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Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

746 点作者 OuterVale10 个月前

37 条评论

anfractuosity10 个月前
Haha. Tangentially - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Send_Me_to_Heaven" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Send_Me_to_Heaven</a> -<p>&quot;developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the risk of damaging their phones.&quot;
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efitz10 个月前
Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson had a subplot where a main character used morse code on his keyboard, or some other layered encoding on top of the keyboard, to write software and communicate surreptitiously even while his screen was being recorded.
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shreddit10 个月前
It even works offline, just slam harder for “over the air” transmission. Has a shorter range though…
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linsomniac10 个月前
This reminds me of that section in the book Cryptonomicon, where our hero is programming on a laptop that he knows is being spied upon using Tempest and probably more, and is using clandestine input via morse code on the shift (?) key. I really enjoyed that book.
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Scoundreller10 个月前
On this topic, my Dell laptop detects that it&#x27;s closed by having 1 (!) magnet in the screen, and a sensor on the case. So when I put my magsafe phone to the right of the touchpad, it thinks I&#x27;ve closed it and logs me out.<p>My MacBook has 2 magnets in the screen to avoid this issue.
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mattigames10 个月前
It would be slighly more useful to have something that uses the microphone to detect when you physicially tap the laptop e.g. with your finger, it could be used to keep typing even with your laptop screen down, imagine a spy movie where the baddies close your laptop and put a gun against your head and you have to put your hands in the air, but you use your knee under the table to tap type &quot;shred -vzn 0 &#x2F;dev&#x2F;xxx&quot;, poof, all data gone.
josefritzishere10 个月前
This is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
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tamimio10 个月前
Need one for the car brakes, so I can communicate road rage with it.
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mikeInAlaska10 个月前
Surely you can very discretely and ergonomically use this... if you move your lid jussttt above the point where it decides it is closed and then tap.
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js810 个月前
I once bought one of those Lenovo something hybrids between touchpad and notebook, horrible design as it turned out. It had a docking type of connection with the keyboard, very sensitive to vibration of the desk. Since the touchpad piece had the CPU, and the keyboard piece had the external connectors, it was practically unusable. If you connected an external storage device, it would randomly disconnect (and possibly lose data) due to vibrations of the table. So yeah.. you could probably tap morse code on the table and have it detected on this device.
iLemming10 个月前
Emacs has a built-in command &#x27;morse-region&#x27;. I wonder if I can do the reverse - make the laptop flap for a given string? I guess you just need to find a small but powerful enough servo.
Sharlin10 个月前
This distinctly reminds me of spacebar heating workflow [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1172&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1172&#x2F;</a>
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LorenDB10 个月前
RIP that person&#x27;s laptop hinge. With use, hinges loosen, and I can&#x27;t imagine that sort of stress would slow the process.
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Bluestein10 个月前
All we need now is the &quot;slam head on keyboard&quot; version :)
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in-tension10 个月前
Fantastic.<p>Did anyone else have nostalgia for the Thinkpad track point?
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znpy10 个月前
Reminds me of knock-age, a perl script to send commands by &quot;nudging&quot; your thinkpad (hitting it not too strong).<p>The original link was at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;developerworks&#x2F;opensource&#x2F;library&#x2F;l-knockage&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;developerworks&#x2F;opensource&#x2F;library&#x2F;l-knock...</a> but it&#x27;s gone and archive.org doesn&#x27;t seem to have a copy anymore :(<p>There&#x27;s a fork at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;esantoro&#x2F;knockage">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;esantoro&#x2F;knockage</a> it seems
langsoul-com10 个月前
Wild, laptop would be broken so fast!<p>Kinda reminds me of the signal language typing, used computer vision for that.<p>A head hanging Morse code version would be interesting as well. Or perhaps a mobile phone accelerometer Morse code would be fun too.
dheera10 个月前
You could probably get better &quot;framerate&quot; by just hearing the slamming sounds from the microphone instead of querying acpid.<p>Or using the webcam to look for darkness of the shutting.
stainablesteel10 个月前
absolutely brilliant solution for if your keyboard breaks and you REALLY need to send an email
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surfingdino10 个月前
Gloriously pointless, yet frightfully well carried out.
aussiegeek10 个月前
For when you want to spend more on a key than a Begali
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF10 个月前
Gotta love the marketing!<p>&gt; Use a battle-tested encoding trusted by pilots, submariners, and amateur radio nerds<p>Technically accurate, yet entirely missing the point.
xg1510 个月前
Recommended by 9 out of 10 independent laptop repair shops!
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puttycat10 个月前
Information finds a way [1]<p>[1] Around 28:00 here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oZX-1QybZEQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oZX-1QybZEQ</a>
egberts110 个月前
How about the #headdesk&#x27;ing of Morse code on a touchpad?
sam_goody10 个月前
I really appreciate an old style HN &quot;Hacker&quot; post!
mal10c10 个月前
YES! This project, this is what the internet is for!
lordwiz10 个月前
Pretty cool, but i cant imagine the work involved in testing the code, the laptop hinge must have gone through a lot
pyinstallwoes10 个月前
This is why the universe loves humans.
0xFEE1DEAD10 个月前
Just what I&#x27;ve been looking for
bouncycastle10 个月前
version 2.0 will ship with the most requested feature: ability to also use the space bar
sva_10 个月前
The ultimate hinge test
fitsumbelay10 个月前
love this and author&#x27;s previous posts + work
TZubiri10 个月前
Peak hacker news
dguest10 个月前
How was this posted both 2 hours ago and also on the 15th?<p>I got really confused when someone said something about &quot;monday morning&quot; but all the timestamps read 15th.
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nullindividual10 个月前
Thanks for the Monday morning laugh. They should have used this method of communication in WWII instead of those signal lights! &#x2F;s<p>And someone posted the other day that there was no way humans would be creating new works anymore because of AI...
Dwedit10 个月前
This is how you destroy your hinge.
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