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Krazam OS

975 points| zdgeier | 1 year ago |krazam.tv

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swyx|1 year ago

their "merch store" https://merch.krazam.tv/ is losing out on a lot of potential revenue by not even making a reference to their most viral videos. Who wouldn't want to rock a Galactus shirt.

can we crowdsource merch ideas for these guys pls

boerseth|1 year ago

My two favorite quotes of theirs are from the same video:

- "I have delivered value... But at what cost?", being the title of the video

- "Have the KPIs of my own life failed to grow quarter over quarter?"

PyWoody|1 year ago

Open the terminal and enter "yahoo_cd" for a 3 part scavenger hunt for 15% off in the store! Might need to pick myself up a BALLMERCON 2019" shirt. Maybe one day Makro will be redeemed.

andrewflnr|1 year ago

I think Galactus is Marvel IP, so I don't think they can do that one.

lIl-IIIl|1 year ago

Agreed. Please give me a mug with the microservices diagram.

kaycey2022|1 year ago

They can do omega star with iso timestamps

Jeema101|1 year ago

Oh definitely. Love Galactus.

ralusek|1 year ago

"My friends and family understand what I do" (paraphrased)

HammadB|1 year ago

+1 I was ready to drop $$$

VHRanger|1 year ago

They'd get a cease&desist instantly if they sold a T-shirt with Galactus (an IP they don't own)

pwillia7|1 year ago

I want EKS > Galactus

agent13|1 year ago

Entropy Kaos System

cosmic_quanta|1 year ago

Krazam is definitely the highlight of my YouTube subscriptions. Its specificity makes it even funnier.

dkarl|1 year ago

I often think about their Senior Engineer video before interviews. I simultaneously aspire to match that character's ancient wisdom and am terrified that I might accidentally resemble him personally.

coffeebeqn|1 year ago

There aren’t many software engineering comedy channels but Krazam is hilarious no matter what scale you’re rating on

sph|1 year ago

Funny?

"You were born to deploy Kubernetes clusters."

I watch KRAZAM and I get into a deep existential crisis. I love them.

Ygg2|1 year ago

It's more absurdist. Programmers are also human is way more on tech point in his jokes.

boppo1|1 year ago

Krazam does tech humor better than I've ever seen it. Absolutely dunks on silicon valley & big bang theory.

dgellow|1 year ago

Their delivery is so good

redbell|1 year ago

Somehow, unrelated.. With the rise of such cool OS projects like Puter[1], DaedalOS [2] et al. [3], with Krazam being one of them, I can't help but dream of the day when the .os TLD for operating systems is introduced. I believe it would make more sense to use/read krazam.os rather than krazam.tv.

About a year ago, new TLDs were introduced [4], with .zip and .mov being the most popular. However, the .os TLD wasn't on the list, which was disappointing for me!

I'm uncertain about the criteria that determine whether a TLD is a good candidate, and I may be the only one emotionally attached to the idea of a .os TLD. Nevertheless, the introduction of the .zip TLD faced numerous complaints[5],[6], particularly regarding security concerns.

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1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838179

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830132 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753

3. https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops

4. https://fieldeffect.com/blog/what-you-should-know-about-the-...

5. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-zip-domai...

6. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/05/zip-domains

redsolver|1 year ago

Afaik all 2-letter TLDs are ccTLDs, which means they must be a country code of some country and are managed by it. There's no country with "os" yet, so to make the TLD available one would need to found a new country first!

SigmundurM|1 year ago

I may be wrong, but I believe all 2 letter TLDs are ccTLDs. All none ccTLDs would have to be 3 characters or longer.

bavell|1 year ago

I clicked on safe space and all was right in the world once more

throwup238|1 year ago

"You were born to deploy kubernetes"

"Your feedback is actionable and important"

"There will never be another outage again"

"Your tests are reliable and have appropriate coverage"

brennopost|1 year ago

Reminds me of Severance Wellness Sessions

russellpekala|1 year ago

How much do we need to pay this guy to quit software and just make jokes?

This guy is an icon.

swyx|1 year ago

i feel like their humor would drop if they lost touch with their real jobs. but also they prob need to do a lot of work to reassure their coworkers that specific parodies of them are off limits or something

the_af|1 year ago

It's actually two guys as far as I can tell, but yes, they are definitely awesome.

cdchn|1 year ago

I saw he was doing a standup set in New York and I was very tempted to undertake the trip to see it.

maxglute|1 year ago

I don't know how much good content they can sustain full time, but 25 videos in 7 years is not enough.

ashton314|1 year ago

Click on “safe space”.

DEVOPS is a meaningful term.

YOU WERE BORN TO DEPLOY KUBERNETES CLUSTERS!

kreelman|1 year ago

This had me laughing too. Very cool. Kind of neat that this one sits right next to the meta OS article...

Cue music from the lion King ...

Can you feel the irony tonight... It's so obvious..

Huge meta corps writing a spurious OS..

What a hideous mess...

panqueca|1 year ago

"Your family understands what you do..."

blauditore|1 year ago

The binary code at boot time spells "hello world s":

  01101000 01100101
  01101100 01101100
  01101111 00100000
  01110111 01101111
  01110010 01101100
  01100100 00100000
  01110011

syx|1 year ago

my favorite part of the boot screen is: `Circadian Rhythm :not good`

deelowe|1 year ago

What the "s" at the end?

kebman|1 year ago

I like the Safe Spaces. Such heart warming contents! Also, the joke I told in the meeting WAS really funny!

croon|1 year ago

Came to say the same thing (about your joke of course). The Safe Space was genuinely both very funny and insightful.

tippytippytango|1 year ago

Wow, I fully expected that to destroy my browser history. Imagine my shock when I clicked back and ended up back on HN. Great work.

jmward01|1 year ago

Fun 15 mins. They really should have made the prize code make merch cost more, not less. I think that would have fit well with the theme!

rc_mob|1 year ago

That SRE video accurately depicted my life in DevOps. I felt that one.

peterkelly|1 year ago

Does it support ISO timestamps?

cdchn|1 year ago

WE'RE BLOCKED

cosmic_quanta|1 year ago

I don't think so. The boot screen notes that Omega Star is still a blocker

makach|1 year ago

I clicked on trash and found exactly what I was looking for

tmarsden|1 year ago

Anyone know if Omegastar can support ISO timestamps yet?

Apocryphon|1 year ago

They truly speak to the soul of a new industry

smrtinsert|1 year ago

I always get one enter away from posting the "I've brought value but at what cost" video in my company slack but then I chicken out.

cdchn|1 year ago

Post the "Leadership Sync" video after an executive shakeup.

whatever1|1 year ago

buttery smooth scrolling + windows 98 = perfection

throwaway2037|1 year ago

I am changing my login ID to MilleniumMasterX2!

Here is a nice Easter egg that I found:

Open the terminal. Type help. Then type yahoo_cd

    > Company merch exists to provide an illusion of purpose to your meaningless life.
This guy should have a Comedy Central show by now.

tschwimmer|1 year ago

Krazam really captures the feeling of working for a mid-sized startup in SF perfectly. The pedantry, the braggadocio, and most of all the absurdity and the alienation one feels working on this stuff.

beezlebroxxxxxx|1 year ago

Their video "The Hustle" [1] is such a pitch perfect shot at a very common person in tech (and in NYC/SF especially).

The "read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations in bed on my Nook - didn't understand shit!" comes back to me almost weekly reading HN comments sometimes.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

nine_zeros|1 year ago

> The pedantry, the braggadocio, and most of all the absurdity and the alienation one feels working on this stuff.

Also at FAANG and FAANG wannabes. The absurd obsession over BS and pedantic conflicts is just yucky.

indrora|1 year ago

Because it was started by ex-FAANGers, Amazon specifically.

ashton314|1 year ago

> braggadocio

Thank you for showing me a new word today!

bsnnkv|1 year ago

This really is the peak of user interface design. I will never be convinced otherwise.

pnw|1 year ago

The affirmations video is great. I'm still waiting for a Makro comeback as well!

yolkedgeek|1 year ago

yay go Krazam! absolutely love their videos, their videos are THE inside jokes between me and my co-workers.

beefsack|1 year ago

Open the Terminal and type help to start a puzzle, not much to it but it was a bit of silly fun!

mixmastamyk|1 year ago

Ha, I made a boot-up sequence on my site in the mid-90s. Brings back the memories.

average_r_user|1 year ago

I'm still using picchi 1.0 to improve my deployment pipeline by 20%

data_ders|1 year ago

terminal wants me to FIND THE FIRST CODE IN THE SYLLABUS. where?!?!

jdmarble|1 year ago

Hint: do something you would normally never do on something you normally never even notice.

an_aparallel|1 year ago

im having a moment - i'm an absolute dead ringer for Ben Burke..its freaking me out XD Also they are outrageously funny!

elwell|1 year ago

Could Krazam be behind the HN spam today?

carimura|1 year ago

The syllabus reminds me of HyperCard

Physkal|1 year ago

What happens with the recycle bin

seeingnature|1 year ago

It's a video feed of yourself with clippy in the bottom right corner saying "It's you"

sanex|1 year ago

Give it access and find out

eptcyka|1 year ago

Much better than HorizonOS.

ahyc|1 year ago

banger

satchlj|1 year ago

spent way too long looking for that code in the syllabus

Crier1002|1 year ago

i just love the details on this one. thanks for sharing!

nxobject|1 year ago

In a world of people with side projects on GitHub, be the guy with a satire YouTube page.

cdchn|1 year ago

Which one looks better on your resume?

Terr_|1 year ago

Weird, twice now it has locked up Firefox when I try to open it.

Maybe it's somehow trying to access my clipboard, and that's triggering a separate problem I've been having when RDP'ing to a certain Linux machine in another window...

unknown|1 year ago

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joneil|1 year ago

The class name on the HTML element definitely makes me want to start using more expressive class names in my code. (Doesn't seem I'm able to copy/paste it into a Hacker News comment)

sph|1 year ago

I would be surprised if the KRAZAM guys did not have an HN account. They are so plugged in the Silicon Valley startup life.

Now I want to see a video from them that references or is about Hacker News.

vundercind|1 year ago

HN may be too easy to read as parody, to parody it…

zaphod420|1 year ago

First thing I clicked on was Safe Space. LOL!!!!! I love it!

hypertexthero|1 year ago

“You were born to deploy Kubernetes.”

LOL

devX3|1 year ago

legendary

spxneo|1 year ago

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imp0cat|1 year ago

Because it's funny and nostalgic. Seriously, who doesn't love those two guys and their videos (I wanted to write "parodies", but damn, some of those really hit hard).