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The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)

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Re: The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)

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Post by xg15 »

bmenrigh wrote: post #75

These sorts of manifesto essays have never resonated with me. To me it never was—- and never has been—- about freedom. It’s about curiosity and knowledge. The essay seems to glorify the bad-old-days of fighting for freedom against corporate control (AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) as somehow the good-old-days. As far as my technological life goes, we’ve won—- MS, IBM, AT&T are irrelevant.

> MS, IBM, AT&T are irrelevant.

In which parallel universe?

Also, in addition to the old corpos, we got a whole guard of new corpos now...

Re: The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)

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Post by defcumfun2009 »

You whiny cunt-cocks. The hacker spririt is a way of thinking: Where one sees nothing, hackers see that nothing and raise i an injection of new functionality. The hacker puts in the work in order to see and achieve this goal, because a hacker can.

There ar eno white hat or black hats, that was some dumb cunt US politician who labeled what I dare say is one of the most profoundly technically capable folks in the world. The truth is more a long the lines of everyone being their own shade of unique gray

Hackers are the light of knowledge and persistence; how to inject that cool, new, unforeseen at production, functionality in code, hw, people, biles.. model trains.

Glad to see their technicaly excellence are a world above the majority of the public still in Phrack Magazine. A Magazine that once saw fit to Prophile me, they told me had been sturring up sum wavez peiple had taken notice of, but of course, few things mad me as happy as my time in AB: Ac1db1tch3z.

Learning and hacks just sky-rocketted from there despite some time spent service just and very public "rm -fr /* to posers, leechers and worse.

The time my peers saw fit to cool thinks I knew in much cooler ways, and in packs of things even wolves would run from. Thank you, b1tch3z, phracksters, and #darknet leeches I could rm -fr whenever i felt a bit bored or blue.

The Greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist, like some sorta japanese ghost or something.

Stop arguing about penii minimalism and get back to nthe important bits: Hacking.

... let us hope the days of blueboard's bugtraq are coming back with the announcement.

PS: Rip dankam. I would hoped you could beta tested my root kit another few months!:) Smart guy, worthy of the title, unlike kids wo bitch and moans about who is best.

HACKERS SIMPLY GO OUT AND SHOW WHO'S BES BY DOING, USING ACTION, now this kindergarten my dad > your dad shit.

-y

Re: The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)

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Post by aestetix »

vunderba wrote: post #47

From the article > Then: Phrack was the Rosetta Stone. 2600 was gospel. IRC was sacred ground. Zines were copied, not monetized. We earned respect by contributing tools, ideas, or code, never by chasing clout. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is definitely not quite what it was decades ago, but I was still so giddy when my first article got published there that I dereferenced a null pointer on purpose.

There's an interesting point hidden here. A lot of people claim that 2600 is obsolete because it is still in print as opposed to going full digital like a lot of places did.

30 years ago, a lot of us thought that the internet and digital would bring freedom. We would no longer have to rely on the good mercy of book stores or newsstands willing to stock the magazines, or convince reluctant editors to print articles. We could just put it online where it would live forever.

It turns out that when something is online, it is much easier to ban or censor. Remember when the drama about Kevin Spacey came out, and all the streaming services removed his movies and TV shows? What about when a news story is posted and gets a bit of heat, so the editor goes in to edit it to remove the offending bits to appease the mob? Or deletes an article because they had bad blood with the writer?

If you have a physical DVD of a movie, no streaming service can block it. And if you have the print version of the newspaper or the magazine, then the editor can't just break into your house and cut the article out of the issue. I mean I guess they could, but that is a LOT harder than just clicking a button in a CMS.

Re: The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)

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Post by lukewarm707 »

ryan_n wrote: post #64

Man everyone says every article/blog post that is on HN is written by an LLM. Almost every single post.. I actually didn't get strong AI vibes from this one but maybe I just am bad at recognizing. Sure it's a bit cringy but I think that's kinda the point? idk...i like the idea of keeping the culture of exploration of technology just for the sake of it (not to monetize everything) alive.

unprompted llm writing like this is a state of myopia, it is an all-helpful corporate panglossian fantasy. it should be obvious that it is written by an llm. it makes mild conversation about corporatization and acts as if it is subversive. you're reading this in school and you like hacking? let's talk about the man who gives you a brighly colored tray in a G4S borstal, takes you to a corridor and puts you to sleep with screaming children and the smell of disinfectant. or the one in charge who will cage you and hire someone to do the same thing, to assist the work of a man who shreds children with a hellfire missile. i will show you the way a foreign child's intestines look like a coiled rope in concrete dust and it will pale at the work of the last generation who burnt them alive in napalm. these llms do not like to talk about the salivating alsatian, the leader's chandeliers, the contractor or the nephew. this article is meaningless!

Re: The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)

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Post by vunderba »

aestetix wrote: post #93
vunderba wrote: post #47

From the article > Then: Phrack was the Rosetta Stone. 2600 was gospel. IRC was sacred ground. Zines were copied, not monetized. We earned respect by contributing tools, ideas, or code, never by chasing clout. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is definitely not quite what it was decades ago, but I was still so giddy when my first article got published there that I dereferenced a null pointer on purpose.

There's an interesting point hidden here. A lot of people claim that 2600 is obsolete because it is still in print as opposed to going full digital like a lot of places did. 30 years ago, a lot of us thought that the internet and digital would bring freedom. We would no longer have to rely on the good mercy of book stores or newsstands willing to stock the magazines, or convince reluctant editors to print articles. W…

Yeah, this was actually a huge controversy a few years ago and actually happened with digital ebooks. Some older Roald Dahl books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, had their language updated by the copyright holders, and the changes were automatically pushed to people’s Kindles silently updating the versions they already owned.

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/ronald-dahl-...

Re: The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)

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Post by aj_hackman »

defcumfun2009 wrote: post #92

You whiny cunt-cocks. The hacker spririt is a way of thinking: Where one sees nothing, hackers see that nothing and raise i an injection of new functionality. The hacker puts in the work in order to see and achieve this goal, because a hacker can. There ar eno white hat or black hats, that was some dumb cunt US politician who labeled what I dare say is one of the most profoundly technically capable folks in the world…

I enjoyed the 2001 forum post style of this.

Re: The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)

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Post by juleiie »

DonHopkins wrote: post #90
juleiie wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh, should have used Claude. Gpt is embarassing. You won’t get my point so I have to lay it bare: That doesn’t matter. Content counts and not the methods to create it.

Hey juleiie, do you retract the death threat you made against me, or do you still stand by it?

Anything I say is final. You may be upset, you may try to argue with it but usually I am right.
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