Motherboard – Some Understaffed PetSmarts Are Dealing With Freezers Overflowing With Dead Pets

Mar 102022
 

When a pet guinea pig or snake or hamster dies in the hands of America’s largest pet store, PetSmart, the retailer has strict protocols for disposing of its remains, at least on paper. Wrap the deceased pet in a paper towel, place it in a plastic fish bag, seal the bag with rubber bands, and store it in a refrigerator or a freezer, according to the company’s “deceased store-owned pet policy,” which was obtained by Motherboard. (PetSmart enacted this policy in July 2020 and it was active as of January 2022, but the company did not respond to a question about whether the policy remains active.)  “A minimum of once per week”, deceased animals must be…

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Ars Technica – Endurance shipwreck has finally been found in pristine condition

Mar 092022
 

Enlarge / This is the stern of the good ship Endurance, which sank off the coast of Antarctica in 1915 after being crushed by pack ice. The Endurance22 expedition has located the shipwreck in pristine condition after nearly 107 years. (credit: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/NatGeo)
In 1915, intrepid British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew were stranded for months on the Antarctic ice after their ship, Endurance, was crushed by pack ice and sank into the freezing depths of the Weddell Sea. Today, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic announced the discovery of this famous shipwreck, nearly 107 years later, 3,008 meters down, roughly four miles (6.4 km) south of…

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Techdirt. – Virginia Court Blocks Geofence Warrant As Unconstitutionally Vague

Mar 092022
 

There are multiple places government agencies can go to acquire location data. The Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision put a damper on warrantless demands, but the private sector has rushed to fill this hole in the law enforcement market by selling access to data pulled from apps that don’t (currently) require a warrant to access. But this data tends to be vague and/or incomplete. There’s one company that collects location data with a frequency that rivals that of cell phone providers: Google. And while warrants may be technically in use, these warrants reverse the expectations of probable cause by turning everyone in a geofenced area into a suspect before investigators work backwards from the location data to…

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The Intercept – Big Tech’s Kafkaesque Approach to Censorship Is Driven by an Abiding Contempt for Its Audience

Mar 042022
 

Ryan Grim, left, and Robby Soave, right, host The Hill’s morning politics show “Rising,” in a screenshot from a YouTube broadcast in March 2022.

Photo: The Hill
The politics morning show “Rising,” produced by The Hill and which I currently co-host, was suspended by YouTube on Thursday for allegedly violating the platform’s rules around election misinformation. Two infractions were cited: First, the outlet posted the full video of former President Donald Trump’s recent speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on its page. The speech, of course, was chock full of craziness. Second, “Rising” played a minutelong clip of Trump’s commentary on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which included the claim that none of it would have happened if…

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Jacobin – A No-Fly Zone in Ukraine Would Start World War III. It’s the Worst Idea Possible.

Mar 042022
 

A growing chorus of voices is calling for Joe Biden to establish a no-fly zone — an action that would risk the future of human civilization.
US servicemen stand in front of F-15 fighters during NATO military exercises in Ukraine in 2018. (GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images) I’m not much of an R.E.M. fan, but I’ve had “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” stuck in my head for days. A disturbing number of high-profile voices have been calling for President Joe Biden to establish a no-fly zone in Ukraine. To his credit, he’s steadfastly refused to do so. But these forces are only…

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TechCrunch – Twitch will ban streamers who frequently share misinformation

Mar 042022
 

Kris Holt Contributor Kris Holt is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Twitch will ban streamers who frequently share misinformation Panasonic will start making Tesla’s higher-capacity EV batteries by March 2024
Twitch has updated its misinformation policies and says it will ban those who frequently share falsehoods. Under the new rules, the platform will block “harmful misinformation superspreaders who persistently share misinformation on or off of Twitch,” as The New York Times first reported.
“Every day, people come together on Twitch to build communities that celebrate a variety of interests, passions, and talents,” Twitch wrote in a blog…

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The Register – ICANN responds to Ukraine demand to delete all Russian domains

Mar 042022
 

Even if we wanted to, which we don’t, we can’t, so we won’t, says boss

ICANN on Wednesday rebuffed a request from Mykhailo Fedorov, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, to revoke all Russian web domains, shut down Russian DNS root servers, and invalidate associated TLS/SSL certificates in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.…

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Deeplinks – The Campaign to Shut Down Crucial Documentary Tool youtube-dl Continues – And So Does the Fight to Save It

Mar 042022
 

Copyright maximalists just don’t know when to stop. Having failed in their 2020 attempt to use U.S. law to force GitHub to permanently cut off access to youtube-dl, an open source tool that allows users to download and preserve videos, on the theory that the tool can also be used for infringing purposes, the music publishers have turned to the German courts instead. But one small German hosting provider, represented by the German Society for Civil Rights (GFF), is fighting back.
The saga started two years ago, when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to demand that GitHub take down the repository for youtube-dl, claiming that the software breaks…

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The Onion – U.S. Seizes New York City Borough Belonging To Russian Oligarch

Mar 042022
 

NEW YORK—Saying the billionaire had used the asset as his own private pleasure island for decades, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday that it had seized a New York City borough belonging to Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov. “When Usmanov bought this borough in the late ’90s, it was a flagrant display of…

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TorrentFreak – FBI Gains Access to Sci-Hub Founder’s Google Account Data

Mar 042022
 

As the world’s leading free distributor of millions of oftentimes ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is often described as “The Pirate Bay of Science”.
While this status warms the hearts of many researchers, academics and students around the world, especially those with limited resources available to access education, Sci-Hub has also accrued many high-powered enemies.
These are not limited to major publishing houses angry at their content being distributed for free. Founder Alexandra Elbakyan is also a person of interest to elements of the US government’s intelligence and security services, which appear to be conducting an investigation into the computer security expert.
Elbakyan’s Apple Account Compromised
In May 2021, Elbakyan received an email from Apple (via her Gmail account) advising…

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Ars Technica – The US Space Force plans to start patrolling the area around the Moon

Mar 042022
 

Enlarge / The US Air Force Research Laboratory seeks to develop a satellite to patrol cislunar space. (credit: US Air Force Research Laboratory)
This week, the US Air Force Research Laboratory released a video on YouTube that didn’t get much attention. But it made an announcement that is fairly significant—the US military plans to extend its space awareness capabilities beyond geostationary orbit, all the way to the Moon.
“Until now, the United States space mission extended 22,000 miles above Earth,” a narrator says in the video. “That was then, this is now. The Air Force Research Laboratory is extending that range by 10 times and the operations area of the United States by 1,000…

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Michael Geist – CRTC Calls for Increased Powers To Take a More “Interventionist” Approach on Internet Content

Mar 042022
 

Last month, I appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs to discuss Bill S-210, a bill that aims to limit minors’ access to pornography sites by implementing age verification and website blocking requirements. I warned that face recognition technologies, which are often used for age verification, raise serious privacy risks and that website blocking would have negative consequences for freedom of expression. Further, I emphasized how incredibly broadly the bill is drafted. While the Senators were focused on some well-known pornography sites, widely used sites and services such as Twitter or Reddit are also captured by the bill, raising the possibility of age verification to send a tweet or read a Reddit…

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Planet Debian – Enrico Zini: Migrating from procmail to sieve

Mar 042022
 

Anarcat’s “procmail considered harmful” post
convinced me to get my act together and finally migrate my venerable procmail based setup to sieve.
My setup was nontrivial, so I migrated with an intermediate step in which sieve
scripts would by default pipe everything to procmail, which allowed me to
slowly move rules from procmailrc to sieve until nothing remained in
procmailrc.
Here’s what I did.
Literature review

Let’s do Dovecot slowly and properly – Part 3: LMTP


has a guide quite aligned with current Debian, and could be a starting point to
get an idea of the work to do.
https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixDovecotLMTP is way more terse, but
more aligned with my intentions. Reading the former helped me in understanding
the latter.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5228 has the full Sieve syntax.
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/sieve/pigeonhole_sieve_interpreter/
has the list of Sieve features supported by Dovecot.
https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/pigeonhole/ has the reference on Dovecot’s
sieve implementation.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dovecot/pigeonhole/master/doc/rfc/spec-bosch-sieve-extprograms.txt
is…

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World Socialist Web Site (en) – International censorship mounted against Russian state-affiliated media outlets

Mar 042022
 

A campaign of censorship against Russian state-backed media sources has been led by the European Union and embraced by tech companies, social media platforms and cable television providers.

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Techdirt. – Meta Messes Up Again: Admits That It Suspended RT & Sputnik Due To Gov’t Pressure

Mar 042022
 

There may be many good reasons to ban Russian state-sponsored media propaganda from a site or a pay TV service. But there is definitely one very bad reason to: because random governments ask you to. And, yet, that’s exactly what Meta/Facebook has done. Former UK politician Nick Clegg, who was recently promoted into the top circle of Meta execs and given full control over policy decisions, posted on Twitter (yes, the Facebook exec was posting on Twitter) that the company had decided to restrict access to Russian state-sponsored propaganda outfits RT and Sputnik because the company had “received requests from a number of Governments and the EU.”
We have received requests from a number of Governments…

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Techdirt. – Unfortunate, But Not Surprising: Court Blocks Maryland’s Library eBook Law

Mar 042022
 

Back in December, we wrote about how the major book publishers had teamed up to sue the state of Maryland over a fairly tame law concerning ebooks and libraries. As we’ve been detailing, over the last few years, the big book publishers have been working overtime to abuse copyright law to destroy libraries. Whereas, historically, a library could just buy a book like anyone else, and then lend it out, with ebooks, the publishers demand ridiculous prices for libraries and then put nonsensical restrictions on how libraries can lend out those ebooks. This is because publishers hate libraries — and, while they want to insist to you that copying a digital file is “theft,” they will…

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Planet Python – Anarcat: procmail considered harmful

Mar 032022
 

TL;DR: procmail is a security liability and has been abandoned
upstream for the last two decades. If you are still using it, you
should probably drop everything and at least remove its SUID
flag. There are plenty of alternatives to chose from, and conversion
is a one-time, acceptable trade-off. Procmail is unmaintained procmail is unmaintained. The “Final release”, according to
Wikipedia, dates back to September 10, 2001 (3.22). That release
was shipped in Debian since then, all the way back from Debian 3.0 “woody”, twenty years ago. Debian also ships 25 uploads on top of this, with 3.22-21 shipping the “3.23pre” release that has been rumored since at least the November
2001, according to debian/changelog at least: procmail (3.22-1) unstable; urgency=low * New…

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Techdirt. – Cities Are Turning To Automation To Enforce Vehicle Noise Ordinances

Mar 032022
 

Automated enforcement may ease the burden on law enforcement agencies and direct more officers towards serious crime, but nearly every device given that job has tended to perform poorly. Red light and speed enforcement cameras often get things wrong while simultaneously depriving falsely accused drivers of the opportunity to confront their accusers. And, because cities directly benefit from issued tickets, city officials have tinkered with things like yellow light timing to increase the number of tickets handed out.
Another entry in the law enforcement tech field — ShotSpotter — uses mics and sensors to detect noises suspected to be gunshots and issues alerts to law enforcement officers. Like the tech listed above, ShotSpotter is sometimes wrong. It’s…

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Planet Python – Antoine Beaupré: procmail considered harmful

Mar 032022
 

TL;DR: procmail is a security liability and has been abandoned
upstream for the last two decades. If you are still using it, you
should probably drop everything and at least remove its SUID
flag. There are plenty of alternatives to chose from, and conversion
is a one-time, acceptable trade-off. Procmail is unmaintained procmail is unmaintained. The “Final release”, according to
Wikipedia, dates back to September 10, 2001 (3.22). That release
was shipped in Debian since then, all the way back from Debian 3.0 “woody”, twenty years ago. Debian also ships 25 uploads on top of this, with 3.22-21 shipping the “3.23pre” release that has been rumored since at least the November
2001, according to debian/changelog at least: procmail (3.22-1) unstable; urgency=low * New…

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LWN.net – Zoë Kooyman is the new FSF executive director

Mar 032022
 

The Free Software Foundation has announced that Zoë Kooyman will be the
organization’s new executive director.

Kooyman was appointed by the FSF board following a careful selection process that included a review by a FSF staff committee and evaluation criteria such as management, fundraising, business and finance, legal, and technical skills. She succeeds John Sullivan, who served as executive director for twelve years.

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