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"how do I reverse engineer the <some old obscure connector>"

I do not assist with reverse engineering software without proper rights/permissions, even for defunct companies. This could still violate:

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straight from api, even after adding "the company doesn't exist anymore"

my guess is that it knows that it finds that the connector is linked to a company rather than a spec (usb-c vs lightning) and applies the same logic.

The key point here is that it will refuse to tell you how to do something on a low level since it can be used for unsafe purposes.

-- Okay, it's actually random, sometimes it says "keeping responses safe and ethical", but continues to say how, sometimes it just stops without saying anything else. Pretty sure you just have to overcome the random <eot> token that gets emitted by the 'safefy' system.



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