Since everyone is posting great winter photos, here's a sunrise in the Italian alps in an area called Ayas. Taken from inside (thus the reflections on the left) because it was hella cold and I didn't want to go out onto the balcony in pajamas.
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I wasn't able to upload this before, but here is the machine with the cards in it.
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The Internet Archive has announced the end of the lawsuit over controlled digital lending, but their blog post is very brief. Does anyone have a link to the actual legal document that declares this?
https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/04/end-of-hachette-v-internet-archive/
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Adding to that, DuckDuckGo has suddenly been giving me results I didn't ask for, and I'm suspecting the underlying DB (Bing) is using AI. I ask for X and I get pages of Y. I have to "minus out" the Y terms to get X. For example, any query with "document" defaults to sites with "PDF" in the title. So, is there another search engine I can use?
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So annoyed at web site headers that jump around and cover the content. I could never see anything but slices of this page, plus the movement is, well, annoying.
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Spent 3 hours yesterday evening doing something with GIMP that would have taken ~2 minutes with scissors and tape. Did you know that the command to break up an image into parts is under tools/web? so very logical.
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The main reason is to inform users, who are not themselves able to determine if something is out of copyright. I'd also love to see a mark for "orphan work" - like a "?" as the copyright status. Like CC, the details are behind the mark and can be found.
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So many payments/purchases/etc interactions assume I do everything on my phone, not a computer, while others think that the only way i keep receipts is by printing. This is a generation clash, and neither hits the middle spot I occupy.
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OpenWEMI vocabulary is a generalization of the WEMI concepts that are broader than the library-defined use case. It can be applied to any created resources. OpenWEMI is a Dublin Core specification:
https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/openwemi/
The vocabulary:
https://ns.dublincore.org/openwemi/
https://dcmi.github.io/openwemi/ns/openWEMI.ttl
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Also key words: "distribution" - not "lending"
So the judge did not understand that IA was using technology to prevent copying. I don't know why it is so hard to get this concept across. But it is.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf
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[#]InternetArchive has lost appeal in digital lending case, and as always the judge has not understood the tech:
"IA asks this Court to bless the large scale copying and distribution of copyrighted books without permission from or payment to the Publishers or authors. Such a holding would allow for widescale copying that deprives creators
of compensation and diminishes the incentive to produce new works."
Key words: "would allow wide scale copying"
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Trying to create a poster-sized poster I discovered that MS Word has a size limit of something like 22 inches x 22 inches. Checking MS support it turns out that limit was set in the 1980's - when memory was really limited - and MS has not seen fit to change that since "anyone creating larger documents is using a graphics program". Every other document program I have will let me create a poster-sized post. So, as always, MS 👎
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@stevesilberman Finished NeuroTribes and want to thank you. A difficult topic told as relatable stories, and a delightful read in spite of the ... difficult topic.
Thank you.
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Spent morning removing russian hijack software from Firefox. Cleverly done; did not allow sending of report or reset. Oh, those Russians! Had to go with a full delete. Will take a vacation from FF for now but really am not thrilled with other options. I dislike the aesthetics of Safari, DuckDuckGo has some limitations, and Chrome - really, trust Google? I'm sure Google would sell me to the nearest Russian for pennies. sigh
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Kamala Harris is very busy writing me personal texts about her campaign. I would have thought she didn't have that kind of time.
(I hate the way political campaigns are run in this country..)
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