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

Super hectic day in Delhi. Relaxing in the coffee shop with a Kingfisher, garlic naan, makhani dal, and basil tandoori chicken. Temperature is a freezing cold 65F and everybody is wearing mufflers and bulky jackets. Winter.

@kw217 @webmink The core issue is you can’t do open source software sitting on top of a patent-encumbered standard. It’s a brake on innovation, and in the case of public safety standards (which should be very widely implemented) it is a brake on safety. $0.02, understood not everybody agrees.

@ingram @webmink Australian government opened up their building code. Did a very nice job.

@ingram @webmink One step at a time. Doing the best we can. :) Australia threatened to sue us over the building codes when we first put it up, so I was really happy when they made it available. https://law.resource.org/rfcs/gov.au.20130207.pdf Here was our answer: https://law.resource.org/rfcs/gov.abcb.20130210.pdf

@ingram working on it. :) you would be amazed at how hard the standards bodies are fighting this despite strong pronouncements from the courts at the very highest levels.

@ingram I think they put that place in early 2016 when they changed their policy. They even sent me the Adobe Indesign master files for the code! I sent a nice note to the director and he responded with an equally nice note.

@ingram The EU Court of Justice, with a constitutional bench of 15 judges ruling unanimously, ruled that an ISO standard mandated by the European Commission was part of EU law and it was of “overriding public importance” that they be made available. So, I’m hopeful.

1m books is not metaphorical. We are repatriating this knowledge. Will post progress on social media.

My disk copies are done. Ended up at 702,174 books and 662,276 issues of Official Gazettes. Will pull the solid state packs from the server tomorrow (have a few housekeeping tasks to do overnight), then throw them into the suitcase. Also, got the rest of my packing done.

Have packed the three solid state packs in my luggage for transport to India. Don’t have anything to declare? 75,000 Sanskrit books?

Packing for my upcoming trip to India on Thursday.

I've carefully folded 22,784,293 files (214,736 gbytes, aka 209.7 tbytes) into 24 ssd drives which I will put in a suitcase. Contents is ~1 million books. Weight is < 3kg.

It will take me 28 hours to reach India, so that's a throughput of 17.04 gbps.

@lzg I was just talking with a friend who is also a busy important woman like you and she was explaining Cheetos to me.

My fellow Americans.

WTF?

Today’s harvest is limes, tomato, Thai chili, and a boatload of Kalamata olives.

Pomegranate chutney recipe. Go to front yard, get pomegranates. Put saffron and hibiscus into tahini. Put tahini, beets in blender. Add salt and red chili pickle to the seeds. Put the seeds in the blender. Hit the overdrive button.

Went shopping today. Bought 11 PDF files for $975 from the American Boat and Yacht Counsel. They were very shiny edicts of government, couldn't help myself.

Performed puja at the scanning center. Happy dasara. Everybody dressed up in their finest. ht @omshivaprakesh

As it is the 9th day of the bright half of the moon’s cycle tomorrow is Ayudha Puja. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayudha_Puja Consecration of buses, cars, buildings, computers, mobile phones and other modern weapons of warfare has begun.

Make sure you log into Internet Archive and change your password. Do it today.

Siddu is Himachali steamed bread, stuffed with spiced walnuts. Served with pomegranate chutney and melted ghee. I am hectoring the staff to learn/steal the recipe, I have pomegranates ripening at home.