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by mod50ack 3y ago
I'm unsure that they'd actually do this. As I recall, the original Rosetta required Apple to pay royalties to IBM and it was basically only useful for Mac OS X binary compatibility. Being able to translate x86 binaries is somewhat
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by mod50ack 3y ago
> Digital is so much easier, until you want to print I mean, it's not really hard. You just need the hardware to print the photo well.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
(Also not a lawyer and not giving any legal advice here.) Some of the points may be true, but it is virtually impossible that these uses are fair. Here are some reasons: 1. While the content may be old, and the production quality may not be
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Yes, but iPhones are not uniformly jailbreakable, and restricting yourself to a niche like that makes it harder to get people in (as users or as developers). You've essentially moved from a popular platform (iOS) to a very niche one (
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Yes, in part. But it's also about their online lending program wholesale.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Unfortunately Fennec doesn't do that right now, although it does support AMO collections.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Nope, you're incorrect. It is certainly possible in the United States to put something in the public domain by dedication. It may not be possible in some other countries, but in the US, case law supports the right to dedicate somethi
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Android has F-Droid, including Fennec F-Droid (Firefox for Android), which is the only tolerable mobile browser, imo.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
They didn't lose the rights. They still own goo.gl; go to the address and you'll get Google. They just weren't interested in running a link shortener anymore.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
It's really quite unlikely that the management of the .io domain will change. There are currently negotiations about the Chagos Archipelago. They involve mostly the right to return (for the Chagossians) and the rent on the military bas
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by mod50ack 3y ago
No, we don't agree at all. The whole point is that they are trying to use the words "open source" to appeal specifically to people, like those here in this thread, who work on free and open source software in the FSF/OSI
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by mod50ack 3y ago
There is a difference between strictly following the OSI definition and the general idea of "open source." For instance, while "open source" and "free software" are effectively interchangeable category definiti
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by mod50ack 3y ago
The term doesn't belong to the OSI. But the basic tenets of the OSI definition are very important to devs. And source being available but not able to be legally reused makes it useless for the vast majority of FOSS projects.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Well, it's a FOSS self-hostable server program. Mastodon isn't a service, so it's not susceptible to enshittification per se. A particular Mastodon host, sure. But Mastodon itself is just a codebase.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
They do cooperate with Wine development, yes.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Sure, but it never was — the .eu domain was for the European Union from the beginning, and the ISO code EU is for the European Union. The .eu domain was opened by agreement to the EEA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) countries as well. Bu
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by mod50ack 3y ago
There is zero indication that the British government would close off .io to non-Brits. You don't have to be a UK citizen or resident to get a .uk domain either. .eu requires citizenship or residency for registration, but most ccTLDs do
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by mod50ack 3y ago
This has really no parallels to anything with .io. The Gabonese government has always controlled .ga. Since 2013, they had offered registrations for free through Freenom, but they got tired of rampant spam registrations.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Getting into the weeds, but I don't agree with this construal of what propositional content is or can be. (There is no single definition of "proposition" which has wide acceptance and specifies your condition here.) There is
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by mod50ack 3y ago
As a lawyer, though, he has a responsibility for the contents of his filings. And there are legal standards for how to research and verify these things — which he didn't follow.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Lying implies an intention. ChatGPT doesn't have that. What ChatGPT definitely does do is generate falsehoods. It's a bullshitting machine. Sometimes the bullshit produces true responses. But ChatGPT has no epistemological basis f
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Didn't nail the Rodgers and Hammerstein one; it still doesn't understand the reference to the ballet or that the "themes" in the question are musical.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Any change that can be made without "skill and judgment" as would be involved in the creation of an original work is definitively mechanical per Canadian copyright law. Changing the clef from one to another is just like changing t
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by mod50ack 3y ago
A mere clef change is a purely mechanical adjustment. The point of an urtext edition is to try to avoid new creative work being added.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
FYI, LilyPond hasn't been TeX-based in many years, though they still share some design principles.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
I work for IMSLP. I am working on adding new scores, but in many cases these old things are either the only editions published or the only editions we can take. IMSLP accepts urtext editions over 25 years old. We have a good amount of these
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by mod50ack 3y ago
I'm fairly sure this isn't quite possible. It has to do with the physical properties of the space. Not that I'm an actual audio engineer. Not to mention that the iPad speakers are probably mostly designed to be compact and th
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by mod50ack 4y ago
Yeah, the iPhone doesn't have the best camera by any means. But having received some RAW photos from one, I feel like they at least don't look super shitty before you push them. Now, they do not compare to RAWs from my actual came
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by mod50ack 4y ago
> Of course it's a stylistic choice, but camera choice often is. OK, I guess I mean to exclude this kind of work which is done because the cameras are of much worse technical quality — these are by definition not applications fo
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by mod50ack 4y ago
> That's overly broad. A lot of what photographers do doesn't need those capabilities (hell, some photographers work with literal children's toys), OK, but nobody is doing serious photographic work (professional or hobbyis

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