I can’t wait till somebody figures out how to reverse engineer these with a LLM so we can just sync the scale data ourselves. I purchased one of these devices, but I am somewhat regretting my decision now.
The question is who and when first blinks.
Not that I want it -- my tokens are not free -- but it's here. Up for grabs.
Other countries won't care and let people reverse engineer away.
but you dont need a $10k piece of hardware to do piracy.
They'll make high bandwidth/memory devices something that is more difficult to acquire (e.g., you have to license it and be subject to auditing).
Molon labe
On the one hand, everyone gets all the software they could ever want now. That's cool. On the other hand, the entire profession and industry is soon worthless. That's a lot of lost jobs and companies. We are not ready for this level of change this fast.
> recreation of the Adobe suite.
I think it's also worth touching on the concept of good enough. Most studios have been building software which is FAR past good enough. Most people use a few features in any given app and rarely venture outside of that. Most people never experience any of the recorded bugs. They're just trucking along. I think this Adobe suite clone is good enough for most people.
Do you expect future attempts to be worse or better?
Yes there are alternatives, but people resist change when they need to learn new workflows.
I think I’m going to have a crack at with with Claude and REA this weekend, if nothing else comes up.
These days it's not true that if you pay for the item, you're the customer. Now you're just a potential revenue stream.
Been using my implementation exclusively for months, seems fine.
Except it'll all be locked down into a lower-bidder insecure state too.
Now do iOS.
Here is a starting point. It includes a link to instructions on how to reverse engineer a Bluetooth scale[0], and it looks like someone dumped some data already.
It isn't far short of magical to watch Opus hack a piece of connected hardware. Everybody should try to take advantage of that capability at least once, if only to see it in action before they nerf it.
I just need a scale that syncs with my phone, and none of those subscriptions.