[mewse-hn]

I have claude code hooked up to deepseek, I hooked up my spare cheapo android tablet, installed adb and fastbook with my package manager and asked the AI to jailbreak the tablet.

It discovered the tablet was running a unisoc t606, found a CVE from a couple years ago, and unlocked the bootloader for me. I was the meat puppet holding the "volume up" button and plugging in the usb cable a bunch of times. Like most of my experiences with this stuff, it was pretty eerie.

Next step for me is to attempt mainline linux, there seems to be some postmarketOS devs playing with it. We've probed most of the tablet's hardware except the exact display.

https://codeberg.org/ums9230-mainline/linux

[marysol5]

I had Google Gemini de-tuya and flash a smart bulb for me.

It managed at first, but the bulb didn't light, it couldn't work out the GPIO/IC it was using.

So left it plugging away, and now it's bricked

Yay

[djfergus]

Nice work! A cheap MCU and some careful soldering and you wouldn't even need to be around to hold the volume button.

What sort of token spend did this take?

[mewse-hn]

About 20 million v4-pro tokens I think

[raihansaputra]

So this is using deepseek-v4-pro / flash and using claude code as the harness right? That's really good that it works. I'm pretty impressed with how v4-pro is doing, sadly there's no subscription packages so I'm not using it too much. (Wafer used to offer it but now they don't).

[mewse-hn]

Yes the claude code software with deepseek v4-pro api configured via environment variables - I've found api access is really affordable