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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So you're saying you program without a translucent mini map showing your location or whatever? Shame on you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently, it is a thing on at least one show. NCIS once showed two people using the same keyboard at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

to counterhack faster, obviously. and then someone came in and just pulled the plug out of the monitor, which obviously stopped the hacker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ugh I keep getting memory bounds errors, time to fire up the dodecahedron

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dammit I overworked the flux capacitor again!

Oh well, time to turn it off and on again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is why I loved Mr Robot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
sudo apt install hollywood
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's also on the AUR. Hilarious package. Would be fun to somehow turn into a screensaver

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And encryption is when you fondle a holographic semi-transparent ball with your fingers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not the kind of ball-fondling I had in mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fellas, is it gay to decrypt?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What if they byte?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And every little thing on the screen makes a noise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Man, imagine how useful that would actually be though? You'd save a lot of money and headache a few months down the line...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The bottom is also on a transparent screen