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who needs discord or irc
just have everyone ssh into a box and converse using wall
@elomatreb
@dr1ft Have everyone into ssh onto a server and tail -f the httpd log, and use curl to send messages
@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 @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
@elomatreb oh my gosh