Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

Re:Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can cha... by zodwick on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:07PM (#50354695)

The revolution against shitty locked down software has begun and I LOVE IT

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Re:Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can cha... by encom on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:25PM (#50355016)

Has it? Feels like we're just getting more of it all the time.

"Hold on babe, the christmas lights have to finish installing a firmware update", is a real sentence that actual people are saying in 2026.

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Re:Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can cha... by zodwick on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:07AM (#50367595)

I think there are two aspects: 1. like no I don't want my microwave sending random blips of location data to a server and no I don't want hyper-personalised ads on my coffe machine 2. I want my machine to do what I want and not be limited by random limitations set in the software, either intentionally or via incompetancy.

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Re:Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can cha... by otterley on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:34PM (#50355164)

A blog post and the commiseration of HN randos does not a revolution make.

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Re:Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can cha... by waz0wski on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:34PM (#50360885)

> This is our world now... The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud

https://phrack.org/issues/7/hackers-manifesto

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