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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...
blogs.gnome.org
The first buzz on this hive takes the crown. Off the board. One buzz puts it on at the next redraw.
This hive has sealed.
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Claimed Somebody said it and nobody has confirmed it. A tier is not a verdict.
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
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Source 1: blogs.gnome.org
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.
Check history
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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