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    This week in KDE: megabytes and gigabytes for all
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    The KDE organization has become important in the world, and your time and labor have helped to bring it there! But as we grow, its going to be equally important that this stream of labor be made sustainable, which primarily means paying for it. Right now the vast majority of KDE runs on labor not paid for by KDE e.V. (the nonprofit foundation behind KDE, of which I am a board me [05:07] schestowitz[TR2] mber), and thats a problem. Weve taken steps to change this with paid technical contractorsbut those steps are small due to growing but still limited financial resources. If youd like to help change that, consider donating today!

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    Otherwise, visit https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to discover other ways to be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You dont have to already be a programmer, either. I wasnt when I got started. Try it, youll like it! We dont bite!

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    • [05:07] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pointieststick.com | This week in KDE: megabytes and gigabytes for all Adventures in Linux and KDE [05:07] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-community.kde.org | Get Involved - KDE Community Wiki [05:09] schestowitz[TR2]
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    [Old] QNX Demo Disk
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    QNX is a powerful real-time operating system. You may have used QNX and not even known it. QNX is used in industrial, network, telecommunications, medical, and automotive devices.

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    A while back QNX made available two 1.44 meg bootable demo disks. Each disk boots and loads completely from a 1.44 meg floppy disk. No hard disk is required! Each disk contains the OS, GUI, PPP or networking, Web browser, file browser, and several demo applications.

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    • [05:09] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-toastytech.com | QNX Demo Disk ● Apr 28 [06:34] schestowitz[TR2] DaemonFC: [06:34] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-04-27/iraq-criminalises-same-sex-relationships-with-maximum-15-years-in-prison [06:34] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-04-27/iraq-criminalises-same-sex-relationships-with-maximum-15-years-in-prison ) [06:35] schestowitz[TR2] "Palestinian journalists urge boycott of White House correspondents' dinner" [06:35] schestowitz[TR2] x https://www.voanews.com/a/palestinian-journalists-urge-boycott-of-white-house-correspondents-dinner-/7588050.html [06:35] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.voanews.com | Biden jabs Trump in election-year roast at correspondents' dinner [06:38] schestowitz[TR2] a) https://kulturportallund.se/en/battle-of-lund/ [06:38] schestowitz[TR2] b) https://www.thelocal.se/20240424/heres-where-malmo-plans-to-place-its-first-three-copenhagen-metro-stops [06:38] schestowitz[TR2] x [06:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-kulturportallund.se | Battle of Lund Kulturportal Lund [06:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thelocal.se | Where Malm plans to place its first three Copenhagen Metro stops ● Apr 28 [07:06] DaemonFC Hehehe. I timed that exactly right. [07:06] DaemonFC Went out and sprayed off the car with soap and 30 minutes after it set, there was a huge downpour. [07:07] DaemonFC schestowitz[TR2]: Palestinian journalists are the ones that are ticking, right? [07:07] DaemonFC :) [07:07] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:11] DaemonFC It should keep storming for like 7-8 hours. [07:12] psydruid the battles of Malm and Lund are quite different nowadays [07:12] DaemonFC I started whistling Singin' in the Rain and dancing like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange on the way back inside. [07:13] DaemonFC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w81RuBvGHkQ [07:13] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Invidious: https://invidious.osi.kr/watch?v=w81RuBvGHkQ [07:13] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'invidious.osi.kr' ( status 0 @ https://invidious.osi.kr/watch?v=w81RuBvGHkQ ) [07:13] DaemonFC "A Clockwork Orange 1971 I'm singin in the rain scene 4K" [07:20] DaemonFC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWKwbrG9TFg [07:20] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Invidious: https://y.com.sb/watch?v=LWKwbrG9TFg [07:20] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 500 @ https://y.com.sb/watch?v=LWKwbrG9TFg ) [07:21] DaemonFC schestowitz[TR2]: I loved that movie, Chernobyl, especially the part about how the Soviets didn't know how the reactor exploded, and they didn't want to know. Everyone was running around demanding a list of people to blame. [07:21] DaemonFC It's not really a Soviet problem so much as it is a human one, of course. [07:22] DaemonFC When I had an on the job accident once, the plant manager pretended like he was my best friend and shit happens and we get to the hospital, and then he had the doctor claim I was fit to return to work with my head bleeding and a concussion. [07:23] DaemonFC And when we got back to the plant, he whips out his little clipboard and writes me up, for being injured, in an accident that was caused by faulty machinery. [07:24] DaemonFC I got a wake up call into how organizational structures work, and it was cemented by police encounters where they really don't care what happened, and they don't want to know. They'll act like your best friend and then out comes the knife, if you let them. [07:25] DaemonFC In the case of the police, you have the right not to talk to them. I suggest you use it. [07:26] DaemonFC If you say anything, it should be limited to something entirely unrelated to what they're investigating, you, anyone involved in the incident, and so on. [07:27] DaemonFC The fuckers screwed up charging me. [07:27] DaemonFC Instead of correcting them, I just played along with their mistake. When they realized their mistake, it was too late to fix it. [07:28] *parsifal has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:29] *parsifal (~parsifal@uuar9r28yasyu.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:32] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:32] *parsifal (~parsifal@uuar9r28yasyu.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:50] *jacobk (~quassel@32hz32it3ih2k.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 28 [08:34] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Apr 28 [09:08] *teucer_ (~teucer@crdykawdebsq4.irc) has joined #techbytes [09:19] DaemonFC https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/27/middleeast/iraq-lgbtq-crackdown-intl-latam/index.html [09:19] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-edition.cnn.com | Same-sex couplesface up to15 years in prison in Iraqs LGBTQ crackdown | CNN [09:19] DaemonFC Iraq is worse today than it was when Saddam Hussein was there. [09:20] *teucer_ has quit (Quit: leaving) [09:26] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [09:33] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@qezxp5nudz5uq.irc) has joined #techbytes [09:35] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [09:37] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@qezxp5nudz5uq.irc) has joined #techbytes [09:44] *gyemsz has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [09:59] *gyemsz (~DaxSon@freenode-2ue.6ih.pu7h8v.IP) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 28 [10:06] schestowitz[TR2] "To the Future: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower" [10:06] schestowitz[TR2] x https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/saudi-arabia-ai.html [10:06] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.nytimes.com | To the Future: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower - The New York Times [10:07] schestowitz[TR2] old: [10:07] schestowitz[TR2] " Bill Gates Pie in Face " [10:07] schestowitz[TR2] https://youtu.be/iK6SS8CXYZo [10:07] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Invidious: https://invidious.esmailelbob.xyz/watch?v=iK6SS8CXYZo [10:07] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 500 @ https://invidious.esmailelbob.xyz/watch?v=iK6SS8CXYZo ) ● Apr 28 [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2024-04/msg00007.html [12:42] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lists.gnu.org | Re: FSF official site does not announce important events [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] "Fellow Hackers: [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] We need a fearless counter campaign. [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] Roy Schestowitz explains that he was advised by an "insider": [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] [1]http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/22/Video_Online_Brigade_Demands_That [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] _the_Person_Who_Started_GNU_Li.shtml [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] We already know that the attacks on our founder are a proxy for the [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] subversion of software freedom to serve proprietary interests. Have we [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] taken note of the "openwashing" identity of the Linux Foundation? [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] [2]https://techrights.org/o/2019/09/14/proprietary-software-giants-as-f [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] riends/ [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] [3]http://techrights.org/o/2022/11/16/lf-openwashing-services-microsoft [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] / [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] [4]https://techrights.org/o/2022/02/18/linux-foundation-board-2022/ [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] What do we become if we allow our core precept of "Freedom" to be [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] trampled on by the coercive threat of withholding donations? The global [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] digital economy runs on Free Software: [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] [5]https://hbr.org/2021/09/the-digital-economy-runs-on-open-source-here [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] s-how-to-protect-it [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] GNU hackers are gifted individuals capable of providing unparalleled [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] consulting services to industries - around the world - that rely on our [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] software. Perhaps the FSF could begin to devise new sources of revenue [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] by formally expanding our financial model to include services? [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] In respect of the latter, we would need an operations management team [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] to: [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] 1) Undertake a market analysis [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] 2) Develop an operational plan. [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] We also need to formulate a plan concerning our kernel. Let's rid [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] ourselves of the persistent threat by proprietary entities to defund [12:42] schestowitz[TR2] Software Freedom." [12:42] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/22/Video_Online_Brigade_Demands_That ) [12:42] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://techrights.org/o/2019/09/14/proprietary-software-giants-as-f ) [12:42] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | 'Linux' Foundation Became an Instrument of Microsoft and Proprietary Software Openwashing [12:43] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Linux Foundation Board in 2022: 86% Corporate and 81% Proprietary Software Companies [12:43] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://hbr.org/2021/09/the-digital-economy-runs-on-open-source-here ) ● Apr 28 [13:13] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Apr 28 [14:16] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [14:18] schestowitz[TR2] http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/04/guest-post-generative-ai-originality.html?showComment=1714127356850#c7856001032660744639 [14:18] schestowitz[TR2] "Hi AJS, thanks for the insightful comment (and for drawing my attention to 'A History of the World According to Getty Images' - I will have to go and watch it now!).

    You are absolutely right that the protection available under contract law is limited, given restrictions will only bind parties to the contract. There might however be ways of expanding a contractual restriction into a quasi-property entitlements (consider [14:18] schestowitz[TR2] attempts to do so via viral open source or copyleft licences, or the possibility of embedding 'browsewrap' contractual restrictions into the metadata of an Hey Hi (AI) generated file).

    While individual Hey Hi (AI) generated works might be generated by users and placed online (and therefore downstream users might not be bound by a contractual restriction between the initial user and platform on use of those individual i [14:18] schestowitz[TR2] mages for training), I suspect that the real value that Surveillance Giant Google and Meta will want to protect will be in licensing large scale synthetic training data - the creation of millions of images on demand for training the next generation of generative Hey Hi (AI) tools. Those large scale uses of generative Hey Hi (AI) tools are much more likely to involve situations where contract can bite.

    While this piece is [14:18] schestowitz[TR2] only focused on the position under UK law, it is worth noting that the Ryanair case is from the CJEU, and similar issues may play out in EU member states (for an EU perspective on contract and the EU TDM exceptions where this is touched upon, see Kretschmer et al in Copyright Law and the Lifecycle of Machine Learning Models at section 4.4 - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40319-023-01419-3). I am still reading up on the [14:18] schestowitz[TR2] US position, which might turn on the relevant Circuit's approach to the pre-emption doctrine in s 301(a) of the US Copyright Act (compare ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 with Universal Instruments Corp. v. Micro Sys. Engg, Inc., 924 F.3d 32 - it is worth tracking down some of Guy A. Rub's scholarship on the issue)." [14:18] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | [Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works - The IPKat [14:18] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-link.springer.com | Copyright Law and the Lifecycle of Machine Learning Models | IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law ● Apr 28 [15:57] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● Apr 28 [18:30] *You are now known as schestowitz ● Apr 28 [19:22] *parsifal (~parsifal@uuar9r28yasyu.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 28 [20:01] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [20:02] schestowitz > Thanks Roy, [20:02] schestowitz > [20:02] schestowitz > I forgot to include the link in the post. [20:16] *gyemsz has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Apr 28 [22:00] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [22:45] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [22:47] *jacobk (~quassel@db5298h366x32.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 28 [23:14] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [23:54] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [23:54] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #techbytes