AbuhRae @AbuhRae@computerfairi.es

Tired: This meeting could have been an email
Wired: This video tutorial could have been text

If you're excited that things are entering the #PublicDomain — which you should be! — perhaps it's worth considering reforming copyright.

In many places currently it's 70 years after the death of the author, or longer. This is insanity.

An important piece of culture made by a young author could be locked behind copyright (with rights usually held by publishers, not authors themselves anyway) for over a *century*.

That's how you get #Disney to own almost everything.

Reform #copyright!

Of course, it might be too late to do this because hardware companies can "submarine" patents, IE your patent's activation date can be up to a year before the idea's public unveiling. So maybe some of these obvious-feeling ideas I have been thinking about for years ALREADY belong to Apple because they secretly patented it six months ago and I didn't think to talk about it in public two years ago. Software patents sure do suck and should not exist!!

(I think something I've talked about on Twitter is it would be nice to have "dummy" devices for use with AR/VR, IE, something the size and shape of a phone but it's just a big flat bluetooth touchpad streaming touch data back to your goggles, and when you're wearing VR/AR goggles a phone interface is drawn over the touchpad's surface. You could imagine a tablet like this, a keyboard whose drawn-on keys vary with keyboard layout, etc).

3. The Hololens can pop up Win10 Metro windows that you touch with your finger to activate touch buttons. What I *really* want is for an AR headset to create actual *monitors*, IE, I have no monitor on my desk but I can spawn as many fake ones as I want floating above it. I would control these with a keyboard and a mouse sitting on the desk, and would have a mouse cursor I would move between like multiple monitors. I would use touch only to touch/grab and move the fake screens around.

1. If you have AR, it would be really cool to do walking street directions that actually superimpose a red path line, floating arrows etc on the real world.
2. It would be cool to do a "teleconference" in AR sitting at a table with the person you're teleconferencing with superimposed into another chair. (My brother and I have discussed this idea before.)

@mcc When VR headsets were becoming a thing about what 8(?) years ago, I thought it would be really cool to make all these alternate spaces that would overlay my entire house, so me and my friends could hang out in places from my memories and dreams. I also had big hopes that I could have the screens of all my computers and my phone all accessible as cool floating rectangles I could summon and manipulate with visual input devices.

Apple is probably releasing their VR/AR product this year, which means they're probably going to patent a *bunch* of stuff which is wildly obvious but just coincidentally has never been shipped before. So it's occurring to me it is a good idea to start publicly documenting various "hey, you know what would be a good idea to do in VR" ideas, so we can point to it as prior art when the lawsuit happens.

Some things I've been thinking about for years:

do not fall into the traps laid for you, some by cis phobes and some by trans elders. there is an infinite list of excuses that you can draw from if you're looking for ways to disqualify yourself. but your gender is yours alone to choose and it's independent of what anyone else says or thinks.

Happy Ho-ho-holidays!

Non-trans folks: trans women who underwent testosterone puberty don’t have any voice changes from HRT.

Some do many hours of mentally exhausting voice therapy to find a new voice. Some do not.

I am not asking but demanding that you respect both choices.

Please. I’m begging you. Not every tutorial needs to be a video.

Just in time for 4-days-after-Christmas, "Combat Chopper" has been released - an 80's helicopter combat flight simulator for #pico8

Play it on the Lexaloffle BBS:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=50863

Or on itch.io:
https://tommulgrew.itch.io/combat-chopper

Make shutterstock everything better!

My kids are watching this classic scene from Sesame Street and are just as confused as the Yip Yips. They have absolutely no conception of what this thing is. The humor of the scene has truly come full circle.

Today's art post is a sexy moth lady I made for @AbuhRae in 2021! 👩‍🎨 😄

#art #mastoart #artistonmastodon #solientart #moth #pinup