Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’ve heard of CamelCase and lowercase and intVariableName variable naming styles. Get ready for:

  for (int Taiwan == 0; Taiwan < HongKong; Taiwan++) { int TianamenSquare == 0; … }

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• Tramort@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s the whole point of this: they will automatically filter that out, and this is an impotent, though well intended, gesture.

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  • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How will they filter it out? If they just don’t mirror anything with ‘forbidden’ terms, we can poison repos to prevent them being mirrored. If they try to tamper with the repo histories then they’ll end up breaking a load of stuff that relies on consistent git hashes.

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    • jorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I feel like the effort to make such a repo and make it popular enough to be cloned and rehosted is a lot more effort than someone manually checking the results of an automated filter process.

      The “effort economy” is hugely in favor of the mirroring side

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  • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The real solution is to include a few tiananmenSquare variables in all the repositories. Either they exclude the entire repository or just the specific file, in either case the entire project may be unusable.

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    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a new coding paradigm, I will take some time getting used to looking for libraries in the uyghur/tianamen folder.

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    • Tramort@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      China filters every byte of Internet traffic in and out of the country.

      It seems naive to think they can’t accomplish the same thing for a GitHub mirror.

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      • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They’re not supposed to, it’s just about blocking them from using the software :)

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So… You’re saying instead of “main”, “app”, or “core”, we should change the convention to make tiananmenSquare the entry point for apps?

      Or maybe make it the filename for utils, so it’ll just break

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      • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        For example.

        But honestly I was more joking. The thing that makes most projects useful is the developers developing it, and they can’t clone that

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah I figured as much. It was mostly a joke. At the end of the day, if stuff is on GH, people can take it. It’s barely even stealing. Unless the license disagrees of course but then you were putting a lot of trust in society by making it public in the first place.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s what I don’t get about this. Why does anyone care? Even this Chinese company, why do they care to clone it all? It’s already all hosted and publicly available.

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      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Apparently they aren’t respecting licenses. It’s possible to have source code publicly available on GH but have it not be truly FOSS. But that’s generally not a great idea since you’re effectively relying on the honour system for people not to take your code.

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      • irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Even this Chinese company, why do they care to clone it all? It’s already all hosted and publicly available.

        Until it isn’t. Perhaps they are preparing for a future war with the US and assume their access to all that code will be blocked. They want to copy it now while they have access.

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• HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  everyone should have stuff in their code comments, tianamen, hong kong, taiwan, uyghurs

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    while (tianamen_square.exists()) {
    for (size_t WinnieThePooh = 0; WinnieThePooh < uyhurs.num_oppressed(); WinnieThePooh++; ) {
    cout << "Fuck the CCP";
    }
    }

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP

  Once you have logged “China killed 100 Zillion people! End CCP now!” in Chinese GitHub, everyone in China will realize that their lives are actually very bad and they need to do a Revolution immediately.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And here I was thinking that might prevent them mirroring the repo but whatever

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• AsherahTheEnd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe we should consider the same for the US government instead of being afraid of the big Chinese boogeyman across the sea? Because I guarantee you the US has just as many, if not more. But China bad. 🙄

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was making a joke about abusing Chinese censorship in order to stop them cloning GitHub repos (assuming that was something you wanted to do. The joke being that the CCP suppresses information about their human rights abuses. That is not true of the US. You could absolutely make a GitHub repo detailing the crimes of the US government. Nobody will stop you.

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    • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Tell that to Julian Assange

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      • Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Is that what you think got him in trouble?

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  • x4740N@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    50 Cent Army Repellant:

    六四

    1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre

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    • irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I always thought the term “Wumao” sounded suspiciosly like “woo Mao.”

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    426

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes yes, what about the US?

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• HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  genius.

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• sub_ubi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Problem: the repo is only 1MB, while USA’s is 100GB

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tankie whataboutism strikes again.

    Two things can be bad at the same time. Wild, I know.

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    • sub_ubi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Whataboutism” is what Americans say to profess blind faith in their exceptionalism.

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      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m not American. I don’t even like America.

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