●● IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Saturday, November 07, 2020 ●● ● Nov 07 [00:37] schestowitz https://twitter.com/JZA/status/1324866868507766786 [00:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@JZA: @schestowitz That article is so confusing, not sure what's the point [00:38] schestowitz https://twitter.com/trolltrip/status/1324791294678499330 [00:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@trolltrip: @schestowitz Remember, remember... https://t.co/szP3FcaYen [00:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@trolltrip: @lorenzofb GitHub is a subsidiary of Microsoft. Just call a stinking fish by its name please, thank you. [00:38] schestowitz https://twitter.com/adriandotgoins/status/1324719186321571841 [00:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@adriandotgoins: #CNCN E68 - Exploring ROS 2 with #Kubernetes https://t.co/MilaH0cSY1 @fabersl via @schestowitz [00:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.youtube.com | Coffee and Cloud Native - E68 - YouTube [00:38] schestowitz https://twitter.com/jocksjig/status/1324719117471899648 [00:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jocksjig: @schestowitz Exactly! Trump is just another by product of a rotten corrupt system! [00:38] schestowitz https://twitter.com/trACEymod/status/1324681023167356930 [00:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@trACEymod: @schestowitz Awful! [00:39] schestowitz https://twitter.com/ingo_keck/status/1324667429599981573 [00:39] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@ingo_keck: @schestowitz @zoobab see also https://t.co/3sFKVeH640 As we have now found out, one of the attacks against John was https://t.co/dc4x8LRzat [00:39] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@vdeherde82: In memoriam of Jon Tennant @protohedgehog -- Reflection on the uses of, and invitation to reevaluate existing Codes https://t.co/QLHwh9OaZj [00:39] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@ingo_keck: @schestowitz @zoobab see also https://t.co/3sFKVeH640 As we have now found out, one of the attacks against John was https://t.co/dc4x8LRzat [00:39] schestowitz "see also https://twitter.com/vdeherde82/status/1251063204370952194 As we have now found out, one of the attacks against John was also because he dared to talk frankly about big academic publishers." [00:40] schestowitz https://twitter.com/PamMaccabee/status/1324656251050012672 [00:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@PamMaccabee: All I can say is do we really need to make fun of others' religious beliefs??????? https://t.co/QcHItoJT9B [00:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: NEWS #DW #DeutscheWelle #Censorship Belgian teacher suspended over Prophet Muhammad cartoon https://t.co/mxmUBldcLg [00:40] schestowitz https://twitter.com/iridesce57/status/1324606194665852928 [00:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@iridesce57: @schestowitz I always knew it was old chewing gum and magic tho when @schestowitz cops to gremlins, I honestly don't know where to go ... [00:40] schestowitz " [00:40] schestowitz iridesce [00:40] schestowitz Sunflower [00:40] schestowitz Four leaf clover [00:40] schestowitz @iridesce57 [00:40] schestowitz [00:40] schestowitz 17h [00:40] schestowitz Replying to [00:40] schestowitz @schestowitz [00:40] schestowitz I always knew it was old chewing gum and magic tho when @schestowitz [00:40] schestowitz cops to gremlins, I honestly don't know where to go ... [00:40] schestowitz " ● Nov 07 [07:48] *rianne__ has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [07:48] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [07:51] schestowitz >>>>> https://www.noip.com/ [07:51] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.noip.com | Free Dynamic DNS - Managed DNS - Managed Email - Domain Registration - No-IP [07:51] schestowitz >>>>> [07:51] schestowitz >>>>> The main disadvantage is that renewal has to be done manually every [07:51] schestowitz >>>>> month for the free-of-charge service. [07:51] schestowitz >>>> After what they did to tuxmachines a decade ago and the Microsoft [07:51] schestowitz >>>> incident I avoid them [07:51] schestowitz >>>> [07:51] schestowitz >>> What about eNom? Do they provide a dynamic service as part of their [07:51] schestowitz >>> normal DNS registration? [07:51] schestowitz >> I have not checked, but as I said earlier the IP address won't changed [07:51] schestowitz >> for weeks and if it does roll over, I can email you. [07:51] schestowitz > Thanks. Yes, it's there in the headers. [07:51] schestowitz Maybe I will look into this after all. [07:54] schestowitz > It looks like I wrote half in one file and half in the other by mistake. [07:54] schestowitz > Maybe I should have my script make the old ones read-only after upload. [07:54] schestowitz Let me know how to proceed to avoid loss of work/data ● Nov 07 [08:08] schestowitz > Just take the recent one. The links in 'other' are often just for [08:08] schestowitz > information or have other shortcoming preventing dissemination. See [08:08] schestowitz > 2020-11-07 for example. [08:08] schestowitz > [08:08] schestowitz > Looking at the time stamp, I must have had both files open simultaneously. [08:08] schestowitz OK, I will open the latest and merge a bit. [08:10] schestowitz Latest one has one link in it. Merged with the rest now. [08:25] schestowitz >>> It can save some time and effort. Then tracking the current address can [08:25] schestowitz >>> be offloaded to ddclient. Some registrars provide dynamic DNS service [08:25] schestowitz >>> for free these days, some for a fee, but either way you have to ask. [08:25] schestowitz >>> That usually means opening a support ticket from the official account. [08:25] schestowitz >> Should we consider registering a new domain for this as well? Maybe that [08:25] schestowitz >> would be cheaper and help isolate one server from another. [08:25] schestowitz > Once there is dynamic DNS service providing an A name, adding a CNAME [08:25] schestowitz > would suffice if the A name is not *.techrights.org. So [08:25] schestowitz > dev.techrights.org or ipfs.techrights.org or something like that would work. [08:25] schestowitz Let's wait until the setup develops a little further. [08:29] schestowitz >> [08:13] Yep [08:29] schestowitz >> [08:16] Because I used only binaries and nothing like Podman, [08:29] schestowitz >> this setup is distribution-agnostic. [08:29] schestowitz >> [08:17] go 1.15 binary and go-ipfs 0.7.0 binary [08:29] schestowitz >> [08:18] I just unzipped the tarballs and linked the necessary [08:30] schestowitz >> binaries to ~/bin. [08:30] schestowitz > Thanks. I'll try the source here though. Not sure when I can get to [08:30] schestowitz > that. 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By making the EUIPO competent to grant EU patents. [21:38] schestowitz Reply [21:38] schestowitz Peter Parker [21:38] schestowitz November 6, 2020 at 1:50 pm [21:38] schestowitz While the judiciary should be independent, I do not think that an appointment for life is the only or best option. Everyone who holds a public office of some importance should at least indirectly be answerable to the people. We do not accept presidents or chanclers for life for good reasons and we should also not accept judges for life the difference between the offices is gradual only after all. An election by the admistrative [21:38] schestowitz council for 5 years terms and a guaranteed fallback to examiner status at the EPO for board members who do not get reelected could be a compromise. [21:38] schestowitz Reply [21:38] schestowitz What is at stake is not only the independence of the boards of appeal [21:38] schestowitz November 6, 2020 at 4:13 pm [21:39] schestowitz The problem of the 5 years contracts is not a problem typical for the boards of appeal of the EPO, but is valid nowadays for the whole EPO. [21:39] schestowitz In the past, an appointment to director or principal director was for a lifetime. Only members of the boards of appeal were appointed for renewable 5-year periods. [21:39] schestowitz I do not know where this different treatment came from, but it would be interesting to dig into the Travaux Prparatoires of the EPC 1973. Up to the penultimate president of the EPO, a member of the boards was always reappointed without any problem. [21:39] schestowitz In order to increase the perception of independence of the boards, the penultimate president pushed the AC to introduce R 12d making the reappointment of a member subject to a performance assessment, in other words subject to the quantity of files dealt with by a member. The deleterious atmosphere of DG1 has now found its way into the boards of appeal. [21:39] schestowitz It goes however further. The EPO management used the pretext of appointing board members for only five years as an excuse to first apply this rule to principal directors (PD): they are thus only appointed for five years. [21:39] schestowitz It made it possible to put PDs under heavy pressure, and one could observe these people being on tender hooks from 3 years onwards. [21:39] schestowitz The rule of only 5 years appointments was then passed down to the director level. And then mega-directorates were created by the penultimate VP1. Whilst the Interim Committee preceding the opening of the EPO decided on 12 examiners/director, they are now responsible for several tens of examiners and Team Leaders were introduced, and the 5-years policy went a step further down. Team leaders do the job of a director, but they stay [21:39] schestowitz examiners. [21:39] schestowitz The 5 year rule presently applies also to examiners. A newly recruited examiner only gets a renewable 5 years year contract to start with. A lifetime appointment as examiner is only possible after the successful achievement of a second 5 years period. But any step further up in the hierarchy is only available with renewable 5 years contracts. [21:39] schestowitz Senior management has thus managed to put pressure on the entire workforce of the EPO. Anyone who doesnt keep up with the allotted objectives or becomes unruly in the view of the management will be fired, unless he belongs to the illustrious circle of favourites and mignons, but those people are always excellent performers [21:39] schestowitz The problem of true independence is therefore not just a problem of the boards of appeal but one that permeates the whole EPO. [21:39] schestowitz And this has deleterious consequences. These are of course worst and most obvious in the boards, but the problem also applies to the rest of the EPO. [21:39] schestowitz As far as the examiners are concerned, it is very simple: if you dont achieve the allotted target, you are incompetent and will be fired. In the past, you could only be fired after a disciplinary procedure. [21:39] schestowitz Under the penultimate president Staff Regulations were amended so that in the event of professional incompetence, no disciplinary procedure is necessary to be fired. This has also significantly reduced the possibility to complain internally or to the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO. Being a discretionary decision, the power of revision of the ILO tribunal is very limited and the latter will only intervene when there has been a [21:39] schestowitz blatant abuse of power. [21:39] schestowitz The boards of appeal only represent the tip of the iceberg when it comes to independence, but the boards are by no means the only place where the independence of the EPOs staff is in question. According to the penultimate president all those measures had a more than positive effect on quality! Who dares dispute this view? If you do, you get fired like in a well know US TV reality show. [21:39] schestowitz Senior management behaves like 19th century employers, and that is not acceptable in the 21th century. And on top of it senior management has no responsibility and systematically refers to its immunity. But immunity is not impunity. The AC has been gullible for all those changes and it continues on this path with the present president. The tail is indeed wagging the dog. One wonders why? [21:39] schestowitz Reply [21:39] schestowitz francis hagel [21:39] schestowitz November 7, 2020 at 3:43 pm [21:39] schestowitz Dear Attentive Observer, [21:39] schestowitz I agree with your concern that the appointment of BOA members should not be based on their supposed personal views on politically charged issues. I have comments though on the divide between technical and legal judges or BOA members. Court judges and BOA members are supposed to make decisions independently from the wishes of the executive (government or EPO management or AC), ie they must not be result-oriented in a political sense. At [21:39] schestowitz the same time, they should take into account the purpose of the rule in their interpretations, which is different. And also pay attention to other aspects of prime significance to all stakeholders : the consistency and predictability of the jurisprudence, the clarity of the reasoning and of the conclusions. [21:39] schestowitz As to technical judges or BOA members, I find the metaphor of the current flow simplistic. A cornerstone of the BOA jurisprudence and EPO doctrines is the reliance on the technical character. Following the current flow metaphor, it should be simple to decide whether something is technical or not. This could look simple indeed in the 70s. However, this word has never been defined and the EBA has stated that it did not feel compelled [21:39] schestowitz to provide a specific definition, given the evolutions of technology and of their fields of application. As a matter of fact, a BOA decision acknowledged this was a grey area. The reliance on such a fuzzy notion leads to overly complex reasoning in CII cases grappling with the entanglement between supposedly technical and non-technical aspects, and the definition of a divided skilled person comprising a business person and a technical [21:39] schestowitz person, only creating unnecessary uncertainties. [21:39] schestowitz " gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-071120.txt

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