Notices by Carl Malamud (carlmalamud@official.resource.org), page 3

Dan passed away last night. He made a tremendous difference in the world. Played a key role in building the Internet but most importantly, made a huge difference in the lives of many people, including me. RIP.

Amazingly hyperbolic story about our EU Court of Justice victory. tl;dr: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" https://www.raps.org/News-and-Articles/News-Articles/2024/3/Expert-Recent-ECJ-ruling-could-lead-to-standards-d

I have checked back into Hotel Carl. The room service is do it yourself (if you want oranges, go pick them, same with laundry, turndown service, and meals), but we have a kick-ass reading room for the guests.

At the Bangalore Club waiting for my next appointment. In the lobby of the main clubhouse. This place is immense. Very stately. Winston Churchill still owes them 13 rupees, they have him listed in the bad debt register in the lobby.

Winston hung out at the club in 1899 when he was a lieutenant, chasing women and playing polo, forgot to pay his bill. To be fair, Winston offered to pay off the 13 rs charge when he was prime minister but the club was happy to continue to list it as an "irrecoverable debt." https://www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/why-winston-churchills-unpaid-bangalore-club-bill-featured-sc-case-132668

Huge upgrade to @indiankanoon https://blog.indiankanoon.org/2024/01/lanuch-of-indian-kanoon-30-continuing.html 21,000 laws and regulations added, plus machine learning based parsing of judicial decisions, including analysis of decisions that cite them (think shepardizing).

3 years of intense work went into this upgrade. Congratulations to @sushant and team. Nice job!

Here's a little known fact. For 837 India Standards, we have translations available. Here's the directory. https://archive.org/details/publicsafetycode?query=subject%3Atranslations&sort=-week Pick an example, such as dried milk: https://archive.org/details/gov.in.is.11623.2008 Click on show all files and you'll see the translations. https://archive.org/download/gov.in.is.11623.2008 For example, here's Kannada language: https://ia600401.us.archive.org/23/items/gov.in.is.11623.2008/is.11623.2008.kn.html

Sold the last of my legacy Internet addresses. Two /23, one /24, 6 ASNs. Raised $81k. Could have made them a me thing, but transferred them to Public Resource first so they could do good things.

Do you have legacy addresses but don’t want the hassle of selling them? Give them to Public Resource, I’ll sell them, you’ll get a tax donation for your in-kind contribution (the bill of sale sufficient proof for the IRS for you to claim them, I’ll handle all the registry formalities).

I have been notified that 6.5 kg of assorted pickles from India have arrived at my local UPS distribution point and will be delivered tomorrow. The shipment contains curry leaf paste, gobi pickles, andhra mango pickles, ginger mango pickles, tomato pickles. I'm pretty excited. :) ht @omshivaprakash

Angry with birds on the road, Tokyo taxi driver kills pigeon and is arrested for highly malicious behavior. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/roads-belong-to-humans-japan-taxi-driver-runs-over-pigeon-arrested-4635181/amp/1

How an American activist helped make Indian standards available for free https://scroll.in/article/1057344/how-an-american-activist-helped-make-indian-standards-available-for-free

Delhi Air Crisis Worsens As Diwali Fireworks Wipe Out Rain Relief https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/delhi-ncr-air-reaches-toxic-high-as-cracker-craze-counters-rain-relief-4569327 Going crazy for crackers. AQI at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium reaches 900.

My favorite term I learned last week is "non consensual TED talk" to describe spontaneous bloviation at a meeting or conference.

We believe if we try harder, we can eliminate techno-optimism within our lifetimes. Dare to dream.

Listening to an NPR program on "canine vaccine hesitancy" which apparently is on the rise. In humans of course.

"canine vaccine hesitancy" is a polite way of saying "rabies deniers."

I'm amazed at people rubbing their hands in glee because the Internet Archive is being attacked. People that have never done much of substance happy that substantial amounts of content will be no longer available to others. Folks saying "I told you so" and chortling in glee. This is nuts.

@fgbjr Beautiful bitter oranges.

@fgbjr Premium Blue is the new Soylent Green.

It's official. Here's the request for public comment on the rule change to remove copyright from the California Jury Instructions. https://archive.org/details/california.judicial.council.20221214/mode/2up Public Resource even gets a shoutout for the change. The @berkeleylaw clinic prepared the submission which led to this change.