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 ;))
outside of the keyboard, you could defiantly make this into a viable terminal interface. just make sure all of the “widgets” are relevant information and its not a bad idea.
There’s dif themes that get rid of the keyboard and add and remove things, plus I’m p sure you can write your own
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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.
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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 just use the i3wm scratchpad for docs
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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.
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Windows 11 (and 10?) supports multiple desktops. Only in the shape of a 1xN grid through, like a 1D array. Still handy for multitasking:
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?
sudo apt install hollywoodIt’s also on the AUR. Hilarious package. Would be fun to somehow turn into a screensaver
Live your dreams :)
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.
Dammit I overworked the flux capacitor again!
Oh well, time to turn it off and on again.
Reverse the polarities
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Computer, enhance!
you are gonna need an energy reverser for that one
ooorrrrr
git checkout -f master 🙃
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.
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.
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.
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/
the 80s hacking equivalent of Subway Surfer clips
I thought this was about sound engineers and producers because the bottom image is a reality for them lmfao
you guys use an IDE? I’m just using the terminal with tmux.
I have been trapped in vi and I don’t know how to escape.
Send help.
You’re trapped in vi
I’m trapped in ed
We are not the same
?
(I was making a joke about how if you screw up in ed it just prints
?)🥹 Smart enough to know ed exists, too dumb to get the jokes
just reboot the machine. problem solved!
you can not escape vi
one does not simply leave vi
That’s what I do.
