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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by Shorel »

yard2010 wrote: post #252
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…

I love this comment so much. It really feels like the big tech is losing the grip. In Rick and Morty, the way Rick is using tech to amuse himself always inspires me. I could only dream of doing anything related a few years back when I watched it. Yesterday I was reverse engineering a cheap but good label maker from AliExpress to write my own app printing labels the way I want them with the fonts and graphics I like w…

So you want to skip family counselling... Hahaha

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by lennart-rth »

I did this just yesterday with a smart light. Used Deepseek-v4-flash. In about 2h I had a custom firmware on the smart light running that I could control from its api endpoints. Also now Im hosting a small web-server on there that lets me set schedules and sleep timers. No im not relying on their proprietary cloud anymore to toggle my lights. Which is insane to start with. Why should my phone that is in my home network need to send the "light on" command ot some cloud in a different country, only to then send the command back into my home network and turn the light on.

Im definitly very exited to try this our with more devices in my live.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by ziofill »

Perhaps I’m daydreaming, but maybe some vendors will accept this new reality and begin just selling the hardware without locking users in. Perhaps they’ll even make it easier for users to truly own their products.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by seanclayton »

ziofill wrote: post #303

Perhaps I’m daydreaming, but maybe some vendors will accept this new reality and begin just selling the hardware without locking users in. Perhaps they’ll even make it easier for users to truly own their products.

DIY kits have been a thing... forever? There's lots of open source hardware out there, and some you can even buy if you demand commercial access.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by cowboylowrez »

schlarpc wrote: post #244
aetherspawn wrote: post #226

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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.

Whats your thoughts on this being a temporary phenom, that will last until big corp applies AI's to resist this? Reading your article I get the feeling that the only security measures that you ran up against were just the obscurity defeated by disassembly. Plenty of posts here going "enjoy it while it lasts" but since you are actually working in the security field I'm curious about what you think of bigcorp pushback against this sort of thing?

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Post by attila-lendvai »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #219
fodkodrasz wrote: post #209

People are praising how this new age of owning our stuff is here, while actually all this will bring is stricter lockdown in every level of the supply chain. Enjoy while it lasts, but I expect even more closed stuff, and less openness from these t.rends

While closedness is bad, I assumed peripherals like these were closed anyway; the fact they were hackable implies they were not secure enough. So if closed means they are secure, which 99.99% of end users expect, I'm actually okay with it.

closed is never secure. it's just open only for a smaller circle.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by theshrike79 »

fodkodrasz wrote: post #209

People are praising how this new age of owning our stuff is here, while actually all this will bring is stricter lockdown in every level of the supply chain. Enjoy while it lasts, but I expect even more closed stuff, and less openness from these t.rends

If I can't hack it with local access and an AI, a random hacker can't do it either.

I do lament the loss of control, but the increase in security will be objectively good for humanity as a whole.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by e-topy »

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/

oh wow, this is cool! I managed to reverse engineer a BS120 led display[1], we ended up hooking it into our hackerspace's[2] home assistant instance, displaying everything from static messages to when trams are departing. I enjoyed the challenge of REing it by hand, but the ESP32 firmware to connect it was vibed by a fellow member.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~e-topy/bs120 [2]: https://base48.cz; feel free to come by anytime

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by radlad »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #277
kulahan wrote: post #102

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Then they should do it at another time...? Obviously?

And thats why we have the warning that everyone bitches about: "Hey, the timer is up, but I'm not gonna make you do it, its just gonna wear the display out faster". Early OLEDs really did need to be pixel cleaned every 8 hours according to manufacturer estimates, the choice isn't have warning or not, its have a lifespan or not. I don't want to blame early adopters for being early adopters, but they early adopted, and…

I have an MSI OLED monitor, and if I accidentally turn it off (trying to find the input switcher), and then back on, it shows this warning.

But it automatically runs when it's turned off. The warning is shown because I interrupted it running early.

The warning, for my purposes, is completely useless, and only an annoyance. The automatic feature is more than enough, and I don't need to know if it was aborted early.

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