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This mind intentionally left blank.
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Note that the Chromatron was initially developed, and the name coined in the US, but Sony ended up licensing the technology from Paramount Pictures (who were essentially giving up on it), and kept the name.
Turns out, Paramount was giving up on it for a reason, and Sony's engineers found this out the hard way. And, well, クロ (how "chro" gets transliterated into katakana) sounds similar to 苦労 (struggle, as Sony translates it into English).
(I don't actually know Japanese, but I can appreciate a good pun.)
(https://visions4netjournal.com/422-2/ is worth a read if you're interested in the Chromatrons, FWIW - effectively they're the predecessor of Trinitron.)
uncovered a 25 year old mystery
I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:
EDPS position on #Art13: filters need way more assessment; careful with them:
https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publications/comments/edps-comments-proposal-directive-copyright_en
I wrote to a few MEPs about #Article13 and sadly a number of them have sent canned responses along the lines of:
* I've spoken to industry lobbyists who say something must be done to enforce copyright
* Article 13 is something
* Therefore Article 13 must pass
It's disappointing. We're not saying nothing needs to be done - the issue is that Article 13 is wildly unfit for purpose, and potentially hugely damaging to the internet as a side effect.
Sunset on the Rocks
TIL There are actual names for the shapes of pools besides “casserole dish”
The Sign Language Toki Pona Lexicon
Christopher Huff [Chuff] | 2013
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Poland’s New Surveillance Law Targets Personal Data of Environmental Advocates, Threatening U.N. Climate Talks
A new Polish law with sweeping surveillance measures threatens free speech and the success of an important climate conference scheduled to take place in Katowice, Poland, later this year.
The conference, COP24, is billed as “Paris 2.0” — a crucial follow-up the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference, where the Paris (...)
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/13125
Wikipédia ferme ses portes en Italie pour s’opposer à la directive sur le droit d’auteur
La version italienne de Wikipédia a décidé de fermer provisoirement pour s’opposer à la directive sur le droit d’auteur. Un bandeau d’avertissement est aussi visible sur la version anglaise de l’encyclopédie.
La décision est radicale. Constatant que ses communiqués de presse et ses mises en garde n’ont pas permis de faire dérailler la directive (...)
http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/13126
Physicists Just Discovered an Entirely New Type of Superconductivity. - https://redd.it/8vou1q
@rtwx @ben0_o Time to install Stylus instead! It's a much more modern and also tracking-free fork: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus
