Is it time to put tinfoil in the walls?

3d printer go brrr.

What if you only eat carnivores?

Alternative title: “How to become a multi millionaire in less than 2 years.”

Slightly off topics but this reminds me of this video making a case that forest fires are inevitable and the more often they happen the better https://youtu.be/HBluLfX2F_k?t=1448

As if democrats weren’t doing the same thing. It’s a uniparty. The difference is the same as pokémon red and blue, you get to choose the color of the package and which monster you get.

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Isn’t this just a public company with extra steps?

I have a feeling that this will backfire. There will obviously still be a lot of unlabeled AI content made in/by foreign nations and local models, and since AI content is supposed to be labeled, people will be less cautious and more easily fooled by it.

if we as a society decided that homicide and regicide were of the same magnitude, we’d call them both murder.

we don’t.

If you change the definition of air to mean

An open, generally public way for the passage of vehicles, people, and animals.

you’ll be able to walk on air, but as it stands, you can not walk on air.

Didn’t say we aren’t.

Killing tapeworms isn’t murder because only killing a human can be murder.

I didn’t say humans aren’t animals, I said tapeworms aren’t humans. They are animals. They are not humans.

Tapeworm is an animal not a human.

I’m not trans or leftist and I’m on the list. I rarely discuss politics here anyway. I mostly talk about tech or post memes, so it seems more like a list of people the dev doesn’t like for no reason in particular.

Sure but when a company shuts down or decides to shut down the database all the media goes with it. That’s what sony just did, all the stuff you “bought” went poof. Not having the ability to transfer the license is only half of the issue.

NFTs are built on a flawed system

What do you mean by that? What is the flaw of the system?

everything built on top of [crypto] is either only a vehicle for legitimate currency

What do you mean by “legitimate currency”? If I can buy and sell things for it, how is it illegitimate? There are plenty of non-strictly monetary blockchain and crypto applications, like arweave, for example, which is a decentralized, permissionless blockchain based data storage protocol where you can store and share encrypted private data like on google drive or publicly host files and static websites, or DAOs, which enable decentralized control and decision making through provably fair voting. Financial applications of crypto are also great. You can buy and sell things privately over the internet without a need for a middleman who will take a cut and can cut you off if the government makes them or they don’t like what you’re selling, like what happened with wikileaks, pornhub or more recently with steam. Platforms like hyperliquid and tokenized real world assets give people across the world, also from sanctioned and disenfranchised regions, access to global financial markets where they can privately and permissionlessly trade stocks, commodities, etc. without the need for a broker who can block buying and selling, like robinhood did during the GME short squeeze, front run them, and take a cut of their trades. People from countries with high inflation like Venezuela or Turkiye can use crypto to easily and safely store their wealth in a less inflationary asset like ₿, $ with stablecoins, or tokenized gold.

or laundering ill gotten gains.

How do you launder money with crypto? I thought that starting a fake business in the service sector like a beauty parlor or a restaurant was the gold standard for money laundering, tax man don’t care as long as he gets his cut.

Signed chains of custody already exist, they could be inplemented and nothing is stopping any of these marketplaces from doing so.

True, but that’s still dependent on the marketplace continuing to exist, if it ever disappears, so does your media. I suppose that’s also true for a blockchain, but it would be a lot less likely for the digital media blockchain to go down than some marketplace, and since it’s decentralized, the community would have a vested interest in running nodes to help keep it alive.

They don’t need NFTs, which have a needlessly complex set of requirements, to validate a game’s license.

What complex set of requirements do NFTs have? You can deploy them pretty easily these days. You can send them automatically upon payment, and you wouldn’t even need a server for that or validation of licenses, as it could all be done in the EVM with a smart contract.

Any service could leverage their pre-existing DRM scheme to let you sell your copy to someone else

This doesn’t address the accessibility issue. If the service goes down, you lose the media you “bought”, and doesn’t work for services without DRM.

That’s one of the use cases NFTs were meant for, noncustodial transferable digital property. Sadly, they got ruined by the ape jpeg grifters who didn’t even bother to upload the actual image to the blockchain. The entirety of Steam, Spotify, and Netflix could fit on a specialized blockchain like Arweave, but none of the publishers or big media corporations have any interest in doing that when they can “sell” them to you every 5 years or, better yet, let you rent them one month at a time. Maybe if one day people stop “buying” them, they’ll be forced to do that, but I won’t hold my breath.