- ‘Minisforum U850—solid hardware and easy upgrades in a little box’ by Jim Salter for Ars Technica
- ‘Typing my way down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole with the Drop CTRL’ by Iljitsch van Beijnum for Ars Technica
- ‘One Week with the iPad and Apple Pencil’ by Mint for his blog
- ‘A brief history of router architecture’ by Tony Li for the APNIC blog
- ‘My Mom Believes In QAnon. I’ve Been Trying To Get Her Out.’ by Albert Samaha for Buzzfeed News
- ‘Here’s why Substack’s scam worked so well’ by Annalee Newitz for The Hypothesis
What I’ve Read This Week (March 8 2021 to March 14 2021)
- ‘Is Your Browser Extension a Botnet Backdoor?’ by Brian Krebs for KrebsOnSecurity
- ‘A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack’ by Brian Krebs for KrebsOnSecurity
- ‘The Snapdragon 888 vs The Exynos 2100: Cortex-X1 & 5nm – Who Does It Better?‘ by Andrei Frumusanu for AnandTech
- ‘Searching for the perfect iOS Markdown writing tool’ by Jason Snell for Six Colors
- ‘The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021’ by Alex Russell for his blog Infrequently Noted
What I’ve Read This Week (March 1 2021 to March 7 2021)
Here is what I’ve read this week:
- ‘How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%’ written by T0ST for their blog
- ‘Weird architectures weren’t supported to begin with’ written by William Woodruff for his blog
- ‘Splitting the ping’ written by Ben Jojo for his blog
- ‘An Ode to Friendship: Persona 5: Strikers’ written by Mint for his blog
- ‘You’re not welcome’: rap’s racial divide in France written by Michael Oliver for The Guardian
- ‘Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts’ written by Dustin Curtis for his blog
- ‘Apple confirms it does not hold your Apple ID hostage due to missed Apple Card payment’ written by Benjamin Mayo for 9to5Mac
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What I’ve Read This Week (February 22 2021 to February 28 2021)
After a long while of not doing these kind of posts on this blog I have decided to bring these back in an endeavour to write blog posts more often and also as a way to actually read more writing on the web. For a while now, my unread queue on Pinboard has been an article graveyard where I add a post and then weeks go by before I just mark it as read instead of actually reading the post. Obviously, this is a terrible habit so I am going to break it by doing these posts. Fingers crossed this will be something I stick with going forward.
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Bell Canada should peer at Canadian IXes
My home ISP for a few years now has been Bell Canada. More specifically their FTTH (Fibre To The Home) service. For the most part this has been quite good and reliable.
However there has been one thing that has bothered me over the years about Bell Canada’s network. It is their tendency to not peer or have a presence at local large Canadian IXes (Internet eXchanges) like TorIX. I am picking TorIX here as an example because its the one most relevant to me personally. As far as I can tell from the publicly available information, Bell Canada does not peer at any Canadian IXes.