An IRC client in your motherboard • Hacker News Board

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by speps » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

dvt wrote: post #9

This is super cool. Had no idea UEFI APIs were so readily-available and well-documented. Awesome work! Out of curiosity, what was the dev cycle like? I assume you were running the thing in a VM. Did you have to "boot up" every time you wanted to run the client?

QEMU can run UEFI apps

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by anthk » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 5:46 PM UTC

Now do a gopher client and head to gopher://hngopher.com

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by anthk » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

codyd51 wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! As a bit of a gag, I’ve made a graphical IRC Client that runs entirely in the UEFI preboot environment. It features completely overdone features such as TrueType fonts, a cursor, and GUI decorations. I first started this project as I was getting a bit tired building a from-scratch GPS receiver, and wanted to make something relatively quick and lighthearted. As tends to happen, this took a fair bit longer…

Gopher it's easy, and you can read gopher://hngopher.com and gopher://magical.fish as starting points.

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by Terr_ » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

Ecoste wrote: post #7

codyd51 wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! As a bit of a gag, I’ve made a graphical IRC Client that runs entirely in the UEFI preboot environment. It features completely overdone features such as TrueType fonts, a cursor, and GUI decorations. I first started this project as I was getting a bit tired building a from-scratch GPS receiver, and wanted to make something relatively quick and lighthearted. As tends to happen, this took a fair bit longer…

I wanna know more about the from scratch GPS receiver

Not OP, but in the meantime this may help alleviate your thirst for "how could someone do GPS from scratch", especially the end parts about radio signals and encoding: https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by codyd51 » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:03 PM UTC

pram wrote: post #6

Amazing visualizations in the article, very impressive.

Thank you very much, I've spent a lot of time on them over the past week and am really pleased to hear that you enjoyed them!

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by molticrystal » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:10 PM UTC

johannes1234321 wrote: post #5

codyd51 wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! As a bit of a gag, I’ve made a graphical IRC Client that runs entirely in the UEFI preboot environment. It features completely overdone features such as TrueType fonts, a cursor, and GUI decorations. I first started this project as I was getting a bit tired building a from-scratch GPS receiver, and wanted to make something relatively quick and lighthearted. As tends to happen, this took a fair bit longer…

> feel that doesn’t belong anywhere near a preboot environment. Seems to be quite the right place for me. How else would I get help on boot issues?

It would be an interesting experience to dcc somebody RU [0], run it from ram, and guide that person through diagnostics.

[0] https://ruexe.blogspot.com/

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by Solvency » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:16 PM UTC

This would be even better if it were a chat interface to ChatGPT so you could ask it troubleshooting questions next time your machine won't boot into OS.

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by backspace_ » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:25 PM UTC

codyd51 wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! As a bit of a gag, I’ve made a graphical IRC Client that runs entirely in the UEFI preboot environment. It features completely overdone features such as TrueType fonts, a cursor, and GUI decorations. I first started this project as I was getting a bit tired building a from-scratch GPS receiver, and wanted to make something relatively quick and lighthearted. As tends to happen, this took a fair bit longer…

This does not include ssl support? How much does this limit the number of irc nets that you can connect to?

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by pred_ » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:28 PM UTC

codyd51 wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! As a bit of a gag, I’ve made a graphical IRC Client that runs entirely in the UEFI preboot environment. It features completely overdone features such as TrueType fonts, a cursor, and GUI decorations. I first started this project as I was getting a bit tired building a from-scratch GPS receiver, and wanted to make something relatively quick and lighthearted. As tends to happen, this took a fair bit longer…

FYI: The site keeps crashing the tab in Firefox 115.7.0esr.

Re: An IRC client in your motherboard

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Post by b112 » Fri, Apr 05, 2024, 6:36 PM UTC

pred_ wrote: post #19

codyd51 wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! As a bit of a gag, I’ve made a graphical IRC Client that runs entirely in the UEFI preboot environment. It features completely overdone features such as TrueType fonts, a cursor, and GUI decorations. I first started this project as I was getting a bit tired building a from-scratch GPS receiver, and wanted to make something relatively quick and lighthearted. As tends to happen, this took a fair bit longer…

FYI: The site keeps crashing the tab in Firefox 115.7.0esr.

You should report it to Mozilla, nothing a site does should ever crash a browser.

(Also, it could be an extension)