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schestowitz> -------- Forwarded Message --------Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Subject: [SFD-announce] Happy Software Freedom Day 2021Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:13:16 +0700Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> From: Frederic Muller - DFF <fred@digitalfreedomfoundation.org>Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Reply-To: sfd-discuss@sf-day.orgSep 19 01:06
schestowitz> To: SFD announcements <sfd-announce@sf-day.org>Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Dear all!Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> We want to wish you a happy Software Freedom Day 2021 and hopeSep 19 01:06
schestowitz> everything will go as planned!Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> We stepped in the Christchurch event in New Zealand earlier today andSep 19 01:06
schestowitz> were very impressed with their Jitsi set up, using the Jitsi free publicSep 19 01:06
schestowitz> offering.Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> We are still seeing teams registering as we're writing this email soSep 19 01:06
schestowitz> 2021 should be a good sign of what we can do individually during timesSep 19 01:06
schestowitz> like this. And celebration can definitely postponed should you not haveSep 19 01:06
schestowitz> had the time or the opportunity to organize for today!Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:06
schestowitz> Hopefully we are going to strengthen up our team very very soon andSep 19 01:07
schestowitz> provide better support for the other upcoming celebrations.Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> In the meantime you can check all the current events on our SFD map atSep 19 01:07
schestowitz> https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2021 and browseSep 19 01:07
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.softwarefreedomday.org | SFD 2021 Map: Find an event in your area!Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> the wiki at https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2021 should you not findSep 19 01:07
schestowitz> any team in your area.Sep 19 01:07
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.softwarefreedomday.org | 2021 - Software Freedom Day WikiSep 19 01:07
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> One of the good sides of this year is that most events are virtual, andSep 19 01:07
schestowitz> like us, you can probably find one within your time zone and in yourSep 19 01:07
schestowitz> language.Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> SFD remains one of the events with the most represented languages andSep 19 01:07
schestowitz> places in the world and we should be proud of that!Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> Thank you all for your continuous participation and happy SFD!Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> FredSep 19 01:07
schestowitz> --------------------------Sep 19 01:07
schestowitz> Digital Freedom FoundationSep 19 01:07
schestowitzhttp://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/dabus-ai-inventor-or-emperors-new.html?showComment=1631784240234#c778651050158977895Sep 19 01:10
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | DABUS: An AI inventor or the Emperor's New Clothes? - The IPKatSep 19 01:10
schestowitz"Sep 19 01:10
schestowitzThank you for the article, highlighting the dubious nature of this endeavor. Sep 19 01:10
schestowitzAs I wrote before on Kluwer, there are a lot of questions...Sep 19 01:10
schestowitzWhy should an "AI" be able to be an inventor, but not an animal (often far more intelligent than any known "AI")?Sep 19 01:10
schestowitzWhere is the line between a "normal" CAD program optimizing a solution and an "AI" inventing a solution? Should all CAD-programs now be inventors? Would any given number of parallel copies of DABUS be able to invent the same solution concurrently? Then Mr Thaler could apply for patents for the same solution from DABUS1, DABUS2, ..., DABUSn?Sep 19 01:10
schestowitzFor me, most telling is that Thaler & Co want its "AI" to be an inventor, but don't see it necessary for the "AI" to assign the rights to the invention to them. And what happens if the "AI" terminates its employment-contract and signs onto a new employer?Sep 19 01:10
schestowitzTo me, all this doesn’t make sense. I hope PETA, the Humane Society or similar will sue Mr. Thaler when he switches off DABUS. And I assume that HAL and Eddie the Shipboard Computer see it similarly - the thoughts of Marvin on this might be too depressing... ;-)Sep 19 01:10
schestowitz"Sep 19 01:10
schestowitzhttp://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/dabus-ai-inventor-or-emperors-new.html?showComment=1631803218584#c715743065408047731Sep 19 01:11
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | DABUS: An AI inventor or the Emperor's New Clothes? - The IPKatSep 19 01:11
schestowitz"Sep 19 01:11
schestowitzUS law links inventorship to an act of conception of an invention. I'm not an AI expert but I'm sceptical that an AI is capable of "conceiving" anything. I prefer the notion that the inventor is the one that reviews the output of an AI and, stimulated by that output, then performs an act of conception of an "invention". Sep 19 01:11
schestowitzAnd then there's a further act of conception, namely that which occurs when the drafter of a patent claim "conceives" that abstract "concept" which finds expression in the draft claim.Sep 19 01:11
schestowitzHas all this been said before? Is it trite? Or is it a reasonable way to visualise and then manage the contributions to the art made by an AI of ordinary skill in that art?Sep 19 01:11
schestowitz"Sep 19 01:11
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Techrights-secpower went out for < 1 s this morningSep 19 08:09
schestowitz-TR2Did I miss something in the buffer?Sep 19 08:09
Techrights-secOther than that, no.  Sep 19 08:09
Techrights-secThe Gemini mirror of the wiki is somewhat improved, see:Sep 19 08:11
Techrights-secgemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/A_Critic%27s_Free_Software_Dictionary/Sep 19 08:11
schestowitz-TR2This link works now. I checked others with '  in them - those still are "page now found"Sep 19 08:14
Techrights-secYes, the cron job only upates from RSS so if the pages have not been updatedSep 19 08:18
Techrights-secthen they will not get replaced in the miirror.  There are 22.Sep 19 08:18
schestowitz-TR2Oh, I see, so we need to update several per day?Sep 19 08:19
Techrights-secPerhaps.  It might be just as quick to make a script.  Sep 19 08:21
schestowitz-TR2some of these are just antitrust exhibits, so edits can be a whitespaceSep 19 08:21
schestowitz-TR2now much this weekend in terms of articles because of the anniversarySep 19 08:25
schestowitz-TR2*notSep 19 08:25
Techrights-secCongratulations again.Sep 19 08:31
Techrights-secAny trips planned for it or did you take any yesterday?Sep 19 08:31
schestowitz-TR2No, we went through a long list of options and decided they're all too risky (infection risk)Sep 19 08:32
Techrights-secMakes sense.  I read that things are bad also there.Sep 19 08:33
schestowitz-TR2bbiabSep 19 08:33
Techrights-secok the wiki mirror should be updated.  I made a list of the directories inSep 19 09:56
Techrights-secquestion and parsed it to a two-column list of the HTTP address in the wikiSep 19 09:56
Techrights-secand the destination path on the file system.  Then:while read u p; do echo $u; echo $p; echo; curl $u |Sep 19 09:56
Techrights-sec./gemini-get-and-convert-wiki-from-html.pl -w $p -;done < data.txtSep 19 09:56
Techrights-secThat was just a one-off, but in the permanent script, some use wget andSep 19 09:56
Techrights-secsome use curl.  Should we choose just one, if so which?Sep 19 09:56
schestowitz-TR2I think we can file everything in git, as it might come in handy in the future, e.g. if we export a large chunk of data into the wiki. It's good that we already depend a lot less on php.Sep 19 09:57
schestowitz-TR2but importantly, those pages are being increasingly accessed and if we can help bring more users to gemini, than we improve the Net, not just TRSep 19 09:58
schestowitz-TR2*thenSep 19 09:59
schestowitz-TR2today I plan to upload some photos. I think about doing an epo video, but it's tempting to also cover mozilla testing bing as default (but that's just experimental; I reckon they won't do it at the end)Sep 19 09:59
Techrights-secDefaulting to bing is such harmful idea that they should not even talk aboutSep 19 10:06
Techrights-secit, it's not going to fool anyone, eve Google, and if they go through withSep 19 10:06
Techrights-secit they will lose quite a bit of what's left of their user base.Sep 19 10:06
schestowitz-TR2yes, maybe like with yahoo! 7 years ago they just play hard to get with google to set the price higherSep 19 10:06
Techrights-secA lot of harmful talk is coming out of Mozilla staff lately.  They've done Sep 19 10:06
Techrights-secnothing to become independent from Google / Alphabet and becoming moreSep 19 10:06
Techrights-secdependent on M$ is a worse option, since there will be more strings attached.Sep 19 10:06
Techrights-secOverall the projecvt seems badly mismanaged for quite a few years.Sep 19 10:06
Techrights-secYahoo fell victim to M$ via it's operative, Icahn.Sep 19 10:10
Techrights-secIt could have done well but for the gutting he ensured.Sep 19 10:10
Techrights-sechttps://www.networkworld.com/article/2280482/icahn-to-yahoo--sell-to-microsoft-for--49-5-billion.htmlSep 19 10:10
Techrights-secThat was a few years ago now.     Sep 19 10:10
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.networkworld.com | Icahn to Yahoo: Sell to Microsoft for $49.5 billion | Network WorldSep 19 10:10
Techrights-secback in a bitSep 19 10:48
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schestowitz=Sep 19 12:16
schestowitzx https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/09/17/your-brand-needs-to-be-on-twitter-here-is-why/Sep 19 12:16
schestowitzx https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/09/17/instagram-why-it-is-the-best-social-media-platform-for-marketing/Sep 19 12:16
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-moderndiplomacy.eu | Your brand needs to be on Twitter, here is why - Modern DiplomacySep 19 12:16
schestowitz# spamSep 19 12:16
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-moderndiplomacy.eu | Instagram: Why It Is the Best Social Media Platform for Marketing - Modern DiplomacySep 19 12:16
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schestowitz-TR2I am going to awap the "split" file in... for IPFSSep 19 17:50
Techrights-secIt can use a loop.Sep 19 17:50
schestowitz$ diff complete-index-split-old.sh complete-index-split.sh Sep 19 17:54
schestowitz20c20Sep 19 17:54
schestowitz< awk '{print "* " $0}'  txt | grep ' techrights-' | sed 's/ techrights-/ TR /' | sed 's/TEXT.*$//'  >>  /home/gemini/gemini/ipfs/index.gmiSep 19 17:54
schestowitz---Sep 19 17:54
schestowitz> awk '/ techrights-/{sub( techrights-/," TR "); sub(/TEXT.*$/,""); print "* " $0}' txt >> /home/gemini/gemini/ipfs/index.gmiSep 19 17:54
schestowitz24c24Sep 19 17:54
schestowitz< awk '{print "* " $0}'  txt | grep -v ' techrights-' | sed 's/[(].*$//' | sed 's/ irc-log-/ /'  >>  /home/gemini/gemini/ipfs/index.gmiSep 19 17:54
schestowitz---Sep 19 17:54
schestowitz> awk '!/ techrights-/ {sub(/(.*$/,""); sub(/ irc-log-/," "); print "* " $0}'  txt >> /home/gemini/gemini/ipfs/index.gmiSep 19 17:54
schestowitzwe'll see what happens tonight.... rollback or change can be done easilySep 19 17:54
Techrights-secWhich user does that script run under?Sep 19 18:00
Techrights-secBack when I was xxxxxx, I should have used Git in the xxxx and Sep 19 18:03
Techrights-sechad the xxxx submit all their assignments, or at least the xxxxSep 19 18:03
Techrights-secexercises, via Git.  Sep 19 18:03
schestowitz-TR2running the site is 'upskilling' (buzzword). BTW, my latest video (encoding now) was ruined by a colleague now picking up the phone. About half an hour in it was buzzing again and again like 5 separate times until I gave up and ended the video early. It was about Microsoft+EPO.Sep 19 18:11
schestowitz-TR2*not pickingSep 19 18:11
Techrights-secA lot of phones will accept a timed profile change, such as a silent modeSep 19 18:21
Techrights-secor a buzz- or chirp- only mode.Sep 19 18:21
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