Man, I love the CCC. To me, they are what being a hacker is truly about.
I know this place calls itself Hacker News, but to me being a hacker always had a countercultural element, a distrust of power structures. This place is the power structure and reinforces it...
It was actually really confusing to me when I started to hang out on English language CS spaces that the rest of the world is not like that. I thought this just comes with the prevalence of open source but apparently not.
Looking at the recent post about small shops on English high streets, it seems like the only thing people on here hate more than poor people is children.
I know this place calls itself Hacker News, but to me being a hacker always had a countercultural element, a distrust of power structures. This place is the power structure and reinforces it...
Looking at the recent post about small shops on English high streets, it seems like the only thing people on here hate more than poor people is children.