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Invite Rick to Rick Roll Your Zoom Calls
- tams 6y agoIt's fascinating how this meme refuses to die. A Slashdot commenter was already pondering about its longevity 10 years ago: https://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1563258&cid=31273926 https://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1563258&cid=312739...
- luizfzs 6y agoLast month or so, Rick had an AMA on Reddit, where for the first time (publicly, at least), he was rick rolled.
- karlkatzke 6y agohttps://xkcd.com/351/ https://xkcd.com/351/
- zubspace 6y agoI clicked on the comic. Should have known better.
- nostrademons 6y agoThe best was the 2008 Macy's Day Parade, where they got Rick Astley to rickroll America live on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8D1vXYwz_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8D1vXYwz_U
- jiripospisil 6y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/fv505w1/ https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_fe...
- rvz 6y agoEver since Eduard Van De Walle, the man behind the 'Wow' demo meme passed on, the meme died with him since he became a meme back in 2007.
- gadders 6y agoIt's more benevolent than the Goatse man [NSFW] that used to be common on Slashdot via disguised links. In the end they had to put the domain next to the link text so people couldn't get caught.
- pjc50 6y agoI always reference that as my example for why you have to have moderation on social media services.
- gowld 6y agoSlashdot was moderated so that wasn't enough.
- mbreese 6y agoSlashdot was user-moderated, so you just needed enough people to find something +1 Funny or +1 Interesting. And rick rolls were always +5 Funny. The fun really started with the meta-moderation though. I’m still not sure how that experiment turned out. It’s strange to think how changes in moderation and up-voting have led us from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit (and HN).
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoAs someone who was a pretty early Slashdot user -- apparently, my user number there is 3616 -- I think the meta-moderation mostly worked. That's not a universally shared opinion. :) But I thought that the discussion level was consistently decent throughout the 2000s, and I think the moderation system definitely helped there. On the other hand, the multiple layers of user moderation require at least a handful of users to be regular "comment gardeners," which probably requires a fairly large user base to be viable. (I drifted away sometime around when they were bought by Dice; I can't swear there's a causal connection, but it seemed to me the site kind of lost its mojo through the 2010s.)
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- ChrisRR 6y agoIt's fascinating because like many memes it didn't make sense in the first place. I don't think anyone really gave a shit if they heard that (actually quite catchy) song. But everyone had to act like they were completely screwed over by hearing the song.
- Frost1x 6y agoI don't think it was ever that the song was disappointing but the fact you went somewhere expecting something only to see the trademarked, "ah ha, fooled you!" It's a great song. The longevity of the very friendly prank is probably perpetuated by how great the song actually is.
- duxup 6y agoIt's got universal appeal. It's very apparent that it is absurd right up front so everyone gets it. The likelihood of a misunderstanding is fairly low. The song is so bubbly and happy there's no apparent negative connotations. And it's a nice song generally.
- mhh__ 6y agoAn example of this: When I was in my last year of secondary school a few years ago my physics teacher was explaining how she was completely dumbfounded that a little 13 year old just picked up a microphone (Doppler effect demo) and belted out an almost completely random pop song from the 80s? I explained the meme but it's still bizarre how people who would otherwise have no idea who Rick Astley is know all the words to the song. It's also a great song, so I honestly enjoy being rickrolled for the most part.
- giarc 6y agoI thought this was going to be like www.cameo.com and Rick Astley was really going to show up in your zoom calls. You'd pay $40 for a 2.5 minute cameo or something.
- michaelmior 6y agoTried this out in my own personal Zoom meeting. Can confirm that it works :)
- SubiculumCode 6y agoMy work requires a password for zoom. Will this work I wonder?
- snvzz 6y agoHopefully this will degrade the Zoom experience, helping adoption of better, safer, open alternatives.
- oarsinsync 6y agoIf you look at the way it's implemented, it's not difficult to adapt this to work with "better, safer, open alternatives" as well.
- snvzz 6y agoSure, but so what.
- michaelmior 6y agoMore open is certainly nice, but I don't see how this existing points to any safety issues in Zoom. You can lock down meetings so that they aren't accessible to anyone just by URL and I'd be surprised if this would work in that case.
- montenegrohugo 6y agoI love these stupid fun projects. There's no commercial motivation, no shady manipulation: it's just _fun_. 'Whimsical' is the word that I think best describes it. I love the whimsy of it. I wish more of the internet was like this.
- nationcrafting 6y ago>I wish more of the internet was like this. I love that they're hosted on their own websits, too. Like the hamsterdance and other stupid things from the 90s. So much fun stuff nowadays is just memes on Reddit, fb or other social networks. They're still fun, but they close the gardens one joke at a time. Can you imagine how much less conformity there would be if even 10% of fb users also had fun on their own website or self-hosted blog?
- aahhahahaaa 6y agoEven better, it actually saps productivity.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago>I wish more of the internet was like this. It used to be. I'm am old pre-WWW guy. We had a lot of whimsy, "back in the day." Then serious money started to happen, and that changed everything. It's not all bad -at all. I think a lot of modern stuff is very cool, and I'm glad folks are making money on this, as it helps with that ol' "rising tide lifts all boats" thing. But I do sort of miss the "dorky" whimsy (I wonder if anyone remembers "Kill Dean's Inits!"). The current IT scene is fairly cutthroat and deadly serious.
- dhosek 6y agoMy favorite bit of old-school whimsy was Kibo, who would join any usenet thread that his name was mentioned in. Then there was the green card lottery spamming which was, in my estimation, the day the internet died.
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- event-horizon 6y agoIf this could be modded to invite any youtube video, that would be kind of cool.
- badwolf 6y agoThis is something that should be a native feature. I especially don't get how it's not a native feature for Google Meet. edit: from the "how does Rick do this" ... seems he's just using a video loop with Manycam virtual webcam.
- motoboi 6y agoFor those who (like me) didn't understand, this is a meme involving the music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling
- 1_player 6y agoDon't take this the wrong way, but are you very young or have you been living without internet for the past 20 years?
- aahhahahaaa 6y agoEvery day is someone's first day
- m0ck 6y agoLove this idea! Just few weeks ago we had a little scandal in my country, when password to top-level government coronavirus-related Zoom meeting was leaked by one of the politicians accidentally on Facebook and random people started hijacking it and it was hilarious (part of it was uploaded to YT, skip to 3:12 for their reactions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub82Xb1C8os https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub82Xb1C8os)
- almost 6y agoWell I don't know what I was expecting
- pricechild 6y agoThe UK PM did tweet images of cabinet meetings containing the id, albeit after the meetings were finished. This turned into a few security stories e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21202584/zoom-security-privacy-issues-video-conferencing-software-coronavirus-demand-response https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21202584/zoom-security-pri... At the time, people were (at least) less aware of the password options for zoom calls, so it was easy to hijack meetings knowing only that id if the host wasn't careful. I don't think you can be faulted for expecting this to have happened again.
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- pratik661 6y agoTheir reactions were hilarious.
- Ballas 6y agoI could watch that all day long!
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- teekert 6y agoSuper video. Related, a Dutch governmental meeting got disrupted by people saying racist things [0]. The politicians now don't trust zoom, and claim it was hacked... But they published the link on their website and didn't set a password )facepalm(. They are now also afraid of getting viruses via zoom (even though they went digital to avoid them huehuehue). [0] https://www.gelderlander.nl/west-betuwe/online-raadsvergadering-van-west-betuwe-verstoord-met-porno-en-racisme~a7467384/ https://www.gelderlander.nl/west-betuwe/online-raadsvergader...
- jonplackett 6y agoAnyone interested I just found the source code for this on Github https://jonplackett.github.io/astley https://jonplackett.github.io/astley
- AbenezerMamo 6y agoSavage
- sschueller 6y agoYour username matching the github pages gives it away.
- sreekotay 6y ago"Just found". Dude - it's a cute project (really) - but... c'mon ;)
- dylan604 6y agoMaybe the poster forgot where it was hosted, and they had to search for it so they could post it here. The code could have been in a CVS repo or SVN repo or in GitLab vs Github or even CodeCommit. Let's be honest, do you remember where all of your repos are hosted? ;-)
- Kiro 6y agoI presume you didn't click the link because it's written in COBOL so that's noteworthy in itself.
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- shakna 6y ago> There’s a simple intake form on the site that you can drop your meeting invite link into. That saves to a local database that I, sorry, Rick, will be monitoring. When Rick sees a new link come in, off he goes to deliver happiness, smiles, and cybersecurity audits. Once rolling has been completed to Rick’s satisfaction (about 15 seconds) he’ll check that meeting off the list and move on to the next one. As users tend to re-use meet links, this seems like a privacy breach waiting to happen, even if it is done in jest, and does seem like a fun idea. How long until someone decides they might be interested in trying to get access to that database?
- KORraN 6y agoExactly this. I'm surprised that I had to go way down the comments to find someone raising the issue of giving away zoom links that usually are static for recurring events.
- njsubedi 6y agoYou could have kept Rick Roll a secret. It's more fun when we randomly click a YouTube link on the internet, and Rick Roll plays!
- njsubedi 6y agoThe author explains how he came up with the idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
- kamyarg 6y agoNice try, but no
- tilolebo 6y agoI wanna try this, but what if the zoom link points to a zoom room? Will Rick keep popping in forever?
- benatkin 6y agoI thought at first this was a cameo.com - like thing from Rick Astley where he'd personally rick roll for like a hundred bucks. I think he'll probably hear about this from some of his fans. He relaunched his career. He's an awesome dude.
- Press2forEN 6y agoLinks in this thread are not to be trusted!
- santiagobasulto 6y agoThis thread is a minefield of Ricks. I can't trust HN ever again. (This is very fun guys, a good break from all the tech and serious news)
- surround 6y agoShh
- sebazzz 6y agoNow we need something for Microsoft Teams as well of course.
- PeterBarrett 6y agoThe styling of the site is so on point, nicely done!
- obiefernandez 6y agoTried inviting Rick to our morning management scrum. I was sitting there grinning for about 15 minutes, then our admin was like "oh hey, some stranger named Rick is trying to get into the room! good thing I've got streaming on, no strangers getting in here today, no sir!" Oh well, it was fun thinking bout it.
- roryokane 6y agoI was confused for a moment – you meant “good thing I’ve got screening on”.
- arxpoetica 6y agoCan someone create this for unwanted phone calls? "Answer" "Straight to Voice Mail" "Rick Roll"
- kej 6y agoMy pet conspiracy theory, with absolutely zero evidence, is that Rick Astley is behind the rickrolling meme. Other people might get a laugh out of it, but he stands to gain financially every time it happens. Follow the money!
- vizzah 6y agoYep, it's nice to spice up those Zoom calls sometimes. I've been playing music videos for my friends from a spare computer. Get & compile v4l2loopback and then it's just this bash script on any video file (which you get with youtube-dl first ;) #!/bin/bash mkfifo /tmp/pipe videofile=$1; (/opt/v4l2loopback/examples/yuv4mpeg_to_v4l2 /dev/video0 < /tmp/pipe & ); mplayer $videofile -vf scale=480:360 -vo yuv4mpeg:file=/tmp/pipe Of course, first rickrolling was a sexy webcam girl joining in the chat =D
- probe 6y agoSuper cool!! Is he manually joining these Zoom calls or is there a script running to let him join automatically (seems to be the former)? Was looking into a side project that was a Zoom Timer (i.e. dial into Zoom with a timer background to keep everyone on track), but was worried we'd hit captcha if we tried to automate. Curious if he solved this :o