Post #4212401

2026-07-29 20:49 UTC

Man, I feel like an idjit. Spent the last 10 minutes frantically searching our home for whatever gadget might be emitting a regularly spaced emergency beep (yes, we have a few of those). At first I thought it was the fridge left open. Then I thought it sounded like same frequency the smoke alarm/CO2 detector makes when its batteries are low (we have more than a few those those, too). Nope. It was just a cricket.

Replies (17)

@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net 2026-07-29 20:51

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange did you have the right battery for it?

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@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 20:50

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange you may want a freq counter, it helps find bugs

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@sbeyer@ioc.exchange 2026-07-29 20:55

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Nature calling :-)

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@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 21:02

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Look close, could be a cricket drone.

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@mgd81@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 21:07

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange It was trying to tell you the temperature.

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@Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 21:18

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange 🙂

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@Insufficient_entropy@ioc.exchange 2026-07-29 21:43

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange when my miraines got bad in 2020 it took me over a day to realise the tinnitus wasn't some sort of crickets in the garden.

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@alien@mastodon.green 2026-07-29 21:29

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange this exactly happened to us a couple of years ago. The little guy was so loud we thought "it's impossible a single little cricket can make such noise"

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@draeath@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 22:56

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange ah yes, the elusive Emergency Cricket.

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@NoRomBasic@mastodon.world 2026-07-29 20:50

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Might be the funniest thing I have read today Brian...

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@rotan@mastodon.ie 2026-07-29 20:51

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Cricket needs a fresh battery.

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@RealGene@hachyderm.io 2026-07-30 01:56

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange The solution is simple: Turn up the temperature in the house 10°F. If the chirping speeds up, it's a cricket. If the chirping stays the same, it's 19 other things.

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@muddle@infosec.exchange 2026-07-30 05:16

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I am galoot. Last time this happened I accidentally set a timer/alarm on the induction stove instead of just changing the time after a power cut.

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@grumpydad@infosec.exchange 2026-07-30 05:47

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange That's a bit like maybe 20 years back when I desperately reached for the (Nokia) phone thinking it was ringing but it turned out the local birds were mimicking the ringtone.

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@AAKL@infosec.exchange 2026-07-30 14:13

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Um ... maybe you need a vacation.

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@401matthall@mastodon.xyz 2026-07-29 20:51

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange ... That is so on brand for this _timeline_. It's not you. It's the world we created. <3

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@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social 2026-07-29 20:51

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I dub thee Human.

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