Wonder where that cable goes...
22. Button
#inktober2025 #inktober #inktober25 #drawing #tegning #button #BigRedButton

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Zoom accidentally 'shut down' their own domain, proving once again that even tech giants can't resist the allure of the big red button 🛑😂. Meanwhile, users everywhere enjoyed a sudden surge in productivity as meetings vanished into the void of internet incompetence 🌐💥.
https://status.zoom.us/incidents/pw9r9vnq5rvk #ZoomFail #TechHumor #ProductivityBoost #InternetOops #BigRedButton #HackerNews #ngated

For now I’ll select the holiday manually, but when I automate that I might set it to use a calendar instead. That way I don’t have to create automations to change the input select for whichever holiday, I just have to use the calendar event as a condition in my automations. #HomeAssistant

I also need to figure out how to select different folders for music for the #BigRedButton so we have suitable music for the #BathroomDisco for whichever holiday it is.

Tumbling down the internet's memory lane led us to an iconic find: This spring is the 30th anniversary of the Really Big Button That Does Absolutely Nothing! 🔴

At the time, Paul Mitchell observed: "I think there’s something wrong with the Big Red Button. It doesn’t seem to do anything."

You have no idea what this is? We're here to help. It's a '94 relic is the epitome of internet randomness. Experience it here: https://krystalrose.com/rosewood/library/BigButton.htm

#InternetHistory #Internet #BigRedButton #mastodon

Since we're telling #BigRedButton stories...

Very early in my career, I was a SOC monkey for a small local Internet & data center hosting provider. Our Big Red Button was mounted on the wall of the data center, just beyond the door, a little over 6' off the ground - low enough to reach up and hit it, high enough to avoid accidentally bumping into it... Or so we thought.

The company was small enough that our founder and CEO was still very hands-on - to the point that he was helping a brand-new employee carry a heavy server into the data center for installation one day. $newGuy - who was about 6'4" - walks backwards through the door into the data center, backs up against the wall so $CEO can swing the server around to go down the aisle... And hits the Big Red Button with the back of his head.

Instant unplanned production-outage-recovery drill, all hands on deck!

IIRC, our recovery procedure documentation improved a *lot* over the next few days. 🙄 $newGuy totally expected to be fired, but $CEO took full responsibility (one of the reasons I loved working there - the two founders were both fantastic people as well as visionary technogists). And the Big Red Button got a mollyguard, since "high enough to be out of the way" was clearly relative. 🤣

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@rossgrady @lauren

Our dogsitter is Not At All Online and hasn’t visited us since we installed the #BigRedButton. He doesn’t know about it. He’ll just see it sat on top of the toilet cistern.

He’s arriving shortly. How long before @hal toots about #BathroomDisco? 🕺🏻

I think I should work for #MI6. Specifically they should pay me to go and work for #Russia. I am such a walking disaster area that me sincerely trying my best would probably bring Russia to its knees within a week or so. The big danger is me accidentally starting #WWIII by putting my coffee mug on the #BigRedButton of doom after mistaking it for a coaster. I could see me doing that.

So V2 does things differently. Here's how it works:

When #HomeAssistant starts up, an automation populates a dropdown selector with a shuffled list of songs, pulled from a sensor which monitors the contents of a folder.

When the #BigRedButton is pressed, a virtual toggle is turned on.

An automation watches for when that toggle’s state changes to “on”, and triggers a script which changes the lighting and plays the song selected in the dropdown. The automation is only interested in the toggle, so if it's already on, subsequent button presses are ignored. No skipping tracks with multiple button presses!

Another automation watches for when the bathroom speaker stops playing at the end of a song, and checks to see if the virtual toggle is on (ie the song was started from a button press, not from my phone or whatever). If so, it triggers a script that changes the lights back to normal, selects the next item in the dropdown, and turns off the virtual toggle, ready for the next button press.

V2 of our #BigRedButton is up and running. From the outside, it seems absolutely no different, but the stuff behind it is waaaay more complicated.

Previously, a song was selected at random every time the button was pressed. So if someone panicked and pressed the button again it would stop the current song and start another one, and then another, and another... not the experience I wanted.

Also, the random selection was not random in the right way. Each time, it picked from the entire list. This meant that it was possible for the same song to be selected on subsequent presses, and some songs never got picked.

It seemed to really like "Let's Get Loud" by JLo.

#HomeAssistant #BathroomDisco

Before "Computer, end program," there was...
#StarTrek #EndProgram #BigRedButton #PushToExit #IsThisTheHolodeck?

but the best part is the #BigRedButton! 😀 (currently used for play/pause/next if calls are incoming)

There is something satisfying about putting the #laptop to sleep by closing its lid.
Way more than pushing the power button, pressing a keyboard shortcut, or using the 'start' menu.
I think the only way to get a similar satisfactory feeling on a stationary computer would be to have a #BigRedButton, but those are generally more associated with a #KillSwitch, and thus would be an emergency shutdown, rather than a controlled sleep trigger...

Am I overthinking this? Probably 😅🤪

Et ce bouton "sculpter"...

Je ne sais pas l'utiliser, ni à quoi ça sert réellement.

Ça m'énerve..

Il doit être vraiment utile car il est en 3e position sur l'interface générale, et je me sert déjà d'outils cachés en 2e couche dans les menus...

Je dois vraiment m'emmerder pour rien pour faire certains trucs..

#BigRedButton