「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」

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  • I have no idea what you mean. AFAIK China does not have healthcare for all, or free healthcare. But apart from that IDK how healthcare actually works in China.

    Common rhetoric I get told in the Fediverse… I mean if you look in World News comms, you’ll see those…

    Which just confuses the fuck out of me since its a contradiction to my parents first-hand accounts (and also some of what gets told by my aunts (and other relatives/people in my parent’s social circle in China))


  • “America” isn’t the only country with these issues

    My family emigrated from China… its about the same on the other side of the ocean… (honestly don’t know what the “free healthcare in China” stuff came from… certaintly didn’t apply to my family from Taishan with Taishan Hukou)

    They’re so used to this lol, they think this is just normal

    Also: Young people are expected to fund their parents retirement… its a crime to just abandon your elderly parents who cannot afford their living (unless you have proof of abuse)











  • As for the privacy issue:

    The only counter to this is to move to a closed end-to-end encrypted groupchat so it can’t be mass LLM analyzed…

    If you want a public forum, well… its public…

    You can’t stop a script from just grabbing all the posts/comments… and its also federated, so the bot only needs to be able to access one instance and get it…

    I mean they could simply just set up their own instance and pretend its just a benigh single-user instance… like what are you gonna do, defed all small instances preemptively? Use “login walls” to make the forum private? And somehow trust all other admins that are federated and make them also enforce a “login wall” policy?

    Its a PUBLIC forum…

    the only solution for privacy is a groupchat and only let in people that can keep a promise to not screenshot everything and give it to a LLM.






  • All bank accounts require a phone number. VOIP numbers does not work.

    Online banking through a computer requires a phone number for them to send a 2fa code to before letting you log in. (Phone number 2fa is the only 2FA option, and even if not, its often used as a recovery option to whatever other 2fa method there is, effectively making the phone number the weakest link)

    But I guess if you don’t like that, you could tell them to disable online banking and avoid using electronics for banking, but then you’d have to either go to the bank every week and wait in an annoying line to verify you’re getting paid and that the amount is correct (cuz you can’t trust employers)

    (Or use the sketchy ATM machine that could have card skimmers and fake PIN pads, can sometimes be much more dangerous than online banking IMO)

    (Also some people need online banking like my parent have a small bussiness and my mom has to do a bunch of bank transfers every month through online banking…)


  • SIM PINs are 4-8 digits

    The SIM Chip itself is supposed to limit entry attempts to 3, idk if anyone managed to bypass it

    After that, it required a PUK Code, 8 digits I believe. Its sometimes found on the big plastic card thing (its like the size of a credit card, and you pop off a physical sim from it). 10 Attempts.

    I think the carrier also has it.

    So an attacker needs to either:

    1. Guess the SIM PIN in 3 tries
    2. Somehow hack the chip to bypass the limits
    3. (a) Obtain the plastic card thing or (b) Social engineering to get customer support to provide PUK (I mean if they can manage to trick customer support, they could probably just get a new eSIM (which is immediately issued to their phone through the internet) anyways
      or
    4. Somehow guess a 8 digit code in 10 tries

    The thing is, I as a kid/teen messed with tech stuff a lot (got my parents SIM cards locked a few times 👀, they got so mad at me lol) and I found that sometimes I can reboot a phone and the 10 attempts on the PUK code would reset… idk how, maybe the SIM card had issues… or maybe it’s a T-Mobile issue.