I see. It seems that is (mostly) so.

TikTok has said under oath that Americans' data has always been stored outside China. Now it's saying there are big exceptions for creators - who it claims it treats differently than "typical users."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...

It's a senseless claim either way. If the information is in China it's in China. The government doesn't have to "ask," they can "demand" or "confiscate." They could also tell TikTok to deny it. This would be true of anywhere the data resides, although some governments are more responsible about it than others.

If we're going to try to limit what bulk information can go where, the argument would have to be that the potential harm is small, or else that trying to restrict it is virtually impossible, like it or not. Tik-Tok pinky-swearing not to share it with their own government changes nothing.

Limiting that is absolutely malicious compliance.

But it is compliance. That is what Apple will tell the EU. "We complied with your ruling which made no mention of who can work on this."

If you don't spell out the conditions you can't complain when you don't like the results.

It's one thing to say you're scraping the messages. It is quite another to admit you're scraping people's data, particularly data which could possibly have PII or other restrictive issues, not to mention the usual confidential information.

I'm presuming common sense or legal considerations doesn't enter into business decisions any longer.

so Apple openly flouting the rules is understandable.

They are not flouting the rules, they are following them. If third-party browsers are required to be allowed in the EU but not elsewhere, there isn't a need for someone in the U.S. develop them. Only someone in the EU.

I can guarantee if you look at the EU ruling there is nothing in there that says Apple has to allow anyone access to create/maintain these browsers. The ruling only says Apple must allow alternative browsers, not how it is implemented. Therefore, it is up to Apple how they want to comply with the EU ruling, and here it is.

They figured out that Open Source was the correct direction. True, it took 25 years, but they figured it out.

And that's definitely an improvement over Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle, who have never understood that.

Veronica worked with Gopher, IIRC.
As best as I can remember, WAIS didn't need a search engine.

I really don't recommend telling admins in America that an extended finger is good.

*runs away and hides under a rock

If you click on parent directory, then the beta directory, you find the source tarball.

But it surprised me too. I've only noticed it in the last couple years. Like "performant."

Apparently not a single company bothered to introduce themselves to these "employees", nor bothered to even speak with them via video. Just another side effect of WFH.

All the companies who were too lazy to do the bare minimum should be named so we know who not to do business with. If they were too lazy to check in on their "employees", what other shit job are they doing?

Treason is only applicable when levying war against the U.S. Since we are not at war with NK, treason is not applicable.

To me it feels like the fiber buildout of the 90's. The amount of fiber they laid turned out to be massive overkill because of gains in throughput per fiber:

During the dot-com bubble, a large number of telephone companies built optical-fibre networks, each with the business plan of cornering the market in telecommunications by providing a network with sufficient capacity to take all existing and forecast traffic for the entire region served. This was based on the assumption that telecoms traffic, particularly data traffic, would continue to grow exponentially for the foreseeable future. The advent of wavelength-division multiplexing reduced the demand for fibre by increasing the capacity of a single fibre by a factor of as much as 100. According to Gerry Butters, the former head of Lucent's Optical Networking Group at Bell Labs, the amount of data that could be carried by an optical fibre was doubling every nine months at the time. This progress in the ability to carry data over fibre reduced the need for more fibres. As a result, the wholesale price for data communications collapsed and a number of these companies filed for bankruptcy protection. Global Crossing[7] and Worldcom[8] are two high-profile examples in the United States.

Similar to the Railway Mania, the misfortune of one market sector became the good fortune of another, and this overcapacity created a new telecommunications sector.

NVidia an all the companies spending billions on their cards and data centers are hugely at risk of future algorithmic advances that might increase AI computation efficiency drastically. The human brain runs on 20 watts.