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  • holycrap@lemm.eetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldobnoxious virus
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    12 days ago

    I was in college during the years leading up to y2k and supported myself at the time getting IT infrastructure ready. Some friends and I decided to write a “virus” that, on bootup, checks to see if the current date is in the first week of January 2000 and if it is and a backup of the fonts is not found (so it’ll only run once) then it’ll back up your fonts and alter the originals to replace the y character with the k. This affected everything system wide.

    That created more chaos than anticipated.


  • Looks like this particular popemobile was recently commissioned, and it’s large. Built on a dodge ram truck. He planned to donate that from the beginning, though I suspect he expected to be alive when it was converted.

    In related news this is the first time a popemobile was used as a hearse, since it’s spec’d in a way that allowed that.

    I think it’s clever. If it still resembles a popemobile after the conversion the image of it destroyed may haunt Isreal. But yes, he ensured it would be feasible.