Not That Kind of Pirate: YouTube's Music Copyright System is Still Broken

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Since YouTube is the dominant video platform, a lot has already been said about its copyright claims system. Most of that has had to do with questions about what constitutes fair use (in movie reviews, for instance). Google’s AI is mostly trained to recognize the presence or non-presence of content in your video, not whether or not your use is...

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,...