KDENLIVE - video editor
YT_DLP - video downloader
VSCODIUM - text editor and IDE
QBITTORRENT - torrent client
BRAVE - browser
VLC - media player
OBS_STUDIO - recording software
KRITA - image editor
NOTEPAD_PLUS_PLUS - text editor
XONOTIC - game
I thought it was just the steamboat cartoon itself that was public domain - didn’t they use Mickey mouse from it as their new animated studios logo (which extended the rights to it?)
It is just Steamboat Willie in the pubkic domain now, including Mickey Mouse as a character, although newer Disney interpretstions of the characters (like gloves) are still under protection. And while Disney can use the original Steamboat Willie as a trademark and protect it through a different avenue, as time goes on they’ll inevitably lose their grip on the character.
Trademarks don’t have an expiration date - they can be used indefinitely, but they have to be actively used, otherwise they lose their protection. But Disney also can’t trademark all the iterstions on Mickey, so some of it will inevitably still seep into the public domain.
They upgraded their orbital copyright laser cannon into an orbital trademark laser cannon. The beam is narrower and hits fewer targets, but it willl never expire and its firing range is even vaguer than before.
The Wikimedia Foundation’s amicus brief calls upon the Supreme Court to strike down laws passed in 2021 by Texas and Florida state legislatures. Texas House Bill 20 and Florida Senate Bill 7072 prohibit website operators from banning users or removing speech and content based on the viewpoints and opinions of the users in question.
That’s a terrible law, you could easy drown voices by spamming messages with trolling or any other type of low quality content.
This! Except for the infamous case of the illustration picture for SCP-173, the rest seems to be under CC-BY-SA, as noted in the official website. Thus there should be no restriction apart from citing the original content for making libre stories, games and stuff.
Never heard of that, but that sounds about right in principle.
I think you want to take the cubic root of the listens before transforming to percentage however, otherwise it won’t add up to 100% anymore. So 1,000,000 listens gives you 100 points, and 1000 listens gives you 10 points. Total is 110, so they’d get 90% and 10% which would otherwise be 99.99990% and 0.00001%.
I took a year of ไทย classes after work & that was enough to go out & start conversations with strangers. Classes where they speak your native tongue can be invaluable since you can ask very specific grammar questions most native speakers don’t how to answer & the class puts a social pressure on you to keep up. Speaking with natives & listening to media can help a lot.
I just web searched for ‘librivox spanish’, and what do you know, there are 34 pages of Public Domain spanish language books to choose from and play as background sounds to your life.
To help hear real world examples of inflection, intonation and pronunciation, and pick it up passively.
Duolinguo feels more like a very annoying ad than a learning tool, often under-explaining what it tries to teach while heavily penalizing and shaming the user for getting things wrong.
What I would suggest, other than hiring an actual teacher, would be to immerse yourself in works from their language, such as music, comics, books, movies, and so on. Also, Spain's Real Academia Española has a dictionary+conjugator site that is VERY helpful, even for "dialects" such as the Latin America variations (link for the tool is dle.rae.es). Finding someone to try to talk to in Spanish may also help, although getting to know some of the grammar beforehand is advised.
Now, as for either free or FOSS programs specifically for learning the language, sadly, I'm not aware of any.
Your complaints about duolingo are valid but can be mitigated to an extent.
Setting up an ad blocking dns on your phone greatly improves many apps.
As far as being too penalizing, you can get rid of the heart restriction by creating a classroom in duolingo and adding yourself to it. This has to be done in their browser interface, but once done will remove hearts in the app as well.
Hi! I feel overwhelmed with getting started and would like a pointer on a resource I can use as a jumping off point. I’ve made efforts in the past using wikibooks or reading written Spanish media then running through a translator, but I never really made significant progress beyond learning a tiny bit of vocabulary.
I imagine that once I get even just good enough to read and string together basic sentences it will be a lot easier to make progress, it’s the baby steps I’ve had trouble with.
I think you could first install Anki, which is open source, and get a card collection for Spanish. Take special care with verbs, you might want to find a table of regular verb endings first, so you can look them up.
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