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Don’t forget the ridiculous amount of beeping and other sounds when characters fly over the screen at twice the speed of light!
He is building Firefox from source, don’t worry
I recently started rewatching Gundam Wing, and one of the computer screens with fast scrolling text was just scrolling through the Readme of either old Adobe Software or old Printer software (I don’t remember which).
I’m not sure about Gundam but I was watching through Dragonball z and sometime during the Android saga, Bulmas computer starts running a program and it looked pretty accurate but I’m not really able to program.
sees them using Assembly
okay this probably doesn’t make sense but I’m too lazy to prove it
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sees them typing into notepad
“Wait this might actually be legit…”
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?
Probably masturbating
The hacking scene in the Command and Conquer game is unrivalled. Actually piloting worms through cyberspace, with the very real risk of death to the hacker, this is the future I knew and loved as a child
I’ve seen this post 5 times already
op just trying to update package
Whoops, I only scrolled back a month. When did your tally start?
I think that most of the time even if they know what it would look like in the real world, movie creators intentionally make it look silly - I guess mostly for the entertainment value, or as kind of a joke in the lines of “let’s see how absurd we can make it before your grandma notices something’s not right”.
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I doubt it, unless they show something very in depth about a fresh vulnerability on a real system - and even then there are usually months between shooting a TV show/movie and it hitting the screen.
Never forget the infamous NCIS co-op hacking on a keyboard scene.
Whenever I point out that something doesn’t work like that in a TV show or movie, my wife says that that’s the way it works in the universe of the show. Okay, maybe, but how am I supposed to enjoy nitpicking, then??
I remember a scene of such a crime movie that was at least funny for people used to computers and progrmmers.
The (old and seasoned) detectives were brought in contact with the new “cyber unit” of the police. Stored away in an otherwise empty office floor somewhere, they were the absolute movie style hackers: cluttered desks, sloppy outfit, beards. The old detectives were quite reluctant to work with those young “computer people” and had a lot of prejudices. Then, one of the detectives found a big red button on the desk and said “I wonder what happens when I press this button” - and presses it. And the “cyber guys”: “DON’T!”. The detective mocks them, and presses the button several times before he asks what the button actually does. Cyber guy: “That is our ‘order pizza’ button! I hope you’ve got enough money to pay for this…”. Cut. Next scene: They are all eating pizza together from a desk-high stack of pizza boxes.
I was looking for a new project. pizza button would be neat.
This actually existed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USQxZc9nmtE
Back in Ye Olden Days, we probably had the first web interface to order pizza. “We” had been a long-established computer nerd meeting, and this pizza service that normally was closed on Sundays actually opened just for us on that weekend just for the occasion. We had an internal web page to order and organize orders of pizza. But of course, the order did not go out electronically - when our web app saw the need to place the order, is simply sent a fax ;-)
Inside that part of an inside joke between writers? Read that somewhere.
Yes NCIS writers vs CSI writers to see who could get the stupidest tech bullshit on screen
What is that a video game?
I love how the smug manager thinks he’s thwarted the attack on the server since he unplugged the monitor to the terminal where people were defending against the attack.
You know, I’ve seen this dozens of times but I’m just realizing, at least assuming that’s not a power bar (which would be odd since it matches the plug of the monitor or PC), since the monitor shut of straight away, he actually only unplugged the monitor. The PC should still be on and getting hacked.
Yes, my favorite comment:
pulls out the power cord for the monitor
Job done!
followed by:
Attacker must have had 5 people on the keyboard.
The first one had me laughing out loud
I thought the bash history in tron: legacy was kind of clever. There was stuff like
vi last_will_and_testament.txtbefore 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.Try being a medical biologist watching outbreak/pandemic films. It’s fucking painful to watch.
Why? Do people behave in an unrealistic manner? Like taking precautions, social distancing, wear masks, believing that its real?
I was more thinking about when researchers go looking for “the original strain” and stuff like that.
It’s almost always just htop and/or hackertyper and/or the fancy matrix effect
Or answer D: all of the above, in the form of hollywood
The best ones show a port scan. The worst just show scrolling html source code.
There’s also stuff like this that Hollywood employs:
Trinity used NMAP and scanned for real known SSH vulnerabilities when hacking the power station in Matrix Reloaded.
And then there’s Mr. Robot in its own tier, using actual real-world tools and frameworks, with realistic flags and everything!
The legendary ones show a “BREACH” at the target systems, in Red Bold Times New Roman font size 150.
Extra point if they have the PowerPoint shuttle controls visible in the bottom-left corner.
A serif font on a computer display?! Appalling! Sacrilegious!
The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be…unnatural.
Like being able to tell l from I.
Running “top” is also some common thing.
So, when I got a bunch of free serial WYSE terminals ages ago, I propped them up on the shelf, daisy-chained them, wrote a wrapper to be able to address all four screens through one UART, and had them display (and regularly update) system stats. Just because.
Most of the time it’s just meaningless gibberish in my experience.
With showoff 3d graphics
I liked how Star Trek: Discovery had a snippet of C code with a reference to Windows NT. I wonder if we’ll still be on x86 in the 23rd century.
“The warp core is down!”
“Have you tried turning the power couplings off and on again?”
Having played Void Crew recently, which just launched into early access and therefore has a lot of bugs, it happens astonishingly often how turning a ship’s system off and back on again - sometimes even the whole ship - “fixes” a bug (it’s more of a workaround).
Sounds like a cool game
Hollywood hacking or updating packages?
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)?
The Nintendo Power Glove is a critical accessory for hacking too much time.
Thank you for reminding me that this piece of cultural heritage exists, I need to watch it again
Remember that 2 was in post when the production company decided they would just stop funding it
Honestly, I don’t think it ever needed a sequel, it’s perfect on its own
I was really looking forward to it :(
Best rp on all of lemmy, beats out those shitters over in the Marxist area any day
It’s almost as if an award winning professional actor would be really good at playing roles or something.
What’s your opinion on the Hollywood obsession with femme fatale roles and do you think that’s a healthy discourse/ideology for women to adhere to today
Compare and contrast with Status Fatale figures
I’ll go into it briefly since I’m a bit bored.
The role of woman in society is, as with all things, an inherent contradiction (Pretty sure everyone has seen or at least read about that monologue from the movie by now), and society progress through the development and resolution of these inherent contradictions.
You can view the role of the femme fatale, then as an response to seek resolution to said contradiction: what if these extraordinary women are now free to be as smart and pretty and as dangerous as they want?
I don’t think it’s an obsession, as long as this contradiction exists, this idea is always worth exploring.
Does it get explored or does it get repeated to the point losing its meaning and instead encouraging new status quo.
I’d also still like to hear your opinion on it with respect to the male counterpart as portrayed in movies if that’s cool
