Katana is the name of a line of amps from Boss. A bit too close as a field to have the same name.
Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux
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#12Katana is the name of a line of amps from Boss. A bit too close as a field to have the same name.
Agreed, a bit too on the nose. I have one, a great first amp.
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#13This device is a bit too open; last week they shared a custom firmware to disable unsigned updates over Bluetooth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382310 Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
Same blog eh?
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#14Love reading these posts where a person implement their own solution to communicate with devices that have proprietary software that only support Windows. Thanks for sharing.
I agree so so so much. This is such a virtue: when humankind can access their systems.
I got downvoted to -4 for my rather strong worded praise of this virtue, one that the media & politicians seem to directly hate & be opposed to. There's a great Battlemesh presentation on FCC rule changes in 2014 that made it illegal to ship devices that users could modify, and since then OpenWRT has been in deep woes, has been having incredibly hard time supporting routers, for one example, with the Table of Hardware for support barely growing. https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8/Agenda?action=Attach...
I'm pretty sad to see so many people so quietly hating, blasting a piece that is as close to my heart on the right to hack as it gets. No one even replied, to something I obviously care so much about, just downvoted me out. It is a very over the top piece, but does it really deserve to be un-seen like this? I hope not. I hope it has some food for thought, even if you don't agree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486657
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#15That any of this needed I would consider a form of social failure, a path to a future where only corporate entities can own anything.
Much respect for the hacking. Clawing back some freedom in a world determined to take it away.
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#16Love reading these posts where a person implement their own solution to communicate with devices that have proprietary software that only support Windows. Thanks for sharing.
I agree so so so much. This is such a virtue: when humankind can access their systems. I got downvoted to -4 for my rather strong worded praise of this virtue, one that the media & politicians seem to directly hate & be opposed to. There's a great Battlemesh presentation on FCC rule changes in 2014 that made it illegal to ship devices that users could modify, and since then OpenWRT has been in deep woes, has been hav…
> No one even replied, to something I obviously care so much about, just downvoted me out.
There are a lot of people on HN whose salaries depend on the status quo. Think of all Apple, Microsoft and Google "engineers" for example.
Re: Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux
#17Love reading these posts where a person implement their own solution to communicate with devices that have proprietary software that only support Windows. Thanks for sharing.
I agree so so so much. This is such a virtue: when humankind can access their systems. I got downvoted to -4 for my rather strong worded praise of this virtue, one that the media & politicians seem to directly hate & be opposed to. There's a great Battlemesh presentation on FCC rule changes in 2014 that made it illegal to ship devices that users could modify, and since then OpenWRT has been in deep woes, has been hav…
> No one even replied
it reads like an overexcited infant