Notices by 天空вℓσи∂ [Unemployed edition] (skyblond@qoto.org)

Just a notice with my alter account:

Several days ago I hosted my own mastodon instance on masto.host, which I don't know what to do with it.

Now I decide to use it as my alter account. In case it's confusing that seeing someone looks like me is following you again, this is my alter account: @skyblond@m.skyblond.info

Hackers in the 90s:
- Phreaking
- Hackers manifesto
- Fuck "The Man"
- I wrote a kernel because IBM sucks
- I pwned the CIA
- Fuck closed source software maaan

Hackers in 2024:
- You're no longer my friend because a bureaucrat told me I can't be friends with you

We truly are living in the end of history and the government has replaced God
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Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel's "Compliance Requirements" Around Russian Sanctions

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/general-discussion/1501198-some-clarity-on-the-linux-kernel-s-compliance-requirements-around-russian-sanctions?p=1501310#post1501310

The most understandable explanation to me.
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Antenna Theory Directivity
By Doug LeBlanc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysNkjEnoRsU

@freemo I have never used LVM before. I though Btrfs can handle drive changes pretty well. But it looks like LVM takes it to another level, in terms of disk management.

For now I only have 1 disk with LVM+LUKS+Brtfs, but in the future I do have a plan to add another disk to saturate my nuc. I'll see how lvm helps at that time.

@freemo @trinsec For domestic flight I always try to choose the business or first class when I'm flying alone, the price is not that crazy if you got the timing right. Last year I went to Yunnan and the price for round trip with business class is less than 4000 CNY (at this time the economy price is about 900 CNY for round trip). But when I went to Yunnan during the spring festival (follow my relatives), the economy class cost more than 4000 CNY.

But sadly it's getting difficult to find wide-body aircraft for domestic lines, like A350-900, where you can lie flat comfortably. For aircraft like A320, I think it's just a wider version of economy seat.

Internation one is always expensive, even during the off-season :(

@freemo If you’re circulating Money inside China, in most of the cases, they're realtime.

But when involving foreign currencies, you need all kind of approvals :(

@freemo Thanks. It's not the end of the world, so I can wait until Monday. Frankly speaking, I can tell that customer support don't often get this kind of request since they kinda of don't know what to do when I asked them. Which means I might need to go to the bank and sort things out, if the teller don't know how to process the transfer.

BTW I'm angry becuase I have a pretty tight schedule for purchasing a new bird watching monocular and go outside this weekend. Now I need to wait the bank to process my transfer on Monday so I have to delay my schedule for a week. And the weather report said next weekend will be wet.

Maybe it's my fault to have a really tight schedule, but in any case, I have to wait until Monday. And hopefully they don't reject my transfer.
QT: https://qoto.org/@skyblond/112216514932013311

@freemo Great, you sounds like an excellent banker now🤣

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

When talking about names, we tend to use the number of strokes. For example if your surname is 王 (Wang), it's 4 strokes, and will be placed before someone with the surname 张 (Zhang), which is 7 strokes.

Another order is for dictionaries. Sorted by PinYin, so it's from A to Z. Also in the back of the dictionary there is an index based on character parts. For example, 杉 (Shan1, means fir, a type of tree) and 枝 (Zhi1, means branch of the tree) will be under the 木 (Mu4, means wood) part. You can find the character by part, then it will tell you which page this character is on.

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

As I found here: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_country.jsp

The house price to income ratio in China is almost 30, while in US is less than 5. So...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

You're right on that part. And now it's still the practise. How to make society stable? Raise salary? Make social security takes care of everyone? No. Just make house price super expensive and offers a 30 years loan. If it takes 3 generations' effort to buy a house in a family, then people won't have time/energy to care other problems.

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

If you rewind back to 200 years ago, in Qing Dynasty, the government actually enforced a style of essay called eight-legged essay. It defined the structure of a essay and is very limited. It's a standardized essay at that time. Writing anything other than that will be considered as non-mainstream and will be rejected by officals.

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

Maybe? I actually don't know. But I found some (most?) order are actually matches very well on how I developed my own writing style. If the orders are right, they can be combined to 1 stroke and won't looks mess. But some are not that intuitive (actually I'll call them counterintuitive).

Also, a friend of mine just send this video to me: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Mb4y1P75q

It's a Chinese lecture talking about Chinese shorthand, hosted on Chinese website, so good luck :)

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

I don't know, I didn't fully get the idea of stroke order. But from top to bottom and left to right does help shape your character.
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It's a hard question since I never thought about it. Some anwser suggest it's part of the standard. Eventually you will write the same character no matter how you write it, but to resolve any ambiguity, there has to be a standard way to write. And some suggest the correct stroke order can help you learn cursive.

@freemo @SpaceLifeForm

Actually we use pen and pencil daily. Now we only use brushes when doing calligraphy or we need write something big.

The left side is how you should write and print. And you should write like that if you want others to easily read what you write. And in school it's required to be written in the correct order of storkes, which I think some are reasonable, some are not.

This passage is write for japanese but most of the idea works for Chinese too.
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/kanji-stroke-order/

And now we're using simplified Chinese, which means much less strokes. In Taiwan and HongKong they still use traditional Chinese, which looks nicer, but with a lof ot strokes.

Some traditional Chinese looks like (copied from wikipedia):
漢字簡化運動可追溯至新文化運動中關於文字及語文教言和國家發展的討論。

The same text but in simplified Chinese:
汉字简化运动可追溯至新文化运动中关于文字及语文教言和国家发展的讨论。

@freemo

Just a simple demo to show how I normally write. The standard one is shown on the left side, they are 7, 5 and 8 strokes. And the left side is how I write those, the first one is 2 strokes because there is a separate dot there. The rest are 1 stroke.

A fun fact: In school teacher will not allow you to write like this.I was being criticized a lot when I was in school.

And because school don't allow and of course won't teach you how to write like this, almost everyone will develop their own way to write. So when talking about handwriting, unless it's intentionally write for others, it's hard to read other people's handwriting.

And I think I won't say it's cursive. The real cursive is much beautiful than this :)

@SpaceLifeForm

@m

I think you mean PinYin. For example you can represent a word like 我们 (means `we`) as wo3men2, but 我门 (means `my door`) is also pronounced as wo3men2. That will be tricky if you write something like wo3men2huai4le, it can be either 我们坏了 (means we are badass), or 我门坏了 (meaning my door is broken). And that's why early pinyin input method is a nightmare to use, because it often suggest unrelated candidate. Now with smarter software, the input method is more likely to suggest the later option instead of saying you're badass.

@freemo

@SpaceLifeForm @freemo

In handwriting, as myself never learnt how to do shorthand, I do have my way to write, mainly keep the pen stay on paper (aka reduce strokes). But sometimes I can't read what I write, so that's the downside.

@freemo Not really, for madarin and most dialect we use the character as is. We do use acronym for curse words. But Cantonese might be different, they use some latin letter to represent pronunciation (I guess?), but I don't know Cantonese so I might be wrong.