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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Spooky23 »

SomeHacker44 wrote: post #92
Waterluvian wrote: post #87

Two weeks ago I told Claude “I have a on the LAN at . Assume direct control of it.” And about 8 command approvals later I had a new firmware running on it. Mind you, it found and used an existing firmware flashing library for this family of devices. But it felt amazing to do in 20 mins what would probably have been hours and hours of research and tinkering that I wasn’t interested in. I just wanted a WiFi lava lamp.

Surprising. I have hit its BS guardrails a lot lately, working on my vintage computers from the 80s and early 90s. Just about done with Claude.

You can’t be loyal to these things. I ditched ChatGPT during the peak Claude hype after Christmas.

I feel like Claude has shittified a bit and ChatGPT is good and fast. Gemini remains mediocre, although it seems Google AI energy is directed elsewhere.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by kulahan »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #67
californical wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh I think the monitors should just handle this automatically - mine do. I basically have no idea that they do any cleaning cycles except when I check their “advanced” menu and it says it’s run 1200 times or whatever

They can.... which everyone bitched about: they would do their cleaning cycle, no matter if you were busy or not.

Then they should do it at another time...? Obviously?

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Barbing »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #56
qlte wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The user has to first specifically pick the device from the list and grant the website access. If a user is confused by a permissions prompt and has no idea what is going on, the default path is to reject the permission.

In the real world the default action for a user when presented with a permissions popup is to accept it because they get asked 20 times a day, have no idea what the implications of it are and just want to get on with their day. So software designers need to avoid asking the users to approve potentially highly dangerous things.

I think Safari does this with popups & downloads. Tiny little icons that barely appear [to change]. Can annoy me when I miss them but sometimes I figure maybe it’s for The Greater Good.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by s3p »

Retr0id wrote: post #50
srcreigh wrote: post #49

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How should I learn more about how to do it, what to buy, etc ? I haven't found ChatGPT to be a good teacher about this topic, and in particular re glitching, AI will refuse to discuss specifics I have enough basic soldering to get UART attached, but not sure what to try after that. Equipment-wise, I currently just have a few ESP32-C3s and electronics basics kit and some basic soldering stuff.

There are plenty of pre-2023 resources out there, especially conference talks. But, Claude has no issues discussing glitching if you have CVP.

I guess this is a fine reply but just seeing your earlier comment, mentioning there are tons of glitching tools out there, I would've hoped to hear about some specifics here. Just my 2c

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Barbing »

kestrel-robotic wrote: post #85
NavinF wrote: post #71

>I had Claude write a tool to patch out the table entry for camera activity, fix up the integrity hash, and flash it to the camera. A quick test showed that the green LED that normally illuminates while recording no longer turned on. Horrifying! Oof. Apple claims this is not possible for macbook cameras because the LED can't be controlled from software. Wish more manufacturers would do the same.

> the LED can't be controlled from software If you look at tear downs apparently it is connected to the webcam so it is energized when the webcam receives power making it nearly impossible to defeat. You can say a lot about Apple but the engineering is clever at the hardware level.

Also the Hall effect sensor disabling the mic when a MacBook lid is closed, apparently just about impossible to bypass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Barbing »

sneak wrote: post #89
NavinF wrote: post #71

>I had Claude write a tool to patch out the table entry for camera activity, fix up the integrity hash, and flash it to the camera. A quick test showed that the green LED that normally illuminates while recording no longer turned on. Horrifying! Oof. Apple claims this is not possible for macbook cameras because the LED can't be controlled from software. Wish more manufacturers would do the same.

Apple also claims that iMessage is end to end encrypted. Their privacy stance is 99% posturing.

The teardown showed this is the 1% right?

Also I thought you could trust iMessage if, unlike everyone, you disabled iCloud backup (and, unlike everyone, so did the recipient). Perhaps a way for the feds to be able to pin dumb criminals while giving investigative journalists & dissidents a way to stay safer.

Re: Everything I own, owned

#109

Post by p1necone »

userbinator wrote: post #91
ndiddy wrote: post #35

> My ASUS ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor was actually where I started, because I got annoyed at the pop-up overlay that comes up every once in a while that tells me to run “pixel cleaning”. I have never intentionally run pixel cleaning on this monitor and I never will, I don’t care, and I would like for that overlay to go away forever. Maybe there’s a debug menu or something that can turn it off, or worst case we patch a b…

The Internet seems rather reluctant to explain what exactly "pixel cleaning" does, but based on the vague useless "explanations" I could find, I suspect it's a sort of "flat-field correction" where it calibrates the pixel drive current to darken the less worn and/or brighten the more worn ones so it eliminates the burn-in effect. This obviously leads to a vicious cycle where more worn pixels are driven harder and hen…

If OLEDs are 'designed to fail' they've certainly gone about it in a very roundabout way - there would be much easier ways to do planned obsolescence if that was actually the goal of display manufacturers.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by exprez135 »

Barbing wrote: post #108
sneak wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple also claims that iMessage is end to end encrypted. Their privacy stance is 99% posturing.

The teardown showed this is the 1% right? Also I thought you could trust iMessage if, unlike everyone, you disabled iCloud backup (and, unlike everyone, so did the recipient). Perhaps a way for the feds to be able to pin dumb criminals while giving investigative journalists & dissidents a way to stay safer.

According to Apple, you can have iCloud backup enabled while maintaining E2E encryption with their Advanced Data Protection option:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651#advanced

You do have to be sure to not enable web access via icloud.com

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