a silly alarm for people with not-so-silly deadlines
icsy is a simple alarm that deters its user from falling back asleep after going off.
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Set the amount of time you want to sleep.
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When that time is up, icsy will start the alarm.
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Press enter to shut the alarm off. icsy will start asking you a few simple math questions to get you to wake up.
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If you answer any questions incorrectly and fall back asleep, a snooze alarm will go off later.
You can find detailed configuration instructions by invoking icsy -h.
You can change the alarm time, snooze time, number of questions asked, alarm sound to play, and even specify a custom wakeup command.
icsy can be run from anywhere. There's no real installation required.
$ icsy -t 2 -s 5 -n2
setting alarm for 2 seconds
press enter when awake
starting snooze timer for 5 seconds
are you __really__ awake?
what is 5-53? 0
what is 82+20? 0
0/2 correct... try again
what is 34+90? 124
what is 28+47? 75
:) everything was correct
now get back to work!