Chinese Devs Using GitHub to Protest 996 Workweek (9am

Re:Chinese Devs Using GitHub to Protest 996 Workweek (9am – ... by mariopt on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:46PM (#19507945)

Not sure about this but I think yes. China has network filtering software for VPNs, in fact, the more advanced anti VPN blocker tools are Chinese due to the firewall.

They have several websites blocked like Google, Facebook (no OAuth integrations). Anything that involves networking might suffer. They would probably get a police visit if the firewall has triggers for sshing into a server (common in devops). Not joking: https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/issues/420#issuecomment-262...

Maybe they could work but would have serious limitations I guess. In a "communist" country, don't even know if they have a tax status for freelancing given the government behaviour.

The only work around would be to have a based company in China to outsource.

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Re:Chinese Devs Using GitHub to Protest 996 Workweek (9am – ... by outloudvi on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:21PM (#19508919)

Having a based company in China is not really a good idea unless you have a great market in China. You have to treat data seriously (not the privacy part, but the censorship and available-for-government-to-read part, like Russia).

Things like Apple saving data of mainland China Apple IDs in GZData concerned a lot of people.

[EDIT: Typo fix]

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