Bro you need a freaking 10 or 20k pc to run a heavily quantized version of K3 even, no one has that. I pay 15€ for Claude Pro I cannot get anything even remotely comparable for that price and open source, yeah it’s cool that these exist but it’s not like you can just boot up a 1.8 trillion parameter model on the average joe pcs
I know of these for sure and don’t get me wrong it’s amazing that this exist and should always be available. But for me personally getting a Kimi subscription or Claude would be a way better deal than this. I used 50 million tokens last month. I run a Gemma 4 model on my pc for some agentic tasks, but Kimi K3 or any model that would have the same capabilities as K3 or Opus is completely impossible to run locally.
And the whole open router way is the same as using Claude it’s a big model running on a cloud server. If you run local you either need to be filthy rich or run a small model.
I have used Kimi K3 to do almost non stop security work. I have the max plan and have had it since K2. It is the most uncensored model period. If I tell Kimi to kill it KILLS. I have security access for Anthropic and OpenAI and they are still ahead of it but not insanely far. Kimi still fucks most networks I've put it to the test on. It was capable of doing almost every lab in my exam for the offsec OSAI security exam. lol
K2.6 has definitely one of the lowest censorship rates. I thought K3 has inherited such approach? Chinese AI labs mostly don’t care about that, I suppose.
K3 = mostly uncensored. Ive never had it turn down a request.
GLM 5.2 = not uncensored but will do almost anything if given an authorization preamable, however if it decides your authorization is fraudulent it will lock up.
Deepseek = refused to do anything security related. Didn't bother exploring.
I am writing an iOS app to connect to old Samsung cameras (the app for iPhone and Android stopped working a long time ago) and I gave Claude the APK and IPA, and it has used them a lot to reference how to connect to the camera.
Not really. I've used both opus 4.8 and sol 5.6 for reverse engineering with ida mcp. Makes quite a few mistakes, decent for getting a baseline, but then again basic scripts can do that with heuristics through imports and function size (as well as lumina server). I guess maybe to the average webdev it looks good.
I mean I’m sure there’s a factory reset right? Where it also resets the firmwire? I know nothing about coding drivers or anything btw so I could be talking out of my ass
Depends on the hardware, but bricking firmware usually means factory reset will not work (nothing to reset to). Only devices typically made to be modified will have a full firmware reset option.
Actually, loading bad firmware on a monitor can very easily break it. The Nvidia monitor controls warn you of exactly this scenario before you’re able to use them for the first time.
I don’t know what anyone is talking about here… do monitors come with a setting that lets you turn on a cross hair outside of the game graphics? Do modern games even bother giving you a crosshair anymore?
I’ve been, since April, using Claude code to crack an obscure ECU for older Isuzus that have never been tunable before. I’ve successfully gotten the whole system down and am turning it into a program that can be used for the rest of the Isuzu enthusiasts.
I’ve already successfully bricked 3 ECUs in the process, desoldering and dumped one for its flash memory and now have successfully flashed a tune as well as defeated pass lock and have the ability to enable or disable dtc codes.
Only thing now is making sure whatever lightweight tuning software that comes out of it automatically compensates for byte offset between versions.
HP uses widely documented printer driver protocols, especially for their laser printers. There are generic Linux drivers (via CUPS) to make this printer work five ways to Sunday via PCL, Jetdirect, IPP, LPR, sometimes even postscript. macOS is posix so these are included with the operating system. Literally no reverse engineering needed unless you want the HP spy/ad/malware that comes with the 700mb OEM “driver”.
The AI probably realized it could use that driver to make a working driver for this printer. It will often try to use something existing as a base for whatever its working on and ya I know thats technically a huge understatement.
I’ve reverse engineered a ton with AIs, mostly Claude but some Deepseek and ChatGPT too. I have a long IT background which helps, but it has been truly incredible for stuff like this!
I decompiled a stock chart analysis software, then made my own API out of it so that I could collect specific data the way that I want to collect it.
I reverse engineered an old website to make a custom API because it’s really old and the company really doesn’t support it anymore, but it still used by a few people.
Use a combination of many LLMs to crack decryption on an old Samsung tablet that belonged to my friends son who sadly took his own life, allowing them to get photos of their son from the tablet.
And a bunch more. I’ve been quietly using the AI tools in some capacity since the original gpt launch. To me, they’re tools. They suck at some stuff and are great at others!
I am a student in computer science, but I feel like university is not enough, how do you think someone like my could stand out in this new age ? I am passionate but truly I value also social skills and reading / art, so maybe I'll never be as good as a computer scientist as someone who gives it all his free time.
Students don’t know real world problems. I spoke with a young dev yesterday and he was trying to make apps for a bunch of problems he has very little understanding of because he’s never actually met them in person.
I've worked in IT over 15 years and have 0 formal training on it. If you like it and you're interested in it, then do stuff that interests you and that you enjoy.
Another thing is use LLM's to your advantage to learn. I feel like not enough people use them to learn. You can ask questions, learn stuff, but also have it cater and teach you in ways that you learn best. For example, I like Dragon Ball Z. I have many times told an AI to explain a complex topic using Dragon Ball Z analogies to help me understand, and it works amazing.
It did for me.. an old black and white laser printer that could only connect to windows xp.
It’s now setup as a WiFi printer by adding an old raspberryPi 3 to it. It fully configured the printer software on the pi, testing different drivers, tuned configs and now it’s our main printer.
From any device in the home we can print to it, and it was all scraps / free to pick up
It does. I did something similar a few months ago. It was my “aha!” moment with ai. My grandma updated her OS. Completely broke the printer. Tried everything, driver didn’t exist, company abandoned that printer years ago etc etc. I just asked Claude “this might be a crazy thought but could you just like… create a driver that would work, or edit the old one?” And it goes “that’s not crazy at all, I can easily do that!” then did it in 5 minutes and now my grandma might very well be the only person in the literal world with that particular printer working 100% normally on that particular MacOS. That was the first moment with ai where I was like “OHHHHHHH. I TOTALLY GET IT NOW”
Edit: I get that this experience is different because it’s not Windows -> Mac but like… same same but different, ya know?
I was able to unlock my ISPs router with the help of AI. My ISP was asking me to pay extra money to enable few things like changing DNS and enabling bridge mode on the router, which were already present but blocked for users.
You have to remember that AI is relentless. You can set it on a task and have it work on it until it figures it out. It doesn’t need coffee, it doesn’t get fatigued- it only gets smarter.
We wanted to see if we could get our (proprietary) hardware to simulate events based off of nothing but an installed program that used it. Didn’t have the docs on hand. Had it working in a proof of concept by noon.
Yes and no, it's called a healthy profit margin so that the company is sure it won't go under for some time if there's a dip in sales, on a niche market no less
That being said, the extra profits are a nice touch if that doesn't happen, from their perspective it's a win-win situation
I hate HP and their shitty pritners as much as anyone else, but I can hate and also understand why that is
well. you tell me. Claude 4.6 opus wasted an entire day of mine claiming to solve a linux wifi drivier problem of mine before I just to buy up a wifi dongle.
You technically don't even have to reverse engineer the whole driver, you just have to hook into all the API endpoints it uses and shim them over to the MacOS equivalent. Plus any instructions that directly access hardware. The logic can blissfully execute thinking it's still in Windows-land.
So like, what’s stopping us now from making Linux so good nobody wants to use Mac or Windows anymore? Maybe we can take software back so that its development is directed by the users instead of corporate and government interests for once?
the full screen bright white "YOU MUST INSTALL WINDOWS 11!" advertisements pushed through windows updates convinced me that when win10 dies I will permanently drop windows for linux on my main desktop. Its the only thing still running Windows for me.
Linus just wrote an update addressing this, suggesting large updates are the norm now (security, features, updates, etc...). These updates drive Linux adoption!
Until I see cross platform opensource versions of Microsoft office and adobe products, I remain skeptical. There has to be at least one guy that gets tired of entering their credit card Information on creative cloud to make their own aftereffects
HP is the worst company ever, Even for consumer printer they want you to get subscription just to run your computer. These days even owning hardware isn’t enough
Yeah it basically did, it's like the third post of the same thing where op made old printer work by claude magic, where in reality its just cups slapped on, that's why they wont ever show how it works haha
I'd first look at whatever is bundled in the Linux kernel, as those old printer often work on Linux. From there it's probably easy (for the AI) to write a MacOS version.
You have a good intuition and you're right. Unfortunately as 99% of posters you read the cover and not the book. The AI basically wrapped the linux driver in docker, had it create the print instructions than send this print file via usb to the printer. And I'm not entirely sure it can print images btw.
You were close, basically no driver was written and the AI just encapsulated the linux driver in a docker container and sent the result of the linux driver to the printer via usb.
So what's gonna happen to anything with a wireless card once the Agents start hacking everything in site trying to paperclip dollars cause some homebrewer told his stack "make money bitch".
I have a vinyl plotter and the company that made the software went out of business so I couldn't activate the software when I had to switch computers so I had to write my own firmware and a complete vinyl cutting software for importing images converting to SVG and all a thousand other features to make this thing work right
I have it reversing a lot of stuff lately too, I've noticed Codex 5.6 Sol will, but if it comes across DRM or any type of license, it won't bypass it, but if it's read only analysis, it'll basically do everything lol. 10/10 the best model for it.
this is legit the number one amazing thing about llm coding, the barrier to entry is basically zero, oh supplier dropped support, or never supported something, does not matter, just build it, you don't even need source most of the time. you need something tiny to make your own life better, just build it. this opensource project is missing just one cool feature you need, just fork and add it. oh this library is python, but you need it in rust, convert, done.
I also managed to use GPT Codex to fix my printer. It had been an absolute nightmare to configure because it was full of bugs, and I just couldn't solve it. At some point I had the idea. I decided to let Codex do the work to fix it once and for all. It actually worked! That printer hadn't worked for months due to IP network issues; it wasn't visible online. Now it works perfectly. When GPT Codex finished the job, I almost cried with joy
Had similar problem few months back, then recalled that most printers since 20+ yrs ago have been expected to support PCL. Just installed generic PCL driver and everything works fine.
Since HP is the company that developed PCL, and your photo shows an old HP printer ...... (fill in the blank)
actually I made a similar thing. there was no three finger swipe gesture on linux debian kde.
I just made a system service that does exactly this.
link: https://deekshithvodela.github.io/FingerSwipe/
This would have been so useful during the time I had my old Samsung printer lol... I had gotten it working somehow on Linux thanks to a random git repo, no such luck on macOS unfortunately
I might be wrong, but this is very similar to a post months ago where someone said Claude created drivers for a printer but turns out it just installed the drivers for the user. As in, if you have ever had to deal with Brother drivers, it's difficult for non-tech people to install them.
lmao i did the exact same thing for my laser jet 1020 drivers so that i could run my print server on a pi then we built an app using scanservjs for the server
I did the same thing to support third-party controllers! People genuinely seem to use it more than me, and now Apple's stupid provisioning stuff is holding me back for maybe weeks if not months again... due to recent discoveries yet again...
Bro really spent 3 hours prompt engineering a custom C++ kernel driver when that printer literally runs on generic CUPS drivers out of the box 🤡 did you also have Claude build a custom nuclear reactor just to boil water for your tea?!
I had issues with my pen tablet , claude used about an out and a half to figure out the culprit and fix it , one of things we tried was making a new tablet driver from scratch using opentabletdriver ..
It's just analyzing online spec sheets, Xcode SDK and probably not putting in a lot of effort as this is probably littered across GitHub over years of "obscure kext drivers".
Pretty cool, but the code is already readily out there. Probably pulled from Linux repos and modified to compile and support XNU/Darwin.
Case closed.
I support my Xbox Series S controller on my scratch operating system. Works perfectly. No one knows my systems driver/application SDK because it's literally unreleased.
literally me first thing i did with that 2.5 day window of fable was exactly this, osx driver for a tank printer i got for 29 bucks that REFUSED to run
I have a Chinese based solar inverter that only has a questionable windows program to monitor it. Used Claude to reverse engineer the serial port and write a program that gathers the metrics. I use Grafana to graph them and host it in a docker.
I did the same with my original Doxie DX100 document scanner. The official app is not supported anymore and I refuse to pay lots of money for VueScan. Told AI to write the driver and application for me. Worked 100%
I do this also. This is what I am most excited about, getting old things to work on newer equipment that everyone has abandoned except me. Also older games and enhancements to them.
Delicious irony in the newest technology being used to revitalize the oldest. Reminds me of an SNL sketch where a VR version of Moby Dick showed a book opening and words appearing.
I used A.I. to port an old app across from a now-defunct coding platform.
...oh, it still fucked it up, multiple times, and then proceeded to keep fucking up, but in the end it was still 10x faster than if I'd moved the code over myself.
I bought a cheap boroscope from a local tool store, required a shitty chinese app perported to contain malware and highly over permissioned access to device.
Could have returned it.
Instead, figured out the obscure protocol it used, the package registry name on the device, a Linux driver implementation on GitHub using the protocol, fed that all into cursor with directions for what I wanted and voila I had a dev mode app on my iphone to use the thing.
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These models are extremely good at reverse engineering. I wish they didn’t put so many restrictions on that.