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Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by kstrauser »

sophacles wrote: post #106
nickthegreek wrote: post #29

I highly recommend the 88 films 4k blu-ray release for those who love Hackers. I recently was able to purchase an unopened VHS tape as well. I have a brand new VCR coming so I can have a proper experience.

The proper experience is to copy it onto an old VHS, worn out and a bit stretched in places. Play it for the umpteenth time on a 1980s VCR feeding a fuzzy old tv in the basement for background noise (and a killer sound track) as you beat your head against a crt monitor wondering why your code won't compile. Bonus points if you pause to watch the movie and wonder "how have I seen this movie countless times and only ju…

Who’s that? The girl laughing as they rack up the score and declare a tie, then we never see her again?

Or how about when you realize you never see Phreak again once he makes his call from the jail?

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Post by dpe82 »

wolvoleo wrote: post #226
browningstreet wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried to watch it for the first time recently. Didn’t make it past 20 minutes… feel like I had to be there when it was fresh back in the day.

Me neither. It's just too weird. On the other hand, something like blade runner I still think is amazing. Or the matrix (original only)

Let go and embrace the weird.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by anthk »

thr0waway001 wrote: post #160
anthk wrote: post #78

I like Wargames much more. Still, people is right that we should take the 'hacking' (cracking) scenes artistically, as a metaphor on what's happening inside the mind of a cracker.

If a movie ever had the balls to show real hacking people would see how utterly f cking boring and uncool it looks. It’s like prog rock. By and large, hot chicks are interested in bands like Motley Crue and Bon Jovi. But prog rock never got chicks wet. It was always music by nerds for other nerds. I think a realistic movie about hacking would be the same. By and large.

Indeed; music wise for actual hacking (old meaning) it would be some 9front setup (either themeless defaults or something bland with yellow background for terminal windows, as if they were mundane sticky notes) and Muzak; for cracking either industrial metal or some progresive Jazz which would still sound cool and elegant in some parts. For really odd hacks and cracks the music from Twin Peaks wuold be ideal.

For the cool stuff, well, the Demoscene it's like that. Or stuff from https://t3x.org, or the small tools from gopher://hoi.st and tons of weird 9front new tools such as the GeFS filesystem, the future gpufs, using remote devices as if they were the local ones in the computer and whatnot. Ditto with Subleq and EForth which is perfect foror something like Jarre.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by Intermernet »

T3OU-736 wrote: post #71
hnuser123456 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are some niche 3D file system browsers/shells out there, but none as captivating as what's shown in the movie (or the linked "animated experience") that I can find.

Not quite filesystem navigation, but SGI IRIX's Performance CoPilot software had an IrixGL (OpenGL's precursor) UI for monitoring things like memory state, CPU/storage loads, etc. The PCP is absolutely nowhere _near_ the graphical wizardry of the state of this app, and the overlay of executing code atop a given directory structure is quite beautiful (practicality be damned), but I can see the inspiration. I do wonder…

PCP is still in active development. It's very cool, but probably made obsolete by otel and others. I used it on servers and services regularly until a few years ago. Very lightweight, robust and powerful.

https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by Intermernet »

the_af wrote: post #90
GJim wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Content creators I'd argue the very words creating "content" implies something commercial is already in mind and is a driver, rather than just doing your own thing online and not caring (such showing a video of your band/hobby on YouTube in case anybody is interested). To a Gen-X'er, the former sounds like they are already a sell out :-) I certainly agree with you that perceptions have shifted.

I agree with you and I find the term "creating content" awful, even though I'm forced to use it because it's something people immediately understand. "Content creator"... what happened to artist, playwright, painter, hobbyist, etc? It makes it seem as if they were making stuff for a corporation to sell.

Imagine Davinci putting ads for the Medici money lending services into his paintings. That's where we're at now.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by dijit »

vidalakistrajk wrote: post #188

Hi guys! Original creator here. I had no idea this was trending here until some people on LinkedIn wrote to me!!! I will try to make the garbage files hunt easter egg. This was an idea that started all of this but I couldn't get it to work nicely and I definitely didn't expect this much traction!

I found an RSA private key while wandering around, hope its not used for anything ;)

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by cbdevidal »

shaunxcode wrote: post #221
herodoturtle wrote: post #88

I’ve probably watched Hackers over a hundred times. My all time favourite movie. My first crush as a young teenager was Burn. It led to a career in software. So many kindred spirits on this thread - makes me smile. And after 30+ years of watching Hackers, it only occurred to me recently that the biggest noob in the movie Joey beat the Gibson, twice. Sure he had assistance the second time, but still poetic imho. Hack…

I listen to the hackers soundtrack regularly when coding. It’s ideal.

Absolute classic, especially Halcyon
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