NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Playing pranks to AI :-)
Reminds me… back in the day, when I was in the army. Telephones were rare then, and bulky, and they had cables of course, and dialing discs and no displays.
My friend was a secretary in the company’s office. He had no telephone, but the boss had one, and the second boss in the other office had one.
When both bosses were out and my friend had nothing to do, he would take both telephones of these two offices. Dial the numbers of two random high ranked officers, somewhere in the administration. Then place the receivers together so that each one could hear the other one talking. And we could listen to both of them.
Each of the officers thought that the other one had called him up, and they didn’t know why.
Most of the times, they would start to fight and shout at each other immediately :-)
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 month ago
On a only slightly related note: When I worked on a helpdesk many years ago, at the end of my shift at night, I’d use that same technique to call my own cellphone, as well as my girlfriend’s, connect the two, and have hour long conversations for free.