not “misinformation, social engineering, and mass data collection platform masquerading as a social media platform”

Yeah and what do you think Russia for example sees almost every American "communiction platform" as? And it's not as if they don't have a reason, like every american platform that is every other major social media that isn't tiktok is censored, controlled and swarming with bots doing narrative control and spam. It really is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy to say that TiKTok is the real pressing problem. I don't even use TikTok, but I find it so fucking disgusting how every "freespeech freedomlover" comes out of the woodwork to demand it's shutting it down just to enforce American social media monopoly over the world. Even if Bytedance has bent over backwards to prove that there isn't any misconduct (of things that US based tech companies are routinely mandated to do for US gov, state department and the intelligence services), because it's only bad if somebody else does the excact same thing to us as we would have done to them.

Is tiktok ok?

Actually never heard of JPEG XL, but i would prefer it for the promise of backwards compatibility alone. There are still programs and sites that don't support using AVIF (much less WEBP ptui!).

it's not like human brain memory or consciousness is that information dense. They just did that high of a definition of a scan.

Re-establishment of clans and tribes will soon become an economic necessity for the poor. Unions would of course be better, but I'm not holding my breath.

Cold war boomers trying to legislate tech they know nothing about

For german government "Never again" meant just never again genocide against jews. All other people are fine and free game.

They will try it again in like two to three years from now. This time they will just do a under the radar and somewhat diluted version of it.

6ghz

Knowing intel and their recent performance gains it just needs a small nuclear reactor as a PSU and liquid oxygen cooling for light desktop use.

Yeah, this is basically why I'm not buying these arguments against a struggle of any kind, just because methods of it are illegal.

Illegality =/= your cause or methods are wrong

I guess it's just impossible to make these types of large media storage sites profitable. The business model itself is inherently unprofitable despite there being a need for these sites. Like youtube will never bring a cent back to google, but they keep running it because it locks people into their ecosystem for data harvesting.

Could also be that snap bought gfycat just to kill it.