dr_pardee
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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Author here. Quick context: the tablet is a 2021 Fire HD 10 that ran my Home Assistant dashboard and kept powering itself off: the logs showed Amazon's own software issuing the shutdowns, and the only permanent fix was root, which has never existed publicly for this model. Anthropic's and OpenAI's cyber safeguards wouldn't touch the project. Moonshot's Kimi K3 found an unpatched 2022 Mali CVE (CVE-2022-38181: fixed upstream in 2022, patched by Amazon in 2024, but my firmware never got it), GLM-5.2 caught two fatal bugs in the exploit, and GLM-5.3 finished it in a day. The full technical write-up with every offset and dead end is HANDOFF.md in the repo. Happy to answer questions: especially about the model-steering side, which was most of my actual contribution.
Comment · 11 months ago
Tell that to CDW, they hit $21B in revenue and have been at it for 41 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDW
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> I still don’t like macOS and would prefer to run Linux on this laptop. But Asahi Linux still needs some work before it’s usable for me (I need external display output, and M4 support). This doesn’t bother me too much, though, as I don’t use this computer for serious work.
“I don’t use this computer for serious work.” Dropped $3K on MBP to play around with. Definitely should have gotten MBA
Comment · 1 year ago
Is this intended for GitHub Enterprise Cloud or GitHub Enterprise Managed Users(EMU)
Comment · 1 year ago
Knowing someone who imports from China, there are ways around tariffs
https://harris-sliwoski.com/chinalawblog/the-guide-for-legal...
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5318785/tariff-dodging-...
Shady ways as well https://www.voanews.com/a/as-us-tariffs-expand-chinese-firms...
Comment · 2 years ago
Hold on the image, “Open in New Tab”, zoom in
Comment · 2 years ago
Gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to this next performer, put your dollars in and give it up for Gemini!
Comment · 2 years ago
Ten years ago, I was working for a US post-production company that produced a one-off game show in China. We used OpenVPN to monitor our servers, but it was being blocked. I ended up setting up a new OpenVPN server using obfsproxy, and it worked. It might be worth trying in your situation: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/TrafficObfuscatio...
I was a little bummed about the detour into how I used AI in writing this blog post so I decided to add an addendum to address it: https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/#how-this-pos...
In short, I get the anger, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
My intent in creating this blog was to share my tablet story and to get people talking about
- How companies control devices that you purchased and should own
- Today, US frontier models won’t allow users to even discuss exploits
- GLM-5.3 was more capable than Kimi K3 or GLM-5.2 in my experience
- You can be a prompt kiddie and accomplish things if you don’t accept LLM limitations
If I hadn't used GLM-5.3 to get this out, it would have never made it anywhere.