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Well the other day my 6yo daughter was playing on the Deck and I SSH'd in from my phone, installed espeak, and started making a voice of god say whatever I want

Well the other day my 6yo daughter was playing on the Deck and I SSH'd in from my phone, installed espeak, and started making a voice of god say whatever I wanted as she played.

bombcar 4y ago
Reminds me of remotely connecting to my friend's Mac and using 'say' to say things. And then eject the CD-ROM drive.
- techdragon 4y ago
  I remember working out how to do this over the network with some combination of the utilities on the windows install when I was a student at school, I forget which windows exactly given it could have been any of the outdated 9x sort or even 2k at high school… Anyway the fun thing was combining it with the (surprisingly not locked down) netsend command, so my little remote execution script would pop the cd drive tray open, and then they would get an “alert” from netsend saying “Feed Me!!!” I wasn’t the sort of kid that pulled a prank like that on a teacher or the whole class, but it did get some laughs with the small circle of fellow computer nerds that would spend lunch or afternoons in the library using the computers to fool around learning Visual Basic, or play 90s online games, or for the few that new me… play proper LAN games… since I was the gatekeeper of by way of my perpetual habit of trying to lift the hood and work out how everything was setup, so I found all the fun network admin failures like group policy mistakes that left the empty second hard drive on a batch of computers as public read/write for anyone with local admin permissions on any computer on the network, or setting a local machine folder I had sufficient permissions to, to be network accessible if you had the machine IP, or telling them which computers I had left the burned cd copies of the games in (which were fully portable!, bless the pre-network connected DRM days) Ahh youthful fun!
- CoastalCoder 4y ago
  > And then eject the CD-ROM drive. The whole drive??? Man, you guys played hardball.
lostgame 4y ago
I literally laughed out loud that this would be the ‘example’…omigosh, too funny - I’m actually going to share this comment with a couple friends.
marcodiego 4y ago
Long ago my GF bought a linux laptop. She asked me install something, it was just an "apt-get install" away. I told her I had to type a few commands. She said she was busy now. Ok, ssh'ed into it and installed what she needed.

Well the other day my 6yo daughter was playing on the Deck and I SSH'd in from my phone, installed espeak, and started making a voice of god say whatever I wanted as she played.

bombcar 4y ago

Reminds me of remotely connecting to my friend's Mac and using 'say' to say things. And then eject the CD-ROM drive.

techdragon 4y ago
I remember working out how to do this over the network with some combination of the utilities on the windows install when I was a student at school, I forget which windows exactly given it could have been any of the outdated 9x sort or even 2k at high school… Anyway the fun thing was combining it with the (surprisingly not locked down) netsend command, so my little remote execution script would pop the cd drive tray open, and then they would get an “alert” from netsend saying “Feed Me!!!” I wasn’t the sort of kid that pulled a prank like that on a teacher or the whole class, but it did get some laughs with the small circle of fellow computer nerds that would spend lunch or afternoons in the library using the computers to fool around learning Visual Basic, or play 90s online games, or for the few that new me… play proper LAN games… since I was the gatekeeper of by way of my perpetual habit of trying to lift the hood and work out how everything was setup, so I found all the fun network admin failures like group policy mistakes that left the empty second hard drive on a batch of computers as public read/write for anyone with local admin permissions on any computer on the network, or setting a local machine folder I had sufficient permissions to, to be network accessible if you had the machine IP, or telling them which computers I had left the burned cd copies of the games in (which were fully portable!, bless the pre-network connected DRM days) Ahh youthful fun!
CoastalCoder 4y ago
> And then eject the CD-ROM drive. The whole drive??? Man, you guys played hardball.

lostgame 4y ago

I literally laughed out loud that this would be the ‘example’…omigosh, too funny - I’m actually going to share this comment with a couple friends.

marcodiego 4y ago

Long ago my GF bought a linux laptop. She asked me install something, it was just an "apt-get install" away. I told her I had to type a few commands. She said she was busy now. Ok, ssh'ed into it and installed what she needed.