[09:33] schestowitz[09:33] schestowitzThe Internet Archive manages to keep internet history alive by offering backups of millions of web pages and other content, including many pages that are no longer available in their original forms.
[09:33] schestowitzBut the Internet Archive is also an online library that offers access to plenty of other content, including music, videos, and (somewhat controversially) eBooks. You can also find old computer games and now you can relive your earlier professional career by running Palm Pilot apps (and games) in a browser.
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[10:11] schestowitz[10:11] schestowitzIn 2021, Chanel Contos was one of the brave Australian women speaking up about a particularly dark subculture of harassment and abuse in Australia.
[10:11] schestowitzContos has made consent the centerpiece of her campaign. Ironically, many of the technology platforms used in her campaign only give lip-service to the concept of consent.
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[10:22] schestowitz[10:22] schestowitzThe conclusion: if you bring a female friend to a free/open source software event, you have to give every other person a verbose explanation about her profession and how you met.
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[10:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.patrick-breyer.de | Kick-off for EU database of public domain works and digital access to scientific works Patrick Breyer [10:40] schestowitz[10:40] schestowitzThe second project, The Role of Copyright Laws in facilitation of distance education and research intends to strengthen schools, universities and the cultural sector. The pilot project will assess copyright obstacles for online teaching and will focus on possible adaptions to the legal framework in order to enhance an appropriate balance of the interests of the authors and the use for [10:40] schestowitz educational and research purposes in the public interest. In addition, public access to culture and education shall be increased, in particular by granting licenses to libraries.
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