76 votes

Global Capslock key

22 comments

  1. lynxy
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    There are not enough people using it at the moment to mAKE IT INTERESTING, But it does work well enough. Neat find! Hilarious idea.

    There are not enough people using it at the moment to mAKE IT INTERESTING, But it does work well enough. Neat find! Hilarious idea.

    16 votes
  2. [2]
    hungariantoast
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    Lmao this is great thanks for sharing. Apparently it doesn't work on Wayland (yet) and my keyboard doesn't have a Caps Lock key, so I can't try it out. Can anyone else confirm it's as unhinged as...

    Lmao this is great thanks for sharing.

    Apparently it doesn't work on Wayland (yet) and my keyboard doesn't have a Caps Lock key, so I can't try it out. Can anyone else confirm it's as unhinged as it seems?

    12 votes
    1. onceuponaban
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      Clearly it's time to ask the Wayland maintainers to implement the global capslock protocol.

      Clearly it's time to ask the Wayland maintainers to implement the global capslock protocol.

      8 votes
  3. [2]
    TallUntidyGothGF
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    what a joyful silly idea. i have caps remapped to esc and i feel like globally synced escapes from insert mode to normal mode could be even more demonic 😅

    what a joyful silly idea. i have caps remapped to esc and i feel like globally synced escapes from insert mode to normal mode could be even more demonic 😅

    9 votes
    1. julesallen
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      Disastrous with vim’s modal nature!

      Disastrous with vim’s modal nature!

      2 votes
  4. rodrigo
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    Very cool and very dangerous.

    Very cool and very dangerous.

    8 votes
  5. davek804
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    Well this absolutely made me chuckle. Very fun readme in the GitHub.

    Well this absolutely made me chuckle. Very fun readme in the GitHub.

    5 votes
  6. [9]
    F13
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    At a quick glance, it seems like someone has already ruined this idea with botting. It seems to be essentially forced on.

    At a quick glance, it seems like someone has already ruined this idea with botting. It seems to be essentially forced on.

    5 votes
    1. [3]
      ali
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      I looked at the websocket and I agree. Every time someone turns it off it's back up within 0.1-0.3 seconds.

      I looked at the websocket and I agree. Every time someone turns it off it's back up within 0.1-0.3 seconds.

      5 votes
      1. [2]
        onceuponaban
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        It looks like the situation reverses occasionally. I looked at the capslock state for a while and at times it gets a lot more chaotic, toggling on and off very quickly, but right now it looks like...

        It looks like the situation reverses occasionally. I looked at the capslock state for a while and at times it gets a lot more chaotic, toggling on and off very quickly, but right now it looks like if anything there is a bot keeping it off as much as possible (or there were never any bots and we're just looking at the quirks of an imperfect client.

        Though if automation is involved, I guess the next step is people leveraging it to communicate somehow. Global Capslock-enabled Morse code, anyone?

        6 votes
        1. ali
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          holy shit the github comments being in allcaps took me off guard

          holy shit the github comments being in allcaps took me off guard

          2 votes
    2. [5]
      hairypotter
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      Nolen, the author, was just on a podcast where he talks about how he builds these things with that in mind very much. He is excited about building non-toxic internet games and toys where people...

      Nolen, the author, was just on a podcast where he talks about how he builds these things with that in mind very much. He is excited about building non-toxic internet games and toys where people can find the edges and push them to limits without it really hurting anybody. https://corecursive.com/one-million-checkboxes-with-nolen-royalty/

      3 votes
      1. [3]
        Shevanel
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        Can’t RTFA at the moment, so I apologize if it touches on this, but Nolen mentioned that he discovered a group of teens was found to be using bots to build messages out of the binary that the...

        Can’t RTFA at the moment, so I apologize if it touches on this, but Nolen mentioned that he discovered a group of teens was found to be using bots to build messages out of the binary that the checkboxes were stored in to invite others who found their message to their Discord. It was a very wholesome but also fascinating thing!

        5 votes
      2. ali
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        Since seeing this thread I looked into Nolen's other projects a bit and find it very inspiring. I don't know what it is, but I love the idea of creating artistic, communal projects.

        Since seeing this thread I looked into Nolen's other projects a bit and find it very inspiring.

        I don't know what it is, but I love the idea of creating artistic, communal projects.

        1 vote
  7. Slystuff
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    This seems to have really picked up some traction now. Up to 430ish users compared to 10 when I checked a few hours ago.

    This seems to have really picked up some traction now. Up to 430ish users compared to 10 when I checked a few hours ago.

    4 votes
  8. slabs37
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    HAVE HAD it on for A whole DAY AND TALKING IN GEneral has been a lot more fun, HAd someone TRYING TO SEND MORSE code wheN IT WAS EMPTY-ISH, i DIDN'T MANAGE to DECIPhER IT, THANKS FOr SHaRINg!

    HAVE HAD it on for A whole DAY AND TALKING IN GEneral has been a lot more fun, HAd someone TRYING TO SEND MORSE code wheN IT WAS EMPTY-ISH, i DIDN'T MANAGE to DECIPhER IT, THANKS FOr SHaRINg!

    2 votes
  9. Froswald
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    WhAT A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE TOOL. I ENJOY SOFTWAre toYS LIke ThiS; it MAKeS ME FEEL LIKE IT'S IN THE SAME VEIN AS YTMND, MYSPACE PAGES OR GEOCITIES PAGES. IT'S NOT PROGRAMMING, BUT IT STILL HAS THAT...

    WhAT A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE TOOL. I ENJOY SOFTWAre toYS LIke ThiS; it MAKeS ME FEEL LIKE IT'S IN THE SAME VEIN AS YTMND, MYSPACE PAGES OR GEOCITIES PAGES. IT'S NOT PROGRAMMING, BUT IT STILL HAS THAT SAME SPIRIT OF CREATIO--hEY CAN WE TURN OFF THE CAPSLOCK IT SEEMS LIKE I'M JUST SHOUTING NOW. I KNOW CAPS LoCK IS CruISE CONTroL FOR COoL BUT SOmeTIMEs IT'S pOSSIBLE TO BE TOO COOL GUYS

    2 votes
  10. donn
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    Remapping the global caps lock to escape and waiting for my computer to crash

    Remapping the global caps lock to escape and waiting for my computer to crash

    1 vote
  11. [2]
    Nihilego
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    Using Caps Lock instead of shift I imagine would supremely fuck other people up… myself as well.

    Using Caps Lock instead of shift I imagine would supremely fuck other people up… myself as well.

    1. onceuponaban
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      I may or may not have learned to type "wrong" and instinctively use Capslock instead of Shift when typing capital letters...

      I may or may not have learned to type "wrong" and instinctively use Capslock instead of Shift when typing capital letters...