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Cat Login Detection

Glen Connolly on July 20, 2020

I was taking a quick break from work last week when my cat predictably took up napping position on my keyboard. When I looked at the monitor I noti...
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Michiel Hendriks

This is a really old problem, and I can't believe it doesn't come standard with the OS :)

In 2000 PawSense won the IgNobel in Computer Science for solving that issue.

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Glen Connolly

Wow that's a little more intelligent than mine 😺 there is a real market for cat prevention, but mine only covers detection

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Michael Tharrington

Haha! This is too purfect. Really nice touch with the 9 lives threshold. 😹

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ogoh cyril

😂😂😂
' why do we not tell the user that their cat is trying to login to the application

Cat's after seeing this : 🙀🙀🙀

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ogoh cyril • Edited

But on a serious note
It's a nice idea

But if I were to work on this
The main features would be getting the cat off the keyboard
By irritating💩 it
In a way it's wouldn't make its re-act 😾violence causing harm to the machine 💔
And
It's would be user friendly not enough to frustrate 😠😠😠the users

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Fraya Hess

how did open your compert

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Uriel Bitton

I have a cat and he does this all the time, so this is amazing lol

Although most of the time he walks across my keyboard as if it was a bridge, find a way to detect that too

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lbonanomi

This is delightful and practical in equal measure.

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Glen Connolly

Thank you 😁

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Neeraj Kashyap

Haha, my cat always tries to crack my passwords by brute force. Nice. :)

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Fraya Hess

that cool so so cool
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Fraya Hess

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