Facebook's Zuckerberg lobbied against tiktok

US president Trump's measures against tiktok may not have come from Chinafobia.

Facebook's CEO Marc Zuckerberg has been actively lobbying against the popular Chinese internet video company.

Maybe Trump owned Facebook a little favour after his 2016 election?

With this move the US is following China's example of nationalising the internet.

This may have far reaching implications for the open internet as we know it.

It might also backlash if other countries take the same actions against US internet companies.

 

If you could read my mind: brain monitoring implants

Neuralink, a company owned by  Elon Musk, is working on brain reading implants.

A first application could be giving direct brain instructions for certain tasks. 

The readings are currently not precise enough for more impactful applications.

The company is concentrating on basic enabling technology: real time reading of brain activity and surgery for inserting and removing the implant.

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windows credentialmanager in het nederlands: referentiegegevensbeheer

I veranderde per ongeluk een git paswoord in windows credential manager.
Hoewel die authenticatie niet werkt, slaat de credential manager die op en wordt de toegang vanaf dan geweigerd zonder dat je een nieuwe poging kan doen om je paswoord te corrigeren.
In het control panel kon ik die niet terug vinden omdat mijn systeem in het nederlands draait.
Blijkt dat je moet zoeken naar referentiegegevensbeheer, en dan kan je je paswoord corrigeren.
In microsoft help wordt verkeerdelijk vermeld dat je naar aanmeldingsgegevensbeheer moet zoeken. Blijkbaar gebruikt Microsoft verschillende vertalingssystemen op verschillende plaatsen...

Google bans apps from playstore for mentioning corona

On Google playstore only government approved apps are allowed to mention corona.
This is a frightening act of censorship, even though Google claims the policy is there to protect the users from malicious apps.
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Intellij IDEA 2020.1 highlights

• You can now download and configure the desired JDK from your IDE, by selecting it from a drop down menu.
  Oracle restrictions on  long term support for java and open source initiatives to mitigate the problem have complicated the process of finding the right JDK. A welcome help for the novice user.
• Inline refactorings. It has always been counterintuitive that a simple thing like a rename was a refarctoring. Now IntelliJ will detect when you edit the signature of a method and automatically prompts you for a refactoring in a little drop down.
  
  
  
• code vision: in-code indications of usages/implementations of methods
• debugger dataflow analysis: the debugger predicts values of variables in statements you have not reached yet, by analysing your code
• The code profiler lets you to filter out the calls you want to focus on 
• Reworked git/VCS integration
• Better update support after Gradle/Maven modifications 
• You can split the terminal window now
• support for
• Selenium testing
• OpenAPI, Swagger codegen
• Vuex

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Facebook censors vietnamese content

Facebook is censoring posts with govenrment criticism in Vietnam,
after the government was pressuring them by restricting access to the Facebook site in their country.

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Upload .jpg to Google photos failed

I tried uploading a .jpg (obtained from a scan with my Canon Pixma) to Google photos but this failed.
I tried drag & drop and uploading from my computer, both did not work.
The photo is not even shown as a possible upload when browsing on my computer, because the .jpg type is not among the supported file types. .jpeg is present however, so I renamed my scan to .jpeg and lo!, the photo uploads without a problem.
Seems I'm not the only one having this problem, judging from the upvotes on this closed thread on support.google.com > photos.