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武侠 (Wuxia) culture is big in Alibaba. Everyone has a 花名 (alias / nickname) in the company. In the early days, people just picked names from 金庸 (Jin Yong)'s novels. Jack Ma's 花名 is 风清扬, who is a great sword master in one of the novels. Source: I had a short stint there.

Picking 玄铁, which also comes from Jin Yong's novel, seems rather natural in that context.

Jin Yong's novels are very popular in Chinese speaking countries and regions. Most readers won't associate them with China. I don't think it has anything to do with national pride. Culture pride? I don't see much either.

Qu Wenruo is not a Linux kernel maintainer. The submission title is incorrect and over dramatic.

> You would not have been approved for a passport, if deemed unworthy.

Do you happen to know me in real life? How do you know if I'm worthy or unworthy to the Chinese state?

This is utter bullshit. I didn't need a permission or high enough social credit to leave China.

If you don't do it already, take regular breaks. That helped me recover from RSI.

The difficult part is remembering to take regular breaks. I use a piece of software call Workrave and have been very satisfied with it.

It's such a shit show.

A few years back, one of my ex-colleagues who needed to travel to US frequently for work was stopped right before boarding a plane because he had a layover in one of the blacklisted countries while on holiday. He didn't even know he lost his ESTA.

I ran my email infrastructure before but deemed it too much hassle. I would rather offline the burden to a service provider.

When I say "writing code", it would be more or less like the newmail script here. Much simpler than running a full fledge email infrstructure. :-)

I want this functionality but I balk at the idea of running my own email infrastructure.

I'm fine with writing code to call APIs from email providers to manage email addresses though.

Can you reply from the aliases? If you're using a service provider, can you share which one you use?