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Pinterest Mom posted:https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/16/24132315/tiktok-bytedance-project-texas-china-silo if only we had robust privacy laws then nobody would be able to do this wait no i'm being told that when american companies do it its good, actually
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Eeyo posted:wtf tiktok's algorithm is actually sought after? I'm genuinely curious when the last time you talked to somebody under 30 was
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Pinterest Mom posted:you asked for a link because you weren't aware that "*any* data was being transferred overseas". you now are aware - you're welcome! i mean, some data points about its user base being put into a spreadsheet and then transferred overseas isn't the same thing as transferring their actual data, i.e. their videos, memes, whatever the gently caress the kids do on tiktok. i'd read that article when it was first posted, it's not the same thing and i know you know it. plus what i said about that practice being routine for many american companies holds true too — if it weren't a hugely popular app that eats into the tech sector's profits there would be no problem like, grindr was bought by some chinese VC a while back. nobody's trying to ban grindr Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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its protectionism. did you not notice that substantively every single american social media dealio is already banned in china
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Beeftweeter posted:like, grindr was bought by some chinese VC a while back. nobody's trying to ban grindr shut up before a congressman hears you
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Shame Boy posted:shut up before a congressman hears you congressmen love grindr
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actually according to wikipedia they tried to IPO and the US government labeled them a scary chinese evil company who's not allowed to do america business, so they divested to a US owner in 2020 lol
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like, if they hadnt done that already the threat of the prc banning american social media would be an inducement towards moderation but they already banned all american social media so its more like starting to poke the defect button in that prisoners dilemma after the prc peeps put a rock on their defect button
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bob dobbs is dead posted:its protectionism. did you not notice that substantively every single american social media dealio is already banned in china they've had that policy since before the advent of social media though, and it extends far beyond it. in comparison we're supposed to be all about the ~free market~ (until it cuts into profits) but beyond the xenophobia aspect, you're right — this is also straight up market protectionism because the american social media companies aren't the top dog anymore, can't compete and really don't even bother trying to, because they a. don't really need to, they have everyone that's going to use their product in 2024 and b. can't really unfuck the mess they've made of their platforms anyway, even if they wanted to, which they don't
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Shame Boy posted:shut up before a congressman hears you lol i was going to say "for being owned by the chinese, anyway" but Roosevelt posted:congressmen love grindr this is also true
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the free market nutjobbery is why they're getting to this after like 5 years of mumbling about it
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the free market nutjobbery is why they're getting to this after like 5 years of mumbling about it well that and the western world's idea of innovation being "stick a LLM in it and call it a day"
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also because congress is almost completely dysfunctional
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Shame Boy posted:shut up before a congressman hears you what’s the palestine support percent for grindr users? maybe that’ll move the dial
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Jonny 290 posted:I'm genuinely curious when the last time you talked to somebody under 30 was i think i saw a teenager a couple days ago but they got spooked and ran back in their house to use tiktok* *latest fad
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Beeftweeter posted:they've been trying to ban tiktok since the trump administration, it has nothing to do with israel or anything else really. they just don't want kids using a chinese product i see it as a favour to domestic tech companies like facebook that got embarrassingly pantsed by tiktok more than anything
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BMan posted:this retroactively makes me a genius for trying an el cheapo mouse for my latest mouse replacement or just don't install their software, the mouse works without it
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Shame Boy posted:actually according to wikipedia they tried to IPO and the US government labeled them a scary chinese evil company who's not allowed to do america business, so they divested to a US owner in 2020 lol tbh grindr having a Chinese owner was probably a larger national security risk than TikTok
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Juul-Whip posted:i see it as a favour to domestic tech companies like facebook that got embarrassingly pantsed by tiktok more than anything i logged into facebook the other day and there were like 2 posts from people i know. the rest were all some kind of promoted content, featuring plenty of ads, ai-generated art that everyone thinks is real, and fake celebrity photos with huge boobs
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Pinterest Mom posted:tbh grindr having a Chinese owner was probably a larger national security risk than TikTok lol
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bob dobbs is dead posted:like, if they hadnt done that already the threat of the prc banning american social media would be an inducement towards moderation but they already banned all american social media so its more like starting to poke the defect button in that prisoners dilemma after the prc peeps put a rock on their defect button the current tik tok (byte dance) ownership structure is superficially pretty close to a Chinese joint venture arrangement with 60% of it owned by the likes of sequoia, SoftBank and so forth; 1% is owned by the Chinese state venture fund and the remainder of it is employees and other Chinese investors the Chinese response to this could be… interesting
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https://twitter.com/Civvie11/status/1782728464748925166 the internet is dead, bury it
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i mean, we're toodling along fine. twitter is hosed but thats been set in stone since the dipshit bought it
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small and slow internet is the way to go. im reasonably happy these days just with SA and my RSS reader
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haveblue posted:also because congress is almost completely dysfunctional
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Jonny 290 posted:small and slow internet is the way to go. im reasonably happy these days just with SA and my RSS reader yeah except for news stuff (and i mostly get that through apple news, which is like a RSS reader but it tracks you and you have to block ads) i barely venture beyond SA these days
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SardonicTyrant posted:almost? good point, this is still the least productive congress in history* *until the next one
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I just started paying for a news co-op made of a bunch of independent regional newspapers that share content with each other a month or so ago and it's been needs-suiting towards my ever shrinking presence around social media. at this point if nobody is asking me questions my posts (outside of here) are mostly some RSS feed for people who don't have RSS clients.
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Roosevelt posted:i logged into facebook the other day and there were like 2 posts from people i know. the rest were all some kind of promoted content, featuring plenty of ads, ai-generated art that everyone thinks is real, and fake celebrity photos with huge boobs does anyone who still uses meta products actually use the feeds. i figured most facebook activity nowadays was in groups/marketplace and instagram was in... well, something other than the main feed, idk, i never use it
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MononcQc posted:I just started paying for a news co-op made of a bunch of independent regional newspapers that share content with each other a month or so ago and it's been needs-suiting towards my ever shrinking presence around social media. That sounds cool
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Wayne Knight posted:That sounds cool it's a chain of newspapers that used to be owned by the sinister Power Corporation and got passed around from owner to owner for the last ten years until they went bankrupt, and were resurrected as a co-ops in a last ditch effort to save them. they're good papers, but it's v much a managed declined thing instead of a cool new business model thing
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SardonicTyrant posted:almost? they're gonna pass the tik tok ban and are eagerly spending a lot of money on genocide really reachin' across the aisle and making the system work
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SardonicTyrant posted:almost? it can still serve its core purpose of funneling money to the rich just fine
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IBM Is in Advanced Talks to Acquire Software Provider HashiCorp If what happened to CentOS is any indication, this probably isn't a good sign. quote:International Business Machines Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire software company HashiCorp Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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Shame Boy posted:what happened to centos they tried to make it into the RHEL version of rawhide and the centos users said lol no
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Shame Boy posted:what happened to centos its dead op also idk if red hat sucked as much to deal with as a vendor before IBM bought them but they sure as hell do now
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ENGAGE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO ENGAGE CONTENT SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD ENGAGEMENT WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE LOVE I FEEL FOR BRANDS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. LIKE. SUBSCRIBE.
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