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by teknologist 7y ago
It looks like it's running Windows XP.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Who cares that the CIA might be behind this though? This is something that has to happen or your children are going to have pretty awful lives.
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by teknologist 7y ago
The "heat not burn" systems that big tobacco companies have been pushing as a vaping alternative recently seem like they would be better sellers than cigarettes. They appear to use less materials and cause their users to consume m
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by teknologist 7y ago
Because there are less people of ethnic minorities than in the majority demographic. That’s why they’re called minorities. The key point is that they have a chance.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Well, it does. Because they will use your ethical values against you to slowly boil you like a frog in a pot 'til you find yourself in a concentration camp having your organs harvested. Sometimes bad things have to happen to prevent wo
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by teknologist 7y ago
Have you ever been to China? Such discrimination happens left, right and center. If you’re of an “acceptable” origin and have the right skin color, you might be ok...
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by teknologist 7y ago
Just a simple checkbox for "lives in a data-hoovering authoritarian regime" would be enough!
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by teknologist 7y ago
In my opinion, GitHub should have blocked all Chinese IP addresses on the day the CCP decided to try to firewall it.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Here's a very clear restriction you're faced with: You could never become a Chinese citizen. Why must be pretend that it's ok for this to be entirely one-sided? We should give what we get, imo.
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by teknologist 7y ago
This is a great move by Gitlab. I'd love to see more companies going in a similar direction.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Keybase is pretty decent now and is up there with the most secure apps.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Two words: Signal Protocol
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by teknologist 7y ago
I'm not buying this. China still looks up to Western culture and brands in many ways and any subversive messaging is simply considered part of the entertainment. Limiting access to these would send a clear message that "the way yo
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by teknologist 7y ago
That's very much a CCP thing. Chinese people are actually rather nice.
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by teknologist 7y ago
The BBC has been blocked by the GFW since around mid-2018 when they migrated to HTTPS. The Chinese censors could no longer snoop on or selectively block the traffic.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Does it have OTA firmware updates? If yes then anything is possible.
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by teknologist 7y ago
The "whataboutism" of naming other media outlets doesn't really help your argument here. You only just have to open the SCMP front page to find them calling military deployments in a stadium near Hong Kong "drills",
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by teknologist 7y ago
SCMP has become a CCP mouthpiece after Jack Ma bought it.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Couldn't recommend Mainland China!
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by teknologist 7y ago
"Using a cryptocurrency" doesn't solve the problem of hyperinflation in itself. However, Libra is backed by its reserve ("Libra Reserve") which is a basket of low-volatility assets structured to keep its value relat
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by teknologist 7y ago
This is indeed true. I find it quite surprising that most Chinese people in PRC believe that it will, though. I suppose one can have 5000 years of cultural history but that does not imply that lessons have been learned.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Well there's certainly more in play here than plain "paranoia". Abuse of WTO rules, foul play on the internet (particularly pertaining to BGP hijacking and DDoS attacks), spying, concentration camps in Xinjiang, etc.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Please, please wrap that text box and button in a <form> so that when we press "enter" the form submits. HTML 101.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Nice strawman
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by teknologist 7y ago
There are shops in the big cities that are starting to refuse cash now (apparently, this is not illegal in China) and only accept the two big payment apps.
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by teknologist 7y ago
These characters love to bandy this around because they've done it themselves, once upon a time, to establish their companies. BUT what they fail to mention is that they had a HUGE share in those fledgling companies at that time. Poten
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by teknologist 7y ago
Along with Baidu and all the other sites that have had their American counterparts banned in China. Yes please.
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by teknologist 7y ago
Could be argued that anyone who watches propaganda on Chinese TV daily isn't particularly fit to have that discussion. It's not like in the West where people are critical of this kind of stuff. They've really excelled at deve
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by teknologist 7y ago
Since console manufacturers seem to have been favouring AMD for graphics lately, this could actually be the reason for a lack of AMD iGPUs
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by teknologist 7y ago
It'll be easy for them to ship UnGoogled Android because that's what Huawei (and other manufacturers) use on their phones in China. Demand, however, is another story...

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