Lol 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
As 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.
The 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.
What 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.
I 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.
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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.
Thanks.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_young_men
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
You can't trust or take such people at their word.
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
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
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
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.