Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:33 PM
god I just remembered the Second Life Update Bug, one of the wildest software bugs in human history
✶ 天才的なIDOL様！
@phainein
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:33 PM
quinn say more right now
★ тяу-нαя∂уи
@lollichop
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:33 PM
/pulls up a chair and leans forward
★ тяу-нαя∂уи
@lollichop
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:33 PM
go on
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:34 PM
when you ran Second Life, it would check for updates by going to the site, downloading the updater exe from the site, and running it
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:34 PM
it did no validation that the updater was in good condition
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:34 PM
so one day, the site went down
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:34 PM
and Second Life players would try to update
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:34 PM
SL goes to the site, gets a 404 error page
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:34 PM
and then tried to run the error page as an executable
Rabbit Crimes
@AngelLeriel
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
god bless the stupidity of computers
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
And the 404 code, when run as an executable
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
by TOTAL COINCIDENCE
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
would execute the DOS command "LPT" and start writing random garbage data into it
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
LPT is the connection to your printer
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
so as a result of all this
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
if you tried to update Second Life while the site was down
★ тяу-нαя∂уи
@lollichop
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
oh no
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
your printer would turn on
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
and either print out random garbage,
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:35 PM
jam,
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:36 PM
or physically destroy itself
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:36 PM
whAT
raspberrydrink
@raspberrydrink
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:36 PM
omfg????
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:37 PM
it's just
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:37 PM
the most improbable error ever
izzy.vrm
@alqemizzy
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:37 PM
oh my god
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:37 PM
"the website is down, so I'm going to destroy your printer"
ShaynaIsHere
@Autistic_Ace
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:38 PM
XDDDD
✶ 天才的なIDOL様！
@phainein
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:38 PM
HOLY S H I T
Rabbit Crimes
@AngelLeriel
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:38 PM
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:39 PM
Human: “I’m gonna play some Second Life!”
Computer: “FOOLISH MORTAL, YOUR PRINTER IS NOW FORFEIT”
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
@lastbastion
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:40 PM
holy shit
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:41 PM
my favorite part of this is that, just
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:41 PM
at no point during this entire process
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:41 PM
does Second Life realize that something is wrong
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:41 PM
your printer spits out paper and starts emitting smoke
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:41 PM
"Update complete"
Hazard Kitten
@RShini
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:44 PM
SL Updater: "I'm helping : D"
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:45 PM
Cheap inkjet printer with no input validation: "I'm also helping!"
kamikasei
@kamikasei
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:46 PM
I mean that's just how printers be tbqh
kamikasei
@kamikasei
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:46 PM
They probably hit it during QA and their office printers imploded and they sighed and called the swamp witch who maintains them, and didn't connect the two problems
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:47 PM
that sounds accurate to how printers work yeah
連続犬
@svensational
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:53 PM
holy fuck
連続犬
@svensational
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:53 PM
I LOVE TECHNOLOGY
kamikasei
@kamikasei
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:54 PM
The moral of the story is: validate your fucking inputs
Quinn Angstrom
@quinn2win
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:55 PM
yes
▲ndrusi
@Andrusi
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 10:26 PM
Printers are not of this world
NekoInc, MSPM
@NekoIncardine
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 11:29 PM
Printers PLEASE
Rival Fenix
@Dark_fenix
Thu, Mar 12, 2020 11:34 PM
ofgdsjk;lk oh my god. This is hilarious and Concerning and just. Printers.
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