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Yes, I know but the reason they did take on the publishers was to fill the void of the closed libraries, who had books (and licences) but could not lend them as they were not open... I looked at the appreciation page of the emergency library during this whole mess, where they asked for use cases of their users and the overwhelming (anecdotal) tone was use for learning, uni, work and less free time - not that that would be a prob. But I understand the curiosity of why they took on publishers and looked into it when publishers first sent out the press release that they would sue... that is what I came up with after looking into it a bit... but interested in other views naturally :)

Just to clarify... it was less Hardy_Potter.epub and more textbooks and stuff for parents s who had to home school their children while losing their jobs and income... and public libraries closed, publishers not... supporting... any digital lending infrastructure before and during the lockdown (like mp3 and music industry, the industry was dragged kicking and screaming into the 21. century even when making a profit), they decided they need to compensate for the closed libraries by letting people lend freely...

Relation to libraries and archives is always an interesting metric for a political system. Free access to archives was one of the demands of the french revolution and for good reason. It is also the reason, why in theory national libraries should archive the net (in Germany the national library is even allowed to crack copy protection for this purpose) - and they don't get the funds to do it. Ask yourself why that is and then think if you want to donate :) it is always the first step to control archives If you want to control information (think of climate data under Trump) - and at the moment the IA is a single point of failure...

The archive is the user's revenge for bad business, politics and actions ;)

An archive is seldom appreciated until you desperately need it, much as libraries... so you have to be a certain good kind of crazy to do this and preserve digital information like an archeologist instead of paywalling stuff... it preserves our digital history and we should support it in any form we can as noone else is doing it (looking at you national libraries)

In Europe digital humanisms seems to be the umbrella term... https://dighum.ec.tuwien.ac.at/perspectives-on-digital-human...

tiny-tiny RSS ftw

I totally feel you, I sometimes just set up a local Redmine or simple task list in the lan that really gets used while I make the entries in whatever our corp gods decree the flavor of the month...

...same idea in law back until roman times... vir bonus.

But I would argue with the usefulness: this construct allowed flexibility and offered options if rules were not flexible enough to adequately encompass what happened... seen like this it could actually be a boon for devs... or not ;)

...anyone still uses TheBat on Windows? I liked it a lot and it had notes, tasks, calendar included...

Some tools should be mentioned here, too.

http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/en/ has great resources

https://www.zettlr.com/ is new and also useful for a Zettelkasten like setup

Share the tech with all the desperate workers in an endless loop of conference vid calls... !

Makes you wonder how important most of the video calls really are...

In EVE it is explicitly allowed

If you don't have trainers for EVE Online ... ;)

Just fire up your tinytinyrss server and os/mobile clients and you are good. RSS is still going strong... https://tt-rss.org/ You can also create feeds from sources that do not provide them, e.g. http://fetchrss.com/

Great to see people sharing stuff that we all might never see again otherwise... the digital black hole is real and individuals are those doing the archiving! Respect :)

I really like Jeff's posts - he is one of the very few who did stuff and stuck to it before the big platforms supported indie devs... remastering is an art in itself as we see and hear daily - from fashion, films and music to games...

RSS is the best! I use tinytinyrss to have my news in a way I want them, as we all should ;)

There is a strong history of volunteer disaster relief organisations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, from local Red Cross, Alpine and Automobile Clubs to voluntary fire brigades. Interesting and a bit different than the us def of NGO, that sometimes leads to misunderstandings...

...one thing you might look into is the dual-use (less fun more business) side of branching narratives for (intranet) learning e.g. personnel onboarding, teaching, interactive manual design and so on... it might make it (more?) financially feasible while secretly financing our love for text adventures ;) shoot me a PM if you want to toss some ideas

This is a great project and the most fun I had since playing around with ink as a basis - compliments and can't wait to see how it will develop :)

A treaty would be great... or a lot of school projects on how to down low orbit sats... that would make such a treaty more likely :P

I know, I know :) it was more as a reference on how the pendulum swings in this field as well...

But even there: Luhmann's "Zettelkasten" externalises the main data processing effort back to the users conscious and unconscious references of recorded information, giving back associations not conciously realised before - all with paper cards... would have been another good path not really followed...

We outsourced generation of high quality training data, resulting in Wikipedia being one of the few (and quite messy) people can play around with... garbage in, garbage out.

And to be fair, most people who lovingly curated special knowledge databases only to see them get used to train machines (without any acknowledgement) discouraged them to continue and resulted in a drop of good training sources (at least in my field and non-english language)...

It is not that the semantic community was not warned - philosophers, linguists, archivists, librarians, historians, we talked and talked to our IT counterparts but could not get through - too much love for technology, not enough study of humans... So it is interesting to read as someone who is interested in archival sciences and history...

the woes of the archive, the problems of wrongly categorized stuff, perhaps even due to political reasons (famously Diderot's encyclopedia in the 18th century linked from "eucharistie" to cannibal, showing how political linking can be) are as old as people trying to sort, use and abuse archives - would be great, if some dialogue might have created a middle ground between dumb full text vs semantic search... with some magic AI put over it ;)

...and this is why we need not only the full spectrum of licences from MIT to GPL but also organisations that watch over compliance... and sue if necessary...

...what is described here for programming is the case for most creative work where we weave something into a tight compact whole... also in academic writing, where you build up to the moment of writing by copying all the papers you need into your head... and any disturbance empties the cache and sets you back the 30-40 mins again...

We were there ;)

...I am also reminded of JSTOR and the sad case of Aaron Schwartz - hopefully the SciHub creator will not be pressured in a similar manner...

How should citizens do science without access to the literature? It is always amazing how people shrug when artificial gatekeeping with huge profits for gatekeepers and nothing to a few cent for creators is inserted in a system that - at least outside of the US - often is a social service...

..it is, alas, the way of history so far. The best example are the high seas. First we were in a state where Spain and Portugal ruled and claimed it all (US on the net), then a lot of contenders came in the form of other seafaring countries (GB, US...) as are now on the net (Japan, Korea, China, EU, Russia...). Finally there were so many that free navigation had to be re-established... and a balance between coastal waters and the high seas... this will most likely happen again, but it will take time and we might live in the time where a tighter national rule might be established temporarily... though I hope not.

*Update:typos