Lol yeah, the things that are actually emitting half of every back-and-forth radio communication between a device and a cell tower

Lol don’t tell them about all the radio frequencies around them all the time

Like a Roomba?

There’s a reason they’re all in the same part of India and it’s because the police in that area have been bought off.

It’s Kolkata right? That’s the sense I get from watching anti scammer YouTubers like Jim Browning.

That’s the thing that gets me. Undercutting is the quintessential anticompetitive practice, and it’s Epic’s entire business model. They give away games for free because they are trying to siphon some of Steam’s customers. They make exclusive release deals with publishers because they want to force people to use their platform. They are trying to compete with Steam using their resources from the success of Fortnite and Unreal rather than compete with the storefront by actually having a better storefront.

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.

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.

It’s funny how much effort you’re going to debating my word choice instead of the meaning and content of my rebuttal to your stupid comment. Do you have an actual point here? Are you claiming that what you were doing above wasn’t whataboutism? That it’s somehow a valid counterpoint to my joke about CCP censorship to say that the US also does bad things?

Lmao it’s literally the name of a logical fallacy. How is the term itself fallacious?

Also I harbour no racism or ill will toward the Chinese people. My girlfriend is Chinese and I care about her a lot and love learning about her culture. I just don’t abide the human rights atrocities (or censorship thereof) committed by any government.

Life imitates art

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

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.

Tankie whataboutism strikes again.

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

Edit: also, the point of my joke wasn’t the human rights abuses. It is that these things are censored in China. So your comment is even more irrelevant. One could very easily create a repo outlining American crimes and put it on GitHub. But doing so in China with CCP crimes will have you sent to a Gulag

Honestly I don’t have an opinion on that. In the immortal words of Donald Trump, “nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated”

I’m not gonna pretend I have the answers. I’m not a policy expert. But from what I’ve seen, I think our system works pretty well when it’s well-funded. Maybe a different public system would work even better, IDK.

Are you suggesting we switch to privatised healthcare?

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.

Fossil fuel companies should have their right to advertise taken away. This is what we did to cigarette companies when we found out they were knowingly poisoning the population. There is ample evidence that the FF industry does the same thing on a much larger scale. They even hired a lot of the same marketing people.

Just no more fossil fuel ads. No more billboards outside gas stations telling you what company’s gas it is or how much they are selling it for. No more YouTube ads where they talk about all of their greenwashing. People should just never hear anything positive about fossil fuel again.

You are confusing “addictive” and “fun”. If a game is enjoyable and you want to keep playing it, that is called fun. If a game makes you feel like you need to play it and you don’t really care if you’re enjoying it, it’s called addictive.

I love ShellCheck! It’s one of the biggest FOSS projects written in Haskell.

In a perfect world we would be divesting from car dependency as quickly as possible. Every policy move we make should be made with the intent that less people need to own a car. But no lawmakers actually agree with that position. They are content for us to pave the world and watch it boil.