I've never felt more positive about Ed Sheeran. He definitely gets copyright right.
"Copyright was designed to benefit the middlemen and gatekeepers, such as the record labels, over the artists themselves. That’s why the labels have a long history of never paying artists. ... modern copyright is stifling rather than incentivizing music creation — directly in contrast to what we’re told it’s supposed to be doing"
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Ed Sheeran, Once Again, Demonstrates How Modern Copyright Is Destroying, Rather Than Helping Musicians
To hear the recording industry tell the story, copyright is the only thing protecting musicians from poverty and despair. Of course, that’s always been a myth. Copyright was designed to benefit the…Techdirt
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#uspol #privacy #DataBrokers
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Dangerous EARN IT Bill Advances Out of Committee, but Several Senators Offer Objections
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, for a third time, to advance the dangerous EARN IT bill (S. 1207)—a law that could lead to suspicionless scans of every online message, photo, and hosted file.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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hardware - h-node.org
free software project with the aim of collecting information about the hardware that works with a fully free operating systemu.fsf.org
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As an alternative to the completely useless "UX/UI", I propose:
Pixels vs Process
Both are important & nuanced! Pixels are the specifics of what you see: layout, fonts, color scheme and icons. Process is more how the user flows through the product: user needs, navigation model, how many new concepts does your app invent, or how errors are handled or recovered.
Pixels are a snapshot, Process is a flow through time.
(but, tbh, I realize this has no chance, I'm just ranting a bit)
#UX #Design
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Misskey and its clones reminds me of MySpace
It does many things, and the UI is packed with distracting elements like the current date represented in progress bars (lol why tho?)
I wish them all the best, maybe I'm old, but I like the simplicity of Mastodon
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You can simplify the layout (there are three modes, with the simplest being a basic reverse chronological timeline).
All the dates and stuff are "widgets", of which there are more!, that are removed in the simplified view.
Calckey has a high degree of customisability it seems.
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6 new reserves created in Brazil.
"#Indigenous people are guaranteed exclusive use of natural resources on these lands, viewed by scientists as a bulwark against Amazon deforestation - a major challenge in the fight against climate change."
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#brazil #amazon #climate #jungle #rainforest #environment #southAmerica #humanRights
'A new history': Brazil's Lula decrees six Indigenous reserves
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday decreed six new Indigenous reserves, including a vast Amazon territory, after a freeze in such expansion under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.France 24
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We planned to add that support. We will first fix all bugs on our latest release and bring small improvements.
Then we will work on the Calckey support.
PS: We won't apply for the 150$ bounty.
mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-w… this is a good illustration of how obscene a billion is... (someone please repost this on something that isn't msgithub so I don't have to keep sharing this version)Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.mkorostoff.github.io
Witnessing a few (organic??!!) convos between liberals lamenting how "left leaning" billionaires don't organize, and help save democracy.Newsflash: People who pursue money to the point of becoming billionaires simply do not "lean left."
Lots of folks don't realize this because: Corporately owned media (and the PR flaks who surround billionaires)
1) are really- unlikely to explain how much a billion dollars of personal wealth is. It's an obscene amount.
2) know that spinning a stories about "heroic" billionaires protects their clients and their own jobs.
There -may- be a few left leaning ultra wealthy/millionaires...
But ALL billionaires exploit. Full stop.
Billionaires exploit in order to **climb up hierarchies of wealth.**
Both billionaires and right wingers LIKE and believe in hierarchy based living. It's really about that simple.
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The “Earn It” Act is Back, Seeking To Scan Us All
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Next time you think "end to end encryption" at least think about who's controlling those ends. You're not controlling one of them, and soon you may not control the other either. So you're doing E2E encryption... but to what end?
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