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stevefan1999today at 11:08 AM2 repliesview on HN

I use JuiceFS https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs if you think the Chinese are worth the trust


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cyanydeeztoday at 11:10 AM

If it's open source, you don't do daily pulls and you have a competent AI to crawl the codebase; why does it matter the ethnicity at this point?

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almaighttoday at 1:31 PM

In the decades that open-source projects have existed on GitHub—even those backed by the Chinese government—there has never been an instance of them containing spyware; conversely, we frequently see NSA hacking tools exploiting open-source projects to launch massive cyberattacks and cause data breaches. Reality isn't like American movies where Americans are always the heroes; in fact, those GIs are usually the ones doing the invading. To me, your statement sounds like a resident living under Nazi rule telling everyone, "There's actually a pretty good project over on the Allied side—if you choose to believe it."

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