Posts by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
(DIR) Post #ARBJ7Yc1MXyq3K1hAG by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2022-12-31T22:53:58Z
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Hi. I'm writing a #TomLehrer-related bot, which I hope to roll out by the end of January. Is there an instance out there that is dedicated to #culture that might let me post to it? Somewhere that is interested in the #PublicDomain, or at least acknowledges its existence?@mmasnick, could you boost for wider coverage, please?Thanks, and Happy New Year!
(DIR) Post #ASyX1vqofi9yPKhiro by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2023-02-23T14:43:54Z
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There's a serious opportunity for #Mastodon and other #ActivityPub systems to implement properly secure DMs by integrating #Matrix from @matrix .
(DIR) Post #ATxGySU26LVfIDfs4e by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2023-03-24T12:32:39Z
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An #emacs #orgmode question.Is there a way I can get a HTML export to show footnotes in my document as pop-ups when I hover the mouse over the footnote number. Like the way Wikipedia does it? or the way an export to ODT will do it because it's a feature of LibreOffice?Thanks.
(DIR) Post #AatTJ1KRHgFFm1xY00 by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2023-10-18T11:54:10Z
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My multi-decade mission to stop developers automatically blaming others for bugs (i.e. before they rule out their own work!) has clearly failed.
(DIR) Post #AbXK5sHflqY6xyq9Eu by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2023-11-06T17:19:39Z
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I have a 100% first-try success rate with my mechanism of giving our dog pills and tablets. Happy to share here if you're interested.
(DIR) Post #AbXN9J0PB2PUZa5hRI by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2023-11-06T17:38:09Z
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Take the pill in one hand Place your other hand under the dog's chin and squeeze her cheeks between her jaws, with your thumb on one side and your fingers on the other. She'll open her mouth wide, as it's painful for her to keep it closed. While holding her mouth open this way, place the pill onto the back of her tongue (as far back as you can). She won't bite down on your hand because it will hurt her to do so. This is important: once the pill is in place, remove your hand before letting go with the other one! Let go of her cheeks so that she can close her mouth, and immediately hold her muzzle closed lightly. "Lightly", not "tightly". You want to hold it so that she can move her tongue between her teeth, but not so that she can push the pill out through them. She will resist momentarily, but after 10 seconds or so, she will lick her lips. Wait for her licking her lips: that's confirmation she has swallowed the pill Give her a treat, lots of rubs, lots of praise telling her how such a good girl she is.No mixing, no cajoling, no pleading, no declarations about how it's important or going to make you all better. Just get it in.Let me know how it works for you.
(DIR) Post #AbXZJ0Y7qlwBg6Fx6u by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2023-11-06T16:18:54Z
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This post starts off with "Last week, Element informed the Foundation that it will be forking Synapse and Dendrite."It reads like this was news to The Matrix Foundation, and that the foundation was not prepared for it.Is that true? If so, it's very distressing -- If Element and The Matrix Foundation are in dispute, it leaves us who are committed to using and promoting #Matrix confused as to what and who to support. I remember the first days of the XFree86/X.org, the OpenOffice/LibreOffice and the Owncloud/Nextcloud forks, and things we're not pleasant.
(DIR) Post #AcLdJijYwZvi4PeXD6 by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2023-11-30T23:46:01Z
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I am 100% for governments using self-hosted systems for internal communications, but this:"These digital tools are not devoid of security flaws, and therefore cannot guarantee the security of conversations and information shared via them,"... is a shockingly weak justification.
(DIR) Post #Ai35vpwCPNCgluGK4O by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2024-05-19T11:45:42Z
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100%.I'm getting tired of the accusations being levelled at voters for not wanting to vote for a guy who's actually complicit in a genocide.It's 2016 all over again. So few properly understand that neither Jill Stein nor those who voted for her lost Hilary Clinton the election. it was Clinton herself who did it.
(DIR) Post #Ai6LfzHm4Axhs5hLHM by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2024-05-20T20:41:39Z
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I find that logic very strange. Surely at some point between when the Nazis came to power in 1933 (when they had officially murdered 0 Jewish people) and when they were defeated (by which time they had managed to murder 6,000,000) there was a point in time when 35,000 Jews had been murdered. Were they not engaged in a genocide at that point too? If not, and more murders are necessary for it to be a genocide, what's the figure? Does it have to be close to 6,000,000? If Israel murders all 2.3m Palestinians living in Gaza, is that close enough? or does it have to be more still?
(DIR) Post #AjSaWLHPPhfEMSsJUW by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2024-06-30T09:34:48Z
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I've seen a lot of concern on the #Fediverse about how AI companies and (of all organisations!) the Internet Archive are engaged is massive plagiarism and content theft.The problem here may, in fact, be in how #copyright itself works.So, I'm proposing a new form of (optional) copyright that creators can apply to their works that will protect them from what they see is theft by these companies and organisations.https://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2024/06/29_new-copy-right.htmlYou're all free to copy this proposal and bring it to your legislators to see if they will build the legal framework.
(DIR) Post #AjSxTgMGszNPoOqlKC by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2024-06-30T21:34:34Z
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Normal copyright, yes. My new special copyright would require registration to allow the creator have these additional controls.(also, while the U.S. automatically grants copyright, I understand it requires the copyright to be registered before filing a law suit claiming infringement)
(DIR) Post #AjTvfuMoccSDz4laGe by eibhear@social.gibiris.org
2024-07-01T05:07:51Z
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My new #copyright will be available only to individual creators. Corporations will have to stick with the current system:As this new copyright will be non-transferable, you will not be permitted to assign it to any other person, or to any corporate entity. Corporations will not be able to access this new form of copyright, and will continue to use the current regime.Creativity is a personal act; this new right will only ever vest with the individual person who created the work, if that's their preference.