Re: [tlug] OT: Japans digitilization

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 01:01:15PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Christian Horn writes:
>  > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 10:16:57AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
>  > also with ARM now getting sold to an nvidia, I think this is what
>  > Europe notices now.
> 
> Has that gone through?  

Not yet, as far I understand.


>  > As for services used in Europe like google or Facebook, these are
>  > from America anyway.  They do not like it, but not enough to do
>  > something serious about it.
> 
> That's not what the American lawyers (not retained by Facebook) say.
> They think Facebook is almost ready to pull out of Europe after the
> recent decision knocking down the "safe harbor" device as not at all
> safe.

Facebook tried a "we might leave Europe then!", but that was ob-
viously a bluff.  I would be surprised if they payed much taxes in
Europe.. so nothing to loose.


>  > More flexible in how I consume news.
>  > Before g+, I had a handful sites I visited daily.
>  > g+ and feedly had for me the service of "notfying when a web page
>  > changed".
> 
> I mostly just turn off notifications.  Too much distraction, way too
> little information.

Indeed, I did not mean that kind of notification.
- At some point I visited a bunch of websites daily.
- ttrss is doing that automated for me, for example reading their rss
  feeds.
- I do not get interrupts when new items come in via the feeds,
  I am every now and then visiting my ttrss instance, and reading the
  updates in chunks.


>  > For twitter: reading timelines of people directly, I get also ads
>  > and "whom to follow" suggestions - reading the feed I purely get
>  > the tweets.
> 
> The apps are nice on handhelds, though. :-/

For consuming the news/items from ttrss, various apps on Android
exist.  For example, if ttrss presents me on that app a tweet from
someone which I want to retweet, I could then use the twitter app
(but personally, on the mobile I only consume news).

I wonder what others are doing regarding 'consumption of news'.

Chris