Alright, I stopped scrolling. Now what? Do I write a disapproving letter to my local politician?
You install Hannah Montana Linux on their cars and their spouses.
Instructions unclear, a local senator's wife throws a kernel error and won't boot now... Help.
just insert a "live USB" and troubleshoot inside her
But for gods sake don't install on bare metal
Hey at least you can... oh god, flash her, and then hopefully she'll reboot.
Better than a halt and catch fire code being tripped.
I don't think flashing a senator's wife would be a good idea.
Oh my fucking god you monster!
Thats amazing.
Wait. WAIT.
Ok, now, in my own personal head cannon, Hannah Montana Linux is the OS that was running on the little robot thing that ... Hannah Montana got stuck in, in that one episode of Black Mirror.
Its perfect!
you hijack cartoon network's broadcast and play this meme over it until their lawyers physically beat you to death
Strongly worded!
I can't remember where I read this but I saw somewhere that open firmware is forbidden in things like cellular modems because it might be abused to disrupt communications. I think that's bullshite, though.
In theory, yes, you could make a mess, and any firmware is supposed to be certified to allow the device to be used.
In practice, this has been a convenient excuse to keep a whole chip with a separate OS in every smartphone, and it is very difficult to isolate from the rest of the system (see Graphene OS efforts).
I say all firmware should be opensource. Whether you're allowed to change them or not is a separate question... for now.
How would open source software be used to disrupt communications? What am I not understanding here?
Different countries regulate the radio spectrum differently, so transmitting on a certain frequency might be legal in country A but illegal in country B. They don't bother making different radios for different countries, though; instead, they just build hardware capable of transmitting on all the frequencies and then restrict what it can do via the firmware. The argument goes, if they allow device owners to modify the firmware, then they might modify the radio to transmit illegally. Never mind that there are myriad other ways an attacker could do that, that are almost as cheap and easy...
There are easier ways to cause chaos:
Get a cheap phone.
Write some code to have it play, at the loudest possible volume, a pure sine wave at 18000hz to 19000hz, just outside of the range nearly all humans can consciously be aware of hearing a sound, but within the range that prolonged exposure to this sound can cause humans to become panicked, irritable, delusional, sometimes even hallucinatory, and have immense difficulty sleeping.
Leave the phone somewhere.
Obviously, do not actually do this.
Probably this would be considered terrorism, and get you in about as much trouble as fucking about with your conception of what could be used as a sort of crap tier EM jammer.
I'm saving this for later.
You don't need a phone at all to do this. Or code. Or silicon. Just a cheap RC oscillator circuit tuned to that frequency and connected to a battery and a tweeter speaker.
Edit: where's RadioShack when you need it?
AliExpress bots have probably already read this comment and put together a 'panic inducer top quality rechargeable usb frequency tweeter for wedding, birthday, sonic warfare, corporate and special event' which you can buy for five dollars
Driven out of business by the CIA and FBI to prevent this from being easily doable no doubt!
(kidding, obviously lol)
In additional to the other comment, I think there's also a traditional fear of corruption in open source. If the code is public then malicious parties are free to read and take advantage of holes in the security. Secondly it would be possible to contribute code with secret functionality that goes unnoticed. These are fairly easily debunked but seem to remain in people's heads.
Ugh I hate these arguments about giving bad actors easier access. Bad actors are going to figure out flaws and security holes whether it's open source or not. Security through obfuscation is a temporary measure and having more eyes on the source means more chances for good actors to find flaws and publicize them for fixes.
Isn't this actually more likely to happen if it's closed-source, since the code isn't visible to third-parties like security researchers? That's why zero days are a thing.
Uploads thousands of open source 3d printed firearm designs
Like this?
(No Mr. FBI/ATF I do not actually have those)
Just an FYI, that's not illegal because it falls under the U.S. Constitutional protection of free speech; so also is printing and constructing them. Selling them or distributing guns as physical products is not protected, and is in fact illegal.
The only thing i want is DIY paper printer with open source driver + DIY ink cartridges.
It's kinda weird to me because i can find DIY 3d printer + it's driver (open source) online, but no company made DIY paper printer with DIY cartridges until now
Fuck HP, Epson, Canon, or whatever big company printers out there
I have a Brother laser printer. (I love it, but that's not important here.)
The firmware doesn't support duplexing A5 paper. I'm wondering if this is a good place to dip my toe into the world of open source driver development.
If such a thing exists (DIY paper printers), I would like to know more, because the level of frustration I have with all the major printer mfrs I've used, is too damn high.
Bonus points if it's a laser printer, extra bonus points if the components for the printer can be 3D printed (with obvious exceptions).
I just want a good, wired, network printer for everyday crap that I can use once in a blue moon for stupid documents that someone wants me to print, sign, scan and send back to them because they haven't figured out how to do e-signatures yet.... And the odd extra thing I need to print. Every time I print it seems like I need to reinstall the printer or update something to make it work. I buy laser printers so the ink doesn't dry out before I can use it. The whole thing is so damned frustrating. Also, bluntly, unless you're doing photo work, never buy an inkjet. They're cheap, and there's a reason they're cheap. Inkjet has better color representation, so photo printers should probably be inkjet, for everything else, do yourself a favor and buy a laser printer. Toner lasts much, much, longer.
The problem is the most important parts of inkjet/laser printers are pretty difficult to make by hand.
You can DIY a plotter though. Probably could figure out a continuous supply of ink to the pen too?
An open source printer, you say? Interesting idea
For anyone searching for models:
Instructions unclear, bricked my laptop after flashing libreboot. Send help.
Although It's less about guns and more about paying/donating to projects on GPL. If you don't know where to donate, start with Firefox. Every £ matters
I'm out of the loop. Is this about phones?
It's about everything. Computers, phones, the computer that makes your car work. Every bit of electronics that boots - that probably includes your smoke detector and oven
Death to the MPLA!
Did anyone else read this in Macho Man Randy Savage’s voice in your head?
Already ahead of you and installed Linux and around 2400 packages for the software I use
I use Arch btw
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