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Re: GitHub repo extensively mirrored by GitCode, platform launched by China's CSDN

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Yea, that checks out. I don't think I've ever had good experience with Chinese companies. It is like 90% of the product is marketing and form, rather than function. I bought some robotics stuff from a Chinese company. It became a paperweight because the documentation was a google drive folder that was a collection of code and random PDF files from various sources, mixed with some Chinese stuff. The branding was a 10/…

You have 3+ times bad experience with Chinese stuff, but conclude that 90% of Chinese stuff are bad, so you only purchased Chinese stuff 3.33+ times? I don't believe it. Check all your stuff, especially the ones that you consider good. You might be surprised how many of them are Chinese.

BTW, for Chinese robotics stuff, I'd recommend you check out DJI, Ubtech, Clickbot and EMO robot, just to name a few. These are well-established brands. If you just get random stuff from some random kickstarter campaigns, yeah it has a high chance of ending bad (no matter it's Chinese or not).

Re: GitHub repo extensively mirrored by GitCode, platform launched by China's CSDN

#32

It's stolen. It's a content farm. It will crawl tech articles from other places, use LLM to copy one, and use gitcode url to replace github url. Found a tweet: https://x.com/yihong0618/status/1776783712954581173/photo/1

Also, it will kindly(?) create an account corresponding to github account.

If you want to remove content from the repository it cloned, you need to login with github account, and remove content. But the account and the project will still be kept as a placeholder.

From https://www.landiannews.com/archives/104677.html

Re: GitHub repo extensively mirrored by GitCode, platform launched by China's CSDN

#33

OP edit: title was "Every GitHub repo stolen by GitCode, platform launched by China's CSDN". Edited to "mirrored" because technically it's okay to mirror open-source projects. * note: apparently only repos above a certain number of stars (10?) are mirrored. Title changed to "extensively mirrored"

sorry, it is not a real mirror, all the links in repo get changed when doing the 'mirroring'. it also created pages...etc all things that do not get the permission from author.
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