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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report
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this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2024
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Solution: create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP and have a large number of GitHub users star and fork the repo.
That's the whole point of this: they will automatically filter that out, and this is an impotent, though well intended, gesture.
The real solution is to include a few
tiananmenSquarevariables in all the repositories. Either they exclude the entire repository or just the specific file, in either case the entire project may be unusable.So... You're saying instead of "main", "app", or "core", we should change the convention to make tiananmenSquare the entry point for apps?
Or maybe make it the filename for utils, so it'll just break
For example.
But honestly I was more joking. The thing that makes most projects useful is the developers developing it, and they can't clone that