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The Conscience of a Hacker (1986)
- em3rgent0rdr 3y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20230927193603/http://textfiles.com/100/hack7.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20230927193603/http://textfiles....
- mmsc 3y agoWritten Loyd Blankenship of Legion of Doom.
- kstrauser 3y agoNow that's cool.
- bitwize 3y agoYou think that's cool? It's commie bullshit!
- kstrauser 3y agoIt's cool!
- gorenb 3y agoLol i hope you're being ironic. i don't agree with everything there, but the single word "commie" is enough to make me not agree with whatever you say. sounds pretty mccarthyist to me
- sacnoradhq 3y agoChill, Special Agent Bob.
- serf 3y agoI always liked that character, the fed who seems to be getting turned to hacker culture by his investigation of the main cast. you can see him dancing and enjoying himself at Kate Libby's party; he was the only fed agent in the movie that was kind of endearing.
- js2 3y agoJust released in 4K UHD last month.
- kstrauser 3y agoHow did I not know this?! Ordered! Thanks.
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- aleden 3y agoIn drawing comparison to the "Angry Young Men" [1] of British playwrights, did this piece of writing establish a new wave of "Angry Young Hackers"? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_young_men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_young_men
- chrisrickard 3y agoAs a anarchistic punk teenager, The Hackers Manifesto deeply resonated with me.. I actually had it written on my bedroom wall. Loyd Blankenship, better known by his pseudonym The Mentor, is an American computer hacker and writer. He has been active since the 1970s, when he was a member of the hacker groups Extasyy Elite and Legion of Doom. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Blankenship https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Blankenship
- metadat 3y agoThe problem is, in my experience, multiple founders have claimed their down with the hacker's manifesto, but time and time again they're demonstrated they're really just out for themselves. They always take a minor payday over sticking to the cause and vision. You can't trust or take such people at their word.
- _8j50 3y agoAhh..yeah, good stuff. Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
- bitwize 3y agoThe Jargon File has a facetious etymology for "hacker" as being originally a term for "someone who makes furniture with an axe". Loyd Blankenship had, for a time, a business selling custom made furniture. So he's a hacker across all definitions of the word. He's been known to post on hackernews, replete with bits of 90s leetspeek which gives me a frisson of joy and nostalgia: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loydb https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loydb
- LordDragonfang 3y agoHis account's "about" is prefaced with a link to his Wikipedia article. What a flex.
- ergonaught 3y agoI remember it from when he wrote it. Talk about some memories. Egad. Had that hanging on my wall for a long time.
- hunter2_ 3y agoWhat is this version? It has a ton of typos, "junk" instead of "heroin," and three instances of "Come on... Ain't Got All Day!!" where there are typically zero. Curious to know if this is authentic and Phrack [0] edited it in all the ways I just mentioned, or vice versa. Anyway, I first read this some 20 years ago, and I get the same goosebumps now as I did then. [0] http://www.phrack.org/archives/issues/7/3.txt http://www.phrack.org/archives/issues/7/3.txt
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- pbjtime 3y agoIt's a console dump so the Come on lines are probably page breaks
- debatem1 3y agoI remember when programming was an act of curiosity and vision instead of a job where we feed bloated corporate behemoths another mouthful of our lives. I was poor back then. The sure sign that I've sold my soul is that I'm not sure I know whether this is better.
- pts_ 3y agoI am more a kernel hacker.
- Quinzel 3y agoWhat is with the weird spelling mistakes and typo’s? Are they intentional? Is there a hidden message in this? O.o