𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, August 01, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Wed 2 Aug 02:43:04 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/2023/08/01/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmRQyyDn3YVdPRFdNbdbWEg6FYpqRDUhBXCToy8QGb2WK2 QmUcdg9LEb51ttSbMSKMeYP9ZHuLtnRvNtD1YBuGqzjHoK QmacHX3CByCabNojZpnuR5dX8yT6XtWXfvRAHjs7XHfQZT QmTMgWZM3QiAKGJJsJmho9y788jtUFsqzjZqK5nZrG55TG QmZvRQcZYoHyQyicSZuWjRQBwYyutrMTwS4djqSMMmaXQF QmZ1gW9JnXmARx2an652WNYQTikdRSm4RPwXjtLwuS92H3 QmY9A43Qrrrgy55JExrQcHgQKFPQvDo2ETjuLPLWLWJrTw QmWUKfGSVN8rdKoVnXVHZdkxor1fetpRt4rCMCSPfFrXa6 QmSufCo8QxhkseXSz9A4DBqpvcx3j8ueXX8KsbMGXVbfDQ QmVrAjTH6aiVS9U95iPeqJh6iM6oMihHG4dBt7DeBE28QY QmQngnZVk1dzuJ18yPYbuJNMW22QWBLgQsasEQdYhFwWAT QmNrmAJhhmcXzfKhjUQosRyfvSTvwfMYVfjZ4MqkEn7eRL QmU6ifthPWpZXqt24VqzmCU36LYCSKm2pro7MYG2h3fW8r Qmbd6NSmac4tnVN29mZPRuPEMqfLuCqrSWtr7h11Sr4yZV QmeF5twvgzsyE9YptKQ4BCvd9PhGX4pH96vDvGxg1Xqbqb QmYfTomUhDqyRvYTU58bdbw2GSc1GR8WZYP782k6X1swT9 QmegDwUnvgnwipCDf5XAG7f4WpM7tz9ZGEZmfFHumn998K QmcF86aU48wkENPcvkMG3Uvpdn2Zh3Ww591VESr7YyFB1z QmcKPHU5NdTy1sxr6zGBobDe7GDZ5panELSpSzmu2S8xvU QmWef8vtcFeiv9B2BmB2WtBwMqLq2kDfzWm5aQkKdgkCHW QmSERS83Ghpc2tvtjtSx1QuX63sSxDgJ4UDR3Xx4DCBamw ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Fine August in Techrights | Techrights ⦿ Matthew Garrett’s Employer, Aurora Innovation, Continues to Burn Down Through Debt and Lack of Marketable Products | Techrights ⦿ Codes of Conduct Ruin Free Software Projects | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 31, 2023 | Techrights ⦿ Linus Torvalds Proposes Tossing Out Microsoft TPM Garbage Out of Linux | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/august-plan-techrights/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/aurora-innovation-drowning/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/codes-of-conduct-promoted-by-bigots/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/irc-log-310723/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/linus-torvalds-ftpm/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/gitea-on-void/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/hurd-strikes-back/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/microsoft-blasted-for-epic-breach/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/splitting-the-web/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 62 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/august-plan-techrights/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/01/august-plan-techrights/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Fine_August_in_Techrights⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 5:02 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GitHub: Where everything comes to die⦈ This_series, which started in 2021, is far from finished! Summary: The activity levels at Techrights are increasing so far this year and we have more time for more in-depth reporting on important issues T his is the first summer since 2010 that I can do this site “full time”. And last month we clocked over 400 posts in one month. We have more material to publish than we have time for and we barely have time left to record videos this year. For 3 days already we’ve wanted to cover 3+ topics in videos and maybe tonight is finally the night. The news is getting “slow” (rather, journalism has gotten rare) and we have a lot to publish next week about Sirius_‘Open_Source’, the Linux_Foundation, and other topics. This month is nice and chilly so far in the UK (same as last month) and we strive to maintain a high publication pace. We still withhold a lot of material for strategic reasons, notably impact and timing. Trolling in IRC has been mostly brought under control when Matthew_J_Garrett got unmasked as a very sinister puppetmaster, saying the most awful things one can imagine using his sockpuppets. So expect productivity to improve even further this month.My wife is now cataloguing IRC abuse by Garrett. But we’re rather focus on his attacks on all BSD and GNU/Linux users, not his other abuses. █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⣠⣤⣄⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣤⣧⣤⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠒⠿⠿⢿⣷⣶⣦⣤⣤⣤⠀⠀⣤⣄⠤⢄⣀⡄⠈⢻⣿⣿⠋⢁⣀⣀⣽⡏⢙⣿⠛⢻⣿⠉⢹⣯⡄⠀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠈⣿⡇⠀⣾⡟⠛⢻⡏⠉⣏⠀⢈⣹⡀⠘⠛⠃⠀⡯⠉⣿⡏⠉⡇⠀⣉⡉⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⢰⣿⣧⠀⢻⣷⡆⢸⡇⠀⣿⠀⢸⣿⡂⢸⣿⡇⠀⡟⠀⣿⡇⠀⡇⠀⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡙⠦⢼⣿⣿⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣤⣤⣼⣧⣤⣿⣦⣤⣼⣥⣼⣿⣧⣤⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣧⣤⣤⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡟⢿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠿⡿ ⠷⣾⣵⣷⣭⣄⣍⠻⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⡽⢿⡻⣿⢿⡿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣟⠛⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⢷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣛⢿⡟⢿⠿⣷⣶⢶⣿⡿⢿⣷⣷⣬⣵⣶⣷⣴⣲⣀⣌ ⠞⢅⣵⣒⣦⣬⠺⡏⣿⣾⣿⡯⣳⣽⣗⣿⣗⣝⣿⡯⢯⣿⡎⣿⢭⣓⣿⣍⡿⡙⣿⢿⢷⣿⠏⣿⢿⣿⣻⡿⣽⢿⡿⢯⣿⣿⣫⣷⣟⣯⣿⣿⢻⡿⢷⣿⠵⣿⣗⢹⣟⢻⢿⡯⣿⣿⢻⣯⣻⣿⣿⢿⠿⠛⠫⠿⠿⠛ ⠛⠃⠀⠘⠚⡁⠓⠱⠷⠆⠘⠋⠑⠮⠿⠡⠻⠽⣿⡧⣢⠿⠡⠿⣭⣏⣿⣬⣿⣤⣿⣤⣆⣼⣠⠿⣤⣆⠋⠿⠶⠸⢯⣦⣶⣿⣌⠷⣿⢿⢿⠖⠼⢧⠖⣿⡄⣼⣧⣼⣧⡼⣴⡿⢷⡝⢦⠼⠣⠟⠍⠛⢻⡂⠄⡐⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⢀⡀⣀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠈⠀⠀⠀⣴⠒⠲⢨⡖⠺⣍⢻⣿⠩⣵⡟⢻⡟⡻⣻⣷⢺⡙⠲⠖⢺⣞⢏⡵⠒⣮⢳⣄⣲⡞⢲⡌⢳⣖⢲⡞⣲⣤⠉⠌⠉⠀⠁⠒⣁⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢃⠀⠀⠈⠁⠐⠀⠀⠈⢿⣩⡢⡸⣇⣢⡟⣸⡘⠟⣸⣇⣸⣏⣅⢠⣉⣻⠎⠨⠐⣸⡟⢙⣯⣖⡿⠀⠋⣸⣏⣹⠇⣸⡏⣸⣏⣫⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠉⠁⠐⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠴⠤⠴⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢀⣾⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 136 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/aurora-innovation-drowning/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/01/aurora-innovation-drowning/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Matthew_Garrett’s_Employer,_Aurora_Innovation,_Continues_to_Burn_Down_Through Debt_and_Lack_of_Marketable_Products⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Finance at 6:32 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Aurora_Innovation_debt⦈_ The debt of Aurora Innovation [sic] grew eightfold in a couple of years Summary: Ryan, who has repeatedly been defamed by Matthew_J_Garrett in our IRC network (through extremely rude sockpuppets that promote illegal activity), is expressing his personal thoughts here; those represent the views of Ryan, not Techrights; Garrett has vandalised our IRC network for years, so this is relevant to the site. M atthew Garrett’s Employer, Aurora_Innovation (blogged about previously), Continues to Burn Down Through Debt and Lack of Marketable Products. Aurora is facing several new difficulties including proposed_laws_against autonomous_semi-trucks_even_in_their_home_state_of_California. (These trucks would be a major safety hazard and a plot to make hundreds of thousands of Americans unemployed as human drivers are better at avoiding serious accidents.) “These vehicles that they’re pushing are not legally able to be driven on our roads because they have not been proven to be safe. So it’s convenient to point at humans when (AV trucks) don’t have a track record yet,” Di Bene said. Legislators want more time to study the technology’s safety. Assembly member Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), the head of the Assembly’s transportation committee, said the state Department of Motor Vehicles has so badly mishandled the driverless car industry – citing reports of robotaxis causing car jams, blocking_emergency_vehicles and fleeing_from_police – that she doesn’t want to make the same mistakes with big rigs this time around. “The DMV has not done a great job at regulating this space,” Friedman said. The Department of Motor Vehicles is tasked with issuing permits to all types of AVs, assuming the vehicles adhere to regulations. But legislators want to halt the DMV’s ability to grant those permits to long-haul trucks because of how disappointed they’ve been with the DMV’s deployment of driverless cars in the state. -The Almanac (Samantha Stevens / Mountain View Voice) Another problem the company faces is that each year it does business, it loses more money than the previous year. 2022_was_their_worst_loss_report_yet, according to Yahoo Finance, at least for a whole year. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Aurora_Innovation_losses⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Aurora_Innovation_losses_by_quarter⦈_ It’s when you get into the latest quarters that things really start looking horrific. $2.37 million in revenue in the latest quarter vs. $293.82 million in NEGATIVE earnings. And the two quarters before that were as bad or worse. However, they have been raising money by_selling_off_shares to offload their losses into things like pension and retirement plans that scoop up risky and toxic investments and make it someone else’s problem. This would not be their ideal funding source except that at the interest rates the United States Federal Reserve is pushing up, it’s hard to get cheap money. It’s dried up, so now they resort to “finding a bigger fool”, or more likely, corrupt officials managing retirement funds. For example, CalPERS is notoriously corrupt and sank a bunch of money into Tesla without asking anyone who is going to have to retire from the California government what THEY thought about it. Reading the company financial statements, it’s hilarious how they simply push their “big product” further back and burn the furniture to stay warm while they speak of “adding length to our runway”. They need that “longer runway” so they can pay Matthew Garrett to harass and annoy TechRights in various ways. It’s hard for me to even imagine how much actual work they’re getting out of him seeing as how he’s become_so_devoted_to_trolling_our_chat_rooms. One would think that in an era of Pointy Haired Bosses installing keylogging spyware on employee computers to make sure they work, they would have noticed. Then again, they count things like replying to dumb emails and generating PowerPoints “productive” and a “skill”. It’s not having a product that matters, it’s having a PowerPoint with all sorts of nice bars and graphs and pie charts. Also, moving the mouse a lot is productive too. Maybe Matt GULAG is just moving his mouse and typing so it will count harassing us as productivity? It couldn’t possibly be that. Right? I feel like spyware from your boss that measures mouse movement and keystrokes could be abused much like the system for counting “e-royalties” at Epinions dot com during the dotcom bubble. You could make a tidy sum by writing crap articles and then making a browser plug-in that repeatedly cleared the cookies and hammered on the reload button. There were so many things wrong at that place, but the articles blaming “reading circles” were way off the mark. California is a hellhole where investors go to die. Captive investors. People who thought they’d retire and their portfolio was full of crap. 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Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/01/codes-of-conduct-promoted-by-bigots/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Codes_of_Conduct_Ruin_Free_Software_Projects⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 6:41 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇CoC_meme/Meme:_“It_Must_Be_My_Huge_CoC”⦈_ (Matthew Garrett continues on his several-month long binge of harassing TechRights disguised as a woman, “elusive_woman”, while having also demanded that Free and Open Source Software projects adopt Microsoft-approved CoCs) Summary: Ryan, who has repeatedly been defamed by Matthew_J_Garrett in our IRC network (through extremely rude sockpuppets that promote illegal activity), is expressing his personal thoughts here; those represent the views of Ryan, not Techrights; Garrett has vandalised our IRC network for years, so this is relevant to the site; also see this_article_about_SELF_fending_off_CoCs_under threats_of_violence Corporate trolls use “Codes of Conduct” as a subtle act of sabotage against Free and Open Source Software and Communities. When I kept getting banned from Ubuntu and having them scream “Code of Conduct” over a decade ago, I became very annoyed at the entire concept. It turns out that it was just the seed of a very large problem beginning to percolate in the Free and Open Source Software Movement. In the past 15 years, CoCs have infiltrated most FOSS projects and have had a chilling effect on Free Speech and anyone with an off beat sense of humor. Furthermore, they’ve been used to give companies like IBM (now a partner of Microsoft) a platform for defunding the Free Software Foundation by defaming Richard M. Stallman. There have been numerous debacles, such as the Sage Sharp incident, where a transgender “developer” wrote very bad code and then blamed the quick dismissal on “gender issues” and not simply the fact that it was crap and it got the same response as anyone who had submitted obviously broken code. “They/Them” went on to the Outreachy project, which nearly bankrupted GNOME. GNOME literally ran out of money to maintain GNOME’s software, Web site, and infrastructure, and had to get a bailout from Red Hat to continue because of a failed outreach to “women”, and that’s using the term “women” as liberally as possible. Red Hat then gave “They/Them” a participation trophy. Matthew Garrett[1] is a proponent of CoCs because they ruin Free Software. He also seems to hide behind a transgender “partner” as a beard so that he can avoid being criticized. [2] _________ [1] (I based the meme on the “elusive_woman”sockpuppet account and my ex’s TSA story about a transgender woman coming through and alarming and saying “It must be my HUGE COCK!”) [2] (He thinks.) (When I told him if you like it, go and put a ring on it, he told me he can’t come out of his house to spend 5 minutes getting married because COVID is still out there.) 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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇IPFS logo⦈ § Bulletin for Yesterday⠀➾ Local_copy | CID (IPFS): QmSERS83Ghpc2tvtjtSx1QuX63sSxDgJ4UDR3Xx4DCBamw ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 663 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/01/linus-torvalds-ftpm/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/01/linus-torvalds-ftpm/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Linus_Torvalds_Proposes_Tossing_Out_Microsoft_TPM_Garbage_Out_of_Linux⠀✐ Posted in Deception, DRM, GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft at 5:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Yesterday: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Linux_Creator_Expresses_“Frustration”_Towards_AMD’s_fTPM Bugs,_Calls_To_Disable_Feature⦈_ Promises action, but maybe for the wrong reasons (defects aside, this exists to protect Microsoft monopolies with falsely-marketed kludge) Summary: In spite of the Linux_Foundation being in bed with DRM giants, Linus Torvalds has just found the guts to lash_out at TPM garbage [1, 2] promoted by the likes of Matthew_J_Garrett under the guise of ‘security’ (he’s not even a security person but a pathological liar) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⡻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣌⣗⣼⣯⣯⣮⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣽⣾⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Gemini_Links_01/08/2023:_Gitea_on_Void_and_Unleashing_Your_Inner_Mapper_ (OSM)⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ My_Bread_Is_Getting_Yummier⠀⇛ I’ve been making bread for a long time now. Since I currently don’t have a real oven (only a small electric mini-oven and an electric pizza oven), my options are pretty limited. I have a breadmaker I use largely to mix and knead the dough. I then either make a round loaf for the oven or some kind of rolls, flatbread or pizza for the pizza oven. Lately I’ve been concentrating on bread that can be used for sandwiches (tomato mostly). That means that the dough has to rise enough to passably fit stuff. Since I am not equipped to keep a running yeast culture I use instant yeast which tends to go fast and collapse. So I’ve been experimenting with various ways of slowing things down so the bread can rise and remain firm enough. Lowering the moisture helps currently 290mL water for 500g flour. This results in a heavy lump of dough which keeps its shape as it rises. Punching it down a couple of times and letting it rise slowly for the final time in a moist environment helps. I put it right into the little oven with a wet paper towel draped along the door to keep the air moist. # ⚓ whale_fall_3⠀⇛ a little late this week but who cares 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ [...] i found this artist this week, and his work is so dreamy. earthy tones aren’t the colors i usually associate with surrealism, and they work beautifully. the background is so delicately colored too. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Manual_intervention_required_when_updating_Gitea_to_v1.20.0 on_Void⠀⇛ My local Gitea instance runs on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Void Linux. I’m quite happy with Void itself. It’s been totally rock solid and reliable since I got all of the kinks worked out about a week after the initial install. Gitea, however, has been a bit of a PITA on a few occasions prior to moving to Void, and the latest package upgrade I ran managed to break a few things. It’s all back up and running now, but not without some frustration. After some troubleshooting, I found an obsolete setting in the config file, which once removed at least allowed the daemon to start. # ⚓ Unleash_Your_Inner_Mapper_(OSM)⠀⇛ OpenSteetMap is a community made map of the entire world. It’s not just a map of roads, although it does have roads, paths, and other types of thoroughfares, but it has lots of other attributes including businesses, hiking trails, land usage, solar panels, bridges, bins, water fountains, camping grounds, and much much more. If it exists physically there’s probably some combination of tags it can be described with on OSM. One of the great things about OSM is that since it’s made entirely by the community, everyone gets to pick what kinds of things there are interested in mapping, which can make OSM far better than commercial maps. Many people have probably used OSM through the OSM website, OSMAnd or another similar app, but if not directly, indirectly through social networks, government maps or other apps which use OSM data like mapy.cz. # ⚓ I_just_LOVE_my_day_job… [Ed: Anonymous Microsoft pushers in Gemini]⠀⇛ It got to the point where the leads calling me up every day to ask, “Why are you still having trouble with this? You’ve been on the project three months.” Never mind that I’m the only team member in my time zone, nothing is documented unless *I* document it myself, and I can’t get help because everybody else is busy with their shit. # ⚓ First_Impressions_of_the_Beepy_Pocket_Computer⠀⇛ The Beepy, formerly known as the Beepberry, is a little pocket-size computer handheld with the distinguishing features being the 1-bit monochrome (non-backlit) Sharp Memory LCD and the Blackberry thumb keyboard. The other key feature to this device is that it accepts a Pi Zero form factor computer board of your choice. A few other nice details are the physical power switch, one user- programmable button on the right side and quite a few GPIO pins broken out around the display. Here is what it looks like. Isn’t it neat? # ⚓ How_to_Errors_Good⠀⇛ My view of errors is built upon my view of encapsulation in general. A program is built from components, each having clearly defined concerns and boundaries, with each depending on other components. Each component defines an interface of methods which can be used by “upstream” components to interact with it. These interfaces are opaque, meaning they expose the bare-minimum information which is required to be useful to the caller. If the caller doesn’t need to know something, the interface doesn’t provide it, either in the types it uses, the documentation it provides, or the actual functionality it exposes. Whether an interface takes the form of a network API or a language-specific abstract interface is irrelevant to this discussion. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_use_Fediverse_local_timelines⠀⇛ It’s my second year on Fediverse. I got to know the key concepts. I’ve tried several clients. I am used to its pros and cons. I had been thinking that there aren’t anything that could surprise me. Then I started to use a client which supports several servers (don’t be confused with several accounts which are also supported). [Toot! for Mastodon] is a mobile client which looks a bit too colorful for a serious user. But it has two functionalities that are dedicated to this client and I haven’t spotted in other ones. The first is pinning a hashtag (don’t be confused with hashtag following added in the latest Mastodon specs) which is good for users who don’t want to pollute their home timeline with random users’ posts. A pinned hashtag is accessible from a special menu, without being visible on the home timeline. # ⚓ Zines⠀⇛ I’ve spent the last few days traipsing back and forth through Gemspace and Gopherspace looking at what’s available. It’s a pretty mixed bag, as is to be expected. Many people started their phlog or gemlog then abandoned it quickly, many more kept theirs running for years and I’m just visiting a monument to that moment in time. It’s in equal parts fascinating and saddening, partly because I arrived too late and partly because these things were written (presumably) with no other goal than to share something. This can be contrasted with the modern WWW, on which even simple blogs are often laden with trackers and ads as a way to monetize content. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 966 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_01/08/2023:_GNU/Hurd_Strikes_Back⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Arch_Family o Debian_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Education o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh o Standards/Consortia * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Running_Arch_Linux_on_the_Framework_Laptop_13⠀⇛ Prior to my Framework Laptop adventures, I’ve been planning to move to Arch Linux for a while. I’m a long-time Linux desktop user. I started out with those Red Hat CD-ROMs you’d buy at your local bookshop (this was around ‘96). I fooled around with SCO UnixWare, had a whole period of SGI IRIX after that and then some distro-hopping to Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux (in 2007), Gentoo and Void Linux, more-or-less in that order. The last two-ish years I’ve been running on Void Linux, which I still strongly recommend and love – it’s a really good distribution with a nice balance between stability and simplicity. I used the OS package manager for the essentials, like Gnome, Firefox, the terminal, Wayland and X11, and used /opt like a sort of Program Files or Applications directory where I had my own programs like IntelliJ, Postman, PostgreSQL, etc. This works relatively well: you don’t have a lot of demands on package availability in the distro itself and you keep things stable – only update your own stuff when you feel like it and/or when you need to. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU/Hurd_strikes_back⠀⇛ Unlike the Linux kernel, the Hurd is not a “kernel.” In a way, “Hurd” = GNU Mach (microkernel) + GNU Hurd (system servers) + GNU MIG (Mach Interface Generator) are roughly equivalent to a “kernel.” The GNU Hurd is a herd of servers that implements many functions, including user authentication, binary execution, the file system, networking, and even / dev/null as a server separate from the kernel. There are currently 24 servers consisting of the Hurd. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 13_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Markdown Editors⠀⇛ Markdown can be composed in any text editor. But I recommend an editor purposely designed for this syntax. The software featured in this roundup allows an author to write professional documents of various formats including blog posts, presentations, reports, email, slides and more. All of the applications are, of course, released under an open source license. Linux, OS X and Windows’ users are catered for. This article does not include general purpose text editors like Vim or Emacs. Of course, they are capable Markdown editors. There are also packages/ plugins available for these editors (and others) that add Markdown functionality. But this Group Test focuses instead on dedicated markdown editors. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Free_Linux_Books_That_Will_Make_You_a_Linux Master⠀⇛ If you’re aiming to elevate your Linux learning process to an advanced administrative and expert level, we have meticulously curated a collection of 10 exceptional Free Linux eBooks. These invaluable resources are designed to empower you in constructing an exceptionally robust foundation for your Linux skills. With these ebooks at your fingertips, you can confidently embark on a journey of profound Linux mastery. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ bc_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛ The bc command in Linux is used for mathematical calculation. It’s more than just a command; it’s a language. But you are likely to use it as a command for floating point mathematical operations. # ⚓ Medium ☛ Creating_Host-Based_Firewall_Rules_w/_IPtables⠀⇛ Security policies and equipment shouldn’t stop at the edge of your network. Neglecting host based mitigations goes against a key pillar to cyber security, Defense in Depth. What does this term mean? Defense in Depth is the idea of having multiple security elements in place to protect against a negative event. Example of Defense in Depth: Having a network-based firewall on the edge of your network, host-based firewalls on your hosts, a network-based IDS, and antimalware software on your hosts. In this post we will be using the Linux utility IPtables to create packet filtering rules with the Linux kernel firewall. Of course, using the Linux command line. Although if you would like to use a GUI there is a program called Firestarter. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Our_alerts_and_monitoring_can_never be_comprehensive⠀⇛ A while ago I wrote about how an obvious problem isn’t necessarily obvious, where one thing I said was that in many situations, there are too many obvious problem causes for people to keep track of them all. A corollary to this is that there are too many things that could go wrong on your systems to monitor and alert on all of them. In fact, I’m not convinced that we could even identify all of the possible things that could go wrong. Among other issues, systems can fail in many, many different ways. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Nextcloud_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ This tutorial will show you how to install Nextcloud on a Debian 12 server. You will install Nextcloud with Apache2 web server, MariaDB server, and PHP 8.2. Furthermore, you will also secure your installation with UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) and SSL/TLS certificates from Letsencrypt. # ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Run_Particular_Commands_Without_Sudo Password_In_Linux⠀⇛ Disclaimer: This information is intended solely for educational purposes and requires extreme caution when implementing. The method can be both beneficial and harmful. For instance, if users are granted permission to execute the ‘rm’ command without a sudo password, they may inadvertently or deliberately delete important files. The commands provided below are purely for demonstration purposes, and it is crucial not to execute them on a production system under any circumstances. If you are unsure about the implications or consequences, it is highly advised to carry out this exercise in a virtual machine and use it as an opportunity to understand the underlying concept. You have been warned. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Baldur’s_Gate_3_on_Steam_Deck_is ‘absolutely_wild’_and_aims_for_30FPS_on_Medium⠀⇛ Well this is certainly exciting! Ahead of the release of Baldur’s Gate 3, which is going to easily be one of the biggest releases this year, the Director of Publishing at Larian Studios teased playing it on Steam Deck on Twitter (uh, sorry on “X”). # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Parcel_Simulator_dev_excited_about_Steam Deck_support_for_you_to_find_contraband⠀⇛ Parcel Simulator is certainly not the type of game that would usually grab my attention but the Papers, Please inspiration and gameplay features look weirdly attractive. So now we too can run our own dream warehouse? Well, there’s weirder games out there that got popular. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Rightfully,_Beary_Arms_is_an_incredibly bizarre_bullet-hell_shooter⠀⇛ Rightfully, Beary Arms is a weird and wonderfully whack twin-stick shooter rogue-lite that’s now in Early Access with Native Linux support and it works on the Steam Deck too. Note: key provided by Stride PR. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ DevilutionX_for_classic_Diablo_and_Hellfire now_on_Flathub⠀⇛ Want a perhaps easier way to get DevilutionX for classic Diablo running on Steam Deck and desktop Linux? Well it’s now on Flathub. This means on Steam Deck, you can just grab DevilutionX from Discover and install it there. For desktop Linux – whatever way you would normally install a Flatpak from Flathub. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Black_Pepper_Crew_is_a_promising looking_tactical_turn-based_roguelite⠀⇛ Another tactical turn-based roguelite that looks promising for you is The Black Pepper Crew, now available in Early Access on Steam with Native Linux support. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Tactical_RPG_‘Arcadian_Atlas’_is_out_now⠀⇛ Arcadian Atlas is a 2D isometric tactical role playing game about the choices people make in pursuit of the things they love, and the havoc it wreaks on a kingdom. It looks great with some wonderful pixel-art for fans of games like Final Fantasy Tactics.  o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.27.7,_Bugfix_Release_for_August⠀⇛ Plasma 5.27 was released in February 2023 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds three months’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include… # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME ☛ GNOME:_Rethinking_Window_Management⠀⇛ Window management is one of those areas I’m fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody’s fully cracked it yet. Ever since the dawn of time we’ve relied on the window metaphor as the primary way of multitasking on the desktop. In this metaphor, each app can spawn one or more rectangular windows, which are stacked by most recently used, and moved or resized manually. The traditional windowing system works well as long as you only have a handful of small windows, but issues emerge as soon the number and size of the windows grows. As new windows are opened, existing ones are obscured, sometimes completely hiding them from view. Or, when you open a maximized window, suddenly every other window is hidden. Over the decades, different OSes have added different tools and workflows to deal with these issues, including workspaces, taskbars, and switchers. However, the basic primitives have not changed since the 70s and, as a result, the issues have never gone away. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ GNOME_project_considers_adding window_tiling_by_default⠀⇛ * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Frank Delporte ☛ Pi4J_Operating_System_for_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Yes, the Raspberry Pi Operating System is awesome! But the Pi4J project made it if even more awesome by adding “goodies” for Java developers! Pi4J OS is not yet another OS, but the official Raspberry Pi OS, with additional tools and preconfigurations to make it the ideal OS for any Java and JavaFX developer who wants to use a Raspberry Pi. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ MX_Linux_23_“Libretto”:_Best_New_Features⠀⇛ MX Linux is renowned for its combination of elegant desktop environments, outstanding stability, and exceptional performance. The most awaited stable release of MX Linux 23 (MX-23) is now available for download. In this release, MX-23 introduces a host of exciting new features, improvements, and enhancements that are sure to delight MX Linux users. Let’s look at the best new features of MX Linux 23. o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Arch_Linux_2023.08.01_Released_with_Linux Kernel_6.4_and_Archinstall_2.6⠀⇛ The Arch Linux 2023.08.01 release ships with the latest Linux 6.4 kernel series, which was released on June 25th, 2023, with features like Intel LAM support, more Rust language code, new RISC- V features, as well as new and updated drivers for top-notch hardware support. Linux kernel 6.4.7 is included by default. This ISO snapshot also includes the recently released Archinstall 2.6 text-based installer, which brings a revamped partitioning section, support for the Hyprland dynamic tiling Wayland window manager, support for the Limine multiprotocol bootloader, and support for custom mirrors. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What’s_New_in_Debian_12.1?_Features_and_Bug Fixes_to_Look_Out_For⠀⇛ Debian, one of the most popular Linux distributions, has some exciting news for you! It has recently released the first update for the Debian 12 “Bookworm” on July 22nd, 2023. This update contains multiple improvements, including 89 bug fixes and 26 security updates. If you are a Debian enthusiast, then this is a significant milestone to celebrate! So, let’s check out what’s new in Debian 12.1 and why it is a crucial update for users. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ MX_Linux_23_is_here:_Your_favorite_Debian-based OS_gets_even_better!⠀⇛ MX Linux 23, the latest stable version of the popular operating system, is now available for download. This release is built on the sturdy foundation of Debian 12 “Bookworm” and MX repositories. Just as with previous versions, MX Linux 23 defaults to sysVinit while keeping systemd as an optional choice for installed systems. One of the most noticeable changes in this release is the revamped live boot menus, featuring a more prominent “check media” function. This new feature offers an automatic media check before proceeding to boot, thus providing a smoother user experience. MX Linux 23 brings with it an array of major desktop versions, including Xfce 4.18, Fluxbox 1.3.7, and KDE/Plasma 5.27. These upgrades are sure to offer a range of choices to cater to the diverse preferences of users. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Sudomaker_LoShark_L1_LoRa_USB_dongle_runs Linux_on_Ingenic_X1501_MIPS_processor⠀⇛ Sudomaker LoShark L1 is a USB dongle with Semtech SX1262/SX1268 LoRa transceiver and a Linux-capable Ingenic X1501 MIPS processor with 8MB on-chip memory that serves as a LoRa debug tool that can use a JavaScript interface to access to all SX126x chip registers. The LoShark L1 USB key offers both LoRa connectivity and debugging capabilities such as packet capture (hence the reference to WireShark) and can operate either independently (standalone) or in conjunction with a PC as shown below with a mini laptop. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Adding_a_turbo_readout_to_a_vintage_PC_case⠀⇛ The hardware for this project includes an Arduino Mega 2560 board and a small OLED screen. Woehlke chose the Mega because he had it on hand, but any Arduino board would have worked. The Arduino receives power from one of the power supply’s 5V rails. And like the real turbo readouts of the ’90s, the Arduino doesn’t measure clock speed at all. It just looks at the LED above the turbo button to see if it is active, then uses that state to determine which number to display on the OLED. For extra flair, Woehlke added a starfield “screensaver” that appears on the OLED 10 seconds after pushing the turbo button. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Deckility_handheld_PC_|_#MagPiMonday⠀⇛ Recently, after considering getting his hands on Clockwork’s uConsole, a modular pocket-sized computer, he felt that building his own handheld was more challenging. Snapping up a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4), he also vowed to take advantage of its quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 processor by putting it at the heart of his own homemade device. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Forlinx_announces_RISC-V_SoM_based_on StarFive_JH7110⠀⇛ Forlinx announced in July that they are working together with the RISC-V processor manufacturer StarFive to deliver the FET7110-C System-on-Chip based specifically on the Jinghong 7110 with RISC- V architecture. The SoM is expected to target applications in commercial, medical, industrial automation, etc. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Boardcon_introduces_RK3566_embedded solution⠀⇛ The Boardcon is a Single Board Computer based on the Rockchip RK3566 and optimized for AI and Industrial applications. The SBC includes multiple peripherals including a Gigabit Ethernet port, multiple display ports and dual camera interfaces.  # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Usable_Arduino_Debugging_Tool⠀⇛ For as popular as the Arduino platform is, it’s not without its problems. Among those is the fact that most practical debugging is often done by placing various print statements throughout the code and watching for them in the serial monitor. There’s not really a great way of placing breakpoints or stepping through code, either. But this project, known as eye2see, hopes to change that by using the i2c bus found in most Arduinos to provide a more robust set of debugging tools. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Portronics_launches_Beem_410,_a_portable Android_powered_projector_|_Technology_News_–_The_Indian Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ More_than_40_Android_smartphones_become_dangerous TODAY_–_check_yours_and_upgrade_ASAP_to_stay_safe_|_The_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_Pixel_owners_report_Android_Auto connection_issues⠀⇛ # ⚓ Mirror UK ☛ Google_bans_another_31_Android_apps_–_check your_phone_and_delete_them_now_–_Mirror_Online⠀⇛ # ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Xiaomi_14_Pro_To_Be_The_World’s_First_Android Smartphone_To_Switch_To_A_Titanium_Build⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 13_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_CAD_Software⠀⇛ To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 13 high quality free Linux CAD applications. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to produce professional drawings. Let’s explore the 13 CAD applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, screenshots, together with links to relevant resources. Click each link in the table below to learn more about the software. o ⚓ Thunderbird ☛ An_Update_On_Thunderbird_Sync⠀⇛ We plan to support syncing of your email account definitions, credentials, signatures, saved searches, tags, tasks, filters, and most major preferences across multiple installations of Thunderbird on PC, (Yes, this is cross-compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux.) You’ll also be able to sync your Thunderbird accounts with the forthcoming Thunderbird for Android. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ AboutChromebooks ☛ ChromeOS_116_may_begin_the_Lacros browser_push_to_Chromebooks⠀⇛ After covering Google’s effort to separate the Chrome browser from ChromeOS for over two years, it appears more of you will get to experience it. The project is called Lacros, and it uses the Linux browser for ChromeOS instead of the integrated browser. The idea is that browser updates can be pushed quicker to Chromebooks instead of waiting for a full ChromeOS update. Based on recent code changes I spotted, ChromeOS 116 may bring the Lacros browser to more Chromebooks with a wider release. # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ introducing_curl_command_line_variables⠀⇛ To make life easier for curl users, the tool supports “config files“. They are a set of command line options written in a text file that you can point the curl tool to use. By default curl will check for and use such a config file named .curlrc if placed in your home directory. One day not too long ago, a user over in the curl IRC channel asked me if it was possible to use environment variables in such config files to avoid having to actually store secrets directly in the file. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Mozilla_Firefox_116_is_Now_Available_to Download⠀⇛ Firefox 116 carries a modest crop of changes that further refine and finesse the famed FOSS browser. Do you use Picture-in-Picture mode (PIP)? If so, you’ll notice that the pop-put window finally has a volume slider. This makes it easy to adjust the sound levels of whatever you’re watching without needing to affect system-wide volume levels – a nice little buff, I think. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ James G ☛ Build_a_Website_in_an_Hour:_Meetup_in_Review⠀⇛ In 60 minutes, you can start to build something for the web: a blog, a fan fiction page, a bookmarks page, a tool you would find useful. I hope to schedule another one of these events in the future, inviting more people to join us to build websites in an hour. I will blog when we schedule another “Build a Website in an Hour” meetup. # ⚓ Madeline_Peck:_Creative_Freedom_Summit_Super_Hero_Art Challenge⠀⇛ In 1989 Ray Oldenburg described a ‘third place’ as, “a place outside your home or work where you can relax and hang out.” Libraries, parks, gyms, bookstores, and porches are all examples. In a post-Covid world not only have ‘third places’ slowly dwindled in number but it is increasingly hard to find places that don’t require spending a lot of money to enjoy. For those who have started working from home, their first and second places have merged into one with the home office. The internet is now its own third place. With it, we have the power to socialize, consume media, share knowledge casually, and document it formally. This virtual third place seemed like the perfect place to host an event where like-minded individuals, passionate about Open Source and creating art could come together. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Emacs_29.1_released⠀⇛ Version 29.1 of the Emacs editor has been released. There is a long list of changes, including integration with the Tree-sitter incremental parsing library, the ability to access SQLite databases, “pure GTK” display support (which enables Wayland support), and a lot more; see the NEWS file for all the details. # ⚓ LWN ☛ GnuCOBOL_3.2_released⠀⇛ Version 3.2 of the GNU COBOL compiler is out. “”The amount of features are too much to note, but you can skip over the attached NEWS file to investigate them”.” These new features include improved support for COBOL dialects, performance improvements, better GDB debugging support, and more. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Systemd_auto-restarts_of_units_can hide_problems_from_you⠀⇛ There are a surprisingly large number of things that you probably won’t notice going away briefly. If you don’t look into the situation, it might seem like a short connectivity blip, or even be hidden from you by programs automatically retrying connections or operations. Telling systemd to auto- restart these things will thus tend to hide their crashes from you, which may be surprising. Still, auto-restarting and hiding crashes is likely better than having the service be down until you can restart it by hand. We certainly would rather have intermittent, crash-interrupted monitoring of our machines than not have monitoring for (potentially) some time. # ⚓ MaskRay ☛ lld_17_ELF_changes⠀⇛ This influence to the total link time is small. However, if I test the time proportion of the hash function in the total link time, I can see that the proportion has been reduced to nearly one third. On some workload and some machines this effect may be larger. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ The_replicate()_function_in_R⠀⇛ As a programmer, you must have encountered situations where you need to repeat a task multiple times. Repetitive tasks are not only tedious but also prone to errors. What if I tell you there’s an elegant solution to this problem in R? Enter the replicate() function, your ultimate ally when it comes to replicating tasks effortlessly and efficiently. # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ Throw_away_your_first_draft_of your_code⠀⇛ The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all. Just throw it away. I’m serious. And you should probably have some of your best engineers doing this throwaway work. It’s going to save you time in the long run. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ Unicode_Explained⠀⇛ Paweł bbkr Pabian continued their series of blog posts explaining Unicode, this time using the Raku Programming Language for examples in 3 new posts: [...] # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Exploring_the_Magic_Methods_in_Python⠀⇛ The magic methods are often called “dunder methods”. The term “dunder” is short for “double underscore”, as these methods are identified by their names enclosed in double underscores (e.g., __init__). By using these methods’ capabilities, you can define how your Python objects should behave in various scenarios, such as string representation, arithmetic operations, etc. In this tutorial, you’ll explore the fascinating world of magic methods in Python. You’ll discover how these magic methods fit into object-oriented programming (more on this in the next section). You’ll also learn about some common magic methods used widely in Python. You’ll also see how these methods help you achieve operator overloading in Python. By the end, you’ll grasp magic methods and have the tools to design powerful code in Python’s object-oriented world. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ The_rc_shell_and_its_excellent handling_of_whitespace⠀⇛ I’ve been working on a shell for Unix-like systems called rc, which draws heavily from the Plan 9 shell of the same name. When I saw Mark’s post about the perils of whitespace in POSIX shells (or derived shells, like bash), I thought it prudent to see if any of the problems he outlines are present in the shell I’m working on myself. Good news: they aren’t! # ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ rss-mash⠀⇛ It’s also hopefully a pretty clear demo of how zshbrev turns command line arguments into function arguments, and function output into stdout in a pretty dwimmy way (it should work regardless of whether your function prints something or returns a value, like a tree or string).xs o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ The_Future_of_the_Web_is_VNC⠀⇛ Anyway, I have a solution to all of Google’s problems. Forget this notion of untrusted “user agents” executing code on untrustworthy computers. I have a foolproof way of getting pixel-perfect rendering on every device. It also stops scraping. And, as a little side effect, completely defeats ad blocking. It’s VNC. This takes “Server Side Rendering” to the extreme. Render exactly how you want the page to look and then stream it over a remote framebuffer protocol. Users get to see exactly what you want them to see – ads included! Just imagine the possibilities. No more worrying about which browser is being used – render everything through Chrome and stream to everyone! ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1892 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Leftover_Links_01/08/2023:_Twitter_de-X’ed,_Microsoft_Blasted_for_Epic Breach⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Trademarks # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Quartz ☛ Elon_Musk’s_glaring_“X”_sign_on_the_Twitter_building_has become_a_target_for_complaints⠀⇛ San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection opened two complaints regarding the new logo on July 28, one for an “unsafe sign”—related to the removal of the old Twitter logo— and another for placing the giant “X” on the roof “without permit.” o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Twitter’s_Obnoxious_‘X’_Sign_Is_Gone⠀⇛ The sign was installed on the roof of Twitter’s (rebranded as X) headquarters on Friday, less than a week after the company was stopped from removing the iconic Twitter logo from the side of the building. When Musk attempted to scrub the bird logo from the building, local police arrived at the scene after receiving 911 calls that the sign’s removal was stopping two lanes of traffic at a busy intersection and workers didn’t have a permit. When police arrived at the scene, they noted it was unsafe for pedestrians because the workers hadn’t set up sidewalk tape to protect passersby from falling debris. Workers were ordered to immediately stop removing the Twitter sign, leaving just an “er” on the building. o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Twitter’s_giant_throbbing_X_erected_‘without_a permit’⠀⇛ But when SF inspectors visited X HQ on Friday to take a look at the glowing logo, they were turned away, according to the city. A city inspector was denied access by a “Tweeter [sic] representative,” who told the inspector the sign was temporary. Nevertheless, the inspector noted, the sign had to come down if X didn’t get the proper authorization. The same inspector returned to X HQ on Saturday, but “access was denied again by [the] tenant,” they said in their report. We asked the SF DBI about what recourse it may have to gain access to the roof and the sign, but didn’t immediately hear back. o ⚓ NDTV ☛ ‘X’_Sign_Removed_From_Twitter_Headquarters_After Neighbours_Complain⠀⇛ The city building department logged 24 complaints after a weekend of the big X, which on Friday was erected on the roof of the company’s downtown San Francisco headquarters, on Market Street, to the chagrin of neighbours who complained about intrusive lights, Reuters reported.xs o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Twitter:_‘X’_sign_removed_from_San_Francisco headquarters⠀⇛ The company had removed the iconic blue bird logo from the building last week, though the ‘er’ of Twitter remained up after the takedown was abruptly halted since the company did not have the necessary permits. The chaos around the replacement of the sign is reflective of Musk’s rebranding efforts in general. The micro-blogging platform still sports the Twitter name and branding in several places on the platform. o ⚓ Daniel Pipes ☛ Irene_Pipes_(1924-2023)_An_Appreciation⠀⇛ Thanks to a brother of her father who had the foresight to get out before the invasion, the family had the means to set themselves up, first on Drummond Street in Montreal and then on Central Park West in New York. With astonishing speed, the family learned English and entered American life. To give you a sense of their assimilation, I’d like to read the full text of a telegram sent by my grandfather and two of his brothers on Nov. 6, 1940, a day after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to the presidency for the third time: [...] o ⚓ Evan Hahn ☛ Subscribe_with_email_if_you_want⠀⇛ If you’re happy with my blog’s RSS feed, you don’t need to do anything! The email newsletter gets the exact same content. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ That_New_York_Times_Profile⠀⇛ As some of you might have seen, this past weekend, the NY Times ran a very nice profile about me, written by Kashmir Hill. There’s not much to say about it, other than it was an interesting (if somewhat awkward-feeling) experience to be the subject of a story, rather than the journalist covering it. But Hill is an excellent reporter and spoke to a bunch of different folks for the profile (including one who kindly called me in a panic to alert me that the NY Times was “sniffing around” for what they feared was a hit piece). o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Distinction_must_be_made_between_genuine scientific_skepticism_and_‘dogmatic_denial,’_warns_expert⠀⇛ “Skepticism, by definition, is defeasible. That is, when confronted with sufficient evidence, a skeptic will—provisionally—accept the well-confirmed claim. Mere refusal to accept any evidence is not skepticism.” # ⚓ Greece ☛ A_theory_of_childbirth’s_evolution_may_not_be_what you’re_expecting⠀⇛ In graduate school, Warrener did not see any reason to doubt the obstetrical dilemma. For her dissertation, she investigated one of Washburn’s key assumptions – that women walk less efficiently than men do because their pelvis is wider for childbirth. But in 2015, after studying volunteers walking on treadmills, Warrener found that having a wider pelvis did not create a bigger demand for oxygen. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ ‘The_Few,_the_Proud’_aren’t_so_few:_Marines recruiting_surges_while_other_services_struggle⠀⇛ Sitting in the shadow of Parris Island’s replica of the Iwo Jima monument, Field said his biggest challenge is that a number of Marine hopefuls cannot pass the military’s academic test, known as the Armed Services Voluntary Aptitude Battery. That is a widespread problem, but the Army recently set up a program that targets recruits who score below 30 on the test and provides schooling for several weeks to help them pass. Already more than 8,800 recruits have successfully gone through the classes, raised their scores and moved on to basic training. # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ How_physical_activity_can benefit_your_child’s_learning_and_well-being_at_school⠀⇛ Prior studies have discovered that school-based physical activity, particularly with physical education, can significantly improve a child’s classroom performance. Despite this, there have been very few studies that have actively examined the association. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Quantum_Tech_Intended_for_National Security_Is_Testing_U.S._Alliances⠀⇛ A global race to harness the power of atoms for navigation, computing and encryption is pitting concerns over protectionism against the spirit of cooperation. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ AMD_to_invest_US$400m_to_set_up_design_centre_in India⠀⇛ “It will also provide tremendous opportunities for our large pool of highly skilled semiconductor engineers and researchers and will catalyse Narendra Modi’s vision of India becoming a global talent hub.” Mark Papermaster, executive vice-president and chief technology officer at AMD, said:”From a handful of employees in 2001 to more than 6500 employees today, AMD has grown its India footprint based on the strong foundation established by our local leadership and the highly skilled talent pool. “AMD has one of the industry’s broadest product portfolios fuelled by growth in artificial intelligence, networking and 6G communications, and our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Fed-up_Torvalds_suggests_disabling_AMD’s ‘stupid’_performance-killing_fTPM_RNG⠀⇛ Ongoing issues with Linux and AMD’s fTPM – the chip designer’s firmware-based TPM – appear to be wearing on kernel overseer Linus Torvalds’ nerves, who has suggested switching off the module’s random number generator altogether. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ What_Does_It_Take_For_A_LEGO_Car_To_Roll Downhill_Forever?⠀⇛ Cars (including LEGO ones) will roll downhill. In theory if the hill were a treadmill, the car could roll forever. In practice, there are a lot of things waiting to go wrong to keep this from happening. If you’ve ever wondered what those problems would be and what a solution would look like, [Brick Technology] has a nine-minute video showing the whole journey. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ RF_Remote_Made_Easy⠀⇛ The 433 MHz spectrum is a little bit of an oddball. It’s one of the few areas of the radio spectrum which is nearly universally unlicensed, meaning as long as devices using it adhere to the power restrictions and other guidelines about best practices, it’s essentially an open playground. IoT devices operate here, as well as security systems and, of course, remote controls. And, using a few off-the-shelf parts [hesam.moshiri] shows us how to take advantage of this piece of spectrum by designing and building a programmable and versatile 4-channel 433 MHz remote control. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cook_Up_A_Yoke_In_Five_Minutes⠀⇛ When it comes to flight simulators, we’ve seen people go all-out with their immersive setups, with all kinds of hyper-realistic control systems and monitors as far as the eye can see. But for those gaming on a budget this can seem a little overwhelming and daunting. We all have to start somewhere, though, so if you’re looking for your first semi-realistic flight simulator control mechanism take a look at this yoke which can be cobbled together for almost no money or time. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ Hospitals_are_in_the_hotseat_for_their_billing practices⠀⇛ Mounting frustration with hospitals’ billing practices are stirring reform efforts in Congress, state legislatures and within the Biden administration. But not everyone agrees on where to start. Why it matters:Some measures under discussion could cost hospitals hundreds of billions of dollars, by paring payments that critics say are excessive and costing taxpayers and patients. =================================================== Driving the news:States are increasingly passing laws to address “facility fees” that hospitals tack on for services provided to commercially insured patients in clinics they own, according to a recent report from the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ After_Seeing_This_Terrifying_Study,_We’re_Never Microwaving_Plastic_Again⠀⇛ New research has found that microwaving plastic food containers spews out toxic microplastics — and it’s really freaked out the guy who’s studying it. In an interview with Wired about a new study out of the University of Nebraska — Lincoln, researcher Kazi Albab Hussain said that becoming a new dad inspired him to figure out what was going on with the containers his baby’s food came in. The results, which ultimately became a paper in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, are even more shocking than you’d expect. # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Do_Burnout_and_Addiction_Have_the_Same Root_Cause?⠀⇛ Working too much is the drug in this case. But the root problem is almost identical: You’re unhappy with your current path. Or you don’t have one. Either way, your meaning loop is nonexistent or misguided. # ⚓ U.S._National_Team_Standout_Magnus_White_Struck_and_Killed by_the_Driver_of_a_Car_in_Colorado⠀⇛ # ⚓ [Old] New York Times ☛ The_Exceptionally_American_Problem of_Rising_Roadway_Deaths⠀⇛ Ms. Langenkamp was, improbably, the third foreign service officer at the State Department to die while walking or biking in the Washington area this year. She was killed in August in suburban Bethesda, Md. Another died in July while biking in Foggy Bottom. The third, a retired foreign service officer working on contract, was walking near the agency’s headquarters in August. That is more foreign service officers killed by vehicles at home than have died overseas this year, noted Dan Langenkamp, Ms. Langenkamp’s husband and a foreign service officer himself. # ⚓ [Old] Can_This_Documentary_Get_Americans_to_Care_About Pedestrian_and_Cyclist_Deaths?⠀⇛ “If there’s anything that COVID taught us, it’s that we can change streets overnight to create safer communities,” she added. “It is possible; we just have to understand that these are our public spaces, and we do have a right to feel safe walking, biking, and using any form of transportation.” # ⚓ [Old] CNN ☛ She_left_the_dangers_of_Ukraine_only_to_be killed_riding_a_bike_close_to_home._Hundreds_rode_in_her honor_to_demand_change⠀⇛ “I’ve tried to make sense of what happened to Sarah, and since I started looking into it, I’ve realized this is not a freakish accident,” Dan Langenkamp said. “What happened to her is part of a huge, worsening trend in America of people getting killed in traffic crashes. There’s an epidemic of traffic violence against people walking or biking.” # ⚓ US Senate ☛ Warner,_Fischer_Lead_Bipartisan_Reintroduction of_Legislation_to_Ban_Manipulative_‘Dark_Patterns’⠀⇛ This week, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Deb Fischer (R-NE), joined by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D- MN), and John Thune (R-SD), introduced the Deceptive Experiences To Online Users Reduction (DETOUR) Act to prohibit large online platforms from using deceptive user interfaces, known as “dark patterns,” to trick consumers into handing over their personal data. The bill would also require these platforms to obtain consent from users for covered research and prohibit them from using features that result in compulsive usage by children and teens. The term “dark patterns” is used to describe online interfaces in websites and apps designed to intentionally manipulate users into taking actions they otherwise would not. These design tactics are frequently used by social media platforms to mislead consumers into agreeing to settings and practices more beneficial to the company. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Smoking_Declines_as_Tobacco_Control_Measures Kick_In⠀⇛ New data show that the adoption of the WHO’s package of six tobacco control measures 15 years ago has protected millions of people from the harmful effects of tobacco use. The measures, which were launched in 2008, call on governments to monitor tobacco use and prevention policies, protect people from tobacco smoke, offer help to quit tobacco use, warn people about the dangers of tobacco, enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship, and to raise taxes on tobacco. # ⚓ Nottinghamshire Post ☛ GP_from_LloydsPharmacy_warns_against ‘potentially_deadly’_TikTok_cyanide_acne_trend⠀⇛ “The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) cites apricot kernels as a cyanide poisoning risk. Eating more than three of these kernels in one sitting is not recommended as it can exceed the recommended safe level. The woman in this video says she ate at least five of these a day – almost double this. “If replicated, this trend could be highly dangerous and I would not recommend people trying to increase their consumption of cyanide.” # ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ Genome_data_rewrite_the_story_of_oat domestication_in_China⠀⇛ To gain information on the origins of these different varieties, researchers in China have sequenced the genomes of over 100 oat plants from around the world. Their analyses indicate that unlike the current belief—that the two varieties came from one domestication event—the hulled and naked oat were domesticated independently. The work is published in the journal GigaScience. # ⚓ El País ☛ Energy_drinks_do_not_give_you_wings:_A_cocktail of_sugar_and_caffeine_with_health_risks⠀⇛ In Spain, authorities announced a set of measures in 2021 that ended up becoming a list of 10 recommendations developed in conjunction with the energy drink industry itself. This decalogue warns about the health risks of these drinks, advises against their consumption by adolescents, warns athletes that they are not useful for rehydration, and reminds manufacturers of their obligation to include a label indicating their high content in caffeine, therefore making them unadvisable for children and for pregnant or breastfeeding women. # ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._averaging_2_mass_shootings_per_day_so_far_this year⠀⇛ Why it matters: So far this year, the U.S. has seen an average of two mass shootings every day, for a running total of 419. At this point in 2021, 401 mass shootings had occurred, and that year over all had a daily average of 1.9 mass shootings. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Americans_With_Health_Insurance_Are Increasingly_Putting_Off_Important_Medical_Treatments_They Can’t_Afford⠀⇛ Health insurance CEOs pocket millions while citizens can’t pay the out-of-pocket. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Lawmakers_Propose_$45_Million_in_New_Funding for_Measures_to_Lower_U.S._Stillbirth_Rate⠀⇛ The legislation seeks to improve data and research, as well as develop stillbirth awareness materials. Many women interviewed by ProPublica said they didn’t know they were at risk until they delive… # ⚓ Nattokinase:_COVID-19_spike_protein_“detox”_quackery,_now with_bromelain⠀⇛ If there’s one reliable characteristic of physicians who go all-in on antivaccine beliefs, it’s that, after they have come to  identify vaccines as The One True Source of All Chronic Disease (or just a bunch of toxic sludge causing “vaccine injury”), it is almost inevitable that they come up with quackery to treat what they view as vaccine-induced chronic disease or injury. Back in the “old days,” I used to write about what was called “autism biomed,” because the primary antivaccine claim 15 years ago was that childhood vaccines cause autism. Basically, “autism biomed” was—and remains—a blanket term used by believers in the vaccine-autism conspiracy theory to describe a rather large collection of quackery that included chelation therapy, various “detox” regimens, “metabolic” treatments, and more, none of which had one iota of evidence to support them as treatments for autism spectrum disorders. Use of the term “biomed” was meant to imply that these were legitimate “biomedical” treatments for “vaccine- induced autism,” when in reality they consisted mainly of a motley collection of “detox” quackery, often bolstered by “functional medicine” and various alternative medicine treatments like naturopathy and homeopathy. This brings me to Dr. Peter McCullough and his “Base Spike Detox,” which uses enzymes like nattokinase and bromelain to “detox” the spike protein from both COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. As it turns out, Dr. McCullough’s protocol is just a variant of an earlier protocol that I first learned about earlier this year, Signature Series Spike Support Formula sold by The Wellness Company and promoted by Dr. McCullough, a video of whom is featured on the product page. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Brain_fog_and_other_long_COVID symptoms_are_the_focus_of_new_small_treatment_studies⠀⇛ The National Institutes of Health is starting some studies to test possible treatments for long COVID. Millions of people are estimated to have the mysterious condition. The studies are small but each will tackle multiple possible therapies for things like brain fog, sleep disturbances and the theory that lingering virus may be at least partly to blame. The studies are part of the RECOVER project, which had to unravel what the most common and burdensome symptoms of long COVID are before doing studies. # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Brain_fog_and_other_long_COVID symptoms_affect_millions._New_treatment_studies_bring_hope⠀⇛ # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Dear_Abby:_I_don’t_know_how_to_open_up_to_my friends⠀⇛ Dear Abby advises a woman who is having a hard time discussing the many challenges she and her family went through during the COVID-19 pandemic. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Covid-era_boom_in_holiday_home_sales_over⠀⇛ This summer, borrowing for the purchase of holiday homes dropped by nearly a third compared to last year, and below pre-pandemic levels. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ How_to_think_about_AI_based_on_what_we learned_with_IoT⠀⇛ Bloomberg this week called the end of the smartphone era and the dawning of the AI era, all based on the fact that chip manufacturing firm TSMC now has a “double-digit percentage gap” in quarterly revenue between sales of high-performance computing chips and chips destined for smartphones. Bloomberg may have been really kneading the data point to support its thesis, but if it is the beginning of the AI era, should I be writing about AIoT instead of IoT? No. Because what we call it doesn’t matter. What matters is what we do with AIoT or AI or IoT. And so far, we’re making the same mistakes we always make when it comes to technology innovations. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ Giving_AI_direct_control_over_anything is_a_bad_idea_–_here’s_how_it_could_do_us_real_harm⠀⇛ One of the key reasons we shouldn’t let AI have executive power is that it entirely lacks emotion, which is crucial for decision-making. Without emotion, empathy and a moral compass, you have created the perfect psychopath. The resulting system may be highly intelligent, but it will lack the human emotional core that enables it to measure the potentially devastating emotional consequences of an otherwise rational decision. # § Windows TCO⠀➾ # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Microsoft_downplays_damaging report_on_Chinese_hacking_its_own_engineers_vetted⠀⇛ In a report published earlier this month, researchers at the security firm Wiz concluded that an encryption key stolen by Chinese hackers to target U.S. officials could have been used far more broadly. Microsoft has said the Chinese operation was a targeted and stealthy one and has disputed Wiz’s findings — despite the fact that Microsoft’s own engineers vetted the Wiz report. In a statement to CyberScoop, a Microsoft spokesperson dismissed Wiz’s “blog” as “hypothetical attack scenarios” and that Microsoft has not “observed those outcomes in the wild.” An earlier statement described the Wiz report as “speculative” and “not-evidence based.” But there should be little reason to doubt Wiz’s technical findings, according to the report’s author, Shir Tamari. In an interview with CyberScoop, Tamari said that he met with a Microsoft technical team to discuss his findings and that the firms engineers were very helpful in correcting his analysis. “Eventually they approved everything,” he said. # ⚓ Wyden_Requests_Federal_Agencies_Investigate_Lax Cybersecurity_Practices_by_Microsoft_That_Reportedly Enabled_Chinese_Espionage⠀⇛ “Microsoft never took responsibility for its role in the SolarWinds hacking campaign. It blamed federal agencies for not pushing it to prioritize defending against the encryption key theft technique used by Russia, which Microsoft had known about since 2017. It blamed its customers for using the default logging settings chosen by Microsoft, and then blamed them for not storing the high- value encryption keys in a hardware vault,” Wyden wrote, in a letter to DOJ, the FTC and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency today. Wyden highlighted four significant cybersecurity failures by Microsoft that led to the most recent [breach]: [...] # ⚓ Hawaiʻi_CC_cyber_attack_resolved⠀⇛ After determining that the compromised data most likely contained personal information of approximately 28,000 individuals, the University of Hawaiʻi made the difficult decision to negotiate with the threat actors in order to protect the individuals whose sensitive information might have been compromised. A significant consideration in this decision-making process was that the criminal entity responsible for the attack has a documented history of publicly posting the stolen personal information of individuals when agreement with the impacted entity was not reached. Working with an external team of cybersecurity experts, UH reached an agreement with the threat actors to destroy all of the information it illegally obtained. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ URL_changes_and_password_managers⠀⇛ I was autofilling a passphrase of pseudorandom goodness this morning, like a gentleman, when the plugin in Firefox complained that the site didn’t match any credentials on file. I knew this couldn’t be true; I’d logged into this site many, many times before. So many times that I had to write many twice. Wait, that’s four total times. Many. Five. Damn it. I logged into KeePassXC, and sure enough I could see the record for the site, so plainly demonstrated that even I could see it before coffee. So why wasn’t it being detected? Was it a case of Monday-itis? # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by CentOS (apr- util, bcel, c-ares, emacs, git, java-1.8.0-openjdk, libwebp, open-vm-tools, python, and python3), Debian (amd64-microcode, kernel, and thunderbird), Fedora (iperf3), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver- container, cont, cjose, java-17-openjdk, jtidy, kernel-firmware, kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-tools- container, virt-operator-container, libqt5-qtbase, librsvg, libvirt, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-3, qemu, samba, thunderbird, and zabbix), and Ubuntu (linux- iot and wireshark). # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Sam_Altman’s_Worldcoin_might_unleash_worse problems_than_those_it’s_trying_to_solve⠀⇛ Making biometrics a requirement for the cryptocurrency’s use is not necessarily the foolproof identification tool that Worldcoin considers it to be. The biometric data has reportedly appeared in black markets in China where some users are selling their verification for $30. # ⚓ India Times ☛ German_data_watchdog_probing_Sam Altman’s_Worldcoin_[cryptocurrency]_project⠀⇛ A German data watchdog has been investigating OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project since late last year due to concerns over its large-scale processing of sensitive biometric data, the regulator’s president told Reuters. Worldcoin, which launched last week, requires users to give their iris scans in exchange for a digital ID and, in some countries, free cryptocurrency as part of plans to create a new “identity and financial network”. # ⚓ EFF ☛ The_White_House_Acknowledges_the_Pressure_on Section_702,_But_Much_More_Reform_is_Needed⠀⇛ The White House might suddenly be willing to acknowledge that people in the U.S. are sick of having their digital communications harvested and accessible to domestic law enforcement without a warrant, but the review group’s proposed reforms are just a cheap political consolation prize that will do very little to restore the fundamental right to privacy that has been denied to people on U.S. soil who email or call friends or family abroad.  For example, the 42–page report recommends that the FBI no longer be allowed to search 702 databases when investigating non-national security related crimes. In its current iteration, the FBI is permitted to sift through international communications in hopes of finding evidence of a wide range of crimes in the U.S.-based side of digital conversations. By our rough, most generous calculation, that would eliminate only  0.01% of these so-called FBI backdoor searches (about 16/119,000 backdoor searches according to the latest intelligence community transparency report). We deserve more than these tiny baby steps.  Still, it’s a start, and should be a call to action for all of us to keep on the pressure.  Despite pushback against the authority, the White House had signaled earlier this summer that it was going to strongly defend Section 702, including all of its  more controversial domestic uses.  # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ CVE-2023-36325:_Attackers_can_de- anonymize_i2p_hidden_services_with_a_message_replay attack⠀⇛ A sufficiently determined attacker may be able to de-anonymize the public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of i2p hidden services (eepsites) by using a combination of brute-forcing the entire i2p router set with a replayed message. This is CVE-2023-36325. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Singapore_executes_first_woman_in_almost_20_years on_drug-trafficking_conviction⠀⇛ Singapore executed Saridewi Binte Djamani, a 45- year-old woman, on Friday as the penalty for a 2018 drug-trafficking conviction. It was Singapore’s first execution of a woman in almost 20 years. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ As_Taliban_Attempts_To_Exert_Greater_Control_Over Aid,_Afghans_Worry_Over_Declining_Assistance⠀⇛ Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are seeking to exercise greater control over international assistance operations by imposing bans and restrictions on aid groups even as the country suffers from one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. In a new report, the research group Afghanistan Analysts Network looked into why the Taliban has imposed restrictions on aid groups and the hard- line government’s attitude towards aid operations and the aid workers implementing them. # ⚓ El País ☛ ‘Barbie’_ignites_debate_on_China’s_territorial ambitions⠀⇛ “China has over a billion people, and film producers need this market. Some say that if [a scene] shows ‘a cow-tongue line,’ then we should just delete the scene. However, by allowing the movie to be shown, we would be sending a message of acceptance,” Tran Thanh Hiep, the director of Vietnam’s National Film Evaluation Council, told Vietnam News. The “cow tongue” is slang for the dotted line China puts on maps around disputed islands it claims as its own. “Vietnam’s position is clear. It does not accept films that are ambiguous in matters related to territorial sovereignty,”said Hiep. The strife arose from a map of the “real world” that appears behind Barbie (played by Margot Robbie) when she is urged to leave Barbie Land in search of a cure for her inexplicably flat feet. Vietnamese film reviewers objected to a particular detail on the map: a U-shaped dotted line extending down from an area called “Asia” into the South China Sea. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Niger_coup:_Burkina_Faso,_Mali_warn against_intervention⠀⇛ The governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea are also the result of recent military coups. # ⚓ The Record ☛ Senate_opens_path_for_a_cyber-focused_military branch⠀⇛ The possibility of a U.S. Cyber Force moved one step closer to reality on Thursday after the Senate approved its version of a massive defense policy bill. The $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act passed in a 86-11 vote. The Republican-led House narrowly passed its version of the legislation earlier this month, mostly along party lines. The two chambers will now go to conference to write a final compromise measure. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Twitter_Threatens_to_Sue_Hate_Speech_Researchers as_It_Unbans_Kanye_West⠀⇛ In the letter, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro wrote that the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) “made a series of troubling and baseless claims that appear calculated to harm Twitter generally, and its digital advertising business specifically.” Spiro wrote that Twitter, which recently changed its name to X, has “reason to believe” that the CCDH is “supported by funding from X Corp.’s commercial competitors, as well as government entities and their affiliates.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Twitter_Threatens_Legal_Action_Against Nonprofit_That_Tracks_Hate_Speech⠀⇛ The letter cited research published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate in June examining hate speech on Twitter, which Mr. Musk has renamed X.com. The research consisted of eight papers, including one that found that Twitter had taken no action against 99 percent of the 100 Twitter Blue accounts the center reported for “tweeting hate.” The letter called the research “false, misleading or both” and said the organization had used improper methodology. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Twitter_is_going_after_an_anti-hate_speech organization_over_‘baseless’_claims⠀⇛ In total, CCDH has written eight papers criticizing the company. In one of the latest papers, the organization accused X of not taking action “on 99% of hate posted by Twitter Blue subscribers,” which it says suggests X “is allowing them to break its rules with impunity and is even algorithmically boosting their toxic tweets.” “CCDH regularly posts articles making inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions about Twitter and its operations, which CCDH holds out to the general public as supported by ‘research,’” said the letter. The missive goes on, saying the “outlandish conclusions” that CCDH has been made without attempting a “rigorous design process, analytic procedures or peer review” that a reputable research organization would be expected to make. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Elon_Musk_threatens_to_sue_researchers_who documented_rise_in_hateful_tweets⠀⇛ Imran Ahmed, the centre’s founder and CEO, told the AP on Monday that his group has never received a similar response from any tech company, despite a history of studying the relationship between social media, hate speech and extremism. He said that typically, the targets of the centre’s criticism have responded by defending their work or promising to address any problems that have been identified. Ahmed said he worried X’s response to the centre’s work could have a chilling effect if it frightens other researchers away from studying the platform. He said he also worried that other industries could take note of the strategy. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Oppenheimer⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Movie_&_the_Moment_to_Stop_Nuclear Rearmament⠀⇛ Oppenheimer should be required viewing by all those in Washington who are bent on spending $1.7 trillion over the next decades to build new nuclear weapons to kill us all, writes Marcy Winograd. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ‘The_kindest_person’:_tribute_for_army chopper_victims⠀⇛ A Queensland MP has delivered an emotional tribute to the four ADF members who died in a military exercise helicopter crash.  A MRH-90 Taipan chopper crashed during the multinational Exercise Talisman Sabre last week, off the north Queensland coast. # § War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_and_Turkey_to_open_service_center for_Bayraktar_drones_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Ukraine’s Defense Ministry and the Turkish company Baykar have finalized an agreement to build a center for repairing and servicing Bayraktar drones in Ukraine, says the Defense Ministry’s press service.  # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_and_Croatia_reach_agreement_on export_of_Ukrainian_grain_through_Croatian_ports_— Meduza⠀⇛ Kyiv and Zagreb have reached an agreement on the use of Croatian ports to export Ukrainian grain, says a press release from Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Wagner_Group_closes_regional_recruitment centers_‘indefinitely’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has suspended the operations of its regional recruitment centers “indefinitely,” it announced on Telegram on Sunday, citing its “large personnel reserve.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_intelligence_official_says_Russia has_forcibly_mobilized_more_than_55,000_residents_of occupied_territories_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Since the start of 2022, between 55,000 and 60,000 residents of Ukraine’s occupied territories have been forcibly mobilized into the Russian army, Ukrainian intelligence official Andriy Chernyak said on Monday. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_calls_Moscow_drone_attacks_‘act_of desperation_amid_failures’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Kremlin views Ukrainian attacks on civilian targets in Russia as “acts of desperation,” Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, responding to a question about the drone attack that hit Moscow on Sunday and Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement that the war is “returning to its symbolic centers on Russian territory.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Scott_Ritter:_Requiem_for_NATO’s Nightmare⠀⇛ The dysfunction of the Atlantic military alliance over Ukrainian membership was just the most public manifestation of the debacle that was the Vilnius summit. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_ombudswoman_says_more_than_700,000 children_taken_from_Ukraine_since_February_2022_— Meduza⠀⇛ A new report from Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova says that Russia has “taken in” approximately 4.8 million residents of Ukraine since February 2022, including more than 700,000 children. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_missiles_strike_university_campus and_apartment_building_in_Kryvyi_Rih,_killing_10-year- old_and_at_least_five_others_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian military targeted the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih in a Monday morning missile strike. According to Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, one of the missiles hit a four-story university building. Rescue workers are searching for people that could be trapped under the rubble. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Officials_mull_Ukraine’s_grain_export through_Latvia⠀⇛ New export routes are being sought for Ukrainian grain, including through Latvian ports. However, in order for such a solidarity corridor to become operational, the Baltic states and Poland must do thorough homework, Latvian Television reported July 31. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Zelenskyy_advisor:_Defeat_in Ukraine_will_spark_collapse_of_Putin_regime⠀⇛ Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak says the Wagner mutiny has exposed Russia’s internal weakness and predicts battlefield defeats in Ukraine will spark the collapse of the Putin regime, writes Peter Dickinson. # ⚓ Reason ☛ When_Our_Weapons_Go_Missing⠀⇛ Washington is doing a poor job of monitoring whether the weapons it sends to Ukraine are ending up in the right hands. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Did_Russia_commit_a_war_crime_in leaving_the_Ukraine_grain_deal?⠀⇛ Read how Russian officials’ actions in withdrawing and enforcing the withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative might constitute a war crime or crime against humanity under international criminal law. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Moscow_office_tower_hit_as_drones target_Russian_capital⠀⇛ The Russian military said its anti-aircraft units thwarted a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” early on Tuesday and downed drones targeting Moscow, but one drone, sent out of control by its units, struck the same high-rise tower hit earlier in the week. There was no word on potential casualties. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). # ⚓ France24 ☛ No,_this_video_doesn’t_show_Ukrainian soldiers_‘giving_up_without_a_fight’⠀⇛ Pro-Russian social media accounts have been widely sharing a video that they claim shows Ukrainian soldiers surrendering to the Russian army en masse. The video, however, actually shows a prisoner swap between the Russian state-funded paramilitary group, the Wagner Group, and the Ukrainian army in May 2023. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Hits_Kharkiv_College_As_Drones_Damage Moscow_Tower_For_A_Second_Time⠀⇛ A Russian drone strike has destroyed a college dormitory in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv, regional authorities reported early on August 1, as Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the Russian capital repelled a Ukrainian drone attack. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Officials_Will_Attend_Ukraine_Peace Summit_In_Saudi_Arabia⠀⇛ U.S. government officials will attend a Ukraine peace summit in Saudi Arabia, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told a briefing on July 31, adding that he could not give more details. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Lawmaker_Kholodov_Resigns_After Leaving_Country_In_January⠀⇛ Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said on July 31 that lawmaker Andriy Kholodov of the ruling Servant of the People party had resigned. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Another_Russian_Soldier_Sentenced_For_Refusal To_Go_To_War_In_Ukraine⠀⇛ A military court in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula said on July 31 it had sentenced a soldier to 30 months in a colony settlement for refusal to go to war in Ukraine. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ After_the_Deluge⠀⇛ The Kakhovka Dam’s destruction by suspected Russian sabotage has made the Ukrainian land itself a casualty of war. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Inside_the_Wagner_Group’s_Armed Uprising⠀⇛ How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private military company went from fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine to staging a mutiny at home. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Putin_advisor:_Finnish_leadership_seeks confrontation_with_Russia⠀⇛ Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev accused Ukrainian and Western intelligence services of meddling in the Russian Republic of Karelia. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Steps_Up_Growing_Campaign_to Strike_Within_Russia⠀⇛ The stepped-up drone and missile attacks show a will to hamper the Kremlin’s military logistics, and to remind ordinary Russians of the cost of war. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Drone_Attacks_on_Russia_Show Evidence_of_Ukraine’s_Other_Counteroffensive⠀⇛ Officials in Ukraine rarely discuss attacks on targets inside Russia, including Moscow. But video evidence shows an increasing effort to launch long-range strikes inside the country. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia’s_Law_Targeting_Transgender People_Sows_Fear_for_L.G.B.T._Russians⠀⇛ A new law underscores how Vladimir V. Putin is increasingly using the war in Ukraine as justification for greater restrictions on L.G.B.T. life, portraying it as a consequence of deviant Western values. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_Deadly_Russian Missile_Strike_Hits_Apartments_in_Central_Ukraine⠀⇛ Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, was attacked hours after he warned that the war was “returning to the territory of Russia.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Extensive_Minefields_Impede Ukraine’s_Counteroffensive,_Military_Experts_Say⠀⇛ Russia has been using antitank weaponry against the Ukrainian forces’ mine clearing vehicles, an analyst said. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Saudi_Arabia_Will_Host_Talks_About Ukraine’s_Peace_Plan,_Diplomats_Say⠀⇛ Envoys from nations including the United States, Brazil, China and India have been invited, but it was not clear who would attend, the diplomats said. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_Government_sanctions_judges_and prosecutors_involved_in_sentencing_of_British-Russian dual_national_Vladimir_Kara-Murza⠀⇛ The UK Government announced Monday that it has sanctioned six people involved in Russia’s sentencing of dual British-Russian national Vladimir Kara-Murza after his appeal was rejected. The government sanctioned three judges, two prosecutors and an “expert witness” over what it has called “politically motivated targeting. # ⚓ LRT ☛ New_bill_seeks_Lithuanian_public_servants_to declare_ties_with_Russia,_Belarus⠀⇛ The Lithuanian government proposes to expand draft amendments that would oblige civil servants to declare their links with Russia and Belarus. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Woman_Escapes_Abductor_Who_Held_Her Against_Her_Will_For_14_Years⠀⇛ A woman told police in Russia’s Urals region of Chelyabinsk that she escaped after 14 years of being held against her will and sexually abused by the man who abducted her. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Court_Upholds_25-Year_Prison_Sentence Of_Kremlin_Critic_Vladimir_Kara-Murza⠀⇛ The First Court of Appeals in Moscow has upheld the 25-year prison term handed to outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza on charges of high treason, involvement in activities of an undesirable group, and discrediting Russia’s armed forces that he and his supporters call politically motivated. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moldovan_Parliament_Bans_Leaders_Of_Dissolved Russia-Backed_Party_From_Elections⠀⇛ Moldovan lawmakers on July 31 passed a bill that prevents the leaders of a Russia-backed party that was banned by the Constitutional Court from running in elections for a period of five years. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Czechs_Freeze_Bank_Accounts,_Impound_Property Of_Russian_Oligarch_Yevtushenkov⠀⇛ Czech media reports say investigators have frozen bank accounts and impounded the property of Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov and his son Feliks in Prague and Karlovy Vary. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Anti-War_Street_Artist_Sentenced_To 15_Days_In_Jail⠀⇛ Russian artist Filipp Kozlov, aka Philippenzo, told RFE/RL that he was arrested at a Moscow airport over the weekend upon his arrival from Georgia and later sentenced to 15 days in jail on a charge of refusing to follow a police officer’s orders. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Wagner_Group_Stops_Recruiting,_Continues Activities_In_Africa,_Belarus,_Prigozhin_Says⠀⇛ Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner chief who led a short-lived insurrection in Russia last month, said that the mercenary group had suspended recruitment, adding that it “continues its activities in Africa and at training centers in Belarus.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Moscow’s_attacks_are_stoking_hatred of_Russia_in_Odesa.⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Ten_Years_After_The_US_Military_Verdict Against_Chelsea_Manning⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ 5_Hot_New_Environmental_Books⠀⇛ # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Scientists_Say_Atlantic_Current_Collapse_Could Lead_to_Extreme_Cold_in_Europe_and_North_America⠀⇛ That said, a team of researchers led by Peter Ditlevsen, professor and climate researcher at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark anticipate in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications that the currents could collapse anywhere between 2025 and 2095 — if we don’t cut global carbon emissions, that is. If it were to collapse, much of the Western world could be plunged into an extended period of extreme cold — a counterintuitive result of climate change. Previous collapses, which have predominantly occurred during ice ages many thousands of years ago, have indeed led to temperatures going haywire. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_UK_has_doubled_down_on_oil_drilling—and claimed_it’s_all_part_of_its_net-zero_plan⠀⇛ Predictably, Sunak’s announcement has been met with strong criticism for weakening the UK’s climate commitments. (The UK’s independent climate advisor to the government has already judged these commitments to be in jeopardy.) Even some of Sunak’s Conservative party colleagues have been scathing. One Conservative lawmaker, Chris Skidmore, deplored the government’s decision in a message shared on social media on Monday, lambasting the move as wrong not only on economic grounds, but also because it has skirted parliamentary scrutiny. The UK’s lawmakers are currently on summer recess, and Skidmore said he will ask for an emergency debate on the move as soon as parliament reconvenes. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Even_Phoenix’s_Cactuses_Can’t_Beat_This_Summer’s Record_Heat⠀⇛ An online guide from the Desert Botanical Garden, explains that saguaro cactuses do need some supplemental water during drought years. There are obvious signs that a cactus isn’t doing too well in hot and dry weather. Instead of having firm skin and standing tall, which are the signs of a healthy cactus, the saguaros become squishy. They lose limbs, they start to lean, and even collapse in extreme conditions, CNN reported. xs # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Spain_Supreme_Court_upholds_national_climate_and energy_plan⠀⇛ Spain’s Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC), which set Spain’s climate and energy proposals. The court found that the plan is in accordance with the law and commitments made by the EU, despite several environmental groups’ insistence that it is arbitrary. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Nematodes_From_The_Siberian_Permafrost_Woke_Up After_A_46,000_Year_Long_Nap⠀⇛ The general consensus among us mammals is that if we get very cold, we die. Within the world of nematodes, however, they’d like to differ on that viewpoint. This is demonstrated succinctly after researchers coaxed a batch of these worms back into action after they had been frozen in Siberian permafrost for an estimated 46,000 years. The mechanism underlying this phenomenon is called cryptobiosis, which is essentially a metabolic state that certain lifeforms can enter when environmental conditions become unsuitable. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ A_Vital_Atlantic_Ocean_System_Could_Collapse Sooner_Than_Previously_Thought⠀⇛ Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean “conveyer belt.” New research finds it could collapse completely by 2060. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Binance_doesn’t_think_the_US_has jurisdiction_over_its_crypto_exchange⠀⇛ Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), arguing the regulatory body has exceeded its jurisdiction. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_YouTuber_is_accused_of_buying_the_world’s largest_black_diamond_with_the_proceeds_of_a_$1_billion [cryptocurrency]_fraud⠀⇛ Federal regulators allege that Heart raised more than $1 billion in unregistered [cryptocurrency] securities through his Hex, PulseChain, and PulseX companies and used at least $12 million of it on personal expenditures, including over $2 million on Rolex watches. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ SEC_Reportedly_Asked_Coinbase_to_Halt_All Trading—Except_for_Bitcoin⠀⇛ The SEC’s lawsuit against Coinbase accuses the company of operating as an unregistered securities exchange with the commission’s lawyers further arguing that Coinbase was trading 13 cryptocurrencies that were identified as securities. Those alleged securities could cause Coinbase to fall under the purview of the SEC, but the exchange refused to register with the commission. Bitcoin is not believed to qualify as a security under the Howey Test, according to Reuters. Armstrong denied the SEC’s guidance and opted to handle it in court. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Before_suing_Coinbase,_SEC_asked_it_to trade_only_in_bitcoin:_FT_report⠀⇛ The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had asked Coinbase to stop trading in all cryptocurrencies except bitcoin before suing the cryptocurrency platform in June, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing CEO Brian Armstrong. # ⚓ India Times ☛ US_SEC_charges_Youtuber_Richard_Heart with_unregistered_[cryptocurrency]_offerings_fraud⠀⇛ The SEC accused Heart of spending investor funds on McLaren and Ferrari sports cars, four Rolex watches and “The Enigma,” which cost 3.16 million British pounds (then $4.28 million) at auction and was purportedly the world’s largest black diamond. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ UK_to_grant_hundreds_of_new_oil and_gas_licences⠀⇛ The UK government will grant hundreds of new oil and gas licences in the North Sea in a bid for energy independence, ignoring calls to stop new fossil fuel projects. The plans announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak include a pledge to invest STG20 billion ($A38 billion) in carbon capture and storage projects as Sunak maintained the government’s commitment to eliminate net carbon emissions by 2050. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Voters_Support_ULEZ-Style_Policies,_Finds New_Poll⠀⇛ Voters back schemes that charge road users for driving highly polluting vehicles, according to a new poll from Omnisis for DeSmog.  A higher proportion of voters (44 percent) support ULEZ-style schemes than don’t (36 percent), according to the polling. People who intend to vote Conservative at the next election support charges on more polluting vehicles by a margin of 47 percent to 36 percent.  # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ UNESCO_Great_Barrier_Reef_‘in danger’_listing_unlikely⠀⇛ UNESCO has stopped short of declaring the Great Barrier Reef “in danger” in a draft decision hailed by the Australian government. “We’re committed to better protecting our precious Great Barrier Reef – and this decision is evidence of that,” Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said in a statement. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Intel’s_Back_in_the_Black,_Says_Arrow_Lake Already_in_the_Fab [Ed: But revenue down sharply]⠀⇛ Intel reports profit for the first time in several quarters and announces that the first stepping of its Arrow Lake chips are in the fab. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ US_futures_up,_stock_markets_higher_on cooler_inflation⠀⇛ US share futures have treaded cautiously higher ahead of more large-cap earnings reports, central bank meetings and a key employment report due later this week. US stock futures were mixed on Monday morning with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 both up about 0.1 per cent. # ⚓ The Business Journals ☛ Amazon_surpasses_Microsoft_as Bellevue’s_largest_employer⠀⇛ Five years after Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) established an outpost in Bellevue, it became the city’s largest employer, according to data released Monday. # ⚓ Yellow_is_shutting_down_and_headed_for_bankruptcy,_the Teamsters_Union_says._Here’s_what_to_know⠀⇛ Trucking company Yellow Corp. has shut down operations and is headed for a bankruptcy filing, according to the Teamsters Union and multiple media reports. After years of financial struggles, reports of Yellow preparing for bankruptcy emerged last week — as the Nashville, Tennessee-based trucker saw customers leave in large numbers. Yellow shut down operations on Sunday, according to the Wall Street Journal, following the layoffs of hundreds of nonunion employees on Friday. In an announcement early Monday, the Teamsters said that the union received legal notice confirming Yellow was ceasing operations and filing for bankruptcy. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Caymans-owned_Northern_Beaches Hospital_performs_world-first_“Headinthesandectomy”⠀⇛ Doctor and Teal rep for Northern Beaches, Sophie Scamps, has called on Northern Beaches Hospital boss to resign if the hospital can’t get its act together to address the youth suicide and mental health epidemic on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. What’s the scam? The scam is the public/private hospital was privatised in the takeover by Brookfield (now bidding for Origin Energy) of Healthscope and, now controlled by a Cayman Islands entity, is notoriously elusive when it comes to transparency. Even meeting with the local MP it seems. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Croc-o-Fyles:_NT_chief_blasts_southern “trolls”_who_are_subsidising_her_Darwin_petro-port⠀⇛ “Teals and trolls” is how NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles described “southern activists” in a speech to the National Press Club for criticising the Middle Arm petrochemical hub. What’s the scam? The scam is the Teals and trolls have had the cheek to express a view about public money, some $1.9bn of it, which has been earmarked to subsidise the second Darwin port and gas hub, a project whose major beneficiaries are multinational companies and fracking outfits such as the publicly subsidised Tamboran Resources whose major shareholder is a Texan billionaire. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Million-dollar_fines_for_tax_leaks after_PwC_scandal⠀⇛ Private consultants who leak confidential government tax information or cover up breaches by their colleagues could soon face million-dollar fines. The changes, which include penalties of up to $1.1 million for individuals and $5.5 million for individuals, were introduced into the NSW parliament on Tuesday after a scandal over confidential federal tax briefings being leaked by a former PwC partner. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Borrowers_spared_cash_rate_hike_as_RBA stays_on_hold⠀⇛ Borrowers have been granted another month of interest rate relief, with the Reserve Bank leaving the official cash rate untouched at 4.1 per cent.  The second consecutive month on hold follows four percentage points of increases that have heaped pressure on borrowers. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_economic_growth_slows_in second_quarter_after_rebound⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s economy expanded by 1.5 percent in the second quarter, data released Monday showed, indicating slowing growth after a robust start to the year. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ What_Europe’s_AI_regulation_moment_will_mean for_the_world⠀⇛ Most nations have approached issues like this by allowing sectors to individually regulate AI, such as aircraft design and flight safety. The infamous Boeing 737 MAX – which was grounded for over 18 months following two crashes within five months that killed 346 people – is one egregious example of regulatory failure. Other fields that have proactively regulated on AI include medical information (presiding over robot surgery and scan analysis), automated vehicles (the yet-to-materialise Tesla robot taxis and ‘Full Self Drive’ [sic]) and policing social media networks to protect against harms like disinformation. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Do_Facebook’s_algorithms_drive_political polarization?_Meta_says_no,_but_researchers_say_it’s complicated⠀⇛ A total of 16 papers are to be released on the subject. “The research published in these papers won’t settle every debate about social media and democracy, but we hope and expect it will advance society’s understanding of these issues,” Clegg added. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_176:_A_Mid- Summer_Update_on_Bills_C-11,_C-18,_the_Government’s_Cabinet Shuffle,_and_the_Brewing_Battle_over_Digital_Taxes⠀⇛ Coming off a week in which the government engineered a major cabinet overhaul that saw Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez replaced by Pascale St-Onge, an escalation of the battle over digital services taxes, and which featured significant news on both the Bill C-11 and Bill C- 18 fronts, this week’s Law Bytes podcast provides a mid-summer update on recent developments. Barring some urgent news, the podcast will be taking a break in August and return in September. # ⚓ RiskyBiz ☛ Russian_law_impacts_FOSS_participation⠀⇛ The Russian Parliament has passed three bills banning Russian citizens from participating in the activities of foreign non-profit organizations that have not registered with the Russian government. Russian IT experts say the laws have an unintended side effect and may prevent software developers from contributing to some open-source projects. [...] # ⚓ James G ☛ I_am_now_a_co-chair_on_the_W3C_Social_Web Community_Group⠀⇛ I am excited to announce that I have been appointed as a co-chair of the W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group (SWICG). This group is dedicated to advancing discussions around the social web, and prividing a forum for implementors to discuss specifications published by the former and separate W3C Social Web Working Group. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Can_Congress_Catch_Up_to_Deepfakes?⠀⇛ Rep. Yvette Clarke wasn’t exactly surprised when ex-President Donald Trump used an AI voice cloning tool to make Hitler, Elon Musk, and the Devil himself join a Twitter Space to troll Florida governor Ron DeSantis earlier this year. The former president wasn’t fooling anyone with the doctored screenshot, but Clarke worries similar political deepfakes will be weaponized to “create general mayhem” in what’s already shaping up to be a maddening 2024 election season. Without proper disclosures, Clarke, who has spent years warning of the danger of unchecked AI systems, says a skilled agent of chaos could even cause voters to stay home on election day, potentially influencing an election’s outcome. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_GOP’s_Nazi_Problem_Has_Deep_Roots⠀⇛ Even as his bid to become the Republican presidential nominee circles the drain, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis can take pride in the fact that he is almost keeping pace with his chief rival in having embarrassing Nazi scandals. Earlier this week, in response to continuing lackluster polling, DeSantis fired 38 staffers. Axios noted that one of those staffers was Nate Hochman, a speechwriter who “secretly created and shared a pro-DeSantis video that featured the candidate at the center of a Sonnenrad, an ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazis and still used by some white supremacists.” Earlier, Hochman and other staffers stirred controversy by sharing a bizarre homophobic and transphobic pro-DeSantis ad (presented as a fan creation, even though evidence points to its being another in-house production). This follows hot on the heels of a June scandal when it turned out that Pedro Gonzalez, a pro-DeSantis influencer whose social media voice was being promoted by the Florida governor’s staff, had a record of anti- Semitic, racist, and fascist private direct messages. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Will_Zambia’s_Debt_Restructuring_Set_a Precedent?⠀⇛ Many see this agreement as a change in China’s lending policy. The Chinese may be incorporating some aspects of Russia’s notion of the Global South, which promotes an economic future that relaxes basic notions of trade liberalism. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ How_Trump_Clouded_Journalists’_Heads_about Surveillance_Video⠀⇛ It is not the case that if DOJ obtained all the surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago, Trump Org must have given it to them. In fact, one of the most damning documents Mueller obtained during the Russian investigation came from Microsoft, the cloud provider hosting services for Trump Org. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Denmark_exploring_means_to_intervene_in Quran_burning_protests⠀⇛ Sweden is also facing similar diplomatic tensions with the Islamic States for the burning of Quran outside the Iraqi embassy. The Swedish government published a statement on July 26, claiming that the burning of copies of holy scriptures has caused strong reactions against Sweden from Arabic-speaking and Muslim countries. Sweden also claimed that there have been disinformation campaigns directed against the Swedish government, disseminating false claims that Sweden is behind the desecration of copies of holy scriptures. Swedish Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin added that the disinformation campaigns against Sweden could jeopardise foreignly based Swedish citizens’ lives and corporations’ operations. The disinformation campaign also poses a threat to national security. # ⚓ El País ☛ The_AI_genie_is_out_of_the_lamp:_We_must_be prepared_for_its_social_impact⠀⇛ With the recent advances of generative AI, a platform that is phagocytizing our digital planet much faster than the previous technological wave, we need to act quickly, and we cannot overlook the risks: the need for reliable and unbiased technologies, drawing red lines and avoiding the concentration of power that can increase inequality and condemn more people to irrelevance. Not only that, words can become weapons, and today’s chatbots could be considered the equivalent of the “Kalashnikovs of disinformation,” as Marta Peirano puts it. AI is power, and narratives generated with the help of algorithms threaten to further destabilize and unbalance our society. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Anti-War_Street_Artist_Sentenced_To_15_Days In_Jail⠀⇛ [...] Philippenzo became known for his street art made after the Kremlin launched its ongoing invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. His works challenged the government’s decision to start the war. [...] # ⚓ The New Arab ☛ Jordan_adopts_cybercrime_law_seen_as_threat to_free_speech⠀⇛ The measure tightens prison sentences and penalties for any website, social media platform or person responsible for a public account deemed to have violated privacy and a host of other provisions. It passed by a majority vote after a marathon six-hour debate and is expected to be enacted in coming days. The law has alarmed journalists, human rights activists and pro-democracy groups worried that its vague language would curtail further free speech and that criminalising conversations online will enable more crackdowns on political opponents. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Judge_blocks_Arkansas_law_allowing_librarians_to_be criminally_charged_over_‘harmful’_materials⠀⇛ U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to areas not accessible by kids. The measure, signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, was set to take effect Aug. 1. A coalition that included the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock had challenged the law, saying fear of prosecution under the measure could prompt libraries and booksellers to no longer carry titles that could be challenged. # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Denmark_looking_at_legal means_to_ban_burning_of_Quran⠀⇛ Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson went on to describe the situation as the “most serious security policy situation since the Second World War.” # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_gov’t_would_face ‘difficulty’_if_it_appeals_rejection_of_protest_song_ban, advisor_says⠀⇛ It would be difficult for the government to appeal against a court decision to reject an injunction to bar the broadcasting and performance of pro- democracy protest song Glory to Hong Kong with illegal intentions, a senior government advisor has said. Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance rejected a government injunction application last Friday, saying such a move could have a “chilling” effect on freedom of speech. The court also questioned whether there was genuine use in ordering an injunction. # ⚓ Greece ☛ Turkey_urges_Sweden_to_take_steps_to_stop_Koran burnings⠀⇛ “Ultimately it is about defending our free and open societies, our democracy and our citizens’ right to freedom and security,” Kristersson said. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ ‘Facebook_Files’_Reveal_Despicable_Disregard_for the_Constitution⠀⇛ Last week’s revelation that Facebook took orders from the Biden Administration to censor even accurate information about Covid is the latest example of the US government’s disregard for our Constitution. # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Project_Censored_Newsletter_July_2023_– Newsletters⠀⇛ Skipping Stones recognized the Media and Me as an outstanding teaching resource. “This book is aimed at young people, but it is an educational resource for media users of all ages,” educator Daemion Lee wrote in his review of The Media and Me. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Meme:_“It_Must_Be_My_Huge_CoC”_ (Codes_of_Conduct_Ruin_Free_Software_Projects.)⠀⇛ Corporate trolls use “Codes of Conduct” as a subtle act of sabotage against Free and Open Source Software and Communities. When I kept getting banned from Ubuntu and having them scream “Code of Conduct” over a decade ago, I became very annoyed at the entire concept. It turns out that it was just the seed of a very large problem beginning to percolate in the Free and Open Source Software Movement. In the past 15 years, CoCs have infiltrated most FOSS projects and have had a chilling effect on Free Speech and anyone with an off beat sense of humor. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Book_sellers_and_publishers_sue_Texas_officials over_new_book_ratings_law⠀⇛ A group of book sellers and publishers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Texas officials to block House Bill (HB) 900, the state’s new book ratings law. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Unsurprisingly,_Pornhub_Blocks_Arkansas_IP Addresses⠀⇛ It has been a busy day for Arkansas. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Senators_Warren_&_Graham_Want_To_Create_New Online_Speech_Police_Commission⠀⇛ The regulation will continue until internet freedom improves, apparently. Last year we wrote about Senator Michael Bennet pushing a terrible “Digital Platform Commission” to be the new internet speech police, and now we have the bipartisan free speech hating duo of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham with their proposal for a Digital Consumer Protection Commission. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge_Seems_Skeptical_That_California’s_Age Appropriate_Design_Code_Is_Compatible_With_The_1st Amendment⠀⇛ We’ve talked a few times about California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code.” This is a bill in California that was “sponsored” and pushed for by a UK Baroness (who is also a Hollywood filmmaker and has fallen for moral panic myths about evil technology). As we explained there is no way for a site like Techdirt to comply with the law. The law is vague and has impossible standards. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge_Blocks_Unconstitutional_Book_Ban_Law Passed_By_Arkansas’_Self-Proclaimed_Free_Speech_Warriors⠀⇛ The self-proclaimed free speech warriors of the Republican party have spent much of the past half- decade trying to find some way to force social media platforms to carry their often-objectionable speech. That’s what these asshats and hypocrites consider to be the real “censorship:” the actions of private companies these same people have long stated should not be forced to offer their services to people they don’t like. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Court_Sentences_Two_Female_Journalists_To Over_Four_Years_In_Prison_Each⠀⇛ Iranian female journalists Saeeda Shafiei and Nasim Sultanbeigi have been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison each for participating in the Freedom Life Women protests. [...] o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Macron_walks_tightrope_as_French_police_protest challenges_rule_of_law⠀⇛ French President Emmanuel Macron has declined to condemn the country’s top police chiefs for appearing to suggest officers were above the law, seeking to stave off unrest among security forces wearied by repeated bouts of street violence. Critics, however, lament a missed opportunity to reassert the state’s authority over an increasingly restless police force. # ⚓ Two_workers_are_killed_on_the_job_working_in_extreme_heat⠀⇛ The extreme heat is increasing the risk of a sudden heart attack due to dehydration for people with chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure, renal disorders, or diabetes. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Weight_stigma_infiltrates_work⠀⇛ Discrimination based on body size is common and persistent in American workplaces — but it’s largely left out of diversity and inclusion training, and overlooked in employment law. Why it matters:There’s an economic cost to not being thin. # ⚓ Rights_group_draws_attention_to_rights_violations_in prisons⠀⇛ In the prisons in Turkey’s northwestern Marmara Region, four prisoners died of illnesses in three months, according to the Human Rights Association. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Frisco_police_apologize_for_‘mistake’_after_video shows_family_stopped_along_highway_and_held_at_gunpoint⠀⇛ About three minutes later, that officer’s colleague tells him, “The wrong tag was written, this isn’t a stolen vehicle.” # ⚓ JURIST ☛ HRW:_Panama_indigenous_peoples_need_better government_support_for_climate_change-related_relocation efforts⠀⇛ The residents of Gardi Sugdub have been planning an evacuation from the island due to rising sea levels since 2017. However, HRW claims that the Panamanian government’s promised support for the evacuation has been slow to come. Their report alleges that little work has been done to the site residents are being relocated to, with the site lacking sewage, water, garbage removal and health services. The report goes on to say that there may not be enough water supply in wells on site to support Gardi Sugdub residents, even if water service is connected. The report states: [...] # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Starvation_line_exceeds_minimum_wage_despite substantial_increase⠀⇛ Comparing these figures to January, there has been a notable increase in the cost of living. At the start of the year, Türk-İş had measured the starvation line at 8,864 lira and the poverty line at 28,874 lira, with the cost of living for a single working individual at 11,556 lira. Furthermore, the prices of various goods have been on the rise in Ankara, where a four-person family’s minimum food expenditure has increased by 12.38% compared to the previous month. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Less_than_15%_workers_in_Turkey_unionized, ministry_reveals⠀⇛ At the beginning of the year, there were 16,163,549 workers, with a unionization rate standing at 14.42%. However, the recent data indicates that the unionization rate has slightly risen to 14.76%, showing a modest growth in union membership. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Insurer_Shut_After_Pictures_Surface_Of Female_Employees_Without_Hijabs⠀⇛ The suspension was announced by the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), on July 30. The agency had previously labeled the images of Azki’s female employees as a “violation” and “norm- breaking.” Last week, a video circulated on social networks showing Azki’s employees in various departments, many of whom were not observing the compulsory hijab. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Cornel_West:_The_Christian_Socialist_Running for_President⠀⇛ Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and the author of 20 books, from Prophesy Deliverance! (1982) to Race Matters (1993) to Black Prophetic Fire (2014). He’s also, more controversially, a candidate for president of the United States on the 2024 Green Party ticket. Whatever one thinks of his decision to run a third-party challenge (see The Nation’s editorial), as a founding member of Democratic Socialists of America and perhaps the leading Christian thinker on the American left, West brings both a public intellectual’s depth and a long personal history of radical politics to this unprecedented moment for American democracy. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Return_of_cruise_ship_carrying_Russian_passengers sparks_new_protests_in_Batumi_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Georgian coastal city of Batumi saw renewed protests Sunday morning against the arrival of the cruise liner Astoria Grande, which was carrying nearly 800 Russian tourists. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Woman_escapes_after_14_years_in_sexual_captivity at_rural_homestead_outside_Chelyabinsk_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Chelyabinsk regional police is investigating the abduction of the 33-year-old Yekaterina B., who spent 14 years locked in a bedroom in Smolino, a rural settlement just outside of Chelyabinsk. On July 30, her sister filed a police report after Yekaterina managed to escape from her captors. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Thunder_on_the_Left⠀⇛ The Rev. Traci Blackmon will never forget Charlottesville. she was there in August 2017 with a multi-faith contingent of fellow clergy, face-to- face with white supremacist Christian nationalists chanting, “You will not replace us! Jews will not replace us!” # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Historian_Peter_Kuznick’s_Take_on Nolan’s_“Oppenheimer”_Movie_&_The_Unaddressed_Impact_of Dropping_the_Atomic_Bomb_/_Unveiling_the_Catastrophic_Truth: Peter_Phillips_and_Bill_Tiwald_Discuss_the_Harsh_Realities_of “Limited”_Nuclear_War_–_The_Project_Censored_Show⠀⇛ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ What_Did_Columbia_Know?_Survivors_of Convicted_Sex_Abuser_OB-GYN_Robert_Hadden_Demand_Full Accountability⠀⇛ Former New York gynecologist Robert Hadden has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting patients over more than two decades while working as an OB-GYN at the Columbia University Medical Center starting in the late 1980s. Hadden’s federal conviction relates to four survivors, and he has been accused of abusing at least 245 women under the guise of medical examinations. Lawyers representing survivors say Columbia had a long history of ignoring Hadden’s behavior in order to protect its reputation instead of acting in the victims’ interests, and Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have paid out $236 million to settle claims by over 200 former patients of Hadden. For more, we speak with two survivors: Laurie Maldonado was a gynecology and obstetrics patient of Hadden’s between 2003 and 2012 and gave testimony at his trial, and Marissa Hoechstetter was a patient from 2010 to 2012 and gave a victim impact statement. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “FBI-Orchestrated_Conspiracy”:_Judge_Orders Release_of_3_of_Newburgh_4_Tied_to_Fake_NY_Bomb_Plot⠀⇛ For the past 14 years, relatives of four men jailed on terrorism charges in Newburgh, New York, have accused the FBI of entrapment. On Thursday, a federal judge agreed and ordered the release of three of the men known as the Newburgh Four: David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen. The men had been sentenced in 2010 to 25 years in prison for a government-orchestrated bombing plot of a New York synagogue. In a stunning decision, the judge accused the FBI of inventing a conspiracy. With the men set to be released within 90 days, we speak with lawyers Kathy Manley and Stephen F. Downs from the Coalition for Civil Freedoms about the monumental ruling, the legal issues with entrapment and what the ruling means for the many cases like this one. “This was the government’s standard operating procedure right after 9/11,” says Downs. “They were out there going to create as many terrorists as they could to show the public that they were on the job.” The fourth man convicted, James Cromitie, is expected to seek compassionate release. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Ohio_Doctors_Join_Political_Battle_Over Abortion_Laws⠀⇛ In her eight years as a pediatrician, Dr. Lauren Beene had always stayed out of politics. What happened at the Statehouse had little to do with the children she treated in her Cleveland practice. But after the Supreme Court struck down abortion protections, that all changed. The first Monday after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling was emotional. Beene fielded a call from the mother of a 13-year-old patient. The mother was worried her child might need birth control in case she was the victim of a sexual assault. Beene also talked to a 16-year-old patient unsure about whether to continue her pregnancy. Time wasn’t on her side, Beene told the girl. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ How_Prisoner-Led_Organizing_Saved_My_Life⠀⇛ Joining the Black Prisoners Caucus helped me find direction and the opportunity to serve my community amidst a life-without-parole sentence. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Weird_Trademark_Issue_That_Shows_Up_In_The Harlan_Crow_/_Clarence_Thomas_Mess⠀⇛ I didn’t think we had much reason to write about all of the Harlan Crow / Clarence Thomas stuff that I’m sure you’ve read elsewhere. But the latest (in a now increasingly long series) of mind-blowing revelations from ProPublica regarding the relationship between the billionaire and the Supreme Court Justice… actually has a somewhat bizarre trademark angle. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ AWS_introduces_charges_for_public_IPv4_use⠀⇛ Understanding AWS’ forthcoming IPv4 charges. It seems there’s now another business case for deploying IPv6 with Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcing that from 1 February 2024, they’ll charge USD 0.005, per IP, per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether they’re attached to an AWS service or not. For an always-on service, that’s USD 43.80 yearly for each IP. Depending on market prices and resource requirements, Amazon BYOIP may be a better option (and is excluded from these charges). From early next year, running IPv4 via AWS will become an OpEx versus CapEx decision depending on your resource requirements. Considering how widely used the AWS platform is for users of all sizes, this will become an important factor for most AWS users but even the simplest maths will show that IPv6 will save operating expenses. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ The_gTLDs’_new_clothes⠀⇛ This is the fourth blog post on the topic of the centralization of the Internet. The previous posts cover the diversity of authoritative name servers, the diversity of MX records, and an analysis of the use of CAA records across generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). This research was first presented at the APAC DNS Forum 2023 Pre-Event on 20 June 2023 (slides). # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_Slowly_Stumbles_Toward_Updating_Its Pathetic,_Industry-Friendly_Definition_Of_‘Broadband’⠀⇛ Under the Communications Act, the FCC is supposed to occasionally survey the state of the broadband industry to ensure that affordable broadband is being deployed on a “reasonable and timely basis,” and do something about it if it isn’t. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Amazon_AWS_To_Charge_for_Public_IPv4 Address_Next_Year⠀⇛ IN yet another sign of the increasing scarcity of Ipv4 addresses, citing a pricing increase of 300% for new addresses, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will introduce a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses starting from February 1, 2024. New charges will apply to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Global Accelerator, and AWS Site-to-site VPN tunnel services using public IPv4 addresses. The advance notice was given to AWS customers just ahead of the weekend via a blog post by the Chief Evangelist of the firm, Jeff Barr. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Kickstarting_a_book_to_end_enshittification, because_Amazon_will_not_carry_it⠀⇛ Amazon owns Audible, the monopoly audiobook platform that controls >90% of the audio market. They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon’s monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library. That’s a hell of a lot of leverage to hand to any company, let alone a rapacious monopoly that ran a program targeting small publishers called “Project Gazelle,” where execs were ordered to attack indie publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle”: [...] o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Live_Nation/Ticketmaster_Could_Face Federal_Antitrust_Lawsuit_This_Year,_Says_New_Report⠀⇛ Live Nation and Ticketmaster could face a federal antitrust lawsuit by the end of the year, says a new report from three individuals close to the situation. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft-Activision_deal:_UK_regulator_aims for_decision_by_August_29⠀⇛ Any persons wishing to comment on the new version of Microsoft’s takeover should do so by Aug. 4, the CMA said in its statement. It is aiming to make a final decision on the deal by August 29, the CMA said. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Italy’s_antitrust_accepts_Google’s commitments_to_end_data_portability_case⠀⇛ Italy’s AGCM competition watchdog on Monday said it had accepted commitments proposed by Alphabet’s unit Google to end a case over the tech giant’s alleged abuse of its dominant position in the user data portability market. The regulator opened the investigation last year following a complaint from Italian start-up company Hoda which accused Google of hindering its users right to share their personal data with other digital service platforms. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Rare_earths_supply_chain_deal_to_usurp China’s_monopoly⠀⇛ The United States Department of Defence is bankrolling a processing plant under a beefed-up contract with Australia’s leading rare earths company. Lynas Rare Earths, the largest rare earths producer outside of China, on Tuesday announced the updated contract for the construction of the heavy rare earths component of a processing facility in Texas. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB_Posts_August_2023_Hearing_Schedule⠀⇛ The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Tee- Tee-Ā-Bee) has scheduled nine oral hearings for the month of August 2023. All hearings will be held via video conference except for the third hearing, which will be “In Person.” Briefs and other papers for each case may be found at TTABVUE via the links provided. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Appellate_Court_Reportedly ‘Inclined_To_Revive’_Michael_Jackson_Sexual_Abuse Lawsuits⠀⇛ An appellate court is reportedly leaning towards reviving sexual abuse lawsuits filed against the estate of Michael Jackson by Wade Robson and James Safechuck, whose stories were told in 2019’s Leaving Neverland. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Reddit_Defeats_Filmmakers’_Second Attempt_at_Unmasking_Anonymous_Users⠀⇛ A California federal court has again denied a request to compel Reddit to unmask several anonymous users. Film companies say the Redditors’ comments could serve as relevant evidence in a piracy liability case against Internet provider Grande. However, the court concludes that the Redditors’ First Amendment right to anonymous speech outweighs the interests of rightsholders. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Sky_Obtains_Novel_Injunction_to Prevent_Piracy_of_Live_Sports_&_‘House_of_the_Dragon’⠀⇛ UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky has reportedly obtained a High Court injunction that will compel internet service providers to block access to live pirated sports streams, including both football and cricket matches. A novel aspect of the injunction is that it grants Sky the ability to protect specific content, such as a major TV show, by blocking certain piracy services at certain times. Precise details are confidential but it’s not too difficult to arrive at a credible theory. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4701 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.01.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_01/08/2023:_ClockworkPi_and_Splitting_the_Web⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 5:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Games o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BEHIVRO_Wordo:_AXONS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jorge_Sanz:_July_2023⠀⇛ July was mostly a month in between the conferences and summer holidays for me. Next week we will go out so July was a month at home, enjoying the local festivities of Valencia (*Gran Fira de València*) where the city was busy every weekend with many different activities. We had also national government and senate elections that as before, are leaving the country in a period of politics and very likely repeated elections. # ⚓ Aestate_summa⠀⇛ According to the calendar it should be high summer outside, but the thermometer shows 17 degrees C and it has been raining all night and all day long. We are in a hotel near the Hessian-Bavarian border as after visiting family we needed some time for ourselves. Clearly we picked the worst week weatherwise. On the radio they are constantly babbling about the need for security measures on sizzling hot days as we’ll have plenty of those because of the climate “catastrophe”. Yeah, look outside you fools. # ⚓ How_to_start_cooking⠀⇛ I think it’s hard to start from nothing. After all, I’m standing in my kitchen and want to cook something, so I start with the ingredients I have at hand and the ingredients I have at hand are based on vague notions of existing recipes. It is extremely rare for me to get a book with a recipe and shop for the ingredients. # ⚓ Living_under_the_shadow⠀⇛ Recently I’ve been thinking more and more about life and stuff, and I realised I’ve been living under the shadow for my entire pre-18 life. I’ve been wanting to do things by myself, especially things that I’m interested in, but life tells me that I’m not allowed to do that because imagine seeing me looking at the screen and putting the books aside, that will make me “fail”, so because life doesn’t want me to fail even once, I’ve instead become a puppet of life. I’ve been trying to fail, find ways to do it my own way, so that I can understand what I should improve, but life always gets into my way and say “don’t you dare”, so the most that I did during these days were to grind out subjects like Math, because that’s what I was interested in, and at school, in which life doesn’t intefere me yet, it was my biggest motivation to actually make improvements, it was something that I was passionate about. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ On_Direct_Democracy⠀⇛ To defend direct democracy, to oppose it as ‘real democracy’ against the false political democracy of the State, is to believe that our true nature will at least be revealed if were to finally be freed from the constraints which the system imposes on us: but to free oneself of such constraints supposes a transformation which at end of we would no longer be ourselves, at the very least we would no longer be what we are under the civilization of Capital.” # ⚓ On_Democracy⠀⇛ After a lifetime of thinking that I live in a democracy, I was horrified not long ago to see how it really works. In the US, people’s votes don’t really count to elect a leader (except to occasionally break a tie). People do not elect leaders – it is the mysterious ‘electoral college’ that elects presidents. It is the equivalent of the ‘dark web’ of politics. Do you know who the electors of your state are? Does anyone? How does one become an elector? Is it a paid position? These people are not responsible or accountable to anyone for anything. They can vote any f***ing way they feel like, for anyone they want. In some cases if they vote against the wishes of powerful people, they may be removed and replaced, repeatedly, until the desired vote is cast — which is even worse, because you see, someone in power has a way of getting the vote they want, regardless of what the elector wants, which is already decoupled from what people want. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Mixed-level_parties⠀⇛ @andy@dice.camp asked me about playing with mixed level parties. I’d say that compared to my days as a D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder 1 referee running Adventure Paths I feel that old school games like B/X and AD&D running sandboxes like mega-dungeons and hex-crawls are more carefree for me. Players determine the difficulty level by deciding where to go. This is made possible because mega- dungeons and hex-crawls are sandboxes in the sense that there are multiple ways to traverse them with no clear progression in difficulty or plot requirements. All this requires is for the players to be able to make an informed decision. Rumours about monsters provide warnings, and the implied treasure provides enticement. Dungeon level depth provides both. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ zshbrev⠀⇛ zshbrev allows you to mix zsh code and brev code. Not for polished li’l “eggs” but for your own duct tape and chewing gum hacking and automation. Quick and dirty♥. The default directory is .zshbrev/ but you can change it with the –dir flag to zshbrev. # ⚓ Did_anyone_else_get_a_Beepy,_aka_Beepberry?⠀⇛ I just got one a few days ago and it’s pretty cool. Kind of like a smaller PocketCHIP. I’m using a Pi Zero W in it for now because I already had a few on hand but would like to try the RISC V MangoPi MQ Pro eventually. I wrote up some first impressions on my gemlog. # ⚓ Internet_speed,_Media_computer,_File_server:_Setting_up Samba,_river_Wayland_updates⠀⇛ Still needs a lamp or something. It’s too dark in the evenings. Other than that I think I like it here. Depends on what happens in the living room, I suppose, if we suddenly get a teen invasion or something when #3 brings friends that want to use the living room, but that has yet to happen. I also re-routed our home network a little to get rid of the cable salad I had made next to the fucking DOCSIS modem. Instead, I have connected a single Ethernet cable from it all the way behind our bookcases to this desk and keep the rest of our network equipment neatly on my desk. The cute and noiseless little PC Engines apu2 which works as our combined router and firewall is my favourite computer in the household and sits just under my monitor now. This also means the workstation now gets real Ethernet instead of the Powerline thing it had before. Yeah, I know, I should just give up on the Powerline things already and just wire real Ethernet to every room in the flat. # ⚓ ClockworkPi_DevTerm_Thoughts⠀⇛ At the end of March, I received a ClockworkPi DevTerm UMPC. I didn’t have much of a chance to play with it in April or May, but since about the end of June, I’ve been using it as my primary mobile PC. After about five weeks of consistent use, I have a number of thoughts about the platform. My model is the DevTerm Kit RPI-CM4. The kit itself is a set of computer components: screen, keyboard with integrated trackball, main board, and peripherals, along with a shell. The kit is very simple to build: no soldering or screws are required. Swapping and upgrading components is extremely easy. Best of all, the hardware is open- source, and schematics and 3D-printing files are available on ClockworkPi’s GitHub page. Assembly took only a few minutes. A Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is not included inside the kit itself, but Clockwork does include one in the purchase. Two 18650 lithium-ion batteries are required for mobile use but are not included at all. Fortunately, I had a few left over from a much earlier project. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Splitting_the_Web⠀⇛ There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks, optimises clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life with ads, beep, notifications, vibrations, blinking LEDs, background music and fluorescent titles. A web which boils down to Idiocracy in a Blade Runner landscape, a complete cyberpunk dystopia. Then there’s the tech-savvy web. People who install adblockers or alternative browsers. People who try alternative networks such as Mastodon or, God forbid, Gemini. People who poke fun at the modern web by building true HTML and JavaScript-less pages. Between those two extremes, the gap is widening. You have to choose your camp. When browsing on the “normal web”, it is increasingly required to disable at least part of your antifeatures-blockers to access content. # ⚓ Append_Write_Corruption⠀⇛ Someone on the #gemini IRC channel had guestbook code up for review; the results of malloc and fopen calls were not checked. 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