China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report
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GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.
It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.
There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)
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fun to think that my shitty program is now stored in an artic vault and stored in some Chinese servers
So many bugs I never fixed and yet here we are lol
The great thing about China is that it's got lots of people eager to fix those bugs
You haven't worked with a lot of Chinese engineers, have you? https://www.chinaexpatsociety.com/culture/the-chabuduo-mindset
I love how they reinvent a universal experience as uniquely Chinese
They stole half assing it from the West!
Just discovered I was Chinese all this time!
Chalega in Hindi https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/24/survival-of-the-mediocre-mediocre/
Not as bad as you make it out to be, and I actually worked in the US with more Chinese engineers than US engineers.
I didn't down vote you. I'm not saying all Chinese engineers are bad, I'm just saying a lot are bad or don't care enough about details just execution as fast and with as little effort as possible.