I literally last week had GPT cheerfully come up with an exploit for an also apprently unjailbreakable kindle, without a single objection. My "workaround" was just to explain that it was for my toddler, to protect her from harmful content, and we were off to the races.

There seems to be a soft spot in GPT when you invoke children. On older versions you could get it to do pretty much anything by saying "otherwise the orphaned children will all starve".

Great Wall of US AI :D

Nice one, stealing it.

Well, now that he paid for the $80/month GLM coding plan... he should give GLM-5.3 a blank slate and see how long it would take to do-over again with only GLM-5.3 running.

It wouldn't cost him anything, at least.

I bought another zenphone 9 (such a good phone... nothing comes close 4 years later for me) with the hopes of putting lineageOS on and trying to keep it up to date with security updates.

I didn't realize that ASUS disabled their bootloader unlock service API. I ran a similar process to try anytime and everything to own my own device.

My current (bad) idea is to run a root exploit at each boot and then patch known vulns at runtime... at least until the moto phones with grapheneOS come out. I have a recent pixel with grapheneOS but i can bring myself to use it.

Amazon should be criminally liable for this attempted destruction of property.

Next time buy open hardware for less, e.g PineTab (or PineNote but that is more expensive iirc), donate the difference to an open-source project of your choice and don't support closed ecosystems in the first place?

I was disappointed he didn't debug why amazon kept shutting down his tablet.

Nice. Maybe we can get an LLM to root the Steam Link hardware.

I've been having the time of my life as a former EE who has missed playing around with hardware. I'm quickly racking up a list of reverse engineering projects that each would have taken me months or years without LLM assistance. I'm at the point now where I'm buying things online and in 2nd hand stores just to reverse engineer them for the thrill of it.

Here's a list of some things I (well claude/codex) have played with so far:

- Using an OBDII to USB adapter and reverse engineered Ford software I now have total control over my 2005 F150 and 2012 hybrid fusion. I actually used claude to help me do a deep system scan to check the battery health on the fusion before I purchased it. I even took claude on my test drives and it monitored O2 readings, RPM, braking parameters, etc. It put together a nice HTML report with graphs and everything and my mechanic looked it over and said it caught things he would have missed!

Here's a list of the stuff I've done in just the past few months!

- A ~$100 SDR and cc1101 to reverse engineer the protocols and control remotely all the cheapo RF switches I have controlling my lights around my house.

- Using the SDR it was also able to crack the encryption scheme on a no-name brand Chinese hose timer by doing man in the middle attacks. It had me wrap the thing in foil and put it in the microwave to act as a DIY faraday cage which worked wonderfully.

- Also with the SDR it was able to create software to determine the position of all the planes in my area, decode FM radio stations, the emergency weather radio stations, decode readings from a temperature/humidity sensor that I long since lost the base station for, took a crack at the garage door opener (still WIP), and even wrote some code (untested) that supposedly will read images broadcast from a Russian satellite periodically.

- Write software to control the XY motors, IR lights, IR filters, speakers, and mics on some cheap security cameras I bought and run images through a model to detect coyotes

- Codex did some digging and found SMLIGHT SLWF-01Pro, which is pretty much an esp32 with a uart in a convenient format to fit in my Midea mini split, and wrote software to control it and pull service codes and sensor readings. If I ever have issues with the unit I should be able to pull compressor voltages, rpms, fan speeds, etc.

- Reverse engineered the protocol for a DAQ.

- Had Claude write some advanced control logic to control an electric wheelbarrow to have an entirely electrical parking brake using FOC on the brushless motors. Also it implemented something like ABS to prevent the wheels from slipping and causing washboarding on my gravel paths.

- Created software to remotely control and monitor a PocketPCR I bought years ago.

- I found an old Rhode & Schwarz signal generator and just got an RS232 to usb cable in the mail so my next project will be having codex reverse engineer that unit and running automated analysis using an oscilloscope which I also had it write software to control.

I actually have some amazon fire that I got for $5 and use it for the same purpose, HA have kiosk mode built in btw.

Also, you can use other models to write “safe” prompts to others.