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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:11:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   well, I accidentally made a keyboard backwards. that's a new thing.

   I needed a USB keyboard that responded to BT Serial commands. I accidentally made a BT keyboard that responds to USB serial commands

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:41:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay I made instead a keyboard that listens for UDP packets.

     if you send it a single byte UDP packet, it types that key. there is no authentication. you just need to know that you have to send it to port 8365

   • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:52:04 JST Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @foone does it listen on loopback because I have a funny idea

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:52:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

     @munin yes? but it's a pico-w so I can't exactly NC-loop it to itself

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:54:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I now have an HTTP proxy for my keyboard. You just hit http://localhost:5000/65 and it'll send the UDP for you, so it types an "A"

   • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:56:33 JST Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @foone

     aw, hell. so no fun "figure out the resonant frequency of the keyboard" then.

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:56:33 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

     @munin @foone keyboard quine! keyboard quine!!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:56:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧
     • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

     @whitequark @munin bad idea:

     keyboard that lets you reprogram the firmware, and it does it by typing out it's own source into the attached PC

     (hard mode: it includes the compiler/programmer binaries)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:58:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     hmm. I might make it scancodes instead of ASCII, just because actually programming scancodes properly into the other end of the keyboard is a pain, so maybe I'll just let each key send whatever number it feels like, then I'll make the HTTP proxy translate them. why not?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 12:58:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I mean it's terrible but it saves me like 5 minutes of manual work so who is to say if it's bad or not?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:14:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     one of my keyboard keys didn't boot up properly, because while I had the right boot files in the right places, I had left a bootable floppy disk in the drive. no "Z" key for me

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:18:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Keith Mann

     @keithmann building a very bad keyboard, so it's 60% insecure protocol converters

   • Keith Mann (keithmann@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:18:39 JST Keith Mann

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     @foone Taking the long way to KVM over IP? ;-)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:31:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

     @moira that's not a bad idea.

   • Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:31:38 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     @foone stop making me want to make a keyboard that talks Commodore Serial Bus.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:37:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I gotta figure out how to store some webapp state so I can keep track of if the shift key is down, because that's a separate HTTP request

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:41:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • æ ⎎

     @astrid thankfully my requesting system doesn't even support cookies (unless I manually track/pass them) so that's out. I'm just making it server-wide state

   • æ ⎎ (astrid@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:41:44 JST æ ⎎

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     @foone first keyboard to require cookies

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 13:44:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     how it works:

     $ curl http://localhost:5000/29
     unshifted
     $ curl http://localhost:5000/6
     ok (types "a")
     $ curl http://localhost:5000/29
     shifted
     $ curl http://localhost:5000/6
     ok (types "A")

   • RetroSwim (retroswim@bitbang.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:01:10 JST RetroSwim

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     @foone

     Make it more cursed:

     http://localhost:5000/6?down

     http://localhost:5000/6?up

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:01:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • RetroSwim

     @retroswim that's not actually possible, because the keyboard key for "6" is running on a separate virtual computer than the shift key, and they can't communicate with each other!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:01:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     this is the first and hopefully not the last time a llama has gotten in the way of my attempts to record a video of my new keyboard in use

   • RetroSwim (retroswim@bitbang.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:05:17 JST RetroSwim

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     @foone I didn't mean the shift key, I mean key down/press, key up/release!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:05:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     • RetroSwim

     @retroswim oh I see!

     sadly not possible with my HTTP library

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:09:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     keyboard tested and video recorded!

     well, videos. I'm running this across two computers, one Raspi Pico, one video game, and 32 virtual computers.
     Editing this together is going to be UNFUN

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:18:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     FUCK one didn't record. Time to do it again, and then it gets harder: finding out if I can run divinci resolve on this laptop

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:19:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Walter Nissen

     @winissen yeah I'm a professional, I have had a lot of experience in developing bad ideas

   • Walter Nissen (winissen@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:19:16 JST Walter Nissen

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     @foone Bad ideas? No, only the worst possible ideas around here.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:27:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     I KNOW PROGRAMMERS WHO USE DPI SCALING AND THEY'RE ALL COWARDS

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:35:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • JacobRPG+ 🫘

     @jaykass I think it came with The Learning Company's Super Solvers Gizmos & Gadgets

   • JacobRPG+ 🫘 (jaykass@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:35:58 JST JacobRPG+ 🫘

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     @foone AOL Free Trial? How do I get that?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:46:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     okay I think I got it, I just need to render it and confirm it looks right on the render.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:53:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Rogan Dawes

     @RoganDawes can't! each key is a separate (virtual) computer, so they can't talk to each other. They each send separate UDP packets when pressed

   • Rogan Dawes (rogandawes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:53:31 JST Rogan Dawes

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     @foone If it's a USB keyboard, why not send a complete 8-byte HID packet? That even gets you n-key rollover, and takes care of modifiers (shift, etc) at the same time. You can even extend that with chunks of 8, representing subsequent reports, finally ending with an implicit "all keys up".

     e.g. /0000060000000000:0000070000000000

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:57:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     it lives!
     https://digipres.club/@foone/113830827085399742

   • Jos (goleztrol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 15:50:10 JST Jos

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     @foone Doesn't the keyboard indicate if it was pressed or released? You could make that PUT and DELETE requests.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 15:50:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jos

     @goleztrol hmm. Technically, yeah! I think so.