Fake hacker typer

How it works

Start focuses a terminal area and writes one greeting line. Every later key press, including Enter, adds one line taken at random from a fixed list of twenty-two invented log lines, and the screen keeps only the newest fourteen so it never grows without limit. Nothing is executed and nothing is inspected: the lines come from that list, not from your keyboard's contents, your files or your system. Escape ends the session and writes a closing line, and the status line above the terminal announces whether the toy is running or finished. The copy button copies exactly the text visible on screen. Sound, animation and typing delays are deliberately absent, so no key press can be swallowed or delayed.

Worked example

Starting writes one greeting line. Pressing four keys then adds four lines from the list, one per press, so the screen holds five lines in total and any line older than the newest fourteen would be dropped. Pressing Escape adds a closing line and changes the status to say the session ended, and the copy button then copies those six lines exactly as they appear.

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