Note: This appears to be a fork of Sam Henri Gold’s recent lid-angle sensor project, with the wav file changed. The readme does give credit, though the license has been changed from Apache to MIT for some reason.
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, ReasonML struggled for years to beat fartscroll.js. Where is it now?
Does anyone else find articles from 2008 etc. easier to read? Its like I gloss over it if I think an AI has written the article but when its from ages ago I take more care to actually understand it.
For this to truly be funny, it needs to be installed on on an unsuspecting user’s laptop, preferably some C-level type about to join an in-person board meeting.
We had a classmate would would wander off with his laptop unlocked so one day we set all his system sounds to fart noises and cranked up the volume. He came back to class minimized a window and the whole class heard the noise and cracked up. We also got good mileage out of adding a wireless mouse on another occasion and zipping his cursor around the screen for probably a good ten minutes.
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.
The most funny thing is that a primary school humor app is native and probably not vibe coded, while all* those serious apps that make it to the HN front page pull half of npm...
* except the rewrites of existing software in Rust of course.
Back in the days of OS7/OS8 there was a system extension called MacSniff. Your MacIntosh would randomly sniff like it had a runny nose and clear its throat. I put it on one of our group machines and within 24 hours someone turned it off with a note: machine sounds sick
Its actually quite a bit funnier then that in practice, due to the alignment of fart pitch to lid angle, it creates a range of... you know just try it :D
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 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.
Even farther off topic, but this reminds me of the time my friends and I recorded a 3 minute long wav file that ended with a quiet “this is god. Can you hear me? I’d like to talk with you,” and set it to be the error sound on a friend’s PC.
Back in the late 90s, ICQ's "oh! oh!" (incoming message) has been used in media items (such as TV) about online threats such as malware, phishing, or just anything concerning children (such as online predators). One cool thing though was that there were entire sound packs to turn your ICQ into something else. And if you'd use it as ring-tone on your GSM (before that smartphone age) people around you would recognize it.
I guess I could still use it when my wife messages me on Signal.
I already think the power-on noise sounds like an obnoxious fart. I can never remember how to suppress it so I refuse to turn a macbook on around other people.
I may as well install this to reaffirm that yes, this is an Apple product (in case you fail to see the prominent logo) and yes, I am better than everyone else for owning one (/sarc).
Open System Settings, click "Sound" in the sidebar. Under the "Sound Effects" section, you'll find a toggle labeled "Play sound on startup". Turn this off to permanently disable it. Otherwise, the startup sound is tied to the audio level you had before last shutdown.
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.
Original: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor
Demos (no farts, sorry): https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159295473019599 https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159854830332329
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