Storing 2 bytes of data in your Logitech mouse

(timwehrle.de)

28 points | by birdculture a day ago ago

11 comments

  • netsharc a day ago ago

    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."

    • andy99 a day ago ago

      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.

      • timwehrle a day ago ago

        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

        • atomlib 4 hours ago ago

          > 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?

        • llbbdd a day ago ago

          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.

      • llbbdd a day ago ago

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

    • NooneAtAll3 a day ago ago

      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

      • llbbdd a day ago ago

        It's really not that hard to tell

  • 0x38B 19 hours ago ago

    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.

  • kstrauser a day ago ago

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

    Well done.

  • Joyfield a day ago ago

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