Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842&lang=en
The fall of social media giants easily explained by @pluralistic
“[N]etwork effects cut both ways. If a system gets more valuable as it attracts more users, it also gets less valuable as it sheds users. The less valuable a system is to you, the easier it is to leave.”
The Key to Scientific Breakthroughs? Improving Access to Open Source Software https://buff.ly/3OtCQ2S
#opensource #OpenScience
There's an ugly storm brewing in EU software security legislation that could seriously impact open source software development. Those of you in the EU should read this article and do some lobbying. The goals of the legislation aren't unreasonable, but the conformance-testing burden would totally overwhelm the OSS community. The legislators need to rethink how they approach the burden and responsibility of auditing. https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-resilience-act/
Mastodon has more than seven thousands Instances, each with its own personal rules that must be evaluated one by one.
But in fact there are not more than seven thousand different regulations: many are identical to each other or differ only in a few points.
I think users, moderators, and admins would find it very convenient if Instances could choose to adopt some basic set of common regulations: something like GPL or Creative Commons licenses.
If you see that Instance X has adopted the Type "A" License you already know what it is without having to read the various points and so on.
And if Istance Y has adopted the same license but added few points, you need to read only those.
#InstaceRules #Moderation #Regulations #Rules #bansuggestion
President of Colombia meets with representative of WikiLeaks and calls for release of Julian Assange who is being charged "just for telling the truth" #FreeAssangeNOW @petrogustavo https://t.co/gSLsmN3aKu
Stanford Law School stops drinking snake oil https://law.stanford.edu/press/stanford-law-school-will-not-participate-in-us-news-law-school-ranking/
@iusondemand Cioè: nessuna azienda europea è *tecnicamente* in grado di rispettare la GDPR e quindi è preferibile affidarsi a Microsoft e Google che non lo sono *legalmente*, essendo soggetti alla legge USA, come da sentenza #SchremsII ? Mi pare un modo poco costruttivo di affrontare la questione - sempre che io non abbia frainteso lo spirito dell'osservazione.
If you are a scholar practicing open science, you might be interested in joining: https://www.osc-international.com/
@amreo Certo. Ma mi stavo riferendo non alla questione linguistica, bensì alla questione politica e culturale. Riusciamo a immaginare un ministero italiano che risponde così?
Ecco come il governo francese risponde a un'interrogazione parlamentare che chiedeva se l'offerta gratuita di Microsoft Office 365 non fosse una forma di dumping e di soggezione a una legge extraterritorlale USA, oltre tutto lesiva delle norme europee sulla privacy: https://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q16/16-971QE.htm
La Francia rispetta #SchremsII e chiede che le soluzioni cloud siano offerte da aziende soggette esclusivamente alla legislazione comunitaria: dunque in generale non Microsoft né Google. #souveraineténumérique (no, non si traduce in italiano)
📜 "We demand a world in which technology is created to protect and empower those who are impacted by it. Our technology must respect the rights and freedoms of those users. We need to take control for the purpose of collectively building a better world in which technology works in service to the good of human kind, protecting our rights and digital autonomy as individuals."
Please read then boost the Declaration of Digital Autonomy, version 0.2.
RT @zainrizvi@twitter.com
Pfizer and Moderna are withholding vaccine samples that researchers need to develop new and better COVID-19 vaccines, including ones that might block transmission. The U.S. government has known this for months, but done almost nothing publicly about it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/health/covid-nasal-vaccines-warp-speed.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/zainrizvi/status/1593634505947983872
"I fuggitivi ucraini sono accolti abraccia aperte, ma non i siriani, gli afghani, i libici, gli iracheni che scappa-no da Stati falliti in seguito a guerre diregime changeda noi scatenate".
Da leggere #BarbaraSpinelli #fattoquotidiano: https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2022/11/18/le-colpe-condivisemacron-meloni/6877261/
se oggi l'ultradestra taglia il #RedditoDiCittadinanza ai poveri estremi è grazie all'assist del 90% del giornalismo italiano. Una delle pagine più vergognose del giornalismo italiano:
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2022/11/18/covid-e-navigator-le-interpellanze-urgenti-alla-camera-al-ministro-schillaci-e-al-sottosegretario-durigon-la-diretta/6877550/?pl_id=1&pl_type=category
"This is a time for universities, funders, learned societies and publishers to show leadership by supporting, funding and coordinating the transition towards a multifaceted, reliable and fit for purpose social infrastructure for scholarship." #TwitterMigration #academicchatter
È online la traduzione italiana del Manifesto di #Framasoft: https://framasoft.org/it/manifest È un testo "politico" che mi è piaciuto molto e di cui condivido i contenuti. Secondo me, vale la pena di diffonderlo anche in Italia. Un grazie naturalmente a @Framasoft e a @maupao, compagno di #traduzioni :) #condivisione #solidarietà #BeniComuni #SoftwareLibero @informapirata @scuola @lealternative @devol @wikimediaitalia @paolo @rresoli @framaka @opavlos @quinta @goofy @steko @alephoto85
Oggi sono logorroico perchè stanotte ho dormito poco
Thought-provoking reflections for #histodons from Serge Horbach, @tonyRH and Ludo Waltman, on forms of #peerreview (double-anonymous or not, open reports or not, etc).
They suggest that #humanities preferences for double-anon may be slowing down our adoption of newer #scholarlycomms models (e.g. pre-printing, publish-review-curate). And that double-anon doesn't really solve implict bias problems but just hides them.
I think those two points need untangling... [more]
Also: @mcp
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3089-6218