●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 24, 2023 ●● ● Feb 24 [01:15] *geert has quit (Quit: Lost terminal) [01:18] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [01:19] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [01:55] schestowitz[TR]
[01:55] schestowitz[TR][01:55] schestowitz[TR]Under the proposed law, any crowdfunding efforts banned by a government office, or suspected of jeopardising public interest, public safety, or national security in Hong Kong will be outlawed.
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[01:55] schestowitz[TR][01:55] schestowitz[TR]Despite the return to the office, the survey showed that remote work has had a positive impact on job satisfaction, productivity, and work autonomy, with 60%, 54%, and 50% of respondents, respectively, reporting improvements in these areas. The study also found that hybrid work arrangements, where employees alternate between working remotely and in the office, have become the norm.
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[01:55] schestowitz[TR][01:55] schestowitz[TR]After Jassy told workers in a memo last Friday that workers would be expected to return to the office for at least three days a week beginning May 1, employees began to mobilize in an effort to get him to change his mind. Since October 2021, Amazon had allowed managers to determine how often employees needed to be in the office. According to CNBC, frustrated employees are currently drafting a petit [01:55] schestowitz[TR] ion to Jassy and other members of the Amazon executive team asking for remote work and flexibility to be protected, underscoring that the RTO policy would impact the lives of employees who had planned on location flexibility.
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[02:00] schestowitz[TR][02:00] schestowitz[TR]For Clarke, the problem is so severe that he has had to halt open submissions to his magazine, which typically garners 1,100 submissions per month. He had to ban more than 500 people from his submission platform in February alone, pointing toward an escalating trend.
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[02:01] schestowitz[TR][02:01] schestowitz[TR]Canadian copyright lobby groups have spent years falsely claiming that educational institutions refuse to pay for licences to compensate for the use of educational materials. This second post in my Fair Dealing Week series on Canadian copyright, fair dealing, and education focuses on this claim, which is a gross misrepresentation of the data (first post on Setting the Record Straight). The [02:01] schestowitz[TR] truth is that Canadian universities spend millions of dollars on licensing copyright materials. In fact, over the past decade, the emergence of site licenses that provide access to millions of works books, journal articles, newspapers, and more has led to huge increases in expenditures for access. Unlike copyright licences from copyright collectives such as Access Copyright, these digital licences provide both original acces [02:01] schestowitz[TR] s to works and the ability to use them in course materials. In the 1990s, a university would both purchase a book and pay for the right to copy a portion of it to distribute to students as course materials. Today, the university can use a single licence to gain access to the book and make it available as course material, handouts and for many other purposes since most digital licences facilitate access and permit multiple uses.
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[02:01] schestowitz[TR][02:01] schestowitz[TR]Clarkesworld has been publishing online since 2006, and has featured works by numerous notable authors. The announcement followed a blog post that Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke wrote last Wednesday called A Concerning Trend. Clarke wrote that since the pandemic, the magazine had been receiving an increase in spam submissions, with resulting bans now being at an all-time high as a re [02:01] schestowitz[TR] sult of the uptake of AI chatbots like ChatGPT, the machine-learning-powered chatbot released by OpenAI that quickly became a viral hit.
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[02:29] schestowitz[TR][02:29] schestowitz[TR]There are various cases when you may want to utilize the local repository such as on a temporary basis, the internet connection is not allowed and you want to install a specific package.
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[12:14] schestowitz[TR][12:14] schestowitz[TR]We stress that surveillance and state hacking in particular is a genuine European political issue. The EU has the opportunity and the possibility to act. The recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the issue of communications and traffic data retention confirmed that the objective of safeguarding national security cannot serve to justify the automatic [12:14] schestowitz[TR] and irrevocable exclusion of EU competence. The national security exception cannot become the rule and render inapplicable the protections afforded by EU secondary law read in light of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Member States may therefore only implement surveillance measures if they are consistent with EU law.
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