I get the sentiment here. TikTok is in a lot of ways dubious. The links to the Chinese government are very scary (even if TikTok was resisting China, it cannot ignore laws that allow the government to access basically all user data), privacy isn’t great either, and poor moderation. However, something not being made clear enough is that the bill currently making its way through the US government titled “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” isn’t just targeting TikTok, that’s what it is being used for right now, but it allows the president to declare any "foreign adversary-controlled applications" that are deemed as a significant national security threat to the US. This feels quite a bit like a slippery slope, sure, banning TikTok might be reasonable, but what if in the future the US decides to ban another social media in the name of national security when it’s more about ideology per se. There’s also the issue of whether you’re okay with ALL future presidents having this power. I’m not defending TikTok, but come on, banning something won’t actually stop TikTok, VPN’s exist. What would actually have not perfect, but some real effect is if the US would adopt strong privacy and data laws like the EU’s GDPR - this would rein in TikTok, and all tech companies, because let’s be real, they’re all evil and vying to sell our data, Meta has been accused of election interference y’know. The current solution IMO leads to some real issues in the future.
TikTok is being banned in the US.
Start celebrating, this might take a bit of a hit on their platform - I get some people just wanna use it, but you cannot deny it’s also a partial cause of a lot of brainrot.
The issue is that apparently TikTok is granting people in the US a huge “Please vote to not ban us” thing. I mean, they even pull bullshit:
"Destroy the livelihoods of countless creators across the country"
Lmao no it won’t, you pay like $20-50 (or $0.04 - Unable to find a source but those are the most common ratios I’ve seen) per 1 million views; Practically lower than my will to live, atleast higher than minimum wage I guess? Meh, I digress. So they are also lying in their own vote to not be banned! How trustworthy!
Plus they (the creators) can just switch platforms and announce that they are moving, sure, they may lose a lot of their fanbase, but atleast they’re moving away from that garbage.
They’re framed now!
Made these posters for Mother's Day to replace some old photos my mum doesn’t like any more (based on my design Day & Night, which you may have seen in the past.
Made these posters for Mother's Day to replace some old photos my mum doesn’t like any more (based on my design Day & Night, which you may have seen in the past.
Was setting up a Windows 10 install for my dads old laptop (I know how to pirate Office for him lol) so he can use it for car diagnostics and had to do the dreaded task of opening Microsoft Edge to download Firefox (my dad is actually a long time Firefox user, since like it released, he tried Chrome and hated it. He’s such an old school Firefox user that he uses the menu bar still) and I noticed how hopelessly bloated and messy Edge is by default. This screenshot is what Edge looks like after going through onboarding (which asks if it can periodically take your browsing data from other browsers and connect to your Google account). There is so much stuff on the screen, like, what are they thinking? This is horrible UX, it’s convoluted, overwhelming, and confusing beyond belief. No wonder Chrome is so popular. For all of Chrome’s faults, it doesn’t through a trillion things at you at once. Also, having to add a cookie pop-up on your new tab page is peak bloat lmao.
Just noticed I’ve reached the top users page on beta/alpha about a week ago… I am coming for him…
It's always strange to me when someone says something like "your spelling is good" or something along the lines that I'm good at writing, constructing sentences and/or expressing myself in written forms, or even going as far to say I don't seem dyslexic. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate compliments, but it's such an indescribable thing to me, but I never truly feel I can express myself in words properly. To me it's like there's some kind of barrier between what my brain is thinking and what ends up coming out in writing or conversation. It's not that I'm not being truthful or omitting things, rather that I feel it's not how I wanted to express myself. I dunno, it's weird. Again, the compliments are nice, especially when my dyslexia is really bringing me down, but at the same time it always feels as if I can never find the right words or way I want to say something.
I don’t like Twitter but this has to be one of the few good reply chains on that website ever (Screenshots aren’t mine)
rumour has it if you say wombat 3 times in the mirror you get early access to alpha.wasteof.money
While I don’t care for the music much on twenty one pilots’ 2021 album Scaled And Icy, the cover with a blue dragon (he’s called Trash btw, never knew that until I looked it up lol) is cool as hell
Is this the first post on wasteof to be sent from Arc on Windows?
