I thought the name is pretty fun.

Prism refract boring white light into its colorful component. This process is kind of like spliting a single x86 instruction into several arm instructions. In the meantime also conveys the message that arm is “cooler”, because colored light out of a prism is prettier than the input white light.

I hope my next PC can be a risc-v one, ideally, open source OS, running on open source firmware, with a open source instruction set.

I want to see everything open source band together, just so that I can be forced to use slack for work.

Do you imagine slack will feel ashamed running on top of this many open source code?

It is time to hold mother nature accountable!

Sounds like yet another app to fuel excessive-consumption.

Letting us trade our children’s planet for manufactured waste, while enabling billionaires move elsewhere when the earth inevitably die in their hand.

I think capitalism has already prevailed before America is the dominant force in it.

I think you are right, user generated content doesn’t seem to be protected. This is surprising to me, as user should hold the right to their content, which in my mind should enjoy stronger protection than personal data.

I think spotify is swedish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify

bandcamp is nice. They give much more to artist, and allow you to download flac.

I am not a lawyer, but I believe in general, yes.

Git is not even that convoluted, as all the history is stored in the .git folder within the repo. Unless there is some convoluted structure built on top, they would only need to move the repo folder to a trash disk, waiting to be formated.

That being said, GDPR is somewhat poorly enforced at the moment, unfortunately. I don’t know if you can sue the company and expect some result within couple of years.

I am not a expert or a lawyer, but I believe user actually hold the right to completely erase personal data:

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay

https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/

Note the word “erasure” as opposed to “anonymize”

User should have the right to delete their data stored by the company.

What if I am allergic to cicadas? The article doesn’t seem to specify that case.

This is a violation of GDPR, no?

EDIT: user created content is not directly protected under GDPR, only personally identifiable data is pertected under GDPR.

Plus there isn’t many jurisdiction with stronger privacy law than swiss. It is unlike they made a bad choice for choosing a headquarters.

I guess they can operate on the public sea or the arctic, but I imagine the commute will be terrible.

Must be nice, in China we only have the poorly formatted, lack-of-citation garbage that is Baidu Baike https://baike.baidu.com/ .

The “sorting algorithm” article: https://baike.baidu.com/item/排序算法/5399605 only have 3 citations: none of which are the original papers and none of which have any links. I tried searching these “citations” and found absolutely nothing…

Similarly, the article for “Amsterdam” contains almost no citation beyond the first paragraph https://baike.baidu.com/item/阿姆斯特丹/814

Just imagine how bad it would be for more obscure concepts.

You didn’t translate the first character “干”, originally means “do”, and like in English, eventually evolved to “fuck”, like in “do me”.

To make things even worse, 干 also means dry, when using a different tone. And 爆 is also a cooking technique, where they stir fry diced (or sliced) meat with very high heat to cook, resulting in a crispy and dry exterior and juicy inside.

A famous joke is that 干爆鸭子 (when written) can simultaneous mean the delicious “crispy diced duck”, or “fuck the duck until it explodes”.

That is because the specific calligraphy style, 零 looks more like a old man (depending on your font)

China has indeed blocked tiktok, but their version, douyin likely runs on similar systems and have similar types of contents. These two versions just don’t share content and probably have different moderation and privacy policies.

I think you are confusing the tiktok block with the computer game ban, which requires excessive verifications (even biometric) to play games. And underaged children can only play games in assigned time slots with time limit:

In 2019, the country imposed a cybercurfew barring those under 18 from playing games between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.

Recognizing that wily teenagers might try to use their parents’ devices or identities to circumvent the restrictions, the Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent said this week that it would close the loophole by deploying facial recognition technology in its video games.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/business/video-game-facial-recognition-tencent.html

Okay, I mentioned desktop because you mentioned “personal computer industry” which I assumed means desktop/laptops.

I think there are indeed more private (some can even be more secure) alternative to iOS, like calyx and/or graphene.

But like you said, they do require a reasonable amount of computing literacy to install: first they need to know these projects exists, then they will need to connect their phone to their computer and click a single button.

Thus, I think there is indeed no private and “popular” alternative to iOS, that a completely tech illiterate person can easily obtain.

I think it is useful to use fdroid in conjunction with private OS like graphene, divest and calyx all with excellent android compatibilities. Unfortunately, grapheneos, IMO the best of the three, is only avaliable on a small set of devices, like iPhone.

But I do agree with your point, if you use the stock android, even with privacy hardening, it is probably still not so private. But I don’t know if a hardened stock android is “worse” than an average user’s iPhone.