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by teknologist 6y ago
It's banned in China too
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by teknologist 6y ago
I often use dnsleaktest.com for this; it runs multiple rounds so you see all the ones you might be using.
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by teknologist 6y ago
I've noticed that he has an app called "Whoscall" installed providing Caller ID in the Phone app. I wonder if this has access to Messages on the phone and is able to read/upload SMS? A quick search online suggests that t
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by teknologist 6y ago
Fancy touch screens could potentially tell users how/when to clean stuff?
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by teknologist 6y ago
Silicon Valley pays way more than any good/known tech company in China, which is why their good engineers are all emigrating to work there and to other places where life is better. It's easy to romanticize tech in China from afar,
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by teknologist 6y ago
> Getting locked into an insane Han-supremacy regime is walking into the dragon’s mouth with a torch. I think he's referring to Han people studying/working overseas returning to their ethno-state. I can't imagine many non
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by teknologist 6y ago
I find that using an easy toggle switch for JS on a per-site basis can do the job pretty well. Some sites like the WSJ won’t even render out content from the server so it’s not possible to bypass its paywall on the client side.
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by teknologist 6y ago
Products get cloned almost immediately once released in the Chinese domestic market, especially when there's a potential for them to make money. It's about keeping the IP as closely guarded as possible while attracting users. Comp
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by teknologist 6y ago
There are Chinese GitHub clones but many companies there use enterprise solutions for version control: there's one by Alibaba I think and I've seen a few deployments of GitHub Enterprise and Atlassian/Microsoft solutions. Wor
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by teknologist 6y ago
JetBrains still do updates with binary patching for many (all?) of their products, and the experience is really nice.
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by teknologist 6y ago
Interestingly, Apple plans to assemble the new "AirPods Studio" in Vietnam: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/19/apple-over-ear-headphon...
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by teknologist 6y ago
I don’t think it’s about a governing body making that decision for you. If all the policies and processes around censorship were laid out in the open for that to be considered when weighing up the options, people would be able to make more
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by teknologist 6y ago
The CCP’s claim to legitimacy is based on continued economic growth in the PRC. Buying made in China products supports this economic growth, and also the cheap, often exploitative, labor that went into producing them. Besides, you should pr
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by teknologist 6y ago
Building reasonable end-to-end encryption in the first place isn't rocket science. In fact, Keybase have done just that. As well as WhatsApp, Signal, and many others.
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by teknologist 6y ago
They also lied about having end-to-end encryption. The awful security practices could be chalked up to incompetence but the fact that they lied has taken it too far, in my opinion. I too have deleted by Keybase account because of this.
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by teknologist 7y ago
What's more bizarre is that they have a fully functioning Chrome app that works almost just as well as the desktop client. It installs in a click and doesn't go through any sort of installation process.
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by teknologist 7y ago
I can't quite figure out what's going on with this thread. It seems to have an eerie amount of posts about support for Zoom, perhaps by paid trolls ("wumaos")?
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by teknologist 7y ago
Instead of installing the Zoom software, join Zoom calls from within your web browser With this trick you can join Zoom calls without ever installing the client on your computer. Here's how to do it: 1) Uninstall the Zoom client if you
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by teknologist 7y ago
The lack of sanitary standards in everyday life has always been shocking to me whenever I've visited China to be honest. People often spit on the streets and cough and sneeze without covering their faces, even in the big modern cities.
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by teknologist 7y ago
What we know so far is that it's likely to have started at a wet market in Wuhan where people lived with bats and other wild animals. Chances of cross-infection are much higher in that scenario.
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by teknologist 7y ago
It would seem that the US view is that CCP state sponsorship of companies for surveillance purposes is not conducive to "real" competition in the market
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by teknologist 7y ago
The analysis says that China would "spill" plenty of blood in that situation too, and the outcome might not be as predictable as you think... https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war
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by teknologist 7y ago
Factories are closed at the moment. The skies tend to clear up when that happens. The same thing also happens in other cities when there's a big central government visit (e.g. Xi Jinping) planned.
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by teknologist 7y ago
How is this at all relevant to the discussion?
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by teknologist 7y ago
I have to wonder at what point "culture" becomes an excuse for being ignorant and/or under-educated about what science is.
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by teknologist 7y ago
And New Relic, while we're at it.
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by teknologist 7y ago
It would be great to see data encryption at rest used in services like this. I like ProtonMail for their innovations in that space.
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by teknologist 7y ago
It's probably collected en masse for analytics or something and is not really comparable to publishing personal information on Hacker News.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Well, does it actually matter? Even if they're tracking you, are you that important for it to be a problem?
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by teknologist 7y ago
They seem to only be able to do this by copying existing platforms that were successful. TikTok is essentially a carbon copy of the discontinued app Vine. I cannot imagine that the pool of discontinued apps that otherwise would be runaway s

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