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Why's that? Keep looks and feels like a pretty basic note taking app, I don't even see any of the usual google "secret sauce" that would make it better, smarter, or more embedded... what is it about keep that you find inimitable?

it’s a signal suggesting that a significant portion of western media may be increasingly compromised by Beijing’s influence

That's a possibility, but throughout the article she sounds like she is attributing herself an unreasonable importance. I am not saying that in a derogatory manner, just pointing out that the kind of public she generally appeals to is a very small minority, definitely not the mainstream, and definitely not a bunch I would expect to hold a lot of geopolitical power.

What was she actually expecting a fraction of a fraction of the 3D Printing/OpenSource firmware hacking community to do for her when she was detained by the police?
The world doesn't bat an eye when national celebrities like Jack Ma or Fan BingBing disappear for weeks, because this is all a show of power by the CCP, doubled with the implication that such things will keep happening to those who refuse to toe the party line. She admitted knowing for many years that her content and social presence were "outside of the norms", but if she was indeed solely counting on her viewership to keep her out of trouble, this is beyond candid…

To me, this is very sad, because I want her to keep doing whatever she likes, but I wish I could say I was surprised.

True, but very unlikely (once your ssh client is configured once and for all), and in that event you can always switch connection (use a data network, proxy, vpn, hop from another server you have ssh access, etc)

"agenda", I like how you make it sound like my posts are some kind of greater, organized operation or conspiracy. Projection maybe? Because between the two of us, you are the only one whose post history is consistently made of political activism disguised as news. Not that it automatically makes you a bad person, but you can't reasonably expect people to take you and your opinion seriously when you have the pretence to simultaneously speak from position of authority on geopolitical topics as broad as China, Russia, West Africa, North America, Central America, Eastern Europe, all at the same time. You should realize that you can't possibly have such a broad life exposure, or your time would be better invested outside of Lemmy, don't you think? The only reasonable alternative, and sad reality, is that you are just repeating talking points conveniently arranged for you and repeated inside your echo chamber.

As of me, I am equally entitled to my own opinions, equally partaking to information bubbles, with the difference that my life is actually forever bound to China and that I can legitimately pretend that I have something to contribute to that discussion. Unlike you, I am not brigading from a far-away continent. I don't "shit on China". Had you any idea of my situation, you wouldn't even think of saying something like that. You do may find that some of what I have to say on certain topics is contrary to your ideals, but so is China: it isn't the monolithic strong fortress people make it to be in the media (in either side of the discourse).

Let's say that you could ban for an indefinitely large amount of time after a single failure to authenticate, that'd make them run out of IPs much quicker than you'd run out of CPU/BW, so I don't really see the issue

Or, you know, just use key auth only and fail2ban. Putting sshd behind another port only buys you a little time.

Yes, please

It could be that. Or it could be the exact opposite (which it is, would you want to see my hukou?), and the fact that you can't tell the difference while thinking that you could and that it matters makes you an angry little person.

I'll be there, and I travel often across main cities for work, so let me know then if you want to hang out.

Go live there for a few years and tell us more on your way back.

In this case, I think we can remove what's left of the benefit of the doubt from Western Digital (who owns SanDisk). They are as scammy/shady as I know a company to be.

Personally I've been boycotting them since 2016 after I couldn't recover the data from an external drive, which WD encrypted without warning nor consent. A faulty component on the PCB (unrelated to the drive itself), combined with WD's non standard practices (non SATA pins + mandated proprietary encryption) meant that I had to lose this drive and the data it contained so they could make a quick buck. I can't trust a company with such ethics to store anything for me.

In 2020, they got themselves into another scandal. WD reds, which were advertised as pro/NAS storage, and sold at a premium, were found to behave like shingled drives (a technique that trades away some reliably and availability in exchange for extra storage density), exposing many users to heightened risk of critical failure (esp. during disks swaps). WD of course denied, and then again when confronted with evidence, up until the internet burst in flames. Again consumer hostile practices.

Here we have SSDs which have been reported for months, and by several reputable sources, to be having problems, which SanDisk even attempted to patch without success. And now, wouldn't you think that they are trying to recall them all in order to protect consumers from likely data loss (like any responsible data storage provider would do)? Nope. They are currently trying to sell those at significant discount, as quickly as they can, hurting plenty of consumers in the process is less important than their short term financials.

As far as I can care, they can go to hell, bankruptcy is all they deserve, for the greater good.

GDPR or something?

No worry, the vocal Russia/China sympathizers out here will try to convince you that the whole world not aligning with them is a CIA job, neocolonialism and western media brainwash.. :)

That's absolutely true in the physical sense, but in the "commercial"/practical sense, most respectable companies' QA process would shave off a large part of that first bathtub slope through testing and good quality practices. Not everything off of the assembly line is meant to make it into a boxed up product.

I think people's problem with IE came much later, after MS had used its monopoly in the operating system market to establish IE as a monopoly in the browser space, to then freeze it as IE6 for years and years.
With IE6 so dominant, even mandated for most people (with ActiveX being the de facto bypass to IE/HTML4 limitations), web designers assumed its universality and stopped caring about anything else, practically contributing to the stagnation of the web standards around an obsolete and suboptimal Implementation.
The better, faster, more compliant and innovative browsers had no chance of dislodging IE, while a growing number of decreasingly tech savvy users could see (from the experience of Firefox and Opera mostly) how bad they had it with IE and how much behind it had fallen.

Yep, the web was a mess back then (still is, tbh), but the hatred for IE/MS is deserved, and comes back with a sour taste as we are witnessing the same thing all over again (just in slower motion).

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/5/nigers-military-rulers-ask-for-help-from-russian-group-wagner

Well, then, in case Russia didn't engineer it, it's pretty clear that they supported it, but that's just semantics at this point. Doesn't the modus operandi look very familiar?

Is it measurably better? From a quick look, it's PHP again (and if your NC runs slow, there's a fair chance it's not properly set-up/tuned), and SQLite (so, rather small scale).

Who could have seen that coming? Certainly not the tiny veiled pro-Russia brigade here pretending this has nothing to do with Russia..

Are you denying that Russia has been messing around in the region? Why is Wagner even there in the first place? Or is interventionism good when Russia does it?

FYI HP also stopped making those. You can still buy HP calculators, but they happen to be licensed to third parties who carry on with new products of their own design under the same brand. At least in the case of the prime, Moravia managed to pull out a new firmware update since the transition, so there's that.