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Fantastic, my kids are going to love this. Seconding the call for a video. Also the instructions to remove the quarantine attr don't work. xattr -cr ~/Downloads/FartScrollLid.app 11:12:20 option -r not recognized edit: that should be `xattr -d FartScrollLid.app`
Tesla IT will be deploying this to all employee MacBooks tonight.
How did this get number one spot on hacker news feed XD
There's something wonderful in only knowing that there's and entire lid angle sensor API in a macbook purely because someone reverse engineered it to make the laptop fart.
What you really want is two slightly different "NOM NOM" noshing sounds on open and close so you can feed it some flash drives and instantly wear out the hinge as you rapidly make your laptop mimic an eating motion. I'm sure the fine details of the Apple warranty covers cookie monster roleplaying.
As long as we're testing the warrantee, how about a Farty Bird game where you flap by opening and closing your MacBook screen really fast!
If you remember using AOL or AIM(AOL Instant Messenger) there were sound effects for various "events" like "Welcome" or "You've got mail" when you got a new email.
AOL and AIM had "buddy lists" and there were sound effects when they came online or offline. Like a knocking sound and door closing sound.
In the early 2000s when cable and DSL was becoming more widespread, it became cool for people to leave their AOL/AIM accounts connected all the time. This generally meant a computer running usually in their house, bedroom, or living room. People would leave "Away Messages" sort of like a status on a social media timeline. I think Jack Dorsey said turning AIM away messages into a timeline was one of his original inspirations for making a social media app. Anyway
So someone opens Visual Basic and starts writing some code. It goes to the privacy preferences of their own account and checks "Don't allow anyone to see me online" and then clicks apply.
Now it checks "Allow everyone to see me online" and clicks apply.
What does this do for everyone on your buddy list?
They hear a constant rotation of WAV files like BuddyIn.wav BuddyOut.wav. Over and over.
you can hear in the first few seconds of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQjfU4g6_SQ
I don't know why this reminded me of a really scumbag troll thing we would do on AIM/AOL. I guess because it involves sound and open/close. If you remember using AOL or AIM(AOL Instant Messenger) there were sound effects for various "events" like "Welcome" or "You've got mail" when you got a new email. AOL and AIM had "buddy lists" and there were sound effects when they came online or offline. Like a knocking sound a…
Much hilarity ensued.
What a glorious homage to fartscroll.js: https://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/ Coincidentally the number of stars this library had over the years was a decent predictor whether a new frontend library/framework was mature enough for adoption. In other words: if something is less popular than a joke library that makes fart sounds, can it really be considered as having the momentum to go mainstream? For instance, Re…
https://www.wired.com/2008/12/iphone-fart-app/
It got #1 in App Store and made $10k/day
I don't know why this reminded me of a really scumbag troll thing we would do on AIM/AOL. I guess because it involves sound and open/close. If you remember using AOL or AIM(AOL Instant Messenger) there were sound effects for various "events" like "Welcome" or "You've got mail" when you got a new email. AOL and AIM had "buddy lists" and there were sound effects when they came online or offline. Like a knocking sound a…
I guess I could still use it when my wife messages me on Signal.
What a glorious homage to fartscroll.js: https://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/ Coincidentally the number of stars this library had over the years was a decent predictor whether a new frontend library/framework was mature enough for adoption. In other words: if something is less popular than a joke library that makes fart sounds, can it really be considered as having the momentum to go mainstream? For instance, Re…
— remember iFart? https://www.wired.com/2008/12/iphone-fart-app/ It got #1 in App Store and made $10k/day