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Nolen Johnson
Personal blog · oddsolutions.github.iosecurityhardware
Nolen Johnson's personal blog at oddsolutions.github.io covers security and hardware. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its guide to rooting the Spotify Car Thing, which runs Linux, and getting custom firmware on it. The comments cite it as a path to custom firmware rather than praise its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Just a guy, breaking your Connected System(s), sometimes intentionally.
Most-linked posts?
- /Spotify-Car-Thing-Root/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-31
What Hacker News says?
Okay, so they won't open-source their software. Big whoop. Nobody needs that. The Car Thing has already been rooted. It runs Linux. There's a clear path towards a custom firmware: https://oddsolutions.github.io/Spotify-Car-Thing-Root/
Comment linking /Spotify-Car-Thing-Root/
on “Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process”Submitted Chromecast with Google TV (1080P) Secure-Boot Bypass as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://oddsolutions.github.io/Spotify-Car-Thing-Root/ https://github.com/err4o4/spotify-car-thing-reverse-engineer...
Comment linking /Spotify-Car-Thing-Root/
on “Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process”