owenfromcanada

Had to dig this one out of the archives.

Those are eyephones

This string of jokes requires patience. Tune in tomorrow for part 3.

Heckin sea roomba

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I'm no expert, but I would think overwriting the firmware would generally make the router "safe".

For it to not be safe, there would need to be some aspect of the firmware that is not overwritten, but still executed somehow. Something like a co-processor, or some convoluted flash arrangement.

But I don't think that would be the case, because that would almost definitely drive up the price. I can't say for sure, but that's my best guess.

The other potential vulnerability is that some devices have two flash regions, to be able to roll back in case a firmware update is bad (I had a linksys device with this configuration). So you might flash OpenWRT, but if the router gets reset a couple times (like with a power outage, for example), it could load the previous (commercial) firmware. There are ways to deal with it, but if you're looking to buy a new device, it'll be easy enough to avoid those cases.

For what it's worth, I've had great luck with OpenWRT on a number of TP-Link devices.

My favorite band is Enter the Haggis. I'll give you a couple choices:

Swallowed by a Whale - one of their newest.

Gasoline - one of their most popular ones, a bit country-leaning.

To the Quick - a solid instrumental.

Then it would logically follow that smart watches would be called...

microphones.

If you're browsing for torrents without a serious adblocker... why?

It wouldn't be the distribution method that is challenging, it's the complicated task of monitoring your filesystem for changes, and working with a dozen or so different file systems to do it (the way it's accomplished on an ext4 partition might not work on btrfs, for example).

I already have to do this. My office wants everyone to use the MS authenticator app, won't run on LineageOS. Even if it did, I wouldn't install it, but still.

Ended up making them purchase a hardware security key for me instead.

HEAR THOSE HOGS CRANKIN, ALSO MY TINNITUS