IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, March 07, 2023

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<h5><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/features/best-raspberry-pi-projects">Best Raspberry Pi Projects: March 2023</a></h5>

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<p>Lucky for you this month, we’ve got a nice selection of Raspberry Pi projects to inspire your inner maker. From revitalizing old hardware to magic wands, there’s plenty to get psyched about. These are some of the best projects we’ve come across over the last month and we’re delighted to share them with you again for the extra attention they deserve.</p>

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<p>These makers use the best Raspberry Pi accessories and HATs to bring their crazy imaginative ideas to fruition. If you’re looking for something fun to explore this spring, these projects are sure to get you going. So grab your Pi and heat up that soldering iron, it’s time to delve into these wonderful creations.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tomshardware.com | Best Raspberry Pi Projects: March 2023 | Tom's Hardware

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<h5><a href="https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2023-akvorado-ddos-flowspec">DDoS detection and remediation with Akvorado and Flowspec</a></h5>

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<p>Here is the SQL query to detect such attacks over the last 5 minutes: [...]</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-vincent.bernat.ch | DDoS detection and remediation with Akvorado and Flowspec

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<h5><a href="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/06/nvd-makes-up-vulnerability-severity-levels/">NVD makes up vulnerability severity levels</a></h5>

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<p>Let me introduce yet another player in this game. The National Vulnerability Database (NVD). (And no, it’s not “national” really).</p>

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<p>NVD hosts a database of vulnerabilities. All CVEs that are submitted to MITRE are sucked in into NVD’s database. NVD says it “performs analysis on CVEs that have been published to the CVE Dictionary“.</p>

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<p>That last sentence is probably important.</p>

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<p>NVD imports CVEs into their database and they in turn offer other databases to import vulnerabilities from them. One large and known user of the NVD database is this I mentioned in a recent blog post: GitHub Security Advisory Database (GHSA DB) .</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-NVD makes up vulnerability severity levels | daniel.haxx.se

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<h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-here.html">The Slimbook Titan is here</a></h5>

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<p>The Titan is designed to be a heavy player. My machine, with some extra custom changes, rakes in 32 GB of DDR4 memory, two M.2 1TB Samsung NVMe drives, powered by a Ryzen 9 5900HX, 8-core, 16-thread 3.3GHz processor. The CPU has its own built-in graphics unit, but the real deal is the Nvidia RTX 3070 8GB card, which should give me all the goodies I need for serious work and gaming. After al

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l, one of my primary goals is to be able to fully switch away from Windows. To that end, I need Linux to support all of my sweet gaming titles.</p>

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<p>Ports wise, you get a lot. To wit, standard HDMI (2.1), three USB ports (3.2), one USB Type-C port, which also doubles as Display Port, Ethernet port, 3.5mm headphone and microphone jacks, and an SD card read, normal size.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dedoimedo.com | The Slimbook Titan is here

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<h5><a href="https://palant.info/2023/03/06/veraport-inside-koreas-dysfunctional-application-management/">Veraport: Inside Korea’s dysfunctional application management</a></h5>

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<p>As discussed before, South Korea’s banking websites demand installation of various so-called security applications. At the same time, we’ve seen that these applications like TouchEn nxKey and IPinside lack auto-update functionality. So even in case of security issues, it is almost impossible to deliver updates to users timely.</p>

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<p>And that’s only two applications. Korea’s banking websites typically expect around five applications, and it will be different applications for different websites. That’s a lot of applications to install and to keep up-to-date.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-palant.info | Veraport: Inside Korea’s dysfunctional application management | Almost Secure

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<h5><a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/06/cyber-attacks-cost-of-cyber-insurance">As cyber attacks on health care soar, so does the cost of cyber insurance</a> [iophk: Windows TCO]</h5>

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<p>What they are saying: "The cost of insurance is rising and it's coming at the worst time for health care. There's not a lot of wiggle room," Matthew Cahill, a Moody's analyst.</p>

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<p>Since 2019, there have double-digit jumps in premiums, sometimes more than doubling all at once.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.axios.com | As cyber attacks on health care soar, so does the cost of cyber insurance

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<h5><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/technology/gen-z-instagram-facebook.html">A Gen Z Mystery: My Instagram Posts Keep Showing Up on Facebook!</a></h5>

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<p>The surge in Facebook activity is rooted in a new feature from Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. Last year, Meta introduced a prompt that popped up on Instagram when people posted a photo or story. The prompt asked Instagram users if they wanted to share their post to Facebook, too.</p>

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<p>To make the prompt go away, users had to click a big blue button to agree to share their Instagram posts on Facebook, or a smaller hyperlink to opt out. Many people, including Ms. Underwood, clicked the more visible blue button — and then immediately forgot about it, according to interviews with more than a dozen Gen Z and millennial Instagram users. Reversing the setting requires

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clicking through multiple Instagram menus.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.nytimes.com | How Some Gen Z Instagram Users Post to Facebook: Unwittingly - The New York Times

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<h5><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20230306-faced-with-summer-restrictions-after-winter-drought-this-is-how-france-uses-water">Faced with summer restrictions, this is how France uses its water</a></h5>

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<p>France extracts approximately 31 billion cubic metres of fresh water from its natural sources each year. Faced with an ongoing winter drought that could lead to water restrictions this summer, FRANCE 24 looks at the different ways the country consumes water.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.france24.com | Faced with summer restrictions, this is how France uses its water

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<h5><a href="https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/03/law-bytes-podcast-episode-158/">The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 158: In Their Own Words – Ministers, MPs, Senators and Government Officials on Bill C-18</a></h5>

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<p>Bill C-18, the Online News Act, has been at the centre of growing firestorm in Canada following reports that Google has begun testing the removal of links to Canadian news services for a small percentage of its users. The issue is headed to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage later today with MPs likely to take turns berating Google executives. If you’re just catching up or don’t unders

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tand what the fuss is about, this Law Bytes podcast is for you. While the government tries to spin the bill as a big win for media of all sizes without concerns for the Internet, the reality is far different. But you don’t have to take my word for it. This podcast episode features clips of what Ministers, MPs, Senators, and government officials have already said at committee or in the Senate about the bill.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.michaelgeist.ca | The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 158: In Their Own Words - Ministers, MPs, Senators and Government Officials on Bill C-18 - Michael Geist

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<h5><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ejn8/business-lobby-tries-to-weaken-law-regulating-bias-in-hiring-algorithms">Business Lobby Tries to Weaken Law Regulating Bias in Hiring Algorithms</a></h5>

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<p>A law requiring employers to audit hiring algorithms for bias in NYC, among the first of its kind in the country, has already been watered down from its original iteration, and some advocates who pushed for the law are worried that the law will be further diluted by business interests.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.vice.com | Business Lobby Tries to Weaken Law Regulating Bias in Hiring Algorithms

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<h5><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/how-russian-journalists-in-exile-are-covering-the-war-in-ukraine">How Russian Journalists in Exile Are Covering the War in Ukraine</a></h5>

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<p>The European Union spent much of last year devising ways to protect its media sphere from Russian interference. In Latvia, the measures were sweeping. The country banned the broadcast of some eighty television channels that were registered in Russia, and police cracked down on a black market for satellite receivers that were used to circumvent the restrictions. It was in this context that T

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V Rain arrived in Riga: it was welcomed as an antidote to the Kremlin’s propaganda, but it also encountered a distrustful public and a new set of laws and regulations that were enforced with existential urgency.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.newyorker.com | How Russian Journalists in Exile Are Covering the War in Ukraine | The New Yorker

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<h5><a href="https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/dw-proton-deutsche-welle-vpn/">Proton launches dedicated VPN servers for access to censored Deutsche Welle</a></h5>

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<p>DW, a German state-funded news agency, is currently blocked in Russia, Turkey and Iran. An internet user in those countries should now be able to access DW if they download Proton’s VPN application.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pressgazette.co.uk | Proton launches VPN servers for censored Deutsche Welle

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<h5><a href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/924577/75ae0a1538029fcc/">The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later</a></h5>

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<p>On March 7, 2003, a struggling company called The SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, claiming that the success of Linux was the result of a theft of SCO's technology. Two decades later, it is easy to look back on that incident as a somewhat humorous side-story in the development of Linux. At the time, though, it shook our community to its foundations. It is hard to overestimate

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how much the community we find ourselves in now was shaped by a ridiculous lawsuit 20 years ago.</p>

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later [LWN.net]

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<h5><a href="https://linuxgizmos.com/2-5-pico-itx-sbc-based-on-elkhart-lake-processors/">2.5” Pico ITX SBC based on Elkhart Lake processors</a></h5>

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<p>Last week, Avalue launched the EPX-EHLP Single Board Computer equipped with Celeron/Atom SoC BGA processors. The EPX-EHLP features I/O peripherals such as 2x Stacked DPs ports, 2x 2.5 GbE LAN ports and flexible expansion slots.</p>

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https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2023/03/06/staff-committee-epo-supports-initiative-industry-patent-quality-center/#comments

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"Concerned observer

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MARCH 6, 2023 AT 5:11 PM

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A follow-up meeting is all very well, but what purpose might it serve if the EPO continues to insist that there is no problem with quality?

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How about some constructive proposals from the EPO, to address points raised by those involved in IPQC? If past is prologue, then there is precisely zero chance of this happening … and far more likely the EPO will invite feedback that it then proceeds to ignore entirely.

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Augustin Leblanc

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MARCH 6, 2023 AT 5:18 PM

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“IPQC, including ATOS, Bayer, Deutsche Telekom, Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, Ericsson, Eraeus, HP, Iveco Group N.V., MTU, Nokia, Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG, Procter&Gamble, Qualcomm, Roche, Siemens AG, Siemens Healthineers, Syngenta, Vodafone, Volvo”

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SMEs not found.

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Quality Focused Examiner

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MARCH 6, 2023 AT 10:59 PM

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@Augustin: How many SMEs would you like to see as signatory of the IPQC in order for you to consider this intiative as supported by SMEs ?

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One should rather have a look at the contradictions of the EPO. The EPO has close contacts with major applicants and sometimes the buzzword “Key Account Manager” is used to designate those in charge of a specific major applicant. But when suddenly major applicants complain about decreasing quality, these ones are considered as being a minority.

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I wish good luck to the IPQC in trying to get a meeting and to have a constructive one. Right now, Campinos, VP1 and VP4 attend team meetings in which they say, ‘We are the Gold Standard. We cannot please everyone.” Denial at his best.

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If that second meeting ever takes place, no doubt the EPO will send a delegation of clueless managers to discuss with the IPQC. The same ones who are responsible for decreasing quality over a decade and have hardly ever touched a patent application.

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A. Nonymous

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MARCH 6, 2023 AT 8:44 PM

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Augustin, how can that make the comments of IQPC any less valuable?

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MARCH 6, 2023 AT 11:00 PM

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I am looking forward to having the opportunity to give my feedback on office actions, especially of some arrogant experienced examiners who have no idea of the essence of the EPC, hopefully we are then protected from retaliation. Honestly, many examiners are already complete at any stage of the procedure, while others look always for short cuts with the only aim of harming the applicants and the EPO, this is the real problem, genera

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l actions are not needed, but only targeted measures for some of the examiners, such differences among examiners are intolerable and have nothing to do with too little training or too high employee efficiency

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A quality problem at the EPO? You must be mistaken!

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MARCH 6, 2023 AT 11:34 PM

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As the upper management of the EPO has explained to the AC that quality is at its best and can only get better when following the Quality Charter issued in October 2022, it cannot, without losing face, but deny the reality presented by IPQC.

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If what is laid down in said quality charter would actually have been carried out faithfully, we would not have the IPQC complaining.

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For once, it is good that large applicants complain. SMEs would not have the time and the money to come up with such an analysis and proposals.

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What does not fit in the beliefs of the 10th floor and of the AC, cannot be an accurate picture of the reality imagined by all those having no clue about the work, but with strong opinions as how it should be done.

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The whole system, starting with the recruitment difficulties, the lack of proper training the constant increases in production and the loss of experienced examiners sick of being ill-treated can only produce the results shown by the IPQC.

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Even if some large countries will show their discontent with what is going on at the EPO in the AC, there are enough small countries which know how to vote if they do not want to see their cooperation budget curtailed.

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As long as the AC is not doing it’s job to control the office, users of the system will not achieve anything even if they are able to show that there is something fundamentally wrong with the quality of the products delivered by the EPO."

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-patentblog.kluweriplaw.com | Staff committee EPO supports initiative Industry Patent Quality Center - Kluwer Patent Blog

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