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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Who cares if it already exists, just make it.

    Also consider the possibility when the other, more popular projects got enshittified. Now the fleeing users have an option to switch to your project. It actually happened on one of my side project. I made it because I want to try building my own version of X. It got ~2000 users, but later down the road, X got sold to a new shitty owner that waste no time to enshittify it, and my side project suddenly grow to 20,000 users overnight.



  • Back in the day, we tried to get Reddit unblocked in our country, which blocks porn websites. No amount of arguments can convince the government agency in charge of the block list that Reddit is not a porn site. They probably got tired of us pestering them and send back a whole bunch of screenshots of porns in Reddit to justify the block.

    I guess Reddit is a porn site.




  • For customer router, you can’t go wrong with Asus. It has thriving community firmware (AsusWRT-Merlin), which really open up the device without sacrificing usability and the original routers’ features. Asus also help with the project and the open source maintainers have full access to the routers original source code. IIRC flashing Merlin doesn’t void the router warranty.

    The drawback is Asus routers are more expensive than TP-Link. But after owning several TP-Link routers (mainly because they’re cheap), I don’t recommend them and I think you should spend a bit more money to get an Asus router instead.

    If you’re interested, buy an Asus router supported by AsusWRT-Merlin (specifically the AX models if you want wifi 6): https://asuswrt-merlin.net/