Storing 2 bytes of data in your Logitech mouse

28 points
1/21/1970
a day ago
by birdculture

Comments


netsharc

Written by AI? The whole text smells like it, this sentence near the end is the most suspicious: "The 2 bytes were never the goal. The goal was to see how far in I could get."

a day ago

andy99

I stopped reading at “ 2 bytes on a 64GB stick is embarrassing. 2 bytes in your mouse is art.”

No way to know for sure, but worth flagging.

a day ago

timwehrle

So yea fair enough for being skeptical. That’s just how I write. I normally don’t do technical blog posts and in my free time I tend to write more in a bookish way. Especially since it’s not my first language. Thanks for checking the post out and this helps me

a day ago

atomlib

> That’s just how I write.

You aren't answering the question.

Did you use AI to write this text?

How much of the text was generated by AI?

I see the text is edited, and I no longer can find the fragments the people above complain about. Why did you edit the text?

5 hours ago

llbbdd

Write it yourself. This comment is fine, it didn't matter if your English isn't perfect. I got you. LLMisms sour the whole post with a bad tone and I and others won't stomach it. The impression of effort is more important.

a day ago

llbbdd

I hit "No rounding, no validation, not a "that's not a real DPI" error." and stopped. Garbage

a day ago

NooneAtAll3

is this comment written by Ai?

the first sentence is the most suspicious - too many comments accusing blogposts of being made by Ai for basically no reason

a day ago

llbbdd

It's really not that hard to tell

a day ago

0x38B

I laughed at this bit, because I've also tried to debug things only to find it wasn't telling me what was wrong with my code (my own error, perhaps - a forgotten --verbose or -v):

> Turns out macOS's IOHIDManager silently blocks the longer HID++ report format you need to actually write to it. The OS just drops the packets. No error, no explanation, nothing. I found this out after writing a pile of probe code and staring at empty responses for longer than I'd like to admit.

20 hours ago

kstrauser

That’s a beautiful writeup. Why did I do this ridiculous and impractical thing? To learn how to do it!

Well done.

a day ago

Joyfield

Guess I should start buying mice instead of expensive RAM-sticks.

a day ago