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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
Haha, you would think that these cases count as enough evidence for the government not to have any power over speech. Nope. The Chinese people just oppose those specific cases, and in a small percentage of them, the government reversed cour
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
I'm not debating that China is bad or not, or if it is an adversary to the US. My deeply held belief is that we should allow speech from even the most hostile foreign countries. Do you know that every administration of China, starting
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
> and many orders of magnitude less restrictive. That's true, but when I had a hard time convincing them when the US were the *perfect* model of no speech restrictions, it's much harder when US is just less restrictive. They wi
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
If we talk about law, that is probably true. But for the principles, I don't think so. We want freedom of speech because we can never know that our opinions are the ultimate Truth, so we need to ensure that everyone can speak their min
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
OK, let me reword. I still can converse with others on Chinese social media, but I will have a harder time convincing them that GFW is a bad idea or that the China's government is wrong restricting speech. Because people not already co
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
> Your education was not a lie, but you should still get a refund on your failed education. You clearly did not learn to think critically. I read both Chinese and English, and I read both the opinions of within GFW and without. If anythi
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
No, they don't arrest people for such abstract concepts. They do arrest people who tangibly threatens the government, like exposing the shenanigans of high officials, or organizing labor protests over the Internet.
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
I was called a US sock puppet on Chinese social media and then a Chinese sock puppet here. I guess people everywhere are the same, doing ad hominem attacks whenever they see people having an opposite opinion.
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
You misunderstood me. I was not talking about doing on TikTok, but on China's own social media and when conversing with other Chinese offline.
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
Say what you will, but I won't be able to espouse the virtues of freedom of speech in China anymore. The distinction you make isn't going to convince any one.
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
The US bans TikTok citing the same reasons China bans foreign social media, to avoid influence from foreign adversaries (people below says that China never official bans it, but China is inconsistent on that). It is only fair from a busines
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
If I offer a product under both open source and commercial license, and then someone uses an open source version without paying me anything, neither for the license nor consultancy, am I liable for damages?
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
In my working context, a "decentralized" government issued (digital) ID refers to an identity whose verification does not require a connection to the government server (e.g. verification is done by public key cryptography). So the
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
But if you are calling Win32 APIs, you can call Win32 APIs MultiByteToWideChar/WideCharToMultiByte to convert between UTF8 and UTF16. No need for iconv.
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
I've seldom seen UTF16 text file even under Windows. Sometimes, but not that often.
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
The only practical use of MPTCP for me is to use mobile and Wi-Fi network together to boost the speed. iOS and WeChat both support this. However, I always turn them off because my mobile network is metered. So in the end, MPTCP is useless f
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
Practically it’s a no op. To use WhatsApp or Threads I need an app to bypass the GFW, which is not available on Chinese App Store. So I have an American Apple ID to download a proxying app. Then there is no point for me to download those tw
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
Not at this risk, but possibly others. Requiring both is always better.
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
> I took a whip through the Xiaomi financials and they talk about profit mix in percentages but I didn't see a break out by line. Xiaomi's phone is its primary business. If they were operating at a loss on their phones, they wo
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
iPhones have only one year warranty in China too. Not sure why.
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by bdd8f1df777b 2y ago
I knew requiring public key authentication *followed by* password authentication on my SSH server was not paranoid!
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by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
> A back door in the same library is not likely. But libsystemd is not linked to xz only. By removing it, sshd is free of many other potential risks.
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by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
Google Chrome Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
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by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
You think every time people call an external library to save their effort is a proof of their lack of capabilities?
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by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
A side note: the page does not declare utf-8 encoding. I have manually change it to resolve some of garbled text.
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by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
Several CVEs in the past related to iMessage. And it has surprisingly high privilege. Since I seldom need it, turning it off is better for my security.
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by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
True, but even if Microsoft pushes an update, it will take decades before all Windows are patched.
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by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
> With proper error handling, that's about 50 lines of C code. Writing proper error handling in C is a very tedious and error prone task. So it doesn't surprise me that people would rather call another library instead.
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by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
So I'm trying to build ffmpeg via vcpkg today, and it turned out multiple of its dependencies are transitively depending on liblzma, but the downloading of liblzma source has been disabled by GitHub in light of the recent xz backdoor.
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by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
> The project was already compromised, the Git repository isn't any more trustworthy than the tarball. You are talking about this from hindsight. For other projects, we do not know yet if anything similar is happening. So for them t

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