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this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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It was not a virus, but still great fun: coworker had a fat UNIX workstation, but no idea of the particulars except for the program he was using. I knew my ways around such machines, and I could log in from another machine via serial terminal.
What the coworker knew about the audio capabilities of his machine was the occasional "beep" it made. I found the "auplay" command, and a list of 8-bit audio samples.
So one day I was sitting at the PC next to him, logged in, and command ready to run, and waited for an error message to pop up. Then I pressed return, starting "auplay laughter.au".
That face.
Well hey, that domain's available!
Funny, though it is not an internet address but a filename.
So you had the moment, and you just sent a laugh? Suspicious story edit imo, you streamed him a huge fart, didn't you?