I think it’s also to do with how photogenic someone is. I’m the same as you, my photos/videos/voice always feel weird and awkward to me. The other day I came across this relatable story:

My mother is gorgeous. Stunning, even. She was homecoming queen in high school and has the smile of a true crime cliché (that is to say, it lights up a room). Blonde, razor-cut bangs frame her big, brown eyes – rimmed in her signature liquid liner, always – which literally twinkle when she laughs.

There is no photographic evidence of this.

I cannot make sense of it, but something happens to this dear, beautiful woman whenever a camera comes near. Her face contorts at the click of a shutter. A combination of the following features appears in every picture she’s ever taken: squeezed-shut lids. Crossed eye. Eyebrow askance. Elvis lip. Cowlick. I sometimes insist a particular picture isn’t as bad as she thinks; I’m lying. Her driver’s license photo? Horrendous. Her Facebook profile picture? A close-up of the family dog.

I take comfort in this whenever I come across a less-than-flattering image of myself. Photos do not reflect reality, I think. Just look at all the terrible pictures of Mom!

I hope rutracker will stay available :P

I get the general point, but for the specific example in that comic, electronic voting has been in use in Brazil since the '90s, and there’s basically no fraud connected to it from what I’ve heard/read. And they have the official results in hours, not days.

Switched to Ente Auth when Authy stopped having a free desktop version. What if I lose my phone? I want both my devices to have access to my codes.

David Brin’s Existence features a rat’s brain model as the first true AGI that escapes onto the internet, and which people then worship by donating some tiny % of their CPU cycles to it :) I found Existence a great near-future sci-fi novel even ignoring the alien plotline, and just seeing his technological/societal vision for the next century or so.

I’m still sticking to Windows mostly because of Adobe programs and gaming, so I guess I’ll just have to go the usual massgrave.dev route and group-policy all the crap out of Win11 😮‍💨

I’ve been a lifetime Windows user, and the handful of times I had to use Mac was like pulling teeth. Every UI convention is slightly different, and I remember I found the file manager odd too.

My work is 90% on Adobe software and my main game nowadays in Genshin 🙃 I checked ProtonDB for the rest of my games, and many are gold or worse. Having to mess around with command line stuff is already annoying in Windows, I don’t want to have to do more of it, which seems to be the case with all Linux versions I’ve read about.

same, I stuck with Win7 for years after its support period ended because I didn’t want to lose Aero 🥺

I’ll stick to Win10 until the end of the support period, just like how I stuck to Win7 as long as I could 😬 That was still my favourite OS, loved Aero 🥺

Yeah, that’s what I heard from my microblogging colleagues too. They tried Mastodon during the first wave of Twitter exodus, found it too frustrating/difficult, tried Bluesky and stuck with it ever since.

read about embrace/extend/extinguish to see why

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I only have one to read stuff locked behind a login wall. But even for that I seldom use it.

not billionaire owned, but a bunch of VC firms led by one called Blockchain Capital already put a 15million USD bridle on them

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

Yes, I much prefer following topics over people. Every time I glance at microblogging, there is just so much noise. At least lemmy-style forums have upvotes to surface quality content rather than the jumbled mess that microblogs are. No matter how much I like someone (even IRL friends/family), I won’t be interested in their every passing thought, it’s just exhausting.

They are really bad for getting correct information and putting it in context: Information literacy and chatbots as search

I’ve read that the transition itself is usually a smaller part in addition to what has been already dealt by nature

This is unfortunately not the case for most trans people. I think it’s quite rare that a trans person would consistently be able to pass (=blend in) before HRT.

There are some trans people who are also intersex, which is the condition when one’s biological sex (without medical intervention) doesn’t fit neatly in either the male or female boxes. But most trans people aren’t intersex and about half of intersex people aren’t trans.

Edit: But I do agree with your main point, there’s simply no way an app like this could identify trans people with the vast range of facial features humans have. It will both exclude many cis women and allow many trans women, as Giggle did a few years ago.

Switching to Linux means you might have to say goodbye to certain proprietary software and games. Applications like Adobe Creative Suite

as someone whose job mostly involves Adobe programs and whose many hobby is gaming, I think I’ll stick with a Windows with all the AI crap disabled via group policies and O&O Shutup 😐 For now…

OpenStreetMap is a joy to behold and fun to edit too, but for me where it really falls behind is its route planner :/ Google Maps lets us plan with public transport, shows multiple route options with journey times, and lets us edit walking paths by just dragging the line. OSM desktop doesn’t seem to have any of these features.