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Ha they sent me the same message, and while I was not booted as a mod, I led the protest effort in a few subs that I modded in and helped out over in Save3rdPartyApps. I didn’t delete my account, just went silent after resigning when other mods got cold feet as soon as it started to get real.

I vote for Super Switch

You’re completely missing the point. Making money doesn’t change the legality. YouTube was threatened by the RIAA before they even started showing ads. Displaying an image from a copyrighted work on an AI platform is not much different technologically than Voyager or even Google Images displaying the same image, and both could also be interpreted as “feeding you unlicensed content from others.”

i didn’t mean to exclude that option but rather thought it to be redundant since the result is the same.

“We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the printer, go to the network.”

Either this is complete bullshit or HP is over-engineering completely unnecessary vulnerabilities into their hardware. There’s no reason why a dumb ink cartridge (no DRM) would need any ability to send data to the printer other than very short messages (like a few bytes at most), so it should not be possible for an ink cartridge to give the printer a virus unless this vulnerability is the direct result of the new DRM-tracking additions.

So HP is either malicious or incompetent, and regardless of which it is, I can’t see myself trusting another of their products ever again.

And Huffman’s programming skills weren’t even that great because they quickly brought in Aaron Schwartz to make it all work, yet they always conveniently leave him off of the founders’ list.

The fact that it doesn’t work the same in every browser sounds a lot like anti-competitive fuckery.

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Yet some psychos swear Dunkin’ has the best coffee.

The enshitification continues.

“Then they came for the influencers, and I said nothing…”

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I’m so dumb that even after I read their comment, I still thought they were related until your admission made me reread their comment.

Oh damn, all this time I thought we were talking EF. My bad. The 1.4 is still really light but just sticks out quite a bit more than the 1.8 RF. With the adapter, it will obviously stick out even more so it will feel a bit heavier in hand because the center of gravity will be more forward on the camera. Still tolerable and worth a try though.

I totally get what you mean about the pretend-buy, but just do it on Amazon rather than B&H or Adorama so you don’t have to feel bad borrowing from the big corp. I did that with quite a few gimbals when I was trying to find one, and it was the only affordable way to find the right one.

The 1.4 is only about 2-2.5x the price of the 1.8, and while it might not seem like the specs justify that price increase, I recommend renting it for a week (or “retail renting” buy/return) to better understand what it has to offer. It’s hard to understand the difference until you play with it a bit, and if you are digging the DOF of the 1.8, you might love that extra stop of the 1.4 double that amount. It all depends on your tastes as a photographer and the style that you’re going for, but you should really give it a spin to find out for yourself.

As for the 1.2, I have a friend that swears by the 1.2, but it’s because the speed and extra shallow depth of field is worth 12x the price of the 1.8 for him. It isn’t for me, though. There are very few situations where the 1.4 leaves me wanting the 1.2 (which is why I don’t own it), but there are soooo many times that I grab my 1.8 for its size and weight and wish I had brought my 1.4 instead. If you find yourself loving the 1.4 more than the 1.8, then you should at least try the 1.2 as well, because you won’t understand why it costs so much more until you have it on your camera.

Ohh yeah, I remember the first time I got my hands on that lens. I recommend everyone at least rent the F1.4 and F1.2 after they’ve tried the F1.8, because they will really helped me to understand why there’s so much cost difference between those 3 lenses.

That wasn’t me going hard. I was simply meeting their dismissiveness with sarcastic dismissiveness as a way to show them their faulty logic.

Well if you’ve never heard of it, then you must be right. Or it could be that maybe you have no clue what you’re talking about. No that couldn’t be it.

It blows my mind that you’ve never heard of Swiss engineering, but I guess the whole world is wrong since you’re clueless to it. Case closed.

The moon is not to be trusted. It’s hiding a secret alien base on its dark side.