miserablegit

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Taiwan” was never the administrative centre of China, come on. Some of the Chinese ruling classes fled there after the revolution. It’s like saying the capital of Germany was always Bonn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Driving quickly but safely with an oversized vehicle is a skill.

  Preparing so you can survive on the road for an entire day, is a skill.

  Delivering loads of items on a tight schedule, despite all the shit that life is going to throw at you (accidents, roadworks, dog attacks, etc) is a skill.

  Can we stop with this “low skill” bullshit? Most white-collar workers wouldn’t last a week in one of these jobs. The low/high skill classification is just a way for the managerial classes to justify their outsized profiteering remuneration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf, it was theirs - until it wasn’t. At this point, it is a bit like the British were insisting that the US was theirs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect it’s to keep a record which can be used to defend themselves from lawsuits. “You caught that virus after you removed our protections, so it’s your own fault. Here’s the receipt.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because they know their OS is a duct-taped piece of garbage which could fall to pieces if you look at it wrong while unlocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do names of countries get translated? What is the reason why Nippon/Nihon is called Japan or Ellada is called Greece in English?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an issue of convention, which is underneath an issue of power - i.e. who decides the convention? Do foreigners have a right to effectively modify how a place is called? Or does that power rely exclusively on the locals?

  For a long time, “foreigners” avowed that right to them: it was the colonial era, after all, and colonial powers were “obviously” right in privileging their rules.

  In the post-colonial world, things have changed. It has now been accepted, roughly, that the right to self-determination extends to determining how others should call them and their countries. These rights are pretty new, in the overall history of mankind, and somewhat nebulous, so old conventions linger; but the countries more determined to be treated as equal on the world stage (China, India…) have already put it into action and insisted that their preferred names be used. Not doing so would be uncourteous, a bit of a slap in the face.

  Personally, I’m all for the new rule, I just wish it was consistent for everyone. My home country doesn’t contain any “Florence”, but it does have Firenze; the above-mentioned Padua is actually Padova; Venice should be Venezia, Rome Roma, Turin Torino, Genoa Genova, etc etc.