✅ 🦊 CheckFoxSep 8, 2018
I think the least realistic part of '90s cyberpunk was all the hacking on VR with literal object-orientation instead of on pocket supercomputers running LineageOS with a tmux shell.
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This is how I plan to do it in my universes. All the fancy VR is going to end up locked down and proprietary, but they're going to have a 10,000 year old OpenSSH version with a weak default password.

Enter: tmux. Found on an ancient probe from the lost homeworld, key to the resistance.

Sep 8, 2018 at 4:40pmWeb
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You might think "but that's unrealistic! Surely they would replace it by then!"

Friend, let me tell you something. The first Mars colonies in 100 years are going to have a grizzled young COBOL apprentice keeping things running. They're going to know C++ and Golang and Rust, and your web portal will still use Ruby and Rails.