{"id":3701,"date":"2012-03-20T00:14:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2012-03-20T00:14:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T23:14:34","slug":"linux-kernel-code-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/linux-kernel-code-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux kernel code on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the fast-moving early scenes in episode 16 of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)\">Person of Interest<\/a> at roughly 2:05 into the thing I caught this snapshot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vlcsnap-2012-03-19-23h16m30s121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3702  aligncenter\" title=\"person of interest s01e16\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vlcsnap-2012-03-19-23h16m30s121-300x169.png\" alt=\"person of interest s01e16\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vlcsnap-2012-03-19-23h16m30s121-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vlcsnap-2012-03-19-23h16m30s121-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vlcsnap-2012-03-19-23h16m30s121.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(click the image to see a slightly bigger version)<\/p>\n<p>It is only in sight for a fraction of a second. What is seen in the very narrow terminal screen on the right is source code scrolling by. Which source code you say? Take a look again. That my friends is <a href=\"http:\/\/lxr.free-electrons.com\/source\/kernel\/groups.c#L30\">kernel\/groups.c from around line 30<\/a> in a recent Linux kernel. I bet that source file never had so many viewers before, although perhaps not that many actually appreciated this insight! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>And before anyone asks: no, there&#8217;s absolutely no point or relevance in showing this source code in this section. It is just a way for the guys to look techy. And to be fair, in my mind kernel code is fairly techy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the fast-moving early scenes in episode 16 of Person of Interest at roughly 2:05 into the thing I caught this snapshot: (click the image to see a slightly bigger version) It is only in sight for a fraction of a second. What is seen in the very narrow terminal screen on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/linux-kernel-code-on-tv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux kernel code on TV<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[421,343,108],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-source-code","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}