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rootsudo··on Being a kid making games in the early 2000s
Oh man, yes gamefaqs in the 2000s then gbatemp…
rootsudo··on Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late
Wow that’s be fun actually…
rootsudo··on Being a kid making games in the early 2000s
Rpgmaker days :)
rootsudo··on Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late
This is so cool and the visual novel wow
rootsudo··on Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders
great idea, thank you for this
rootsudo··on Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line
yes, you're precieved weak/femenine and possible for lack of better word, gay/lgbt

the same goes for many langauges, but you need to learn the same japanese but different form and way its spoken. I had this issue too, luckily a few japanese women helped me OL/dates so I could steer but this is a big issue

rootsudo··on Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
IrDA was the way to transfer midi ringtones to my Nokia back then. It was so cool to have it on a laptop.
rootsudo··on BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter
I can. There’s no other equivalent in south east Asia. They are consistent, they are cheap to operators, they have a viable and trusted dealer network and are cheap to purchase with immediate upsides.

Have you priced a similar car like a Toyota vios or Yaris or Honda hrv or brv. These are ICE and gas is what, in the Philippines 2$.gallon?

The only viable alternative that is non Chinese for South east Asia is ironically Vinfast, which are available in the USA and quite ibexpensively.

If you’re biggest claim is the “sear” and the “trunk bedding” you are missing the entire point of what this car is and it’s market position.

But hey, this is how propaganda works.

rootsudo··on Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory
This is required for Sox compliance and it’s relatively easy to use the pwsh get-aduser.

I would disagree they’re hard to find… lastlogondate yes depending which ad server queries back there used to be an issue but not so much anymore.

rootsudo··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
So it’s edge dev and debugging mode yeah it’s been super annoying for me too but luckily I just don’t need to use the service and it’s shaped my internet usage.
rootsudo··on Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?
Tbf it still is the norm in many other companies but… shhhhh
rootsudo··on Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers
no I was doing a back and forth council with chatgpt and it was fun chatgpt wouldn't do it but deepseek did and it pushed each other further it was really cool

cost me $10 in the end to run it fo about 10 hours straight, since I hit it in daytime hours

rootsudo··on Mexico has a growing fleet of new vehicles from Chinese brands
mazda or toyota, same tech
rootsudo··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
register it with mexican plates and drive it over
rootsudo··on Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers
Interesting, my deepseek session did find it.
rootsudo··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
Ah I miss the old days of expert sex change.com

To be fair not really but it’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time and all it took was to scroll down to the end of the page to get your answer.

Real 20 year ago internet there.

rootsudo··on Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin
Congrats, someone got it 10 minutes ago, I know I shoudln't have slept. :)
rootsudo··on France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms
euro winter, literal freezing of rights I guess
rootsudo··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Ok, but what about Vote + number? As stated so: "On Instagram, a search for the same word showed a GIF reading “Vote 13.”"

It's one thing to discard it as "numerology and gifs" but it's another to willfully disrupt legal elections in a soverign country.

Or is a decade a really long time and we've all forgotten about Cambridge Analytica?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

rootsudo··on Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions
crowd control on 4chan?
rootsudo··on Jailbreaking the Switch 2
I'll reitierate this again with the openai models, because I have an year and 2 year old android and it should be explitable, Thanks!
rootsudo··on Jailbreaking the Switch 2
I don't understand, how are people using codex for this sort of research? Whenever I try to do bug bounty, research, etc it locks down and I have the "blue" tier access/daylight whatever it's called.

For example I tried to investigate some CVE's on older android roms and it downright was refusing it. It was okay when doing it on... Microsoft and to submit a microsoft bug bounty but android was no go.

rootsudo··on Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records
I’ve always been curious as to why Indonesia islands have been the naming convention for this sort of software for a long time.

It’s also funny because there is true irl “dark magic” for Java, Lombok and Bali.

Also surprised there isn’t much mention of Bali in general.

rootsudo··on Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake
Yeah I was surprised there was a timeline and all
rootsudo··on I Became a Citizen of Japan
Not anymore.
rootsudo··on I Became a Citizen of Japan
The rules changed in 2025, as of q2 2025 it was only a requirement of five years residency within Japan to become naturalized and this route as considered easier than permanent residency.

Everything is now harder. Even business manager visa. So many 夢の日本 have been shattered and pushed into other Asian countries. I’ve also seen a push into Europe , Italy, which also changed the rules last year too which was considered a very easy way to become a European citizen, Canada for Americans protesting Trump, etc.

It really does feel like the prelude or reshuffle of the world balance, open borders, Covid, closing borders, higher qualifications..

Wonder what it all means.

rootsudo··on Why are all these data companies buying internal data?
Interesting. I understand it’s for forecasting and emulating the same business too. Just didn’t think HHC would be there as Medicare dispursement is the biggest payer and that’s public record so hmmm
rootsudo··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
Exactly, inspiration.
rootsudo··on Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
50/50

This is not a new idea.

Several companies/single owner LLC's do this for a massively inflated price.

I understand why the inflated price, support and warranties, etc.

IT is not that hard for people who are technically inclined.

People who are not into it don't understand why.

If placement/marketing was for SMB that wanted to maximize dd-wrt usage and get a support contract in place I can see that

but outside of that, and a marketing youtube channel and being proactive on reddit, Idk how much can it scale and what point will you not get a cease and desist from vendors because I'm sure they have something nasty in their terms of service, which I think you may need to click through to enable the flash.

You've identified your market competiton price points, and all have deeper pockets than you, but do not offer free, open source software.

WRT3200ACM and the other previous model is a fab of mine to grab, it's been a year but I've collected 10+ and deploeyd them in strategic places for personal use,

You wouldn't need regulatory approval IMO. prototyping, what type? You'd follow the release schedule, get the best flavors/models and support those.

Overtime maybe you'd contribute back to the project, especially during hardware revisions. But it is very different from buying used hardware from ebay and flashing it to resell vs buying new and selling it as a value add on.

1. Yes, proper hacker route.

2. Proper route to an extent, it legitmiazes support, warranty and security.

3. Expensive, time consuming but, doable but not likely.

Yeah, the dropbox comment is infamous, but that was about launching a new SAAS that has infinite potential scale and solved a problem no one really wanted to fix at the time outside of one drive (which sucked at the time, was called skydrive afaik) and usb sticks which are...great but USB3 was new, usb2 was there and people were arguing back and forth why usb3 wasn't working or such

so:

to answer your question you need to really figure out a basic marketing question of 3 P's.

Product Price Placement.

Product is DD-WRT. Price: It's free. Placement: People that know what it is but don't have free time to install it?

No, not quite right, right? Let's try again:

Product: DD-WRT routers preconfigured for enterprise support and SMB. Price: Retail price of router + $100 per sold, with 1 yr warranty, additional warranty and stuff available at x and y? Placement: People that know what it is about but don't have free time ot install it or want to offshore this for a price.

Slightly better, but still:

So do I want it? I welcome anything FOSS in general w/ GNU/Linux and its a much needed stepping stone to continue having a decentralized internet:

but if it was so easy, people would've done it already, and they do.

It also reminds me of fontana which is how I netted a free WRT54G for offering what exactly, I don't know, but boy did I flash DD-wrt on that badboy and link it to my neighbors WiFi for free roadrunner internet to get my anime fansubs. So while as much as I'd like for the idea to flourish/am surprised wardriving and torrenting anime was a vector for getting me into tech I don't see it much out of a hobby business

and that is 100% OK

If you throw $5-10k a year at it, I think you can corner the niche, use AI automaiton for marketing campaigns, target tech conventions/festivals (like VCF) and youtube to build a audience it can scale.

but 125k? wow, no way - you ccan really do this for much less.

back to the scope of a opensource router: same as above, but if you really want, you need to find a manufacturer that already has a pre built configuration that at minimum supports the newest radio and minimum gigabit ethernet. GLI has theirs at $169, and hardware is a miminmal markup business, you can really find something similar to that and do a proper hardware cycle with a manufacturer and somewhat a contract but thats 50K including FCC licensing (if you know what to do, and you do the licensing yoruself, as well as Electrek/uL to cover CSPC. But hey, in todays world, everyone (well for past 30 years too) just makes it up and folds thier llc when caught.

For more business minded ideas, heres one about MSO/s and GLP1 from a Ycombinator 3x foudner and I comment with the same dissent:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543849

So tl;dr why not pitch it for ycombinator winter, I think it's still open for submissions.

Add AI (why not, right?) and you can have a walking talking configuratuion wizard guide you to addung ublock,adblock, pihole, etc instead of the broken ecosystem we have today within dd-wrt because while I clearly can spot the pain points and issues, I lack the ability to turn them into viable selling points for investors to give me money and I should fix that someday :(

rootsudo··on Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
This is a cute reminder from the old days of PRL files on cdma
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