They will be exposed to this technology throughout childhood as their brains develop and they will develop unique ways to work with it we don't entirely understand just like GenY with cell phones and GenX with home computers. I think you deeply underestimate how adaptable we are as a species, but if you consider that we've been running the same OS and Bios as a species for the past ~40K years, perhaps you might be more optimistic?
I started digging a few times, but, I prefer the "magic".
Hopefully, there will never be a time when at least some folks are not reading books such as:
I mean: I can only go back so far, but I remember the 1980s well-enough. At that time, most of the new information that came into my brain from outside was sourced from public schools, newspapers, and the evening news on TV.
None of these sources were particularly unfiltered, uncensored, or unbiased. It was always an abbreviated approximation of someone else's idea of the truth.
I don't see an AI-as-explainer future where expertise isn't sacrificed en masse.
Capitalism rarely supports a currently economically unproductive alternative for future good reasons.
The recent AI tech layoffs are a warning sign that corporate leaders will happily shoot their company's (and the future's) expertise to pad next quarter's financials and trust in 90% correct, but much cheaper, AI.
What's wrong with (screen-, probably) keyboard?
I guess tech unsavvy people who are easily amused by LLM tricks will always exist, but they'll be an increasingly smaller minority as time goes on.
A lot of people in the industry have vested interests in this not being discussed openly so you don't hear too much about it, but the implications are huge.
E.g. a synth has a public key embedded. To change settings, you upload them to the vendor, who blesses them with their private key.
Hacking such a synth requires either jailbreaking the synth, or the vendor losing their key . Both can be mitigated with tamper resistant hardware.
We're well ahead on this path already, I assume AI will accellerate it. This is very bad news for the right to repair.
1) current encryption not available in the 1990's. These are the age of DES and weapon-grade vs commercial encryption. There was a legal cost blocking strong encryption.
2) Manufacturers were not as strongly opposed to people touching the internals. After WW2, most people could fix anything, because survival depended on it. Even in the 60's radios etc. came with schematics, and building your own was normal and cost-effective. The shift happened in the '90s, with governements requiring licensing for everything, and mass manufacturing making repair less cost effective than buying a new one.
Our current culture where only people blessed by the manufacturer are allowed to do anything is very recent.
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Let me gasps ask: The older six-fingers-"AI"-characters had learned an music-instrument by now, ander are much more capable of playing music you otherwise haddn't known or thought about..."?
um What about those early shadowy boygroup, whom seem asian, no ? (-;
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But back to your trustworth-written text, Yes!
regards,
[0] https://mforney.org/blog/2026-05-28-patching-my-guitar-amps-... [1] https://schwung.dev
One day a few years ago my dad came by and was admiring it (it was a QS8) and asked to borrow it so he could play piano again.
I, of course, said sure, but was feeling a little salty about it inside, because I wanted it to play, that's why I had it all set up.
Anyway, about a year went by and I asked him about it to see if he was done with it.
He said "oh that thing? I gave that away, was just taking up space"
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I have an DigiTech GNX3000 effects pedal board - a digital modeling "workstation" that needs the aged Windows native software or Gdigi to make the most of.
At best, the experience with gdigi was passable; raw access to the patches and controls, the ability to control it from the laptop, etc.
In an hour or so, I had a functionally superior webmidi version up and running in Vercel using their v0 code. It kicked off a wave of subscriptions and referral chasing.
I made it a template - because there are so many gnx3k users out there: https://v0.app/templates/digitech-gnx3000-sysex-tool-GC5LzXA...
I wanted to be able to decrypt the files on The Complete New Yorker magazine DVDs. The old software was WinXP only, and crashed by the time you turned to page 3 or 4. It walked me through using Ghidra on the relevant dll, mapped out how it was using Blowfish, what the credentials were that it was passing, and re-implemented all of that in a python script.
Now all the files are in plain pdf.
Right now, it's helping me write an extension to the mkv specification for embedded scripts and modify VLC to be conformant, so I can watch Black Mirror Bandersnatch. Already have a buggy implementation, about 3 days in.
I've also had it add BEP 46 mutable torrent functionality to Transmission (and to some extent, to the WebTorrent library).
These are all well beyond my abilities to do casually, and probably beyond my ability to do even if I spent the next 18 months doing nothing by grinding away at it.
I only replied because I thought it curious that Claude apparently favors Ghidra.
If you want the Rolling Stone or Playboy archives decrypted, ReconSuave on github has tools to do those. I got tired of waiting for him to do The New Yorker though.
I’ve definitely kicked myself a few times for not posting about them sooner, but the fear of pissing off CondeNast tempered my willingness to show off
Do any of the cbz readers handle jpeg2000? It makes a big difference in filesize without any quality degradation. Like 40% smaller, maybe more in some cases. You should tinker with that if you have the time.
Also FYI you can use mupdf to read cbz archives although I don't personally recommend it for that usecase.
Don't get me wrong, I think AI can do some surprising things, but with stuff like this, often it just stole the code and the steps without attribution, it didn't figure it out.
There'll probably be a blog post detailing exactly how to do this somewhere and Claude just copied the steps and code.
And worse, Google search would have found it 10 years ago, but Google search today would claim there are no results?
I think incredibly specific stuff like this often won't pass the 'did Claude just steal this?' test when you dig into it.
Claude needs good variable names a lot less than humans do, so renaming/typedefing doesn't seem to be as necessary.