hamsterkill

Why did I think that happened years ago?

Yes. I'm assuming they mean W-OLED (the other kind of OLED) when they say OLED. Or else they meant to say uLED.

Kind of early to not see snow in that part of Finland, isn't it?

I haven't used it, but I believe the vision was it would provide some assets stock, sell some more, and also allow import of your own. Could allow for random encounter map generation when you need a quick setup as well.

It's not a terrible idea, it's just one that was unlikely to be executed well under WotC and Hasbro.

If they can get Beyond back into as good of shape as it was when they bought it, I'll change my opinion of their management. Until then, they just don't seem to have the vision necessary to keep digital projects like this going.

I'm thinking a mini-pc of some sort. The circle and yoga pose make me think Chrome (OS?) and Arch. Gaming could relate to some partnership with Steam or Xbox. Alternatively, maybe something about VR?

My first instinct is to connect it to the rumors around the Valve Fremont. But my brain thinks that's pretty unlikely.

Corruption

Sure, but profit may not be the most important factor for Bytedance here. They say they're more willing to shut down than negotiate divestment.

It's a lot easier to scan for very specific code behavior than it is to scan for "anything useful for espionage". And that still wouldn't solve the question of what their server software is doing or where the collected data is ending up.

If the code were static and unchanging, sure. But it's not possible to conduct such analysis every time an update is issued on a continuing basis, without fast becoming a hundreds of millions of dollars or more program.

So the better question isn't whether it's possible — it's whether it's feasible. And the answer is no, it's not.

It also can't track the users nearly as well.

It's not perceived political messaging that's at issue, but the potential for sensitive national security data collection by an adversary. That's what made TikTok an explicit target of the law.

For the record, I don't have a strong opinion either way on whether the law is good or bad (if you think it's bad, vote against your congresspeople that supported it). I just don't see TikTok's legal argument against it as very strong, constitutionally speaking.