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Every Dell or HP laptop you've ever owned traces back to a $1
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Every Dell or HP laptop you've ever owned traces back to a $1 million trick a little Texas startup pulled on IBM in 1982. They copied IBM's computer without ever looking at IBM's code. This week Perplexity made the same trick free for anyone through Halloween. Here's how it worked. Back then, almost everything inside an IBM PC was stuff you could buy off the shelf. The one piece IBM actually owned was a tiny chunk of code called the BIOS, about 8 kilobytes, which tells the computer how to…
AskPerplexity@AskPerplexityOct 16
REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) by @morluto is now a skill in Computer. Ask Computer to reverse-engineer an app and it inspects how the app works without its source code, then builds a working version. Tasks that use /reverse-engineer are free through October 31, up to 10,000 credits per user. Here are 5 apps Computer made with it, available to try for a limited time: 1) Figma: Design with layers and auto-layout, plus sign-in, cross-device sync, and multiplayer editing. Try it: https://t.co/FGGTblkCWY