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When the Telescope stepper motors suddenly start playing 8bit music (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

For years now I've made all my passwords in Latin as I'm yet to see a dictionary with Latin in it. This meme hit me hard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aren't star name public?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, and they make for awful passwords as a result. Ergo... Are stepper motors an instrument?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No but they can be given instructions that generate tones. The joke is that the star name dict got the pen testers in and they ran code to make the motors generate chiptunes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(I know, I was spelling it out for the person above me, also referencing Patrick Star)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I didn't realise that it was a dictionary attack meme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Basically they convert a midi file into gcode and then tune the stepper voltage so they cry bloody murder.

sweet, sweet bloody murder

(Seriously though, it’s torture on the motors.)

(And equally silly? They do the same with floppy drives and hard drives, and stuff