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  • This is one reason why I think the AI revolution may not in the short term be a huge stock-market boom. By breaking down anti-competitive walls it could in the near term hurt incumbents (amazon, google, reddit, etc).

    How soon until we all have jailbroken our TV ads out of existence? What next, jailbreaking the adds off our netflix accounts? To be clear I think this is an excellent development for everyone, however evenly distributed good doesn't usually positively correlate with share price.

    by zug_zug
  • I had no prior kindle jailbreak experience.

    I just went to the kindle modding website, followed the instructions, and jailbroke in like 5 minutes.

    by seam_carver
  • > We adapted the existing jailbreak from SpiderCat, released by sparklerfish and the KindleModding community, and built custom tools called KindleCTL around it.

    So it's not a solution originated from Astra?

    by ironblood
  • I was able to do something pretty similar w Claude Code 4 months ago w Opus 4.8 (https://github.com/brunomarinho/labs-kindle-artframe). It took a few attempts as Claude understands that jailbreaking is not legal.
    by brunomarinho
  • This is what I used to jailbreak mine: https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreak-wizard.html
    by kriskrunch
  • Opus 5.5 has built Lineage ROMs for me for 3 different devices in the last couple of weeks, that do not have official Lineage support or any one else working on them.

    https://github.com/9cb14c1ec0/android_device_lenovo_sycamore...

    https://github.com/9cb14c1ec0/android_device_tcl_selene_vzw

    https://github.com/9cb14c1ec0/android_device_lenovo_clove_ro...

    Quite impressive what these models are capable of.

    by 9cb14c1ec0
  • The write up says it used an existing jailbreak.

    It sounds like most of the work went into getting the slideshow to work, setting up a feedback loop so Astra could work out / blunder into a solution with the desired characteristics.

    by fn-mote
  • While everyone has been worried about it becoming too easy to hack into things, something I've been worried about for the last few years is it becoming too hard to hack into things. Right now, all of these things are being broken into to be jailbroken and such, but the companies building these hardware devices have access to the models too.

    It seems like a distinctly possible and sad world that they might get so much better at keeping their devices locked down by hardening them with the support of LLMs that future devices become an absolute bitch to jailbreak, even moreso than they were before.

    by tekacs

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