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The text isn't projecting onto her face. She can't be a hacker.
I had a friend who wasn't very technical who had some issue where he couldn't boot into his OS (Windows) and bought a new computer, but wanted the files off the old computer. So he asked me for help. I remember bringing a Knoppix live CD (remember Knoppix?) And when I was there, I realized I had a severe lack of general networking equipment. (I didn't have a switch, so I couldn't plug both computers into the network so they could communicate with each other and the internet.)
So I started up the old computer in Knoppix, plugged it into the network, and installed a bunch of networking packages like a DHCP server and such. And then I used the Ethernet cable to plug the two computers into each other, letting the Knoppix box give the new Windows machine its IP. And then I installed Putty on the Windows machine and used it to SCP the files from the old machine to the new one.
The whole thing went way smoother than I'd have expected, never having attempted that before. But I felt like such a hacker that day. Lol.
I remember going through tech school 20 years ago and them telling you you need a crossover cable with you at all times for just this type of situation. I think in the 20 years I have used one once.
NICS have had auto crossover detection built-in for like 20 years now too.
Joke aside...
Who has not reached that "just say yes so they shut up"-point with some people?
I am liking mainly because of the stereotype reversal ngl.
I find the terminal very quiet and cozy compared to desktop apps.
I have probably an unhealthy amount of nvim and tmux shortcuts.
btop really impresses people... Too bad nobody has any interest looking at what I'm doing
I'm a designer, I don't know a single designer - from school or work - who doesn't know what the terminal is. Sure I don't really know how to use it but that's because I grew up on Win 7 and later, where GUIs ruled. Most designers are pretty tech literate, it's half the difference between us and fine arts folk.
It is genuinely shocking how computer illiterate marketing people tend to be.
There’s a reason they have marketing jobs.
They are good at social manipulation and compartmentalization.
The programmers are similarly morally bankrupt, as they're implementing the enshitification of the worst people, the business people who make the shitty decisions both implement.
Programmers can also create non-enshittified solutions in their off time and release it publicly for free and many do. What good can a marketer do for the world?
Fucking nothing. Marketing is just another word for propaganda. Fuck em.
Programmers can also create non-enshittified solutions in their off time and release it publicly for free and many do.
It's a nice idea, but what that ultimately boils down to, is horrible to use programs with barely any support because people (reasonably) don't have the time or support to give them the full beans.
They also result in programs that are basically only made for their users, and that, to everyone else are some weird esoteric programs with outlandish UX.
Like I like open source as much as the next guy, but open source software is not fixing the enshitification of society, especially as devices take away more and more user autonomy. These are bandaid solutions that allow the power users most equipped to make arguments against the hostile enshitification takeover to bury their heads in the sand as they scurry to stay alive, squeezing between the cracks, increasingly having to give up in more and more areas as solutions take more and more focus to keep alive.
Also, more than that, how many programmers actually are doing this? I'd say it's a rare occurrence.
What good can a marketer do for the world?
Activism. They communicate and convince people, so activism is an area where they could help the world if they so chose.
I must disagree with you there. I get more support from the open source community and their things than I do from commercial stuff. Commercial pretends to offer support that isn’t actually there in 2025. They just have call centers that tell you to reboot and then escalate, which basically turns into stalling until you figure it out yourself.
When was the last time you got support for a Google product? What about Microsoft? Apple? Apple used to have decent support but it’s all the same offshored nonsense that the others have now. Hearing “I don’t know” in an Indian accent isn’t support. Microsoft is the worst of the bunch. They have an entire industry set up with people saying you can get support in their ecosystem but it’s all third parties pointing at eachother and no one taking any responsibility.
If it makes you feel better (read worse) my company buys around 500,000 chips a year, and we're still effectively in the same support tier as an individual user.
I've pushed for chips with upstream Linux kernel support, even though they're more expensive, because it's so bad with proprietary software
Might want to point out doing so now will insulate your company from the shock of being forced to migrate down the road. The entire industry is throwing money into AI in the foreground, while in the background they are preparing their transition away once it explodes and takes titans down.
Everyone outside the US is moving away from the proprietary model.
This happend to me just yesterday. I pulled up a terminal with python to use it as a basic calculator (don't judging, I was just adding numbers) and my class mate looks over and thinks I'm some kind of hacker for that
Back in the early 2010s I was sitting on a long train ride, and opened my hacker-sticker-covered netbook and started doing some terminal stuff in a console window; nothing particularly remarkable or exciting-looking, just navigating directories and moving some files around. An older lady sitting next to me glanced over, her eyes got wide, and she got up and moved to a seat further away from me.
I still think about that moment a lot.
I used to write html, JS, and CSS on long flights and saw some side eye looks, but then I’d have to test load the website I was working on for mom jeans and the jig was up.
There was a guy who got approached by a flight attendant for doing calculus on a plane. Some other passenger had reported him for doing something in Arabic, which we all know could hijack and take down the plane!
To be fair, he was almost certainly using Arabic numerals.
/s, obvs
And it looked like they were counting down!
/s
The real question is why were you moving files with the terminal emulator?
The minuscule touchpad sucked on that netbook, making it far quicker and easier to type than smush my finger around while clicking awkwardly-placed buttons.
Because that's a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to do?
Reasonable sure, normal no.
When im moving a lot of files or directories, i do it because i dont trust windows to not interrupt
Yeah I'm a terminal noob, but feels like a file manager would be way easier to move files.
Depends on the operation. It's pretty easy in ranger or vifm.
I set my terminal to black text on white when I'm in public.
I don't want to have to explain what I'm doing to an impatient functionally illiterate backwater cop.
The terminal feels like such a haven for me, for its responsiveness. Windows gets slower and slower with each update. Even my Linux DEs are slow now because I’m hardware poor. The terminal is the only app that stays ahead of my typing.
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Just roll up and open hackertyper.net in fullscreen. “This is going to be a bigger problem than I thought…”
Then after five minutes of furious typing you say ....
I'M IN
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I feel like using the command line should really be a basic skill taught in school. That would be way more worthwhile than teaching people how to use like microsoft office
Okay, but, like... No? How delusional do you have to be to think something you never have to touch in Windows, macOS, iOS, or Android (and probably less and less going forward in desktop Linux, an already extremely niche OS) is more important than learning how to use a word processor, make presentations, or work with spreadsheets? (Microsoft Office specifically is used because it's the industry standard as part of a vicious cycle, but not the school's fault or problem). Do you, like, exist in the real world outside a very specific industry/set of interests?
As a computer science student, I haven't met anyone that didn't use terminal on Mac. I am heavily biased.
Also, I think ping is actually very useful for a normal user. Not nearly as useful as (any) office software, but still.
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Scammers use the terminal to trick people into thinking they've been hacked, so that's one reason to at least know it's not magic.
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Most teachers are already glad when their students graduate with functional literacy and without bullet holes.
Tell me you’re from the USA without telling me you’re from the USA.
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Someone replacing the ejecting coffee holder is pinnacle hacker spotting...
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