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Re:I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day by _0ffh on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:10PM (#30198064)
I have something much, much worse: I've got a rabbit hole! Here's two mirrors of a quite old website that is heavy on reverse engineering lore. While technological details may be outdated, many of the teachings certainly still apply.

http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/index.html http://woodmann.com/fravia/

Edit: Sorry that the page is somewhat labyrinthine.

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Re:I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day by Infernal on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:48PM (#30202192)
On that first link is a date, it displays for me

"February 3 19122"

Took a look to see what's up with that (I'm not familiar with javascript) but it looks like he was using a function that returned the number of years since 1900, with the "19" hardcoded. So for 1995-1999 it would've worked fine, but since 2000 it has been 19100, 19101, etc.

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Re:I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day by arjvik on Thursday February 03, 2022 @10:32PM (#30202510)
"19" + years_since_twentieth_century

instead of

1900 + years_since_twentieth_century

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Re:I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day by alasdair_ on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:55PM (#30198683)
RIP +Fravia

Finding his site in 1995 or so taught me an enormous number of things that I don't think I would have learned any other way.

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Re:I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day by _0ffh on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:03PM (#30198795)
Yes, I genuinely felt a bit sentimental and melancholic just clicking through a few of these pages once again.

F

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Re:I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day by zekrioca on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:19PM (#30200457)
I wish I’ve found these website when I started using internet :/
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