Good for them.

Make infinite money. Make no mistakes.

ancient ass ancient-ass ass-news

I mean I would at this point consider the hackability of the TV a feature, not a bug.

If you choose to hack your own TV, you can just stream this mp3 to servers:

First send this:

Then stream this:

On repeat

Mmmm… ass news.

Bruh its actually super fun if you have any networked/ IOT devices.

You can just take control, like you own them (because you do).

Your right. I haven’t accepted your contrived framing that you are using to exploit the human tendencies of groupthink and group shame to change my language.

Just gonna throw it out there that at least one of the parties to this interaction is being consistent.

There is a mile of difference in that and blasting it on Twitter.

It’s how you get them working in blocking our ability to use these these for a legitimate and useful purpose of taking back control of our own devices.

The desire to control how others use language is a reactionary tendency.

I litterally had the TV unplugged and sitting a basically a brick because it their software was such shit.

Worse that could happen was that it stayed bricked. I didn’t “do” anything other than express what I wanted it to do, punch in the code it told me to to give it developer access to the TV, and then finish watching Gamers nexus.

Like I genuinely don’t care what you think about this. I bought the 120 gb strix halo machine specifically for hosting local LLMs.

You have strong opinions. That’s fine. But they are your opinions. Not mine.

I had the tv for ages and I basically never turned it on because it was so enshittified with their shit software anyways.

I do have experience with software and reverse engineering but it’s not what you think. It’s mostly trying to reverse engineer pin outs for old scientific equipment or rat tailed sensors that come from China with no documentation. Check my post history.

I didn’t need to do shit for the TV thing. I just finished watching the episode of GN and was like " well I’ve got a Samsung that’s basically a brick anyways because it’s so enshittifed, worst that could happen is it stays a brick.

What I found out is I don’t need to rewrite the firmware to take control. There are basically APIs for most things.

Just go try it.

Well the malevolent people I’m concerned about are the ones who sold me a TV I can’t control and who stole the Internet to make you rent our collective knowledge we built together.

Hence the point about not fucking advertising it.

No you are. That’s what that is.

Language policing is very Woke 1.0

My conversation literally started like:

I have a local Samsung TV that is a good TV, but the Samsung software is absolute shit and I hate it. I dont want ads. I don't want their shit software. And I want to poison any telemetry streams they might be using to spy. I recently watched a gamers nexus video on hacking TV's. Can you look on my network and find the TV. and then do a research project to look into what it would take to de-shittify this TV?

Just open up any coding agent you like, locally hosted or otherwise, give it network permissions and the model number, and let it cook. These TV’s are basically unsecured.

Was watching gamers nexus. Opened up codex. Gave it network permissions. It was able to fully take control of the TV in minutes. It even navigated to the admin panel and gave me the code to plug in. Very quickly had figured out some of the major API’s. In a half hour, I was able to get a container/ program set up to just “send” any stream I wanted to the TV without having to use any Samsung services. Then, scramble/ poison telemetry data/ advertising data. Whatever you like. None of it is worth publishing. But I wanted to control the TV I bought. The one I own. In my house. That I paid for. And I think its royally fucked up the world we live in that there are any barriers to that.