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tifan··on Slack deleted a large amount of workspaces
Seems like Slack is deleting workspaces without notification or explanation on April Fool's Day.
tifan··on Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
I had the same issue! Perhaps being another dapangzi is the problem here lol
tifan··on Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
Well, it would work only when I speak word by word, not as a sentence or in a normal speed for daily conversations. The model thinks I was making mistakes when I speak casually (as a native Chinese speaker, I had Mandarin 2A certification, which is required for teachers or other occupations that requires a very high degree of Mandarin accuracy). You wouldn’t really notice it but language pronunciations is very different between causal and formal speech…
tifan··on BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
Exactly. Not strictly China Inc, but SASAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_Assets_Supervision...)
tifan··on My fiber optical modem broadcasts a poem via ethernet frame 0x8300
See my comment below :)
tifan··on My fiber optical modem broadcasts a poem via ethernet frame 0x8300
Naive implementation of loop detection
tifan··on My fiber optical modem broadcasts a poem via ethernet frame 0x8300
Ah, this is used for loop detection by Huawei CPE.

Configuration reference: http://huawei.communicationsmuseum.org.uk/MA5616/clireferenc...

tifan··on Hardware Design of a 8088 based Chinese Typewriter made in the 1980s
Author here. The machine is really a masterpiece of engineering. AMA as I've disassembled around 80% of the BIOS.
tifan··on Revealing a Forgotten Chinese Compute History: Stone MS-240x Typewriter
Will include in the next post
tifan··on CNNIC's response to Google
Did you know most Chinese browser vendors will explicitly disable SSL certificate validity check?