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  • utopiah8 minutes ago
    Honestly this, the countless &quot;I hacked my [insert here the most random appliance]&quot; every day, e.g. before that on HN <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ivangomezarnedo&#x2F;how-i-added-a-non-wi-fi-mitsubishi-ac-to-home-assistant-22770661dd77" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ivangomezarnedo&#x2F;how-i-added-a-non-wi-fi-...</a> and the polite arguments in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49680275">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49680275</a> shows me that :<p><i>we do need an actual INTERFACE for appliances.</i><p>Intellectually speaking it&#x27;s really cool to &quot;hack&quot; your device, I do it too, but ... we shouldn&#x27;t have to.<p>We should be able to interface with hardware on our terms, offline, no proprietary app needed. It could work with the official app, with or without the server of the manufacturer, but it should not have to be the case.
  • niemandhier2 hours ago
    If you ever ask yourself what German hackers do with their life, while our peer in the US build startups:<p>That’s what we do.
    • cyberpunk32 minutes ago
      It looks like all he managed to do was setup a wifi access point on a laptop and connect a kettle to it...<p>That&#x27;s &#x27;hacking&#x27; these days is it?
      • niemandhier20 minutes ago
        He was having fun with a device that exposes needless endpoints, than he sat down and wrote about it, without ai in his own words.<p>As far as I can judge, there is nothing in his writing, that indicates it is driven by the desire to get “an edge in competition” or “visibility” for his clients.<p>When we bemoan the loss of the old internet, we feel the loss of people like him.<p>Is what he does hacking? It’s what we used to call ‘hacking’, maybe we should come up with an another word now.<p>I’ll retreat to my basement now and will sing the “free software song” in front of an image of St. IGNUtius.
  • speedping1 hour ago
    Probably a beken chip, should be easy enough to flash OpenBeken using the pins if they&#x27;re exposed You can usually take over tuya devices if you sign up for a developer account and go some sort of verification process, it&#x27;s pretty easy, sometimes it&#x27;s possible to get a token for local control (tuya-local)
  • Asraelite2 hours ago
    I don&#x27;t get it. A kettle is not a teapot.
  • BlackRabbit12 hours ago
    Ah good old Tuya.<p>Played around with them a while go.<p>Found out you could do code execution while staying in the bootloader mode.. lol.<p>But wasn&#x27;t able to extract the keys I wanted.
  • nom20 hours ago
    high chance you can just flash a suitable base firmware directly through pins on the board