Most of the devs are pretty good about it bc we will all mess with each other's laptops if they are left open. Nothing malicious but change some vim shortcuts, maybe a new screen saver or background. Great way to promote locking your computer 😂
I've done the wallpaper one to the others in my department (one of them still hasn't removed the weird picture of them from their wallpaper rotation).
It's really hard to take security seriously when I asked a higher up IT person why we promote IE as the default browser and their answer was "For security reasons" (this person has since moved to another company, but we still default everyone to IE as the browser)
Ohh, right. I work from home, but once I went to get a cup of coffee and my husband put on an update emulator on my MacBook. I just assumed the update started on its own while I was gone and actually waited around for about 30 minutes until I figured out just what was so funny.
The update emulator (a website on full screen, it’s even animated) is a good, safe prank. Bonus points if they had open files unsaved. I suppose it also exists for other operating systems.
At my last job we were also huge fans of the extension that replaces all images with Nick Cage and the one that would randomly play the John Cena intro every 1/1000 tabs.
My favorite is when I bring this to the attention of my co-workers and they say "Yeah, but I know you're supposed to be here"
1) We definitely don't know all the people in our org (and people constantly walk up to desks to drop off papers/notes regardless)
2) What if I was having a particularly salty day and felt like burning bridges?
This is especially true if one feels he is gonna be fired soon. Or worse, already fired but had to spent some time to hand off some work.
I feel this!!!
Most of the devs are pretty good about it bc we will all mess with each other's laptops if they are left open. Nothing malicious but change some vim shortcuts, maybe a new screen saver or background. Great way to promote locking your computer 😂
I've done the wallpaper one to the others in my department (one of them still hasn't removed the weird picture of them from their wallpaper rotation).
It's really hard to take security seriously when I asked a higher up IT person why we promote IE as the default browser and their answer was "For security reasons" (this person has since moved to another company, but we still default everyone to IE as the browser)
Ohh, right. I work from home, but once I went to get a cup of coffee and my husband put on an update emulator on my MacBook. I just assumed the update started on its own while I was gone and actually waited around for about 30 minutes until I figured out just what was so funny.
The update emulator (a website on full screen, it’s even animated) is a good, safe prank. Bonus points if they had open files unsaved. I suppose it also exists for other operating systems.
Holy wow this is amazing 😍
For anyone curious, Fakeupdate.net seems to be a good source for this 😉
I guess that was it. I was so angry at myself for falling for it that I just closed the tab in a split second without checking the name 😂
I'm realizing this could also be repurposed to get out of things 🤔
I'm a fan of extensions/user scripts in the browser to give someone a special experience. Like making CSS grayscale filtered, etc.
At my last job we were also huge fans of the extension that replaces all images with Nick Cage and the one that would randomly play the John Cena intro every 1/1000 tabs.
VSCode has a beautiful theme for this situation. Hot Dog Stand.
I love it 😍
The Hot Dog Stand theme actually is an ancient prank. Windows 3.1 (!!!!!) had this somewhere hidden deep, deep down in it's OS.
I used to change the language of my friends' mobiles to Japanese. It was easy and fun at Nokia 3310 era.