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After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in...
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This hive has sealed.
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Nobody has backed it yet. Submitted October 15, 2026 at 11:01 AM EDT. Placed October 15, 2026 at 11:02 AM EDT.
Earned a place and found no room on the hive. In the feed.
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware
The wording on the hive is the source's, never a person's. A check confirms a link resolves and that the page contains the quotation, by exact match. Nothing here decides what is true.
Using AI to reverse engineer hardware
After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found that the Plustek 8200i was supported under Linux so I bought that. Only to discover that the chipset in...
Marked as found on the page, exactly, October 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM EDT. The check history below is the evidence.
A run of checks that came out the same way is one line, with every check in it folded underneath. Any check that came out differently is its own line.
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| October 15, 2026 at 11:02 AM EDT to October 16, 2026 at 11:02 AM EDT | Link resolves | Passed | 200 | 2 checks over about 24 hours, the same result every time. 200, text/html, 57381 characters, landed on https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/ The wording varied; every check is below.Every one of the 2
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| October 15, 2026 at 11:02 AM EDT to October 16, 2026 at 11:02 AM EDT | Page contains the quotation | Passed | 200 | 2 checks over about 24 hours, the same result every time. the page contains the quotation, exactlyEvery one of the 2
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