Since when does an “independent Taiwan” exist?

They call themselves the “true” China to this day.

You are wrong.

Does me saying that help you notice that you are wrong?

They call themselves oficially the “true” govern of China to this day, and their internal diplomacy is based on that.

Because that’s exacly how marketing works… And, also, surely business only sell what the market is already being used to buy…

You can manufacture almost any demand if you are large enough…

Just look at latest example of Apple iPhone. Pretty sure that before 2020 you would say that “people don’t like colors on iPhones”, but it just so happened there was not even a choice for colors… Go ask around iPhone users nowadays what is their preferred iPhone color… Pretty sure colored iPhones will be one of their preferred in more than 33% of the instances. You can’t say that a negligible marketshare.

Being honest, there’s still a long way to go here. Next year’s elections will be very important for Brazil. But, 4 years of Trump, then 4 years of Bolsonaro, then Trump again now, that’s a lot of damage, and some people that I don’t see leaving the cult. Access to bias confirming “news” channels (mostly through social networks, there are plenty propaganda groups in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and lately TikTok, and also YouTube Channels) makes some people seem to be living in a different universe.

With tech companies profiting lots of political “controversy”, US big tech companies having a big predominance in Brazil, and also tech companies being used as a state political discourse dominance weapon we are pretty much at their mercy. META can definetly skew elections to a candidate of their own, or to the “least damaging” candidate to their interests, and there’s no way for the Brazilian governement, be it executive body, justice system, or congress to do anything about it. So the tendency is to everytime more and more legislators to be sided with the tech companies objectives, which ARE ALL FOREIGN companies, and that IS definetly very detrimental for any kind of actual democracy.

And, of course, the current tech companies aligned legislators, and most proeminent “right wing” prospects for presidential run next year, are all sided with Bolsonaro (that, for me, makes all of them extreme right wing candidates) because that guarantees them only chance to having an actual significant amount of votes, since hardcore Bolsonaro supporters makes at least 20-30% of the population. All those candidates basically have pledged to give Bolsonaro an amnesty, and current Bolsonaro supporters in the congress are trying eveyday to passando new laws to favor him too (and remembering that most supreme court judges have already declared that an amnesty for the coup attempt would be unconstitutional), however the next president will also be able to appoint 3 other judges for the supreme court, and Bolsonaro has currently appointed two of the 11 judges, that could give Bolsonaro a chance of having an amnesty either by the president or the congress.

TL;DR: There’s still a lot of shit to be done here, and the right wing extremist wave is definetly not going away easily.

There are many tiers of private information.

You can definetly collect a lot of useful telemetry data without collecting any of the, lets say, “most sensitive” private information.

Just to exemplify:

• you can collect telemetry on the most acessed features of a software and associate it with their location: whilst collecting their location you can definetly choose between having the person’s specific location (GPS coordinates with a few meters of accuracy) or their broad location (i.e.: their city, state, or country).

  • with the broad location you can have insights on how users of your software behave per region and plan accordinly actions or those regions.

Collecting someones specific location is definetly way more sensitive than their broad location…

And the full content of all textual documents a person generates has a very high chance of containing of their most sensitive private information…

About #2: you have any suggestion on how you could achieve that and still be federated?

It seem like you would need a central “oficial” instance that defines who is the “real” AskLemmy, etc…

But yeah, I really want to hear if you have ideas on how achieve this and maintain it as a federation.

Type N (Brazil’s plug) in the image is also inset.

Is not Type N (used in Brazil) an implementarion of IEC 60906-1 without any major change?