@elomatreb oh my gosh

@elomatreb @dr1ft have everyone tail -f the failed auth ssh log, and then just ssh into the box with no key and a bogus user to send messages

@elomatreb @dr1ft oh god, I'm not the only one who's actually done this am I

@flussence @dr1ft I used to have a script that drew ASCII art into http logs, but nowadays everyone is running autobanners that don't like this

@elomatreb @flussence lame af

@elomatreb @dr1ft I know this sounds ridiculous, but someone I hadn't seen in years contacted me this way once because they *knew* I was the kind of saddo to always have a log tail window open

@elomatreb @dr1ft kinda related? back in high school my friend made a java program that ran in the background and could do stuff via remote command, like speak over the speakers. the commands came from a public yahoo guestbook somewhere. we communicated that way for a while.

@impiaaa @dr1ft Reminds me of this one: https://xkcd.com/1305/

@elomatreb @dr1ft oh another story, some time before the first one, there was a computer class with two periods, morning/afternoon, that shared a room and computers. they didn't clear them inbetween or have separate accounts or anything so some of us got to know our morning-period counterpart by leaving digital stickynotes

@elomatreb @dr1ft I don't say "speech synthesis" because it was just recordings of him saying various syllables, strung together

@impiaaa @dr1ft so

speech synthesis, as in the 1970s