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I’m not actually sure that there is a home on Earth 6000 miles away from a furcon.

googles

https://furrycons.com/calendar/map/

https://www.treehugger.com/most-remote-places-on-earth-4869276

Yeah, nowhere in the Northern Hemisphere is gonna qualify.

If you live on Tristan Da Cunha, the “most remote island on Earth inhabited by humans” in the South Atlantic, you’re ~5,984 mi from SloFluffCon 2023 in Celje, Slovenia, so even that wouldn’t quite do it.

I don’t think that you can count somewhere like the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, because nobody actually permanently lives there.

looks further

Pitcairn Island isn’t even close, only about 3,520 mi from Confuror 2023 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States#Design

According to the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry, the United States flag never becomes obsolete. Any approved American flag may continue to be used and displayed until no longer serviceable.[188]

Well, that provides for some unorthodox options.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_Flag

The “Grand Union Flag”, or the “Continental Colours”, (also known as the “Congress Flag”, the “Cambridge Flag”, and the “First Navy Ensign”) was the first national flag of the United States of America. First hoisted on December 3, 1775 by naval officer John Paul Jones, the flag was used heavily by the Second Continental Congress of the United States, as well as by Commander George Washington in his Continental Army during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.

Similar to the current U.S. flag, the Grand Union Flag has 13 alternating red and white stripes, representative of the Thirteen Colonies. The upper inner corner, or canton, features the Union Jack, or flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain, of which the colonies were subjects.

It also doesn’t specify shades of colors involved, number of points on the stars, arrangements of stars, or size of the canton.

That being said, according to WP, it looks like the US government does use standards for colors; just doesn’t expect others to do the same:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States#Design

I know that France recently altered the shade of blue that they use to be a darker one on their flag, so there is probably some variability in a number of countries.

I prefer emacs too, but:

• Emacs’s C-x C-c isn’t likely any more able to leverage knowledge from other environments than vi’s :wq. I guess you could be using a graphical version of emacs and use the menus.

• On my system, current versions of vim do appear, by default, to show a screen telling you how to quit. A test of emacs -Q to bring up a default emacs environment in a terminal environment doesn’t appear to do that. It instead directs you to the “C-h C-a about emacs page”, which isn’t likely to help beginners. It probably should at least reference the top-level help at C-h C-h or the tutorial at C-h C-t.

• There are text-mode menus in emacs, but I normally use emacs in the terminal with the menus hidden and don’t use them. F10 will cause them to drop down, but I’m not sure how intuitive that is. looks further Okay, using emacs -Q to test a vanilla environment, it does look like the menus are visible by default in the terminal. If you’re in an environment with mouse support enabled - it looks like gpm in a Linux console works, but curiously-enough, it doesn’t seem to work in urxvt, xterm, or gnome-terminal for me – but at least in some terminal environments, you can use the mouse to operate the terminal-mode menus, so I guess ease-of-use point for emacs there.

EDIT: It does look like there’s a GTK-based vim that has graphical menus these days, so vim can probably do the menu thing too, but at least on my system, when I launch it, I get a regular terminal vim instance.

I am very enthusiastic about the Thinkpad for Linux use for one reason – it is one of few laptops available with a physical middle button, which X11 makes good use of relative to MacOS X or Windows.

I really wish that laptop internal trackpads were standardized modules that could be replaced. Would open up more options for other laptops.

I think that the post is joking about the fact that it’s working despite the communist association. A lot of institutions branding themselves as communist haven’t done very well.

I dunno if I can agree, OP.

EDIT: Image of Hitler being friendly with a baby was attached. I can see it on kbin.social, but not viewing beehaw.org, at least not in a quick test not being signed in, so just want to clarify to avoid the post being nonsensical if someone else can’t see it.

The original duration of copyright was a flat 14 years, with a single additional 14 year extension if the copyright holder applied for it. So 28 years in total.

Just would like to qualify this with “in the US”. Copyright law – and IP law in general – has varied around the world, and certainly back in (checks) 1790, when the original US copyright term was set, the world had not settled on a common duration. Today, the Berne Convention has done a lot to move things towards a common set of rules around the world, but that wasn’t the case when the 14+14 term was around.

I’m American, but that does have significant impact, especially today and online, where to some degree places around the world are about-equally-accessible to each other.

If you see Europeans talking about “moral rights”, for example, that’s something that plays a more-significant role in copyright law in Europe than in the US.

In the US, typefaces cannot be copyrighted, unlike in some other countries, but software representations of typefaces can.

Fair use is a US doctrine; while some countries have some level of analog, it isn’t always available and may have different constraints and be considerably more-limited than in the US.

You’re telling me that there has been a Gay Island this ENTIRE TIME and I’m only just now finding out about it???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Island

Gay Island is one of the many uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It is a Baffin Island offshore island located in Frobisher Bay, southeast of Iqaluit.

I think that it depends a great deal on what subreddits you use. I mean, I normally use only a small number, and they are all presently private or restricted, so it has an impact.

And if you specifically want information on something coming from Google and are trying to read old posts with information about, say, how to work around some bug, then that is disruptive.

But if you just hit Reddit looking for something interesting to look at or read, which is a legit use and how many people are going to use the thing, then I think that the impact is probably limited.

and you cant even get drunk off it.

I don’t drink alcohol, so maybe I’m not the best person to make the point, but surely one can drink ethanol without specifically having the goal of downing enough to wind up drunk?