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there was also zero evidence provided by the US government of CCP-guided interference by Huawei or TikTok

There were a couple decades of direct evidence that Huawei was cooperating with the CCP.

Disinformation on TikTok and data collection via the app are both well documented, but doesn't seem any different from other social media platforms. The TikTok ban seems mostly politically motivated to me. I suspect whatever happens, their lawyers will fight it and win, until the govt finally cracks down on data collection in general, and we finally get something like GDPR.

You are suggesting that we should refer to China as "the CCP", the USA as "the Democrats", Australia as "Labor", etc.

No, I'm literally saying the opposite. We should refer to the CCP as the CCP, and China as China. My last paragraph was intended to highlight the difference, but perhaps you didn't read that far.

The rest of your comment is ad hominem, which doesn't interest me.

Yes, the examples I cited were used multiple times. And yes, I am aware of national news in the US concerning China, it was not overlooked context.

The relevant context you might be overlooking are the Red Scare and Japanese internment. It's not the first time the US has had the looming threat of international espionage, and it's also not the first time that using a person's/company's nationality to infer their true intentions was misguided.

It is not an outrageous thing to say: being Chinese does not make you a CCP operative.

The most popular news application in the US having links to China is highly relevant...when the services themselves are being used to spread misinformation and, potentially, disinformation.

To quote the article,

Reuters found no evidence that NewsBreak censored or produced news that was favourable to the Chinese government.

To echo the sentiments above, most of the article is great journalism. The Chinese job listings, the former connection to Yidian, their use of AI and statements from Pearlstine. All important info to see reported. I just wish they would stop saying "China" or "Chinese" as shorthand for "CCP". All I can hear is Trump annunciating CHYAI-NA.

I wish the best for the Chinese. I want Chinese people to feel safe when living abroad, without their govt breathing down their neck. I want China to prosper ethically and sustainably.

Ok.

It regularly uses descriptors like "Chinese roots" and "engineers based/born in China" and just leaves them hanging. On it's own, being from China is superfluous information...unless the reader has a bias against things from China. Ties to the Chinese govt/CCP is a separate matter entirely, and if that's the connection they're making they should just say that.

It would be no different from talking about Isreal's war crimes, but instead of saying "X party is affiliated with Isreal's govt" you just said "jews".

Because the Lemmy user base is still relatively small, so the drama in one corner takes up a nontrivial amount of the total area. If it were the size of reddit or tiktok, you wouldn't pay threads like these any mind.

Yeah, back when the game came out, I made a point to buy it on GOG so that they would get all the money for their game. I have only regretted that decision since.

As everyone knows, the game was an unfinished mess at launch, so after ~20h of play I put it down to wait for them to finish it. In the meantime, I have switched all my gaming to Linux, but GOG (the platform that prides itself on open access to gaming) still doesn't support Linux, so I have to jump through hoops to get the game running (vs just clicking Play if I had a steam copy). Which was a main reason I didn't double down on my GOG purchase and buy the expansion. Now that the game is in better shape, as soon as I can reliably play my GOG copy on Linux I want to go back and play my save. But now they're threatening to delete it? Just....wild.

I don't like how dependent PC gaming is on valve, but....for the time being I'm grateful that they seem to pretty consistently just make a good gaming experience for the players.

I would just tell them, "look, Microsoft, the people who made this software, are telling us to never connect it to the internet again because it's insecure and will get viruses. Our only options are to either pay for new licenses for their latest OS for each machine (which probably isn't even compatible with the old hardware) or install a completely free OS that is open source and will promote tech literacy with our students."

A lot of stationary: paper clips, staples, pencils, sticky notes

A lot of toys: yoyo, slinky, hula hoop, Play-Doh, crayons

Packaging: cardboard box, plastic bottles, plastic bottles with the lid on the bottom, aluminum cans

You use inventions all the time that you could probably just build from home now that you know what they are. But there's nothing that says you/we are already aware of every simple invention. Just think about all the simple, yet revolutionary ideas no one has thought of yet....and if you can do that, you'll be a billionaire.

I mean, any modern Linux distro will be more secure out of the box than win 7/8 which are several years past their end of life.

I agree that it's all original code and art, I would even say that he's well within his right to post his clone since there doesn't seem to be any copyright-able IP he could be infringing on.

But I wholly disagree with the notion that "if the game was copied that quickly there wasn't much substance there to begin with". There are limitless examples of world changing inventions that were trivial to build, but no one had thought to do it, and the same goes for art. The difficulty of making something isn't what makes it genius, in fact it's usually the simplicity of a genius idea that makes people go "damn, why didn't I think of that, it's so genius!"

It sounds like this guy accomplished little more than burning the few bridges he had, and dragging his own name through the mud. Just...not a smart move.

Ah, I haven't seen this as an option in any installer I've used. I guess Debian has it?

The only way I know of to fix the bios time issue when dual booting with windows is using the cmdline on Linux, or regedit on windows.