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Posted by TheIncredibleCh 5 hours ago

'C:\> FORMAT C:' – relax, it's just a screen saver(fakedos.com)
53 points | 39 comments
jrmg 1 hour ago|
This is cool - but…

It’s an app, not a system-integrated[1] screensaver?

> Installation

> Drag FakeDOS.app into /Applications.

> Double-click to launch. It installs itself as a menu-bar icon.

> Click the menu-bar icon to configure or start manually.

> After the configured idle time (default: 5 min), FakeDOS takes over fullscreen.

> Type EXIT to return to your real desktop.

> Cmd + , opens six pages of pure control: idle time, warp speed, the ghost writer, sound and more. The PC speaker can be silenced. Your co-workers cannot.

[1]: ScreenSaver.framework: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/screensaver

kmoser 43 minutes ago||
If they had made it as a website, anybody could use it.
bowsamic 1 hour ago||
I'm surprised that the LLM that was used to vibecode this didn't point it out
Tsarbomb 2 hours ago||
Maybe I'm blind, but is this closed source?
creatonez 1 hour ago|
Yup. OP wants you to download a sketchy closed source screensaver from an obnoxiously vibecoded website that looks identical to the scourge of phishing pages currently going after random open source projects in a fully automated way.
TheIncredibleCh 57 minutes ago|||
Things aren't always what they seem. Sometimes it's just for fun.
hollowonepl 1 hour ago|||
Finally some comment that actually makes sense here! :)
RedShift1 38 minutes ago||
What exactly is this? Site doesn't work for me (ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR). Gathering from the other comments, some screensaver that shows a DOS prompt?
rickdeckard 16 minutes ago|
> "Gathering from the other comments, some screensaver that shows a DOS prompt?"

Kinda worse. Some Mac application that acts as a screensaver and shows a DOS-prompt when idle...

Either way, I like the idea of getting people to install and configure fun apps which then know exactly when a PC is not in use.

Could be a useful swarm of devices...

Gormo 2 hours ago||
Reminds me of the 'BSOD' module from Xscreensaver.
SoftTalker 1 minute ago||
I used to run that at work, but I'd invariably get calls or emails that "your computer is crashing over and over" so I stopped.
teddyh 13 minutes ago|||
Video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqbMCfR3r0>
owenmarshall 1 hour ago|||
Still my screensaver of choice after two decades. Even after it's tricked me into a forced reboot two or three times...
ButlerianJihad 34 minutes ago||
https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/xscreensaver/decayscreen...

Decay Screen for X11. Written by David Wald, Vivek Khera, Jamie Zawinski, and Vince Levey; 1993.

rlv-dan 1 hour ago||
Way back I hacked together a VB6 application (don't remember what it did) but after a while it popped up a new window that faked a DOS prompt formatting the c drive. Then I send it to my best bud on April 1st with a message "Hey, check out this new program I made!" :-)
numpad0 3 hours ago||
gives me SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT on Firefox
thehamkercat 3 hours ago|
same on Chrome, maybe it's real DOS
RedShift1 1 hour ago|||
Doesn't work for me either.
tosti 2 hours ago|||
DOS has been DoS'd
1970-01-01 2 hours ago||
The quantum fireball was a nice touch.
Bengalilol 3 hours ago||
I was site visitor 0001101 (hit return).

I will get back until counter reaches 01000110 01010010 01001101 01000001 01010100 00100000 01000011 00111010

teddyh 9 minutes ago|
I think you mean 01000110 01001111 01010010 01001101 01000001 01010100 00100000 01000011 00111010
Piedpiper18 11 minutes ago|
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