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Obscure breakcore hell yeah! Wish SSK channel was more alive or there was a better place to network.

This post was so engaging to read, it felt like the best war-story you'd randomly hear in the break room. Gotta check out the rest of OP's posts.

crowfunderon Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

I've encountered the exact same issue. What helped me somewhat, at least with the video playback, is opening videos in embed player.

I coded an extension that adds a context menu for opening videos in embed mode. https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/youtube-open-as-...

crowfunderon HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons

I have nothing against AI myself, but it significantly changed how hackathons work.

One prominent example I won't name, I had attended over a couple years. Coincidentally,the timing overlapped with pre-LLM boom and post-LLM boom. My first edition had zero usage of LLMs, the last had practically 100%, the rules were accommodated. The teams were no longer required to present a working example, a literal figma concept and a cool slideshow were more than enough.

crowfunderon A backup failure and a one-time wonder

A melodramatic story of a failed backup, data recovery and a year of memories saved by a miracle.

crowfunderon A list of fun destinations for telnet

Wasted opportunity for a telnet.net or tel.net domain.

crowfunderon Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware

There were cases of railway sabotage.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp85g86x0zgo

crowfunderon Ask HN: Share your personal website

My fresh, new blog: https://crowfunder.github.io/ Thanks!

crowfunderon Linux Is Not Stable

I feel like recently there's been a certain discourse that Linux is a full-fledged replacement for Windows and MacOS, even for non-technical users.

crowfunderon Linux Is Not Stable

Hi, I wanted to share a bit of my frustration about Linux usage after whole 2 years of using it as my daily driver. I collected most of the more annoying issues I've encountered, the list is not long, fortunately, but features some especially gruesome issues.

crowfunderon Show HN: LLM Rescuer – Fixing the billion dollar mistake in Ruby

The year is 2030. REST API is dead. Invoking requests results in your web browser inbuilt LLM guessing what is supposed to be returned from the server. When opening github.com you occasionally see cheese, at times animal shelter hotline.

crowfunderon Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

> The device should ideally have some kind of secret material derived per device, like a passphrase generated from an MCU serial number or provisioned into EEPROM and printed on a label on the device.

It is better than simple secret like 12345678 but it can go wrong too, like in the case of UPC UBEE routers where the list of potential passwords can be narrowed down to like ~60 possibilities using a googled generator [1] whilst knowing only the SSID.

It did require firmware reverse engineering to figure out [2][3] but applies to most devices I've encountered. User should ideally always change the default password regardless.

[1] https://upcwifikeys.com/UPC1236567

[2] https://deadcode.me/blog/2016/07/01/UPC-UBEE-EVW3226-WPA2-Re...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20161127232750/http://haxx.in/up...

crowfunderon Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

Wow that's horrifying. I guess apk modding era is over for most users.

crowfunderon Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

As far as I'm aware it is possible to use Frida without rooting, by using Objection https://github.com/sensepost/objection