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Whenever a user creates an issue or comment on China Dictatorship, the bot now automatically creates a new issue with one of the latest news from Duty Machine: github.com/duty-machine/duty-machine
Sample created issue: github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/1322 Script: github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/ab6a46c511afaaf6c9e68ba8813c2b2cf9d9638c/action.js#L195
Duty Machine is a bot repo that automatically scrapes Chinese language news from major news outlets such as the New York Times or Radio Free Asia which ensures that China Dictatorship news will always be new.
It's the war of the anonymous bots against the little pinks, part of asymmetric information warfare: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/asymmetric-information-warfare
Announcements:
Update September 2024: GitHub blocked the China Dictatorship bot
Update March 2025: duty-machine was DMCA'ed on February 2025: github.com/duty-machine/news by, surprise surprise, a Chinese copyright owner "Sanlian News" github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2025/02/2025-02-27-sanlian-news.md I noticed because it broke my Action on another repo: github.com/orgs/community/discussions/154227 Announcements:
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Bibliography:
- stackoverflow.com/questions/37147480/convert-fingerprint-bitmap-to-iso-iec-19794-2-template
- stackoverflow.com/questions/33412977/how-to-convert-a-byte-array-of-fingerprint-image-to-iso-19794-2-in-java-basica
- stackoverflow.com/questions/43937986/convert-png-image-fingerprint-to-minutiae-xyt-fingerprint-format
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Possibly not made not possible from userland due to privacy issues. Apparently not even kernelland can see it, only
Bibliography:
- Stack Overflow:
- stackoverflow.com/questions/35934729/capture-fingerprint-from-smartphone-and-save-to-a-file
- stackoverflow.com/questions/63257762/how-to-save-and-compare-2-fingerprints-on-android
- stackoverflow.com/questions/67104186/can-we-use-android-fingerprint-scanner-to-get-finger-pattern-and-store-that-patt
- stackoverflow.com/questions/41632225/android-where-and-how-securely-is-fingerprint-information-stored-in-a-device
- android.stackexchange.com/questions/161780/where-does-android-store-fingerprint-data
- Reddit:
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They actually use fingerprint minutiae, not raw images, which is cool.
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