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nemobis

@nemobis@mamot.fr

Plant-based thoughts [it/en/fi] from #Helsinki, #EU on #copyleft, #commons, #DigitalRights, #OpenScience, #libraries, #climatecrisis, #peace. #Queer.

More #wiki, #GNU, #Linux and #FreeSoftware updates occasionally at #Wikimedia Italia (https://framapiaf.org/@wikimediaitalia).

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11011110, to random
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Continued attack on the public domain by the Italian court system, ruling that the Florence gallery that owns Michelangelo's David also owns "image rights" to the statue, can require licensing fees for any image depicting it, and can impose additional fines for presenting it in a distorted way: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/florence-gallerie-dellaccademia-wins-david-lawsuit-2313262, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023471

It is perhaps important to note that the statue, created in 1504, was on outdoor exhibit in a public square in Florence until 1873, and a replica is still visible there.

Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023471; see also "A fight to protect the dignity of Michelangelo’s David raises questions about freedom of expression", LA Times, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-01/a-fight-to-protect-the-dignity-of-michelangelos-david-raises-questions-about-freedom-of-expression

nemobis,
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@11011110 Note the Ministry has lost the case in Germany against #Ravensburger in March 2024.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240410141158/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/world/europe/vitruvian-man-puzzle-leonardo-da-vinci-ravensburger.html

#PublicDomain

paoloredaelli, to threads
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Let's say that we want to help people to leave #Threads suggesting their own server. Is there any #fediverse hw or sw solution running out of the box, including domain acquisition?

nemobis,
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@paoloredaelli https://ungleich.ch/u/products/mastodon-hosting/ e https://masto.host/pricing/ comprendono un sottodominio gratuito, mentre https://federation.spacebear.ee/ offre #pixelfed che consente l'importazione da Instagram.
https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/introducing-import-from-instagram

#FediMeta

thatgiga, to random Italian
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Curioso come molte forze politiche stigmatizzino pesantemente l'#affitto dell'#utero, mentre da sempre sono molto più tolleranti su quello della vagina.

nemobis,
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@thatgiga Logico. L'affitto è vietato, la vendita è incoraggiata. L'acquisto include una servitú di passaggio.

liaizon, to berlin
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Berlin's repression of the https://palaestinakongress.de yesterday is utterly disgraceful.

nemobis,
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@liaizon
https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-shut-down-pro-palestinian-conference/a-68810306

nemobis, to random
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«Rooting out bias in appraisals can help narrow the racial wealth gap. According to a recent study, eliminating racial disparities in the amount of wealth families gain from owning a home would narrow the wealth gap by 16% between Black and white households and by 41% between Latino and white households.»
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/12/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-key-progress-on-efforts-to-close-the-racial-wealth-gap/

That is, the public purse historically supports financial subsidies to the already privileged.

aharoni, to random
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Is it a new scoop about @SwiftOnSecurity ?

Or a long-known fact in the @wikipedia community? (I occasionally enjoy reading that account, but I am not an expert on its history. And despite rumors to the contrary, I know quite little about particular Wikipedia editors.)

Or a made-up thing to conceal the owner's identity?

Or just goofing around?

(Also, I wonder whether "tooling" means @mediawiki or templates, bots, and gadgets.)

nemobis,
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@aharoni Given the edit count mention, bots and gadgets may be more plausible.

My guesses are no better than yours. The story, true or made up, was chosen because it's realistic. https://filippo.io got started by coding Wikipedia bots, as many others. :)

textfiles, to random
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I Continue To No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5591

nemobis,
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@textfiles Thank you for the update! Heartbreaking.

It's amazing how you handled all that material on your own for years. Even more so that you follow up almost 10 years later. Nobody else does what you do.

What an adventure it was to mail 78 kg of Italian computer magazines from Milan to NY, back in December 2012. I think my over-optimistic packing and the rain took them well before VCF entered the picture though. x_x

00Aaron, to climate
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I wrote this column in a local paper for my job in comms & the higher-ups got mad about it.

See if you can figure out why.

In a kafkaesque experience, when the executive director & issue leader called me in, I asked them what about the article was a problem & they sat there for minutes looking at this short article trying to figure out what had upset them.

I'm quitting.

I work at Cooperative Extension Tompkins County, a dysfunctional piece of shit.

https://www.tompkinsweekly.com/articles/signs-of-sustainability-earth-day-is-only-a-place-to-start/

nemobis,
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@00Aaron That was an amazing introduction for an event which otherwise might have sound trite!

I'm sorry it ended this way but it sounds like you're wasted there.

jon, to random
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Seeing people I used to follow on Twitter bemoan that network's decline due to Musk... and then big up Meta's Threads as an alternative 🤦‍♂️

What is wrong with you?

Have you learned nothing?

nemobis,
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@seindal Users don't see interactions from the fediverse, but of course Facebook Inc. is logging everything going their way.

@jon @Blindworrell

#InstagramThreads #FediMeta

rmounce, to random
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Another interesting idea... what is the coverage of the vanished journal 'Heterocycles' in Sci-Hub?

Apparently only 36.7% according to the Sci-Hub Stats Browser: https://greenelab.github.io/scihub/#/journal/25864

nemobis,
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@mike @rmounce A third of the authors of this journal were from Japan. Maybe they didn't have many subscriptions outside Japan, and Sci-Hub never got enough password donations from Japan?

Marginal effect here, but Sci-Hub typically refused to download OA PDFs. In a best case scenario, this 37 % would be summed to IA's 7 % "bright archive" https://fatcat.wiki/container/qzgbkg535nfnxdf6axotjixoim . Still that would be barely more than 40 %.

With a list of subscribers, people could at least try ILL. Hmm.

why0hy, to random
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Surveillance/targeted advertising is essentially a digital poltergeist - invisible, useless, destructive, unpredictable and inexplicable.
Is there something that a surveillance advertising is that a poltergeist is not?

nemobis,
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@why0hy @achimkla Let's see... I've never found a poltergeist accused of a 60 billion dollars fraud.
https://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-inescapable-logic-of-ad-fraud.html

textfiles, (edited ) to random
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When a pile of coalitions go "this new bill is awesome" and not a single one is any science or tech group, be a tad suspicious. But I was telling AI folks "ingredient lists" were coming in 2022.

https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-schiff-introduces-groundbreaking-bill-to-create-ai-transparency-between-creators-and-companies

nemobis,
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@textfiles Wild! Effectively requires the creation of a comprehensive #copyright register, even for works the authors themselves have not bothered to register.

wikipedia, to random
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nyaa~

nemobis,
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@arsdeficiendi One doesn't exclude the other. Communicating about Wikipedia doesn't take away energy from the people who make (i.e. millions of volunteers).

rmounce, to random
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Are paywalled, subscription access journals financially sustainable?

(A question no-one seems to ask enough...)

I've just seen that a paywalled, subscription access chemistry journal called 'Heterocycles' has gone kaput.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/a-key-chemistry-journal-disappeared-from-the-web-others-are-at-risk/4019265.article

All those folx asking questions about open access journals might want to ask the same questions about paywalled, subscription journals too - that's all I'm saying!

#OpenAccess #CritiqueBias #FinancialSustainability

nemobis,
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@rmounce Not a small journal! I wonder if CLOCKSS really meant they have all copies of all issues since 1973.

Re financial sustainability, how dare you question the choices of a for-profit business? That's the invisible hand's job! Visible hands should only focus on questioning everyone else.

jon, to random
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In all my years working in EU politics in various policy areas, I have always had this nagging sort of fear, Yes Minister style, that the officials and the lobbyists are sharper and better informed than the politicians they're working with

Yet the main railway lobby in Brussels - Community of European Railways (CER) - is an awful association. Incapable of putting together anything coherent and sensible. But no-one else, with any scale, is either. It's really grim

nemobis,
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@jon Who does CER represent? Certainly not rail users.

nemobis,
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@jon So in practice it represents whoever appoints their boards. Finance ministers? What do the member states' finance ministers want CER to ask from the EU?

nemobis,
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@jon Yes. Keeping everything exactly the same, except with someone else's budget paying for it.

fantafanta, to random
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Is there a great way to receive alerts on things happening on the European court website? Like, to generate an e-mail alert if there is development on a particular case, or new case law on a particular law?

nemobis,
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@fantafanta Would alerts from the eur-lex copies be good enough?

LLS, to fediverse
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Has anyone built a tool that maps which #fediverse instances* federate with which —something to visualize who’s federating (or not federating) with whom?

bc that would be an awesomely useful resource when picking a new community to join/migrate to

—

  • above a given membership threshold obvs bc there are a gazillion fedi instances
nemobis,
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@LLS https://fediverse.space/instances used to visualise this but it's been broken for a while.

#FediMeta

soheb, to music
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Spotify officially demonetises all tracks with under 1,000 streams

This is just an insanely bone-headed move that is so pointless.

These artists don't even get paid that much money, and yet Spotify wants to cut off their revenue.

I'm done with Spotify. In fact, I think I'm flat-out done with music streaming services. All of them are exploitative. back to buying digital albums for me.

https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tracks-under-1000-streams

nemobis,
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@dt Thanks. Unfortunately, 1000 times a Spotify stream would be less than 10 % of the price of an album. So what percentage goes to you? Do you publish directly or did you give some rights to collecting societies, labels, publishers and whatnot? Do you own all of the rights (music, lyrics, performance, record)?

@soheb

nemobis,
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@dt @soheb Agreed. 80 % is nice, is there a way to find out which artists are self-published?

debacle, to Help
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! to the :

Which platform for would you recommend? There are so many, such as @Liberapay or …

Which one accepts direct bank transfer without need to go through 3rd party, such as or, worse, ? Which one is community friendly. Which one respects donators ?

TIA!

:boost_requested:

nemobis,
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@De_Treias Each donation to a separate recipient creates a separate charge. To reduce fees, you can decide to make an annual donation for x years (paid in advance). Otherwise renewal is manual unless set to automatic.

Liberapay can't hold money for you, so you can't charge a wallet and then draw from it. Every payment goes straight from you to the recipient.

It's still better than Patreon where your credit card will be inundated with transactions every month.

nemobis,
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@De_Treias Yeah. Instead of making monthly donations to 12 projects you can make an annual donation to a different project every month.

victoriametrics, to opensource

Join us in Berlin next month for this special meet up 😎

Deutsche Bank x VictoriaMetrics: Best Practices on Scaling Observability

📍Deutsche Bank Berlin Technology Centre

🗓️ April 11th from 6.30pm

With a talk by Aliaksandr Valialkin on large-scale logging made easy & a talk by Dmitry Evdokimov on Fixed Income & Currencies - VictoriaMetrics cluster evolution.

Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/triangletechtalksberlin/events/299811401/ #monitoring #observability #logs #metrics #opensource #fintech

nemobis,
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@victoriametrics Cc / people. 🦅

https://www.meetup.com/triangletechtalksberlin/events/299811401/

nemobis, to random
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Join me tonight for "A portrait of the #PublicDomain as a puzzle" at #KatuGalleriaMutteri, #Helsinki.

We'll play with a #Ravensburger #puzzle now banned in Italy (and the world?!) due to a court order in Venice against the Leonardo work.
https://federicoleva.eu/en/posts/2023/portrait-public-domain-puzzle/

#lautapelit

The exhibition "A portrait of public domain as a puzzle", as set up on 2023-03-18

nemobis,
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The #PublicDomain puzzle is now slightly less banned, thanks to the ruling of a court in Stuttgart last March.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240410141158/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/world/europe/vitruvian-man-puzzle-leonardo-da-vinci-ravensburger.html

It remains unavailable on Amazon as well as the Finnish and Polish shops where it was previously on sale. Funnily, it's still available in at least one Italian online shop.

#Ravensburger

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