The Hackers soundtrack is the root node of all my electronic music discoveries… It all started with Orbital, Underworld, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Leftfield…
Underworld still tours here and there - I've seen them 3 times now.... such a great act!
The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
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Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#182Ripe fromage. If I were writing the sequel, it would be a series, and it would be about how they grew up and now they all work leading security at platform companies and government agencies. While reversing a worm that was unleashed by trolls to sabotage a social-credit/Nosedive-like app, Kate/acidburn finds the encoded string "that place where I put that thing that time," which has to be a reference to their old cre…
> grew up and now they all work leading security at platform companies and government agencies The exact opposite of a hacker. If they instead run their own company, built their own products, or open sourced an amazing tool the yeah. Otherwise do we really want a series or movie about their daily stand-ups?
Sure. A show about a hacker who works a corporate cybersecurity job by day. That would never catch on, would it?
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have any tips for finding 23 with English subtitles? Obviously I'm trying Google (and excluding "Number 23" and attempting to exclude "23 blast" (Google is treating my minus as a plus when excluding both)).
That movie is on Archive.org, so maybe you could try to look for subs for those specific titles. https://archive.org/details/23-nichts-ist-so-wie-es-scheint-... https://archive.org/details/Hackers_-_23_part_-II_- The second one says part II but is the complete movie.
I always forget about archive.org, thanks!
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#184Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. If I had a time machine I would warn young me that it's really more like a combination of Office Space and Wolf of Wall Street. It would be awesome to listen to Prodigy or Megadeth while hackin' with the gang though. I'm still down for that if it exists s…
I wish I could code in the time when there were no deadlines and you could gradually plod away at incredibly complex assembly code while hanging out with some like minded folk. That probably stopped being a thing in the 70s though.
See if there's a local makerspace in your town.
It might not be your exact thing, but you're likely to meet people who know about everything going on in the area.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#185Hah. Just yesterday I was contemplating how awful Angelina Jolie's character's handle "Acid Burn" was. Like - who the fuck would choose such nickname for themselves? Other than that - cult movie. Love it. Awesome soundtrack, not that bad acting and not that bad script for back when computers and internet were hip, not just the usual thing. "Hackers" caricaturally but still somewhat properly presents the phreaking cul…
I think we all had some screen names in high school that seem pretty terrible now.
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Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#186My wife and I went to a showing of Hackers at DNALounge in 2020 - https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2020/02-28.html . They set it up to look like Cyberdelia. After the movie they ran a costume contest. The showing was just weeks before the pandemic truly hit America, and we felt pretty lucky that we made it home with out anything.
Don't click the link please. There's a "special" redirect image when the referer is HN. Just go ahead and copy-paste the link to a new tab.
Thank you for spelling 'Referer' correctly!
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#187Ripe fromage. If I were writing the sequel, it would be a series, and it would be about how they grew up and now they all work leading security at platform companies and government agencies. While reversing a worm that was unleashed by trolls to sabotage a social-credit/Nosedive-like app, Kate/acidburn finds the encoded string "that place where I put that thing that time," which has to be a reference to their old cre…
I would sign onto this Kickstarter.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
> grew up and now they all work leading security at platform companies and government agencies The exact opposite of a hacker. If they instead run their own company, built their own products, or open sourced an amazing tool the yeah. Otherwise do we really want a series or movie about their daily stand-ups?
Sure. A show about a hacker who works a corporate cybersecurity job by day. That would never catch on, would it? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/plotsummary
I'll see that and raise you
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_...
:-)
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#189Ripe fromage. If I were writing the sequel, it would be a series, and it would be about how they grew up and now they all work leading security at platform companies and government agencies. While reversing a worm that was unleashed by trolls to sabotage a social-credit/Nosedive-like app, Kate/acidburn finds the encoded string "that place where I put that thing that time," which has to be a reference to their old cre…
> Defcon 30
So, it's not an emergency at all. Just for funzies.
Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago
#190Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. If I had a time machine I would warn young me that it's really more like a combination of Office Space and Wolf of Wall Street. It would be awesome to listen to Prodigy or Megadeth while hackin' with the gang though. I'm still down for that if it exists s…
Hackers shows the career guys as lame and high strung, but the hobbyists (or as Razor and Blade put it, those hacking as a survival trait) as cool and having fun. It's easy for something fun to have the fun sucked out of it when it becomes a career. I think a part of the hacker sub-culture that Hackers touches on lightly is that you have to make your own space. It's not going to exist for you in some prepackaged easy…
Very well put.