FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

‪the most hilarious thing in audiophile digital technology to me btw is direct stream digital. a technology that requires such an absurdly high notional sample rate that it causes serious ultrasonic noise problems, and has to be converted from pcm anyway so what's the point‬

how are audiophile dacs a thing lmao

it costs ten thousand dollars? it reproduces the signal authentically? buddy, the artist recorded the song on an aurally transparent $1 adc. no amount of dollar signs will “restore” the quality already “lost” to that

buy a fucking piano

they're gonna give biden the trump steroids for his covid and the next time a reporter asks him why he's reneged on being a "bridge candidate" he's gonna rip their fucking head off with a single hand

Of course the claimant backed down. How could they do otherwise?

But the fact remains that they should face legal repercussions for claiming ownership over something they don't own.

I should, at least, be able to bill them for the time I spent dealing with their spurious claim, but frankly the repercussions should be worse and deeper than that.

Issuing an illegal takedown notice should come with serious risk.

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.

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.

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.

"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."

It's using relegendable keycaps from a POS keyboard. They're just double-layer keycaps and you can stick paper between the layers.

on a mission

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

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

girls love to plug cables into boxes and glide over keys and hear the colours of the waves