Decrepit
Jun 6 2021, 05:14 PM
I'm getting worse vibes about the copyright claim. The 'artist' listed in the claim is a certain Nick White. The claim is filed on behalf of Water Music Dance. A web search unearths no pianist by the name of Nick White (other than someone this almost certainly isn't). Checking Water Dance Music finally led me to an 'album' called Pure Moods Classical, a collection of piano snippets from various works, indeed performed by Nick White. An image, assuming it's legit, looks to be that of a teenager or very early adult. It shows him in posture as if he's play piano or a keyboard of some type, but is cropped so that the instrument is not seen.
I begin to wonder if maybe the album's classical selections come from Musopen or a like source, and are thus the same performance that appears in my video. That particular Musopen download allows unrestricted use, even commercial. It is, however, as stated previously, free-to-use, copyright and royalty free. I'm as much allowed to use it as I see fit as is Nick White. But again, this is pure conjecture.
If my claim dispute is not approved, at the very least I'll bring this to the attention of Musopen.
Sakiri
Jun 6 2021, 05:56 PM
I know NCS tells you that if you get a strike using and crediting their music properly, to contact them and they'll deal with it. That company should at least give you a stand to start. If it's copyright free and some dick nozzle is claiming it's theirs, there's a problem. A legal one.
As a side note, I'm trying to set up FFXIV to play nice with my PS4 controller and it won't.
Decrepit
Jun 6 2021, 07:30 PM
QUOTE(Sakiri @ Jun 6 2021, 11:56 AM)

I know NCS tells you that if you get a strike using and crediting their music properly, to contact them and they'll deal with it. That company should at least give you a stand to start. If it's copyright free and some dick nozzle is claiming it's theirs, there's a problem. A legal one.
For sure, again assuming I'm on the right track. The irony is that this claim is on a video that is not monetized and will likely get between 5-20 views, so will earn the claimer not one cent. I could simply let the claim stand without it making one bit of difference to my channel. It's the principle of the thing. In any case, I still hold out a sliver of hope that the claim is a legit mistake and the info I supplied the claimer will cause the claim to be removed.
mirocu
Jun 6 2021, 09:18 PM
Well, good luck Decrepit!
It's after 10PM so I'm gonna go to bed now I decided.
Sakiri
Jun 6 2021, 09:32 PM
Doesn't matter if you monetize anymore. YouTube can and will often run ads for it's own benefit. Irritates the hell out of me.
Got the controller working. Was really annoying.
Kane
Jun 7 2021, 12:11 PM
YouTube ads stink. But between the uBlock Origin and YouTube Enhancement Suite Firefox extensions, you'll end up with zero.
Sakiri
Jun 7 2021, 02:37 PM
I don't see them on chrome. But it doesn't change the fact that Youtube is profiting off your work.
Platform is losing money, so it's unsurprising.
mirocu
Jun 7 2021, 05:59 PM
I'm shaving as I type this.
My face, that is. C'mon, guys. You're better than this
Lena Wolf
Jun 7 2021, 07:32 PM
QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 7 2021, 05:59 PM)

I'm shaving as I type this.
I hope it was an electric shaver. Otherwise you might be dead.
=Keep your eyes on the blade!=
mirocu
Jun 7 2021, 07:39 PM
Well, I think I'm still alive

Hang on
*checks bank account*
-Yep! I'm still paying taxes so I'm here
Lena Wolf
Jun 7 2021, 07:52 PM
It's nearly 8 p.m. but I'm still working... Waiting on a computer to produce something... then to send it off...
Anyway, I blame
Kazaera for this - her "Sleeper in the Cave" is too good a read - distracts people from when they should have been working...
mirocu
Jun 7 2021, 07:57 PM
QUOTE(Lena Wolf @ Jun 7 2021, 08:52 PM)

It's nearly 8 p.m. but I'm still working...
Ah! I come from the future where it's nearly 9PM and I have some stuff to tell you!
Lena Wolf
Jun 7 2021, 08:03 PM
QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 7 2021, 07:57 PM)

QUOTE(Lena Wolf @ Jun 7 2021, 08:52 PM)

It's nearly 8 p.m. but I'm still working...
Ah! I come from the future where it's nearly 9PM and I have some stuff to tell you!

Ok, what year is it? It's 4E202 over here.
mirocu
Jun 7 2021, 08:13 PM
Same year but I live one hour into your future

And now I'm gonna go and be unconscious for several hours in that large rectangle, I decided.
mirocu
Jun 8 2021, 06:29 PM
Really? No post after me again?
Guys! You make me look bad when I'm forced to doublepost like this!
Decrepit
Jun 8 2021, 08:39 PM
Color me relieved.
Just under a week ago, ironically the day after my cardiology visit, I discovered a small area just to the left of the center of my chest that was painful if pressed. Now, I have a chest/lung condition causes periodic outbreaks of pain in different parts of my chest, that area included. Only, my 'normal' chest pains cover broad areas, not a small refined one. While those are indeed painful, it's more a burn/sting, not sharp pain, and aren't affected by pressure.
As the pain faded over time once I stopped pressing it, I decided to leave well enough alone and 'keep an eye on it'.
Next day, checking myself in the mirror, I was surprised to see dark skin surrounding that painful spot. It looked like a bruise, though for the life of me I can't remember having done anything to cause a painful bruise to that area. I called my PCM's office for advice. They didn't return my call until Friday afternoon, with the clinic already closed for the week.
Explaining my situation, they moved one of my standard six-month appointments forward a week, telling me to visit ER if I felt the situation warranted it at any time prior to my appointment. This past Saturday, I came close to taking them up on that. I was feeling pretty miserable, with that spot sore as heck amongst symptoms. Ironically or not, by the time I'd grabbed a quick shower and thrown together an ER kit, my bout of misery had ended. I felt fine the rest of the that day, all day Sunday, and all Monday up until right before bedtime, when symptoms returned in a very mild way.
Woke this morning, the day of my PCM appointment, in roughly the same state. Started feeling better about the time I left the house, and felt reasonably okay while sitting in the clinic waiting to be seen.
Seen at last, I explained my situation to the doc. He examined the bruise and had me feel out that painful spot for him. To cut to the chase, I seem to have torn a pectoral-rib attachment spot. The doc says the damage isn't too severe to heal on its own over time. I'm to place an ice-pack over that spot twice a day until the pain/bruise vanishes, which will take weeks.
So no heart-related issue, cancerous growth or other perilous ailment!
mirocu
Jun 8 2021, 08:48 PM
That is awesome news, Decrepit! You're not in as bad a state as you think!

Maybe we should ask Acadian to change your name?
Acadian
Jun 8 2021, 09:17 PM
As long as they can keep patching Drecrepit together faster than he breaks, we're good.
Seriously, good news, Decrepit (considering the alternatives).
mirocu
Jun 9 2021, 06:19 PM
QUOTE(Acadian @ Jun 8 2021, 10:17 PM)

As long as they can keep patching Drecrepit together faster than he breaks, we're good.
Decrepit:
Decrepit
Jun 9 2021, 07:08 PM
Despite the risk to my hopefully healing pectoral-rib attachment point, I carried a number of heavy bags of outdated computer parts, a huge ink-jet printer and two PC monitors to the curb first thing after breakfast for this year's annual odd-item trash pickup day. Stuff they don't normally accept. Due to the nature of what I threw out, everything vanished from my lawn long before the disposal truck arrived. Thinking on it after the fact, I ought to have thrown out my stacks of old MaximumPC magazines. They don't interest me anymore, and are worth zilch. Come to think on it, I might also have a significant stash of PC Gamer Magazine that can be jettisoned.
What I might do with those is put several in my weekly trash picklup bags. No official reason I can't. They are 'normal' trash, after all. To the minus, doing it that way will take ages.
mirocu
Jun 9 2021, 07:14 PM
QUOTE(Decrepit @ Jun 9 2021, 08:08 PM)

Despite the risk to my hopefully healing pectoral-rib attachment point, I carried a number of heavy bags of outdated computer parts, a huge ink-jet printer and two PC monitors to the curb first thing after breakfast for this year's annual odd-item trash pickup day.
This perplexes me. If we did that here we'd get a kick in the teeth.
NO LOOSE TRASH. SECURE THE BAG SO IT DOESN'T OPEN UP. NO LOOSE TRASH.
Decrepit
Jun 9 2021, 07:39 PM
QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 9 2021, 01:14 PM)

QUOTE(Decrepit @ Jun 9 2021, 08:08 PM)

Despite the risk to my hopefully healing pectoral-rib attachment point, I carried a number of heavy bags of outdated computer parts, a huge ink-jet printer and two PC monitors to the curb first thing after breakfast for this year's annual odd-item trash pickup day.
This perplexes me. If we did that here we'd get a kick in the teeth.
NO LOOSE TRASH. SECURE THE BAG SO IT DOESN'T OPEN UP. NO LOOSE TRASH.
That's our rules too. As stated, smaller items were bagged. Larger items were too big for any bag I own. Those were returned to their original display boxes, so were in a sense bagged. A neighbor put out an ancient CTR TV. Looked to be a 35" model or thereabouts. No point in putting that in a bag. During today's exercise-walk I saw a curbed tall narrow dresser. No point bagging that either. Am surprised so few people curbed items this year. Then again, after a year of C19 maybe no one has been replacing items of the sort this special pickup is meant to remove. I curbed as much as I did only because I forgot about pickup day two years straight.
mirocu
Jun 9 2021, 07:56 PM
They'd never pick up that big stuff here though. They only ever empty the bins
Sakiri
Jun 10 2021, 11:42 AM
and computer stuff can't go out with regular trash. We have electronic waste bins at the dump for that.
Kane
Jun 10 2021, 12:34 PM
They take pert near anything I put out right now, but I've heard tell that we are moving to new big cans soon that the trucks pick up with an arm. Can't have anything loose with that setup, so that will suck. The days of me putting an oversized recliner out are drawing to a close.
mirocu
Jun 10 2021, 03:39 PM
Friday soon!
mirocu
Jun 11 2021, 03:31 PM
Sakiri
Jun 11 2021, 07:50 PM
I hate every day equally.
Cat demands food at 6 and all i want is sleep since Mikael can't go to bed before 11 and he sleeps through the cat noise
He's the kinda bastage that sleeps through fire alarms.
Dark Reaper
Jun 12 2021, 04:41 AM
Ugh...so hot...so sticky. I HATE SUMMER!!!
Sakiri
Jun 12 2021, 10:41 AM
past few days its been 30C in the house because we have no such thing as AC here. I can't open the windows or the door because the cat'll get out and she's not fixed(too low weight to spay).
Uggggh.
Decrepit
Jun 12 2021, 01:22 PM
QUOTE(Dark Reaper @ Jun 11 2021, 10:41 PM)

Ugh...so hot...so sticky. I HATE SUMMER!!!

I agree about hot and sticky, but summer heralds the end of tornado season. Therefore summer wins, especially now that neighbors kindly mow my lawn for me. I now need to begin my exercise-walks at around 0600-0630, but I've been up hours by then so it's no biggie.
mirocu
Jun 12 2021, 02:45 PM
QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 11 2021, 04:31 PM)

No; Friday yesterday
QUOTE(Dark Reaper @ Jun 12 2021, 05:41 AM)

Ugh...so hot...so sticky. I HATE SUMMER!!!

What with the long, cold spring we had I'm not 'plaining
Acadian
Jun 12 2021, 02:46 PM
Agree on hot and humid. Luuuvvvvs hot and dry though. Today the humidity is 10% and the temp is going up to a lovely 100 degrees later.
mirocu
Jun 12 2021, 02:53 PM
Sounds like it's not a coincidence that Acadian lives in the desert

Or.... dessert..?
Sakiri
Jun 13 2021, 09:33 AM
It's cold today. Shorts are too cold. And windy. Very windy. Yay June ><
Decrepit
Jun 13 2021, 10:51 AM
QUOTE(Sakiri @ Jun 13 2021, 03:33 AM)

It's cold today. Shorts are too cold. And windy. Very windy. Yay June ><
On the other hand, it's not quite 0500 here and already 78F. Gonna have to head out for my exercise-walk soon as I finish brushing teeth following my 0500 breakfast. That's no inconvenience so long as it's light enough to keep me from getting run over.
Lena Wolf
Jun 13 2021, 12:09 PM
0500 is in the middle of the night in my book... Regardless what the sun is doing. It hardly bothers to go under in June at all, so that's my excuse for ignoring it.
mirocu
Jun 13 2021, 02:08 PM
Sun day.
Lena Wolf
Jun 13 2021, 02:12 PM
It's pretty warm today - 25C - 77F. I don't want it any warmer. I'm up near Dawnstar in the blizzard with survival mode on - to cool off.
mirocu
Jun 13 2021, 02:17 PM
But how many Kelvin is that??
Lena Wolf
Jun 13 2021, 03:17 PM
QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 13 2021, 02:17 PM)

But how many Kelvin is that??

25 C = 298.15 K
Dark Reaper
Jun 13 2021, 05:52 PM
QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 12 2021, 07:45 AM)

What with the long, cold spring we had I'm not 'plaining

I want my cold back T_T .
mirocu
Jun 13 2021, 06:48 PM
QUOTE(Dark Reaper @ Jun 13 2021, 06:52 PM)

QUOTE(mirocu @ Jun 12 2021, 07:45 AM)

What with the long, cold spring we had I'm not 'plaining

I want my cold back T_T .
You'll get it.
Oh, you'll get it
Sakiri
Jun 13 2021, 08:34 PM
0500 is about when the cat wakes me up.
Sun's been up since 02:30 anyway.
I go to bed, it's still light enough to play football or read a book.
mirocu
Jun 13 2021, 08:39 PM
Or watch Youtube?
Adella
Jun 13 2021, 10:55 PM
Yes but in winter Saki gets
Sunrise 11 am
Sunset 1130 am
Be likeā¦Get up, make toast, go to bed
Adella
Sakiri
Jun 14 2021, 06:56 AM
Well it's pitch black at 3 so there's that. Quite close.
Darn northern latitude.
Ohai Adella.
mirocu
Jun 14 2021, 06:18 PM
QUOTE(Sakiri @ Jun 14 2021, 07:56 AM)

Well it's pitch black at 3 so there's that. Quite close.
That's why IKEA have so many lamps
Sakiri
Jun 14 2021, 08:57 PM
What's IKEA?
Think I've been there once. Closest one is over an hour away.
mirocu
Jun 14 2021, 09:00 PM
QUOTE(Sakiri @ Jun 14 2021, 09:57 PM)

What's IKEA?
Think I've been there once. Closest one is over an hour away.
Kinda the same for me. But it's time for bed now and not purchasing incredibly flat packed furniture.
Toodles!
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