government last week applied for a High Court injunction to prevent its performance or dissemination in the city, including online. Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong, who took part in the Taichung event, said the song is a symbol of ongoing resistance by Hong Kongers. “The Hong Kong government banned ‘Glory to Hong Kong,’ and wants to ban anyone from playing it, and suddenly, a whole lot of people are buying this song on iTunes,” Wong said. “Hong Kongers scattered all over the world are using it as a means of resistance.” * ⚓ ANF News ☛ Musician_kidnapped_and_beaten_by_police⠀⇛ The procedure has changed in the meantime and abductees no longer have to fear death by torture – but nothing has changed in the matter itself. The last known case is that of the Kurdish artist Dildar Didêrî. The singer, whose real name is Ali Çetinkaya, says he was kidnapped, beaten and threatened by people posing as police officers. He contacted the IHD branch in Batman (Êlih) and reported the incident. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Illinois_became_the_first_US_state_to_prohibit_banning_books in_public_libraries⠀⇛ Illinois has become the first US state to prohibit banning books in public libraries. Governor J.B. Pritzker signed HB 2789 into law in a public library in Chicago, amid a dramatic nationwide increase in book bans. The governor, a Democrat, called them an affront to free speech. “Young people shouldn’t be kept from learning about the realities of our world,” Pritzker said at a press conference. “I want them to become critical thinkers, exposed to ideas that they disagree with, proud of what our nation has overcome.” * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Hateful_symbol_display_risks_prison_under_proposed law⠀⇛ Australians are being sent a clear message that there is no excuse for displays of hate, as a proposal to ban Nazi and Islamic State symbols enters federal parliament.  If passed, the criminal code would be amended to prohibit hate symbols and could see people who display the insignia facing up to a year in prison. * ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ NYT_on_Ukraine’s_Nazi_Imagery:_It’s_‘Complicated’⠀⇛ US journalists have decided that being on the right team in this war is more important than presenting an accurate picture of events. * ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Western_Media_Is_Whitewashing_the_Azov_Battalion⠀⇛ Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has already resulted in millions of losers—chief among them the civilians who’ve been tortured, murdered, forced to become refugees, or forced to spend their days worrying about loved ones fighting Russia.1 * ⚓ The Nation ☛ Fatima_Mousa_Mohammed_Deserves_to_Be_Defended,_Not Smeared⠀⇛ On May 12, my friend Fatima Mousa Mohammed delivered a commencement address in front of her fellow graduates at the City University of New York School of Law. Fatima, who had been chosen by her peers to give the speech, dedicated it to the fight against oppression in all of its forms, from the brutality that we see from the NYPD to Israeli apartheid and colonialism. * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Once_Again,_Supreme_Court_Suggests_That_The_1st_Amendment Must_Stand_Aside_For_‘Intellectual_Property’⠀⇛ A few weeks back, we wrote about the Supreme Court’s decision in the case between the Andy Warhol Foundation and Lynn Goldsmith, regarding the copyright on certain images that Warhol painted based on a Goldsmith photograph, and exploring under what conditions it was protected by fair use. We felt that the Court completely ignored the 1st Amendment interests at play, but there were many people (including close friends) who have argued that the ruling was “narrow” and not so problematic. We shall see. * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_354:_Decentralizing_Content Moderation⠀⇛ When talking about content moderation, it’s easy to focus entirely on centralized platforms. But now, with the rise of more federated and decentralized systems like ActivityPub and Bluesky (and many others), it’s becoming more and more important to talk about how content moderation works in a decentralized space. This week we’re joined by Yoel Roth, the former head of Trust & Safety at Twitter and now a Tech Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley, to discuss the new and different content moderation challenges that decentralized platforms face. * ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ New_Normal_Germany_Blues⠀⇛ The first rule of New Normal Germany is “You Do Not Compare New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany!” I did that on the cover of my bestselling book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich, so the State Prosecutor’s office in Berlin has launched a criminal investigation of me… § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ Constitutional_Court_strikes_down_law_denying_severance_pay_to journalists_with_less_than_five_years_of_experience⠀⇛ The provision in question stated that journalists with less than five years of experience would not be entitled to severance pay, and any period of employment less than six months within a year would not be considered in the calculation of severance pay. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Mom_Recounts_‘Terrorizing’_Deepfake_Kidnapping_Scam_in Gripping_Testimony⠀⇛ January 20 started out like most typical Friday afternoons for Scottsdale, Arizona resident Jennifer DeStefano. The mother of two had just picked up her youngest daughter from dance practice when she received a call from an unknown number. She almost let the number go to voicemail but decided to pick it up on its final ring. DeStefano says what happened over the next few moments will likely haunt her for the rest of her life. She didn’t know it yet, but the Arizona resident was about to become a key figure in the rapidly emerging trend of AI deepfake kidnapping scams. * ⚓ [Repeat] RFERL ☛ Iran_Puts_Eight_Teachers_On_Trial_Amid_Pressure_On Educators_Over_Protests⠀⇛ In a statement released on June 11, the Iranian Teachers’ Union’s Coordination Council condemned the security and judicial confrontations with teachers. It also expressed disappointment that whenever the shortcomings of the country’s educational system are outlined to officials, teachers are subjected to various forms of harassment by security agencies. * ⚓ Vox ☛ The_little-noticed_court_decision_that_changed_homelessness_in America⠀⇛ The case dates back to 2009, when Robert Martin and a group of fellow homeless residents in Boise, Idaho, sued, arguing that police citations they received for breaking local camping bans violated their constitutional rights. In 2018, the Ninth Circuit agreed that prosecuting people for sleeping or camping on public property when they have no home or shelter to go to violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. * ⚓ Vanished_150-year-old_snake_sculpture_in_İstanbul’s_center_replaced_by replica⠀⇛ One of the twin snake statues on Galatasaray High School’s gate, overlooking İstiklal Avenue, disappeared on Women’s Day and remains unaccounted for. * ⚓ Lawyer_who_represented_families_of_ISIS_bombing_victims_arrested_on ‘terror’_charges⠀⇛ Gülhan Kaya was one of the several lawyers who were detained in recent house raids. * ⚓ Papers Please ☛ 98%_of_names_on_U.S._travel_blacklist_are_Muslim⠀⇛ 98% of the names on the U.S. government’s travel blacklists, including all of the top 50 names that appear most frequently on those lists, appear to be Muslim, according to a statistical analysis commissioned by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). This analysis of the so-called “watchlist” (a euphemism for “blacklist”) is included in a report released this week in conjunction with the annual Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill organized by the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO). When the U.S. government’s “No-Fly list” and “Selectee list” were made public earlier this year, we were the first to point out that more than 10% of the entries on the No-Fly list (174,202 of 1,566,062) contain “MUHAMMAD” in either the first or last name fields, in addition to those entries with other spellings of Muhammad. * ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Ex-Labor_minister_to_head_new_net-zero_agency⠀⇛ Former Labor climate change minister Greg Combet has been picked to head the agency tasked with easing the transition to a renewable energy-fuelled economy. The ex-union boss will chair the Net Zero Agency, which the Labor government has established to ensure workers, industries and communities don’t miss out during the push to reach net- zero carbon emissions. * ⚓ The Nation ☛ Centuries_of_Dislocation⠀⇛ My mother in China tells me about a new Xinjiang bakery near our place. Each time she passes by, there are lines outside. Once she asked those queuing if the flavor is authentic. Xinjiang, after all, is over 2,000 miles northwest of my hometown, where my mother still lives. Yes, the patrons told her, the bread and cakes tasted just like what they had enjoyed as tourists in Xinjiang. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_Supreme_Court_declines_to_take_up_cash_bail constitutionality_case⠀⇛ The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the question of whether states can impose schedule-based cash bail on an indigent defendant before allowing their pre-trial release from jail. * ⚓ LRT ☛ Vilnius_official_caught_splashing_public_funds_on_convertible_in Miami⠀⇛ Adomas Bužinskas, the current head of the Vilnius City Municipality Administration, rented a Ford Mustang convertible during a business trip to Miami last year and claimed reimbursements for a drive to a local tourist spot, Delfi.lt has reported. * ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_government_walks_back_resignation_pledge_following expenses_scandal⠀⇛ * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz_Court_Sentences_Activist_To_Six_Years_In_Prison⠀⇛ Kyrgyz activist and government critic Emil Bekiev, who was deported from Russia in September, has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges of plotting mass unrest, which he rejects. * ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Are_your_checks_safe?_Fraud_surges,_targeting_vulnerable groups.⠀⇛ Check fraud has doubled since 2021 due to organized crime, forcing businesses to be extra cautious. Americans should minimize mailing checks and seek secure options like post office drop-offs, officials say. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ UNCIEF_concerned_with_recent_Taliban_attempts_to_stifle international_education_aid⠀⇛ The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) acknowledged that they were investigating reports that the Taliban was refusing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) aid for education in some areas in a Thursday statement to the press. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ Thai_election_regulator_investigates_leading_PM_candidate_over media_company_shareholding_claims⠀⇛ Thailand’s Election Commission is investigating Prime Ministerial frontrunner Pita Limjaroenrat over his alleged ownership of media company shares, AFP reported Monday. The commission will investigate whether Pita held media company shares while standing as a Thai House of Representatives candidate, which is against the law. * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Does_The_Government_Have_The_Right_To_Keep_And_Arm_Bears_ (With_Cameras)?⠀⇛ No matter what differences of opinion I might have with Volokh Conspiracy contributors, it must be said the site (now hosted at Reason after a brief run at the Washington Post) manages to surface truly interesting cases on a regular basis. * ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Techno_Dystopia_Flourishing_at_the_Border⠀⇛ On May 11, I was with a group of people at the bottom of the Paso del Norte bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Suddenly, I realized that I didn’t have the small change needed to cross the bridge and return to El Paso, Tex., where I was attending the 16th annual Border Security Expo. Worse yet, this was just three hours before Title 42, the pandemic-era rapid-expulsion border policy instituted by the Trump administration, was set to expire. The media was already in overdrive on the subject, producing apocalyptic scenarios like one in the New York Post reporting that “hordes” of “illegals” were on their way toward the border. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ German_court_orders_Cologne_archdiocese_to_pay clergy_abuse_victim_over_$300,000⠀⇛ A court has ordered a German diocese to pay $323,000 in compensation to a former altar boy who was repeatedly abused by a Catholic priest in the 1970s. A victims’ association said that Tuesday’s ruling was the first of its kind in Germany. The state court in Cologne ruled in a case in which the plaintiff, a man now aged 62 who was abused more than 300 times by a priest, had sought 750,000 euros from the Cologne archdiocese. The archdiocese decided against invoking the statute of limitations in the case. The German church so far has made voluntary payments to survivors of sexual abuse by clergy, which victims’ groups have criticized as too small. § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Mass._Begins_Enforcing_New_‘Right_To_Repair’_Law_After Automakers_Lied_It_Would_Aid_Sexual_Predators⠀⇛ In late 2020, Massachusetts lawmakers (with overwhelming public support) passed an expansion of the state’s “right to repair” law. The original law was the first in the nation to be passed in 2013. The update dramatically improved it, requiring that all new vehicles be accessible via a standardized, transparent platform that allows owners and third-party repair shops to access vehicle data via a mobile device. § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FTC_Moves_For_A_Restraining_Order_Stop_Microsoft,_Activision Blizzard_Merger_From_Consummating⠀⇛ We’ve been covering Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard for months now and it just keeps getting more and more interesting. A very quick primer: Microsoft is seeking to acquire the company for a bonkers amount of money, the EU has already approved the deal, while the UK’s CMA has blocked it, and the FTC has filed suit to block it as well. The EU approval notwithstanding, the other two regulatory blocks represent serious challenges to this deal ever moving forward. Microsoft also made a point of stating previously that it would not finalize the deal while any pending litigation with the regulators was still going on. * ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Plutocrat_vs._the_Monopoly⠀⇛ “Breaking up a monopoly and limiting their power—that’s what American democracy is supposed to be about.” * § Patents⠀➾ o ⚓ UPC_CMS_public_APIs_now_active [Ed: UPC is illegal. Bristows continues to glorify an illegal system, which it lobbied for with lies and fake news for many years.]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Italy,_France_and_Germany_agree_UPC_central_division_competences [Ed: They cannot agree on illegal and unconstitutional kangaroo courts. This is a political travesty of corruption, wherein international conventions are recklessly violated to appease lobbyists and corrupt litigators.]⠀⇛ o ⚓ ACLU ☛ The_Fight_to_Take_Back_Our_Genes⠀⇛ Should companies be able to patent human genes? For decades, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said yes, ultimately granting patents on thousands of genes. Two of the genes that were patented are BRCA1 and BRCA2. The patent office approved exclusive rights over the genes because Myriad Genetics was the first to “isolate” them, or remove them from the body and cell. The patents on the genes allowed Myriad to exercise a monopoly on the genes in the United States, shutting down other labs from offering testing or second opinions and increasing the price to thousands of dollars per test. The ACLU opposes patenting that would authorize private entities to control access to something as fundamental to humanity as our genes. In 2009, we filed a lawsuiton behalf of 20 researchers, genetic counselors, women patients, cancer survivors, breast cancer and women’s health groups, and scientific associations representing 150,000 geneticists, pathologists, and laboratory professionals. The landmark case argued that human genes are products of nature, even when “isolated,” drawing on 150 years of legal precedent forbidding patents on laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas. The Supreme Court agreed. It invalidated the patents, in a unanimous decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas on June 13, 2013. For Lisbeth Ceriani, a breast cancer survivor and plaintiff in our suit, the Supreme Court’s ruling was not only a source of great joy, but also a step towards a more equitable health care system. During Ceriani’s breast cancer diagnosis, she was informed that the BRCA genetic test she needed was inaccessible because the gene associated with her cancer, and the test, was under patent. * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Mauricio_Genta_—_Open_Culture_VOICES,_Season_2 Episode_19⠀⇛ Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Mauricio is a historian, librarian, and museologist. He works with Wikimedia Argentina to open up collections and make them accessible for people all over the world. o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ EUIPO_Study:_60%_of_Pirates_Also_Buy_Content_From Legal_Sources⠀⇛ New research published by the European Union Intellectual Property Office reveals that the majority of citizens believe that it’s unacceptable to obtain digital content from illegal sources. Of the minority that continue to pirate, 60% also buy content from legal sources. Better affordability and a wider offer are the top cited reasons for people to stop using illegal sources. o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Court:_Comcast_Must_Identify_Accused_BitTorrent Pirate⠀⇛ Hundreds of thousands of pirating BitTorrent users have been sued over the years. This practice continues to keep courts busy in the U.S., mostly thanks to Strike 3 Holdings. Today, we look at a recent attempt by an accused Comcast subscriber to stop a lawsuit in its tracks. This effort failed with the Colorado court noting that the plaintiffs are not copyright trolls. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_Michael_Franti_Finds_Hope_in_Troubled_Times⠀⇛ Michael Franti has been at the forefront of the political music scene for 35 years. In the early 1990s, he led the groundbreaking hip-hop outfit the Disposable Heroes of HipHoprisy, and since 1994 he’s headed the funk, reggae, rap, and pop musical melting pot known as Spearhead (now called Michael Franti and Spearhead). I spoke to Franti about our troubled times the night before his sold-out show at Denver’s famed Red Rocks Amphitheater. The next night, he stepped onto the stage in front of a packed crowd that seemed to know every word to every song. The concert was held on June 2, National Gun Awareness Day, and it has been an annual tradition for Franti to perform at Red Rocks, with Colorado having been home to several horrific mass shootings that have left a web of survivors trying to reform the nation’s gun laws. People throughout the crowd signaled their support for ending firearm violence by wearing bright orange. Between songs, Franti referenced The Nation interview, saying that he was asked what makes him optimistic in troubled times. He looked out at the crowd and said, “It’s all of you.” Then came an anthem that the audience sang with extra gusto. The song: “I Am Lost but Not Alone.” o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Schneider_Retreats_From_YouTube_Content_ID Court_Battle_After_Failing_to_Secure_Class_Action_Status⠀⇛ Just a day before the June 13th trial for the now- infamous YouTube Content ID lawsuit, Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider has officially stepped back. After failing to secure the much-talked-about class- action status, the war is over and the case has been voluntarily dismissed. o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Amid_Twitch_Chaos,_YouTube_Lowers Requirements_to_Join_Partner_Program⠀⇛ YouTube is capitalizing on the Twitch Partner chaos by lowering requirements for its own creators. Here’s the latest.  In a blog post today, YouTube announced it is changing the eligibility requirements to join the YouTube Partner Program. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 7915 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.14.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_14/06/2023:_Flatpak’s_Sandboxing_Works_and_Social_Web⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:51 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Science o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AILQYUT_Wordo:_CHURN⠀⇛ # ⚓ Random_Japan_Thoughts⠀⇛ 1. A cultural difference that I notice is that it would appear Japanese people have a much better sense of their place within a larger whole than Americans do. We are so obsessed with individuality and uniqueness that we miss the value of our place in the whole. Thusly, we often lack pride in the larger things we are a part of, like our country, culture, home. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Mad_movement_on_main⠀⇛ I’ve been thinking lately that I need to be more vocal about my feelings on the mad movement/mad pride and my criticisms of psych as a field. I’m always frustrated by how controversial it seems to be to point out that a lot of psych is still pseudo-science, systems of control and bigotry dressed up in p-hacking and wishful thinking. I don’t know. I feel like I often get treated like I’m anti- science when I say these things but I’m not. I just think there’s a lot in the past century of history that’s flawed and needs to be rebuilt off of different foundations. This doesn’t seem controversial to me. I’ve worked in sciences like physics that are full of reinventions and massive re-understandings of the field, and that’s about comparatively simple systems to—say—a living thing. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ [Older]_Invidious:_Make_Youtube_cool_again⠀⇛ I have a complicated relationship with Youtube like, I imagine, a lot of people. While I really dislike everything that Google is doing with the platform and their idiotic algorithm, there are tons of exceptionnaly good content on the platform. # ⚓ Working_From_Alone⠀⇛ Before the pandemic I did what everyone else did: I came into the office five days a week only to mostly spend most of my time at a computer, with headphones on to block out the noise; we would talk at lunch. For a while we played Switch games together once a week. I even worked with a team based in another country, for well over a year, from the office. I would come in every day to my desk in an open plan office full of people working on entirely unrelated projects. It simply didn’t occur to me that it would make more sense to work from home. [...] Then everything changed. We had to work from home. I got lucky, very lucky: we had just moved from a just-big-enough apartment to a house with room for an “office”. So, I got my new working space—in the basement, but with a pretty nice window. [...] I love being able to focus on my work: to put on music, if I want; or not, if I want; to dance or do push-ups or sit for a while if it gets to be too much. There’s a trend back towards working in offices, or at least there seems to be a push for it coming from somewhere. That’s fine for some, I guess. I have discovered what I like, and it’s working from home; to be alone with my thoughts then to step outside my office and be with my family. Bliss. # ⚓ Flatpak’s_Sandboxing_Works⠀⇛ Flatpak is an alternate distribution method for Linux. By default, programs are sandboxed from the rest of the system. An often made statement by critics of Flatpak is the insistence that this isn’t real security, because a package maintainer can change its security settings to poke holes in the sandbox. (This is allowed because some software relies on it for functionality.) Recently, malware was released through Minecraft mods on CurseForge, and possibly other modding platforms. It was a wide attack that ended up causing several mods and modpacks to be affected. Installing and running any of the mods causes the system to be infected. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Social_Web⠀⇛ I’m sat in the garden today. It’s very warm; breezy too, but the breezy just brings a slightly different kind of warmth. We have a weather warning for thunderstorms later, so we’ll see what that brings. I’m encouraged at the moment by the social web and the fediverse. There’s a growing understanding that the fabric of our online lives can’t be run in a VC-backed, for-profit manner. # ⚓ More_Social_Media⠀⇛ I’ve really been enjoying Mastodon. Compared to other social media, there is undoubtedly more of an initial effort to be made in uncovering interesting people to follow. I’ve been dropping into a few other instances to find those interesting people; FOSS and gamedev related. I guess it’ll take a while to understand and refine the process, but it’s fun to follow the chain of people and topics ever-deeper. [...] I’ve also been liberally using the block button, mainly on bot feeds which are just polluting the water with low-effort RSS spam. # ⚓ Back_in_the_saddle?⠀⇛ It was fairly easy a transition: except for the part where I could access my capsule for about three minutes, but *too* soon couldn’t again for over half an hour, making me wonder if I’d completely wasted my time, and possible others’ time for having announced my new capsule address. Egg is never far from one’s face online…. # ⚓ New_setup_for_the_web⠀⇛ New setup! When visiting the site from the web, you’re no longer being redirected to port 1966. Instead, Apache now acts as a reverse proxy. The following config requests new certificates from Let’s Encrypt automatically thanks to mod_md. HTTP requests are redirect to HTTPS. HTTPS requests for “/.well-known” URLs are left untouched for the Let’s Encrypt renewal to work. All other HTTPS requests are proxied to the old port 1966. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 8175 ➮ Generation completed at 02:42, i.e. 74 seconds to (re)generate ⟲