Alternative way to see it: The author had either a $50 solution, or a $50 solution that comes with a discounted hotair rework station for $150…
I learned it from Superfastmatt. He needed a piece of plastic that retails for $1500 for his van, so he said: “either I have a $1500 solution or I have a $1500 solution but I get a free fancy 3D printer in the end…” that stuck with me.
Haha yeah, last year I replaced my wheel bearings in my van. I ended up with a frustrating ABS code (long story short: faulty magnetic encoders on both of the new bearings). I ended up spending about the same as the job would have cost at a shop, but with a slew of new tools.
I also did a USB switch project for fun, and ended up spending probably $250 for something I could have just bought for $15, but it was a great experience. (Here if anyone is interested: https://shielddigitaldesign.com/posts/2021/susb/ )
You still need to account for a fun factor. I've got a nas which cost me probably $400 in parts to save on buying a $300 solution. But it's mine, janky, fun and I wouldn't have it any other way.
A couple of years ago, I lived in an apartment and made a doorbell repurposed from an Amazon Dash button. Basically I have a daemon that sends a message each time a button press is detected to my homebrew mqtt server.
Then I have a bash script that runs on the raspberry pi board that has a speaker installed, something of this sort to play the doorbell chime:
while [ true ]; do
mosquitto_sub --exit-after-first-message /my-topic
play_wav my-file.wav
done
One day, when I was out and about, I got a call from my neighbor saying the doorbell was making noise non-stop and bothering him. Turns out the mqtt server crashed, the mosquitto_sub command exits right away... We had a good laugh about it as we are both software engineers.
The Chumby with its wiki and open hardware/software philosophy was so ahead of its time and so influential to me. I started my whole career with hacking the Chumby’s user space [1]. The Chumby inspired and took me from an IT worker in a regional public school, to being a professional software engineer, making software shipped to millions of very important machines.
The lesson that I learned from the journey was that working with hardware can be fun and— if you want your career to be long-lasting— better be fun. The Chumby was one of the first devices that showed me that and bunnie was the one who showed me that. I still follow that principle to this day. No day in my life has making firmware or fucking around with hardware devices not something I enjoyed.
If your input is Russian mixed with English, it might still be actually faster to do a first pass to process all the ASCII English range first with the aforementioned techniques, then do Russian later in the second pass: imagine you’ll have way less if branches to do.
For banks that insist on doing SMS-based 2FA, I use a less well-known Google Voice number that only I know and don't give to my normal contacts. That number does nothing other than to receive 2FA codes, doesn't forward its messages and calls to any other numbers.
My reasoning is that it would not be trivial to guess the phone number from my account/name, and to guess my name from phone number (unless someone hacks into the bank's db, in which I'm in troubles anyways). Furthermore if someone was able to figure out that link, it would not be trivial to do SIM swap on Google Voice, it would not be trivial to attack the Google Voice app. Two or three stars have to line up for someone to sim-swap that GV number.
But some stupid bank go further to ban GV numbers. In which case I just don't bank with them.
Dump those banks for a reasonable credit union that has access to the co-op ATM and branch network. There's no reason to be with Bank of Scoundrels (Bank of America) or any of the other scummy banks when many credit unions today can't deliver all of the same features and more of a traditional bank.
Zelle, ACH, international wires, credit products like credit cards, home loans, personal loans, auto loans and such are all available through many credit unions, and they also reimburse ATM fees, often offer higher savings and checking account interest rates, and if your credit is poor or downright awful, they will often lend to you at a low interest rate when no bank or credit card provider would do so.
Lol, they botched the first example - that it translates “Our goal is to create a more connected world” to Vietnamese: It has a glancing typo at the end of the sentence “hơn” instead of “hơ.” Also it really messed up the pronounciation: It read “Chúng tôi” as “Chúng ta” - they are totally different words phonetically. The pronunciation also sounds like it’s made by someone who is mentally sick. So they botched in both translation and pronunciation.
That’s so embarrassing - especially for something to show how good their stuff is (although I think it’s probably not the ai’s fault) - just shows how sloppy their people are.
I know they have plenty of Vietnamese engineers there. Did the PR dept just throw this final version of the video out without reviewing with them?
A quick glance to the history of the article, I see it was edited by multiple usernames and IP address at different times. How did you come to the conclusion that it was self authored?
Funny to think about: "writing your own Wikipedia page without it getting taken down for Original Research" is a fun first hobby project to certain kinds of network-security people, as much as as "making your Github activity graph solid green" is a fun first hobby project to bot programmers.
Because this is a person that doesn't meet the notoriety requirements for Wikipedia, and goes into a level of detail that is also totally unnecessary. It is trivial to connect to different servers via VPN and creating new usernames on Wikipedia takes seconds.
They clearly do meet the notability requirements; the cites on this article are almost as long as the article itself. Notability on Wikipedia is a term of art; it refers ("mostly") to how much of the content of the article can be drawn from (ideally diverse) secondary sources. It's not an achievement award.
Wikipedia has protections against this. it is not trivial. Each change by random ip also has to be accepted by editor with permissions, and getting these permissions is not easy. It might be possible to bypass all abuse counter measures, but it takes a lot of effort and is not trivial
I initially liked this solution but I don’t think it’ll work for me. There seems to be a hard limit on the number of emails. It also seems like you can only share the domain with your apple family (my extended family isn’t part of my apple family sharing plan.)
I assume by "hard limit on the number of emails" you mean daily sending limits, which is quite high for a personal user (500 per day)? If that's the case, Gmail also seems to have a similar limit.
Or do you mean there's a hard limit on total number of emails you can store?
Sorry for the confusing wording, I meant email accounts. It looks like you can only share the domain in your apple family sharing plan which means only 6 different accounts.
Sadly, no. It also pushed me back from using their mail services (and far more complex issue where my @iCloud alias stopped working at all, but they fixed it after a few weeks).
I don't like the fact that you need an Apple device to sign up for iCloud+ and even to initially set up email. Still, I just switched over because it seems to be the best choice for my usecase.
I learned it from Superfastmatt. He needed a piece of plastic that retails for $1500 for his van, so he said: “either I have a $1500 solution or I have a $1500 solution but I get a free fancy 3D printer in the end…” that stuck with me.