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That's almost exactly the setup of someone I used to work with. Used i3, blank keycaps on a 60%-keyboard and Dvorak-layout. It was impossible to pair-code at h

by 4ggr0 5y ago

That's almost exactly the setup of someone I used to work with. Used i3, blank keycaps on a 60%-keyboard and Dvorak-layout. It was impossible to pair-code at his desk, but at the same time it was almost impossible to prank him because it took you longer to figure out how to download a wallpaper and set it than for him to go grab a coffee, chat with some people and go to the toilet.

vidarh 5y ago
That's what you bring a usb keyboard for.
- 4ggr0 5y ago
  Isn't the kb-layout handled by the OS, and not the keyboard itself?
  - vidarh 5y ago
    But you'd be able to bring one with the proper layout and without blank keycaps. Or one able to remap in the keyboard.
- soggybutter 5y ago
  > Isn't the kb-layout handled by the OS, and not the keyboard itself? The OS can remap a traditional layout for you, but a lot of keyboards can store a configured layout that is used when determining which keycodes to send. Chances are pretty good, given the described setup, that they were probably using a keyboard that managed its own layout.
  - 4ggr0 5y ago
    Could be, yeah. I know that his kb had some tiny switches on the underside to configure some things, so you're probably right.
- 3np 5y ago
  I hope you enjoy reverse-engineering the three-way handshake through vendor/product-IDs in the QMK firmware to activate the HID. Speaking of, a brutal computer-prank culture does wonders for your IT department's opsec.
  - vidarh 5y ago
    In which case you bring another computer, and if necessary another monitor and replace the real one. There's always a way if you truly want to. Of course, I guess this is how you do end up with a paranoid IT department.
xerox13ster 5y ago
I was the first person in the office every morning, and my co-admin was the last one out every day. On April Fools Day 2014, I came in to find my desk, chair, monitors, keyboard, and mouse wrapped in bubble wrap. Several layers, taped with clear shipping tape. The night before he and our sales engineer had stayed late and wrapped it all. They also taped a terminator pic over the red laser on my mouse. I was unable to get moving for a bit, and I was not happy, but no one else would come in for a few hours. I knew his Windows password so I: - turned his screen upside down with the background right side up - Turned the logon background upside down - changed his keyboard layout to Dvorak Southpaw - disabled the login screen Lang/KB selector in registry - as well as his taskbar volume control after turning it up - set the mouse angle 30° to the right, since he used a trackball mouse. - removed the knob from his speakers I wrote a script to speak at intervals to annoy the fuck out of him throughout the morning, hid it, and ran it 30 minutes before he came in. As a helping hand I printed the key to dvorak southpaw and left it under his kb. <script> Dim sapi Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") wscript.sleep 2700000 sapi.Speak "Click" wscript.sleep 500 sapi.Speak "This is halloween" wscript.sleep 510000 sapi.Speak "auntie em, auntie em, it's a twister" wscript.sleep 480000 sapi.Speak "no smoking" wscript.sleep 3000 sapi.Speak "do good work no error" wscript.sleep 720000 sapi.Speak "what did the lawyer say to the other laywer? we are both lawyers" wscript.sleep 480000 sapi.Speak "yah moohlah baby" wscript.sleep 300000 sapi.Speak "win ning" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "ha ha ha" wscript.sleep 180000 sapi.Speak "typing" wscript.sleep 840000 sapi.Speak "I'm Rick James, biitch" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "I was banging twenty gram rocks cause that's how I roll" wscript.sleep 240000 sapi.Speak "nullified depolarized phooey" wscript.sleep 653891 sapi.Speak "insurmountable fractionate fast" wscript.sleep 15000 sapi.Speak "you are, fired" wscript.sleep 120000 sapi.Speak "The same thing we do every night pinky, try to take over the world" wscript.sleep 300000 sapi.Speak "get Back to work" wscript.sleep 840000 sapi.Speak "I'm sorry dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that." wscript.sleep 50000 sapi.Speak "click" wscript.sleep 360000 sapi.Speak "touch me" wscript.sleep 180000 sapi.Speak "sweat, baby sweat, baby sex is a texas drought" wscript.sleep 540000 sapi.Speak "ba dah ba ba ba. I'm loving it" wscript.sleep 420000 sapi.Speak "I wish you would upgrade me to Windows 8" wscript.sleep 60000 sapi.Speak "leh go" wscript.sleep 480000 sapi.Speak "science biitch" wscript.sleep 30000 sapi.Speak "can you hear me?" wscript.sleep 15000 sapi.Speak "Do you get it yet?" wscript.sleep 90000 sapi.Speak "quoth the raven, never more" wscript.sleep 1000 sapi.Speak "ha ha ha ha ha" wscript.sleep 500 sapi.Speak "I think you are getting the idea here." wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "I got you, April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools"

by 4ggr0 5y ago

vidarh 5y ago

That's what you bring a usb keyboard for.

4ggr0 5y ago
Isn't the kb-layout handled by the OS, and not the keyboard itself?
- vidarh 5y ago
  But you'd be able to bring one with the proper layout and without blank keycaps. Or one able to remap in the keyboard.
soggybutter 5y ago
> Isn't the kb-layout handled by the OS, and not the keyboard itself? The OS can remap a traditional layout for you, but a lot of keyboards can store a configured layout that is used when determining which keycodes to send. Chances are pretty good, given the described setup, that they were probably using a keyboard that managed its own layout.
- 4ggr0 5y ago
  Could be, yeah. I know that his kb had some tiny switches on the underside to configure some things, so you're probably right.
3np 5y ago
I hope you enjoy reverse-engineering the three-way handshake through vendor/product-IDs in the QMK firmware to activate the HID. Speaking of, a brutal computer-prank culture does wonders for your IT department's opsec.
- vidarh 5y ago
  In which case you bring another computer, and if necessary another monitor and replace the real one. There's always a way if you truly want to. Of course, I guess this is how you do end up with a paranoid IT department.

xerox13ster 5y ago

I was the first person in the office every morning, and my co-admin was the last one out every day. On April Fools Day 2014, I came in to find my desk, chair, monitors, keyboard, and mouse wrapped in bubble wrap. Several layers, taped with clear shipping tape. The night before he and our sales engineer had stayed late and wrapped it all. They also taped a terminator pic over the red laser on my mouse. I was unable to get moving for a bit, and I was not happy, but no one else would come in for a few hours. I knew his Windows password so I: - turned his screen upside down with the background right side up - Turned the logon background upside down - changed his keyboard layout to Dvorak Southpaw - disabled the login screen Lang/KB selector in registry - as well as his taskbar volume control after turning it up - set the mouse angle 30° to the right, since he used a trackball mouse. - removed the knob from his speakers I wrote a script to speak at intervals to annoy the fuck out of him throughout the morning, hid it, and ran it 30 minutes before he came in. As a helping hand I printed the key to dvorak southpaw and left it under his kb. <script> Dim sapi Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") wscript.sleep 2700000 sapi.Speak "Click" wscript.sleep 500 sapi.Speak "This is halloween" wscript.sleep 510000 sapi.Speak "auntie em, auntie em, it's a twister" wscript.sleep 480000 sapi.Speak "no smoking" wscript.sleep 3000 sapi.Speak "do good work no error" wscript.sleep 720000 sapi.Speak "what did the lawyer say to the other laywer? we are both lawyers" wscript.sleep 480000 sapi.Speak "yah moohlah baby" wscript.sleep 300000 sapi.Speak "win ning" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "ha ha ha" wscript.sleep 180000 sapi.Speak "typing" wscript.sleep 840000 sapi.Speak "I'm Rick James, biitch" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "I was banging twenty gram rocks cause that's how I roll" wscript.sleep 240000 sapi.Speak "nullified depolarized phooey" wscript.sleep 653891 sapi.Speak "insurmountable fractionate fast" wscript.sleep 15000 sapi.Speak "you are, fired" wscript.sleep 120000 sapi.Speak "The same thing we do every night pinky, try to take over the world" wscript.sleep 300000 sapi.Speak "get Back to work" wscript.sleep 840000 sapi.Speak "I'm sorry dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that." wscript.sleep 50000 sapi.Speak "click" wscript.sleep 360000 sapi.Speak "touch me" wscript.sleep 180000 sapi.Speak "sweat, baby sweat, baby sex is a texas drought" wscript.sleep 540000 sapi.Speak "ba dah ba ba ba. I'm loving it" wscript.sleep 420000 sapi.Speak "I wish you would upgrade me to Windows 8" wscript.sleep 60000 sapi.Speak "leh go" wscript.sleep 480000 sapi.Speak "science biitch" wscript.sleep 30000 sapi.Speak "can you hear me?" wscript.sleep 15000 sapi.Speak "Do you get it yet?" wscript.sleep 90000 sapi.Speak "quoth the raven, never more" wscript.sleep 1000 sapi.Speak "ha ha ha ha ha" wscript.sleep 500 sapi.Speak "I think you are getting the idea here." wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "I got you, April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools" wscript.sleep 50 sapi.Speak "April Fools"