>/posts/talking-printer $
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Author: lexu Flag format: ping{.*}
I woke up, and my printer started emitting strange noises. It sounded like it was screaming at me—high-pitched, garbled, almost like it was trying to talk. At first, I thought it was just another one of its tantrums, the usual passive-aggressive clicks and whirs. But this was different. The beeping had a rhythm, a pattern, like some kind of hidden message.
Was my printer... sending signals? Maybe I’ve been ignoring its ink warnings for too long, and this is its final revenge. Whatever it is, I need to figure out what it's trying to say—before it jams every single page I ever print again.
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Who called this 'guessy'?
This task wasn't very 'guessy' for me because as soon as I opened the included audio recording, I recognized those distinctive sounds. Not long ago, a clip titled "Two AI Agents Start Talking in a Different Language with Each Other" was viral online, with news sites spamming hyperbolic headlines about it. Even now, if you Google "GibberLink", you’ll find a laughable article titled "What Is Gibberlink Mode, AI's Secret Language?"—yeah, "secret", lol.
The funniest part? That "AI conversation" was just a staged demo the creator made for a hackathon, as he openly admits on the project’s GitHub page.
Still, I went to his site, plugged in my OpenAI API key, and told it to translate everything it hears.
It was funny cuz it exactly translated everything heard into Polish — even the flag got "translated".
Luckily, support confirmed the flag was in English 🙃. After tweaking the command, the chat finally read it correctly.
