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Tell HN: Brother printers now locking out non-OEM paraphernalia
I recently bought a Brother colour laser printer, with the understanding that OEM toner was not chip-locked.<p>Wanting to update the firmware, and being on Linux, I started to look at ways to do it manually.<p>After finding a few guides to do so manually:<p>https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems#Updating_the_firmware
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2015/11/updating-hl3040cn-firmware.html<p>I decided to poll my printer. I then noticed an OSS/python project to just handle it via a package. However, I noticed this issue:<p>https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd/issues/9<p>Startled, I Googled... and the printer listed is an inkjet. For a second I was relieved, but then started to search for other issues, and found this:<p>https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mfc_firmware_update_nongenuine_toner_now/<p>Not only is the above, post-sale firwmware update a change of what I understood to be Brother's historical policy, the <i>method</i> is beyond evil.<p>Brother seems to be apparently accepting the ink, but then <i>purposefully</i> making the print quality poorer.<p>I literally cannot think of something, product wise, more evil. It's one thing to say "We refuse to use 3rd party toner", and another to <i>accept</i> the toner, and then just purposefully print like garbage.<p>I was a happy HP customer for years, and only switched to Brother (which, by all accounts, is a much smaller / less renowned company) for the sole reason to not be vendor locked.<p>I will likely return this printer, but thought HN should know what Brother seems to be up to.
Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipient in crypto transfers
Just got this email from Coinbase, and it seems one by one the promises of crypto of the last several years are evaporating:<p>Starting on June 27, Coinbase will introduce some changes required by local regulations. Specifically, when you send crypto outside of Coinbase, we are required to ask you for the name and physical address of the recipient and the purpose of transfer. In certain cases we may require you to link a Coinbase Wallet to your main Coinbase account in order to send crypto assets off the Coinbase platform. This allows us to verify that you control the Coinbase Wallet that is receiving the crypto assets.
Goodbye Zachtronics
Goodbye Zachtronics
SMS phishing is way too easy
SMS phishing is way too easy
What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?
Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20
Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
If not, do you collect web pages some other way?
FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market
YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters
Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
Copilot sells code other people wrote
Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules and filters
Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules and filters
Twitter Notes
Twitter Notes