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Opposing actual fraud isn't what reactionary means.

Seriously, I'd love to be enthusiastic about it because it's genuinely cool what you can do with math.

But the lies that are shoved in our faces are just so fucking much and so fucking egregious that it's pretty much impossible.

And on top of that LLMs are hugely overshadowing actual interesting approaches for funding.

Look at Pixar and other Disney CG stuff. Raytracing enhances stylized art just as much as photorealistic art. Something like Moana or Elemental is meaningfully enhanced by their work on water and glass transmission simulation.

Windows UX sucks. But that has nothing to do with what he's talking about, which is the programs running on Windows.

100% of the reason Photoshop dominates GIMP for market share is because GIMP is the worst designed pile of shit anyone has ever made. It doesn't matter that it's theoretically as capable, because the UX is a crime against humanity and makes the barrier to entry insurmountable. Blender is extremely powerful, and finally with 4.0 made a dent in how bad the UX is. But it's still far, far worse than the competition.

I want FOSS to be an actual choice people actually use, but it cannot possibly happen if the UX isn't actually designed for normal people to be able to figure it out. That's why proprietary software wins. They lower the mental barrier to entry to use their software, and FOSS doesn't even try to. I can't tell people "just use GIMP", or libreoffice, or whatever, because they'll open it up, realize that there hasn't even been 5 minutes of UX design cumulatively in its entire lifespan, and tell me to fuck myself for suggesting trash to them.

If FOSS doesn't actually pay attention to UX, there's no possible path to mass adoption. People want shit to make sense.

It's just because newer games have too much to effectively ray trace, so they have to use it in a very limited manner. There are very few games fully ray traced.

Ray traced quake looks more like real video than a lot of those modern games do; it just looks like some kind of theme park/old theater costume type of deal with a lot of rubber because the materials aren't as good.

The primary way most proprietary software stays around is because of how they do not follow standards and conventions for layout, nomenclature, and interfaces; trying to prevent users from migrating to free software that follows published standards. If you migrate to free and open source software, aspects like UI/UX are much more user centric.

Except this is nonsense. Full on dumpster fire UX is the biggest liability most OSS has. It is not user friendly, and assumes way more user knowledge to do the basics.

If FOSS actually was competitive on UX, let alone better, it would be far more popular.

He does say that "everyone has one persona they don't see through"...

Maybe that's the audience's.

Again, you have to completely ignore that the core premise is evil intended to give big players even stronger monopoly control. It's anti-free in every sense, and as an added bonus, would very certainly make possession of specific hardware sufficient to be executed in some countries, because everything it has ever captured would be tracked to it.

But if you do that, there is already a system that does exactly what you're asking. You don't need to invent anything. It's certificate authorities.

I'm not actually trying to be an asshole, though I'm sure I'm coming off as one. But the only thing blockchain actually does is validate transactions. It's a shared ledger.

I am well aware of what it is. It serves no purpose and provides no benefit.

Ignoring the fact that hardware signing doesn't validate inputs as "real", because it's entirely possible to replicate the actual signals entering the camera, and the fact that the entire premise by definition would be a terrible power grab by big hardware/software tools, the very obvious way to implement such an approach would be the exact same system as certificate authorities. You have to have actual root certificate signers.

Blockchain is horseshit and serves no purpose.

I'm genuinely terrible at not falling for sunk costs and have a bad habit of just letting inertia take me.

But unless you're offering me 100k a week (in which case I'll work for maybe a month before burning out), I'm not working a fucking 80 hour week.

Unprompted, they all commented that "yeah, this is a start-up so we're expected to work 80 hour weeks. That's just how it is."

lol I'm walking out the minute they say that.

Because it's insanely idiotic. Signing videos is one thing.

Hooking it into blockchain bullshit is entirely deranged. It adds a bunch of complexity to provide literally zero benefit in any possible context.

So are 10 second videos.

They don't have to sell or provide videos to third parties, because they can just do it themselves.

That's the nature of actual federation. It's not private.

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They definitely should be treated as super sketchy, because they are, but abandoning a project that doesn't get anywhere near goals is part of the idea of kickstarter. It's "this idea takes some minimum investment to make happen, and you (the funder) are willing to spend $X to make that happen if the critical mass is reached". Abandoning failed campaigns is the core concept.

They rarely come onto the market with such a hugely toxic brand name. Big banks survive their bad shit through the inertia of having massive customer bases; they don't enter the scene already known as a shitshow.

It's not "gamesmanship". It's being a terrible person. Bad reviews can and do make it incredibly difficult for businesses to be successful and there is no excuse for actively sabotaging businesses to keep them to yourself.

You're playing games with people's livelihood and the most likely outcome of a concerted effort to "keep them low profile" is that "chance" that you wreck their business.

It's definitely douchey as hell to try to hurt your favorite restaurant's chances of success just so you might have lower waits.

I don't think price is that big of a deal for a factory, really. The machine that worker in using probably costs a hell of a lot more than $3.5k, and in most cases even basic parts/repairs are going to cost that much.