sj_zero @ sj_zero @lotide.fbxl.net

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Anyone who starts to think that they are an expert on something really needs to have the top end literature on the thing nearby. Even if you're reasonably competent, you won't be making it through the titles of most of these papers without googling several of the words.

Originally copyright was like 15 years and if the thing was really good for you then you could Apply for a second 15 year term.

30 years is a long time to get a monopoly over something. As a human being, 30 years is a significant part of your entire lifetime. From birth to 30 years you have your entire childhood, many people go to and finish college, get married, have kids, achieve a degree of professional success. Another 30 years from that moment, many people are at the end of their lives. They're retiring, some who smoked or did other things are dying of old people diseases.

I believe strongly enough that 15 years is a reasonable copyright term that my book, the graysonian ethic, which I published in 2021, has a note on the legal page releasing it to the public domain 15 years from the first date of publishing, and in jurisdictions where you can't do that, it's licensed under the creative Commons zero license

If I want to own the rights to another book, I can write another book. If I can't make back the money that I spent writing and publishing it in 15 years, then that's a me problem, not a society problem the police can help enforce.

The famous song Happy Birthday left copyright only a couple years ago, and not because it timed out. The song which was written in the era of my great grandparents only lost protection from the largest state in history because after a hundred years no one could keep track of who owned it anymore.

Yes, work on getting your first job, don't worry so much about getting your dream job on the first try.

Let's say most jobs get 1000 applicants. Having a relevant education will put you in the top 200. Having relevant job experience will put you in the top 50. And not having a bunch of strange red flags that suggest you're not going to be a useful hire might mean you're one of 5.

It's important to pay your dues, and early on that often means working a job you don't want as much.

A lot of people with university degrees end up not doing anything related to their field because nobody told anyone this stuff and they end up applying for jobs they can't get first.

Oblivions shivering Isle expansion was really good. Quick and dense.

Typically nobody is going to use raid 0 and give you access to all the drives. I suspect your system is set up for raid-5 so 3 drives are data one is parity.

When the system boots there'll be a prompt to press something like ctrl-D to enter disk setup then you can delete the raid array and set up each disk as individual drives.

Is there anyone left in India who would have personal information to steal after this?

Cost of hosting an instance is highly variable based on the way it's hosted, the size of the instance, and what sort of instance it is (since there's many different kinds such as mastodon, peertube, Lemmy, etc)

Self hosting from home can cost just the price of hardware and power. Once you outsource hosting as many large instances do the price starts to rise. It's the large instances that start asking for donations as well, since it does cost more and more.

The fediverse vs. Big tech is the tortoise and the hare. It keeps slowly growing and as big tech takes a nap under a tree and pisses more people off by making more bad decisions. There's nothing fundamentally impossible about the concept -- email is federated and most boomers are just fine with email.

I appreciate the link. I've seen the phrase "The end of History" before, but after reading about it, I can't help but think the phrase has a quaint "Manifest destiny" vibe to it, people making some really powerful proclamations they'll regret later.

I didn't even know it was there. Honestly, having a phaser emitter right next to a hinged point only raises way more questions for me!

I feel like phaser emitters on nacelle pylons is a general nono.

Typically you see them on thicker areas and further from the warp nacelles.

I imagine having a bunch of phased energy next to the source of your warp field could be tricky.

It would also be particularly bad if your phasers had some sort of catastrophic failure and it blew off one of your warp nacelles, or if the enemy ship was targeting phasers and blew a hole through your pylon in the process.

Unless I'm misreading the image and someone is trying to shoot the pylon.

Interesting thing is that everything shrunk after the Galaxy Class.

I'm thinking it's because the galaxy class was a relic of Star Fleet's golden age. Most of their enemies were either allies or quiet, they started to think this little war thing was beneath them and turned their flagship into a luxury cruise liner.

I wonder what post-Wolf 359 Picard would say if he met Season 1 Picard. Hell, I wonder what post dominion war Picard would say to both of them?

The top three causes of death are heart disease, stroke, and pulmonary disease. Heart disease can be painful but can also result in a relatively painless death by heart attack. Stroke can cause pain, but death by stroke can be quick and painless. Pulmonary disease is more likely than not really brutal if it's fatal, with people suffering from it suffering from a feeling that they're drowning constantly.

? "Hello World"

100% of people who read this pumpkin eventually died!!!

Peertube has streaming with xmpp based live chat. One really need thing with peertube is it will do peer to peer live streaming, so if you have a really popular stream all the people watching your stream will end up serving it to other people who are watching your stream.

Every time!!

At the end of the day, what you're talking about is exactly right.

It feels like a win if people you don't like get silenced, but it's a two sided sword that rarely ends up back in the scabbard without tasting friendly blood -- as you've shown.

I found a study where they were able to exclude those examples from the data set for various reasons. :P

Does saying a false thing about COVID mean that everything you've ever said can now be banned everywhere forever?

Since not every one of the guys songs were about COVID, but they were all taken down.

Does this apply to disinformation like "If you get the vaccine you won't get COVID"? How about "If you get the vaccine you won't spread COVID to others"?

They took down tim pools music, and recently I went to buy some mp3s of a guy who opposes covid mandates and he was banned too.

Again, lots of folks might disagree with both those people, but when it comes to shit like this you are always next.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-bandcamp-removes-timcast-five-times-august-from-platform