Technology is currently worring for a lot of people so the moronic response is to simply reject it.

> that's the responsibility that comes with freedom

We live in a dark age where the majority of people would gladly give their freedom so the don't have to be responsible.

> Facebook should not have multiple high quality photos of 1/2 of the planet, their children, pets, friends and family, in addition to their real-time location obtained through the spyware companion app.

If adults decide to give them all this information aren't they the ones that should be blamed?

Perhaps, for the individual photos that each uploaded in ignorance of the bigger picture.

But not for the aggregate warehousing, abuse of data, addiction maximising algorithmic design, insecurity, etc.

That's all on Facebook and other similar mass scale "social' media behemoths.

Facebook automatically tags people in photos

We live in a society that only values money so why should anyone optimise for s.th. else?

This frames society as some exogenous entity that we have no influence over.

It also assumes that the society is homogenous, in the sense that everyone cares about the same thing. I don't think that's true at all.

But the people with control of mechanisms of power like social influence do only care about money, so the voices of people who have other values become irrelevant.

What is the purpose of this and how would I use it (as someone who actually knows a lot about music theory and C programming)?

Well, this library provides the core functions for classical, Western music theory (scales, keys, intervals, etc.). So any ideas that needs to understand or generate these structures could use them. Some examples off the top of my head:

- Music theory education tools - Music generation (and the outputs could be transformed to MIDI format for example) - Piano chord finder

and similar.

So you can generate the d dorian scale and it outputs d e f g a b c d?

Whats the target audience? A good musician knows the scales by heart (and also how they sound/feel) and for the others it's unclear to me what they would do with music theory they don't really understand.

I think you're looking at this the wrong way around. A human might know the notes of a D Dorian scale, but a computer doesn't. If you've ever selected the key of D major in any music creation software and it's shown you a stave with two sharps then the computer was using a library like this.

There is a function for that, yes.

For your second thought, I'm not really sure I understand the point.

Since this is a library, it can power any application that needs to understand or generate these abstractions. So to expand on some options I gave above:

- You can create a program that generates a piece in the style of a Bach cantata for example, using this library as the backbone.

- If a teacher wanted to create a tool to educate kids about scales for example, it can use this library as a backbone.

The question is: what is the use case?

If you don't have a practical use case, the probability that there is one AND that it will use your library (instead of building its own, adjusted to their needs) is next to zero.

(I have been there more than once a long time ago)

Edit to add: and it's not to blame. Just there are more and more libraries popping up these days, without a clear use case, even their own. Which is totally fine as long as they are clear about not having one.

>So you can generate the d dorian scale and it outputs d e f g a b c d?

lmao

Karthago was a highly developed culture. We just don't know much about them because the romans burned everything to the ground after winning the second war. Only a single book of the whole library (about plants) was saved.

Personally I think the EU goes too far when I'm not even allowed to access books on the internet where the author died more than 100 years ago. So I like it xD

The Americans are just as bad when it comes to intellectual property (70 years after the death of the author or 95 years after publication). By American copyright standards, you can read The Silmarillion for free around 2072.

The difference in approach (American companies suing and financially ruining a select few downloaders versus European lobbyists going attempting to block the distribution points) makes piracy slightly less convenient in Europe but the basis for the copyright problem was turned into a global problem at the Berne Convention.

I can read that for free, and even hang on to it for a couple of weeks, as soon as the library opens today.

Actually I don't need to wait, because it's available immediately over the Internet in eBook format, with my library card.

There are also CDs, DVDs, and on-demand audio/video available with a library card.

I visited a library across town, and many sections were given over to video games for various popular console systems.

I can access almost every book and every paper that exist in seconds over the internet...

I also got a job in science and I think it's partly because I read a lot of papers (illegaly) since years.

Which book is that?

Gutenberg.org was DNS blocked for a very long time. Now it's not DNS blocked anymore but I think it will detect your IP and restrict access for some books if you are in the EU.

Of course very easy to circumvent if you know s.th. about tech.

What is the difference between those cases and Steamboat Willie? Besides the obvious that those happened in different countries.

what americans think happens in the EU:

which books?

Sorry I'm not allowed to tell you.

You could use letters for blind people with the amount of different letters you decide to use as base of a number system.

The example is bad imo because chatgpt can be really great for cooking if you utilize it correctly. Like in coding you already need some skill and shouldn't believe everything it says.