Kazumara

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If we were to redefine it I wonder what way we'd go. Make -1 the first year of the first century and go in consistent 100 year steps from there? Or just accept that the first century and the first millenium are a little shorter than a hundred or a thousand years respectively?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Yes, but most people ignored it and celebrated the new millennium at the end of 1999 and beginning of 2000 anyway.

See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium#Debate_over_millennium_celebrations

It's quite interesting. For example Fidel Castro made sure that Cuba celebrated correctly at the end of year 2000. And the U.S. Naval Observatory, official timekeeper for the country, held a party for the new milennium then too.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (31 children)

The first quarter of this century is over at the end of 2025.

2001 was the first year in this century. 2025 is the 25th year in this century. 2100 will be the 100th - and last - year in this century.

(1 was the first year in the first century, 100 was the 100th - and last - year in the first century. That's why every subsequent century starts on xx1 or xxx1 as well)

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Xiaomi are pretty open for a chinese brand.

Be warned, they just restricted their bootloader unlocking even more. Now you can only unlock 1 device a year. The waiting period annoyed me so much at the time, for my Redmi Note 8 Pro I had to wait 168h, 1 week. I'm not doing that anymore.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The only idea that comes to mind is working for the mining industry in Austalia. My cousin's husband was a carpenter there and apparently made bank. Although from the stories they told me, most would not save a significant portion. Apparently they tend to work 14 days on, 14 days off or in similar arrangements, and be flown in and out around their shifts. A significant portion of their colleagues would choose to fly to Bali instead of their respective Australian cities, spend their 14 days off there and immediately use up their wages. Weird lifestyle overall.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried going straight, but after a while I noticed there's actually an invisible pinky over there.

Also is the sound too high, or is it just me not rememberering right?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

RNG in doom, that's illegal :D

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Cool challenge

Anaerobically fermented grass, it's cattle feed for the winter, it ferments under covers without (much) air getting to it, that way it also doesn't rot.

I think. But I'm a network engineer so that could be wrong. It's just what I think I heard in some random source I don't remember.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

First of all thanks for the picture, it looks so good! Much better!

Secondly, aren't the flames and smoke in slightly different positions? Perhaps there exist multiple pictures, or a video, from this angle?

Edit: The video is contained in this Supercut from the Guardian: https://youtu.be/pq9_zvpamUk?t=15

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It was a big fat hassle already. With a waiting period of 7 days (168 h) enforced by their internet connected tools. Unlocking my Redmi Note 8 Pro was super annoying. I wouldn't do it anymore. Last time I bought a used Pixel instead. Similarly good value thanks to being used, and no proprietary bullshit.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I’m not talking about giving up copyright to content.

Hm, once again I don't understand your meaning, sorry. The public domain in my understanding is the totality of all content that is not under copyright protection. So "putting on public domain" sounds to me like you're talking about giving up copyright. Please explain what you mean with that phrase, since I seem to be misunderstanding.

CC-0 means waiving any as much rights as possible legally, which depends on jurisdiction.

Yes I'm a little familiar, I looked through the CC licenses before and decided CC0 wasn't the best fit for Switzerland. CC0 is meant to dedicate a work to the public domain, i.e. waive all copyright from it. But I now see that it also specifically has a public license fallback for jurisdictions where the public domain dedication doesn't work, in Section 3.

I couldn’t find anything about default license of publicly available material in your country

There isn't such a thing as a default license here, nor have I heard of such a thing in general before. In my understanding a license is an agreement for partial or total transfer of copyrights. But the default state, in my understanding, is that the copyright lies with the creator and no agreement for transfer exists. Authors have the copyright over a work from the moment creation of a work in Switzerland. They can make agreements with others to confer some of these rights. In Switzerland, in contrast to other places, the authors additionally have moral rights that cannot be broken or sold at all. For a more digestible intro I would suggest this site.

nor about the impossibility you mentioned

The absence of the possibility of making works public domain before the copyright term runs out automatically is harder to show, it's not like it's forbidden by statute, but simply that there isn't a recognized mechanism for it. The best thing I can link is the Factsheet about Public Domain from the following page on the site of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, check number 9 on page 4 in the PDF, it says:

  1. Can I relinquish the copyright to one of my own works by assigning it to the public domain?

Copyright arises automatically and, in contrast to property law, there is no procedure for simply giving up this right. An author, therefore, does not have any direct possibility of giving a work to the public domain. However, he is at liberty to simply tolerate copyright infringement and to waive legal prosecution. In addition, an author can actively decide to make his work available under an appropriate Creative Commons licence, which is very similar to the public domain, or an equivalent type of public licence.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Whatever you put on public domain without explicit license, it becomes CC-0 equivalent.

What does "putting on public domain" mean to you? The way you say that sounds a little weird to me, like there is a misunderstanding here.

Dedicating copyrighted material to the public domain is a deliberate action in some jurisdictions, and impossible in others (like mine, Switzerland). Just publishing a text you wrote for public consumption is something different. That doesn't affect your copyright at all. Unless you have an agreement with the publisher that you grant them a license to use your text by posting it to their website.

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