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## "[Modern](modern.md)" "Hackers"
Many modern [zoomer](zoomer.md) [soydevs](soydev.md) call themselved "hackers" but there are basically none that would stay true to the original ethics and culture, they just abuse the word as a cool term or a brand (see e.g. ["hacker" news](hacker_news.md)). It's pretty sad the word has become a laughable parody of its original meaning by being associated with groups such as [Anonymous](anonymous.md) who are just a bunch of 14 year old children trying to look like "movie hackers". The hacker culture has been spoiled basically in the same ways the rest of society, and the difference between classic hacker culture and the "modern" one is similar to the difference between [free software](free_software.md) and [open source](open_source.md), though perhaps more amplified -- the original culture of strong ethics has become twisted by [capitalist](capitalism.md) trends such as self-interest, commercialization, [fashion](fashion.md), mainstreamization, even shitty movie adaptations etc. The modern "hackers" are idiots who have never seen [assembly](assembly.md), can't do [math](math.md), they're turds in suits who make [startups](startup.md) and work as [influencers](influencer.md), they are tech consumers who use and even create [bloat](bloat.md), and possibly even [proprietary](proprietary.md) software. For the love of god, do NOT follow these caricatures -- not only are they not hackers, they are just not good people in general.
Many modern [zoomer](zoomer.md) [soydevs](soydev.md) call themselved "hackers" but there are basically none that would stay true to the original ethics and culture and be worthy of being called a true hacker, they just abuse the word as a cool term or a brand (see e.g. ["hacker" news](hacker_news.md)). It's pretty sad the word has become a laughable parody of its original meaning by being associated with groups such as [Anonymous](anonymous.md) who are just a bunch of 14 year old children trying to look like "movie hackers". The hacker culture has been spoiled basically in the same ways the rest of society, and the difference between classic hacker culture and the "modern" one is similar to the difference between [free software](free_software.md) and [open source](open_source.md), though perhaps more amplified -- the original culture of strong ethics has become twisted by [capitalist](capitalism.md) trends such as self-interest, commercialization, [fashion](fashion.md), mainstreamization, even shitty movie adaptations etc. The modern "hackers" are idiots who have never seen [assembly](assembly.md), can't do [math](math.md), they're turds in suits who make [startups](startup.md) and work as [influencers](influencer.md), they are tech consumers who use and even create [bloat](bloat.md), and possibly even [proprietary](proprietary.md) software. For the love of god, do NOT mimic such caricatures or give them attention -- not only are they not real hackers, they are simply retarded attention whores.
## Security "Hackers"
*Hacker* nowadays very often refers to someone involved in computer [security](security.md) either as that who "protects" (mostly by looking for vulnerabilities and reporting them), so called *white hat*, or that who attacks, so called *black hat*. These are not hackers in the original sense, they are hackers in the mainstream adopted meaning of someone breaking into a system. **This kind of "hacker" betrays the original culture by supporting secrecy and censorship**, i.e. "protection" of "sensitive information" mostly justified by so called "[privacy](privacy.md)" -- this is violating the original hacker's pursuit of absolute information freedom (note that e.g. [Richard Stallman](rms.md) boycotted even the use of passwords at MIT, Raymond discourages from using anonymous handles and rather recommends going by your real name). These people are obsessed with anonymity, [encryption](encryption.md), [cryptocurrencies](crypto.md), [cryptofascism](cryptofascism.md) and other [harmful](harmful.md) things. They additionally also don't generally adhere to the original hacker culture in any way, they are simply people breking into systems, nothing more than that. Again, do NOT follow these pseudohackers, they're pretty retarded.
*Hacker* nowadays very often refers to someone involved in computer [security](security.md) either as that who "protects" (mostly by looking for vulnerabilities and reporting them), so called *white hat*, or that who attacks, so called *black hat*. Those are not hackers in the original sense, they are hackers in the mainstream adopted meaning of someone breaking into a system. **This kind of "hacker" betrays the original culture by supporting secrecy and censorship**, i.e. "protection" of "sensitive information" mostly justified by so called "[privacy](privacy.md)" -- this is violating the original hacker's pursuit of absolute information freedom (note that e.g. [Richard Stallman](rms.md) boycotted even the use of passwords at MIT, Raymond discourages from using anonymous handles and rather recommends going by your real name). These people are obsessed with anonymity, [encryption](encryption.md), [cryptocurrencies](crypto.md), [cryptofascism](cryptofascism.md) and are also more often than not egoist people with shitty personalities. In addition they don't generally adhere to the original hacker culture in any way either, they are simply people breaking into systems for some kind of self benefit (yes, even the *white hats*), nothing more than that. Again, do NOT try to mimic these abominations.
## Examples Of Hacks
{ As a redditfag I used to follow the r/devtricks subreddit, it contained some nice examples of hacks. ~drummyfish }
A great many commonly used tricks in programming could be regarded as hacks even though many are not called so because they are already well known and no longer innovative, a true hack is something new that impresses fellow hackers. The following is a list of things that were once considered new hacks or that are good examples demonstrating the concept:
A great many commonly used tricks in programming could be regarded as hacks even though many are not called so because they are already well known and no longer innovative, a true hack is something new that impresses fellow hackers. And of course hacks may appear outside the area of technology as well. The following is a list of things that were once considered new hacks or that are good examples demonstrating the concept:
- **[bit hacks](bit_hack.md)**: Clever manipulations of [bits](bit.md) -- for example it is possible to swap two variable without a temporary variables by using the [xor](xor.md) function. Another simplest example is implementing division by 2 as binary shift by 1 (this hack is used in real life by people for quickly dividing by 10, we just remove the last digit).
- **[copyleft](copyleft.md)**: A legal hack by [Richard Stallman](rms.md), connected to [free software](free_software.md), working on the basis of the following idea: "If [copyright](copyright.md) lets me put any conditions on my work, I may impose a condition on my work that says that any modified version must not impose any restrictive conditions".