Distributions and Operating Systems

• SUSE/OpenSUSE

  • SUSE's Corporate Blog ☛ Business and operational security in the context of Artificial Intelligence

    This is a guest blog by Udo Würtz, Fujitsu Fellow, CDO and Business Development Director of the Fujitsu’s European Platform Business.

• Fedora Family / IBM

  • Adam Young: Hello To Stephen Smoogen

    This post is a novelty post merely to say hello to a friend of mine that gave me a shout out else-where.

Leftovers

• YLE ☛ Study: Rising use of English no threat to Finnish language

  Restricting the use of English makes it more difficult for international experts, workers and students to integrate into life in Finland, researchers say.

• RFA ☛ China bans Tibetan language in schools in Sichuan province

  Step could lead to eventual extinction of Tibetan in the region, activists fear.

• Ruben Schade ☛ Merlin Mann on jargon

  I quote Merlin Mann a lot here, and it’s not just because I’ve have a crush on the guy since his 43 Folders days. Here’s some advice from his Wisdom Project:

  In culinary use, the green stalks (scapes) and the unopened, immature flower buds are diced and used as an ingredient for omelettes, fish, potatoes, soups, and many other dishes.

• Ruben Schade ☛ ISO-8859-1 and English aren’t the default

  Update: It’s ISO-8859-1 I was thinking of. Thanks to everyone who sent in corrections. It’s clear I haven’t used it in a while… though I could have looked at half the RSS feeds out there to confirm.

• Digital Music News ☛ Riot Games Generates Another Virtual Artist Group — With EXO’s Baekhyun Among the Collaborators

  Riot Games introduces their newest virtual music group, Heartsteel — with EXO’s Baekhyun, Taiwanese-American artist ØZI, Cal Scruby, and Tobi Lou among the real-artist collaborators. Video game developer and publisher Riot Games has revealed its latest virtual band offering, Heartsteel, starring reimagined versions of characters from Riot’s phenomenally successful League of Legends.

• Hardware

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ AMD Releases RX 6750 GRE in Asia: Clearing Out Navi 22 Inventory

    AMD has released clones of its RX 6700 10GB and RX 6700 XT in the form of new cards known as the RX 6750 GRE. AMD appears to have a serious oversupply issue, and also a problem with sensible names.

  • Silicon Angle ☛ US places new restrictions on [hardware] exports to China

    The U.S. Commerce Department today introduced new rules designed to restrict the sale of advanced artificial intelligence chips to buyers in China. The rules expand upon an existing set of chip-focused export controls that were implemented last year. Under the expanded regulation, more types of AI chips are subject to export restrictions.

  • RFA ☛ US expands chip export ban to China

    The new rule targets A.I.-capable chips made especially to fall below the power threshold of a previous U.S. ban.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ US Prohibits Exports of Nvidia's A800 and H800 to China, Blacklists Chinese GPU Developers

    The U.S. will now prohibit the export of Nvidia's A800 and H800 to China, and has added Biren Technology and Moore Threads to its Entity List to prohibit them from receiving certain exports. This is being done to slow down China's AI development.

  • New York Times ☛ U.S. Tightens China’s Access to [buzzword] Chips

    The further limits on shipments could cripple Beijing’s A.I. ambitions and dampen revenues for U.S. chip makers, analysts said.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Core i9 14900KF Breaks World Record, Almost Achieves 9.1GHz

    With today's arrival of Intel's new Raptor Lake Refresh chips, a team of overclockers has already broken a world record with Intel's new i9-14900KF flagship, achieving a 9043.92 MHz CPU frequency world record run.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Intel Core Ultra 9 185H Shows 5.1 GHz Boost Clocks in Benchmark Leak

    Intel's new Core Ultra 9 185H appears in the Geekbench database with 16C / 22T core config and a 5.1 GHz boost clock.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • BIA Net ☛ Turkey's Health Ministry calls on senior doctors for reappointment amid physician shortage

    Doctors between the ages of 65 and 72 to can apply for reappointment.

  • Science Alert ☛ Scientists Discover New 'Unique Mode' of Communication That Can Turn Cells Cancerous

    We've long overlooked this.

  • Science Alert ☛ Surprise Finding: The Deadliest Form of Skin Cancer Isn't Melanoma

    Who knew?

  • Science Alert ☛ Forgotten Antibiotic From Decades Past May Be a Superbug Killer

    "It is time to revisit."

  • New York Times ☛ These Amphibian Children Have a Taste for (Mom’s) Skin

    Caecilians are the first amphibians known to pass on their microbiomes to their offspring.

  • PHR ☛ Devastating Hospital Strike Shows Urgent Need to Protect Civilians and Health Workers in Gaza and Israel

    In response to reports by the Palestinian Health Ministry that a strike on Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza City has killed hundreds of civilians, the following quote is attributable to Sam Zarifi, JD, LLM, executive director at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR): [...]

  • France24 ☛ UN, France, African Union condemn strike on Gaza hospital that has left hundreds dead

    At least 500 people were killed Tuesday in a blast at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City that the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says was an Israeli airstrike. Israel's military has denied involvement, saying the strike was the result of a rocket misfired by the Islamic Jihad militant group. Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas cancelled a planned meeting with US President Joe Biden in the wake of the tragedy and declared three days of mourning.

  • France24 ☛ Palestinian medics in Gaza struggle to save lives under Israeli siege

    For hours and hours, Moen Abu Aish digs through the rubble of demolished homes to find survivors of Israeli airstrikes, toiling in a vast and desperate search complicated by the shortage of critical supplies and the sheer scope of destruction across the Gaza Strip.

  • NYPost ☛ Hundreds killed in Gaza hospital blast as Israel blames failed Hamas rocket

    Palestinian health officials say more than 500 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike at a hospital in Gaza Tuesday — as an IDF spokesperson claims the blast was caused by a failed Hamas rocket.

  • JURIST ☛ Blast at Gaza hospital kills hundreds; IDF and militants trade blame

    A blast at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza killed hundreds of people on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Gaza’s health ministry reportedly placed the death toll at 500 and blamed an Israel Defense Force (IDF) airstrike.

  • New York Times ☛ Israel-Hamas War: Israelis and Palestinians Blame Each Other for Blast at Gaza Hospital That Killed Hundreds

    Gazan health authorities said the explosion was caused by an Israeli airstrike. The Israel Defense Forces said it was caused by a malfunctioning rocket fired by a Palestinian armed group.

  • YLE ☛ Contaminated drinking water a growing problem

    Heavier rains and aging distribution networks are triggering more cases of public water supply contamination.

  • YLE ☛ Beer sales in Finland continue to drop

    The industry's lobby noted that Finland has the highest beer tax in the EU.

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Silicon Angle ☛ Chinese AI startup Baichuan raises $300M from Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi

    The Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup Baichuan Intelligent Technology announced today that it has raised more than $300 million in a Series A1 round led by major Chinese technology giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Tencent Holdings Ltd. and smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. >

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Scoop News Group ☛ Federal agencies are falling behind on meeting key privacy goal set five years ago

      Several federal agencies are playing catch-up on meeting recommendations from NIST detailed in a 2018 framework for how government should incorporate privacy into their risk management strategies.

• Defence/Aggression

  • RFA ☛ Canada says Chinese fighter jets ‘dangerously’ intercepted aircraft

    Ottawa’s defense minister says military jet came within 5 meters of Canadian surveillance plane on UN mission.

  • YLE ☛ Finland steps up underwater surveillance as Sweden reports more cable damage

    Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen (NCP) discussed last week’s suspected sabotage of a gas pipeline and data cable between Finland and Estonia on Tuesday – shortly before Sweden announced separate damage to a cable linking it with Estonia.

  • RFA ☛ Manila denounces Chinese Navy’s maneuvers in disputed waters

    China raised the stakes by deploying one of its navy ships in the ongoing dispute, according to analysts.

  • RFA ☛ Reps from 130 countries descend on Beijing for Belt and Road forum

    China’s 3rd BRF aims to build ‘shared future,’ according to ‘white paper.’

  • RFA ☛ Marshall Islands signs new compact with US amid China competition

    Congressional approval is needed for the increase in U.S. funding for Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau.

  • RFA ☛ South Korean military says North Korea may have links with Hamas

    Hamas appears to have used North Korean weapons and tactics in attacks on Israel.

  • AntiWar ☛ Credulous or Dishonest Journalists Regurgitate Pro-War Propaganda

    It is a sad reality that the establishment news media’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas fighting may be even more shallow, biased, and hawkish than the coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war or previous international conflicts.  

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Atlantic Council ☛ The state of Russia’s war on Ukraine as it nears 2024

      The current fighting season is still far from over in Ukraine, but it is already clear that the war unleashed by Putin in February 2022 will continue into the coming year, writes Mykola Bielieskov.

    • France24 ☛ Russian leader Vladimir Putin in China for talks with Xi Jinping

      Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Tuesday to meet his "dear friend" Xi Jinping, bolstering their relationship at a summit that will be overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war.

    • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Russia’s Putin arrives in China to meet ‘dear friend’ Xi Jinping

      Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Tuesday to meet his “dear friend” Xi Jinping, bolstering their relationship at a summit that will be overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war.

    • RFERL ☛ Nationalist Putin Critic Girkin's Appeal Against Detention Rejected

      The Moscow City Court has rejected an appeal filed by lawyers of Igor Girkin, once a leader of Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine's east, against the pretrial detention he was placed in earlier this year after he criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    • RFERL ☛ In China, Orban And Putin Discuss Gas, Oil, Nuclear Power

      Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a forum in China, a Hungarian government spokesman said on October 17.

    • teleSUR ☛ Russia to Coordinate With Partners to End Middle East Violence

      Putin held telephone conversations with presidents Al-Assad, Raisi, Abbas, and Al-Sisi.

    • New York Times ☛ Putin Visits China to Bolster Ties With ‘My Friend,’ Xi

      The Russian leader is likely to push for more economic support when he meets with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing.

    • ADF ☛ Wagner Leadership Fractures After Prigozhin Death

      Since the death of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash in August, some of its mercenaries have moved on to other organizations, while the Russian Ministry of Defense and Prigozhin’s 25-year-old son, Pavel, both claim control over the organization.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Ukraine receives potentially game-changing long-range US missiles

      Ukraine has finally received long-range ATACMS missiles from the United States and has begun deploying them against Russian targets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on October 17.

    • New York Times ☛ Ukraine Said to Use ATACMS, a Powerful Weapon System, for First Time

      Ukrainian forces attacked two key Russian air bases behind enemy lines on Tuesday, using American-made long-range missiles known as ATACMS, a U.S. official said.

    • New York Times ☛ Inside Biden’s Reversal on Sending Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine

      The story is more complex than a caricature in Washington that President Biden is cautious to a fault, and says no until the pressure is insurmountable.

    • RFERL ☛ UN Reports 'Staggering' $14 Billion Cost Of Ukraine Dam Breach

      The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southeastern Ukraine in June caused $14 billion worth of damage and losses, a report by the Ukrainian government and the United Nations said on October 17.

    • RFERL ☛ Report: North Korea Shipping Ammunition, Weaponry 'At Scale' To Russia

      North Korea appears to have begun secretly shipping large amounts of munitions to Russia, according to a new report, using ships and trains to move the weaponry and bolster Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

    • RFERL ☛ Russian Orthodox Cleric Known For Anti-War Stance Flees Russia

      Former Russian Archdeacon Andrei Kurayev, who lost his rank in April over his calls for an end to the invasion of Ukraine, wrote on Telegram on October 16 that he left Russia for the Czech Republic.

    • RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Used U.S.-Supplied ATACMS In Overnight Attacks

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed on October 17 that Ukraine used U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, in overnight attacks that the Ukrainian military said destroyed nine Russian military helicopters, an ammunition depot, and an air-defense launching system.

    • RFERL ☛ Another Evacuation Flight For Ukrainian Citizens Departs Israel, Says Embassy

      The Ukrainian Embassy in Israel announced that a third evacuation flight for Ukrainian citizens has departed Israel.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Presses Ahead With Offensive Push in Eastern Ukraine

      As winter approaches, Russian and Ukrainian forces are both trying to seize the initiative along different parts of the front.

    • RFERL ☛ After Own Proposal Rejected, Russia Pushes For Changes In Draft UN Resolution Condemning Hamas Attack On Israel

      Russia is pushing for changes to a Brazilian draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would condemn Hamas for its attack on Israel and call for a humanitarian cease-fire after Moscow's draft resolution failed in a vote over its failure to mention the militant group.

    • RFERL ☛ Detention Extended For Russian Election-Monitoring Group Leader

      A Moscow court on October 17 extended the pretrial detention of the co-chairman of the Golos movement, Grigory Melkonyants, until at least January 17, 2024.

    • RFERL ☛ Russian Lawmakers Approve 'De-Ratifying' Nuclear Test Ban Pact In First Reading

      The Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, approved the first reading of a bill revoking the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

    • JURIST ☛ Russia begins de-ratifying Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

      Russia’s Duma voted on a bill to de-ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban (CTBT) Treaty in the bill’s first reading in the State Duma on Tuesday. Members of Russia’s State Duma unanimously adopted the bill withdrawing Russia from the CTBT.

    • Scoop News Group ☛ Mandia: China replaces Russia as top cyber threat

      Beijing's growing sophistication in cyberspace is making China an increasingly potent adversary, according to Kevin Mandia.

    • RFERL ☛ Navalny Lawyer Flees Russia After Three Others Arrested

      Aleksandr Fedulov, a lawyer of imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, has fled Russia after three other lawyers who defended the Kremlin critic were arrested last week.

    • Vice Media Group ☛ Russia Moves to Pull Out of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty While U.S. Eyes More Nukes

      Old treaties are failing as new nuclear weapons struggle to be born.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania’s dual citizenship referendum – meaning and myths

      On May 12, 2024, a referendum on the retention of Lithuanian citizenship will be held in conjunction with the first round of the presidential election. Marius Gurskas, head of the Government’s Communications Department, speaks about the meaning and myths of the upcoming referendum.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian government fails to keep to agreed military expansion plans – adviser

      The Lithuanian government is not keeping to the Armed Forces’ expansion plans agreed on earlier this year, Kęstutis Budrys, President Gitanas Nausėda’s chief national security adviser, said on Tuesday.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Reason ☛ Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, Julian Assange, and Donald Trump

    "After Trump, everybody's tolerance for exploring different points of view kind of dried up," says the star Substack writer.

• Environment

  • Energy/Transportation

    • YLE ☛ Ministry working group to draft e-scooter safety laws

      A new ministerial working group will draft new laws around the use of light vehicles such as e-scooters and bikes. The aim is to make microtransit as safe as possible.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • New York Times ☛ A Severe Drought Pushes the Amazon Rainforest to the Brink

      The rainforest holds a fifth of the world’s fresh water, but deforestation, dwindling rain and unrelenting heat are sucking it dry.

• Finance

  • Forbes ☛ 2023 Layoff Tracker: Ford Cuts 1,200 More Jobs As UAW Strike Drags On

    Following weeks of layoffs, Ford cut 500 more employees at multiple facilities this week in a move the automaker attributes to indirect effects from the United Auto Workers strike, and slashed another 700 jobs at an electric vehicle facility it said was unrelated to the strike—amid a string of layoffs at U.S. manufacturing and tech companies as lingering recession fears persist (see Forbes’ layoff tracker from the first quarter here).

  • Firstpost ☛ Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is firing over 650 people, total tally this year crosses well over 10,000 [Ed: This headline is misleading as the tally probably crossed 20,000 months ago (not even counting temps and contractors)]

    In its quarterly revenue report released in July, Microsoft, the parent company of LinkedIn, reported modest revenue growth, with only a 5 per cent increase in the second quarter. This is despite consistent growth in LinkedIn’s membership over the past two years. To bolster revenue, Microsoft has articulated its intention to enhance its operations and give priority to key initiatives. These recent layoffs at LinkedIn are aligned with the company’s strategy for FY 24.

  • InfoWorld ☛ Generative AI forces Stack Overflow to lay off 28% of its workforce [Ed: Stack Overflow lacked value and income, this has nothing to do with chatbots]

    The downsizing activity, which impacted the go-to-market and support teams, was a result of the company’s strategy to focus on its products and move toward profitability, especially at a time when macroeconomic conditions are uncertain, Chandrasekar said.

  • GeekWire ☛ JPMorgan Chase’s Seattle tech hub tops 320 people amid broader industry cooldown

    With ping-pong and pool tables, an open floorplan, a fully stocked breakroom, and dedicated spaces for collaboration and quiet contemplation, JPMorgan Chase’s engineering center in Seattle feels like a time warp to the heyday of the tech boom.

    But the real throwback is the fact that the office is growing steadily.

    Five years after opening in Seattle, the company’s tech hub in the downtown business district has now surpassed 320 people. The nation’s largest bank has benefitted in part from greater availability of engineering talent in the region over the past year as Amazon, Microsoft, and other tech companies have cut jobs.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • New York Times ☛ Hamas Hijacked Victims’ Social Media Accounts to Spread Terror

      The use of hostages’ Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts to livestream attacks and issue death threats is a new tactic, experts said.

    • New York Times ☛ Social Media Users Accuse Facebook, Instagram of Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Posts

      Meta has cautioned that some content might be temporarily suppressed or suspended as it sifts through millions of posts spreading across its platforms.

    • Silicon Angle ☛ Biden campaign signs up for Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform

      In what might seem like a surprising move, President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign today launched an account on Truth Social. T

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Reason ☛ Taxing Nudity: Discriminatory Taxes, Secondary Effects, and Tiers of Scrutiny—part 3 in a series

    Serial-blogging my recent article in the Journal of Free Speech Law

  • RFA ☛ China recruits thousands to monitor its citizens' words and deeds

    'Grid' workers wanted to collect information on residents, monitor opinions and emotions.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong to set up booths to promote ‘patriots-only’ District Council elections at ‘night vibes’ markets

    Hong Kong authorities plan to set up booths to promote the upcoming “patriots-only” District Council elections at markets under the city’s nightlife campaign, an official has said.

  • RFERL ☛ Jailed Former Kyrgyz Minister's Son Extradited From Turkey

    The Kyrgyz State Committee of National Security said on October 17 that Kemelbek Kutmanov, the son of jailed former Natural Resources Minister Dinara Kutmanova, has been extradited from Turkey on corruption charges.

  • YLE ☛ Helsinki police remove environmental protesters blocking motorway

    The demonstrators called for an end to plans to clear a forest area in eastern Helsinki to make room for apartment buildings.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • RFA ☛ Has the National Security Law improved Hong Kong’s press freedom?

    Verdict: Misleading

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Off Guardian ☛ Authoritarian Control Freaks Want to Micromanage Our Lives

    “Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes to how the government relates to the citizenry.

  • Press Gazette ☛ Five-day strike by National World journalists postponed

    The strike mandate remains valid until the end of February.

  • LRT ☛ Lithuania ranks 8th among top countries for remote work

    Lithuania ranks 8th in the world among top countries for remote work, according to an index compiled by NordLayer (formerly NordVPN Teams), part of Nord Security, a Lithuanian-founded cyber security company.

  • RFA ☛ Fears grow for mainland Chinese activist deported from Hong Kong

    Zeng Yuxuan, a former doctoral student from mainland China, has been incommunicado since her repatriation.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • MIT Technology Review ☛ How to fix the internet [Ed: "internet" with a small "i" is a mistake]

    We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news.

  • APNIC ☛ Event Wrap: SGNOG 10

    Zen Ng gave an update on IPv6 at SGNOG, held on 22 September 2023 in Singapore.

  • APNIC ☛ 2023 ISIF Asia award winners announced

    The 2023 ISIF Asia awards recognize innovative work to support the development of Internet Exchange Points in the Asia Pacific.

  • Kev Quirk ☛ Blogging for the Hell of it

    We don't need blogging niches, or "thought leaders"; we need more people just to blog for the hell of it.

    Read Post →

    I think Whiona hits the nail squarely on the head with this one. Writing a blog post just for the fun of it is exactly why I blog. All that ProBlogger crap - find a niche, double down, collect emails, CONVERT! Is utter bullshit.

    Also, the sheer number of useless "listicles" that plague search results is beyond a joke at this point. I'm willing to bet there are millions of fantastic posts, written by people who know what they're talking about. But they're hidden in the depths of the internet because, unfortunately for them, they haven't "optimised" enough.

• Monopolies

  • Patents

    • Unified Patents ☛ Buffalo Patents teleconferencing patent found invalid in reexam

      On October 12, 2023, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,839,417, owned and asserted by Buffalo Patents, LLC. The ’417 patent is directed to initiating, joining, managing, and participating in conference calls.

    • Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Patent case: S. Upreti, EPO

      The requirement for immediate and complete substantiation of a request for re-establishment corresponds to the principle of “Eventualmaxime/ Häufungsgrundsatz/ le principe de la concentration des moyens”, according to which the request must state all grounds for re-establishment and means of evidence without the possibility of submitting these at a later stage.

    • Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Status Quo Vadis?

      The Status Quo injunction is not a variation on Wayne’s World classic “No Stairway, Denied” joke. While some may yearn for a ban on their generic tunes,  Status Quo is still not denied.

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ The Complex Fact/Law Divide in Obviousness Analysis

      The intersection between factual inquiries and legal conclusions in patent law is a complex and ever-evolving area, this is especially true in obviousness doctrine. A recent Federal Circuit decision highlights the tricky analysis required in assessing obviousness and damages in patent cases. In Cyntec Co. v. Chilisin Electronics Corp., the appellate court examined whether the lower court’s directed verdict (JMOL) of nonobviousness improperly removed factual questions from the jury.  This case provides an important reminder of the care required in delineating the fact finding and legal determinations in patent trials.  As is common, I think both the District Court and the Federal Circuit got it wrong.

      Note, the court’s decision includes an interesting analysis of damages, finding that the plaintiff’s damages expert should have been excluded. It also includes a useful claim construction decision on when to give a term its plain and ordinary meaning.

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Amending Claims to Capture Post-Filing Market Activity

      I don’t think I’ve seen such a lopsided poll outcome in quite a while with 93% so far indicating “Yes” it should be OK, assuming that the new claims create no enablement or written description problem.  There is still time to add your vote. (I think you have to login to vote).

  • Trademarks

    • TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog Test: TTAB Rules in Three Section 2(d) Oppositions Argued in June 2023

      Last week the Board decided three Section 2(d) oppositions in which it held oral arguments in June 2023. How do you think they came out? Answers in first comment.

      
      Mi-Box Moving and Mobile Storage Inc. v. Mybox Inc., Opposition No. 91265197 (October 12, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Jonathan Hudis) [Opposition to registration of MYBOX for "Modular metallic buildings; transportable metal buildings; prefabricated metal buildings; relocatable metal buildings" (Class 6), "Custom manufacture of modular components of modular buildings, transportable buildings, prefabricated buildings, and relocatable buildings" (Class 40), and "Rental of portable buildings, namely, portable modular buildings, transportable buildings, prefabricated buildings, and relocatable buildings" (Class 43), on the ground of likelihood of confusion with the registered mark MI-BOX for "Moving and storage services, namely, rental, storage, delivery and pick up of portable storage units."]

  • Copyrights

    • Digital Music News ☛ UTA Reports Says the Live Music Resurgence Is Poised to Continue, as Millennials & Gen Z Focus On Experiences

      Millennials and Gen Z are driving the live music resurgence as the post-pandemic music boom is poised to continue, according to reports. A UTA report, “Standing Room Only: Live Music’s Epic Resurgence” paints a rosy picture for the return of live music.

    • Public Domain Review ☛ Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

      A collection of prints by eight artists envisioning a new Tokyo.

Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Utah

    I came back from a vacation late last month in beautiful Utah. I stayed in Moab and hiked in Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park.

    This is the 2nd vacation I've had in Utah after about a decade and Utah is truly a beautiful state.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: CFHUMSI Wordo: DIDST

  • A distinct lack

    An uneventful weekend: Saturday I had errands to run and took a detour down to Odaiba. It was nicer this time around because it wasn't so deadly hot outside, but in the end it wasn't really all that interesting. On Sunday it rained until noon and I didn't have the energy to go anywhere.

  • How a dress becomes a sweater: DIY clothing upcycling

    So I'm some kind of vague transmasculine entity. In practice, this means sometimes I want to present more masculine, but it is HARD AS SHIT to find clothes that fit my body in a masculine way.

    I'm also a sewist. What this means in practice is that I have a stash of fabric, as well as damaged pieces of clothing that I'll get around to fixing or altering "some day."

  • Too Many Books

    There are various lists of Important Books. One such list might be found somewhere within "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo". Usually these are The Classics by men long dead. It may not hurt to familiar with some of these. A good translation will help, or maybe first try a good summary and from that explore works that seem most interesting. (Commentary points out that we have too many lists of books. A problem of abundance. Others point out that only a few leaves from the forest might be worth teaching.)

  • tables rant

    yet another place that visit has implemented the choose a table first stupidity. this does not work for solo people that have coffee/tea/meal/whatever.

• Politics and World Events

  • what’s work for?

    For this month’s chat at work, I’ll be coordinating a talk about… work.

    Literally that’s the subject I’ve been assigned so I started looking for angles apart from what’s been suggested:

    Is work only necessary to earn a living? To contribute to society For personal growth

  • LiveFromFrance S1E03

    That's how President Macron talks about his ecological planning programme. It's called "French-style ecology". ... Macron, with his usual "French arrogance", pretends that we, the French, have found a magic formula. But when you read it, it's not radical at all, not innovative, but not completely climate skeptical. Don't forget that this is the same president who is going to authorize the shooting of wolves (after millions in subsidies for hunters), who has authorized the construction of a new pier for the import of shale gas, and who is now saying that he "loves the car", a kind of swear word, and that it is "not his thing" to stop flying (the budget for the presidential palace has increased by 20% for this purpose). OK, I love cars too, and I'm working to make better cars, but I'm convinced that we need to change our behavior, our way of life. Mr Macron is always thinking about growth, GDP growth.... but not, of course, the balance of trade and the distribution of wealth. 4-5 years ago we had a citizens' convention with many proposals on climate. The promise was to adopt it all... But after reading it, Macron cancelled most of the proposals... "Realism", he said. Does he know the real consequences of climate inaction? Realism means that talking is not acting.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Augh, git

    So I thought to myself, I thought, “hey what if instead of using a bunch of hacked-together scripts to update my gemini capsules and website, what if I used git repositories?”

  • bindings in bash

    I setup fzf as a bash history fuzzy finder recently (a month or two ago). The code that I found and used from the web included, of course, a binding to C-r to trigger this. Which set off an excited "what?" in my mind. I knew, that bash had bindings such as C-r, C-l, etc. but I never even thought of setting custom bindings.

  • Forgotten gadgets (2001/2002 edition)

    I often enjoy looking through adverts and product reviews in old computer magazines. They are filled to the brim with products that I had no hope on scoring as a broke 15 year old living under my parents roof.

  • Title: RE: Writing in the Face of Quiet

    Such a poetic title! I'm glad that my little thing has accomplished a wee spark of conversation, breaking “the quiet“ in some ironic way. I'd like some more of this, please. I hope of making a point on establishing more conversations on Gemini, but not only about Gemini, which might be difficult on more technical issues as I'm an amateur coder, on a good day. But still, this can be a good thing.

  • I Finished Etrian Odyssey 1 HD

    I couldn't finish this game on DS, but greatly enjoyed the HD remaster, which I played on Steam Deck.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Writing in the Face of Quiet

      Yretek, building on what adriabatic wrote a few days earlier about how to keep Gemini capsules running, tackles it from a different angle. Whereas adriabatic talks about the importance of regular backups and such, Yretek writes more about the importance of regular writing, how interest creates momentum, especially in the face of what we all tend to face here in Geminispace, the great quiet.

      Long-term writing is difficult, something I know from experience. I kept an HTML journal in the early days of the web, and I'd often have long gaps, sometimes a month or more. This could be life getting in the way, it could be the usual self-doubt ("is this even worth writing about?"; "is anyone even reading this?"). Eventually I learned the secret was to not need to write something for that day in particular, to just write.

    • green forum

      I've made a gemini forum for tilde.green members, but I don't know how I should make it so that people don't have to contact me, I think I'll make a gemini script that uses some private key as a registrator user which is registered as an admin which would just register the account with the name of the user and call the set a password site, and return the password.

  • Programming

    • “Tell us how you really feel about Agile …”

      Via Flutterby [1], “I Will XXXXX­XX Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again [2]”

      I can relate [3]. Not only did I have recurring meetings every day, but I had *two recurring meetings every day!* Also, if Ron Jeffries says to abandon Agile [4], you know it's a toxic word …