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So they finally started to legalize what’s in practice since the 90s. These were norms for middle schools, high schools, and universities years after what happened in the Tiananmen Square.

The only problem I'm having with it is that it doesn't support unix domain socket[0], in a "cloud native" environment you rarely need it but if you are using single node this can be sweet.

-- [0]: https://github.com/traefik/traefik/issues/4881

JCB

Notion’s data model is so good and the UI is great. I have read their privacy/data collection terms and it’s borderline acceptable. But it leaves a bad taste on my tongue whey I learned that they never wanted to implements e2ee with some bs explanation.

I have subscribed to Japantimes, only to find out it uses a 3rd party integration - piano.io, I can’t access the content I’ve paid for without enabling 3rd party tracking. Worse the JWT token has my name and email address in it (base64).

Then realized that paying makes me more targeted. I can just buy a newspaper at any kiosk without a subscription and it doesn’t have cookies in it.

There should be a law to enforce giving and accepting 'no' as an answer. I'm seeing "not now" everywhere nowadays, and it started to make my blool boil.

I can and I am already using all sorts of blockers at different level that even if I said yes at some point the data isn't going anywhere, but enough is enough, it shouldn't be an arms race to protect very basic privacy or simply having dignity in front of my computer or cellphone.

The starting point at 5000 Yen is a lot of money for people earning Japanese salary. Violations like running red lights are common in most of the busy places.

The only problem is that you don't see cops that often, or they aren't very keen to enforce some subset of the traffic rules, so most probably you'll not get caught 99/100. Same as some other road rules. Don't get me wrong, if you get caught, it can be pretty serious.

For me first time I noticed problems with energy and performance I went to a doctor and they had me tested for sleep apnea, first day after putting myself on a CPAP was day and night difference.

Last year I found myself spend a lot of time hoarding tasks to do at work, but less to work on them. It’s causing constant anxiety, and the anxiety is driving me to take more tasks, making promises that’s gonna be missed. Once I felt it’s such vicious circle I went to a doctor and after many visits and tests, they finally decided that I have ADHD and prescribed me some non-stimulant meds, it took about 12 weeks for the side effects to wear off and finally start working.

Looking back I feel like ADHD might be occupational hazard for some. Or just a result of bad habits? I personally was switching context very often, like 15 minutes on a project in python, then switched to another one on Go. Also I’m the yes man at work. Now I just slot half a day fixated on only one project, and use the “focus time” feature on my calendar (blocks chat etc).

> Zhao’s novel “Iron Widow” was flagged as being a “reimagining of the rise of the Chinese Empress Wu Zetian.”

This is funny, Wu Zetian lives long before the PR China even existed, why should they even what image it paints.

I had exactly the same problem last week. Random touch & drags on the watch, it took me some effort to shutdown the watch without making an accidental emergency call.

Given apple's security track of record and the fact that I pose no value as a target for the such an hacking effort. I deducted that it just was ghost touch.

And trillium.

Maybe Servo, but not Mozilla, at least for now.

I had a similar experience but in Japan.

My CPAP machine was held by customs, they asked me to provide some extra paperwork from another department, which boiles down to a form and a "prescription". Fortunately they accept american prescriptions. I emailed all of the docs to the department, and they told me since I'm physically in Japan, I have to do what Japanese would do - send a physical mail in an envolope. A week later I got the approval mailed back to me, scanned them and emailed them back to the customs, they released my package.

Then, the shipper messed up with my address, they use a local partner for delivery, but failed to pass them my phone number and the second line in my address. Apparently the poor delivery guy attempted to deliver for a week, I found it out in the tracking page, called the customer service, they figured out and eventually have it delivered.

I thought it was terrible, but now.

Around 2022 I was considering getting a new gen of Philips Dreamstation as a replacement for a beaten Resmed. Eventually I settled with a newer model of what I was using (AirSense 11).

Philips had a very good reputation in the community, their accessories are more affordable, more “boring” is a good way. I really preferred a company that way, but after all it sounds like I’ve dodged a bullet.

Last time at a pharmacy, I saw they selling these tapes, to my surprise, quite many brands are making these. I thought it was a niche market, but after tried it anyway, I can feel the improvement actually. (Isolated case)

First time heard of Manitoba as a non American, turns out it’s in Canada!

We had to use Teams with our partners in China(long story), and the macOS app doesn’t even support FIDO keys. Had to ask IT for an exception to use TOTPs on my account.

People usually put a seizure warning for flickering stimuli, for a reason.

Which would benefit them more? Buying CD or listening on Spotify?

I’m have a list of artist I want to pay back to:

- the Monty Python - Tom Lehrer - Arrogant Worms - “Weird Al” Yankovic - the Dead South

their work helped through different hard times.

With latest update Spotify’s Home is one scroll away from instagram story like short videos with a timer bar on it, trying to rush me with a decision on what to listen.

OP is the answer to my new routine on consuming music, after which I’ll need more direct ways to support the musicians than using using some Silicon Valley cooked poison.

Every year my grand parents have to take a photo of themselves holding a recent newspaper with date clearly visible to whoever is managing their pension.

After the internet and apps plaged the world, now they have to download an app then tilt node and wink to the camera to prove that they are alive. ("If you cannot use a phone, ask your children")

I have mixed feeling about this, it's hard to say this is not degenerating, and no one's happy with doing this, but seems like there's no better idea that scales.

Back in 2000s when telnet BBS' are huge, you can fit in a lot of things in a 80x24 screen. Sadly they are slowly dying out. I'm not sure how many of them are left in the English world, but at least in the Chinese world ptt.cc is still alive.

Here's an example of experience with ASCIIArt/ANSIArt[0], when using telnet based forums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ohV6KZsQo

There's also a ANSIArt version of star war, https://www.asciimation.co.nz/ , it used to be a telnet site, but nowadays no one even have the binary to telnet from.

I remember when I rented a palace in Singapore, my landlord asked me to download an app called MyKNX to control the lights and blinds in the room. I dumped some packets, and found system is using tcp/ip and the KNX is standardized protocol.

The box is more like a PLC than “smart things”, so it doesn’t need internet to function.

It’s also supported by home-assistant. I want to get one when I’m building my own home.

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After ubuntu made the whole OS depends on the Ubuntu-advantage-tools I quitted using it and used Debian, never looked back.

OT:

There’s a cookie pop up covering 80% percent of the page, asking about “your tracking settings” with one green encouraging button saying “accept all and visit site” and a white button displaying “manage your tracker settings”

I have AdGuard on iOS with annoyance filters on.

I wish they would do the same on shorts, I regret every second I’ve spent on it.

I hated macOS for gating / crippling dtruss with SIP every time I need to find out what’s wrong with a random cmd.

Is there any alternatives on Mac?

What really caught my attention was the date format: 2024/06/01, YYYY/DD/MM. This is first time I'm ever seeing anything like this.

They would do any thing other than helping servo development.

1) Japanese, it's a survival skill for me now, moved to Japan a little bit more than a year ago, only to find out my friend lied to me, they don't speak English here;

2) C/Rust, career development requirement, we have some codebase without maintainer, I want to take them over;

3) Deepen my knowledge in cognitive sciences, explore memory and attention.

Besides having your grandparents' help as mentioned in a sibling comment, there's an darker side to the this topic: discrimination against women[0], and the people who aren't young and energetic enough[1].

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[0]: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/05/business/china-three-chil...

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/26/china/35-curse-unemployme...

Choice in job market is a luxury, not sure if it's only a China thing. But most fresh grads will end up with whichever company who'd hire them in whatever role they offered.

The OP also mentioned the low retention rate, behind that, it means that for young people, they may start in a low pay job, but there will be tremendous amount of chances for new opportunities elsewhere after a few years of work experience. There will be less BS in the interviews, and ~50% of pay raise each time (sounds familiar?). After try and errs, there's a chance you'll find a fair-paying job with reasonable workload and non-toxic workspace, they call it landed (Shàng Àn 上岸), comparing to the endless Sea of Suffering(Kû Hâi 苦海).

They have the hope for the future.