WARNING - Intelligent Malicious Computer Programs

On June 19th 2022, I made a sticker for my laptop, based on an earlier design by Twilight Sparkle that she created for a boot screen.

It looks like this:

I received an overwhelming response to this, on both Mastodon and Twitter. I hastily posted the (messy) SVG I made and printed out, with some haphazard instructions on how to make use of it. Additionally, PNGs of earlier versions (my in-progress screenshots in the thread) have been circulating, and some people have even printed that (with the blanked-out phone number, transparency checkers, and all!) without changing any of the info. So I decided I should make a tool to generate them. That's this tool.

OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF THIS STICKER GETS YOU IN TROUBLE IN AIRPORT SECURITY, HAS SOMEONE TRY TO EXORCISE YOUR LAPTOP, OR CAUSES OTHER KINDS OF ISSUES.
I made this for fun because I thought it would look cool on my project laptop — a laptop I keep at home and do not take places. The laptop I take with me (a Pinebook Pro) does not have a matching sticker. More power to you if you put this on a laptop you carry around.

First off, a couple notes:

Paper Size



SCP Identifier


Twi's uses 5257, mine uses 3775. We chose these as they are SCP slots that are not populated and cannot be populated due to a Wikidot bug; the SCP community refers to this phenomenon as the "slot goblin". The SCP wiki admins may eventually fix these slots and open them again for editing. (Some people have been talking about trying to get articles in these slots that relate to the sticker/bootscreen, but there's no guarantee that will happen.) These slots have now been populated, and none of them have anything to do with computers. 3775 is something about a house, and 5257 is a drawn-out poop joke. It was fun while it lasted.

Others have suggested using 1900, an SCP actually talking about an anomalous computer virus. One of these three was selected for you at random.

It's worth noting I later learned 3775 used to have something in it, and some unofficial collations of the SCP database still have it. It was a (apparently not very good, hence its deletion) entry relating to the Anafabula, a metafictional entity that eats fictional realities. Fitting.

More info

Asset Identifier


This is included in the "IDENT TAG" barcode. It's prefilled with some random hex numbers.

Your Job Title


Your job at the SCP Foundation. Defaults to "Researcher".

This whole thing is pre-wrapped, so be careful what you put here. If it's too short or too long it will mess up the text wrapping.

Your First Initial


This is used to identify you in the barcode along with the job title. On my sticker, I set this to "U" as my name is Una. This results in the sticker asking readers to request "Researcher U" when calling. If this is longer than one glyph wide it may exceed the bounds of the sticker, depending on how you format your phone number.

"Redact" will replace it with a black censor bar. I feel this is bad, as it's unrealistic (why would you redact the way people can contact you to return the laptop?) but it's provided as some people like it.

Your Phone Number


This is used to identify you in the barcode. It suggests readers call this number and ask for you as described above.

If you're putting this on a laptop you expect to lose, you should be prepared to answer calls asking for you in this way and adopt an SCP-style diction and do a lot of bureaucratic nonsense if you want to really sell it.

This entire generator runs in your browser. I can't see your phone number.

"Redact" will replace it with a black censor bar. I feel this is bad, as it's unrealistic (why would you redact the way people can contact you to return the laptop?) but it's provided as some people like it. Won't work if you change the job title or use a long "initial".

Extras

Sticker Rotations



Prefilled with a random value. Makes the fake stickers more convincing. Extreme values may cause the stickers to overlap.

Corner Stamp


A meaningless number in the corner of the main stamp to make it appear more "official". Theoretically represents the individual sticker template that was printed. Defaults to "23".

Triangle Stamp


Some meaningless text in the inverted triangle to the right of the WARNING text. I copied this from Twi's bootscreen, and don't know what it means, if anything. Defaults to "KM".

Colors

Base



Mask


Text


Warning


Sticker


Sticker Text



Make sure to disable margins when printing and set the scaling to 100%!
Firefox's SVG renderer prioritizes legibility over geometric correctness; I've done all I can do to try to make it behave, but it still produces jittery stairsteppy messes for the rotated stickers. I recommend downloading the SVG and rendering it in Inkscape, if you can't use Chrome. (I'm a Firefox user myself — this is just the sad reality.)



If you download the SVG, you need to install the fonts it uses:

You do not need to install the fonts if you print direct from the browser; these fonts are included in the page as webfonts.

I recommend printing on matte sticker paper. You should do proofs on normal paper first to make sure it looks how you want. You will then want to trim the sticker to the 4x2 inch size using a guillotine cutter. If you don't have one, scissors will do in a pinch.

There's some extra bleed on the sticker, which gives you an error margin when cutting and avoids having white visible on the edges. You can use the black separator bars as a guide.

The handwriting part

With your marker or pen in hand, here's what you need to do to finish up your sticker: Don't worry too much about your handwriting legibility; in-universe these would be being written haphazardly by researchers who are very busy doing other things, just to comply with O5 policies.