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[–] [email protected] 139 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is over a developer accessing GitHub? WHAT THE FUCK?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t think China has ever even tried to pretend it’s the land of the free.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some china fans seem to think it is

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh the authoritarian capitalists who love the CCP generally seem to embrace the fact that China is authoritarian - they see it as a good thing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think that we in the west sometimes fall into the trap of believing that our core values of freedom and democracy are supreme and are what all people across the world want to achieve and should aspire to.

Maybe a lot of people in China think that a strong centralised government guiding the economy and most aspects of people's lives is the sign of a healthy society and they are happy with it. Maybe they think it's we who are sick because we don't like the state being too involved in our lives. To them, perhaps it's complete insanity.

Idk, I might be talking complete bs. I just think that different people have different values and there's no right answer to how society is set up.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

O.o Did you just confuse America with China?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

It's a lemmy user base joke

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The ever aging battle of living in a digital world with global reach whilst being forced to live and comply within the lines drawn in sand.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Not sand, pencil, and the rich have all the erasers. But yeah no, good luck out there, it’s a totally fair and even playing field, trust!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, this is so well articulated and to the point.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

fuck ccp, stupid cunts

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's hardly the original source. The second paragraph of that article links to another source again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

indeed, original source is the wrong term, but at least it's an english derivation of it, which was only copied by the link in this post

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's a coin telegraph logo on the top of the website so I guess is some licensed syndicated content

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

it is indeed somewhat attributed, but it still very much looks like scraped content.

a very strong indicator is the inclusion of

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at the end, which on cointelegraph's page is separate from the content and provides a sign-up form.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Good luck being a developer or do technical support without GitHub, Google, Reddit (Lemmy?) or stackexchange

Or market your product without the possibility of accessing any western social network

If you ever notice, all apps developed in china are similar. Ads at start, invasive tracking using dummy images dropped in /pictures, unnecessary permissions like phone and IMEI, and so on. They literally don't have a way to compare to something else. There's the Baidu SDK, Tencent SDK, aliyun SDK and they are using bad coding practices because they're doing that in isolation

They're shooting in their feet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It is incredible how overbloated their app are. I have no idea why every app need to integrate a social media feed, and be able book a taxi/takeout or whatever.

They seriously need to have a look at KISS principles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes and no, it's bad for humanity, great for the CCP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

With a machine gun

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

They got fined for doing their job basically. Sick shit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And there is still a lot of people, especially on lemmy, basically worshipping China and other communist countries.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

and other ~~communist countries~~. Authoritarian dictatorships.

Just because they slap socialist or communist on the country name doesn’t make it so.