Microsoft had relatively interesting ideas concerning 3D and VR content, then proceeded to do an extremely mediocre execution, simultaneously dumbing everything down while also making it hard to use, and then proceeded to discontinue their software after almost never touching it again for seven years
I have a Reverb G2 (windows mixed reality headset), it is really a good headset and is still competitive with the Quest 3 in several areas for use on PC. The WMR software itself isn't that bad and I think if it had more care and attention put into it it could genuinely have been great. If they had better home options, user created homes, more customization and the ability to fix things in place so you don't accidentally move them, the ability to add (even just user created) minigames and dynamic objects that stay in the world, and (most importantly) the ability to actually invite other people into the space to play with you and launch into other games. They're Microsoft, they were large enough and early enough that I'm sure they could even have gotten game developers on board with some protocol that automatically brings people you're playing with into a multiplayer session of whatever game you start. I think they were onto something with their home system and could have fleshed the software out into something much better than even the modern competition. Of course it's all discontinued now, the latest version of Windows doesn't even support it, I plan to continue to use the old version until it stops getting security patches in 2026 and then switch to Linux where hopefully the open source people will finally fully support using controllers.
The browser would also have to guarantee that you yourself didn't edit the website. It's not supposed to insure that the content was real, only that that website really had that content on it.
Yeah, that's kinda why I thought a screenshot thing would be better. It could also ideally work on private data like DMs. The idea also includes having the URL as tagged unencrypted metadata on the image, that anyone can access by opening the image in a metadata website (or the hypothetical authenticity checking service)
From what others are saying though, it sounds like my original screenshot idea would probably be impossible, so linking to the source is the best we can actually do
That's why having the URL as part of the hash is important. I'm thinking less for real photos and more for 'screenshot of a deleted tweet' sort of things.
What got me thinking about this actually was whether there would be a way to verify which screenshots of the Google search AI are real and which are fake.
Honestly neither of these give a very good impression of where users are from, but I don't think lemmy collects that data. Maybe if there was some way to check which languages people have listed?
the obvious solution is to sacrifice control of your software and hardware to some proprietary third-party system that presumably has no stake in the outcome, but that causes more problems than it solves.
Yes, I can imagine a world in which some company has a system like this, and then could discreetly delete hashes from the database if they see the original image and realize that it shows evidence of something they don't like.
If it would be used for actual investigative journalism or criminal evidence, its giving that company a lot of power.
It would actually be convenient to have a screenshot feature that also automatically links to the latest archive of the website
there are situations though where that doesn't work, such as if this can only be seen on your account, like if you take a screenshot of a DM or something
I just got that one with the 4 camera spots recently, its the oneplus 12
I mostly got it because its fast and has a good battery life, but it also has decent cameras ig, although most people say the google pixels have better cameras
Anyways, it has a normal camera, a wide angle camera, a 3x zoom camera, and the last one is not a camera but an ambient light sensor and 13 channel light sensor (I think? its hard to find info on this actually)
People were saying it would have a full 12 channel actual image sensor there with a decently high resolution, but I guess that didn't end up happening
IDK if Mastodon has a good way to port accounts but I think its good to have people first join a basic instance and then move to something more specialized once they get used to the platform
edit: on a more serious note, yes, when studying the biology of humans or similar organisms probably 99% of the time you can pretend there are only two genders/sexes, but
that doesn't make it true
even just 1.7% of the U.S. population is still a pretty big number (~580k people)
Such as in The Expanse
(I don't think she was trans but that's what the name reminds me of)