@kemona_halftau There’s Numen. I don’t think it supports a pointing device though, just typing.

@niko I don't know when it was added but it's in Settings -> Privacy in Conversations 2.19.15+free at least

@april yes

@niko if I install a bad update I can just boot an older generation

@niko Conversations has an option to turn off read receipts

@niko they probably just don't bother testing it

@seabass Unfortunately train tickets to Manchester aren't cheap unless you book far in advance which is why I'm not at OggCamp. Do you know when and where the next one will be?

@seabass TIL that Manchester has trams

@whitequark what software is this? (that is displaying this table)

@baer @ChaosKitsune oops…

i think i should be allowed to have estrogen without a prescription. they should sell it like ibuprofen

@baloo @whitequark @be0ba on my board all serial ports go through the BMC and are set up by u-boot

@whitequark @elly @david_chisnall In my case it's because it was a motherboard supported by coreboot being sold surprisingly cheaply (considering current RAM prices) with 32GB RAM and I thought I could make it less bad by replacing the BMC firmware with something like OpenBMC.

I did already manage to improve boot times quite a bit by replacing SPS with a deguard-configured ME image (SPS does not implement CPU replacement detection which means it needs to rerun raminit on every boot), and I want to replace the BMC firmware too but unfortunately I am currently being prevented from doing so by some proprietary GPL-violating kernel modules (Supermicro completely refused to release any sources when I asked them, and even for the boards where they did release partial sources the source code for those kernel modules is missing, despite the fact that they use GPL-only symbols and declare their license to be GPL)

@david_chisnall @whitequark @elly On my supermicro BMC there isn't even an intentional way to get a real shell. It has SSH but it's using some weird thing called SMASH that appears to be entirely useless (it has no documented functionality for doing anything other than listing its own commands, which all do nothing)

In order to get a proper shell I dumped the firmware, booted it in QEMU (to avoid having to solder to tiny contacts on the board to get a serial console), figured out a way to get it to execute my code on boot (it has a read-only cramfs root partition and a read/write /nv partition, and /nv/network/netconfig1 gets sourced as root at boot) and bind-mount a script that runs /bin/sh over /SMASH/msh, and reflashed the firmware with a modified /nv partition.

The SSH server is a proprietary modified version of dropbear that seems to be hardcoded to use /SMASH/msh and uses some different user database from /etc/passwd (so I needed to ssh to ADMIN rather than root). Later I replaced it with my own more normal and up-to-date build of dropbear.

@woof Failed to decrypt message

There was a whole television in there too but I didn't want to carry it home to find out if it worked

Actually this CD player is not quite working properly and I'm beginning to see why it was thrown away. At least the radio part still works

I also found a BT Smart Hub router/modem, which unfortunately doesn't seem to be supported by OpenWrt (and I destroyed the tabs holding the plastic cover on while trying to take it apart), and a lithium ion battery that probably shouldn't have been in there

Someone else found a mini-ITX motherboard, including RAM (weird low profile 2x8GB DDR3), a 256GB SSD, some Nvidia GPU, and CPU/heatsink/fan, in a case full of cat hair

I discovered that there's an ewaste bin near my school.

Who throws away a working pair of headphones, a working CD player, a working portable USB-C vacuum cleaner, and a seemingly unopened USB-A to B cable with the price tag still on it?