The research fairy π· π§ββοΈ π
When I say, "Disney is a rent-seeking parasite and shouldn't be allowed to extend copyright another 20 years in Canada"
If you interpret that as me saying, "small artists should have no protection for their creative works at all"
Then you fell for this trick HARD
The research fairy π· π§ββοΈ π
The reason "Intellectual Property" is bad is because it is a term that (probably intentionally) conflates so many almost completely unrelated issues
If we're being trained to think that copyright, patents, trademarks, etc. are all the same thing, then you can make an argument that works for a small-time artist's creative works, and then do a switcheroo and suddenly we're talking about drug patents
THAT is what I mean when I say that "Intellectual Property" isn't real or needs to die
Ben Zanin
@staticsafe it is deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelicious
The research fairy π· π§ββοΈ π
Books that are from Public Domain sources like Project Gutenberg don't suddenly get remotely deleted like books with DRM
Or like the entire library of Microsoft books that will just "stop working" because of some business decision
And if copyright terms were shorter, a lot more books would survive until they entered the Public Domain, got digitized and were safe
Just saying
Anna B :heart_trans:
Darius Kazemi
Happy to announce that my RSS-to-ActivityPub converter now detects MP3s from podcast feeds and makes them into attachments that render directly in Mastodon 2.9.2+
danielle~! :dani:
vim: copying text is called yanking
emacs: pasting text is called yanking
everyone else: nothing is called yanking oh my god
Ben Zanin
1. It can, "+y , where + is the name of the register mapped to the system clipboard
- https://vimhelp.org/change.txt.html#y
- https://vimhelp.org/change.txt.html#registers
- https://vimhelp.org/gui_x11.txt.html#quoteplus
2. It can, M-x clipboard-yank <ret>
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Clipboard.html
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Darius Kazemi
Happy to announce that my RSS-to-ActivityPub converter now detects MP3s from podcast themes and makes them into attachments that render directly in Mastodon 2.9.2+
Ben Zanin
@staticsafe I WAS PROMISED A RAINPOCALYPSE
Anatoly ShashkinπΎ
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/ >πΎ U want this?
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/ >πΎ Ok, here u go, frend
pamela :flan_umbrella:
https://sungo.space/objects/f3c3b3a9-8035-41f3-a292-2d9281af9526 π
In openbsd you have a mentor who makes sure your stuff works, you meet people, etc. Mine miscalculated :flan_peek: and answers all sorts of questions for me. (All. Sorts). complete with asides, historical notes, hints and tips. Those exchanges are mega-valuable for me.
Because I don't know, and I don't always know how to find out. If I could find that in a workplace? *I could do the work.* No doubt in my mind. Train people, tech! You're not wizards. :flan_laugh:
Sergio Lopez
This is what I've been working on over the last few days. A new machine type for QEMU, designed after Firecracker's machine model, for users looking for the minimal attack surface, fast boot time and small footprint.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-06/msg06211.html
gdkar
THAT'S THE SOUND OF SEVERAL BEES!
Ben Zanin
@nev I read this article in eww after discovering it in elfeed:
- https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/without-gui-how-live-entirely-terminal
β https://www.osnews.com/story/130235/how-to-live-entirely-in-a-terminal/
Ben Zanin
@staticsafe EVIDENCE SUGGESTS OTHERWISE
Ben Zanin
Transcript:
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Frequent showers and thundershowers through tonight.
Areas of showers and thundershowers are expected to move across southern Ontario at times through tonight. The first wave will reach the GTA around 3 PM. A few locales will see total rainfall amounts of 20 to 40 mm before the showers end early Saturday.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ONstorm@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.
Ben Zanin
Everyone Deserves Nice Things
The corpse flower is blooming at the New York Botanical Gardens and this is the best day to go!
I went a few years ago shortly after the peak bloom, and it actually smelled marvelous at that point, but trying to see if I can get there today for the prime stink period.
Neal Wilson β
My yard used to attract cats.
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