An IRC client in your motherboard

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An IRC client in your motherboard

https://axleos.com/an-irc-client-in-your-motherboard/

I made a graphical IRC client that runs in UEFI. It’s written in Rust and leverages the GUI toolkit and TrueType renderer that I wrote for axle’s userspace. I was able to develop it thanks to the vmnet network backend that I implemented for QEMU. You can connect to an IRC server, chat and read messages, all from the comfort of your motherboard’s pre-boot environment. “Why”? What kind of question is “why”?

UEFI IRC, the perfect companion to asking why your Linux boot partition no longer exists #joke