I don’t think Americans understand what it means to Taiwanese. Taiwan is the only country which can’t be accepted as a member at the UN because of China. They are not allowed to use their national flag in international events, their diplomatic relationship with all the countries were arbitrarily terminated at the request of China. It is a small country with 25million people. But they have their name Taiwan across their chest, they are more emotional than other national athletes .
We aren't crying, you're crying! 🥹
Li Yu-hsiang from Chinese Taipei is the first figure skater to qualify for the Olympic Games since 1998. And his grandma is in the stands to cheer for him! ❤️
Tech just said “no” to woke culture.
The cancel crowd has lost its hold in tech and look really stupid now.
They tried to cancel the creator of Ruby on Rails and take away his project. Instead hundreds of programmers and tech CEOs finally found their voice and said “enough!”
This is a great day. Too long the crazy cancel crowd terrorized the industry, but no more.
The spell is broken.
Meta and Russian Yandex engaged in unprecedented internet tracking practices, likely illegal with EU data protection law. Companies designed tracking systems that exploited Android's localhost socket permissions to create covert communication channels between websites and native mobile apps, bypassing Android's app sandboxing protections. Android allows any app with internet permission to listen on localhost ports without user consent, and web browsers can access these localhost interfaces. When users visit websites containing Meta Pixel or Yandex Metrica scripts, the JavaScript tracking code sends data directly to specific localhost ports (Meta uses UDP ports 12580-12585 via WebRTC, Yandex uses TCP ports 29009-30103 via HTTP). Facebook, Instagram, and Yandex apps run background services that actively listen on these predetermined ports to receive tracking data, then link this anonymous web activity to authenticated user accounts and transmit the combined data to company servers.
This technique affects billions of Android users and renders privacy protections like incognito mode, VPNs, and cookie clearing completely ineffective. Meta Pixel attempted localhost communications on over 17,000 of the top 100,000 websites, with 78% doing so without user consent. The method allows comprehensive profile building linking anonymous browsing to real identities, tracking everything from shopping to sensitive site visits. It also creates vulnerabilities where malicious apps could eavesdrop on browsing history by listening on the same localhost ports.
This surveillance operated without disclosure. Following public disclosure, Meta immediately ceased the practice and removed related code while browser vendors scrambled to implement protections.
The practice violates multiple GDPR and ePrivacy principles. The technique transforms supposedly anonymous first-party cookies into cross-site tracking identifiers without explicit consent, violating ePrivacy Directive requirements for cookie consent and GDPR's lawful basis for processing. By secretly linking web browsing to app-based identities, it constitutes undisclosed profiling that undermines user expectations and data minimization principles. This is a material for max #GDPR fine. https://t.co/ktHWwllWr4
Ryan Ward told me he received so many thank you messages from fans in Taiwan after yesterday's home run that his overwhelmed cell phone shut down.
Twice.
The Premier12 is so great.
Yu-Min Lin on how the @premier12 gold transforms baseball in his country:
“It changes a lot. Now every Taiwan player — young guys, old guys — knows we can be champions too. We’re not just a normal country, a small country. Small countries can be world champions.”