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by zoobab 2y ago
EFF mentions "UPDATE: This vote has been set for this Thursday, November 14, 2024." I don't know where they got the information, as it is not mentioned in the webpage: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-
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by zoobab 2y ago
Trump does not have a good track record with the appointment of Iancu: https://techrights.org/o/2017/08/31/iancu-nomination-and-sof... Let's hope that with Musk it's gonna be different, but I h
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by zoobab 2y ago
I guess the tactic is to pass it before the new Trump administration is in power.
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US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday(slashdot.org)
98 points by zoobab 2y ago|60 comments
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"frustrations about copyright and intellectual property" Intellectual property is an undefined term, I would say copyright, although patents can also play a role in some countries.
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OSI has been compromised since the beginning by large corporations, the fact that their crappy "Open Source AI definition" does not allow access and distribution of the training data is a total disgrace.
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PDF is better for archiving, but what about videos? HTML ready sucks for archiving.
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AI is not Physics.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Politicians love Big companies. Look at the last EU's Draghi report, not a single small/medium company in the list of contributors.
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TPI-LLM: Serving 70B-Scale LLMs Efficiently on Low-Resource Edge Devices(github.com)
1 points by zoobab 2y ago|0 comments
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Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill opposed by Silicon Valley(latimes.com)
2 points by zoobab 2y ago|2 comments
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by zoobab 2y ago
Microsoft also proposed to buy the complainants behind another antitrust complaint on OneDrive bundling, led by Nextcloud. Let's file more of those complaints!
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HTTP was not designed to resist a nuclear attack. So easy to make some content disseapear.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Old stuff, bike renting companies were proposing that in Brussels years ago, before doing that will their own employees. I guess the scheme has been abused.
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Patents for Software and Genetic Code Could Be Revived by Two Bills in Congress(yro.slashdot.org)
3 points by zoobab 2y ago|0 comments
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by zoobab 2y ago
TOR critics like Len Sassaman said the same years ago, with traffic analysis it is possible to detect where the source is coming from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman
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by zoobab 2y ago
The Irish patent box was at 0% tax till 2015.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Biden pushed other countries to adopt a minimum corporate tax of 15%, but those taxi breaks on patent royalties might be another loophole. Anyone to clarify the link between the 2?
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by zoobab 2y ago
I remember that Ireland had a 0% tax on patent royalties till 2015, and till 2020 for companies that used the scheme before.
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Ikea does the same with everything they sell in their stores, the stores have to licence design rights from the Netherlands, where royalties are only taxed a few percent. All the stores imposable amount are reduced to zero.
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by zoobab 2y ago
Belgium has also only 3.75% tax rate on patent royalties: https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/patent-box-regimes-eur... In Luxembourg, it's higher at 5%. I remember Netherlands had 0% at some point, bu
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by zoobab 2y ago
"If the OS is immutable, where do you store personal data" In a mounted folder. "how do you perform updates?" You use another image.
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The "Under construction" one :-)
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by zoobab 2y ago
You miss a "webring" footer!
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GDPR lawsuit no one?
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The US still does not have legislation to protect Personal Data like the GDPR. That did not prevent the corrupt European Commission to issue a third variant of the Shield to still allow american corporation to send data of EU citizens to th
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No fines, no prison.
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There is no definition of what an "open source AI model" is. Too bad the AI Act was rushed, without waiting for a proper definition and consensus around what it means.
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There is no agreed definition of what an open source AI model is. I guess if the models you mention would have to be packaged in Debian, they would end up in the non-free section, since you cannot rebuild them from the training data, which
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Kubernetes attacked by patent troll Intellectual Ventures(unifiedpatents.com)
53 points by zoobab 2y ago|17 comments

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