Ugh day ruined. Well y'all better enjoy it then. But please don't tell me

Analog photography is also on a bit of a resurgence. As long as it takes 35mm film there shouldn't be any issues getting film or having it developed somewhere (apart from the high prices).

It's become a bit of a hobby for me lately. Analog photography requires more commitment when taking pictures and the images also have this lovely analog aesthetic. In a weird way it's also fun to have to wait until you see your images. Once you're finally through a roll and have it developed, you're taken back to all the memories you've photographed in the past weeks/months.

Microsoft does a lot of bad things, but I got to give it to them here. Their push for accessibility in gaming is definitely a good thing. They've been pushing multiple modular controllers in order to allow people with disabilities to play games in a comfortable way. Having the support of a major player in the gaming market like Microsoft will definitely help with support for these products.

I'm supposed to have energy as an adult?! I have way more time than energy. Most of that time is spent doing useless shit like watching YouTube because I'm too exhausted to do anything useful

Shit, another existential crisis. At least I'll forget about it soon

Ridiculous. How can someone write "we value your privacy" and then share data with 807 partners. If I share anything with 8 people I pretty much consider it public information already, unless I have a very good reason to trust them. Sharing something with 807 companies is probably less private than taking all that data, putting it up on a billboard, and placing that billboard next to the busiest place in town.

I looked at these videos with very mixed emotions. On the one hand, I marveled at how far we've gotten. In a few years we went from generating sort of okay images in a very confined domain and essentially uncontrollable, to generating high resolution video that on first glance looks real.

But then the sadness struck me. I think we're entering the post-truth era, where the truth is harder and harder to find because all the fake stuff looks so real. We can generate text, images, sound, and now also video of whatever we want in the blink of an eye. Combine this with the tendency of people to accept any "information" that fits their view, and the filter bubbles that already exist, and we can see that humanity will start living in separate bubbles. Every bubble will have their own truth, and even if someone proves that a video or image is fake, that information will probably not even reach them because the truth doesn't generate enough clicks.

I want to stay optimistic, we've overcome so much stuff as a species, maybe we'll right the ship at some point. But with all the shit that is already going on in the world, the last thing we need is the ability to fake videos like this in no time at all. At some point the separate filter bubbles will tear our stable western world as we knew it apart, and we'll see shit like WW II again. The situation is already heating up.

Seems like a good idea to put that there. People who know what they're doing won't be bothered by it, but it might save a few people from getting hacked

As far as I understand, Europe will push for removable batteries by 2027.. So we might actually get back to those glory days.

21 stone?! I swear you guys will use anything instead of metric

I don't really see the problem. People like to listen to the stuff and Spotify provides it and pays the creator. Seems like everything is working as intended. Looks like it's just greedy people getting annoyed that they can't get even richer.

Lmao

Today's online communities are not like this. They are trapped inside apps and platforms, where they do not have independence

Trapped in apps like the official Reddit app? Because they ruined 3rd party apps? What are they sniffing over there, the trapping of communities is their own doing.

I'm done with reddit, so either way I don't really care. Tbh I don't think this will necessarily be a dumpster fire. It might even be interesting, depending on the specifics of this implementation. It's probably fueled by higher ups hearing hype words like blockchain. My expectation is that things will mostly just continue as normal, but now the management and CEO's etc can masturbate to the idea of having a blockchain application.