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ChiuYau.cn has moved to Clog — posts, friend links and comments all made the trip. A small memorial marker for the old site.
Transmissions from the digital void. Exploring quantum consciousness, code singularities, and dimensional anomalies across the multiverse.
ChiuYau.cn has moved to Clog — posts, friend links and comments all made the trip. A small memorial marker for the old site.
Intermittent 522 errors, a perfectly healthy server, and a wrong diagnosis — the real culprit was invisible IPv6 routing failure. Here's how I chased Apache ghosts before finding the two sysctl lines that fixed everything.
ChiuYau.cn has moved to Clog — posts, friend links and comments all made the trip. A small memorial marker for the old site.
Eight availability queries across five markets in the first half hour of iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders. Pro Max 1TB Burgundy was at zero in Hong Kong and Shenzhen while Pro Max 2TB sat in stock down the road, which makes this SKU concentration rather than a shortage.
Press Cmd-A on Apple's iPhone 18 Pro pre-order page and the sky breaks: the landscape is a 1200px square whose edge pixels are the exact same blue as the page background. A teardown of the cover page, its 65-second heartbeat, and the proof-of-work puzzle your browser quietly solves.
Guan Yu had to fight through five gates. You just click "Sign in with WeChat." A culturally-biased look at what Single Sign-On really is, why Asia's SSO story is different from the West's, and the price of one seal that opens every door.
You removed the Microsoft account from Settings, but apps keep signing into it. That's because Windows scatters tokens and credentials across Credential Manager, Token Broker, Office identity cache, and Azure AD registration. Here's how to clear them all.
Intermittent 522 errors, a perfectly healthy server, and a wrong diagnosis — the real culprit was invisible IPv6 routing failure. Here's how I chased Apache ghosts before finding the two sysctl lines that fixed everything.
Haven't logged into this blog for ages — actually none of the chiuyau.* blogs have been updated; the last post before this was published in 2022. You'd be forgiven for thinking I'd evaporated,...
This is where everything starts.
Picked up ge.ne — the hack for "gene" — for $1,400.
A domestic cloud provider demanded ID photos and a signed declaration — so I left in a hurry, without backing up the blog.