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May 132025
 

Nextcloud provides an
open-source collaboration platform called Nextcloud Hub, which includes file-sharing and syncing
features. The company has written
a blog post explaining that Google has revoked a critical permission
from the Nextcloud Files app for Android that allows it to sync files
to Nextcloud Hub.
Google is stating security concerns as a reason for revoking the
permission. This is hard to believe for us. Nextcloud has had this
feature since its inception in 2016, and we have never heard about any
security concerns from Google about it. Moreover, several Big Tech
apps as well as Google’s own still have this. What we think: Google
owning the platform means they can and are giving themselves
preferential treatment. Despite multiple appeals since mid-2024, Google has refused to
reinstate the…

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 2025-05-13  Comments Off on LWN.net – Nextcloud claims Google is being anticompetitive
May 112025
 

A day after Columbia University called in the New York Police Department to arrest more than 70 pro-Palestine protesters who had occupied a library reading room, the university and its affiliate Barnard College suspended several students who had been present in the library.  The suspended students included students who happened to be studying in Butler Library at the time the occupation began, as well as journalists. The suspensions came amid final exams at the university. Some of the students who were not protesting have had their suspensions rescinded. Barnard College informed suspended students that they would have to vacate their college housing within 48 hours and that their meal cards would be voided. The housing deadline…

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 2025-05-11  Comments Off on The Intercept – Students Studying at Columbia Library Were Suspended for Protest They Took No Part In
May 102025
 

PostgreSQL 18 beta has been released, and it’s the perfect time to start exploring the new features we can expect in the General Availability (GA) release. One feature that particularly caught my attention relates to improvements in statistics collection and usage. Here’s an excerpt from the official PostgreSQL release notes:
Add functions to modify per-relation and per-column optimizer statistics (Corey Huinker) Add pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore options –statistics-only, –no-statistics, –no-data, and –no-schema (Corey Huinker, Jeff Davis)
One of the key ingredients in performance analysis is understanding the underlying statistics of tables, columns, and indexes. Often, we encounter cases where queries behave differently in production compared to Pre-Prod or UAT environments. A common reason for this discrepancy…

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 2025-05-10  Comments Off on Planet PostgreSQL – Deepak Mahto: PostgreSQL 18 Beta Preview – Export or Amend Statistics with Ease
May 102025
 

Stephen Miller’s threat to suspend habeas corpus is a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s erection of a political dictatorship.

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May 102025
 

It’s a voluntary program launched during a Republican administration, endorsed by manufacturers and well-recognized by U.S. consumers, who have saved an estimated $500 billion over the past 33 years guided by its familiar blue label.

But President Donald Trump’s administration has decided the Energy Star program has got to go.

CNN and The Washington Post first reported the plan to eliminate the program that certifies the most energy-efficient appliances and buildings with the Energy Star label. Knowledgeable sources have confirmed to Inside Climate News that Environmental Protection Agency staffers learned the details at an internal meeting earlier this week.

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May 102025
 

Demcoratic Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of Newark —New Jersey’s largest city— was arrested by federal agents during a peaceful protest at Delaney Hall.

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 2025-05-10  Comments Off on World Socialist Web Site (en) – Democratic mayor of Newark arrested by federal agents at protest amidst escalating deportation campaign
May 092025
 

Raleigh’s planning commission, the all-volunteer body that makes recommendations to the city council about zoning, development, and growth, has two new members—and it lost two members who were eligible for reappointment and wanted to continue serving. It happened quickly during the city council’s Tuesday meeting: the deputy city clerk told the council members that freshman planning commissioners Reeves Peeler and La Tanta McCrimmon were each seeking reappointment for a second term, and that Mayor Janet Cowell had nominated Mark Shelburne and Nick Neptune to replace them.Council member Jane Harrison made a motion to reappoint Peeler, a community organizer who works in affordable housing tax credit financing. Council member Christina Jones seconded it. The members voted by a…

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 2025-05-09  Comments Off on INDY Week – Raleigh City Council Ousts Two Planning Commissioners
May 072025
 

After a five-year pause in student loan collections, the Trump administration has begun ruthless collection efforts while simultaneously preparing massive budget cuts to higher education programs.

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 2025-05-07  Comments Off on World Socialist Web Site (en) – Millions of Americans face garnishment and the seizure of benefits as the US Department of Education begins pursuing student loan debtors
May 072025
 

On May 6, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed HB 41. It changes the filing deadline for new parties from August 1 to July 1. Also it says that if a new party petition is found not to have enough valid signatures, the party that circulated it can’t just supplement the original petition. Instead it must start all over with a new petition.

Maryland is the second state this year to have made ballot access more difficult for minor parties. The first was New Jersey. Both states have Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature, and Democratic governors.

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May 072025
 

 
Ari Paul (FAIR.org, 4/25/25): “Going after public broadcasters is…part of the neo-fascist playbook authoritarian leaders around the world are using to clamp down on dissent and keep the public in the dark.”
The death of former 1960s radical turned right-wing provocateur David Horowitz brought to mind the time he called me “stupid” (Michigan Daily, 9/8/03) because he disliked a column (Michigan Daily, 9/2/03) I wrote about neoconservatism.
I was reminded of that again just days later when Matt Taibbi (Racket News, 5/4/25), a journalist who left Occupy Wall Street populism for ruling class sycophancy, attacked my recent article, “Cuts to PBS, NPR Part of Authoritarian Playbook” (FAIR.org, 4/25/25). In his response, titled, “No, State Media and Democracy Don’t…

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May 062025
 

On May 5, U.S. District Court Judge Richard E. Myers II, a Trump appointee and a member of the Federalist Society, issued an order in Griffin v North Carolina State Board of Elections, e.d., 5:24cv-731. The ruling says North Carolina cannot refuse to count the votes of voters who voted in November 2024 election, and who had been told at the time that they had fulfilled all steps taken to have their votes count. The order is stayed for seven days in case the losing side wishes to appeal to the Fourth Circuit.
This lawsuit stems from the very close race for Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The vote shows that the Democratic nominee won…

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 2025-05-06  Comments Off on Ballot Access News – U.S. District Court Rules that North Carolina Cannot Retroactively Disqualify Votes After an Election
May 062025
 

Trump’s plan is designed to safeguard the profits of the US entertainment conglomerates and monopolize cultural production.

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 2025-05-06  Comments Off on World Socialist Web Site (en) – Trump’s tariff on foreign films: An authoritarian attack on culture and the working class
Apr 242025
 

On the morning of April 23, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies executed search warrants at multiple homes in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Canton Township, Michigan. The raids reportedly targeted a number of student organizers who were connected to Gaza protests at the University of Michigan.
According to the group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), agents seized the students’ electronics and a number of personal items. Four individuals were detained, but eventually released.
TAHRIR Coalition, a student-led movement calling for divestment from Israel, said that officers initially refused to present warrants at the Ypsilanti raid. They were unable to confirm whether ICE was present at the raid.
The post FBI And Police Raid Homes Of Palestine…

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Apr 242025
 

Roku, owner of one of the most popular connected TV operating systems in the country, walks a fine line when it comes to advertising. Roku’s OS lives on low-priced smart TVs, streaming sticks, and projectors. To make up the losses from cheaply priced hardware, Roku is dependent on selling advertisements throughout its OS, including screensavers and its home screen.
That business model has pushed Roku to experiment with new ways of showing ads that test users’ tolerance. The company claims that it doesn’t want ads on its platform to be considered intrusive, but there are reasons to be skeptical about Roku’s pledge.
Non-“interruptive” ads
In an interview with The Verge this week, Jordan Rost, Roku’s head of ad marketing,…

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 2025-04-24  Comments Off on Ars Technica – Roku tech, patents prove its potential for delivering “interruptive” ads
Apr 232025
 

Folks, Greetings from the Burgh, where I am getting back in the swing of things after struggling with stomach issues. Donate to help us pay the healthcare premium.United Auto Workers Reform Caucus to Disband In 2021, Scott Houldieson led the effort to help found Unite for All Workers (UAWD), a reform caucus within the UAW. Now, Houldieson is leading efforts to disband the reform caucus in a vote this weekend. The move to disband the UAW’s reform caucus comes as Shawn Fain forms a “Unity Caucus” to bring together various factions of the union. Houldieson is proposing that the reform caucus funds be steered into the Unity Caucus. Union members are protesting the move, though. Last week, Payday broke a story about…

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Apr 232025
 

Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a 32-year-old Venezuelan immigrant and father, legally in the United States, has apparently been disappeared to El Salvador after making a wrong turn on the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Ontario, Canada.

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Apr 192025
 

After obliterating the federal office on long COVID and clawing back billions in COVID funding from state health departments, the Trump administration has now entirely erased the online hub for federal COVID-19 resources. In its place now stands a site promoting the unproven idea that the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 was generated in and leaked from a lab in China, sparking the global health crisis.
Navigating to COVID.gov brings up a slick site with rich content that lays out arguments and allegations supporting a lab-based origin of the pandemic and subsequent cover-up by US health officials and Democrats.
Previously, the site provided unembellished quick references to COVID-19 resources, including links to information on vaccines, testing, treatments, and long COVID….

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Apr 182025
 

A three-judge panel warned that the “lawlessness” of the executive branch was threatening the constitutional order in the United States.

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 2025-04-18  Comments Off on World Socialist Web Site (en) – Appeals Court rules Trump trampling on due process in Abrego Garcia deportation case
Apr 182025
 

Narc dot AI: American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers […] Massive Blue, the New York-based company that is selling police departments this technology, calls its product Overwatch, which it markets as an “AI-powered force multiplier for public safety” that “deploys lifelike virtual agents, which infiltrate and engage criminal networks across various channels.” […] 404 Media obtained a presentation showing some of these AI characters. These include a “radicalized AI” “protest persona,” which poses as a 36-year-old…

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Apr 182025
 

A three-judge panel warned that the “lawlessness” of the executive branch was threatening the constitutional order in the United States.

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 2025-04-18  Comments Off on World Socialist Web Site (en) – Trump tramples on due process, Appeals Court rules in Abrego Garcia deportation case