https://youtu.be/KW80Yjib7RA

Whatever helps you concentrate on your stroke, I guess.

Well yeah, it is currently. But not if the work becomes PD when you die, as OP is suggesting.

So you’re an author and the only thing between a billion dollar studio and a royalty-free production of your work (that you have no creative input into) is your own death. And you’d feel fine and safe with that because “murder is illegal”?

It’s hard to get away unnoticed with producing a work that infringes copyright, since they tend to have to be released to the public, and from a known source. Getting away with murder is a cinch in comparison.

If it was the day after they died, mightn’t that have an unintended consequence of making it more likely that copyright holders would start “falling out of windows” just when it’s convenient for producers and AI crooks to snaffle up their content, royalty-free?

“arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden

Meow meow, kitty kitty meow meow, kitty kitty meow meow we love you… (To the tune of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)

I wanted a cheap way to try out using a tablet to read music from at my amateur orchestra. I couldn’t find a large-screened affordable android tablet, but I got hold of a cheap 2nd hand Surface Pro 5, a Surface Pen (for making annotations on the music), and a bluetooth foot pedal (for turning pages).

I figured I’d try sticking Fedora on it, but even with the surface specific kernel installed, it did not seem stable. Waking it with the power button randomly stopped working entirely, seemed quite sluggish, that kind of thing.

Even if I’d got it working, there are basically no ideal options on Linux for music reading software. Other platforms have MobileSheets, enScore, etc. If the core OS experience had felt more robust then I was looking forward to trying to create one myself in Qt, but just to get something working I had to give up and stuck a LTS edition of W10 on it instead, which (sadly) does work great and seems very stable in comparison. This makes sense - it’s a very Windows-specific bit of hardware; I was just hopeful that it’s basically just a x64/UEFI device with a bunch of tablety peripherals, so Linux should be an option even if it’s missing a few features. But I can’t risk it blacking out or failing to respond in the middle of a concert.

…each?

while I understand things at a basic level

… including Italian, right? Otherwise it could be a brief chat.

Came here to say exactly the same. Experiment Two.

I think we made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place.

“Fuck it, Dude. Let’s go bowling.”

Not really in public, but speakerphone is sometimes useful to be able to look something up on your phone in the middle of a call, e.g. checking your calendar when booking an appointment. And if someone called you then you’re less in control of whether it’s in public or not.

Red Dwarf - Psirens (1993)

As KRYTEN and LISTER head for the cockpit, the airlock monitor fizzes on again and a SECOND LISTER appears on the screen.

LISTER 2: What the hell are you doing taking off when I’m still outside? Let me in.

KRYTEN double-takes between the LISTER inside and the LISTER on the monitor.

KRYTEN: I’m afraid, sir, you’re already here.

RIMMER steps down from the cockpit.

LISTER 1: He’s a Psiren – don’t let him in. LISTER 2: For god’s sake – I can’t hang on any longer. He’s the Psiren. Let me in! RIMMER: What do we do? KRYTEN: there’s no way to tell which is which. We have to let him in. RIMMER: That means we’ll definitely have one Psiren on board. A brain- sucking psychotic temporal lobe slurper. KRYTEN: There’s a fifty per cent chance we have one on board already. We can’t risk killing the real Lister. I’m letting him in.

You’re expecting there to be more generations in the future?

Hmm, yeah, I can’t see Disney ever making a kids’ film with Nazis in it.

It’s been this way as long as I can remember down at Moors Valley. From my limited observations there, it surprisingly works much better than you might expect.

They don’t need to leave the vehicle to hurt someone else. https://youtu.be/mKHY69AFstE

17 years ago