ReHacked #62: GitHub Copilot and your copyrights, Audacity repo without telemetry, World’s largest ever four day week trial in Iceland and a little more

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GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright #privacy #copyrights

To the extent that merely the scraping of code without the permission of the authors is criticised, it is worth noting that simply reading and processing information is not a copyright-relevant act that requires permission: If I go to a bookshop, take a book off the shelf and start reading it, I am not infringing any copyright. The fact that scraping content to train an artificial intelligence enters the realm of copyright at all is because digital technology requires making copies of content in order to process it. Copying is fundamentally a copyright-relevant act. Many of the conflicts between copyright and digital technology result from this fact. Fortunately, policymakers and courts have long recognised that digital technology would be completely unusable if every technical copy required permission. Otherwise, people who listen to music with digital hearing aids would first have to acquire a licence for it. Internet providers would have to license every conceivable copyright-protected work that their customers exchange with each other.

FLOSS Audacity Fork without any Telemetry or Reporting #software #privacy

This repository is a fork of the audacity repository that tries to revert all the changes that some members of the community felt didn't take the Audacity software project in a direction they desire.

World’s largest ever four day week trial in Iceland ‘overwhelming success’ #career #society

The world’s largest ever trial of a four-day working week and reduced working time in Iceland was an “overwhelming success” and should be tested in the UK, researchers have said.

More than 1 per cent of Iceland’s working population took part in the pilot programme which cut the working week to 35-36 hours with no reduction in overall pay.

Joint analysis by think tanks in Iceland and the UK found that the trials, which ran from 2015 to 2019 and involved more than 2,500 people, boosted productivity and wellbeing and are already leading to permanent changes.

Icelandic trade union federations, which collectively negotiate wages and conditions for most Icelandic employees, have already begun to negotiate reduced working hours as a result.

The researchers estimate that as a result of new agreements struck in 2019-2021 after the trials ended, 86 per cent of Iceland’s entire working population now either have reduced hours or flexibility within their contracts to reduce hours.

5-minute breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication #health

A five-minute workout that scientists call “strength training for your breathing muscles” is proving to lower blood pressure as well as or even better than traditional exercise and prescription drugs. Researchers from the University of Colorado-Boulder say this groundbreaking exercise makes use of a hand-held device which provides resistance as the user breathes. Simply put, as you suck in air, the tube tries to suck it back in.

St. Thomas Aquinas works in Latin and English side by side #culture #history

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