https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Persons_from_Concealing_Their_Identity_during_Riots_and_Unlawful_Assemblies_Act

No kidding. While on the surface the bans are about medical masks, I’m sure there’s a surveillance motive as well.

100.00$ vs $100.00 I guess? Though I suppose you could turn the period into a comma.

Jesus fuck, you censor the word “motherfucker” but leave the author’s name intact?

I don’t know how, but I would still manage to lose this day one.

You mistyped a few fucks.

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.

If you’re suggesting something like cryptocurrency or a return to the gold standard, I challenge you to explain how that would help in this situation.

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…

Don’t give them any ideas.

There’s a loud subculture of furries who insist sex is shameful and something to apologize for.

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

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.

Shit, that’s where my sex drive went. Can I have it back please?

The missing word is “boob”, for the record.