I’m an older generation and (generally) refrain from swearing myself, but seeing censored posts on Lemmy drives me fucking insane. This isn’t a preschool nor is it an advertiser-friendly place. We should keep it that way.

https://youtu.be/8dIdYkwWg_g

Taken a little out of context, but still funny.

It’s 2024. It’s rude not to jam your tongue in there!

And dick?

The problem with copyright is that it cannot be automatically enforced. Twitter did do a trial with nft avatars, but yeah, people just got made fun of. It’s possible to tie a copyright license to an NFT if you want, but copyright and NFTs serve different goals IMO.

Anyways, I don’t want to take up more of your time. Thanks for a very reasonable discussion! It doesn’t happen often.

I’m a furry, so I’m going to use an example that is familiar to me. Apologies if you dislike furries. Also note that, as far as I am aware, the general opinion of furries is strongly against blockchain.

So, some setup:

• I have a character. I pay artists to draw art of my character.
• There is a… subgroup among furries that do not get art of their own, and instead use other people’s art as avatars/profile pictures for erotic roleplay.
• I would prefer that I am the only one using my character’s art as profile pictures (erotically or not.)
• Some furries sell their characters and associated art to other furries.

Here’s how NFTs would actually be useful:

Whenever an artist draws some art, they mint an NFT and transfer it to the character’s owner. Now that owner can prove to whatever roleplay websites that they officially have permission from the artist. The roleplay websites would need to allowlist artists for this to be effective.

You could (partially) solve this with PGP or some other non-blockchain cryptographic tool. What NFTs offer above this is that there is only one current owner. That makes it possible to safely transfer ownership of a character to someone new.

Oh, sorry, I wasn’t intending to argue against your main point. For the most part, I agree with you.

What I don’t agree with is that the value of NFTs (as a technology) is dubious. Instead I think it’s overstated.

In the same vein as “LLMs can write Python”, NFTs provide ownership information. Regardless of what some asshat pays for a picture of a monkey, the underlying technology still has merit.

I’d argue that people got way too excited about what NFTs offer. Being able to own/transfer a digital item with a standardized interface is interesting technically (and has real value, for example ENS names), but holy hell did people go all Beanie Baby on them…

Split meaning equal shares, or split as in each person pays for what they ordered?

Canadian checking in.

Biggest oddity to me is that the default for restaurants is one bill, and waiters get annoyed if you ask them to split it by person.

Like why would I want to either:

• do math correctly splitting the bill while trying to leave; or
• be worried I ordered something more expensive than the average and unfairly make others cover it?

It’s complete insanity to me.

Two questions: are you still on Gentoo, and have you tried LFS?

Which book?

“No, in fact Tolkien said the exact opposite. Jews are based on dwarves.”

See how that works when you don’t actually provide a source? To be honest, I have no idea if Tolkien based the races of Middle Earth on human peoples, and would’ve liked to learn if he did. But instead of actually teaching me something, I’m left here with intellectual blue balls, so thank you for a wonderful start to Locktober.

Time to swap it out for an unlabeled one I guess 🤷

Finally, it’s Gentoo’s time to shine!

We just got the Canadian Future Party, and even though I’m pretty left leaning (both financially and socially), it gives me some faith for conservatives here.

There are dozens of us!

It works okay for a while, but eventually it loses the plot. The storylines are usually pretty generic and washed out.

Arguably Ghostbusters (1984) is prior art for throwing a capsule and capturing 🤣

I run Gentoo as my main distro, and have for a couple years now. It’s a pretty stable rolling release (IMO more stable than Arch), and since you’re already an advanced user, the experience should be pretty rewarding!

The wiki is great, and the installation handbook is top notch.

You get to control exactly what features each package is compiled with, so no bloat at all.

KDE 6 just landed too!