Total garbage. This is a typical New Delhi TV article with a broad anti-China slant. The single source is from an "interview" on Jennifer Zeng's blog. Zeng is a well-known "human rights activist" actually a Falun Gong cultist, who has manufactured and juiced-up numerous bogus stories about China over the last 20 years. This is the sort of story that excites QAnon cultists and the rest of the Epoch News crowd, for whom Alex Jones is still a guilty pleasure.

Tik-Tok knows my birthdate, my phone number, the password I created when I registered with them and a lengthy viewing history of woodworking & crafting videos and more than a few "hot girls dancing in bikinis" videos.

How exactly is that going to enable an easy China win of WW-III?

And why is it every single time there is tech that scares people they have to include "oh, and we're pretty sure there is child sexual material involved, too" with zero evidence?

Can you imagine the sort of havoc the Chinese government could wreak if they had access to our private kissing data!

It's bad enough that they have access to how many videos I've watched of "hot girls dancing in bikinis" data from TikTok, but THIS - THIS GOES TOO FAR, I say!

Lawyers are pissed that they can be replaced with a small shell script of a series of If Then statements....

And if by "common sense" you mean "split the project across companies located in the states represented by the people in power of making such decisions so that they could all get a chance to suckle at the teat of taxpayer money", then you're correct.

Umm... "GitHub is a remote-first company with offices located throughout the US, Europe, and Asia", per https://github.com/about/caree.... I'm pretty sure they still have a physical office in Amsterdam, at least. They're also part of Microsoft, which is physically present in most EU countries.

My thought exactly. I'd like to know if they isolated their results for urban vs. rural. IMO, cities are depressing...too many/much people, traffic, crime, etc.

I bought a $10,000 Linux license from SCO in 2002. Shouldn't I get this for free?

That actually applies to most social media, but TikTok is especially nauseating.

My Framework laptop has replacable memory.

People were freaking out about FPGAs, microcontrollers, etc. that were in some of these drones. Fact is most (all?) of it was older & EOL things that you can find on Ali Express and other sites for peanuts.

There's no way to stop the recyclers from selling the parts off.

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I'm still around, but spend most of my time on reddit.

Ah shoot. I guess we're all getting up there in age. :(

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