Eleison23

History Colorado won't have legal standing to add licensing or conditions to their use.

They will have the technical ability to control initial distribution. So we can assume he's going to upload highest-resolution originals to their archives. HC may need to delay access to them, or they may only offer downscaled copies for download initially.

They could watermark or alter them in some way before distribution: since being in the public domain really means no restrictions on use or modifications, they can do anything they want upstream. I mean, they probably won't do watermarking, because I don't see it on other images in the "Collection" on the official website. We'll see if EXIF data is processed in any way. Or which formats will be distributed: you could hope for something lossless, right?

But a public domain dedication, properly done, is irrevocable. Fielder may choose to exempt certain works from dedication, for example if a photograph is monetized already, or used by a popular news agency, etc. But it looks like HC will have 5,000 out of 200,000 images, and will shortly release it for public consumption on the same searchable website.

https://www.historycolorado.org/press-release/2023/01/23/col...

First of all, "free and open source" as in libre, does not necessarily mean "free as in beer". You are perfectly free to pay for FOSS and FOSS makers are free to charge for it. Is that clear?

Second, "FOSS = safe" from a privacy perspective is not nearly the reason you want FOSS. You want a FOSS browser for many, many reasons that are above and beyond privacy assurances.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

I visited a different sort of "Cathedral that failed". In Manresa, Catalonia there is a basilica named Santa Maria de la Seu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria,_Manresa

My fiancée, acting as my native guide, informed me that Manresa was once in competition to be the seat of a bishopric, and this grand church had been constructed as part of that bid, perhaps in the 9th century or so. It is sort of like how nations build Olympic stadiums in hopes of attracting that sort of honor.

Anyway, the bid did not succeed and the city remained within the jurisdiction of a more ancient see at Vic. https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbat_de_Vic

Nevertheless, Santa Maria is a gorgeous sight, with flying buttresses and marvelous stonework. My impression from the visit is more of a tourist attraction and museum. We did not attend Mass at this location, if indeed it is held there.

We did, however, attend Mass at the Sagrada Família. In fact, I attended Mass at two distinct Sagrada Família churches: there is one (slightly less grand scale) in Manresa too. Unfinished and unconsecrated as it had been in 2008, Mass was not yet celebrated at the main altar, so our liturgy was a rather intimate experience in the Catalan vernacular in a side-chapel. (Unfortunately, we did not have time to tour the whole thing. I should've liked to see the crypt, the breathtaking main interior, and ascend one of the towers.)

We were also on a budget. When we arrived at the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia (there are a lot of cathedrals, basilicas and churches in my stories of Catalonia) we were confronted with an admission charge. The Catholic faithful and guests are not charged to attend the sacred liturgy, but tourists are charged to be lookie-loos in the off-hours, and since we ignored the schedule of Masses, we were lookie-loo tourists, and the very thought of needing to spend money offended my fiancée, who considers herself a faithful Catholic woman. I consoled her with a gift shop visit.

While the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia is definitely a "finished work", you can see nearby an ancient Roman wall, which is of the type that were probably always under construction or subject to improvement by the occupying forces in Hispania.

dang, please link the revision which is actually claimed to be written by ChatGPT: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artwork_title&old...

The current revision is heavily modified by many human editors, so little of ChatGPT remains.

Remember when we vainly attempted to train people how to distinguish between legitimate and spoofed domain names, such as in phishing emails?

Remember when big tech companies started sending confirmation/survey emails with links to domain names indistinguishable from spoofed ones? 1drv.ms, I'm looking at you.

Now good luck convincing anyone that "xn--meagefactory-m9a.ca" is totally legit.

That's not the only goal. This also reduces the effectiveness of copycat crimes, and differentiates any would-be copycats from the original. Also, it enhances the ability of authorities to receive and authenticate tips from the general public. In fact, in a high-profile case, it's common practice to deliberately plant misinformation in the form of slight immaterial errors, for many of the same purposes.

I think this is a compliment from the journalism community. Any journalist on a particular beat is going to lurk on various news aggregators and forums, looking for a scoop. This writer has probably seen dozens, hundreds of stories come across HN's headlines that were reporting on blogs already given exposure and news stories that had already broken. If the journalist determined that in this case, HN had the scoop, and dang's outlet was the first to publish the link to the hacktivist's blog, then HN rightly deserves credit as having the scoop. I have no idea whether it went down that way; I'm just describing a Platonic ideal.

I did view "Threads", years ago. It was disturbing, yes.

When I was in school, the teachers all put out an advisory about "The Day After (1983)". It was a big deal; many families were planning to watch it, and it wasn't on cable, it was on broadcast OTA TV, so it was highly accessible, even to children.

The school administration decided they needed to get in front of the controversy and put out a Christian message about hope and trust in God, when it seemed like the world was panicking over the Cold War and mainstream media was egging us on. Ever since then, I have appreciated their candor and willingness to tell us the truth about this world and the next.

We had fire drills at school; we knew about "duck and cover" but we didn't practice any air-raid drills that I can recall. However, when my mother took me shopping at the JC Penney across town, there was prominent signage for their old-fashioned Fallout Shelter in the basement. I was really intrigued by the bold yellow lettering and symbology, and I sometimes wonder what it was like down there, because we've never seen the inside of any bomb shelter whatsoever.

My dad worked around hazardous materials on a regular basis, as a safety professional, and he was on the science end of things, and spent time in the office as much as the lab. He often brought home tools like a Geiger counter, film badges, a radio pager, and I think there were other chemical sensors ("sniffers"?) Learning at his feet, I picked up a lot of geology, so I could recognize isotopes and chemical symbols and count in rems, etc.

Earthquakes were the primary hazard for us, and I suppose that any nuclear explosion would've had earthquake-like effects, among other things, to put it blandly.

Aside from the unnamed security risks the admins mention, Texas A&M undoubtedly has an Acceptable Use Policy in place for their campus networks, and this would be an AUP that restricts usage to academic type only. Technically it is against the rules of any university or college or school to be using non-academic, frivolous apps like these, by way of academic resources.

It would be like renting a classroom to hold your bachelor party. Or a homeless person living in the library. That's not what school is for.

Academic institutions are well within their rights to block all kinds of social media, especially when those apps are hogging bandwidth, memory, storage, screen space, or whatever. They're disruptive to the learners who pay tuition and they're a drain on taxpayers and alumni alike.

Good riddance.

My first job was at a Network Operations Center, and it was just like in the movies, with a big projection monitor, two network operators at terminals below, and above us were four analog clocks depicting the four main time zones of these United States. They were electric, and I guess they were battery-powered because of the lack of cords going everywhere.

When Daylight Savings Time began, I sauntered in about 9am and my coworkers were filtering in too. The morning guy, "Matt" had been there since about 6am and he had changed the clocks. So my other coworker, "Jason" congratulated Matt for setting all the clocks correctly and then he asked him, "so did you do it by setting all four clocks ahead one hour, or did you move them all to the left and then move the Pacific clock to the Eastern position?" Facepalm!

That might be a good job interview question, or it would have been if manual, analog clocks were still a thing.

[citation needed] for that assertion. Atari 2600 is extremely limited in the number of sprites available on-screen at the same time. If you've played Pac-Man then you know that 5 is too many, because all of the so-called "ghosts" are actually flickering. They're doing that not for a spooky effect, but because they can't be simultaneously displayed. That sort of sprite flicker doesn't happen in Pitfall!

I think we need to examine the definition of "pipe" in a POSIX context here. Pipelines feed the output of one program into the input of another one. You don't "pipe" files, you copy them.

This film resonated with 14-year-old me so profoundly that I became obsessed with it in every way. I managed to go see it in the theater at least 9 times, Mrs. Bueller. I was absolutely enthralled by Ferris' audacity and the overall thrill ride Hughes took me on. I had no particular love for any Hughes films before or after that; I was absolutely a Ferris Bueller boy and that's how it was for years. This favorite movie status was finally supplanted by Steve Martin in LA Story.

There are strange cases which may make this a logical choice. Since vi doesn't traditionally lock the file it's editing, another process could change the file on-disk while you have it in the editing buffer. I think you'll get a message in these situations, because it's usually not what you want. Then you'd have the choice of writing out the buffer, whether it's changed or not, to restore the contents of the file from when you began your vi session.

That's not obvious, because you don't necessarily own the code you're uploading. I can upload any sort of MIT-licensed, BSD-licensed, Apache-licensed, Creative-Commons-licensed, or GNU-copylefted works I want, anywhere within reason and compatible with those licenses, but if I didn't write them then I don't have the legal right to relicense, grant exclusive or restricted license to any specified parties.

So in a way this would void parts of many TOS agreements where you do relicense your User-Generated Content. If we're uploading memes to Facebook, they're gonna have to work out license terms with the copyright holders, not the uploaders.

Technically, Jesus rose again and left Earth alive, without dying again. The Blessed Virgin Mary is certainly mentioned in the New Testament, and her death is an open question, but her assumption into Heaven is a fact.

When I was homeless, I found a job with a "call center". Our training consisted of teaching us the cover story and how to handle reactions to it. We began with a joke involving alcohol. Then if they didn't hang up we launched into the pitch: "We just lost our lease on our warehouse, and we've got to move all these pens. You can get them imprinted with your name and phone number for a bargain. What do you say?"

I quit within 3 days because I'm not a liar.

Lying has been a source of controversy for Christians since the beginning. The Old Testament recounts at least two instances of righteous Gentiles: women who lied for the sake of Israel. The Egyptian midwives save the Hebrews' male progeny from death, and Rahab the harlot hides spies in the heart of Jericho. It's unambiguous that God deals kindly with them, and Rahab becomes an ancestor of Jesus.

The most frequently cited technique is that of mental reservation. If Nazis knock on your door and ask, "Are there any Jews here?" you can stand in your foyer and say "There are no Jews here." because "here" means the foyer, not your attic or closet.

Fast-forward to the present day. The Catechism of the Catholic Church revised a few paragraphs on lying: #2483 and #2508. While this doesn't constitute a change in teaching or doctrine, it makes the present stance stricter and less permissive, as well as obscuring the controversial history of the thing, and now we're unable to reconcile the OT pericopes with what the Catechism says.

https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?rec...

Bat Boy didn't libel anyone, and was the product of a tabloid known for its outrageously fictional stories.

A tape drive actually led to my adoption of Linux.

Around 1999, I decided that a QIC tape was the best backup solution for my home network. At the time, I had a 486 running Windows, and two Apollo 425t running OpenBSD. The 486 may have also dual-booted into OpenBSD.

Anyway, I had a bare-bones 386 sitting around and I had upgraded the 486 so much that the spare parts were available to reconstitute the 386. I found a nice floppy tape drive, consumer grade, and wouldn't you know that OpenBSD didn't have floppy tape drivers. So I installed Linux on the 386 and it was a dedicated backup server.

At the same time I had a SyQuest EZ 135 that I was very fond of, and those 135MB cartridges could hold good stuff, like a complete complement of Windows updates. But its capacity was too low to be a backup solution, of course; it was storage on-the-go.

I think we're at a FUD stage of self-checkout deployments.

These things are real unpopular, both with workers whose jobs are threatened and with consumers who are now either honorary employees or de facto shoplifters.

I work computers for a living; I work computers in my free time. Sometimes I enjoy having a little break from working a computer to look a human being in the eye, say hello and thank you. In fact I often enjoy customer service transactions as the only friendly human interactions I might have all week.

I've witnessed a stream of articles saying bad things about self-checkouts and convincing consumers to avoid self-checkout. Since I'm cynical, I believe there's money and lobbying behind those articles, not a true problem or concern. Nevertheless, I'm sorry that there are fewer humans to greet me and help me in the store these days. I miss you guys.

One reason: the designers believed in simple datatypes. If a string is simply an array of characters, that's a straightforward and understandable way to represent it. Each member of the array has equal size and type and it's laid out linearly in memory. It's super easy to obtain a pointer to an array.

If you create a C datatype with a length plus characters, now you've got a composite of two types. That's a struct. Most of those excellent properties I describe above are no longer in play. The "length" value is probably wider than the characters after it. Is it going to land on a word boundary? How to copy it around in RAM?

It was a short trip from C code to assembly, and this decision matched the simple elegance of Unix.

I don't know about the others, but AWS is not free and it's not cheap. There are ways to set alerts on budget overruns, but there is no foolproof way to limit monthly spending. Eventually you will configure something that goes out of control, or I was able to conceive of a few scenarios where a malicious third party could rack up charges for, e.g. S3 egress costs. Good luck contesting the charges more than once. I shut everything down and pulled out of AWS. I believe that Azure's free trial featured a hard cap, but still requires a credit card to open your account.

I wrote a research paper in college on the Children's Crusade, and the question I posed to be answered was "how many children participated in it?"

It turns out that it was a real phenomenon, and many children did leave home, but being children, practically none of them made it to the Holy Land. The journey for many was much, much shorter. And likewise, for many it was merely a spiritual crusade and they went nowhere but "TO GOD!" as they were heard to shout.

There were eyewitnesses and contemporary accounts, and I compiled an impressive list of sources to document what could be gleaned from those accounts from a modern perspective.

Spanish words ending in "o" are, by default, inclusive. For centuries, it has been a linguistic idiom (not just in Spanish) that references to mixed-sex groups of people are done in the masculine. Women understood this perfectly and were not slighted by the custom, because it would not lead to an assumption that a group of people were homogeneously male or an assumption that women were "lesser" than men or excluded from the conversation. If a group of people is uniformly female then the feminine declensions can be used, and fluent speakers will easily shift from one to the other based on group composition.

It's very much the same sort of situation that we've used words like "mankind" and "peace on Earth, good will towards men" and women have always understood that "men" included them implicitly. It's only recently that women have chosen to take linguistic offense and rise up and complicate the language in search of manufactured equity.

Chris Siebenmann has been blogging about how cold affects his workstation. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ColdLockupMach...

That may be true for immovable train lines, but vehicle transit such as buses have routes which are subject to change, and therefore developers cannot depend on the transit lines being there in 10-20 years.

Bus lines instead tend to follow where the traffic wants to go. Around here, many shopping malls double as bus stations because the primary aim of transit seems to be circulating consumers around places they will spend money.

Cultured meat is meat, it's just not taken from slaughtered animals. So there's a world of difference between processing vegetable matter and faking it into meat-like substances, vs. culturing meat "humanely" with technology to avoid the perils of factory farming.

All things being equal, the promise is that cultured meat will be equivalent in taste, texture, nutrition, etc. to animal meat.

Social media's aims are unlike any other social space to come before.

Restaurants gather people together around delicious food and everyone is able to enjoy themselves at the table with a meal and friends. Friendly engagement.

Parks invite people to have recreation at various stages in life, whether with team sports, a playground, just running around the grass, or a picnic. Friendly engagement.

Public transit helps people congregate on vehicles for the sake of traveling to a common destination, and therefore disparate people are united by this common goal of arriving safe and sound.

I could go on about all the public spaces that promote some kind of friendly engagement and socializing, but social media such as Facebook is calibrated and designed to put us at one another's throats. It's not good if we see a post and let it go by, we must lash out and correct or attack. Dislikes are as valuable as Likes in the Facebook economy. Hordes of censors are required to tamp down the inevitable violations that occur when people go out of bounds. Social media thrives and grows from attacks, libel, gossip, and falsehoods.

Of course this is all only an extrapolation of print and broadcast media as it came before. Nothing has changed since Moses broke the tablets and Luther nailed up his theses. But social media is concentrated and unadulterated poison.

I have a friend who uses Siri to great effect. Sometimes I use voice typing.

I have decided a few times that Android's Google Assistant is mature enough for me to try it out. But for two fatal flaws: it can't do anything useful, and I don't know how to speak to it.

The Assistant can't arbitrarily control other apps on a program, for instance if I want to say "log into my bank and check my balance on checking" there's no interface for that. We're left with mundane crap like "set an alarm at 10am."

Furthermore, I don't know the vocabulary of my Assistant. To be understood properly on the CLI, I've learned how to speak to Infocom's z-Machine, the Bourne shell, Cisco routers, hell I'm a full-fledged Protocol Droid at this point. But I have no idea what to say after "OK, Google!"