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by catiopatio 3y ago
Poe’s law strikes again. I legit cannot determine whether your comment is satire or genuine.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Your first false equivalence arises out of trivializing the qualitative differences in freedom between China and the USA/EU, implicitly framing the limitations in China as comparable to those in democratic societies. This is misleading
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Do you get paid by the word, by the post, or are you actually this nuts and do this for free?
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by catiopatio 3y ago
It’s possible to simultaneously drive economic development, lift a populace out of poverty, and not construct an authoritarian regime. See also: Western Democracy. Remind me again which government was responsible for the deadliest famine
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Dong Jianbiao, the father of Dong Yaoqiong, who authorities disappeared for splashing ink on a poster of President Xi Jinping in 2018, died in a prison in Hunan province. The new Measures on the Administration of Internet Religious Infor
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by catiopatio 3y ago
You have conspicuously avoided addressing the specific, systemic human rights abuses unique to China. Instead, your post employs a series of rhetorical tactics aimed at stifling constructive dialogue: First, you assert a false equivalency b
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by catiopatio 3y ago
In another comment, you claimed that “Black Lives Matter leaders … died in mysterious accidents and car fires.” This ventures firmly into the realm of conspiracy theory. Do you feel you are presenting objective facts, as opposed to particip
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by catiopatio 3y ago
I don’t believe you’re engaging in good faith; you are employing tactics meant to stifle discourse: 1. False Equivalence: Suggesting that economic progress and freedom of speech are interchangeable or mutually exclusive is intentionally mis
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Human rights and human prosperity aren’t mutually exclusive. On top of which, they did such a terrible job of lifting people out of poverty, they unnecessarily killed tens of millions in the deadliest famine in human history: https:/&
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by catiopatio 3y ago
By all human rights measures, it is worse. Freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of religion … you name it. Feel free to read the yearly reports from the HRW: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2023/coun
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Xinjiang internment camps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps Censorship in China: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China Four Cardinal Principles (enshrined in
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by catiopatio 3y ago
For all the faults of western democracies, the Chinese Communist Party is far worse. That’s not anti-China propaganda. You comment on this issue a surprising amount, and clearly feel strongly about the US’ views on China. I’d be curious as
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by catiopatio 3y ago
It’s very rare that bicycle is going to mechanically fail and send you flying. Short of the time I was hit by a car, I’ve never had a bicycling emergency — road or mountain — that I wasn’t able to walk away from through some combination of
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by catiopatio 3y ago
The design, maintenance, and alteration of parachute equipment is regulated by the FAA; equipment must be approved under the FAA’s technical standards, and anyone packing a parachute must be an FAA-licensed rigger. AFAIK there are no such s
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by catiopatio 3y ago
It’s very likely that the hardware and/or firmware was not designed to meet a quality standard appropriate for the associated customer risks.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
As someone who has been saved from more serious injury by a helmet more than once … that’s flat-earth levels of delusion.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Why do you take umbrage with a such a relevant fact being disclosed? Helmets save lives, and isn’t it literally their job to inform us of such facts?
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by catiopatio 3y ago
I didn’t agree to terms that require I provide them with plaintext traffic to analyze.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
> SNI monitoring is a reasonable compromise, and I think a healthy one No, it’s not. ISPs have no right to know who I am speaking to or why.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
You’re right, I see that as embarrassingly trivial. This whole thread is inane — if using a simple API is “amazing engineering”, what do you call the actual amazing engineering you’re holding in your hand right now? I have nothing against F
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by catiopatio 3y ago
I have not missed the point. Background notifications can and do carry arbitrary application data, and are used to update the application state in the background. This is their intended purpose, it’s what they’re documented to do, it’s how
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by catiopatio 3y ago
A mobile webapp is still a webapp, and “I cannot share” does not mean “I do not have”. You’re the one with an extraordinary claim here — that applications aren’t using such a basic, documented, widespread feature. It’s patently silly and I
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Why? Do you genuinely believe it’s uncommon for applications to leverage this useful, trivial, long-standing platform API for its intended and explicitly documented purpose? I can’t imagine why you’d believe that, but another commenter alre
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Slack/Discord/Teams ? Those are desktop web applications hosted via Electron. Failing to leverage basic platform functionality is practically their telos. It’s a trivial, documented, supported, long-standing API for a common use-
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Tons of apps do that. It’s a built-in, supported use-case! It’s also the trivial, obvious approach to anyone who asks the question “how can I push data to the application when it’s not running.”
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by catiopatio 3y ago
A cognitive filter that misrepresents reality is toxic.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
> I build AI/ML systems. What’s the relevance? Push notifications aren’t some odd “alternative pipe” and conveying data via push notifications is a known and supported use-case.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
> amazing engineering Background updates are a built-in, supported, documented feature, widely employed by applications on the platform, and accessible to anyone that reads the two pages of documentation required to use them: “Pushing ba
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Linux is doing more than “just fine” and is in no way similar to OpenSSL. This individual wasn’t robbed of the opportunity for a contribution. He received credit for his contribution via a reported-by flag. It’s a tiny patch — all the work
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by catiopatio 3y ago
As a long-time OSS contributor and an active maintainer on a different OSS operating system, I can definitively state that the answer is: yes, it’s absolutely limiting. They received a reported-by credit, which was more than sufficient — es

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