What's the buzz? [April Fools 2021]

[dapaterson]

Chrome on Android: getting a speaker icon popping up, and playback of some buzzing.

Which, perhaps, is a sign of the times...

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Interesting, I'll take a look, but I expect it will be resolved by end of day.

 

[MJP]

Chrome on Android: getting a speaker icon popping up, and playback of some buzzing.

Which, perhaps, is a sign of the times...

Interesting, I'll take a look, but I expect it will be resolved by end of day.

OMG....I have been googling why is my phone possessed since early this morning. Well played

 

[dimsum]

Chrome on Android: getting a speaker icon popping up, and playback of some buzzing.

Which, perhaps, is a sign of the times...

Not just Android. I'm getting that on Chrome on Mac as well.

 

[Haggis]

Chrome on Android: getting a speaker icon popping up, and playback of some buzzing.

Which, perhaps, is a sign of the times...

I think it's related to the GoC's quest to "do better" and restore civility.. Every time I open a forum that contains an "F-bomb" it happens.

 

[Blackadder1916]

Chrome on Android: getting a speaker icon popping up, and playback of some buzzing.

Which, perhaps, is a sign of the times...

I thought I was going crazy earlier this morning - kept hearing that sound and was checking phones and other devices without success. Since seeing this and realizing I'm not the only one, I now know I'm not having auditory hallucinations. It seems to happen only when army.ca is open and happened on both android and MS platforms. I also opened Edge (using it for this) and the buzzing came up before I logged in or went into any forums. Has been silent for a while now.

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Spoke too soon.

 

[mariomike]

Check your calanders.

 

[Blackadder1916]

Check your calanders.

Fucking arseholes!

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

...and we are back to normal. Thanks for playing everyone!

For those who missed it, visiting Army.ca would play a buzzing sound after ~12 seconds. The hope was folks would be checking their phones for messages that were never there.

Evil, but I'm OK with it.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

I cracked my screen trying to get it to stop....

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Please apply to the Army.ca Broken Phone Class Action suit. Expected to take almost exactly a year to see results.

 

[dapaterson]

Channelling Jesus Christ Superstar - "What's the buzz / Tell me what's happening..."

 

[Haggis]

Fucking arseholes!

It happened again!

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Shift-F5 or Ctrl-F5 depending on your browser, to force a fresh reload. You may have the old stuff cached.

Or... check your actual phone.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Can't.....getting harder to see through the screen...

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Speaking of April Fools