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Since this came up in the WAN show I wanted to mention it. Discord DOES allow sections/headings/categories for channels and sorting set by server admins and locked in formats. Just wanted to mention this as Luke / Linus seemed unaware that this was possible. Here's Discord's RTFM link: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001580171-Channel-Categories-101 and attached is a screenshot example from the Spiceworks Discord Server. Hope this helps to clear up this confusion.

It seems as though Facebooks new logo for their new brand Meta is pretty much an identical copy of a German development app business called M-sense Migräne by Newsenselab. Both logos are extremely identical to one another which could lead to a potential lawsuit. Quotes My thoughts I think this is extremely funny as they pretty much look 99% identical. I'm just curious as to how the lawsuit would go down if they wanted to take Meta to court, should be quite interesting. Also the fact is Facebook most probably has invested a lot into their rebrand and if they lose a potential lawsuit it could be more problems in the can for them. Sources https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6859884591239589888/ https://www.m-sense.de/en/

Summary Reddit starts selling NFT profile pictures. Quotes My thoughts This is a really interesting trend for Reddit to join. It builds upon Reddit’s Vault feature that is well known in /r/cryptocurrency in a very tangible way. It seems like they may have missed the NFT craze but it’s also one of the first interactions I’ve had with NFTs in the public sphere. I personally think that it may end up with people buying them without knowing they are NFTs. I hope this turns out well for Reddit, but am curious how things like refunds and chargebacks are handled when they are purchased in app and immediately given to the user’s vault. Sources https://www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/US/2022/07/08/Reddit-NFT-profile-pictures/9041657306173/ https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/7/23198071/reddit-nft-profile-picture-collectible-avatars https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/26/reddit-tests-allowing-users-to-set-any-nft-as-their-profile-picture-similar-to-twitter/amp/

Hi all, Looking for a decent mid-range phone at around $250-$500(New Zealand Dollars), just really needs to do social media (Facebook, Snapchat etc.) and video streaming (e.g. YouTube, Twitch) while being responsive and having a decent battery life. Currently using a hand-me down Galaxy S4 which is OK functionally, but battery life is abhorrent even after being replaced (16 minute YouTube video takes 10% of battery.) Cheers

Greetings all, especially Luke, I have just listened to the portion of The Wan Show discussing the possible ban of the President Elect from twitter. I am sorry if this post seems hastily written and/or poorly thought out. I am posting it now because I am genuinely curious, and a bit riled up, but if I wait for a cooler head I will also be waiting for apathy to set in. After listening to the discussion I cannot but feel stanch disagreement with Luke on his position regarding not banning the President Elect because of his position. I want to clarify that I believe I understand that Luke is not saying all politicians should have blanket exemptions for statements made on social platforms, and that if someone, even the President Elect, were being toxic on his own forum he would act differently and ban them. But the position Luke takes where the twitter or facebook, or any social media, account belonging to or operated by a person in power is a place to get meaningful information regarding the current political administration I cannot help but feel wholly opposed to. I want to begin by admitting I have want I believe most would consider a rather cynical view on politics, perhaps people in general, and especially social media's role in politics. I believe I could make an entirely different thread just about some of those positions but that is not what this thread is about. So to begin, Luke, I completely disagree that the President Elects twitter is even somewhere you should look to get information regarding him and his political doings. I am of the position that if someone, anyone, is in a position of power and influence then you need to be incredibly weary of the things they say, period. I believe that you simply cannot trust anything they say, they have far too much incentive to lie, mislead, or otherwise attempt to misinform or misrepresent their own positions, actions, or those of their conspirators in order to maintain their outward appearance and their credibility. I am not claiming this view is some kind of a revelation in politics, in fact quite the opposite, I take it to be one of the most fundamental attributes of politics, and even social behavior in general. To put it differently I believe that the President Elect's twitter at best is a place they post 100% true and well meaning but only positive information regarding themselves and their administration, and at worst are fabricated pieces ment intentionally to misinform and to maintain face. I believe it is not true that if twitter or facebook where to ban the President Elect, and not just the current one as of the time of this post, or any major influencer, any meaningful information would be lost. I believe there are plenty of sources that one can use to attain information regarding the current political administration and that due to the amount of misinformation in the media one is all but obligated to use as many sources as they can to construct their viewpoints and "Internal Model of the World". I am of the opinion that the worst thing that could come out of banning these figures from the social forums is the loss of the ability to say, "This person has said this on twitter, I now need to go find every piece of information I can in order to vett this and find all the reasons why what they said is a gross misrepresentation of the truth". If you are lucky what they said is not a gross misrepresentation of the truth, but I am sure we all have a feeling of which is the exception and which is the rule. In conclusion I am of the opinion that all the users on the twitter platform, President Elect or otherwise, should be subject to the same rules as any other users of the platform. Further I believe the argument that banning them will cause anyone to be ill informed or less informed that otherwise rests on the assumption anything someone with influence says on the platform is trustworthy or is even capable of meaningfully informing. tl;dr: The President Elect's social media accounts are garbage places to try and stay informed about their politics.

Here is a suggestion to LTT staff: Why don't you guys start making fast-paced builds for instagram, twitter and the rest where you just have a cam facing at the building (at the builder's hands performing everything) and then fast forward the whole thing so it fits in half a minute or sth and maybe put some audio track and done, you know...like the speedart, speedrun kind of videos. It'd be a cool trailer thing to put up before or when releasing a build video. Have a great day!

So after some rumors and a lot of speculation, the Brazilian Congress issued a request in order to shutdown whatsapp for 48 hours, starting at 9pm Eastern tonight. WhatsApp being the MOST used application by something arround 93% of the brazilian population, "they put the internet on fire" as a lot of people say here in brazil. With the popularization of cheap smartphones and many cellphone carriers offering unlimited access to whatsapp with cheap prices per month, whatsapp became very, very quickly the Main communication tool in brazil, as well as a lot of corporations and small business use whatsapp as the main front door, on my job for exemple, about 90% of our costumers come from whatsapp. The reason behind this blocking are kind of being throwed around there, some say its because the police needs to investigate some pedophilia case, because of the encrypted nature of whatsapp, it is near impossible to track people and messages from it, others say that its because whatsapp its an "unregulated service" providing "unfair competition" for the cellphone carriers, i personally think that offering a better service doesn't imply unfair competition, but still, it is beyond my opinion. The fact is, twitter, and facebook are on Fire right now on brazil, people are all over the place talking about how it is bad, and how it is wrong, but for now, what i am going to do is sleep, knowing that tomorrow will be a easier day at my job since whatsapp is down, and i even don't use this thing. i always hated it since the start, i don't know how popular whatsapp is in the rest of the world or how many of you care, but there it is, gimme your opinions about this, bellow i leave a link for a more "trust worthy" news site so you guys can have your own opinion. source: http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/16/brazils-congress-has-shut-down-whatsapp-tonight-and-the-rest-of-the-social-web-could-be-next/?ncid=rss