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tal, to asklemmy in How much does the original book have to change to be considered fanfiction?
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There isn’t a legal right of fair use for fan fiction, if that’s what you’re asking. Rights holders often ignore it, though.

tal, (edited ) to asklemmy in Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?
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washingtonpost.com/…/ed1fd724-37c9-11ea-bf30-ad31…

archive.ph/qM9aV

Radioactive jock straps put out a lot more radiation.

tal, to selfhosted in Hardware question
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While it might work in the OS, setting the OS up may be a pain (the installer may or may not work like that) and I strongly suspect that the BIOS can’t handle it.

I suspect that an easier route would be to use a cheap, maybe older, low-end graphics card for the video output and then using DRI_PRIME with that.

tal, to asklemmy in Why is canned soup often so bad even though soup tends to improve as leftovers?
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I don’t think that soup does improve as leftovers.

If you do like old soup, though, there’s probably bacteria growing in it, and as others point out, that won’t be happening with caned soup.

tal, to lemmy_support in Version 0.19.1 outgoing federation issues for anyone else?
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This post, a day before yours on the lemmy_support@lemmy.ml community, is describing some similar behavior, with some CPU usage at start (at least on the first boot; not clear whether that is a one-off on migration from the text) and then federation problems with 0.19.1:

lemmy.ml/post/9563852?scrollToComments=true

After upgrading Lemmy from 0.18.5 to 0.19.1, the lemmy_server process is taking up 200-350+% of my CPU…It seems like my instance isn’t federating properly now tho.

tal, (edited ) to lemmy_support in Sudden decrease in votes on apocalypticart@feddit.de after 0.19 upgrade
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We were just discussing some potentially-0.19.1-related federation problem that lemmy.today users were experiencing after the update; that’s how I ran across this thread.

lemmy.today/post/4382768

The admin there, @mrmanager, restarted the instance again some hours later to attempt to resolve the problem, and it looked like federation started working at that point.

That might be worth consideration if any other instances are seeing problems with posts/comments/votes not propagating.

EDIT: Well, nuts. Now this comment doesn’t seem to be propagating either; visible from lemmy.today but not on lemmy.ml’s Web UI. Maybe if lemmy.today gets restarted again, it will.

tal, to asklemmy in What's the best gaming console and why?
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Given the trend to make “Super” variants of games for the Super Nintendo, we could have seen “Mega Mega Man”.

tal, to asklemmy in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?
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I mean, define “scientific”. A currently-held, consensus theory? Because it’s easy to find theories that were developed in accordance with scientific theory, held for a while, but discarded.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories

In physics, aether theories (also known as ether theories) propose the existence of a medium, a space-filling substance or field as a transmission medium for the propagation of electromagnetic or gravitational forces. “Since the development of special relativity, theories using a substantial aether fell out of use in modern physics, and are now replaced by more abstract models.”

tal, (edited ) to asklemmy in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?
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Also, Prometheus paid a horrific price for helping humanity. Generally-speaking, the Greek pantheon is fairly self-interested, and not terribly interested in helping humanity in general.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/prəˈmiːθiəs/; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning “forethought”)[1] is sometimes referred to as the God of Fire.[2] Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge, and more generally, civilization.

In some versions of the myth, he is also credited with the creation of humanity from clay.[3] Prometheus is known for his intelligence and for being a champion of mankind,[4] and is also generally seen as the author of the human arts and sciences.[5] He is sometimes presented as the father of Deucalion, the hero of the flood story.[6][7][8]

The punishment of Prometheus for stealing fire from Olympus and giving it to humans is a subject of both ancient and modern culture. Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, condemned Prometheus to eternal torment for his transgression. Prometheus was bound to a rock, and an eagle—the emblem of Zeus—was sent to eat his liver (in ancient Greece, the liver was thought to be the seat of human emotions). His liver would then grow back overnight, only to be eaten again the next day in an ongoing cycle.

I don’t think that any other character in the pantheon could realistically be called as sympathetic. I’m not sure that any other divide Greek figure deserves humanity’s gratitude.

tal, to asklemmy in Is there an artist whose work you love but was a shitty person?
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I mean, by present standards, most people historically would have been pretty racist.

tal, (edited ) to asklemmy in When will video support be added to Lemmy?
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I’ll try hosting video on my ~700Mb up line (IIRC) to see how it works if I get the howtos.

It looks like that if you set up a lemmy instance, there’s an upload size cap for things that people can attach.

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3349

If you set that to some insane number, I imagine that people can upload large stuff, and as I note below, at least webm files seem to be doable right now on lemmy.world (just that the lemmy.world size cap is going to keep someone from uploading anything of meaningful size). I’d imagine that if you lift that cap to whatever you want – if you want full-length movies, then probably a couple of gigabytes – the users of your instance should be able to upload. They’d click on “image” rather than “movie”, but…shrugs

The Lemmy Web UI isn’t really designed for huge uploads, doesn’t show a progress bar, so it’s probably not going to provide the best user experience, but I’d expect that it’ll work.

If you don’t want to run a lemmy instance, but do want to permit people to just anonymously upload files that they can link to on other lemmy instances, then while I don’t have a particular example ready to hand, I’m sure that there are no shortage of web-based “dropbox” systems that let one upload and then serve files. Just have people reference the file’s URL the way they would anything else.

If you want to run a PeerTube instance, which is aimed at fediverse video sharing, then I’d look at their docs. I’ve never set one up, but I’m sure that they have some kind of documentation.

tal, (edited ) to comicstrips in And Tigger Too - Danby Draws Comics
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Nobody’s legacy is “tarnished” or otherwise damaged by things other people create.

There is a set of IP rights known as moral rights. These rarely come up here in the US and aren’t discussed much because they are quite limited in the US, but they play a more-meaningful role in France, whose legal tradition attaches certain rights to an artist to restrict use of his work (and who cannot give these rights up, regardless of whether he wants to do so or not, and where these rights never expire, even after death). They tend to aim at this sort of “tarnishing” concern.

That’s not to say that I particularly support this class of right, but there are places in the world where it is more-important and is a real thing in law.

I don’t know whether, in France, they would extend as far as to the use of characters.

tal, (edited ) to asklemmy in Is there an app or way to set a start time and end time and totally simulate an automatic sunset with Hue lighting
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I rigged up a simulated sunrise about 20 years back with a regular light, a computer, and an X10 controller back when I slept in a room without windows and wanted a more-gentle way of waking up than an alarm clock. So I totally get wanting to simulate a sunrise.

But why do you want to simulate a sunset?

Also, you might want to ask on !homeautomation, as they specialize in this sort of thing.

tal, (edited ) to asklemmy in When will video support be added to Lemmy?
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You can link to videos if you want. I don’t think that lemmy or kbin instances will likely provide free hosting for them, though.

There is a Fediverse service that provides video hosting, PeerTube.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

I’m skeptical that it will scale – it costs to host video – but it’s there. You can host something on any PeerTube host willing to serve your content and link to it from the Threadiverse, same as you could on YouTube.

joinpeertube.org

EDIT: For a list of nearby instances:

peertube.fediverse.observer

tal, to asklemmy in Does anyone have any good suggestions for positive themed communities?
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upliftingnews

I agree with the insight that a lot of news has a really negative focus. That is, a lot of things like murders or disasters or the like that don’t really have all that much direct impact on the lives of most people are very mediagenic, so get disproportionately-heavy coverage. We wind up with a really skewed-negative perspective in the news media relative to reality.

However, I also have to say that I wasn’t necessarily blown away by some past efforts I’ve seen along the lines of remedying this either – that is, a lot of feel-good stories aren’t necessarily all that important to someone’s life either. Not to say that someone can’t want and consume feel-good stories either, but if one’s goal is to try to pick up useful information, probably what one would best read is neither material about shark attacks, nor about someone who overcame cancer or whatnot.

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