5 ms·

Love reading these posts where a person implement their own solution to communicate with devices that have proprietary software that only support Windows. Thank

• huflungdung 3mo ago
  [dead]
• jauntywundrkind 3mo ago
  I agree so so so much. This is such a virtue: when humankind can access their systems. I got downvoted to -4 for my rather strong worded praise of this virtue, one that the media & politicians seem to directly hate & be opposed to. There's a great Battlemesh presentation on FCC rule changes in 2014 that made it illegal to ship devices that users could modify, and since then OpenWRT has been in deep woes, has been having incredibly hard time supporting routers, for one example, with the Table of Hardware for support barely growing. https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8/Agenda?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=2015-08-06_wbmv8_FCC.pdf https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8/Agenda?action=Attach... I'm pretty sad to see so many people so quietly hating, blasting a piece that is as close to my heart on the right to hack as it gets. No one even replied, to something I obviously care so much about, just downvoted me out. It is a very over the top piece, but does it really deserve to be un-seen like this? I hope not. I hope it has some food for thought, even if you don't agree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486657
  • hulitu 3mo ago
    > No one even replied, to something I obviously care so much about, just downvoted me out. There are a lot of people on HN whose salaries depend on the status quo. Think of all Apple, Microsoft and Google "engineers" for example.
  • swhiffen 3mo ago
    > No one even replied it reads like an overexcited infant