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Does Wechat on Windows have a similar feature?

Is this basically the learning parity with noise problem, but instead of a fixed size vector, the noisy output is generated in by a PRNG with a pre-determined secret seed? How can this be used for authentication or encryption?

As you can find in one of his articles, he deducted his findings from from job descriptions and articles in newspapers (Renminribao, Xinhua):

Xinjiang's rapidly evolving security state, Zenz et al., 2017

http://www.academia.edu/download/52174157/Xinjiangs_Rapidly_...

Please take information with a grain of salt that tries to discredit the researcher, without even mentioning the actual argument. You might not agree with his world view, but Zenz found hard evidence of repression in Xinjiang and uncovered a Chinese government financed program for forced sterilization.

If you are Chinese, be aware that any state-control model that works in Tibet or Xinjiang might also be transferred to other parts of China. The current political trajectory might continue. Xi Jinping is still young, he might be president for the next 30 years.

The core of the communist party follows an unambiguous agenda.

John Garnaut described this very well in his speech "Engineers of the Soul"

https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in

IMHO the speech dataset list is missing other interesting free corpora, e.g. the TEDlium dataset, Voxforge, Common Voice. A more comprehensive (but not complete) list can be found here: https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi/tree/master/egs (download links can be found in the scripts)

There was an article in China News Weekly that investigated the origins of the Virus and also pointed out that 1) the first cases were in November and 2) that the first cases were not linked to the Huanan Seafood Market.

https://chinachange.org/2020/02/09/the-regret-of-wuhan-how-c...

The pro-Beijing camp expected the support of the "silent majority" in the election, which did not exist, but was reported by the Liason Office.

The problem: "The people in charge of manipulating Hong Kong public opinion for the CCP [the Liason Office] are also the people charged with reporting on their own success." Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/25/hong-kong-election-beij...

Same with document formats: MS Office Open XML instead of just supporting the existing OpenDocument Format (ODF) as open standard.

The flaw I care about most: The lack of transaction privacy.

The law is called MPLS 2.0, also see the follow-up blog post.

Agree. There is evidence that such a law will be used for political purposes.

See the case of the Huawei CFO Meng Hongwei that was about sanction violations. She was arrested in Canada and is about to be extradited to USA. The extradition bill extends this power (to retaliate) for the CCP to Hong Kong, an economical hub in Asia.

As anecdotal evidence, see the case of Cathay Pacific, an airline company based in Hong Kong that makes business in China: There were anti-extradition demonstrations at the airport, and some employees of Cathay participated. The CCP demanded their names and their immediate layoff. Instead, the CEO only named himself on the list, and was promptly removed.

However, this sends a strong signal: If you occupy a leading position in a company that may be "on the list" (e.g., listing Taiwan as a country, company based in Canada/USA, employees participated in demonstrations, or "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people" in any way), don't go to Hong Kong anymore.

IMHO, the Chinese influence over the law system will damage HKs economy more than the protests in the long term. "Protests damaging HK" is a narrative that seems to be pushed in Chinese state media.

I recommend: https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/08/hong-kong-for-internati...

> It isn’t known, even to some members of the consortium, how the coin will work or what their roles will be, people familiar with the project said.

Such a stablecoin still requires a regulatory approval process before roll-out.

Just as a reminder that there are open alternatives, GNU Taler would offer a more privacy-oriented stablecoin with an already clear specification, but has not yet been adopted by banks that require the regulatory approval. On the mailing list, the developer wrote that they work on the two missing features needed for approval (cross-device synchronization and an integrated backup solution).

There is a whole district in Tel Aviv in this style, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City_(Tel_Aviv)

Gallium nitride technology is used for the higher frequencies in 5G chips. Currently only suppliers outside of China produce such chips.

From a business perspective, pushing 5G as fast as it is pushed now by China, does not make sense. Chinese network operators would not want to deploy 5G quite as fast as they are being forced to, but China’s government is imposing it.

So why impose it? There might be several reasons, e.g. to have a dominant position in setting industry standards, but one reason stands out: The complex 5G standard requires frequent software that make it harder to enforce security software reviews and anti-espionage measures.

This is currently listed as the most starred repository on Github with 153k stars:

https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E0&s=stars&type=Reposi... (There was the freeCodeCamp repo with 300k stars, but I don't see it in the list anymore.)

I am surprised that this protest does not get more media coverage. Also, Alibaba and Huawei are in the list of companies...

There is an excellent overview over their speech recognition system. http://iscslp2018.org/images/T4_Towards%20end-to-end%20speec...

The weibo account of the person who called for a boycott of Devotion, was promptly deleted. "If repeat its words, you help to spread it, you also have responsibility". https://twitter.com/palastinalied11/status/10992952479877611...

`git clone https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap.git` still works without login...

The new Firefox sync (v1.5) is surely great and has good usability, I preferred the old Firefox sync (v1.1), because it didn't require a Mozilla account (for password retrieval). The new service requires two servers for one's fully own setup (for managing accounts and a sync server), although it is possible to use Mozillas account server.

Also, from the description of the protocol ( https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/wiki/onepw-protoc... ) it was not clear to me, what exactly is encrypted? Only the passwords? I had the impression that the bookmarks were stored in a way readable by Mozilla.

Update. It is not clear what kind of data is in "Class-A" as described here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/AttachedServices/Architect... ... It also says:

> we can share e.g. bookmarks with a third party (by telling them the decryption key)

They already retracted that plan, e.g. see https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinas-hainan-quickly-backtrac...

This is their promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqmbLYWAki4

I expect partial geoblocking and more censorship.

The chinese government tried to force Github to censor shadowsocks and the NY times repository. But back then it would have to block the whole site with other resourceful content.

My guess is that when Github is with Microsoft, the communist party in China has far more leverage as Microsoft has to follow Chinese laws, e.g., for selling Windows (even a special government-version), and bc China is an important market. I hope I'm wrong.

Did anybody notice that the Opera browser company and Wosign are both owned by Qihoo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qihoo_360

What is the status of Wosign/Startcom certificates in the Opera browser? And in the Qihoo ("360 secure") browser?

This could develop further. Reminds me of TOM Skype: Chinese users are redirected from skype.com to the chinese-characteristics website skype.tom.com which serves a censorship-enabled version of skype, see https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/nov/tom-skype-dead-long-l...

Big-data consulting services for secret services and oil companies... mhhhmmm.