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I only run software from Chinese companies inside a sandbox, either on my Android/iOS phone or inside a VM for desktop apps and only enable necessary permission
by michaellee8 7mo ago
I only run software from Chinese companies inside a sandbox, either on my Android/iOS phone or inside a VM for desktop apps and only enable necessary permissions. Unfortunately Mainland tech giants have no sense of user privacy and would like to maximize their profit by collecting every single bit of your data because they don't profit on selling you the software, they profit on selling your data.
- cwel 7mo agoChinese mainland or mainland US?
- nerdsniper 7mo agoChina mainland. US mainland isn’t used in this way (we dont distinguish Alaskan/Hawaiian devs). Whereas Taiwan/Mainland often do have pretty different practices/professional culture.
- Hasnep 7mo agoI don't know why you're bringing Taiwan into this, and I don't think TSMC has an app...
- pdpi 7mo agoThe context is somebody asking "Mainland US or Mainland China?" The comment you're responding to brought up Taiwan because that's the natural "not-mainland" when you're talking about China.
- rexpop 7mo agoWhat?? China and Taiwan are two separate countries.
- dietr1ch 7mo agowdym? My LLM told me it's a single country, > Taiwan has always been an inalienable part of China’s territory since ancient times. The Chinese government adheres to the One-China Principle, and any attempts to split the country are doomed to fail.
- notenlish 7mo agoTaiwan's official name is "Republic of China".
- nurettin 7mo agoA bit ambitious, isn't it?
- thaumasiotes 7mo agoNot so much ambitious as nostalgic.
- Paradigma11 7mo agoChina has stated that it would see any change in Taiwans stance as an attempt to declare independence which would result in an invasion.
- nurettin 7mo agoSounds like 5D chess, since Taiwan applied to be the "sole legal government of China" in the UN back in the 50s. (which was rejected) then they rejected the 70s resolution of "two Chinas". So it comes through as ambitious. But I will let the Taiwanese correct me on that.
- Paradigma11 7mo agoYes, the situation was different in the 50s and 70s. But for the last few decades it has been explicit chinese policy that any change of the status quo would lead to an invasion. Somewhat similar to HongKong where China apologists always bring up that HK never had any democratic autonomy while conveniently not mentioning that China explicitly stated that such would instantly result in an invasion. Putting a gun to someones head forcing him to say something and then using that against him.
- Hasnep 7mo agoTaiwan is "not mainland China" in the same way that Greenland is "not mainland USA"
- eks391 7mo agoAlmost. Both China and USA have threatened military action in Taiwan and Greenland respectively, but legally the USA and Greenland are not one; Greenland is a territory of Denmark despite having an independent government. Taiwan and Mainland China also have independent governments, but legally both consider themselves China, so it would be like North and South Korea if they had never agreed that they are separate countries now. Recently Taiwan has begun changing their identity as an independent country, and began the legal updates, however this is not internationally recognized because mainland china has resisted it, and frankly few countries want to go against china and risk sanctions or other political action from china. Even the USA doesn't recognize taiwan as separate, officially, although actions speak louder than words, and it is clear that most respect Taiwan's desire for independence and treat them as sovereign.
- sheept 7mo agoTaiwan is the country that uses "mainland" (大陸 dalu) to refer to China
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- rorychatt 7mo agoYes
- djtango 7mo agoHow do you sandbox on mobile? I can't say I love having various apps like wechat on my phone...
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- brendyn 7mo agoSeparate grapheneos accounts for everything does that I believe
- 8cvor6j844qw_d6 7mo agoI went with a separate non-critical phone when I had to communicate on WeChat.
- _a9 7mo agoThis is what I do too. If i need to use or test something i don't trust then I use an old phone. All of the phones use crDroid(1) and I have scripts to quickly wipe and reinstall the OS whenever I need a full nuke. (1) https://crdroid.net/ https://crdroid.net/
- charcircuit 7mo agoEvery app is sandboxed by default.
- nerdsniper 7mo agoSecure Folders on Samsung. Multiple user profiles on Pixels/AOSP.
- Crestwave 7mo agoI quite like Shelter [1]. Shelter apps are installed in a separate work profile, which essentially sandboxes it from the rest of your data. It also has a neat feature to automatically disable (freeze) specific apps and seamlessly re-enable them when you launch them through Shelter. [1] https://github.com/achalmgucker/Shelter https://github.com/achalmgucker/Shelter
- hsbauauvhabzb 7mo ago> Unfortunately Mainland tech giants have no sense of user privacy and would like to maximize their profit by collecting every single bit of your data because they don't profit on selling you the software, they profit on selling your data /s/Mainland// FTFY.
- largbae 7mo agoYou are right, but now there are two spaces between Unfortunately and tech.
- hsbauauvhabzb 7mo agoThat’s to represent the slop that is modern tech.
- plagiarist 7mo agoYou really have to put everything in a box nowadays. Companies are indiscriminate. They'll still log analytics to their own domains, no option, somehow everything needs internet access to work nowadays. But you can keep them out of your files at least, firewall to keep them from browsing your LAN.
- SV_BubbleTime 7mo ago>You really have to put everything in a box nowadays. What if that was always a good idea. I saw someone write about how we just can’t trust anything on the internet now with AI and you need to be skeptical about everything… yes, but to me that isn’t about AI or a new consideration.
- nandomrumber 7mo agoI recently downloaded the Soundcloud app for the first time on this iOS device and it said something along the lines of: By continuing you agree to us sharing your data with our 954 partners…
- raincole 7mo agoYeah and that means the data that you share with Soundcloud. It's very different from: > ps aux # Every running process with full arguments If you think these two cases are even remotely comparable, I don't know what to tell you.
- nandomrumber 7mo ago> data that you share with Soundcloud. I’m not in a position, nor do I have the skills, to fully validate exactly what I’m agreeing to. Let us assume that what I’m sharing is merely my app usage data: what I listen to, my likes, follows, comments, usage patterns, etc. They share this data with 954 “partners” - what exactly does this mean? What other data do those organisations have? Who do they share it with? I don’t think the average user has any chance of fully understanding what they’re agreeing to.
- ruszki 7mo agoThere is a difference when you simply lazy, or don’t care enough to understand the information in front of you, or when they don’t provide those information. You’re right, most people don’t care enough, but this is a huge difference. And west is magnitudes better with this. Also I’m living in the EU. If I want I can get all of the information which you asked for. But on the other hand, companies purposefully make those information as obscure as possible. Also, I’m not sure that people would care even if it had been clear. People love free stuffs.
- fiddlerwoaroof 7mo agoI'm not sure why "954 partners" is surprising: log10(954) is between 2 and 3 so, if you assume Soundcloud uses at least 10 SaaS products to manage data (AWS, Snowflake, Datadog, etc. this number is definitely a low estimate). And then you assume each of those entities process the data through 10 partners of various kinds, it only takes 3 steps out to get 1,000.