@lethalbit Yeah, the situation is bad.

Sadly @EU_Commission basically allowed #Autodesk to monopolize #Engineering #Software and that made them discontinue #Eagle as #OneTimePurchase and espechally the #NonCommercial #Hobbyist license which was basically the full suite for €125 but restricted to no commercial use.

I still hate myself for not having bought that over a decade ago...

Even een recap: Gisteren naar het #vangoghmuseum geweest in mijn eerste nieuwe jurkje sinds jaren van #bonprix en legging van #msmode Sandalen er onder van #durea #pakkievandedag #OOTD #Rubensvrouw #Weightloss #myfitnesspal #noncommercial

#music #musictech #creativecommons #sharealike #withattribution #noncommercial #arduino

Last week, I got a visual prototype together of how a drumming robot should wield a stick. FROM THE WRIST! #BatmanMeme Most drumbots just pull the stick down to "deadhit" the skin. There's a lot of work to do on that part of this project, but meanwhile, there's also some basic electronics to prove the concept.

A drumbot needs a motor to flick the stick, then pull the stick quickly, but gently, back to rest and hold it there. It also needs to read MIDI note velocity and map that to the motor's useful powerband. Finally, the motor has to quickly and quietly restore the stick to its ready position.

All this requires complex motor control, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) to be exact, and a microcontroller to read the MIDI Note-On data and have each part of drumbot respond appropriately.

Circuitry and basic code are proven. I'll probably end up blowing up 4, VERY expensive MOSFETs in my first attempt, but hey, we're on this earth to make mistakes, and thereby make the future. This is not a cheap project, either, and is third in my project queue, so it will take some time.

Video of the circuit simulation:- https://youtu.be/yfxDvL55RGk
Read more here: - https://www.shinyhappyrainbows.com/2023/05/wristbot-technology-proof-of-concept.html

As always, if you use my work, credit me, share your work under the same terms I shared mine and make no commercial profits from my work as per CC4.0-A-SA-NC

@chrisg @aral *nodds in agreement.

I'm convinced we'll see more #NonCommercial-only #FLOSS + Commercial dual-licenses in the future that basically offer a #OpenSource product for everyone to use and install as well as a commercially supported and maintained version.

Kinda like @collabora @CollaboraOffice & @nextcloud / #Nextcloud work...

Anyway I know no better for context on how this happened than @victorpickard's research on the history of our #media system, as well as new models to revive it:
https://academic.oup.com/book/35132

And here's a plug for a little-known classic (my 1st book, lol), if you're interested in activists taking matters into their own hands and seeding the countryside with tiny, #noncommercial #radio stations: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262534765/low-power-to-the-people/

New license plate! #ccbync #oer @creativecommons #openAccess #LibraryLife #nonCommercial

Let's not delude ourselves that #CreativeCommons is a pro-free-culture movement. Otherwise, they would have dropped #NonCommercial and #NoDerivatives ages ago, but they still refuse to. It's just a crappy compromise with copyright maximalists. Especially NoDerivatives, which explicitly forbids remixes, is clearly an affront to the idea of free culture that I cannot fathom they still endorse it.

#copyright

If you ever see a work with the #CreativeCommons "#NonCommercial" clause, RUN. Don't touch it with a 10-foot pole, even if you don't intend to make any money with it. If you read the fineprint, you will see how broadly the term "#commercial use" can be used and people already have stumbled over this.

I always treat NC works as works that are under full #copyright restrictions.

Of course, if you have a special permission from the copyright holder (on top of license), things can be different

@kid37 leider nur #NonCommercial - Lizenz...

Also nichtmals monetarisierte YouTube-Videos...

https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/faqs

@mfioretti_en The commercial media will never perceive #noncommercial solutions as a possibility.

Thanks to @mikarv for reminding me (see https://mastodon.ar.al/@mikarv@someone.elses.computer/109793985698320431), I just added the following license to my bio on my Mastodon site.

Please feel free to copy/adapt/use if you like:

My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

#fediverse #mastodon #content #copyright #licensing #scraping #consent #commons #creativeCommons #attribution #nonCommercial #shareAlike

@gilduran Sorry. That stinks.
If the #MechanismDesign (#algorithms and #UI #affordances) continues to support normal #prosocial human instincts, it might be stable for many many years. It's worked for Wikipedia, StackExchange. #Fedies survived several growth spurts over the past 5 yr. Even survived a hostile takeover attempt by Truth.Social. Even if some developers and #admins lose #noncommercial, #human-centric focus, other supercooperators step in and fedi-up

I think there's plenty of room on #mastodon both for people whose livelihoods/careers/side-hustles depend on social media, and those of us whose interests here are entirely #NonCommercial. Both are legitimate, rifts can surely be worked out to satisfy all parties. Doesn't have to be winner-take-all, that's part of the beauty of federation. I think clusters of super-federated server will emerge to serve various interest groups, but for now #hashtags and curating one's own feed remain core.

I recently changed the #license on all my #iNaturalist #photos to CC-BY-NC: #CreativeCommons Attribution #NonCommercial. Although my observations have been licensed that way, for import into scientific databases such as @gbif and #GloBI, my photo licenses were inconsistent, depending on how I had brought them into iNat.

So, if you're looking for a photo for a non-commercial use, be sure to check out iNat.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&quality_grade=research&user_id=xris&verifiable=any&view=species

#Macro #Insects #Biology #Ecology

INCIDENTALLY, this is why I ❤️ teaching about #CommunityRadio (& maintain that writing my 1st book about low-power FM activism in a time of breathless internet hype was not a delusional thing to do). My students mostly don't know much about #radio, especially community & #noncommercial forms, but it doesn't take long for them to grasp contrast w how internet we mostly use wound up--small, decentralized, user-controlled spaces start to click for them. Powerful metaphor!

🎨 #oilpainting #gasmasks #photography
Inspiration: Peter Zelei photographer 📸
#paintingafterphoto #olieverf #nonpromotional #noncommercial #casestudy #academy #schilderkunst #love #pollution #theairthatwebreathe #nuclearthreat #portrait #couple

All my Flickr photos - including the one with my father on his deathbed - are now "All Rights Reserved". I had to change that over a decade ago after numerous abuses of the #NonCommercial clause of the #CreativeCommons #license.

I used #WAMU's "Reach out to us" link at the bottom of their article to ask them to link back to the #Flickr #photo, as #WBUR had done in 2009. It's the weekend, and I don't expect to hear back from them until Monday, at the earliest.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/flatbushgardener/3074829544/

This was not the first time this #photo was published.

In 2009, #WBUR - #Boston's #PublicRadio station - used it to illustrate "From Pain to Palliative Care", a segment in a series on #EndOfLife care in the U.S.

http://archives.wbur.org/insideout/documentaries/qualityofdeath/segmentb.php.html

At the time, I had licensed all my #Flickr photos as CC-BY-NC-ND: #CreativeCommons #Attribution #NonCommercial #NonDerivative. Their use was compliant, and they notified me about it.

#Photography #Hospice #PalliativeCare

You know what’s really nice on here? Celebrities not telling you how delighted they are to be teaming up with [INSERT SPONSOR HERE] and how they can’t wait to show us [INSERT LATEST PRODUCT HERE].
They’re not delighted, and they’re not excited. They’re paid. And they get paid more by leveraging the trust of their fan-base and exploiting our enjoyment of them into personal commercial gain.

#commercial #sponsor #advertising #NonCommercial #fediverse #celebrities #ProductPlacement #Mastodon

@tech_noir I'm curious why people would flee one privately owned social media company (#birdsite) to go to another privately owned social media company (#hive). It seems like this is the perfect chance to move over to #noncommercial options for social media.