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Jamesbiodun:
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Olutunde Abiodun
Thanks in advance

Sibrah:
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Yekini Amoda.


Lol.

airsaylongcome:
Lol! I'm liking this Nairaland block feature.

Sapiosexuality:
...
But when you look at people who started the journey with us, like Singapore, South Korea, Saudi, etc., whose resources were exploited and you notice how divergent and progressive their formula was...

airsaylongcome:
Anyone watching the Crosstalk Solutions videos? Need clarification? Feel free to ask. I will answer to the best of my ability. Would focus on answering any questions related to the videos over the weekends.

airsaylongcome:
You don "turn" German finish. You should keep up with those "The VoIP Guys" on YouTube. Their Asterisk Content was so good that I actually considered translating their Mikrotik German content

airsaylongcome:
We run away from IPv6 in VoIP o.

airsaylongcome:
Anyone watching the Crosstalk Solutions videos? Need clarification? Feel free to ask. I will answer to the best of my ability. Would focus on answering any questions related to the videos over the weekends.

airsaylongcome:
Anyone watching the Crosstalk Solutions videos? Need clarification? Feel free to ask. I will answer to the best of my ability. Would focus on answering any questions related to the videos over the weekends.

The Benin Bronzes are works of arts originating from the Kingdom of Benin, located in present-day Nigeria (Not to be confused with the nearby Country called Benin).

Created primarily by the Edo people from the 13th century onward, these works are mostly made of brass (not bronze, despite the name) using the lost-wax casting technique. 

They include commemorative heads of Obas (kings), plaques depicting court life, and items of religious and historical significance, originally adorning the royal palace in Ancient Benin Kingdom. These artworks were originally meant to serve as historical records, depicting scenes of royal ceremonies, warriors, and divine figures; narrating the Kingdom's history through detailed engravings.

But their purposes came to an end in 1897, when the British invaded the Kingdom of Benin, purportedly as a retaliation for an earlier attack on a British delegation. The city was burned, and thousands of artifacts, including the Benin Bronzes, were looted. These were later auctioned in Europe, dispersing them to museums and private collections globally, notably the British Museum, Ethnological Museum in Berlin, and institutions in the U.S. The invasion marked the end of the Kingdom's independence, bringing it under colonial rule.

This event led to the decline of the Kingdom's political and economic power. However, the legacy of the Ancient Benin Kingdom still lives on, with its cultural and artistic contributions still celebrated today. Efforts are being made to return some of the looted artifacts to the Oba of the present-day Benin, in order to restore a piece of the Kingdom's history to its rightful home.


Political Dimension: 
Nigeria has sought the return of these artifacts since independence in 1960. Recent years have seen increased momentum:

[list]
[*]Germany agreeing to repatriate over 1,100 Bronzes, with transfers beginning in 2022.
[*]The Smithsonian Institution and the University of Aberdeen have returned pieces.
[*]The Horniman Museum in London restituted 72 items in 2022.
[*]The British Museum, holding the largest collection, has resisted permanent returns, proposing loans instead.
[/list]


Conclusion:
Although The Benin Bronzes were initially created by the Edo People to narrate the Kingdom's history through detailed engravings, Western Colonization legacies have made them become deep political artworks that shows global conversations about Imperialism, Exploitation, Justice, Erasure of Cultural Identities, and a reflection of whose narratives matters.

airsaylongcome:
Sipwise link I sent earlier. They are German or Austrian.

Passcom is an ITSP in Germany. I actually really wanted to work with them when I started. They had a really good VOIP training programme.

https://jobs.pascom.net/en/

They also have a really good YouTube channel.

hxxps://www[.]youtube[.]com/@pascomnet

Was actually supposed to be in Germany this weekend for the Kamailio conference starting on Monday. Small world to hear you are in Germany. Really small world I tell you!

airsaylongcome:
Lol! Truckload I know. Bookmark them. Come to them later. I may not be readily available soon. So I'm "dumping" as much as I can until my next relatively down time which may be for a few months. Focus on the Videos for now. All 32. After that we'll see where I can point you. Don't forget to keep your C/C++ in view. Very important. VERY IMPORTANT. Not all "seniors" have malicious intentions lol. (I'm not a senior o. Cos where you feel say you sabi reach you go see who sabi pass)

My fun projects are more towards home labbing. Currently messing about with home and building automation. Hard to do it properly in Naija because the electrical wiring in our homes are worse than substandard. But we still dey try to get around it

Handful of Raspberry Pi projects as well.

airsaylongcome:
We have almost 2000 FreePBX VMs for our customers. Data Centre sitting in Vegas.

I understand his worry, but to support multiple tenants using FreePBX as the PBX, almost every provider hosts multiple instances of FreePBX behind something called a Session Border Controller. Sangoma has one available for testing. There's also a somewhat limited open source one called dsiprouter. Limited in the sense that it's API is behind a pay wall. But the developer, is a super cool guy. African-American. Had a brief call with him recently and the first thing out of his mouth when I got on the call was "Thank God you are black!".

That's several steps ahead though. Focus on getting your head around understanding and working with FreePBX

Did I mention training[.]sangoma[.]com? Register there if you can and follow the PBXACT training. Same instructor. PBXACT is FreePBX with Sangoma's commercial modules. Licensed and requiring subscription. But it can begin to give you ideas how the open source offering of FreePBX is monetised.

There's an interesting Webinar coming up on 05/20 for a well received open source module.

Register at: hxxps://register[.]gotowebinar[.]com/register/4365743306136387670

and join if you can. Definitely not an attempt to market or advertise. Just interesting stuff to keep eyes on.

Don't forget to start looking into the Asterisk codebase. As a dev, that's where you want to play. AstriDevCon should be interesting

airsaylongcome:
Why don't you want to use Virtualbox? That's what I used starting out

airsaylongcome:
You can also work with v16: hxxps://downloads[.]freepbxdistro[.]org/ISO/SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2306-1[.]iso

V17 is still doing anyhow. Minor differences between between v16 and v17. The YT series uses v15 I think. But the concepts are still the same.

Also look up TangoPBX, a fork of FreePBX. I'm most likely going to go with that splinter as Chris Sherwood don waka go there too. But right now, I'm straddling both.

hxxps://community[.]tangopbx[.]org/
hxxps://community[.]freepbx[.]org/


Olamilarks: if you go with v17 script, run it with the
--opensourceonly option.

airsaylongcome:
Have a crack: hxxps://www[.]sipwise[.]com/archives/career/telecom-sip-engineer

airsaylongcome:
Asterisk, the biggest open source VoIP software is built with C/C++. You would be playing in higher leagues than where I'm even trying to get people started. Have a look at their repo see what low hanging fruits tickle you. I've come across two Naija guys living in Naija and working for Telnyx (think MTN but on a more massive scale). They were doing something similar. Working from here. Not with Asterisk but with Freeswitch (the second big open source player)

ios and Android experience just makes it even better. If that's your preference, look at Linphone mobile app and SDK.

It's a niche field though, so jobs aren't "in the open". Get into the community. Especially the developer community side of it. I literally just got "something" from a Detroit and British Colombia businesses. Simply from just being in the forums.

airsaylongcome:
Asterisk, the biggest open source VoIP software is built with C/C++. You would be playing in higher leagues than where I'm even trying to get people started. Have a look at their repo see what low hanging fruits tickle you. I've come across two Naija guys living in Naija and working for Telnyx (think MTN but on a more massive scale). They were doing something similar. Working from here. Not with Asterisk but with Freeswitch (the second big open source player)

ios and Android experience just makes it even better. If that's your preference, look at Linphone mobile app and SDK.

It's a niche field though, so jobs aren't "in the open". Get into the community. Especially the developer community side of it. I literally just got "something" from a Detroit and British Colombia businesses. Simply from just being in the forums.

airsaylongcome:
It's mostly networking. It's niche I know but part of the aim is to get readers interested. An L1 VoIP tech with zero experience will be earning around $17.50/hr for a US business. That's for someone with 0 years of experience and just basic idea about it o. A good self starter would be doing around $30/hr within 3 years with self development. And that's not hard stuff doing crazy UI/UX or CSS stuff o. I literally got my first role after watching a 30-part YouTube tutorial. From zero knowledge o. Someone with some networking background and a bit of drive could be starting at around $20/hr. It's just a bit frustrating having almost no one interested in it. I was on a call with an African-American in the space and the first thing he said was "THANK GOD you are black!" Said he's tired of attending VoIP conferences across the world and being almost the only black person in the room. He's almost always only the black speaker at these conferences.

That's for just tech. Devs could be building VoIP apps for mobile/desktop. Linphone already has any interested dev half the way. Add WebRTC using SIP.js or JSSIP and people here could be playing in that space

Is asm a reference to Assembly language? RISC or CISC?

lexdino:
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ThugCheetah:
Which card do you use to pay for Google developer console