| ▲ | bilekas 3 hours ago |
| Hack the planet.
This is such a call back and what a nice touch to add the sound to it too. That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists. What a fun movie. |
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| ▲ | Zaskoda 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap... I loved it. One could argue that I loved it all along given that I watched it so many times... but there was a distinct moment where I let go and that's when I was able to see just how wonderful this movie really is. |
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| ▲ | kstrauser an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I adore it. And some of the representations are the best I’ve seen anywhere. Kids exploring for the fun of exploring, not to hurt anyone but just to learn? The clock whirling at 4AM while someone hyperfocuses on code? The way they tease each other but genuinely respect their abilities? It’s beautiful. | |
| ▲ | hnuser123456 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | T3OU-736 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 if, on a modern Linux system with SELinix, this model (code accessing a directory) is actually closer to viable? SELinux's contexts/labels for subjects overlaying with the same for objects can, I imagine, be visualized. The normal access patterns would be way too overwhelming, I think - but exceptions/policy violations? :ponder: | |
| ▲ | nickthegreek 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nice little blog post that looks at these interfaces in the movie: https://scifiinterfaces.com/2023/12/11/hackers/ |
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| ▲ | inanutshellus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I've flipped that switch for book adaptations. I let go of fanboying on what Hollywood "did to" the story and instead just decided to be thankful something I love was given a new medium / audience / interpretation... and voila! now I have two things to love. It's still fun to point out where things could've been done differently, but instead of actually disliking the film(s) because of those things, it's just another mechanism that lets me talk to my friends about something. Much more fun than riding home in silence in any case. ;) | |
| ▲ | the_af an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap... I loved it. I never managed to reach your third time. Once was enough for me, at the time, to decide it was an awful movie which didn't have anything to do with hackers or computers and which was terribly overacted, and that was that. Filed under yet another "Hollywood just doesn't get it", subsection "so bad it's embarrassing". Much later I realized I had missed a cult classic. Oh well. I still think it's a bad movie, but I'm ok with other people loving it... maybe that's my growth moment. |
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| ▲ | rsync an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists." The best music, in my opinion, in the movie is not on the soundtrack and it is: Guy Pratt - Combination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_7N8NsU4jQ |
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| ▲ | alexjplant 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I, too, have such a work playlist entitled "Hack the Mainframe." It's got this type of stuff along with 90s/early 2000s breakbeat songs that ended up shoehorned into car and techno thriller movies at the time. I know a lot of this music was reviled as sellout trash at the time but I was too young to know any better when I first heard it and think it still holds up phenomenally well. |
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| ▲ | GJim 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > sellout trash A trifle offtopic, but..... In the 1990's and for us Gen-X'ers, the worst thing you could do was to sell out; to take the mans money instead of keeping your integrity. Calling people and bands 'sell outs' (sometimes without justification!) was to insult them. With the rise of 'influencers' the opposite appears to be the case; people go out of their way to sell out and are praised for doing so. This is a massive change in the cultural landscape which perhaps many born in the 2000's aren't aware of. (Being aware of this helps give some perspective to Gen-X media and films like hackers). | | |
| ▲ | burningChrome an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | This is exemplified in Wayne's World product scene. I later found out none of the companies shown in the scene had paid for their products to be in the scene. Its also one of the most iconic scenes from the movie. | |
| ▲ | riffraff 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is insightful. But I'm not sure it's completely true, I think people just have shifted their perception of what selling out means. Content creators on YouTube, for example, get criticized when they literally sell their brand to a larger conglomerate. It seems people do not complain if they do sponsorizations tho. | | |
| ▲ | GJim 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > 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. | | |
| ▲ | the_af an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | jghn 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | In a sense, society sold out |
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| ▲ | dualogy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > 90s/early 2000s breakbeat songs Can recommend such a mix, too. Gather select works of The Chemical Brothers, The Dust Brothers, Bassbin Twins, Crystal Method, DJ Krush, Dub Pistols, Lunatic Calm, Meat Katie... and you're Somewhen Else during it. Works for commutes/trips, too. |
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| ▲ | RobRivera 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Discovered the Hackers ost on a /mu/ thread. So many bangers. |
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