Distorted Scribbles

Understanding the Regulations on the Administration of Internet Information Services (Draft Amendment for Comment) — Is a Blanket Ban on Circumvention Tools Finally Coming?

A look at the provisions in the CAC's draft amendment to the Regulations on the Administration of Internet Information Services that have people worried, and whether this is really the long-feared blanket crackdown on circumvention tools or just routine legislative housekeeping.

Clearing Up Misunderstandings About DNS Leaks

An attempt to clear up common misunderstandings about DNS leaks, explaining how leaks happen under system proxy and TUN transparent proxy modes, and offering a practical way to eliminate leaks entirely by optimising routing rules and using fake-ip mode.

First impressions of Terraform IaC

Terraform lets us manage different pieces of infrastructure centrally as infrastructure as code (IaC), such as DNS records and Argo Tunnel on Cloudflare, as well as instances on AWS and GCP, but the import process is quite painful. This post records how I migrated my existing infrastructure to Terraform, covering installation, providers and state management, importing Cloudflare resources, remote state and CI workflow practices, as well as day-to-day operations and lessons learned.

Perpetually Busy

There is no such thing as a true break. As long as you're alive, it's impossible to do nothing. We work until the day we die; true rest is reserved entirely for the dead.

Buns Soaked in Human Blood

Parents are paying 450 RMB for a single "contract-based" tutoring session, yet as the instructor, I receive a mere 120 RMB in "extra hour fees." These private coaching centres for the State Grid recruitment exams exploit the information gap, bleeding vocational students dry as they desperately seek to change their socio-economic status. By pocketing the lion's share of the profit while doing none of the work, these agencies are quite literally profiting from the misery of others.