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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 14:50:38 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

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     StenPett (stenpett@mstdn.games)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:47:45 JST StenPett

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     @foone "one of my keyboard keys didn't boot up properly" has to be the most Foone sentence I've read all year.

     Sure, we're only in mid January, but still...

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:47:46 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

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:47:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     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?

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:47:48 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?

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:47:49 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"

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:47:50 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

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:49:54 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @foone Maybe could be /29/6 instead? (not a huge fan of stateful in HTTP)
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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:49:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     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")

     (29 is the scancode for "shift", 6 is the scancode for the "a/A" key)

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:49:56 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

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:50:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:50:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     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

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:50:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     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

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 18:50:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     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

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:48:39 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

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     Walter Nissen (winissen@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:48:40 JST Walter Nissen

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

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     Keith Mann (keithmann@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:48:49 JST Keith Mann

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

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:48:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Keith Mann

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

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     jack (jackeric@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:48:52 JST jack

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     @foone can you set up port forwarding so we can also type on your keyboard

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     Rogan Dawes (rogandawes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:49:03 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

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:49:03 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

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     Jos (goleztrol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:49:17 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.

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     Calyo Delphi (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:49:29 JST Calyo Delphi

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     @foone This is so cursed my sides are in orbit right now 😂

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     ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:49:37 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

     @munin @foone keyboard quine! keyboard quine!!

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     Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:49:38 JST Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @foone

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

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     Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:49:39 JST Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

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

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 19:49:39 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