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> If you had actually read the thread you'd know that it's Wikipedia policy not to include links to sites containg content illegal in the US because that can actually get visitors …

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_... https://foundation.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Controver... If there is some official policy which links are all…

your friend should stop seeing "girlfriends".

Yeah for example 8chan and kiwifarms are usually censored. I'm not that mad about it, some censorship is always necessary (you don't want links to child porn), but it's weird that …

Everyone steals in Vietnam. Every time the communists change positions in the politburo, the new communist in charge arrests the previous one for corruption. And so it goes. (Nguye…

On one hand it's Vietnam where everyone bribes everyone. (Literally. Stealing country funds is a fact of life.) On the other hand it's 21 billion. Still rough.

Note that she got a death sentence for fraud. It's... rough. (In my opinion.)

The actual maintainers of the repo seem to take the position that all "Jia Tan" commits are backdoor-free unless proven otherwise, so most of his commits still stay (as they* did a…

I'll ping Jigar

Well they do solve problem for me - I want a small phone, flip is. I like my iPhone Mini but apparently most people didn't.

AirTags/Find My is THE reason why me and my whole family is on iOS. This is great. I wanted my next phone to be Z Flip since Apple stopped making small iPhones (and no foldables in…

Every time someone explains to me autotools, the individual pieces sort of make sense, yet the result is always this inscrutable unreadable mess. I don't know why.

Did the Jia Tan character actually committed something of value? Looking at the history, he had (there was some stuff with multithreaded compression/decompression); as he kept it i…

as I wrote in a different thread, some projects don't have any source control. From the big ones - 7z, ncurses are both tarballs only.

yes there is, it's called git clone. :)

Interesting. Well, xpdf I knew :) but yeah xpdf can be nuked, ncurses cannot.

There are still nowadays projects without a proper source control. For example, xpdfreader, source of xpdf, is distributed just as source tarballs. The maintainer just publishes th…

Does Nix/Guix solve this? I have been skeptical of "rewrite everything into rust", but... maybe we should at least rewrite everything into Nix?

As other poster said, Chinese has diacritics that got usually removed when put into English websites

There are many real Jia Tans on LinkedIn

CIA didn't put anyone new into gitmo for years. The 30 remaining gitmo prisoners are all W Bush holdovers that all subsequent administrations forgot.

I didn't realize it was a Microsoft engineer that works on Azure Postgres that found the issue. Thanks, Microsoft, I like Azure now.

let's add passport (and visa) checks to github