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I am aware of existing decompilation tools like Ghidra which give you close-to-original pseudocode.

But I think reverse engineering might be a place for ML to shine... After all, you got an empty source file, and a target binary to reach. You can automatically check everything by doing test compilations and comparing with the target binary.

ML is really good for pattern recognition, which is a huge part of reverse engineering. Though at the same time, I experienced firsthand how bad LLMs are in assembly since they don't "think" or have a hard time tracking state machines.

I am aware that a big part of reverse engineering is not getting something that compiles, but rather, figuring out variable names, function definitions and how a piece of software works in general. But I think, with human help, it could help decompilations drastically. What do you think?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=14c897740388216acd59477a382de327d5e27ba4

Specs:

• Intel i5-9300H 4c 8t @4.10 GHz
• GTX 1650 Mobile Max Q
• 8 gb DDR4

Preferably something barebones and without a desktop environment due to my little available ram. Something built for remote access with moonlight.

I am currently using a minimal fedora setup with standalone KWin (without plasma) and Pegasus launcher but it is kind of holding together with duct tape.

I am open to running debloated windows too, I tried Tiny11 for that purpose but it was painful to use. I gave up while installing the bajillions of drivers.

I might also cook up my own arch install script but that seems like a lot of effort i don't want to go through

This is with HDD and CD-ROM removed. I tried booting with either stick of ram removed and it was still the same

When i turn off quiet boot in the bios setup, I get the following logs:

223M System RAM Passed
512K Cache SRAM Passed
System BIOS shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed
Mouse Initialized
(then it halts here)

I also turned off IDE and IR in the bios, didn't help. Enabled a setting so it beeps when it starts booting the OS but the beep never comes which means it is stuck in POST.

It also can't reach boot device selection menu.

This machine was in pretty bad shape when i got it and I basically had to take it apart and put it back together.

CPU was repasted and there is no way it is overheating since I can stay in the BIOS as long as I want to and the fan kicks on when the CPU starts heating up.

There were apparently PCI diagnostic cards for these machines but they are hard to find where I live. So guesses to which stage boot is failing in is appreciated.

I'd like to call it Fedivision.

I know Lemmyvision exists and it is awesome but it focuses on country instances, whereas Fedivision would be about the fediverse as a whole and would see each instance as a potential contestant. Lemmy, mastodon, misskey, pixelfed you name it.

And yes, unlike Lemmyvision, Fedivision will be about people singing, composing, mixing (sometimes bad) songs, not submissions of songs from original artists. Contestants will be able to sing or play an existing song or submit something they cooked themselves.

I feel like this approach is more compatible with Fediverse in general, as all instances already act like a country: they have their own culture, people, and "laws". Fedivision will be about the culture of each instance instead of countries.

I want to make it a reality, I need help and feedback from y'all. I am not really an artist in any way, so it would be really cool if somebody cooked a poster.

Do you think this is feasible? What would you like to add? Let me know.

Posting here, as this has more to do with the human voice itself than electronics.

I am planning to build a simple human voice synth, but I couldn't find much on the internet. The overall plan is to generate a signal, pass it through about 10-ish bandpass filters and adjust each filter's gain to create speech.

For my source signal, I found this, which seems to be the sound generated by the larynx before passing through the throat and mouth. From what I read online, a relaxation oscillator or a sawtooth wave seems to be a close approximation of it.

One of the things I am struggling to find is the frequency components corresponding to certain phonetics. Though I am pretty sure it is either because I can't find the right keywords or because SEO ruined the internet.

US2121142A is the patent for Voder, the first human voice synthesizer by bell labs. It has a similar structure to what I've been modeling in my head. Should I just use the frequency values here for my bandpass filters or should I use something else?

I don't like acidity in my coffee much. Stuff I get from my moka pot on the other hand was always very acidic.

Recently I bought a bag of very good, beautiful smelling beans from my favourite coffee shop and brewed it on moka pot. The results are still the same, it almost tastes like lemonade. It is undrinkable amounts of acid in there.

I use the 1zpresso Q Air. I tried nearly every grind setting between 1.6-0.9 (chart, please click). Always the same result.

I also tried starting with both hot and cold water. No difference.

I do not tamp my coffee and flatten it nicely by shaking the basket. I don't overfill the basket.

My moka pot is 2-3 years old and I might need to change its gasket, wonder if that has anything to do with it but i doubt it since the gasket still seals pretty good except for a 5-10mL water leak every brew.

I am writing something that needs to verify the practical readability of qr codes which has been painted over.

First thing that comes to mind is to apply Gaussian blur on the image and check if it is readable. Then I could get a "readability score" by doing binary search between blur strengths range [0, n].

I also may do the same with noise, not sure if I should.

Would appreciate if somebody with more knowledge of QR codes help me