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An update on the Sony RX10 IV side... It's able to run scripts! This was a small test C script. Next is to get it to automatically run code off the card at normal boot-up without service mode or USB tethering.

By the by, one of the new firmwares for that FM-1 synth I was talking about was widely - and rightly - praised for how good it was and how completely transformative it was for the unit. People absolutely loved it. Then he had the temerity to want to sell it. Well you can imagine what happened next.

GH2 hack project could be coming back soon without a dirty russian... stay tuned.

Solved! Live View over Micro HDMI on Samsung NX2000 is finally possible Hey everyone! For years the consensus was that the NX2000 hardware physically blocked Live View when an HDMI cable was plugged in, forcing it into gallery mode. We managed to bypass this limitation by using a hidden factory 3D demo mode (hdmidemo.adj) and applying in-memory RAM patches to force it into 2D, redirecting the native 720x480 live buffer directly to the TV video window via /dev/fb0 ioctls. Continuous AF/MF switches and the lens ring focus are working live too! You can check the full source code, scripts, and how to set it up here: https://github.com/michumichifu/nx2000-hdmi-live

Sadly, it’s just part of the world that we now live in. It peaked for me around 1986/87, though at the time as a teen, I did not realise or appreciate it. I rank my decades as: 1980’s, 1970’s, 1990’s, 2000’s, 2010’s with the 2020’s firmly in last place… I don’t think the world/society is fucked as such, just that it is in decline and the more it is (IMO), the less I take part in it and do my own thing(s) instead. Unfortunately, the human race & society cannot be hacked…

I have also been looking at the Panasonic cameras for Canon style Claude opportunities. My S9 is very bolted down and not getting very far. My G9 II takes the ROM dump service mode key combo (AF-ON + PLAY + POWER ON) but the ROM dump options are like your G81 - they dump meta data and camera settings not a firmware dump from RAM so Claude can't take a look at the unencrypted ROM binary. The S9 doesn't even take the key combo which is odd as G9 II and S9 are same gen. The other avenue in USB PTP commands to trigger a deeper service mode of some sort, but one of these commands crashed my G9 II so I backed off after that. Might be worth probing on a throwaway camera though. After the GH1 and GH2 hack I think Panasonic bolted down the hatches! Still hopeful it can be figured out though.