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Vintage computing enthusiast Cameron Kaiser has turned a modern eye on an unusual operating system for a beloved but somewhat rare gadget: Dreamcast Linux, running on Sega’s ill-fated — and final — 1998 games console.
“Dreamcast Linux has something to teach later Johnny-come-latelies with a distro surprisingly well-adapted to its target platform,” Kaiser writes of his love for the operating system, “support for many peripherals, and an all-in-one batteries-included philosophy. Plus, it was one of the earliest Un*xy things for game consoles circa 2001, predating PlayStation 2 Linux by about a year or so, though PS2 Linux was at least Sony-official. (While at least one Linux purports to run on an O.G. PlayStation, this was a later development.)”
In this episode: Bill goes deep down the rabbit hole, pihole, Bitwarden, LG Gram, and Synology.
Episode Time Stamps 00:00 Going Linux #437 · Listener Feedback 01:34 Bill went down the rabbit hole 03:27 Alpinejohn: Topic suggestion – pihole 05:56 Carlos: Bitwarden 09:04 Carl: Definitions – minion and gremlin 12:32 George from Tulsa: Update on LG Gram 16:39 Liam: Synology issues 21:53 goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, +1-904-468-7889, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 23:09 End
Listen now (16 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast – Feb 20, 2023
Linux 6.2 brings native support for M1 processors on Mac, but it isn’t totally finished or ready for primetime.
M1 Mac Linux 6.2 support is now available – an achievement that Linux creator Linus Torvalds originally saw as an impossible task. It can be run on the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra chips.
Torvalds had long wanted an ARM laptop capable of running Linux, and when the M1 MacBook Air came out said that it would have been the perfect machine but for the fact that Apple wouldn’t allow another OS to access the GPU and other elements …
Torvalds was pessimistic back in 2020.
“I’ve been waiting for an ARM laptop that can run Linux for a long time. The new Air would be almost perfect, except for the OS. And I don’t have the time to tinker with it, or the inclination to fight companies that don’t want to help,” he wrote.
Later adding: “The main problem with the M1 for me is the GPU and other devices around it, because that’s likely what would hold me off using it because it wouldn’t have any Linux support unless Apple opens up.”
The time has come as the newest Linux 6.2 is out, offering multiple benefits for its users.
For all of those Ubuntu Linux users out there, you can rejoice as the newest and most up-to-date version – Linux 6.2 kernel series – is available for your computer or Ubuntu-based distribution!
With the latest generation of phones, we’re used to having images automatically sharpened, upscaled, and otherwise polished to perfection by machine learning models and on-device neural nets.
Older photos or those taken without advanced hardware have suffered in comparison. Upscayl runs on your Linux machine and uses AI models to sharpen and upscale low-resolution images into ultra HD.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to setup AppArmor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. =
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install GitLab on Fedora 37.
This video explains how to use the Hyper-V Manager to create Linux virtual machines. You’ll learn the standard process, as well as the Quick Create method.
Xorg and Wayland are the main display servers in Linux. Xorg, (X Display Server) is the legacy display server…
At Bootlin, we recently developed from scratch a new Linux kernel for the USB Device Controller found in the Renesas RZ/N1 processor. This driver is already accepted upstream, is currently visible in linux-next and should hopefully be part of the upcoming Linux 6.3 release.
I demonstrated how I manage OpenStack using Terraform in my previous article. Using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a significant advantage, but it also requires the staff to support it. Sometimes, all you really need is the ability to provision infrastructure as timed resources, with no intention of building lasting data structures. When I design a flexible environment, I prefer the declarative language of Ansible.
Ansible’s flexibility allows me to design for use cases that include:
Netdata is a free and open-source performance and health monitoring solution for Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD. It provides real-time statistics and allows you to monitor cloud-based servers, containers, and your entire IT infrastructure.
APT also known as Advanced Packaging Tool is the command-line tool for managing packages in Debian-based distributions like Debian and Ubuntu. In this tutorial, we will explain how to manage packages using APT command line tool on Ubuntu.
This is the eighth part of my syslog-ng tutorial. Last time, we learned about network logging. Today, we learn about syslog-ng macros and templates. At the end of the session, we will know how to do a simple log rotation using macros.
GlusterFS is a free, open-source and software-defined distributed storage developed by Gluster Inc, and then by Redhat. It provides interfaces for object, block, and file storage and is used for high data-intensive workloads such as cloud storage, CDN, and media streaming.
Laravel is a free and open-source PHP framework that provides a set of tools and resources to build modern PHP applications. This guide will use Docker Compose to containerize a Laravel application for development.
Jenkins is an automation server with support for many SCM (Source Control Management) systems including Git, SVN, and Mercurial. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to automate your project. In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up Jenkins master-slave architecture using the latest Ubuntu version Ubuntu. We will learn to set up the Jenkins master server, and then add other Ubuntu nodes as Jenkins slaves.
This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over.
Fork is an open-source content management system for beginners and professionals. It is designed to create a user-friendly environment to build, monitor, and update your website. This tutorial will show you how to install Fork CMS with Apache and Let’s Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 22.04.
This tutorial describes how to limit CPU usage in Ubuntu. I will use CPU-limit utility for this purpose. Cpulimit is a tool which limits the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in CPU time). It is useful to control batch jobs when you don’t want them to eat too many CPU cycles. The goal of cpulimit is to prevent a process from running for more than a specified time ratio. It does not change the nice value or other scheduling priority settings, but the real CPU usage.
After moving the poudriere jail (pkg01) to the new host (r730-01), I noticed this message from Nagios: [...]
Introduction In computer networks, layer 2 and layer 3 protocols play an important role in communication. Layer 2 protocols deal with the data transmission over a single link while layer 3 protocols are responsible for routing data between multiple networks.
The world of computer networks can be confusing, especially if you are new to the field. However, once you understand the basic building blocks of a network, it becomes much easier to understand how data is transmitted and received.
Window functions are a new feature that was introduced in MySQL 8.0 and they have the ability to perform advanced analytics within the database itself. With these functions, users can perform operations like running totals, moving averages, and ranking without having to write complex subqueries or temporary tables.
A MAC (Media Access Control) address is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications within a network segment.
When it comes to computer networking, there are various protocols and technologies that are used to establish communication between devices. Layer 4 of the OSI model is one such technology that plays a crucial role in this communication.
Created a user but without the home directory? Worry not. You can add home directory for existing users too. Here’s how to do that.
In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses need to be able to handle large amounts of web traffic to stay competitive. One way to achieve this is by using a high-performance web server like Nginx. Configuring Nginx to handle 100,000 requests per minute requires a well-optimized and tuned server.
Almost all power users prefer to use the command line interface while interacting with Linux systems. By default, all Linux commands display their output on the standard output stream.
Ubuntu Pro is a service Canonical introduced a while ago that ensures your operating system and over 23,000 applications receive security updates for 10 years. That’s impressive.
For those who might not understand the implications, imagine you could install an operating system and never have to re-install it for 10 years.
As is the case with any operating system, file management is an important part of using Linux. Sometimes, it becomes necessary to delete files in order to free up space or to remove unnecessary files. While it sounds like a simple task, deleting a file in Linux can be challenging for beginners. In Linux, there are various methods to delete a file, including using the command line (CLI), graphical user interface (GUI), and more. That said, we have covered five different methods to delete files and folders in Linux in this guide. So without further ado, let’s dive right in.
Here are some steps you can take to ensure that your bash scripts work as intended and are easy to update.
In this guide, we show you the best ways to check disk usage on Linux using GUI tools as well as CLI commands like du and df.
In this article, we have explained how to rename and batch rename files in Linux through two different Command Line (CLI) or GUI methods.
Valorant is a tactical first-person shooting game in which two teams of five players fight against each other using Agents. It has grown in popularity due to its diverse content, appealing cosmetics, and enriching gameplay experience. However, its restricted platform availability may limit its prominence.
The famous Agent-based game can only be played on Windows-based computers. As a result, players cannot run it on a Linux-based machine. However, there are certain methods by which one can play the game, albeit not as smoothly.
The following article will cover every aspect a player should be aware of before attempting to play the game on their Linux machine.
Octopath Traveler II is coming out on February 24th 2023 on Steam (just a few days later), and the Prologue (aka Demo) has just landed on Steam.
At the time when I pre-ordered my Steam Deck, I went the cheap way by securing a 64GB version, My rationale was that by the time the Steam Deck would be in my hands….
Caramel and other testing easy 4.99 have reported the French translation to be less than before:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=81950#p81950
The problem with apps not being translated is due to .mo files being in /usr/share/locale.in, whereas they should be in /usr/share/locale
The scripts in woofQ that build easy are supposed to move all .mo files for inbuilt packages from /usr/share/locale.in to /usr/share/locale. In my eagerness to bring out 4.99, I missed some of the code required to do this.
GParted 1.5 is here almost a year after GParted 1.4, but appears to be a small update to the very popular partition editor utility that only enables repair support when checking exFAT file systems, increases the minimum size for XFS filesystems to 300MB, and adds resolves FAT16/32 label and UUID issues under Alpine Linux.
This release also brings a few improvements for the Btrfs file system, which require btrfs-progs 4.5 or later to be installed on your GNU/Linux system, and fixes an issue where the path used to resize a Btrfs file system needs to be a directory.
Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 (Service Pack 5), the openSUSE Leap 15.5 release looks to ship with the same kernel as the previous release, Linux 5.14, but will offer the latest KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment by default.
openSUSE Leap 15.5 won’t have the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software like openSUSE Tumbleweed, but it will still offer some newer software versions like the Mesa 22.3 graphics stack.
We are thrilled to start our Public Beta Program for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 5 with the release of PublicBeta-202302. The Public SLE Beta webpage is now live! Please check it out for all the Public information.
We took another step on the SCM/CI integration of the Open Build Service. This time we improved the rendering time of the workflow runs UI and enhanced the user documentation. Reduced Rendering Time of Workflow Runs UI Previously with a lot of workflow runs being present, the UI took multiple seconds in order to load and render. This was above whats acceptable, so we took another look onto it and reduced the overall rendering times…
If you’re looking for a desktop operating system that focuses more on ease of use and getting work done, and less on frills, SparkyLinux might be what you’re looking for.
Two leading companies in open-source and automotive software combine complementary strengths to create the next-generation automotive operating system. EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu is an open-source ECU software solution that complies with automotive industry standards to facilitate rapid innovation and simplify vehicle development.
EB corbos Linux, constructed atop of Ubuntu and open-source ECU software, adheres to automotive industry standards for accelerated innovation and simplified vehicle development.
Elektrobit and Canonical have combined forces to launch EB Corbos Linux – the first open-source Linux community tailored for automotive software! Powered by Ubuntu, this revolutionary solution is now available from Elektrobit.
Elektrobit and Canonical today announced EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu, an industry first bringing the largest open-source Linux community to automotive software. Available immediately from Elektrobit, the new solution provides OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers with the benefits and flexibility of an open-source operating system for developing electronic control units (ECUs) in software-defined vehicles. It integrates Ubuntu, provided by Canonical, in a solution that addresses the specific needs of the automotive sector.
Elektrobit has provided embedded and connected software products and services to the automotive industry for more than 35 years. EB corbos Linux – built on Ubuntu will enable the application of open-source Linux to ECU application development, while ensuring compliance to processes needed for automotive mass production across development and in-vehicle systems with embedded devices.
Raspberry Pi announced today the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe designed to interface with RP2040-based targets or any other Arm-based microcontroller with Serial Wire Debug 3.3V I/O port. This new debug kit has been launched for just $12.00.
It is an update to the Pimoroni Badger 2040 with the exact same display, but instead of using a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, Pimoroni fitted a Raspberry Pi Pico W on the back of the board, probably to avoid going through FCC and CE certifications. Badger 2040 W specifications: MCU board – Raspberry Pi Pico W board with: Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core Arm Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz with 264kB of SRAM Storage…
The Librem 5 is a privacy-focused Linux smartphone developed by Purism, a company that focuses on creating hardware and software that respects users’ privacy and security.
We are pleased to announce that we have finalized the schedule for PGDay/MED 2023! We were fortunate enough to get a large number of submissions, and the program committee is proud of the line-up that we’re featuring for this first-ever Mediterranean PGDay.
The new version (0.6.0) of simstudy is available for download from CRAN. In addition to some important bug fixes, I’ve added new functionality that should make data generation with correlated data a little more flexible.
Several bidders have emerged to buy the English soccer club, promising to pay billions to own a big piece of the world’s most popular sport.
A UN spokesman said that ten trucks carrying shelter and other items from the International Organization for Migration crossed earlier Monday through the Al Ra’ee border crossing into northern Aleppo, Syria.
At least three people were killed and 213 others were sent to hospitals after two fresh earthquakes jolted southern Türkiye on Monday night, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
The teen was unintentionally locked up in the container while playing with friends.
Surprise!
The residents of Vanuatu, a clutch of islands in the South Pacific, are no strangers to flooding. The ocean floor around them is frequently shaken by tsunami-triggering earthquakes.
They’re still not quite sure how it’s possible.
It’s been well worn.
Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday the three astronauts who were left stranded by a pressure leak in their return capsule last year will be able to return on the Soyuz MS-23 replacement capsule in September.
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Deputy economy ministers of Taiwan and Lithuania have signed a memorandum of understanding on laser technology cooperation, under which the two sides will jointly set up an R&D and innovation centre in Taiwan, the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan reported on Tuesday.
At a brief news conference, He Jiankui repeats an official line about being optimistic about Hong Kong’s future.
Applicants to Hong Kong’s new talent scheme do not need to declare their criminal history, an official has said. His comment came after a controversial scientist who produced genetically edited babies and was jailed in mainland China for violating medical regulations had his application approved.
Dr He Jiankui plans to explore opportunities to work in Hong Kong on gene therapies for rare diseases.
“I was born in Cuba, and it doesn’t sound good when people are trying to achieve equal outcomes for everyone,” said one parent.
An interesting press release from last Thursday: The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system to amend its new school bathroom guidelines in response to privacy complaints reported to the organization in recent weeks.
Nvidia’s revenue is poised to fall again when it reports fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow (Feb. 22), but Wall Street won’t mind.
Intel’s 15th-generation Arrow Lake processors will arrive in late Q4 2024 to Q1 2025. This adjustment is being done to help reduce costs amid weakened PC demand.
The CLEVERFOOD project seeks to mobilise EU citizens to change their habits in order for member states to reach climate goals
The rising tide of death that began during the pandemic is now the “new normal” for the New York City medical examiner’s office.
Following the decisions taken by the State Agency of Medicines (ZVA), on Tuesday, February 21, the government supported a total of €30,000 in compensation costs for 4 people in relation to severe and moderate health damage caused by adverse reactions to the vaccine against Covid-19, the Ministry of Health said.
Some questions answered.
Humans usually contract the disease through exposure to food or household items contaminated by the urine or feces of infected Mastomys rats.
XBB.1.5 is estimated to account for 80.2 percent of U.S. COVID-19 cases in the week ending Feb. 18, up from 73 percent in the week prior, according to the CDC.
The maker of Enfamil announced a recall of about 145,000 cans of infant formula due to the possibility of cross-contamination with a bacteria that can cause serious illness or death. Reckitt, a U.K.-based consumer health and nutrition company, said over the weekend that is voluntarily recalling two batches of Enfamil ProSobee Simply Plant-Based Infant Formula, but that no illnesses or “adverse events” have been reported. The company said it identified the cause of the potential cronobacter contamination and are no longer using the supplier. According to the the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention, cronobacter infections in infants can be deadly.
Embattled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday he will travel to Ohio “when the time is right” to review the devastating effects of the train derailment.
KYIV/NEW YORK– 707 violent attacks on hospitals, health workers, and other medical infrastructure devastated Ukraine’s health system during the first year since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion, according to a new investigation published today by human rights investigators.
Police have left hundreds of spent tear gas grenades and debris from crowd control weapons on one of the Soko Islands following a training exercise.
Molten metal and debris rained down around the factory after the blast, which caused smoke to billow into the sky.
A better quality of life on the internet is becoming increasingly pricey.
Driving the news: The world’s biggest social platforms are experimenting with charging people for everything from improved account security and support, to the promise of wider public exposure.
Apple has updated its security advisories to add new iOS and macOS vulnerabilities, including ones belonging to a new class of bugs.
The CRYSTALS-Kyber public-key encryption and key encapsulation mechanism recommended by NIST for post-quantum cryptography has been broken using AI combined with side channel attacks.
JFrog argues vulnerability risk metrics need complete revamp
Here is another perfect example that shows how attackers abuse free services…
The Intercept has a long article on the insecurity of photo cropping:
HardBit ransomware operators want to work with victims to negotiate a ransom behind the back of cyberinsurance companies.
Months after a suspected cyberattack shutdown pharmacy services for a number of days, the Maritime company that owns Sobeys is alerting customers and employees, past and present, about a data breach of personal information.
In an episode that underscores the vulnerability of global computer networks, hackers got ahold of login credentials for data centers in Asia used by some of the world’s biggest businesses, a potential bonanza for spying or sabotage, according to a cybersecurity research firm.
A negotiation that lasted a few days was enough for the group of cybercriminals Black Basta to pocket a ransom of $300k, the initial amount requested by the ransomware group was $600k.
The American company KFI Engineers, with its headquarters in St. Paul in the state of Minnesota, finally decided to come to terms with its extortionists; more money that enters the coffers of a group of cybercriminals, more money that will allow Black Basta to finance his group and his illegal actions.
↺ HardBit ransomware gang adjusts their demands so the insurance company would cover the ransom cost
The HardBit ransomware group first appeared on the threat landscape in October 2022, but unlike other ransomware operations, it doesn’t use a double extortion model at this time.
The gang threatens victims of further attacks if their ransom demands are not met. Once infected the network of an organization, the HardBit ransomware group instructs victims to contact them by email or via the Tox instant messaging platform.
With Elon Musk’s Twitter making an absolute mess with paid verification and Twitter Blue, rival Meta has stepped up to the plate with a similarly ludicrous plan to have users pay for the privilege of proving they are who they say they are on Facebook and Instagram.
Mayors of Western Australia’s crime-hit Goldfields region have called for the return of the controversial cashless debit card in a bid to stop alcohol-fuelled violence harming their communities. Regional areas including Laverton and Leonora are experiencing a spike in youth crime and violence.
After Motherboard announced Team Cymru sold internet monitoring tools to the U.S. military, the Tor Project announced it would stop using infrastructure donated by the company.
The last time President Joe Biden spoke from the courtyard of the Royal Castle in Poland, the content of his 27-minute speech was mostly obscured by what he ad-libbed about Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end.
Vladimir Putin has used an address to parliament to falsely claim Western nations started the war in Ukraine and that Russian ‘used force in order to stop it’.
Russian President Vladimir Putin doubled down on his war in Ukraine and sought to blame the West for the conflict during his state of the nation speech. He rolled out a familiar list of justifications for his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports.
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Manila mustn’t forget domestic security threats as it deepens defense ties with Washington and Tokyo.
Vladimir Putin says Russia will no longer abide by New START, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the two countries.
The US Secretary of State met Wang Yi during a security conference in Germany.
FINLAND and Sweden joining Nato together and without delay remains the primary objective for all political parties in the Finnish Parliament, reveals a survey conducted by YLE.
The Finnish public broadcasting company reported late last week that the majority of political parties are nevertheless prepared to join the military alliance before Sweden, a possibility that has emerged as Turkey continues to air objections about the membership bid of Sweden.
Myanmar’s military was battling a powerful ethnic army in the eastern state.
Around a third of Ukrainian refugees currently in Denmark say they would prefer to continue their lives in the Nordic country once the war in Ukraine is over, according to a government survey.
Mr Kim fired off a record number of missiles in 2022 and brought his pre-teen daughter to displays of military might, signalling there’s another generation of leaders for the family dynasty that will depend on nuclear weapons for its survival.
Beijing will continue to “promote peace talks and provide Chinese wisdom” for a political solution to the conflict.
Dr Balakrishnan also said he is glad to see the new Chinese foreign minister already engaging South-east Asia.
Other defense strategists say the US couldn’t win a war, even with regional support.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is preparing to visit Moscow for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming months, The Wall Street Journal reported on February 21, citing people familiar with the plan.
The Belarusian parliament’s lower chamber has approved the second and final reading of a bill that envisages the death penalty for high treason for civil servants and members of the military.
President Vladimir Putin says Russia is suspending its participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last remaining nuclear arms accord with the United States, further raising concerns over global security during Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The United Nations says the Russia’s war in Ukraine has caused more than 21,000 civilian casualties since its start on February 24, 2022, with 8,006 people killed and 13,287 wounded.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa used this week’s edition of his newsletter to tell citizens the country is chairing the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) this month (February) and elaborating for “peace, stability and development” in Africa.
In March 2022, President Putin allocated US$13.4 billion for a macroeconomic program, which allowed not only to stabilize the ruble but to achieve a recovery of its value.
While Europe is facing a huge energy crisis, the United States has benefited from the war by selling its LNG to European markets at much higher prices.
In place of the toppled obelisk glorifying the Soviet regime in Slavas Square, Daugavpils, the Daugavpils City Council will install a new environmental object, the portal LSM.lv was informed by the municipality on February 21. The site of the monument is expected to get plants and three large rocks.
Originally published in Institute for Policy Studies. Twenty years ago – on February 15, 2003 – the world said no to war. People rose up in almost 800 cities around the world in an unprecedented movement for peace.
This agreement was expected to reduce the number of nuclear warheads by 30 percent.
Since April 2015, Burkina Faso has suffered frequent attacks perpetrated by groups linked to both Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
An agreement has been reached for Lithuania and Belarus to play their Futsal World Cup qualifying match in a neutral country, Armenia, the Lithuanian Football Federation said on Tuesday.
Lithuanian representatives will boycott the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna after Austria allowed Russian representatives to attend.
Investigative journalists have uncovered a possible scheme involving Lithuania for circumventing the EU sanctions for Belarusian fertilisers.
On Monday, Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said the country will create a new territorial paramilitary force.
Sport ministers of 34 countries, including Lithuania, have signed a joint statement calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reconsider its decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes into next year’s Paris Olympics as neutral competitors.
President Biden traveled covertly to the besieged Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, hoping to demonstrate American resolve to help defeat the Russian forces that invaded a year ago this week.
The country has conducted six underground nuclear tests, and a seventh may be on the way. Rights groups fear their environmental and health consequences.
President Biden took a nearly 10-hour train ride from the border of Poland to show his administration’s “unwavering support” nearly a year into Russia’s invasion.
Juan Manuel Santos, a former president of Colombia, said the Ukraine war was “sucking all the energy” away from fighting other challenges, including climate change.
Josep Borrell Fontelles told international leaders meeting in Munich that Western allies’ recent decision to provide Ukraine with tanks took too long.
China’s military, economic and political ties with a weakened Russia a year after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine continue to deepen, even as Beijing presents itself to the West as a responsible global leader working towards peace.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty — the last remaining arms control agreement between Washington and Moscow.
The big picture: The announcement capped off Putin’s state of the nation address to Russian lawmakers in which he raged against the West with many of the same claims he has previously used to justify the war in Ukraine.
Kit Knightly Back in October 2022, when the Nordstream 2 sabotage was first hitting the headlines, I predicted the following: The “official story” will never prove who bombed the pipeline one way or the other and is not intended to. Resolution is not desired.
Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkēvičs, used a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union in Brussels on February 20 to remind his colleagues of the need to maintain pressure of aggressor state Russia.
Sleeping bags for use in snow, Ukrainian army uniforms, special food and a pick-up truck adapted to host a large machine gun – on Monday, February 20, a convoy organized by the Confederation of Ukrainians in Latvia traveled to Bakhmut.
Russia’s security head has held talks with the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy chief, saying Moscow and Beijing must deepen their cooperation in the face of Western pressure. Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s National Security Council, said during Tuesday’s meeting with Wang Yi, the party’s most senior foreign policy official who is visiting Moscow, that the West has been trying to preserve its global domination.
The war in Ukraine has killed thousands, forced millions to flee their homes, reduced entire cities to rubble and fueled fears the confrontation could escalate into an open conflict between Russia and NATO.
The owner of the Russian private military company, Wagner, has accused Russia’s defense minister and chief of general staff of starving his fighters in Ukraine of ammunition, which he charged amounts to an attempt to “destroy” the force. Yevgeny Prigozhin said that both Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov are handing out orders “left and right” not to supply Wagner with ammunition and not to support it with air transport.
Issa, Gérard and Rachel have built lives in Ukraine, despite coming from Guinea, France and the US. On February 24, 2022, they were shocked to see their adopted home engulfed in war with Russia – but they chose not to leave Ukraine. One year later, they are still living through the war, side by side with Ukrainians.
Fresh from an unannounced visit to Kyiv, US President Joe Biden rallied NATO allies in Poland on Tuesday to stress that the United States is squarely behind Ukraine and committed to bolstering the alliance’s eastern flank. Earlier, Russia’s Vladimir Putin said Moscow would suspend its participation in the last remaining arms control treaty with Washington as part of an anti-Western speech delivered days before the anniversary of his Ukraine offensive.
Russia expected it would quickly seize control of Ukraine at the outset of the invasion, as did many Western observers. But Ukraine fought back with remarkable tenacity and skill, boosted by Western weapons – and the front lines have shifted dramatically since Russian troops moved in on the northern, southern and eastern flanks. FRANCE 24 looks back on some of the decisive battles in the first year of Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.
Taiwan will boost military exchanges with the United States to curb “authoritarian expansionism”, President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday after meeting with visiting US lawmakers.
Some of Venice’s secondary canals have practically dried up due a prolonged spell of low tides linked to a lingering high-pressure weather system. Since the canals essentially serve as streets in car-less Venice, the phenomenon of the last days has added to the challenges of every-day life in the lagoon city. Ambulance boats in some cases have had to tie up farther from their destination, forcing medical crews to sometimes hand carry patients on stretchers over longer distances.
France has matched its record dry spell of 31 days without significant rainfall, the country’s weather service said Tuesday, amid concerns over water reserves in parts of Europe still reeling from last year’s severe drought.
OVER A HALF of Finns are ready to compromise on their standard of living to tackle the climate crisis, reveals a survey conducted for Helsingin Sanomat by Kantar Public.
Helsingin Sanomat reported last week that the share of respondents who are ready to adjust their standard of living for the climate stands at 51 per cent, a rise of four percentage points from 2021. Almost two-thirds (62%) of respondents estimated that the voluntary choices of people will not suffice to combat climate change, a rise of nine points from 2021.
The Latvian cabinet, on the basis of an analysis by the Ministry of Climate and Energy (KEM), rejected the terms of the project proposed by Skulte Liquefied Gas Terminal developer AS Skule LNG Terminal and its strategic investor, the Ministry said on February 21.
Bankman-Fried was purportedly photographed sleeping peacefully on an Alaska Airlines flight from San Francisco International Airport to Newark last week.
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here.
There are currently around 150,000 electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids on the roads of Finland, but charging stations can be few and far between.
By year’s end, plug-in cars (including hybrids) made up nearly half of all cars sold in Finland.
The FTX founder joined Jane Street Capital not to learn about controlling risk, which is its focus, but because the tenets of a philanthropic movement drew him there.
While hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced after the devastating earthquakes, those who continue living in their homes have difficulties in access to basic needs.
The Anti-Nuclear Platform of Mersin, which was one city that felt the February 6 earthquakes although not faced any destruction, warned the government and the opposition against the building of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in the city.
Fusion Fuel has signed a term of acceptance for a €10m grant approved through Component 14 (C-14) of Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan.
As these massive global corporations reap record profits, Lee Camp exposes the corruption and massive amounts of corporate welfare given to oil companies through public funds and tax breaks.
They look great and hold loads of food, but before you splurge on an American-style fridge freezer, make sure you know the facts
As the number of bears in Latvia increases, the public should acquire at least the ‘bear’ minimum of education on how to adapt and live with these animals, according to hunter Linda Dombrovska. Meanwhile, the Nature Conservation Agency is discussing the number of bears allowed in Latvia and supporting beekeepers, Zemgale Television reported February 21.
Hunting of brown bears has increased in recent years, especially along Finland’s eastern border, according to Luke, the Natural Resources Institute.
On social networks, another animal welfare violation has caused a major storm. A property was found in Talsi municipality, where a voluntary animal rescuer kept a variety of animals but then disappeared and the animals were left to fend for themselves, Latvian Television reported on February 20.
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the only world region projected to continue population growth in the second half of this century, and even beyond 2100. In SSA, religion and religiosity are major factors contributing to the persistent high birth rates.
Producers must think differently to meet global food demand, an international agrifood conference has been told. After a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the evokeAg industry event reopened its doors in Adelaide on Tuesday. In his keynote address, American tech investor Scott Amyx said Australia is a global leader in exponential technologies.
Some Chinese companies manufacturing goods for the U.S. are shifting production closer to their biggest market.
In a recent trial of the four-day work week, 61 UK companies experimented with giving all their employees a paid day off every week. The experiment—the world’s largest, till date—has been hailed as a resounding success by its organizers.
A trial of a four-day workweek in Britain, billed as the world’s largest, has found that most employees are less stressed, burned out and have better work-life balance. Findings from the University of Cambridge, Boston College and other researchers released this week show that most of the 61 companies that participated from June to December will keep going with the shorter hours. They say revenue largely stayed the same over the trial period and even grew compared with the same six months a year earlier. Employees have reported more job satisfaction, better sleep and improved mental health. There was also a 57% drop in the likelihood of employees quitting from the same period a year earlier.
Data publised by the Central Statistical Bureau February 21 show that in January 2023, compared to January 2022, the average level of producer prices in Latvian industry rose by 22.9 %.
Stocks are slumping on Wall Street amid worries about upcoming profits for companies and the tightening squeeze of higher interest rates. The S&P 500 was 1.3% lower Tuesday in its first trading of the week following Monday’s holiday. Home Depot fell to one of the market’s sharper losses after it gave a financial forecast that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. Treasury yields kept climbing further on worries that the Fed will stay aggressive on rates to fight inflation. They’ve shot higher this month following several reports on the economy that were stronger than expected.
Blockchain investors in Japan rejoice. The Japanese subsidiary of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX announced that customers could begin withdrawing funds from their accounts beginning on Tuesday, after a months long freeze.
Around half of retail businesses in Denmark say they expect their prices to go up within the next three months.
Malaysia hopes lifting price controls and growing corn for poultry feed will ease supply challenges.
Jeonse tenancy is particularly popular among people in their 20s and 30s.
There’s a funny story about Trump’s stolen document lawyers that neglects to mention Boris Epshteyn.
This exhibit from a House Jan. 6 committee hearing on June 9 shows one of the Capitol’s many fixed camera angles. Photo: House Select Committee via AP
Nigerians are going to the polls in one of the most crucial times of their lives to decide who will lead the country’s affairs for at least the next four years. This election is one of the most important ones taking place this year.
The rise of Peter Obi in the campaign for Nigeria’s presidential election on February 25 has shaken up the country’s politics, hitherto dominated by two major parties since the end of military rule in 1999. But analysts say that Obi still faces an uphill struggle.
The platform aims to maintain a safe community ahead and during Thailand’s general election.
The 70-year-old billionaire, Gennady Timchenko, has been close friends with Russian President Vladimir Putin for decades.
First lady Jill Biden will visit Namibia and Kenya this week as part of a United States push to step up engagement with Africa. President Joe Biden told African leaders at a summit last year that the U.S. is “all in” on the continent’s future. He promised multiple visits by U.S. officials, including himself.
Two hours before Marjorie Taylor Greene took credit for Kevin McCarthy’s decision to give Tucker Carlson access to all the security footage from January 6, she called for Civil War.
The World Government Summit in Dubai has held under the theme of “Shaping Future Governments”. The Summit will bring thought leaders, global experts and decision makers from around the globe to share and contribute to the development of tools, policies, and models that are essential in shaping future governments.
In the coming decade, US-Pakistan security relations will be more important than any other type of relationship. After Pakistan’s impending elections this year, the US cannot turn a blind eye to engage Pakistan in healing bilateral US-Pak relations, whether the subject is Afghanistan or the TTP.
India’s role as the G20 chair is being viewed as a real opportunity for it to share the experiences of the global South with the rest of the world.
Abstract: One Belt, One Road (OBOR) is a Chinese-led initiative that seeks to enhance Eurasian economic connectivity through the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road. OBOR covers 58 countries and accounts for 65% of global economic production.
The relationship between liberalism and nationalism has been of particular importance, especially in the 21st today. Western Europe, particularly nations like Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, which were seen as champions of liberalism, are now hubs for rising nationalist movements. Liberalism and nationalism are often seen as two opposing ideologies.
With over 46,000 dead, the Turkey-Syrian earthquake is the worst in living memory for the two countries. Unfortunately, it struck early in the morning at 4:17 local time when most people were asleep and unable to flee the buildings with the first tremors.
Less than two weeks after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, killing tens of thousands of people, another massive quake ripped through an adjacent region.
US President Joe Biden’s administration relented last Thursday and finally lifted sanctions on Syria. The change of policy came after four days of relentless and shocking footage from the disaster zone in southern Turkey and northern Syria caused by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
The Israeli parliament backed a key part of a controversial judicial overhaul at first reading Tuesday despite protests across the country against a bill critics see as a threat to democracy.
In the latest article of our Ambassadors series, The Local speaks to German ambassador Joachim Bertele, who says relations between the two countries are “very tight”, today ranging from collaborating on electric cars to Sweden’s Nato bid.
The Swedish JAS Gripen fighter jet is one of the planes Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has asked for to “close the sky” and protect Ukraine from Russian air and missile attacks. In this article, Loukas Christodoulou looks at how suitable they are for the job.
The highlight in ASEAN news for the past few weeks, Indonesia has agreed that East-Timor will be included in the ASEAN agenda for 2023, which Indonesia will be the Chairmanship for this year.
On 18 February, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar gave a keynote address at the inaugural Raisina @ Sydney dialogue, organised by ASPI and the Observer Research Foundation.
The increasingly offensive use of an offensive US friendshoring policy will make it more challenging to manage US-China strategic competition
US President Joe Biden’s bold surprise visit to wartime Kyiv sent a strong message to Moscow that time is not on Putin’s side and Russia should not pin its hopes on a weakening of Western resolve to stand with Ukraine.
Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine featured photo ops and promises for more military aid. Now, Atlantic Council experts share their insights on the visit and what’s next.
>The Hong Kong government has submitted a proposal to introduce legislative amendments which would require local courts to obtain a certificate from the city’s leader before considering whether to allow foreign counsels to act in national security cases.
Taiwan will work with other friendly nations to deal with authoritarian expansionism, Tsai said.
Taiwan will boost military exchanges with the United States to curb “authoritarian expansionism”, President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday after meeting with visiting US lawmakers. The five-day US congressional visit comes after a top US defence official reportedly made a rare stopover to the self-ruled island while Washington-Beijing tensions flared over alleged Chinese spy balloons.
The Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania opens the international exhibition entitled “Lviv Welcomes Vilnius. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery”.
Hope is arguably the most prominent political journalist GB News has attracted since Andrew Neil.
Prosecutors in the sedition trial against defunct Hong Kong outlet Stand News have asked one of its former editors whether he believed that supporters of the localist camp were more susceptible to misinformation, as they continued their questioning on Tuesday.
Winds peaked at hurricane-strength 38.1 m/s in northwest Jutland
The kingdom’s courts are meting out harsher punishments than ever to citizens who criticize the government, with prosecutions built on Twitter posts ending in prison sentences of 15 to 45 years.
Created to depict the brutality of enslavement, the works are seen by some as offensive. The school wants them permanently covered. The artist says they are historically important.
It is particularly the younger Ukrainians who want to remain once the War in Ukraine finally comes to an end
A CNN investigation has uncovered a network of black sites used by Iranian authorities to perpetrate the worst torture and abuses at an industrial scale. Cross-referencing witness testimony and satellite imagery, the CNN International investigations team has exposed at least two dozen sites, where due process is suspended and regime operatives have free reign. CNN has reached out to the Iranian government for comment on the allegations of torture and abuse at these unofficial locations but has not received a response.
Two contentious bills were approved in an initial vote in Parliament on Monday, including one that would reduce the power of the Supreme Court.
In their urgency to foist Sturgeon’s nominated devolutionist successor on Scotland, the media are going all out against Kate Forbes for saying she could never vote for gay marriage. But they have not noted that Humza Yousaf also did not vote for gay marriage, he absented himself.
UNESCO must work with all stakeholders to ensure guidelines on regulating digital platforms center human rights for people everywhere. …
Moderated by Kate Klonick, with Mary Anne Franks, Mike Godwin, James Grimmelmann, Gus Hurwitz, Jeff Kosseff, Emma Llanso, Alan Rozenshtein, Benjamin Wittes, Jonathan Zittrain, and me.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in two internet-law cases focusing on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. That provision
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Section 203(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes an “interactive computer service” (such as YouTube, Google, Facebook and Twitter) for “publish[ing] … information provided by another” “information content provider” (such as someone who posts a video on YouTube or a statement on Facebook). This is the most recent of three court of appeals’ decisions regarding whether section 230(c)(1) immunizes an interactive computer service when it makes targeted recommendations of information provided by such another party. Five courts of appeals judges have concluded that section 230(c)(1) creates such immunity. [...]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to hear oral arguments in the first of two cases this week with the potential to reshape how online platforms handle speech and content moderation.
The justices are set to hear a case challenging Section 230, a law that protects Google, Facebook and others from lawsuits over what their users post online.
This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could upend the way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the internet. Both Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh ask the court to reconsider how the law interprets Section 230, a regulation that protects companies from legal liability…
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The Supreme Court’s ruling on a pair of ISIS terrorism cases this week will rest on the nine justices’ interpretation of 26 words written in 1996 that collectively have come to define the nature and scope of modern online expression.
According to DataReportal, there were 5.74 million internet users in Zimbabwe at the start of 2023. That’s 34.8% of the population. This data is from the Internation Telecommunications Union. That sounds too low, doesn’t it?
I have to tell you, I don’t buy data bundles like I used to. I’ve lost count of the number of times I had to stay up at 3 am just so I could deplete a bundle before it expired.
“Jamais deux sans trois”. The French Supreme Court (“Cour de Cassation”) has issued no less than seven decisions relating to SPCs on February 1st, 2023.
Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent RE46727, owned by Fare Technologies, LLC, an NPE.
In Bilski, the Supreme Court recognized that the traditional exclusions of “abstract ideas” and “laws of nature” were not textually derived, but were of such antiquity that their precedent could be maintained and justified. Bilski v. Kappos, 561 U.S. 593 (2010). Later, in Mayo and Alice, the Supreme Court fleshed-out its two step test for determining eligibility for these categorical exclusions.
Section 4 of the Trademark Act provides for registration of a collective membership mark, defined as a trademark or service mark adopted by a collective and used by members to indicate membership in the collective. Mission American Coalition sought to register the mark THE TABLE COALITION “to indicate membership in a group of church leaders, senior church members, ministers, independent evangelical preachers, and other evangelical principals to promote and support evangelistic activities.” However, its specimen of use failed to show use by members to indicate membership in the collective organization. And so, the Board affirmed a refusal to register under Sections 1, 4, and 45 of the Act. In re Mission America Coalition, Serial No. 90019480 (February 17, 2023) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Peter W. Cataldo).
Canadian copyright lobby groups have relentlessly lobbied the government to overturn decades of Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence, seeking unprecedented restrictions on fair dealing that include eliminating it for educational institutions if a licence is available. In doing so, they have relied on a steady diet of misleading claims about the state of the law, the licensing practices of Canadian educational institutions, the importance (or lack thereof) of copying of materials in course packs, and the effects of fair dealing. This week is Fair Dealing Week, which provides an opportunity to set the record straight on Canadian copyright and education, backed by actual data on what takes place on university campuses across the country.
My wife and I both loved the original Harry Potter series, both in print and movie form, though she is frankly more devoted to the franchise than I am. We’ve both seen each movie multiple times and have been to the Wizarding World parks in Orlando. As such, we spent many of our evenings in the last two weeks playing Hogwarts Legacy for PlayStation 5. After investing a combined 40 hours into the game so far, we have several thoughts about it.
I hate disclaimers, but I’m going to put one here regardless. Nothing in this post will state or imply anything regarding my feelings about the social and political discourse surrounding Hogwarts Legacy, the wider Wizarding World, or J K Rowling herself. This post is nothing more than a review of the game as a game and as a tie-in to an existing fictional franchise.
I think I saw the video on the day of release. The solution seemed kind of obvious to me at the time. I wrote up a comment explaining my answer, but I never posted it because I was too lazy to make a Youtube account for it.
This was before I realized what a shill Veritasium is. The video misrepresents infinity. It was created as setup for follow-up video clickbait.
It would be irresponsible to link a Veritasium video without also linking the Tom Nicholas video. It highlights a trend I was beginning to see in Veritasium’s videos soon after the one above, once I started really watching him. His willingness to avoid applying critical thinking to selective topics. (I stopped watching after the video where he gives a platform to a conspiracy theorist selling a book by “interviewing” them with no challenging questions. It was so transparent.) I was so glad to see someone else had also taken notice. It happens in way more than the one video, but the focused deep dive is really worth the look to understand how corporate propaganda manifests in the media you consume.
This is a short post on where my Raspad (Raspberry Pi tablet) tinkering has gotten. The past week I’ve cleared out a few cobwebs off my todo list. But there is always more to be done. I don’t know if one can justly state that the Raspad is the Volkswagen of tablet computing. But it is certainly more flexible than any I’ve seen, both in hardware and soft. The downside to this has been the necessity to get my hands dirty with compiling source code. This is not really a bad thing… unless I can’t figure it out. Lately I’ve been muddling through.
I’ve hit a small wall on certain seemingly obvious and basic interface issues. I have Touchégg running, but not the gui Touché. (Or is that vice versy?) The most annoying of these include the edge mismatch on the touch screen. I’ve recalibrated X, but it still won’t correct on that outer 5mm or so. Likewise, the lack of decent CJK handwriting IME in Linux land is bizarre. The only one which isn’t a moribund project uses Google servers, and so that is entirely not on.
3D-printed back cover for PinePhone that fits Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra accessories, such as battery cases.
I wrote a tool – previously prophesied in my “On Nim” post – that periodically polls gemlogs for new posts and sends digests of them over email. It has support for multiple users with different feeds. I think it’s kinda nifty, but it’s almost certainly buggy – if anyone tries running it and finds issues, please mail me at sunset@arcanesciences.com! This is alpha-quality software. I’m also likely to run a public instance of this if that would be something anyone would find useful – it has a Gemini frontend that allows user registration, feed management, etc.
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