Travel to Beijing, open up Google search, and see if it gives you any historically accurate results about what happened there.

I’m serious, it sounds like you could use a lesson in freedom and the world outside your country.

Did the US government tell Google to censor Tiannamen Square, or are they a global company that has to observe more than the whims of a single country?

I hope other countries start renaming the US soon.

Why didn’t they change it only in the US and not elsewhere? Could you imagine the uproar if Google censored Tiananmen Square world wide because of the Chinese government?

PS: Yes it was modified for everyone outside the US too. I am not American but your “president” is now allowed to change what name I have to call something?

I wonder how many of the Reddit comments were from inauthentic sock puppets. I’d guess that subreddit was also used by influence peddlers to train and test their own human disinformation agents too.

I guarantee Anthropic is still using AI to go through all the applications, and is likely using them to train specialized models which AI generated text would subtly poison or collapse.

Just run your LLM slop through an obfuscator or reword a few things here and there and voila, more chum for the slop bucket! 👍

You’re asking this question on Lemmy? Where have you been?

He’s going to slap 100% tariffs on all network packets passing in and out of China! That will fix everything including the price of eggs!

Yup. Now I also get that exposure and engagement are important to small businesses, but to that end they shouldn’t lock themselves to one place either. Point out the benefits of more open solutions like Bluesky and Mastodon, and the benefits of setting up their own hosted site/blog that they can then broadcast on social media but slowly cut them out as a middle man by pushing customers to their site directly.

And most certainly businesses should never use the “algorithm” on social media to collect data or get “free” advertising such as those “like/repost to win” style posts. Those are not free advertising, those are doing free data collection work for Meta.

Tell those local businesses that you really want to support and follow them, but that you boycott Meta and the reasons that you do.

Honestly there’s so many reasons businesses should also avoid Meta, like the fact Meta is literally collecting and selling their most valuable business data about their customers to other competing businesses. Tell them for their own good that Meta is not their friend, it might help them at first to get exposure, but only long enough to get that data and sell it off to a bigger fish.

I very much see what is happening in the US as the groundwork for them becoming an authoritarian state just like China and Russia. They still have “capitalism” and “democracy” too!

My only hope is that the people of the US realize what is happening before it’s too late, and that the rest of the world can hold out in the mean time.

Only the banks know their exact reasons for trying to sell off these loans and they will most certainly not say because they don’t want to scare off potential buyers. It could be that the banks need money right now and don’t want to wait for the borrower to repay the loan, or it could be that the banks are having doubts about the borrower’s ability to pay back the loan at all.

Whatever their reasons, the banks are currently willing to take a flat 5-10% loss in addition to the ongoing interest in order to get their cash back immediately and offload the risk to someone else.

Late stage capitalism has now created mega corporations that no longer profit off their innovation and quality, but merely off manipulation and exploitation of their mind-boggling amounts of capital. They now must crush all competition using authoritarian means because competition is now their biggest weakness.

Capitalism is well and truely dead, and corporations and conservatives are the ones who killed it. They want to remove the ladder of success that got them there.

Oops, the system was actually set up to profit off you all along! Funny thing: it turns out that centralized, authoritarian monopolies are the most profitable things in the business world, and now in the political world too!

I’m wondering how much of TikTok is actually authentic. Like when a video gets hundreds of views and likes, is TikTok padding those numbers to make users feel like they are “viral” just to stay on the platform? Even if TikTok isn’t directly doing it, how many are from bot farms just trying to “look normal” by having their sock puppets engage with “normal” videos before using them to push their desired narratives?

Maybe I should start a social network with a mysterious black box algorithm that is really just a random number generator that only goes up. 🤔

I can understand the convenience of these algorithms, but they always have the same subtly undermining goal: to make people addicted. The fact that TikTok’s algorithm is so good at this is worrying to me even if it doesn’t have an overt bias. It’s also why I think people are having such crazy reactions to the pending ban, even the thought of withdrawal is too much.

I think the problem is that people aren’t hooked to the short video format of TikTok, which there are already many alternatives for, but they are hooked to the algorithm that feeds them endless personalized content with simple guidance (show me more/less like this).

It’s possible to create curated and algorithm-like feeds on Bluesky, but they don’t allow for easy personalization in the same way.

I like how they don’t label the y-axis at all to give any sense of scale. This graph could be showing a jump from 10 to 22 people. 🤷

When are people going to realize that billionaires have no moral code and no ethics. The only thing they want is more money and they will do literally anything to get it, even if they destroy the world.

Traefik basically has certbot built in so when you configure a new hostname on a service it automatically handles requesting and refreshing the cert for you. It can either request individual certificates for each hostname or a wildcard certificate (*.yourdomain.com) that covers all subdomains.

The neat trick is that in Docker you configure Traefik by adding Docker tags to the other containers you want to proxy. When you start up a container, Traefik automatically reads the config from the tags, does any necessary setup, then viola it’s ready to go!

Basically the Cloudflare tunnel client connects from the computer running your services (or proxy) out to Cloudflare’s edge servers and your DNS hostname is set to the IP of one of Cloudflare’s edge servers. Cloudflare acts like a reverse proxy by sending incoming SSL requests for your hostname to your tunnel client through their own network. The DNS record doesn’t expose your public IP and the Cloudflare tunnel client easily works behind firewalls, NAT, and doesn’t need a static IP because it connects outbound to Cloudflare’s network.

The biggest limitation is that this only works for SSL traffic because it can be routed by hostname in the SNI without needing a client on the client side. They do offer tunnels for other connections, but that requires their client running on both sides so it’s more like a traditional VPN again.