For a better tomorrow.
- jagara13
- 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
- palimpsest1
NFTs
Julian Lennon to auction NFT of Paul McCartney’s notes for Hey Jude
https://www.theguardian.com/musi…Other Beatles memorabilia including outfits and guitars to be sold as non-fungible tokens by John Lennon’s son.
Bidding for the notes starts at $30,000 (£22,267), with buyers told: “This NFT is a one of one edition of the physical item and does not include the physical item.” It does, however, come with an “exclusive audio narration” by Julian Lennon.
The idea of NFTs is that buyers become the owner of a unique digital item, rather than the unique physical item.
#TheNFTisTheArt #ArtNeverSleeps
- Lolnb
- Who's to say he wont sell more NFTs of the notes down the line. Or if he sells the notes, someone else releases as an NFT.microkorg
- I'd been considering getting a Hokusai NFT from British Museum/LaCollection as I'm a huge fan of his works. But didn't buy for the above reason.microkorg
- If there's a physical of something being sold as an NFT then it should either be offered as part of the sale or destroyed after the NFT sale. I feel, anyway.microkorg
- And that's where Hirst's 'The Currency' makes sense. Choose: NFT or Physical. Both cannot exist.microkorg
- I always ask myself: What would Hirst do?palimpsest
- Picasso family cash-grab.
https://www.washingt…
If you sell the NFT then destroy the pottery associated please. Thnxmicrokorg - It's not a cash-grab, it's advancing art.palimpsest
- @micro that would be against everything NFTs stand for. NFTs were never supposed to include anything except a receipt. Suckers.monospaced
- They should not come with anything except a charge, the artist should be able to sell it repeatedly and always keep the original and associated rights.monospaced
- sted7
- 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 - HAHAHAA lecturing me on this. i can pull up stats from the last 20 years. There is barely a Porsche or BMW sold in Romania.sted
- what a sorrow loser you are.
this will be my last request on this:
stop insulting people here.sted - China, US, Germany and the UK buy the most BMWs. The rest of the world combined doesn't even get past 1/3 of the sales. Romania isn't even top 20.monospaced
- This is of course all public info each year in annual reports.monospaced
- What's weird is the mean income in Romania is like 1,000 euro. Hardly enough to make a loan payment. What's covering all the luxury cars?monospaced
- I think 7200-8000 euro cars are the most common and ppl pay 100-120euro loans. Average salary is 1.3k, but the fluctuation is high up to 5-6k. Lets see.sted
- Here is the cars registration data for december:
http://www.apia.ro/w…
Shows 40 for Porsche, 216 for BMWsted - gotchamonospaced
- This includes used cars imported by individuals or companies. I'm trying to find the per brand sales data for Porsche-Romania, they had like a 2% market share:\sted
- Romania does have a ridiculous amount of Uber-luxury cars per capita though. That's a fact, and it's quite revealing.monospaced
- I really love how you two take everything so seriously - like literally - while being on the other side of the planet trying to do desktop research...grafician
- ...while I actually seen on the road dozens upon dozens of BMW cars and at least half dozen Cayenne cars going out today at noongrafician
- there's a white Panamera I believe is the model, parked maybe 100m from my house
But sure, keep posting shitgrafician - Is this guy for real trying to flex that his city has some BMWs in it? LOL.monospaced
- And sure, I will stop insulting you sted and monospaced and niko too, you live in another world altogether, it's not even fair
Byegrafician - Flex?! LOL monoscpaed bro you're the one living in a country with $200/month broadband and no public healthcare
How many BMWs we have shouldn't concern you ;)grafician - Your "fact checking" of my posts is also ridiculous :)) your efforts to catch me "in the wrong" with something, anything = boring af
But hey, keep hating boysgrafician - Yes, you accurately describe the fact I live in the US. Did I flex about that? No, you did, about Romania and some BMWs. YOU DID.monospaced
- But if a day goes by I don't see dozens and dozens of BMWs, I can't think of one. They're basically pedestrian :)monospaced
- lol, how insecure are you that you make fun of ME by criticizing things about my country? Weird ass flex, bro.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
- ^yes, always good to know but also difficult to keep up with technologies...SimonFFM
- I've been using Chrome on my iPhone and iPad for ages without any issues.CyBrainX
- Salarrue1
Joe Rogan of the Day
These experts say Joe Rogan is ‘extraordinarily dangerous’ to society – here’s why
https://www.independent.co.uk/ne…
One said it was the vast size of his audience that made him so dangerous. Another suggested it was the fact the average age of his listeners was just 24, and hence particularly persuadable.
Another expert said he appeared to have a cult of personality. One said he had repeatedly spread misinformation about Covid, and ignored calls to stop.
These were among just some of the accusations levelled at Joe Rogan, podcaster, influencer and sometime actor, from more than 150 scientists, doctors and healthcare professionals who have said the 54-year-old was “extraordinarily dangerous”.
crazy comments in 3... 2... 1...
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- pango1
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
- 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
- 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
- @monospaced or you're just too dumb to create websites
here some help: https://webflow.com/…grafician
- drgs5
- Wolfboy4
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
- 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
- ha, +1 for that, at least.
Although like Web3, ultimately all that decentralisation is centralised for access, as here on QBN.Nairn
- 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
- that straw is Too $hortjagara
- sted4
- I'm Fucksy FuckovKrassy
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Good stuff.monospaced - Fuckard Fucklips - Well, that's a name that evokes certain talents.Morning_star
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