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Re:Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API by fredoralive on Monday June 16, 2025 @04:49AM (#44287706)
Interestingly, the original Mac had a similar MonkeyLives flag: https://folklore.org/Monkey_Lives.html
Re:Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API by ROllerozxa on Monday June 16, 2025 @11:29AM (#44290534)
I assume that's the "The Monkey" testing tool for the original Mac that's mentioned in the footnotes in the Androids book. Supposedly goes back to the infinite monkey theorem that makes monkeys act as a metaphor for randomness, and it was also mentioned that one of the developers of Android had used the same kind of monkey testing for WebTV and Palm OS.