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I think the lack of SIMD extensions on the C5/C6 holds it back, along with the bandwidth to get IQs out fast enough like you can on the S3/S31.
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Comment · 1 month ago
> This is probably obvious to most people, but I will mention just the same: do not install the antenna that the TV comes with.

Wifi antennas would typically be internal and unrelated to the one F-Type coaxial connector one would typically think of as the "antenna" input.

Can't really stop the internal module from scanning and connecting to open access points unless you control the software.

Comment · 3 months ago
> Presently it seems to be unlikely to find an inexpensive (<150 USD) router that will run OpenWRT, supports modern wifi modes, and is reasonably fast.

There's a couple ISP branded units that fit those parameters, with caveats. (Mostly around OpenWrt installation difficulty and the always in development state of brand-new 11be platforms)

However due to the price (Depending on availability in the 2nd hand market, it's very possible to get tri-band 11be routers for USD$50-100, usually with one or two 10GBaseT interfaces), there are still quite a few that overlook some of the difficulties involved.

> triggered to run every 10 seconds because the PPPoE interface doesn't provide an 'on change' event hook.

Normally this should be handled by a hotplug.d script in /etc/hotplug.d/ but I'm not familiar with the stock Mikrotik firmware.

Comment · 3 months ago
> I like the EPOMAKER Magicforce Smart2 68-Key layout [0] . No QMK, but I get by with Karabiner, etc.

Many Epomaker boards are just licensed to be sold under their brand name, most of them fairly transparently. (Ie. Epomaker x Aula, Leobog etc.)

Quite a few of their configuration software packages end up looking quite horrible as a result, as I don't believe they have a unified software package for all the brands they sell. Many Windows Forms looking programs that look like a time machine back to the era of Windows XP.

Unfortunately they've also been caught up in quite a few scandals over the years: QMK license violations Customer support/Quality control issues Attempts to dodge customs by deliberately under-declaring the value of their packages... Got into a legal fight when another company also licensed an identical board design and beat them to market (The other company aren't angels either) Platform banned from Reddit for astroturfing

Which kind of just results in Epomaker in being a hard discourage.

Comment · 3 months ago
> I have also tried many other IP camera brands over the years, but it seems none of them have figured out how to output fully compliant RTP/RTMP/etc. streams so I end up always having strange and random problems receiving fluid streams from them into a central server.

Another issue is semi-compliant ONVIF implementations for PTZ cameras and/or not having relative movement implemented. Or you know, just lacking RTSP and ONVIF entirely.

> Coupled with the fact that many brands are just using the same recycled white-label Chinese firmware, I'm not surprised.

SDKs for many of the SoCs not being available is really annoying as well. Some of the Ingenic, Sigmastar, Goke etc. are available, but I think many were just leaks from customers rather than intentional releases.

Comment · 3 months ago
> All of there IoT devices will be slop coded soon

Soon?

I've already seen multiple of TP-Link's firmware engineers leave their LLM history public and indexed by search engines.

It's quite obviously them as well.

Comment · 3 months ago
On this subject since it's an Australian seller and marketed as "DV safe".

Australia has a national test of it's phone alert system in 10 days at 27/07/26, 2PM AEST. (People in North America would know it as Cell Alerts/Presidential Alerts etc.)

There have been warnings that hidden phones will almost certainly sound, and their recommendation is to ether power off the phone or put it into airplane mode at least an hour before the test...

Comment · 3 months ago
While they're okay on paper, they managed to burn a lot of customers in regards to the add-on wifi 7 module.

Quite a few of the modules went out without their eeprom programmed correctly, and all of them appear to be plagued by quite mediocre performance from (alleged) inadequate RF shielding on the card.

It looks like they've revised the design, but it's peeved off quite a few of the Banana Pi/Sinovoip customers who have bought them with the intention of using it as a router/ap with their R4. (It's dual-PCIe fingers with unique spacing and requires out of spec PCIe voltages, so it's only practically usable with a BPi R4.)

At the very least, the customers using them as wired-only routers are likely to be having a slightly better experience.

Comment · 6 months ago
I too honestly thought that this was going to be a deep dive on the M-series PCIe controller or something similar.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
I suspected something along these lines was possible when I looked at this provider a couple months ago.

If I recall, I had a fairly decent view of their various checks because it was delivered completely unminified, including a couple amusing sections and unimplemented features. (A gesture detector with the middle finger gesture in the enumerable commented out, for example...)

Another attack vector that I speculated upon was intercepting and replacing their tflite model with ones own, returning whatever results required.

Additionally, I believe they had a check for virtual camera names in place, as checks would quietly fail with a generic message in the interface, but show the reason as being virtual camera within responses. (Camera names are mutable though, so...)

Comment · 9 months ago
If I recall, for something like GPON or XGS-PON, you end up having to clone the various attributes of the original for it to work properly. This typically includes serial number, hardware id, firmware identifiers, etc.
Comment · 10 months ago
Qualcomm kind of does this with their XPAN extension, sends the audio over local network. I believe it's mostly a proprietary solution though, so I haven't seen any serious attempts to re-implement it yet.

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