Time to retire my RT-AC68U #router, i suppose 8 years support isnt too bad but im so over #proprietary crap and premature #eol, as it's still working. Bit alas the final firmware update has come and gone, and there's no open drivers for the radios.

Switching over was fairly painless and the radio is better. ill keep the asus as a switch for now.

Open source is benefiting from the current AI trend: some projects are already improving their security posture and reducing their attack surface.

Proprietary software, for now, seems more out of the loop.

But once LLMs become better at analysing binaries, compiled code, and obfuscation, I wonder how vendors will handle the likely increase in vulnerability disclosures.

#ai #opensource #proprietary #cybersecurity

LoRa mesh is an absolutely PROPRIETARY, CLOSED SOURCE scam that wasted my money

https://piefed.social/c/Meshcore/p/2051656/lora-mesh-is-an-absolutely-proprietary-closed-source-scam-that-wasted-my-money

"There's this really cool app called—"

#FOSS #freeSoftware #humor #memes #proprietary #Stallman

I have to disagree with the author of this article. Surely, Minecraft has come a long way, but the one thing that really—and I mean *really*—repels me is #Microsoft requiring players to log in with a Microsoft account. What can I say? I just don't see any fun in letting Redmond monitor my activities, and that's why I have Luanti on both my Android and my Fedora computer.

https://reason.com/2026/05/01/minecraft/

#Minecraft #dataPrivacy #FOSS #Luanti #Minetest #proprietary

#Inkjet #cartridges suck and should be banned! Finally got some more paper for my #printer today but then the #cyan cartridge runs out of #ink, so I put in a new cartridge and guess what? The new one doesn’t work at all despite the printer saying the cartridge is full of ink. Like, I tried everything to fix it including reinserting the cartridge, doing the #nozzle check, cleaning the heads, performing a head realignment, restarting the printer, updating the #firmware, printing a cyan purge test page, none of that worked. The last two options I can think of are
1. Try using an official #Epson cartridge, since we’ve been using aftermarket cartridges for a while since the official ones are way #overpriced, but the aftermarket ones have been working fine up until now and if it doesn’t work, then that’s money on an #expensive Epson cartridge wasted.
Or
2. Just get rid of this #capitalist cartridge printer and buy a #tank one, because I’m done with printer companies locking us into #proprietary cartridges. I wanna be able to use whatever ink we buy without having crappy #DRM. Plus this printer is now 10 years old anyways, it’s lasted surprisingly long and has outlasted very other printer we had, but this problem as well as the constant need to realign the heads to stop lines from going through the ink are signs it’s time to upgrade to a tank printer.

I hope one day the governments of the world ban inkjet cartridges, because they are horrible for the #environment and are just here to keep prices up.

Pics attached of the #nozzles in case anyone can see what’s gone wrong, but I highly doubt there is anything that can be seen.