No worries!

It’s definitely not impossible. Whatever it is I hope dude is ok. And I still encourage the use of FOSS whenever possible.

Did he travel to Russia? I thought you said he traveled to China. If so aaah “because he’s there?” If he was in Russia I’d be inclined to agree regardless of his nationality that Russia would be the be the bigger threat, in my opinion “the country he’s in” would be a step above “a separate country that is at war with another separate country.”

What country did the guy travel to? I thought they said it was China, if not then my mistake, but if so, “yes it does.”

If there was an american national dev in a country where america couldn’t touch them, and they suddenly traveled to the US and dropped contact, it would certainly be suspicious that the NSA or CIA could be involved.

Very true, but we can’t just not criticise a government because the people involved checks notes “aren’t white.” What would make them above criticism? In my view the only possible answer is because (and it’s usually applied to children or the mentally disabled,) “they don’t understand what they’re doing.” In my personal opinion “Nonwhite people” are just as capable as “white people” of knowing what they’re doing, as they are not by default children or mentally disabled (though they do also have both categories, and those categories should get a little more leeway). They know spying is wrong whether they’re “chinese” or “american.”

Exactly, but being that this thread involves the country known as China, the reason to distrust those proprietary blobs is the CCP. If this thread were about an american dev, the threat would be NSA/CIA, if Russian FSB, on and on, as such.

No he wasn’t, he was saying never trust Chinese proprietary code (blobs), because they can compel citizens. If you can audit the code you can audit the code, the country becomes irrelevant.

Furthermore in this instance even if he was saying “don’t trust chinese devs,” not because they’re bad people, but “because they live under an oppressive regime that can force them to do the bad thing,” that’s still not racist, it’s still a criticism of the regime itself that very well could be rectified (well good luck.)

The claims are neither irrational nor hysterical, they’re totally grounded and based in reality, and we should be just as suspicious of them as we are of The West™®©. What’s more, being critical of china in a context where it’s relevant while not mentioning The West™®© doesn’t mean you never criticise anyone other than China and Russia, it means the current conversation is regarding China. If this were a story of an American dev being sketchy and including proprietary blobs, me and you, probably would be in here wondering if the NSA or CIA is involved rather than saying “but the CCP.” I remain critical of proprietary software regardless of it’s origin.

No, I do that on threads about american devs. You can’t just hand wave any criticisms of a government away with “racism” or “but whatabout this other government you also complain about?!”

I notice you haven’t told me that homophobia is bad too while you’re calling me racist, I guess that means you like homophobia? No? That’s just as ridiculous as “if you criticise one government you have to criticise them all in the same comment.” This isn’t “did you bring enough criticism for the whole class” time.

None of this should be news to anyone here, lemmy is highly privacy focused and that doesn’t go away simply because the proprietary blobs in question could be doing sketchy things for the CCP instead of the NSA, either way it’s bad to normal people who aren’t blindly allegiant to the CCP or the NSA.

My car was Hecho en Mexico so long ago they didn’t know cars could even connect to anything other than OBD2, phone was wiped for graphene, and my light switches don’t have proprietary blobs that can phone home, they have screws and wires and absolutely no (internet) connectivity. Hell even my computer is Taiwanese, and runs Fedora anyway, though I am already bitching about Intel ME and AMD PSP.

Honestly, the concern around privacy is nothing new for lemmy, the only problem is that instead of worrying about corporate or US GOV spying in this case the worry is the CCP, and that’s bad because criticising anyone but “western propagandists блять” is a no-no here.

Yeah, sure would be if anyone had done that, but that assumption was an invention of your own not contained within the statement you replied to. “The belief” is that the Chinese government can coerce any citizens within it’s borders (and some outside it’s borders no less), stop putting words in other’s mouths yourself then.

Mmhmm “canned meme response” yes. Totally not employed to curtail criticisms of the government you’re defending, I can tell by the originality.

Hang on, it’s racist to call out totalitarian dictatorships that put muslims in concentration camps and have secret police in other countries to enforce their draconian laws abroad on other sovereign state’s soil?

Fuck that, the chinese government is sketchy as hell, and so are you for trying to downplay the distrust said government has earned quite well as “racism.” Do you work directly for them or is it more of a 3rd party contractor situation?

I agree and thanks for putting me on!

Jeez, if that’s Kabuto I’d hate to see Kabutops!

Depends on your personal acceptable levels of spam in your inbox, I suppose. Thus the common “junk email” and “good email I actually use” scheme many people today rely on. One of those emails I’ll give out, the other is a closely guarded secret only available to a select few. I actually have a middle ground too of “not junk, but I don’t know these people IRL,” too.

Idk, being that “that’s so they can sell your email,” I’m inclined to argue that it is a paywall, the currency is just “email” not “USD.”

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Old country (like Lefty Frizzell and Ernest Tubb) - Them dulcet tones and godDAMN that slide gitar.

Hold on there partner, you left off bookwyrm, pixelfed, misskey, and pleroma!

More like they don’t care if you’re lfet or rihgt.

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