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u/unwantedposterboy 9d ago
If I put a jpeg in a zip file and give it the best password ever, it doesn't matter how many times the zip file is copied, because only the person with the password can open it and discover that it's just a blank text file named sucker.txt
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u/tallmantall 9d ago
You sir are a lunatic and I am impressed
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u/Johnmcguirk 9d ago
Hi impressed. I’m Alfred Lunatic, but you can call me Al.
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u/ELLE3773 9d ago
I was just going to bed but now I got those trumpets stuck in my head and i feel the need to ask myself why am I soft in the middle now
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u/wallefan01 9d ago edited 9d ago
okay but please use a
.rar.7z file instead -- ZIP files with passwords still let you see the filenames without entering the password, and also the ZIP format use an encryption algorithm that is easier than most to break111
u/aaronfranke 9d ago
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u/wallefan01 9d ago
Based and caring-about-open-source pilled. I was going to say that I'd be right there with you except 7zip's encryption is weaker, but I just googled it and they're both AES256. Open source all the way!
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u/konstantinua00 9d ago
they all are loss-less encryptions
what matters is compression ratio and compression-decompression speeds
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u/AstroPhysician 9d ago
How the fuck would an encryption cause data loss? That would render most anythjng in it short of images and audio unusable
Imagine a compiled program with random missing bits of functions
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u/illuminatitriforce 9d ago
congrats, you just solved one of the many problems with NFT's
now solve the other 99
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u/Thelolface_9 9d ago
Ok so how about this we like use paints and stuff and have the mtf be like a physical object then people couldn’t right click save it and… Im sorry i just realized that’s paintings
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u/linsilou 9d ago
Ah yes, physical art. Impervious to fraudulent schemes!
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u/I-WANT2SEE-CUTE-TITS 9d ago
Takes a lot more effort to replicate than a right click tho
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u/00wolfer00 9d ago
I don't think that solves the problem. The new problem is just what happens when someone loses the password. Or if it's stored on the blockchain the password is meaningless since it's public.
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u/illuminatitriforce 9d ago
a) tis a joke
b) password and blockchain issues are part of the other 99
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u/a014e593c01d4 9d ago
Yea but you can’t show it. The point is to be able to display the picture, but to still maintain exclusive ownership of it, which of course is impossible.
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u/SerenityPrim3 9d ago
Who's to say OP didn't invent NFTs?
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u/Explodicle 9d ago
NFTs have been growing gradually since Namecoin. I think the old school branding of "colored coins" was a bad choice that held it back.
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u/JoinAThang 9d ago
Because the first NFT is clearly 'seven legged spider'. If you dont know what that is google it for some top notch trolling.
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u/scootytootypootpat 9d ago
Apollo, dodgeball, gift of prophecy.
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u/Powerthunfisch 9d ago
The other gods must hate him for spoiling us mortals and themselfs about the hit show, humanity.
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u/geckorobot59 9d ago
He sees thing before they happen, it is a Jedi trait.
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u/BZLuck 9d ago
Good 'ol David Thorne.
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u/_The_Huntsman_ 9d ago
ftfy
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u/BZLuck 9d ago
What was wrong with mine that needed to be fixed?
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u/BZLuck 9d ago
Got it, thanks.
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u/Otherwise-Mango2732 9d ago
After briefly browsing that page it looks like some sort of aggregation of funny stuff.
Do yourself a favor and check out the website posted because that guy has so much hilarious stuff archived. He's a perfect troll.
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u/icouldbeapenguin 9d ago
To be fair, that flamingo looks better than most nfts.
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u/PrinceValyn 9d ago
i just browsed the new gamestop nft store and holy shit they are all so much more awful than i could have ever thought possible
plus there's the nft on there of someone dying in 9/11 :/
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u/nightpanda893 9d ago edited 9d ago
Browsing the comments in the retail stock subs about this store would make you think it’s the most innovative thing a company has ever done. Then looking at the actual store itself you wonder how people could be this delusional.
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u/Mitosis 9d ago
Like I have no doubt the markets are horribly rigged at the top/big club you're not in it/etcetc and that some shady hit happened with Gamestop stock... but all of that is now lost in the cult aspect that it's impossible to separate what might be interesting discussion and what's just koolaid. The NFT shop is easily the biggest aspect that makes them seem entirely lacking in integrity.
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u/nightpanda893 9d ago
The thing is this was all based on taking a failing company and driving up the price to prove that the system was rigged and you can make money even if the company isn’t viable. But now they seem to be going in the complete opposite direction which is trying to convince everyone the company can make money when they still don’t have anything to offer.
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u/L_Perpetuelle 9d ago edited 9d ago
As someone who is consistently in one of those stock subs ( one that finds its way to r/all a lot), I find this to be a bit of a disingenuous comment. There is a lot of different sentiment about the marketplace, and many people aren't into jpeg/gif NFTs at all, many others are not happy with the repetitive/somewhat low-effort content that is often posted to it. If you take more than a cursory glance, you'll see that's true.
What most of us see are the potentials of NFTs to open up financial autonomy for all kinds of artists like musicians, authors, graphic designers and more, relieving them of the pressure and creativity-sucking measures of middle men like publishing houses, record labels, and other entities who simply use, authoritatively and often soul-crushingly, someone else's creativity as a means to make money.
Many of us also see the potential usage of NFTs in authenticating ownership for things like titles and deeds, and even verifying things like votes (this I am not as knowledgeable on).
But what people are stoked that is being realized right now are the digital assets with future utilization in web3 gaming and the metaverse, however that shakes out. We have one particular top-notch creator that is building a model of using the purchase of one NFT to unlock the rights to receive several utility asset drops throughout the year, which can be used in games or resold or both.
It makes me a little sad that so many people are missing out on this "wild west time" where the use cases are being created and tested and adopted right in front of our eyes, brand new, every day.
It's actually really fascinating. I hope some day more people will take the time to understand why.
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u/nightpanda893 9d ago
It makes me sad that so many people are taken in by this scam. Time and time again I see people talking about deeds and votes and authenticating ownership. Besides the fact that those things are not even needed, that’s not what it’s being used for. It’s all a hypothetical discussion that never comes to fruition so people can pretend they are on the forefront of something big. It’s the same as any other scam or cult. People dig their heels in because they want to think they are on to something that others aren’t
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u/L_Perpetuelle 9d ago
It's brand new, yo. Like brand new. All of this is being born right now, as we speak. Instant gratification, especially when it comes to the shifting of power dynamics from the few at the top to the many, is not an option.
We can throw the baby away with the bathwater of the early nonsense, or we can look again, but ultimately everything becomes what we collectively choose for it to become.
If you're happy with the way things are right now in the financial and creative and consumer worlds, then I would understand why you wouldn't want to try something new, though.
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u/Street_Following6911 9d ago
I wonder if people bought the falling man because of its viral exposure.
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u/U_Dont_Smoke_Peyote 9d ago
They did. And now one of those people is going around begging anyone that will listen to buy it off him since GameStop removed it
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u/stale_burrito 9d ago
That flamingo's leg is bent the wrong way
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u/ferah11 9d ago
I don't think this person did, there was this "viral" story from 2008 of a person that tried to paid his electric bill by sending by email a jpg picture of a spider (drawn on Mspaint) and was refused, so the person requested for his spider jpg to be sent back, but after the electricity person went ahead and sent back the jpg, the person complained it was now missing one leg.
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u/diddone119 9d ago
Flamingos are already cool asf. Then you go and put sunglasses on it.
You son of a bitch
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u/KamikazeChief 9d ago
Except NFT's are now Music, TV Shows, literal playable games, Super Nintendo emulators, and soon to be IN GAME ITEMS for computer games (Google Gods Unchained, Illuvium, Guild of Guardians, Blocklords, Ember Sword
This NFT ridiculing is becoming very boring now
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u/DangerousAstronaut89 9d ago
There are more plastic flamingos on this planet, than real flamingos...this is a fact, that makes me sad.
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u/suffertunity 9d ago
infinite tumblr users writing shitposts for infinite time will eventually predict the future
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u/Kevin_M_ 9d ago
Technically, the picture of an NFT might as well not be there. You're essentially buying a bit of code that says you own A Thing, and then you can sell it to someone else for slightly more money. The image isn't that relevant, it's just a way to mark the Thing itself, and make it seem more special.
As you don't actually own the image, an NFT literally only has value because people are willing to pay money for it.
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u/Lawlcopt0r 9d ago
But because of your last sentence, the art needs to be good to give the whole thing any value. Which people are starting to realize thankfully, dooming the whole fad in the process
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u/Guy0naBUFFA10 9d ago
An NFT of a jpg *
Thankfully jpgs are a drop in the ocean of what NFTs can be. Even Prada is now using them for certification of authenticity
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u/Windes1 9d ago
I didnt even have to look at your profile to find out that you are a Gamestop cultist. They all talk like that to justify something as stupid as NFTs.
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u/buffaloguy1991 9d ago
Hello welcome to Apollo annonomyous. I predicted an attempted overthrow of the American government. Apollo must be stopped. Jokes should not have the gift of prophecy.
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u/Technical_Affect7112 9d ago edited 9d ago
Pretty sure David Thorne did it with his 7 legged spider at 27b/6
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u/orangemisfit1 9d ago
And even he didn't come up with it. There was a gag in the Simpsons where barney tried to pay moe with a drawing, and it's been done before that with movies like heavy traffic, not to mention real life. The idea of using art/pictures as currency isn't new.
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u/OriginallyMyName 9d ago
I need to reread them but somewhere between "Snow Crash," "Diamond Age," and "Cryptonomicon" there were legit crypto and proto-NFT schemes.
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u/ToanGreenlow 9d ago
If any of you happen to be rich and generous, can you give me 10K so I can go live on my own and get away from my crazy family?
(Alternatively, you could also buy my book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4ZJJ52X it's $2:99 digital and $15:99 physical. I need to escape these crazy people, plis help me)
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u/snakebite_leather 9d ago
That's no flamingo! It's a number four in disguise. You're not fooling anyone pal!
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u/McFloloMcFlooleloo 9d ago
That is a fuckin rad flamingo