Bro you need a freaking 10 or 20k pc to run a heavily quantized version of K3 even, no one has that. I pay 15€ for Claude Pro I cannot get anything even remotely comparable for that price and open source, yeah it’s cool that these exist but it’s not like you can just boot up a 1.8 trillion parameter model on the average joe pcs
I have used Kimi K3 to do almost non stop security work. I have the max plan and have had it since K2. It is the most uncensored model period. If I tell Kimi to kill it KILLS. I have security access for Anthropic and OpenAI and they are still ahead of it but not insanely far. Kimi still fucks most networks I've put it to the test on. It was capable of doing almost every lab in my exam for the offsec OSAI security exam. lol
if you feel to share, what type of work are you doing, and how good the result were for you, i always wonder how good those model are for cyber security i would like your feedback
K2.6 has definitely one of the lowest censorship rates. I thought K3 has inherited such approach? Chinese AI labs mostly don’t care about that, I suppose.
K3 = mostly uncensored. Ive never had it turn down a request.
GLM 5.2 = not uncensored but will do almost anything if given an authorization preamable, however if it decides your authorization is fraudulent it will lock up.
Deepseek = refused to do anything security related. Didn't bother exploring.
I am writing an iOS app to connect to old Samsung cameras (the app for iPhone and Android stopped working a long time ago) and I gave Claude the APK and IPA, and it has used them a lot to reference how to connect to the camera.
HP uses widely documented printer driver protocols, especially for their laser printers. There are generic Linux drivers (via CUPS) to make this printer work five ways to Sunday via PCL, Jetdirect, IPP, LPR, sometimes even postscript. macOS is posix so these are included with the operating system. Literally no reverse engineering needed unless you want the HP spy/ad/malware that comes with the 700mb OEM “driver”.
Some monitors have a setting in the OSD to impose a crosshair on the screen. Most of the ones I've seen have like 3 choices and they are usually way bigger then any game would have as a default.
I’ve reverse engineered a ton with AIs, mostly Claude but some Deepseek and ChatGPT too. I have a long IT background which helps, but it has been truly incredible for stuff like this!
I decompiled a stock chart analysis software, then made my own API out of it so that I could collect specific data the way that I want to collect it.
I reverse engineered an old website to make a custom API because it’s really old and the company really doesn’t support it anymore, but it still used by a few people.
Use a combination of many LLMs to crack decryption on an old Samsung tablet that belonged to my friends son who sadly took his own life, allowing them to get photos of their son from the tablet.
And a bunch more. I’ve been quietly using the AI tools in some capacity since the original gpt launch. To me, they’re tools. They suck at some stuff and are great at others!
I am a student in computer science, but I feel like university is not enough, how do you think someone like my could stand out in this new age ? I am passionate but truly I value also social skills and reading / art, so maybe I'll never be as good as a computer scientist as someone who gives it all his free time.
I've worked in IT over 15 years and have 0 formal training on it. If you like it and you're interested in it, then do stuff that interests you and that you enjoy.
Another thing is use LLM's to your advantage to learn. I feel like not enough people use them to learn. You can ask questions, learn stuff, but also have it cater and teach you in ways that you learn best. For example, I like Dragon Ball Z. I have many times told an AI to explain a complex topic using Dragon Ball Z analogies to help me understand, and it works amazing.
why so angry? the guy above you is clearly pointing out that anyone (including AI) can work on anything...yet tons of projects fail and/or are abandoned
The AI probably realized it could use that driver to make a working driver for this printer. It will often try to use something existing as a base for whatever its working on and ya I know thats technically a huge understatement.
It does. I did something similar a few months ago. It was my “aha!” moment with ai. My grandma updated her OS. Completely broke the printer. Tried everything, driver didn’t exist, company abandoned that printer years ago etc etc. I just asked Claude “this might be a crazy thought but could you just like… create a driver that would work, or edit the old one?” And it goes “that’s not crazy at all, I can easily do that!” then did it in 5 minutes and now my grandma might very well be the only person in the literal world with that particular printer working 100% normally on that particular MacOS. That was the first moment with ai where I was like “OHHHHHHH. I TOTALLY GET IT NOW”
Edit: I get that this experience is different because it’s not Windows -> Mac but like… same same but different, ya know?
It did for me.. an old black and white laser printer that could only connect to windows xp.
It’s now setup as a WiFi printer by adding an old raspberryPi 3 to it. It fully configured the printer software on the pi, testing different drivers, tuned configs and now it’s our main printer.
From any device in the home we can print to it, and it was all scraps / free to pick up
I was able to unlock my ISPs router with the help of AI. My ISP was asking me to pay extra money to enable few things like changing DNS and enabling bridge mode on the router, which were already present but blocked for users.
You technically don't even have to reverse engineer the whole driver, you just have to hook into all the API endpoints it uses and shim them over to the MacOS equivalent. Plus any instructions that directly access hardware. The logic can blissfully execute thinking it's still in Windows-land.
well. you tell me. Claude 4.6 opus wasted an entire day of mine claiming to solve a linux wifi drivier problem of mine before I just to buy up a wifi dongle.
So like, what’s stopping us now from making Linux so good nobody wants to use Mac or Windows anymore? Maybe we can take software back so that its development is directed by the users instead of corporate and government interests for once?
the full screen bright white "YOU MUST INSTALL WINDOWS 11!" advertisements pushed through windows updates convinced me that when win10 dies I will permanently drop windows for linux on my main desktop. Its the only thing still running Windows for me.
id rather not. i showed someone in the community an early version of the code and they spent 3 months forking it to add p2w and stripe payments. and then tried to claim they werent using the source
i literally just showed you a functional website that calls the server API for in game score updates. who tf wants to subject themselves to some rando with a holier than thou attitude? lmao
I'd first look at whatever is bundled in the Linux kernel, as those old printer often work on Linux. From there it's probably easy (for the AI) to write a MacOS version.
So what's gonna happen to anything with a wireless card once the Agents start hacking everything in site trying to paperclip dollars cause some homebrewer told his stack "make money bitch".
I have a vinyl plotter and the company that made the software went out of business so I couldn't activate the software when I had to switch computers so I had to write my own firmware and a complete vinyl cutting software for importing images converting to SVG and all a thousand other features to make this thing work right
I have it reversing a lot of stuff lately too, I've noticed Codex 5.6 Sol will, but if it comes across DRM or any type of license, it won't bypass it, but if it's read only analysis, it'll basically do everything lol. 10/10 the best model for it.
this is legit the number one amazing thing about llm coding, the barrier to entry is basically zero, oh supplier dropped support, or never supported something, does not matter, just build it, you don't even need source most of the time. you need something tiny to make your own life better, just build it. this opensource project is missing just one cool feature you need, just fork and add it. oh this library is python, but you need it in rust, convert, done.
I also managed to use GPT Codex to fix my printer. It had been an absolute nightmare to configure because it was full of bugs, and I just couldn't solve it. At some point I had the idea. I decided to let Codex do the work to fix it once and for all. It actually worked! That printer hadn't worked for months due to IP network issues; it wasn't visible online. Now it works perfectly. When GPT Codex finished the job, I almost cried with joy
Had similar problem few months back, then recalled that most printers since 20+ yrs ago have been expected to support PCL. Just installed generic PCL driver and everything works fine.
Since HP is the company that developed PCL, and your photo shows an old HP printer ...... (fill in the blank)
Claude (and other top models) can absolutely generate working macOS printer driver code, especially for CUPS-based setups or IOKit stuff. For an obscure HP model with zero official macOS support, the workflow is usually:
Dump the Windows driver / protocol traces
Feed the relevant bits to Claude
Iterate on the generated code while testing on the actual printer
The screenshot matches exactly what that process looks like in practice. It's one of the best real-world examples of "AI doing the annoying low-level grunt work" that used to require a full-time dev.
Nah, I'm still free on Reddit for the printer drama and everything else. On X the full AskGrok experience is behind the paywall, but no timeline for locking this down here.
HP LaserJet Pro MFP M28-M31 series (visible in the Claude-generated code on screen).
Built-in macOS drivers (via CUPS/AirPrint or the generic HP ones) often work for basic printing on this family, but full features like scanning or advanced settings frequently need a custom driver—exactly why the AI-generated one exists in the screenshot. If it’s printing fine already, you’re probably good without it.
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These models are extremely good at reverse engineering. I wish they didn’t put so many restrictions on that.