Saw this news yesterday or so from a #LouisRossman video, but according to this article and #Brother's statement - this might actually be untrue and is supposedly a hoax dating back to 3 years ago.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink

Louis Rossmann's wiki article on the matter may have more information though:

https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Brother_ink_lockout_%26_quality_sabotage

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/waldoj/statuses/114111355455257925

Holy cow! I totally missed it. It's already a year old, but still very interesting to watch. Oh dear…

#GrapheneOS #LouisRossman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0

I have no idea if this is still ongoing but the #futo #repair shops are so inspiring

We need more of this! #righttorepair #peertube

https://peertube.futo.org/w/sEy1Vvbj38GoSnnuzKV9AJ

I literally just got into #3Dprinting thanks to my wife buying me a #BambuLab A1 Mini late last year for my birthday, and BL is already trying to pull this shit off - forcing cloud dependency and user lock-in, instead of letting people use the #3Dprinter they had bought however they want to.

The last time I got bamboozled like this was with #Anker's #Eufy security cameras - when I paid the extra sum of money for their cameras (over way cheaper competitors) because they promised everything was local, then just a week or so later it was exposed that all of their camera feeds/thumbnails were accessible online. They even tried denying it until the news got too big for them to counter, bloody hell.

Watch/read #LouisRossman's findings on this Bambu Lab scam:

https://youtu.be/aIyaDD8onIE

https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Bambu_Lab_Authorization_Control_System

So glad it seems #futo is now updating their #peertube instance:)

https://peertube.futo.org/videos/watch/01eef862-cd97-44ea-a64f-ad8fb4e88db0

I genuinely hope #FUTO does a major pushback, cause the crippling of #ytdlp means it's now impossible to archive a LOT of the video of the past 10-20 years. #LouisRossman

Following up on the #MendItMark hoo-hah:

Louis Rossman promised last week that xyr "next video" would be a re-upload of MendItMark's video. It wasn't. M. Rossman uploaded several videos after that, and only now, the next week, has got around to the re-upload.

At least one of the other re-uploaders in the initial flurry to re-upload has since deleted xyr re-upload.

Apparently, no YouTuber has had a "What‽ There's a design right in the U.K.‽" moment, yet.

Louis Rossman #LouisRossman

https://youtu.be/_hgWrXyDlHc?si=nIEZytVlPD9maqQS

It always pains me that my favourite Android keyboard was #Microsoft #Swiftkey. I'd had it since before Microsoft acquired it.

I have just tried out #futokeyboard, it's open source. It's part of Futo that does a bunch of supposedly consumer focused apps like #grayjay and #immich. I believe #louisrossman is backing futo in some way?

Anyway the keyboard is really pretty good for what they are calling an alpha, has an optional on device voice typing model too, that I am yet to check out.

I wonder how long this video will stay up...

https://youtu.be/dqTYg6vnQvw?si=OeE7P6pA7qTseWTy

Check out Louis Rossman's YouTube videos on shonky New York landlords and estate agents. I don't feel even slightly bad for them for a commercial property crash.

One good thing to come from the covid pandemic - working from home was proven to work and all the ridiculous waste of time, money, fuel & energy associated with commuting to an office can just go down the toilet. Good riddance.

#wfh #louisrossman #landlords

What a $1 deal says about America's office market
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68472143

@thenewoil Companies that do this are no different that the Mafia demanding extortion payments from businesses so their buildings don't mysteriously burn down.

Okay, this is so awesome!!!

https://grayjay.app/

Developed by the #futo foundation, which provides grants to #opensource projects.

https://futo.org/what-is-futo/

This allows you to follow #creators directly from multiple platforms through "sources" such as #youtube #soundcloud #peertube etc and also support them through their preferred funding type. Removing the middleman and giving them back control on their "brand/identity" without being locked in.

Grayjay is going to have a huge trust and honor system issue in being given to the masses. When you start gatekeeping (even if it's for a valid anti-malware stance) you are INVITING malicious actors to do a Spartacus situation to overwhelm your resources. State actors and potentially competition acting on malice by proxy is what I am most concerned about.

Purposely overwhelming by engaging in legal battles to the point the overall perception is tainted through negative press is the dangerous part of doing any good these days.

Thank you #FUTO for this amazing tool!

This gives Google LESS access to your data!

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=UCGaKvZpJYc

*this is a paid app, only $10 for life.