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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture.
If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you.
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Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
oh no who let Microsoft name weed strains oh dear
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Official Mastodon for hack.history #YouTube channel, covering the #history of #phreaks, #hacking & #hacktivism as well as the portrayal of #hackers in pop culture. If you are interested in #digitalhumanities, #anthropology, ASCII art, #retrocomputing, tech #histodons toots or just really curious about hackers then there will be content here for you. Media by humans, for humans.
Big tech companies have hoarded all of our data for years now and are entrusting it all to people who need chatbots to tell them how to do their jobs. This situation is an absolute disaster.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees
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Man, kid me would have gone absolutely nuts for this.
https://youtu.be/17jJu1geea8
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I can FOIA, request police records but have zero experience with requesting court docs.
Looking to find a specific set of court records from the United States District Court of Northern District of Ohio and then request those docs. Link on the website is broken:
https://www.ohnd.uscourts.gov/court-records
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Banksy might produce the equivalent of Hallmark greeting cards in terms of subversive art but people should still leave him the fuck alone and let people who want some anonymity in this world of horrible surveillance to have that anonymity, especially given that he isn’t hurting anyone.
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“Data is the new oil” is about twenty years old now as a quote, but it feels like with generative AI we are getting to the real fossil fuel analogy.
Not just that the data is valuable like oil, but that corporations will seize and refine it in ways that are damaging to the world and our health.
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If you guessed “cybercrime law” put in place by an autocratic regime then you win.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/12/british-tourist-among-20-charged-in-dubai-over-videos-of-iranian-missile-strikes
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Some crazy details here:
“convincing the hacker that they actually were the FBI, in part by having the hacker join a video chat where they flashed their law enforcement credentials in front of a web camera”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-hacker-2023-compromised-epstein-files-held-by-fbi-source-documents-show-2026-03-11/
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Things that I won’t use, even to mock or joke about it:
* Generative AI
* Incel slang
* MAGA or nazi imagery
I think this is a reasonable boundary.
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Is “Sneakers or Hackers” the “Elvis or the Beatles” of the #hacker world?
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These Arch Linux people are getting out of control.
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