And encryption is when you fondle a holographic semi-transparent ball with your fingers.
That’s not the kind of ball-fondling I had in mind.
Fellas, is it gay to decrypt?
Only if your bits touch.
What if they byte?
That’s kinda how hacking in half life alyx works, the vr game, it feels a lot better than the ol’ lockpicking in pancake games
pancake games
I’ve never heard of non-vr games referred to as this before. It’s clever!
Somewhat relatedly, I also learned just yesterday that some flat tumors are called pancake tumors. I didn’t really enjoy learning that one, though. :(
Bad pancake
No syrup
This encryption is so strong, not even the inventor can crack it!
There is a long abandoned (but it still runs) project called eDEX-UI (https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui) which basically provides a working, useable terminal surrounded by all sorts of the crap visual appearance of hacker terminals in the movies. Pair that with a terminal editor and you’ve almost got a movie IDE!
It’s kinda fun for a while although I’d be amazed if anyone actually used it as their main terminal emulator program. But you could.
I could see it being a real thing. When you’re making a game it gives you visualization for animations (both physics and visual-only) and shaders (maybe even a simplified stylized version). Random benchmark results/debug info. Drawing attention to syntax mistakes. An important email or video call pops up.
It would be cool and potentially useful, but completely un-asked for and likely distracting and a waste of space. Basically what if your computer was a non-cartoon clippy.
Or you can just, you know, timeshare it by interleaving running the code time with making code time, thus having maximal screen size for both.
(Source: I’m actually making a game right now … or should if I wasn’t making posts in Lemmy ;))
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The bottom is also on a transparent screen
Can you imagine the eye strain one would get programming on a translucent screen every day? One where your always having to keep your eyes focused on semi transparent text and graphical interfaces in the foreground, and not the distracting and ever changing background, continuously shifting in parallax as you adjust your head and viewing angle. Not having my display buttressed up against a wall, or having to deal with glare and screen reflections, or even low contrast monitors in general are all things I find infuriating already.
But I guess the Sci-Fi future of ergonomics is holograms. *You must have your migraines, and you must enjoy them.
Speaking of eye strain, there’s the hilarious related trope that every helmet in a movie shines bright light into the face of the helmet’s wearer.
It’s pretty obvious why they do it: they want the faces of the actors to be visible. But, I can’t help but imagine how stupid it would be to have a light shining in the eyes of an astronaut when they work on something in the darkness of space.
I hate even just having a background that isn’t a solid color if any software is running. I could never use a transparent screen.
What about a semi transparent terminal window? When I started out learning linux command line interfaces, it helped having the docs just behind my shell session for reference when all I had was a tiny old laptop. But now I don’t bother ricing up my DE anymore. I just want some default window tilling keybindings that work out of the box, and I’m good to go.
I like visual simplicity. Other than the terminal, I usually maximize all of my windows. I’ve just gotten good at using alt-tab and win-# to quickly flip between windows as needed.
Have you tried multiple virtual desktops, or do you prefer to have a single alt-tab stack of windows? I love using a 3x3 grid of desktops, as the special zoning helps me to organize, separate, and spread out my multiple work tasks.
That sounds really complicated! My daily driver is Windows (I know, I know… I can’t give up my games), so I’m not sure that would even be possible for me.
Windows 11 (and 10?) supports multiple desktops. Only in the shape of a 1xN grid through, like a 1D array. Still handy for multitasking:
I just use the i3wm scratchpad for docs
And every little thing on the screen makes a noise.
I’m surprised more people do not talk about this. Its easily the most annoying trope for me. Could you imagine hearing your machine beep through processing for 8-10 hours at a time each day? Its asinine to even consider anyone in these technology roles would deal with that.
I think this is because it is pretty boring to film a computer in action, because it does noting - it doesn’t move for example. So beeping sounds were added for every action a computer would do: opening or closing windows, transferring files to a disk, calculating,…
These sounds were added at a time computers were not that common in every household and to emphazise that the computer is doing something. In recent movies, computers are more silent.
Another thing film makers did to show interaction with a computer is the constant usage of the keyboard. Every thing is done with the keyboard. Open a window: type 5 sceonds on the keyboard. Transferring a file onto a disk: type the whole bible on the keyboard. This was done because it would be pretty boring to show someone use the mouse or drag-and-drop files.
It its somehow compareable to the movie trope of constantly reloading a gun. You can see this often in older movies: the protagonist is going inside a building and he is reloading his gun. Then he stops a the corner of a hallway and is reloading the gun again - despite no shot has been fired. This was also done to show the audience that a gun will be involved.
All valid points! Still bothers me though! Haha
Don’t forget. If you have a server and it’s been penetrated, there needs to be a monitor which displays “SERVER HACKED” in giant, red, blinking text.
Man, imagine how useful that would actually be though? You’d save a lot of money and headache a few months down the line…
Ugh I keep getting memory bounds errors, time to fire up the dodecahedron
Just don’t look directly at it for too long or it’ll cause a buffer overflow in your brain and you’ll start yelling out your private keys instead of saying words.
Snow Crash, is that you?
Was THAT what was on this USB stick the crazy dude at the bar sold me…? Things make so much more … HAIL ENKI, GOD OF -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,6784434422A3B98781F157CFCEA6FA3D
ks8A38SJahkdh339AKShdhaAks9aj3SJfooPazz91JS8S9Sanshriz…
Thanks, your Facebook account is now mine.
sudo apt install hollywoodIt’s also on the AUR. Hilarious package. Would be fun to somehow turn into a screensaver
Live your dreams :)
This is why I loved Mr Robot
My immediate thought as well
So you’re saying you program without a translucent mini map showing your location or whatever? Shame on you.
I have solved the problem of knowing were I am all the time by buying a mirror.
I’ve felt this way about twice in my life, and it’s when I had a really well crafted Jupyter notebook running in VSCode.
It’s definitely the kind of thing you want to pop open when boss is showing some new sponsors/customers around.
Sometimes I think the ideas of the creators of movies and TV series like this is to try to see what’s the most absurd and out of place thing they can push without anyone not in IT noticing. Moreover oftentimes the primary thing is entertainment, not factual accuracy.
Until you watch mr robot and everything typed on screen is accurate to the plot/hack
Yeah that was really cool. And they did it so well that non-IT people still enjoy watching it.
There is an answer to the question that you are not asking, and it’s the scene from NCIS where TWO people are furiously typing on ONE keyboard so that they can “hack faster”
Apparently, it is a thing on at least one show. NCIS once showed two people using the same keyboard at the same time.
to counterhack faster, obviously. and then someone came in and just pulled the plug out of the monitor, which obviously stopped the hacker.
The primary thing is entertainment. They have to make something that is entertaining to watch. For example even explosions are exaggerated. In movies they contain much more fire than they usually contain.
Dammit I overworked the flux capacitor again!
Oh well, time to turn it off and on again.
Reverse the polarities
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But sir, we can’t lock on to the target!
Just track down their IP address.
Computer, enhance!
you are gonna need an energy reverser for that one
ooorrrrr
git checkout -f master 🙃
I’ve been playing around with Grafana alot lately so my screens do look closer to the second. Except not such a disordered jumble so it doesn’t have any where near the same wow factor
Screenshot?
It is best paired with this: https://hackertyper.net/
I remember way back in uni at a hackathon, our table had a projector on it so of course we connected to it and set up Hacker Typer to auto play and keep typing out gibberish. But then some sponsor walked on by and stared, visibly impressed by what was happening. It wasn’t until they asked for a picture that we realized they had never seen Hacker Typer before. And yes, we took the picture without telling them what it was.
the 80s hacking equivalent of Subway Surfer clips
