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chrisphin

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Uses language suitable for miners rather than minors. Proud xennial. Podcasting, tech, publishing, ebikes, art and design, queer shit. (I did warn you about the language.) 🩷💜💙

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dmoren, to random
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This week at Macworld, my Stay Foolish column is all about how Apple's best improvements are often its most invisible. So much work spent on things that only ever get noticed when they don’t work right. (And remember, @sixcolors members can read the whole story for free over there too!) https://www.macworld.com/article/2348650/apple-invisible-breakthroughs-ipad-pro-oled-computational-photography-ai.html

chrisphin,
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@dmoren I’m so conflicted with this stuff, especially with the camera example you give. I take waaaay more photos with my iPhone than with my camera, but I like the photos taken with my camera waaaay more. The iPhone’s smarts are incredible, and I think the right choices so I capture SOMETHING… and yet I don’t LOVE the very-processed, crispy look I get from the iPhone.

chrisphin, to random
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Why THE FUCK would you advertise a feature that skeevy men use to violate the boundaries and equanimity of women and other vulnerable people using a grab that feels exactly like an example of that? Like, I’m not making the argument that DMs are bad and shouldn’t exist (in this post), but why apparently lean into their worst feature??

chrisphin,
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@masukomi @salad_bar_breath Not just acceptable but desirable. Note the reference to a crush in the intro copy. 🤢

chrisphin, to random
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Good morning ☁️

craiggrannell, (edited ) to Emulation
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I see with RetroArch on iOS, the “#emulation is illegal” rubbish has clawed its way back into the daylight. Emulators are legal. Yes, many files people load into them may not be legit but that doesn’t make the tech itself illegal any more than it makes e-readers, music players and video players illegal.

Maybe people should concentrate more on encouraging publishers to provide legal routes to play (and buy) old games than spreading rubbish about emulators.

#retrogaming

chrisphin,
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@craiggrannell The whole thing has resonances with “no person is illegal”. Obviously I’m not drawing a direct equivalence, but that some people in migration may enter illegally doesn’t make any person illegal.

Also, I’d LOVE to see some sort of codification of abandonware laws, similar to the right to repair movement.

chrisphin,
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@CTD @craiggrannell I do appreciate there are complexities about, for example, rights to characters or game mechanics that may be governed by other laws. It’s not simple, and I believe in artists being able to make a living from their art. But it feels like it could be achievable with enough will and thought.

chrisphin,
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@CTD @craiggrannell Which is why a law that says these rights default out in different ways to now is the solution. So that you don’t have to get these rights; they revert to a new more open licence in law. Which sounds like The State Ripping Rights from Hard-working Creators, but that’s just what copyright law does. It’s just that this would need to be over a shorter term and with other caveats.

chrisphin, to random
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God bless you, Glasgow. 😄

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