[Meme] Council Says...

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-06-24 01:29:59 UTC
Modified: 2022-06-24 01:37:03 UTC

Steve Harvey: We changed the face, but all the same EPO issues remained
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." — not patent clerk Albert Einstein

Summary: The Administrative Council of the EPO must be kidding itself if it thought replacing Benoît Battistelli with his friend António Campinos (and his unqualified or unsuitably unqualified friends from Alicante) would set the EPO on a route to improvement

Computer Users Aren't Zoo Animals: Animals don't belong inside cages in zoos, either
[Meme] Not About How Many Locks One Adds: Some people try to point their fingers in all the wrong directions now that a new patch is available for rsync
Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part I - DRM and TPM Need Not be the Future of Computing, There's Another Way: Who is being restricted? Us, the users.
New Upcoming Series About DRM and TPM: We'll do our best to name and explain some of the alternatives that are still available
Links 16/01/2025: "Meduza, IRL" and the Clock is Ticking on TikTok in the US: Links for the day
Gemini Links 16/01/2025: Yesterday's Gone, The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E Howard: Links for the day
Links 16/01/2025: Scale and Scope of Microsoft Layoffs Revealed (Two Waves of Layoffs in 2025 Already): Links for the day
Gemini Links 16/01/2025: Meta Has a Pixelfed Problem and Space Time Scoping: Links for the day
Anti-Linux 'Articles' in linuxsecurity.com (Guardian Digital, Inc) Are Composed by Bots, Probably Microsoft's: linuxsecurity.com has become a mindless stream of LLM slop
"New Year, New Career": published a few hours ago
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 15, 2025: IRC logs for Wednesday, January 15, 2025
If You See Many Microsoft Puff Pieces That All Say More or Less the Same, Consider the Possibility That Microsoft LLMs 'Wrote' Those: There are also many phantom fake 'reports' about Microsoft in relation to some "hey hi" (AI) things
[Meme] The Crybully: Crybullies shrug
IRC Logs Complete in Geminispace (Even in GemText Format!): We still envision ourselves - a community of justice-seeking enthusiasts - as a multi-protocol platform, not just some ordinary Web site
It Was Only a Matter of Time: We're going to pursue justice
[Meme] "Well, He’s Dead So," Bill Gates Tells the Media (Which He Pays) About His Close Friend Jeffrey Epstein: Does the police in San Francisco cover up crimes instead of solving them?
The Rumour Was Right, Today is the Second Large Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in 2025: It has only been two weeks since the year began
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Had a Good 2025 Already (Its "Year 40"): FSF will reach $400,000
[Meme] His Existence is Proof It's Not Infeasible: We salute the FSF's original mission
Links 15/01/2025: Efforts to End Wars and 'Newsflation': Links for the day
Gemini Links 15/01/2025: Abandoning Windows for GNU/Linux, SIS Progress Update: Links for the day
Links 15/01/2025: Social Control Media Spreading Lies, TikTok Banned in 4 Days: Links for the day
More Microsoft Cuts and Layoffs (Microsoft Media Mole Jordan Novet Tries to Float "Hiring Freezes" Spin After the "Headcount" Spin Failed): As one might expect...
Microsoft Breaks Linux Again: Does it even care? It's selling Windows.
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 14, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Links 14/01/2025: Vaccination Hesitancy Problems and Kangaroo Courts (UPC): Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/01/2025: Introduction to GrapheneOS and Small Internet: Links for the day
Dr. Miriam Bastian From the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Gives a Talk in a Couple of Weeks at FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium): It's good to see people from all around the world and with very different backgrounds united around digital philosophy
Andy Farnell on Eating Your Own Dog Food: focuses on security but goes beyond that
EPO Uses the Misnomer "AI" to Attack Software Developers in Europe: The EPO is nowadays a huge pile of crimes
The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Communication on "Reform" is "Incomplete and Misleading," Says the Central Staff Committee at the EPO: This puts Europe at risk and makes it more vulnerable
[Meme] How to Lose Social Life (While Pretending to Still Have It): Talk to people, not to microphones
Android (or AOSP) is More Free Than iOS, Both in Practice (as OEM Bundles) Both Are User-Hostile: In a perfect world, people would choose and deploy software that is entirely made up of reciprocally-licensed bits
Neuroscience of Consciousness Paper: Why Social Control Media and Proprietary Spyware Harm Your Health: "Software Freedom turns out to be good for your health"
Access to the Source Code of the Programs You're Using Matters (Even If You're Not a Coder and Cannot Fix Bugs): Companies like Microsoft tell us that full access to all the code isn't important
Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com) Publishes Fake Articles About Linux and About (for) 'Linux' Foundation Openwashing: Brittany Day is at it again
Links 14/01/2025: LA Crisis and EU, UK Respond to "X.com" Threat From South African Oligarch: Links for the day
The Word About the Upcoming Talk by Richard Stallman - Scheduled for Friday This Week - Has Spread ("The Cost of Freedom," Lausanne, Switzerland): So the word is spreading
"AI Music" is Not Music and It's Hardly "AI" Either: Synthetic garbage is a solution in search of a problem
Webspam in BetaNews: Not only is it marketing SPAM
[Meme] 13 Years a Slave of Microsoft: Might makes right?
Gemini Links 14/01/2025: The Gemtext Print Hurdle and New Game: Fill!: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 13, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, January 13, 2025

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