I’ve written up another interview I did for hackerspaces.org. I think the interviews are pretty interesting and I’m glad I’m doing them/contributing knowledge about the greater hacker community, but the actual process of writing, transcribing, finding appropriate links, sorting through photos, uploading everything is really time-intesnsive. I’m wondering if I’d be better off shooting video […]
Entries Tagged as 'Hacker culture'
More shameless self-promotion
March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hacker culture, Shameless link-bait
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Hackerspaces make Wired, Digg frontpage
March 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Austria, Germany, Hacker culture, United States
Way to be late to the party, guys. The world’s least cutting-edge tech media source, Wired, has a decent overview of the hackerspace scene as it exists today in the United States, which this morning made the front page at Digg. I don’t have any major bones to pick with the article, except for the […]
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Conficker phones home, internet survives
April 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Argentina, Coding, Hacker culture
Last night I went out drinking with some Argentine hackers; at one point the subject of the Conficker worm (also known by the less-catchy ‘Downadup’) came up. The consensus from a table full of people who play with security vulnerabilities for fun was that Conficker would come to a whole lot of nothing—more irritating work […]
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Tetris
June 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Geeky, Hacker culture, Technology
Many people are probably aware that June 6 marked the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. However, until I saw the commemorative Google logo, I hadn’t realized until I that it represented another monumental anniversary: the 25th birthday of Tetris.
I mentioned this to a friend of mine, and […]Tags:
Cyberstalk me
June 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Brazil, Chile, Hacker culture
The last week has been pretty cool. There turned out to be enough space, so I did get a chance to attend most of the presentations at the You Shot the Sheriff conference. It was at an Australia/New Zealand-themed bar, which was slightly random. But they had a really delicious catered lunch of crepes, and […]
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