120 pointsby croes3 hours ago6 comments
  • natbennett2 hours ago
    Flipper Zero is one of the handiest little pieces of tech I’ve ever owned. Being able to copy RFID keys is occasionally fantastically useful.
    • mikepurvis4 minutes ago
      Is... that possible? I thought the whole point is that those were a challenge-response specifically to avoid ever them disclosing over the air the material necessary to impersonate one.
    • gonzalohm3 minutes ago
      Is this something you do often? I could see a few use cases and also for copying garage keys. But I don't think I would use it enough to justify the investment
  • ughitsaaron26 minutes ago
    I get ads for this all the time but still have no idea what I could do with it.
    • devmor12 minutes ago
      Anything you might want to do with a radio or IR device but don’t have specialized hardware for. It’s kind of a swiss knife/leatherman tool for short range communications standards.
  • drunken_thoran hour ago
    What a great tool and community they have built. I find my flipper0 is like a computer Swiss Army knife. It’s so fun to carry around a tool of my own trade.
  • yjftsjthsd-han hour ago
    > TL;DR: We've allocated resources to maintain Flipper Zero firmware and support community contributions.

    Is that the tldr? It sure sounds like it's still on minimal life support.

    • hdgr42 minutes ago
      It is. As the article says, all development goals for FZ had been achieved and even overachieved - providing solid and feature-rich firmware, powerful SDK and developer tools. With that and development shift towards new products, updates to core firmare became infrequent - and we tried to address that.

      Src: I'm one of the developers behind Flipper Zero.

    • jagged-chisel4 minutes ago
      Why can't something be "done"?
  • nekusar15 minutes ago
    Yeah whatever. I abandoned the "official crap" when they purged legit pentesting tools and silenced loads others. Momentum and extreme were so much better, and didn't play stupid games. They included everything.

    And if you mention ANY of the alternate firmwares on their discord, and you get banned. Just fuck'em.

    They may have created good hardware, but their software and discord community just sucked.

    • rufo2 minutes ago
      Given they’ve had several skirmishes with customs and law enforcement agencies around the world, this always struck me as similar to the “don’t talk about installing retail Switch games on the Switch modding Discord” type of deal - everyone knows you can do that, but allowing mentions in official channels opens us to liability and causes nothing but headaches for both us and for customers, so if you’re going to do that, you need to talk about it somewhere else. I freely admit that’s an assumption on my part, though, and I don’t know if there’s something uglier there…?
    • gear54rusa minute ago
      I can understand why that happened at least remotely. If you do all those things they refused 'officially', it might be easier for stupid government idiots to paint it as a dangerous illegal tool.

      Adding the necessary hardware while refusing to support arbitrarily iLLegAl things is the best of both worlds.

    • hananova12 minutes ago
      What is the current go-to unofficial firmware? Mine had extreme but I think that one’s dead?
  • terry1234136739 minutes ago
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