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by mod50ack 5y ago
That's decidedly not the problem here. They didn't confuse my recording for a copyrighted performance. The claim was that I used a copyrighted melody in an original performance --- but the melody is public domain.
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by mod50ack 5y ago
Oh, Tom is right. I've seen his video (actually a fan of his stuff), and I know that there's a real problem here for Google. They need to cover their asses here, and with good reason. And in many cases the problem is with the glob
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by mod50ack 5y ago
Some people on Reddit have the idea that you could do this sort of thing, at least: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/51457r/is_there_a_... I'm not a lawyer, and we weren't monetizing o
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Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist(blog.dbmiller.org)
655 points by mod50ack 5y ago|199 comments
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by mod50ack 5y ago
To be honest, there is not really competition to Google Play in its own niche, but within the FOSS sphere, stuff on F-Droid/IzzyOnDroid is on the whole almost always good quality.
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by mod50ack 5y ago
Canada doesn't follow the etymological principles behind Oxford spelling, though. For instance, it uses "analyze" rather than "analyse", even though this comes from a Greek sigma (unlike the -ιζω verbs which become
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by mod50ack 5y ago
I mean, you say "plenty", but it's going to be only a fraction of the number of people who are perfectly happy with that sort of thing on the desktop, which already isn't very many people (even if you assumed all *nix us
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by mod50ack 5y ago
Frankly, I don't find these sorts of things to be very interesting anymore. When Fabrice Bellard first released a usable PC emulator in JavaScript something like a decade ago, that was really interesting (and I had fun running Linux in
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by mod50ack 5y ago
If it can be useful for anyone, I've been maintaining this COPR for Pipewire (from upstream Fedora, but the patches come a bit quicker to this). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dbenjaminmiller/pipe...
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by mod50ack 5y ago
> The main difference between these two licenses is the LGPL license can be freely modified by anyone, and doesn't require the modifications (i.e. modified source code) to be re-distributed. It's perfectly legal to only distrib
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by mod50ack 6y ago
While this is an excellent project, it's unfortunate that licit online libraries (both public ones such as this, and even those accessible to university-affiliated individuals) in many cases do not match their illicit counterparts in t
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by mod50ack 6y ago
The point is that there is no point in paying that kind of money if you're only going to use it internally 99% of the time.
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by mod50ack 6y ago
Indeed, this didn't pass the sniff test --- SVG on the web was well-supported a year or two ago, too.
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by mod50ack 6y ago
I am not British, but instead American. I can tell you that approximately nobody cares about a symbol hanging in the House of Representatives. There are plenty of problems and controversies in US politics, but this is not one of them. Furth
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The quest to liberate $300k of Bitcoin from an old zip file(wired.com)
66 points by mod50ack 6y ago|10 comments
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by mod50ack 6y ago
I think if you are going for native widgets with a more lightweight (and more liberally licensed) bent, then wx is a solid option too, though it requires a bit more manual UX work, even though it uses native widgets for real (even in some p
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by mod50ack 6y ago
As the new Macs switch to ARM, I'm left thinking about this blog post I wrote last year. However advantageous the Mac might have been to have at that time, it seems that when it comes to running modern software, an x86 unit from that e
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Using a PowerBook G4 Today (2019)(blog.dbmiller.org)
1 points by mod50ack 6y ago|1 comments
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by mod50ack 6y ago
It also now supports Microsoft's modern authentication (i.e., their flavor of OAuth), which is now becoming annoyingly mandatory at more and more organizations.
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Ask HN: What is your favorite low-end setup you've ever done?
61 points by mod50ack 6y ago|54 comments
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by mod50ack 6y ago
It's a bit sad. I feel like mobile gaming is in large part dead because of these stupid pay-to-play games. Back in the early days of the iPhone, even the iPhone games were one-time $2 games (and good for that!), while you had the DS wh
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by mod50ack 6y ago
We know. And Aristotle was certainly a star of his era. But we also know that Aristotle didn't come up with this all from nothing; he was engaging in a number of disputes with other philosophers of the time. You can see this reflected
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by mod50ack 7y ago
This is not usually noticeable, because TeX distributions now use a Type 1 version of CM, distributed by AMS, when compiling documents to PostScript or PDF. (Or, they use Latin Modern, which is based on this Type 1 version which is so spind
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Advocates ask colleges to avoid facial recognition as surveillance grows(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mod50ack 7y ago|0 comments
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by mod50ack 7y ago
Microcenter has worked for me in NY. And they match Amazon pricing.
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by mod50ack 7y ago
With some exceptions. Mathematical Platonism is still taken quite seriously, though it's evolved a bit since the Meno.
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by mod50ack 7y ago
The legacy isn't avoided in upper level classes. And an intro survey in philosophy will cover it. But if I am in an upper level course on contemporary philosophy, I don't need to rehash Platonism. I know philosophy is said to be a
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by mod50ack 7y ago
If my "modern philosophy course" you mean a course dealing with only modern philosophy, then of course not: they're not seeking to delve into the ancient history, but deal with whatever era is on the docket. That's not t
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by mod50ack 7y ago
Why should I use this library over the more well-known free and open-source cross-platform GUI toolkits? With wx I can get fully native widgets on Win/Mac/GTK/Qt/even embedded systems. With Qt and Qt-quick I can have rap
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by mod50ack 7y ago
At the very least, the timestamp on the file (although, yes, timestamps can be spoofed, etc., etc.). In any case, I've always been pardoned when the "lateness" is three seconds' worth of processing. But if I were waiting

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