archomrade [he/him]

Idk but your little asspats are quite enjoyable if i’m being honest

Sorry, I must have mistook the multiple posts about this as an invitation for engagement

Goodness gracious, we are having quite the day with this.

Good job i guess?

Yea, your opinion of tankies has come across just fine, it’s just curious to me that sentiment is so frequently communicated with conservative cultural references

This is the second time this week someone has inadvertentlu appropriated a bit on conservative culture in an effort to lionoze ‘tankies’

My parents and school administrators’ attempts at blocking unsanctioned activities is what taught me computer literacy

There was nothing quite as satisfying as getting caught opening addictinggames on a web browser through a proxy when the teacher was convinced they had blocked it completely.

ah, ok that is interesting, thanks!

Can someone explain the significance of quantum teleportation in qbit architectures?

From what little I understand, it relies on quantum entanglement instead of electrical current to ‘pass’ logic states between qbits in different physical space, but I’m wondering why (in this case) they still need to be connected by fiber optic cables?

I thought the point was that it didn’t need to pass signals over physical media, and that was valuable because it was instantaneous and secure, but now it’s sounding more like conventional computing…?

Ordinarily I would be sensitive to accusations of america-centrism, but the US has a tendency of bullying their allies into following their regulatory measures so I don’t think this is just a US problem.

Which would increase their effort to chase it down and make regular people avoid it.

Not that it would deter you, but the network would essentially stop growing and no longer be a real competitor

It would probably be something like: “any social media site made available to US users must verify user identities and legal name and age and comply with US agencies’ requests for user information. Violators will be subject to penalty, including but not limited to economic sanction and imprisonment”

Yes, there would be ways around it and yes, there would be nations who would not enforce it, but there being legal barriers to operating an instance would basically kill its adoption for normal users. I’m really tired of people saying ‘you can just get a vpn’ as if most people would go to any length at all to share memes with friends. The fediverse is already too complicated for most people to adopt before having to circumvent region blocks.

As soon as the fediverse becomes an actual threat, the ban hammer is going to come down on anonymous social media

I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t happened yet

Characterizing that as ‘unawareness’ is a little too charitable, I think.

A massive, comprehensive data privacy law would’ve covered the TikTok base and any software by any other threat

That’s assuming the ban is motivated by privacy reasons, but i don’t think it is. It’s far more likely that it’s because the US has no control over the platform’s algorithm, which they fear is feeding Americans media and perspectives that are antithetical to their foreign policy objectives (Blinken and Romney have both stated as much).

A US buyer would be more friendly/responsive to US regulatory influence. That’s the only reason this isn’t a privacy bill instead of a ban or forced sale.

Yea, they were comparing tiktok to other american-owned social media sites, which are guilty of exactly the same thing themselves.

Any site that doesn’t explicitly push anti chinese content is going to look like a pro-chinese bias

(there are several people in this thread who would not mind banning certain lemmy instances on this basis)

I wonder if op has a strong opinion about china.

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