/r/itsaunixsystem

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For screenshots of overly fake or wrong tech in media!

Welcome to "It's a Unix System!" A subreddit for every over the top, satirical, embarrassing, or downright, flat-out incorrect usage of Technology found in Movies, TV Shows, and Video Games!

 


 

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Rules for /r/itsaunixsystem content:

  1. Post format must be [Source] Description
  2. NO STOCK IMAGES
  3. Must be an example of over the top, satirical, embarrassing, or downright, flat-out incorrect usage of technology found in media
  4. No invalid IP addresses. They're funny the first time, but there are just too many examples of this particular misuse.
  5. No website screenshots. This includes Instagram and Facebook.
  6. Mark NSFW content with a NSFW tag
  7. Don't forget your reddiquette

 


 

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NOTE: Yes, we understand that in Jurassic Park it is, in fact, a Unix System, and the graphics on screen were a style of File Explorer for that system. That's part of this subreddit's charm!

 

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[Night agent S2E1] Image facial recognition

15 Comments
2025/01/24
05:30 UTC

331

In Unthinkable (2010) there is a moment where you see the screen of a bomb tech who is apparently using excel and random letters produced by keyboard mashing to defuse a bomb.

7 Comments
2025/01/15
16:08 UTC

111

[Jason Bourne 2016] I know this, it's a TSA Pre-Clearance System!

13 Comments
2025/01/14
12:01 UTC

96

[the kingsman] definitely not a signal emitter (not OP)

0 Comments
2025/01/10
01:12 UTC

70

[Pantheon episode 8] The reincarnation of (not-)Steve Jobs using a workstation with 1800MB host memory available in htop

14 Comments
2025/01/09
02:53 UTC

1,080

[Doctor Who S06E04] Apparently Time Lords use Ethernet and VGA

47 Comments
2024/12/23
00:51 UTC

91

[Brooklyn Tide, 2016] Using ttys000 for encrypted communication

4 Comments
2024/11/14
21:47 UTC

146

[Silicon Valley S01E06] They’re writing Pythava

Writing (incoherent) Python code in a Java file/project.

Also using self inside a function that’s not inside a class…

20 Comments
2024/11/02
09:37 UTC

284

[NCIS, S2E5] 20 years ago today, we were taught the dual-user keyboard anti-hacking strategy

15 Comments
2024/10/26
01:32 UTC

94

[White Collar S5E4] trying to find a client from 250 at a storage facility

6 Comments
2024/10/22
12:23 UTC

44

[The last thing he told me S01E02] Creating an online shop with C++, C, Java and XML

14 Comments
2024/10/14
22:32 UTC

467

[Nightsleeper] Some horrible, unindented python code to slow down a train

  • no indentation
  • multiple nested try blocks with seemingly no except
  • stray " in the middle of that string
  • input's argument should be something written to the prompt
  • even if it wasn't you'll struggle to turn that into an int
  • you probably want to be passing in that speed variable somewhere, right?

+1 for sanitising the speed I guess, wouldn't want the train to start moving backwards.

61 Comments
2024/10/14
21:11 UTC

120

[Mass Effect 2] The Geth run a Unix OS

8 Comments
2024/09/24
11:26 UTC

153

[GTAV] When did Lester become a frontend dev?

2 Comments
2024/09/22
15:14 UTC

130

Mania de Você [S01E02]: Doing card fraud using a Python script that SSHes into a Raspberry Pi

12 Comments
2024/09/11
01:02 UTC

153

[Abigail] Hacking an entry gate by binding a key to an input

12 Comments
2024/07/17
06:57 UTC

399

[Unthinkable 2009] Bomb disposal (app?)

17 Comments
2024/07/06
12:39 UTC

231

[S.W.A.T. S02E17] Hacking a GPS using htop, top and ls

"I am fusing the local connection to the security systems"

20 Comments
2024/07/03
22:29 UTC

102

[Big City Greens: Spacecation] Accidentally programming the Farmbots to harm (instead of farm)

9 Comments
2024/06/07
02:18 UTC

141

[Abigail] glad we have a function for that

4 Comments
2024/05/07
10:41 UTC

1,608

[FBI International] virus python code

lol. Typos on virus

72 Comments
2024/04/03
01:24 UTC

379

[Iwájú] Let me write that in PHP ... no, I changed my mind. I'll just continue using python!

17 Comments
2024/03/18
21:44 UTC

396

[Pantheon] Hacking a game with rust and cargo build

15 Comments
2024/03/18
14:23 UTC

413

[CTRL Phreak] I made a hacking game where you 'code' by literally mashing the keyboard.

17 Comments
2024/02/26
13:11 UTC

15

FBI: Most Wanted (TV show) “satellite code”

0 Comments
2024/02/22
22:05 UTC

60

Virtual Girl (1998) "This feels like an unnecessarily long “Tim & Eric” Cinco product commercial."

1 Comment
2024/02/09
22:53 UTC

419

[Stranger Things S02E08] Did Bob even have to hack this system? It seems like it's ready to use

As we can see here, the system is ready to use. It is not asking for any password. Even if it did, how would Bob be able to write and execute a BASIC program without knowing the password?

https://preview.redd.it/5lh54ndjk3bc1.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=f308e3ad57d0e1a8a4d10fa6d043890d76ef78e0

39 Comments
2024/01/07
22:52 UTC

176

[The Lazarus Project] I use Arch Linux BTW

10 Comments
2023/12/18
21:26 UTC

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