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Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code

57 points · 38 comments · evakhoury

  1. pentamassiv · · focus · HN ↗
    LLMs are surprisingly good at reading Morse code. Some time ago I pranked my flatmate. I installed a wifi switch in the wall and then wrote a script to convert text to Morse code and send the code with a slight delay through his lamp. I also built a website to do some legend-building to make him believe a ghost is haunting our apartment. He sent a video of the flickering lamp to chatGPT and it correctly deciphered it. We had a good laugh when I revealed the prank to him.
    1. PcChip · · focus · HN ↗
      you put some real effort into that, I respect it!
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