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2026: Week 13/52 (Mar 23 – 31)

https://burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2026/w13/

Delayed weeknote due to router headaches... I think my network setup is ok for now. 🧐

This is post 24 of #100DaysToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

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FCC bans all foreign-made routers. Critics call it a sledgehammer approach creating supply chain chaos with unclear national security returns. Security policy needs precision, not blanket bans that disrupt supply chains. 🌐⚖️

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Source: Bluesky/CyberScoop (subconsciousproxy.bsky.social)

I had read good reviews about the #GL-iNet #routers so I purchased one of their products around 18 months ago. One of my main motivations was supporting, at some level, #OpenWrt and including tools like #AdGuardHome and #Wireguard.

But to be honest, it all has been a bit disappointing.

AdGuardHome never worked very well. Apart from being slow, the service would frequently freeze (e.g. whenever I updated the custom filter) and I had to manually restart it.

In addition, the system stack was quite messy and difficult to make sense of. For example, the #DNS service #Dnsmasq could be managed directly or via Openwrt, sometimes creating unintended problems.

Anyway, the router decided to implode after a firmware upgrade, which is quite underwhelming. I tried a few things like reflashing Uboot, factory reset, etc. before deciding to just toss it away and get another one, from a different brand.

Mashable: The confusing U.S. router ban, explained: Which routers are banned?. “The Federal Communications Commission on Monday added all foreign-manufactured consumer routers to its Covered List — the federal government’s running blacklist of communications equipment deemed a national security threat. The move effectively bans the sale of new WiFi routers made outside the country. The ban […]

Both the U.S. and #Canada are trying to escape the consequences of their actions. Canada chose own-goal vassalage to the U.S (so easily foreseen decades ago) and is now struggling with the consequences.

The U.S. is...<gestures widely>. The FCC order blanket-banning foreign #routers is one strategy: Surprise!, the world’s greatest arrogance machine pivoted to something unglamorous (they might have gone with “Trump Internet”).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116296389981378776

This is what I was talking about last Monday. It's a big deal.

Only Starlink is not hit by the ban. Starlink would be a Elon Musk company. Naturally.

#routers #computing #networking #wifi #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA

So the last couple weeks have been nuts on keeping up with the news....but here's another that might have slipped under your radar and will effect basically everyone in the US. Your home router has basically been declared a security risk.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/all-this-has-happened-before

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