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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for highlighting this. Too bad the link wasn’t between the article and the letter. It’d be more noticeable.

  “By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries,” he continued.

  Ok, so it sounds like they’ll have a more direct line to government documents, which by law have no copyright because they belong to the people. That’s a good thing.

  The Internet Archive has also been targeted by major music labels, including Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, over the Great 78 Project, an initiative to preserve 78 RPM records. Though most of the records are out of print, 4,000 of the 400,000 digitized recordings are copyrighted, including Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas.” The organization could owe upwards of $700 million in damages if the labels win the lawsuit — a financial hit that would threaten to shut it down.

  I’ve been aware of this lawsuit for a while. I donated to help the legal battle. It’s absurd that copyright can be flexed against works that are out of print and mostly unavailable. I’ve long argued that we’re going to have a gap in our history between when lots of works went digital-only and when we actually enshrine laws that protect them from disappearing. How large a gap depends on how quickly lawmakers address this issue vs copyright. Given the current climate, important legislation such as this isn’t happening any time soon.

  You know how we find stone tablets and ancient scrolls with historical information from thousands of years ago? We even find “nonessential” stuff like recipes and trading documents and tax records. Stuff like that likely won’t be preserved from our modern age if anyone is still around to investigate our times in two thousand years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Internet Archive Designated as a Federal Depository Library⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting to learn more about what this means, but I assume it gives the Internet Archive some degree of support from the government. Whether that’s financial or just a protected status I dunno. I tentatively think this is a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you think they want to help you? Are you a multimillionaire? Do you benefit from cutting social services to fund a tax write off that helps you?

  Ordinary people are completely fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m sad that people will be hurt, I’ll dance when this shit collapses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my old neighborhood, during the pan and lockdown, I was walking and listening to podcasts every day to kill time. There were Sonic trucks and vans everywhere. I asked a worker if they were laying fiber and he said no. A month later, a knock at the door and a guy wearing a Sonic polo.

  “Are you selling fiber?” Yes. Comcast had no hope of keeping me. I’d been a prisoner for years. I don’t have Sonic anymore because I moved, but I still have unlimited fiber.

  Go home and die, Comcast. You suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Graduates From Top MBA Programs Are Struggling to Land Jobs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider MBAs unskilled management, so other than not wishing for human suffering, I don’t care that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These are the text messages that allegedly got a former Bungie executive fired, according to a court document written by Sony⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sony continues to disingenuously cherry pick text messages and alleged conversations,” said Barrett’s legal team in a message to Totilo at Game File. "

  Cherry picked? There shouldn’t be anything to cherry pick in the first place. His conduct was gross and was absolutely sexual harassment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghostty terminal is out!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Build failed on my Mac.

  There is no XCFramework found at ‘/Users/danyoung/Downloads/ghostty-1.0.0/macos/GhosttyKit.xcframework’.

  14.7.1 (23H222) Xcode 16.1 16B40

  Anyone else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, so we’re giving him more money. Gdi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ireland's privacy watchdog ends legal fight with X over data use for AI after it agrees to permanent limits | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time until Lonnie’s company breaks its word… three… two…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victory! California Bill To Impose Mandatory Internet ID Checks Is Dead—It Should Stay That Way⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not Texas!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zillow’s upgraded AI search will show you more homes you can’t afford⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet. I’ve already accepted that I’ll never own a home because I don’t want to live in the places where they’re affordable. This affects me exactly zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New VWs will answer some of your questions with ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly no one asked for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission to investigate Ticketmaster’s ‘dynamic pricing’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Break them up. I think the only other companies as widely disliked are Clear Channel and Comcast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  holding execs personally liable

  DOOOOOOOOO IIIIIIIIIIIIIT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike exec will testify to Congress about July’s global IT meltdown⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t remember who called it, but I think maybe Ed Zitron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, presumably they had to grab office space to make this move since they started during the pan, so maybe not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing CEO Carl Pei suggested that those unable to transition from remote working should leave the company and “find an environment where you thrive.”

  Get completely fucked you dismissive shitbag.

  Pei said in the email, telling employees who are worried about flexibility that “this is a company for grown ups.”

  I’ll say it again. Get completely…

  I typically cheer device makers because I want competition to force my preferred device maker to compete on innovation. I had been on the side of Nothing. I now want it to fail. I want this dickfaced asshole executive to find out he ran his company into the ground by pissing off the talented people below him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asahi Linux on MacBook air questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an iPad Air tucked into a leather couch pocket for just this reason. I pull it out and jump on Lemmy when we pause for my partner to go to the bathroom or make a snack. Sometimes, you just appreciate a bigger screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asahi Linux on MacBook air questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I installed it about a year ago. It worked fine in my (extremely) limited testing. I daily-drive MacOS and had recently got a MBP, so I figured why not give it a spin on my old Air as I’ve been supporting the project since its inception. I only used it for maybe five minutes. It seemed reasonably polished to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nickelodeon Alums Allege Toxic Environment on Dan Schneider TV Shows in New Doc Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit. The wiki entry was pretty brutal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nickelodeon Alums Allege Toxic Environment on Dan Schneider TV Shows in New Doc Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gina Carano Sues Disney Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing In Lawsuit Funded by Elon Musk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Billionaires are assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evan Rachel Wood Still Doesn’t Know ‘Westworld’ Ending After Cancellation: “It Keeps Me Up at Night”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They could have ended perfectly with s1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RANT : The thing i miss from reddit is that when a series or movie came out or ended there would be a big discussion threads.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on your side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the age of public salary-range listings, some jobseekers feel duped⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently started a new position. I had to be escorted in and out for the first interview. On the way out, the hiring manager complimented me twice that I’d done so well in the interview. The second interview was over Zoom, so there was no shared elevator ride at the end, but I got the job.

  It was at the lower end of what was advertised. And even though I’ve received really nice positive feedback a few time (today, “professionalism and patience” was mentioned, I think I’m getting close to the most my boss had a budget to give. I base this on observations and gut feeling, nothing empirical. Just a vibe I get.

  I think the org lied on the job req. I blame HR rather than my boss. I actually quite like my boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be amazed by the uses of Tech...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The cables are flat!