To Give Is Better Than To Receive
Better to give a talk at a hacker event, that is. Or in your hackerspace, or even just to a bunch of fellow nerds whenever you can. When you give …read more Continue reading To Give Is Better Than To Receive
Category Archives: hacker culture
Privacy And Photography, We Need To Talk
One of the fun aspects of our global community is that there are plenty of events at which we can meet up, hang out, and do cool stuff together. They …read more Continue reading Privacy And Photography, We Need To Talk
Chaos and Camping
In a field somewhere north of Berlin right now, around 5,500 hackers and their family members are blinking, coding, building, giving talks, and simply hanging out. Once every four years, …read more Continue reading Chaos and Camping
Hackaday Links: May 8, 2022
Russia’s loose cannon of a space boss is sending mixed messages about the future of the International Space Station. Among the conflicting statements from Director-General Dmitry Rogozin, the Roscosmos version …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 8, 2022
Mitigating Con Deprivation: Disobey 2020
While the Coronavirus-induced lockdown surely makes life easier for the socially anxious and awkward ones among us, it also takes away the one thing that provides a feeling of belonging and home: conferences. Luckily, there are plenty of videos of past events available online, helping to bypass the time until …read more
Hacking is… (A definition of Hacking From a Hacker’s Perspective)
“Hacking is satisfying one’s curiosity. Hacking is finding a way to accomplish a goal, never accepting no for an answer, and being more persistent and patient than anyone else. Hacking is pushing technology to its limits and making technology more resi… Continue reading Hacking is… (A definition of Hacking From a Hacker’s Perspective)
My Career As A Spammer, And Other Stories From The Sneakernet
A large hacker camp is in microcosm a city, it has all the services you might expect to find in a larger settlement in the wider world. There is a telecommunication system, shops, bars, a health centre, waste disposal services, a power grid, and at some camps, a postal system. At Electromagnetic Field, the postal system was provided by the Sneakernet, a select group of volunteers including your Hackaday scribe under the direction of the postmaster Julius ter Pelkwijk. I even had the fun of delivering some chopped pork and ham. (More on that later.)
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Computers Go Hollywood
Have you ever been watching a TV show or a movie and spotted a familiar computer? [James Carter] did and he created a website to help you identify which old computers appear in TV shows and movies. We came across this when researching another post about an old computer and wondered if it was any old movies. It wasn’t.
You can search by computer or by title. There are also ratings about how visible, realistic, and important the computer is for each item. The database only contains fictional works, not commercials or documentaries. The oldest entry we could find was …read more
The PDP-1: The Machine that Started Hacker Culture
One of my bucket list destinations is the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California — I know, I aim high. I’d be chagrined to realize that my life has spanned a fair fraction of the Information Age, but I think I’d get a kick out of seeing the old machines, some of which I’ve actually laid hands on. But the machines I’d most like to see are the ones that predate me, and the ones that contributed to the birth of the hacker culture in which I and a lot of Hackaday regulars came of age.
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