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There are plenty of experiments on this, testers opened new accounts and almost immediately they had hundreds of viewers, but when asked to repond in exchange for cash, no one did.

I mean, what's stopping them from doing this, everyone seems to be happy about it.

Initially they called these numbers "viewer count", but apparently it got too embarrassing even for themselves, one streamer reached 5.9 billion. Then they call it "popularity index" since everybody knew it's fake.

Don't think it has that much water to support what's essentially a chemical plant.

Chinese livestreaming platforms have an addiction to inflating numbers, so I'm not sure if those are all real, or just growth hacking and user retention tricks.

Since it's just senconds long and users will switch if they don't like the first few seconds, the sunk cost is relatively low.

My really old Lenovo Thinkpad started insisting to reboot after shutdown a while ago, and after a hard drop that left the battery dislodged, it froze after being powered on.

I had to force it to power off, but that apparently broke it, it won't light up the screen and respond to inputs despite blowing the fan. I disassembled the screen and replugged the data cable, pressed power button in various ways to no avail.

I was about to give up before reading a forum post describing a similar laptop, and emptyed the RAM slots and found it beeped when powered up, so the CPU is OK.

I then unplugged the battery and CMOS battery and pressed power button for a while, put RAMs and batteries back on, and it just revived.

Removing RAMs made the difference, it's done if RAMs were soldered on.

It happened again a few days ago after it was left with no power, and I had to do those thing again, otherwise it has no issues. I think the CMOS battery is probably dead.

LG has arguably the best design in the Android pact, it's elegant and slick, while Samsung looks like things cobbled together to the sole purpose of avoiding patent wars with Apple, and Huawei is just Frankenstein.

Her death did seem to draw quite some attention online, the growing feminist sentiment there maybe part of the reason, and maybe something to do with Trump.

Coz Chinese people have been conditioned by a level censorship and media control unseen elsewhere, the resulting susceptibility to yummy and palatble disinformation is quite deep and prevalent, you may have read news about strong reaction about strange things from the west, you guessed it right there's alway legions of "self-media" behind it, it’s unfettered and state sanctioned algorithm-driven circlejerk machine, and the reason ByteDance's platforms make so much money.

Why do I need to point out it being "Chinese"? Coz these self-media platforms are the predominant way of getting information there, nobody but old people watch TVs and read newspapers, even stated-owned news orgs have to get on it to make money.

>The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-post-trut...

I'm surprised to see a typical Chinese "self-media" article being shared here, coz I myself see these as nothing more than gossip blogs, so please take them with huge amount of salt or just avoid it.

At least in my experience these are highly refined entertainment product with little to no regard to what's fact, opinion and pure made-up bullshit, their only goal is to maximize click numbers, thus more often than not written by internet marketing gurus rather than ones with real and deep domain knowledge, influencer is a more apt name for them.

The owner of this self-media publicly pledging allegiance to Huawei coz he got scholarships from them also didn't help with it.

Isn't the edge being there's almost no delay in analog video transmission? While the best DJI can do is like 130 ms.

All the small dams or whatever power generator they are using are state owned property, hell even all the available internet access, and since they are the biggest supplier of money laundering vehicles and aids the capital outflow that the party hates to the bone, you better assume that they all have tabs being kept on already.

Tech jobs are the most well-paid in China, sometimes better than gov jobs that require connections, since tech companies have access to the global excess money flow； if you want to buy a condo and get married in big cities, tech jobs are one of the few chances that plebs can get to have a shot, even then, the typical condo prices is like 20 to 40 times their annual income.

People are paying tens of thousands to get employee referral to get into these big tech companies, and I'd say that the majority of their employee are deeply patriotic and believe what they are doing is necessary and right since they are the winners of the social system.

The difference is incentive, you probably have heard that ByteDance already makes big money, it pays these self-media to concoct what-ever eye-grabbing "content", and lend credibility to these "writers" by putting them in the same arena with traditional news and reporters: their news aggregation app and say this is today's "news" for you.

The only metric that matters is click numbers, you can now out-do reporters with your perfect news stories that check every eye-grabbing boxes, coz you can type however you like and face no consequences, so why not to make it as juicy as possible.

I counldn't find that tweet from a female streaming on Doyu that got a warning for featuring her white boyfriend, but found another news.

https://en.pingwest.com/a/6595

Censorship is imo Bytedance's lesser evil.

The way this company destroys journalism is its biggest crime. Algorithm-driven "self-media" that ByteDance popularised (with Toutiao) has essentially wiped out news in China, anyone can write sensationalized and fabricated news-style stories on its platforms and compete with "mundane and boring" serious news，AND GET PAID, these self-media are so prevalent and low-brow that fact-checking has been rendered futile.

It now has democratized censorship，indoctrination and misinformation, as the self-media care only about their ads income.

My advice? Vehemently reject any info/news platforms, as they care only about clicks.

>The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-post-trut...

Live streaming platforms literally detect and warn against "unauthorized foreigners" from appearing on the screen.

TV channels like BBC (for high-end hotels) are being monitored real-time to black-out sensitive parts, books mailed or imported from overseas get pages ripped out, even entries in dictionaries get painted black.

Don't underestimate the seriousness of the censorship, it's among the few things communists are actually good at.

How fast the speed do you think they will settle for normal operation? I mean 1Gbps sounds cool, but the limitation and economics are there.

What Jack Ma didn't tell you is that those things don't matter that much, it's more of a lip service to burnish his image, a victory lap. His father is well-connected both in business and politics and provided him access and opportunities plebs counld dream of. Hell he didn't even have any tech experience, he was a english teacher.

And Alipay would have been killed a million times as it infringes the state monopoly on finance, had him not been shielded by the quagmire of local and central politics.

>melvin capital is already 30% of their equity down in January

The thing is, they won (bigly) almost every year since their inception, it's a relatively minor mishap for them even if they gain nothing for the rest 11 months.

Guess what, they and their clients will be laughing their asses off and move on along with their high life.

Note that Chinese webdrives will detect and ban "illegal" contents, even if it's just your own nudes.

QQ comes with a bundled QQProtect.exe that can't be killed, QQ simply refuses to run without it.

It was trying to read certain types of URLs encoded in MD5, found to be these.

https://i.imgur.com/rSOyTt7.jpg

It wants to know what you searched on e-commerce sites.

This is somewhat unsursprising, Tencent failed on e-commerce, it desperately needs these data to help with user profiling.

The degree to which people here are willing to support these actions is quite unsettling, now corporates are judges and people love it.

The country is designed for elites, and it's not shy about it.