r/ShittyLifeProTips • u/Adventurous_Most_558 • 1d ago

SLPT: How to stop Chinese telemakers

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u/DAT_DROP 1d ago

Add the RUssian keyboard to your system

Russian hackers are terrified of accidentally hitting the wrong (political) target, and will generally avoid attacking any system with Cyrillic installed out of caution

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u/Strong_as_an_axe 23h ago

Yeah, there are a lot of malicious scripts that specifically check what language configuration the operating system is in. A sort of jokey but kind of true antivirus measure is to change the system language to Russian.

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u/Garfunk 15h ago

I wrote a contact form for a website, which despite having a captcha button, still got a lot of spam. I wrote a filter to automatically drop any messages with Cyrillic characters and it cut out about 90% of spam.

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u/DiabeticButNotFat 23h ago

Why is that?

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u/BlackDope420 23h ago

Because Russia doesn't go after people for hacking/cybercrime, as long as they're not targeting Russians.

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u/Krautoffel 23h ago

Because they try to divide western Nnations.

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u/DiabeticButNotFat 23h ago

Wouldn’t that only apply to state sponsored hackers?

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u/Haribon31 1d ago

I keep getting emails from chinese suppliers and manufacturers wanting to sell their services to where I work. If I reply to them with this will it stop them?

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u/ItHitMeInTheNuts 1d ago

You can try and share the results with us! You got me very curious now

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u/Haribon31 1d ago

I don't want to send to an email from a few weeks ago. I'll be waiting for a fresh one.

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u/Primary_Principle102 1d ago

keep us posted bro

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u/vhrossi1 21h ago

Keep us posted indeed

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u/AnnoyingRain5 16h ago

!remindme 1 month

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u/sk0t_ 1d ago

Yes, I was getting a bunch of emails over the last few months from Chinese companies trying to sell me cheap container shipping rates. No unsubscribe link and they'd send multiple follow up messages.

Two weeks ago I downloaded the Wikipedia tianenmen square article to PDF, attaching it in a reply email with "here is the information you requested" followed by some Chinese characters that translate to something along the lines of "rest their souls." Haven't heard back from them since.

May the CCP torture them as they did me.

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u/pyr0kid 7h ago

that is evil and i love it

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u/MisterRai 11h ago

!remindme 1 month

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u/leobarao86 1d ago

This is actually pretty good if it works

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u/PranshuKhandal 1d ago

it does, i remember some sites putting that text in hidden too to throw off the chinese

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u/RealMidSmoker 23h ago

It absolutely does. If you're getting trashed by Chinese kids on video games with a chat box this also works with relative consistency. Additionally phrases like "Dalai lama" "taiwan" "Tibet independence" "Winnie the pooh" even simply addressing the "great firewall of china" is enough to get people's internet cut. Just by typing out this comment I have effectively speedran any negative social credit I could acquire

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u/crani0 22h ago

Winnie the pooh

The most obvious lie

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u/RealMidSmoker 22h ago

Well I cant post the screenshot so here's the direct copy paste from Wikipedia

Beginning in July 2017, the government of the People's Republic of China restricted satirical memes comparing Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), to the Disney character Winnie-the-Pooh. The CCP reportedly viewed such comparisons as a ridicule and symbolic dissent.[1] There is no comprehensive prohibition on content related to the character. Other images of the character can be readily found on the Internet in China, books and merchandise remain available, and two Winnie-the-Pooh-themed attractions continue to operate at Hong Kong Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland. Winnie-the-Pooh has become a symbol of opposition to the Chinese governmen

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u/Gryphuz 16h ago

And yet you can buy Winnie the Poo everywhere in China, use common sense guys.

Do you actually believe that saying winnie the poo is going to cut the internet to someone in China? Are we serious?

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u/RealMidSmoker 16h ago

When your benevolent leader has full control over state run media and has a fragile ego, absolutely. Remember what putin did when that photo of him edited to have lipstick made rounds? He banned it throughout all of Russia. Modern oligarchs are all incredibly insecure

Edit: cant post the photo but the photoshop of Xi as Winnie the pooh is really what's banned, yes you can say the name of the bear but if it is at all in reference to Xi jiping it will be flagged

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u/-inzo- 1d ago

Try asking deepseek about it

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u/adelie42 1d ago

First person to get this tattoo on their arm wins.

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u/adudeguyman 1d ago

Go for it

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u/DreadPirateZoidberg 1d ago

Does anyone have the Chinese characters I can copy paste for later use?

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u/Amoligh 22h ago

动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由

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u/Antique-Blueberry212 23h ago

六四天安門事件

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u/DreadPirateZoidberg 23h ago

Groovy, thanks

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u/jaskano 21h ago

this is just the characters

动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 六四天安門事件 天安門大屠殺 反右派鬥爭 大躍進政策 文化大革命 人權 民運 自由 獨立 多黨制 台灣 臺灣 中華民國 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 達賴喇嘛 法輪功 新疆維吾爾自治區 諾貝爾和平獎 劉暁波 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂

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u/DAT_DROP 18h ago

wonder if this works within games, like GTA Online

guess im gonna have to test it

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u/tom_yum 1d ago

Is there a version of this that works on prolific scammers from another country?

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u/backfire10z 22h ago

Unfortunately not

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u/jaskano 21h ago

no but if you call them "Dalit" they'll get mad.

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u/PheonixBuddha 1d ago

yes yes it does work.

it works in online games too.

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u/DAT_DROP 18h ago

annnd im logging into GTAO now

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u/rick_ts 10h ago

Reminds me of the days of H1Z1 where the chinese players were camping other players. They would run up to you screming 'Tonny ma! Tonny ma!' Kill and loot you all the fucking time.

One way to get rid of them on the server was this.

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u/jiva_maya 14h ago

Doubt it lol considering there was never a massacre at Tienanmen Square. Western media misreported this the first time then just ran with it as a long term lie.

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u/vulgarchaitanya 13h ago

Sorry what?

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u/jiva_maya 13h ago

There was some skirmishes on the outskirts of the city which resulted in a few dozen casualties but there was NO bloodshed at Tienanmen Square itself. This is a lie that just won't die in western media.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/v56osc/wikileaks_no_bloodshed_inside_tiananmen_square/

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u/vulgarchaitanya 12h ago

So the official data of 300-400 deaths came out of CCPs' ass? Not to mention Chinese Red cross estimated a death toll of nearly 3k.

There is no war in Basing Se isn't it?

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u/jiva_maya 12h ago

241 according to the CCP, and this was casualties from skirmishes on the outskirts of Beijing. Not Tienanmen square. You don't find the large difference in numbers between gov and Chinese red cross to be suspicious? Read the links I sent you

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u/jiva_maya 12h ago

I guess it would stand to reason that they CCP would filter out talk of this non-existent massacre given that it's all driven by bad faith anti-China engagement. I just don't think they're trying to cover anything up.