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

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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.

Yes they do.

I’ll leave these two links for everyone to play with.

http://geektyper.com http://www.hackertyper.com

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https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/2sz5xo/bspwmofxoc...

oh hey, thanks! I'm excited this is something people still remember. I hope people get behind this, it's a lot more accessible and there seem to be a lot of people trying it out.

Studios keep pushing the UIs visually but we need to keep up with the ridiculousness

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Blessed contrib has a pretty cool "retro future" look. I wonder if it's made it's way into any movies: https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib There's also "Hollywood Terminal" https://www.tecmint.com/fake-hollywood-hacker-terminal/

The Fifth Estate tried to make things look realistic, so a fair number of CLIs have actually made their way into at least a movie

http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/post/160895580781...

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>> 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?

It’s funny that regarding this comics content, checking if you have a bird on the photo is like one repository away, nowhere that 5 years and a research team mentioned.

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

I suppose they don't realize it. To be fair, I can only tell when it's computer-related nonsense, but I absolutely cannot tell if (for example) medical dramas such as Grey's Anatomy are at all realistic, barring reasonable artistic licenses to make a scene more dramatic. The surgeons could be doing something as silly as "hacking the same keyboard" and I wouldn't know. The computer-related scenes in medical dramas are…

My mother, a nurse, likes House. She says there's plenty wrong, but enough right that it's not too distracting.

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

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If anyone is interested, here's a post about the original graphics and interface design from the movie by jt nimoy: https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...

I feel that the 'Tron: Legacy' and 'The Martian' interfaces ar the high water marks in this category ...

Here is a full treatment of the Martian screens/interfaces:

https://territorystudio.com/project/the-martian/

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Blessed contrib has a pretty cool "retro future" look. I wonder if it's made it's way into any movies: https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib There's also "Hollywood Terminal" https://www.tecmint.com/fake-hollywood-hacker-terminal/

A bunch of xterm active icons on a purist fvwm look just that impressive

+ai This option enables active icon support if that feature was compiled into xterm. This is equivalent to setting the vt100 resource activeIcon to "true".

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