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by daneel_w 3y ago
The Swedish fee really is aimed at "piracy for private use", as clearly detailed in the written laws, not for duplicating one's own records/movies onto a second piece of storage.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
The discussion of how much artists are actually getting from this has been going on since forever. Plenty of Swedish artists have publically stated that they receive either "practically nothing" or "literally nothing" an
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Yep, really. We've been subjected to this at least since the 80s. The original name of the legal framework was "kassettavgift" (cassette fee), obviously targeted at sales of cassette tapes. From there it went on to also affli
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by daneel_w 3y ago
The term chiptune, and the technical approach and associated musical character, was firmly cemented in the Amiga scene already in the first half of the 90s. The composer who coined the term (in the beginning of the 90s) was legendary comput
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by daneel_w 3y ago
And 100% of Danes, Swedes and Norwegians, regardless age, pay pre-emptive "copying fees" on every piece of storage medium they buy no matter what they intend to use it for. You should never feel guilty for downloading some MP3s or
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LRADs and sound cannons are not safe (2020) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by daneel_w 3y ago|0 comments
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Sample-based tracker music and the Amiga scene is where the term and the artistic style was born. The Amiga scene and the musicians of that era are the authority.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
And SID Factory and a couple of others.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
In the scene people always set SIDs and tracker chiptunes apart, because of how technically different the two are. There's an enormous technical complexity of having to emulate not just the SID chip (which still isn't 100% underst
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by daneel_w 3y ago
And no blue check mark *gasp*.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
While a lot of reasons may feel "slight" they are most likely still clearly defined in the terms of service. It would be interesting (and useful to other OCI users) to get more information about what actually happened in this case
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by daneel_w 3y ago
For me it was also a strong sense and feeling of pioneering - new demos/intros with new records, new effects, new hardware, new disks in the mail, new releases on the BBSes, new "feuds" to read about in the diskmags. A very w
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by daneel_w 3y ago
This is fantastic news, especially for an ex-scener like myself.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
I don't want to come off as an apologist for Oracle or the OCI product, but I can't help to wonder if there's more to the story than just "this provider will randomly ban accounts without any reason". The only real
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Street photography does not have to be in the street. The name never really had a mandatorily fixed connection to the practical expressions of the genre, or the artistic phenomenon that it is. It's about moments in passing, casual obse
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by daneel_w 3y ago
That just sounds like a ridiculously narrow and specific subcategory of street/flâneur photography.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Good definition brings a lot of value to street photography in my opinion - for the moment right then and there, and for the history it documents.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
That caught my eye as well. Not the usual "a man" or "a worker/technician". Perhaps the main description of the caption is directly copied from Getty.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Actual product page is here: https://modern-g.com/products/nanosnap As expected the sensor's image quality is terrible and in line with a typical webcam, but the compact size and use of microSD storage could possi
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Asocial drivel.
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by daneel_w 3y ago
>"Doesnt matter what their security updates are. Those are after the fact." Of course it matters. Whether you get 6 months, 1 year, or 5 years of updates is a huge deal. Their patches' timing don't differ from that
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by daneel_w 3y ago
>"They are the Apple of Android, big marketing budget, little care about performance or security." What are you on about? Every version of iOS I've used the past 11 years, on every iPhone I've used, has been a butte
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Yazi Excuse Game as Imagined by ChatGPT(chat.openai.com)
1 points by daneel_w 3y ago|0 comments
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Also, using hdiutil(1) and diskutil(8) to create a RAM-disk: # 500 megabytes disk image mb=$((500*2048)) diskutil eraseVolume ExFAT my_ramdisk `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://$mb`
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by daneel_w 3y ago
afconvert(1) lets you convert between various audio formats - most noteworthy is that it gives you access to Core Audio's superior AAC encoder without having to use iTunes/Music: afconvert music.wav -o music_160kbps_aac.m4a -b
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by daneel_w 3y ago
It's likelier that they ran the numbers of such an "accident" and concluded that notwithstanding new fines and more paperwork it will end up being the cheaper alternative. They are after all bankers.
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Arithmetic, Population and Energy [video](youtube.com)
1 points by daneel_w 3y ago|0 comments
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by daneel_w 3y ago
>"For most it's a significant reduction in quality of life they're not going to choose." I'm convinced that it takes a very special consumer (minority) to actually suffer a significant reduction of quality of l
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by daneel_w 3y ago
Most livestock in the west is kept in poor conditions and fed grains. Fully grass-fed meat is not common here. Also, it takes about 4 years for a cow to be fully grown and ready for slaughter. How little CO2 and methane do you imagine a c
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by daneel_w 3y ago
>"The solutions of "everyone just needs to do <x>" are a dime a dozen. We could solve war if everyone just stopped fighting." As evident from your (absurd) comparison you're responding to the parent from

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