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https://github.com/realpacific/readthis

A bit about Nepal—the government here is run by a bunch of old farts. They are deeply corrupt and will do anything, legal or not, to protect their positions and continue embezzling the national budget. They lack accountability because they know they can/and have gotten away with anything. Example of a recent one [1]. Their children live lavishly, flexing their designer bags and watches, while the commoners struggle working tough jobs overseas just to survive.

They know that by controlling social media—as they already did with TikTok—they can censor any news about their corruption (which is a norm here) easily and keep the people in dark and in their favor. Now, they want Meta and Google to comply with their agenda and with the election coming, they need this bad!

This protest was never about a “social media ban.” It was against years and years of corruption, embezzlement and censorship. It was supposed to be peaceful. But politics here is a dirty game, and these veterans are seasoned pros. They hired goons to infiltrate the peaceful crowds, cause chaos and damage public property—a very old tactic here. That is how the demonstration spiraled out of control.

If you want to hear the voices of real people, look at r/Nepal and r/NepalSocial on Reddit.

And ask yourself—do you really think people are ready to risk their lives just for social media?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/NepalSocial/comments/1n9ra2q/hit_an...

Technologies: Java, Kotlin, JS, TypeScript, Python, Golang, Ruby

Portfolio: https://prashantbarahi.com.np/

Netlify & Cloudflare

D3

Python (to generate Markdown files)

https://prashantbarahi.com.np/read-in-public

This is a collection of blogs (not mine) I've read.

Here is mine: https://prashantbarahi.com.np/blogs

This one is to the point. So, the collection was exported from my Pocket account. Whenever I find any interesting blogs, I save it there (with tags so that I can find them easily). The oldest entry dates back to 2017 and over time, I have accumulated about 700-ish articles.

Here's the backstory: https://twitter.com/nottherealpac/status/1545803998854205441

Hope this clarifies :)

> I have an internal library of one-liners and bash scripts but I should publish these

That's a great idea. Bash scripts are sort-of like regex to me (I have to recall them whenever I need them and then I forget them later) and bash scripts samples can really be useful. Looking forward to your Show HN.