OMG. I am Tunisian and was planing to buy an sdr dongle next month for research purposes. I guess if I had done it I would be in big trouble by now. It is well known here that customs are very suspicious about any device they do not recognize. Back in the early 2000s they were questioning people about their USB sticks!
they explain that he was using the RTL-SDR as part of his investigation for monitoring air traffic to Libya in an attempt to link flights against violations of the arms embargo.
So the person in question supposedly wanted to prove that Tunisia is potentially violating UN embargo by possibly monitoring air traffic communications without permission.
Tunisia and Algeria are well-known in enthusiast circles as countries where you do not try to monitor ATC or Mode-S transmissions.
He had a noble cause but what he was doing would have to be done in a hands-off, anonymous way with relay to an outside recipient. Perhaps remote solar-charged SoC units with satellite uplink, but that's getting into serious money.
Another Tunisian here. Our country is backwards when it comes to tech. Heck, you can get arrested for bringing a drone into the country without proper security authorization...
Putting aside the arrest which is legal,
I wouldn't say Tunisia is backwards when it comes to technology and innovation but I guess
with security reasons Tunisia find it self impellent to make such decisions, I mean the last years haven't been
easy when it comes to terrorism and now you're between the civil war in Libya and maybe a revolution in Algeria.
RTL-SDR from rtl-sdr.com is essentially a particular USB TV tuner, just repackaged into a form that makes it more suitable for SDR use (higher-quality soldering, metal cover, etc.). You can look for that TV tuner sold as a TV tuner, and get roughly the same capabilities.
It seems like this was politically motivated and if one were off the radar it may not be an issue. If you're concerned about someone looking for an excuse to arrest you, that might be an unfortunate cause for concern.
Having a beard is very enough to raise their suspicion as they will link you to terrorism without thinking twice. In 2015 I bought a metal detector online and they thought I will use it to search for monuments. They returned it and I was lucky it ended there.
From a purely statistical viewpoint, there are 11M Tunisians out of 7.5 billion people, which would put them at 1.5 out of any 1000 people are Tunisian :) Even if we take technological and language exposure (which is what I am guessing you are hinting at), I'd say at least 1 person in 5000 on here is Tunisian :) And I suspect there are more than 5000 people on HN.
If this was more of a small-talk "hey I've lived there and so nice to be reminded of it", pardon my intrusion with data :)
Yeah statistically speaking you are probably right. It's probably because the vast majority of people around here are from the US. I'm from Spain and I rarely find Spaniards either.
Recently I had to do some updates on a UI that used tailwind framework. It was the most unpleasant experience I have ever had. I quickly got eye strain looking at all those attributes.
No one is obliged to bid on such projects. You'll find clients who pay good rates too. I have been freelancing on Upwork since 2010, I never bin on low budgeted projects and usually I'm happy with $35+/hr rates.
That may sound to low in US but where I live it is very high pay rate.
One trick is to postpone the correction of a typo for instance until you're done with your current editing. And there's also plenty of ways to switch between modes: i,I, o, O, a, A, and ^o and ^d (insert mode) which are occasionally handy.
Also people often duplicate Esc to the "jk" combination. I personally use ^L instead, but for no particular reason.
On AZERTY keyboards, the nastiest shortcut for me is ^[ ("jump to tag", which is ctrl-AltGr-5). I simply remapped it to F2.
A second one is ` (backtick, altGr-7), which I remapped to ' (tick). I did not move tick somewhere else, it wasn't useful enough to me to bother doing it.
> Also I think some keyboard shortcuts are not comfortable on an AZERTY keyboard layout.
Agreed. That's why I switched to the US international layout. Took me only one week to train my fingers. And it's not that hard when I have to use someone else's computer (somehow I didn't forget the azerty layout :D).
Muslim and respect Israel. I don't think that can go together!
You are impressed by their technology success, I understand it, I do either. But respect!
I respect what they have been able to achieve given their situation (geographic location, limited resources, small population).
As I said in the beginning, I am completely against the illegal settlements, the blockade of Gaza, and other similar issues. I regard my fellow Palestinians as brothers and sisters. That doesn't mean that I cannot respect what Israel has been able to build.
I as a muslim too respect jews and israelis as a hardworking , intelligent community but that does not mean we need to agree with everything they do as righteous .
I don't think there is a government that has ever existed that has not made a mistake. As an American, I can proudly criticize specific actions of my government I may disagree with, but I still feel, despite its flaws, generally does relative good for a majority of its people and the world. I feel similar about the Israeli government. Yes, they too, like the American government, and <insert other government here>, have made decisions not so well-received in the past, and likely in the future. But overall, I feel the Israeli government, like the American government, does much more good for its people and in the world than otherwise. Despite how you feel about the Israeli government, I cannot think of another government that takes in wounded people, who may be willing to risk their lives to destroy your very government, and provides medical aid without question.
I tried many times to use Ubuntu as my main machine but I always go back to Windows. Why? more than 4 times when I run a system Upgrade it fails and I end up with a broken system.
The other thing that holds me back is the UI. Hundreds of Themes available but I always see them as "cartoonish" themes that are not well though of.
I'm dual-booting between Windows and Ubuntu. I keep Windows for games that require it; most of my daily use is on Linux, but there I spend most of the time in the shell, Emacs and in Chrome. So I tolerate various UX annoyances. But I'm not going to recommend Ubuntu (or for that matter, any other Linux system I've used so far, and I've used a few) to normal people looking for a normal desktop - there's just too many glitches, too many UX annoyances, too many bugs in GUI-dependent software. For all its issues, Windows has a quite polished desktop ecosystem.
Windows brakes on updates also[0]. It's all about knowing the system well enough to fix it when it does.
[0] Heck, Windows breaks on reboots! Sometimes when I reboot, it either forgets my bluetooth or my wireless. And by forgets, I mean it doesn't think the hardware even exists. Multiple machines, multiple vendors, so it's not just one odd computer.
Rough count, I've worked with 30+ different windows machines over the last few decades. I have never seen the problem you are describing. I'm not saying you're not having it, I'm just saying it's not necessarily a common event. Maybe you live/work somewhere with a lot of EM interference?
No, not just my machines either. Work machines across the country out in the field have issues with Windows forgetting hardware[0] (network, wifi, bluetooth).
I think people just get used to Windows' issues and don't recall how many times they have to deal with them.
[0] At least once per week out of several hundred machines.
> I think people just get used to Windows' issues and don't recall how many times they have to deal with them.
I can recall a lot of issues that I've had with windows. I can tell you with certainty that I've never had a device go missing from the device manager.
I've had printers have trouble being discovered after they are unplugged. I've had driver updates cause hardware to stop working. I've even had windows updates completely mess up my windows installation.
But I've never had the issue you are describing.
> [0] At least once per week out of several hundred machines.
You're saying you have a greater than 1% occurrence rate per year? Google doesn't show the issue in the first three pages for me with the query "Windows forgets network hardware." Have you opened a Microsoft support ticket? I mean, if you're losing device drivers every week, that's man hours your burning! I would want to get that fixed ASAP!
I'm far more wary of Windows updates than Ubuntu updates.
I have the same install since 14.04, I have updated to each version up to 16.04 and it still works fine.
OTOH, I reverted the Win10 free update and went back to Win8.1 because Win10 did not work with my bluetooth devices, the tablet functionality was inferior to Win8.1 and it was actually unpolished compared with the Win8.1 experience.
Your second point is simply opinion, and while I can't argue against it, my own experience using Ubunty with multiple monitors and virtual desktops makes Windows feel limited in comparison and therefore much less professional.
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