Don't get your hopes up.

What you're saying only applies to what is out there right now. New stuff will eventually just be locked down more.

It's of course still huge to be able to do this with all tech up until this cut-off point. Eventually though, LLMs will have to break SOTA cryptography to keep doing this, and if they should ever manage to do that, there will be a rough awakening for the world that runs on that not being possible.

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Also, for every IoT device we can own, some non-IT people will be facing abuse through the same means.

Devices aren't just locked down to tether us to clouds, but also so that bad actors do not have free reign. Now they kinda do.

We should keep in mind that not everyone wins here. In fact, only a minority does.

Generally, I'm with you, but over the past decades I often saw companies being lazy about their software. So I think chances are good that we can make use of this situation. Not long ago, you had to accept certain decisions or servers going down with leaving devices useless. I'm hopeful that more stuff can have a 2nd/better life in our hands.

I like being able to have all this access, of course, but I'm not sure if "we" all truly have the character to be good stewards of this.

Or rather I am sure that we do not.

OTOH, maybe it needs events like these to build character. It just will suck for whoever turns out to be the collateral.

That's the downside of the medal, but let's face it. A tool is a tool. You can forge helpful stuff or weapons, but this is not the fault of the tool itself. So we're currently at the stage where we were on the internet 30 years ago. Let's see where this leads too.

(in response to the other comment here, whose author forgot to turn off VPN and got automatically flagged despite his account being 10 years old, because @dang would rather hang a hundred innocent men than let a guilty get away.)

do you ponder "unpleasant moral stuff" every time you chop vegetables?

>As an anchor, knives or sharp objects were used in about 97,000 homicides globally in 2017, equivalent to roughly 266 deaths per day.

>There is no reliable single global count, so the best concise answer is about 10,000 people injured by stabbing each day worldwide, not counting deaths separately.

I can guarantee you that 95% of those are done with the humble kitchen knife.

Do the companies have better character though?

lol - if hackers hacking devices encouraged device vendors to secure their shit, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Indeed. Most of the barrier is the sheer breadth of devices on the market meaning nobody knows anything about your specific one. This is solved when you can automate it, no matter how bad the automation is as long as it works.

Until the manufacturers enter an arms race and copy a page out of the mobile hardware vendors book. But perhaps they'll do it badly and we've got a few more years.

I'm sure they will eventually, but for the first time their incompetence is working to our benefit.

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.

This is the right question. Used iPads are amazing hardware for such little cash.

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 with no cancer ads like on the official version. Maybe in a few years I could build a portal gun or turn myself into a pickle, who knows. Fun times!

Rick is the smartest man in the universe though.

Using LLMs to do this stuff is more like using a gadget built by the guy - not like being the guy.

Mortyposting on main

So you want to skip family counselling... Hahaha

My two thoughts are:

- this is great

- this is an incredibly unstable equilibrium, like a lot of things related to the internet, because other actors haven't yet figured out how to do this at scale

> 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...