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Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Re: Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Post by yellowapple »

googlryas wrote: post #23
delusional wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like they still make the normal/expected sounds. So kudos to the pranksters for keeping them safe and available for the people in need of accessibility.

The expected sounds are mark Zuckerberg talking about AI for 20 seconds? No, no kudos to anyone who fucks with safety devices to make some point of theirs.

The expected sound is the "WAIT!" voice, which you can clearly still hear. Anything in addition to that is of zero detriment to the accessibility of the system.

Re: Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Post by yellowapple »

ryandrake wrote: post #32
elpocko wrote: post #29

This HN post is seven days old but displayed and ranked as if it was posted 9 hours ago, with all timestamps falsified. The déjà vu effect is disconcerting and an absolute mind fuck. Please stop doing this, ffs. The person who thought this would be a good idea is a madman. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Silicon%20Valley%20crosswalk%2...

Wild! I definitely remember commenting on this last week and sure enough my comment shows below as “8 hours ago” (while I was asleep). What kind of sorcery is going on?

HN has a "second chance queue" for posts that the powers-that-be believe could've/should've gotten more attention but didn't. Happened to one of my posts once, which was confusing as all hell at first but made sense once I learned about it.

Re: Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Post by krapht »

michaelt wrote: post #39
googlryas wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hackers didn't make them hackable, but they did hack them.

Apparently hacking is something the denizens of Hacker News disapprove of these days?

Hackers are not crackers.

Re: Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Post by yellowapple »

googlryas wrote: post #25
streetmeat wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah except the tones and walk messages still play, it just doesn't spam wait over and over at a red. Do you think because it's playing a satirical message blind people will ignore the tones and just start running into traffic?

Why does it spam wait over and over? Have you considered that there's a reason?

I don't think it even does spam "wait" over and over; I've never heard that in my life. With every such crosswalk I've encountered (in multiple cities across the US) it only says "wait" for each time you press the button.

Re: Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Post by yellowapple »

krapht wrote: post #43
michaelt wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently hacking is something the denizens of Hacker News disapprove of these days?

Hackers are not crackers.

This is one of those rare cases where "hack" and "crack" ain't mutually exclusive.

Re: Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Post by datavirtue »

yellowapple wrote: post #42
ryandrake wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wild! I definitely remember commenting on this last week and sure enough my comment shows below as “8 hours ago” (while I was asleep). What kind of sorcery is going on?

HN has a "second chance queue" for posts that the powers-that-be believe could've/should've gotten more attention but didn't. Happened to one of my posts once, which was confusing as all hell at first but made sense once I learned about it.

Feature in search of a problem

Re: Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Post by renewiltord »

googlryas wrote: post #25
streetmeat wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah except the tones and walk messages still play, it just doesn't spam wait over and over at a red. Do you think because it's playing a satirical message blind people will ignore the tones and just start running into traffic?

Why does it spam wait over and over? Have you considered that there's a reason?

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Re: Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Post by vkou »

ryandrake wrote: post #4

Very nice. Totally harmless prank and it clowns on jerks who deserve a good clowning! Hope the pranksters continue and keep it lowkey so they don’t get caught.

The targets of this deserve every bit of shade that can be thrown at them, but unfortunately, this fucks with crosswalk accessibility for the visually impaired.

Re: Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

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Post by DennisP »

vkou wrote: post #49
ryandrake wrote: post #4

Very nice. Totally harmless prank and it clowns on jerks who deserve a good clowning! Hope the pranksters continue and keep it lowkey so they don’t get caught.

The targets of this deserve every bit of shade that can be thrown at them, but unfortunately, this fucks with crosswalk accessibility for the visually impaired.

Not by much though, since "wait" and the tones still play. I suspect most visually impaired people will enjoy this as much as the rest of us.
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