So I'm watching the stream, and he just politely asked the viewers to "please stop hacking", then started working on a regex to filter non-alpha numeric characters.

Was it seriously just echo-ing the raw input to a shell? Wow. Just wow.

There was always addslashes there, but I decided to filter out everything else too since I didn't quite know what kind of shell features there are. I know this is not the proper way to pipe input to the say command, but best coding practices weren't exactly on my mind when doing a thing in 5 minutes I didn't know if anyone would even check out =)

Meh, you're just jealous nobody is forcing you to verbalize their incoherent ramblings from halfway around the world.

FYI, if you ever find yourself in the situation depicted in the comic: osascript -e "set volume output volume 100"

Is it sad that I knew how to do that long before this comic? and that I've done this in practice...many times?

What great publicity for qik: http://qik.com/

Very cool-- though griefers make the world much less fun for anyone but themselves.

He keeps yelling "say something intelligent", and yet he plays the Rickrolling youtube video in a foreground window.

Very awesome! A lot of people like spamming the n-word however. Jesus.

I hear someone typing in the background. Wasn't there a hack that allowed keystroke logging with only audio a few years back?

My god, that's such fun! I posted 'I Love you Steve Jobs'

fun idea. i enjoyed answering questions. sorry to see so much spam and negative comments get through, but he seemed to take it all in good spirits.