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XKCD inspired Mac Mini speech synth hack

49 points by bemmu 18y ago

diN0bot 18y ago
fun idea. i enjoyed answering questions. sorry to see so much spam and negative comments get through, but he seemed to take it all in good spirits.
tlrobinson 18y ago
So I'm watching the stream, and he just politely asked the viewers to "please stop hacking", then started working on a regex to filter non-alpha numeric characters. Was it seriously just echo-ing the raw input to a shell? Wow. Just wow.
- brk 18y ago
  Was it seriously just echo-ing the raw input to a shell? Wouldn't shock me. How much QA could he have done on an app that was thrown together in response to a web comic posted in the last dozen hours? Yeah, best practices and all that... But sometimes it's also fun to watch people attempt to exploit things.
  - bemmu 18y ago
    There was always addslashes there, but I decided to filter out everything else too since I didn't quite know what kind of shell features there are. I know this is not the proper way to pipe input to the say command, but best coding practices weren't exactly on my mind when doing a thing in 5 minutes I didn't know if anyone would even check out =)
- palish 18y ago
  Meh, you're just jealous nobody is forcing you to verbalize their incoherent ramblings from halfway around the world.
thorax 18y ago
Very cool-- though griefers make the world much less fun for anyone but themselves.
- wyday 18y ago
  He keeps yelling "say something intelligent", and yet he plays the Rickrolling youtube video in a foreground window.
truebosko 18y ago
Very awesome! A lot of people like spamming the n-word however. Jesus.
zandorg 18y ago
My god, that's such fun! I posted 'I Love you Steve Jobs'
andreyf 18y ago
What great publicity for qik: http://qik.com/ http://qik.com/
GHFigs 18y ago
FYI, if you ever find yourself in the situation depicted in the comic: osascript -e "set volume output volume 100"
- jballanc 18y ago
  Is it sad that I knew how to do that long before this comic? and that I've done this in practice...many times?
mjgoins 18y ago
I hear someone typing in the background. Wasn't there a hack that allowed keystroke logging with only audio a few years back?

49 points by bemmu 18y ago

fun idea. i enjoyed answering questions. sorry to see so much spam and negative comments get through, but he seemed to take it all in good spirits.

tlrobinson 18y ago

So I'm watching the stream, and he just politely asked the viewers to "please stop hacking", then started working on a regex to filter non-alpha numeric characters. Was it seriously just echo-ing the raw input to a shell? Wow. Just wow.

brk 18y ago
Was it seriously just echo-ing the raw input to a shell? Wouldn't shock me. How much QA could he have done on an app that was thrown together in response to a web comic posted in the last dozen hours? Yeah, best practices and all that... But sometimes it's also fun to watch people attempt to exploit things.
- bemmu 18y ago
  There was always addslashes there, but I decided to filter out everything else too since I didn't quite know what kind of shell features there are. I know this is not the proper way to pipe input to the say command, but best coding practices weren't exactly on my mind when doing a thing in 5 minutes I didn't know if anyone would even check out =)
palish 18y ago
Meh, you're just jealous nobody is forcing you to verbalize their incoherent ramblings from halfway around the world.

thorax 18y ago

Very cool-- though griefers make the world much less fun for anyone but themselves.

wyday 18y ago
He keeps yelling "say something intelligent", and yet he plays the Rickrolling youtube video in a foreground window.

truebosko 18y ago

Very awesome! A lot of people like spamming the n-word however. Jesus.

zandorg 18y ago

My god, that's such fun! I posted 'I Love you Steve Jobs'

andreyf 18y ago

What great publicity for qik: http://qik.com/ http://qik.com/

GHFigs 18y ago

FYI, if you ever find yourself in the situation depicted in the comic: osascript -e "set volume output volume 100"

jballanc 18y ago
Is it sad that I knew how to do that long before this comic? and that I've done this in practice...many times?

mjgoins 18y ago

I hear someone typing in the background. Wasn't there a hack that allowed keystroke logging with only audio a few years back?