Committing to a Browser
Sep. 26th, 2023 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jerrbear_81It's weird how difficult committing to one browser has been. For a long time, I was committed to Opera. That all changed when a friend of mine told me to give Vivaldi a shot because it's similar and doesn't (AFAIK) support NFTs. I never thought I would give up a browser just because they support NFTs, but then I read up on them and couldn't get over the stupidity of NFT "art".
Except, I couldn't use Vivaldi with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It wasn't that Dragon NaturallySpeaking didn't work. It's because I couldn't perform specific actions with the program. I use it now because I've learned some commands to replace the prompts that weren't working.
Brave was a great browser but fell into the same trap as Opera. I don't find supporting NFTs for specific purposes like boosting protection on sensitive programming wrong. Or, in one case I learned about from the Darkest Moments on TV YouTube series, to file a copyright infringement on anyone sharing video footage of their child's suicide during a news program.
Regarding that last one, I don't have any objections to a parent making video footage of their child's suicide an NFT because they want some form of legal recourse against anyone sharing the footage.
One of the issues I have with NFT "art" is that buyers act like they own something of great value. You own the data, not the image. Objectively speaking, just because you own a piece of art doesn't mean you're making the world a better place. The same applies to NFT "art".
If someone right-clicks and saves an NFT image, it ceases to have value.
I'm also not a fan of the environmental impacts. I might be willing to accept it if it's for something important. Even then, it's a hard pill to swallow.
And though I may find it ridiculous the amounts of money people will pay for NFT "art", it's their money. But it won't stop me from mocking them for public displays of anger over "stolen art."
As long as the option to right-click an online image and save it is available, people taking the image is a given. Once you upload it online, it's not safe from others. Not 100 percent.
Except, I couldn't use Vivaldi with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It wasn't that Dragon NaturallySpeaking didn't work. It's because I couldn't perform specific actions with the program. I use it now because I've learned some commands to replace the prompts that weren't working.
Brave was a great browser but fell into the same trap as Opera. I don't find supporting NFTs for specific purposes like boosting protection on sensitive programming wrong. Or, in one case I learned about from the Darkest Moments on TV YouTube series, to file a copyright infringement on anyone sharing video footage of their child's suicide during a news program.
Regarding that last one, I don't have any objections to a parent making video footage of their child's suicide an NFT because they want some form of legal recourse against anyone sharing the footage.
One of the issues I have with NFT "art" is that buyers act like they own something of great value. You own the data, not the image. Objectively speaking, just because you own a piece of art doesn't mean you're making the world a better place. The same applies to NFT "art".
If someone right-clicks and saves an NFT image, it ceases to have value.
I'm also not a fan of the environmental impacts. I might be willing to accept it if it's for something important. Even then, it's a hard pill to swallow.
And though I may find it ridiculous the amounts of money people will pay for NFT "art", it's their money. But it won't stop me from mocking them for public displays of anger over "stolen art."
As long as the option to right-click an online image and save it is available, people taking the image is a given. Once you upload it online, it's not safe from others. Not 100 percent.
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Date: 2023-09-27 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-27 03:57 pm (UTC)I'd rather deal with small browser issues than existential dread and day.