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trustingtruston Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

With M1 this was something that people hoped would happen. But right now all I use my iPad for is binge watching in my bed. I’ve owned an M1 air for a year and that’s literally all I do with it. If I had a TV in my room the utility of the iPad would be zero for me.

trustingtruston Canada’s new tech talent strategy

This is not for applicants I think. Only those with an H1B approved visa. The ones who have an approved H1B but no job in the US would move to Canada. So they are not targeting those who have a job in US ( they have little to no incentive to move any way).

trustingtruston OpenWrt Project: a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices

"it is often a decade old"

This is a problem first in terms of security and secondly why ISPs have their own hardware cause people will upgrade their plan and complain they are not getting the speeds because they don't even have the hardware to support it. Firmware bugs in routers are becoming common for DDoS attacks.

trustingtruston OpenWrt Project: a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices

The open source community is great and companies like Mediatek have open source drivers too. The problem is by the time a router and its drivers gets to a really stable state, its wifi standard has become old or last gen. The RT3200 for example or E8450 is the one that is trending cause its relatively new and fast hardware with most issues solved. But now thats WiFi 6 and not 6E. By the time 6E routers get stable OpenWrt WiFi 7 will be available. So OpenWRT always trails one generation which is perfectly fine for home users usually.

If you really want something that runs a more recent version of OpenWRT (for security patches) and fast and stable wifi from the latest generation the best solution right now is to use OpenWRT for routing and get some prosumer Access Point. This combination has worked great for me. This is important if you want to deploy in a work environment where wifi needs to be stable and frequent reboots are not welcome.

trustingtruston Logistics challenges of saving Air India’s diverted 777 in Russia

This is funny because comments here are talking about going to war with the west over an airplane.

trustingtruston Total recall: the people who never forget (2017)

"Gambling with cards is an obvious field."

financial goals would not rank high. If I could remember every single thing I see, I would rather become a lawyer or a doctor where I would be able to have a much higher advantage over others and that would automatically solve any financial problems. If I had a superpower, I would use it to help people as a career path because gambling would get boring real soon as the money aspect of it would just disappear in a week or so (assuming any place allows you in twice).

This is like the one where people who win the lottery become happy for a very short time but very soon after that they either go back their baseline happiness or worse, become depressed.

trustingtruston Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs

https://wccftech.com/m2-ultra-only-10-percent-slower-than-rt...

They also posted this.

trustingtruston Apollo Back end just made public

I’m a long time paid customer of apollo. I have only used Reddit because apollo exists. What an amazing app. Thank you for all the hard work.

trustingtruston The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)

I hope it’s not as easy to make a doctor as it is to make an engineer.

I am an engineer dating a surgical resident who has to go through so much training that an engineer would never even come close to an engineer. The room for error is quite small. If it was as easy to make a doctor as an engineer I would lose faith in the medical system and would never want such a doctor opening me up.

trustingtruston Tomb Raider

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trustingtruston What's the impact of this debt ceiling being raised?

I am not someone who understands global economics. But from what I understand based on a 10 minute read is that it's something thats raised every so often and there is a political debate on why it's bad for everyone. Why would the impact of something thats regularly done be worse than other times ?

trustingtruston Graphs That Explain Software Engineering Salaries in 2023

Is Silicon Valley still aggressively paying people such salaries? I have no idea how Silicon Valley works but all my Indian tech friends and relatives seem to flock there and never want to leave. I wonder what makes you not want to leave that place. Can’t be only the big salaries.

trustingtruston ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important

This core is ideal to be replaced in low power platforms like SMB routers that run on MIPS (MT7621). I think Qualcomm and Mediatek is extensively using these in router SOCs which previously were based on MIPS. These cores are probably less 'application' cores and a more designed towards low power helping cores. For example QC uses network accelerators along with the cores. Anything gigabit and beyond still requires bigger ARM cores or Intel but below gigabit these are not bad.

trustingtruston Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm

Telemetry is something like : this is the history of modem signals etc. Something Qualcomm might have in its contract.

trustingtruston Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm

iPhone involves a lot of telemetry which Apple sends it to itself. We don’t know what kind of contract Apple has with Qualcomm but if it involves Apple anonymising and sending the data to Qualcomm for using its chips then it’s likely going to be the same just in a different form. I’m pretty sure Qualcomm would like some kind of telemetry from its partners it sells chips to.

trustingtruston Biggest companies in the world by market value 2022

It’s incredible how the US has lead the world in so many areas. What are some of the factors that other countries lack from a political standpoint where the US excels ?

trustingtruston Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way

A lot of times I want to build something on my homeserver and N5105 ain’t gonna cut it. I don’t build every day or every hour but if I want to I would have to turn it on and off every time.

trustingtruston Build 5G networks using open-source software, general-purpose hardware (2021)

Campuses like universities could use iot networks in low frequencies which will be much more reliable than Wi-Fi because of range problems.

trustingtruston Libreboot: HP Elite 8200 SFF support added (plus more desktops coming soon)

I have been looking to buy a 9020 for a nice little home server. Didn’t know it has coreboot support now.

trustingtruston Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design

I wonder how this affects TSMCs business in the long run and if this is a move that is specifically geared towards foundries to come under US ownership. Interesting regardless.

trustingtruston Flatcar Container Linux

There is one for arm64 is there one for the rpi4 ? I already run containers on mine this would be even better.

trustingtruston Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux

Liberating an M1 MacBook Air in another 4-5 years is going to be quite something. Asahi is making really good progress and in a couple of years maybe you may be able to hand out M1 MBAs with Linux like candy. My M1 MBA is already so fast compared to my intel DESKTOP from 2018 that I can’t wait to daily drive Linux on it.

trustingtruston International Orange

The article shows orange space suit. Interesting to me cause an orange suit on mars is probably not a good idea. A while suit on moon is also not. If you want to tell objects apart then maybe you need a per planet colour for a space suit ?

trustingtruston Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children

My 9 year old nephew today told me he wants to learn scratch. I don’t know where he heard that from but he was very specific about it. Wow.

trustingtruston I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory

The whole thing is so unnatural to read I won’t be surprised.

trustingtruston The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge

Almost every default setting from companies like Microsoft and google with have tons of telemetry enabled to ‘serve’ you better.

I believe Ooshutup like tools can help up to a certain extent.

trustingtruston Spotify's redesign isn't going down well

When Apple Music launched and updated the UI few versions later I thought Spotify has an upper hand with its simpler UI and better discovery of music. They somehow managed to make their UI worse. Incredible how companies that become popular because of their simpler UI down the road make it complicated and worse.

trustingtruston Finding a former Australian prime minister’s passport number on Instagram (2020)

Print right at the top in bold: Confidential information please do not share for privacy reasons.

trustingtruston Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?

A friend of mine did a small experiment. She’s quite good looking so she made a new account and another guy friend made another account at the same time. She has usually has 3000+ likes on bumble so we wanted to see how many she gets in 30 minutes. In 30 minutes the guy got 5 because of a new account and she got 150.

The ratio is so badly skewed that the apps end up working for no one. Neither men nor women.

trustingtruston Evidence that Adani Group has engaged in stock manipulation and accounting fraud

I think 'with' was the wrong word here. Betting against a company is being in business around the company. Meaning you still trust the business, just trust it enough to fail. You can't not trust something and at the same time bet against it. You must trust one of the two if you want to be involved with the company.