Notices by Carl C (raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com)

@whami Donald Norcross' form doesn't validate input, so you can edit the HTML and insert whatever you want, and they reply with it. Might give that a try, as a treat.

I like how my new company is taking all the tools our developers use (Github Enterprise, Jenkins, Artifactory, Vault, JIRA, etc) and moving responsibility for these things into another team, including taking away admin privileges and making them go through this other team to make changes to the tools.

And they call this team: Developer Productivity

@craigmaloney I hope you can rest better at home.

@craigmaloney Oh, that's not good. Hope you can get some better news soon.

@craigmaloney Oof. Hope they're treating you okay. Read about the procedure, doesn't sound great, but at least it's an improvement.

@craigmaloney Are you still in the hospital?

@craigmaloney I hope things come out okay.

@Suiseiseki We must agree to disagree. If authors didn't want copyright, they'd release their books into the public domain or free-license them. Yet, author after author chooses to enter into contracts under which they get paid.

@Suiseiseki
Copyright protects the author's income as an encouragement to write books. With no protections, most authors wouldn't write. I think the basic idea of copyright is sound. Copyright protection beyond the author's life, etc make far less sense. And unfair publisher contracts are a whole different problem.

Are you familiar with The Gutenberg Project, an archive of public domain works?

It's my general belief that when a book goes out of print and new copies are unavailable, the book should fall into the public domain.

If the publisher is no longer selling the book, then the publisher and author are no longer receiving income from it. There is really nothing left to protect, no benefit to the public in protecting a work that is unavailable. Don't want your book to fall into the PD? Make an ebook available perpetually.

(No, it's not practical. But it's nice to dream.)

@silverwizard Wasn't even thinking about metaphor. Thinking about that three-week memory gap and if they were themselves at all during the whole event. There's a very fuzzy line between "I am not me because I am changing" and "I am not me because the real me is dead and I'm a copy".

But there's also this feeling that the distinction doesn't matter. This isn't Primer-level "I still have questions." 😆

But I'll take a look.

Watched Annihilation last night.

I still like Natalie Portman.

I'm still a little confused.