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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.

Original: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Demos (no farts, sorry): https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159295473019599 https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159854830332329

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.

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, ReasonML struggled for years to beat fartscroll.js. Where is it now?

The GitHub needs a video demo. I’m too lazy to install this just to see it in action.

That's the software I've been needing for a long time

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.

I can't believe the sound effect isn't in the "Assets" folder. This seems like a miss-ed opportunity.

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.

you can hear in the first few seconds of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQjfU4g6_SQ

This wasted effort could have been spend on furthering climage justice. SNH.

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

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.

But does it change tune depending on the angle ( how tight is the opening )?

edit: clicked link. ofcourse it does

Need someone to do this with the old THX test sound.

You can do this in Python now with :

https://github.com/tcsenpai/pybooklid

here is an example that plays a sound via Pygame

https://github.com/Petess/MacLidPythonSound

This avoids having to deal with Xcode.

Tesla IT will be deploying this to all employee MacBooks tonight.

What's next, pr0n sounds? lulz

The modern whoopie cushion.

Where's dbatalero when you need him! 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)

Been waiting for this

How did this get number one spot on hacker news feed XD

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).

I've seen some quirky apps, but this one takes the cake! Could be fun for a laugh, though I wonder about battery life.

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`

The GitHub posts for MacBook lid making X sound are going to be a daily thing now

Imagine a Beowulf cluster running this.