Talk:3074: Push Notifications

So...this is the April Fool's comic, if I'm not mistaken... Oh ye of little faith! 172.71.26.106 20:00, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I turned this on thinking it would just be a few every so often but I quickly realized how this is xkcd and it doesn't "joke". I had to turn this off because it disrupted my schoolwork by popping up every fricking 5 minutes

Apparently my employer (or ublock) is keeping me from experiencing the full effect of any notifications. All I get is "An *actual* error has occurred. 162.158.91.173 20:52, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

What the heck are the "Zoom Notification" ones, with just a pair of numbers? Now that I've been sitting with this for a little bit, they're by far the most common notifications, and the most mysterious. What is "zoom"ing or should be zoomed-in-on or whatever, and what do the two numbers signify? 172.68.22.75 20:35, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I think they're coordinates. So far (x,y) has had x from 4 fo 73 (that I've seen) and y from 2 to 28. That gives a tad over 2000 possible combinations, but omething tells me there won't be more than 500 or so in total. Quite a few y=24 (not yet adjacent by x), and any given x has 0 to 3 different y partners (so far). They do repeat (I'm not recording how many times, but I'm scatterplotting what I get). The ones prefixed with "oh look!" are tightly clustered in x=6..13 and y=4..11, so far, with no non-"oh look!" ones there, so I'm plotting them in a different marker. I suspect, after many many more Zoom Notifications, I'll be left with (enough of) a pixelated image's pixels (of two types, background colour excluded), or else I'm doing it wrong and I should be drawing lines between the dots, but I never managed to grab them all, so I'm relying on it being a random "spraygun droplets" sort of image-reveal. (Still some way to go...) 172.71.241.66 23:08, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Made a new page called 3074: Push Notifications/Table of Notifications, much like 1506: xkbutt/List of Permalinks. I’m hoping that we can put all of the possible notifications into the table, along with any possible images that go along with it and an explanation (if necessary). 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 21:26, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I think it might be a good idea to make the table something more like source/name/notification, because there are chains of notifications where the name changes, like the How Many Times Can You Click This? notification. --Magicalus (talk) 23:19, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Might even want to track the URL that the notification leads to in the cases where it opens a new tab. 172.71.142.57

I clicked on the silence notifications at a cost button a lot and it set Cueball's PC on fire?

I found what is presumably the source code (?) of the comic through the transcript. It’s all JS pages. No idea what they mean (I’m not good with code), but I’m sure that there are some on here that can help dissect it. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 21:50, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/manifest.json

https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/42.4f5b21b3.js

https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/index.js?v=1

I found this list of states in there, saved to the "iU" variable: intro, wordgame, gameover, biglaptop, boat, default, floating, longdesk, missing, nekotree, nekotree2, nekowater, nodesk, onfire, peek, shark, spinning, squirrel, squirreldesk, squirrelplant, standing, sword, tallchair, tentacle, water, wizard, bigplant, catchair, catonhead, compiling, floor, plant, reverse. Presumably, this is all the images we're looking for. I'll get back to you if I identify what chooses them or all their actual filepaths. --Jack (t|c) 00:43, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I have a sneaking suspicion the Zoom Notifications are sketching out an image of some sort (Update: after plotting like 60 of them no apparent pattern is to be found) SkiesShaper (talk) 22:24, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I've plotted 397 and it seems to be forming some kind of animal. Maybe a cat, given the comic theme? 172.68.35.119 23:24, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

That could make sense yeah - there is definitely an organic sort of pattern emerging from the points I've been plotting out SkiesShaper (talk) 00:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Apparently one of the notifications is: "The Earth is spinning at a rate of 1 rpd" This is true if you round it, but not exact. The time it takes to rotate is called a sidereal day, and there's one extra sidereal day a year. Basically, there's one solar day removed in a year, because the Earth's motion around the sun cancels it out. Think of it with a tidally locked planet. It spins around once a year, but the sun never moves. Really there's 1.0027379 rotations per day. DanielLC (talk) 23:02, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

This is the most chaotic comic I've seen in a while. Part of me wants to keep notifications on to see what happens, and part of me wants to turn it all off and throw my phone in a lake Alcatraz ii (talk) 00:40, 10 April 2025 (UTC)