R. P. Dillon

@rpdillon
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Programmer, Free Software Advocate. I love studying and building small technology that helps people everyday. #emacs #tiddlywiki #linux
Websitehttps://rpdillon.net
Thank god for @mmasnick because I really really really didn't want to have to write an article about why #copyright is an awful way to address the harms of #AI to creative workers and now he's done it and I can just point people to his article for the next two annoying years. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/19/stop-rushing-to-copyright-as-a-tool-to-solve-the-problems-of-ai/
Stop Rushing To Copyright As A Tool To ‘Solve’ The Problems Of AI

A few months back, I got added to a group chat of Hollywood writers/actors/directors, all seeking to understand what the fuck was going on with AI. And one topic that came up consistently early on …

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1/ Huge win for encryption, confidentiality, and integrity in the EU with new text for the CSA proposal:

"Cybersecurity measures, in particular encryption technologies, including end-to-end encryption, are critical tools to safeguard the security of information within the Union

If you are looking for open-source sampled instruments to use in your music, here's a great repository:
https://sfzinstruments.github.io/

They use the SFZ format which is the best way to make sampled instruments. It's open-source, easy to edit (all based on text + audio files) and well documented.

To use these instruments in Ardour or other DAWs I'd recommend the open-source plug-in sfizz:

https://sfz.tools/sfizz/

More about the SFZ format here:
https://sfzformat.com/

#MusicProduction #FOSS

SFZ Instruments

to quote an old tweet of mine:

Put the date in your paper. Put the date in your pastebin. Put the date in your blogpost. Please, the date, put it.

I'm sure that Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none was a perfectly coincidental defect
@pluralistic did you happen to see that Brandon Sanderson is rebelling against Audible? Perhaps you'd like to podcast or collab with him somehow
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2022/
State of the Sanderson 2022 | Brandon Sanderson

Introduction Wow. What a year. I can remember writing this essay last year, and being all giddy about the fact that I was hiding four secret novels from you ...

Brandon Sanderson

ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources. We reported on this back in October, but kept things vague to protect sources. Today ByteDance admitted it, so we can say much more:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/

EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.

Forbes
The many branches of the #fediverse (#Mastodon instances are but one) ~ via https://axbom.com/fediverse/ ~ #SocialMedia #community
The many branches of the Fediverse

As more and more people are asking me about Mastodon I felt a need for a picture to point at, showcasing how the software known as Mastodon fits into the much larger concept of the Fediverse. I made this infographic to help myself and others explain the many different use-cases

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Copyright is so unbalanced in favour of Big Content: one reason is the skewed policymaking process tilted towards input of corporate copyright experts, particularly those of rightsholders, over the opinion of citizens - @glynmoody
#copyright #policymaking
https://walledculture.org/copyright-consultations-are-opaque-and-off-putting-time-to-apply-some-artificial-intelligence/
Copyright consultations are opaque and off-putting: time to apply some (artificial) intelligence

<p>One of the reasons that copyright is so unbalanced in favour of companies, especially Big Content, is that the process of bringing in new copyright laws is hard for ordinary members of the public to engage with. Typically, new laws come about after government consultations. Although these are public in the sense that they are …</p>

#AI-Created Comic Has Been Deemed Ineligible for #Copyright Protection - https://www.cbr.com/ai-comic-deemed-ineligible-copyright-protection/