Unfortunately it’s still trial and error. Check out e.g Ovpn, Astrill, Mullvad though. You can always email and ask different providers as well. Though it’s best it you set it up before visiting China. A HK sim through Airalo or similar also works.

Yeah, I’ve heard Shanghai for example has zones where the GFW is much more lax?

It’s better to pay for a VPN provider that is verified to work in China. And no, they won’t kidnap you for using a VPN as some people write here. It’s a non-issue just to bypass the GFW. The issue is when you write to a Chinese audience things that the CCP do not like.

You don’t have to set up your own VPN. Many public providers work.

It’s crazy that this is an opinion that people really have. I don’t like authoritarian states and I have a lot of issues with the CCP, but this isn’t true at all. Loads of native Chinese living in China uses a VPN. They don’t care about it.

They have. I don’t know what people are talking about in this post. It’s bypassable easily, and the CCP won’t kill you for it. There are so many Chinese using aVPN themselves to bypass GFW

I run 2x 1440p monitors at 165hz and 144hz fine

Crazy that there’s an instance about Ascendance of a Bookworm. I’ve just been reading this!

Great comment, agree!

Yeah, I think I agree with you tbh

I’d say a fair idea is to host your own personal website with your resume, if you’re capable and/or want to learn. There are often examples you can base your portfolio on.

I feel it too!

One of the worlds greatest wonders

Crazy amount of upvotes though? Surprised to see that so many like Lemmy on reddit!

Thanks for this! This should maybe be posted in a separate thread in a relevant community? [email protected] could be an alternative, but at the same time, DeDRMing does not always equal piracy (and is a legal thing to do in many countries in cases of personal backups etc).

I’m not in the US. But from my research, it seems to not be as clear-cut as you state even in the US (e.g, https://gizmodo.com/its-perfectly-legal-to-tell-people-how-to-remove-drm-1670223538). The DMCA takedown issued to the NoDRM team was for including copyrighted LCP code from my understanding.

Either way, for this specific case, they had no legal grounds at all to threaten the guy.

It’s a common misconception that stripping DRM is illegal. If you own the books, it’s legal in most countries to strip the DRM. This method doesn’t even touch the DRM, he just extracts the content after being delivered it. Maybe it’s semantics, but it’s not the same as using the DeDRM plugin for example.

I’d recommend reading Orwell’s earlier works (which might or might not be public domain in the US, but is in Canada, Australia and parts of the EU). Like “Down and Out in Paris and London”. Nothing at all like 1984 or Animal Farm, but still really good.

As I mentioned in another comment, the translations in public domain are often not as good as modern ones. They might shy away from certain things/censor stuff (or in the case of The Count of Monte Cristo, just completely ignore large parts of the book), and either way they use more archaic language that usually doesn’t flow as smoothly. Of course there are exceptions to this, but this is my general impression. Though, to be honest, I didn’t like Crime and Punishment that much either haha. I didn’t understand why people saw it as one of the greatest books ever written.

It’s great, but the translation in public domain is not as good as the one by Robin Buss in recent years. I think some translations even ignore large parts of the book, e.g. the opium-smoking harem part. That’s the general issue with translated foreign language books from the 1800s/early 1900s.