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Liable "only if it intended that the provided service be used for infringement"

8 years in the making, The US Supreme Court affirms that a provider is merely... a provider, and not complicit in the illegal acts that some of it's subscribers engage in.

You would think that this was a matter of common sense, but where deep pockets are involved... Well, Read on young Grasshoppa*, and while you're at it, *try to snatch the pebble from my hand. That's the lay version in common sense language.

For what it's worth, I say, Boom Shakalaka BOOM 💥 Mic Drop 🎤

For the dry, definitive version of the article you can read the actual unanimous ruling itself HERE

#tallship #SCOTUS #justice #piracy #ISP

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Two weeks ago Cindy Cohn, the lawyer made famous in 1993 for Bernstein v. Department of Justice, held a Book Release party w/Corey Doctorow and has now announced that she's stepping down on 01 June, to be replaced by Nicole Ozer.

It will be interesting to see how the new skipper pilots that vessel, and especially in regards to the atrocious volley of legislation like California's AB 1043, that already has people preparing to disenfranchise Californians through changes in their licenses or AUP/ToS - forbidding people residing in California from using services seems to many as a sensible solution to the antics of an insane, despotic legislature; To others, it is a knee-jerk reaction to something that may never come to pass.

Anyway, here's the scoop on that announcement:

#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Nicole_Ozer #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity

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After 26 Years at EFF, Cindy Cohn Is Handing Reins to Nicole Ozer - FOSS Force

Cohn, who helped lead a landmark crypto case and shape EFF’s agenda for decades, will hand leadership to Nicole Ozer this summer.

FOSS Force

tallship Mar 11

I just left Cindy Cohn's Presentation and book release party via remote stream.

Cindy is the Executive director of the EFF, and came to prominence regarding the Bernstein case against the prohibition of "strong encryption" a few years back during the Clinton administration.

Today, the industrial surveillance special interests are being aided again by socialist governments in the form of California_Digital_Age_Assurance_Act (AB 1043), and I was fortunate enough to have her directly address my question about just what we're going to do to defeat this and other criminal lawfare against our identity and privacy.

My question was the first question asked (and answered, sort of), and long before the Q&A that is supposed to wrap up the presentation, but I must say that I was a bit disappointed in that she really had nothing to offer other than to say we need to fight this.

Yes, of course we do. From my point of view, as part of my terms of service for a few years now, I've done what #Midnight_BSD has done by prohibiting Californians from using their OS by changes to the licensing - perhaps this is the way to go for all of us? Letting California (and Colorado) descend into the socialist abyss of third world dystopian decay; unable to compete and compute in a world that has left them behind and turned its back on them.

It's certainly worked out well for me. Due to the #GDPR and #CCPA I prohibit all residents of the #EU and #California, respectively, from using any online services that I provide or host - even though all of my services are actually GDPR and CCPA compliant.

I'll post a follow up here once I get the URL for the on-demand recording of Cindy (and Corey Doctorow), so that you can follow along and hear what they're prepared to do about AB 1043 (and similar legislation in Colorado)... unfortunately, she didn't actually impress me with any sort of game plan to protect the FOSS community from this latest implementation of dystopian socialist surveillance.

#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Cory_Doctorow #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity

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On my side of the pond it was the "Timex Sinclair1000", which I have a small collection of. My father bought me the first one.

I've had an eBay alert running for several years once I discovered an actual keyboard manufactured especially for it (Memotech). in an old magazine ad. It was triggered once maybe ten years ago and I didn't win it. Grrrrr... Anything but those membrane keys. Please! lol.

https://www.timexsinclair.com/product/memotech-keyboard/index.html

Perhaps in your kit you've got some options available to you?

If either of you are running #Slackware there's a package build for it here:

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/qman/

If nothing else you can easily examine the build script and fashion one for your distro.

Or you can install it with a single command in one fell swoop with sbopkg

Enjoy!

#tallship #FOSS #SlackBuild #sbopkg #Qman

SlackBuilds.org - qman

SlackBuilds.org - SlackBuild Script Repository

tallship Mar 5

Linux Foundation to oversee DoW & FutureG Open Sourcing 6G radio next month on GitHub

The office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, in conjunction with the National Spectrum Consortium announced that the first version of the Open Centralized Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) radio access network project will be published to GitHub next month, welcoming the participation and contribution of talent from the general public, academia, and industry.

Chief program officer at the National Spectrum Consortium, Mari Silbey, stated that this will provide, "a software stack so that developers don’t have to start from scratch, but they can instead focus on building new things on top of those basic radio functions,” and further, creating an environment where developers can deploy novel wireless technology of their own envisioning.

#FutureG director Tom Rondeau states that what they're hoping to foster, "is a marketplace of competitive ideas,” in an environment where individuals can, "really break that open to this friendly, open development ecosystem".

The Linux Foundation, working closely with the Pentagon, will provide oversight and control of the software repo on GitHub, and as of the beginning of this month announced that 47 organizations have come together as founders of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, including SoftBank, AMD, UC San Diego, AT&T, Ericsson, Redhat, Verizon, Cisco, Nokia, and Nvidia.

Those interested in getting involved now can join or visit the project HERE

#tallship #OCUDU #Open_RAN #War_Department #FOSS #Linux_Foundation

tallship Feb 24

This is Jago

- https://jago.art/en/

#tallship #Jago #art #sculpture

tallship Feb 2

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For those who didn't wait and installed v3.5.5 on their own or from Sid, FYI it landed in #Debian Testing today. I don't track Stable but generally speaking, when there's a major fashion faux pas updates can actually land in Stable (coming straight from Sid) before they do in Testing.

For those who run #Slackware -current, you wouldn't have really noticed anything, since #OpenSSL version 3.5.5 was pushed out on 27 January. And again, Slackware is one of, if not the first to address and act on exploits and vulnerabilities, often on #0day.

Fun Fact: Following the very public cannibalization of Sun Microsystems by the Evil EllisonCo (Oracle), Slackware Linux was the first major distro to adopt and release #MariaDB, replacing #MySQL as the default in the installation - credit where due, IIRC, the German fork of Slackware, #SuSE, was the second major distro to do so shortly thereafter.