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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by rustcleaner »

spaqin wrote: post #63
layer8 wrote: post #36

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The flip side is that this might become a thing of the past for future hardware/firmware, if AI hardening becomes standard practice. There’s no substitute for having open systems that aren’t cryptographically locked down by the manufacturer.

We were already there. For most people, we are still there. For most devices (especially popular ones, with enough manufacturing volume) there's just enough hardening, downgrade prevention, encrypted or signed firmware blobs, on top of already rare reverse engineering skills and patience, to make it infeasible for most people to give it a crack. Using an LLM for that also isn't a mainstream idea either (plus you're u…

>We were already there. For most people, we are still there. For most devices (especially popular ones, with enough manufacturing volume) there's just enough hardening, downgrade prevention, encrypted or signed firmware blobs, on top of already rare reverse engineering skills and patience, to make it infeasible for most people to give it a crack.

This should be illegal. Any politicians who run on [economically, financially] doing to these companies what is being done to Russia and Iran, if they refuse to immediately publish their hardware private keys, I will vote for. Up to and including jailing boards, stiffing bond and equity holders, and selling their assets as scrap, if they choose to purge their keys to prevent disclosure or if disclosure is impossible due to technical design. Maybe if a few trillion dollars worth of businesses suddenly vaporize into legal smoke, the remainders will start behaving for the next hundred years...

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by teekert »

kulahan wrote: post #102
DiabloD3 wrote: post #67

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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?

Maybe he should have assigned an agent to it.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by analog_daddy »

fwip wrote: post #76
frio wrote: post #15

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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 :)

It seems like most of these "an LLM solved this in only X hours! " could have been "I found an open source solution that did what I needed with X minutes of web search." Which doesn't mean that the LLM definitely couldn't have accomplished it without the prior art (in either the training set or explicitly in a a web search). But it does seem to be a trend.

Ohh, sadly I relate with this feeling too much.

For all the agentic loops people seem to have come up with, the research loop or as I call it the “Desperate 10th page on Github’s crappy search results” is still not up to the mark.

Either it might be genuine rate limiting these LLM’s face or just that, they are trained to focus on implementing a solution which would be faster and user acceptable solution. (which seems to be a true looking at people pushing LLM generated code as is).

At least in my personal experience with niche projects and heck even with well documented and famous libraries, along with fancy mcp’s, llms.txt and skills; RTFM has been more relevant than usual for code that I have asked an agent to generate, since it is too eager to reimplement functionality which already exists, only if it RTFM!!

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by perching_aix »

ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #112
s3p wrote: post #105

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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.

> Is this the zoomer syndrome I am hearing about lately?

Sounds easily searchable...

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by ShinyLeftPad »

csh0 wrote: post #134
ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #112

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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.

I have encountered this behavior in people of all ages for as long as I can remember.

I haven't and neither my friend

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by cwillu »

willdr wrote: post #145
ryandrake wrote: post #111

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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".

Cool story, bro.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by perching_aix »

ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #155
csh0 wrote: post #134

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I have encountered this behavior in people of all ages for as long as I can remember.

I haven't and neither my friend

And what are we supposed to do with the two of you apparantly living under a rock [0], and going through baby's first "kids these days" moments, exactly?

Never heard of LMGTFY ("Let Me Google That For You")? Why do you think it exists?

Or "Google / Wikipedia is your friend"?

Or RTFM ("Read The Fucking Manual")?

Really not new inventions (and "zoomers" were there for them, cause the oldest ones are pushing 30! [1]). Not hard to search for either, by the way...

[0] or rather, going through some very conveniently selective amnesia

[1] just to really give you a sense of how stupid this generation-xyz thing is, this "generation" includes people whose first OS was entirely possibly Windows 98, and at the same time, people whose first OS was Windows 10

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by SillyUsername »

I did this but with a dedicated machine for the Silicon Motion sm750 GPU. A budget single HDMI output GPU card for servers and a max resolution of 1080p. It is based on an older VGA/DVI version of the same hardware.

I'm still testing but oh wow. My new driver now works with my ultra wide 21:9 ratio at 2048x864, it also manages 2048x1152.

The driver works well, and now has full DRM and DKMS support. It also runs on modern Linux after the manufacturer decided only to go up to kernel 5.x, windows support obviously still fine.

It found many faults in the original source, like somebody didn't read the HDMI specs / didn't have any idea what they were doing.

The new driver is fully spec timings and sequence compliant, doesn't hang on shutdown anymore, and ignores EDID for the purpose of allowing more screen modes.

It also has double buffering, and shadow buffering, and a custom magic square dither mode for 16bit colour and it absolutely flies vs the 32bit mode. The dither I invented was derived from one I created years ago for some retro hardware, but it's so good it's (imho) indistinguishable from general jpeg artifacting and quite difficult to find/see. I've had to ask codex a few times to check the GPU isn't in 32bit colour.

The GPU still has an annoying bug and won't work over KVM consistently without losing sync in VESA modes, but I'm not convinced its the GPU hardware doing this, it works perfectly well directly connected.

I'm due to put a GitHub repo up for this as soon as it's battle tested, and obviously ensuring it uses EDID by default, rather than ignores it.

I'm hoping somebody can fix the KVM issue, or audits the source to confirm there's nothing that can be done, but that's the best thing about open source :)

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by ShinyLeftPad »

rustcleaner wrote: post #144
ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #112

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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.

It's right there in the comment, firmware glitching tools?! I have zero experience in this topic and even I was able to find exactly what the guy asked for on first page of google results

This is the same as what my friend says. She would have no idea what they are asking, fire up search engine, find the thing, and tell them to do the same. But "demand answers" is the default behavior for zoomers

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Marsymars »

ryandrake wrote: post #113
kestrel-robotic wrote: post #85

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> 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.

It's not even that clever, really. The camera power rail must be physically close to the camera, so it's trivial to hang an LED off it. A device manufacturer has to go out of their way to make it so the LED and camera function are independent, and I'm sure many do, for the worst reasons you can possibly think of.

Nest cameras used to have a user toggle to enable/disable the camera LED; not the worst reason I can think of.
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