Until AI puts adobe and oracle out of business I don’t care.

Do you mean the firmware blobs? If so, then be aware that the firmware doesn't run in the Linux kernel, and isn't part of it. They get uploaded to the peripheral devices, and run there. They are often encrypted and signed, so even if you reverse engineer them, and understand what they do, you also need the private keys of the vendor to sign and/or encrypt them before the peripheral hardware accepts them...

Yea but you will also install other software like maybe gidhra.

Please make it available for others to use and not have to spend resources to do it again, ideally upstream it.

I have been wanting my fingerprint device working too. Did it require a Claude subscription or would the free plan suffice?

Logitech and Razer have great open-source driver support on Linux.

You'll be playing doom on your toothbrush in no time.

But yah maybe. There are mountains of "smart" hardware that demanded cloud, cloud went away, suddenly a brick. I'd love to wire some of that up and give Claude a shot at jail breaking and flashing that kinda thing.

All the subscription models that were primarily chatbots before have first party agentic harnesses now so more people have had positive experiences that they want to share.

Good luck finding a malware repository for undocumented proprietary hardware

Reverse engineering is actually a very good use case for LLMs. Its like using a black box to get a different black box to do a trick. It might not be epistemologically sound, but if it can boot the kernel, who cares?

As someone who's anti ai this is the usecase I've always kind of advocated for with open source models.

Its conflicting because it still seems to be done by frontier models, and I'm not exactly happy with my monkeys paws wish.

I've always been against the idea of IP rights and thought all things should be a open source platform everyone can work from. Cars, computers, phones whatever. But I never really envisioned a model that consumed everything and destroyed everything else in the process.

I don't like the idea of frontier models profiting off the direct theft of other companies work that is also destroying them. Its much different when you or I slap up a github page with our own open source model on our own hardware, and create a project that often we are consumed by and plan on maintaining it. I don't like a world where now we even don't get options in software, because even software as a service is a dead end. I don't want to have to spend 5 grand and monthly fees to claud just so I can vibe code my own apps because no one makes them anymore. Its either that or I'm sifting through hundreds of thousands of abandoned vibe coded apps with almost identical code, besides whatever "unique" features the vibe coder thought they where adding. It will feel like looking for the one alarm app that isnt shit in the google playstore out of millions.

And whatever we make with it isn't really ours, we are just feeding a machine that needs a exponentially infinite amount of data, who only benifit a microfraction of the population. Just bums me out.

No. Phew.

Nope