The xz attack required years of patient work to build Jia Tan’s credibility through hundreds of legitimate patches. These [LLM] tools can now generate those patches automatically, creating convincing contribution histories across multiple projects at once.

I don’t know, but maybe the current hype could have the opposite effect: if you try to flood many projects with AI-generated patches, you’ll be marked as AI-slopper and blocked from the projects, rather than become a trusted contributor? (OK, assuming a nation-state-like powerful adversary, it can probably do the real job of checking the AI output diligently in order not to be detected as AI spamming, while still getting some advantage of it, unlike those hordes of need-famous-open-source-contribution-in-my-CV who just copypaste the first nonsense which came out of AI into a PR.)

If you are asking whether you can use Garmin Connect without Garmin, I don’t think so. But you can use a different non-Garmin app with your watch, see https://gadgetbridge.org/ Obviously, it does not have the full functionality of Garmin, and even more obviously, you would lose the Garmin social functions without Garmin Connect (but there are open-source projects for that as well). (Also, with Garmin, maybe you will lose some of the functions anyway to the Garmin Connect+ subscription, right? :-) )

While googling around to gather clues for reverse-engineering the protocol for a Garmin smart watch, I stumbled upon an e-mail on a listserv, discussing pieces of Garmin BT communication. Only after a while I noticed it had been written by Linus, who apparently worked on diving software.

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