Kevin Riggle / is on Nostr

Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️‍🌈 https://twitter.com/kevinriggle

🏙️ Brooklyn, NY
🔗 https://complexsystems.group/publications

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2024-09-24 01:14:04

I really don't want to be, like, "I am the only person who's good at cybersecurity," but I do feel like I spend an _AWFUL_ lot of time asking, "And what is our threat model?" over and over and over again, even with ostensible security people

2024-09-18 21:32:43

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oh of course. The law of perverse incentives strikes again. More competition is not always better!

2024-09-14 19:03:07

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Straight out of a Ball canning publication (complimentary)

2024-09-13 20:44:15

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The shorthand I have for this now is "eating the sound", and once heard in others it cannot be unheard, but it's hard because it really does sound great in my head

2024-09-13 20:43:04

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Like seriously I spent way too long doing this, thinking I was doing it "right" and it should sound good, before the evidence of my senses, listening to the recordings, and my vocal instructors' repeated feedback, eventually caught up with me and forced me to painfully acknowledge that I was wrong.

2024-09-13 20:42:02

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And my first and most concrete suggestion, which it took me a ... lot of pain ... to really internalize, doing vocal stuff growing up, is:
If you're going for that big, deep, resonant announcer-style voice, and it sounds good to you inside your head but not on tape, you are probably focusing the sound inside your head. Focus the sound right behind your front teeth and you'll hear a marked difference in the quality of the recording.

2024-09-13 20:39:09

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Some combination of practice, production values, and getting used to hearing the sound of your own voice.

2024-09-05 16:59:37

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'Transformative' in this case means not so much in a technical sense, like modifying the HTML, but at a social level the intent or purpose of the use. In e.g. the Google Books case the courts found that reproducing copyrighted material to provide a search function was transformative
https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/authorsguild-google-2dcir2015.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc.

2024-09-04 22:00:33

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the Wayback Machine is pretty obviously a transformative use under fair use, and even the original controlled digital lending program should have been not transformative but still fair use. Removing the restrictions and going full pirate library was pretty obviously not transformative and not fair use and the courts rightly found against it

2024-08-05 18:32:20

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Thanks for the clarification!

2024-08-05 18:07:40

Well that’s exciting. Got my first round of drive by abuse. The Masto report/block UI is … bad.
“You are aware that this breaks specific server rules”—of my server or theirs? The basic question of “to whom am I reporting this” should have an obvious answer

2024-06-07 20:29:19

"What I'm asking [us] to do is build a better world for [ourselves], for everyone around us, and for all other life on the planet—and as a SIDE EFFECT we will deal with #climate change! And as a SIDE EFFECT we will deal with physical pollution!" –@npub1lq5…6wl7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8riA6Mk5gU

2024-05-22 03:57:11

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The ongoing erosion of my ability to tell where information I enter into any random text box on my computer is sent and stored has me increasingly tempted to switch back to a 386 and WordPerfect 5.whatever for MS-DOS