The appeal of Blender for me is not just the open-sourceness, but also the fact that everything in it is programmable. Any action you can do via UI, you can do by calling some Python method.
Why create a new project instead of advancing InkScape though?
Money is not just paper with pictures on it. Money represents human labor. So him stealing billions effectively destroyed thousands of lifetimes of labor. If anything, his sentence is extremely light.
> I mean recreating specific individuals’ likenesses in compromising images (or even worse, video). We’re not at that point yet
Yes, we are. Open source stable diffusion can be trained on any person's images, as long as you have around 20 from different angles. Costs around 50 cents on rented GPUs.
You didn't try hard. Blockchain is clearly different from a centralized database.
1) Noone can arbitrarily change the contents of the blockchain, the concensus is needed to even append to it.
2) Blockchain solves the Byzantine generals problem.
3) Blockchain doesn't have one central authority (only the code that governs it, but the code must be first accepted by the participants). So if you build a payment system on top of a blockchain, there's no single entity that can freeze or seize your money.
If you block 8chan, the only thing that it will result in is people will move to more censorship-resistant technologies. You will push people to TOR, distributed P2P, blockchain forums, etc. Which will make even harder to identify them.
You can't stop the signal. ThePirateBay proved it many many times.
We need to address the sources of the problem, not the symptoms.
> YouTube, like Netflix, doesn't have a special sauce
But they do have the eyes. If you want your videos to be seen, there's no Youtube alternative. Twitch would be, but they seem to be banning people for political reasons too.
Network effect is real and very strong. It will be very hard to create real YT alternatives.
We have Bitchute and PeerTube, but they severely lack content and the viewers.
Well that's a nail in the coffin of Cryengine. Who would want to deal with lawsuits just for using a (kind of) free engine, when we have Unity, Unreal, Lumberyard, StingRay, Source, Godot, Phyre, Blender?