With the change in TikTok ownership, TikTok users in the U.S. are collectively freaking out over the company’s updated privacy policy after being alerted to the changes through an in-app message.
The revised document details the U.S. joint venture’s conditions for using its service, including the specific location information it may collect.
Many users are also posting to social media about language found in the policy, which says that TikTok could collect sensitive information about its users, including their “sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status.”
Please remember this name; Larry Ellison. He’s the biggest bogeyman most people aren’t even aware is there.
Oracle = One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
The good news is that everything Larry Ellison touches dies slowly and painfully. Oracle’s touch of death is well known in the tech community… Java, MySQL, etc.
Eh, Java is probably bigger than ever, but there’s been lots of open source/alt forks and try as they might, I don’t think Oracle has monetized it all that well after they bought Sun.
Same with MySQL - I don’t know that its use has slowed down all that much, even if most people are using MariaDB and calling it MySQL.
So it’s more like once Ellison acquires something, people do their best to get his stench off of it if they can. Or at least fork it and not give him any money. But even if all they made was just their DB, they’d still be more or less printing money, given so many things running on Oracle and how much it can cost to use it at the enterprise level.
I’d argue that Java is not bigger than ever, it’s more of an established legacy language used almost exclusively in business applications today. Comparing it to COBOL in that sense would be mean but there are similarities. When I started with Java in the late 90s it was something completely different. It became popular because it was open and easy to learn. Java gained a huge community quickly. Now there are some technical reasons why Java lost its popularity among the general tech community over time but as I witnessed it the major downfall happened when Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle and the new licensing model was just horrible. Many of us didn’t want to use a language that wasn’t open and moved on. Others created open source forks like you said. I remember we were forced to move to OpenJDK in the company where I was employed. At that time OpenJDK was was neither fast nor complete. It was a shitshow and I can assure you we did not have a good time. Eventually we phased out Java entirely and built the next version on a new stack. And today there are a lot of open and modern general purpose languages available so there is no need to use Java for new projects unless you want to integrate it into an existing Java ecosystem.
And it was basically the same story with MySQL. You actually said it - “people do their best to get his stench off of it if they can”. In most cases that means moving on to something that isn’t owned by Oracle.
They have no idea how to run anything that requires community goodwill. It’s actually impressive how awful they are.
It was quite instructive to see how many people resigned right after Sun was acquired.
Not to mention how quickly Hudson was forked to Jenkins.
if people still have paramount + just to watch shitty nutrek shows they are complicit as well.
I’m trying but there’s so many fucking evil names 😞
He’s quite bad. Peter Thiel is worse imo.
The fact you think that kind of proves my point.
(I don’t mean that in a snarky way. )
I’m fully aware of who Ellison is. Thiel is worse than Ellison.
thiel also believes in his own bs, thats why hes dangerous.