alt Hacker News9front is a fork of Plan 9, the operating system that runs Jurassic Park[0]. Stanley Leiber is a prominent contributor, albeit whose existence is humourously-but-seriously-maybe debated. The whole community has a post-ironic humor that is very GenZ but before GenZ was cool or even born.
The Plan 9 Foundation commissions local artists for it's swag at the annual workshops. I'm guessing this article is tangentially related.
I daily drive 9front, so I might be biased.
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mattmanser • today at 6:47 AM
Is that gen z humour?
As it reads more to me like it's Douglas Adams humour, i.e. 1980s humour.
British, post-Python absurdist humour or whatever you'd call it.
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stavros • today at 5:52 AM
Ahh I see, thank you.
You must be joking about Jurassic Park, right?
The systems in Jurassic Park are clearly and obviously running IRIX on SGI workstations, and the girl character says as much when she recognizes Unix. The file system navigator app is famous from its appearance there.
Plan 9 has never been portrayed as a running system in Hollywood, because it has never run any system of consequence in real life either.