TIL that the works of J.R.R. Tolkien passed into the public domain in NZ this year (life plus 50 years)… but also won’t for another 20 years in much of Europe, and 40 years in the USA…
#law & #copyright peeps: What on 🌏 does it mean if someone writes a derivative work here in NZ and then tries to republish it overseas? Or if it is published here and then imported to a different country via the internet or otherwise?
Please retoot so this post finds a person who can answer it!
(Edit: Not 🇨🇦)
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@Martin Campbell The version on legislation.gov.uk similarly: legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/67…
…but how one is supposed to write that in the OU’s preferred citation style for legal authorities, I do not know.
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"Whoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics or the most basic rules of programming."
Savage, but justified.
Page 17-18,
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I'm worried by this story: theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j…
Yes, Fujitsu must shoulder some blame for the faulty technology, and possibly more for being in denial. But Fujitsu did not choose to pursue the users for the "missing" money and prosecute them. There is a considerable human side to this story. We must not let the Post Office offload all the financial responsibility onto Fujitsu.
"We only acted like complete bastards because their software fucked up." won't cut it.
Justice secretary says if firm behind Horizon IT software is found culpable, ministers would seek ‘proper recompense’Sammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
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@guigsy @ajlanes Racism and classism.
The workers say they believe racism affected the way people were treated in the Horizon scandalBy Sima Kotecha (BBC News)
Bookseller email received: 10:00 am.
Item ordered: 10:05am
A map of showing the path of a 1764 eclipse across Europe, printed in two passes, with the map in sepia and the shadow line in black.
A great acquisition in and of itself, but what's really special is that the map was designed by a woman, engraved by a woman, and printed by a woman. And not two weeks ago we were brainstorming ideas for a future exhibition on women in science, so it couldn't be more perfect.
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Finally got around to looking at #PEH578L's petrol gauge. Multimeter showed that the fault was at the sender, which is a simple float on an arm operating a variable resistor.
Opened it up and was slightly surprised to discover a wire-wound rheostat. Also that three of the turns are broken which would explain why it doesn't work. So unless I feel like re-winding it, I probably need a new one.
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@ajlanes The tank is basically a cuboid, so I don't think that's what it's for.
It might be compensating for the fact that the float is on a pivoting arm, so the rate of rotation changes with depth.
But now that I look at it, I think the variance may be the wrong way around for that, so maybe it's compensating for non-linearity in the dashboard gauge instead.
Maybe I should do some experiments...
You know what would be nice?
An "open firmware" project, where people produce and share FOSS firmware for common household devices, replacing the manufacturer's firmware with a decrapified version.
A smart TV? Reflash it with FOSS firmware, which removes tracking, calls to the manufacturer's servers, and any Internet-connected services that you don't want?
A printer? It's now yours. No ink subscription, or need for an app to print remotely.
And so on.
A man can dream, eh.
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I am proud never to have hooted a nanny. mastodon.world/@CountBinface/1…
🚨BREAKING: I am pleased to be offering my free Count Binface vaccine against Jools Holland’s Hootenanny. A single jab will suffice. #Mutenanny
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TIL that someone invented a barometer in the mid-19th century that used leeches. Yes, leeches!
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@antranigv Hehe. Like gallons, gah.
SI is superior in every possible way. It hurts to hear people argue for anything else at this point:(
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So you're out #sailing in a new area and your electrics fail. No bother, just go back to using a paper chart for navigation (if you ever stopped: I didn't).
The only problem is that the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is withdrawing its portfolio of Admiralty Standard Nautical Charts and Thematic Charts.
Thank Bob we still have Imray ... for now.
I'm also wondering what small or traditional boat sailors without electronics are meant to do.
rya.org.uk/blog/the-rise-of-en…
The RYA prepares for the UKHO’s decision to phase out paper charts.www.rya.org.uk
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One billion years of plate tectonics
Credit: Andrew S. Merdith et al, "Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic" via u/Useless_or_inept on reddit
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LGBT conversion therapy (yes, including trans people) is now illegal in Portugal.
Penalties of people found guilty of trying to change sexual orientation or gender identity: up to 3 years in prison and, if the victim was a minor, a ban on working with minors for between 2 and 20 years.
Up yours, TERF island.
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Fellow trans women site owners: that HOA guy with the blocklist that blocks Nazis and trans women, but mostly trans women, is back on another instance. Just got the shock of my life when he showed up in my feed. It appears that his new personal instance is h-i.social.
You may wish to preemptively defederate for your own protection.
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We focus when we think of the solstice on the length of the day, but I wonder how much that’s it and how much it’s the quality of the light, the angle of the sun, that makes this time of year miserable. Today it looks like the sun will not get more than 15° above the horizon
Hypothetically if the sun reached the heights it does in Summer during the 7h42 of daylight we get today, would it be more pleasant? (Assume for the purposes of this exercise that I’ve arranged the physics to work to permit this somehow. Either the sun operates like a lightbulb or speeds up or something.)
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For Art Advent Calendar Day 20
Power Lines Drawing #4 (Hamtramck)
July 2020
10x8 black ink on paper
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Bravo.
“Money is important so let’s have a culture war to avoid class wars” needs to be over with.
Dear #lazyweb I'm looking for a very particular product from like 10 years ago (or it's modern equivalent).
It was a linksys usb/ethernet dongle. Tiny, like a tube of lipstick, with 2 wifi interfaces built in, and a microcontroller web server/router. You'd connect it to USB, login to the web server via wifi (if you'd set it up already) or usb/ethernet if not. Then configure one wifi interface to connect to upstream wifi, and other wifi could act as a personal hotspot.
Can't find it anywhere.
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There’s always so much to do at this time of year - but what can really help is to write a well-defined To Do List of what you might realistically achieve in your day.
Here’s my ‘Christmas To Do List’.
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Always keep your eyes closed during a storm. Otherwise your soul will get all wet and mildewy.
Welcome... to Night Vale.
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I've got one more piece to finish (a horn that needs sewing up) and then it will be time for the goat-ening. Be prepared for many pictures of a crochet goat.
(In case you're not aware, I'm making one of these youtube.com/watch?v=CC_NDwdzww… but in crochet form. I'm not intended for it to be burned, or destroyed by jackdaws, as seems to be the case for this year's model.)
This is the live feed of the Gävle Goat located in Gävle, Sweden. The Gävle Goat live stream will be active until New Years' unless, of course, the straw goa...YouTube
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If you're book shopping for the festive season, one of the best things I read this year was The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard. The space pirate love story you didn't know you needed.
They're around here somewhere, although I haven't seen them for a while. @aliettedb
This is the home page of Aliette de Bodard, writer of fantasy and science fiction (and the very occasional horror piece).Aliette de Bodard
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*runs by, booping your nosie on the way past!*
YOU HAVE BEEN BOOPED!
Pass on the boop to someone else to keep the chain going!
(You can boop me... if you can catch me! Bwee hee hee!!)
#Boop
💙💙💙
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As I am in the Caribbean, I have discovered that there is quite a difference in what things cost. Take apple pies, for example: in Antigua an apple pie costs 9 eastern Caribbean dollars. In St Lucia, it’s 12. In Grenada, 10.
These are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
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Most people think the the Great Lakes are the largest bodies of water in the United States, but it’s actually this hotel toilet here in Miami.
The amount of hydroelectricity produced when you flush it is enough to power a large town! #CoolFacts
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I believe that’s one of the standard ones:) I’ve been institutionalized to the point that it feels normal.
We do have a low flush volume one though. They just added a pipe halfway up the water tank. I assume it’s so Redneck Bob can remove it.
Flushes hard as heck.
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •Except, in the salient aspect, that the events described *don't* really follow at least the strictest, Aristotelian criteria for Greek tragedy, where the tragedy takes place in a single place on a single day.
The original Cocklecarrot mentioned "Sophoclean" (great word). Now, dragged up in a Secondary Modern, I'm not an expert on such things, but Oedipus Rex and Antigone follow the unities, iirr?
So it was a weirdly specific (-ly wrong) analogy to use to extend a single event to 36 hours and the length of the M1.
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