tias

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Am I the only one who doesn't think vacation equals travel? It just means you don't have to go to work.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is the only way I ever publicly share any information about my travels. Don't want to advertise that there's nobody home.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think a fourth tenet may be that the people who have tenants are the scum of the earth.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes but Facebook / Instagram / Twitter also do this and it has caused huge societal problems in the US, arguably much worse than TikTok.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

PRISM

Bullrun

List of government mass surveillance projects

List of FBI controversies

List of CIA controversies

Human rights violations by the CIA

The CLOUD Act

This started long before the 2016 election and is deeply ingrained into the way the United States government operates. I'm definitely not saying China is innocent, but a lot of the US government's fears are rooted in projection. "We do it, so we must assume they do it too".

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The US would break them (and has always broken them) even if China wasn't around.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fisker found out Brownless got the car from an outside source

That typo is hilarious

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Yeah well, it's not like it's beneath the US government to do the same thing. Remember Cambridge analytica, or the Snowden leaks? My point being, as far as I'm concerned as a citizen, banning TikTok just transfers power to a more concentrated group of actors. That makes the problem worse.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Watching from Europe I have no idea what the problem is. The US spies on our data, the CCP spies on our data. I can see why the US government might worry that they can't access the data (except TikTok runs its servers on Oracle databases in the US just to satisfy them). But I don't understand why the citizens of the US would support tightening the monopoly to just Facebook and Google.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

There's also a terrifying short story by Stephen King on the subject.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They probably mean a bought / fake account that FB doesn't know is fake, so they can use it for bots.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What would people use this for? Do those structures fill a biological/functional purpose? Surely making a sphere with arbitrary sequences won't do much good.

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