[rustystump]

Perhaps i am a bit odd but i dont understood this take. Why do you do what you do? Why do you create anything?

Since before ai all my tiny little works have been public domain and it tickles me pink when i see something of mine out in the wild.

Journey before destination.

With that said though, the people who press the button and fashion themselves creatives piss me off. Heck anyone who has more than a passing interest in gen ai art disappoints me. After all, what is interesting about printing the Mona Lisa compared to creating your own shitty version by hand?

[vanschelven]

Journey and destination go hand in hand.

Radio amateurs used to be a thing. Because playing with radios is fun, but also because this provided a way to hear things that otherwise could not be heard.

[theshrike79]

They still are, it's just a full-on boys club where members are getting older and older.

New people are finding the hobby due to all of the stuff going on in the world, an amateur radio license gives you the ability to communicate massive distances without any existing infrastructure - which is super cool.

Digital mode radios are also bringing in people from programming backgrounds because they can move binary stuff over the air with software.