天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

Just read the history of King To Nin Jiom. Might be one of the earliest open-source movements in China?

It's said the recipe was created by a famous doctor when a man tries desperately to find a cure for his mother. The recipe works so well and totally heals the disease that the mother sighed after surviving the disaster: When I was ill in the past, I was in unspeakable pain and just wanted to die quickly. Unexpectedly, I took this ointment, which cured my chronic illness and allowed me to enjoy life again and live out my life. The work of the celestial being is like giving me a new life. You should make more of this ointment and give it away so that people with the same disease in the world can help them overcome their suffering. This will be a way of repaying my kindness. (This part is translated from ancient Chinese by Google. I can read ancient Chinese, but google Translate will make things much easier)

Of course, the man followed his mother's will. The man set up a temple in Beijing, that's where the King To part of name comes. The Nin jiom is the name of the temple, which means to commemorate the loving mother. The man gives the medicine for free, along with the recipe.

Later, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the son of that man decided to give both the trademark (the name) and the recipe to Xie Zhaobang, the owner of Zhongzheng Pharmacy, to prevent the recipe from becoming extinct, which would go against their ancestral teachings. And that pharmacy becomes the company now who produces it.

What is chat control? I saw a lot of discussion on my timeline.

*googling*

The proposal includes plans to mandate the scanning of encrypted private communications? In order to detect both known and unknown child sexual abuse material?

Now Europe started learning from China? (Well, China didn't say they surveillance to protect anyone. They just surveillance)

This is fucking stupid. The people who came up with this proposal should be ashamed. Massive surveillance won't protect anyone, but only the government.

Probably because of global warming, my father said that when he was young, he had never experienced such a hot day in Beijing. Actually, when I was young, I didn't remember such hot days either.

Next time if someone tries to convince me that global warming is fake, I'm gonna slap his face.

@trinsec Well, at least the humidity is not high. So I can cool a bit with a wet towel. But starting from next month, when the rain season starts, that will be another story. Hopefully I can figure out the door unit before that.

BTW, I also tried menthol dissolved into 60% alcohol, although it doesn't help cooling the body, but it can trick the skin and get a feel of coolness.

36C in door

It's so hot 🔥

The fan is blowing fire instead of wind...

Ordered a window unit. I can't live with 35C ALL DAY. Even during the night it's 33C.

Apparently, the window is not wide enough. But I have an idea. Who said a window unit must be installed in a window? I have a spare door that I am occasionally using. For the rest of the day and night, it's useless. Yes, I'm talking about the loo.

With such high temperatures, I'm forced to come up with something that can at least cool me down.

Found a Taiwan ebook store, managed to make a purchase. It mentioned PDF when purchase but it requires you to either use their web or their mobile app to read.

Then guess what? The JS code for web is raw js. I mean, when almost everyone is using something like typescript and framework, I would never expect something so simple like this would work.

Hijack the code for displaying the image and grab the content. So everytime I read a page, it gets downloaded to my computer.

I would say it's "fair use". In the worse case I can inject my own SSL cert into the system and grab the content anyway. Unless the image data is encrypted and need some js code to decrypt on the client side.

And with a quick poking around during the lunch break, now I can import amazon purchases without a physical Kindle.

And this book can be only purchased by the Japanese account. Luckily a Japanese account is much easier to maintain compared to a Taiwan account. There is traditional Chinese translation on Google Play, but you can only buy it if your account is in Taiwan, which is really hard to register.

Well, just found out you can't export everything from the Google Play book. For the English version, vol. 8, 9 and 12 are not available for export due to the publisher's settings.

And weird enough, this manga is not found on Zlibrary, Anna's Archive, thepiratebay and 1337x.

On a second thought, DRM is still stupid. With physical media, the claim of only one access is also failed to hold the point: With books, Loudi (Hunan, China) is the biggest base for printing pirated books in China. The rumors even said that it's an honor if your book is printed there if you are a new author. For movies and tv series, you know how easy to copy a tape, a dvd, and it's not hard to rip from bluray disk.

I think the point should not be using all kinds of technologies to limit your customer. You can never stop someone from messing around with a physical media with actual data on it. I think the point is to let people willing to pay for the content they enjoy. I'm sponsoring several projects on Patreon, the monthly spent is about 70 USD, not much, but I really enjoy the stuff they're creating and I want to support them.

With movies and tv series, for example, the Yes Prime Minister and Yes Minister, and "Liz and the blue bird", I bought the latter one on Google Play, but I'm not happy about that I can't download it. If one day Google decides to remove them from their server, just like what Sony did before, I will lose access forever. Unless someone or some publisher sorts out this mess, I will keep all my favorite shows on my disk via BitTorrent. And I'll spend my money to buy peripherals from the studio I like. F*ck pro-DRM publishers.

I love how the open source community works together to crack this DRM bullshit. I bought the book, you should give me the PDF. Not some DRM-protected ACSM shit.

Just find out you can download books from Google play, which is much better than the movies and tv serials.

But the format is called ACSM, seems like a DRM related thing. I hate DRM, and you know what is going to happen.

yes, there is an English version on Google play!

I also noticed that the Chinese translation of the manga I'm currently reading is based on the English translation, which is translated from Japanese. And the English to Chinese translation is so weird that I have to infer the original English text from that Chinese, and guess what it means based on my very limited Japanese knowledge.

Why don't I read the English version?