FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
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I just got a copyright claim against a video I posted on youtube 10 years ago.
The video is a film by Georges Melies that was shot in the 1890s.
Someone is attempting to claim copyright over a film that is 130 years old, who's director died 86 years ago.
Now 1) I don't give a shit about this clip on youtube. 2) The person who made this claim is clearly in the wrong. 3) I can't be the only one that they have targeted illegally. 4) Youtube is a problem.
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As an archivist, let me say clearly:
Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.
It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.
It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.
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hello fediverse. i have a prompt/question for you. do you have a little tip? like just a small bit of advice. can be about anything.
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"You're not healing to be able to handle trauma, pain, anxiety, depression. You're used to those. You're healing to be able to handle joy and to accept happiness back into your life."
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It's using relegendable keycaps from a POS keyboard. They're just double-layer keycaps and you can stick paper between the layers.
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I just had a little deja vu while visiting sites advertising their AI offerings to include into IDEs and whatnot
it's like browser toolbars in the 90s and mobile apps now
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Always pet the fox!!! 
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i love music, but i love midi particularly, because it is not only music, it is not only a tool for art, but it is also beautiful in its design and its philosophy, and in what it became in practice. an uncynical digital protocol with 40 years of interoperability. a modern miracle
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girls love to plug cables into boxes and glide over keys and hear the colours of the waves
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low-passed general midi synth fx patches to chill/study to
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again, main point in big letters
if you build an audience on the basis of "respecting privacy and user choice" and ship an opt-out data collection service without telling anyone, you really fucked up
no matter how fancy the math is
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when futurama said "technically correct is the best kind of correct" it was satire, y'know
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i gotta say if your entire schitck is "we're the open web! we're not like that giant advertising company" then you should kinda expect a backlash from "we shipped an opt-out surveillance device without effectively telling anyone"
no matter how well engineered said device is—and no amount of "well, this is just how the web works, be realistic" is gonna undo that breach of trust
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Mathematicians sit in a room all day calling out numbers and whoever says the biggest number wins the Fields Medal.
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
