Notices by ߋߡۺ৩֎ (y0x3y@hackers.town), page 63

the people most invested in this idea typically have a poor grasp of interactive design, so they miss/deny that the true difficulty of a digital actor isn't capture or animation or shaders or degree of "photorealism" (a problematic term in many respects) it's that it's a deep dark pit of design with few objective best practices, just constraints you must choose & live within, and that takes some of the luster off it as a pure tech problem which is largely what interested them in the first place.

occasionally, clicking through yet another half-arsed GDPR-mandated cookie management screen, i find myself thinking "the GDPR has buggered up the web"

then i catch myself.

no, it hasn't. the way companies have opted to respond to the GDPR is what's buggered up the web. they could have been nice and unobtrusive about it, but no, they decided that *every user in the EU* should suffer their protests at not being able to stow thousands of fragments of random shite on a whim all over their vict- sorry, users' computers.

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#mastoart

It's almost 2019, which will bring the first new batch of US public domain works in over 20 years:

https://law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/

This "public domain day" used to happen every year until 1998, when 20 years was added to copyright terms for no real reason other than that large companies like Disney wanted it.

Copyright currently lasts 95 years in most countries, but until the late 1970s it was 56 years, or even shorter if copyright wasn't actively renewed.

#PublicDomainDay #Copyright

my grandma framed the two paintings of mine she has

❝Change the world. Start small. Start now.❞
— James Victore

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Br71H-6hTdF/

@gcupc indeed it may be a question of proper environment lacking corporate control and related features.

I find decentralized social environments like scuttlebutt particularly cool precisely because it's not centralized and harder to impose anti-social rules upon.

"The internet of 1995 and 1999 and 2001 and even 2007 was a backwater by today’s standards, but to me, it was the most wonderful thing. It was strange and silly and experimental and constantly surprising, and it made you feel good about other people, because online, away from corporate media and every channel of established culture, other people turned out to be constantly surprising too. They [...] told you, to your eternal benefit, about what it was like to be someone other than yourself."

It's my birthday give me BOOSTS

I am forty years old today, I can't believe it, and I'm so glad to have met all of you wonderful people of all ages 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

I wish the EFF would stop trying to reform Facebook and start promoting open-source fediverse alternatives.

millennials are killing the billionaires industry

if lots of people want to do art, maybe that's because being creative is fundamentally human and it is not a moral failing on their part??????? just spitballing here