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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by 8-prime »

mastermage wrote: post #214

this is interesting, while i greatly apreciate the ability with claude code to basically customize my own firmware. There are things that I am strictly speaking wondering about the authors choices. The Author removed Pixel Cleaning? As far as I understand Pixel Cleaning is a process to make sure your OLED Monitor lives longer, why would you want to not do that?

My monitor can run a pixel cleaning automatically when it detects that there is no longer a signal coming in. That way it periodically cleans, but has never done so while I was using it. I presume the author uses the same mechanism and just doesn't want to be bothered about it.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by trencedamp »

phh wrote: post #225

I definitely love this article and this spirit. I've accumulated a lot of crap/cheap IoT, I'll probably owning them! Two things: - to rain on the parade, the European RED directive makes secure upgrades mandatory for anything connected to the internet (I suspect that's why Elgato Key Light Mini has signed firmwares). So OEMs are now required to prevent you from doing that. (EN18031-1). It even requires that network c…

I have a box of ancient Android and Windows phone handsets which I'm now looking at in a new light.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by BYazfVCcq »

dncornholio wrote: post #221
Barbing wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's not. I can place my iPhone next to my trackpad and the MacBook thinks I closed the lid.

That's not what people mean by 'bypassing', turning it off is obviously easy. The point is that activating the microphone while the lid is closed is pretty much impossible.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by schlarpc »

aetherspawn wrote: post #226
schlarpc wrote: post #143

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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.

Are you on an enterprise plan? I’m on a personal plan so I never bothered. I assumed they wouldn’t approve. Also is your LinkedIn cyber security adjacent?

Personal plan, but yes, my day job is being a security engineer for big tech.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by richrichardsson »

discordance wrote: post #227
schlarpc wrote: post #59

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I understand what it does, I think the alert is annoying. It takes at least five minutes and automatically runs when the monitor is off. I’ve had it for a few years and have no burn in issues despite not doing this every eight hours on command.

Agreed.. and it has an incredibly frustrating and hostile UX. I've been sharing my screen in work in meetings and suddenly screen nagged, and then I'm struggling to find the dumb buttons under the monitor and confused which button does what to make it go away. I would rather suffer burn in than be nagged. I've had other brand OLEDs that haven't been this annoying, so I'll never buy an Asus monitor again.

AOC/Agon OLEDs also have the annoying nag that fires repeatedly to say "Your monitor will go into pixel cleaning mode in 10/5/4/3/2/1 minutes". I still haven't figured out how to easily defer that, and it's super annoying when in the middle of a Rocket League match that the monitor just turns itself off to pixel clean for 10 minutes.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by trencedamp »

marinhero wrote: post #138
SomeHacker44 wrote: post #92

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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.

I’ve been doing this with Qwen 3.8 27B with success. Kindle, Android Tablet, and Raspberry Pi all working better and fully owned thanks to agentic help. No issues with hitting the guardrails here ofc.

What did you do with the Kindle?

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by brammeleman »

bobek wrote: post #240

TBH this is one of a few things that feels exciting about LLMs. I've recently revived a flip-dot panel from an old bus by reverse engineering and replacing its firmware -- https://www.bobek.cz/buse/

Looks like the video links are broken, would love to see these displays in action.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by trencedamp »

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.

What were you trying to do with vintage computers?

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

This indeed works very well, most device are not very well locked down because of proje t resources limitation, and this opens a new era of hacking.

Unminifying, deobfuscating, api probing, hardware scanning and firmware decompiling are all operations that benefit a lot from AI.

This will start a new cat and mouse race, as it's also cheaper than ever to add friction to prevent those with AI as well and companies will notice soon. They historically hate hacking despite the fact a lot of success in their field can be directly traced back to it.

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