• @[email protected]
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    761 year ago

    They may have been, things were far more trusting back then.

    X servers, for example, would accept any connections. So we would often “export DISPLAY=friendscomputer:0.0” in the computer lab and then open windows of embarrassing content. Which at the time would likely be ASCII art…

    • @tankplanker
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      291 year ago

      One of my favourite wars was to open audio files on other people’s SPARCs, somebody had the loudest bag pipe music that usually ended things.

      Access to the SPARCs was normally restricted to third year but if you knew the right person you could get an account created pretty easily. Had the fastest access to the internet at the time within the uni as well.

      • @guleblanc
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        131 year ago

        I used to work at a company that did distributed QA. Other people’s tests would run on your desktop. It worked surprisingly well. But occasionally a test of some audio resource would play on your speakers “The discrete cosine is a real, discrete version of the fast Fourier transform.”

        • @tankplanker
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          11 year ago

          Ha, love the audio tell of the resource stealing

    • @wmassingham
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      91 year ago

      Still can. Only a few years ago, I would cat random things to classmates’ tty devices.