@eevee (I love how this is actually *worse* than we had before - now the connector *physically* appears to fit but it just inexplicably won't work 50% of the time)
@eevee Vendors, amirite?
@eevee I have bad news for you, not all USB-C devices implement the (required!) reversing circuitry to make connectors orientation-agnostic
Hey any paleontology people know what happened to fossilworks.org and where something like it exists, please and thank you?
Signed, an armchair paleontologist who's finding a lot of broken links on Wikipedia
It blows my mind that America could cut enough from its military budget to single-handedly fix extreme poverty and world hunger, and they'd still have the largest military budget in the world.
@nyanotech PLA, but it is faring *much* worse than even the cheapo Creality PLA I used to have
I live in the deep south and don't have any other #trans people to ask questions to. I know there is no "right way" to be trans but I have so many questions about others' experience. I think I'm gonna ask questions here since I've never seen a more supportive group of people. Please feel free to boost for visibility and feel free to let me know if I'm too much.
lmao, *all* of my eSun-printed filament clips have stopped, well, clipping - they just break apart now if you bend them. Despite having had zero daylight exposure. This filament is *so bad*
@eloy I'd disagree with that; the rationale behind "it's not Mastodon, it's the fediverse" is very different.
It's not about 'credit', but about making it clear that there's a lot of options *beyond* Mastodon, which is important particularly with the questionable governance model behind the Mastodon project itself.
1. Crows are super smart.
2. Crows can remember faces.
3. Crows have regional dialects.
4. Crows investigate the cause of death of the deceased.
5. Crows make & use tools.
6. Crows hide their food.
7. Crows have the largest brain to body ratio of any bird. Their brain to body ratio is bigger than humans.
8. A group of crows is called 'a murder of crows'.
Picture taken at Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.
#BirdPhotography #corvids #Crow #WildlifePhotography #WildlifePhotographer #ScottishWildlife
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
@schratze It's still up on Tor, I think? Also https://annas-archive.org/
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.