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50mm-f2 t1_jdgj03i wrote

Reply to Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verification Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks by 08830

The fun part is .. when you change your profile picture if you have a PAID membership, it automatically sends your account for review, takes off the checkmark and locks you out of changing your profile picture .. FOR UP TO A WEEK!

So yes .. people are paying to NOT be able to change their profile pics on a fucking social media platform 😂😂😂

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despitegirls t1_jdginu4 wrote

Reply to comment by MorbidSloth in Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed by thawingSumTendies

The stage demo literally produced something that has more accurate capture than a number of games shipping today in real time using a phone as the capture device with no tweaking of animation by hand. My guess is the exaggerated facial animations are easier to capture using a phone, but regardless that's insane. The goal of this demo isn't that it's flawless, it's that it's quick for a quality capture and you can use consumer hardware.

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50mm-f2 t1_jdgime7 wrote

Reply to comment by S4T4NICP4NIC in Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verification Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks by 08830

there is so little real value there nowadays though. it’s all memes and shitposting .. even at the high level. at least that’s what’s popular. there are lots of valuable things being said and shared on the DL, but it’s all drowned out by the loudest dumbest voice.

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50mm-f2 t1_jdgidwk wrote

Reply to comment by fallenmonk in Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verification Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks by 08830

It’s a little different than that, worse. Musk is basically making it almost necessary to stay relevant. They are starting to filter comments and posts prioritizing checkmarks. I’m on Twitter a lot, you kinda have to have it for people to take you seriously now. I don’t have it on my personal account.

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do_you_even_ship_bro t1_jdggnp9 wrote

Reply to comment by Super_Automatic in Apple employees face reprisals, possible termination over return to office policy by OutlandishnessOk2452

> Now in it's 4th year, I'm dying to go back. Socializing with people from behind screens (no one even turns their camera on!) and owning equipment you can't hold or interface with, it's really lost its charm.

I think people are having graduation glasses. everyone starts going back to the office 5 days a week and people will realize it wasn't as great as they remember...

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GhostofDownvotes t1_jdgdmfr wrote

Reply to comment by 1leggeddog in License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association | Flock Safety works with police to market scanners to hundreds of private community groups — which have no privacy safeguards by Hrmbee

> Say there was a drug bust in a neigborhood and someone that had a criminal record was keeping clean, ends up being recorded his car just passing through. People have gone to jail for less.

Rofl, good luck prosecutor-chan!

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GhostofDownvotes t1_jdgdbs8 wrote

Reply to comment by 1leggeddog in License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association | Flock Safety works with police to market scanners to hundreds of private community groups — which have no privacy safeguards by Hrmbee

> You dont have a problem with this until it becomes a problem that affects you.

You do have a problem with it until there is a problem and the system is not there to solve it. Your son gets kidnapped? Awww, too bad, we prioritized not knowing when you went to Wendy’s. Ta-ta!

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GhostofDownvotes t1_jdgcz1f wrote

Reply to comment by SidewaysFancyPrance in License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association | Flock Safety works with police to market scanners to hundreds of private community groups — which have no privacy safeguards by Hrmbee

> the police could know every time you drive to or from your home. You’re OK with that?

You mean it’s like having private security for “free”? Yeah, I’m very much okay with that.

> Personal tracking that will never be used to help you, but only harm you?

Lmfao. Yes, this will never be used to help you, but only to harm you. Like when a pedo pulls your son into a van, the camera capturing that? Harmful to you.

This oh-noes-surveillance bitching is really quite pathetic. We used to have serial killers who were stacking teenage boys’ bodies in their basements for decades before they got caught by some sheer accident. Lots of them too. Last year, some asshole started shooting homeless people in New York and the police took his ass off the streets in a day. But think of the privacy of all those homeless people he would have shot!

Instead of seeing the merit these systems have for regular, good, hardworking people, the upvoted dummy is of course some alarmist loser who is very worried about someone misusing access to his car location info from a database of 300-something million people. 🤦‍♀️

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Super_Automatic t1_jdgbwmy wrote

Reply to comment by woody-99 in Apple employees face reprisals, possible termination over return to office policy by OutlandishnessOk2452

Working from home was awesome for like 3 years. I loved it. I felt like I won some sort pandemic lottery.

Now in it's 4th year, I'm dying to go back. Socializing with people from behind screens (no one even turns their camera on!) and owning equipment you can't hold or interface with, it's really lost its charm. Humans weren't meant to never leave their own house. We are social animals. I think this will have very long lasting negative effects, but I don't think there's a good path back because it's always all or nothing. It works when everyone is in the office, it works when everyone is at home, but it's really weird when it's everyone's choice on any given day.

I used to think WFH was a blessing, but now I think it's turning out to be a curse.

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Neverlookedthisgood t1_jdgbgat wrote

Reply to comment by NavyPirate in Apple employees face reprisals, possible termination over return to office policy by OutlandishnessOk2452

They aren’t asking anything, that’s the point. Employees all over the world stepped up and kept these companies afloat during mass shut downs, and in times when they would’ve otherwise gone under, or atleast not been profitable. The thanks they get is to be forced to come back it. When instead they should be enticing or at least only asking employees to come back in.

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