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Stuped person says stuped things, people boom

I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?

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It's correct, although I'm surprised that there isn't even a FOSS implementation of the unencrypted part.

Hopefully you made this in GINP

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I couldn't do this in three seconds even with imgflip. I'd say a minute using normal tools, and probably 20 seconds with imgflip.

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You should probably read the article. The case is only about how the Archive did more than just library stuff—they made a ton of copies and gave them out for free, then argued that the cost of maintenance somehow made that act legal.

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The court filings I've read corroborate the article.

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As I stare into the void
Of a world that cannot hold

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China has actually been capitalist since Deng. Not sure about social mobility, but intellectual property and individualism are respected, though they're still pretty authoritarian, along with Xi's atrocities.

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I'm intrigued, how so?

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Funny how both of these stole from Canada. I found no information whatsoever on whether Sinovac stole from anyone.

I did find information on Nortel and how Huawei took their secrets from Chinese hackers. But 1. Nortel filed bankruptcy the same year LTE was introduced, and the hacks were a few years before. I seriously doubt that their technology was this advanced to be retrofit for 5G that easily without much innovation. 2. These were still Chinese hackers. This industry also requires innovation.

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I don't see how "war carriage" or "horse carriage" is the Sanskrit word for chariot.

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But have you seen Thee Oh Sees & OSEES?

Besides lemmy, what's another good reddit alternative?

Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I'm curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there's no hate-speech (that I'm aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let's hear your suggestions! Thank you!

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*bin also has an advantage of integrating microblog as well, though you can't change URLs in link posts

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they also overhauled the threads view filtering, though the all content and new comments highlighting features are still missing

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yes, though mbin doesn't have an all content view, so you'd need to switch to the microblog-only view to see these. kbin has much less development going on but currently has an all content view that combines threads and posts.

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    What the hell?

    The only surprise in this news is that the "more like this" sidebar is filled with porn for some reason.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-04-25/In_the_media Wikipedia's own coverage, released 4 days ago. The repetition of the Orwellian detail makes me think both were inspired by Novaya Gazeta's coverage from the 11th.

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    The article is just a single sentence with the document numbers

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    I wanna know who did the financing for the ad. A tinfoil company? Big Tough Softy Iron? A Goog guy worn off yoga?

    (I aim to not say the fifthglyph for all days to promote !avoid5)

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    thought it fit! >:)

    ooh, kinda wonky of los oulipos to call that thing just cuz of that only work which had this gimmick

    also i think that the original book allows using "the", in fact it also allows "me" and forms of "be". so los oulipos gonna <this is hard>, huh?

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    (btw i wanted to somehow word in "at least once per day", but found using "per", "every", "for each" etc challenging to translate)

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    @melroy This doesn't seem to have federated properly, any ideas?

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    Your post displays as just a text post on mbin.

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    New Zealand is not on the list because their government didn't block catbox. Australia, in reaction to the shooting, has blocked it. Catbox obviously doesn't decide who's blocked.

    US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports ( www.reuters.com )

    Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's...

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    TIL of course a website filled with pictures of Putin with a moustache Paton exist

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    We’ve always been worried that developing Free and Open Source Software would not be recognized as a charitable cause by the German tax system, so we were glad when the tax office originally approved our non-profit status in 2021. But now we have received a notice from the same tax office that our non-profit status has been withdrawn. This came with no advance warning or explanation. Earlier this year we went through a successful tax audit, which in fact resulted in some favourable adjustments as we’ve been paying too much tax. Our tax advisor immediately submitted an appeal to the decision, but so far, we have no new information.

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    They're rooting for it by reposting a meme that wordplays with "2024" and "1942–2024", not in a professional capacity.

    Last year, the organization named Isabella Riley Moody – a rightwing troll who has called gay people “groomers,” supported Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” law, and declared “Heil Hitler” – as one of their “Outspoken Ambassadors for 2023.”

    The Log Cabin Republicans later removed her from their website.

    YouTube’s proposed redesign is a good idea ( kbin.melroy.org ) Spanish

    I’m talking about the one that swaps recommended videos and the description/comments. Who doesn’t want to glance at the description or pinned comment without having to scroll outside of the video? Limited width for reading, amirite? Plus this can create parity of recommendations with the front page, which should decrease...

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    Interestingly, the software giant added this check since the Windows 11 24H2 will not boot without these instruction sets, according to a previous report. Though speculative, one would wonder if the company has this extra step in case someone uses bypasses to force the OS to boot with an unsupported CPU.

    Why is the watermark the headline

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    Time to switch to mbin! The features you might miss are new comment highlighting and the all content view, but these are being worked out and mbin still has, otherwise, way more features.

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    But most Windows emigrants don't use the terminal

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    I think he has a point that Canonical is sabotaging Windows emigrants' core user experience to force their Snaps

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    It's 2024, use an adblocker

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    is archived

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    https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/base/

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    A lot of these packages have Arch-specific modifications. For example, filesystem doesn't even have a non-Arch upstream as it defines the filesystem layout. That PKGBUILD and everything it depends on is the Arch source. Distributions are defined by which packages they include.

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    I think j was talking about spying

    (From today on, I aim to not say the fifthglyph for all days to promote !avoid5)

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    ByteDance's owners include investors outside of China (60%), its founders and Chinese investors (20%), and employees (20%).[35] In 2021, the state-owned China Internet Investment Fund purchased a 1% stake in ByteDance's main Chinese subsidiary, Beijing ByteDance Technology (formerly Beijing Douyin Information Service), as a golden share investment[36][37][38] and seated Wu Shugang, a government official with a background in government propaganda, as one of the subsidiary's board members.[39][40][41]
    —Wikipedia, check article for sources

    In business and finance, a golden share is a nominal share which is able to outvote all other shares in certain specified circumstances

    From the article you linked:

    Is ByteDance Chinese?

    Definitely.

    Does the Chinese government own or control ByteDance or TikTok?

    Chew has emphatically told Congress that ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government.

    However, like most other Chinese companies, ByteDance is legally compelled to establish an in-house Communist Party committee composed of employees who are party members.

    Analysts have said the “golden shares” provide a way for the Chinese government to get more directly involved with the day-to-day businesses of tech companies, including in the content they provide to the public.

    Chew has admitted that the “golden share” exists. But he said it was for the purpose of internet licensing for the Chinese business.

    In 2018, China amended its National Intelligence Law, which requires any organization or citizen to support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence work.

    That means ByteDance is legally bound to help with gathering intelligence.

    In 2021, China introduced a new data security law, which applies to data processing activities conducted outside of the country that may “harm the national security or public interests.”

    There is also a cybersecurity law in China, which says the state will take measures to monitor, prevent and handle cybersecurity risks and threats “arising both within and outside the PRC’s territory.”

    These vague and broad laws apply to technology companies and may be used to regulate them.

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    I feel like the US would ban selling vital data to big enemies, and getting info from ByteDance is free.

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    Cite a better reasoning than what the article uses to arrive at that conclusion then.

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    The definition of a golden share is effective control. Tell me how that and the following is going "on to explain the ways in which it isn't".

    ByteDance was founded in 2012 in Beijing by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo, who were college roommates at Tianjin’s Nankai University, according to company information and Zhang’s public speeches.

    It has been based in the Chinese capital since then. In 2021, Zhang announced he would step down as CEO of ByteDance and handed the reins to Liang.

    The US government has the power to kill Huawei if they wanted to; it's their territory and they can do whatever the heck they want, of course. That doesn't mean Huawei is US-owned.

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    Internet coverage of that topic is surprisingly limited for what seems to be an easily-thought-of national security risk...

    ByteDance's capitalist entrepreneurs run the enterprise for them, and they can extort data out, yes, for free.

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    After a ton of alternating search queries, apparently both of these avenues are being used, and Biden announced working on such a ban in late February.

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    Again, China does not run the company, they just own the leash on the private entrepreneurs who do. That's one of Deng's benefits for implementing capitalism. (mildlyinteresting: the word capitalism isn't capitalized)

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    It's a one-time fee that also earns money back compared to the continuous payments to buy from other sources.

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    "but job loss!1!"

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    You won't just stop the maintenance if TikTok didn't exist. It's not like all China cares about is data.

    Your question was "why would China get data from TikTok when they can just buy it from Meta". If China didn't get the data from ByteDance, ByteDance still incurs the maintenance fee. So no, that is not the expense of getting the data.

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    I'm saying that they have the ability to ban any freaking thing in their territory. That Huawei is doing well outside of the US is irrelevant. If Huawei's US division was forced down by the US, that is killing it, and they're still not American.

    That’s not nothing, but still not the be-all and end-all that you seem to want to make it.

    Explain further how it isn't a Chinese company despite its origin and its base of operations. Even if it isn't, all that's relevant is that China can influence TikTok into giving them their data for free today.

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    For most people, "could" is enough to worry about. Just look at the people flocking whenever their app is bought by an advertising company.

    (As for the NYT opinion, I'll forward this comment: "Waxman worked under Bush as a senior national security advisor. So the administration that believes in torture is advising us that government surveillance is fine and keeps you safe? Not sure I trust the source." My personal opinion is actually ambivalent towards surveillance, privacy, and safety.)

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