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| schestowitz | https://www.fosslife.org/how-back-end-devs-can-improve-app-accessibility | Nov 06 05:02 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fosslife.org | How Back-End Devs Can Improve App Accessibility | Nov 06 05:02 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 05:02 |
| schestowitz | Front-end developers typically “have the lion's share of responsibility for building accessible, user-friendly applications, but back-end developers also have a role to play,” says Christopher Tozzi. | Nov 06 05:02 |
| schestowitz | This article shares five ways devs can make the apps they build more accessible for all users, including: | Nov 06 05:02 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 05:02 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 06 07:02 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.juve-patent.com/news-and-stories/people-and-business/patent-attorney-dominance-among-upc-technical-judges-leads-to-conflict-debate/ <https://www.juve-patent.com/news-and-stories/people-and-business/patent-attorney-dominance-among-upc-technical-judges-leads-to-conflict-debate/> | Nov 06 07:02 |
| schestowitz | recording video about it this morning | Nov 06 07:03 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.juve-patent.com | Patent attorney dominance among UPC technical judges leads to conflict debate - JUVE Patent | Nov 06 07:03 | |
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| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | No problem, hold on whilst we get one of the team to assist you. | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | Good morning! How can I help? | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | maybe you can see the scrollback, I recently asked for my personal site schestowitz.com to use older PHP for WordPress LTC to work correctly | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | Schestowitz.com Software Solutions | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | I need two other sites of mine to also use that same PHP version | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | Ah no worries, what are the other sites that need the same PHP version? | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | you can see on my account the following domains chains: | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | bytesmedia.co.uk | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | and http://scifitness.co.uk/ | Nov 06 08:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-scifitness.co.uk | » SCI Fitness | Nov 06 08:14 | |
| schestowitz | SCI Fitness | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | those use older but supported wordpress | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | they need older php or else I cannot access admin side | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | Taking a look now for you | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | cheers | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | Would you mind trying both those sites now for me and letting me know if you can log in? | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | excelelnt! that's solved now. thanks a lot. | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | Lovely stuff! You're most welcome. Is there anything else I can help with this morning? | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | no, thanks. Have a lovely day. | Nov 06 08:14 |
| schestowitz | You have a lovely day too. Don't hesitate to get back in touch if you require anything further | Nov 06 08:14 |
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| schestowitz | <li> | Nov 06 09:46 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/not-quite-emoji-domain-names/">Not Quite Emoji Domain Names</a></h5> | Nov 06 09:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-shkspr.mobi | Not Quite Emoji Domain Names – Terence Eden’s Blog | Nov 06 09:46 | |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Nov 06 09:46 |
| schestowitz | <p>Regular readers will know that I helped get ⏻ and several power symbols into Unicode. When I do talks about this, I usually refer to them as Emoji because, to most people, Emoji are simply little pictures in text. But that is a gross oversimplification. You know the meme that real Champagne must be from the Champagne region of France - otherwise it is merely sparkling wine? Well, Emoji must come from the | Nov 06 09:46 |
| schestowitz | Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode otherwise they're just ✨sparkling✨ characters.</p> | Nov 06 09:46 |
| schestowitz | <p>Except... That's not quite true. There are a bunch of symbols stuffed in the Miscellaneous block of the Basic Multilingual Plane which are also Emoji.</p> | Nov 06 09:46 |
| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Nov 06 09:46 |
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| schestowitz | <li> | Nov 06 10:20 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://opensource.com/article/22/11/fixing-scanned-images-imagemagick">Fix scanned images with ImageMagick</a></h5> | Nov 06 10:20 |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Nov 06 10:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Fix scanned images with ImageMagick | Opensource.com | Nov 06 10:20 | |
| schestowitz | <p>Years ago while rummaging through the contents of a shelf in a used bookstore, I happened upon a booklet titled "UNIX System Command Summary for Berkeley 4.2 & 4.3 BSD," published by Specialized Systems Consultants. I bought it as a curiosity item because it was nearly 20 years old yet still largely applicable to modern Linux and BSD.</p> | Nov 06 10:20 |
| schestowitz | <p>That amused me then and now. A booklet written in 1986 was still largely relevant in 2016, while books on the same shelf about a proprietary OS weren't worth the paper they were printed on. (Think about it: What technology do you think is going to survive a zombie apocalypse?) I've had the booklet on my own bookshelf for several years now, but it occurred to me that it's probably worth doing a little digital preservation of | Nov 06 10:20 |
| schestowitz | this artifact, so I decided to scan the booklet to create a CBZ ebook.</p><p>Scanning was easy, albeit time-consuming, with Skanlite. After I was finished, however, I discovered that some pages weren't quite level.</p><p>In printing, this is called a registration problem, meaning that the position of what's being printed isn't correctly orientated on the page.</p> | Nov 06 10:21 |
| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Nov 06 10:21 |
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| schestowitz | Decision on internal appeals: Clock at ILOAT is ticking | Nov 06 10:56 |
| schestowitz | Dear colleagues, | Nov 06 10:56 |
| schestowitz | In Judgment No. 4550, the Tribunal ruled that the composition of the Appeals Committee (ApC) was flawed. It set aside the decision by the President in question and referred the individual case back to the Office, resulting in further delay in the administration of justice. | Nov 06 10:56 |
| schestowitz | We are not sure whether the Tribunal will draw similar consequences in other cases and whether other appeals / complaints currently pending will also be affected. On the other hand, it seems that the Office is now contacting some staff affected and inviting them to “refrain from filing a complaint with the Tribunal at this stage”, announcing that they would be contacted regarding the impact of Judgment No. 4550 on their case “as soon as | Nov 06 10:56 |
| schestowitz | possible”. The assessment seems to take time… | Nov 06 10:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | Dear Colleagues, | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | We initiated a *petition to the Members of the Administrative Council of the EPO to call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC some time ago. The petition shall be sent to the Administrative Council soon for its meeting on 13 October 2022. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | Already more than 500 colleagues support the petition, for which we would like to express our sincere thanks. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | If you have not yet signed the petition, please do so here[1] to help us to send a strong signal to the Administrative Council. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | When the petition was launched, compelling reasons had already been published as to why such a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States is necessary and, in fact, overdue. Since then, more events have occurred that speak for such an external review of the organisation and thus for the support of the petition, which are: | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | The production demands for examiners are to be increased - increases of up to 10% are in the air - and this despite the fact that quality has fallen further; | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | The office’s practice concerning patentability of business methods under Article 52(2)(c) EPC has become unclear again; and | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | More embarrassing ILOAT Judgments showing the EPO's violation of fundamental rights were issued three months ago and while implementation could be smooth and easy, it has yet to occur. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | In more detail: | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | In the meantime it has been announced by senior managers and line managers that examiners will be required to produce more and that production pressure will be significantly increased for the coming year. This is even though staffing levels in core tasks are alarmingly low, examiner productivity is at its limits and at the same time the quality of issued patents has further deteriorated to below 75% compliance rate. In team meetings the figure of an | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | increase of up to 10% of production has been mentioned (see also the corresponding CSC publication[2]). It seems that management no longer has any meaningful answers to manage the office’s workload. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | Concerning the assessment of patentability of business methods in substantive examination (Article 52(2)(c) EPC), a recently started debate illustrates that this issue still seems to be very unclear. A clear guidance at the level of the Contracting States of the EPC seems to be necessary. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | In early July the ILOAT issued inter-alia the Judgments no. 4550 and 4551, the latter clarifying that again the EPO has violated fundamental rights of staff freedom of association for roughly a decade. With the Judgment, the ILOAT lifted the presidential ban on Staff Committee sending mass emails to staff. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | However, even after repeated requests by the Staff Committee and SUEPO, the President has not yet removed his technical restrictions on Staff Representation in the office’s email system that were put in place to enforce the ban. Currently, it looks like the Office continues to refuse to comply with the court's ruling and allows the illegal email ban to remain in place. It seems that the ILOAT will have to be called again in this matter, this time | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | simply to obtain the enforcement of its judgment. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | Thus, not only has the fear that further embarrassing ILOAT Judgments will be issued against the organisation been confirmed, but it is compounded by the lack of willingness in the office leadership to recognise the highest court having jurisdiction over the organisation and to comply with the EPC. This procedure could put the existence of the organisation, and thus our own, in jeopardy. It is unclear whether the Administrative Council can or wants | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | to put a stop to this. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | In view of the above, an external review of the situation of the EPO by the Contracting States has become even more urgent. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | This external review is claimed by the petitioners to the Members of the Administrative Council of the EPO to call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 10:58 |
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| schestowitz | Provide quality education to EPO children | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | Nov 06 10:58 | |
| schestowitz | Dear colleagues, | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | We would like to call your attention to the ongoing SUEPO TH petition to support our colleagues with children attending the European School of The Hague (ESH). | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | ALL staff please sign the petition, to help raise the awareness and ensure that ESH, the educational institution promoted by the EPO administration for the children of EPO staff, is able to provide adequate teaching to their students. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | We, the staff of the EPO, parents of children at the European School of The Hague (ESH), note that the ESH is not providing quality education at the level required for an European School, due to - inter alia: | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | Shortage of teachers. Teachers are overbooked, absent or were simply not recruited. | Nov 06 10:58 |
| schestowitz | Inadequate timetables. Some students have blocks of up to 4 same subject consecutive classes | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | B-exam: No/ not sufficient preparation for specific mandatory exams. | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | ESH is incapable to manage children with special needs. | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | Inadequate understanding of COVID Curfew learning impact and lack of learning catch-up programs. | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | A high rate of staff turnover is reported. | Nov 06 10:59 |
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| schestowitz | Lack of administrative and support staff (reception, security, etc.). | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | Billing problems, such as the definition of miscellaneous costs. | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | As the EPO management, supported by the education and childcare reform, promotes the ESH as the educational institution for the children of EPO staff, | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | Nov 06 10:59 | |
| schestowitz | we hereby ask immediate action from the EPO management to: | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | Nov 06 10:59 | |
| schestowitz | i) Request the EPO to invest into the educational infrastructure of the ESH, and | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | Nov 06 10:59 | |
| schestowitz | ii) Extend the transitional measures to all EPO children, to attend a school of their choice, until the ESH is at the standard of a category I European School. | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | We believe that everyone deserves a quality education. We strongly believe that education is a right, not a privilege. | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | Dear SUEPO members, | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | As already announced in the invitation to the upcoming Annual General Meeting, which will take place next Wednesday, November 9, 2022 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the following *documents are available for your information: | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | The SUEPO Financial Report 2021 | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | **The SUEPO Annual Report 2021 (available soon) | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | The Auditors Report 2021 | Nov 06 10:59 |
| schestowitz | Nov 06 10:59 | |
| schestowitz | Thank you for taking note of this information. | Nov 06 10:59 |
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| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | Dear SUEPO members, dear Colleagues, | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | We are happy to invite you to a weekly coffee meeting of SUEPO this Friday, 4th of November. | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | SUEPO committee members are looking forward meeting you. | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | We would like to chat with you informally on the outlook for the coming time | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | Everything which is in your mind for sharing or asking! | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | exchange on the office in general, AC, 2nd term of Campinos. | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | Workload staffing. | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | Questions to the SAP for this year. | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | Education allowance problems – legal routes. | Nov 06 11:00 |
| schestowitz | But above all, we want to listen to you. SUEPO is nothing but its members, and your point of view matters very much to us. | Nov 06 11:00 |
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| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/11/nsa-on-supply-chain-security.html">NSA on Supply Chain Security</a></h5> | Nov 06 11:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-NSA on Supply Chain Security - Schneier on Security | Nov 06 11:15 | |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Nov 06 11:15 |
| schestowitz | <p>They previously published “Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices Guide for Developers.” And they plan on publishing one focused on customers.</p> | Nov 06 11:15 |
| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Nov 06 11:15 |
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| schestowitz | http://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2022/10/21/the-upc-hopes-and-headaches/ | Nov 06 12:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-patentblog.kluweriplaw.com | The UPC - Hopes and Headaches - Kluwer Patent Blog | Nov 06 12:58 | |
| schestowitz | Travelling tomorrow, but that would be fun to do. | Nov 06 12:58 |
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