FAQ

Why not make a multi-lingual site

You can visit en and CJK for that. Individual RSS/ICS subscription is also available.

I know quite a few lingua franca1 (reading/listening proficiency only), it will become impossible to maintain and update each on a regular basis, not to mention that some languages have no written form at all.

What? You know about the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)? Sorry, I don’t.

What is “Geekademy”

It’s a word I coined and used since junior high school, a combination of Geek and Platonic Academy (Ἀκαδημία)2.

I wish to buy geekademy.com domain back in 2018 when I decided to use a dedicated domain for my old blog, but it’s already taken. In the end I just picked up another word I coined as my domain.

Is the site favicon “Star of David”

It’s actually a 🔯 Dotted Six-Pointed Star, but yes, I use it as a reference to ✡️ Star of David.

What is “Sine īrā et studiō”

It’s a famous quote from Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus. The literal meaning is “without anger or passion”. For details on the change and why I discarded the previous VENI VIDI VICI, see RIP (written in Chinese).

License, you know, the CC0/Public Domain/CC BY 4.0 stuff

Good question! I can keep talking on this specific topic for 2 hours3. In short, unlicensed and all rights reserved.

As CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0, CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0, GFDL-1.3-only all have their shortcomings and we are now at a time copyright law & common sense being challenged by LLMs, I’m still waiting for a serious guidance other than the wrecked DMCA.

However, you are allowed to copy and redistribute the text material without derivatives in a non commercial way, as long as you give the appropriate credit. For codes, AGPL unless otherwise noted. Just note that I hold the right of final explanation before the ideal non-existent law comes into act.

How to contact you

If you are not in a rush, I have a (rarely used) Matrix account @vinfall:tchncs.dewhich will be checked regularly per quarter. That’s really slow for an instant messager, I know.


  1. Ancient Chinese ≈ English > Madarin » French > Chinese Sign Language > Classical Latin ≈ Cantonese > Japanese > Esperanto > American Sign Language (ASL), along with more than 10 Chinese dialects ↩︎

  2. It’s a school founded by Plato and named after the legendary Athenian Academus (Ἀκάδημος). ↩︎

  3. Check Thoughts on Copyright for a glimpse. ↩︎

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