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[–] [email protected] 43 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I wrote a simple script once that ran in the background and all it did was toggle the state of the caps lock key every 30 minutes. I set it up on a co-worker's computer as a scheduled task for an April Fools prank one year. I thought for sure he'd figure it out pretty quickly, but by mid-day, he had completely disassembled his keyboard, convinced the button was getting stuck due to gunk buildup. Eventually I ended up just disabling the task so he thought he had managed to fix it himself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

I dumped a batch script into a dev’s startup folder that would draw the text effect from The Matrix all over the screen. I thought he’d immediately catch on but apparently he stood up and started yelling about his workstation being hacked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

Did you ever tell him?

[–] rbos 2 points 11 hours ago

Set it to run on boot, I hope.