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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by menaerus »

mrheosuper wrote: post #276
menaerus wrote: post #224

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Parent comment was likely about how are you supposed to put LLM into your chip. Commodity ICs are already optimized down to their minimums wrt compute/memory/storage. Ultimately, I think it will prove that RE examples like this are going to become a difficult problem to solve.

Oh no, i mean using LLM in the loop, keep forcing it to break our device, gives it every tool that an average tinker can access.

I misunderstood you then, sorry. Yes, that makes complete sense but ultimately I think this will likely not be enough. Implementation will be hardened but new models with better capabilities will be released, and will discover vulnerabilities that would not have been caught or discovered with prior models.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by nl »

ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #159
rustcleaner wrote: post #144

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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

Why this judgemental tone?

One person's "asking a question" is another's "demanding an answer"

Clearly both search engines and chat interfaces are merging, and clearly they should be because they fulfill the same kind of requirements.

Complaining about that seems a lot like those who complained about how the correct url for altavista should always be altavista.digital.com, not altavista.com and how autocomplete is bad.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by fragmede »

echelon wrote: post #178
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…

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 the SOTA robots from Unitree get here

I hate to be the bearer of bad news about this, but

> The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned imports of new foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, primarily targeting China.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-bans-foreign-made-hum...

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by soundworlds »

An Agent helped me get a Windows XP Korean MMORPG private server running on my Steam Deck last week. The community obviously got us most of the way there (huge props to them) but setting it up on Linux seemed like a brick wall. Now it works. Amazing for keeping old tech open and running: https://github.com/P0nk/Cosmic/discussions/350

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by randyrand »

Gigachad wrote: post #127
ryandrake wrote: post #113

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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.

It's more a testament to how little most companies care. The solution is simple and yet most products are defective.

For most products the LED is not a simple on/off indicator. It signals device state, user confirmations, ota updates, etc etc etc.

I’m at a loss for how you would signal all of that without a GPIO.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by shrubby »

quijoteuniv wrote: post #261
shrubby wrote: post #251

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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.

Or resuscitation of complex electrically faulted cars. Or or.

I have a bunch of iPads stashed for this.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Gigachad »

randyrand wrote: post #287
Gigachad wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more a testament to how little most companies care. The solution is simple and yet most products are defective.

For most products the LED is not a simple on/off indicator. It signals device state, user confirmations, ota updates, etc etc etc. I’m at a loss for how you would signal all of that without a GPIO.

The record indicator should be purely reserved for showing if the camera is on. If you want to show all that other stuff, put a second LED on it.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by BoxOfRain »

Aurornis wrote: post #54
ndiddy wrote: post #35

> My ASUS ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor was actually where I started, because I got annoyed at the pop-up overlay that comes up every once in a while that tells me to run “pixel cleaning”. 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. Maybe there’s a debug menu or something that can turn it off, or worst case we patch a b…

Yeah, you actually want to do this with monitors of that generation to make them last. You could argue that there should be an option to disable it for people who don’t care. Refusing to take 1 minute out of your day to learn the reason for the alert is a strange self-defeating protest next to the explanation that it was a pretty expensive monitor.

My MSI monitor does it, I don't object to it in principle. What I do object to is a tool, that I own, demanding this is done on its own schedule rather than mine in a way I can't always dismiss. There's no reason it shouldn't be configurable to do it at three in the morning rather than when I'm trying to run the standup for example.

Definitely will be checking more carefully the next time I buy an OLED monitor that it'll let me do this.

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