Was haben etwa stern.de, futurezone.de, businessinsider.de, fr.de, merkur.de oder philomag.de gemeinsam? Sie erlaub(t)en die Werbevermarktung durch den russischen Big-Tech-Konzern #Yandex.
Warum es (wahrscheinlich) nicht zum Transfer von Leserdaten nach Moskau gekommen ist?
Weil ausgerechnet Yandex die deutschen Medienverlage aus ihrem Sellers-File rauskickte. Und NICHT umgekehrt.
Spannend daran war vor allem, dass die Publikationen wie #Stern, #BusinessInsider und #FrankfurterRundschau die Daten weiterhin geliefert hätten, hätte #Yandex nur gefragt. Aber scheinbar seit März 2022 fragt Yandex nicht mehr danach. Wieso, bleibt (vorerst) eine offene Frage.
There are very few choices of online translation services that offer translations from and into #Tagalog (sometimes listed as #Filipino even though they are not exactly the same).
How few? #Bing and #Google are the go to online translation services; and that's about it. Popular neural translation services like Naver Papago, DeepL, and Reverso, are yet to offer Tagalog and Filipino translations.
However, there is one that is actually doing it better than Bing and Google, that is Yandex Translation — https://translate.yandex.com.
Translating Tagalog into another language.
So far, my only gripe is that Yandex translates it into past tense. It appears that Yandex still doesn't understand the Tagalog tenses in this translation direction (it does understand tenses when translating into Tagalog).
If you don't understand Tagalog, you also will not notice the tense was changed because the translation into your own language is correct as far as past tense is concerned.
Translating another language into Tagalog.
This one is good. At least based on what I have tested, tenses were preserved. Depending on the source language, the choice of words might be weird, but it makes sense regardless, from a native Tagalog speaker (maybe not for someone learning Tagalog, or Filipino).
Here are sample texts:
First, this is how it should be in Tagalog (compare the translation to this one if you're not familiar with Tagalog or Filipino):
> Hiniling ni Rielene kay John na bumili ng kanilang lingguhang pangangailangan sa supermarket kahapon. Pumunta siya sa pinakamalapit na supermarket ng isang mall; at pagkatapos ay binisita niya ang sinehan ng mall para tignan ang pinakabagong mga pelikula.
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> Ngayong araw, ang mag-asawa na sina Rielene at John ay masayang magkasamang nanonood ng sci-fi movie na pinamagatang, “Hollow Earth of the Apes: The Scar Wars”.
English (source):
> Yesterday, Rielene asked John to go buy their weekly necessities in the supermarket. He visited supermarket of the nearby mall; and afterwards, he visited the mall's cinema to check the latest movies.
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> Today, the couple, Rielene and John, are watching the sci-fi film entitled, “Hollow Earth of the Apes: The Scar Wars”, and are enjoying their time together.
Korean (through Naver Papago):
> 어제 릴렌은 존에게 슈퍼마켓에 주간 필수품을 사러 가자고 했습니다. 존은 근처 쇼핑몰의 슈퍼마켓을 방문했고, 그 후, 최신 영화를 확인하기 위해 쇼핑몰의 영화관을 방문했습니다.
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> 오늘, 릴렌과 존 커플은 "속이 빈 지구: 흉터 전쟁"이라는 제목의 공상과학 영화를 보고 함께 시간을 즐기고 있습니다.
Polish (through DeepL):
> Wczoraj Rielene poprosiła Johna, aby poszedł do supermarketu kupić cotygodniowe artykuły pierwszej potrzeby. John odwiedził supermarket w pobliskim centrum handlowym, a następnie udał się do kina w centrum handlowym, aby sprawdzić najnowsze filmy.
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> Dziś para, Rielene i John, ogląda film science-fiction zatytułowany "Wydrążona Ziemia Małp: Wojny Blizn" i cieszy się wspólnie spędzonym czasem.
Hebrew (through Yandex):
> אתמול ביקשה רילין מג ' ון ללכת לקנות את צרכיהם השבועיים בסופרמרקט. הוא ביקר בסופרמרקט של הקניון הסמוך; ולאחר מכן, הוא ביקר בקולנוע של הקניון כדי לבדוק את הסרטים האחרונים.
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> היום, הזוג, רילין וג ' ון, צופים בסרט המדע הבדיוני שכותרתו "ארץ חלולה של הקופים: מלחמות הצלקת", ונהנים מהזמן שלהם יחד.
I'm concerned about the quality of Google search results. Lately, I'm seeing Reddit links dominate the top spots, even when they're not the most relevant sources. Is there a reason for this? DuckDuckGo is giving out better results. What is going on? 🤔 Btw, if you connected to the vpn and not logged into the Reddit, you get lovely fake message from Reddit. The official Reddit app is crap too. What do you think?
Made a post about #images searching engines, since I like #Ecosia so much because it displays lot of images, but wondered if there were another option that could be better than Ecosia. Someone mentioned #Yandex. I tried and found out that's the best one I used lately!
Dobra, już wiem, o co chodzi z tą sprzedażą Yandexa - to zupełnie inny przypadek niż zeszłoroczne wyjście z Rosji Group-IB. Holenderski Yandex N.V. traci pozycję spółki dominującej (spółki matki) i wkrótce ma zmienić nazwę, choć nie podaje się jeszcze na jaką. Firma zachowa centra danych w Finlandii i zagraniczne startupy, takie jak Avride, Toloka, Nebius i TripleTen, które będzie mogła rozwijać wszędzie poza Rosją i Białorusią. Cała reszta wpadnie w łapy tworu noszącego nazwę Международная компания акционерное общество (МКАО) «ЯНДЕКС», czyli Międzynarodowa spółka akcyjna YANDEX, na czele z Artiomem Sawinowskim 😄
Emotka kończąca wcześniejsze zdanie dotyczy tej "międzynarodowości". Właścicielem spółki będzie zamknięty fundusz inwestycyjny Consortium.First, po rosyjsku ЗПИФ «Консорциум.Первый». Jego członkami są:
:finger_point: ФМП, spółka celowa należąca do kadry kierowniczej dotychczasowego rosyjskiego oddziału Yandexa (35%),
:finger_point: Меридиан-Сервис, należący do byłego wiceprezesa Gazpromu Aleksandra Riazanowa (10%),
:finger_point: Инфинити Менеджмент, należący do Aleksandra Czaczawy, założyciela funduszu LETA Capital (25%),
:finger_point: IT.Elaboration, należący do Pawła Prassa, właściciela i dyrektora INFINITUM (15%),
:finger_point: Аргонавт, czyli kolejny fundusz inwestycyjny, którego właścicielem dla odmiany jest Łukoil (15%).
Konsorcjum będzie mogło nominować sześciu z dziesięciu członków zarządu. Dwóch kolejnych może nominować Fundusz Menedżerów (Фонд менеджеров), a pozostałych - Fundusz Interesu Publicznego (Фонд общественных интересов), oba zarejestrowane w Kaliningradzie, tzn. w Królewcu.
Nowy Yandex podpisuje z tym holenderskim pięcioletnią umowę o zakazie konkurencji (ang. non-compete agreement, NCA), która będzie miała zastosowanie do każdego rynku. Są z niej wyłączone tylko wspomniane wyżej startupy.
#Ukraine’s popular army chief Valery #Zaluzhny was called to a meeting at the president’s office on Monday and told he was being fired, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN, following weeks of growing speculation over tensions between Volodymyr #Zelensky and his top commander.
A formal announcement has not been made, however, a presidential decree is expected by the end of the week.
#YandexNV reached an agreement to sell its Russian business, including the nation’s most popular #SearchEngine, for about $5.2 billion, the highest-valued deal yet to exit #Russia following the invasion of #Ukraine.
The divorce, which took more than a year to negotiate, opens the way for #Yandex to develop some projects abroad after divesting Russian units that had generated most of its revenue.
"A Russia-based company has become the legal owner of tech giant Yandex as it prepares to separate from its Dutch parent company, the state-run Interfax news agency reported Tuesday."
I use a public email service (#Yandex) for work mail, so that neither personal (hobby) server issues would affect the work, nor issues with work infrastructure disrupt communication channels needed to fix those. But with my domain name, so that there is no vendor lock-in. That worked fine for a while, but now Yandex decided to charge for using own domains, and disabled SMTP. Warnings were sent to the administrator account, which I have not checked after setting it up more than a decade ago, while the actually checked inbox only received warnings about discontinuation of a service I never used.
So I went looking for alternatives. The situation with those keeps worsening: many smaller email services are blocked here, or do not serve users from around here. The few large remaining ones tend to require phone numbers. I know a couple that work without a phone number and are not blocked, though not sure for how long. And no custom domain names there. Though if things will not improve soon, it would be tricky for me to renew the domain name, being disconnected from payment systems.
Maybe I will request a company-provided email, or set sending (SMTP) via a work server and keep receiving (IMAP) via Yandex. Could also switch to paid services, though a single email account (at Yandex or elsewhere) costs like a remote VM (aka VPS, VDS, a cloud thingy), at which point the latter would be preferable. But I would normally consider foreign hosting providers, and there is the issue with payments again: proxy payments must be possible, yet reliance on those makes this setup less reliable.
Though it looks like some Russian hosting providers have servers in Europe; likely those are accessible to various local entities, and local laws on checking clients' identities and spying on them apply, possible future weird laws will apply as well, but I wonder whether connection blocking applies to those servers. Apparently to some of them it does not, yet, so those may be an okay option.
Цікавий екскурс в історію українського інтернета.
Як він з'явився, як розвивався, що Українці використовували до 2014 року, і після.
Як інтернетом зацікавилась РФ, і як почала його контролювати і використовувати.
І хоч ведучий не вірно оцінює небезпеку від телеграм, але правильно зроблені акценти на те, що ворогу дають ті чи інші сервіси
Все що ведучий говорить про mail.ru, #yandex пошук, вконтакт , чи яндекс карти, все це необхідно застосовувати і до #telegram
#Yandex NV plans to sell its entire Russian business, including the nation’s most popular search engine, after its founder’s criticism of the war in Ukraine made potential investors wary of a partnership with the Dutch-domiciled parent company.
A group of Russian tycoons that’s bidding for the assets wants a full break with the Dutch entity
#Yandex shows that Russians have become more interested in helping their army, the weekly number of search requests for "SVO assistance" as of the end of October 2023 was almost seven times higher than a year ago.
New-ish Asus routers [CORRECTION: at least two routers bought in Sweden] seem to enable "Yandex.DNS" by default. This forwards all of your DNS lookups to Yandex, a large Russian search engine. I discovered this on my dad's router when he had troubles accessing his bank from his broadband but not on his phone. (Presumably, the bank geoblocked Russian IPs as a protest to the invasion of Ukraine.)
I get that you need to trust someone with your DNS lookups (your ISP, Google, Cloudfare, etc), but I didn't expect the non-ISP option to be the default...
♲ @mlansbury@despora.de:> ## How Russia’s liberal tech companies became the foundation of Putin’s war effort
When #Yandex's founders created the weekly ritual, they wanted to foster a sense of transparency, democracy, and community not found in other Russian companies.
Today, staffers can either join the khural in person or watch on live stream from across the world. Yet, while the meeting has remained a place for heated discussion, the exchange of views is not as frank as it once was.
"There is growing complicity through self-censorship," says Olga Solovyeva, a researcher at the U.K.'s Open University.
She has spent months studying the shift in Yandex's leadership from liberal and pro-democracy to increasingly apolitical as a case study for Russia's wider tech scene.
"Top management are censoring themselves, and employees are censoring themselves to avoid a potential clash of the views," she says.
A czy wiecie, że #Yandex, prawdziwie zła korporacja w służbie prawdziwego złego państwa, automatycznie zarejestrowała prawie 1200 projektów na #PyPI? Najwyraźniej służą "zapobieganiu atakom typu Dependency Confusion wobec Yandeksu". Choć wiele z nich faktycznie przypisanych jest do przestrzeni nazw "yandex-*", zarejestrowano również całkiem przypadkowe nazwy jak "selenium2mysql", "browser", "feedback", "git-pre-commit-hook", "parametrized", "easy_install" (ten ostatni został usunięty przez adminów)…