ひとは☆もえ Anime4000

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Anime4000

ひとは☆もえ Anime Programming

I'm an otaku from Malaysia who writes code, mods games and takes apart the fibre box your ISP would rather you left alone. I lead the RTL960x xPON hacking effort, started the Open PON Foundation, and build IFME — a video encoder for people who keep their subtitles.

xPON Freedom See the projects
Hitoha Marui, drawn chibi style, looking unimpressed

01 · xPON Freedom

The box at the end of your fibre should be yours.

For most subscribers, fibre ends in a small white box the ISP hands over. You did not choose it, you cannot audit what runs on it, and when it fails you wait for a replacement.

The research began in 2020, the year the pandemic kept developers and hackers at home, and went public in 2021: documenting and reverse engineering Realtek RTL960x GPON sticks, so an SFP module in your own router can stand in for that box. What started as one repository is now a worldwide effort with its own firmware, its own tooling and a foundation behind it.

Read the story openpon.org

  1. Operator OLT The ISP's end of the fibre, in the exchange.
  2. Shared Splitter One fibre, split passively between you and your neighbours.
  3. Yours ONT The box on your wall. Closed, locked, rented — this is the part we open.
  4. Yours Router Everything from here to your LAN, on hardware you chose.
GitHub stars on RTL960x
1,068
countries with working deployments
19
contributors credited by name
14
open firmware projects
7

Figures as of November 2026, from GitHub and openpon.org.

02 · Projects

Things I build and look after

All projects

Lead

RTL960x

Hacking and reverse engineering RTL960x-based xPON ONTs so the stick suits your OLT. Guides, firmware, tools and ISP-specific notes for Realtek GPON SFP sticks, written with contributors from around the world.

Firmware · Shell 1068

Lead

NIJIKA Firmware

Open firmware for Realtek GPON sticks. Broad OLT compatibility, VEIP support, link speed unbound from 1GbE to 2.5GbE, and metrics exported straight to Prometheus and Grafana.

GPON · RTL960x

Founder

Open PON Foundation

A vendor-neutral, volunteer effort for open, interoperable and privacy-respecting passive optical networking. One front door for the firmware, the hardware, the countries it works in and the people behind it.

GPON · XGS-PON

Author

IFME

Internet Friendly Media Encoder

x264, x265, x266 and AV1 GUI encoder where every codec is a drop-in plugin you can update yourself. Remuxes, merges streams, keeps subtitles and fonts, and supports NVENC, Quick Sync and AMF. Windows and Linux.

C# 293

Pururin Collective

ΕΛΠΙΣ DNS

Free encrypted DNS for South East Asia. DoH and DoT, ad and tracker blocking, DNS64 and NAT64 for IPv6-only networks, answered by our own recursive resolver with DNSSEC.

DNS · IPv6

Founder

Pururin Collective

A forum for people who enjoy anime culture, networking, homelab, programming and reverse engineering. Relaxed on purpose.

Forum · Discord

03 · Programming

Languages, ranked

Strongest first.

  1. 01

    C#

    Where most of my desktop software lives.

    IFME, FFmpegDotNet, SMF Converter, KageMusic

  2. 02

    Python

    Tooling, automation and the machine learning side.

    Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth training, RVC voice models

  3. 03

    C

    Close to the hardware — drivers and USB programmers.

    libusb341, the SFP-Master and IMSProg Windows ports

  4. 04

    Java

    Fourth on the list, but on the list.

What I like

I speak Malay, English and 日本語.

04 · Network

From homelab to real infrastructure

I am most at home on MikroTik. A NAS built from a friend's spare parts grew into a server in a Cyberjaya data centre that runs ΕΛΠΙΣ DNS, game servers and more.

No school or university teaches this. Understanding BGP, and the experience that comes with it, is the most expensive lesson there is.

Read the back story

Partners and friends

Who they are and how we met

05 · Anime

Ten favourites, straight from my MyAnimeList

Characters and more
  1. ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！ Bocchi the Rock! 2022
  2. ゆるゆり Yuru Yuri 2011
  3. みつどもえ Mitsudomoe 2010
  4. 魔法少女にあこがれて Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete 2024
  5. 私に天使が舞い降りた！ Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita! 2019
  6. ガールズ&パンツァー Girls & Panzer 2012
  7. ハイスクール・フリート High School Fleet 2016
  8. アホガール Aho Girl 2017
  9. そらのおとしもの Sora no Otoshimono 2009
  10. カードキャプターさくら Cardcaptor Sakura 1998

06 · Community

Where to find me

Founder · lead for RTL960x GPON

Open PON Foundation

Developers, testers and reverse engineers across four continents, working in the open on firmware for GPON and XGS-PON.

Founder

Pururin Collective

プルプル・プルリン Collective! — a forum for anime, technology, gaming, homelab and internet culture. Also home to ΕΛΠΙΣ DNS.

Active in Networks and Broadband

Lowyat.NET

Malaysia's biggest tech forum. Fibre, routers, IPv6 and how to get more out of the line you already pay for.

Pururin Collective server

Discord

Join the server — chat, share, get crazy together.

Member since 2008

Steam

Left 4 Dead 2 with friends, the Lewd 4 Dead group, and a soft spot for Company of Heroes and Red Alert.

@Anime4000

GitHub

Where the code and the issue threads live.

07 · Writing

Lately on HITOHA.もえ

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