Hacker News: CursedSilicon

New comment by CursedSilicon in "The plight of the public potty"

CursedSilicon — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:11:06 +0000

What a prototype you are

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty"

CursedSilicon — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:33:39 +0000

Good lord man go back to Reddit or something

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty"

CursedSilicon — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:17:01 +0000

Your bewildering obsession with "populism" sure does define your entire worldview

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

CursedSilicon — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:51:03 +0000

Fortnite's shop is is psychological abuse against children and to compare it to Valve's "gambling" is laughably carrying water

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

CursedSilicon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:20:11 +0000

They literally just shipped a massive update for a game they've been developing for several years (Deadlock) and are releasing more content for it this Friday

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"

CursedSilicon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:41:03 +0000

Richard Stallman was a noted centrist for decades after all

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?"

CursedSilicon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:23:35 +0000

DD-WRT? Absolutely fucking not.

Brainslayer is (and has been) a complete nutjob for decades. To say DD-WRT is an "open source" project is stretching things to breaking point.

To get a device "supported" by DD-WRT you have to send Brainslayer a router. Nobody else can build the project because he intentionally obfuscates and breaks the build process as much as possible to "prevent people from selling DD-WRT" (as you're proposing doing here)

Once he receives it. He simply takes the vendor GPL firmware tarball and glues DD-WRT's UI onto it. There's no improved security for a DD-WRT device. Particularly the Broadcom ones back in the late 2000's/early 2010's when DD-WRT was more popular, Brainslayer never bothered to update from the 2.6.18 kernels the devices came with which left the Wi-Fi performance absolutely lacking.

OpenWRT is a completely different bet. But then you're fighting with GL.iNet who are literally a Taiwanese OEM selling OpenWRT-out-of-the-box devices

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

CursedSilicon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:42:38 +0000

Good to see the bots are regrouping

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

CursedSilicon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:22:12 +0000

US? Absolutely not

UK? Quite possibly. Given their recent admission (finally) around the Russian propaganda for Brexit

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry"

CursedSilicon — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:18:18 +0000

You're mixing it up with NT's "personalities" of which OS/2 was the primary target at the time. UNIX was purely for FIPS contracts

New comment by CursedSilicon in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

CursedSilicon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:19:10 +0000

"And remember: Service Guarantees Citizenship!" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1vWxUqpFI

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser"

CursedSilicon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:24:39 +0000

Art is never over. No matter how hard you clutch your monkey jpegs

New comment by CursedSilicon in "'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'"

CursedSilicon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:21:08 +0000

Here, let me surmise it for you at your level

"concerning!"

New comment by CursedSilicon in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

CursedSilicon — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:04:40 +0000

Would you like to buy some tulips?

New comment by CursedSilicon in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

CursedSilicon — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:08:05 +0000

"That's why we had "mod chips" for decades"

See when you only take half of something someone said, then run off with it and draw incorrect conclusions. You sound foolish

New comment by CursedSilicon in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

CursedSilicon — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:15:47 +0000

Yes. And that's why I said "decades". Unfortunately the person replying did not realize I was speaking in a historical context

New comment by CursedSilicon in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

CursedSilicon — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:15:02 +0000

The PS5 has had modchips for decades?

I'm pretty sure my original comment both specifying a timeframe longer than the PS5 has existed and hardware that never was produced for the PS5 would suggest I was talking about other devices

New comment by CursedSilicon in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

CursedSilicon — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:09:20 +0000

So why did they drill holes into the Xbox 360's DVD drive when they could've just hacked the hypervisor all along? :)

New comment by CursedSilicon in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

CursedSilicon — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:10:56 +0000

Pirates don't usually bother hacking consoles. It's easier for them to just bypass the security on the disc drive. That's why we had "mod chips" for decades

New comment by CursedSilicon in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

CursedSilicon — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:50:37 +0000

Are you seriously suggesting America's influence is increasing?!

I guess you're in the 22%