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HK police use national security law for first time to block website(scmp.com)
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Your [3] and [4] aren’t about most pro-democracy legislators being mass arrested under the National Security Law, and are irrelevant to the current discussion. Your [2] and [5] are similar to the current post, and are both 3 days old. So th
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
> No real death in over an year of violent protests by police firing It’s just that the Hong Kong police is better at cover-ups. A female protestors was found fully naked and dead at sea. A whistle-blower police officer confessed on a KB
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
> The key word here is other options. Are there any? Yes if you ask about them at the right place, like https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
China is violating the Sino-British Joint Declaration, signed between the UK and China in 1984. [0] Not century old. And not at gunpoint. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration
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China’s ban on Australian coal backfires as electricity shortages worsen(news.com.au)
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
From the article: > In October, the Trump administration approved Taipei’s request to buy 400 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and associated launchers, transporters and radar systems that will boost the island’s defenses against naval and amp
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
> India and China were roughly equal in population and GDP if you go back in time before the start of the British empire Any source for your claims? The truth: India population in 1800: 169 million [0] China population in 1800: 322 milli
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More than 200 systems infected by new Chinese APT 'FunnyDream'(zdnet.com)
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HK pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse after Beijing moves to quash dissent(edition.cnn.com)
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Tiktok’s algorithms and moderators were known to censor Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, Falun Gong [0], Uighur sympathizer [1], Hong Kong protests [2], and (as another commenter points out) the ugly, poor, or disabled [3]. Their mod
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558329
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Apple Terminal and kitty both have less latency than Alacritty. Alacritty being “the fastest” may just be a marketing gimmick. https://thume.ca/2020/05/20/making-a-latency-tester/
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
> Didn't hear them complaining back then in the asian banking crisis when China bailed them out with the money from exploited chinese workers China “bailing out” Hong Kong is a common myth popularized by the CCP [0]. China refused t
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
I look forward to JPEG XL that is ever better than AVIF. See the ImageCon slides and the summary from the top comment in [0], or watch the video there. JPEG XL’s strengths: better image quality, responsive decoding, totally royalty-free (un
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
> TikTok technically isn't required to share data with China That can change in a few months. China is drafting Data Security Law whose “broad scope and extraterritorial reach pose particular risks for foreign companies as well as m
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
> When they finally release the algorithm how will we know that's the whole story? Censorship by moderators are beyond the algorithms. Their algorithms and moderators censored Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, Falun Gong [0],
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Facial recognition in Douyin (Chinese version of Tiktok) is real: a livestream was interrupted after a “foreigner” appeared for a minute https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280877750245453828
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Malware stashed in China-mandated software is more extensive than thought(arstechnica.com)
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
What China is doing to Uighurs qualifies as genocide > [The atrocity in Xinjiang] very specifically meets one of the five criteria set forth by the United Nations Convention for the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide from
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Related: > The Information wrote on Thursday that at least one Apple supplier has been asked to ship iPhone SE components to a facility in India starting in July > Assembling iPhone SEs in India helps Apple to avoid a 20% tax on impor
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Android 10 has been the most quickly adopted Android update ever(androidpolice.com)
1 points by hkmaxpro 6y ago|0 comments
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Douyin is the local version of Tiktok in China. Since the livestream was blocked about a minute into the livestream, Douyin seems to be able to identify “foreigners” in livestreams. Is China AI so advanced that it can identify the nationali
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Foreigners are banned from appearing in Douyin livestreams without permission(twitter.com)
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
It matters a bit, but not that much. Failure to comply comes with a maximum fine of HK$100,000 (US$ 12,500), plus six months imprisonment for service providers. [0] If HK police repeatedly fine a company, the company may have to stop servin
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
No impact to AWS (but not what you think). The National Security Law is extraterritorial https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1280184488857710592
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
The National Security Law is extraterritorial. Hosting outside of Hong Kong means nothing. https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1280184488857710592
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Not just Douyin, Tiktok also complies with their censorship restrictions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23756148
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
Why are you downvoted for stating the facts? Chinese citizens and organizations are required by China’s National Intelligence Law to support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work. The law also protects any individual and or
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by hkmaxpro 6y ago
And Australia too https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/fresh-calls-for-aus...

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