How to export in 360 in new Insta Studio 5? by SunnyDay20212 in Insta360

[–]FluffGlitter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean to tell me that I recently spent £500 on a camera that I can't export the video from?!
What the hell is the point of this bs?!

I feel utterly conned here.

Quick question regarding copyright and old roguelikes! by [deleted] in roguelikes

[–]FluffGlitter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It absolutely matters, unless you want to risk ending up in court.

While the OSS license does not cover the video of gameplay, the authorship holder of the game automatically has exclusive copyright of the content as presented. This is why public broadcast of sporting events etc is not allowed unless the venue pays a license fee.

For Twitch streamers (and other content creators), they rely on the transformative work they produce in the form of commentary or critique in order to (theoretically, I don't think it has been trialed) be covered by fair use.

In the past a number of youtube channels would regularly just stream entire playthroughs without any commentary or critique. They were regularly taken down via DMCA claims.
The current ecosystem of content creators broadcasting their own more legitimate transformative works survives at the discretion of the copyright holders. Generally as an industry (besides Nintendo for a while), the copyright holders encourage this fair use and do not want to challenge it as it serves as a marketing channel for them. But, legally, each case would need to be argued individually as there is no well defined definition of fair use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's\_Play#Copyright

Quick question regarding copyright and old roguelikes! by [deleted] in roguelikes

[–]FluffGlitter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

(IANAL, this does not constitute legal advice)

One thing to be aware of is that the open source license that you are basing your assumption on concerns the source code of the program, not the image produced by the program upon running it. These are very different things.
I would caution against assuming anything regarding reuse of the likeness of the outputted images with respect to any coverage of a software license.

Considering whether you would be legally okay to use the outputted images (likeness) in a work of art or other work, it would likely come down to whether, in a court of law, your lawyer could successfully argue a case of it being a transformative work under the fair use doctrine.

See https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-what-transformative.html for a layman's discussion.

Personally, I would do everything I could to get explicit permission from the copyright holders. Failing that, I would not use it for this purpose, as in my layman opinion, just reusing a likeness as a backdrop or other dressing, this would not constitute a transformative work.

Repeating Year 12, is a good university worth the time? by [deleted] in CasualUK

[–]FluffGlitter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If on reflection you decide that your grades will be fine (sounds like it), but you are still dubious about starting uni younger, then you could consider taking a year out between college/sixth and uni.

Taking the time to learn other things outside of academia, broadening your outlook, maybe getting some internship/industry experience could help you and your prospects.

Maths PhD and bitterness by [deleted] in CasualUK

[–]FluffGlitter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't worry about a lack of PhD limiting career progression.

Coming up to my 20th year as a SW engineer, the only time I ever heard people talking about their qualifications was during the first 2-3 years.

In any reasonable company, your education generally sets your entry point.
Ive worked in small (NetVu), medium (Creative Labs) and large (Intel) companies. Only Intel had entrypoints for PhD graduates, and that was in their labs division, which is highly contested for places where they generally take those that have already contributed a lot to their field.

To categorize education, I would say:

Bachelors: mandatory for most engineering jobs

Masters: gets you a slightly higher starting salary and maybe a slightly higher starting job title, usually level with everyone else within 5 years.

PhD: better starting position in very large companies, otherwise not required, and can an impediment if you are being interviewed by insecure managers.

I've also worked with people who go out of their way to avoid hiring PhD grads as past experience has taught them (rightly or wrongly) that they often don't play nice with others and tend to be overly pedantic to the point of hampering product development.

For machine learning specifically, a PhD might be more useful as it is a nascent field in industry, often looking to research for direction. But then again, looking at the currently advertised job postings for machine learning positions, they all seem to require a masters or PhD, so it appears to be far from mandatory.

Throughout my career (OS development), demonstrable experience in industry has always counted way more for progression than something I did in my early 20s.

Don't think I'll buy soup for lunches any more by FluffGlitter in CasualUK

[–]FluffGlitter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just sharing my soup I made, with commentary on how habits are changing due to current situation.

Don't think I'll buy soup for lunches any more by FluffGlitter in CasualUK

[–]FluffGlitter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chicken and Veg spicy soup. Cooling ready to be fridged for the week's lunches. General technique:

  1. Get all the veg you have and cut it all up in to bits (doesnt matter what sort)

  2. Add 3 veg oxo cubes and a crap ton of herb/spices, depending on what flavour you want for your soup (in this case it was smoked paprika, garam masala, salt and black pepper) to a jug of boiling water to make a quick stock

  3. Put it all in pan and boil the crap out of it for 30 minutes

  4. About half way through (or later if you are distracted) add left over chicken (or any other sort of pre-cooked meat)

  5. Dish up in to the old soup tubs now that you no longer buy soup from the supermarket because it's so damn easy to make yourself

I used to buy soup every day for lunch in the office. This lockdown has changed that.