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HN has sadly become a bit of a #warezcentral. People demanding free stuff, either to train their ai models or for personal consumption.
by gumballindie 3y ago
HN has sadly become a bit of a #warezcentral. People demanding free stuff, either to train their ai models or for personal consumption.
- pelasaco 3y agoWhat is more hacker than bypassing rules and paid services? What was phreaking all about?
- gumballindie 3y agoStealing content is not the type of rule breaking that phreaking was about.
- pelasaco 3y agoyou were probably not there or in any warez bbc...
- HeWhoLurksLate 3y agophreaking was literally theft lol
- pelasaco 3y ago> phreaking was literally theft lol Right? People get so attached to their political views that they dont even notice it. Kevin Poulsen, just wanted to win the Porsche for the poor...
- quesera 3y ago"Theft of services", yes -- but the marginal cost/loss to the provider was effectively zero. In this way, phreaking was exactly like media piracy. But all of the above are entirely unrelated to the meaning of "Hacker" in HN.
- jug 3y agoI think there's a difference between hacking for fun and feeling entitled to and arguing with weak arguments how you should be able to play music for free. This entire thread has absolutely nothing to do with e.g. telling how Spotify can be hacked and everything to do with script kiddies at best wanting to download a binary from GitHub to listen to music for free. But sure, maybe HN is that sad distribution mechanism now and, what's more, we're calling this hacker culture!
- pelasaco 3y ago> I think there's a difference between hacking for fun and feeling entitled to and arguing with weak arguments how you should be able to play music for free. I don't think people want only to play music for free. I don't. But for sure this new definition of "what hacking is" is for sure annoying.
- gumballindie 3y agoThis. Period.