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The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.

Others have said this, but the Internet Archive's appeals-court loss to Big Publishing is a disaster for everyone but the cartel of companies and a tiny number of A list authors.

The publishers will tolerate libraries only as long as they can control everything about how books can be loaned. If public libraries were being invented today, the cartel would make their core functions illegal.

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The Pico2 RP2350 input bug I mention in the latest episode of @thebootloader is not theoretical, but impacting commercial products like the Bus Pirate (see mastodon.social/@buspirate/113) and all my captouch-based MIDI controllers & synths in my Tindie store. I don’t recommend Pico2 for newbies either: even their official tutorial code will not work on a Pico2 projects.raspberrypi.org/en/pr
#raspberrypipico #pico2 #rp2350 hachyderm.io/@prcutler/1130698

@anna that's completely different from my experience with the course, the way USP offers IS is really just "compsci lite", it focuses a lot more on the tech side and the business side are the classes everybody bemoans and flunks

i'm no exception, i took the course mostly only because i didn't score well enough on fuvest to go to compsci instead (though in hindsight the required calculus classes would've killed me)

@anna although one of the obligatory electives i took was contemporary art, and it, unrelated to anything about information systems, was a fresh subject to study and opened my eye a lot

@anna through USP, Information Systems is offered at Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (often derogatively called "the poor USP", located near Tatuapé)

though it's not so much a social science as it still carries a lot of computer science and programming in the curriculum...

Our brain just crafted the phrase "I got pushed out of my comfort zone until I no longer had a comfort zone" and suddenly about 20 years of C-PTSD trauma made sense.

@tavisco i believe you but if money wasn't a factor i wouldn't have a gaming rig that has an older cpu than your server!

@tavisco how's it performing for you? i enjoyed the feature set but on the hardware i had it on (a 4th gen i5 laptop turned homeserver) it was unbearably slow (circa 2017 i think, when it was still new) which made me migrate to seafile instead

bit funny when an embedded programming ide requires opengl/vulkan

@tavisco this microwave's interface inspires me so much. it's 2024 and i don't have anything that looks and functions this nice youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o

@tavisco the dream goal is to make an embedded sidecar that taps into the dumb electrics and properly controls the heater to a specific temperature we can adjust, making a 44gbp machine behave like it's 500-600gbp. and if i can make a nice interface that looks like a really expensive, consumer-level kitchen appliance, i'll be really happy

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