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A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by baud147258 »

FuckOffNeemo wrote: post #24
baud147258 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or perhaps it's because sometime the meaning of emoji can be hard to understand, rather than "gah! young people"

I argue emojois make it easier to understand. Whether conveying sarcasm, frustration, joy or anger. It's much easier to infer the tone of a message using emojis.

I'd agree that for emotional context, it can be useful. But I don't think the way they are used there is easy to understand. I mean what's the meaning of the heart regarding CI or the pen for bugs? Is that indicative of a categorie of commit (CI, bug-fix...) or just to decorate the message?

Also another issue is that emojis are not as easily indexable/searchable.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by arscan »

MayeulC wrote: post #4

Is the "network endpoint" displaying the location of the remote servers there is/was an open connection to? That could be an interesting feature! One could even imagine opening a website from the globe view.

It does does exactly that. Visit Hawaii.edu in a browser and watch a pin pop up in the middle of the Pacific!

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by lostgame »

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #40

Aww, why was the title changed? Copyright concerns? That's a real shame if so.

The previous title was also inaccurate as I believe it actually labelled it as something like 'TRON OS' - the issue with that, of course, being, this isn't an OS, but an application.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by Bluestrike2 »

tyingq wrote: post #39
teekert wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But... Can it take input from two people hacking on one keyboard? [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

Painful, but I watched it to the end. Urgh. "DOD Level 9 Encryption" and pretty sure their "fix" was unplugging the monitor.

I wonder if the actors realize just how dumb these sorts of scenes are when they're filming them.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by lostgame »

nailer wrote: post #11

I compiled it (takes a while there's a lot of native modules) and ran it on a Surface Go. Here's a video: https://twitter.com/mikemaccana/status/1065615451940667396 Short version: - Task manager, CPU cores etc works. - Touchscreen keyboard works - Yeah the globe is the location of your public IP plus socket connections (ie Get-NetTCPConnection / netstat) - It's slow, and Ctrl C doesn't work. It's not going to replace…

>> Ctrl C doesn't work

Also confirming it works on MacOS, High Sierra.

Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

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Post by undecisive »

lostgame wrote: post #44

>> If you have a physical keyboard wired to your computer, pressing keys IRL will illuminate the virtual keyboard: please remember to not type any passwords if you are recording your screen! Maybe just disable that on password fields? :3

I feel like this is appropriate here: https://xkcd.com/1425/

Or do you have an idea how you would programmatically determine whether input was not echoed due to password, game, or just so that the app can do some pre-processing before displaying the glyph?

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