IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, October 04, 2023

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<h5><a href="https://evanhahn.com/things-i-wish-i-knew-about-the-oot-randomizer/">Things I wish I knew about the Ocarina of Time Randomizer</a></h5>

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<p>I just finished my eighteenth Ocarina of Time Randomizer run. It’s a blast. It shuffles everything around while guaranteeing the game is beatable. This Kotaku article gives a great summary of how it works and why it’s so fun.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-evanhahn.com | Things I wish I knew about the Ocarina of Time Randomizer

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<h5><a href="https://carlschwan.eu/2023/10/03/linux-days-voralberg/">Linux Days Voralberg</a></h5>

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<p>Last weekend I went to the Linux Days in Voralberg (Austria) to host a booth with Tobias and Kai. It was hosted at the Fachhochschule (a sort of university for applied science) in Dornbirn and it was my first time attending this event.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-carlschwan.eu | Linux Days Voralberg

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<h5><a href="https://noyb.eu/en/meta-facebook-instagram-move-pay-your-rights-approach">Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach</a></h5>

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<p> The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a "Pay for your Rights" model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year (€ 160 a year) if they don't agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta's regulator, the Irish DPC, is likely to agree to any way that Meta can bypass the GDPR. However

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, the company may also be able to use six words from a recent Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling to support its approach.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-noyb.eu | Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach

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<h5><a href="https://edri.org/our-work/event-summary-encryption-in-the-age-of-surveillance/"> Event summary: Encryption in the age of surveillance </a></h5>

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<p>On 26 September, at EDRi’s event, we created a space for people with lived experiences of intrusive surveillance to share their stories with EU policymakers and national and international journalists. We heard from journalists, human rights defenders and privacy experts, who spoke about the decisive and protective role of encryption in allowing them to work, socialise, organise, expre

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ss themselves, and care for others safely, without the fear of being put under arbitrary suspicion. </p>

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<p> Together, with top experts in the field like Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation; Dunja Mijatović, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe; Carmela Troncoso, Assistant Professor at EPFL and expert in security and privacy, we also discussed what is the historical context that current threats to encryption emerge and what can be done to build a truly safe onl

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ine space for all.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-edri.org | Event summary: Encryption in the age of surveillance - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

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<h5><a href="https://fossforce.com/2023/10/richard-stallman-talks-red-hat-ai-and-ethical-software-licenses-at-gnu-birthday-event/">Richard Stallman Talks Red Hat, AI, and Ethical Software Licenses at GNU Birthday Event</a></h5>

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<p>Oddly, the single keynote address at the event to celebrate GNU’s 40th birthday in Biel, Switzerland wasn’t scheduled at the start of the day, but in the early afternoon, at 2 pm local time. This eccentric scheduling only seemed to make sense, given the fact that the speaker was Richard Stallman, GNU’s founder who has always marched to his own beat.</p>

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<p>Officially billed as a “hacker meeting,” Biel’s GNU community pretty much pulled out all of the stops for a relatively small one-day event. The speakers’ roster included the likes of Nextcloud co-founder Björn Schießle who talked about “The Next 40 years of Free Software”; Matthias Kirschner, president of FSFE who opened the day with “The FSFE’s Work: An Overview for Free Software Hackers”; and

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Swiss Parliament member Jörg Mäder, who was on hand to talk about GNU Taler, GNU’s privacy-aware online payment system.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fossforce.com | Richard Stallman Talks Red Hat, AI, and Ethical Software Licenses at GNU Birthday Event - FOSS Force

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<h5><a href="https://tedium.co/2023/10/03/rgb-lighting-trump-lawyer-courtroom/"> RGB Revolution: RGB lighting is designed to stick out like a sore thumb—and it especially does in a courtroom, it turns out. </a></h5>

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<p>We had green LEDs in the 1950s, and red LEDs by 1962. But blue diodes were hard to develop, and we did not have a truly usable one until 1993, at which point we were able to develop white LEDs with such brightness that they could be used in place of traditional light bulbs. It took just three decades for the white LEDs to replace incandescent light bulbs on store shelves entirely. </p>

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<p> RGB lighting has gained a long-fascinating image as an ongoing trend in popular culture, associated with gamers in particular.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-tedium.co | RGB Lighting & Trump’s Lawyer: Certainly, A Choice

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<h5><a href="https://www.securityweek.com/actor-tom-hanks-warns-of-ad-with-ai-imposter/">Actor Tom Hanks Warns of Ad With AI Imposter</a></h5>

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<p> “I have nothing to do with this company,” King said in her Instagram post. “I’ve never heard of this product or used it! Please don’t be fooled by these AI videos.” </p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Actor Tom Hanks Warns of Ad With AI Imposter - SecurityWeek

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<h5><a href="https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/picat-is-my-favorite-new-toolbox-language/"> Picat is my favorite new toolbox language </a></h5>

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<p>One toolbox language I've had my eye on is Picat,1 a "logic-based multi-paradigm programming language aimed for general-purpose applications". I'm not sure where I first learned about it, maybe around the same time I encountered MiniZinc? The userbase is extremely small, and as with many small communities, the documentation assumes you have the same background as the inventors. But it's also an

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incredibly interesting language and I'd like to try explaining why.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-buttondown.email | Picat is my favorite new toolbox language • Buttondown

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"This discussion feels like ones I was having 20 years ago. For me, in the context of the EPO's problem-solution approach (EPO-PSA), the expression "closest prior art" (cpa) is unfortunate, best avoided, because outside the confines of EPO-PSA it means something different. Many patent attorneys who are not EPO-PSA specialists import into obviousness arguments at the EPO their understanding of what "cpa" means and tha

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t results in much misunderstanding and arm-waving.<br /><br />For me, the way to operate EPO-PSA correctly is to give full faith and credit to Applicant's drafting. Applicant decides what is the technical field and what technical problem is solved by the claimed subject matter. The EPO searches relative to that, and quite often finds prior art more relevant than was known to those drafting the patent application. Which of those newly fo

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und and more relevant pieces of prior art is the "closest"?<br /><br />For me, a piece of art is only eligible for the title "closest" if it is the most realistic "starting point" for a notional skilled person in the field designated by Applicant and addressing the problem announced by Applicant in the application as filed. That filter on eligibility for the status of cpa is, for me, is the way EPO-PSA shu

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ts out inequitable hindsight reasoning and keeps the enquiry objective.<br /><br />Of course, as the present debate reveals, application to the claims of the newly discovered art and improved "starting point" can result in Applicant being unable to point to a disclosure in the application as filed of a technical effect specifically relative to the new and improved prior art starting point discovered by the EPO. For me, the G D

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ecision represents a worthy attempt to mediate between reasonable legal certainty for the public and "fair" protection for the inventor's contribution to "the art" even while preserving an obviousness enquiry that is strictly objective and free from ex post facto reasoning and prejudice.<br /><br />We have come a long way from the UK's pre-1978 attitude, that obviousness is an enquiry that cannot reasonably be undert

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aken ex Parte, but only in the course of full-blown judicial revocation actions with full x-exam of tech experts fielded by the opposing sides. EPO-PSA, especially in EPO opposition proceedings, continues to manage the obviousness enquiry far better than anything else available elsewhere, no?"

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Reliance on a silent technical effect: Application of G 2/21 to semiconductors (T 2465/19) - The IPKat