finitebanjo

@finitebanjo@piefed.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Things have changed significantly. Congress passed a law banning services from sending or storing data in adversarial nations including Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia. The change from the Biden to the Trump admin lead to Trump declaring the law banning TikTok would not take effect, allowing TikTok to continue operating.

  Which is why I believe this voluntary sale is purely optics and that the data will continue being sent to and stored in Beijing.

  All U.S. data traffic will be routed through Oracle Cloud.

  This means the project will be maintained entirely online on rented and temporary servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The current plan would be for ByteDance to create a duplicate copy of the TikTok algorithm, which then would be leased to a new joint venture controlled by a U.S. investor group led by Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, and Oracle.

  Jokes aside, Andreessen Horowitz and Oracle are the aforementioned cloud service providers. Using them was the compromise China came up as opposed to otherwise having to centralizing on US shores. Until I’m proven otherwise after it’s online, China will still have full access and control over the systems, still harvesting and compromising sensitive data to send to Beijing and still manipulating a huge portion of Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meaningless with the algorithm being hosted on a cloud server and maintained by Beijing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meaningless with the algorithm being hosted on a cloud server and maintained by Beijing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love the concept of both the cities skylines titles.

  But I absolutely hate the monetization scheme of Sims-esque countless add-ons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there is no fear of traffic or application usage being spied on when the machine is only used for gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arc Raiders' devs would you like you to slam its servers with one last, open to all tech test next month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of it so I thought maybe it was going offline but actually it turns out its just launching soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dante's epic poem La Divina Commedia is getting turned into a videogame again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dante's Inferno was an epic game, loved it. I accidentally stumbled upon a build that let me permanently stay in the holy form on my first run and that allowed me to beat the New Game+ with ease, but later on I tried it with more normal gear and it was brutal lmao. Had no idea I was cheesing it the first time around.

  If I remember it was Ciacco's Bile alongside Stone of Wrath into Divine Armor and specific combos which nicely allowed for Redemption to activate.