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To be honest, I use Organic Maps over CoMaps simply because Organic Maps is available in Accrescent (which is in turn provided by the GrapheneOS App Store), and CoMaps is not. Both…

I wouldn’t call scalping “good” necessarily, but in the case of the Steam Controller, I’ve seen an awful lot of people incensed about scalping whose commentary overpowers more inte…

> The transitive verb tresspass also means violate. That is one definition, yes, though to my ear it feels archaic and has mostly been replaced with “trespass against.” > If you se…

> Tresspass is not a reflexive verb. Correct. But it is, sometimes, a transitive verb. One can trespass (go somewhere one is not allowed), and one can be trespassed (be banned from…

Trespassing (intransitive) is different from trespassing someone (transitive). It’s not unusual for a verb to mean something different when used transitively versus when used intra…

Goebbels was an unreliable narrator who had strong incentive to promote the idea that freedom of speech makes a nation weak.

I’ve bought Tor books from Google Play and gotten DRM‐free EPUB files from it.

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The NetSurf browser the author tried out has multiple frontends. Two run on OpenBSD that I know of, the “default” GTK frontend and an SDL‐based framebuffer frontend. As was pointed…

This exact situation came up during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The prosecution wanted to present an image of Rittenhouse. It was materially important whether or not the picture de…

DRM wouldn’t be a problem if it were unambiguously legal to break it and if copyright durations weren’t so ridiculously long. I have free and legal access to all the ebooks I could…

Other books that are checked out often enough to justify the library keeping them.

The university textbook market is pathological and unfair. At every turn the publishers , and the universities happily go along with it. It taught me the value of a healthy secondh…

Wiley actually tried to abuse copyright law to prohibit import and sale of international textbooks. They fought it all the way to the Supreme Court, and (thankfully) lost. https://…

It can also be watched in full on Wikipedia, as is the case with many films that are public domain in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achme...

100 years old, yet its copyright only expired five years ago— in the United States . In Europe and other life+70 regions, the film will remain copyrighted past 2050, even though Lo…

> This is the reason I buy many games twice: once when they release on Steam, and again (if I loved them) when the come out on GOG It’s the reason I buy most games once, on GOG.

There was a recent case in Florida where an innocent woman with no past record was falsely jailed for 13 days due to Flock imagery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F_0iIaXGqA

Do you make a point of interrogating all the “normal” people you know about their pre‐adult educational history? You’d be surprised how many people you’ve met who were homeschooled…

Standard Ebooks has a database of public domain oil paintings for use as book covers. SE is strict about copyright clearance and requires either scans of a copyright‐expired public…

As someone who was public schooled six years and homeschooled six years, public school definitely made me more unhappy, and was worse for me socially. Of course, I wouldn’t assume …

It’s a monospace font not a handwriting font, but TT2020 uses an interesting technique to do this. https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/docs/moreinfo.html https://copypaste.wtf/TT2020/docs…

Nobody ever claimed that “Open” is a prefix used unambiguously by only one group of people ever. In fact, your insistence that “Open” can only be used by projects that are replacin…

OpenBSD didn’t get its name from NetBSD going closed source.

I encountered it at Pearl Harbor.