@taxuswc yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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@southsamurai *pistol hands*

@asklemmy Not a prank, just a story. Back at the Uni, we had a hall in the building, and that was where all of the administration was sitting. This was also one of two spots students hung out during breaks.

In there, there was an “Internet kiosk”. In practice, the damned thing was just a crappy WinXP PC with a touch screen and a metal keyboard. It was useless, actually, almost nobody ever touched it, because there were better alternatives in the computer class. The speakers were loud, though.

By default, it opened a browser with a Uni’s website as a homepage.

I loved how amazingly useless it was. So It was my primary target.

We ran Doom on it, we replaced the browser with MS Paint (boosting the usefulness 100-fold), replaced the homepage (at this point the whole administration learned what the fox said and that Rick Astley was never gonna give them up by heart, because it was 2013 and Internet was still cool).

On a year 3 I had to stop, though, because the dean was after my blood.

@shuro Here’s one more.

If you have a Unix-using friend who relies on the command history just a lil bit too much - like scrolling a dozen lines just to find an “ls” command, replace .bash_history file with a poem of your choosing with lines ordered backwards next time they forget to lock their session.

Don’t forget to back up the old file, though.

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@shuro The thing is, if he cares so much about some stupid logo shield, he IS a fool, after all :D

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@shuro Wow, the first one is borderline unethical. I don’t say I didn’t like it, but I certainly wouldn’t do that.

The second one, though, is all around great. Will I try it some time? I dunno, maybe? :D

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@shuro Ahh… I dunno, I think if a person cares about representing some automotive brand so much, they just deserve being mocked and made fun of.

Wonder if that guy learned a lesson.

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@wonderfox_dev Not bad, if lil bit morbid.

I *thought* to use mistranslations some time, but nah.

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@asklemmy Here’s one more from me, also computer-related:

If you’re in a non-English speaking country and your machines use layout switch function, add *one* more keyboard layout on every system you touch. Doesn’t matter which one, but bonus points if it’s as similar to ones present as possible, but different enough to matter - for example some letters are “switched”. I used German, French and even Bulgarian.

Lock the session and watch the reaction.

You are welcome.

@shuro I think, coming clean is crucial when the jig is up, though.

If you’re pranking friends - it’s because you’re not an asshole.

If you’re pranking an enemy - it’s because you want the fucker to say your name.

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@shuro Doublekill!!

Did you own up to this? How bad was the music to face?

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@bjoern_tantau Lil bit of Cryptonomicon vibes, the collision of code and literature nice.

@andrewta Never did what, reconcile?

@andrewta Takes a hell of a charisma check to convince to pack up someone else’s office, I suppose. But if you did pull it off - whoa, you got a silver tongue, my friend. I hope you reconciled later.

@asklemmy Okay, I’ll start.

I don’t know if it was my worst - but it was notable.

Back in school, I wrote a worm using nothing but bat files. It were Windows 9x days, so it was fairly easy if you know your way around file shares. It removed most of the files and replaced autoexac.bat with a blinking message. I let it loose in the informatics classroom.

It was a huge scandal, the whole week of informatics curriculum was ruined, my parents got a call, I was made to reinstall everything. But after all the dust settled, I got a lifelong A+ from the informatics teacher. She also offered me and my gang to learn C after class, on a promise I put my nasty mind to good use.

@Valmond Get stories to tell

@ParlaMint Afterlife.

Death is boring and awful. I don’t want it. Nobody really wants it. If you think you do, a) get help and b) you really don’t.

@tetris11 Oh, exploitable!

(I don’t know who those two are)

@possiblylinux127 ???

What are we, some kind of cockroaches, not people, in your opinion?

I don’t understand.

@rtxn

@UltraGiGaGigantic
“Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They’re single-serving friends.”

@intensely_human