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Wasn’t that a cluster based on Sony’s official OtherOS feature? Multiple universities had such clusters
The feature was removed by firmware update in 2010.
> What killed the hacker culture I grew up in was spectacle. That’s so rich from someone known for his public stunts against Sony & co
What public stunts? He jailbroke a console, it's not like he went on a talk show.
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dude was cracking iphones for the glory and lulz as much as for practical access reasons lots of folks be working on exploits and jailbreaks who, as a rule, STFU 100% OpSec 100% of the time "the real, scary hitmen aren't the ones bragging about it"
Unlike murder, finding an exploit isn't illegal.
When I read stuff like this, I think the people involved need to go outside and touch grass. I don’t mean that in a mean or reductive way. But something about this kind of assumption that things will get more elaborate and more abstract forever (when he’s talking about the future war for your inner reality) as if there are infinite resources, just strikes me as disconnected from physical reality in a way that feels p…
There's something strong to be said about it, and not in a mean way When I was laid off a couple months ago, the first thing I did was go out and mow my lawn. One hour of simple, clean labor, with clear progress, goals, and solitude. It helped me stay out of a bad mental frame, and when I finished I went inside and sent out a few hundred applications Over the next several weeks, I spent a lot of time that wasn't spen…
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I miss all the old forums that have died out. Still some gems out there, but not nearly as active anymore as far as my hobbies and interest go.
Ironically, when people moved their communities to Reddit and discord they only helped to enable the AI theft of this culture Forums were easy to search. The threads were mostly chronological and easy to stay in touch with. These corporate platforms are designed to promote reposting. Always “new” content and impossible to find anything else. keep the user reloading that feed at all costs. And behind the scenes the co…
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51% of the internet is now bots. entirely possible it's not a person. but we're talking about geohot here, entirely possible he built an agent to handle all criticism
My legend precedes me. I love when one of my blog posts reaches HN and I get to read a nice critique of my personality. I will make sure to incorporate all of your feedback so I can be the best person I can be!
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I am a similar age to Geohot and I have tried to escape smartphones to a dumb phone. It didn’t work. So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people don’t realize it. • Surface parking in my city is all by QR code. Where there are machines, they are broken because no one cares. • Social groups are on iMessage or RCS. RCS is not nearly as backwards compatible with MMS as it seems and you…
Similar age as well, and damn, if I could actually convince my bank to let me approve transactions with a dumbphone... The reality is just that a significant part of the modern world is contingent on carrying around a brand-name smartphone
If opening a new account, pretend not to have a phone.
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I think the more likely explanation is that he's just not as familiar with frontend web development and react, so he underestimated the difficulty. He was asking for help on Twitter for how to make pills inside of a text field. His failure was caused by a knowledge check rather than a skill check.
> His failure was caused by a knowledge check rather than a skill check. whats the difference w/r/t programming? in this case I'd argue the knowledge was the skill
What an unpleasant read
Reads like a man who put off searching for a real relationship for too long, but also didn’t develop that part of himself to maintain one. Then a bunch of existentialism blaming anything but himself. Could be compounded by his location, for example, it’s hard to find a wife in Miami ;) The loneliness could take him to dark places. I’ve been there. I hope he finds someone.