For a better tomorrow.
- dbloc5
MARK CUBAN
Billionaire Mark Cuban launches online pharmacy aimed at lowering generic drug prices
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1…
https://costplusdrugs.com/- Hugenb
- huh. I thought this happened a year or two back?Nairn
- Putting your name in the logo is a baller movenb
- ambitious Robin Hood move, but let's see how it actually plays outKrassy
- Three-card Monte Ponzi Schemeutopian
- I'm glad he's using his money to bring low price drugs to the public and not on that logo or dick shaped spaceships.fooler
- The c mark isn’t even the same font as the word mark. This is how you reduce costs!!!nb
- Cost Plus what? Your first born?stoplying
- @fooler lolKrassy
- Cost Plus World Market just removed Cost Plus from their name.dbloc
- Good, now the yanks will stop crossing the border to get them cheaply from us._niko
- Check mate socialism!palimpsest
- you will need to request a new prescription from your U.S.-based provider to place an order.sted
- absolutely no time, effort or even talent went into creating that logo. A little bizarre, actuallyletterhead
- Within 18 months the company will wither go belly up or go public.utopian
- usually cost brands have shitty logos on purpose. it looks cheap and affordable. guessing this is the case here.inteliboy
- jagara12
- Except there, he's actually giving them the image. I know how stupid that sounds.Nairn
- LOL.
And an email has more legal value than an NFT.palimpsest - lol classic. I love the "can I have my drawing back" bit.garbage
- I got one of his books so funny.monospaced
- Nairn6
Should I start using webp format?
Fuck Google.
- Would you not be better off preparing for JpegXL? Webp's only worth it now if you're playing with animation or need an alpha channel.Nairn
- Does Safari support webp 100%? I know it was added only very recently and like it or not, Safari's critical. Probably moreso than fucking Chrome for you.Nairn
- < thishans_glib
- < And Fuck Safari as well.utopian
- Fuck Apple for only allowing Safari-based browsers on iPhone etc, but yes - Fuck Em All.Nairn
- I use chrome on iPhone as the default browserSimonFFM
- ^ It's just a front, the rendering engine is still Safari.zarkonite
- I wonder if HEIC will be nextkaiyohtee
- FF is decent on ioskaiyohtee
- Guys, bring back Flash and swf. Pleaze.shapesalad
- Chrome on iOS or Mac is a battery killer!!!nb
- Webp was added to Safari/macOS starting with macOS Mojave some years back. It's read-only though, so you won't be able to create Webp files with Preview, etc.evilpeacock
- To the above, this is a useful converter for macOS:
https://webponize.or…evilpeacock - HEIF and AVIF are newer and better than Webp, also open source (not Google) and getting some traction in use by services like Netflix. So that's coming...evilpeacock
- sted6
- lol the only way that Romania has more porsches and Bmw's than the US is if they're in transit to the Middle East after being stolen from Western Europe hahaha_niko
- classic Grafician. next he'll tell us this isn't Romania's national anthem: https://www.youtube.…_niko
- Awww taking random "statistics" from the internet to try to prove me wrong
dumb fucks lolgrafician - Just so you know, Porsche cars are in the luxury class, you just posted the economy class?
Learn to google next time sted babygrafician
- microkorg3
NFTs
I bought an ape.
Cos I totally wear a hat like that sometimes.
And totally wear hoodies/jackets like that most of the time.
Totes looks like me. etc.Dumped him on a Nor44 background.
fxApes
https://www.fxhash.xyz/generativ…#Fraud #RightClickDownload #TheArtIsNotTheNFT #Ponzi
- I got one too, ranked in the top 10% rarity.cherub
- What people don't understand about these, is the licensing. The creator has released these with derivative rights, that's what people don't understand. You cancherub
- brand all around your fx ape and keep whatever profits you make because the owner is licensing it to you with those rights. That's valueadd™, designers.cherub
- Anyway, glad u got one, microkorg. In a pool of 1500 I managed to get ONE. It was rough lol.cherub
- Bro you bought a Sasquatch!grafician
- Bluejam6
- via https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- yea that interview was so awkwardcherub
- Jimmy Fallon reminds me of hide the pain Harold wearing a striped shirt and heart glasseskingsteven
- Art never sleeps.palimpsest
- You don't need sleep when you're dead.garbage
- https://i.imgur.com/…fairbaken
- drgs5
- pango0
Joe Rogan of the Day
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertai…
"Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan COVID-19 misinformation"
- lolKrassy
- "I want all my music off their platform. They can have Rogan or Young. Not both."Krassy
- That’s an easy one for Spotify to decideGnash
- Other musicians will follow Young. Artist's are only making a pennies on the dollar on Spotify in the first place. Funny if their business model collapses.utopian
- Old man yells at (music) cloud._niko
- Aaaaand it’s done. Spotify wishes neil all the best with his future endeavorsGnash
- Aaaaand, his ego accomplished absolutely nothing and actually hurt his fans and himself. headshake/eyesrollKrassy
- Ya Spotify paid Rogan bunch of money already. There just be lot of contract clauses to remove Rogan. Lolpango
- *mustpango
- utopian2
Should I start using webp format?
Why not? Particularly if you are creating a new website for yourself and the new website is image heavy. Google will eventually reward you by indexing your website with a higher search ranking.
• First, simply compress all of your JPGs using the "batch process" on: www.tinypng.com
• Then convert all of your compressed JPGs to WebP using: https://www.freeconvert.com/jpg-…
Or download "Bulk Images to WebP Converter" from the Google store: https://chrome.google.com/websto…
Or If you are using the newest Wordpress, enable the WebP plugin and it will automatically generate WebP from your uploaded JPGs on the fly.
- tinypng does webp, prob best doing the conversion before compression no?kingsteven
- Yes compress your JPGs with tinypng and then connect them with tinypng to WebPutopian
- I have used many JPG compression tools and tinypng.com hands down does the best JPG compression (free or paid) on the web.utopian
- Yeah, why are you doing what amounts to two compression operations? That seems.. not quite right.Nairn
- Best practice would be to use the picture tag and use both WebP and also JPG file as a fallback.yuekit
- But yeah, I can vouch for the fact that your SEO in Google will improve, based on nothing more than using Google's image format (admittedly it is also faster).yuekit
- According to Google's new algorithm updates...they're trying to force everyone with a Website to conform to their new WebP format...and yeah fuck Google!utopian
- @Nairn I tried both ways with and without tinypng's JPG compression > WebP compression...and just using WebP compression. The results are...utopian
- ...much better when you compress a JPG and then convert WebP while using tinypng. The files size and file quality is superior.utopian
- BTW use Google's Lighthouse tool and just follow every suggestion they make and your SEO will improve. Using WebP is in there somewhere, but there areyuekit
- lots of other random things they want you to do from a technical perspective that most sites aren't doing.yuekit
- I'm so glad I don't have to develop websites and I can focus on graphic design alone. :)monospaced
- Nairn2
Web3
ughft.
Can we not containerise all this useless investorbro cruft into a single thread?
Actually, can we just dump all future variants into this one, seeing as it now exists?
- https://www.oreilly.…Nairn
- 5 years odious bores spouting shite that just ends up assimilated and popularised as services of tech giants 3.0kingsteven
- web3 is distributed, we must start new threads with each post.shapesalad
- Wolfboy3
Bass line
I read The Manual by The KLF many years ago and one of the tips I'll always remember (to have a number 1 hit record) is essentially to steal a killer bass line. The reason being is that people will sue at the first sniff of similarity in a melody, but bass lines largely get ignored when reused. This is a snippet of that part of the book:
'There are plenty of monster bass lines out there to try. You will know them, they are the ones that you can almost hum. The great thing about bass lines is that they are in public domain. Nobody, even if they do recognise it, will seriously accuse you of ripping somebody else’s bass line off.
Michael Jackson, who we cited earlier on for not being that adept at coming up with the killer Number One hit choruses, CAN come up with the bass lines. “Billy Jean” was the turning point in Jackson’s career. That song, on his own admission, took him into the mega strataspheres where his myth now reigns. The fact is, “Billy Jean” would be nothing without that lynx-on-the-prowl bass line; but he wasn’t the first to use it.'
If you've never read it, it's a great book:
- Interesting, but nothing about the instrument removes it from copyright law! That's just ridiculous.monospaced
- I can think of several cases where bass lines specifically were ripped off. They are not in public domain by default.monospaced
- Maybe the use of 'public domain' is a bit misleading in that paragraph. They don't claim it's a copyright free aspect of music, but they say it's very rare...Wolfboy
- ...anyone sues for a bass line. The key to the book is it's not about the purity of songwriting, it's about having a number 1 hit. So there are loads of...Wolfboy
- ...shortcut tips for writing and producing the track.Wolfboy
- basslines are not melodies pitched down (well most of the time) they have more rhythmic obligation. you can change almost all the notes in a bassline andkingsteven
- in the KLF sense its 'the same' but in a musical (or legal sense) passes. ie. i've heard daft punk's around the world and chic's good times referred to as thekingsteven
- same bassline... but they're musically nothing alike.kingsteven
- That’s true in a lot of songs, especially rooted in jazz blues. But as he says, some bass lines ARE the melody.monospaced
- I’m pretty sure any unauthorized use of MJs bass line from Billy Jean in a major track would bring swift attentionmonospaced
- billy jean is almost what i call the kim deal where is my mind effect - there's more notes to the bassline in your head than in the songkingsteven
- ie. there's a semitone run at the end thats not played. living on a prayer is the same bassline and drums and the vocal starts on the same notekingsteven
- but you wouldn't draw a comparison between the two as bassline is heard over multiple bars based on repetition of other melodic elementskingsteven
- Understood. And then there’s The Wailers. Lots of good bass carrying the songs.monospaced
- hydro7410
- Licorice Pizzaneverscared
- https://www.youtube.…neverscared
- https://www.wedreamo…hardhat
- Marrymort_
- she be 60+ this yearpango
- OK then Kill, Fuck, Marry in that order. And then, make a sandwich out of.mort_
- such titties are not a good long-term investmentbabydick
- thanks hardhatsted
- Ramanisky217
- maybe if the food worker stuck to cooking food than being a mask Nazi police, life would be better for all involved?pr2
- Life would be better for all if people as stupid as you didn't exist. Garsh, you're so oppressed.garbage
- hey pr2 you should really shut the fuck up because your stupid is making this place reek worse than your moral rot.monospaced
- This is about you, btw. I guess you’re too dense to grasp that or why you’re the joke. And the Nazi reference, top notch fuckwad move you asshole.monospaced
- You’re what’s wrong. Bring it you silly stupid bitch. You can’t win.monospaced
- kingsteven19
- Lolscarabin
- :Dsted
- kekpalimpsest
- Fantasticmort_
- I feel like there’s a little renaissance starting lately. So goodmisterhow
