My gf is currently in the Penn State online program for Computer Engineering. This program was already 100% online before Covid19.

One of her classes this semester is Intro to programming which is in C++.

First of all. The book is crap and I've seen better written online tutorials. She'll be assigned a chapter to read for the week but will end up having a hard time reading it because it's like reading a dry manual with no context. The lack of lectures which she actually enjoys in other classes or ability to ask a question is really what makes everything a lot more difficult. She supplements with online materials constantly for this reason.

She's been feeding herself a constant stream of extra things to do to make up for the lack of real life experience. By far the most educational thing was installing Gentoo on her Macbook which she did with almost no input from me. She also went full neckbeard and started to use Vi with plugins as her full time editor over VS Code which is what I started her off with. The window manager she chose requires a bash script to populate the task bar. She's already better at the terminal than some of my colleagues. She's also been messing with ubuntu servers on AWS free tier for a personal website. The difference in Ubuntu and Gentoo has already given so much context.

She also bought a book on Linux Kernel architecture and has been immersing herself in the deep-end of the hacker culture. She wants to do embedded.

I think it's important for the online courses to set one on one time with every student so that each student can walk through their difficulties with an instructor online. Online instructors tend to upload everything and just disappear instead of providing actual instruction.

Am on gentoo with no systemd. Looks like I'll budget some time at work to drop our Ubuntu servers too since they are always sucking systemd's dick

I've been training our dev team to be using WSL for LAMP stack development. They use nginx and php 7.4 running on localhost.

WSL2 destroys any chance of us continuing to use Windows.

https://github.com/microsoft/W...

Just take a look here. The IO performance in WSL2 is even worse than WSL1. Basically unusable. A simple git clone moves like a turtle.

In WSL1 you could access windows drives via /mnt/[drive letter] and it worked at almost native speeds but in WSL2 the same functionality is basically broken. All the use cases of using linux based CLI utilities to do file manipulation with A/V are out the window.

All these bootlickers on Github are like "just copy the files to the linux partition"..... as if I'm gonna start copying gigabytes of videos to the linux partition just so I could extract a frame.

Last week I installed Gentoo and surprisingly it's been 10 years since I've tried to go full linux and this is it. This is finally it. Everything just works! I'm done with Windows and I've been recommending that we drop our windows laptops and give everyone a linux laptop instead. Why run emulated when you can run native?

It's been three weeks and I've been doing all my work in Gentoo with zero problems from the work perspective. Not a single driver issue. Even my shitty Logitech webcam works natively with a kernel module. Meanwhile in Windows 10.... Firewall issues out the ass. It never listens to you when you tell it to turn something off. Constant "updates" that fix nothing.

How fucked is it that I can mount an NTFS partition in Linux natively with no degradation in IO performance but Windows can't even hook into it's own file system type.

WSL1 was a marvel of technical engineering. A real time system call translation layer from Linux kernel to Windows kernel....essentially Wine in reverse which was able to translate most things over with no issues. Instead of adding support to the Windows kernel for unix style sockets they instead just said "fuck it we can't do this.... VM it is".

Welp. I'm done then.

I don't understand how you can look at the Linux kernel which already has support for FAT, FAT16, and FAT32 and then build your business around exFAT without expecting it to be added to the Linux kernel by someone at some point.

Paragon Software does not own exFAT. They didn't design it so they really have no leg to stand on here. They don't have any ownership of the Linux kernel or of Microsoft either.

This is like someone coming to sell water bottles at a festival without paying the organizer then complaining when the organizer starts giving people water themselves for free.

I'm sure they can still maintain a business making good tools.

When you say 100, 500, or 1000 year disease that doesn't really make any sense.

The more people there are that interact with the environment the more biomass there is for the virus to live and mutate within.

So if there's 7 billion people there's a 7x greater chance of a mutation than if there's 1 billion people.

Speak for yourself. I'm only 32 and already have 150k worth of investments.

Still support minimum income. Baby boomers need to die already. Ya'll are only capable of one dimensional 20th century thinking.

Exhibit A) You actually think that people on minimum income will stop working. Who wants to live on 12k per year? No one.

In another timeline 20 year old you put $1000 into MSFT in 1994 and ended up with a 100k investment at 46.

In this timeline though you think it sucks.

Actually the math checks out. You could replace every welfare social program with this and outcomes would be better for everyone. It spreads your existing income from middle age into your educational and retirement years allowing you to actually not worry about feeding and housing yourself when you're trying to get an education.

Let me put it this way. If you could take 10k from your age 35 self and give it to your 20 year old self would you?

I know I sure as hell would.

What are we talking about here?

Your storage? Like what happens when your phone is in the hands of a cop? How easy is it for them to look at the data on your storage?

Answer: Android now has an encrypted data partition so not very easy.

How easy is it for malware to edit your phone's system? Most manufacturers lock their bootloader so that you can only boot a system partition that is signed with their certificate and if that is compromised you generally have to factory reset the phone.

It is super annoying though because if you unlock the bootloader and flash your own system the bootloader will continue to keep saying it's "not secure" even though the data partition is still encrypted.

As far as actual security in user space Android is relatively clean. There are very few zero days in the most recent versions of Android. Devs on XDA keep trying to find them just so they can modify the system partition as root.

As for your actual data? You're kinda fucked if you install an app with permission to read storage. You can data mine a ton of data from that alone.

TLDR: Don't install random stupid shit.

Just FYI.

The pattern for existing devices has been that North America gets Snapdragon and the rest of the world gets Exynos.

So far only Exynos can be rooted on more recent devices like the S10+

Half the time I'm standing in line I'm listening in to my morning stand up anyway and yea that's way more important than whatever bullshit you have to say. No coffee shop is that important. If I feel like not even looking in your direction I will. Just make my drink, take my money, and shut your mouth while you contemplate the life choices that put you behind that counter.

The irony is my office is a former coffee shop with a full size espresso machine installed at the bar so I just go downstairs and make my own double shots.

I've been fully on the phone while ordering before and been able to order, pay, and talk on the phone without missing a beat so honestly this is baffling.

Don't want my business? Fine. There's like 10 other shops within two blocks.

Totally depends but really I don't want to live in the "fly over" states not because of the people or the culture although that is part of it. The main reason is that honestly the weather sucks. Heck I'm in Philadelphia and don't even like it here. Seasonal depression is a thing.

My gf and I both want to live in Southern California and not in LA but in just the general area for the weather. I'm already dropping 1900 a month on a 2 bedroom apartment with a roof balcony and off-street parking just to be within 1.5 miles of my office. But.... I could easily be living in the burbs around here and get a whole house for about 1500. Socal prices aren't too far off from that. I've seen decent 2 bedrooms for like 2400.

The food is better than say middle America but it kinda depends. It ain't no NYC or LA but Philly has basically everything except weirdly.... good BBQ.

All of us in the tech industry could easily be living on the beach somewhere and getting our jobs done. It's honestly just better for your health to not live in a place where you want to sit inside all winter. Sometimes I think I should just sublet an apartment in Hawaii for a month in the winter.

With my gf and I both in the tech industry clearing 6 figures the 1900 a month is really not a big deal. We literally got an AirBnB in Tokyo for a month in the summer for 2k just cause we wanted to experience almost living there and yea that's on top of paying the rent at our place in Philly.

I honestly laugh at these recruiters emailing me trying to get me to work on-site in like Kansas or something. These jobs never offer enough to move out there. Think about it like this. Yea housing could be less but internet costs more, good cell phone service also costs more, wear and tear on a car plus gas is also an expense, and for it to be worth my while you need to pay moving costs. Otherwise I need to work for you for a year before I actually see any profit from lowering housing costs. And with my life style where I travel a lot .... living there is actually a huge net negative cause flying costs more when you're coming from the middle of no where.

And weirdly I'm actually an introvert that grew up in a quiet suburb so I actually really enjoy being in a rural area..... but not too rural.

Also as far as raising a family....... the education in fly over states, I'm sorry to say, is complete garbage. People just have different values. In the USA the best school districts are in the suburbs of the big cities where you have a good mix of upper middle class liberals and conservatives. Plus networking wise those places are probably better for the social aspect for your kid's futures. They will generally make life long friends in school so where they go has a huge impact on how their life will turn out.

The OAuth2 key and secret would be granted against your account instead of the software.

We really need a standard API for financial institutions so that we can pull our own financial data from them in a standard way. The way it is right now is a hodgepodge of various ways you can export the data from various bank websites via CSV if you're lucky but more often than not you can only ever simply copy and paste the data from the bank's website.

I'd much prefer some open source project running simple HTTPS requests against an open specification authorized via OAuth2. That way the data is on my device with no middle man.

Between my regular stock brokerage account, my old job's 401k, my new job's 401k, my current bank, and my credit card account it's really annoying to see a top down view of my finances at a glance.

You're better off using a Single-Sign-On protocol like SAML 2.0 where you can administrate accounts through a website like Okta, OneLogin, or heck you could just use your GSuites account as an Identity Provider.

Sucks that you still need to use Active Directory to splice into your windows account logins but if you don't actually need that you can stick to web only services.