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▲ 325 r/savedyouaclick

Packard Bell is back, but there's a catch | They're not. Packard Bell went out of business in 2008, their current owner (Acer) is just reviving the brand name for "affordable" devices, similar to how brands like Gateway (also Acer) or Motorola (Lenovo) work now. PB is only available in EMEA for now.

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 1 month ago
▲ 53 r/jailbreak_

THIS IS NOT A SUBREDDIT FOR AI JAILBREAKING

People are posting here to "jailbreak" their AI bots (making bots say things that they aren't supposed to? im not really sure how LLMs work as i dont use them personally), stop posting these. This subreddit is for iOS.

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 2 months ago
▲ 0 r/androidroot

Cheap Intel Atom based tablet running Marshmallow, and manufacturer doesn't share firmware: Any hope of rooting it?

I got some cheap Intel Atom thing, it's kernel 3.14.0, Aug 2016 security patch, Android 6.0.1. I enjoy working with these awful low quality devices, but I have no clue where to go with this one. The manufacturer refuses to share the firmware, there's obviously no custom recovery for this thing, and 6, afaik, has all the old one click methods patched. Anyone have an idea on how I can dump the boot.img so I can just root with Magisk? I don't mind if I temporarily have to use something sketchy, I just need to dump the boot.img, then patch it with Magisk.

I did check, and this kernel DOES have DirtyCOW, but again, it's an Atom, and the only DirtyCOW implementation for x86 just gives you uid 0, it doesn't give you any actual root, so I still can't dump partitions.

bootloader is already unlocked, it just uses the bog standard fastboot commands. if relevant, it's a "Southern Telecom Smartab ST1009x"

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/telus

FYI, Telus's new policy with locking devices starting in October is illegal. Section F.1 of the Wireless Code says devices must be sold unlocked.

https://preview.redd.it/n96eb1107zih1.png?width=1144&format=png&auto=webp&s=01bba352e340cc9d0c95d608ec883e703ee0da60

https://preview.redd.it/0znptz377zih1.png?width=823&format=png&auto=webp&s=f4d8429dd2cb685dedda34777173299d5c1bc26f

Bell has been doing this for about a year and has just gotten a warning from the CRTC and no actual consequences, so it's likely Telus is going to get away with it too. Right now Rogers is the only carrier that doesn't violate it, but who knows how long that's going to last.

I would say switch carriers and stop giving your money to Telus, but at this point there isn't any other real choice. Some places have Freedom Mobile, but it's not a choice for everyone (e.g. for myself in Newfoundland)

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 2 months ago
▲ 1.0k r/sbubby

Generator made posts are not Sbubbies. That is all.

please report them if you see generator made post thanks

and remember no ai as well, im going to start doing 2 week bans for ai

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 2 months ago
▲ 292 r/linux

A follow up to my post from December - I got the new OmniPod insulin pump. It still runs Linux. It still violates the GPL.

Original post for people who didn't see it: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1puojsr/the\_device\_that\_controls\_my\_insulin\_pump\_uses\_the/. tl;dr: Major insulin pump company Insulet used a cheap phone that ran Linux 3.18.19 to control their insulin pump, refused to share the kernel source, violating the GPL.

So, I recently upgraded to Insulet's new pump, the OmniPod 5, and the new OmniPod 5 PDM has a number of improvements compared to the last one. It has Linux 4.9 (congrats omnipod, you're now on par with my 8 year old Pixel 3 XL) USB-C (on par with my 9 year old LG G6), 64-bit processor (on par with my 11 year old Galaxy S6), Android 10 (on par with my 13 year old Nexus 5), and most important for a medical device, a locked bootloader (on par with my 15 year old Motorola XT860 4G)

So again, it's made by Hong Kongese company Nuu, I contacted both Nuu and Insulet, Nuu just said they couldn't provide kernel source, Insulet didn't reply to my email, just like what happened with the OmniPod DASH.

4.9 and Android 10, also both EOL systems, but it's a massive upgrade over the DASH's 3.18 and Android Marshmallow. At least Insulet has implemented an OTA system, so security issues can be fixed if people start exploiting them (of course, if someone decides to start backporting, that does exist for Android 10, not sure about kernel 4.9). Some people in my last thread pointed out that Insulet has to go through FDA, Health Canada, EMA, etc.'s regulatory and testing process which is why it's stuck on such old versions, and that's understandable. At least the OTA system exists now so they can fix things if people start exploiting it (even though it will take months)

How are they on security? Well, still not great. It has a constant Wi-Fi connection now, mine even came with an AT&T SIM (even though i live in canada?) so it can have a connection when I'm not home. Much bigger exploit risk with that. And it still communicates with the pod over Bluetooth, which is a big yikes. As I mentioned earlier, they have locked the bootloader, so that's a major security hole gone, but it can still be easily unlocked with mtkclient. Still not a big issue, as that requires physical access to the PDM and a computer with mtkclient installed, however if a root exploit is discovered, you probably could modify seccfg to unlock the bootloader. Insulet should really do what companies like Samsung and Xiaomi do, if a seccfg modification is detected, instantly flip it back. The biggest issue though, they now store the OmniPod app in userdata. All it takes is a factory reset, and the PDM is bricked for medical purposes. I'm sure there are exploits that can be used to trigger a reset. I'm really not sure why Insulet did this, the old PDM stored it in /system, which can't be modified without root.

Main thing I'm focused on though is again, the GPL violation. I really hate the fact that Insulet is so adamant on protecting their kernel source, it honestly feels really sketchy to me.

A lot of people in my last thread told me to try reaching out to the SFC, I actually did, about a year prior to me making that post, but they never responded. Someone did reach out to me saying that someone at the SFC did want to talk to me, and they provided their email, but I was busy at the time and never got around with it, and I'm not sure if that person is still interested in this.

A lot of people pointed out that Nuu is a Chinese company, so trying to get the kernel source is a lost battle, I don't believe so. The actual pump is made by Insulet, an American company, and so is all the software on the PDM. Later hardware revisions of the DASH PDM also can't load the kernel from earlier DASH PDMs or the Nuu A1+, indicating that Insulet made some sort of modification.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can get the kernel source, please tell me. It is not right for the 2nd largest insulin pump manufacturer in the world to be getting away with this. Just spreading the word helps too.

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 3 months ago
▲ 17 r/vintagemobilephones

Anyone know if this LG Keybo 2/enV3 is fixable? It just shows this weird scrambled texture on the screen. It's a really neat phone, and I wish I could use it.

Reddit won't let me attach an image with a photo, so here's an image of what it shows on the LG logo: https://imgur.com/a/VGLimKC

It does show up on a Windows machine as "LG USB CDMA Modem". The water damage indicator is red, but this seems more like a software issue than a hardware issue. The front screen just shows a bunch of colourful lines.

u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 3 months ago
▲ 46 r/uBlockOrigin

GSMArena has nags to disable uBO now, but only if you're switching pages frequently.

EDIT: Solved! See AchernarB's comment.

URL:

https://www.gsmarena.com/reviewcomm-2422.php

Although it happens on any GSMArena URL.

Description: On GSMArena, when you're making a lot of traffic (i find after around 15 pages visited), it starts constantly nagging to disable your adblocker. I tried using the element picker, but it seems like it changes the element every time, as it just re-appears if you refresh the page or go to a different page.

Troubleshooting information: 

uBlock Origin: 1.72.2
Firefox: 153
filterset (summary):
 network: 356872
 cosmetic: 43356
 scriptlet: 33786
 html: 3676
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
 default:
  user-filters: 1-0, never
  ublock-filters: 52978-72, 4h.19m Δ
  ublock-badware: 10364-27, 4h.19m Δ
  ublock-privacy: 4073-2, 4h.19m Δ
  ublock-unbreak: 2854-1, 4h.19m Δ
  ublock-quick-fixes: 487-13, 4h.19m Δ
  easylist: 90611-137, 4h.19m Δ
  adguard-spyware-url: 2583-134, 1d.22h.22m
  easyprivacy: 56032-41, 4h.19m Δ
  urlhaus-1: 47265-10, 4h.19m
  curben-phishing: 165792-47, 4h.19m
  plowe-0: 3517-1027, 8d.23h.25m
  LegitimateURLShortener: 2999-224, 4h.19m
filterset (user): [array of 1 redacted]
userSettings: [none]
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
 allReadyAfter: 13856 ms (selfie)
 maxAssetCacheWait: 3798 ms
 cacheBackend: indexedDB
popupPanel:
 blocked: 6
 network:
  doubleclick.net: 1
  googletagmanager.com: 1
  intergient.com: 2
  srvb1.com: 2
 extended:
  ###topAdv
  ##.ad-c-label
  ##.ad-label
  ##.ad-top
  ##.adv-mpu
  ##.stickyads
  ##.ads_banner
  ##.text-ad-top
  ##.align-center.justify-center.flex-column.d-flex
  ###subHeader:has(> #topAdv)
  ##.adv
  ##+js(remove-cookie, DeviceID)
  ##+js(prevent-addEventListener, DOMContentLoaded, /doubleclick|a…
  ##+js(prevent-clipboard-write, /^mshta |^(bash <<<|curl -kfsSL) …

The only other extension I have is SponsorBlock, disabling it did not help. I also tried on another system (a macOS system with Firefox 153), same thing.

u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 3 months ago
▲ 2 r/hackintosh

"Sleep Wake failure in EFI" panic when waking from sleep, but power management is working.

I have a Dell Precision T1700 which I installed Big Sur on. Whenever I try to wake it from sleep, I get a Sleep Wake failure in EFI panic. Everything I can find online says this is a power management issue, but my IOReg suggests my power management is working. Anyone know how to fix this?

System hardware:

  • CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3
  • GPU: NVIDIA Quadro K600 1GB
  • RAM: 2x8GB Samsung 1600MHz DDR3
  • Make/Model: Dell Precision T1700
  • Audio Codec: Realtek ALC280
  • NIC: Intel I217
  • BIOS: A24

config.plist: https://files.catbox.moe/m4vn4o.plist

panic log: https://files.catbox.moe/5grcxe.diag

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 3 months ago
▲ 5 r/Magisk

Cheap Atom tablet that runs Android 6, manufacturer refuses to share firmware. Any way to get the boot.img to root or am I screwed?

Got a cheap Atom tablet from a friend, it's Android 6.0.1, June 2016 security patch, kernel 3.14.0+. The manufacturer (Southern Telecom) refused to share the firmware when I emailed them. Since this is so old I'm hoping there might be some sort of exploit I can use to dump the boot.img? I know of DirtyCOW, but everything for DirtyCOW is ARM, this tablet is x86 (and 32-bit, not x86_64/AMD64). Does anyone now any way I could dump this tablet's boot.img? There's also no TWRP for it.

Bootloader was unlockable with bog standard `fastboot flashing unlock`, tablet is a Southern Telecom SmarTab ST1009x.

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/hackintosh

Ethernet not working after waking from sleep

My NIC is an Intel 82567LM, I'm using the AppleIntelE1000e kext, and I'm running Sierra (newest supported on my GPU)

Whenever I wake from sleep, my ethernet stops working, I can't load anything, and I have to reboot my computer to get my ethernet back. Anyone know how to fix this?

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 3 months ago
▲ 278 r/savedyouaclick

My laptop now runs much cooler and the fix was only $5 | This article is a mess. MUO acts like this is a cheap, easy and 100% fix, but low quality thermal paste can potentially make overheating worse, and this will not help anything if you have a brand new computer, as paste goes bad due to age.

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u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 4 months ago
▲ 342 r/itrunsdoom

Doom running on the Insulet OmniPod Dash PDM; an insulin pump (or more technically, a device that controls an insulin pump)

This is something I've always wanted to do, and I finally got around to doing it.

So, as you can probably tell, the OmniPod Dash PDM, at its core, is just a cheap Android phone but with custom insulin pump software on it, at its core, its a relatively basic system: MediaTek MT6580, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage. Insulet, being the absolute geniuses they are (/s), decided to add no partition verification to the PDM (aka - they essentially left the bootloader unlocked), meaning with a USB cable and MTKClient, you can flash whatever the hell you want on it. Seriously, this is such a big security oversight, even cheap phones from 2011 have this, but my insulin pump doesn't?

Anyways, I decided to look into it, and the fingerprint was `alps/full_b6580_weg_a_m/b6580_weg_a_m:6.0/MRA58K/1667317140:user/dev-keys`. alps means it's literally just a generic MediaTek reference board. After doing some searching on GitHub, I found a device tree made for one of those Aliexpress iPhone clones, that was also using an MT6580 reference board. I just replaced the kernel with the one from the PDM, replaced all the vendor blobs, updated the codename and manufacturer (codename is NUU_A1, manufacturer is nuu), and compiled, used MTKClient to flash the recovery then the custom recovery to flash the ROM, and just like that, it worked.

Forever stuck on Android 7.1.2 sadly, while later versions could be possible with kernel source, Insulet refuses to share it (which is actually illegal, it's Linux, which is GPL licensed), but it's enough to run Doom.

To run Doom, I just used GZDA and doom1.wad, and it just worked.

If anyone else here happens to have a spare PDM, and wants to install an actual open source ROM on it, first of all, do not, and I repeat, DO NOT do this if you are still using the PDM for medical purposes. You will lose all insulin pump functionality. Here is the XDA thread with the builds and instructions: https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-unofficial-7-1-2-crdroid-3-for-insulet-omnipod-dash-pdm.4790219/

u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 4 months ago
▲ 51 r/diabetes

great security from insulet here, the omnipod dash pdm can run doom! (and also full android)

this is possible because the absolute geniuses (/s) over at insulet decided to add no partition verification, so with nothing but a microusb cable and a copy of mtkclient, you can just flash whatever the hell you want on the pdm.

apparently the omnipod 5 app wont work if you unlock your phone's bootloader, ironic that insulet seems to care there but theres absolutely no form of bootloader locking on the dash pdm

ive modified insulet's stock software (which is android based) to get android stuff mostly working, and that preserves pod functionality, however with a spare pdm i had, i wanted to see if i could get a full custom rom on it, by modifying a device tree i found on github designed for a bootleg iphone xs max, and within a few hours i had lineageos booting on it

it's android 7.1.2, and i probably wont be able to get anything newer due to insulet's refusal to share kernel source (which is illegal btw! it violates the GPL)

i would share a link to the xda thread here, but im not sure if that goes against this subreddit's advertising rules, and plus i dont want someone to install this on their main pdm (you should not do that!! it is extremely dangerous!), plus the main reason i'm creating this thread is to spread awareness that the dash pdm is not safe (again, all you need is a microusb cable, and a laptop with mtkclient, and you can flash literally whatever you want on it!! that is EXTREMELY dangerous and im not sure how it got past health canada's regulations and the equivalents for other countries)

moral of the story, insulet sucks

u/Lost-Entrepreneur439 — 4 months ago