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There are options atm… just not on-device. There’s CHDK, https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK which changes the firmware of certain Canon compact cameras to add (among other things) RAW output. It should help you get the max out of your sensor.

Then again, the first generation of pocketable mirrorless cameras with APS-C sized sensors (which are much bigger & high quality than those found in pocket cameras, or the one used in the article’s hack) should be pretty accessible right now… ie Fuji x-t10, canon m1/2/3. The Canon M1 also takes Magic Lantern which adds raw video ! (Albeit with a significant crop factor).

Right, but the treaties set the baseline of enforcement that all countries that sign them need to respect, and Berne convention copyright is already pretty strong. If you make laws stronger than that, they only apply in your own country. That makes a lot of sense.

What makes enforcement difficult then is the cost of legal action… it is already expensive and time consuming in your own country, so it gets really expensive if you want to sue someone abroad, even if, because of copyright treaties, you have standing.

Source? There are no EU laws. There are only directives, that member states need to implement, just like they need to implement the treaties they are signatory to, in their local laws. This is a good overview of the different directives and treaties that affect the members:

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/copyright-...

I’ve never heard of “70 years after author death or, for a foreign work, the international copyright length, whichever is shorter”. It’s not in 93/98/EEC (that harmonised EU on 70 years)° or in the Berne Convention. But I’d be happy to be corrected.

° https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Yes, because of Berne you don’t need to register copyright, and your copyright applies in all countries that are signatories. But it’s still national copyright you are dealing with.

As a German publisher, if an Italian publisher distributes a counterfeit copy of your book in Italy, you are in your right to send a cease-and-desist, but under Italian law, which just happens to be similar to the German one (because they are both signatories to Berne). If the Italian publisher doesn’t comply and it ends up in a lawsuit, it is going to be a lawsuit in Italy.

If the Italian publisher also distributes the counterfeit book in Germany, you have standing to sue them in a German court (theoretically only for the copies distributed in Germany).

As to the length of copyright, it’s not relevant if it’s a foreign or domestic work (that’s actually the point of Berne!)—you have to apply the length of copyright of the country you are distributing in. For a long time Canada had the minimum death + 50 years, which is 20 years shorter than most common death + 70 years. This did not mean that Canadian authors got 20 years less internationally. Rather, it meant that Canadian publishers could distribute any work, whether domestic or internationally, 20 years earlier than most other countries… as long as they only published in Canada.

The Sonny Bono act similarly has no impact on the EU public domain, it was to prevent works to enter into the public domain in the US.

Source? Copyright applies where the work is distributed. If you sell a counterfeit Japanese book in Germany, the Japanese publisher will need to sue in a German court. That makes sense because Japanese laws and courts have no bearing on German nationals (unless they are in Japan).

Copyright still works internationally, since what constitutes infraction in your own country is probably an infraction abroad as well. Most countries have signed the Berne convention and have very similar copyright laws. Yet there are still differences, for example the length of time it takes for a work to enter in the public domain, and local markets reflect this.

Things are complicated online, since platforms based in one country distribute to many other countries, and so they open themselves up to liabilities in many countries. Where platforms don’t have the resources to differentiate by country, they might choose the most restrictive available interpretation…

This why I find the geek-o-sphere so tiring dissecting things like why are the new Star Wars movies bad… I have no problem believing that… the old ones might have been better, but they were also formulaic and badly acted and the reason they seemed so profound and amazing at the time was seeing them as a kid! Those spending time watching and hating on kids movies might better seek out something that can actually challenge them.

The latter probably, but you could also say that means your standards have evolved, and it’s less easy to find material that challenges you. I tend to think it’s out there though, so I wouldn’t give up just yet! Our desires might be simple, but art does not need to deal with it in a simple or formulaic way.

Your individual experience says nothing. I also look much younger than my age, what did I do for that ? Nothing. At least nothing extraordinary. No obsessive sports and no obsessive dieting. I just got lucky.

If I did do a specialised diet or exercise regime, of course I would attribute my youthful looks and energy levels to them, but that's magical thinking. You have no way to verify what your body would be like today without the ten years of pills.

It is, as long as you want to keep the site dynamic. If there’s a CMS for authors and editors or commenting possibilities that you want to keep using. Any form of separation between form content requires external tools that need upkeep.

For example, if you use Wordpress, you’ll have to keep updating WP because of security risks, but then you’ll also have to keep adapting your templates to keep up with the changes in WP.

However, once you no longer need to update the site and simple want to display its contents, you can fix it in time by crawling the website, in much the same way that the Archive team is doing now. You end up with a collection of HTML files that you can host with ease and minimal maintenance. If you do it properly , you turn off commenting beforehand so you don’t end up with non-functioning links, and you create an .htaccess that makes sure the old dynamic urls get correctly mapped to your new static files.

I’ve done this, it’s not rocket science, it’s not unreasonable to ask this from Amazon, and I wish it was standard practice for sunset websites.

Close, I think it’s more about signalling you’re not into traditional gender roles. There are women who are into that, just like there are gay men who don’t like effeminate men. If you live in a place with enough potential friends and lovers it saves everybody time, and you look fabulous to boot.

Tinder wouldn’t report that, since it’s not very encouraging for their customers. The source most linked seems to be someone on Medium who interviewed people: https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...

Dating apps don’t make their data available to scientists, that would be nice though!

For sure life is more easy for hot people, off or on dating apps. It’s true in bars and clubs too. In settings where people have more of a time to get to know each other it probably matters less, even if it always plays a role. It’s just that, as long as society’s concept of a relationship is still two people together, and not one person with a harem, these attractive people at the top of the pyramid will end up being picky too.

That’s a good point that the article doesn’t touch on! (and along with the other ones from the article, makes a lot more sense than the “10% of the men date all the women” meme I see repeated in this HN discussion).

I see this talking point all the time yet never backed up by studies. That would mean that these attractive men put a premium on quantity over quality (because they’d have to date women less attractive then them for the numbers to work out) and have lots of time and mental energy at their disposal to manage these concurrent relationships. Whereas in general people tend to date people that are more or less as attractive as themselves, and the most prevalent form of relationships is still a two person couple. For casual flings it might be different.

Nice flex bro!

> My advice is to not bother with dating until you reach certain status in life, earn good money, have good physique, have friends in high places and most importantly, provide fun.

Horrible advice.

Only the last one is really important, and even then, fun looks different to everybody—one person’s idea of boring is another persons idea of fun (board games, for example).

Yes, status is important to humans (although again, it comes in many form, lots of people couldn’t care less about jacked physiques and hefty paychecks). But people are making meaningful connections from an early age and without much of a career underway.

> a) there are almost no good girls in westernized society

That’s like, uhm, misogynist! And funny, because you still seem to spend an awful lot of time and energy on these no good Western girls :)

You should be able to convert them to OTF files with Fontforge. OTF supports both Postscript outlines (cubic bézier) and TrueType outlines (quadratic bézier). That should be lossless for the curves, however does someone know if it’s the case for the kerning data as well?

And has been for two decades now… remarkably long lived.

I think Richardson has a very similar technique, although he tends to shoot with white backgrounds. These specific pictures seem closer still to the photography in magazines like Apartamento, or in this case https://record-magazine.com/issues

I always wonder when this retro frontal flash approach will go out of style. It’s handy while it lasts, because it’s very easy to make interior shots this way. No need to bother with lighting setups, just a single big flash mounted with your camera. Quite the accessible style! Yet it does help to differentiate from phone cameras, which seems to be a driving force for photographic trends… Just like shallow depth of field has been fashionable for a while (and might go out of fashion now phones can fake it), big flashes are not typically found on phones.

The style also works, I think, because it channels event photography rather than art photography, which gives it its immediacy and nonchalance. It’s very similar to the look of photojournalism in the eighties when certain press photographers started working with colour films to document openings etc., they used the big Metz flashes on a bracket and the diffusers were less sophisticated so you get this very direct, often blown out light. And amateur photographs of parties at the time were much the same (albeit with smaller flashes).

So stylized (because retro) yet nonchalant. And it’s really easy to do, just have your flash fire a bit harder than it suggests on it own :)

Right, these products don’t work for me because their interfaces reproduce what was bad about 1980ies technology: small screens, shift buttons to enable multiple functions, lots of conventions you have to learn by heart. DAW’s are so much easier to use! That’s not to say I don’t like physical hardware—it makes so much sense for analog synths, mixing desks, guitar pedals etc. or whatever instrument where you have a nice chunky button for each function.

Seems like that tax has been scrapped though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B9GLrJoUA8 So like other commenters point out, at this point it’s more likely to be market segmentation. Sony and Canon, for example, make professional video cameras that are very similar to their photo cameras, but have extra video-centric features i.e. built-in ND filters, connectors for professional battery packs, XLR audio connectors etc. They want to give users extra reasons to buy these models (although Sony apparently removed the limit recently, so looks like they’re moving away from this strategy).

Yes. Well, not copyrighted, exactly, but one gets to control the commercial exploitation of ones likeness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

The reasoning I heard from a GP is: the more values you get back, the higher the chance of a false positive. A GP who has blood tested will do so based on your symptoms. Get the lab to do all the possible tests, and chances are at least one of them will be off but since you had no symptoms you’re going to have to test again since it might be a false positive. All this takes a lot of time and creates feelings of insecurity with the patient. So where I’m from, there are no ‘check-ups’ within insured or government funded health care, you strictly react on symptoms. There are only checks for specific forms of cancer and you’re invited for this specifically. Don’t know whether this is the best way, but it’s an explanation for the approach.

That sounds exaggerated to my ears; The shape these records are in suggests they were dumped on the street after having spent years in an attic… Having OP discover them and discovering vinyl in the process is surely the best thing that could have happened to them.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a dialect coach: his Austrian German accent has faded through years of living in the US, but it’s what his audience expects so he trains himself in it before each new movie.

It’s expensive and impractical, but in a way that also helps to keep it aspirational–still very common in the electronic music scene, go to any of the festivals or clubs in Europe and they’ll have the technics next to the CDJ’s.

Controller - laptop setups are common for house parties, and for bars and events that keep the same dj all night, but less common in clubs where the CDj’s with USB sticks make it easy to switch over. A CDj needs a DJ mixer, to which you can also hook up a record player, so mixing both is not too hard.

Personally I find vinyl a bit daft for new music since it’s all made on computers anyway! For older music it makes a lot of sense though, much of it never made it to digital.

My history teacher made us watch this in high school when it just came out! She was very into it, at the point where the scholar who works for the Egyptian state starts voicing his criticisms she told us this was the response of a man afraid to loose his power :)

In big cities bikes get stolen, it’s always been that way. Of course it would be nice if it were different but it’s sad if that stops you from riding!

The Dutch approach in cities has been to drive something old and or cheap that you can afford to get stolen. It works because the country is pretty flat so you don’t need a fancy light bike with many gears. Paris is pretty flat too.

Lately subscription services like swapfiets have become popular that include maintenance and theft insurance. Through economies of scale, I think it’s competitive with ownership especially for city dwellers without a garage with tools.

I now live in a city with more hills, so I needed a bit more capable bike–I bought a cheap second hand bike with 21 gears. I put some permanantly attached bags on the back which are practical and make the bike look less desireable. I use an axa lock attached to the frame and a separate chain. From day one I accepted it would get stolen at some point—so I feel like I’ve been on a six year lucky streak.

Defeatist? Sure! But I bike without worries.

> more so when source code isn't even needed, contrary to what many FOSS advocates think

Source code isn’t always needed, it just makes the process simpler and quicker. There’s way more old devices that people would like to continue to use than there are hackers with the time and skills to reverse engineer them! For example, I’ve been lurking on the Magic Lantern forums (alternative firmware for canon dslrs) and the time it takes to port the software to a new camera model is counted in years…

To reduce e-waste I think companies should be obliged to release the source code to their devices when they stop supporting them (and if they’re afraid of releasing trade secrets—they’ll just have to keep supporting them longer!).

> I don't think this is a good thing. If you're not seeing any "normal" naked bodies, and are only ever exposed to idealized movie/porn bodies, aren't you more likely to get all kinds of body issues?

I agree and it’s a vicious circle ; the reason this happens in the first place is because people are already self-conscious about their bodies in ways that previous generations weren’t (of course this is specific to time & place and there were other issues back in the day!). Getting to see the variety of naked bodies that exist IRL would surely help, but that’s exactly what one would be avoiding.

Somehow the Muslims always get the blame…

In the early 2000s (EU) I was in a high school and a sports team, both very white, and this was already a thing… We didn’t take showers after gym class, and we didn’t take showers after sports, which annoyed my dad to no end as he drove a car full of smelly teenagers back when we were the visiting team.

For me it makes much more sense to link it to a visual culture where the nude body is sexualised, together with the cultural hegemony of the prudish USA. Nipplegate was in 2004, and whereas nowhere in Europe you’ll find quite as hysterical reactions to nudity, these attitudes did get exported to an extent.

This f2.5 lens is glued to my camera and I take plenty of pictures (not just macro)! https://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/ef271.html

Now that might be a bit unusual choice of lens, but news photographers around the world rely on their zoom lenses that won’t open up more than f2.8.

And for a prime lens in this long focal length, f2.5 is still quite okay, Canon’s EF135mm opens up until 2 that’s only 2/3rd of a stop faster.

Really fast lenses get attention because they are the most expensive, and shallow depth-of-field has been in fashion… I think in part because it gave photographers a way to distinguish themselves from smartphone wielding amateurs. I predict this is on the way out now that portrait mode fakes this look! But a super fast lens is in no way necessary for taking great pictures.

I’m sure there’s plenty of valid criticisms for this project but this one does not convince me :) Personally I wonder more from an ecological point of view, i.e. why use all these resources when there’s plenty of unused lenses on the second hand market. But then again the Open Source aspect is commendable.

Sounds great, if no takers yet! I’ve been meaning to do some PostMarketOS dev and it’s one of the primary supported devices. I’m at the other end of the world though, so if someone closer is interested that’d make more sense! Mail is in profile.