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ᴺⁱˡᶻ 🍸Hier nun <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Computerspiele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Computerspiele</a> - eine Disziplin, deren Spezialität es schon immer war, mit so wenig <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Code</a> wie möglich, ganz <a href="https://norden.social/tags/sparsam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sparsam</a> auf elegante Weise ganze Welten zu erschaffen. Die <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Playstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Playstation</a> Startmelodie besteht aus nur drei <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Samples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Samples</a>, die aber mehrfach und in unterschiedlichen Geschwindigkeiten gespielt werden. Die Wolken in <a href="https://norden.social/tags/SuperMario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SuperMario</a> sind die gleichen Elemente wie die Büsche, nur in weiß...>>>

Harry W.Looks like they've opened an issue:<a href="https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/6swp0zf7lk8h" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/6swp0zf7lk8h</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Github</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Code</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDev</a>

Koen Hufkens, PhDCombining two ideas from my feed.First, there is the account of <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> on how AI are the perfect bullshit machines and spit out hard code bugs. This is especially true when forced upon people (the reverse-centaurs).<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs</a>Second, an old account on how improper use of image compression algorithms in Xerox scans lied about numbers, at scale.<a href="https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning</a>These two things are related, and someone will take the fall for failure.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bug</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DevOps</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a>

TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️Wanna be hackers? Code crackers?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos</a><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Pentium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pentium</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/WeirdAl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WeirdAl</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Rap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rap</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Music</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Hack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hack</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hackers</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Code</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VibeCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VibeCoding</a>

rag. Gustavino BevilacquaBurla tremenda.Usate nel vostro codice il carattere U+037E ; (GREEK QUESTION MARK) al posto di U+003B ; (SEMICOLON), e chi deve debuggare vi insegnerà tante nuove bestemmie 😍 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Greek_question_mark" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Greek_question_mark</a><a href="https://mastodon.cisti.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cisti.org/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cisti.org/tags/semicolon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#semicolon</a>

marqleI can certainly understand why <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/emzed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emzed</a> wants to close the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a> base. It's a lot easier to <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/hype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hype</a> it when you can't see it.The bald truth is, it's a lot easier to make an AI that looks like it's working from a distance.<a href="https://fortune.com/2025/07/31/zuckerberg-meta-open-source-risks-superintelligence/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fortune.com/2025/07/31/zuckerberg-meta-open-source-risks-superintelligence/</a><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/superintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#superintelligence</a>

Metin Seven 🎨Source: <a href="https://pridever.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pridever.org</a><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coding</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/release" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#release</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/releases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#releases</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tool</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tools</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#software</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/program" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#program</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/programme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programme</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#funny</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#memes</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/picture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#picture</a>

Thomas Rigbyjust spent an hour debugging a problem before noticing i had <code>=</code> instead of <code>===</code>. assigning instead of comparing 🤦 <a href="https://fedia.social/tags/code" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a> <a href="https://fedia.social/tags/developer" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#developer</a> <a href="https://fedia.social/tags/facepalm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facepalm</a>

knizer<a href="https://toot.boston/tags/BostonWeekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BostonWeekend</a> 18/x Sat <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/WEB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WEB</a> Its <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTML</a> Day! Cambridge Crossing, 3-5pm, free hosted by fediverse’s own <a href="https://icosahedron.website/@cxli" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cxli</a> and <a href="https://sunny.garden/@kayserifserif" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kayserifserif</a> - come write HTML with us, no experience required <a href="https://icosahedron.website/@cxli/114914202375756748" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://icosahedron.website/@cxli/114914202375756748</a> <a href="https://boston-html-day.neocities.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://boston-html-day.neocities.org</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Bostodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bostodon</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/FrontEnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrontEnd</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/WebPages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebPages</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/textEditor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textEditor</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hacking</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/CambridgeMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CambridgeMA</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chrome</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/W3C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#W3C</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/HTMLDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTMLDay</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Markup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Markup</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Markdown</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#javascript</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Typescript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Typescript</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#software</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a>

Longreads"William is the history: a key to what’s inside me, to where I’m from. My cipher." New on Longreads: An excerpt from Jeremy B. Jones's forthcoming memoir about his ancestor's encrypted diaries, and how the secrets we carry are revealed <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/07/31/code-cipher-family-mystery/#memoir" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://longreads.com/2025/07/31/code-cipher-family-mystery/#memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cryptology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cryptology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a>

The New Oil<a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> Kernel Could Soon Expose Every Line <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> Helps Write<a href="https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/25/1950226/linux-kernel-could-soon-expose-every-line-ai-helps-write" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/25/1950226/linux-kernel-could-soon-expose-every-line-ai-helps-write</a><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FOSS</a>

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Can <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> Really <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Code</a>? Study Maps the Roadblocks to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autonomous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Autonomous</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Software</a> Engineering A team of researchers has mapped the challenges of AI in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwaredevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwaredevelopment</a>, and outlined a research agenda to move the field forward.<a href="https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/can-ai-really-code-study-maps-the-roadblocks-to-autonomous-software-engineering/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/can-ai-really-code-study-maps-the-roadblocks-to-autonomous-software-engineering/</a>

Feoh<a href="https://mastodon.social/@willmcgugan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@willmcgugan</a> I'm super excited to read your <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Toad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Toad</a> announcement!<a href="https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/</a>I think making it available to sponsors for 5K/mo is an excellent idea and I wish you every success not just with this endeavor but with getting the funding you so richly deserve to work on it!And I will eagerly but patiently await the public release! I use <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Claude</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Code</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> a bunch and it would be nice to have something better than the default!

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dRSF1htY-4&t=35s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">THIS</a> is why all <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Windows</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PirLfRnJT0&t=98s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">&</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Xbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Xbox</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a> sucks! <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CodeComments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CodeComments</a>

𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕Ich unterlasse dazu mal jeglichen Kommentar…»<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Code</a>-KI gerät in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Panik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Panik</a> und löscht absichtlich gesamte <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Datenbank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Datenbank</a>: Das KI-Tool, das beim <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Programmieren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Programmieren</a> unterstützen soll, hat über 2.400 <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Daten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Daten</a>'sätze gelöscht. Man könnte meinen, ein Vorteil von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KI</a>-Systemen sei, dass sie im Gegensatz zu <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Menschen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Menschen</a> nicht emotional reagieren und deshalb bessere Entscheidungen treffen. Doch wie ein aktueller Vorfall zeigt, braucht es keine <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Emotionen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Emotionen</a>, um gravierende <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Fehler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fehler</a> zu machen.«🤷 <a href="https://futurezone.at/digital-life/coding-ki-panik-replit-datenbank-geloescht-fehler-vibe-coding/403060377" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://futurezone.at/digital-life/coding-ki-panik-replit-datenbank-geloescht-fehler-vibe-coding/403060377</a>

d'aïeux et d'ailleursMais quelle idée de récupérer en masse le HTML de pages <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/BNF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BNF</a> ! on trouve de ces commentaires... 🤣 <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#html</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/comment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comment</a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a>

Armoured WizardUnhappy. I don't want to start making changes to my Project without some way of reverting. I've never understood Git, and Kraken has not done what it said it would do. I don't know if I can remove Git/Kraken safely. I don't want to have to install 6 different Clients, to fail to Save my code.Any advice would be welcome.<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#git</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/gitkraken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gitkraken</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamedev</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#code</a>

Terence Eden’s Blog1KB JS Numbers Station<a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/1kb-js-numbers-station/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/1kb-js-numbers-station/</a>Code Golf is the art/science of creating wonderful little demos in an artificially constrained environment. This year the <a href="https://js1024.fun/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">js1024 competition</a> was looking for entries with the theme of "Creepy".I am not a serious bit-twiddler. I can't create JS shaders which produce intricate 3D worlds in a scrap of code. But I can use slightly obscure JavaScript APIs!There's something deliciously creepy about <a href="https://priyom.org/number-stations" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Numbers Stations</a> - the weird radio frequencies which broadcast seemingly random numbers and words. Are they spies communicating? Commands for nuclear missiles? Long range radio propagation tests? Who knows!So I decided to build one. <a href="https://js1024.fun/demos/2025/24/bar" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Play with the demo</a>.Obviously, even the <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/a-floppy-disk-mp3-player-using-a-raspberry-pi/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">most extreme opus compression</a> can't fit much audio into 1KB. Luckily, JavaScript has you covered! Most modern browsers have a built-in Text-To-Speech (TTS) API.Here's the most basic example:<pre><code>m = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance;m.text = "Hello";speechSynthesis.speak(m);</code></pre>Run that JS and your computer will speak to you!In order to make it creepy, I played about with the rate (how fast or slow it speaks) and the pitch (how high or low).<pre><code>m.rate=Math.random();m.pitch=Math.random()*2;</code></pre>It worked disturbingly well! High pitched drawls, rumbling gabbling, the languid cadence of a chattering friend. All rather creepy.But what could I make it say? Getting it to read out numbers is pretty easy - this will generate a random integer:<pre><code>s = Math.ceil( Math.random()*1000 );</code></pre>But a list of words would be tricky. There's not much space in 1,024 bytes for anything complex. The rules say I can't use any external resources; so are there any internal sources of words? Yes!<pre><code>Object.getOwnPropertyNames( globalThis );</code></pre>That gets all the properties of the global object which are available to the browser! Depending on your browser, that's over 1,000 words!But there's a slight problem. Many of them are quite "computery" words like "ReferenceError", "URIError", "Float16Array". I wanted all the single words - that is, anything which only has one capital letter and that's at the start.<pre><code>const l = (n) => { return ((n.match(/[A-Z]/g) || []).length === 1 && (n.charAt(0).match(/[A-Z]/g) || []).length === 1);};// Get a random result from the filters = Object.getOwnPropertyNames( globalThis ).filter( l ).sort( ()=>.5-Math.random() )[0]</code></pre>Rather pleasingly, that brings back creepy words like "Event", "Atomics", and "Geolocation".Of course, Numbers Stations don't just broadcast in English. The TTS system can vocalise in multiple languages.<pre><code>// Set the language to Russianm.lang = "ru-RU";</code></pre>OK, but where do we get all those language strings from? Again, they're built in and can be retrieved randomly.<pre><code>var e = window.speechSynthesis.getVoices();m.lang = e[ (Math.random()*e.length) |0 ]</code></pre>If you pass the TTS the number 555 and ask it to speak German, it will read out fünfhundertfünfundfünfzig.And, if you tell the TTS to speak an English word like "Worker" in a foreign language, it will pronounce it with an accent.Randomly altering the pitch, speed, and voice to read out numbers and dissociated words produces, I think, a rather creepy effect.If you want to test it out, you can press this button. I find that it works best in browsers with a good TTS engine - let me know how it sounds on your machine.🅝🅤🅜🅑🅔🅡🅢 🅢🅣🅐🅣🅘🅞🅝With the remaining few bytes at my disposal, I produced a quick-and-dirty random pattern using Unicode drawing blocks. It isn't very sophisticated, but it does have a little random animation to it.You can <a href="https://js1024.fun/demos/2025" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">play with all the js1024 entries</a> - I would be delighted if you voted <a href="https://js1024.fun/demos/2025/24/bar" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">for mine</a>.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/code/" target="_blank">#code</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/html/" target="_blank">#HTML</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/javascript/" target="_blank">#javascript</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/tts/" target="_blank">#tts</a>

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