I wonder how close we are to something that really takes down large chunks of the Internet. Although it’s probably more likely for it to just use your computer without revealing itself.

Even if that were true, most people do not have a healthy mindset

Commercialize it? Oh this one could be real

Possible second-tier harm here: are they sending 911 calls directly to a company? That’s gotta be illegal, no?

People are bad at media literacy?

I would say most of those materially alter the content of the picture. Something like filters or ordinary lighting settings alter how the picture appears, but don’t alter its content.

Just automatically remove anyone who can’t make it to their seat (aka their job) for a month

Try not being an asshole and maybe people won’t want to block you so often

Oman rn

This is an intentional strategy that’s reaching fruition. There’s a threshold of false information being spread-- surprisingly low-- where people begin to distrust all information.

It’s like carcinization, all robot vacuum names eventually become “voov”

Isn’t the repo basically blank…?

No, it’s the part of the Fediverse that uses this thread-based format

“Here is a beautiful piece of art. You say it’s just a blank piece of paper? Please feel free to draw your own art on it, and then it will be as I said.”

I know the real news here is the hardware, but it is still funny…

Sucky Unsupervised Cleaning Knickknack

Meta tried very hard but their ideas of how VR/AR will be used are very misguided. I guess it could be used as a social media, but it’s really much more well-suited to games and especially tools, the latter of which is quite underexplored.

Entirely agreed on blockchain. The technology itself does have uses, but for the most part it doesn’t improve on having a centralized trusted source. For situations where that + a method for recovering from the loss of that source is not sufficient, blockchain can offer advantages, although its adoption still suffers from the network effect like anything else does. Cryptocurrency is valid, NFTs have theoretically valid uses but have never actually been used for them, and crypto stocks are, as with any stock, just gambling.

Them admitting this is possible should already concern people.

https://youtu.be/Ec5f6SrGlzU?is=HGIPPRdTSUJnQUXL

You can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks