Updates GitHub blocked the China Dictatorship bot by
Ciro Santilli 37 Created 2024-10-26 Updated 2025-07-16
On September 2024, GitHub forbade our China Dictatorship auto-reply bot, the reason given is because they forbid comment reply bots in general. Though it was cool to see a junior support staff person giving out what obviously triggered the action:before a more senior one took over.
We've received a large volume of complaints from other users indicating that the comments and issues are unrelated to the projects they were working on.
Ciro was slightly saddened but not totally surprized by the bloodbath against him on the Reddit the threads he created:
- www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1g7acv6/github_forbade_me_from_running_a_bot_that_would/ deleted by admins becausewhich is stupid, obviously we should be able to discuss GitHub policies in that sub.
We don't work for GitHub and we can't help you with your GitHub support problems. You'll just need to be patient.
Also good highlight to user whoShotMyCowReply:Reply:Many successful people are neurodiverse comes to mind.No, a 120,000 USD donation did that: cirosantilli.com/sponsor#1000-monero-donation
So we observe once again the stupidity of deletionism towards anything that is considered controversial. The West is discussion fatigued, and would rather delete discussion than have it.
I edited the VOD of the talk Aratu Week 2024 Talk by Ciro Santilli: My Best Random Projects about the CIA 2010 covert communication websites a bit and published it at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFfuzZC5Qpc.
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- 2023: courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5033. Open with solutions.
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Materials paywalled. E.g.: www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2023-2024/cads/
TODO clear example and application.
www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-memory-proves-exponentially-powerful-20241016/ from Quanta Magazine has an incomprehensible news of something that sounds cool
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