I don’t think that’s true at all? From my experience and research, China seems quite proud of it’s diversity. The five colors of the original ROC flag symbolized this diversity, though a bit simplified, as the “Five races under one union” (han, manchu, mongols, muslims, tibetans). This term is one of the “Three Principles of the People” formulated by Sun Yat-sen (who founded KMT and is venerated in both mainland China and Taiwan). It’s foundational to both Chinese republics.

(but if we’re talking about the language, then “Chinese” is mandarin Chinese unless otherwise specified)

I feel this might stop enshittification. Look at Firefox, enshittification stems from a need to turn a profit and how difficult it is to do that in a decent way for a web browser. A privacy-centered email service on the other hand is an attractive product, and probably enough(?) to keep the email client running.

Unfortunate though that Mozilla is a US company.

Of the companies mentioned, only DapuStor is from mainland China from what I can tell?

6 days a year is quite a bit, but also the frequency at which it comes up in conversation is not really relevant to whether people want/don’t want?

Of course they’re free to not join, but I struggle to understand how McDonalds can be the cheapest alternative? I don’t think it is at all here in Sweden at least, not even close.

Not necessarily if you run workloads within the datacenter? Surely that’s not that rare, even if they’re mostly for hosting web services.

Personally I really don’t care which, though it would be nice if there was some kind of consistency throughout Europe and not having e.g. France and Germany in one time zone but Netherlands or Belgium in another.

If I was dictator I think it seems reasonable to draw lines west and east of Germany, maybe Poland can be included in Germany’s zone too.

A wild idea would be to have the lines cross through countries so they’re actually “correct” and the EU is seen as a whole entity rather than just individual countries, but that’s probably quite impossible/impractical. Beautiful in a way though, surely a man can dream.

Everyone wants this and it’s taking decades…

While most people would likely move to Digg v2.0 (I am just being realistic)

Are people actually going? The only thing I’ve heard about it (the AI-fueled reboot) is that it was planned.

I sure hope so, but I have little faith tbh. Cloud providers have done a great job selling serverless solutions that are tightly coupled with the provider. Wise companies have limited themselves to the basics - load balancers, servers, maybe some serverless container solution or kubernetes. The latter can move pretty much anywhere with some, but not a whole lot, of effort. The former, have fun rediscovering the quirks of your new provider’s equivalent of lambdas or whatever (or at worst, rewriting the whole thing).

In Sweden we’ve been able to do this for years? Any site that has Klarna as a payment option you can choose to add it to your monthly bill or the “pay it later” (I think two weeks) option.

There’s a non-zero % chance that a nazi with ties to the government and unlimited money might be interested in this data… 👀

Should be, but I don’t have much faith in the US or Swedish government. As long as it’s earmarked I guess it doesn’t really matter if they’re not paid back, feels more like a symbolic gesture (which I’m not against, but still) to ask for it back.

Disregarding any gut feelings I may or may not have of this administration, they just cut funding to USAID right? The article makes it sound like these contributions are marked (or else it would be difficult to talk about it being “unspent”), so they can’t be used for things such as administrative costs and so on?

My experience with Matrix is that the federation itself is a deal breaker. I have a pretty beefy server and good connection which was getting ddosed by running Matrix and timing out on so many requests for avatars/profiles etc. Maybe I did something wrong, but the whole experience rendered me quite skeptical to the viability of it as a federated chat.

That said I’ve had nothing but good experiences using it with big servers set up by pros.