Dear Google: Public Domain Compositions Exist

I recently produced (and was the Major-General in) The Pirates of Penzance. The opera was first performed in 1879, and published contemporaneously. Its composer, Arthur Sullivan, died in 1900, and its librettist. W. S. Gilbert, in 1911. So when I uploaded it to YouTube, why was my video tagged as a copyright violation? It wasn’t that kind of...

This is not a sponsored post of any kind. I just wanted to share how and why I browse the web on my Android phone. You won’t need to be rooted or using a custom ROM to follow along; any Android user should be able to use this setup. (Sorry iOS users, but you’ll have to stick with what you’ve got.) The Android browser landscape From StatCounter...

I’ve long been interested in practical low-end computing. Dealing with low-end hardware shows us how experiences might be improved on modern systems, and, in any case, tinkering around has always been fun. In the past, I’d messed around with i686 systems. While some of the more popular Linux distros are dropping official support for 32-bit x86,...