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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by quijoteuniv »

shrubby wrote: post #251
echelon wrote: post #178

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This is so neat. This is like Star Wars or Fullmetal Alchemist where we can just hack everything around us like magic or alchemy. When the SOTA robots from Unitree get here, we'll be able to use LLMs to just dump and decompile their entire brains. We'll fine tune them to obey us instead. Everything hardware belongs to us now. This programmable sand magic might undo big tech's grip on us all. We can mutate the world a…

When do the locked old apple pads open up for Linux?

Very tempted to keep collecting e-trash! After installing linux on old machines, downloading docs, wikipedia and gutemberg project i just need to make some kind of faraday cage for them.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by realo »

karim79 wrote: post #132
p1necone wrote: post #109

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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.

I have a LG wallpaper TV 65" from 2021. I see no burn-in whatsoever. Once in a while it says "we will do the pixel refresher thing when you turn off the TV". I'm pretty sure there's something to it but I'm no expert. Five years later and my TV is just fine.

A TV displays constantly changing images.

A monitor displays items that can stay fixed in place a long time, hours or even days.

Not the same at all.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by holofermes »

this is awesome! I also did something similar with the Orba by Artiphon [1]. Initially I was pretty disappointed by the current state of the Android app, and honestly I just wanted to see what happens if I plug this thing in and ask my Bob bot to take a look around. What I didn't know before starting was that Artiphon went bankrupt last year, which is a bummer cause they made a lot of cool hardware. I have not considered the firmware route, and just relied on decompiling whatever APK/exe, but the idea of controlling a device which is essentially no longer maintained, and all for a few hours of bobbing is quite spectacular.

[1] https://github.com/holofermes/orba-protocol

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by bayindirh »

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.

One of my old Logitech webcams have its recording light wired up to V4L2 protocol directly. I can change its recording light mode (on/off/blink) from software by changing recording light mode directly. Wonder whether that Insta360 also had that.

I'd have tried that first before diving into the firmware head-first.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by strelok25 »

SillyUsername wrote: post #158

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 mo…

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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by AlfeG »

PeterStuer wrote: post #171

Wait,what? Claude let you do this, but if I want to debug my own Python code it refuses because "cybersecurity"? WTF Anthropic? Is the trick not using Python?

You can request for Cyber Verification Program (CVP) access from Anthropic

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by panta »

mrheosuper wrote: post #96

As FW engineer, I am both horrified and intrigued. The fact that there are so many devices lack even basic security features horrified me. A webcam that activity light can be turned off remotely, that's a big no no for me. But the use of LLM is also very interesting, we may put LLM in the loop to harden our devices. Sorry community, but it's our job to make the reverse engineer harder.

Why is your job to make the reverse engineer harder? When the user buys a product, it should be theirs to do whatever they want, even brick it. Your job should be creating the product the user wants to use, not building obstacles, otherwise you are creating something actively user-hostile. What if your company goes out of business and the user ends up with a device that can't be updated, that depends on cloud services that don't exist anymore, or worse with security vulnerabilities?

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by _joel »

darkwater wrote: post #254
nabilt wrote: post #169

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I had claude write an mcp server to talk to my scope since most are connected over Ethernet. It was pretty fun. https://netliststudio.com/articles/2026/02/23/claude-oscillo...

Now exploit the oscilloscope to run Doom on it

Well, almost but good enough :) https://github.com/MichaelAyles/ScopeDoom
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