天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

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?

Never thought I was gonna learn this from a Japanese manga, but why did people consider Jehovah a good people/god when he destroyed two cities (Sodom and Gomorrah)?

I won't believe in a god who destroys a city because the people there like a thing the god doesn't like.

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Disclaimer: I came from Asia, so I have no knowledge of western religions. Maybe the story is trying to say something like you shouldn't be addicted to the pleasure from homosexual (like doing nothing but having sex all day)? I don't know. Google tells me the god pouring sulfur to the city mainly because the people are homosexual. If that's wrong, blame Google.

my kettle just throw up?

The water is boiled, and I leave it to cool down. But suddenly, the kettle becomes a fountain, and it spills out half of the water.

Why?

Also found a satellite in the image.

Location: Beijing
Time: 2024 Jun 16 01:24 UTC+8

I don't buy a DSLR camera because I don't want to enable the possibility of me buying all kinds of expensive lens for taking pictures of birds, stars, deep sky objects, etc.

So this is what you need if you just want to get a picture of the night sky. You don't have to buy an expensive DSLR camera to just getting started.

However, an action camera is not a DSLR, and it has a reason for the cheap price compared to a flagship DSLR camera. The lens is fixed, the sensor is small, the features are limited, parameters are not clear (deliberately, by the manufacture).

With all those efforts, I think that's the best of what I can get from this cheap (350 USD) action camera. However, with a proper DSLR camera, I don't mean the flagship one, but any decent one, I think that will be the worst you can get, and with the same effort (I spend a lot of time on calculating the NPF rule, testing the pre-processing software, and the camera itself), I'm sure you can get much better result, even with less effort.

By using the pixel merge feature provided by the hardware (instead of using software when pre-processing), the image quality is much better, aka less noise. Today I have no issues when blowing up the saturation slider, and this time there is no noise. Yesterday I couldn't move the saturation slider at all, since even a slight increase, it shows a bunch of noise and makes the image look terrible.

With 4 pixels merged into 1, I got 3.9 μm per pixel, which allows me to bump up the exposure time to 20s. However, I also tested the ISO settings, which show a better result in ISO 1600, compared to ISO 800. However, thanks to the light pollution, 15S with ISO 800 is on the edge of overexposure. So I didn't stick with higher ISO.

However, yesterday night was cloudy, and I'm too lazy to pick the picture one by one. So I dump them all into the software, and thanks to the cloud, now stars are not pinpoints anymore.

I probably shouldn't read manga all the way to 4AM...

I woke up at 1PM today and my head is super fuzzy...

看完了78话，精彩！日本人是怎么能忍得住月刊的更新频率的？要是我不得天天去作家家门口敲碗（