Monotoko

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by Monotoko 5y ago
Also Suzhou, Hangzhou and Wuxi https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/902836853999276074/...
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by Monotoko 5y ago
This was posted a week ago in /r/china and we removed it for the same reason, it was cold in Shanghai yet in that video everyone is in T-shirts and it's cloudless. We reckon it to be from the north by the accents Can't d
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by Monotoko 5y ago
Issue is, bribe them for what? They don't really have any means to get food either and if they were to look the other way while you slipped out of the community you'd find every shop closed. They don't take monetary bribes, b
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by Monotoko 5y ago
I almost forgot about this rule, the receiver and the caller both pay for calls.
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by Monotoko 5y ago
Chinese captchas can be much worse when you're on domestic websites, to the point where I need to get my wife to solve it for me because I'm not sure which character doesn't have a specific stroke
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by Monotoko 5y ago
There are some very American ones such as the fire hydrants that really catch me out as someone who's not American, I can only imagine what it's like for those with English as a second language.
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by Monotoko 5y ago
I made quite a bit of money as a freelancer at the start of covid setting up Jitsi servers for clients - it isn't easy... especially when you start to have multiple servers etc
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by Monotoko 5y ago
I'm in a restrictive country that's extremely difficult to get stuff to, I don't have the standard payment methods and instead all these internal only services. There is absolutely no point in me watching those because I coul
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by Monotoko 5y ago
The -100 shadowban is mostly subreddit dependent, and done via automoderator by the mods of most larger subreddits. An actual admin shadowban does happen and they are employed, but I don't think they're particularly hidden. As a m
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by Monotoko 5y ago
Can't you do a captcha with the WAF? I'm pretty sure that's an option on AWS
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by Monotoko 5y ago
Kill switches in lambda I believe is possible, running when the alert is triggered
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by Monotoko 5y ago
A lot of Chinese cloud providers like Aliyun will only allow pay and go, because there’s no way to recursively bill My own instances go down all the time when I forget to ‘top up’ the account
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by Monotoko 6y ago
My wife went away for Chinese New Year and I'm a freelancer so have a little bit of flexibility in when I work... my sleep pattern shifted the entire 24 hours in a week. It's currently 6am and I just got up. It really does a numbe
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Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?
343 points by Monotoko 7y ago|110 comments
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by Monotoko 8y ago
Arch is brilliant for packaging things up, it's my daily driver and while it drives me mental sometimes I still use it on the laptop for work. However my main desktop these days is a bog standard Win10... probably showing my age that I
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by Monotoko 9y ago
I have a 2000W bike in China, I modified it from a legal 800W bike. It goes 80 with the limiter off but I don't get to use it in non urban environments much.
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by Monotoko 9y ago
You would not use QQ these days, it would be Wechat instead which pretty much everyone online in China has. QQ died around 2013
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by Monotoko 9y ago
Got any details on that?
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by Monotoko 9y ago
China Unicom (I think) my work also has a Unicom line.
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Ask HN: What is China doing with 1.1.1.1?
47 points by Monotoko 9y ago|17 comments
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by Monotoko 9y ago
I've been on both China Telecom and Unicom, in Shanghai though so YMMV in other places. I've heard Beijing is much worse for connecting through Telecom. My throughput isn't bad, I can very occasionally get up to 2mb/s do
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by Monotoko 9y ago
US West has reasonable peering, under 200ms most of the time and I can run a VPN through it. Best is HK though, is that region not included?
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by Monotoko 9y ago
They rebranded the international service.
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by Monotoko 9y ago
The connection from the mainland to Taiwan is really bad. Also Alibaba has reasonable international connections into and out of China, in the HK region for example I have a ping of 40 and have been running my own VPN for some time.
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by Monotoko 9y ago
I actually work inside China in tech, it's not too bad if you're a foreigner serving mostly foreign companies who come into China. Once you start dealing with larger local companies though the politics begins.
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by Monotoko 10y ago
Does it still download from Google or somewhere else? This might be really useful for me here in China if it uses another source.
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by Monotoko 10y ago
Yes, that's what I do and it's pretty much encouraged when I asked AWS if it was allowed.
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by Monotoko 10y ago
Hey, don't suppose you know if the Baidu Maps team will be translating their docs anytime soon? (specifically the android API docs)
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by Monotoko 10y ago
Definitely most likely.
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by Monotoko 10y ago
Here in China I can get most of my apps from other sources but require play services for some. It's annoying because if my VPN isn't on or it isn't working well one day the battery usage kills me.

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