I thought we were just sharing our favorites communities tbh

Yeah, I know. Why would anyone ever use them if creating one required a certificate? If the certificate was so cheap as to not be an obstacle then it wouldn’t be a deterrent to malicious replacement of codes either.

Very cool. Why would anyone use qr codes then? When you can just write a url and that’s free

!femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone

!noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

The third law has a nice ring to it, but it has extremely deep implications when you’re writing science fiction, or fantasy that has magic. Thinking about the law is very useful to keep your technology technology (and not basically magic that happens to run on electricity) and magic magic (and not technilogy that happens to run on plot holes).

Okay and what happens when I overwrite that qr code with one that points to downloadvirus.com? How is a client supposed to know that the qr code isn’t supposed to be here?

The drivers are generally available pretty quickly, however I find that stable distros do not ship them, which is understandable but unfortunate. Debian (my beloved) is egregiously bad at it.

Submarines also famously don’t have windows

A hexbear in that thread is literally claiming that “the soldiers did everything they could to avoid hurting him” when there’s a photo of him lying dead on the street after the tanks have gone through. They don’t think it’s fine, they’re saying it didn’t happen (curious)