Tankiedesantski [he/him]

Third party scraped reports citing a crypto shill site's reporting on a blurry and redacted document from China's equivalent of Facebook is how I get all my accurate and true news about things that really happened.

All I see is two people failing their corporately mandated cyber security training at the same time.

First of all, if there is a better source then OP should post the better source to begin with. Everyone should be skeptical when presented with a second hand summary of something going through two weak sources.

As for the original source, it's an NED front based in the US so as far as I'm concerned it can be dismissed with no further consideration.

First they came for the environmentalists, and I said nothing because I didn't want my commute to be inconvenienced...

I'm sorry we can't all be credulous stooges of American imperialism living on stolen land like you.

The first link is just quoting the social media post verbatim. Treat it with the same degree of reliability as "this guy said on Facebook/Twitter..."

Second article actually goes out of its way to say how uncommon it is to be punished for circumventing the firewall:

“Climbing the firewall results in punishment” is not the norm A common misunderstanding among the public about circumvention is that anyone who circumvents the wall will be punished. This is unrealistic for two reasons: first, the public security organs do not have that many law enforcement police; second, the public security organs are not as busy as you think. Most of the time, the punishment for circumventing the wall is to pull out the radish and bring out the mud. There are typical cases where the public security organs take the initiative to go to the external network to arrest people, but the number is very small.

Judging from the 50 cases, only one case adopted the first-level "extreme law enforcement model", that is, the "use of circumvention software is punishable" model. The description of the case was "A certain person used his own mobile phone to use a VPN on the Internet to circumvent the firewall." Wall software, its behavior constitutes the unauthorized use of non-legal channels for international networking." Even so, the actual situation of enforcement may be different from the description of the administrative penalty decision.

Trump: "I bet it wasn't even an M&M folks, I think, and I'm very knowledgeable about this kind of thing, I think it was actually a Skittle!"

Crowd: Booing intensifies, some in audience stand up, rubbish thrown at Desantis

The NSDAP was wiped out in 1945 but denazification was woefully incomplete and individual Nazis held positions of power in institutions like NATO, NASA, West German intelligence, etc, well after the 50s. That's just direct members of the NSDAP and not all the neo-nazi splinter parties which West Germany and United Germany by their own admissions never wiped out. Add onto that various explicitly neo-Nazi groups in other countries and active militant Nazi-adjacent groups overseas and I don't think it's accurate or productive to say that Nazism has been "largely wiped out".

If you ever notice, all apps developed in china are similar. Ads at start, invasive tracking using dummy images dropped in /pictures, unnecessary permissions like phone and IMEI, and so on. They literally don't have a way to compare to something else. There's the Baidu SDK, Tencent SDK, aliyun SDK and they are using bad coding practices because they're doing that in isolation

What kind of shitty apps are you installing? Some of the most popular mobile games in the world are Chinese (Genshin, Honkai, Azurlane, Ark Knights, etc) and none of them do any of this shit.

I went to China recently with a buddy and I loaded a ton of China specific apps onto our phones. Mine was a Samsung and his was an iPhone. Between WeChat, Alipay, Taobao, Amap, DiDi, Dianping, the China Customs Service app and a bunch of other store and region specific apps, literally none of them did anything you described. I also bought a Xiaomi phone in China and migrated all my data over, so I can confirm that these apps don't do anything like that even on a Chinese phone (which, btw, is way more strict with permissions than my Samsung, down to telling me each and every time google maps requested my location).

In addition to that, I have a bunch of apps for stuff from Chinese companies on my phone like Mijia, Fiio, Huawei, Moondrop, etc and none of them do this shit either.

you annoying mosquitoes

Aussie liberal avoid dehumanizing people challenge: Impossible

That old lady's name? Albert Einstein.

No, he's telling you to get into some really fucked up pedo shit with

And yes, like the other 8.1 billion people on the planet (sans you, of course), I live on stolen land! Have mercy!

Engaging in genocide minimization to own the socialists.

Big advertising budgets that are funded from the value alienated from exploited workers and consumers. Information asymmetry in the marketplace means that even if you make a superior product at a lower price, you could still be outcompeted by an expensive inferior product if more people know about that worse product and don't know about your product.

That's for most basic products anyway. Luxury products like bags and clothes are almost all marketing since the cost to create them is so low compared to their sales price. People buy them because of perceptions created by marketing and not any inherent value in the product itself.

"Our business model sucks and we don't want to do the work to pay the people who perform labor for us. Therefore, our CEO deserves a hundred million dollars."

Yeah, makes sense. Carry on.

This is how you get flat earthers.

Woah you read some anonymous person's social media page and went to a GitHub page that may or may not be connected to the same person?

Fuck, call the Pulitzer committee, we got ourselves an investigative journalist.

All three gsX folders were empty by the way, and that doesn't explain why the samsung was squeaky clean. By your own admission this is no longer the case on newer versions of the apps and android, so you should at the very least go back and edit your post to put it into past tense.

Also, your assertion was that all Chinese apps are similar, so 3 out of dozens makes your statement demonstrably false.

This is a trap to identify the Fahrenheit users for future re-education, isn't it?

One of the functions of colonialism (in this case colonialism via exploitation of labor and resources of the global south economically) is to transfer wealth from the colony to the empire (we call these the Imperial Core regions).

I'm going to use a really simplified example and some made up numbers to illustrate. Say a pound of coffee takes 1 hour of labor to produce. The people producing it in Ethiopia are being paid $1 an hour to produce it. A capitalist from the Imperial Core buys that pound of coffee for $2, ships it to the Core for another $1, and sells it for $5.

The capitalist makes $2 and the buyer gets a pound of coffee for $5. Now imagine if the worker in Ethiopia is being paid $12 an hour. The capitalist cannot buy a pound of coffee for anything less than $12. After $1 shipping and his $2 cut (assuming he does not inflate his cut because he's taking a percentage of the sale), the pound of coffee is now $15 to the buyer.

The buyer does not have the Ethiopian worker "working for them" in the strictest sense, but the buyer does benefit from getting their pound of coffee for 1/3 the price they would otherwise have to pay.

This is why Marxists say that the current living standards of the so-called First World are being propped up by the economic exploitation of the global south, even if the residents of the First World are not directly engaging in colonialism in the pith helmet and whips sense.

hitler was probably one of the most evil people to ever exist. However, you can certainly acknowledge that while also acknowledging that he was, in fact, an effective leader.

Effective at what? Taking Germany from the most powerful country in continental Europe to the fifth most powerful country in Berlin?

I have been job hunting for a while and I have felt a great disadvantage in my job search due to my lack of access to high-quality LLMs. Writing cover letters is honestly so bullshit.

Has job hunting gotten so bad that it's just LLMs reading the output of other LLMs?

Damn, not even a mention of that time Tony Abbot bit into a raw skin-on onion.

I just tried this with both my Xiaomi and my Samsung using both first party and third party file managers. Xiaomi showed 3 .gsX folders despite it being absolutely full of Chinese apps that I loaded on. Samsung with the same method had zero.

Why are all Chinese apps like this?

Google SGE includes ... Stalin ... on a list of "greatest" leaders

Well at least it got one thing correct. Terrible ratio though.

Well yeah, why wouldn't China block a site full of libs?

If you believe that then I welcome you to follow his example of April 30, 1945.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty the Internet...

24 cans of soda probably embodies a lot more than 1 hour total work to create for a lot of people. Planting and harvesting the coca, mining the bauxite ore and refining it into aluminum, etc etc. The main reason that much cola is available to you at that price is that the coca and aluminum probably come from somewhere where workers get paid a lot less than $12/hr.

I'm all for people being paid more, but in a just and equitable world a case of soda would probably cost more than it does now.

I used to do a regular donation ($5 a month or something) but then I found out Jimmy Wales (who was a figurehead of the site at that point) was a weird Ayn Rand libertarian and stopped.

The Switch runs even first party Nintendo games like dogshit on top of all that. People will say it's the developer's fault, to which I say Nintendo owns the fucking developer so it's still their fault.

Also, Nintendo is the only console company that doesn't port to PC. The fuck are all the annoying anti-Epic Store bros when it comes time to yell at Nintendo?

The other half thinks the protestors should get the electric chair.

I think this is common to most languages: English speakers lecturing native speakers about how they're grammatically incorrect based on some rule printed in an entry-level language textbook.

I once saw a white dude confidently assert to a Japanese person that 全然 could not be used in the positive and only in the negative. Dude wouldn't even back down after the Japanese speaker got out their phone and showed him a famous 12th century (or something) poem that used 全然 in the affirmative. That's like trying to correct someone's grammar and then getting shut down by Shakespeare.

I know accountant/lawyer/engineer types who have to live with room mates and are struggling to save up deposits for buying housing even though they make good money.

Even in these previously prestigious positions junior employees get paid shit and get worked to the bone in exchange for the promise of big (like $10k+ a year) raises. Over recent years the starting salaries have not kept up with inflation and even the raises are getting smaller and smaller. In theory you're supposed to be financially comfortable "mid career" but that used to be 5 years in and now appears more like 10 or even 15 years in.

Doctors, bankers, top tier lawyers and consultants may be exceptions to this trend, but then again those are jobs where people literally drop dead from overwork so that's a different type of hell.

I used all of them because I got my new phone a few days into the trip and used it for the remaining week or so I was there. I'm still using Chinese apps on a daily basis now, so why are they all empty?

Let's talk about your other claims as well. Irrelevant permissions? Zero. Ads on boot? Hardly everything since most of the utility apps don't have ads at all.

i repeat the statement, all chinese apps are similar, look for example mijia and meidi smart home, they're basically identical, like "there's only one way to make a smart home app"

All American apps are similar. Look for example Twitter and Threads, they're basically identical, like "there's only one way to make a social media platform"

I use dozens of chinese apps and i can totally distinguish immediately when the dev is chinese.

Well I'm sorry my digital caliper sense isn't as developed as yours. I'll strive to be better.

Maybe the folders are empty because your Xiaomi has the "cleaner" app. Did you ever wonder why only Chinese phones have "cleaner" apps? Because the situation in the country is widely abused.

Again. Explain the Samsung not having a single hidden folder under the same circumstances. Is it because Samsung had a "cleaner" function too? Is the situation in South Korea widely abused top? Most Android phones have cleaning and self maintenance functions. Google's Files app has a similar cleaning function. Has the problem spread to the US?!

You repeat that taobao or Huawei app store don't have ads on the splash screen. This means you never actually used those apps.

No, those store apps are store apps. Of course they're going to try to sell you shit. When I open my Amazon app the first thing it does is show me shit I might want to buy. Is Besos Chinese now too? When did this happen?

Your ridiculous claim is that all Chinese apps are similar. Therefore they all show ads on boot. My onus of proof is discharged when I show even one single Chinese app with no ads on boot, which is a lot of them.

The way you're defending those coding practices is really weird. I notice now your username. Now I understand. It's not that because the ruling party has a nostalgic symbol in their logo (but it's as capitalist as the usa, without health insurance you're fucked), the apps made in that country are automatically good and perfect.

Oh that's weird, tell me about how Chinese people are fucked without health insurance when there's universal health insurance?

I'm not defending any coding practices because there's no such thing as a "Chinese coding practice" to defend. You started off saying that there were at least 3 verifiable things that all Chinese apps do, and now you're down to "look, there's a general vibe from apps from China".

I sometimes wonder how much Pixel hype is just inertia from when other manufacturers had terrible skins and Pixel was the only way for most to get a stock android experience.

Nowadays third party software has come a long way and from what I can see the pixel's main selling point is it's cameras.

We paid them slave wages to make things for us but they didn't play fair and learned how to make things for themselves

India has too many languages and cannot agree on one in common, which is why English is a "neutral" compromise. I understand that making Hindi the national language is a common Hindu Nationalist point.

Catholics and Christians

The Orthodox: