Like every year at the end of March, the FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe organizes the Document Freedom Day. Events all around the world are held to celebrate and learn Open Standards for data coding, allowing any programmer to create his or her own tools to work with data or to convert it to another format. This day is all about compatibility, because it's about avoiding the loss of data that is encoded in an undocumented way when the data format is left without support.
The Spanish Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professional association ATI maintains a Calendar of International Holidays for ICT - and now, it is also available in English.
Events coming up next month, according to this calendar, include 'Internet of Things Day', 'Girls in ICT Day', and 'World Intellectual Property Day'.
(Score: 4, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday March 25 2015, @12:16PM
March 25th is Document Freedom Day
We would have told you earlier, but the press release was embargoed until this morning.
a Calendar of International Holidays for ICT
Holidays? Hah. Unless I get to not come into work because of it, it's not a holiday.
it is also available in english.
English, mother-fudger, do you capitalise it?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:23PM
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(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:30PM
I've noticed the calendar is stuffed in the first half of the year and only has two holidays in the latter half. I propose to fix this by the addition of new holidays:
September 1st: Eternal September Day. If I have to explain this, you're not going to get the joke because you're the punchline. Traditionally celebrated by a meal of spam roasted over flames while complaining about noobs on the local fidonet echo.
October 31st : International Shock Site Day. As the warning sticker on the laser says: Do not look into goatse with remaining eye. The ticker tape parade with re-enactments of various shock sites on floats is ... memorable.
Nov 30th: Cyberbullshit Monday where nothing interesting happens other than a bunch of marketing droids try to tell us we can only shop online this one day, because, apparently, they don't know the whole world is laughing at them. Pathetic more than funny, really.
December 31st: Freedumb From Spying Day. Similar to Tax Freedumb Day where the theoretical median dude works for .gov until after this date and for himself and his family after TFD, Freedumb From Spying Day is the last day of the year the merger of .gov and .com spy on us while lying about it each year, and every day after this one we're free until the start of the next year.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday March 25 2015, @02:33PM
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday March 25 2015, @04:29PM
There's also this one :)
Like every year at the end of march
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday March 25 2015, @07:09PM
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @12:28PM
Aka a celebration of the end of privacy. Festivities include buying a new Apple Watch Edition, Google Nest, smart bulbs, smart meter, smart fridge, smart toaster.
Preferred celebratory meal: unicorn steak.
You actually don't need to celebrate, because every day Mickey Mouse and friends are celebrating on your behalf.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday March 25 2015, @12:48PM
Translation of new speak: Aka a celebration of the end of privacy and beginning of data voyeurism. Festivities include exchanging fiat currency for a new Apple Watch You Edition, Google Nesting Surveillance (being a good buy saving energy), spy bulbs, spy meter, spy fridge (health insurance need access), spy toaster.
Need something nice to look at during Grey cubicle days.
Your thermostat will phone for cops because celebrating is a method of ritual that has been patented by ActivityCorp Inc.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:23PM
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:42PM
Its an interesting cultural shift over years/decades where "smart" would occasionally appear in advertisements and the statements in the ads always made more logical sense (and were funnier) if you s/smart/dumb/g.
But recently the word use has changed such that s/smart/spy/g is somewhat better cultural fit.
Although I have seen WRT the subset of performance and UI, s/smart/unpredictable/g works pretty well.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:51PM
Actually these devices are smart because they have a CPU + RAM + ROM in a chip and the ability to communicate. But the purpose is the enslave the buyer. Thus it get labeled "spy-".
Otoh, in that lies an opportunity to buy appliances that are prepared to be controlled by an microcontroller so one can replace the firmware to do your bidding or simple rip the whole microcontroller and replace it with your own.
I think there will be a new culture of how to disable the spying part of appliances and still get ordinary use of stuff you buy.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 25 2015, @02:03PM
Like the culture of DRM disablers. I just reset the toner life on my laser printer at home last night. Probably 99% of the population installs new toner. On Brother printers of this era you open the maint door and hit back button, I always forget and have to look it up (don't burn thru toner very quickly as you can tell)
I was more interested in the marketing aspect of they decided to steal a semi-popular prefix of smart- instead of upcycling i- or e- from the dotcom era or something like nerdy- or buggy-. Meet the new apple nerdy-watch. Hey I just installed a buggy-thermostat. The software on my nerdy-tv already crashed and got powned by Russian botnet operators.
Don't get me wrong I like the spy- prefix, good idea.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:23PM
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:18PM
Are there ribbons I can buy somewhere to put on my car in order to indicate my support for the Troops^H^H^H^H^H^H Free Documents? I think we need a coloured ribbon or something... I think turd-brown isn't used yet.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:23PM
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 25 2015, @02:11PM
I upvoted ACs obamacaretank as the proposed symbol because in a world of trendy ribbons, lets face it, there ain't much choices left, so unless someone comes up with a better idea than the obamacaretank, unfortunately its the best we got.
I googled the brown car ribbon and apparently it means "I love my granddogs" which is probably a felony in most states. I saw a pix of that on the internet once with a blonde and a German Shepard. Once was enough. So I donno about people putting that on their cars.
Seriously, what are the better options? Best I have so far is some kind of stylized 2G1C to symbolize the information sharing aspect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @08:15PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)#/media/File:Office2007ribbon.png [wikipedia.org]
(Score: -1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @01:47PM
Hey Soylent,
Fuck off with Day crap...please.
(Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Wednesday March 25 2015, @02:39PM