あきうす・たまいな / 00 / former development member of Misskey(TypeScript🤏),computer,📷snap,train and transportation,etc. / for kigurumi (former main account) @aqz_tmin
THIS IS INSANE. 🤯
India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat.
By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to.
Here's what happened:
• India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication"
• GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action
• Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle
• Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure.
• The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive
• Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch
The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for.
It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns.
Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too.
India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists.
You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone.
Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.
This is exactly why I don’t use Zod because why would the post-built app using Zod is heavier than TypeBox with a compiler
You have a library that’s heavier than a literal compiler to validate your form
Until this is fixed, I refuse to use Zod for anything in any circumstance
We’ve applied a mitigation for elevated error rates affecting ChatGPT, Codex and some OpenAI services.
Services are recovering, and we’re continuing to monitor closely.
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