AndreTelevise

If 4chan made Trump win in 2016, Twitter might make Trump win in 2024. Which is a scary thought. Just imagine the level of control one rich man can have over the information highway, Twitter, one of the biggest social media sites in the world, used still by many politicians, journalists and reporters on both sides. It's happening.

For those who are paranoid about this - some of you have a Facebook account, and half of you have a Google-filled smartphone. Privacy is important, but IMO there should be a balance between convenience and privacy - unless you actually do stuff that requires the utmost privacy or you need to stay fully anonymous everywhere as much as possible.

Division of identity - that is, having unique profiles/identities for different types of things you do on the web, using alias emails and anonymous email for certain things etc. - is a more viable strategy than trying to be 100% anonymous on the web.

Commercial social media that is free does and will track your activity on the site, whether for personalized ads or for algorithm purposes. Lemmy and Mastodon don't because they're FOSS, and don't run on ads (99.9% of the time).

Many stores where I live don't offer a scanner gun to customers, only like a small amount of big stores offer it. In self-checkout, we have to move the barcodes over a scanner to get them scanned.

Exactly. Generally, I have fun when talking to people, but social anxiety makes me prefer to stay at home and talk to less people.

It's annoying how a lot of stores ask you to join their club and get their credit card (as If I don't have enough already), before letting you into self-checkout.

Uncompressed and loseless

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The symbol in the middle was a blindspot? The only thing remotely resembling a flag was on the sides, and even then it surely didn't look like the 6-color Rainbow Flag.

The same stuff happens on Twitter - some guy on the platform scaremongers about Twitter banning artists for making fanart of copyrighted characters, and people start copying and pasting the same exact disclaimer even though I am sure many of them know it doesn't work that way. And I don't think it's just "boomers".

Honestly not that bad if I want to use it for notetaking. But not as full-featured.

Do they have variable weight? Are they planning to add that? Because I'd really like that for quick sketching and doodling.

I think they're just pushing people to use OneNote (which is free).