I remember people groaning in the CS lab in college when they realized they hadn’t locked their machine before walking away for just long enough to let someone install sl.
I am a menace around unlocked computers. Was at a job and found a colleague who left his computer unlocked and had customer information open in a co working space on his screen. Set his computer language to hebrew before locking it.
Another time in college I found an unlocked computer in a library. Set their profile picture to Chris Chan with an overlay image saying “#ThisIsMyAuthenticSelf #Unafraid”. On this system, the user was not likely to see their own picture, but other people they contact will.
Couple of jobs back, the custom was to either set the background image to something disgusting and borderline NSFW, or go on the equivalent of Slack that we used and announce “I’m getting everyone pizza tomorrow” for them. The latter was considered just punishment for a security violation.
Logging in on the high school computers there was a way through some folder tree into the wallpapers of all the teacher accounts. Boy did we have fun with that, they never found out who did it though
I’m officially done with Google, I think. Search results for ‘sl’ were nothing useful. But the AI response takes the cake.
“SL” can refer to several things, but in the context of Ida-Viru County, it most likely refers to Stockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), the public transportation system in the Stockholm area.
I don’t live in that county, not even close tbh. And even if I did, how would the public transit system in another country, across a sea, be all that relevant to me?
I now used an actual search engine to find this article and will install it, except I don’t think I’ll see it all that much because I don’t think I’ve ever misspelled ‘ls’ as ‘sl’ :(
sudo apt install slThank me later
I remember people groaning in the CS lab in college when they realized they hadn’t locked their machine before walking away for just long enough to let someone install sl.
I am a menace around unlocked computers. Was at a job and found a colleague who left his computer unlocked and had customer information open in a co working space on his screen. Set his computer language to hebrew before locking it.
Another time in college I found an unlocked computer in a library. Set their profile picture to Chris Chan with an overlay image saying “#ThisIsMyAuthenticSelf #Unafraid”. On this system, the user was not likely to see their own picture, but other people they contact will.
Couple of jobs back, the custom was to either set the background image to something disgusting and borderline NSFW, or go on the equivalent of Slack that we used and announce “I’m getting everyone pizza tomorrow” for them. The latter was considered just punishment for a security violation.
You used to be able to set a web site as a background on windows XP.
I used that to terrible effect
I used to set default webpages on display models in stores to direct competitors sites.
They left a root session open? Then they really deserved it.
Oh, maybe it was just the sl binary downloaded somewhere.
Logging in on the high school computers there was a way through some folder tree into the wallpapers of all the teacher accounts. Boy did we have fun with that, they never found out who did it though
Make sure to add “Defaults insults” to /etc/sudo while you’re at it.
I’m officially done with Google, I think. Search results for ‘sl’ were nothing useful. But the AI response takes the cake.
I don’t live in that county, not even close tbh. And even if I did, how would the public transit system in another country, across a sea, be all that relevant to me?
I now used an actual search engine to find this article and will install it, except I don’t think I’ll see it all that much because I don’t think I’ve ever misspelled ‘ls’ as ‘sl’ :(