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ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.



lol

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KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin
"I thought, this is definitely real"

Clockwerk
Apr 6, 2005


catspleen
Sep 12, 2003

I orphaned his children. I widowed his wife.

KnifeWrench posted:

"I thought, this is definitely real"

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

it's endlessly funny to me how effectively elon musk's twitter automatically pre-selects for the exact kind of idiot who thinks they're smart and is therefore the perfect target

DerekSmartymans
Feb 14, 2005

The
Copacetic
Ascetic

Grace Baiting posted:

when you were partying
i studied the checkmark

öh my goodness!

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
checkmark did nothing wrong

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

KnifeWrench posted:

"I thought, this is definitely real"

Honestly that time last year when a bunch of bluecheck accounts got hacked and posted Bitscoin double-deals I can see how someone might be fooled, but this is just lmao.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_bitcoin_scam

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Honestly that time last year when a bunch of bluecheck accounts got hacked and posted Bitscoin double-deals I can see how someone might be fooled, but this is just lmao.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_bitcoin_scam

No, if you believe someone is going to double your Bitcorn because of a Twitter post, you're an idiot.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

note that this very case was a bluecheck account that got hacked, in fact

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

it is common knowledge that a blue check mark makes it impossible for you to post false information

catspleen
Sep 12, 2003

I orphaned his children. I widowed his wife.

yes for instance consider Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

Soricidus posted:

checkmark did nothing wrong

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/jonty/status/1372163423446917122

Try to guess. See how close you get.

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
NFTs just being URLs you buy isn't new.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Waffleimages?

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
The fact that it doesn't even point to the art piece, but to some JSON is new and funny to me. Someone can literally edit the JSON and steal your precious art, lmao.

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Paladinus posted:

The fact that it doesn't even point to the art piece, but to some JSON is new and funny to me. Someone can literally edit the JSON and steal your precious art, lmao.

Yep, that Twitter really highlights how moronic everything about these "non-fungible tokens" is.

Fame Douglas fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Mar 17, 2021

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
But I can steal it already?

Right click -> save image as

Prntscrn

Take a picture of my monitor etc

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
You can always "steal" it by downloading the file yourself (the concept of a "digital original" is pretty non-sensical), the argument was that the seller could even invalidate the NFT itself by no longer hosting anything or changing the file to something else.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

I just got an email from a student asking if he could interview me for the school paper about the NFT craze.

I don't know why he picked me specifically, but *cracks knuckles*

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

Sagebrush posted:

I just got an email from a student asking if he could interview me for the school paper about the NFT craze.

I don't know why he picked me specifically, but *cracks knuckles*

Make sure they include 'buttcoin' in the printed version.

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
cool, just downloaded me some artwork!

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
you wouldn't download a piece of digital artwork off the internet

Thom and the Heads
Oct 27, 2010

Farscape is actually pretty cool.
you do not have permission to pirate my posts

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Sagebrush posted:

I just got an email from a student asking if he could interview me for the school paper about the NFT craze.

I don't know why he picked me specifically, but *cracks knuckles*

if it's a student i didn't know i'd probably take it as an insult lol

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Thom and the Heads posted:

you do not have permission to pirate my posts

I just did :colbert:

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

pro loving click

as someone who had to painstakingly reformat 10+ years of my writing clips from defunct websites, that I was lucky enough to have saved as .rtf files and kept transferring from machine to machine, I cannot imagine the insanity per dollar quotient here

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


AlbieQuirky posted:

the insanity per dollar quotient

420/69

blugu64
Jul 17, 2006

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?
couldn’t you just look at all the NFT coins on the chain and download copies of whatever they’re pointing at?

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

blugu64 posted:

couldn’t you just look at all the NFT coins on the chain and download copies of whatever they’re pointing at?

sure, go right ahead, i'll wait

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

oops after you were done doing that someone deleted the page pointed to by the NFT of the URL www dot fart pix dot co dot uk and now that NFT points to a 404 URL, and there's no way to prove your copy of it is "real" since all the NFT is is a URL

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
the 10 million dollar 404 error...just imagine

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

blaze it, nice

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Shame Boy posted:

if it's a student i didn't know i'd probably take it as an insult lol

I do not know the student and when I asked how he chose to interview me, a professor of industrial design with no particular interest in cryptocurrencies, he said that another professor suggested me.

so now i know that i have an enemy.

the other profs are all boomers and i've noticed that whenever they get a question about any sort of technology they just say "go ask professor sagebrush."

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

blugu64 posted:

couldn’t you just look at all the NFT coins on the chain and download copies of whatever they’re pointing at?

Sure, if you want to fill your drive with terrible "art".

blugu64
Jul 17, 2006

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?
right no, I mean why are people buying nfts when you could just look at the url and download it yourself?

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

blugu64 posted:

right no, I mean why are people buying nfts when you could just look at the url and download it yourself?

look its very important that the people who listed the nft get paid for the artists work

KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

blugu64 posted:

right no, I mean why are people buying nfts when you could just look at the url and download it yourself?

misguided attempt to support artists who work solely in non-physical media (2%)

speculating that they can sell to a greater fool (98%)

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blugu64
Jul 17, 2006

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?
I can’t believe they made it dumber

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