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| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/2019/08/17/staying-focused/ | Oct 07 03:25 |
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| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Electronic Frontier Foundation Makes a Mistake by Giving Award to Microsoft Surveillance Person | Techrights | Oct 07 03:25 | |
| schestowitz | > "Electronic Frontier Foundation Makes a Mistake by Giving Award to | Oct 07 03:25 |
| schestowitz | > Microsoft Surveillance Person" | Oct 07 03:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:25 |
| schestowitz | > I like the title, it would be like something from the MICROS~1 playbook, | Oct 07 03:25 |
| schestowitz | > join something and subvert it from the inside, there's a Microsoft quote | Oct 07 03:25 |
| schestowitz | > in the Comes docs about that. Am off out now for me sunday dinner .. | Oct 07 03:25 |
| schestowitz | Yes, makes one wonder who nominated and selected. | Oct 07 03:25 |
| schestowitz | > Support for gender pronouns - Meta Stack Exchange | Oct 07 03:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:28 |
| schestowitz | > https://justpaste.it/removedstack | Oct 07 03:28 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-justpaste.it | Support for gender pronouns - Meta Stack Exchange Page not found | This question was removed fro... - JustPaste.it | Oct 07 03:28 | |
| schestowitz | Thanks, I will pass on... | Oct 07 03:28 |
| schestowitz | > it is understandable that you may not think this is a valid email address for me, at least until it is verified from the address i normally use. | Oct 07 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > in the future i will verify this through my primary email. this one is a backup. cheers. | Oct 07 03:33 |
| schestowitz | OK, makes sense... | Oct 07 03:33 |
| schestowitz | I possible, please 'compress' your messages and then then in one or two lumps. At the moment my inbox has 10 messages from you. It makes my daily email checks much more cumbersome. | Oct 07 03:34 |
| schestowitz | Re: i think the fsf is going to fight federation | Oct 07 03:34 |
| schestowitz | > You might want to link this page to another as it's still orphaned (not a critical issue, makes it harder to find). | Oct 07 03:34 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:34 |
| schestowitz | > im planning to do that today or tomorrow, but im going to create a parent page first. that one will probably link to the fsf page, and vice versa. | Oct 07 03:34 |
| schestowitz | > by the way, the free software federation is mostly a collective term for free software organisations, but theres no reason it cant include other groups such as gnu / linux user groups. | Oct 07 03:35 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:35 |
| schestowitz | > it sets a precident for including individuals but i thought maybe it would be amusing to include stallman himself on the list. | Oct 07 03:35 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:35 |
| schestowitz | > amusing because he cant step down from being himself. what do you think? and remember, free software hackers are the ones that invented the phrase "haha only serious" (as opposed to haha only joking) | Oct 07 03:35 |
| schestowitz | Playful cleverness right there. | Oct 07 03:35 |
| schestowitz | > ill just go ahead. im pretty sure youre going to say yes or abstain, and this free software force thing is obviously going to support it, and you support them. as do i. | Oct 07 03:36 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:36 |
| schestowitz | > cheers. | Oct 07 03:36 |
| schestowitz | > ive told oliva too many times to count that just because something is related by law doesnt mean its the same thing-- and to stop putting those words in my mouth. | Oct 07 03:37 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:37 |
| schestowitz | > he has just followed me into another thread to claim im saying that-- AGAIN. ive literally told him to "fuck off" and that hes lying, and that once i consider someone dishonest i have no use for them all. | Oct 07 03:37 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:37 |
| schestowitz | > olivas style of arguing is dishonest and i wont have anything to do with him in the future. i dont care if he becomes the president of the fsf, the fsf will have a president who is willing to lie. i dont really think thats avoidable without keeping stallman at this point. | Oct 07 03:37 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:37 |
| schestowitz | > maybe mako is more honest. hes also a bit weak in my opinion. hopefully we dont get stuck with a lemon. | Oct 07 03:37 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:37 |
| schestowitz | > of course whomever we get im going to give them a chance, unless its kuhn or something. if its kuhn i hope people throw eggs at the office. if i need to deal with oliva in the future, i will wait until someone else can be a contact person. im done with this guy. | Oct 07 03:37 |
| schestowitz | > not that its possible to throw eggs at the office. not unless you borrow a ladder truck or a crane, that is. | Oct 07 03:38 |
| schestowitz | > if oliva steps one more toe into a dishonest argument, im writing an article on the free software foundations "selfish take on copyright"-- | Oct 07 03:41 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:41 |
| schestowitz | > an article that probably needed to be written years ago, but theres much more to say about it now. | Oct 07 03:41 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:41 |
| schestowitz | > id rather wait on such an article. but id like there to be a consequence for him pulling this trollish shit one more time. | Oct 07 03:41 |
| schestowitz | > isnt it sort of a glaring contradiction, for the fsf (or anybody speaking for them) to say | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | > 1. it is not the fsfs job to defend against bad / modern copyright because its outside their mission | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | > 2. but they support the fsf campaigning AGAINST free culture, which is whats actually being complained about (which according to them is outside their mission anyway) | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | > this is not just about one person | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | > it goes back to a complaint about the fsf that is many years old (7 years or more?) | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | fsfe has just published http://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2019/10/06/fsfe-information-stall-on-animal-welfare-run-in-vienna/ | Oct 07 03:42 |
| schestowitz | Animal Welfare | Oct 07 03:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blogs.fsfe.org | FSFE information stall on Animal Welfare Run in Vienna « FSFE supporters Vienna | Oct 07 03:42 | |
| schestowitz | > youll want to check the latest edits, maybe youll like them. | Oct 07 03:43 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:43 |
| schestowitz | > if you do, this is kind of a big deal. | Oct 07 03:43 |
| schestowitz | I saw that, yes... | Oct 07 03:43 |
| schestowitz | > the tn email address i sent from is legit, if you are wondering. | Oct 07 03:43 |
| schestowitz | > oliva says this is a misunderstanding, though he doesnt say it like he wants resolution. he says it like its a point against me, when i told him over and over to stop pretending i was saying something that i wasnt. | Oct 07 03:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:44 |
| schestowitz | > "if this is how you deal with misunderstandings..." | Oct 07 03:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:44 |
| schestowitz | > it isnt. this is how i deal with blatant, politicised dishonesty. i blow the person out of the water, and never trust them again. | Oct 07 03:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:44 |
| schestowitz | > im NEUTRAL on oliva. he can rise up further, i dont care. i wont fight for him. | Oct 07 03:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 03:44 |
| schestowitz | > im not going to let him push me around and be dishonest though. | Oct 07 03:44 |
| schestowitz | Cheers. | Oct 07 03:45 |
| schestowitz | BTW, my phone ran out of battery yesterday, I didn't hang up. | Oct 07 03:45 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/j082298/status/1181020869130440704 | Oct 07 03:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@j082298: "The son of #euipo (EU) official crashed a car while drunk and tried to claim immunity https://t.co/RQ0XCjdQpL he's… https://t.co/tB7TSeZZkt | Oct 07 03:47 | |
| schestowitz | '" | Oct 07 03:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Immunity of the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union Causes Outrage in Spanish Media | Techrights | Oct 07 03:47 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@j082298: "The son of #euipo (EU) official crashed a car while drunk and tried to claim immunity https://t.co/RQ0XCjdQpL he's… https://t.co/tB7TSeZZkt | Oct 07 03:47 | |
| schestowitz | Jacqueline Gan Retweeted Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) | Oct 07 03:47 |
| schestowitz | "The son of #euipo (EU) official crashed a car while drunk and tried to claim immunity http://techrights.org/2017/02/08/immunity-and-impunity-euipo/ … he's now #epo president" | Oct 07 03:47 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 07 03:47 |
| schestowitz | >> Playful cleverness right there. | Oct 07 03:49 |
| schestowitz | > not to toot my own horn-- thats EXACTLY what i was thinking! | Oct 07 03:49 |
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| schestowitz | >>>> I want to first finish impending EPO articles (got new leaks!) whilst | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>>> posting links. | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> Nice. I wonder what it would take to get the EFF back on track with | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> software patents and then to /begin/ to address software patents in | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> Europe? I think it may be a generational problem and the hipsters and | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> millenials 'grew up with' M$ products and lots of mythology about His | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> Billness. If so the solution would involve more than just informing them. | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> Pieter and Benjamin (FFII) would tell you starting something new would | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> work better then trying to correct rogues. We'll federate among ourselves: | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | > Yes, I'm aware of Pieter's writing on that. | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> Work in progress: | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Free_Software_Federation | Oct 07 06:07 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Free Software Federation - Techrights | Oct 07 06:07 | |
| schestowitz | > I suppose it might be worth a try but I do not recognize any of the | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | > names involved and hope that they are selective about participants. | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>>> I might drop openwashing report as it takes a log of time. What do you | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>>> think? | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> It's probably not a priority for frequent coverage but should be | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> addresses every once in a while. | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> I feared that | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> 1) it takes a lot of time | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> 2) it's repetitive | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> ....and (2) is why I stopped covering Gates; same arguments again and | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> again, newer examples from the news. Covering Gates also had an | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> emotional toll, seeing corrupt media and revisionism/lies. | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | > Though as mentioned with openwashing it should be covered periodically. | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | > Perhaps save a few of the most egregious examples for a once a month | Oct 07 06:07 |
| schestowitz | > article? | Oct 07 06:08 |
| schestowitz | Yes, that's a thought. It just says "report", not "weekly report"... | Oct 07 06:08 |
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| schestowitz | >> The file I sent has the output twice because I ran the script twice. I | Oct 07 06:23 |
| schestowitz | >> will amend it, but it's not a big deal as I'm not supposed to run it | Oct 07 06:23 |
| schestowitz | >> twice anyway. | Oct 07 06:23 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 06:23 |
| schestowitz | > Ok. I've made a draft. | Oct 07 06:23 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 06:23 |
| schestowitz | > By the way, I notice that Wordpress seems not to be using UTC. It would | Oct 07 06:24 |
| schestowitz | > be nice to correct that. | Oct 07 06:24 |
| schestowitz | Yes, but I worry there might be unforeseen consequences | Oct 07 06:24 |
| schestowitz | home was at 94% usage (see earlier) email, so I've just emptied the fast-growing file: | Oct 07 06:26 |
| schestowitz | I think the downtime is due to never-ending mysql dump | Oct 07 06:26 |
| schestowitz | Can you kill the mysql dump at your end as well or should I terminate it? | Oct 07 06:29 |
| schestowitz | maybe that situation came about (today at least) because I did an sqldump around the same time the cron job did another? | Oct 07 06:32 |
| schestowitz | That would still leave us with the mystery of too small a dump from yesterday, both on TM and its DB copy on TR. | Oct 07 06:32 |
| schestowitz | >>> Is there a way to do an equivalent of a diff and see what is missing? | Oct 07 06:33 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Oct 07 06:33 |
| schestowitz | >>> I'm getting the last few days backups right now. | Oct 07 06:33 |
| schestowitz | >> I see that you too ran a backup using your script | Oct 07 06:33 |
| schestowitz | > Not manually. I am just using rsync to fetch the existing files from TR. | Oct 07 06:33 |
| schestowitz | I looked at cron job times and soon realised that the other dump was just a scheduled one (see one email prior to this one) | Oct 07 06:33 |
| schestowitz | The site is accessible again now that I terminated both mysqldump jobs (we might want to set up locking for dumps or never run one at around this time). | Oct 07 06:34 |
| schestowitz | I will attempt another manual dump now. Fingers crossed... | Oct 07 06:34 |
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| schestowitz | >>> Ok. Good, Is it ok then to reinstate the | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> /home/boycottn/bin/fetch-tm-dump.sh | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> line in the TR cron job and then run it manually to get today's dump? | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | >> Maybe we can take this as a warning sign and opportunity to make it more | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | >> robust? | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > The TR-side scripts take that into account and pipe to stdout. Nothing | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > is save on the disk at TM. | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | Yes :-) | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | The worse case is my own fault at TM. See below: ;-) | Oct 07 08:07 |
| schestowitz | >> /home would have run out of space if I wasn't curious enough to work on | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | >> the server (phew!! :-) ) at that time and we don't have nagios or | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | >> similar monitoring. | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | >> So how about we put the TM dumps on /tmp first, then check for space on | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | >> /home before sending it to ~/home/archives | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | >> ? | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > The TM-side script puts things in /root which is under / which makes | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > filling up a catastrophe. Perhaps that is why TM locks up. | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > The script in question is this one: /home/boycottn/get_dbs.sh | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > I'd suggest the changes below, mainly moving the target to /home | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | You're absolutely right! It's long overdue and was due to partition sizes. | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | I'll think what other place I can use for backups and how many (three used to fit in root but now only two fit in because the DB keeps growing). | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | I might do another dump later today just to confirm size changes (cache growing). | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | Oct 07 08:08 | |
| schestowitz | >> (I never knew mysqldump can be stupid enough to just run forever without | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | >> terminating at some point) | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > Me neither but I knew that it wasn't that fancy. | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | I'll take a look now. At the below diff. | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > $ diff /home/boycottn/get_dbs.sh /home/boycottn/get_dbs.sh.new | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | > 1,4c1[...] | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | PS - could use your thoughts/input on EFF as an ex member (IIRC): | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | - #eff saw a boost in budget after the @snowden leaks but it went almost 'downhill' from there (further analysis might show members now renewing); they must get leaner rather than pursue corporate cash | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | Oct 07 08:08 | |
| schestowitz | https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/43091431" title="ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION INC | Oct 07 08:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-projects.propublica.org | Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica | Oct 07 08:08 | |
| schestowitz | - EFF receives 4 million dollars a year from members, which leave one wondering where the remainder (about twice that amount) comes from. The salaries aren't totally crazy; the chief nets just over $250,000 a year. And SF/Bay Area is expensive. | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | - The main concern here is that the EFF might become a "hush organisation", attracting corporate funding in exchange for leaving these corporations alone (no criticism) or worse -- lobby for their agenda! | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | I might do another article about EFF soon; but they're the wrong 'target', would rather not... | Oct 07 08:08 |
| schestowitz | Oct 07 08:10 | |
| schestowitz | If anything they should get rid of the troll journalist who started all this | Oct 07 08:10 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16169914#9e4d6b50caff0137b01e0175ad44325c | Oct 07 08:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@linux@joindiaspora.com: The Free Software Foundation Will Be Far Stronger With Richard Stallman Back On Its Board http://techrights.org/2019/10/06/richard-stallman-and-fsf/ | Oct 07 08:10 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | The Free Software Foundation Will Be Far Stronger With Richard Stallman Back On Its Board | Techrights | Oct 07 08:10 | |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 07 08:10 |
| schestowitz | Oct 07 08:10 | |
| schestowitz | If anything they should get rid of the troll journalist who started all this | Oct 07 08:10 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 07 08:10 |
| schestowitz | >> I am going to monitor this over the coming days to ensure it deletes OK, | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> compresses OK etc. | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> Any mistake can drive /home out of space: | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> d=$(date +"%F") | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> rm -f /home/boycottn/tmdatabase-$(date -d "$d 2 day ago" +%d%m%Y).dump | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> rm -f /home/boycottn/tmdatabase-$(date -d "$d 3 day ago" +%d%m%Y).dump | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> rm -f /home/boycottn/tmdatabase-$(date -d "$d 4 day ago" +%d%m%Y).dump | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> nice mysqldump --user=root --password=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx drupal | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >>> /home/boycottn/tmdatabase-$(date -d $d +%d%m%Y).dump | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> nice gzip /home/boycottn/tmdatabase-$(date -d $d +%d%m%Y).dump | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> exit 0 | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> double check? | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > Looks ok. | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | > I'll add the standard suggestion to use +"%F" instead of +"%d%m%Y" | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | It never too end to amend it, but then be sure to change the name of the existing backup file or delete it. | Oct 07 09:13 |
| schestowitz | Thanks very much for all the help you gave this morning! | Oct 07 09:57 |
| schestowitz | Rianne is very thankful; she posted some new picks. Not many sites left that do this.... LXer and LinuxToday next in line after Swapnil killed Linux.com with Zemlin the PR genius! | Oct 07 09:58 |
| schestowitz | > I'm not sure. I was a member for a while and gave up on them a few | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > years ago. I still have a t-shirt and a pile of stickers. | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > If they were doing anything relevant for Digital Liberty then they were | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > not good at communicating it even to their membership. After enough of | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > that, I stopped being a member and eventually even stopped following | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > even their "Deep Links" page. | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > Regardless of what their priorities are or aren't these days, I'd like | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > to see a return to them getting in the news. That might be impossible | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > given the changes to the mainstream media, even Wired is lame now, but | Oct 07 09:59 |
| schestowitz | > it is nonetheless what would help them a lot. Hopefully it would also | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > help digital liberty. Maybe using the conference circuit more or | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > differently would help there. Thats toilsome though. | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > I'm not sure what to say about their apparently complete lack of | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > coverage of the software patent situation in Europe. Like I said above, | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > I stopped finding them relevant and stopped keeping track of what they | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > do or don't do so I have no idea if they have been paying attention to | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > any other European issues either. What is visible and annoying is, last | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > time I checked, their move away from Software Freedom and Open Source in | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > general as they promote closed, proprietary products instead, | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | > rationalizing that with a small handful of M$ talking points. | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | Yes, sadly I didn't wait long enough for your reply before publishing the latest article. :-( | Oct 07 10:00 |
| schestowitz | >> Yes, sadly I didn't wait long enough for your reply before publishing | Oct 07 10:11 |
| schestowitz | >> the latest article. :-( | Oct 07 10:11 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 07 10:11 |
| schestowitz | > No worries. My comment was mostly negative. Despite that I do hope | Oct 07 10:11 |
| schestowitz | > they pick up some of their old priorities again. Sure they can and | Oct 07 10:11 |
| schestowitz | > should do many and varied things along the way, but their overall goals | Oct 07 10:11 |
| schestowitz | > should be clear as they were under Barlow's time. | Oct 07 10:11 |
| schestowitz | > No problem. The upside over all the attrition is that TM stands out | Oct 07 10:13 |
| schestowitz | > even more. It helps that TM has been around a long time and consistent | Oct 07 10:13 |
| schestowitz | > in its activities. So thanks that you two keep it running, especially | Oct 07 10:13 |
| schestowitz | > with the content. | Oct 07 10:13 |
| schestowitz | Thanks. I've fwd'ed this to Rianne. Gives her motivation. She did this for over 6 years. | Oct 07 10:13 |
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| schestowitz | http://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2019/10/06/de-uk-epo-a-few-thoughts-on-constitutional-matters/ | Oct 07 15:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-patentblog.kluweriplaw.com | DE, UK, EPO: A Few Thoughts on Constitutional Matters - Kluwer Patent Blog | Oct 07 15:30 | |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | Congratulations to Mr Bausch for making the points in which the EPO lacks proper basis for separation of powers so crystal clear. | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | The “stories” about the president being fined for alcohol abuse in public and sending the bill to his administration, or the head of HR getting on a personal vendetta against staff representatives by making up charges, are, as is regularly stated at the beginning or the end of movies, purely hypothetical and bear no resemblance with existing people or people having existed. What a wonderful statement of the type tongue in cheek. | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | The founders of the EPC have given a lot of prerogatives and freedom to the management of the Office, and especially to its president. As long as the heads of the EPO have behaved more or less correctly, those points did not really matter. | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | The president always had the last word, but he rarely pushed its advantage to the brim. The situation has clearly degraded from 2010 onwards with at the helm of the EPO a person whose arrogance and cynicism have never been reached in any supranational organisation, be it in Europe or outside. | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | Any action against the EPO was barred by the alleged immunity, so that the EPO cannot be brought I front of a national court, but the past president and one of the vice-presidents did not hesitate to go before a Bavarian court when they considered it appropriate in their own private interest. | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | Most of the actions of the past president were apparently legal, but certainly not according to the spirit the EPC and the way its relations with staff were originally conceived. Immunity does not mean impunity, and there should be a truly independent instance in which questions could be debated in a calm and sensible manner. | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | One can only agree that the Boards of Appeal are anything but independent, as their members can only be renewed if they reach some performance criteria which are as public as the (true) health bulletin of a head of state. | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | The Boards used to be able to decide their rules of procedure. They are at present merely heard as the decision is now taken by a BOAC which is composed of people outside the Boards, even if some of its members are national judges. The story about Art 11 NRPBA is quite revealing for this lack of independence. | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | The best example of lack of independence is what happened with Mr Corcoran. Whatever he might have done or not, separation of power has been disregarded, and the head of the EPO and the AC wanted the Enlarged Board to rubber stamp an illegal decision. | Oct 07 15:30 |
| schestowitz | That Art 53, b) needs adapting to society is one thing, but then it should be done properly, and not by amending R 28 EPC and referring some questions which boil down to twist the arm of the Enlarged Board. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | The ILO-AT is only a pale judicial forum as it only checks whether the applicable rules have been correctly applied, but would never dare declare that the rule is as such not acceptable. That is what is expected from a court, not a mere check on the application of rules which might be totally against staff. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | The Administrative Council has been a puppet in the hand of the president, which could obtain any vote he wanted by increasing and decreasing money given to the smaller member states. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | It with this way of acting that the past president obtained a de facto shutting down of all shared bodies, be it the Staff committee or the appeal committee. They are not even any longer independent on the paper. Hurdles have been put in place to bar people to get justice done. In spite of what he has said up to now, the new president seems to go along the same track. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | In the AC all decisions should be taken with a qualified majority. This would avoid small member states giving their vote in exchange of favours from the EPO. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | Not only it is a scandal that the Boards have been exiled to Haar, but that the EPO is pumping 45 million € in the rented building whereby a whole building is empty at Hackerbrücke and another should be sold on the other side of Bayerstrasse. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | I do not call this management but simply throwing money up the chimney. And at the end such mismanagement is awarded a big bonus. In any normal company the upper management would have been sent out in the sticks for less than this. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | What is interesting to notice is that under the past president people flocked in from the French patent office, now they come from Alicante. One wonders why, but here again, it is pure coincidence. The EPO has not been created to give cushy jobs to the president minions. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | The German Federal Constitutional Court has important issues to deal with before it can deal with the EPO and the UPC. It seems manifest that a decision about the UPC should only be taken after a decision about the independence of the Boards has been issued. After all the UP is a patent granted by the EPO and its Boards of Appeal. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | What is suggested in the article is a new EPO with proper checks and balances and above all some limits to the actions of the president and the upper management. I doubt we will ever see this in our lifetime or that of our children. | Oct 07 15:31 |
| schestowitz | But hope dies last. | Oct 07 15:31 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/glitterkind/status/1181189621650251776 | Oct 07 17:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glitterkind: @faseidl @schestowitz @pjf sorry did you mess up that nickname? I'm kinda sure I don't know you :X | Oct 07 17:49 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jaffamonkey/status/1181199579330547717 | Oct 07 17:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jaffamonkey: @schestowitz I wish more game companies would remember Linux 😂 | Oct 07 17:49 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/j082298/status/1181200193917739008 | Oct 07 17:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@j082298: @schestowitz The only time anyone cares is when they steal from them. | Oct 07 17:49 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/j082298/status/1181202771716038661 | Oct 07 17:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@j082298: @schestowitz @wikileaks That's my problem with all these fakes. They blame the average worker that can barely affor… https://t.co/c0ObEMEumD | Oct 07 17:50 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@j082298: @schestowitz @wikileaks That's my problem with all these fakes. They blame the average worker that can barely affor… https://t.co/c0ObEMEumD | Oct 07 17:50 | |
| schestowitz | "That's my problem with all these fakes. They blame the average worker that can barely afford a Kia to go to work and then they destroy the planet on their way to "educate us". They are the problem, they keep those companies alive and well." | Oct 07 17:50 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/pdwn/status/1181212852172021763 | Oct 07 17:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@pdwn: Tel que c'est parti je vais choper ma première dengue à Paris plutôt qu'à Nouméa. https://t.co/cZ7tO2QmXL | Oct 07 17:50 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #health #climate ☞ Diseases like West Nile, EEE and flesh-eating bacteria are flourishing due to… https://t.co/d8fXngpZYV | Oct 07 17:50 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1181221240268365824 | Oct 07 17:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: @schestowitz Software patents are only one click away https://t.co/s7PsAYbF1B | Oct 07 17:50 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> e-courses.epo.org | EPO substantive and procedural matters: recent changes: Recorded webinar: Computer-implemented inventions | Oct 07 17:50 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/j082298/status/1181221978914656257 | Oct 07 17:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@j082298: @schestowitz True, I speak two and 2 more I can comprehend, the translations are terrible and yes to all the above. | Oct 07 17:50 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/ziks297/status/1181246570488045568 | Oct 07 17:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@ziks297: @schestowitz If you don't speak a second language yet I recommend Esperanto. It's very easy to learn and gives you… https://t.co/mcX32Re0Vz | Oct 07 17:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@ziks297: @schestowitz If you don't speak a second language yet I recommend Esperanto. It's very easy to learn and gives you… https://t.co/mcX32Re0Vz | Oct 07 17:51 | |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 07 17:51 |
| schestowitz | If you don't speak a second language yet I recommend Esperanto. It's very easy to learn and gives you a glimpse of German and Romance languages because it inherits from those languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto | Oct 07 17:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Esperanto - Wikipedia | Oct 07 17:51 | |
| schestowitz | https://lernu.net/en | Oct 07 17:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lernu.net | A multilingual site for learning the international language Esperanto - lernu.net | Oct 07 17:51 | |
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| MinceR | it's also got plenty of slavic in it :> | Oct 07 21:13 |
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