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Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook
- andersco 1y agoFor 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.
- Angostura 1y agoI don't have a C-level to hand. My daughter's university laptop, however is just here...
- lotsofpulp 1y agoChild-level works, too.
- astrospective 1y agoWe 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.
- VladVladikoff 1y agoThe GitHub needs a video demo. I’m too lazy to install this just to see it in action.
- hagbard_c 1y agoJust play the fart sound [1] and imagine you're opening or closing a laptop lid. [1] https://github.com/iannuttall/fartscroll-lid/blob/main/FartScrollLid/FART.wav https://github.com/iannuttall/fartscroll-lid/blob/main/FartS...
- spectralglitch 1y agoIts 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
- en3r0 1y agohttps://x.com/iannuttall/status/1966074800595698131?t=SDsVQIbFZncLool2sFLFFQ&s=09 https://x.com/iannuttall/status/1966074800595698131?t=SDsVQI...
- notachatbot123 1y agoNon-Twitter link: https://xcancel.com/iannuttall/status/1966074800595698131 https://xcancel.com/iannuttall/status/1966074800595698131
- ElCapitanMarkla 1y agoFantastic, 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`
- N2yhWNXQN3k9 1y ago[flagged]
- Retr0id 1y agoForced?
- N2yhWNXQN3k9 1y agoYeah, pretty common to force children to do things until they are of self-volition age, some reach it very late in life, some very early. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7011967/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7011967/
- ElCapitanMarkla 1y agoSerious question here, are you all good? Your responses here sound like you’ve been through something.
- N2yhWNXQN3k9 1y agoGrowing up, you never did a sport you weren't really interested in? A hobby? A academic activity? That is pretty common, you can find plenty of literature on it. But your condescending comment is noted.
- ElCapitanMarkla 1y ago
- shawn_w 1y agoThe modern whoopie cushion.
- scyzoryk_xyz 1y agoThe GitHub posts for MacBook lid making X sound are going to be a daily thing now
- vaenaes 1y agoTesla IT will be deploying this to all employee MacBooks tonight.
- sonofhans 1y agoThey should deploy it to all _Teslas_ tonight :D
- vaenaes 1y ago[dead]
- astrospective 1y agoSwapping lid for trunk?
- anakaine 1y agoOn_door_close()
- cluckindan 1y agoAnd use it whenever they detect someone sitting down
- kirb 1y agoNote: 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. Original: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor Demos (no farts, sorry): https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159295473019599 https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159295473019599 https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159854830332329 https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159854830332329
- Tade0 1y agoWhat a glorious homage to fartscroll.js: https://theonion.github.io/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, ReasonML struggled for years to beat fartscroll.js. Where is it now?
- random3 1y ago— remember iFart? https://www.wired.com/2008/12/iphone-fart-app/ https://www.wired.com/2008/12/iphone-fart-app/ It got #1 in App Store and made $10k/day
- grugagag 1y agoYes, that’s what came to my moind as well. I guess those were the golden era for Iphone app devs.
- serf 1y agoI think that's fair historically. Roland made serjeanty and got a mansion/acres for similar work in the 12th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_the_Farter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_the_Farter
- void-star 1y agoFart noise apps were the first iPhone killer app for a good long stretch in the early days, dominating the app leaderboards for at least half a year. Yep… Humanity is… let’s face it, pretty stupid. I, for one welcome, the latest bubble. And, with it, our new, venerable AI overlords! Mobile^H^H^H^H^H^HAI first!!!!
- e1ghtSpace 1y agoDoes 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.
- idiomat9000 1y ago[dead]
- vunderba 1y agoWhat 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.
- DonHopkins 1y agoAs 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!
- freedomben 1y agoBrilliant variation on the clicking games! Love it
- vunderba 1y agoNice. Or Pac-Man in a QWOP style movement system where the angle of the screen determines how open his mouth is. :)
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 1y agoBut does it change tune depending on the angle ( how tight is the opening )? edit: clicked link. ofcourse it does
- fragmede 1y agoWhere's dbatalero when you need him! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45120517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45120517 (I will be sending a pull request just as soon as I get back to my laptop after dinner and seeing my nephews)
- 2snakes 1y agoWhat's next, pr0n sounds? lulz
- sien 1y agoYou can do this in Python now with : https://github.com/tcsenpai/pybooklid https://github.com/tcsenpai/pybooklid here is an example that plays a sound via Pygame https://github.com/Petess/MacLidPythonSound https://github.com/Petess/MacLidPythonSound This avoids having to deal with Xcode.
- qwertytyyuu 1y agoHow did this get number one spot on hacker news feed XD
- DimmieMan 1y ago"wait you can do that?" + farts. 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.
- onlinehost 1y agoI 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. you can hear in the first few seconds of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQjfU4g6_SQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQjfU4g6_SQ
- gdudeman 1y agoEven 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. Much hilarity ensued.
- Fnoord 1y agoBack 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.
- userbinator 1y ago
- classichasclass 1y agoI can't believe the sound effect isn't in the "Assets" folder. This seems like a miss-ed opportunity.
- lherron 1y agoNeed someone to do this with the old THX test sound.
- cluckindan 1y agoEven better if it’s dynamic. Just start with a number of tones at random frequencies, and bring them towards unison as the screen opens.
- mr-wendel 1y agoI 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).
- djxfade 1y agoOpen 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.
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- wombatpm 1y agoBack 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
- benguild 1y agoBeen waiting for this
- kaptain 1y agoImagine a Beowulf cluster running this.
- Tewboo 1y agoI've seen some quirky apps, but this one takes the cake! Could be fun for a laugh, though I wonder about battery life.
- p0w3n3d 1y agoThat's the software I've been needing for a long time
- robbingtherob 1y agoThis wasted effort could have been spend on furthering climage justice. SNH.
- nottorp 1y agoThe 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.
- tempodox 1y agoThe iPhone had a slew of fart apps back in the day, but it clearly didn’t have a lid to trigger the farts. Still, everything old is new again.
- hudo 1y agoAaaah says no angle sensor detected on my MB Air M1 :( This is it i am buying new model