●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 ●● ● Dec 20 [02:42] *geert has quit (connection closed) ● Dec 20 [09:42] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [09:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 20 [10:35] schestowitz DaemonFC:
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    Event Wrap: RIPE 87
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    The event welcomed 557 participants onsite and 171 participants online for five days of plenary, Working Group, and policy sessions. View the agenda for more information.

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    Our work isn't over: Keep fighting for the freedom to learn
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    Let me be clear: thanks to digital media, and for the first time in history, free (as in freedom), universal education for all is within reach. Corporate greed is the only thing standing in the way of this goal. OverDrive and Follet have used the millions of dollars and incredible engineering talent they have at their disposal to develop new ways to restrict readers and spy on them, all while c [10:35] schestowitz laiming to uphold core educational principles like universal access and freedom from censorship. They would rather spend their time and energy devising new ways to make money for their shareholders -- not authors -- and limiting our access to media even further than physical media does naturally.

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    • [10:35] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fsf.org | Our work isn't over: Keep fighting for the freedom to learn Free Software Foundation Working together for free software ● Dec 20 [14:39] schestowitz x https://techcentral.co.za/tomtom-microsoft-conversational-ai-cars/237086/ [14:39] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techcentral.co.za | TomTom, Microsoft to bring conversational AI to cars - TechCentral ● Dec 20 [15:40] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@u8ftxtfux23wk.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 20 [17:47] *Inrayzex has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [17:47] *Inrayzex has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [17:49] *Inrayzex (~Inrayzex@freenode-2ue.6ih.pu7h8v.IP) has joined #techbytes [17:49] *Inrayzex (~Inrayzex@freenode-2ue.6ih.pu7h8v.IP) has joined #techbytes [17:59] schestowitz roblimhttp://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/11/epo-doubles-down-on-opposition.html?showComment=1702895891448#c776356228086508361 [17:59] schestowitz "This sounds like a pissing contest coming up. If the UPC, with good, if not excellent judges, leaves patent monopoly untouched, will an opposition division with examiners do it better? And if the UPC revokes a patent monopoly - with appeal still open - will the opposition division allow a patent monopoly to be upheld?
    I do hope all examiners of the opposition divisions will know their places in terms of experience, expertise and l [17:59] schestowitz egal acumen.

    This may very well be the nightmare of the president of the EPO, leaving his opposition division decimated in terms of prestige. The opposition division potentially being overtaken in terms of speed by the UPC, the examination division under heavy fire of the IPQC (for good reason, if I may say so)... Not the best times to be president of the EPO." ● Dec 20 [23:38] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/)