• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    D’aww, that’s downright charming. Like when viruses would explode across whole networks just to randomly toggle capslock.

    You couldn’t make the movie Hackers today. Not because it’s a time capsule of commercialized cyberpunk cheese, from an era where neither audiences nor screenwriters actually understood computers… but because when the protagonist coldly brags ‘I’m a cybercriminal,’ grandma in the front row would yell “Hang him by the nuts!”