PawSense: Catproof Your Computer

19 points | by zdw 2 hours ago

8 comments

  • jmspring 13 minutes ago

    This is timely. Out of my five cats, my primary boy has been really needy or making a game out of hop on table, walk on keyboards, get picked up, scritched and tossed down. Repeat. Even cat tv on youtube hasn't been helping.

  • NAR8789 27 minutes ago

    > When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer.

    And they might turn you into the Freakazoid

  • shepherdjerred 13 minutes ago

    Unfortunately the program can be bypassed by typing “human”

    Ultimately all this does is incentivize cats to type more accurately when inputting malicious commands

      FarmerPotato 10 minutes ago

      It’s being used to train CatGPT.

  • eichin 18 minutes ago

    > Except when playing a sound (when a cat is detected) PawSense occupies less than 120K of RAM.

    Maybe add a 1999 or 2000 datestamp to this (it won the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners... Ig Nobel prize in Computer Science in 2000...)

  • hekkle 36 minutes ago

    I give it One Star: It keeps locking me out of my computer whenever I rage at video games, which makes me rage further.

  • grebc 43 minutes ago

    How good! Just need the cat to try it.

  • SanjayMehta 41 minutes ago

    Aluminium foil on flat surfaces works very well.

    After the cat has been trained to avoid the shelf or desk, you can remove the foil.