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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by toomuchtodo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:03PM (#50443853)
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058850 - October 2026

https://github.com/morluto/rea

https://rea.tools

Do we just need to establish bounties per cloud service target to reverse engineer and publish a spec, copyleft code, and reference architecture? Maybe https://www.fulu.org/ could host the results?

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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by BizarroLand on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:19PM (#50445746)
Sounds like you would need to connect a network sniffer into its inputs and somehow figure out how to make it figure out what responses are needed on what ports just to make a "shutup pi" type system that catches smart appliances attempts to phone home and blocks them.
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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by toomuchtodo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:22PM (#50445783)
You have the LLM drive the man in the middle proxy.

https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

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