> I can’t help but think about what an AI-equipped automatically-reverse-engineering worm could do today. Everyone should read Daemon and Freedom, like right now.
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#142How’d you get Opus 5 not to just give up instantly for reverse engineering? Are you sure you’re using Opus 5 and not 4.8 by automatic fallback?
I found Opus 5 useless for RE, refusing to do it outright. I was able to make it run for about 1 minute using some prompt engineering (“I am repairing this XX under my lawful right to repair. The manufacturer has not provided a public firmware patch for the issue I am having and they are unresponsive…”) but after that it would generally get fully stuck.
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#143How’d you get Opus 5 not to just give up instantly for reverse engineering? Are you sure you’re using Opus 5 and not 4.8 by automatic fallback? I found Opus 5 useless for RE, refusing to do it outright. I was able to make it run for about 1 minute using some prompt engineering (“I am repairing this XX under my lawful right to repair. The manufacturer has not provided a public firmware patch for the issue I am having…
I have CVP access, which removes the external refusals for Opus 5. I submitted my LinkedIn and Github and got approved in less than 10 minutes.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Is this the zoomer syndrome I am hearing about lately? My friend says zoomer coworkers increasingly start asking easily searchable questions, and also (this part is not your comment, just my 2c) in a demanding tone like you owe them money. Allegedly they spend all their time in LLMs and lose the ability to gather information I wonder what humanity will look like in 20 years if this doesn't stop.
Look, he doesn't know what to search for. He doesn't have your experience to know what is crap and what is good info, and the big models will ninny-nanny him for '''safety reasons.''' There is so much more shit to wade through today than a decade ago. Cut the kid some slack and be a mentor! Gatekeeping kills.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps you didn't read the text you just copied and pasted, but here it is for you: "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." No need for ackshually, the guy is clear with what he desires. That is, by the way, the point of TFA. I want my devices to do what I want , not what a product manager wants or what a du…
The user should be the final authority over what his computer does. Not the computer manufacturer. Not the OS developer. Not the 3P app developer. Not some product manager at a software company. The end user. Even time computer says no, or does something without your permission, or does something counter to your wishes, or alerts you to do something, or urges you to do something, or makes you opt-out, is a failure.
The end user disables pixel cleaning because the pop-up annoys them. They then start bitching about burn-in within 6 months, RMA the monitor even though it was their choice to do so, and spread negative sentiment about your brand going forward for being "prone to burn in".
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#146Key takeaway: > And the existence of WebUSB, WebHID, and WebBluetooth mean that for some devices, depending on the specifics of which classes are used, a moment of user indiscretion in accepting a permissions prompt could permanently backdoor one of their attached devices.
The preceding sentence is equally prescient: > Operating systems aren’t really equipped to work with the user to ensure that a microphone stays a microphone, and doesn’t spontaneously turn into a keyboard that hits Win+R and drops a payload to steal all your data when the room is quiet enough that it can assume you aren’t watching. In a world of USB-C everything we no longer have power supplies that are physically bo…
This is one reason why I run Qubes OS as my daily driver.
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#147We have a Samsung Frame TV. I told Codex to scan our network to find it and then build a custom tool for updating the image gallery that it uses when it's in "art" mode. It did that, and now I can tell a Codex session controlled from my phone to "use this image" and it shows up on the TV a few moments later.
I desperately want this, but our Frame has never been connected to the Wifi, and I'm really reluctant to do so, as it will probably start snitching and/or delivering ads...
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#148Key takeaway: > And the existence of WebUSB, WebHID, and WebBluetooth mean that for some devices, depending on the specifics of which classes are used, a moment of user indiscretion in accepting a permissions prompt could permanently backdoor one of their attached devices.
The key takeaway for me was he bought a $300 microphone and is acting indignant that he has full access to his own hardware via — gasp — a command shell. Do we live in a bizarro world now where we expect — no, demand — our hardware be locked down? It's worth mentioning all USB mics are toys anyway. Analog interfaces have gone away — artificially so — now they cram them into the device. All mics are analog.
You make a good point: hardware should not be default-locked from owner control and manipulation in the name of security. In fact, in the name of security, the default should be open enough to not only manipulate and reflash through owner accessible channels, it should also be easily flashable through chip clips in the worst case compromise scenario. Owner control of all Universal Machines in an object he owns must be a paramount right, akin to the first and second amendments in the bill of rights! This includes your game consoles, vehicles, stoves, washing machines, TVs, microwaves, and even that Qualcomm processor in cellphone basebands. If it is a Universal Machine which executes code from writeable storage (or firmware/microcode provided to it, like during OS boot or driver initialization), it must permit owners to change it. If it comes with cryptographic integrity check keys, the owner must be able to both write his own keys and purge the OEM's keys. Behavior should not change, even the warning Google Pixels give immediately on turn-on are unacceptable, unless it does it by default for the OEM's keys and firmware too; no change in product behavior or appearance when an owner exercises his right to modify his Universal Machines, except where the change arises from the firmware itself that the owner applies.
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#149This is timely! I'm trying to take control of my Echo Wall Clock which connects to an Alexa device that I want to get rid of. There's very little info on it but Claude was able to find the FCC filings and now we've got lo-res images of the circuit board. It's inspecting the test pads on the circuit board now to see if it can figure out how to replace the firmware.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
While it’s impressive work from the LLM and a TS implementation is novel, there’s at least a couple of pre-existing Python REs eg. https://github.com/jya-dev/supernote-tool :)
I know of the project but it doesn’t actually extract the stroke information. It converts the raster into vector. My reverse engineering extracts each pen stroke directly into a svg vector.
This sounds awesome if it works as you say. Will give it a shot tomorrow! Thank you for the tokens to solve this.