Rivaclaw 🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

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."

(Thread)

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*?

Full version of new icon! Easily my favorite one so far

The yinglet species (and its penchant for creativity) was created by Valsalia

Patreon: https://patreon.com/AviYinglet
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/AviYinglet

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Trans joy is crucial, -especially- in dire times

Our reasoning: If we and you, and our friends and family don’t respond to the survey, the only people completing it will be those campaigning to take our care away. If the data only shows the views of the tiny minority of people that regret transitioning, or of friends and family members who would have stopped the trans person in their lives from transitioning if they could, then the report into the survey will definitely be used to restrict our access to care.

NHS England have launched a survey for adults who are using an NHS England gender clinic or have in the past 5 years. Given recent experiences with consultations, it could be tempting not to engage. But we do we encourage trans adults in England to take part (reasons in the thread below).

You'll find the survey https://nhs.welcomesyourfeedback.net/s/93arah

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #TransHealth #TransRights