Eric Sauvageau

IT consultant and computer psychiatrist. Asuswrt-Merlin lead developer.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@grhmc Quite a few mobile apps will do that. A more advanced alternative would be WinFi V3 Pro Engineer (now available for free) on a Windows laptop. They also have mobile versions, but I haven't tested them.

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[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@hardwarecanucks As long their poorly received recent games such as Veilgard were caused by EA ingerence and not through poor internal decisions. Otherwise, my biggest worry is investing in a gaming studio might not be the best idea in the current economy where people can't afford gaming PCs.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@VessOnSecurity Backports exists all the way down to at least 5.6 (offered by Cloudlinux). You might need to compile your own binaries with the backports applied. Or tell the customers you can no longer support their applications, and they need to hire a programmer to upgrade their code.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@LarAtLarian If @larianstudios needs a few extra devs for their next projects, there's probably a few insanely talented people who just became available.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@sporadica There are already backports existing. cPanel patched all the way back to 7.4 for example.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@SaeedDev94 Highly unlikely that that old platform support any newer SDK than 5.04.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

Asus already started releasing new firmware updates that include the DNSSEC fix, for anyone running stock. Look for a mention about fixing a DNS issue in the release notes.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@SaeedDev94 Embedded devices are never on recent kernels, due to lead time in developing the platform, and any future upgrade would require revalidation of the whole stack. Broadcom SDK 5.04 is kernel 4.19, SDK 6.2.0 is kernel 5.15.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@MircoSfot Disable DNSSEC for now until they release a fixed version for that model.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

#Microsoft: Trillion dollar company. Yet after many years, they still haven't fixed their localized Office installer.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@MisterTrebus If you ever ran a relatively recent version of the stock firmware, their security daemon might have wiped it.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@banteg Nobody should expose any service from their home network to the Internet beside a VPN server.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@WesBez Known issue. Just disable DNSSEC until Asus releases firmwares containing the missing IANA key. I sent them the patch back in February, but they forgot to merge it to all of their model branches, only a few models got it.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@ado1923 I don't support any "BE98 AI" model.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

The new 6.2.0 SDK used by the RT-BE92U now requires Ubuntu 22.04 to compile. Good thing I moved my build environment to Docker a few weeks ago, all I need to do is create a separate docker with a 22.04 base instead.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@zeu_dev I've been with Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) forever, both personally and for work. Happy with both the pricing and the performance.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@cloneisjun I do the merge myself using a self-created helper script, like I've been doing for years already. It's just the reject handling that I pass to Claude, reviewing its comments as it processes it.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

Let's see how good Claude is at handling the conflicts of my three-way GPL merges. That's one area where it could be really helpful with minimal risks, once I have done the merges themselves and generated a few *.rej failed hunks for it to handle for me.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

@StaffyCS2 Just flash the latest stock firmware on top of it, and after that do a factory default reset.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

Fresh Asus GPL is starting to appear on my server. As I suspected, the RT-BE92U new SDK forces it to sit on a separate branch. That's 5 separate branches I will have to handle now for the 3006 devices. Sigh.

[Eric Sauvageau @RMerlinDev]

It would be nice if VSCode didn't want to install updates almost every single time I launch it. It needs a LTS channel that doesn't get trivial weekly changes.