theunknownmuncher

There is a jellyfin app for common smart TV platforms

The majority of reddit content is bots, shills, and astroturfing

Reading comprehension

But saying that a country can't do anything about espionage unless they pass that law is unrealistic.

Who said that?

No I'm not conflating anything, you're just moving the goalpost...

from

accountable for data privacy and misinformation/election interference violations.

to

ownership of media and telecommunication infrastructure

People can still do murder even though its illegal and most murderers are never caught, so we shouldn't have laws making murder illegal because it doesn't "solve" murder

would reduce not eliminate the problem

🙂 perfect is the enemy of good. I don't think we're going to "eliminate" espionage, something that has existed for all of written history...

I would expect a meaningful data privacy law would involve forcing the client software to be audited to ensure they aren't collecting the information in the first place?

They are while doing business in the USA

Bytes vs bits is a completely different discrepency that usually comes up with bandwidth measurements.

So there are: Kilobytes, Kibibytes, Kilobits, and Kibibits

They all suck, yeah. I think banning individual social media services is not the solution. The solution is to create meaningful laws that hold any company, Chinese or American, accountable for data privacy and misinformation/election interference violations.

So what is considered perfectly fine for Facebook and Twitter to do, got it

Does velveeta count? Personally, I say no

The difference between what the OS reports and the marketing info on the product (GBs of difference) is almost entirely due to the different units used, because the filesystem overhead will only be MBs in size.

Also the filesystem overhead is not lost or missing from the disk, you're just using it