>It feels like a community of people who try to brute force or hack themselves into MAAMA companies instead of computer enthusiasts Well, it's not 90s or 2000s

>It feels like a community of people who try to brute force or hack themselves into MAAMA companies instead of computer enthusiasts Well, it's not 90s or 2000s anymore. For many people all this IT stuff is just a weird but well paying place. You'd be amazed by the number of IT "schools" and all kinds of online courses in Russia (for example, I don't thing the coutry is unique here) that promise you an IT job.