@kasdeya@kitsunecafe I'm relatively fond of that Jim Jarmusch quote that starts with "Nothing is original."
Quoth: “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."
[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
That being said, >=100$ commissions is also in the territory of "I guess I'll have to skip half my meals this week and maybe the next".
Or I suppose it might motivate learning to do the art by oneself instead, much like the trade example mentioned in the screenshot I'm subposting leads to.
Plus, an additional aspect in my case comes up with how most artists /don't/ accept any sort of anonymous payment methods so that's a no-go for me anyway.
@aral@kissane Well, to be fair there's the third option of living in poverty with whatever assistance one qualifies for (since basically nowhere has UBI or anything like a budget for contributors to the commons).
@icedquinn@Suiseiseki@coolboymew In truth, not pre-writing it doesn't really change anything if one didn't make the mistake of using it without encryption before.
The only difference is that wiping it with random data or even just zeros isn't an option.
@coolboymew@Suiseiseki Sounds like they're doing the old silly idea of going "dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/some-drive" before finally making it into an encrypted device.
It's entirely pointless (on everything) and actively counterproductive on SSDs, naturally.
@Senator_Armstrong Those miscreants that seek the supremacy of copyright over art and culture, even if they have to kill it in order to achieve that goal.
@Senator_Armstrong Shared copies aren't lost sales though, there are various reasons for this, particularly when international borders start to get involved (licensing, laws, censors, all sorts of nonsense).
I'm not disputing that the labor of creating art should be valued and those doing it paid.
I do however fundamentally disagree with any model founded on an oxymoron like "intellectual property" which ignores the actual value involved, where it lies and the interactions possible with artistic materials.
(It also ignores the many negative impacts which the imposition of the supremacy of its fiction involves.)
@mima@MK2boogaloo JPEG XL is superior to both versions in most circumstnaces, I think.
I'm also deeply unimpressed with the state of mainstream webp codec implementations. Arbitrary code execution from image decoding is utterly unacceptable.
@Zerglingman@gavi The lack of I2P torrent support is a significant flaw as it greatly limits what can be hosted safely (think even just copyright bullshit).
@coolboymew@lanodan Through the normal phoneline we had that a long time ago.
It actually got worse as far as carrying data goes, because modern digital lines enable much harsher (and accurate) lossy compression.
It's why so much waiting music sounds like shit (it was never good, but not quite this bad before) and why using modems over modern lines struggle to get more than single-digit KB bandwidth if that; frequency bands outside of human speech get mangled. Telecoms became even more abusive cheap assholes.
But yes, we had and have the technology. We just need to slap some sense into telecoms.
The "modern" way of doing things would be to use MMS or something similarly mobile-only, which only ties things even more tightly to telecoms' support.
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