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| schestowitz[TR] | <li> | Mar 10 09:14 |
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| schestowitz[TR] | <h5><a href="https://blog.arduino.cc/2023/03/09/portenta-x8-in-arduino-iot-cloud/">Portenta X8 in Arduino IoT Cloud</a></h5> | Mar 10 09:14 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <blockquote> | Mar 10 09:14 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <p>You may have heard about Portenta X8 for its flexibility of usage of Linux combined with real-time applications through the Arduino environment.</p> | Mar 10 09:14 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <p>But now, a new set of features have been added to Portenta X8 thanks to its brand-new Arduino Python container. Update your board with the latest image (here is a tutorial showing how to do so) and start exploiting a wide range of unique functionalities: [...]</p> | Mar 10 09:14 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </blockquote> | Mar 10 09:14 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </li> | Mar 10 09:14 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Mar 10 09:14 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.arduino.cc | Portenta X8 in Arduino IoT Cloud | Arduino Blog | Mar 10 09:14 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | <li> | Mar 10 09:36 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <h5><a href="https://tedium.co/2023/03/08/disposable-camera-history/">Point, Shoot, and Forget</a></h5> | Mar 10 09:36 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <blockquote> | Mar 10 09:36 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <p>It was promoted at the time as a new idea—and some elements, like the use of 35mm film, certainly were new additions to the equation. And the cameras could be dropped off at the same camera shop where you got all your other photos developed, necessary due to the then-prevalence of one-hour photo shops.</p> | Mar 10 09:36 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <p>But in many ways, it was a success story about 100 years in the making. It set the stage for something even more disposable: Digital pictures. (It might have even made Kodak a bit lazy and complacent in the process, but that’s a story for another time.)</p> | Mar 10 09:36 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </blockquote> | Mar 10 09:36 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </li> | Mar 10 09:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-tedium.co | Disposable Camera History: Point, Shoot, and Throw Away | Mar 10 09:36 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2023/03/09/epo-bringing-fun-to-the-teams/ | Mar 10 09:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-patentblog.kluweriplaw.com | EPO - Bringing Fun to the Teams - Kluwer Patent Blog | Mar 10 09:44 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | "EPO family member | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | MARCH 9, 2023 AT 3:11 PM | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | For those working at the European Patent Office, the arguments used in “Bringing our family together” are familiar because this is 1:1 the explanation used by EPO management. | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Ironically, the author(s) of that text used official EPO communications and explanations provided to examiners in a nearly verbatim manner for writing that text (just exchanging the EPO setup with family members). | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | For comparison, the following text was published as an official EPO communication for EPO employees, in order to justify the move from a fixed office to an office-for-a-day for examiners and further EPO employees (this is really the official explanation / reasoning given to examiners and formalities; this is not a joke!): | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | “Bringing our teams together | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Recent years have seen a seismic shift in the way the EPO functions and in how we choose to work. Our buildings must reflect this new reality. This is first and foremost about making use of our premises in a sustainable way. In light of the Office’s commitment to environmental sustainability and the efforts to reduce our energy consumption, it is neither viable nor socially responsible to have large areas of our offices left empty. | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | This is why we need to reorganise our workspaces in a more sustainable manner. But these moves have the added benefit of keeping our buildings vibrant and strengthening our sense of belonging by bringing colleagues together. It supports the DG1 transition into technology communities and cross-functional principal directorates. It also gives us the flexibility to adapt to our changing needs. | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Preparations for this reorganisation of workspaces in Munich and The Hague are in full swing. Accommodation plans have been reviewed and as of 25 February, several DG1 units will begin to relocate; the plans for other DGs are to follow in due course | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | […]” | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | REPLY | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Divide and Conquer | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | MARCH 10, 2023 AT 8:41 AM | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | The EPO management will indeed leave the upper floor empty (squeezing the workforce together in the remaining floors), allegedly to save energy. | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Apparently the long-term goal of “Moving teams together” is renting out some of the PschorrHöfe buildings, increasing the already astonishing financial surplus of the EPO even further. | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | When the New Career System was introduced, the incentives provided to employees with regard to career progression turned out to be detrimental to the working atmosphere, by creating a competition for artificially limited ressources (colleagues became rivals in the annual competition for resources, without which career progression could no longer take place). | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | A similarly divisive approach is now being introduced by the upper management for rooms: While some colleagues are allowed to keep their room, many others lose their rooms (not only those who want to work from home anyway, but also many colleagues who like to work in the office the majority of time). This is again divisive and detrimental for the working atmosphere. | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | It is the task of the lower managers (the team managers and the directors) to distribute the available rooms and to decide who will lose their rooms. There is a broken link in the managerial hierarchy: Such decisions are taken by the upper management, which instruct the lower management to implement it. However, upper management ignores any feedback from employees (even from the lower management including directors). Furthermore, lo | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | wer management was carefully selected. Only those who have an above-average positive view of the situation at the EPO have become team managers or directors. | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | REPLY | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Samourai | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | MARCH 9, 2023 AT 3:34 PM | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | This is what happens when one has a workforce by way much more clever than its management | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | REPLY | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Kicked out employee | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | MARCH 9, 2023 AT 6:09 PM | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Former PD General Administration was not a fan of the project “Bringing Teams Together”. She could at least do her maths: how can 30 EPO employees share 10 offices-for-the-day when all of them have to come at least two days per week ? | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | VP4 then decided to have another PD General Administration. | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | “Bringing Teams Together”, the project which is actually preventing a whole team to come together to work." | Mar 10 09:44 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <li> | Mar 10 10:13 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <h5><a href="https://gizmodo.com/senate-judiciary-committee-ready-to-rewrite-section-230-1850205313">Senators Are Largely United in Desire to Rewrite Section 230</a></h5> | Mar 10 10:13 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <blockquote> | Mar 10 10:13 |
| schestowitz[TR] | <p>During a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Senate lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle doubled down on calls to gut major provisions of the internet’s most important legal liability shield. The senators slammed tech companies for allegedly putting profits over user safety and criticized members of the Supreme Court who appeared hesitant to upend Section 230 prote | Mar 10 10:13 |
| schestowitz[TR] | ctions during oral arguments last month. Supporters of Section 230 say its provisions are fundamental to the modern internet. Senators disagreed.</p> | Mar 10 10:13 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </blockquote> | Mar 10 10:13 |
| schestowitz[TR] | </li> | Mar 10 10:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-gizmodo.com | Senators Are Largely United in Desire to Rewrite Section 230 | Mar 10 10:13 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | Richard Stallman wrote on 10/03/2023 04:28: | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > > On the basis of ethics, in various senses, Microsoft is by far worse. To | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > > spare a lot of examples (history of 50 years almost), let's just say | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > > that Microsoft's attack on computing in general, on computer users in | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > > general, and on GNU/Linux is not comparable to what any other company | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > > did. Not even close. | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > I don't know what concretely those words refer to -- they are very | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > broad and vague. | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > I am judging by the way various software denies people's freedom. | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > For instance, the Apple iMonsters don't allow people to install | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > any software that is not approved by Apple. I don't think | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > Microsoft or Google did that. | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > On the other hand, Windows has a universal back door, and I don't | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > recall that Apple or Google did that. | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | > Which is worse? I think it is a tossup. | Mar 10 11:30 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Where are many examples where Microsoft is "exceptional", for instance the SCO lawsuit that turned 20 a few days ago (Microsoft funded that lawsuit) and all the patent attacks by Microsoft against GNU/Linux. Those are just two examples among many more. | Mar 10 11:30 |
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| schestowitz[TR] | " | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | [LSCTH] Happy women's day 2023! - An invitation to work together towards gender equity at the EPO | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | “The present publication emanates from Local Staff Committee the Hague which does not have access to mass email. It is re-published via SUEPO in order to reach a larger number of colleagues.” | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Mar 10 16:17 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | Dear colleagues, | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Mar 10 16:17 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | International women’s day is celebrated on March 8th: “a day to Celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness about discrimination and take action to drive gender parity”. | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Mar 10 16:17 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | In 2018 (reflecting the data up to 2017), the administration prepared a document “Gender Awareness Report - 2018” containing several indicators which revealed weak points in D&I policies at the Office. | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Mar 10 16:17 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | Since then, the administration has put some measures in place. The staff representation believes that it is the right moment to evaluate the impact of each of the measures taken, and to receive an overview of the present situation as well as an evaluation of the previous policies. Therefore, we requested an update of the “Gender Awareness report” complemented with an in-depth study on “Equality in career”, with a specific fo | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | cus on the impact of the new career system (NCS) on female colleagues. | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Mar 10 16:17 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | In 2022 the central staff committee described how the NCS still has the effect of widening the gender pay gap. Furthermore, the negative effects of the education allowance and childcare reform on women cannot be underestimated, and there are question marks as to the effects on women of the Bringing Team Together project. | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Mar 10 16:17 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | According to the EPO intranet Diversity & Inclusion intranet page: “D&I is naturally embedded in our Office’s Mission, Vision and Values. In 2022 we will move to identifying and implementing concrete actions on D&I […].” | Mar 10 16:17 |
| schestowitz[TR] | Mar 10 16:17 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | We welcome the administration to share the concrete actions and progress report, and once again express our willingness to work together towards embracing gender equity at the EPO leaving no one behind." | Mar 10 16:17 |
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