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There's an obscure Polish film from 2002, "Haker" (Hacker), obscure for many reasons and not in a good way; it's absolute drivel, not even accidentally funny in
by wowczarek 4mo ago
There's an obscure Polish film from 2002, "Haker" (Hacker), obscure for many reasons and not in a good way; it's absolute drivel, not even accidentally funny in a MST3K, B movie kind of way - it's just really, really bad.
In this gem there is a conversation about hacking into some system, and a character asks another a completely nonsensical semi jargon question, which goes like this: "Did you try Emacs via Sendmail?". I shit you not.
This expression firmly cemented itself into Polish tech speak as a way to refer to or call out someone having absolutely no idea what they are taking about.
- JSR_FDED 4mo agoA nerd shibboleth, love it!
- kstrauser 4mo agoA common US equivalent comes from a Dilbert strip where the boss wants him to investigate databases, with the suggestion that “mauve has more RAM”.
- userbinator 4mo agoThat expression reminds me of another old meme in Russian: "How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?"
- seba_dos1 4mo agoEven Emacs through sendmail couldn't penetrate the double wall of fire.
- globular-toast 4mo agoThat's in TFA including a screenshot...
- wowczarek 4mo agoWasn't there yet when I read it.
- fergie 4mo agoBro- read the article before commenting!
- wowczarek 4mo agoI swear it wasn't there when I first read it! Must have been my firewall.