Post AbbdrEhste3bshEmX2 by foone@digipres.club
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 (DIR) Post #Abbdr5ZkqVCrYsMf6u by foone@digipres.club
       2023-11-08T17:34:45Z
       
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       ugh. searching "how do I do xdotool type stuff with wayland" and one of the first results is "No, such features were explicitly excluded from the Wayland design for security reasons."
       
 (DIR) Post #Abbdr6KC3qLxsu5kUi by foone@digipres.club
       2023-11-08T17:35:24Z
       
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       everyone who thinks "I know, I'll make computers not automatable, that'll make them more secure!" has fundamentally misunderstood what computers are for
       
 (DIR) Post #Abbdr7ruJyuofksBgO by foone@digipres.club
       2023-11-08T17:35:41Z
       
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       the most secure computer is one that's not turing complete
       
 (DIR) Post #Abbdr9MmkfD1JoKMS0 by foone@digipres.club
       2023-11-08T18:31:13Z
       
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       I've said it before and I'll say it again:there is one and only one way to reliably script keyboard/mouse input:a USB microcontroller.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbbdrBNZGj1VYoi0wq by foone@digipres.club
       2023-11-08T18:31:56Z
       
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       there are no reliably working software solutions. You might think you know one, but unless it involves "I built my own kernel with a completely different input subsystem", it probably has some caveats.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbbdrDEmMNBJK8c1Wi by foone@digipres.club
       2023-11-08T18:32:15Z
       
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       and unfortunately on windows that option isn't available, so USB stick is the only one
       
 (DIR) Post #AbbdrEhste3bshEmX2 by foone@digipres.club
       2023-11-08T18:33:21Z
       
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       and I say all this knowing it's only a matter of time before some big company gets their c-suite staff hacked through a mechanical keyboard with an insecure programmable MCU, and some fucker invents "secure input devices", where USB devices get cryptographically signed so that "not just anyone" can make one
       
 (DIR) Post #AbbdrG1lzBYnyfYBAe by foone@digipres.club
       2023-11-08T18:33:52Z
       
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       at which point I'm buying a logitech keyboard and a bunch of solenoids and building a very loud automatable keyboard
       
 (DIR) Post #Abbdz7YvLMRe2Vo1xI by mxk@hachyderm.io
       2023-11-08T18:50:10Z
       
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       @foone arguably, on Windows AutoHotkey works pretty well (despite being a terrible programming language)
       
 (DIR) Post #AbbdzMWdi8WwRlquye by foone@digipres.club
       2023-11-08T18:52:54Z
       
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       @mxk nope! that's actually why I developed the USB microcontroller that I use regularly.AHK (and the APIs it calls, for that matter) cannot consistently cross 32/64bit, user accounts, and directx/win32