China is definitely trying to cover up something, though it could be small or more concerning, it is hard to judge.
The whole setup is quite complex overall, France (/French company) has been looking for partners for those reactors since a while, as they couldn't finance those on their own. So there are many actors involved, and even more chances for any worrying event to be hidden.
That there is nothing there. The reason the French company contacts the US state department is that they have to because of the US sanctions. The state department leaks and CNN spins something into the general anti-China narrative.
But "filons" is the imperative tense of a verb literaly meaning "let's run away".
And also "Fillon" is the name of a politician who was exposed for fraud while he was running for presidency. He was sentenced last spring, his name was all over French news for a while, and it became quite infamous.
Privacy policy says something quite a bit different:
> We may use your data to create aggregate or statistical information that does not directly identify a specific person, and we may share that information
So no selling of your personal data, but they hope to sell aggregated data.
Privacy policy also has quite a lot of details about a possible merge / buyout, and non-responsibility in this scenario, so they may hope to amass some data as _freemium_ and then to sell the whole company for a nice profit.
We *may* use your data to create aggregate or statistical information that does not directly identify a specific person, and we *may* share that information.
This doesn't say they won't sell your data, it just says they might anonymise it.
They do say:
[We do not share your information] with any third parties so they can market to you
But what can 3rd parties themselves share that info for marketing.. I'm not sure..
What about Continuous Integration?
Though I like the many options we now have to easily set-up some CI, a lot of entreprises still rely on old-fashioned on-premise CI. I can only wonder about the impact of depreciating Bamboo Cloud and what to use next.
I'm one of the Developer Advocates at Atlassian with a focus on the CI/CD space.
For "old-fashioned on-premise" CI/CD, Bamboo Server is still a solid offering from Atlassian, with active development on new features and support for existing ones. Discontinuing Bamboo Cloud is more about being able to "right-size" our cloud offerings so Atlassian can offer a CI/CD service for a team's first microservice deployed into AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and that scales up without overhead to many services each with many instances in a more complex environment like AWS ECS. And not just for AWS but for Azure, Google, Heroku, or whatever your choice of cloud platform. I believe Bitbucket Pipelines will be that next generation solution, while Bamboo will continue to serve on-premise needs for many years to come.
With Bamboo Cloud you were able to set up a pretty convenient "intermediate" solution, with Bamboo Cloud + an agent on your servers. Will it still be possible with Pipelines?
Also I couldn't find the doc for aggregating tests results.
Not so much. One of the things that I think makes Pipelines better suited for cloud is that it's agent-less. But that does mean there's no option to run an agent on-premise to bridge pipeline execution. Indeed, if you are accustomed to Bamboo, you are likely to find Bitbucket Pipelines rather minimalist. For example, there is currently no facility for aggregating test results.
China is definitely trying to cover up something, though it could be small or more concerning, it is hard to judge.
The whole setup is quite complex overall, France (/French company) has been looking for partners for those reactors since a while, as they couldn't finance those on their own. So there are many actors involved, and even more chances for any worrying event to be hidden.