throwawasiudy

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by throwawasiudy 10y ago
Whenever I'm going to say something bad about anything more important than toilet paper I create a throwaway. Even if the posts give you karma (which my throwaways are pretty universally positive karma) it isn't worth the downvote
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by throwawasiudy 10y ago
It will happen whether you build your website to be accessible there or not. They already cloned all the major sites used in the US and as soon as the Chinese version was off the ground the government blocked out all the foreign competitors
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by throwawasiudy 10y ago
Without https MANY places will silently MITM your connection. I remember reading that a major site, I think netflix, was having a low consistent level of page load failures and couldn't figure it out. When they went to HTTPS all the pr
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by throwawasiudy 10y ago
spend time and resources making sure my site works and keeps working in a marketplace I have no interest in due to the government policies there? The reason I don't care has everything to do with censorship, and censorship ironically i
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by throwawasiudy 10y ago
I'm sure Google, Uber, and countless other tech companies thought the same before they pulled out of China's market. Turns out China's government policies can be so hostile to outside tech companies that even the Mighty Goog
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by throwawasiudy 10y ago
I don't like the censorship policies of the Chinese government. I'm not going to go out of my way to make sure my site is compatible with their censorship, use a VPN.