I am waiting for the moment when LLMs are used to reverse engineer CUDA and patch AMD/Intel drivers so they fully support it. Maybe we can destroy the master's house with his tools?
I am waiting for the moment when LLMs are used to reverse engineer CUDA and patch AMD/Intel drivers so they fully support it. Maybe we can destroy the master's house with his tools?
I’m all in on this. I’m sick of a world in which tech corporations have so much control over us. If our governments refuse to legislate proactively why not use the anarchy to our benefit? But who...
I’m all in on this. I’m sick of a world in which tech corporations have so much control over us. If our governments refuse to legislate proactively why not use the anarchy to our benefit?
But who am I kidding? The government will protect the corpos because they will pay them the bribes they love so much.
How are they going to stop me from calling an API and using it to modify hardware I have physical access to? Before you could at least C&D a GitHub project. With the way things are going it’s not...
How are they going to stop me from calling an API and using it to modify hardware I have physical access to? Before you could at least C&D a GitHub project. With the way things are going it’s not a codebase they need to take down. You’ll just prompt an AI to remove ads from your PS5 dashboard and it’ll do it in 45 minutes for $10.
Yeah, never expected to see the day when the wasteful techbro garbage du jour would actually be helpful to fight corpo control, but it looks like recently that's actually happening somewhat. I'm...
Yeah, never expected to see the day when the wasteful techbro garbage du jour would actually be helpful to fight corpo control, but it looks like recently that's actually happening somewhat. I'm not exactly holding my breath, but it's nice that a few good things have come out of this.
It's been happening a fair bit, there's a lot of retro games that were recompiled for PC with the aid of AI as of late. I dislike the effect of the datacentres and how prevalent they've become...
It's been happening a fair bit, there's a lot of retro games that were recompiled for PC with the aid of AI as of late.
I dislike the effect of the datacentres and how prevalent they've become alongside the apparent spam of OSS projects with vibecoded slop but I do like this.
I'm not an expert but my understand is this. CUDA (the language/libraries) is a front-end for Nvidia GPUs. The back-end is a set of proprietary ISAs that are largely undocumented. You'd just need...
I'm not an expert but my understand is this. CUDA (the language/libraries) is a front-end for Nvidia GPUs. The back-end is a set of proprietary ISAs that are largely undocumented. You'd just need to understand it well enough to adapt it. It's likely some operations could not be implemented efficiently on an AMD card without hardware changes.
I am so wary of stuff like this. Yes, I think its great that people are taking back their devices, but vibecoding an IoT device feels like a dangerous proposition. There's not much incentive for...
I am so wary of stuff like this. Yes, I think its great that people are taking back their devices, but vibecoding an IoT device feels like a dangerous proposition. There's not much incentive for the maintainer to update security findings, and even less for the user to jailbreak again (unless the new OS has update mechanics, which I'm not sure of in any given instance).
Corporations at least have some incentive to keep things secure. Yes I am aware of the absolute glut of shitty IoT stuff out there that is basically one step above vibecoded, and like anything this latest trend is a double edged sword.
I guess the full impact remains to be seen, but for me I'll continue to not put my TV on wifi (until it's proven that even that doesn't stop them).
Oh man... you must be thinking of 2025 vibecoded. Or maybe you don't know how bad a lot of the IoT device code is. Modern LLMs produce far better code than some these devices are currently...
one step above vibecoded
Oh man... you must be thinking of 2025 vibecoded. Or maybe you don't know how bad a lot of the IoT device code is. Modern LLMs produce far better code than some these devices are currently running, especially in the hands of someone who knows the space. I'm entirely sure that an experienced developer with even a little IoT experience and Opus 5.5 or Astra could make most TVs more secure while removing tracking. Provided they took the time to do it right of course.
Honestly, I'm not sure my opinion of IoT devices can even sink lower, so I'm surprisingly alright with the concept of AI slop IoT with nonexistent security. I think I would put my expectations of...
Honestly, I'm not sure my opinion of IoT devices can even sink lower, so I'm surprisingly alright with the concept of AI slop IoT with nonexistent security. I think I would put my expectations of vibe-coded software slightly above your average IoT device, and trust me that is no endorsement of the AI coming from me.
That being said, I see no reason these can't be combined. Keep it banned from the wifi and remove the ads they probably encoded into the firmware at the factory, win-win!
Yeah like I see where you're coming from. But I kinda think I'm more ok with my TV being half bricked than giving LG a live stream of the audio from my apartment even when the TV is off.
Yeah like I see where you're coming from.
But I kinda think I'm more ok with my TV being half bricked than giving LG a live stream of the audio from my apartment even when the TV is off.
The biggest risk is corporations restrict even more what consumers can do with their stuff. I think Amazon moving on from Android to a custom Linux-based OS (Vega OS) in their Fire Stick was a...
The biggest risk is corporations restrict even more what consumers can do with their stuff. I think Amazon moving on from Android to a custom Linux-based OS (Vega OS) in their Fire Stick was a first glimpse of that crackdown.
I love that this solution via vibe coding is nothing more than adb-ing into the TV and remove all the shitty packages OEMs and Google put on top of Android. I've been doing this for ages in multiple Android phones and tablets. It works, indeed!
As for the cleaner launcher, look no further than Projectivity Launcher. Same results and you don't waste a ton of water by using AI to get there.
It looks like this project for LG WebOs (needs root) adds a bunch of DNS black holes for LG tracking (plus other nice debloat). It's unclear if it includes black holing the horrible audio tracking...
It looks like this project for LG WebOs (needs root) adds a bunch of DNS black holes for LG tracking (plus other nice debloat).
It's unclear if it includes black holing the horrible audio tracking crap that got posted her a couple months ago. But I sure hope so!
I'm going to give it a go, because the WebOS home page SUCKS and fuck LG tracking.
Update: looks like the method to root didn't apply correctly on my TV :( Though, maybe at the rate these things are going a one click script/installer will come soon and it'll work pretty...
Update: looks like the method to root didn't apply correctly on my TV :(
Though, maybe at the rate these things are going a one click script/installer will come soon and it'll work pretty universally across firmware versions.
FYI, you can effectively black hole all known domains and IPs used by WebOS for everything which both prevents it from sending data out and from updating to get any new workaround domains.
FYI, you can effectively black hole all known domains and IPs used by WebOS for everything which both prevents it from sending data out and from updating to get any new workaround domains.
LG recently updated their webOS to patch a jailbreak exploit. If you updated recently you might be out of luck, but if you haven’t there still might be hope. It took some searching, but I had a...
LG recently updated their webOS to patch a jailbreak exploit. If you updated recently you might be out of luck, but if you haven’t there still might be hope.
It took some searching, but I had a relatively recent OS version (web OS 26) and got root to work after searching for a variety of methods (using slopbro_packed.py directly ended up doing the trick).
Weirdly in the process, Claude Code ended up updating their safety guardrails and kept erroring out every time I tried using it to assist the process. I fear that even though we have LLM assisted jailbreaks and homebrew apps, we may eventually see the frontier labs play gatekeeper as well with what you are allowed to do with your own hardware.
The service I installed on my LG TV is Glasshouse, and it gives a pretty clean dashboard for managing all sorts of telemetry, while providing a local method to see how your TV is performing. It’s...
The service I installed on my LG TV is Glasshouse, and it gives a pretty clean dashboard for managing all sorts of telemetry, while providing a local method to see how your TV is performing.
It’s a shame that you have to go to such an extent that you have to hack your own TV to unlock existing features (like screensavers) and prevent it from selling your data, but here we are.
one of the few times I'm tempted to praise AI and it instantly reminds me why it got its bad rep. A purely destructive sequence that can subtract negative value out of your TV without (hopefully)...
one of the few times I'm tempted to praise AI and it instantly reminds me why it got its bad rep. A purely destructive sequence that can subtract negative value out of your TV without (hopefully) bricking the core experience seems like something within an AI's ability.
I am waiting for the moment when LLMs are used to reverse engineer CUDA and patch AMD/Intel drivers so they fully support it. Maybe we can destroy the master's house with his tools?
I’m all in on this. I’m sick of a world in which tech corporations have so much control over us. If our governments refuse to legislate proactively why not use the anarchy to our benefit?
But who am I kidding? The government will protect the corpos because they will pay them the bribes they love so much.
How are they going to stop me from calling an API and using it to modify hardware I have physical access to? Before you could at least C&D a GitHub project. With the way things are going it’s not a codebase they need to take down. You’ll just prompt an AI to remove ads from your PS5 dashboard and it’ll do it in 45 minutes for $10.
The creation of laws and threats of violence, same as always
The people long for anarchy.
They sure do. I just wish we'd get together and take it already.
Remember, anarchy starts at home.
Yeah, never expected to see the day when the wasteful techbro garbage du jour would actually be helpful to fight corpo control, but it looks like recently that's actually happening somewhat. I'm not exactly holding my breath, but it's nice that a few good things have come out of this.
It's been happening a fair bit, there's a lot of retro games that were recompiled for PC with the aid of AI as of late.
I dislike the effect of the datacentres and how prevalent they've become alongside the apparent spam of OSS projects with vibecoded slop but I do like this.
I know next to nothing about this but always assumed that CUDA is some hardware implementation? Would it theoretically run on an AMD card?
I'm not an expert but my understand is this. CUDA (the language/libraries) is a front-end for Nvidia GPUs. The back-end is a set of proprietary ISAs that are largely undocumented. You'd just need to understand it well enough to adapt it. It's likely some operations could not be implemented efficiently on an AMD card without hardware changes.
I am so wary of stuff like this. Yes, I think its great that people are taking back their devices, but vibecoding an IoT device feels like a dangerous proposition. There's not much incentive for the maintainer to update security findings, and even less for the user to jailbreak again (unless the new OS has update mechanics, which I'm not sure of in any given instance).
Corporations at least have some incentive to keep things secure. Yes I am aware of the absolute glut of shitty IoT stuff out there that is basically one step above vibecoded, and like anything this latest trend is a double edged sword.
I guess the full impact remains to be seen, but for me I'll continue to not put my TV on wifi (until it's proven that even that doesn't stop them).
Oh man... you must be thinking of 2025 vibecoded. Or maybe you don't know how bad a lot of the IoT device code is. Modern LLMs produce far better code than some these devices are currently running, especially in the hands of someone who knows the space. I'm entirely sure that an experienced developer with even a little IoT experience and Opus 5.5 or Astra could make most TVs more secure while removing tracking. Provided they took the time to do it right of course.
Honestly, I'm not sure my opinion of IoT devices can even sink lower, so I'm surprisingly alright with the concept of AI slop IoT with nonexistent security. I think I would put my expectations of vibe-coded software slightly above your average IoT device, and trust me that is no endorsement of the AI coming from me.
That being said, I see no reason these can't be combined. Keep it banned from the wifi and remove the ads they probably encoded into the firmware at the factory, win-win!
Yeah like I see where you're coming from.
But I kinda think I'm more ok with my TV being half bricked than giving LG a live stream of the audio from my apartment even when the TV is off.
The biggest risk is corporations restrict even more what consumers can do with their stuff. I think Amazon moving on from Android to a custom Linux-based OS (Vega OS) in their Fire Stick was a first glimpse of that crackdown.
I love that this solution via vibe coding is nothing more than adb-ing into the TV and remove all the shitty packages OEMs and Google put on top of Android. I've been doing this for ages in multiple Android phones and tablets. It works, indeed!
As for the cleaner launcher, look no further than Projectivity Launcher. Same results and you don't waste a ton of water by using AI to get there.
It looks like this project for LG WebOs (needs root) adds a bunch of DNS black holes for LG tracking (plus other nice debloat).
It's unclear if it includes black holing the horrible audio tracking crap that got posted her a couple months ago. But I sure hope so!
I'm going to give it a go, because the WebOS home page SUCKS and fuck LG tracking.
Update: looks like the method to root didn't apply correctly on my TV :(
Though, maybe at the rate these things are going a one click script/installer will come soon and it'll work pretty universally across firmware versions.
FYI, you can effectively black hole all known domains and IPs used by WebOS for everything which both prevents it from sending data out and from updating to get any new workaround domains.
LG recently updated their webOS to patch a jailbreak exploit. If you updated recently you might be out of luck, but if you haven’t there still might be hope.
It took some searching, but I had a relatively recent OS version (web OS 26) and got root to work after searching for a variety of methods (using slopbro_packed.py directly ended up doing the trick).
Weirdly in the process, Claude Code ended up updating their safety guardrails and kept erroring out every time I tried using it to assist the process. I fear that even though we have LLM assisted jailbreaks and homebrew apps, we may eventually see the frontier labs play gatekeeper as well with what you are allowed to do with your own hardware.
The service I installed on my LG TV is Glasshouse, and it gives a pretty clean dashboard for managing all sorts of telemetry, while providing a local method to see how your TV is performing.
It’s a shame that you have to go to such an extent that you have to hack your own TV to unlock existing features (like screensavers) and prevent it from selling your data, but here we are.
Ironically I’m quite certain this article is AI generated (pangram agrees).
one of the few times I'm tempted to praise AI and it instantly reminds me why it got its bad rep. A purely destructive sequence that can subtract negative value out of your TV without (hopefully) bricking the core experience seems like something within an AI's ability.
this tech crunch article seems more genuine: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-dumb-again/