Renbymon 💜💛🏳️‍⚧️ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

I love(*) how as trans people we have to almost universally be our own doctors, with all the responsibility of researching our own medical needs and the consequences of our own decisions, but we have to go through doctors who know less than we do to get access to care, and that can be cut off at any time if we reveal that fact in a way that makes them uncomfortable.

(*) I do not, in fact, love this.

How illegal are plug-in, grid-tie solar micro inverters in the UK? LL isn't keen on solar, even if I pay for it out of my own pocket.

I'm aiming to do something small (<1 kW) to cover my baseload, so export should be rare.

he took ur gameboys and he traded ur pokemons

#Furry #FurryArt #Dragon #NoodleDragon

Some recent blue friends we've made! 💙🫐 #fursuit #fursuitmaker #furry #furryfandom #furryart

There's a post going around right now that is a long, thorough analysis of the failures of technology in the last decade, and its is very good.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

It's full of zingers like "The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma. We seem, as a society, capable of understanding that social media can hurt us, unsettle us, or make us feel crazed and angry, but I think it’s time to accept that the rest of the tech ecosystem undermines our wellbeing in an equally-insidious way. And most people don’t know it’s happening, because everybody has accepted deeply shitty conditions for the last ten years."

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UK: “It’s still illegal to rip a CD you legally own to MP3!”

Also UK: “Hey, let’s exempt those AI guys from copyright law!”

FFS.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence

SELF DEFENSE
against organized violence

Copyright run amok:

1. High-end hoity-toity electronics company sends a YouTube DIY'er one of its products to repair.

2. He repairs it on camera (and reveals how poorly it was made).

3. Company files a copyright complaint with YouTube and gets his video taken down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIrCaeVtvI

Happy #PublicDomainDay !

H/T: Sal Fadhley via @pluralistic

#audiophile #audiofool #RightToRepair #diy #diy_electronics

Releasing a little tool I made for myself: cue2ccd, a commandline tool to convert BIN/CUE disc images into CloneCD images. I wrote this to help me load images onto my Rhea CD drive emulator for Saturn, since it doesn't support BIN/CUE and there aren't any cross-platform or open source tools to move between those formats. https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/12/15/announcing-cue2ccd-a-tool-to-convert-bin-slash-cue-disc-images-to-clonecd/

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Art by Cool. on Furaffinity.

https://www.furaffinity.net/user/cool./

UK people - the government is running a "Copyright and Artificial Intelligence" open consultation, https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence until 2025-02-25

Option 3, their "preferred option" is to allow AI to slurp everything, but require an opt-out (we all know how well those work!)

Option 1 (require abiding copyright law) is "not preferred" because it is "likely to make the UK a less attractive location for AI development".

If stealing shit is the basis of your business model, *perhaps this is a problem*?