There is a long abandoned (but it still runs) project called eDEX-UI (https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui) which basically provides a working, useable terminal surrounded by all sorts of the crap visual appearance of hacker terminals in the movies. Pair that with a terminal editor and you’ve almost got a movie IDE!
It’s kinda fun for a while although I’d be amazed if anyone actually used it as their main terminal emulator program. But you could.
I could see it being a real thing. When you’re making a game it gives you visualization for animations (both physics and visual-only) and shaders (maybe even a simplified stylized version). Random benchmark results/debug info. Drawing attention to syntax mistakes. An important email or video call pops up.
It would be cool and potentially useful, but completely un-asked for and likely distracting and a waste of space. Basically what if your computer was a non-cartoon clippy.
And encryption is when you fondle a holographic semi-transparent ball with your fingers.
That’s not the kind of ball-fondling I had in mind.
Fellas, is it gay to decrypt?
Only if your bits touch.
What if they byte?
Sometimes I think the ideas of the creators of movies and TV series like this is to try to see what’s the most absurd and out of place thing they can push without anyone not in IT noticing. Moreover oftentimes the primary thing is entertainment, not factual accuracy.
Apparently, it is a thing on at least one show. NCIS once showed two people using the same keyboard at the same time.
to counterhack faster, obviously. and then someone came in and just pulled the plug out of the monitor, which obviously stopped the hacker.
There is an answer to the question that you are not asking, and it’s the scene from NCIS where TWO people are furiously typing on ONE keyboard so that they can “hack faster”
The bottom is also on a transparent screen
So you’re saying you program without a translucent mini map showing your location or whatever? Shame on you.
