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The hacker culture is still there but hacker social media (unless carefully curated) is flooded with optimized content to the point where the cool stuff is hard
by gessha 2y ago
The hacker culture is still there but hacker social media (unless carefully curated) is flooded with optimized content to the point where the cool stuff is hard to find and you only see the grifter techs.
- satvikpendem 2y agoNah, they're still there, you merely have to know where to look. Most hackers I know eschew social media appearances.
- CuriousCosmic 2y agoPlenty of hackers with substantial social media presences but they live in pockets that don't cross over into mainline social media too much.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoSocial media popularity is pretty much an anti-signal nowadays. The more popular the closer to the average.
- wickedsight 2y agoYou don't even have to look per se. The YouTube aglo provides me a lot of interesting content that isn't especially high quality or production value. I do take an effort to ignore click bait as much as possible and click "don't recommend channel" for things like MKBHD and LTT, because those crowd out original content if you let them.
- patrickk 2y agoThere’s loads of hacker spirit still alive in the homelab and home automation space just to give one example. Having lots of fun tinkering with Proxmox, Wled, Shelly devices to manipulate electric rollers, and more. Couldn’t quite get Valetudo running on my robot vacuum (my model isn’t the easiest to hack) but the concept is so cool. Triggering automations With dirt cheap NFC tags or a cheap wireless numpad is so satisfying. Building an *arr stack is another area where there’s tons of amazing creativity online and the hacker spirit still lives on.
- DonHopkins 2y agoEric S Raymond deserves credit for pioneering the grifter tech exploitation of hacker culture.