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_ache_··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
I think I understand your point. Actually, it's a good point.I may have missed it before.

Nobody said that consuming foreign controlled media is prohibited. And banning TT isn't about that. It's about Foreigner Interference.

You said that it's foreigner media not interference. The difference is that media are verifiable and can be checked by anybody and everybody has the same information. That is not the case for social media.

The problem is for another country to be able to do mass manipulation. Like the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica manipulation scandal, where they push some "ideas" to a very specific population because the data they collected show that you will act or think in a certain way. Since when you consume media you don't know they do it AND nobody can prove they do it, it's now manipulative and so interference (can also be done over a long period, such as several months or years, to gradually modify your point of view and be less detectable).

If there was a message saying “We recommend this video because we think you'll react like XXX”, I might consider that ethical (there are other problems too, but that's a theoretical example).

You might say that people in the US (or any other country) still have the right to consume foreign-controlled social media because they know they can be manipulated. Even if I agree, I think it's normal that the state make it difficult to do so. I won't blame people who use opium but I will definitively blame the USA people (or state from any country, here it's USA) for facilitating opium use.

You might say also that the manipulation can be from within the USA (like with Cambridge Analytica), it's true. That is definitively a good point. And to defend the ban of TT, I will say that I don't have a perfect solution. I don't like the ban of TT either, but it was necessary because of the risk of mass manipulation. We have to come up with a better solution (that we don't have now). Because it may happen soon on X or Youtube and we can't ban every social media we suspect will do mass manipulation on the sly.

I hope you get my point because I think that is necessary for us to do so to come up with a better solution. One that will integrate your POV because it's entirely justifiable.

_ache_··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
It could have been if ByteDance wasn't totally state controlled. Also, since TikTok is banned on China, it's not like it exists in China as a media (the Chinese version is called Douyin and basically it's the same as TikTok but with contents from within China only, to not interfere with the Great Firewall).

Also, the concept of "choose to consume" is blurring with algorithm recommendation and optimizing dopamine reward to maximize screen time.

The CCP didn't control of ByteDance to interference with other countries but to be able to control what happens inside China. But now, it's different.

_ache_··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
That's is an interesting question.

Actually, there is a lot more. About 30% people (of USA) use TT, ~60% under 30. You guess it, they don't to look only at dance videos. Social media had become a huge source of information for a big chunk of the population.

On TT, and on most social media (SM), what you watch is mainly determined by the recommendation algorithm. This algo can hide subjects the SM can't put ad on but also subjects the they don't like and boost the one they do (shadow ban). That how you politicize SM. That about, the first thing Musk did with Twitter (after firing people).

When it's a state controlled SM, it's more like foreign interference. There is a lot of books about that. It's documented, not a secret of something. Uyghurs for example, have been a subject of ban on TikTok, shadowing it heavily.

_ache_··on BYD quarterly sales beat Tesla for first time
The percentage of their sales outside China simply means that China is big and they probably dominate sales in China. We already know that. China is so big that probably around 30% of Tesla's sales are actually in China.

What's interesting is how they compete with other brands, and I think the trend is for BYD to increase their market share in all countries.

However, I would have liked to have more figures.

_ache_··on Busy Status Bar
Once per day, 9h battery life. From the blog post.

https://busy.bar/blog/developing-the-mechanical-and-electric...

_ache_··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
In France, (EU maybe ?), it's restricted only to subscriptions made online. That does seems reasonable to not enforce online presence to people/business who aren't present on the internet.

Internet services are not excluded, but you have to make the subscription online (from a library computer, GSM network or previous Internet Subscription for example).

Oh, even if it's mandatory, doesn't mean it's easy. "Free" and "Orange" (French ISPs) hide the "cancellation link" (Résiliation in french) in the footer of the home page and never tell about it in any other way but the link does work.

_ache_··on How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]
The workaround that looks like "disable the feature I was working on". x)
_ache_··on Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly
"We do what we must

Because we can"

_ache_··on Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
I followed him on mastodon, the article is cool too. On Mastodon, there is a video of the root access where one can see the screen.

https://mastodon.xyz/@retr0id@retr0.id/113252910481164528

_ache_··on How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
My point is HTTP isn't HTTP/1.1. There is a lot under the wood, even with HTTP/1.1. Actually, the fact that the whole article explains an implementation of an HTTP header is against the fact that it's simple.

So when the article say "All HTTP requests look something like this", that's false, that is not a big deal but it spread that idea that HTTP is easy and it's not.

_ache_··on How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
Should have say that so (Nowhere does the article say ‘up to HTTP/1.1’ even talking about HTTP/2 and HTTP/3).

HTTP/1.0 is simple. HTTP/1.1 is undoubtedly more complex but manageable.

The statement that HTTP is simple is just not true. Even if Go makes it look easy.

_ache_··on How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
> Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol

It's not. Like, hell no. That is so complex. Multiplexing, underlying TCP specifications, Server Push, Stream prioritization (vs priorization !), encryption (ALPN or NPN ?), extension like HSTS, CORS, WebDav or HLS, ...

It's a great protocol, nowhere near simple.

> Basically, it’s a text file that has some specific rules to make parsing it easier.

Nope, since HTTP/2 that is just a textual representation, not the real "on the wire" protocol. HTTP/2 is 10 now.

_ache_··on Tengine: Open-source web server, originated by Taobao, based on Nginx
The news for me is XQUIC; not Tengine. I did know about Tengine for years. It's the chinese equivalent of nginx. But I didn't know about XQUIC from Alibaba. We lack information (and news) on the evolution of the BATX.

https://github.com/alibaba/xquic

_ache_··on Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices [pdf]
It's not disk swap. It's multi-devices LLM.
_ache_··on Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices [pdf]
That is s/token and not token/s. The cost is high.

The actual goal of the article is to highlight that we can optimise the overall speed by decreasing link latency. Yeah link latency, because it's not 1 machine but several low devices that are used together to serve the 70B LLM.

_ache_··on Working Turing Machine
A small size version of Rubens !

http://rubens.ens-lyon.fr/fr/videos/

_ache_··on US Gov Removing Four-Year-Degree Requirements for Cyber Jobs
Will it be the occasion to lower the price developers in the public sector ? Or is it already too cheap ?
_ache_··on Flipper Zero Gets Major Firmware Update, Can Eavesdrop on Walkie-Talkies
I'm really happy about the firmware updates. When Flipper Zero was crowdfunded, the deal was that the tool will be available once the hardware is good enough to fulfill the promises. And so the software will be updated later.

I'm happy that they keep they promises.

_ache_··on France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony
Paris was the only city too for 2024, the only other city was Los Angeles who will host the 2028 Olympics. They won the contest together and the two cities decided together which one will host the first of the summer games. Los Angeles didn't really care about the year so Paris stick with 2024.
_ache_··on France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony
Ok, so why Israel can participate in the election as Israel ?
_ache_··on France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony
No, it's mostly a move from Macron who which he could host the Olympics on his second term, for glory. Hidalgo mostly though about the long-term positive implication for the city of Paris, something nice to put on her CV and the money that came along the responsibility.

French population and Parisians didn't have a word about it.

_ache_··on Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
Did there is any history about the name ? Keep reading "Send nude". Sorry.
_ache_··on Nokia 6600 vs. Samsung S24 Ultra
I don't know about the 5x optical but the over day I took a picture of a beach. On the phone with x2 I could see a sign that I didn't even noted bared-eyed. With x10 I could actually read the sign only the little phone number alert was unreadable.

With my bare eyes I couldn't even read the title of the sign, barely see the sign actually.

_ache_··on No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead
I do the same. The only advantage I can think of is editing kernel boot option on boot.
_ache_··on All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
I don't understand that someone just want chaos. I guess "Some people just want to watch the world burn".

But negative leap second shouldn't be so noticeable since it will just be a jump from 31 dec 23:58 to 1 jan 00:00.

Facebook made a lot of FUD about a negative leap second but I don't think it should be THAT a concern.

_ache_··on Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s works in a new online archive
As a French guy. It mostly works for French speakers.

It's developed by an under-financed public service. Also, as a client, they are artists with no knowledge of accessibility and no clear view of what they need.

_ache_··on Ask HN: Is Firefox better than Chrome when it comes to user security?
In term of time to patch 0-day, Firefox is very quick to fix them (usually hours committed, days to publish). Chrome is quick too, so it's not a competitive advantage.

Most of cyber-criminals however, will target Chrome because it's way more used.

In term of control the password manager of firefox don't need you to have an account. That is very important because, you want to use a password manager on the web and to be able to actually trust it. Google can close you account without previous notice.

_ache_··on SimCity in the web browser using WebAssembly and OpenGL
Seriously, I'm stun about what happen if you it the space bar. Nice fractals.
_ache_··on FBI has obtained 7k Lockbit ransomware decryption keys
I'm unable to get the article with a page:

"We're sorry...

The request has been blocked. "

With the title: "This site has determined a security issue with your request." Is the FBI afraid of me ?

_ache_··on Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS
I said 30% of the requests on the web use HTTP3. And now a day CORS and other mechanisms that are not cited in the articles.
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