dtaylor84

@dtaylor84@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can prove whatever you want. The venue can still tell you to go away. The courts can tell you to go away. The venue don’t want you to be able to sell your ticket to, e.g. football hooligans.

  I don’t want to pay 30% fees, but Ticketmaster want you to pay them and the venues are happy to contract with them. They don’t want to build some NFT exchange and directly book events. So Ticketmaster is providing them that service. They have no need for Blockchain, they get fees and simplicity without it.

  But this conversation clearly isn’t going anywhere, good luck with your free, open, unused ticket exchange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Point 3 is where it all breaks down for me.

  We already have a legal system to enforce rules, trying to replace that with a self-enforcing Blockchain just doesn’t work for most people. And when courts disagree with the smart contract, or there’s a bug, or someone’s key is phished… It’s an interesting idea, but it isn’t practical.

  Anyway, I don’t see the point of any of this. You ultimately need to trust the provider of the service the ticket entitled you to. All the decentralised smart contracts in the world won’t help you if they’re scamming you.

  So just trust them. With a database. If you really want, produce digitally signed tickets that can be verified against that database with an API.

  Or hell, just putting physical tickets that can be physically transferred.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can replace the middlemen without involving Blockchain.

  I am not saying the problem doesn’t exist, I’m saying Blockchain is overly complicated, inflexible and superfluous.

  Whatever solution you design with Blockchain, I can redesign without Blockchain without losing anything – and gaining simplicity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But Blockchain/NFTs solve the easy part of the problem that is already sufficiently solved with a database. Now you’re suggesting using NFTs and a database? Why bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct. That was basically my point – I don’t think anything is being discussed, people are talking past each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to be arguing against a point that no one has made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What difference does it make if you call it a conversation or whatever you would call it? The LLM responded to his messages with its own messages.

  Arguing semantics of what counts as a conversation doesn’t really address the actual point, does it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe those trying and failing to conceive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is that pedantic point relevant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange, that’s what I thought after reading your comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You also seem to be illiterate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, Linux has better support for legacy Windows apps (through wine) than for legacy Linux apps.