• flauschke
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    Go watch Mr Robot, it’s great and does not do this

    • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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      I am not a programmer by any means but I know enough to know they did their research.

      Except Tyrell called it “nome” instead of “g’nome” and I’m pretty sure TOR exit nodes can only see unencrypted data and the entry node can only see who sent it.

      • @archon@sh.itjust.works
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        …is gnome meant to be read as ‘genome’? Never realised that was a possibility as a non-native English speaker. Always based it off the garden variety Gnome with a silent G.

        This is like sequel or ess-que-ell all over!

          • SokathHisEyesOpen
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            I’ve been using Gnome for 24 years and have only ever pronounced it like the thing you’d put on your lawn if you’re an old person in Florida. But I guess that’s what happens when you only ever read about a subject and never talk about it in person.

            • Karyoplasma
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              That’s imgur for me. I’ve always pronounced it imm-gurr instead of imager.

              • SokathHisEyesOpen
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                21 year ago

                My son and I got into a big argument about how that’s pronounced. He said imm-gurr and I said imager. Since he’s younger I assumed he was right, but it sounded so stupid I refused to yield. 😂

              • SokathHisEyesOpen
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                I never actually had to pronounce it, but in my mind MySQL was “my squeal” for years and years. The first time I talked to another PHP programmer about it I said “my squeal”, and he did a double take, then said “hold on, what did you just say?”. Then we had a pretty good laugh about it after he corrected me.

    • Dandroid
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      I was watching a show recently where someone was writing code, and it was actually C++ code. I actually did the exact pose in the meme.

      Of course, he was writing it inhumanly fast, and he always seemed to be writing the start of a new file. But I liked that it was actually code and not just The Matrix-style jibberish

      • @Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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        When I made a short film about an AI I was writing C# into visual studio as my coding. It was actual video game code that was for something like AI pathfinding or something, so I tried to make it somewhat accurate.

        Not sure why movies can’t spend a grand on a programing consultant to actually write them some hacking-ish code for the scenes.

        • Dandroid
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          My guess is that they just don’t care to spend the time on it when the majority of people wouldn’t even notice. But of course those of us that would notice would really appreciate it.

          As a guitar player, it equally irritates me when the person “playing” the guitar has clearly never touched a guitar in their life. Similarly, when an actor is actually playing it, I really appreciate it.

          Off topic, but I once walked in while my wife was watching some anime where the guitars were all extremely accurate, like down to what tuning pegs they would have had for the era the guitars were from. They must have motion captured all of the guitar playing from when they recorded the music, or at least took video of their hands, because they animated it perfectly. Down to the tapping parts and everything. It was jaw dropping. I made her start the whole show over from episode one so I could watch it.

        • @ribboo@lemm.ee
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          141 year ago

          The show Mr. Robot did that, they used real 0-day exploits for their hacking scenes!

        • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          I thought I heard somewhere that these screenwriters as like an inside joke try to top each other on how ridiculously incorrect they can make their hacking scenes.

  • SGG
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    sudo apt-get install hackerman

  • @Azzk1kr@feddit.nl
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    491 year ago

    Don’t forget the ridiculous amount of beeping and other sounds when characters fly over the screen at twice the speed of light!

    • @cake
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      He is building Firefox from source, don’t worry

    • @gronjo45@lemm.ee
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      I’d love it if they made a movie on Mel. The guy who coded a magnetic drum completely by hand.

      He’d memorized a gazillion opcodes and tuned the drum to do better even before compilers had been implemented. He just didn’t trust them so he refused to use the compiler lol

  • Margot Robbie
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    As an actress, that’s nonsense, if hacking scenes in movies are fake, then how do you explain this documentary I watched where this hacker man hacked a kung fu fighting cop back in time to kill Hitler (and David Hasselhoff was there for some reason, too)?

  • @Isoprenoid@programming.dev
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    231 year ago

    Wait, you guys don’t update your system and install random packages before going on a hacking spree?

    What have I been doing all this time?

  • kratoz29
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    231 year ago

    Do we have a “itsaunixsystem” community here?

  • Sabre363
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    171 year ago

    The only hacking that ever felt plausible to me was in Mr. Robot.

      • Sabre363
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        51 year ago

        It is a literal masterpiece, and not because of the hacking. I highly recommend watching it again after you finish for a totally new experience.

  • Sparking
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    151 year ago

    I thought the bash history in tron: legacy was kind of clever. There was stuff like vi last_will_and_testament.txt before the computer ducking command. I remember being surprised some prop designer knew enough about computers to set up that easter egg. Although I think I was reading that they contracted out the design of the OS to some team or something.