Apart from the obvious, China seems to be making incredibly reasonable decisions lately. Especially compared to the current superpower.
Readit Newsheinternets commented on PRC elites voice AI-skepticism jamestown.org/prc-elites-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
heinternets commented on Self-hosting a NAT Gateway awsistoohard.com/blog/sel... · Posted by u/veryrealsid
Please can we do away with NAT forever. Why are we still encouraging this? It’s caused the world to do horrible kludges and continues to do so.
heinternets commented on Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/teleforce
I’m not familiar with the Huawei matter because it’s similar not something I have to concern myself with, but can you point to something specific or a place where I could get some facts on why Huawei is justifiably frowned upon?
I have never seen anything but the various broad claims in the news and by politicians that seem to always just kind of come down to “China bad” as evidence. Maybe I just didn’t care enough to notice, but I would have thought that if there was something real to how Huawei hardware will make the sky fall, the powers that be would have surely made that case with clear and irrefutable proof.
Thanks for providing anything you might be able to point me towards that goes beyond “China bad”, regardless of how anyone feels about China.
Look at the Wikipedia article “criticism of Huawei” for a massive list of IP theft, espionage, backdoors and more, including references.
You are mixing up with Fdroid, Apple doesn't do any source code reading and the tests they do are very basic.
Right now you have a lot of piracy apps which are disguised as a "note taking app" and they passed the appstore review without any issues.
Do you have any examples? Asking for a friend.
heinternets commented on Aisuru botnet shifts from DDoS to residential proxies krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/feross
I've been thinking about building an actually-ethical residential proxy system, for censorship-evasion purposes.
The internet in a growing number of countries is censored, but different content categories are censored in each jurisdiction. Many sites and services also block known VPNs (i.e. non-residential IPs), so that doesn't work as a bypass in all cases.
I have trusted friends in other countries, so by mutual agreement we could set up wireguard links for each other to use (subject to agreed terms). It just needs some way to intelligently route traffic depending on which jurisdictions will allow which requests (i.e. "which is the lowest-latency link that will allow this request").
The issue with this is in many authoritarian nations they will see your Wireguard link and block it. Or even knock at your door.
Question to Chinese citizens on HN: do you feel oppressed by your government? Do you feel that rule of law exists in China?
The notion of encrypted private communication didn't exist a couple of decades ago and people are talking about it as necessary for rule of law.
There's a missing logical link in there somewhere.
People in China have every packet inspected and injected with a malicious payload if it doesnt suit their government. They may get a knock at the door if they say something bad. It also restricts free access to information.
They dont just “feel” oppressed, they are.
heinternets commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use? · Posted by u/rickybule
May I suggest getting a cheap VPS in another country and using SSH to tunnel traffic, or even setup a window manager on the VPS.
heinternets commented on The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London publicdomainreview.org/es... · Posted by u/ohjeez
>Trifle and Lobster for anyone.
In 1851 lobster was still cheap food for the poor, you'd not find it at a fancy banquet.
In London it was a different story to the USA.
Since AI video creation is now a big topic, was looking for a way to authenticate real videos and media. Seems this just opens a whole host of other problems.