(“If boys* just disappeared girls could live in peace!”)
*untranslateable pun with one of the two characters for boys being replaced with the “death” one which can be read the same way

As my friend put it, "security via printf"

I unpacked/edited a string/repacked the abl, flashed it and sure enough it didn't brick...
So in the end a friend helped me to patch the abl to skip the unlocking prompt (and the "bootloader is unlocked" nag at boot since we were at it) and it's unlocked and rooted without issues with Magisk now 4/

Didn't know much about Qualcomm stuff tbh, so I looked it up and turns out that disables the whole boot security (I was told it's normally only off on dev boards and the like). I wondered if the FP4 abl was misreporting it (due to different hw or something) or boox was lying on their menu... 3/

Sadly on this one the FP4 abl got stuck at the "do you want to unlock?" prompt after "fastboot bootloader unlock" because (I guess) the volume buttons didn't match the Fairphone. And then I noticed something on the bootloader screen about secure boot which didn't match the official bootloader 2/

Got a boox eink tablet (Note Air 5C), saw it wasn't rooted yet but the phone equivalent released at the same time with the same hw had just been rooted by flashing the Fairphone 4 abl/bootloader (same SoC) through edl and then normally unlocking the bootloader. 1/

(Have worked on the Wayland screen capture/clipboard stuff recently, was kind of a pain but it’s nice to have feature parity on all major setups now)

Can act both as a simple image scanner (from clipboard/sockets) and as a screen-capture based text extractor (allowing to select windows, subregions etc), has native implementations for all input/outputs on macOS/Windows/Wayland and OS-specific OCR engines like Apple Live Text

GitHub - AuroraWright/owocr: Optical character recognition for Japanese text Optical character recognition for Japanese text. Contribute to AuroraWright/owocr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Probably mentioned it before at some point but i’ve worked on a FOSS cli ocr “daemon” of sorts for years now mostly used by Japanese learners
github.com/AuroraWright...

GB to 3DS stuff i have (ofc cubic ninja is the best title)

Dedicated passageway to hell

sure!

Pretty proud of my progress with Japanese in 2025

The picture in question (cw bug)

Had cis people telling me they “already knew” when they learned i was trans, but it’s the first time that someone “already knew” from just a partial picture of one hand holding something

I finished it a few weeks ago and i’m honestly missing it

Done! Took 5 months in the end. What a trip, really liked ep 7 and 8

Done with 7, the end is in sight

Wild that I figured it out after that thanks to a very non-big-brained trigger and initially dismissed it but on second thought it made a lot of sense

Just cleared episode 6, was told i should have all the elements to figure it out in general so i feel kinda stupid hah

Got to 9k words studied yesterday

Higurashi in Japanese took me >8 months, here goes Umineko

Best sentence in Higurashi

pixel art showing a soft orange and blue sunset, showcasing glowing powerpoles being lit by the sun, a full moon rising, and various ground foliage turning shades of brown as it dies, preparing for autumn.

summer isolation 🧡✨

#pixelart

I think it’s probably better to do it since it makes leaving easier if anything

announcing ｓｕｐｅｒｌｉｎｋｅｒ, a tool for reinterpreting ELF executables and shared libraries github.com/whitequark/s...

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #144,520, Aurora 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ‪@aury.moe‬, joined on Jun 22, 2023"

Wee

Pro tip: all major social media companies do this. Twitter, ironically, was one of the only companies that ever pushed back against law enforcement demands for data/unmasking/etc.

Now, well. Here we are.