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OSI Standards director · Meshed Insights CEO · Geek-Nerd · Cat servant.

On the Internet since 1987 (via BBSes) · Prior Fediverse: identi.ca from 2008; mastodon.cc from 2017. Old posts are auto-deleted.

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Rule of thumb: a "Smart %thing" is a %thing that is more likely to lead to unexpected harm but saves (or makes) someone other than those exposed to it a bunch of money.

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Important read: more worrying and relevant thoughts around the EU and its impact on innovation (excellent piece by @webmink) http://blog.opensource.org/another-issue-with-the-cyber-resilience-act-european-standards-bodies-are-inaccessible-to-open-source-projects/

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@Cloudguy
I think they are doing well actually. As they start to include open source in their thinking a variety of issues will be exposed. The big question is what they do about each as they arise.

@andypiper

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@Cloudguy @jrp
That's definitely not true. There are a bunch of people intervening on behalf of open source communities including me, @maarten, @ilumium and many others. And we are being listened to.

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"with no intrinsic value, huge price volatility and no discernible social good, consumer trading of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin more closely resembles gambling than a financial service, and should be regulated as such."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/17/cryptocurrency-trading-in-uk-should-be-regulated-as-form-of-gambling-say-mps

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    webmink,
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    @vowe Same, except:

    • I post most replies as Unlisted so I don't create noise
    • I keep the Federated timeline in column 4 as that aids discovery of new writers.
    webmink, to opensource
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    Well look at this. Linux Foundation is running an invitation-only gathering to define "an open source credo, or statement of common value" in Geneva in July.
    https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-congress/

    I wonder who has been invited?

    webmink, to random
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    Reading some stuff about how Mastodon has "failed" and being reminded that's diagnostic of abusive behaviour by the platform people are refusing to leave.

    https://the.webm.ink/lock-in-syndrome

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    "Using a private 5G network to support coverage of the King's Coronation - BBC R&D"

    With massive thanks to @isleofmandan for spotting this, here's a genuinely interesting story about the coronation!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-05-5g-non-public-network-coronation

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    @neil
    @isleofmandan

    Any idea if this was the origin of the audio dropouts?

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    Met Police doing a wonderful job with the UK's new authoritarian thought-crime laws to make sure everyone hears about a protest that would probably have gone unseen if ignored.
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-leading-anti-monarchy-group-arrested-at-coronation-protest

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    Apparently the fact Chinese companies are now doing exactly what western multinationals have been doing for years with embedded in is a cause for concern.

    https://the.webm.ink/seps-cut-both-ways

    webmink,
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    @jwildeboer
    Do you have sources for that assertion? https://doi.org/10.18757/jos.2022.6695 suggests there is no such easy access to groups of patents for most SEPs.

    Also, I don't think that's what "patent thickets" means. A patent thicket is a group of overlapping patents in a specific industry owned by many different companies. This creates a situation in which the firms prevent one another from innovating.

    @danie10

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    @jwildeboer
    But this is outside the scope of SEPs, which are the topic under discussion. SEPs (for example related to ETSI stanards) seem rarely to be available via patent pools.

    @danie10

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    @jwildeboer
    Is that the only license you need then Jan?

    @danie10

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    If the comes in in the UK and requires us to seek age verification, thus increasing the likelihood that we would need to store personal records for users, then we will be shutting down our site and absolutely not participating in that process. This is a recipe for a privacy disaster. We take great pride in storing as little as possible of your personal information and don't want to store more just because a fascist government wants even more control then they already do.

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    @neil
    But the problem is with not being able to know without seeking legal advice, and even then being told "maybe" and still left to decide yourself. It's why we will see lots more 451 pages soon.
    Https://the.webm.ink/comply-or-withdraw

    @baseseagsaidh

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    @neil
    While respecting Hanlon's Razor, I am tempted to see it as a design feature rather than a bug -- by people unaware just how extensive the impact of uncertainty will be on the Fourth Sector -- to make all sorts of "dirty things" (in their view) vanish without a need to legislate further.
    @baseseagsaidh

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    The closing date for the UK government's consultation on cyber resilience is Monday. If you are in the UK and know your stuff you should probably respond.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/call-for-views-on-software-resilience-and-security-for-businesses-and-organisations/call-for-views-on-software-resilience-and-security-for-businesses-and-organisations

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    @AlisonW
    I keep hearing things like that. But you can't use civil law to disclaim a criminal act, and this new law basically identifies knowingly leaving consumers with a vulnerable device as criminal.

    @revk

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    In response to the Cyber Resilience Act () the global community might just withdraw some offers of source code rather than resolve the uncertainty.

    https://the.webm.ink/comply-or-withdraw

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