Yep. There’s a tendency to single out China’s bad behavior for stuff other world powers (including the U.S. for sure) also do.

A great example is China’s meddling in Canadian politics these last few years. An ex-RCMP official pointed out that a lot of other countries do it, including allies. He singled out Russia and India, but also the U.S. (I mean, how could the U.S. not try to influence their neighbors’ politics.)

But China makes the headlines, every single time.

Made the switch to Aegis a little while back. I like it a lot.

Haha, he nearly passes out when he realizes he crashed the game. That kid is amazing.

Active users in the last six months. It will drop off when the usage peak is no longer included in the six-month period.

I tried this exact scenario and didn’t see any difference in load times. I’m using an ad blocker and it’s definitely sluggish, but switching to a Chrome user agent made no difference.

It’s certainly more portable than a flamberge or partisan.

“Meng did nothing wrong, let her go with a quiet whisper not to come back”

That was absolutely not my read on it here. It’s describing a realpolitik situation where Canada is on shaky legal grounds since they are not a signatory to a foreign embargo, and thus overreach their strict legal obligations to please an ally. The suggestion of letting Meng go isn’t about her being right or wrong; it’s about what’s the savviest move Canada could have made here that would have neither pissed off China nor the U.S.

Simply refusing to act on behest of the Trump Administration and giving plausible deniability why isn’t defying them. It’s a neutral political move. The consequence of not doing so is what we’ve since experienced: deteriorating relations with a major foreign power with no gains in return with the ally we tried to suck up to.

the rest was just tooting China’s horn

Is that what we’re calling reporting on facts that don’t completely feed the “China bad” narrative, now?

Linux users truly are the vegans of the tech world.

Not disputing your main point, but they fired CEO John Riccitiello over this.

He’s the idiot who tried to pressure the devs of Cyberpunk 2077 into letting him appear in the game as himself.

Bold of the media to assume Space X is gonna get anywhere near Mars any time soon.

That counterpart, according to Ortis, briefed him about a “storefront” that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies.

The plan was to have criminals use the storefront — an online end-to-end encryption service called Tutanota — to allow authorities to collect intelligence about them.

Wait, WHAT?

The state of public transport in Montreal makes me so angry. This city used to be an examplar of public transit.

Kind of a disingenuous title. Ubisoft is a publisher, yes, but this is specifically about it’s development studio in Montreal. Furthermore, these cuts are in IT, admin, and VFX, and not (so far) in development itself, and certainly not in Assassin’s Creed dev teams, which is clearly their cash cow.

“Battle not with penises lest you become a penis.”

“How dare they show a titty in my murder simulator.”

The same happens to Chinese app stores on Android phones. Just companies trying to throw up obstacles for their competition.

Between this and antivirus software flagging cracked software, I wish security apps would focus on security instead of weaponizing consumer trust.

Better to brush after getting up to remove any bacteria and plaque buildup. And then right before bed, floss+brush.

I tried having a conversation with ChatGPT. It’s annoyingly predictable. Imagine the most boring, chronically helpful therapist who is always brimming with obvious advice, and that’s what you get.

I get that people are lonely, but we’re still much closer to ELIZA than Her.