Tag: china
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Nuclear winter
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Rice cookers
Via Kottke.
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Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud
We do have some (smaller) cloud (Scaleway) and datacenter players (Leaseweb, could use some innovation) and some inbetween (OVH, Hetzner)… But none are really a true cloud provider with serverless, all the storage stuff, etc. Evroc is trying just that — being a real competitor to GCP and AWS — but that’ll need a lot…
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EU pushes for digital surveillance
Keep seeing more and more topics, threads and sites about it. And it’s probably not getting half as much attention as it deserves. Here’s a summary from Danny Mekić post:
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The Rules for Rulers
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2022 by Vox
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End of China’s Covid-zero
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Apple restricts AirDrop in China
I think this has been greatly underreported. Apple purposely disables a feature on your phone during unrest. Anti-government protests flared in several Chinese cities and on college campuses over the weekend. But the country’s most widespread show of public dissent in decades will have to manage without a crucial communication tool, because Apple restricted its…
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The Big [CENSORED] Theory
Really, really good analysis by The Pudding. When these shows resurfaced, they were full of these weird jumps, signaling that scenes were removed during censorship because someone somewhere thought it would be inappropriate or illegal to stream such content. […] 77 of the first 100 episodes had at least one edit, amounting to 206 removed…
![The Big [CENSORED] Theory](https://static.yeri.be/2022/08/TBBT.jpg)