𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, June 18, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Mon 19 Jun 02:42:00 BST 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/06/18/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): Qmb9Xu74tUcPjn3QGo5Fa3AwL3ztbkpEBnKFQZLo52iezG QmfRee4g2eUJ1bSuzF43wq39KNtfrFY8yoMStiZawbg6Yy QmSuhsieojQeGih3gkSZPmVjZEEXjEMkAfqPeayF5neUu4 Qmd7SnTCKdRk6z5fGiMR5m9PSXaMAqxaggGeXGRG7qpq2Z QmXgYbZi532xVNhDLj3CwBGXcgr7iwcqm9khzt2M5sKvZ9 QmUk6CTCzRFbbBrbBmQf52Utx7xRQyCr1Gw3bZdCzrwd3c QmeZtWf5QtxG29S1aPZtAVad8jYYKbyZyf1n5x1H3fatT2 QmVTV8EttepakgPQZr5g2pDVKEkHunL5aXJXVq1gvqueRD QmV8xUuDoNYH8QVuX741oRW2EBCXavnMq6CM952N8PvDxU Qmeen883ygmQMHbp93hmHemdGxVyMFxA4S53EVjPiTWthi QmVNZn5iUAX3aPAv7HkWkFu62pfUrdMpir2azRzEovePS6 QmPFUHRdtmHpE4Xv4jkqvqQNM1a6no5H9G1YEt2Gvzxec8 Qmant3zp3heMe62vMAH53HjdZtBRr2cAjjgfp9qmFcwtHa QmUTVkvVBnRMgRNw5nHQhBMThzzVCc47dwA4SrqQuc982D QmcZbfP8dvpkTpUyJUVYKdHL6swtNo7WWN85RqPGaMHwhQ QmWBGQqZ4Jz95dLe9RNobqwN83vwgnBVTt3FLZ16PhtwBd QmRNgfMHUPhvtoQxtPkY9N9mUiqenbwM6Qn6jGnr9DxsqW QmULKvdAgewdAzGe22EQPmsD3uf44ifZk587Suzux2M78x QmbU6uy7eb2ejuEjVCuS75qW5mk5yiMguUF1wcaQYbVFBo QmXaJW6QMqJq3d2sPWiF1w3VNSxL4CXLTUjhspExEcWiJD QmVA4areAp8qhYxiNP5xuAYP83kX1fn7tWWmJvxaWquq8J ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ AMD is Not a Community and Michael Larabel Is Not Objective | Techrights ⦿ IBM Responds to Techrights Report (Citing Inside Sources): No, We Did Not Kill OpenSource.com, We Cannot Explain What We Did | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 17, 2023 | Techrights ⦿ There is No Such Thing as ’Cryptocurrency’ and Please Stop Referring to It as Cryptocurrency | Techrights ⦿ Daniel Ellsberg Taught Us That Making Powerful People Angry and Anxious is Good For Society at Large | Techrights ⦿ Techrights Statement on Paths Ahead in the Era of News Drought and Widely-Waning Web | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/amd-is-not-a-community/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/ibm-communitywashing/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/irc-log-170623/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/why-ellsberg-is-important/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/widely-waning-web/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/division-remainder-mod/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/gmcapsule-0-5/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/slow-news-weekend/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/spyware-and-windows-breaches/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 65 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/amd-is-not-a-community/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/06/18/amd-is-not-a-community/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.18.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ AMD_is_Not_a_Community_and_Michael_Larabel_Is_Not_Objective⠀✐ Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Marketing at 1:26 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Published yesterday: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Lisa_Su_Reaffirms_Commitment_To_Improving_AMD_ROCm_Support, Engaging_The_Community⦈_ AMD tweets (Elon ‘Scam’ Musk-controlled quips) as ‘sources’: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇AMD_tweets_as_'sources'⦈_ Brought to by recipient_of_AMD_'gifts'_aplenty: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Phoronix_comment⦈_ Summary: Objectivity in Linux-centric ‘media’ continues to wane. 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Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ IBM_Responds_to_Techrights_Report_(Citing_Inside_Sources):_No,_We_Did_Not Kill_OpenSource.com,_We_Cannot_Explain_What_We_Did⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, IBM at 1:58 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Almost 2 weeks ago: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇IBM_community:_The_community_is_hard_at_work_on_something new.⦈_ 6 days ago: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Colour_me_intrigued!_Where_might_the_curious_learn_more,_or perhaps_even_contribute?⦈_ Summary: Playing fast and loose with the word “community” (which was attacked systematically after the Red Hat takeover) IBM decided to issue an intriguing and vague statement the day after Techrights had blasted it for what it had done to OpenSource.com [1, 2, 3] and OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice (the Techrights article reached a vast audience); based on the timing, there was almost certainly a correlation; almost a fortnight has passed and IBM has said absolutely nothing since the above blurb 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Local_copy | CID (IPFS): QmVA4areAp8qhYxiNP5xuAYP83kX1fn7tWWmJvxaWquq8J ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 401 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.18.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ There_is_No_Such_Thing_as_‘Cryptocurrency’_and_Please_Stop_Referring_to_It_as Cryptocurrency⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 1:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Cryptography⦈_ Summary: A lot of reckless media, including the “journal of record” New York Times, helps a bunch of spammers and scammers hijack and distort words in order to promote theft THE scam that is “cryptocurrency” has cost my friend his life savings. He’s in his 60s, a university professor. For nearly a year he was too shy to tell his friends what had happened. It was embarrassing. He fell for it. He should have asked friends. Earlier today a friend told me that “crypto” is cryptography, whereas cryptocurrency is a “scam + waste of electricity” (a sentiment with which I agree). Say what you will about the international/global banking system (yes, it is corrupt), but the alternative to it isn’t some charlatans or frauds, boosted online by “bros” in social control media. “Get rich fast” schemes have long relied on misinformation, more so or especially relying on much-deserved distrust (alluding to “traditional” banks and governments). Having an alternative to something does not mean the alternative is better or safer. My above-mentioned friend was scammed by “cryptocurrency” charlatans through Microsoft’s LinkeIn, which is social control media where corruption flourishes. No wonder, it’s controlled by a company where scams are “business as usual” (Microsoft). “Binance should be shredded to pieces and these pieces then be scattered into the deepest ocean.”Earlier today we saw that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to let Binance be [1]. We’re not happy about this. Binance should be shredded to pieces and these pieces then be scattered into the deepest ocean. Banks in the US are collapsing and certainly more American banks will collapse by the end of the year. Binance might also collapse, just like FTX and the scam of Jim Zemlin’s wife [1, 2, Jim_‘FTX’_Zemlin:_“My_Wife Who_is_a_Successful_Technology_Executive_and_Harvard_MBA_[and_Fraudster_Facing Class_Action_Lawsuit_for_Securities_Fraud]_Really_Had_an_Obvious_Look_of Disappointment…_When_I_Told_Her_I_Worked_at_a_Non-Profit”_[sic]]. When you allude to those “exchanges” as “crypto” you help perpetuate the lie that they are secure, even “safe”. When you use the term “currency” you borrow credibility by insinuating that they’re like physical coins, bartering etc. They’re speculations at best. They’re worse than lottery. So never refer to these as “cryptocurrency”; just call them… scams. You would not be wrong; it’s only a matter of time before you’re proven right. “In many people’s minds, the term “crypto” is hijacked to the point where cryptography is viewed as something risky, dangerous, illegal, even sinister/ evil.”Spam sites that take bribes in exchange for puff pieces continue to call these “crypto firms” [2], the “journal of record” called it “cryptocurrency” this past Friday [3] (even in the summary), and this same “journal of record” even said “Crypto Companies” in the headline earlier today [4]. We urge readers to contact these so-called ‘newspapers’ and ask them to quit doing this. Stop using the fake descriptions of Ponzi schemes. Charlatans and liars gain credibility each time the press uses their fictional vocabulary, which moreover misuses real words (here’s a new example of “Cryptominers” [5]). There are still examples of correct uses of terms, e.g. “cryptographer” yesterday [6], but those are becoming rarer over time. In many people’s minds, the term “crypto” is hijacked to the point where cryptography is viewed as something risky, dangerous, illegal, even sinister/evil. █ Related/contextual items from the news: 1. ⚓ Binance_Reaches_Deal_With_Government_to_Avert_U.S._Shutdown⠀⇛ The Securities and Exchange Commission agreed on a compromise with Binance that will keep the exchange open as it battles a fraud lawsuit. 2. ⚓ House_testimony_by_crypto_firm_Prometheum_CEO raises_questions_about regulation⠀⇛ Recent testimony in front of the U.S. House by cryptocurrency firm Prometheum Inc. Chief Executive Aaron Kaplan has created a stir regarding regulatory clarity for digital assets. 3. ⚓ Francis_Suarez,_Miami_Mayor,_Is_Running_for_President:_What_to_Know⠀⇛ Mr. Suarez, who is entering the Republican presidential race, is a cryptocurrency enthusiast who holds a largely ceremonial job as mayor of Miami. 4. ⚓ He_Went_After_Crypto_Companies._Then_Someone_Came_After_Him.⠀⇛ Kyle Roche was a rising star in the field of cryptocurrency law — until his career imploded. Who orchestrated his downfall? 5. ⚓ 2023-06-12_[Older]_Geoserver_Attack_Details:_More_Cryptominers_against Unconfigured_WebApps,_(Mon,_Jun_12th)⠀⇛ 6. ⚓ Ouroboros_LLMs_and_their_impending_entropy_problem⠀⇛ More to the point though, as any cryptographer will tell you, this reduction entropy is a disaster if your model requires original thought. ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⣿⢛⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣻⣻⢿⣻⣻⢻⣿⣻⢻⣿⢻⣻⡻⢻⢻⣿⢸⣿⣻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣿⣿⣯⣿⣯⣾⣽⣯⣾⣭⣸⣿⣮⣯⣨⣽⣼⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣭⣿⣰⣿⣾⣾⣾⣾⣾⣷⣴⣿⣾⣶⣷⣷⣤⣮⣿⣷⣿⣷⣼⣥⣴⣿⣷⣷⣯⣬⣾⣾⣿⣿⣵⣸⣵⣵⣿⣷⣷⣿⣷⣭⣥⣿⣭⣮⣾⣾⣿⣿⣮⣦⣿⣿⣾⣦⣵⣷⣿⣾⣾⣾⣯⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 548 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/why-ellsberg-is-important/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/06/18/why-ellsberg-is-important/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.18.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Daniel_Ellsberg_Taught_Us_That_Making_Powerful_People_Angry_and_Anxious_is Good_For_Society_at_Large⠀✐ Posted in Deception at 12:23 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Daniel_Ellsberg,_speaking_at_a_press_conference,_New_York City⦈_ Summary: A parting word to Mr. Ellsberg, who helped stop needless militarism and saved many lives by doing so THE news that Daniel Ellsberg is dead was mentioned here several times yesterday, not only in Daily Links but in articles. Daniel Ellsberg did not die so suddenly or unexpectedly. He anticipated this because of a medical diagnosis dating months back. He even had the chance to say “goodbyes” and give “last” interviews. Mr. Ellsberg is celebrated among “haters” of US militarism [1], stressing that “Ellsberg’s renown for openly challenging the mentalities of militarism began on June 23, 1971, when he appeared on CBS Evening News ten days after news broke about the Pentagon Papers that he’d provided to journalists.” [2] He is also celebrated among “haters” of Russian and Chinese militarism, hypocrites like New York Times who promoted an invasion of Iraq based on lies [3]. The German national broadcaster paid tributes [4] and we’ve given many more references in Daily Links, including especially touching pieces [5]. Mr. Ellsberg was very much liked among sites that we like and follow closely. Speaking truth to power, even at great personal risk, is typically worth it. I’ve received more threats than I can count from the EPO, even as recently as months ago. Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos are basically criminals. They surround themselves by other criminals (enablers). Telling the truth about them isn’t easy because you receive threats and you must even explain to the spouse why envelopes appear around or right at the doorstep, issuing terrifying statements. You only live once. Everyone lives once. No person ever lived more than once. Do the most of your time on this planet. Try to make the planet better. Mr. Ellsberg made the world better. Rest in peace and thank you. █ Related/contextual items from the news: 1. ⚓ Dan_Ellsberg’s_Parting_Plea:_Don’t_Wait⠀⇛ Sam Adams Associates for Integrity honored the late Dan Ellsberg with our annual award for fearless integrity on April 11, 2023. 2. ⚓ Daniel_Ellsberg_Has_Passed_Away._He_Left_Us_a_Message.⠀⇛ When Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday, the world lost a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful ethos of compassion and resolve. Ellsberg’s renown for openly challenging the mentalities of militarism began on June 23, 1971, when he appeared on CBS Evening News ten days after news broke about the Pentagon Papers that he’d provided to journalists. 3. ⚓ Nuclear_Secrets,_a_Compost_Heap_and_the_Lost_Documents_Daniel_Ellsberg Never_Leaked⠀⇛ At the end of his life, the man behind the Pentagon Papers has a warning for us all. 4. ⚓ 2023-06-17_‘Pentagon_Papers’_whistleblower_Daniel_Ellsberg_dies_aged 92⠀⇛ 5. ⚓ The_Loving_Truth-Teller_That_Was_Daniel_Ellsberg⠀⇛ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠐⡪⢳⡁⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠌⠆⣂⡆⣽⣻⠨⠈⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⢉⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⡃⠀⠀⠀⠈⠐⡼⢌⣥⠀⠀⣤⠢⣀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠈⠟⠝⠍⠺⣾⢿⣖⣂⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣶⣤⣈⠀⠐⠪⠙⠛⡳⣚⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⢀⠀⠀⢄⣵⣶⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠂⠀⣄⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⡀⠙⣻⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠄⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠠⣆⣾⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⣿⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⢾⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠛⠻⣿⣿⡄⢸⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠇⠀⠈⠂⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣛⠉⠉⠉⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢋⣄⣀⣀⣄⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣷⣿⣿⡄⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢹⣿⣦⣀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣼⣿⣿⡟⣵⡄⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⡹⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠟⠋⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣛⣛⡻⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⡌⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣦⡙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣷⣍⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡒⡄⠉⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠋⠙⢉⣭⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠾⣟⢿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⢡⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠣⡹⣿⡧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣾⣟⢿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⣀⣢⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠗⢝⢿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣏⣿⣿⣠⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢪⢿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠁⠉⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⠿⠿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⡽⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⢀⢠⡀⠀⠀⠒⠛⣀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢪⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⡀ ⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢲⣾⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣠⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣵⣽⣭⣤⣤⡴⡾ ⠀⠀⠘⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢣⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠽⠽⠽⠽⠯⠧⠂⠐⠚ ⠀⠈⢀⣰⣿⠏⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣼⣸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⣋⡀ ⠀⣰⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠟⠉⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢾⠷ ⣼⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⡀⠀⠸⠻⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠔⠊⠀⢻ ⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠀⠼⠄⠀⠀⠔⠾⠻⠷⠷⠟⠙⠺⠿⠾⠿⠷⠽⠪⠏⠿⠛⠻⠿⠟⢹⠁⠀⠀⠐⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⡛⠀⣀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣦⣤⡄⣰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡿⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠁⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣶⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠿⠿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⠿⢿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠉⠹⠹⡿⣿⣫⣿⢿⡽⢷⢩⣀⢼⠾⠴⡄⠀⡡⠁⠛⠈⣛⠙⢬⡶⡒⠛⠃⠄⠀⠀⠟⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠁⠀⠁⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠈⠈⠄⠀⠀⠀⠉⣿⡮⠁⡹⠟⠝⣿⢿⠿⣿⡿⢿⢿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀⠀⠁⠀⠈⠀⠈⠂⠀⠀⠈⠀⠊⠂⠂⠈⠑⠈⠈⠀⠈⠄⠠⠩⠡⠉⢸⠍⠉⠉⠩⠩⠀⠌⠐⠨⠄⠠⣆⠄⠀⠀⠈ ⠀⠀⢰⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣴⣲⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 701 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/06/18/widely-waning-web/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/06/18/widely-waning-web/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.18.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Techrights_Statement_on_Paths_Ahead_in_the_Era_of_News_Drought_and_Widely- Waning_Web⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 11:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: We’re striving to get into a habit of publishing about a dozen blog posts per day; in order to do this we change our strategy with immediate effect YESTERDAY we_wrote about the need to pause and rethink how we do articles and how we curate Daily Links. We’ve since then experimented with a new approach and published about half a dozen articles with many recent references in each. This site is turning 17 in a few months. It did change (it evolved) a lot over the years. Daily Links turned 15 this past February and IRC turned 15 about a month ago. It is with that in mind that we: 1. Pause our old approach of gathering news links (too low a signal-to-noise ratio in them). 2. prioritise writing new articles, even if that means fewer batches of Daily Links 3. Prepare videos where video presentation is more suitable and desirable than textual form We’re in the privileged position of enjoying greater personal freedom than ever before (when this site started in 2006 I was still a Ph.D candidate working on my thesis, later I worked part time and then full time). We’d like to make best use of time to promote Software Freedom and to advance justice, with greater focus on science and technology matters rather than “pure” politics. Social control media is in disarray at the moment (several large platforms are collapsing, not exactly for the same reasons). We hope that many of the escapees will end up self-hosting and, better yet, adopting Gemini. In recent years we’ve_been_producing_over_3,000_blog_posts (with analogous GemLog posts) per year and we should be able to do over 4,000 a year if we adopt the correct strategy. Priorities need to change somewhat. We have some exciting (to me us least) plans for the next 5-10 years; they’re not limited to the World Wide Web, so the fate of the Web does not matter so much to us (we’re resistant to the Web’s demise; all our articles are in IPFS, GemText, plain text and more). We have hitherto identified where a lot of time was being (mostly) ‘wasted’ and we will work to correct those older habits and hopefully exceed a dozen blog posts per day once the dust settles. The Web is getting smaller (yes, we’ve provided evidence over the years that it is shrinking over time), search engines rapidly deteriorate in terms of quality (the reasons for this merit a discussion some other day, in isolation), and newsrooms collapse at an alarming rate, with editors forced to resign from widely-known news sites almost every week. These trends seem irreversible for “business reasons”. There’s no point fighting those trends. No single person or company can change that. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 777 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.18.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_18/06/2023:_Division,_remainder,_mod…⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:36 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Science o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BKLYRUO_Wordo:_CURDY⠀⇛ # ⚓ Coffee⠀⇛ I drink too much coffee. Any time I pass coffee machine I get a double cup. Maybe 5 or 6 doubles through the day until evening. I will try to take a break from coffee for 2 weeks starting today. # ⚓ Alan_Kay’s_Dynabook⠀⇛ I recently stumbled about a PDF file detailing the “Dynabook”, a sort of personal mobile computer envisioned by Alan Kay in the seventies… and oh boy, what he envisioned was lightyears away from todays locked town and “appliance-ified” smartphones. # ⚓ Face_Blindness⠀⇛ I don’t remember when I learned about face blindness—but I was glad I did, as I learned it’s not just me. Face blindness is a condition in which the ability to recognize familiar faces—to identify people by their face—is impaired. According to Wikipedia the prevalence in the general population is 2.5%, so it’s not particularly rare. # ⚓ Soylent_Tea_is_People⠀⇛ I follow the youtuber The Spiffing Brit, because he is a fellow gamer and tea drinker with a good sense of humour and lots of fun game exploits. He also likes OpenTTD and recently held an event where community members could participate in a match like no other. The game had (it’s just been removed) a system for buying shares from other companies. This was rarely activated in multiplayer games because of how broken most players found it. In this case another community member had modded that system and much more of the code to allow for an experience never before possible in OpenTTD. # ⚓ Father’s_Day⠀⇛ Today marks my first Father’s Day as a day. Father’s Day has been a day I’ve struggled with in the past, but I’m thankful that it’s now a day I celebrate. A little warning, this isn’t my most uplifting post, my apologies for that. But it’s something that’s overdue for me to get onto “paper”. The relationship with my own father was one that got worse with each year since high school. My dad choose to leave the family and move to North Dakota for work. This led to my parents growing further and further apart. I started to dread the weeks he would come home and visit. Inevitably the distance led to my parents getting divorced when I had just started college. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Capitalism_Comes_in_Many_Flavors?⠀⇛ In so doing, though, he greatly exaggerates the difference between these flavors. Pearlstein’s first major variant of modern capitalism — robber- baron capitalism — was characterized by the large- scale economic power of big business. It was succeeded by the managerial capitalism of the New Deal and post-WWII era: “Competition tended to be gentlemanly and the power of big business was held in check by the federal government (big government) and unions (big labor).” The “State capitalism” of the European social democracies and Japan is just a more extreme variant of American managerial capitalism. # ⚓ We_are_not_afraid_of_ruins⠀⇛ This zine is a collection of texts written by people associated with the Syrena collective, which was evicted from an occupied building at 30 Wilcza Street in Warsaw by people associated with the Przychodnia “squat”*. The conflict inside the Syrena squat with Przychodnia involved in it had been going on for months, if not years. We are writing about the day of our eviction – 5.12.2021, and what this house and social center was to us. # ⚓ Not_Being_an_Asshole⠀⇛ I’ve been posting less and less… Not that I’ve been writing less – I just look over my posts and delete them because it feels that the world would not become a better place because of my post. I used to not care at all. Then I cared a little but it felt like I was shouting into the vacuum anyway. Now it feels just pointless most of the time. For a while I kept the unpublished posts — first as .txt files that my indexer ignores, then in an ‘attic’ directory, still thinking I might rework them later. Now I just delete them, and feel a little better. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Division,_remainder,_mod_➗%❓⠀⇛ I’m not qualified to say if that’s true (and I don’t really care) but I have some relevant observations because I came across this while implementing a Whitespace interpreter. Whitespace was originally implemented in Haskell, and I wrote an interpreter in Java. These two languages disagree on what the operator % means for negative inputs, so I read… o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Riot_Medicine⠀⇛ I just added a page to my archives [0] area of this gopherhole for Riot Medicine [1], an open source medical guide for street medics. Riot Medicine is a full-length textbook that covers everything you need to become a medic. The 466 pages include organizing, medcine, equipment, and tactics. It is written for those with no medical training and no experience at protests, but medical practitioners and seasoned protesters will still find it useful. # ⚓ Tomorrow_&_tomorrow_&_tomorrow⠀⇛ I’m still getting used to getting my info from a wider variety of channels. I used to get a lot of stuff via Twitter, some things from email (from my family), some things from bookmarks and from search. Now I’ve added geminispace, Cohost, Mastodon. I’m reading more. Where am I finding the time? I’m scrolling less. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1026 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.18.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_18/06/2023:_Gemini_vs_Ads_and_GmCapsule_0.5⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Science o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Baseball_Game_–_Goldpanners_vs._Kingsmen⠀⇛ The Goldpanners baseball season opened up a few weeks ago, and I have been trying to go to one game a week. I find baseball appealing because of the geometric and mathematical nature of the game, the pleasant look of the field, and the subtleties of the game play, which aren’t obvious until you do some research on the game. # ⚓ Really_brown_your_meat⠀⇛ I like the taste of meat but like a lot people I try to keep my meat consumption at a reduced level for environmental reasons. Aside from mostly cooking vegetarian meals, this means making cuts of meat go as far as possible. I save the fat that renders out when cooking e.g. from bacon, I make stock from the bones, and most of all I properly brown my meat. To properly extract as much flavour from the meat as possible it should be a dark brown, almost black, not grey. Whether its a steak, diced beef for pasta sauce, or a roasted chicken. I’m not talking about cooking your steak so well done that its just a charred lump — you can still have a rare steak with this method — but really get that outside dark. # ⚓ from_main_streets_to_alleyways⠀⇛ Those city lights are just too bright sometimes, aren’t they? Can’t remember exactly how I got here, but I’m here. Actually, I do remember getting a note about this place while ago… but, better late than never, as they say. My name is spikeinthepunch, which is a pseudonym of mine that I felt would be nice to dust off for a new place like this. That being said I won’t hide my outside name- its morrysillusion, if you need to know. Life’s been a little wack! A bit out of sorts but not bad. Its been hard to focus, so I’m not entirely sure how much I’ll be able to get here… But this place seems nice, and I was eager to check it out. The creative energy and the smaller community- its nice, and I have been trying to push myself to those kinds of places instead of… the bigger, overwhelming sea of social media spaces. It exhausts me, and annoyingly feel tied to such spaces due to the whole uh, need to have a presence in order to have an online audience, in order to have an online career of some sort. All that. It’s frustrating that I have to balance these two ends of my internet experience. # ⚓ Every_now_and_then⠀⇛ Every now and then I just cannot keep up with myself. I just cannot. Whiskey, please. And make it double. It’s one of these days. I just cannot figure out where I want to go with my life. Last weekend I made an experiment. For just half a day, I noted every idea that popped in my head that I deemed worthwhile. In just half a day, I filled the whole page of my journal, and that included bunch ideas in small print that I squeezed between lines. And these were all good concepts, things that would definitely improve my life, the life of people around me, this corner of the world in general. Yesterday I just crashed. My head stopped working. I could not figure out what to do next. I spent the whole day just frozen, unable to put down everything my brain was holding so that I could pick up one path and act upon it. # ⚓ re:_Other_People_Have_Loved_This_Too⠀⇛ I love Axxuy’s story, too often one finds themself with the destination in mind that they overlook the beauty of the journey. This afternoon I took a bike ride while my little one slept. It’s something I’ve been finding myself doing more and more lately, as our new home has a number of bike paths. About 6 miles in my legs were getting uncomfortable. I had taken my wife’s bike (mine is out of order at the moment), and her seat was way too low for me. I stopped at a repair station along the path to loosen the bolt and adjust the seat. # ⚓ Losing_interest_in_anime⠀⇛ A friend recently asked me for a list of anime to watch. This made me realize that I have not watched a new anime series in nearly a year. Back in January I did watch the second season of one that I had started, but none other than that. Even then I felt like I only watched said new season because I “had to”, and did not really enjoy it. I wonder why. Perhaps my brain associates anime with learning Japanese, as almost all of my anime viewing was done during my “learning” phase in Japanese. Before I started learning Japanese, I had only seen bits of JoJo. Now that I have reached fluency, maybe my brain thinks that I no longer need to watch anime, even if it comes from a series I enjoy. # ⚓ Has_it_really_been_a_couple_days?⠀⇛ I love the way text blends when allowing one’s eyes to relax in a way that they’re focused on different parts of the same line of text. It’s funny how quickly writing this feels a waste of time just a couple days away from regularity, as though persisting herein requires a serious battening down of the illusion hatches. I’ve no wisdom to share unless you happen to have done similar preparatory work cognized with reasonably similar meanings of words as I. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ REMAINDER_IS_NOT_MODULO⠀⇛ Before going further, if you’re a programmer, try to remember whether % is the remainder or the modulo in the programming languages you know (obviously, only the ones that use %). No cheating! Don’t check online or try it in a REPL before answering mentally! # ⚓ Communicative_Culture⠀⇛ The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggested that language influences how the world is interacted with. The strong version of this, that language determines thought, is generally held to be false, though there are various weak effects that have been observed in experiments. Research is ongoing. # ⚓ Politicians_Want_Students_to_Fail⠀⇛ It has been a long time since the venerable GCE O- Level courses were retired in 1988, and with it the idea that more than 40% of 16-year-olds will fail any particular exam by design. Since 1975, when grading was standardised, A to E grades were passes, with a failing U for the remainder. From 1988 these courses were replaced with the GCSE, the General Certificate for Secondary Educations, aimed at allowing education which allowed almost every child to receive a grade, and the concept of pass and fail were largely retired as educationally unhelpful. The grade range was increased at first to A to G, with a U still technically available but in practice mostly unused unless exam papers were not submitted. Later an A* was added to increase discrimination at the top. A to G were all passes, and typically one to two percent were graded U, ungraded. # ⚓ Principal_Hessian_Directions⠀⇛ Consider a regression model for (x,y) in which the regression function f(x) = E[y | x] depends only on a low dimensional projection of x: f(x) = g(B’x) for some matrix B (say, with fewer columns than rows). The goal is to find the range of B. The Hessian of f at x is H(x) = B M(B’x) B’, where M(B’x) is the Hessian of g at B’x. So the range of H(x) is contained in the range of B. The same is then true for the expected value of H(x). However, it is not obvious how to directly obtain an estimate of E[H(x)] using only an iid sample of (x,y). o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ I_am_off_github_—_almost⠀⇛ I’m not going to go deeply into the “why”, just know that this is part of my getting-off-the-clouds journey and I’ve grown more and more uncomfortable with the direction Microsoft is taking github as a whole and that they do with the data in there. I encourage you to do your own digging if you haven’t heard of it yet, it won’t be too difficult to find a few of the more controversial events surrounding github in the last few years. Anyway, my journey… In the end this was much easier than expected. # ⚓ The_Cost_of_Change⠀⇛ Having worked with software for a while, in different contexts but more importantly in different stages of the “life cycle” (as if the end was somehow connected to the start), I, like many before me, have noticed that changes are easier to make in the beginning than later. This is of course nothing new revolutionary with that. Barry Boehm wrote in his 1981 book Software Engineering Economics about how changes are many times more expensive later in a project than early on [1]. Preferably all design changes should be thought of and included already in the design phase. [...] For the sake of keeping this text somewhat short and making a point that is applicable to the real world, I will narrow down the type of software development to the kind I have been doing the most. The kind that is never finished, be it a product that is sold externally or an internal system that is only used by coworkers. # ⚓ Setting_up_OpenCL_on_RK3588_using_libmali⠀⇛ I finally got the OrangePi 5 Plus board I ordered. I was going to mess around with the NPU with the rknn2 SDK. However, their matrix multiplcation is broken, segfaulting, and the core SDK is closed source. Nothing I can do becides reporting a bug and wait for them to fix it. In the mean time I decide to mess around with OpenCL. Previously I’ve tried OpenCL on the same RK3588 on the Mixtile Blade 3 demo system. It worked fine. However, the Ubuntu image I used on the OrangePi 5 Plus board doesn’t have OpenCL installed. Some googling turned up the solution. But I do need extra troubleshooting to get it working. Hence this post. # ⚓ Gemini_vs_Ads⠀⇛ Continuing the topic: how much privacy can we expect on Gemini, and could capsules ever track users and serve ads? # ⚓ A_Formfeed_Rabbithole⠀⇛ Paragraph support in vi(1) is weird, like much else. For one, formfeed characters in the first column delimit paragraphs. This was documented but not implemented historically, and a version of vi that ended up in OpenBSD went with the documentation over the implementation. # ⚓ Mixtile_Blade_3_(RK3588)_OpenCL_performance⠀⇛ Mixtile Blade 3[1] is an intresting dev board. It runs on a RK 3855 SoC, the successor of the RK3399. Which a whole lot of other boards uses. Including QuartzPro64[2], ITX-3588J[3] and Rock Pi 5[4]. The 16GB model Blade 3 is priced at $369, much more expensive then the Rock Pi 5 at 189$ and the expected price of QuartzPro64 at ~$300. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_re:_degrowth_and_its_discontents⠀⇛ For me the issue is path of least resistance. Gemini AND http are both quite good TCP based protocols for serving miscellaneous media. While they both have their bundled media type they’re really really good at just serving any content while having a fairly robust protocol. So when you’re designing a backend internet service or a user facing program – why bother with TCP sockets when you can just use good ol HTTP and get all the protocol design for free. And that isn’t even to mention the fact that they also come with this great GUI program and its own markup language to make custom displays. And they can execute arbitrary code (web browsers). It’s just starting to look more and more appealing. # ⚓ GmCapsule_v0.5:_Handler_Processes,_Live_Reloading, Custom_Protocols⠀⇛ I’ve released a significant update to the GmCapsule server. This version includes a couple of improvements I’ve been planning to implement for a while. # ⚓ Setting_up_a_daily_visitors_counter_on_Gemini⠀⇛ I recently added a daily visitors count to this Capsule and wanted to share how I did it! The count updates every 15 minutes, and displays unique Gemini and HTTP visitors to my server. # ⚓ Charting_the_Cosmos⠀⇛ Cosmos has been up and running since the start of 2022, collecting gemlog posts and other feed entries around Geminispace. I thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at the data. # ⚓ Blog_update⠀⇛ I have finally updated my blog look and feel. In fact, I completely switched my static site generator from Jekyll[1] to Zola[2]! # ⚓ Gemini_TLS_Client-Server_compatibility⠀⇛ I’ve set up this capsule just a few days ago and already I am dealing with first technological absurdity. One would (naively) expect that with protocol as simple Gemini, compatibility between clients and servers would be a given. A non-issue! # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ world-building_in_C++⠀⇛ The bug has hit me again, I’m building a world in a C++ CLI program. Every now and then this happens. I feel the urge to build a world and watch its inhabitants interact. Sometimes I’m happy to implement cellular automata, sometimes it is the foundation to a roguelike. This time it is a game that would resemble the “Space Trader” game of old, or the more modern “”Endless Sky” or “X3”. A generated universe in which the player takes the role of a trader, pirate, or empire builder. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1486 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.18.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_18/06/2023:_Slow_News_Weekend⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:41 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration # Open_Access/Content o Programming/Development # Python # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_6.4-rc7_–_Linus_Torvalds⠀⇛ Hmm. Nothing particular stands out in the rc this week, unless you count the mptcp selftest changes that are about making the tests work on stable kernels too. That accounts for almost a quarter of the patch... Other than that it's just various driver updates (rdma, gpu, networking and usb, with a smattering of small patches elsewhere), some networking changes, and a couple of filesystem fixes. And the usual random noise elsewhere. Shortlog appended. Linus o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Jussi_Pakkanen:_Functionality_currently implemented_in_CapyPDF⠀⇛ CapyPDF has a fair bit of functionality and it might be difficult to tell from the outside what works and what does not. Here is a rough outline of implemented functionality. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Is_the_ASCII_Table_and_How_Do_You_Use It?⠀⇛ If you ever have the need to work with ASCII values, a lookup table is essential. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_How_to_Install_and_Use_Yay on_Arch_Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Find_and_Fix_Broken_Packages_on Linux⠀⇛ Broken packages need repairing or the software won’t run. Here’s how to find the broken packages and fix them in Linux. # ⚓ How_to_create_a_VPN_in_5_minutes_with_sshuttle?⠀⇛ shuttle allows you to create a transparent proxy over the SSH protocol that can be used as a VPN, you just need to have Python installed on both the server and the client and have root permissions on the client. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Getting_Started_with_Kali_Linux:_Your_Download Guide⠀⇛ Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution developed for advanced penetration testing and security auditing. It contains a multitude of tools that can help users conduct everything from simple vulnerability testing to complex network intrusion examinations. # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Install_and_Use_Podman_Desktop_GUI_to Manage_Containers⠀⇛ For many, is the go-to desktop GUI for container management. # ⚓ Replacing_a_Failed_Control_Plane_Node_in_a_HA_Kubernetes Cluster⠀⇛ We have a failed control plane node in our highly available multi-master Kubernetes cluster that we need to replace. Before We Begin We are using our Kubernetes homelab in this article. We have a failed control plane srv31 that needs removing from the cluster and replacing with a new node. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Check_Installed_npm_Package_Versions⠀⇛ Node Package Manager, or npm, is a central repository for JavaScript open-source development tools. Developers worldwide use it to download and share reusable code packages, manage project dependencies, and more. This article provides a comprehensive guide on how to check the versions of npm packages installed on your machine. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Quickly_Install_Nginx_web_Server_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ How can i install Nginx web server on Debian 12? # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_OpenBoard_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OpenBoard on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. In the digital age, technology plays a crucial role in education, empowering educators and students alike. OpenBoard, an interactive whiteboard software, offers a powerful toolset for educators to create engaging and collaborative learning experiences. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ ScummVM ☛ Hey,_Hawkins,_nice_to_see_you_again!⠀⇛ Muppet Treasure Island, the second mTropolis game playable in ScummVM, is ready for public testing! Created in 1996 by Activision and based on the movie of the same name, this game has you play the role of Jim Hawkins as you join the Muppets on a voyage to find a pirate’s buried treasure, and features additional live-action performances by Billy Connolly and Tim Curry. # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_at_BIG_Festival_2023⠀⇛ Godot will have a booth and a talk at BIG Festival 2023, which takes place in São Paulo, Brazil from June 28th to July 2nd # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Dev_snapshot:_Godot_4.1_beta_2⠀⇛ Continuing on our planned schedule for Godot 4.1, we’re advancing through the beta phase and getting ready for a stable release in early July. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Lisandro_Damián_Nicanor_Pérez_Meyer:_Qt_6_in_Debian bullseye,_take_2⠀⇛ Bookworm has been released and Bullseye is now old-stable. Non the less today I took the time to update the Qt 6 backports so they are as close as Bookworm as possible. Except security fixes are needed these ought to be the latest uploads of Qt 6 to bullseye- backports. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_6.6_Beta_Released⠀⇛ We have released Qt 6.6 Beta1 today. Qt 6.6 Beta1 is available via Qt Online Installer. In addition to the online installer Qt 6.6 Beta1 source packages are available in the Qt Account_Portal for commercial users and in the opensource_download_area for opensource users. This is the first beta and we will release more beta releases during the beta phase. # ⚓ GSoC-23_Week_1-2_|_Adding_Account_Moderation_Tool #3⠀⇛ Hello world, This is my third blog post for Google Summer of Code 2023 where I will be sharing what I was able to accomplish in the first two weeks. The first task I worked on was implementing the account moderation tool. This tool enables moderators/admins of an instance to view all the accounts available on the server and take action against them. Before starting with its implementation, I requested Carl to schedule a meeting so that I could gain a better understanding of the implementation process. He advised me to study the already implemented SocialGraph page, along with other helpful insights. Initially, when attempting to receive raw JSON data from the /api/v1/admin/accounts endpoint, I encountered a 403 error response. Upon spending some time debugging my code I couldn’t determine what I was doing wrong and so I finally resorted to asking for help in the Tokodon matrix chat, where redstrate❣️ helped me identify that we didn’t have the necessary scope set in Tokodon to access admin endpoints. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-06-14_[Older]_The_9_Best_Debian-Based_Linux Distributions⠀⇛ Love Debian but want an alternative better suited to your needs? Here’s a list of the best Debian-based Linux distros for you to try. o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-06-15_Binary_vs._Source_Packages:_Which_Should You_Use?⠀⇛ o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ At_your_service:_SUSE_documentation team_@SUSECON_2023⠀⇛   Finally! The long-awaited SUSECON 2023 live event is just around the corner. It’s such a great feeling that we are back to normal after three years of pandemic. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat_OpenShift_Service_on_AWS_(ROSA) IRAP_Assessment_kicks_off⠀⇛ Cybersecurity is front of mind for public and private sector organizations. Today, Red Hat is pleased to announce that CyberCX is conducting an assessment of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) through the InfoSec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP). This assessment is part of Red Hat’s ongoing commitment to provide innovative platforms that maintain stronger security posture. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Confidential_computing_platform-specific details [Ed: "Confidential" as a cover for outsourcing, which puts one's dara outside one's own control]⠀⇛ Confidential Computing is a set of technologies designed to protect data in use (for example, it provides memory encryption). This article is fifth in a six-part series (see the previous article), about various Confidential Computing usage models, and the requirements to get the expected security and trust benefits. Intel # ⚓ Red_Hat_Extends_Commitment_to_Integrate_OpenStack_and_K8s⠀⇛ At the OpenInfra Summit today, Red Hat announced that, in addition to supporting the latest iteration of the open source OpenStack, it is extending Red Hat OpenShift’s management reach to add support for 5G networks with the release of version 17.1 of the Red Hat OpenStack Platform. # ⚓ Fedora_Infrastructure_Status:_dns_DDoS⠀⇛ We are being hit with a Distributed Denial of Service attack on our dns infrastructure. We are working to mitigate it. Update 2023-06-14 22:00UTC: The attack seems over, and we have added mitigations to reduce impact if it resumes. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ NVIDIA_Jetson_AGX_Orin_Industrial_offers_ECC memory,_extended_temperature_range,_improved_robustness⠀⇛ NVIDIA has recently introduced the Jetson AGX Orin Industrial module that comes with an extended temperature range, operating lifetime, shock and vibration specifications, as well as support for error correction code (ECC) memory, and delivers up to 248 TOPS of AI performance with power configurable between 15-75 W. The industrial-grade system-on-module is based on the Jetson AGX Orin 64GB module but with lower operating frequencies to enable a longer operating lifetime and improved endurance. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ T-Watch_S3_ESP32-S3_smartwatch_supports WiFi,_Bluetooth_LE,_and_LoRa_connectivity⠀⇛ LILYGO T-Watch S3 is an ESP32-S3 WiFi and Bluetooth LE smartwatch with LoRa connectivity, and other interesting features such as an RTC, audio support, a vibration motor, and an infrared transmitter to control home appliances. The watch integrates a 1.54-inch color LCD display with capacitive touch, a button to turn on and off the device, and a USB Type-C port to charge the included 400 mAh battery. # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ RISC-V_rises_to_software_ecosystem challenge⠀⇛ The open source hardware and software system on a chip specification has recognised the need to coordinate low-level software development # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-06-16_[Older]_A_Spectrum_of Colors⠀⇛ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Pearce_on_15 Years_at_SparkFun⠀⇛ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-06-14_[Older]_EasyEDA:_The Creative_Side⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME ☛ Tobias_Bernard:_Berlin_Mobile_Hackfest⠀⇛ Last week we had a small hackfest in Berlin, with a focus on making GNOME work better on mobile across the stack. We had about 15 people from_various projects_and_backgrounds_attending, including app developers, downstreams, hardware enablement, UX design, and more. In addition to hacking and planning sessions we also had some social events, and it was an opportunity to meet nice people from different corners of the wider community 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreOffice_Community_Infrastructure_–_TDF’s_Annual_Report 2022⠀⇛ o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Open Access/Content⠀➾ # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ An_Open_Wave:_New_Calls_for_Open Access⠀⇛ The Open Climate Campaign is pleased to see the recent wave of announcements requiring open access to knowledge that support our goal to make the open sharing of research outputs the norm in climate science. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppSpdlog_0.0.13_on CRAN:_Small_Extensions⠀⇛ Version 0.0.13 of RcppSpdlog is now on CRAN and will be soon be uploaded to Debian too. RcppSpdlog bundles spdlog, a wonderful header-only C++ logging library with all the bells and whistles you would want that was written by Gabi_Melman, and also includes fmt by Victor_Zverovich. You can learn more at the package_documention_site. # ⚓ Bastian_Venthur:_Blag_2.0_released⠀⇛ A few days ago, I released a major update on blag, my blog-aware static-site generator, which introduces a few backwards-incompatible changes and many improvements over the old version. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Guidelines_for_debugging_EasyOS_page updated⠀⇛ This is another page that was overdue for an update: https://easyos.org/dev/guidelines-for-debugging- easyos.html    # ⚓ Medium ☛ Tanmay_Patil:_GSoC_2023:_Week_1_&_2_Report⠀⇛ Project Adding Acrostic support to GNOME Crosswords Mentor Jonathan_Blandford Week 1 The first thing I did was fix libipuz_#22. Earlier across/down clues were hardcoded in the ipuz-cell. Due to this, we would do an if-else check on across/down clues based on their direction in other parts of the code. # ⚓ GNOME ☛ Alice_Mikhaylenko:_Rethinking_Adaptivity⠀⇛ TL;DR: The current adaptive widgets have significant problems and have all been replaced and deprecated. You may want to port your apps, the migration guide is here. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_for_MCUs_2.5_LTS_released⠀⇛ We are thrilled to announce the release of Qt for MCUs 2.5 LTS. This is in line with our promise to deliver stable and robust long-term support releases to help reduce your development and maintenance costs.  # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 16_Open-source_Web-based_Text-to-Speech_Apps_and TTS_JavaScript_Libraries⠀⇛ Open-source JavaScript libraries are ideal sources to build rich applications. # ⚓ Collabora ☛ WirePlumber’s_Event_Dispatcher:_a_new, simplified_way_of_handling_PipeWire_events⠀⇛ Event Dispatcher, part of the upcoming WirePlumber 0.5 release, is a custom PipeWire event scheduling mechanism designed to address many of the fundamental issues in WirePlumber. # ⚓ Trail Of Bits ☛ Finding_bugs_in_C_code_with_Multi-Level_IR and_VAST⠀⇛ Intermediate languages (IRs) are what reverse engineers and vulnerability researchers use to see the forest for the trees. IRs are used to view programs at different abstraction layers, so that analysis can understand both low-level code aberrations and higher levels of flawed logic mistakes. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ Mojo_vs_Python:_Which_Programming Language_is_Right_for_You?⠀⇛ Examine the advantages of Mojo vs Python to get the best programming language for your needs. Compare speed and efficiency to simplicity of use and ecosystem size. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Adding_Time_Delays_in_Shell_Scripts⠀⇛ Shell scripting is a robust tool that can automate repetitive tasks, control system processes, and perform complex operations. An important part of mastering shell scripting is understanding how to add delays or pauses in your scripts. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Bank_branch_closures_and_poor_websites_risk excluding_disabled_people⠀⇛ Customers rate their banks on accessibility * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Tedium ☛ A_Seismic_Stock_Shift⠀⇛ Stock photo services like Shutterstock or Getty Images helped source the models used by tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. But stock photos are not perfect—and if the two models can’t work together, one could disrupt the other. o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Run_mad_as_often_as_you_choose;_but_do_not_faint⠀⇛ Sinéad Murphy The University of Sunderland is advertising ‘masterclasses’ in ‘Menopause in the Workplace.’ The ad has been running on Smooth Radio, a station under the umbrella of Global – one of the alarmingly few corporate megaliths with increasing command over our airwaves, our money flows and our veins. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ UK_science_publisher_Texere_acquired_by Broadcast_Med⠀⇛ Texere Publishing was founded “around a kitchen table” in Knutsford. # ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Citogenesis_in_science_and_the_importance of_real_problems⠀⇛ Scientists publish papers in refereed journals and conferences: they write up their results and we ask anonymous referees to assess it. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ What_is_Armstrong_Number?⠀⇛ Armstrong numbers, also known as narcissistic numbers, are a fascinating topic in number theory, a branch of mathematics that examines the properties and relationships of numbers. Named after Michael F. Armstrong, Armstrong numbers exhibit an intriguing characteristic that sets them apart from other numbers. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ What_is_Fibonacci_Sequence?⠀⇛ The Fibonacci series, named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, is an infinite sequence of numbers that has captivated mathematicians, biologists, artists, and philosophers for centuries. It appears mysteriously in a wide variety of scientific and natural contexts and has become an emblem of the unexpected mathematical beauty found in nature. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ User_Reports_12VHPWR_Connector_Melting From_the_PSU_Side⠀⇛ A new user report shows that Nvidia’s 12VHPWR power connectors are now melting from a connectors housed inside a Gen 3 power supply. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Vendor_Had_Twenty_16-Pin_Adapter_Meltdowns Among_Tens_of_Thousands_Sold⠀⇛ Cablemod, which produces custom cables and adapters, has shared the company’s failure rates for its 16-pin power adapters. To date, it reports twenty failures out of tens of thousands of sold adapters. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ AAEON_PICO-EHL1_Pico-ITX_Elkhart_Lake_SBC_is designed_for_digital_signage_applications⠀⇛ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Global_2023_outlook_for_PCs,_tablets_worsens, claims_IDC⠀⇛ “With the shortage abruptly turning into surplus, we’ve seen prices come down due to liquidation and mix regression. We expect this to continue throughout the year with ASPs projected to decline 2.8% to US$700 (A$1031). This would mark the first ASP decline for a full year since 2015.” o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ 8th_Polio_Vaccination_Campaign_To_Start_in Mozambique⠀⇛ “We are talking about 19,978,803 children and adolescents who will be vaccinated in this round…” # ⚓ Axios ☛ Frozen_strawberries_recall:_Costco,_Walmart products_recalled_for_Hepatitis_A_risk⠀⇛ Multiple brands of frozen_strawberries and fruit products sold at Walmart, Costco and HEB stores are being recalled after being linked to a Hepatitis A outbreak that has sickened nine people. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Ouroboros_LLMs_and_their_impending_entropy problem⠀⇛ More to the point though, as any cryptographer will tell you, this reduction entropy is a disaster if your model requires original thought. # ⚓ What_Impact_Will_Large_Language_Models_Have_on_the_Web?⠀⇛ The internet is awash with fears over what impact AI-powered products and services like ChapGPT will have on life as we know it. Will large language models (LLMs) take over everyone’s jobs? Will AIs take over lethal_autonomous_weapons, # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Amazon_says_AWS_is_operating normally_after_outage_that_left_publishers_unable_to_operate websites⠀⇛ Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services experienced an outage on Tuesday, affecting publishers that suddenly found themselves unable to operate their sites. The company said on its website that the root cause of the issue was tied to a function called AWS Lambda, which lets customers run code for different types of applications. Roughly two hours after customers began experiencing errors, the company posted on its AWS status page that many of the affected AWS services were “fully recovered” and it was continuing to recover the rest. Soon after 6:30 pm E.T., the company announced all AWS services were operating normally. # ⚓ Jon Udell ☛ Radical_just-in-time_learning⠀⇛ Buoyed by the success of my LLM-assisted refactoring exercise, I set a new and (for me) more ambitious goal. While the refactoring task was a bit challenging, I didn’t have to learn new concepts and syntax. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_fixes_Windows_11_issue causing_copying,_saving_failures⠀⇛ Microsoft has addressed a known issue causing intermittent failures when saving and copying files on Windows 11 22H2 devices (especially when working with network shares). # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Microsoft_Is_Finally_Selling_Replacement Parts_for_Some_Surface_Devices [Ed: "Surface" is practically dead by now. They only pretend to still care about people who paid for "Surface". See the pattern of layoffs.]⠀⇛ Microsoft has made user-replaceable Surface components available in the Microsoft Store for out-of-warranty repair on devices. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ CISA_SBOM_standards_efforts_stymied_by confusion,_inertia [Ed: CISA_lobbying_for_Microsoft interests]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Exploitation_of_Barracuda_ESG_appliances linked_to_Chinese_spies [Ed: Political slant to distract from the bug and shift focus to one among a million parties that can take advantage]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ XSS_Vulnerabilities_Found_in_Microsoft_Azure Cloud_Services⠀⇛ Two cloud security vulnerabilities — in Azure Bastion and Azure Container Registry — were found in Microsoft Azure’s services, which allowed an attacker to achieve cross-site scripting (XSS)… # ⚓ Louis-Philippe_Véronneau:_Solo_V2:_nice_but_flawed⠀⇛ I recently received the two Solo V2 hardware tokens I ordered as part of their crowdfunding campaign, back in March 2022. It did take them longer than advertised to ship me the tokens, but that’s hardly unexpected from such small-scale, crowdfunded undertaking. # ⚓ Important_Fix_for_c-ares_DoS_Bug_Released⠀⇛ Several important security vulnerabilities have been found in the c-ares fork of the ares library, including a 0-byte UDP payload denial of service (DoS) bug (CVE-2023-32067). With low attack complexity, no privileges or user interaction required to exploit, and a high availability impact, this flaw has received a National Vulnerability Database (NVD) base score of 7.5 out of 10 (”High” severity). # ⚓ OpenJDK_DoS,_Info_Disclosure_Vulns_Fixed⠀⇛ Several important denial of service (DoS) and information disclosure vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime. These bugs require no privileges or user interaction to exploit, and have been classified by the National Vulnerability Database as having a high confidentiality, integrity and availability impact on affected systems. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Threat_activity_and_vulnerabilities_in_Indonesia, Malaysia,_Philippines,_and_Thailand⠀⇛ Guest Post: Understanding the attack surface of ASEAN economies to better support them. # ⚓ SANS ☛ Another_RAT_Delivered_Through_VBS,_(Fri,_Jun_16th) [Ed: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The invoice icon pointed to a URL. Usually, such URLs display a fake login page asking for credentials. Not this time. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Ransomware_Group_Starts_Naming_Victims_of MOVEit_Zero-Day_Attacks [Ed: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The Cl0p ransomware gang has listed more than two dozen victims of the MOVEit zero-day attack on its leak website. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Maryland_DMV_Buys_Back_Domain_Name Written_on_798,000_License_Plates_From_Filipino_Online Casino_For_$1,000⠀⇛ O say can you see starspangled200 dot org # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Researchers_unpack_massive_email scam_targeting_dozens_of_companies⠀⇛ The campaign is the latest case of business email compromise, which costs victims billions of dollars annually.. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ EDRI ☛ The_Belgian_government_is_failing_to_consider human_rights_in_CSA_Regulation⠀⇛ Despite the clear warnings, Belgium has taken a position calling on the EU to adopt the CSA regulation as quickly as possible, dismissing the technical problems, and without addressing the serious legal concerns that have been raised. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ TACD_Public_Forum:_For_better_or_worse?_The EU-US_cooperation_&_its_impact_on_consumers⠀⇛ The TACD Public Forum will examine what this bilateral cooperation has achieved since its launch, and what it should focus on going forward to deliver concrete outcomes, in each of the areas covered. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Spotify_Slapped_with_$5.4 Million_Fine_in_Sweden_for_GDPR_Violations⠀⇛ Spotify is facing a $5.4 million fine for violating GDPR guidelines by not providing full information about the personal data it stores. Spotify was found to be in breach of Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaint was first lodged by privacy rights not-for-profit organization noyb in 2019. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Spotify_Says_Distributor_Removed ‘Glory_to_Hong_Kong’_Amidst_Chinese_Government Crackdown⠀⇛ Spotify says distributor removed ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ amidst Chinese government crackdown seeking to ban all forms of the protest song. # ⚓ Internet Society ☛ Speak_Out_Against_Bills_That Threaten_End-to-End_Encryption⠀⇛ The EARN IT Act, STOP CSAM Act, and KOSA in the United States threaten to weaken end-to- end encryption which puts us all at risk. # ⚓ La Quadature Du Net ☛ Op-ed:_ʻEncryption_protects_our rights,_privacy_is_not_a_crimeʼ⠀⇛ This op-ed follows the publication of our article ʻCriminalization of encryption: the 8 december caseʼ. It has been signed by more than 130 individuals and organisations. The full list of signatories is available here. It… # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Four_Mexican_Law_Enforcement_Officials Face_Criminal_Charges_For_‘Illegal’_Purchase_Of_NSO Group_Spyware⠀⇛ NSO Group is irredeemable. It must know that by know. Its investors know it. The public knows it. Even the government of the country it set up shop in — a shop filled with ex- government employees — can hardly seem to stomach being associated with it. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ Europol_data_deals_with_violent_police_forces need_“strong_data_protection_safeguards”⠀⇛ Proposed data-sharing deals between Europol and five states in Central and South America needs explicit safeguards if they are to uphold fundamental rights, the European Data Protection Supervisor said at the beginning of May. Police forces in those states have brutal records of violence and torture. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ New_FCC_privacy_task_force_takes aim_at_data_breaches,_SIM-swaps⠀⇛ The Federal Communications Commission task force will also examine how carriers collect and share geolocation data. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Privacy_and_networking:_Part_5_—_The_data lifecycle⠀⇛ Guest Post: Reduce risk rather than legal liability. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ EDRi-gram,14_June_2023⠀⇛ It’s getting hot in here – and we don’t just mean the weather. By the time this EDRi-gram reaches your inbox, the EU Parliament will have voted on the AI Act and the “e-Evidence” package. This is a crucial moment for the AI Act as we push hard and keep our fingers crossed for all the wins of the committee vote to remain after the plenary. We also have serious concerns about the e- Evidence proposal posing a threat to our fundamental rights. Along with other civil society groups, doctors and journalists organisations and internet service providers, we are calling on Members of European Parliament to reject this package. In this edition you can also read about what changed in the ten years since Snowden’s revelations about mass surveillance by the US government. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ Bits_of_Freedom_monthly_update_on_human_rights &_tech:_April_2023⠀⇛ Read through the most interesting developments at the intersection of human rights and technology from the Netherlands. This is the fourth update in this series. # ⚓ EDRI ☛ EU_Parliament_calls_for_ban_of_public_facial recognition,_but_leaves_human_rights_gaps_in_final position_on_AI_Act⠀⇛ The final EU Parliament position upholds all of the fundamental rights demands which were added at committee level. Despite efforts to overturn it, the final position also maintains the committees’ strong stance against biometric mass surveillance practices. But it is disappointing that the plenary missed the opportunity to increase protections when it comes to empowering people affected by the use of AI and the rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_MP_under_investigation_after_posting_anti- Semitic_remarks⠀⇛ The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a pre-trial investigation into MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis’ remarks claiming that Jews were killing Lithuanians during World War Two. # ⚓ RFA ☛ US_given_‘unimpeded_access’_to_Papua_New_Guinea_bases in_defense_agreement⠀⇛ U.S. will be able to ‘stage and deploy’ troops and vessels from 6 key facilities. # ⚓ France24 ☛ New_Sudan_ceasefire_goes_into_effect_after deadly_air_strikes_on_civilians⠀⇛ Sudan’s warring generals agreed a new 72-hour ceasefire from Sunday, US and Saudi mediators said, after fighting intensified with deadly air strikes in Khartoum and an exodus of wounded from Darfur over the border into Chad. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ In_South_Sudan’s_refugee_camps,_resilience_and compassion⠀⇛ A returnee’s journey back to South Sudan tells a wider story of the conflict mushrooming in the region. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Airman_Jack_Teixeira_Indicted_on_Charges in_Leaked_Documents_Case⠀⇛ Jack Teixeira, 21, could face up to 60 years in prison after being indicted on six counts of retaining and transmitting classified national defense information. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Sudan’s_western_cities_under_fire_as_two-month- old_war_spreads⠀⇛ Fighting rocked several cities in western Sudan on Wednesday in an expansion of the country’s almost two-month-old war as a regional governor was killed after publicly blaming the deaths of civilians on the country’s paramilitary force. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Blinken_arrives_in_Beijing_in_bid_to_cool soaring_US-China_tensions⠀⇛ U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing early Sunday on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to try to cool exploding U.S.-China tensions that have set many around the world on edge. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Blinken_lands_in_China_on_rare_trip with_hopes_low_for_any_breakthrough⠀⇛ Mr Blinken’s visit to China includes objectives such as setting up mechanisms for crisis management. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ US_ambassador_marches_in_Warsaw_Pride_parade, sending_message_to_NATO_ally⠀⇛ In recent years, Western governments have been alarmed by a conservative government in Warsaw that depicts gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people as threats to Poland and its children. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Yellen_Says_Bid_to_Decouple_From_China Would_Be_‘Disastrous’⠀⇛ The Treasury secretary, speaking to a House committee, said trade and investment were crucial in U.S.-Chinese relations. # § War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_Zealand_national_radio broadcaster_launches_review_after_stories_were altered⠀⇛ The broadcaster said its board decided an independent review is necessary. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Baltics_look_to_NATO_for_air_support_in_new defence_plans⠀⇛ Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are asking fellow NATO members to ramp up the air defence support to secure the Baltic part of the military alliance’ Eastern Flank in case of an attack ahead of revamping defence plans for the NATO territory, diplomats told EURACTIV. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Soviet_deportations_remembered_82_years_on⠀⇛ As with every year, June 14 sees Latvia commemorating the thousands of citizens deported to Siberia by the Soviet occupiers 82 years ago – many of whom never came back. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ American Oversight ☛ American_Oversight_Seeks_Default Judgment_Against_Wake_TSI_in_Pennsylvania_Election_Audit Records_Case⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Construction_Crane_Collapses_In_Siberia, Killing_Operator⠀⇛ A construction crane collapsed in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on June 15, killing the machine’s operator. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Boris_Johnson’s_Honours_List_Includes Climate_Science_Deniers_and_Fossil_Fuel_Lobbyists⠀⇛ Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list includes MPs and political advisors with ties to climate science denial and the oil and gas industry, DeSmog can reveal.  The former prime minister’s 45 nominees – who were approved by his successor Rishi Sunak on Friday, just hours before Johnson’s resignation as an MP – include four Conservative MPs with a history of casting doubt over climate science or policy.  # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Hydrogen_Hype_Bubbles_Over_At_German_Gas Lobby_Conference⠀⇛ This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections, soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.  # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Algae_to_bloom_in_abundance_this_summer, Environment_Institute_says⠀⇛ Current high levels of phosphorous in Finnish waters and the forecasted heatwave will provide the perfect conditions for algal bloom growth. # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Elephant_in_the_Room:_Thailand’s_National Animal_Is_Pushing_Back_against_Habitat_Loss⠀⇛ Thailand has seen an increasing number of deadly encounters between elephants and humans in recent years. The animals are returning to areas that were once covered in jungle, but are now farmland. Locals are at a loss. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Remains_of_Duck-Billed_Dinosaur_in Chile_Changes_What_We_Know_About_Their_Home_Ranges⠀⇛ How did they get there? # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ Why_Overpopulation_Should_Be_a Women’s_Issue⠀⇛ The costs of overpopulation and lack of family planning access fall disproportionately on women. Securing women’s rights and ecological sustainability depend on a clear-eyed understanding of this. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ What_the_EU’s_economic_security_strategy needs_to_achieve [Ed: EU’s economic security??? It attacks the law and attacks constitutions with the UPC, clobbering European economies too in order to enrich patent attorneys]⠀⇛ The Commission must balance members’ economic relations with China and simultaneously coax them toward a more “realpolitik” view of the world. None of that will be easy. # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Cost_of_cooking_a_family_meal_soars_by_up_to_27% as_price_of_some_ingredients_doubles⠀⇛ Which? research shows big rise in cost of a pasta bake, fish finger tea and spaghetti bolognese # ⚓ YLE ☛ Wages_set_to_rise_by_13%_in_private_social_services sector⠀⇛ The new collective agreement comes after a series of strikes by employees of private daycare centres and assisted living units for elderly people. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Inter’_Labor_Organization_Calls_for_Action_to_End Child_Labor⠀⇛ “We must step up our fight against child labor, by supporting greater social justice,,,” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Larry_Summers_and_the_Crisis_of_Economic Orthodoxy⠀⇛ For Larry Summers, the post-Covid spike in inflation was a godsend. It gave the former Treasury secretary a chance to polish his tarnished brand and make a political comeback. Although Summers had been a dominant voice on Democratic Party economic policy for decades, in recent years his reputation had been in tatters because of a series of personal scandals (he was a longtime crony of convicted child rapist Jeffrey Epstein) and the results of his neoliberal policies (Summers’s prescriptions can fairly be blamed for both the 2008 economic meltdown and the anemic recovery that prepared the ground for Donald Trump’s presidency). After Joe Biden secured the Democratic nomination in 2020, Summers made a concerted effort to worm his way back into favor as a Washington éminence grise. This prompted an outcry from progressive groups, with Summers himself being kept at arm’s length throughout the early days of Biden’s administration.1 # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Child_Labor_Common_in_The_US_as_Washington_Fails to_Take_Action⠀⇛ The United States has seen a 69 percent increase in children employed in violation of child labor laws since 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ South_Korea’s_largest_company_is_letting_workers take_one_Friday_off_each_month⠀⇛ Samsung is proposing a four-day work week, once a month. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Inflation_hitting_young_adults_the_hardest⠀⇛ Expensive food has hit everyone’s wallets, but the bite of inflation is now being felt hardest among people aged 25-34 with families, as housing interest rates rise. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia’s_housing_prices_up_6%_on_year⠀⇛ Provisional data published on June 15 by the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) show that, compared to the 1st quarter of 2022, in the 1st quarter of 2023 prices of dwellings rose by 6.0 %. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Independent_reaches_5m_registered_users_as revenue_grew_12%_year-on-year_in_2022⠀⇛ Operating profit was down 65% due to investment in areas such as e-commerce, Independent TV and the US. # ⚓ OpenRightsGroup ☛ Impunity_pervades_post-Johnson Government⠀⇛ Johnson’s lack of candour might look like a personal phenomenon, but it was something which pervaded his government. This had grievous consequences. As our recent report details, lack of transparency and accountability pervaded his government’s approach to the pandemic. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ UK’s_paywall_problem:_Two-thirds_say nothing_will_make_them_pay_for_news⠀⇛ Just 9% of people in the UK paid for online news in the past year. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Boris_Johnson_Deliberately_Misled_UK_Parliament Over_Partygate⠀⇛ He was complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the Lower House’s Committee of Privileges. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ World_Leaders_Congratulate_Chinese_President_Xi on_His_Birthday⠀⇛ “Dear brother, receive the sincere and fraternal embrace of the Bolivarian homeland,” Venezuelan President Maduro said. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Why_Israel’s_Government_Is_Attacking_Its Public-Broadcasting_System⠀⇛ Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is going after élite institutions, and that’s not good for democracy. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Time_to_ban_the_use_of_Nazi_symbols_in Australia⠀⇛ As the government prepares to introduce legislation into parliament for an Australia-wide ban on Nazi symbols, it’s timely to revisit the extensive coverage of this issue in ASPI’s Counterterrorism yearbook 2022. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_FA_apologises_for_“poorly_formatted”_tweet following_fan_backlash⠀⇛ The social media post celebrated the two-year anniversary of Finland’s win over Denmark in the Euro finals but failed to mention Christian Eriksen, who suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Dr._Luke_Is_a_Public_Figure_for_Purposes_of_His Libel_Lawsuit_Against_Ke$ha⠀⇛ From Judge Garcia’s majority opinion in Gottwald v. Sebert, decided today by New York’s high court, though all the judges agreed on this point: By 2014, when Gottwald initiated this defamation action, he was, by his own account, a celebrity—an acclaimed music producer who had achieved enormous success in a high-profile career. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Protest_song_‘Glory_to_Hong_Kong’ vanishes_from_Spotify,_Apple_streaming_sites_ahead_of_gov’t legal_bid_to_ban_it⠀⇛ Pro-democracy protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong has disappeared from the Apple and Spotify streaming sites, ahead of a government bid to ban all forms of the song, and its derivatives. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ New_Research_Examines_Restrictions_On Incarcerated_Journalists_In_US_Prisons⠀⇛ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Joins_More_Than_Two Dozen_Groups_Urging_Congress_To_Abandon_Problematic ‘Journalism’_Bill⠀⇛ Public Knowledge joined a letter urging Senate leadership not to pass the JCPA. # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Warns_Congress_Against Adopting_Controversial_Journalism_Competition_and Preservation_Act⠀⇛ The bill would do nothing to help preserve local journalism while compounding some of the biggest problems in our media landscape. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Cambodian_journalist_wins_award_for_cyber-scam stories⠀⇛ Mech Dara receives award from US Secretary of State for human trafficking coverage. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Loot’_weaves_an_epic_tale_of_imperialism, plunder,_and_autonomy⠀⇛ In this book, a gifted Indian artist pines for recognition, self-determination, and love across decades and continents. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Gender_bias_against_women_unchanged_over_last decade:_UN_report⠀⇛ According to a UN Development Program (UNDP) report released on Monday, the level of bias against women remains unchanged over the last decade. According to the Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) survey, nine out of ten persons have prejudices towards women. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Amazon_Delivery_Drivers_Walk_Out_in First-Ever_Driver_Strike⠀⇛ The drivers unionized with the Teamsters in late April, and are on strike to demand that Amazon come to the bargaining table. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Employee_of_the_Month_Rewarded_With_More Work⠀⇛ “No… I need to go home,” said distraught union employee Nikola Jokić, 28. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ BBC_boss_Tim_Davie_‘highly_empathetic’_to striking_staff_but_says_local_radio_cuts_will_continue⠀⇛ The director-general said BBC Local had taken less of a budget hit than other parts of the broadcaster. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ News_avoidance_and_trust_deficit_key challenges_for_UK_publishers⠀⇛ Trust in news in the UK was at 33%, joint 12th lowest among 46 markets. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ APNIC’s_cloud_and_interconnection_strategy⠀⇛ Detailing APNIC’s cloud-based approaches to online services. # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ FCC_Chairwoman_Rosenworcel_Moves_To Investigate_Data_Caps⠀⇛ Today, the Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel circulated a Notice of Inquiry to examine the impact of data caps imposed by internet service providers on consumers. Broadband providers impose limits on the amount of data subscribers can download a month – even subscribers to supposedly “unlimited plans.” o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Applauds_Reintroduction of_Competition_Bill_Reining_in_Big_Tech⠀⇛ Today, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced the “American Innovation and Choice Online Act.” The bill would prevent Big Tech from discriminating against competitors on their platforms including by barring them from preferencing their own products and services over a competitor’s better offering. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Update_on_UPC_judges [Ed: UPC judges are resigning. This is an illegal 'court'. It's an epic scandal of corruption plaguing the EU because it failed to address crimes at the EPO. EU let crime happen at the EPO go on and on for many years. Now we should be surprised that even the courts themselves are basically a joke?]⠀⇛ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB_Finds_Supplements_Related_to_CBD Cosmetics,_But_Not_to_Candles_or_Vape_Pens⠀⇛ The Board rendered a split decision in this appeal from a Section 2(d) refusal of the mark LOVA for “Non-medicated facial serum; body oil; non-medicated body balm; hemp- infused cosmetic and bath products, namely, bath bombs; any hemp and CBD in the goods being solely derived from hemp with a delta- 9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis” in Class 3, and for hemp-infused candles (Class 4) and vape pens (Class 34). The USPTO found confusion likely with the registered mark LOVA NATURALS for “dietary supplements; nutritional supplements” in Class 5 (NATURALS disclaimed). The Board upheld the refusal as to the Class 3 goods, but reversed as to the candles and vape pens. In_re_Pioneer_IP_Interests_LLC, Serial No. 88637739 (June 7, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion Judge Thomas W. Wellington). # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Pirate_Streaming_Site_Soap2day Shuts_Down,_Users_In_Shambles⠀⇛ The free streaming service abruptly announced it was shutting down on Tuesday, with a note on the homepage saying it was “very sorry.” # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Mauricio_Genta_—_Open_Culture VOICES,_Season_2_Episode_19⠀⇛ Mauricio says that “open access makes it easier for people to use what is a common good for all.” In this episode we dive into the work of a historian and librarian in Argentina. Mauricio discusses the value of cultural heritage preservation over generations and what role present day  institutions play for the future. # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Wonder_and_Pleasure_in_the Oude_Doolhof_of_Amsterdam⠀⇛ For almost 250 years, a mysterious pleasure park sat on the banks of Amsterdam’s canals. Angela Vanhaelen leads us on a tour of the bawdy fountains, disorienting maze, and mechanical androids in the Oude Doolhof — an attraction that mingled pagan, protestant, and imperial desires. # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ My_Body_is_a_Temple_Four-Story House:_Analogical_Diagram_from_Tobias_Cohen’s_Ma’aseh Tuviyah_(1708)⠀⇛ In this Hebrew medical diagram, the human body is mapped onto a house: the stomach becomes a kitchen; the lungs, latticed windows. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3293 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.18.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_18/06/2023:_More_Microsoft_Spyware_and_Windows_Breaches⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:30 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Chromium o Education o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Python * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Trademarks # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Benny Siegert ☛ Operating_Systems,_Transit_and_Cultural Influences⠀⇛ All of the dominant commercial operating systems in desktop and mobile computing — macOS, iOS, Windows, Android, Chrome OS — are made in the US, on the West Coast. Except for Microsoft, they are heavily concentrated in the SF Bay Area. (Note that I am not talking about free software such as GNU/Linux, BSD, etc., which is probably more diverse regarding the location of their developers.) Flight Tracking All of these OSes are very eager to support you with flight tickets and boarding passes. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ First_Makulu_Max_Patch_!_–_AI_wars….⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-06-14_[Older]_FLOSS_Weekly_736:_Don’t_Fear_The_AI_– David_Sifry,_AI_and_Open_Source⠀⇛ # ⚓ The TLLTS Podcast ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_The_Linux_Link_Tech Show_Episode_1008⠀⇛ # ⚓ Going Linux ☛ Going_Linux_#441_·_Listener_Feedback⠀⇛ We get questions on password managers, how we record the podcast, and wear-leveling on SSDs. We get asked for hardware suggestions and get a follow-up on running Linux on the LG Gram. # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ This_Week_in_Linux_225:_Debian_12,_openSUSE 15.5,_NixOS,_Huge_Steam_Update_&_more_Linux_news!⠀⇛ Welcome to This Week in Linux, the news show from the TuxDigital Network that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Edge_computer_links_legacy_systems_to_new_ones⠀⇛ The Dutch industrial computing specialist OnLogic has announced an edge computer designed to link existing equipment with the cloud, modern sensors, and other legacy devices. The solid-state Helix 511 edge computer offers a choice of connection options to help bridge the gap between modern systems and older technologies. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Dev_Boots_Linux_292,612_Times_to_Find Intel,_AMD_Kernel_Bug⠀⇛ A developer has shared a blog post about finding and fixing an infrequent but replicable Linux boot bug. # ⚓ 2023-06-16_[Repeat]_Karel_Zak:_util-linux_v2.39:_Improved Mount_Interface_and_Exciting_Updates⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Linux_Plumbers Conference:_Registration_for_LPC_2023_is_open⠀⇛ We’re happy to announce that registration for LPC 2023 is now open. To register please go to our attend_page. To try to prevent the instant sellout we had last year we’ve updated our cancellation policy to no refunds only transfers of registrations. You will find more details during the registration process. LPC 2023 follows the Linux_Foundation’s_health_& safety_policy. As usual we expect to sell our rather quickly so don’t delay your registration for too long! o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Conditional_Speed⠀⇛ § Intro I didn’t go into much detail in my last post about all the huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge optimizations I’ve been working on (they’re big) with code that totally exists and isn’t made up. The reason was that I didn’t feel like it. But today’s a different day, and I haven’t done any real blogging in a while. Does that mean… o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to Apple_Freeform⠀⇛ Apple Freeform is a digital whiteboarding application, designed to encourage brainstorming and enable real-time collaboration between users o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_vastly_improve_sound_on_Linux_with EasyEffects⠀⇛ I make no bones about being an audiophile. Since back in the 1980s, when I purchased that first equalizer for my car, I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with sound to get the most out of whatever equipment I have. Normally, I listen to vinyl while at my desk toiling away with words. But every once in a while, I’ll go to Spotify to search out some new music (to then later purchase). When listening to music via my computer, the sound isn’t nearly as rich and alive as it is coming from my turntable. # ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Fix_the_“sudo:_command_not_found” Error_on_Linux⠀⇛ sudo is installed by default in most of the Linux but this might not be the case on all distros. # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_fix_“user_is_not_in_the_sudoers”_error on_Linux⠀⇛ Did you try to run a a command with sudo on Linux and it did not work because of the error “this user it’s not in the sudoers file” . # ⚓ Cloudbooklet ☛ How_to_Switch_Users_in_Linux_Terminal⠀⇛ Learn how to switch users in the Linux terminal using the “su” command, allowing you to execute commands and access different user accounts for various tasks and troubleshooting. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_WPS_Office_on_Fedora_38/37/ 36_Linux⠀⇛ In the realm of office software suites, one name has been making waves with its feature-rich capabilities and cross-platform support — WPS Office. Distinguished from its counterparts by its exceptional compatibility, it has emerged as an efficient alternative to the popular office software. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Sysdig_on_Ubuntu_22.04_| 20.04⠀⇛ Within the vast sphere of Linux based software tools, one remarkably powerful and flexible instrument continues to stand out: Sysdig. An open- source, cross-platform, multi-purpose tool, Sysdig elevates the system monitoring and troubleshooting experience in Linux environments. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Qlipper_on_Ubuntu_22.04_| 20.04⠀⇛ As you delve into the world of Linux-based operating systems, particularly Ubuntu, a tool that will likely become indispensable in your workflow is Qlipper. # ⚓ Real Linux User ☛ How_to_use_Linux_Mint_without_installing on_a_PC –_Linux_Mint_21_edition⠀⇛ In my previous Linux Mint 21.x tutorial I explained how to create a Linux bootable USB drive in Windows and in macOS. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_Debian_12_“Bookworm”_From Debian_11_“Bullseye”⠀⇛ With the new Debian 12 release finally available, many Linux users are looking forward to upgrading their Debian 11 installation to the new release. # ⚓ Linux.org ☛ Working_With_Nautilus_Scripts⠀⇛ Sometimes, you may use Nautilus and wish you could add your own script to the right-click ability on a file or folder. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ How_to_install_EasyOS_on_a_new_SSD_page updated⠀⇛ Documentation lags behind, but I do get around to updating the pages eventually. Just tweaked this page in a few places: https://easyos.org/install/how-to-install-easyos- on-a-new-ssd.html # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Sentry_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Sentry with Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Are you a developer looking for an easy and efficient way to track and monitor errors in your software applications? # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Upgrade_Mesa_Drivers_on_Linux_Mint 21/20⠀⇛ In the vibrant sphere of Linux computing, the significance of graphics drivers can’t be overstated. Particularly for those involved in graphics-intensive tasks such as gaming, video editing, or 3D modeling, maintaining your graphics drivers updated can notably improve performance, stability, and compatibility. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_KDE_Plasma_on_Debian_12/11/ 10⠀⇛ KDE Plasma is a unique desktop environment, marrying elegance with dynamism. Noteworthy for its sleek design and robust functionality, KDE Plasma stands out with its deep customization options, making it an ideal choice for users seeking a personalized experience. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Install_and_Configure_Tomcat_10_on_Ubuntu 22.04⠀⇛ Apache Tomcat is an open-source web application server designed for hosting Java-based applications. It is developed by the Apache foundation and still provides upgrades and features. It’s easy to install and use, and provides a powerful platform for web applications. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_OnlyOffice_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OnlyOffice on Debian 11. Are you looking for a powerful office suite that is both open-source and user-friendly? Look no further than OnlyOffice. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Liquorix_Kernel_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Liquorix Kernel on Debian 11. Are you looking for a way to improve the performance of your Debian 11 system? Consider installing the Liquorix kernel, a popular alternative to the default kernel that comes with Debian. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Easy_way_to_Install_ownCloud_Desktop_Client_on Debian_12⠀⇛ Learn how to install ownCloud Desktop Client on Debian 12. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Install_phpMyAdmin_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ In this guide, we are going to learn how to install phpMyAdmin on Debian 12. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ How_to_Install_BackupPC_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Install_KVM_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ In this tutorial, you will learn how to install KVM on Debian 12. KVM, an acronym for Kernel-based Virtual Machine [...] # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Install_VirtualBox_7_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ This guide will take you through how to install VirtualBox 7 on Debian 12. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ How_to_Install_Docker_CE_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install Docker CE on Debian 12. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Show_Remaining_Disk_Space_in_Nautilus_on Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ Here’s a quick tip for those of you looking for an easy way to see see remaining disk space in the file manager of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Once upon a time — like, really far back — the Nautilus file manager had a static status bar. This gave you an easy, at- a-glance way to see the amount of remaining disk space in whatever drive or folder you were viewing, at all times. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Ansible_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ansible on Fedora 38. For those of you who didn’t know, Ansible is a powerful automation platform that allows you to automate tasks across multiple systems with ease. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_GPU-Viewer_on_Linux_Mint_21/ 20⠀⇛ For those deeply ingrained in the world of Linux and its graphical interfaces, the term GPU-Viewer might ring a bell. This incredibly useful software serves as a frontend to several utilities, namely glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo, and es2_info. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Element_on_Linux_Mint_21/ 20⠀⇛ In the arena of real-time communication, Element establishes itself as a force to reckon with. It’s an open-source instant messaging client designed on the framework of the Matrix protocol, freely available for anyone seeking a secure, robust and feature-rich communication solution. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Firefox_ESR_on_Linux_Mint 21/20⠀⇛ Dive into the world of Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR), an alternate browser solution that provides an edge for Linux Mint users by integrating stable, long-term support into its design. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_mpv_Media_Player_on_Linux Mint_21/20⠀⇛ Designed for the tech-savvy who crave a superior multimedia experience, the MPV Media Player stands as a paragon of flexibility, performance, and customizability. Operating under a free and open- source software license, this media player has quickly established itself as a go-to choice for individuals looking for smooth playback and comprehensive format support. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_GitLab_CE_with_Docker_on Debian_12⠀⇛ Gitlab Server is an open-source version of the cloud-hosted Gitlab version control. This guide will show you how to install Gitlab Server using Docker on Debian 12. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Create_Remote_Desktop_Gateway_via Apache_Guacamole_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛ Apache Guacamole is a free and open-source remote desktop gateway that allows you to connect to your computer/server remotely using different protocols such as SSH, RDP, and VNC. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the installation of Apache Guacamole as a Remote Desktop Gateway on AlmaLinux 9 machine. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Wireshark_on_Debian_12/11/ 10⠀⇛ Wireshark – an indelible tool in the network engineer’s arsenal. This open-source packet analyzer, ubiquitously known in the tech realm, comes equipped with a multitude of capabilities aimed at scrutinizing network traffic down to the minutest details. # ⚓ How_to_Sort_Files_by_Size_in_Linux/Unix?⠀⇛ To sort files in Linux, use the ls command with the -S flag. You can also use the du and sort command in combination. # ⚓ Enriching_Your_Repository:_An_Introductory_Guide_on_Storing Additional_Information_in_Git⠀⇛ Git is a popular version control system that allows developers to manage changes made to their code over time. A Git repository is a directory that contains all the files related to a project, as well as the history of changes made to those files. # ⚓ How_to_Change_the_default_kernel_in_RHEL_8_and_9⠀⇛ Usually a Linux system boots with the latest installed kernel, which is set by default. It keeps maximum 3 recent versions of Linux Kernel boot entries. # ⚓ TeX_Live_package_reorganization⠀⇛ Starting from version 2023.66594-9, TeX Live packages have been reorganized to mirror upstream collections. Even though the new texlive-basic replaces the old texlive-core, many of the texlive- core contents (including language specific files) are now split between different packages. To find out which Arch package contains a specific CTAN package, you can use the tlmgr utility, eg. # ⚓ Your_First_Git_Note:_A_Step-by-Step_Guide⠀⇛ Taking notes in Git is an important practice for any developer working on a project using this system. Notes are used to document specific changes or updates made to code within the repository. # ⚓ Utilizing_Curl_to_Query_Currency_Rates_on_Ubuntu_and_Alma Linux_–_Weekend_Hack⠀⇛ In the world of global finance and international trade, keeping track of currency exchange rates is vital. CurrencyBeacon.com is a prominent currency data provider that offers reliable and up-to-date rates. # ⚓ Organizing_Git_Notes:_Separating_Notes_by_Category⠀⇛ In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of separating your Git notes into categories and provide tips on how best to organize them. We’ll discuss different approaches you can take based on your needs and workflow, as well as techniques for maintaining your categorized notes over time # ⚓ Selective_Commit_Rebasing:_An_Interactive_Guide⠀⇛ Selective commit rebasing is a technique used in Git to selectively choose which commits to include when merging code from one branch to another. It allows developers to remove unnecessary or irrelevant commits, making it easier to track changes and understand how different parts of the codebase are related. # ⚓ Changing_Commit_Authorship_with_Rebase:_A_Step-by-Step Guide⠀⇛ There are two main types of rebase: interactive and non-interactive. Non-interactive rebase is the simpler of the two – it essentially just moves all of your commits onto a new base commit without any additional options or input from you. # ⚓ Autos_quashing_Commits_in_Git:_A_Practical_Overview⠀⇛ Autosquashing is a technique that can help streamline the workflow for merging changes into the master branch. This technique involves squashing commits so that they appear as a single commit with one commit message. Autosquashing saves time by reducing the number of unnecessary commits that need reviewing before being merged into the master branch. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ [FIX]_No_Sound_or_HDMI_Missing_Output_From HDMI_in_External_Monitor_In_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Not getting sound output from HDMI or HDMI output option is missing from setting windows in Ubuntu then there is nothing to worry. # ⚓ Squashing_Commits_with_Interactive_Rebase:_A_Git_Tutorial⠀⇛ A commit in Git is similar to saving a document in Microsoft Word. It captures all changes that have been made since the last commit, including additions, deletions, and modifications. Each commit represents a specific version of the codebase, allowing developers to easily revert back or compare changes made over time. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Install_Cinnamon_Desktop_5.8_via PPA_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_23.04⠀⇛ This simple tutorial shows how to install the latest Cinnamon Desktop 5.8 in Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 23.04 via PPA. The source of Cinnamon 5.8 was out a few days ago! It will be officially announced later in this month along with Linux Mint 21.2. Cinnamon 5.8 features built-in touchpad / touchscreen gestures support! # ⚓ John Goerzen ☛ John_Goerzen:_Using_dar_for_Data_Archiving⠀⇛ This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard drives). In the first, I explained_the difference_between_backing_up_and_archiving, established goals for the project, and said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar. The second_post evaluated_git-annex, and now it’s time to look at dar. The series will conclude with a post comparing git-annex with dar. What is dar? # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_ModSecurity_2,_OWASP_CRS with_Apache_on_Debian_12/11/10⠀⇛ As stewards of Apache web servers, understanding and leveraging the capabilities of ModSecurity is absolutely crucial. This powerful open-source, cross-platform web application firewall (WAF) plays a pivotal role in fortifying your web applications against numerous threats. > # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Using_Postfix_DNS_SRV record_resolution_feature⠀⇛ In March 2011 Apple Inc. proposed RFC_6186 that describes how domain name system service (DNS SRV) records should be used for locating email submission and accessing services. The design presented in the RFC is now supported by Postfix since version 3.8.0. With the new functionality, you can now use DNS SRV records for load distribution and auto-configuration. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ Call_to_Action:_Easy_porting opportunity_in_Plasma⠀⇛ This post is a Call To Action for those with the ability to set up a Plasma_development environment and an interest in code hygiene. Plasma 6 development is in full swing, and we have an opportunity to make a difference by doing some relatively easy code porting. Read on if this intrigues you! # ⚓ GSoC_with_KDE:_Coding_Period_Week_1_and_2⠀⇛ Before the start of the coding period I had a call with one of my mentors Carl, he gave me good guidance and suggestions on which aspect to focus first and also gave me a few resources to use as a reference which was a good starting point for me. My first task involved looking into how and where I could launch my Email Composition window from. At first, I looked at Menu actions but that seemed to not work and later got it to work by launching it from ToolBar actions. During the process, I got to learn how actions work and how powerful they are. Then I started working on the design of the UI trying to make it as close to my proposed mockup. During this I realized how powerful ‘grep’ is, whenever I got stuck somewhere I would start grepping and try to connect the dots as to how different aspects of the codebase worked together along with going through the documentation and code examples and by the end of the first week I managed to have a basic structure ready. # ⚓ The_Fully_Functional_Bundle_Creator⠀⇛ Welcome back! Last time, I successfully completed the development of the Bundle Creator up to the Resource Chooser page. This page now allows us to easily select resource items by applying filters based on tags or names. I’ve introduced some UI improvements, including the ability to click-to-select, the addition of a convenient Remove Selected button and the introduction of a visually appealing grid view to replace the traditional list view. These enhancements enhance the overall user experience and provide a more streamlined resource selection process. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Creator_10.0.2_released⠀⇛ We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 10.0.2! # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Creator_11_–_CMake_update⠀⇛ Below, you have two new CMake features in Qt Creator 11: # ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ On_the_road_to_Plasma_6⠀⇛ At this point you’ve heard a lot about Plasma 6, and each of my weekly “This week in KDE” brings news of a few new features, UI changes, or bugfixes that are only in Plasma 6. But how do we get there, and how long will it take? So today I’d like to talk about the process and schedule a bit. Let’s start with an outline of the required steps to get there, in sequential order… My sense right now is that we’re in the middle of steps 3 and 4. Basically everything in Plasma compiles with Qt 6, and at this point Plasma 6 is fairly livable. To give you a sense of how livable, it’s good enough that over the past 2 months, I’ve gone on three KDE-related trips from the USA to Europe, with my only computer running Plasma 6 in “current git master” state, with work-in- progress merge requests applied! Its stability has been good enough that this has caused me no apprehension, and indeed, it’s been totally fine on each trip. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ This_Week_in_GNOME/Felix_Häcker: #100_One_Hundred⠀⇛ One hundred weeks ago, on Friday 16 July 2021, “This Week in GNOME” was launched – the first post was “#1_Scrolling_in_the_Dark”. Since then TWIG has grown into a vibrant community, and has become a weekly ritual for many people—both for developers who share their work, and for curious readers who want to follow the development of GNOME. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ risiOS_38_Release.⠀⇛ After a few delays… # ⚓ Voyager_12_Debian_Bookworm⠀⇛ I introduce you Voyager 12 Debian “Bookworm” in final version. A 2 in 1 version with always the same idea, to unify the Gnome and Xfce desktops in a single distributionVoyager, à sélectionner à votre session. Le tout dans un style complètement repensé pour ce duo, Gnome 43.4 desktop paired with Xfce 4.18 desktop . With the promise finally realized, to have 2 unified systems Gnome and Xfce, light, fast, modern, fluid, secure and efficient in a hybrid environment for PC and Tablet. The 2 offices are quite distinct and their respective applications are for the most part invisible, for one or the other environment. This version is based on the Linux 6.1 kernel and the Debian 12 “Bookworm” distribution with its new features. Kernel 6.1 is in LTS version. Bookworm will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security Team and the Long Term Support Team. Debian 12which offers experimental Rust support, Intel Meteor Lake enable, improved ARM SoC support, and more. Additionally, PipeWire replaces the aging PulseAudio, providing improved handling of audio and video. With integrated, options grouped in the Box Voyager like Conky Control , Effects Gnome Shell , Repair ,Screencast, Wine development and Steam Gaming and select Gnome extensions as per PC needs. A Special Gaming type GS profile has been created in xfce. With many Themes and Wallpapers and essential software and many other new features to discover like Scrcpy to have your smartphone screen on PC. Debian 12 “Bookworm” contains over 11089 new packages, bringing the total to over 64419 packages. Most of the software included with Debian has been updated, with over 6296 packages removed because they are old or obsolete. # ⚓ MX Linux ☛ MX-23_“Libretto”_beta_2_now_available_for testing_purposes⠀⇛ MX-23 beta 2 is now available for testing. MX-23 is built from debian 12 “bookworm” and MX repositories. As in past releases, the MX will default to sysVinit but systemd remains an option for installed systems. This release builds upon beta 1, and includes all bug fixes and changes to date, including default wallpapers and theming. As with beta 1, the Installer now supports swapfiles as well as swap partitions. The “regular” auto installation will default to swapfiles. There are many other installer changes, including gui adjustments, setting of some debconf value to make legacy grub-pc updates more seamless, various fixes for grub install functions and cleanup of “dump” entries that might be clogging up a user’s nvram. There is also additional help guidance right in the installer gui. We are also interested in testing of the –oem option, which allows for user creation on first boot after installation. KNOWN ISSUE: the –oem switch doesn’t currently work but will be addressed with an update. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the weeks_2023/23_&_24⠀⇛ Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Again I have to span the review over two weeks – in the region where I live we had some holiday last week and I allowed myself to stretch for a long weekend. But this had no impact on Tumbleweed: it just kept on rolling. There was some additional ‘confusion’ though as the system used to calculate the diff between snapshots has been defunct for a few days, which resulted in the announcements for snapshots 0601 – 0604 not being sent out to the mailing lists. The info was then collected in the report for 0605. This review covers the 10 snapshots 0601, 0602, 0603, 0604, 0605, 0607, 0608, 0610, 0612, and 0613. The most relevant changes in those snapshots were: # AppArmor 3.1.4 & 3.1.5 # LibreOffice 7.5.4.1 # openSSL 3.1 # GNOME 44.2 # Linux kernel 6.3.6 & 6.3.7 # KDE Gear 23.04.2 # KDE Frameworks 5.107.0 # Mozilla Firefox 114 # Mesa 23.1.2 o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora ☛ Fedora_ELN_Plans_for_Summer_2023⠀⇛ On behalf of the ELN SIG, I’d like to share with you some of our plans for summer 2023. First, as some of you may know, we will be more actively beginning the process of launching CentOS Stream 10. We have made some recent changes to our strategy and schedule and this email will attempt to cover them both in detail. This will be a long email, so strap in! # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ The_fee,_or_no_to_the_fee [Ed: IBM pushing non-free GNU/Linux distro]⠀⇛ Sponsored by Red Hat. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_Microsoft_Azure_Red Hat_OpenShift,_focus_on_innovation_while_we_manage_the_rest [Ed: Red Hat promoting Microsoft]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_– Week_24_2023⠀⇛ This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on the #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat. We provide you with both infographics and text versions of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in-depth details look at the infographic. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The_Fridge:_Extended_Security_Maintenance for_Ubuntu_18.04_LTS_began_on_May_31,_2023⠀⇛ This is a follow-up to the Extended Support warning sent one month ago to confirm that as of May 31, 2023, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS standard support has ended. No more package updates are planned to be accepted to the primary archive of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Station_P2S_Rockchip_RK3568_mini_PC_adds support_for_4G_LTE_cellular_connectivity⠀⇛ Firefly offers Android 11, Ubuntu 20.04, and OpenWrt images for the mini PC, as well as the company’s own Android-based Station OS with desktop and media modes. The product page on the Firefly’s website lists some older operating systems, but it’s probably a copy/paste issue, and the Station P2S OS images are likely to be similar, and possibly the same, as the ones for the Station P2 mini PC found on the download section of stationpc.com website. The Station P2S mini PC does not show up on the Firefly store just yet, but for reference, the Station P2 is now selling for $199 with 2GB RAM and 32GB flash, so the Station P2S Rockchip RK3568 mini PC should probably cost around $250 with 4G LTE connectivity. We are not told how 4G LTE is implemented (soldered module or M.2 module), and which bands are supported, but I suppose those important details will be released before the mini PC actually starts selling… # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Is_Linux_secure?⠀⇛ “Livepatch is a perfect fit for our needs. There’s no other solution like it, and it’s highly cost- effective. Manually migrating virtual machines, applying kernel updates, and rebooting took an average of 32 hours per server. Multiplied by 80 servers, that was more than 2,500 hours of work.” # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Industrial_PC_for_IoT_builds_on_Raspberry_Pi CM4⠀⇛ The CM4 Sensing is an industrial computer designed to address the specific requirements of IoT and data acquisition applications. Leveraging the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4), this compact device offers a versatile and reliable solution for industrial environments. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Long-Distance_Wi-Fi_With_Steam_Deck_Server⠀⇛ It’s no secret that the Steam Deck is a powerful computer, especially for its price point. It has to be capable enough to run modern PC games while being comfortable as a handheld, all while having a useful amount of battery life. Thankfully Valve didn’t lock down the device like most smartphone manufacturers, allowing the computer to run whatever operating system and software the true owner of the device wants to run. That means that a whole world of options is open for this novel computer, like using it to set up an 802.11ah Wi-Fi network over some pretty impressive distances. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ Throwing_in_the_towel_on_mobile_Linux⠀⇛ I have been tinkering with mobile Linux – a phrase I will use here to describe any Linux distribution other than Android running on a mobile device – as my daily driver since about 2019, when I first picked up the PinePhone. For about 3 years I have run mobile Linux as my daily driver on my phone, and as of a few weeks ago, I’ve thrown in the towel and switched to Android. The distribution I ran for the most time is postmarketOS, which I was mostly quite happy with, running at times sxmo and Phosh. I switched to UBports a couple of months ago. I have tried a variety of hardware platforms to support these efforts, namely: # ⚓ India Times ☛ Realme:_Data_tracking_on_Android_phones:_Why Realme_may_not_be_the_only_one_be_at_fault_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Screen_Record_On_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Use_Android’s_Nearby_Share_With_a Mac⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Nokia’s_5G_tech_will_allow_Android_14_users to_buy_optimized_slices_of_5G_for_better_gaming_and_more_– PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_Apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Do_You_Need_to_Install_Updates_on_Your Android_Phone?_What_Happens_When_You_Skip_One?⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Backbone_One_for_Android_PS_Edition_review_–_take your_PlayStation_console_on_the_go_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ All_The_Most_Popular_Map_Apps_For_Android Ranked_Worst_To_Best⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Google_adds_useful_new_features_to_the Android_Play_Books_app_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Best_Open_Source_Email_Servers⠀⇛ It is convenient to use email services like Gmail, Proton Mail, and Outlook to send and receive emails, no matter what email client you use. And, for all of that, you utilize their mail servers for email transactions. So, your emails’ security, reliability, and privacy depend on someone else. But what if you want to own your email infrastructure and have the data in your control? You need an open-source email server, which should solve your problem. o ⚓ Undeadly ☛ OpenSMTPD_7.3.0p0_released⠀⇛ The OpenBSD project has released version 7.3.0p0 of OpenSMTPD, the project’s SMTP server. The announcement reads in part: [...] o ⚓ Alex Ewerlöf ☛ You_build_it,_you_own_it⠀⇛ Back in 2006, Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels said: You build it, you run it It is easy to understand why a company that has built a strong empire around running software would focus on the “run” part. 💰 But allow me to elaborate why the real magic happens with full ownership: You build it, you own it. o ⚓ Sven_Hoexter:_htop_on_stage_in_the_theatre⠀⇛ Always amusing to see some more or less famous open source tools on stage or in movies. Lately we watched THE ME (german only) which is mixing live playing of actors and pre recorded video material. In one of the early video sequences a fictional console interface is displayed, claiming to be running on a Macbook, and htop is used to look for a suspicious process. o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.24:_Free_Book,_Debian_12_Release,_New Bash_Series_[Anniversary_Special]⠀⇛ It’s FOSS is 11 years old now. Get a free Bash book to celebrate the occasion. o ⚓ FSFE ☛ 2023-06-14_[Older]_EU:_Majority_for_AI_Act_—_and safeguards_for_Free_Software⠀⇛ o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Philip_Withnall:_Carbon_emissions_analysis_of_GUADEC_2022⠀⇛ I’ve just finished estimating_the_carbon_emissions from_GUADEC_2022, and have a few interesting highlights from the report. The report is based on data collected from the streaming servers, registration data, and the post-conference survey. # ⚓ GStreamer:_GStreamer_Conference_2023_announced_to_take place_25-26_Sept_2023_in_A_Coruña,_Spain⠀⇛ The GStreamer project is thrilled to announce that this year’s GStreamer Conference will take place on Monday-Tuesday 25-26 September 2023 in A Coruña, Spain, followed by a hackfest. You can find more details about the conference on the GStreamer Conference_2023_web_site. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl_user_survey_2023_analysis⠀⇛ The curl user survey 2023 ran for two full weeks in the end of May, in the same fashion we run it every year. I have then collected all the answers, ran the numbers and looked at the trends and put all the conclusions and graphs into a single document for everyone to enjoy. # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ curl_user_survey_analysis_2023⠀⇛ If you are in too much of a hurry to read it all, here are five key facts this year’s survey revealed: 1. curl users leave Twitter and join Mastodon in quite notable amounts. 2. Windows 11 is growing quickly as a platform curl users are on 3. HTTP/3 is used by a quarter of all curl users 4. WebSocket reached the top-10 of most used protocols before its firth birthday 5. The positive comments in section 21 are heart- warming # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_curl⠀⇛ We spotlight alternatives tools to curl, a utility for transferring data from or to a server, supporting many protocols. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Javascript_modifying_cut_and_paste can_sometimes_be_a_good_thing_in_browsers⠀⇛ This behavior is almost always going to be what you want if you’re copying the text of a Mastodon post that contains one or more links. You almost never want the shortened display version of the link, you want the full URL that the author wrote and that you can use. So Mastodon’s Javascript arranges to give you that full expanded version. A lot of people may not even notice it, because it ‘just works’ from their perspective. The only reason I noticed is that I was expecting to have to copy the full link by hand, and then didn’t need to because it was already there. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Create_Remote_Desktop_Gateway_via Apache_Guacamole_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛ Apache Guacamole is a free and open-source remote desktop gateway that allows you to connect to your computer/server remotely using different protocols such as SSH, RDP, and VNC. Apache Guacamole is maintained by Apache Software Foundation, and licensed with Apache License 2.0. # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Malwarebytes Labs ☛ Edge_browser_feature_sends_images you_view_back_to_Microsoft⠀⇛ Unlike the Video Super Resolution which uses local resources to enhance the quality of video viewed in Microsoft Edge, the pictures submitted to the Enhance images service are sent to Microsoft for processing as Edge loads them. This is enabled by default, so users have to opt out if they don’t want their images to be sent. # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Edge_sends_images_you_view_online_to Microsoft,_here_is_how_to_disable_that_[Update]⠀⇛ The browser now warns that it sends image links to Microsoft instead of performing on- device enhancements. # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Chromium_114.0.5735.133_packages address_critical_bug⠀⇛ Chromium, regular and un-googled. Earlier this week, Google released its 114.0.5735.133 update for Chromium 114. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Vox ☛ The_“anti-intellectual_attack”_on_higher_ed_will_take years_to_undo⠀⇛ Ultimately, these bills threaten democracy, said Irene Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the organization that has long promoted the benefits of faculty tenure and intellectual freedom. By the AAUP’s count, there have been more than 50 such bills in 23 states. “The bills have produced a chilling effect on academic freedom,” Mulvey said. She talked to me about what’s behind these bills and why all academics, even those in blue states and even those with tenure, are under attack. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. # ⚓ Troy Patterson ☛ Mentors⠀⇛ The more I think about it though, the more I realize that mentors should be picked by the “mentee”. I started thinking about my mentors. My mentors include Terry Campbell and Gail Shenkman. I doubt either one of them consciously decided to be a mentor for me. Yet, both were absolutely instrumental for me. Terry believed in me as a younster. He shared so many thoughts, so much practical advice. He firmly believed in kids becoming successful even if they weren’t successful in traditional settings. He had a sense of humor and a pragmatic streak. # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Security_and_Human_Behavior_(SHB)_2023⠀⇛ SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop of people studying various aspects of the human side of security, organized each year by Alessandro Acquisti, Ross Anderson, and myself. The fifty or so attendees include psychologists, economists, computer security researchers, criminologists, sociologists, political scientists, designers, lawyers, philosophers, anthropologists, geographers, neuroscientists, business school professors, and a smattering of others. It’s not just an interdisciplinary event; most of the people here are individually interdisciplinary. Our goal is always to maximize discussion and interaction. We do that by putting everyone on panels, and limiting talks to six to eight minutes, with the rest of the time for open discussion. Short talks limit presenters’ ability to get into the boring details of their work, and the interdisciplinary audience discourages jargon. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Blogs:_FSD_meeting_recap_2023-06-13⠀⇛ Check out the great work our volunteers accomplished at today’s Free Software Directory (FSD) IRC meeting. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_I_will_likely_never_use_AI_programming_tools⠀⇛ I actually like writing code. That’s really it. If I didn’t, I still wouldn’t use it due to the ethical/copyright issues, but I don’t even have to think that far: I just like writing code. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ How_to_Reverse_a_String_in_JavaScript:_A Comprehensive_Guide⠀⇛ In JavaScript, reverse a string is not also a common task but a fundamental operation for building logical and conditional statements. By reversing a string, we can implement powerful algorithms such as checking whether a string remains the same when read forwards or backwards, also known as a palindrome. # ⚓ Jose_Hunter:_Developer_Experience⠀⇛ As part of my internship with the open-source project “Workbench”, I’ve been developing demos showing off new GTK4 and Libadwaita widgets. Workbench is unique in a way, as it is an application aimed at developers. So developer experience is of utmost importance. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ QEMU_recompiled_in_OE_with_more_features⠀⇛ We are discussing QEMU in this forum thread: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8844 An issue with the latest package, qemu-6.2.0-r4- nocona-64.tar.xz, is that it does not show ‘virglrenderer’ as a dependency. In that case, run PKGget to install it. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 17_Open-source_Go_Lang_Blogs_and_CMS_Solutions⠀⇛ Go language, also known as Golang, is an open- source programming language designed for building efficient, reliable, and scalable software. It was developed at Google in 2007 and is now widely used for developing web applications, network tools, and system software. # ⚓ Gentoo ☛ Week_3_Report,_Automated_Gentoo_System_Updater⠀⇛ This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated_Gentoo_System_Updater project during week 3 of GSoC’23. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Update:_zipdump.py_Version_0.0.26⠀⇛ In this new version, new features/updates are: zipdump_v0_0_26.zip (http)MD5: 5F6C82CD17D587D201D59A4B535F3702SHA256: 90D0F0C1FA238DA9FBC6B7100B8EC01B0E155A0BBF22613B2BA22D5190ABF4DF * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_trap_of_booming_self-storage⠀⇛ The Economist ran a surprising story that self-storage has outperformed other real estate in the United States in the past few years. They cite pressures faced from working at home during Covid, and the necessity of converting small spaces into home offices. Stuff, as they point out, has to go somewhere! o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ 400-Million-Year-Old_Fossil_Upends_Our Understanding_of_Fibonacci_Spirals_in_Nature⠀⇛ Such is the prevalence of Fibonacci spirals in plants today that they are believed to represent an ancient and highly conserved feature, dating back to the earliest stages of plant evolution and persisting in their present forms. However, our new study challenges this viewpoint. We examined the spirals in the leaves and reproductive structures of a fossilized plant dating back 407 million years. Surprisingly, we discovered that all of the spirals observed in this particular species did not follow this same rule. Today, only a very few plants don’t follow a Fibonacci pattern. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ On_the_usability_of_number_pads⠀⇛ Work had taken the (sensible) decision that our entry cards weren’t secure enough. In order to gain access to the building we needed to present our card and type in a 4 digital personal PIN number1. Only then would the gates open. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ India_sales_of_realme_show_an_alarming_drop_in 1Q23⠀⇛ Honor was formerly the budget smartphone business of Huawei, but in November 2020 it was sold to a consortium of Chinese companies under the name Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology. The Indian branch of realme is now expected to be managed from Shenzhen where the parent firm is based. Quoting anonymous sources, the ET report said: ‘Further, all teams looking after the market, including the zonal sales managers, area business managers, and regional retail teams are reporting to the regional sales managers, a move which could be the trigger for exits from the company.” realme’s problems are an indication of the current state of the market, with sales falling around the globe for practically all brands. Given the level of competition both outside and inside China, it was only a matter of time before some brands took a hit. # ⚓ Russell Graves ☛ Bulb_Reviews:_A_Range_of_Modern_LED Bulbs⠀⇛ This week’s set of bulb reviews is about a range of regular LED bulbs you can find various places – they’re not wifi connected, they’re not networked, they’re just bulbs (do we have to call them “dumb bulbs” now?). Some are better than others in the evenings. And some have a switch on the side you can toggle to change the color temperature, which is a new feature I’ve not seen until quite recently. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Chinese_Company_Allegedly_Stole_from Applied_Materials⠀⇛ Applied Materials files a lawsuit against Chinese- based Mattson. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Pep_Boys_in_Waukegan,_Illinois Botches_My_Vehicle_Alignment⠀⇛ Pep Boys in Waukegan, Illinois Botches My Vehicle Alignment I don’t normally go to Pep Boys anymore because their prices are way higher than other shops now and they got rid of their parts business. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Ethiopia_Earns_$1.15_billion_from_Coffee Exports⠀⇛ Ethiopia, for the first time in its history, exported 300,000 metric tons of coffee valued at $1.4 billion to the global market last year. The achievement was made when the price of Arabica coffee in the global market enjoyed well above $2 per pound for most of 2022. # ⚓ El País ☛ Nighttime_lighting_is_harmful_to_human_health⠀⇛ This week, the journal Science published a special edition focused on light pollution with half a dozen papers that review what science knows about its many, varied impacts. The review cites, for instance, how most of the planet’s telescopes are no longer able to see the sky the way they did just a few years ago. It also mentions a work from 2020 that showed how artificial light was disrupting animal life. One of the mechanisms of this disturbance has to do with a hormone that humans share with practically all living beings: melatonin. This hormone intervenes in the biological clock, increasing its production and release at dusk and reducing it when the day begins, inducing sleep or awakening. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Everyone_Says_Social_Media_Is_Bad_for Teens._Proving_It_Is_Another_Thing.⠀⇛ The surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, warned last month that social media carried a “profound risk of harm,” but he didn’t name any apps or websites. His report acknowledged that “there isn’t a single, widely accepted scholarly definition of social media.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ RFK_Jr:_Should_Fauci_be_Prosecuted?_Will_RFK Jr_Take_Big_Money?_&_More⠀⇛ Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave interview 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about Covid-19 and how he would have handled the response to the pandemic differently. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ El País ☛ Isaac_Asimov’s_disturbing_message_for_21st- century_humankind⠀⇛ The writer imagined a society managed by interconnected computers; was worried about an ecological crisis caused by pollution and the extinction of species, which only international cooperation could solve; and he foresaw the dilemmas that would arise from the coexistence between people and intelligent machines. Regarding this last matter, he saw two possible outcomes: AI systems taking our jobs and leaving us destitute, or freeing us from painful or routine tasks, allowing us to develop our creativity. We still do not know which of these two directions the future will take. # ⚓ The Drone Girl ☛ Does_this_American_airline_have_what_it takes_to_become_America’s_largest_drone_airline?⠀⇛ If you’ve never heard of Ameriflight, that’s because it’s a cargo — not a passenger — airline. But in fact, Ameriflight is the nation’s largest Part 135 Cargo airline, operating to destinations in 250 cities across 43 U.S. states plus Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. And now, it’s taken a big step ahead in its ability to deliver cargo via drones. With this step in the partnership, Ameriflight will soon operate the Matternet M2 drone for package delivery to Matternet’s customers. The flights will occur nationwide, but will be managed from a central, regulatory-compliant Remote Operating Center located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. # § Windows TCO⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Third_MOVEit_bug_fixed_a_day_after PoC_exploit_made_public⠀⇛ Meanwhile, the list of bodies and companies hit by Clop – which has exploited MOVEit’s security shortcomings to steal data from organizations – keeps growing. On Friday, oil and gas giant Shell reportedly became the first organization to have its stolen data published on the Clop leak site, according to infosec guru Dominic Alvieri. Clop demands a ransom payment from victims or it threatens to leak any data swiped from them. # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Shell_confirms_impact of_Clop_ransomware_attack_on_MOVEit_file_transfer tool⠀⇛ Oil and gas giant Shell has confirmed that it was impacted by the Clop ransomware attacks. The Clop ransomware gang breached the MOVEit file transfer tool, and Shell was listed as one of the victims on the group’s extortion site. This is the second time that Shell has been targeted by the Clop gang through a file transfer service. Shell, a British oil and gas multinational, employs over 80,000 people globally and reported revenues exceeding $381 billion last year. A spokesperson for Shell stated that the cyber security incident affected a third- party tool called MOVEit Transfer, which is used by a small number of Shell employees and customers. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Receives_Ransom_Requests_From_Russia- Linked_Group_After_Data_Breach⠀⇛ The U.S. Department of Energy received ransom requests from a Russia-linked extortion group at its nuclear waste facility and at scientific education facilities, a spokesperson said on June 16. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Illinois_Hospital_First_To_Shut_Down Completely_After_Ransomware_Attack⠀⇛ You may have noticed that for-profit healthcare in the U.S. is already a hot mess, especially in the most already marginalized parts of the country. Giant, mismanaged health care conglomerates have long pushed their underfunded staffers to the brink, while routinely under-investing in necessary technical upgrades and improvements. It’s getting consistently worse everywhere, but in particular in rural or poor regions of the U.S. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ ChamelDoH:_New_Linux_Backdoor_Utilizing_DNS- over-HTTPS_Tunneling_for_Covert_CnC [Ed: It's not "Linux Backdoor"; it's intentional misreporting by a Microsoft- friendly FUD site]⠀⇛ The malware, dubbed ChamelDoH by Stairwell, is a C++-based tool for communicating via DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) tunneling. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ In_Other_News:_Linux_Kernel_Exploits, Update_on_BEC_Losses,_Cybersecurity_Awareness_Act [Ed: "Bug bounties for Linux kernel exploits" became just "Linux Kernel Exploits" in the headline]⠀⇛ Cybersecurity news that you may have missed this week: Bug bounties for Linux kernel exploits, Cybersecurity Awareness Act, FBI data on BEC losses.  # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_22.10_Kinetic_Kudu_dies_on_July_20,_upgrade now [Ed: Now "dies", just not officially patched]⠀⇛ Canonical has said Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu will reach end of life on July 20. # ⚓ US_Energy_Dept_gets_two_ransom_notices_as_MOVEit_hack claims_more_victims⠀⇛ The U.S. Department of Energy got ransom requests from the Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p at both its nuclear waste facility and scientific education facility that were recently hit in a global hacking campaign, a spokesperson said on Friday. The DOE contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the New Mexico-based facility for disposal of defense-related radioactive nuclear waste, were hit in the attack, which was first reported on Thursday. # ⚓ Data_breach_at_Public_Appointments_Service_involving_15,000 people⠀⇛ The personal information of 15,471 candidates for public roles has been released in error by the Public Appointments Service (PAS). A message was sent to the affected candidates through the publicjobs.ie portal notifying the candidates affected their names and jobs alert notifications they had subscribed to may have been provided to other candidates. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Healthcare_and_Public_Health_Sector Cybersecurity_Notification:_#TimisoaraHackerTeam_Analysis⠀⇛ # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ BlackCat_claims_they_hacked_Reddit_and_will leak_the_data⠀⇛ In our last email to them, we stated that we wanted $4.5 million in exchange for the deletion of the data and our silence. As we also stated, if we had to make this public, then we now demand that they also withdraw their API pricing changes along with our money or we will leak it. We expect to leak the data. # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-12_[Older]_Fortinet_Releases_Security Updates_for_FortiOS_and_FortiProxy⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_Adobe_Releases_Security_Updates for_Multiple_Products⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_Cisco_Releases_Security Advisories_for_Multiple_Products⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_Microsoft_Releases_June_2023 Security_Updates⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Barracuda_Networks_Releases Update_to_Address_ESG_Vulnerability⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_CISA,_FBI,_and_MS-ISAC_Update Joint_CSA_on_Progress_Telerik_Vulnerabilities⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Fourteen_Industrial Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_SUBNET_PowerSYSTEM_Center⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Advantech_WebAccess/SCADA⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Siemens_SIMOTION⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Siemens_SIMATIC_WinCC⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Siemens_SIMATIC_WinCC_V7⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Siemens_SIMATIC_STEP_7_and Derived_Products⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Siemens_Solid_Edge⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Siemens_SIMATIC_S7-1500_TM_MFP BIOS⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Siemens_SINAMICS_Medium_Voltage Products⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Siemens_SICAM_A8000_Devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-14_[Older]_CISA_and_NSA_Release_Joint Guidance_on_Hardening_Baseboard_Management_Controllers_ (BMCs)⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_CISA_Adds_One_Known_Exploited Vulnerability_to_Catalog⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_CISA_Issues_BOD_23-02:_Mitigating the_Risk_from_Internet-Exposed_Management_Interfaces⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Four_Industrial Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_Fortinet_Releases_June_2023 Vulnerability_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_Datalogics_Library_Third-Party⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_Rockwell_Automation_FactoryTalk Services_Platform⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_Rockwell_Automation_FactoryTalk Edge_Gateway⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-13_[Older]_Rockwell_Automation_FactoryTalk Transaction_Manager⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-06-15_[Older]_Progress_Software_Releases Security_Advisory_for_MOVEit_Transfer_Vulnerability⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ WhichUK ☛ One_in_seven_Which?_members_have_struggled to_pay_with_cash_at_a_business_or_retailer⠀⇛ In fact, the Bank of England says that legal tender has a ‘narrow technical meaning’, which has no use in everyday life. It means that if you offer to fully pay off a debt to someone in legal tender, they can’t sue you for failing to repay. However, with millions of people still reliant on or prefer to use cash, it makes sense for businesses to make every effort to accept it. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Google_searchers_from_years_past can_get_paid_for_pilfered_privacy⠀⇛ Under the terms of the settlement agreement, hammered out last August and published on a website earlier this month, Google is admitting no wrongdoing. However, having done nothing wrong, the company still intends to pay $23 million to resolve the privacy lawsuit, known as In re Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation, Case No. 5:10-cv- 4809-EJD. Google users during this period have until Monday, July 31, 2023, to register and file a claim to be paid, to file for exclusion from the settlement, or to file an objection prior to the October 12, 2023 Final Approval Hearing. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ FTC_accuses_genetic_testing company_of_exposing_sensitive_health_data⠀⇛ The FTC alleges that the California-based 1health previously known as Vitagene, deceived customers about its privacy policy, retroactively changed that policy and misled customers about its process for deleting data. The company will pay $75,000 to the FTC for consumer refunds as part of a settlement with the agency. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Smart_Home_System_=_Home_System_That_Amazon Can_Mess_With_If_It_Doesn’t_Like_What_You_Say?⠀⇛ From a Medium post by Brandon Jackson, a Microsoft engineer: Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly a week, from Thursday, May 25. This wasn’t just a simple inconvenience, though. I have a smart home, and my primary means of interfacing… o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Mali_Wants_Withdrawal_of_UN_Peacekeepers⠀⇛ The West African country has faced an insurgency since 2012. The U.N. peacekeeping mission was deployed in 2013 but the instability continues. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Taliban_Government_Runs_on_WhatsApp. There’s_Just_One_Problem.⠀⇛ The United States has long criminalized any form of support for the Taliban. Consequently, WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, scans group names, descriptions and group profile photos on the messaging app to identify users among the Taliban and block their accounts, according to a spokesman for the company. The policy has been in place since U.S. sanctions were enacted more than two decades ago. Even when the Taliban were an insurgency, the ban handicapped some fighters who relied on the app because it catered to people with neither literacy nor technological skills; using WhatsApp’s voice message feature, they could send messages and listen to the verbal instructions from their commanders with the press of a button. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_considers_banning_dual-use_goods_transit, fearing_they_end_up_in_Russia⠀⇛ Armonaitė says the proposal is to restrict the shipment of 65 commodity codes, adding, however, that the list may change. “Some of the dual-use and potentially dual-use goods can be used both in household appliances and in armaments, and what the data from our services shows is that these goods, which we have already identified, the 65 codes, are also being used on the battlefield,” the minister said. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ True_Democracy_Is_Incompatible_With Capitalism⠀⇛ The problem, Wolf seems to believe, is that neoliberals, in all their zeal for the end of history, spread free markets too far and too fast. The shock therapy of the 1990s was not coupled with measures to alleviate the social and economic tensions that came with it. The argument is reminiscent of that put forward by progressive political theorist Karl Polanyi, who believed that capitalist free markets spread too quickly for societies to adapt. Those whose lives and ideals were threatened by the emergence of this brave new world would push back against the encroachment of the “market society” — often supporting authoritarian strongmen to do so. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Twitter_Runs_Ads_for_Disney,_Microsoft,_and_the NBA_Next_to_Neo-Nazi_Propaganda⠀⇛ Twitter ran ads from household-name brands like Disney, Microsoft, and The Telegraph newspaper alongside neo-Nazi propaganda this week. Family- friendly media conglomerates, tech giants, and legacy newspapers running ads on social media platforms may try to do so with some confidence their names won’t appear plastered next to racist, hateful imagery, but that’s far from guaranteed on Elon Musk’s new Twitter. Users tweeted screenshots of the ads beside clips an antisemitic film, and Gizmodo was able to verify that the ads were still being shown against the videos via simple searches. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Uruguay_Will_Turn_a_Bronze_Nazi_Eagle_Into a_Dove⠀⇛ The artifact, once part of a German warship, was recovered by a private venture off Uruguay’s coast in 2006. It’s been the subject of a legal battle for years. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_nukes_are_now_in_Belarus,_says_Putin_— Meduza⠀⇛ In remarks at this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Vladimir Putin confirmed that Russia has delivered the first batch of nuclear weapons to facilities in Belarus, vowing that more warheads will arrive before the end of the year. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ Daniel_Ellsberg,_Pentagon_Papers_whistleblower,_dead at_92⠀⇛ After attempting to call attention to the classified documents — which showed the U.S. did not believe it could win the war in Vietnam despite claims to the contrary from the administration — among politicians, Ellsberg eventually passed the documents to The New York Times, which published them on the front page in June 1971. [...] The government sued The New York Times to stop publishing of the Pentagon Papers, but the U.S. Supreme Court would eventually rule in favor of the Times and the publication would resume. Ellsberg would leak the documents to The Washington Post days before the Supreme Court ruling. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Remembering_Daniel_Ellsberg⠀⇛ The world lost an unmistakable voice this week, as Daniel Ellsberg passed away at 92.   Dan will be remembered for many things, of course most prominently providing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971. Although he hated being called one, he was rightly a hero to anyone who believes that we must be in a position to evaluate our governments and cast our votes based upon truth rather than lies.   The biggest lesson Dan taught me was to see the dangers arising from governmental secrecy from the position of those keeping the secrets. Dan talked about how the government was too often driven by what he called “smart dumb” people. He talked about how governmental officials’ proximity to power and insider knowledge led them to do stupid things—like continuing a war that was clearly lost, or lying about weapons of mass destruction—and how these kinds of terrible misjudgments and mistakes are as inevitable as they are insidious. Dan was as steadfast in debunking the myths surrounding governmental secrecy as he was in giving unwavering public support to others who took courageous steps to tell the truth about illegal, immoral, and improper governmental actions, especially around matters of national security. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_Life_of_Hope,_Well_Lived⠀⇛ We mourn the loss of Daniel Ellsberg, singularly principled truth-teller, activist and “patriarch of whistleblowing” who exposed the murderous lies of the Vietnam War – with, it turns out, the help of his 13-year-old son – and spent the next 50-plus years bearing righteous witness to “the human consequences (of) what we’re doing” – our wars, ravages of the planet, dalliance with nuclear mayhem. A fierce ally of “those who care about the others,” he grew weary but never hopeless, insisting, “One candle lights another.” # ⚓ American Oversight ☛ News_Roundup:_Lawsuits_Against Louisiana_and_Ohio_Secretaries_of_State⠀⇛ # ⚓ NPR ☛ History-making_whistleblower_Daniel_Ellsberg_has_died at_92⠀⇛ In the statement, Ellsberg family said that in the months since the diagnosis, “he continued to speak out urgently to the media about nuclear dangers, especially the danger of nuclear war posed by the Ukraine war and Taiwan.” “Daniel was a seeker of truth and a patriotic truth-teller, an antiwar activist, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great- grandfather, a dear friend to many, and an inspiration to countless more. He will be dearly missed by all of us,” according to the statement Ellsberg never ran for office and only occasionally appeared on TV. But he altered the course of U.S. history in a way few private citizens ever have. # ⚓ [Old] NPR ☛ 40_Years_Later,_Pentagon_Papers_Being Declassified;_Go_Online_Today⠀⇛ Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon whistleblower who was the papers primary leaker, tells the AP that it’s unlikely many new secrets will be spilled. But Ellsberg believes the value in today’s document dump, the AP says, is “in having the entire study finally brought together and put online, giving today’s generations ready access to it.” The Times, meanwhile, says the papers “will now appear in the context in which they were first written, along with several volumes that have not been published, including a section on the United States training the Vietnamese national army, a statistical survey of the war from 1965 to 1967 and some supporting documents.” # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ We’re_Told_Never_to_Meet_Our_Childhood Heroes._Knowing_Daniel_Ellsberg_Proved_That_Wrong⠀⇛ Daniel Ellsberg, the renowned Pentagon Papers whistleblower, single-handedly destroyed the validity of this advice for me. Ellsberg was one of my two or three top childhood heroes. Though I was only four years old in 1971, when he knowingly assumed a high probability of life in prison to inform the American people about systemic lying by the U.S. government regarding the war in Vietnam, I became engrossed by both the Pentagon Papers and Watergate dramas as I entered adolescence. Those became the formative events for my understanding of politics and journalism. The lies told by leading Pentagon and CIA officials about the Vietnam War were numerous, and they came fast and furious from the start of the U.S. role in the war in the early 1960s to its end in the mid- 1970s. The lie that led Ellsberg to risk his liberty to expose was central. Top Pentagon and other U.S. security-state officials were publicly insisting they were getting closer and closer to winning the war, all while privately admitting from the start that victory would be impossible, that the best-case scenario was a stalemate with the North Vietnamese. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Daniel_Ellsberg’s_Life_Beyond_the_Pentagon Papers⠀⇛ As he aged, Ellsberg grew frustrated that people associated him primarily with having leaked the Pentagon Papers and that they knew little of the six decades that he had subsequently spent as an anti-nuclear activist, getting arrested as many as ninety times in civil-disobedience protests. “Really, only the people who’d been doing anti- nuclear resistance with me knew, though it’s actually been the theme of my life since I was twenty-seven,” he told me. “That part nobody’s written about at all.’’ In 2017, Ellsberg tried to remedy that, publishing “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner,” a memoir of his role in building the American nuclear arsenal at RAND and the Pentagon, which warned of nuclear disaster if the U.S. and other nuclear powers failed to take more active steps toward disarmament. # ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ The_Loving_Truth-Teller_That_Was_Daniel Ellsberg⠀⇛ Dan was in rare form during our recorded interview. The moment I started asking questions he was energized. We spoke for nearly two hours, and he never told me that I needed to end the interview. I probably could have talked with him for another half hour if I wanted. Multiple times Dan paused. A glimmer appeared in his eyes as he chimed, “Okay, I’ll tell you something I’ve never said publicly.” Then he would share an extraordinary anecdote. Or he would acknowledge that he was “coming to a point,” where he did not have to worry about “antagonizing” a media organization or particular media figure. So Dan would call them out. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ California_Governor_Proposes Rolling_Back_Access_to_Police_Misconduct_Records⠀⇛ The Newsom administration now wants to get rid of that transparency element. The commission says the public could still get the records from police departments. But advocates say local police departments often resist releasing that information. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Salon ☛ The_US_will_send_depleted_uranium_munitions_to Ukraine_—_a_health_physicist_explains_what_that_means⠀⇛ Fragments and much smaller particles from exploded DU munitions can remain in soil long after conflicts end. This has raised concerns about possible radiation or toxic threats to people who come across these materials, such as local residents or peacekeeping forces. In general, studies of people who were inadvertently exposed to battlefield remnants of depleted uranium munitions show low radiation doses and low levels of chemical exposure that were generally indistinguishable from background level. In terms of environmental impacts, the scientific literature is largely silent on the extent to which plants or animals can absorb DU from munition fragments, although laboratory studies indicate that this is possible. Researchers and health professionals agree that very high levels of uranium, depleted or otherwise, may cause chemical toxicity in plants – but if this were to happen, it would likely be in the immediate vicinity where the munitions exploded. Scientists continue to examine how DU particles behave in the environment, in order to improve our ability to predict long-term environmental effects. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ The_US_will_send_depleted_uranium munitions_to_Ukraine_–_a_health_physicist_explains_their military,_health_and_environmental_effects⠀⇛ It’s already clear that large areas of Ukraine’s territory will contain the residues of conflict, including weapon fragments, spilled fuels and explosive residues, long after the fighting there ends. The U.S. and U.K. governments clearly believe that providing DU munitions will improve Ukraine’s ability to defeat Russian tanks and bring this conflict to an end. # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Opinion:_The_US_will_send_depleted uranium_munitions_to_Ukraine—despite_military,_health_and environmental_effects⠀⇛ DU munitions, developed in the 1970s, are not nuclear weapons and do not produce a nuclear explosion. But soldiers or civilians can be exposed to the uranium, either in combat or afterward. Health physicist Kathryn Higley explains what depleted uranium is and what’s known about potential health and environmental risks. # ⚓ Gannett ☛ Detroit_once_again_experiencing_unhealthy_air quality_due_to_Canadian_wildfire_smoke⠀⇛ According to the National Weather Service, the recent increase is due to the Canadian wildfires as the smoke continues to drift south. Canadian wildfires also contributed to unhealthy air quality earlier this month and in late May. Detroit’s primary pollutant is PM2.5, fine particulate matter that can be inhaled and cause aggravated asthma and difficulty breathing. # ⚓ El País ☛ Drought_turns_one_of_Spain’s_largest_lagoons_into a_salt_desert⠀⇛ At six kilometers (3.7 miles) long, this saltwater lagoon is the largest in Andalusia and one of the largest in Spain. It measures about 1,400 hectares and is located a few kilometers from Antequera. The lagoon came to host 20,000 pairs of flamingos; according to the Andalusian government, the Iberian Peninsula’s largest colony of flamingos, and the second largest in Europe, regularly nests there. Now, the lack of rain has left it dry. Data from the Andalusian government indicate that since the current water year began last October, through mid- May, only 220 liters per square meter have fallen in the area, half the usual average. In March of any other year, the birds would have found at least 20 centimeters of water — a sufficient amount for flamingos — and built their nests on a natural island located in the center; this year, there wasn’t even a centimeter of water, so the flamingos have bypassed the area. For that reason, the Department of the Environment has decided to cancel the traditional ringing of hatchlings, an event between July and August that has been held for scientific purposes since 1984. It was also suspended in 2021 due to lack of water and in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. # ⚓ Matt_Brown:_Ventilation_Monitoring_Market_Research⠀⇛ Over the last month I’ve performed some market research to better understand the potential for co2mon.nz and to help me decide whether the product I’ve built has a fit with the market or not. The key conclusions I’ve drawn from this work are: [...] # ⚓ 2023-06-14_[Older]_Danish_energy_consumption_nears_50 percent_sustainability⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-06-14_[Older]_Ethiopia_Earns $83m_From_Energy_Export⠀⇛ # ⚓ RTL ☛ France_to_plough_cash_into_low-emission_planes: Macron⠀⇛ Paris would dedicate 300 million euros ($330 million) to aircraft and motor research, Macron said during a visit to jet engine maker Safran just outside the capital. Public and private cash would also be funnelled to developing small electric or hydrogen-powered aircraft and renewable fuels, including a biofuel plant for southwest France. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Is_[Cryptocurrency]_Dead?⠀⇛ Even before the SEC announcements, [cryptocurrency] was in trouble. Dozens of firms had failed, millions of individual investors had plunged into the red or cashed out, and billions of dollars of institutional investment had moved on. Beset by long- standing problems of its own invention, the industry now faces not just a regulatory crisis but an existential one too: Is [cryptocurrency] down, or is it dead? # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Why_a_New_Coal_Plant_in_Bangladesh Keeps_Running_Out_of_Coal⠀⇛ The problems are an early warning for countries, especially poorer ones, that are investing in new coal-burning plants even as solar and wind get cheaper. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Binance_Reaches_Deal_With_Government to_Avert_U.S._Shutdown⠀⇛ The Securities and Exchange Commission agreed on a compromise with Binance that will keep the exchange open as it battles a fraud lawsuit. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Light_pollution_is_taking_the sparkle_out_of_glow-worm_mating⠀⇛ Light generated outside of the natural cycle of the sun and moon can have unwanted effects, however, and is actually a form of pollution. Like other kinds, light pollution can harm animals, particularly nocturnal ones. Some predators which would otherwise turn in for the day are instead now choosing to hunt after dusk and disrupting entire food webs. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Killer_Whales_Are_Not_Our_Friends⠀⇛ Stop rooting for the orcas ramming boats. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania’s_crisis_centre_decides_against declaring_national_emergency_over_drought⠀⇛ The ten municipalities that have already declared an extreme situation due to drought are the districts of Klaipėda, Kretinga, Vilkaviškis, Rokiškis, Plungė, Šilutė, Pakruojis, Šakiai, Telšiai and Mažeikiai. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ Why_2024_Is_Shaping_Up_To_Be_The_Most_Online_Election Ever⠀⇛ If these references to pudding fingers and glowing- eyed Biden memes bemuse you, congratulations. You probably don’t spend nearly as much time rooting around in the sewers of the internet as I do. But chances are, you’ve noticed at least some of these hyper-online political moments — 2024 candidates are banking on it. And while campaigns have had an online component for decades now, I’m not simply talking about candidates having a social media presence or a website of questionable design. We’re in a moment of transition, one in which candidates increasingly feel pressured to engage with and respond to every Twitter debate, TikTok microtrend and obscure meme in order to feel relevant, but also one in which most candidates didn’t grow up as digital natives. The result is a dizzying cascade of online content and IRL1 references to it that is as likely to make voters cringe as to delight them. And there are still 17 months until Election Day. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ How_Britain_can_become_an_AI_superpower⠀⇛ The country does have some advantages. It is home to several important AI companies, mostly in London—in particular, Google DeepMind. It has excellent universities, and welcomes the highly skilled foreign workers that AI companies need. The state generates troves of data; no other country has such an array of health records under a single entity, the National Health Service (NHS). And Brexit creates a chance to adopt an appealing regulatory position that could be a model for medium-sized countries around the world as they also rush to join the AI party. But there are problems aplenty, too. The most obvious is that Britain is a smallish place. America’s dominance in tech exerts a steady pull on capital, people and ideas, and American firms duly dominate in AI. The way Brexit was done means that Britain has lost access to the European Union’s single market. Although Oracle has a cluster of the advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) needed to train large models, none of the cloud-computing giants has yet chosen Britain as the base for what techies call the “compute”. # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Reddit_CEO_says_the_mods_leading_a punishing_blackout_are_too_powerful_and_he_will_change_the site’s_rules_to_weaken_them⠀⇛ Reddit mods hold a lot of power, which many believe is earned from the amount of unpaid labor they put into the site. Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Northwestern University estimated in a study last year that the number of hours worked by Reddit mods in 2020 was worth $3.4 million. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ The_Titanic_Truthers_of_TikTok⠀⇛ On the short-form video app, long-established facts about the crash are being newly litigated as musty rumors merge with fresh misinformation and manipulated content — a demonstration of TikTok’s potent ability to seed historical revisionism about even the most deeply studied cases. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ An_AI_Is_Inventing_Fake_Quotes_by_Real People_and_Publishing_Them_Online⠀⇛ Among other causes for concern, there’s no contact information, and the many thousands of articles in the site’s sizable archive only date back to January 2023. Most importantly, of these thousands of published stories, the vast majority contain telltale signs of AI generation. The text is generic and lacks backlinks for sources, and the included pictures — a garbled, illegible mess of horrifying, hilarious, or otherwise bizarre images — often appear to be AI- generated as well. So, in other words, a lot of red flags. But it actually gets worse. Upon closer inspection, the text of the site’s AI- produced articles is often riddled with misinformation, including AI-fabricated quotes — which, concerningly, are often attributed to entirely real people. # ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ What_Is_a_Deepfake,_How_Can_You_Spot One,_and_How_Can_They_Be_Dangerous?⠀⇛ Deepfakes are videos, audio, or images meant to look like a person said or did something that they didn’t. They are created by feeding the existing media of a person into software programs that use a kind of artificial intelligence (AI) called “deep learning.” The AI learns key traits of its subjects, such as facial features, mannerisms, or the way the person speaks, and it learns the traits of other people, too. It uses all this data to create new or manipulated images, videos, or audio. AI can also create pictures of people who do not actually exist through what is called generative adversarial networks (GAN). # ⚓ Variety ☛ TikTok_and_YouTube_Key_to_Reaching_the_U.S. Hispanic_Audience⠀⇛ The “Latino Mosaic Study” found that one in five Hispanics say TikTok is where they most often learn about new products and services, close to double that for the general population. Once YouTube is included, the number swells to over a third of U.S. Hispanics using the two digital media platforms as their primary discovery source. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Flipping_The_Channels:_Moldova_Faces_A_Huge Challenge_Countering_Pro-Kremlin_Propaganda⠀⇛ After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin upped its disinformation game, experts say, exploiting traditional and social media and other tools to spin its narrative as it faced global condemnation for its aggression. And Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest nations, appeared to be at or near the top of the Kremlin’s hit list. To fight back, Chisinau first banned Russian news programs, then a few months later blocked several TV channels from broadcasting. More recently, Maia Sandu, the country’s pro-Western president, proposed creating a state center to monitor Russian disinformation and propaganda, saying the lies spread on television and social media were “the most dangerous weapon.” o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ NBC ☛ Jamal_Khashoggi’s_widow_says_he_wouldn’t_want_Saudi Arabia_penalized_amid_golf_deal⠀⇛ The widow of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist whose 2018 murder fueled international outrage and embroiled Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in scandal, says her husband’s killing should not prevent the country from cutting major deals in the United States or turn it into a pariah state. In an interview Friday with NBC News, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said that her late husband would agree that the people of Saudi Arabia — the country of his birth — shouldn’t be penalized because of the actions of a few. The Saudi government has come under scrutiny again after reaching a surprise deal last week between LIV Golf, a Saudi-backed upstart league, and the PGA Tour, an organizer of top-level professional golf tournaments mostly in the U.S. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Khashoggi_widow_suing_Israeli_firm,_says_spyware caused_her_to_‘constantly_be_looking_over_her_shoulder’⠀⇛ Khashoggi, a fervent critic of the Saudi government, was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. A U.S. intelligence report found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing. Following Khashoggi’s killing, Elatr was put under house arrest in Dubai before going into hiding in the U.S. Elatr’s suit says the spyware “caused her immense harm, both through the tragic loss of her husband and through her own loss of safety, privacy, and autonomy, as well as the loss of her financial stability and career.” # ⚓ ABC ☛ Men_charged_with_vandalizing_homes_of_New_Hampshire journalists⠀⇛ “Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of any health democracy and these three men are now accused of infringing on that freedom by conspiring to harass and intimidate two New Hampshire journalists who were simply doing their jobs,” said Christopher DiMenna, acting special agent in charge of the Boston FBI office. The targets were a New Hampshire Public Radio reporter and editor. In six incidents in April and May 2022, their homes and the home of the reporter’s parents were hit with bricks, rocks and red spray paint. In one incident, a brick was thrown through the reporter’s window and the phrase “JUST THE BEGINNING!” was spray-painted on the front of her home. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Indonesian_Official_Accused_of_Enslaving People⠀⇛ Families in Indonesia thought they were sending their sons to a rehab facility run by a powerful local official. Those who stayed there say it was a brutal human slavery operation. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ My_Church_Was_Part_of_the_Slave_Trade. This_Has_Not_Shaken_My_Faith.⠀⇛ Enslaved people have been largely left out of the origin story traditionally told about the emergence of Catholicism in the United States. # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Tribes_seek_greater_involvement_in_talks on_Colorado_River_water_crisis⠀⇛ As the federal government starts negotiations on long-term plans for the overtapped Colorado River, leaders of tribes are pushing for more involvement in the talks, saying they want to be at the table in high-level discussions among the seven states that rely on the river. The 30 tribes in the Colorado River Basin have rights to use roughly one-fourth of the river’s average supply. But over the past century, leaders of tribal nations were largely excluded from regional talks about river management, and only in recent years have they begun to play a larger role. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Small-town_Pennsylvania_officers_kicked,_punched_and choked_arrestees,_indictment_alleges⠀⇛ The indictment accuses the three men of trying to hide their alleged crimes by avoiding cameras and lying about the victims. # ⚓ Ali Reza Hayati ☛ Growing_up_to_care_about_details⠀⇛ My blog has a lot of media that don’t have proper alt text and I regret that I published them the way I did but I’ve decided to not do that again. Accessibility is important and it’s just one minor detail that I care about now. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Bahai_community_marks_grim_anniversary_in Iran⠀⇛ One of the cruelest crimes to have befallen the oppressed Bahai minority of Iran took place 40 years ago in the southern city of Shiraz. On June 18, 1983, 10 women aged 17 to 57 were executed. As they waited their turn, they were forced to watch as their fellow prisoners were hanged one by one in a public square. Their “crime” was that they belonged to the Bahai faith and had refused to renounce it. The youngest was Mona Mahmoudnejad, a 17-year-old who had taught Bahai children who had been forbidden from attending school. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Google_to_wind_down_Google_Domains,_sell assets_to_Squarespace⠀⇛ In a surprise announcement on Thursday, Google LLC revealed plans to wind down Google Domains and sell its assets to website building and hosting company Squarespace Inc. ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ State_Officials_Highlight_Discrepancies_Between_Updated FCC_Map_and_Ground_Truth⠀⇛ Sascha Meinrath, telecommunications professor at Penn State University, said in an email that the maps “are neither accurate – they vastly overstate service availability – nor precise – with failure rates of 10 to 20 percent in correctly identifying rural broadband serviceable locations and huge problems correctly identifying homes versus garages in many cities.” ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Sites_redirecting_you_to_localised_nothing⠀⇛ This is happening more and more. I’ll visit a global website for a computer or camera site, and the server will detect I’m in a different country. They’ll claim there’s an Australian or Singapore- specific page I can go to for more relevant information, which I’ll click through to. Invariably, I get a 404 on that localised site. ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Activists_Call_BS_On_FBI’s_Section_702_Abuse_Band-Aid,_Demand Major_Reforms_To_Surveillance_Power⠀⇛ It’s renewal time again, and this time the snooper squad is facing unprecedented push back. Sure, a lot of it is politically motivated, what with the post-Trumpians still getting high on their own “deep state” supply. Even as opportunistic as they are, they still have a point: some of their own have been subjected to some very questionable surveillance. ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Twitch_Rolls_Out_New_Tiered_Revenue_Splits,_Pissing_Creators_Off Yet_Again⠀⇛ Amazon-owned Twitch appears to be running something of an experiment to see just how much it can piss off its creative community before a mass exodus occurs. Reading back through our posts on the platform, you will be left with the understanding that there are two types of policy rollouts when it comes to Twitch. There are the policies the company rolls out and almost immediately has to rescind after everyone gets wildly angry. And then there are the polices the company rolls out that result in just as much anger, but where the platform ignores the anger and gives its creative community the middle finger. ⚓ EFF ☛ There_is_Nothing_Fair_About_the_European_Commission’s_“Fair_Share” Proposal⠀⇛ After the European Commission held a public consultation on whether they should adopt what they call a “fair share” proposal, they unfortunately voted to move forward with this dangerous plan. This proposal is nothing but a network usage fees regime, which would force certain companies to pay internet service providers (ISPs) for their ability to deliver content to consumers. This idea not only hurts consumers, but also breaks a status quo that facilitated and continues to facilitate the rapid spread of the global internet. Accordingly,  we filed comments that called for the European Commission to abandon this completely unfair idea altogether. The misguided idea behind the consultation is that large ISPs are suffering mightily because the companies that create and/or deliver information and content online, called content and applications providers (CAPs), are freeriding off the ISPs physical infrastructure networks. The CAPs you may be most familiar with go by another acronym — FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google) — but also encompasses companies who provide many other services. The ISPs claim they incur costs for delivering this content and that as CAPs push more and more content, those costs increase. They also claim that the increase in internet traffic that has led to increasing costs are in fact caused by the CAPs. Taken together, because the CAPs both cause the traffic and don’t pay for the delivery of their services, CAPs should pay ISPs their “fair share” for using the network. § Monopolies⠀➾ * § Trademarks⠀➾ o ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential_No._18:_BOYS_WORLD_Functions_Not_Only_as the_Name_of_a_Musical_Group,_But_Also_as_a_Trademark⠀⇛ The Board reversed a failure-to-function refusal of BOYS WORLD for “audio recordings featuring music,” ruling that the term not only identifies the musical group but also serves as a trademark for the group’s recordings. In_re ZeroSix,_LLC, Serial No. 88981832 [re-designated as precedential, June 14, 2023] (Opinion by Judge Michael B. Adlin). * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Music_Publishers_Face_Recalcitrant_Elon_Musk In_Copyright_Lawsuit_vs._Twitter⠀⇛ A group of music publishers is suing Elon Musk’s Twitter for copyright infringement to the tune of $250 million. But the group faces a recalcitrant Musk who isn’t paying rent—why would he pay royalties? o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Sky_‘Free_NOW_TV’_Security_Hole_Exposed_For Months,_Researcher_Claims⠀⇛ A researcher who alerted Sky to a security hole that allowed anyone to watch NOW TV subscription channels for free claims the problem went unfixed for months. Emails seen by TorrentFreak show that Sky was made aware of the piracy loophole in January 2023 but encryption keys were still working until at least early June. What Sky could’ve actually done is unclear. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6422 ➮ Generation completed at 02:43, i.e. 73 seconds to (re)generate ⟲