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Michael Dexter
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Eva Winterschön
@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week

Hello Anti-Ai, Anti-Tech, Anti-Fun Complainers,

Go ahead and keep being miserable while the rest of the world moves on without you; leveraging advanced technology to further the human race, engaging in complex scientific research with supercomputers, solving complex medical diagnoses, improving the success rate of invasive surgical procedures, and continuing efforts to create the world which you already benefit from — despite all of those misinformed views about this evolving technology you refuse to understand.

> "but.. the media told me that skynet.. and those evil chatbots.. something about hallucinations.. and our burning desire to anthropomorphize machine intelligence".

Anyway: https://zenodo.org/records/17196870 here's some recent fun with LLMs.

> [Kelsi Davis] decided to port the Macintosh System 7 OS to run on native x86 hardware, which would be challenging enough with full access to the source code. However, she instead performed this task by analyzing and reverse engineering the System 7 binaries with the aid of Ghidra and a large language model.
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> Soon enough, she had the classic System 7 desktop running on QEMU with a fully-functional Finder and the GUI working as expected. [Kelsi] credits the LLM with helping her achieve this feat in just three days, versus what she would expect to be a multi-year effort if working unassisted.

#ai #llm #mac #qemu #reverseengineering

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Automated Reverse Engineering of Legacy Software Systems

We present an AI-assisted reverse engineering framework that achieves dramatic speedups—on the order of hundreds of times faster than traditional manual methods—by orchestrating specialized agents for evidence curation, struct recovery, and code drafting. Using this approach, we recreated a bootable prototype of Apple System 7.1 from binary analysis in just 3 days, a task that would normally require months or years. The framework enforces strict provenance tracking, tying each change to either disassembly bytes or runtime verification under QEMU. Rather than reporting abstract accuracy percentages, we emphasize artifact-based validation: screenshots, serial logs, and resource extractions that demonstrate Chicago font rendering, menu bar behavior, desktop patterns, and icon display. This work shows how carefully scoped AI assistance, coupled with human review and a structured verification loop, can transform reverse engineering from a slow artisanal process into a systematic, reproducible workflow for preserving computing history and modernizing legacy systems.
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Eva Winterschön
@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week

Hello Anti-Ai, Anti-Tech, Anti-Fun Complainers,

Go ahead and keep being miserable while the rest of the world moves on without you; leveraging advanced technology to further the human race, engaging in complex scientific research with supercomputers, solving complex medical diagnoses, improving the success rate of invasive surgical procedures, and continuing efforts to create the world which you already benefit from — despite all of those misinformed views about this evolving technology you refuse to understand.

> "but.. the media told me that skynet.. and those evil chatbots.. something about hallucinations.. and our burning desire to anthropomorphize machine intelligence".

Anyway: https://zenodo.org/records/17196870 here's some recent fun with LLMs.

> [Kelsi Davis] decided to port the Macintosh System 7 OS to run on native x86 hardware, which would be challenging enough with full access to the source code. However, she instead performed this task by analyzing and reverse engineering the System 7 binaries with the aid of Ghidra and a large language model.
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> Soon enough, she had the classic System 7 desktop running on QEMU with a fully-functional Finder and the GUI working as expected. [Kelsi] credits the LLM with helping her achieve this feat in just three days, versus what she would expect to be a multi-year effort if working unassisted.

#ai #llm #mac #qemu #reverseengineering

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Automated Reverse Engineering of Legacy Software Systems

We present an AI-assisted reverse engineering framework that achieves dramatic speedups—on the order of hundreds of times faster than traditional manual methods—by orchestrating specialized agents for evidence curation, struct recovery, and code drafting. Using this approach, we recreated a bootable prototype of Apple System 7.1 from binary analysis in just 3 days, a task that would normally require months or years. The framework enforces strict provenance tracking, tying each change to either disassembly bytes or runtime verification under QEMU. Rather than reporting abstract accuracy percentages, we emphasize artifact-based validation: screenshots, serial logs, and resource extractions that demonstrate Chicago font rendering, menu bar behavior, desktop patterns, and icon display. This work shows how carefully scoped AI assistance, coupled with human review and a structured verification loop, can transform reverse engineering from a slow artisanal process into a systematic, reproducible workflow for preserving computing history and modernizing legacy systems.
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Stefano Marinelli
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Raven
@raven@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

I like the minimal TUI installer of OmniOS. The system was installed in less than 2 minutes without problems.

Now I can start exploring it...

#omnios #illumos #unix #qemu

A screenshot of virt-manager with a graphical console showing an output of /etc/os-release on OmniOS
A screenshot of virt-manager with a graphical console showing an output of /etc/os-release on OmniOS
A screenshot of virt-manager with a graphical console showing an output of /etc/os-release on OmniOS
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Raven
@raven@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

I like the minimal TUI installer of OmniOS. The system was installed in less than 2 minutes without problems.

Now I can start exploring it...

#omnios #illumos #unix #qemu

A screenshot of virt-manager with a graphical console showing an output of /etc/os-release on OmniOS
A screenshot of virt-manager with a graphical console showing an output of /etc/os-release on OmniOS
A screenshot of virt-manager with a graphical console showing an output of /etc/os-release on OmniOS
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Stefano Marinelli
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r1w1s1
@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

Just finished updating my SlackBuild to build QEMU 10.1 cleanly on Slackware 🎉

✨ Highlights of QEMU 10.1 on x86_64:

- Improved CPUID handling (guests see cleaner CPU flags)

- KVM backend improvements (TDX/SEV-SNP support for servers on newer kernels)

- TCG accuracy improvements

Still runs great on laptops for daily Slackware VM use

I’ve updated my SlackBuild so it compiles QEMU 10.1 without Meson option issues.
Grab it here:
🔗 https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/slackbuilds/tree/main/item/modified/qemu

#slackware #qemu #slackbuild

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r1w1s1
@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last month

Just finished updating my SlackBuild to build QEMU 10.1 cleanly on Slackware 🎉

✨ Highlights of QEMU 10.1 on x86_64:

- Improved CPUID handling (guests see cleaner CPU flags)

- KVM backend improvements (TDX/SEV-SNP support for servers on newer kernels)

- TCG accuracy improvements

Still runs great on laptops for daily Slackware VM use

I’ve updated my SlackBuild so it compiles QEMU 10.1 without Meson option issues.
Grab it here:
🔗 https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/slackbuilds/tree/main/item/modified/qemu

#slackware #qemu #slackbuild

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alcinnz
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Kamalavelan
@demonshreder@mastodon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Back to working on my #homelab after a break. It isn't very apparent or easy to find the cloud images for #ubuntu or #debian to run #VM. I have this setup via #libvirt #qemu & #cockpit. Took some time to find the correct permissions on #ArchLinux but quite a breeze to use afterwards.

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Kamalavelan
@demonshreder@mastodon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Back to working on my #homelab after a break. It isn't very apparent or easy to find the cloud images for #ubuntu or #debian to run #VM. I have this setup via #libvirt #qemu & #cockpit. Took some time to find the correct permissions on #ArchLinux but quite a breeze to use afterwards.

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fuuma
@fuuma@masto.hackers.town  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Good morning Fedi! Do any of yall use a operating system that's not Linux, Windows, BSD or Mac on a regular basis? If so, which one?

#os #linux #bsd #macos #windows #dos #freedos #amiga #plan9#Solaris #aix #pdp11 #retrocomputing #os2 #qemu #haikuos

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jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

docs: define policy forbidding use of AI code generators · qemu/qemu@3d40db0

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3d40db0efc22520fa6c399cf73960dced423b048

#qemu #vibecoding #opensource

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Raven
@raven@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

OpenBSD 7.7 released with AMD SEV support in QEMU, SMP improvements, updated DRM based on Linux Kernel 6.12.21, kernel support for Ryzen AI 300, Radeon RX 9070 and Intel ArrowLake, new Intel E810 ethernet devices driver, support for MA devices, installer and bootloader improvements

https://www.openbsd.org/77.html

#openbsd #openbsd77 #bsd #amdsev #amdryzen #qemu #opensource #freesoftware

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