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An important reminder at this time of year:
You are under no obligation to maintain a tradition that you do not enjoy or cannot afford.

Guess I'll spend my crappy eSun filament on Gridfinity bins...

politics, intellectual property 

@structuralimage@kolektiva.social While I agree with all of that *in principle*, I think you're missing something very important: "I want control over how my work is used" is the equivalent of an XY question.

Control over the work (generally) isn't the *goal*; it's just what someone believes is the solution to some other unspoken concern(s) they have. And some of those concerns are legitimate!

Some that come to mind:
- Not wanting one's work to be misrepresented, harming their reputation as an individual
- Not wanting third parties to landlord over their work, or otherwise exploit it while they themselves are struggling to survive
- Not wanting one's work to be used for malicious purposes (think fascists)

While I don't believe that "intellectual property" is the solution to any of these, I *do* think they are legitimate concerns - and that you cannot address artists' pro-copyright stances without also clarifying that there are better solutions for these concerns.

Basically, just saying "tough luck, all work is derivative" will be perceived as dismissive of their concerns, because they assume that rejecting copyright also means rejecting the reasons why they *want* copyright. Which is an understandable assumption, considering pro-copyright propaganda.

Found this in my images and thought it would be useful to someone else/ they might also find this interesting.

#nature #bird #feather #wings #wingmakeup #reference #artreference

@hazelnot Scan Tailor Advanced seems to be the most recently updated fork, but realistically even the original unmaintained one will be fine if it's packaged for your system. Even 6 years ago this thing felt like future tech :p

people keep spending too much time thinking about what a technology *is* and not enough about *who owns it and how they profit from it.*

and even less time thinking about *how they can destroy that property relation and liberate the underlying technology* if it's useful

@hazelnot Scan Tailor (or one of the forks) is very very good at this sort of thing

Just learned of this giant adorable fox sculpture in Rotterdam and now I must share it with everyone.

@joepie91 This is not an answer, but I really hope there *is* a good answer.

I'd love to have an "internet" VM that simulates a (small scale) global internet, with packet losses, variable latency, etc., in a configurable way, along with a way to hook up individual client VMs to the fake-internet (with simulated NAT etc. like you mention). A turn-key solution really ought to be possible, but I'm not sure one exists.

What's the easiest way to set up a simulated network with ISP-style NAT? Preferably without buying dedicated hardware for the purpose, and preferably reproducible for other developers.

Usecase: I am developing a P2P system, and need a reasonably representative environment to test my software in, and how well it deals with shitty residential networking configurations.

I'm a developer, not a network engineer, so my knowledge of networks is limited to a developer perspective and I don't have the spoons to learn it in-depth.

Boosts appreciated :boost_requested:

What. KDE's SFTP integration just broke, and frustration-F5ing my file browser actually worked to fix it???

subtoot 

Imagine being a journalist with a million followers and tweeting "SCOOP: SERVERS COST MONEY"

if you're a journalist and you're writing whole-ass articles about fediverse drama

stop
go home
rethink your life

re: rant, hair stuff vs cis people 

@akai I hated this *so, so* much growing up

re: shitty reasons for defederation 

@schratze I mean, to be fair, that's probably the least bad defed reason of the lot

I love how well my P100 mask goes with my Tali hoodie.💜 I am always masked bc I'm immunocompromised, disabled & chronically ill, the pandemic isn't over and I am not trying to collect any more illnesses, thanks 😂 Extra protection from COVID feels very Quarian to me 😌😷

is it bad if your VM is reporting a CPU temperature of -273 degrees celsius

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