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   Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 17:25:17 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

   Keyboard legend design for my new laptop done, and sent off to the laser!

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     Manuel D'Orso (cirku17@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 17:27:02 JST Manuel D'Orso

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     @ryanc What you use that for?

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     Fabrice Roux :verified: :donor: (fabrice@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 17:35:14 JST Fabrice Roux :verified: :donor:

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     @ryanc how to segfault a TSA agent brain?

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 18:06:24 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Niccolò Maggioni

     @nmaggioni it's being lasered directly onto a blank keyboard

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     Niccolò Maggioni (nmaggioni@mastodon.nmaggioni.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 18:06:26 JST Niccolò Maggioni

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     @ryanc Very cool! Care to share a bit more on the process? I was thinking of doing something like this myself but haven't found a satisfying solution for handling backlighted keys yet. Will these turn out as fully opaque decals?

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 18:14:11 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Manuel D'Orso

     @cirku17 Hacking Gibsons and shitposting, and I'm all out of Gibsons...

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 21:53:20 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬

     @kwramm the letters are the standard galactic alphabet

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     Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬 (kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 21:53:21 JST Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬

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     @ryanc there's definitely Japanese, Hebrew and Greek and Berber script characters in there. Maybe Inuktitut too?

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 21:53:28 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • Henrik Pauli

     @phl yup

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     Henrik Pauli (phl@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 21:53:29 JST Henrik Pauli

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     @ryanc is that the characters from Commander Keen? 👀

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 05:38:46 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • masukomi

     @masukomi I unfortunately don't have an resources for that - I made the layout in inkscape, and it was my first time using it. The company sent me a template, and I edited it - there was a lot of group/ungroup of various elements, I had to figure out the tools that let you center one thing with respect to another, and a few other things.

     Nearly all of the symbols came either in the template layout or were from fonts I had. The letter keys have a standard galactic alphabet font, and most of the rest are from my personal build of a font called Iosevka.

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     masukomi (masukomi@connectified.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 05:38:48 JST masukomi

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     @ryanc
     a) awesome

     b) Can you possibly point me to posts on how I might learn to do something like that?

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 09:26:24 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • masukomi

     @masukomi There's a couple of companies that specialize in Linux laptops that'll do this - you get a template for they keyboard and then they laser the labels on.

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     masukomi (masukomi@connectified.com)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 09:26:26 JST masukomi

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     @ryanc i meant more the custom lasering keycaps part.

     I used to be a graphic designer so I’m familiar with the vector graphic part of the equation.

     I just don’t know what template needs to be sent to who and what the options are.

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 03:12:06 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

     @rk ?

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     rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually (rk@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 03:12:07 JST rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

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     @ryanc

     BQN?

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 19-Oct-2025 02:51:57 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • NovaCustom

     @novacustom If you folks end up posting a video of the keyboard being lasered, please share the link!