#join
Modder made an IRC client that runs entirely inside the motherboard’s BIOS chip
#join edk2. User has then posted a private message in that channel saying "Hello from UEFI!". There is a single reply shown saying "what?".">
Phillip Tennen, developer of the open-source axleOS, has recently decided to use what he learned from that project to create an IRC client that runs entirely within the UEFI pre-boot environment, with no operating system required. This “UEFIRC” is nearly fully functional, with a graphical interface and a TrueType font renderer, and it’s all written in the Rust programming language.
Wow! It does suggest two things to me:
- IRC is really the lightest weight social chatting app of them all…
- IRC users are a bit different…
Technically I suppose any text based micro-blogging type service could work. Twitter or Mastodon without videos and photos may also work. But the nature of how IRC still works today, means you can get a pretty close experience to the real thing even in the BIOS.
See https://www.tomshardware.com/software/someone-made-a-functioning-irc-client-that-runs-entirely-inside-the-motherboards-uefi
#Blog, #BIOS, #IRC, #technology
Surround Parliament ~ Form a Human Chain
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=593N5tnt6nM
https://dontextraditeassange.com/human-chain/
“I encourage you all to write to your member of #parliament and invite them to the #8thOctober gathering in #London to #join #hands in #solidarity, and calling for #Julian's #freedom.” #StellaAssange #quote
#julianassange #wikileaks #surroundparliament #humanchain #courage #freeassange #dropthecharges #protectyourrights #dontextraditeassange #weareallassange #journalismisnotacrime
Free Assange ~ Shut Down Guantanamo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsLmzPwmzoY
https://act.progressive.international/belmarsh-tribunal-nyc/
#20years ago, the #UnitedStates opened a #torture-camp at #GuantanamoBay – and it never closed. On #25February, the #BelmarshTribunal is coming to #NewYorkCity. 20 years of #torture, completely #unaccountable. 12 years of #persecution against the #organisation #exposing the #abuses, #Wikileaks. 11 years of #arbitrary #detention of the #publisher who #exposed the #systematic #failures of #wars led by #USG, #JulianAssange. #Join #progressive-international #FreeAssange #EndTheForeverWar #CloseGuantanamo #warcrimes #humanrights #political-persecution #journalismisnotacrime #freepress #dropthecharges #weareallassange #RegisterNow
The Working Class is Waking Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3pK6vYh7J8
‘The #system must be #changed!’
#jimmydore #richardwolff #wolff #tjds #working-class #waking-up #worker #revolts #america #society #health #economics #capitalism #crisis #france #yellowvest #protests #join #together #organize
Register for the Belmarsh Tribunal: Free Julian Assange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7rBuTphpcM
https://act.progressive.international/belmarsh-tribunal/
The #HighCourt will hear the #appeal on #October27-28 in #London, which will decide #JulianAssange's immediate fate. He remains #imprisoned in #maximum #security #Belmarsh #prison for two and a half years, despite #winning his #extradition #battle in the UK’s #DistrictCourt last January. For now all eyes must be focused on the appeal at the High Court at the end of October. #Public #pressure is the only thing that can end the deliberate, punitive #incarceration of #Assange. This is, when all is said and done, the most #important #press #freedom #case of the 21st century.
Just a few days before the extradition #hearing in Julian’s case (October 27-28) and inspired by the #Russell-Sartre #Tribunal that put the US government’s #war-crimes in #Vietnam on trial, we are bringing together leading #lawyers, #politicians and #journalists to put the US government on trial for its crimes in the 21st century — from #atrocities in #Iraq, to #torture in #GuantánamoBay, and the country’s huge #surveillance program.
Talking about the Russell-Sartre Tribunal, #Russel said that the tribunal “represented no state power; it had no capacity to sentence the accused”. But he added something important: “I believe that these apparent limitations are, in fact, #virtues. We are free to conduct a solemn and #historic #investigation, presented to the #conscience of #mankind”.
You are already part of the conscience of #humankind. Become part of the #struggle to #free Julian Assange and #protect other #whistleblowers and #journalists. Protect what is #right and #fight what is so obviously wrong.
Members of the Belmarsh Tribunal, named after the prison where Assange has been imprisoned for more than two years, include #DanielEllsberg, #YanisVaroufakis, #RafaelCorrea, #StefaniaMaurizi, #RenataÁvila, #JeremyCorbyn, #KenLoach, #TariqAli, #SelayGhaffar and many others.
#SrećkoHorvat, cabinet member of the #Progressive #International and one of the founders of the #BelmarshTribunal, said:
“After the #revelations about the #murderous #CIA #plans to #kill a #publisher and #journalist on #British soil, not only the current #US #government but also the #UK government must be held responsible for still keeping Assange in #prison.The #Biden administration should #dropthecharges against Assange and the UK government should #free him immediately and end the #suffering and #torture of a #courageous #man who has #committed #no #crime. In a #society in which telling the #truth becomes a crime, we are all #accomplices of crime as long as Assange is in prison.”
#Organized by #TheProgressiveInternational the tribunal will hold its first #physical #proceedings in #London at the #ConvocationHall, #ChurchHouse, #Westminster at 3pm BST, #22October. #register #attend-online
“If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth." - Julian Assange.
#freejulianassange #diem25 #noextradition #weareallassange #23october-marchforassange