●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, July 20, 2024 ●● ● Jul 20 [00:52] *parsifal (~parsifal@6thegygyadsu4.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 20 [03:24] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:27] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@89mtaesgxrbec.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 20 [04:13] schestowitz[TR2] "Deeper down the rabbit hole: How technology conspiracy beliefs emerge and foster a conspiracy mindset" [04:13] schestowitz[TR2] x https://phys.org/news/2024-07-deeper-rabbit-hole-technology-conspiracy.html [04:13] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-phys.org | Deeper down the rabbit hole: How technology conspiracy beliefs emerge and foster a conspiracy mindset [04:17] *jacobk (~quassel@h6tmdr8p4mqcy.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 20 [05:07] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [05:15] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tyrAur0 [05:15] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tyrAur0 ) [05:15] schestowitz[TR2] " "The user community also deserves a lot of blame. IBM has coddled them for more than half a century by bending over backwards for compatibility..." [05:15] schestowitz[TR2] Let's be clear about what "the user community" is. The community consists of the largest and most entrenched corporations and governments in human society, not the least of which is IBM itself. You've touched on one of the central problems in this whole situation, which is stagnation. The System 360 platform (on which everything afterward is based) was marvelous in its time, and is still amazing in the present day for what it is, w [05:15] schestowitz[TR2] hat it does and what it can do. However, improvements and changes will at best be incremental in nature, and not revolutionary. [05:15] schestowitz[TR2] There are no easy answers. The System 360 was a "bet the company" step in IBM's evolution, as was ISSC and the transition to services. IBM can go forward, but it will not grow without taking bigger steps. It's unclear at this point what those steps might be. " [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] "There is one other thing that Apple does that IBM does not. I would not say that Apple is alone; Microsoft does it and Google does it and... And that is telling customers that "we are changing a bunch of things and not all of your stuff will run as is going forward." They do this because not being chained to the past liberates them going forward. It has been noted here that IBM is a niche operation and that is true. It lives becau [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] se of the mainframe. And that mainframe has so much crusty legacy s*it that they can now never get rid of. It's great being compatible with all this stuff from the 1960s and 70s and so on. But that comes at a cost. First, it's hard to innovate when you still have to support something like IMS (which was create to support NASA's Apollo program.) (I don't want to pick on IMS, but some of these other companies would have given it its [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] last rites when DB2 was invented and moved their customers forward.) Second, organizations working on the platform still need system programming skills that they needed in the 1960s. And that, of course, means that the platform (key to IBM's survival) is not a popular place for younger people because those skills are mind numbing. [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] The user community also deserves a lot of blame. IBM has coddled them for more than half a century by bending over backwards for compatibility. And this community became addicted. IBM never forced them to modernize and many of them chose to stay in the dark ages because there was never the right time to move their enterprise forward. [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] Today, IBM benefits from the fact that, in the mainframe niche they live in, they hold the better cards: many of their customers are stuck paying extortionate rents. But at some point that has to end and this platform has so much rot and decay that there will never be any new customers. Perhaps if IBM had forced customers to get slightly out of their comfort zone and modernize in a symbiotic way, the platform would have a brighter [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] future. [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] 6 hours ago by Anonymous [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] | 3 reactions (+2/-1) [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @2hdg+1tyrAur0 [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] IBM is not a commodity vendor...end of story. They will never compete with the Intels of the world, nor will they really compete with the Linux and open-source evangelists. However, if you're an enterprise that's looking for rock-solid platforms that have to be operational 24x7x365, then IBM can help you...for a price. IBM is a niche player, and to be blunt I think most IBM executives are OK with that. [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] Everyone else, however, will need to reset their expectations if they haven't already done so... [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] 11 hours ago by Anonymous [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] | 4 reactions (+3/-1) [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @2miw+1tyrAur0 [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] In looking at HW (Power, Sun, DEC, HP, etc etc) it always boils down to ISV adoption/support, and HW and SW costs including maintenance. In looking at head to head comparisons of any of the players named above, generic Intel has always prevailed no matter how you did the math 1 year, 3 year, or 5 year, and thus always won. Customers rarely factor in reliability, performance, or ongoing support costs into their decision making check [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] mark sheets. It all boils down to pricing and maintenance costs. Intel figured that out early and priced accordingly. If you compare the only remaining player (Power) vs Intel solution even today, you will find a 2-3X difference over time and thus Intel is good enough to win. Ever wonder why Power went from an 8 billion dollar book of business per year to less than 2 billion. See above for the answer. Power has been delegate [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] d to the performance aside, and IBM has accepted that and priced accordingly. Power is a great product, but its not priced to win when you are competing in a commodity marketplace. Thats something IBM exec managers never understood or accepted [05:16] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:18] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:21] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@4v769nvtshzqw.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 20 [06:33] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Jul 20 [07:56] schestowitz[TR2]
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    My new test station for graphic pen tablet on Linux - David Revoy
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    Okay, I know: the photo may not make you dream: but this is my first test bench dedicated to Linux graphics tablets, and it's a big change for me.

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    It's all in my garage, and it allows me to stop doing the kind of tinkering that breaks my main production operating systems on my desk at home (my catstation). It's a plan to have fewer boxes, hardware, and wires everywhere while I'm drawing comics, and still have a test bench ready to go. I had to go through some sick decluttering, yak shaving and be clever with my storage space to dedi [07:56] schestowitz[TR2] cate this little corner to this exclusive use: it's not very big at home.

    That's why I had to share this photo and this news with you. It is still reduced to the strictly functional: a desk and a bunch of graphics tablets that I had in stock and accumulated over the years.

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    • [07:56] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.davidrevoy.com | My new test station for graphic pen tablet on Linux - David Revoy ● Jul 20 [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-eleonore-song.html?showComment=1721378613847#c2793797106726377577 [10:43] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | The EleonORe Song - The IPKat [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] "Dear Antonios, please let us know once the Eleonora song can be streamed at Fashion Company Apple Music, Spotiy etc.
    Let us become serious now: Just one remark, also the president of Germany's GEMA, the main German interest group for the safeguard of interests of copyright monopoly owners (https://www.gema.de/de/die-gema ) recently said in a press statement that his organization will have an eye on Hey Hi (AI) generated mus [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] ic. He believes that such music relies mainly on training material (music) which itself was or still is copyright monopoly protected work of arts. He may have a point.
    Tools like Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot are as such not creative like artists but rather impressive machines managing to calculate an immense amount of data within a very short period of time. That itself cannot constitute a creative act subject of cop [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] yright monopoly protection.
    But how about the plot? What comes into my mind is the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach. A real Bach expert could certainly explain it better than I am able to but many of his works (cantantas, oratories etc.) were commissioned by local nobility who paid him for. Sometimes he had to deliver a kind of sophisticated church song (with choir, organ and even with an orchestra) for every festivity o [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] f the church (and there were much more than we are still aware of today). Imagine, the local nobility would have told him that the cantata for an upcoming festivity should include elements of his passion of St. Matthew (Matthuspassion). In fact, you find certain elements not only in the Christmas oratory (Weihnachtsoratorium), in the a.m. Matthuspassion but also in certain cantatas or church songs. Furthermore the c [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] ommission duke would have asked him to include a reference of a certain bible quotation or a combination of several of them and so on, should that not be regarded as a plot? A 18th century plot? And if so, would the local duke who commissioned a certain work of arts, have any rights in the piece of music composed by Bach? Certainly not!
    How about the plots which we write in order to instruct Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaff [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] bot and other tools? In both cases, in the 18th century plot and in the one for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot and others, one has to make up his or her own mind, one has to use his or her own intellect since the quality of the plot has an important impact on the output created by tolls like ChatGPT. However, is this already sufficient to claim Copyrights? I have serious doubts.
    In case of Bach, the creativity lies in [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] what he composed and therefore, he owned the copyright monopoly to his cantatas, oratories etc. to extend as copyright monopoly law existed at that time. Whether the local duke got then something like a license (which scope?) is something historians should decide.
    For the moment, I am very sorry to say, but I fear that you probably do not own any copyrights in the song. What Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot creates or be [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] tter calculates cannot enjoy copyright monopoly protection. And your plot? Would Eleonora Rosati not have deserved that you take the time and certainly hard efforts to stimulate your own creativity when composing the 2024 summer hit for her ?
    Anway, these are my thoughts for today. We are all part of an impressive not only technical development if not revolution and I will not exclude to come to a different conclusion i [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] n the future. The always very interesting IPKATs articles and many others to which it is partly referred to are always a great resource and will show help us to recognize many possible paths to view such topics you described in your posts from different angles. May be the courts will say one day, that all will depend on the individual case. That would be a solution but for those who have to advise clients probably not the most s [10:43] schestowitz[TR2] atisfactory one.
    Best regards,
    Christian Schalk
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