• Bloved Madman
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    9 months ago

    The ever aging battle of living in a digital world with global reach whilst being forced to live and comply within the lines drawn in sand.

    • meseek #2982
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      289 months ago

      Not sand, pencil, and the rich have all the erasers. But yeah no, good luck out there, it’s a totally fair and even playing field, trust!

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      That’s hardly the original source. The second paragraph of that article links to another source again.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        indeed, original source is the wrong term, but at least it’s an english derivation of it, which was only copied by the link in this post

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      There’s a coin telegraph logo on the top of the website so I guess is some licensed syndicated content

      • @[email protected]
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        99 months ago

        it is indeed somewhat attributed, but it still very much looks like scraped content.

        a very strong indicator is the inclusion of

        Subscribe The most engaging reads in blockchain. Delivered once a week.

        Email address

        SUBSCRIBE

        at the end, which on cointelegraph’s page is separate from the content and provides a sign-up form.

  • @[email protected]
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    389 months ago

    Good luck being a developer or do technical support without GitHub, Google, Reddit (Lemmy?) or stackexchange

    Or market your product without the possibility of accessing any western social network

    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

    They’re shooting in their feet

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      It is incredible how overbloated their app are. I have no idea why every app need to integrate a social media feed, and be able book a taxi/takeout or whatever.

      They seriously need to have a look at KISS principles.

    • JokeDeity
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      39 months ago

      Yes and no, it’s bad for humanity, great for the CCP.

  • @[email protected]
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    249 months ago

    And there is still a lot of people, especially on lemmy, basically worshipping China and other communist countries.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      and other communist countries. Authoritarian dictatorships.

      Just because they slap socialist or communist on the country name doesn’t make it so.

    • @[email protected]
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      -349 months ago

      Capitalists put you in jail for marijuana. They used to put you in jail for alcohol. Hell, child labor is used in capitalist countries. China honestly is an authoritarian mixed economy. But perhaps, even in the USA, authoritarism is preferred.

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        I’m not trying to defend America but they don’t put you in jail or fine you for using a VPN (yet).

      • Dr Cog
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        -89 months ago

        The difference between democracy and fascism is that the laws are quickly changing due to public opinion in America, but that does not happen in China.

        • @[email protected]
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          49 months ago

          People have been smoking Marijuana since the 60’s and it’s still a federally illegal drug at the level of heroine. Laws don’t change quickly in the US at all.

          • Dr Cog
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            09 months ago

            I never said laws change quickly.

            Marijuana use only recently became publicly accepted by the majority of people. As a result, it is now completely legal in many states and will likely soon be legal federally.

            This kind of thing would never happen in China.