This isn’t even a matter of illiterate or literate.

If someone is wearing a camera always assume it’s recording. There’s literally no reason to speculate on the owners intent or competency.

Many webcams now ship with lens covers these days. You wanna take a guess why that is and why you might want a lens cover for an internet connected camera you own and control?

Ignoring possibilities for malicious software being a concern, Meta having control over their product with an internet connected recording device with AI facial recognition bullshit baked in is enough of a reason for concern. And how often do we hear about company mishandling of data leading to private information leaking?

Oops my camera was on, oh no. Why even leave an opening for a careless mistake like that to happen? At the least you’re asking for trouble.

Medical exams can be scary enough for patients w/o having to worry about a camera on someone’s face pointed at them. Patients have a right to feel comfortable in a medical setting and it’s in doctor’s best interest that they feel safe so they can do their job properly.

As for the “whatabout” hidden camera bs. Maybe worry about the one pointed at your face before you worry about the one you don’t see. If you don’t trust your doctor to not have hidden cameras maybe it’s time to find a new doctor?

Are they cosplaying Mortal Kombat characters now?

Except there are also RSS bots. While I’m not a fan of them, I can see how those could be useful for news and comic creators.

As long as they are marked and not attempting to imitate people, I’m fine. And I don’t think those that are attempting to be people will kindly mark themselves.

Reading this just brings to mind the opening scene of Idiocracy, except, you know… worse.

And that’ll be the next novel I read, thanks. I was on a Tchaikovsky kick earlier and took a break for Rothfuss

That is the one

Found him

Your client doesn’t have a mark all Read button? That’d bug the shit outta me tbh, but I know some people just live with it lol

Holy shit dude! What did you do? Post negative remarks about Arch in a Linux com?

Dude clear your inbox 😭

That video interesting. Found it to be a more disturbing take on futurism.

I mean, the GB Color and Advanced didn’t have them. The Advanced just added L and R, and the SP was the same, but more compact with a backlight.

When posting this I thought, I’m not sure if this counts as Sci-fi anymore.

It’s just way too plausible

“Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?”

So, there’s these newer style “hall-effect” keyboards that use magnets to detect how far you’ve pressed the key in.

So if you wanted you could map throttle to the spacebar and control speed by how hard you press the key.

Doesn’t completely solve the driving issue but it’s a step.

I get it’s a meme, but damn… comparing art to vanity…

You… you think that wasn’t around back then?

In the 90s you just waited longer for one pic.

Not to mention magazines found in the forrest.

GameBoy SP was the perfect handheld. It fit easily in your pocket. It had color. It had a backlight. Everything after is just chasing screen size.

I wonder if the OP refers to their spouse as stepbro/stepsis now (I totally would, jokingly, and in front of said parents)

Because it makes for great sandwiches