[HN Gopher] Click (2016)
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       Click (2016)
        
       Author : JetSpiegel
       Score  : 119 points
       Date   : 2023-05-06 14:26 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (clickclickclick.click)
 (TXT) w3m dump (clickclickclick.click)
        
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       | jacooper wrote:
       | I think this website is a good a argument that browsers give way
       | too much data. Luckily brave obfuscates phone model, cpu and so
       | on.
        
         | DerekBickerton wrote:
         | Does Brave still show the 'Brave' string in the useragent? In
         | the past it did, meaning it was another data point used to
         | fingerprint.
        
           | metadat wrote:
           | Seems not.
           | 
           | > Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
           | like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
        
           | jacooper wrote:
           | Nope, normal chromium user agent. If they did use brave, many
           | websites wouldn't work.
        
         | marcosdumay wrote:
         | On my case (firefox), it got most of the machine details wrong.
         | It got it right that the window is maximized, but couldn't even
         | get the corners of the display area correctly.
        
           | jacooper wrote:
           | Yup, but on android chrome gives the entire phone model in
           | the user agent, kind of ridiculous.
        
       | internetter wrote:
       | When it asked for my webcam, that was the hardest decision of my
       | life...
        
         | em-bee wrote:
         | yeah, i really want to know what the site does with that. did
         | anyone dare?
        
           | kps wrote:
           | It takes a photo, and shows it to you. (My webcam has a
           | physical cover.)
        
       | nailer wrote:
       | Hug of death. What was there?
        
         | ReactiveJelly wrote:
         | Game with a green button you can click on. The fiction is that
         | you're a "subject" being studied.
         | 
         | Behind the button, it shows a log of data captured like browser
         | type, CPU core count, window size, mouse movements, etc.
         | 
         | A voice pretends to take notes on the "subject" saying things
         | like "The subject is mostly in the bottom-left of the page".
         | 
         | Achievements are unlocked such as "Subject clicked the button 6
         | times in one second" or "You were away for 10 minutes"
        
       | turnsout wrote:
       | They should study this in game design classes, to show how much
       | you can motivate random behavior by progressively disclosing
       | achievements to unlock
        
         | iamwil wrote:
         | I think Candy Box is a great example of what you're talking
         | about. https://candybox2.github.io/candybox/
        
       | DerekBickerton wrote:
       | Browses in Lynx[0]. Sees nothing.
       | 
       | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
        
         | capableweb wrote:
         | Surprising. Next you'll tell me that not even Netflix works in
         | Lynx or something crazy like that.
        
           | _Algernon_ wrote:
           | Honestly, there is no reason why Netflix shouldn't allow
           | streaming over telnet. It works for Starwars after all.
        
             | fimoreth wrote:
             | I thought the StarWars telnet went offline? :/
        
               | perryprog wrote:
               | If you want a replacement you can use `telnet
               | telehack.com` and then run `starwars`. If you want it in
               | a single command you can do something like `zsh -c '{
               | sleep 1; echo starwars; sleep 10000; } | nc -c
               | telehack.com 23'`.
        
             | Traubenfuchs wrote:
             | Netflix requires DRM shitware.
        
               | jvdvegt wrote:
               | It would be really cool if they offered a (obviously) non
               | DRM'ed ASCII art version of movies over telnet! :)
        
           | nerdponx wrote:
           | What _is_ actually sad is that I can 't watch Netflix using
           | something like VLC.
        
         | blowski wrote:
         | And today's prize for most un-original comment goes to...
        
         | nerdponx wrote:
         | It makes me think that "web apps" ought to have a distinctive
         | dotted suffix like a file extension, like
         | "example.com/main.app", to set expectations with the user.
        
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       | oscarteg wrote:
       | I smell dutch :p
        
       | mrtksn wrote:
       | Clicker games. An amazing genre.
       | 
       | Check out Universal Paperclips if you have 10 hours to spend.
        
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         | bombcar wrote:
         | You are a kitten in a catnip forest.
         | 
         | You are vastly superior to any paper clip, universal or not.
        
         | mrob wrote:
         | Universal Paperclips can be played faster by setting your
         | keyboard autorepeat rate to maximum and using keyboard instead
         | of mouse to press the buttons. I'd argue this is thematically
         | appropriate and better than playing using mouse only, even if
         | you ignore the time saving.
        
           | misnome wrote:
           | It also makes playing less painful if you are RSI-susceptible
        
           | McGlockenshire wrote:
           | The application is also constructed in a way that lets you
           | call the internals directly. I ended up building a few
           | bookmarklets that:
           | 
           | - Call the "the make a clip button got pressed" function a
           | few thousand times
           | 
           | - Monitored the opacity of the quantum compute section and
           | automatically called the right bits when they'd be most
           | effective and never when they'd be ineffective or
           | counterproductive
           | 
           | - Automatically calls the "entertain" bits when the swarm
           | gets "bored" for maximum AFK-ability
           | 
           | - In the late late late game, allow factory production for
           | only the length of a single setTimeout as to not overproduce
           | factories and throw the entire balance off
        
           | aqme28 wrote:
           | Isn't clicking really only helpful for the first few minutes
           | anyways?
        
             | dragontamer wrote:
             | Its also useful for the Quantum Computer.
             | 
             | So I'd say "serious" amounts of clicking is ~first few
             | minutes, and then maybe for ~10 minute segment (and only
             | ~30 seconds at a time at most).
        
         | karmakaze wrote:
         | I wish it was only 10 hours. And now it's been quite a while
         | since I've played. Wondering if I'll enjoy it nearly as much
         | again. It is the weekend...
        
       | zanfr wrote:
       | loved it
        
       | ReactiveJelly wrote:
       | "Probably female. You are my favorite subject."
       | 
       | Ah!~
        
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