Strawberry

@Strawberry@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I still think it should be heard. I think the decision is off, and it probably should have stopped at the CA but if it was granted permission to appeal go right ahead.

  Most of the issues there I think are due to massive underfunding, cuts and bad management. Or similar issues in other adjacent sectors, like prison management, cps and policing.

  I don’t think because they’ve been pushed into that situation they should just stop doing they’re normal functions for other areas of law. Trademarks out of all IP I think are nessisary both from a business and consumer protection prespective. And the courts cannot decided weather to hear a case or not based on who brought it, lobbyers or no. Although yes the decision I’m not keen on and it probably should have been decided earlier.

  If they want to use milk in trademarks there should be a change to the legislation on what trademarks are prohibited and what ‘milk’ as a designation mean. It doesn’t prevent people calling it milk just blocked the use of the protected trademark, notes how trademark law interprets milk as a designation and how the trademark in question is interpreted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I can agree with a lot of that, honestly 2008 & so much since has made it pretty clear money’s the priority. Well before that really with thatcher’s bloody privatising spree, selling off everything.

  I just don’t think the courts are to blame, parliament & government are to blame for that. And by extension the money lobbying all that, the people who say the problem is immigrants not money.

  a question we’re thinking about for a second time?!

  I’m unfortunately gonna make it worse for you here, its probably 4 times. The supreme court, court of appeals, the high court and the IPO itself. You can read more on the case here.

  Honestly brexit fucked up this since we’re duplicating work now, previously it’d be the EUIPO not the UKIPO doing this. I remember there being talk of creating a merged system even after bexit but no idea what became of that. They need to fix it up at some point, but either way the courts gonna be spending time doing things like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, it feels kinda petty on behalf of the dairy people tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they’d just hear the case, not investigate. Plus it’d have to go through the lower courts first and some of that might just be a inquiry before convictions sadly :(

  I guess there is a massive backlog of cases, but I think it’s fair to hear this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes more sense. I interpreted your ‘my country’ more generally… like actions of government or something co-ordinated.

  Still, the supreme court just heard and decided the case. Nor is it a consious decision to do this rather than deal with all the other stuff. I guess they could have refused permission to appeal earlier, but I don’t think whatever else going on is a consideration. They’d just look at the case itself. And I think that’s the best way about it.

  That said, I’m not sure I agree with it either, but I haven’t read it in full. Just the guardian article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In fairness, its a supreme court ruling after a dairy uk(3rd party) objected to a trademark and its been going on for awhile. So it’s not like it was specifically put on the agender by any government or authority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very True, I have had some good use out of ghostarchive. When it works. There’s also self-hosted options like archivebox. And Several paid solutions like perma.cc. Kiwix/Zim too although that’s focused on wiki’s themselves & offline storage/access so not as useful for sources. But yes I’ve found none get consistantly good archives as much as archive.org or archive.today.

  I have not heard of etched, but I do tend to avoid a lot of the crypto stuff.

  Its also concerning if any of the archives suddenly going down & the data isn’t backed up. I know the storage requirements alone makes good backups unlikely, but with archive.today looking so volitile I wonder if a

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the future of wikipedia looks a bit bleak if they drop archive.today now. They need a decent archiver to function. Internet archive is good but its a single group hosted in the US, plus any site with a paywall isn’t surviving on the internet archive very well.

  They’ve needed good alternative for awhile and the need is just growing. I wish public libraries could fill the gap but its probably not realistic. We’ve had legal deposit requirements for non-print media in various jurisdictions for awhile but i’m doubtful how effective it is, nor is it convenient to access or use for wikipedia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Dark Chocolate is healthier than White Chocolate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, dark chocolate tastes much better than the milky stuff anyway, its way too sweet. Still, i’m not sure how ‘healthy’ it is compared to anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh yes that makes a lot of sense for server stuff. I imagine that may be quite useful for general use & maintenance too.

  I’m too caught up thinking of consumer stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EU Regulations are directly applicable to all member states, so its not needed to transpose those into domestic law for them to be used. Some countries’ constitutional setup mess with this(like the uk eh pre-brexit I guess), but in general regulations are as important if not more than domestic law.

  Directives can be directly used in domestic courts but only under certain conditions. The defendant/respondant needs to be a public body and the transposition deadline must have passed. Its basicly ‘you failed to implement it in time — tough’. Also if they’re not implemented correctly. But in general yes, they’re only instructions for the members to pass domestic legislation.

  I think even on a technicality both are law. Sorry if this was a bit padantic.

  oh and yes I’m not aware of any EU legislation on admissibility of evidence. But, not really my area :/ I think there have been proposals for cross-border stuff but can’t remember what became of that. If you know any in force i’d be interested in reading that? thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m intrigued how that would work with some styles of plug that disconnect before coming out of the socket like the uk type-G plugs. Unless they’re not touching the socket itself and connecting somewhere else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This April fool’s(2nd?) video come to mind: how to disable a robot dog if it attacks you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Embrase, Extend, Extinguush maybe :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human remains found under St Mary's House patio in Hemel Hempstead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  probably quite a lot really, space is limited and we have the whole of human history for someone to decided ‘let’s bury there’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human remains found under St Mary's House patio in Hemel Hempstead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  this makes me wonder how many human remains I walk over in the average day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britons ‘healthier than Americans’ but more likely to doubt health, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the limbo analogy, I suppose this would be a very high bar, you could just walk on through, no limbo-ing needed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The medicines we take to stay healthy are harming nature. Here’s what needs to change⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  they’re turning the frickin frogs trans!🐸 /j anyway, maybe better plumbing and not dumping sewerage could improve that…maybe just a little bit