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by bentley 3mo ago
I wouldn’t call scalping “good” necessarily, but in the case of the Steam Controller, I’ve seen an awful lot of people incensed about scalping whose commentary overpowers more interesting discussion in Steam Controller communities. I’m not
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by bentley 3mo ago
> The transitive verb tresspass also means violate. That is one definition, yes, though to my ear it feels archaic and has mostly been replaced with “trespass against.” > If you search for translations/conjugations of _tresspass_
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by bentley 3mo ago
> Tresspass is not a reflexive verb. Correct. But it is, sometimes, a transitive verb. One can trespass (go somewhere one is not allowed), and one can be trespassed (be banned from a property). One can even be trespassed against , whi
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by bentley 3mo ago
Trespassing (intransitive) is different from trespassing someone (transitive). It’s not unusual for a verb to mean something different when used transitively versus when used intransitively. To “trespass” someone (transitive) means to
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by bentley 3mo ago
Goebbels was an unreliable narrator who had strong incentive to promote the idea that freedom of speech makes a nation weak.
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by bentley 3mo ago
I’ve bought Tor books from Google Play and gotten DRM‐free EPUB files from it.
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by bentley 3mo ago
/usr/ports/www/netsurf/netsurf-fb/
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by bentley 3mo ago
The NetSurf browser the author tried out has multiple frontends. Two run on OpenBSD that I know of, the “default” GTK frontend and an SDL‐based framebuffer frontend. As was pointed out, GTK has a rather sizeable number of dependencies; buil
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by bentley 4mo ago
This exact situation came up during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The prosecution wanted to present an image of Rittenhouse. It was materially important whether or not the picture depicted Rittenhouse with a raised gun; I looked myself and co
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by bentley 4mo ago
DRM wouldn’t be a problem if it were unambiguously legal to break it and if copyright durations weren’t so ridiculously long. I have free and legal access to all the ebooks I could ever want from Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, and so o
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by bentley 4mo ago
Other books that are checked out often enough to justify the library keeping them.
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by bentley 4mo ago
The university textbook market is pathological and unfair. At every turn the publishers , and the universities happily go along with it. It taught me the value of a healthy secondhand market. For common classes like calculus and physics, th
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by bentley 4mo ago
Wiley actually tried to abuse copyright law to prohibit import and sale of international textbooks. They fought it all the way to the Supreme Court, and (thankfully) lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John
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by bentley 4mo ago
It can also be watched in full on Wikipedia, as is the case with many films that are public domain in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achme...
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by bentley 4mo ago
100 years old, yet its copyright only expired five years ago— in the United States . In Europe and other life+70 regions, the film will remain copyrighted past 2050, even though Lotte Reiniger died nearly half a century ago!
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by bentley 4mo ago
> This is the reason I buy many games twice: once when they release on Steam, and again (if I loved them) when the come out on GOG It’s the reason I buy most games once, on GOG.
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by bentley 4mo ago
There was a recent case in Florida where an innocent woman with no past record was falsely jailed for 13 days due to Flock imagery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F_0iIaXGqA
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by bentley 4mo ago
Do you make a point of interrogating all the “normal” people you know about their pre‐adult educational history? You’d be surprised how many people you’ve met who were homeschooled but never happened to bring it up in casual conversation.
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by bentley 4mo ago
Standard Ebooks has a database of public domain oil paintings for use as book covers. SE is strict about copyright clearance and requires either scans of a copyright‐expired publication containing the painting, or an explicit statement from
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by bentley 4mo ago
As someone who was public schooled six years and homeschooled six years, public school definitely made me more unhappy, and was worse for me socially. Of course, I wouldn’t assume everyone in my shoes would have the same experience. But it
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by bentley 4mo ago
It’s a monospace font not a handwriting font, but TT2020 uses an interesting technique to do this. https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/docs/moreinfo.html https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/docs/morein
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by bentley 4mo ago
Nobody ever claimed that “Open” is a prefix used unambiguously by only one group of people ever. In fact, your insistence that “Open” can only be used by projects that are replacing proprietary software is itself very odd. OpenBSD itself ha
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by bentley 4mo ago
OpenBSD didn’t get its name from NetBSD going closed source.
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by bentley 5mo ago
I encountered it at Pearl Harbor.
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by bentley 5mo ago
It wasn’t uncommon for cars to have a compass built in.
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by bentley 5mo ago
In some languages, but not really in English. Convention in the cultures of the Anglosphere is that the world comprises seven continents, and the Americas comprise two of them, not one. And in English, both formal and informal, “American” i
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by bentley 5mo ago
> Am I the only one who has to giggle when reading that name? Oh, I know exactly what you’re talking about. I too am reminded of Tom Bombadil’s song from The Fellowship of the Ring every time Dillo is mentioned. Hey dol! merry do
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by bentley 6mo ago
> They only release books that are in the public domain. Not necessarily. Project Gutenberg does provide some works still under US copyright, such as F. P. Walter’s 1999 translation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas : https:&#x
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by bentley 6mo ago
There’s an escaping issue in tables of contents. See, e.g., “Roosevelt's” in the “United States” article. https://britannica11.org/article/27-0635-united-states-the/u...
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by bentley 6mo ago
The first article I looked up was New Mexico, because I knew, as does anyone familiar with New Mexico history, that it became a state in January 1912 (before which it was a territory). Arizona also became a state, in February. I was surpris

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