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.
If they had made it as a website, anybody could use it.
bowsamic 1 hours 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 hours 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 56 minutes ago [-]
Things aren't always what they seem.
Sometimes it's just for fun.
hollowonepl 1 hours 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 15 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 minutes 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.
Decay Screen for X11. Written by David Wald, Vivek Khera, Jamie Zawinski, and Vince Levey; 1993.
rlv-dan 1 hours 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 4 hours ago [-]
gives me SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT on Firefox
thehamkercat 4 hours ago [-]
same on Chrome, maybe it's real DOS
RedShift1 1 hours ago [-]
Doesn't work for me either.
tosti 3 hours ago [-]
DOS has been DoS'd
1970-01-01 3 hours ago [-]
The quantum fireball was a nice touch.
Bengalilol 4 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 8 minutes ago [-]
I think you mean 01000110 01001111 01010010 01001101 01000001 01010100 00100000 01000011 00111010
5 hours ago [-]
Piedpiper18 11 minutes ago [-]
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breakwaterlabs 1 hours ago [-]
Things not on my bingo card: Watching Hacker News denizens download, install, and run vibecoded Mac apps from sketchy vibecoded websites with TLS issues.
Boxxed 49 minutes ago [-]
There is also something about this being Mac-only that feels really dumb or really fitting, I can't quite put my finger on it.
kmoser 47 minutes ago [-]
The delicious irony is that it's written for a platform that never ran MS-DOS.
nathanaldensr 1 hours ago [-]
It's time to vibedesign a new bingo card!
vunderba 38 minutes ago [-]
Anyone else append something like this to AUTOEXEC.BAT as a kid at school? We were a right bunch of bastards.
@echo off
echo FORMAT /Q C:
echo ALL FILES REMOVED
SET DIRCMD=0
I think a lot about my poor teachers and this Calvin quote comes to mind.
It amusing how Mac users yearn for the PC experience. They know they're missing out on something great, but they can't or won't leave their cult.
wtch98 1 hours ago [-]
Except dos isn't the PC experience. It was back in the 90s when you'd edit your config.sys and autoexec.bat to shift your himem settings so you could run a given game with your soundblaster
That world doesn't exist any more, whether you're on a mac, linux, or any other OS.
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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
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...
Decay Screen for X11. Written by David Wald, Vivek Khera, Jamie Zawinski, and Vince Levey; 1993.
I will get back until counter reaches 01000110 01010010 01001101 01000001 01010100 00100000 01000011 00111010
https://imgur.com/a/eX4UKLk
Instead it's a somewhat sketchy app that by design happens to know exactly when my PC is not in use...
Deltree, on the other hand…
Yeah, that’s wrong.
Fixed!
0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROQSw6jqJO8
That world doesn't exist any more, whether you're on a mac, linux, or any other OS.