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uienia ,

Way too overthinking it for Trump. Some criminal puppeteer just paid him a lot of funds in bitcoin.

uienia ,

Lots of "sticking your head in the sand" comments lately. Do you not like to be reminded of reality?

uienia ,

Ah, a science denier. Fuck off back to your fascist friends.

uienia ,

Except for the thousands of cryptobros who will flock to these kinds of threads defending their scam, as this very thread is an example of.

uienia ,

As long as they use energy they are wasteful, considering they don't provide anything constructive for that wasted energy which could have been used for better things.

uienia ,

Well know you are just using circular logic. The thing is that cryptocurrencies aren't currencies.

uienia ,

Capitalism thrives just as well under authoritarianism. The argument is a strawman.

uienia ,

A) They are not capitalist B) and they are a completely inconsequential part of capitalist economy.

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0 in my country. They were abolished many years ago

uienia ,

Just paying for a whole new computer required for compability with 11.

uienia ,

Not if it poses as a documentary.

uienia ,

TIL Google One

uienia ,

The problem is that quantity is no longer going to be a problem, it can be created for virtually nothing, so basically just a tiny profit will be enough to warrant it in the outlook of those responsible for it.

Now endless shallow spam, which slightly resembles something worthwhile, can be generated in an instant, because it will generate a meagre profit. It is already happening on the book market for example. Amazon is flooded with AI generated books, and proper authors are simply buried in the mountains of generated spam which is at best nonsensical but at worst genuinely misinforming.

Perhaps consumers will become more discerning in the future (although to be honest not much in the present suggests that will be the outcome), but it will never remove the increasing mountains of spam, because it will be produced for as long as just a fraction of people buy into it. And this will be applicable to everything on the internet. If we thought commercialisation and spam was bad now, we have seen nothing at all yet.

So even with proper discernment, it will take a lot of time and effort just to locate something earnest and worthwhile in the generated spam.

uienia ,

The problem is that because the production costs of the crap content will now be near zero, it will always be profitable to create as long as there is just a fraction of the consumerbase falling for it.

It is never going to stop on its own because of lack of demand, it is going to continue and something drastic will have to be thought up to create an internet where everything isn't buried in AI generated crap.

uienia ,

A good example of how Russian "both sides" propaganda against the US has always been a thing.

uienia ,

The challenge would be to find paper for it.

uienia ,

It is true that vinyl records have a smaller dynamic range than CDs and digital streaming, but it can also be a blessing in disguise on account of the loudness wars. A lot of modern digital music since the 90s have been brickwall mixed so they can be played on devices with inferior speakers or headphones and still sound loud and punchy, but that same music will sound awful and distorted on proper hifi systems.

Because vinyl records have a (slightly) smaller dynamic range they have to be mixed and mastered separately from CDs and streaming, and some times that means the vinyl edition has the only properly mixed sound. And even if the vinyl version gets a brickwalled mix, then it is still slightly better than the brickwalled CD or stream versions simply because the dynamic range capability is lower, so the brickwall is smaller so to speak.

Anyway, even compared to non-brickwalled CDs or streaming, vinyl still holds it own on proper hifi systems, there is nothing wrong with the sound experience under the right circumstances, and it is that combined with the physicality which is the draw for most vinyl collectors I think. It is inconvenient, expensive and often times inferior (especially if you find scratched up used copies), but that is exactly the attraction. It makes listening to the music an event.

Most vinyl record collectors still listens to other formats, because of course in the car or some other place you are forced to, so it is not an either/or situation either.

uienia ,

But of course some times "the way it is intended" is not the preferable way (see my other comment to OP).

uienia ,

Vinyl records sounds great despite their technical inferiority to CDs and streaming (with the right equipment of course, but that applies to all formats). They do not necessarily sound better, but there is an element of customisation with them which you can't get with CDs or streaming. Most importantly the cartridge on your turntable. Different cartridges have different soundscapes. There is of course an element of quality connected to price of cartridge, but over a certain price you are not necessarily buying a better sound but a different sound. Many vinyl record listeners, especially audiophiles, have different cartridges which they can switch out on their turntable, based on which kind of sound you want coming out of your system.

I know it may be difficult to comprehend for people who haven't personally listened to such differences themselves, but I assure you it is not audiophile snake oil, it is a very noticeable phenomenon. That is a pretty unique capability of vinyl which I can't really compare to anything with other formats.

uienia ,

Of course. There is no doubt that the ritual of handling the record and playing it on the turntable is a huge part of it. Personally it makes me appreciate the music more because it is kind of an effort to get it playing in the first place, and you just want to listen to the record in a session, instead of just having it as a backdrop which so much streamed music is.

uienia ,

and the sound quality of vinyl gets worse every time you play it.

If you handle them correctly, it will not happen to any noticeable degree in any of our lifetimes or the following generations. It is durable material.

uienia ,

Not really though.

uienia ,

Popularity+time. It is a fairly simple equation. They didn't call Led Zeppelin, The Who etc. classic rock when they first came out either, it only happened with time.

Every piece of popular rock music will become classic rock with time.

uienia ,

"Classic rock" encompasses all types of rock. The only factor that defines it is popularity and time.

uienia ,

The new thing is the scope in which fake content is being created. In a very near future most internet content will be fake, including history. That is not something that has happened before in history.

The current AI situation is completely unprecedented in history.

uienia ,

The easy and speed with which AI created photos, of a quality most photoshoppers could only dream, can be created of does very much change everything.

uienia ,

It doesn't really matter if they ban it or not, it is way too late for that any way. It will be out there and used by people who want to use it. It is like nuclear technology, once it is out of the bag it cannot be put back in. Only this is way easier to use than nuclear technology, a single gradeschooler can use it.

uienia ,

What a techbro take.

Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong...

uienia ,

It is a waste of energy either way which could have been used for actual useful purposes. So no, that is not a helpful solution.

uienia ,

Everything above 0% is not neglible for such uselessly decadent endeavours as cryptocurrency.

uienia ,

Greedy arrogant cryptobros decides that obviously.

uienia ,

I guess you must have been in a coma since 2015.

uienia ,

Do you know that though? Because the internet is flooded by Americans defending their shitty system.

uienia ,

EDIT: well what do you know… it was Martin Luther himself who translated the famous Gutenberg Bible. Talk about one degree of Kevin Bacon.

Huh? The Gutenberg Bible is a Latin vulgate edition, and it was printed three decades before Luther was even born.

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