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https://mapy.cz/ Google maps alternative with great tourist maps (also has a layer for cross-country skiing) and an app with offline maps
As a non Czech I assumed it was a nice layer on top of OSM tiles, but the outdoor trails are truly high quality. Only have managed to fault it once whilst trying to decide how to descend a mountain in Slovenia.
Sites and apps in Chinese: Baidu Wangpan (百度网盘): file-sync service like Dropbox, but gives you 2TB (terrabytes!) of free storage Tengxun Ketang (腾讯课堂): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free courses on programming, machine learning, and technical topics Wanmen Daxue (万门大学): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free foreign language classes and lectures on economics/social sciences HKGolden (香港高登): Ho…
Tiktok is literally chinese??
In French you have a few interesting options, notably: - LeBonCoin.fr (“the good corner”, a Craigslist type site that’s used for everything from second-hand selling to job hunting to meet up organising), - LesNumeriques.fr is a decent tech review media with in-depth tests and a VERY critical community providing good balance - Gazelle which has now become backmarket.fr (also exists across other countries like Spain an…
Sites and apps in Chinese: Baidu Wangpan (百度网盘): file-sync service like Dropbox, but gives you 2TB (terrabytes!) of free storage Tengxun Ketang (腾讯课堂): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free courses on programming, machine learning, and technical topics Wanmen Daxue (万门大学): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free foreign language classes and lectures on economics/social sciences HKGolden (香港高登): Ho…
> Douyin (抖音): Chinese version of Tiktok Tiktok is literally chinese??
It is not uncommon that Chinese firms have separate, parallel versions of their applications within / outside China.
So it is accurate to say that Douyin is a Chinese (meaning, available in China; not meaning made by a Chinese company) version of Tiktok.
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The heise forum sadly has been a cesspit of trolls for a long time. In the last 5 years it got even worse because some of the conspiracist and nazi trolls from the Telepolis forum came over to the tech forums an I think heise don't know how to properly deal with them.
I know Heise (the publication) for its good coverage of specific issues, the most recent I recall being the data collection practices of coronavirus-related apps [1]. I've always assumed it's something like a better version of The Register, [2] which I used to read a while ago, but don't really know that much about it, especially the comments section. Thanks for the heads-up. 1. https://www.heise.de/news/Corona-Apps-…
I would mention hitta.se from Sweden. Probably a privacy nightmare to some, and very creepy to others. On the page you can search peoples home address, phone number, date of birth, other members living in the same house , real estate value, mortgage rate, all by searching their names. I successfully once identified a parent of a owner of a lost wallet, only containing a gym card with last name on it. Found her phone…
Quality docomentaries and looks on society on Arte.tv, the european culture channel AFAIK, north americans don't know about its existence. It's available in english. https://www.arte.tv/en/
It's a French podcast covering a wide array of topics such as geopolitics, journalism, big tech, industrial espionage, economic warfare, etc.
I find it refreshing because the ideas and opinions discussed are very different compared to those you'd find in the usual anglophone media, and just that by itself is a ton of value.