Honestly for scanning a codebase like they’re talking about it’s maybe, and I mean maybe a few hundred, it you had it scrutinize and lay out every method. Pennies for a company.

Thanks to both! Trying it now, at least I can receive emoji responses correctly now, not sure if I can send them

Good. John Deere represents the worst in right to repair. Phones and laptops are bad, but John Deere is the worst. A near monopoly contractors that coat well into the 6 digits, with locked down softwarethat is required, and limits on repairs and replacement parks that go and their printer cartridges drool over. Apple and its glued batteries are nothing compared to the required certified John Deere replacement parts.

I’ll gladly accept the 99mil, and also hope they get hit with more.

Gotta love the artificial obsolescence here. Kindles require basically nothing to run. They don’t need heavy processors or ram. EBook formats haven’t changed. Its purely “its time you spend more money with us”.

Yeah regulations is why. Couldn’t possibly be because they’re out of money

Its always been a disaster.

Now it’s simply more of a disaster!

oh no did your free investor money run out?

I totally agree, but hopefully with some advocacy we can get it from 99 to 98%. Doesn’t sound like much, but that’s 2 million people who have switched then, and whoever else may live in their house using their non-routers.

Routers are incredibly simple. You can run your own using openwrt or opnsense. Then some dumb switches and access points and you’re good to go.

This how stupid is the best advice. Setting up my instance was easy. Learning how liable I was for what others put there was something completely different.

That’s why whenever I see another 2 day account looking for “free speech” and “no moderation” my answer is always “sure, you go host it then!” I’m not going to jail because you want to say horrible shit.

Definition of an abusive relationship. Treated you bad for years but they do one small nice thing and they want endless praise. They’re just going to go back to hurting you tomorrow

Yah I’ve heard enough “commitments” from corporations to know that it’s written on toilet paper. Let me know when they actually change things, until then it’s empty words

Shocked. Absolutely shocked. Don’t you see how shocked I am?

So what you didn’t want to read the rest of that and just jumped to insulting me? I’ll never be ashamed of learning new information and adjusting my views.

Son look up all of the other comments that said that and also where I responded to it already.

I really enjoyed Gifable, a self-hosted gif library. It was great, albeit a bit feature light. About 3 years ago the maintainer stopped maintaining and went AFK, nothing to be heard of then. I’ve since forked it, and I’ve been working on some new features to hopefully bring it up to speed. (Things like S3 storage, using AI image captioning to auto-caption your memes, categories, and hopefully full matrix integration), but it’s a slog.

First I asked it how to create a dump file. I hooked up ADB debugging to my phone, then used the scooter’s app as normal, with the logging turned on in Android developer tools. It created a very long and complex dump file of hex that I could not understand.

However, then I had Claude get to work. I describe that in that I had opened the scooter’s app, and turned it on, paused a few seconds, then turned it off and closed the app. It started attempting to mimic the commands through the computer’s local bluetooth device, to get a successful response. Eventually, after something like 20 attempts it found a hidden clue that was basically a pattern that it had detected, and it was able to finally get an ACK from the scooter. Something I would have never been able to do. From there we have a plan on how to map out all of the other commands, but it was a huge win for the day.

Personally it’s what I use them for the most. I do not have the time to reverse engineer arbitrary things like this. I have a scooter that uses Bluetooth BLE which has no connectivity beyond that. I’ve been using Claude to help reverse engineer the protocol to hopefully get a home assistant integration up and running.

Claude can see things I can’t, patterns in hex that are coming back, I send in results from wireshark and it can try ad neaseum to try and get something working. Right now it’s about half working. When I have time I’ll keep plugging away. Then hopefully other people will be able to use it, and we can have one less vendor locked in device

Kind of skipped over my entire thesis there didn’t you? And my other comments addressing those.

I saw the project that did this. It was satirical, and I think the point was to show how absurd it would be to maintain everything yourself, even with AI

Each of these points makes it worth it. Price is always overlooked. Renting is same as a subscription. If you buy your modem it’s more expensive, but at the end you still have a modem. Renting at the end you have nothing.