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Attached: 3 images tldr: GitCode or China is attempting to mirror/clone the entire GitHub over to their own servers and there's nothing you can do about it, even if your license somehow disagrees with it. Apparently China now has their own GitHub/public Git repository hosting service called GitCode; it is owned and operated by CSDN under the company name "重庆开源共创科技有限公司". It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without authorization - meaning your project may very well be on this service without you explicitly allowing.

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)

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    3729·
    1 year 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.

    • Colonel Panic@lemm.eeEnglish
      1651·
      1 year 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; … }

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      168·
      1 year 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.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        And here I was thinking that might prevent them mirroring the repo but whatever

    • Asherah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1225·
      1 year 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.caEnglish
        202·
        1 year 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.

      • x4740N@lemm.eeEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        50 Cent Army Repellant:

        六四

        1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
        692·
        1 year ago

        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

              • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
                391·
                1 year ago

                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.

                  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
                    32·
                    1 year ago

                    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?

                  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
                    151·
                    1 year ago

                    Hahahahahahahaha, oh man, how much you spend on a psychologist every month?

                    Also, what you’re doing is called sophistry, specifically moving the goal posts (which predates the US by about 1000 years).

                    You later move on to attacking the person, rather than the argument (more sophistry).

                    You should probably educate yourself lest you expose the clown inside.

                  • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    12·
                    1 year ago

                    1.it’s a euphemism for “And You Are Lynching Negroes” - that’s literally what people used to say instead of whataboutism

                    lol who do you think was saying this, and how is “whataboutism” in any way of a euphemism for it? Did you even bother to read the article you linked?