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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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Solution: create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP and have a large number of GitHub users star and fork the repo.
Tramort@programming.dev 4 months ago
Morphit@feddit.uk 4 months 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.
jorp@lemmy.world 4 months 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
Azzu@lemm.ee 4 months ago
The real solution is to include a few
tiananmenSquarevariables in all the repositories. Either they exclude the entire repository or just the specific file, in either case the entire project may be unusable.BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
It’s a new coding paradigm, I will take some time getting used to looking for libraries in the
uyghur/tianamenfolder.Tramort@programming.dev 4 months 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.
Azzu@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They’re not supposed to, it’s just about blocking them from using the software :)
theneverfox@pawb.social 4 months 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
Azzu@lemm.ee 4 months 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
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months 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.
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months 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.
irreticent@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 months ago
everyone should have stuff in their code comments, tianamen, hong kong, taiwan, uyghurs
TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 4 months ago
while (tianamen_square.exists()) {
for (size_t WinnieThePooh = 0; WinnieThePooh < uyhurs.num_oppressed(); WinnieThePooh++; ) {
cout << "Fuck the CCP";
}
}
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 months ago
And here I was thinking that might prevent them mirroring the repo but whatever
AsherahTheEnd@lemmy.world 4 months 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. 🙄
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months 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.
bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Tell that to Julian Assange
Doom@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
Is that what you think got him in trouble?
x4740N@lemm.ee 4 months ago
50 Cent Army Repellant:
六四
1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
irreticent@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I always thought the term “Wumao” sounded suspiciosly like “woo Mao.”
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
426
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yes yes, what about the US?
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 months ago
genius.
sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Problem: the repo is only 1MB, while USA’s is 100GB
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Tankie whataboutism strikes again.
Two things can be bad at the same time. Wild, I know.
sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
“Whataboutism” is what Americans say to profess blind faith in their exceptionalism.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I’m not American. I don’t even like America.
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 4 months 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; … }