That was already public domain twice over—uncreative catalogues of data aren’t copyrightable in the United States (see Feist v. Rural), and works of the U.S. federal government aren’t copyrightable in the United States.

> And I’ve been wondering why would anyone buy the cassette or CD?

I have no interest in cassette or vinyl. I love CDs because they provide the highest music quality, uncompressed audio that’s trivial to rip to lossless FLAC files, complete with metadata.

Sure, but on the whole I’d take getting FLAC directly over CDs. Not that I don’t have CDs, even deluxe editions with picture books and stuff, but I pretty much never get them out.

I can understand people preferring vinyls as physical artefacts, the full frame jackets of my father’s albums are gorgeous in a way that’s distinct from and superior to CD album art, even if the music bit is markedly inferior technically (although that technical inferiority has led to better musical end results in some cases, you can’t compress the shit out of a vinyl, then again hopefully that time is long on the past).

I'd take getting FLAC files directly, but they're not available most of the time.

Yeah. But my point is mostly that the CD remains nothing but a transmission vessel for the audio, I don't know anyone and have seldom heard of people who value CDs for their physicality as a CD. Unlike vinyls which they very much do.

“fixed-length name fields in structures such as directory entries”

“the trailing null is unnecessary for a maximum-length field”

That is a non–null terminated string.

strlcpy is in POSIX now, actually.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/s...

Ah, good point. I forgot it had just gotten added. Past context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36765747

Yes, in American English it depends on which syllable has stress. Compare:

dueled, paralleled, canceled, pedaled, but controlled, compelled, extolled, appalled

levered, snickered, but occurred, deferred

focused, biased, censused, but compressed, embussed, outgassed

worshiped, but entrapped (although even in America kidnapped seems more common than kidnaped—one of Webster’s less successful reforms)

“tchi” is the Hepburn romanization of っち. (Knowing very little Japanese myself, the first example that comes to mind is たまごっち → tamagotchi.)

Worse than typosquatting is EV’s problem that anyone can register a corporation with an identical name.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171211181630/https://stripe.ia...

I think it is working as intended.

Register a corporation often meant it is linked to a real life, government issued ID.

If you do scam or fraud on that web site, they know where to find you.

... unless, of course, if the CA ain't doing the verification.....

You misunderstood. He’s saying that Google provides 7 years of device updates only for the Pixel 8 and later. That’s true: Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 only get 5 years of updates.

Pixel 7:

> Ends in 1 year and 10 months (01 Oct 2027)

Pixel 6:

> Ends in 10 months (01 Oct 2026)

Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks for clearing that up.

Quoting Wikipedia:

“The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction series originally titled Master of the Universe and published by [E. L.] James episodically on fan fiction websites under the pen name ‘Snowqueen Icedragon’.”

Exactly so. It was not able to be published in its initial state as a Twilight fanfic due to copyright and had to be re-worked so as not to infringe.

> Note: copyright is based on the translation date, not the original language.

It’s based on both. For example, a translation or other derivative work whose copyright expired “early” in the US due to non‐renewal would still be encumbered by the copyright of the original. That’s basically what happened to It’s a Wonderful Life—the film is technically in the public domain, but is still held in Paramount’s iron grip by way of the renewed copyright of the original short story.

Fair point!