Linux China, which supported the Chinese open source community, has ended

by nogajun • 2 years ago

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roenxi• 2 years ago

The irony here for me is thick, reading the article through a machine translation, but this could be the first instance I've seen of LLMs triggering a forced major life decision. Although I'm a bit late to that party, since this is surely a huge ripple working its way through the world. The best of times, the worst of times.

mmh0000• 2 years ago

This is not the first time LLMs have triggered a major life descision. Here's an article from March 2023

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-a...

greatgib2• 2 years ago

As not Chinese, I never heard about this website. But here is my tldr based on reading the page through Google translate:

linux.cn was a personal initiative, globally a one man shop that became too big. His goal was to advance the community but not do a commercial business.

Nowadays Linux and open source are well known and leaving by themselves. Not so many persons are motivated to contribute anymore and so the single activity was creating posts based on chatgpt translation of English articles (personal comment, I don't think that the content interest was that great based on that). So in the end, as often, the editor finished in burned out as being jobless at the same time and just decided to stop working on that and going on with his life.

To be noted the guy looks great as he preferred not sell his domain name/site to crappy buyers for moral reasons and not getting a very good cash payment

faitswulff2• 2 years ago

Another detail is that Chinese people generally retire at 50, and turning 50 prompted the author to reevaluate what they were doing and write this post.

Havoc• 2 years ago

Interesting. How does that work out financially? 50 seems quite early by western standards

wil421• 2 years ago

It’s 50 for women factory workers which makes sense. 30 years in a factory is going to be harsh on your body. For white collar workers google says 55 for females and 60 for males.

dragonelite2• 2 years ago

Dam retirement at 50 sign me up.

andy_ppp• 2 years ago

They retire to raise their kids children quite often while the parents work work work. A different system than ours.

pm2222• 2 years ago

Basically he’s overloaded, can no longer supports the whole site on his own and there it goes the shutdown.

LorenDB• 2 years ago

Strangely, there's lots of comments below the post that seem to be a bot posting negative comments. The real people commenting are all very supportive, though.

danlugo92• 2 years ago

In this case thy are obvious. Now imagine all other cases where they aren't (when they are operated by the west).

beardyw2• 2 years ago

Now there is also the 1263 issue, which has never stopped.

I may have missed it but not sure what that is?

jkhanlar• 2 years ago

Google Translate shows me "Now there are 1263 issues, and it has never stopped." if I copy the whole paragraph, but it changes if I remove far away sentences at the opposite end of the paragraph, but I think the grammar in your quote interpretation might be wrong.

Basically, it seems like they're burnt out, overwhelmed, and giving up.

beardyw2• 2 years ago

Thanks. I imagined the "1263 issue" to be the thing I hadn't heard about!

kube-system• 2 years ago

Interesting that this site posts user agent strings and rough geo-ip locations beside all the comments. I wonder how that would change the dynamic of discussion if it were done on other sites?

renegade-otter2• 2 years ago

I believe this is the law in China - if you post on the Internet (especially socially media), your posts MUST be geo-tagged. With social media, past a certain number of followers, you must use your real name. Honestly, that last one is not such a bad rule to be "self-enforced" by social media companies.

szundi• 2 years ago

How distopian the feeling

em-bee3• 2 years ago

i don't think so. i haven't seen this anywhere else. the user agent is more likely shown to see which OS the commenters use to give an idea how widespread linux is among the commenters, or maybe to see if someone is a true linux user. and the location to see where everyone is. that may help find local contacts.

halJordan• 2 years ago

As the other comment said, it's the law. And perhaps surprisingly or unsurprisingly it has not ended or significantly impacted the vitriol and antagonism passing for dialogue in the Chinese internet.

Linux China, which supported the Chinese open source community, has ended

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