Nukemin Herttua

Radical/Rad!

Some time ago I read about a similar situation with copyright preventing use of pictures of 70+ year old paintings in a doctoral dissertation. The dissertation was all about analyzing those paintings so the situation was sort of ridiculous.

Even worse, the owner of the paintings (the artist’s heirs) had given their permission for the use, but the the high quality photographs of the paintings were owned by institution that requested thousands of euros for their use. While 100% lawful and I understand cultural institutions also need money, the whole situation felt really wrong and against common sense and decency.

I understand requesting money from a commercial project, but for and academic dissertation that’s not fair. Same goes for emoji’s that are anyways used by millions of people every day. No one is going to profit directly from a dissertation anyways.It’s just stupid and should be changed.

That’s a helluva expensive shot. I mean, you should definitely get it, but nobody should have to pay that much for it. I guess that’s USA…

That would be Farscape + Nox Archaist. Very difficult to imagine what the crossover would be like 😅

Leaving Twitter was easy.

Just log out once and since you can’t even read embedded tweets without being logged in, you are practically isolated from the whole platform. If you last a few days, you realize that you’re not really missing anything…

Money happened.

Maybe so, although I don’t really have a interest in that. I really wish I was able to maintain my skills in both “fields”. I’ve found out that nowadays it is important to have people who can interpret layman problems and wishes to techies and explain technological “jargon” to “normal” people. Being a middleman like this seems to have it’s benefits.

A humanist here, working in the cultural heritage (which is also increasingly digital) field.

I reckon I have more computer skills than an average user but in no way I am a “techie”. It’s just that I know how to search for tech solutions and am not afraid of breaking the computer. Due to using Unity I also have some experience with C# and currently I am trying to learn python (mostly just for fun but you’ll never know if it ends up being helpful at some point).

So definetily not a tech person, but interested in both the humanist and technological side if life.

For some it’s intentional and motivated by racism. For others it’s probably just cold and calculated opportunism.

The latter don’t really care as long as they profit politically or financially from such policies. It’s like selling your soul to a devil, because “who cares”.

Anyone supporting bullshit like that should experience few years as a slave to really see what the benefits are. Stupid assholes…

It’s the same age old story: big guy punches a small guy and when the small guy punches back, the big guy starts crying that he’s been punched.

Cause and effect, you reap what you sow.

Never really used it that much and I’ve been much more active in Lemmy than ever in Reddit.

However, if I have problem that need a quick answer, I usually search Reddit. This in not because it is somehow amazing, but because Google searches suck nowadays. Typing Reddit into the search query usually brings out the answer I need instantly.

I’m sure it also has something to do with that when you get older, you’ve had those experiences many more times than as a child. They just don’t feel that specia anymore.l

Great! I’ll need to get one before they run out of stock then.

So Intel Nuc’s are not probably ideal for that job? 1080p is good enough for me for now :)

Damn, we are using them at my work and they have been very good as remotely updateable media kiosks. I just started to learn how to use them. Ofcourse well keep using them for some time still, but at some point we’ll need to find another solution.

I was also thinking getting one to work as a streaming computer. Currently I use one computer setup, which causes performance issues with some games. Would a nuc work as a computer to encode the video live or would it make more sense to use a machine with s proper GPU? Any thoughts?

There’s a little game called Dorfromantik in which you build a map with tiles. The PC version is my go to game when I need to multitask (made long Teams meetings during covid bearable). It’s very simple, yet I have like 150h put into it. Not even that expensive to buy.

There’s also a board game version which apparently ok too.

Wait until he realizes where the ventriloquist’s hand is…

These kinda belong to a museum or some other instance that has the resources to catalogue and preserve them. Any idea if an instance like that exists in USA? Library of Congress comes to mind but I don’t think they are responsible for preserving such materials.

Not counting the obvious blackmail aspect of the Two Pence Sultan’s demand, the whole idea is stupid.

EU and NATO are separate organizations with separate structures. While most of EU are NATO members, NATO issues aren’t, shouldn’t and cannot be decided in EU bodies. I’d be very surprised if anyone in EU (including Sweden) would change their stance towards Turkey unless they themselves undergo fundamental changes to match the applicant criteria.

Unless Erdogan has his head totally up in his own arse, He knows this. He’s probably upping the ante to later back off and make a deal on some other issue that has been too much for NATO or the US up to this point.

Ofcourse this is just my reading of the situation and I’m not an expert on Turkey or international policy. It just seems to fit Erdogan’s Modus operandi.

Don’t know, haven’t played it yet 😅