This link should come bundled with this meme:

https://b3n.org/automatic-ripping-machine/

It can be installed on pretty much any old device with a disc drive.

While you are repurposing this device you can also hook it up to your tv and use it as a normal dvd drive. However if you do happen to play DVDs from your local library make sure to delete the automatically ripped files afterwards because keeping those might be illegal.

To be fair have many people still been trying to improve on the technology or are we still using some ancient blueprint.

Avation science has come a long way.

So does anyone know a proper alternative that doesn’t scare every non-tech person on my server?

I already lost people when we initially moved from a facebook group to discord.

I believe i can self-host a matrix client but no idea how well it will work with people currently having notifications by discord bot on their phone

I dont want to pick a fight but i hope people who upvote this while believing everything ai is bad reflect on the fact that this meme was made using ai.

My point is ai is often used in bad ways but not automatically and pointing out proper use exists gets people angry.

I wonder how long it will take for someone to create a proper music track that is also a picture when burned to a cd.

You might have more technical knowledge about this than i do. I never considered a blockchain versus the blockchain. But your brief explanation does make sense.

But yes, the potential i saw in it is in a decentralised network of verification that no one party can control.

If i give you any video from online would you or your grandma be able to find the hash of the original footage which is not provided?

This is correct.

This is a flaw i had considered and never found a solution for. Hence the idea is unfinished.

The only further argument i have is that manipulating camera techniques is as old as film yet it’s the digital tools that are causing the most harm and allow any troll to partake. Staging a scene takes at least some dedication and effort.

If such would be considered on the blockchain than it would also bring in questions all other footage by the same recorder device. “Wallets” from established authors, anonymous or not would have their own reputations of trustworthyness.

Not at all. I consider journalists the best potential of early adapter.

As a consumer i don’t care if i have to copy or screenshot or need to list sources if i am Just sharing to friends.

Publishers however have a responsibility towards the public to provide fair information. And if i post publicly i also try to pay a bit more attention. (Ignoring i failed exactly that just earlier today)

There would be nothing stopping anyone to ignore the system and keep sharing unverified pixels but its a real flex be able to provide open and transparent information about your sources almost upfront.

If enough established organisation start doing this then the ones that don’t will stick out like they have something to hide.

The exposé is an interesting example I had not yet considered but again i think nothing is stopping publishers from publicly stating they cannot provide sources but have the means to get it independently verified.

I also believe its possible for a camera/recorded to exist anonymously on the blockchain, just like you don’t know the owner of a crypto wallet.

It would but it would be much easier to find/link and compare with the actual original.

Of course i have mentioned this was never a complete finished idea, just some thoughts i had for years.

Nowadays i can conceptualise ai tools that detect near duplicates but those obviously were not a thing when i first came up with this.

I would hope that it would be considered very damning if an official publishers referred to false footage while having all the tools to find and refer to the original. So would it Be damning for the uploader and all footage recorded with their device.

One would assume that journalism would be more then motivated to proof authenticity of the images they show.

Of course such assumptions fail to consider the events at cern that fucked up any chance of reasonable reality.

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

The problem is “misinformation” and has been since before nft/genai became a thing.

Gen Ai makes misinformation worse but the event that sparked this was a gop shared video of a democrat which was slightly speed up to seem more aggressive.

Also simple framing to cut off context from the original has been a very common form of misinformation for decades.

Exactly my point why i think they would be a part of it.

Too often information about original media and potential hashes get lost. A decentralised ledger is the perfect tool for the job.

I was actually going to note that i feel similar about this conspiracy but i left it out in the end.

Glad not to be the only person to conceive this. Kill it before people discover a good use.

Those would probably be a part of it.

Comparing a hashcode implies you have a verifiable source for the original footage.

You can do this manually and dig for the author but thats not always that simple.

A second step would be to build In a reference to the record in each media file, expressed as a small clickable logo.

You grandma deserves to be capable to verify.

The sad thing is the concept wasn’t.

Selling NFTs with no physical existence is what is pointlessly stupid.

Before they came along i considered the idea of a blockchain linked video camera where metadata of footage gets written into the chain to combat fake news and misinformation.

The goal would be to create a proof and record of original footage, to which media publishers and people who share can link towards to verify authenticity/author.

If the media later gets manipulated or reframed you would be able to verify this by comparing to the original record.

It was never a finished idea but when i first read nft i thought this is the right direction.

And then capitalism started selling apes and what the actual disgusting money possessed fuck was that.

No mam, that is absolutely not enough visual description to tell whether or not i know what website this is about.

No thank you i have to many problems of my own and i am to tired to talk about them for when they inevitably ask how mine is in return.

Friends are better in quality then quantity because people are complicated and it takes allot of work to establish good long term trustworthy relationships.

I can not talk to my real friends for multiple months. Then one of us makes contact and we treat eachother no different then the last time i saw them. Thats how i know they are real friends.

As a science nerd i dont know how this relates to klein bottles but as a anarchychess subscriber i still have to upvote

Let take another step in some direction.

In a far future from now the aliens arrive and they turn out to be (y)our god parents. everything we have know till now is just a natural growing up.

You know we fucked up many times over the course of history but every time we destroyed (y)ourself you eventually put us back together and ultimately learned. Our parents are proud, I am ready for what comes next!