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Hack, Hacky, Hacker

A few days ago I wrote about the beauty of great documentation; this is the evil twin post.

The spectrum of meaning across the words hack, hacky, and hacker form a horseshoe when thinking about postures toward life. On either ends are the most difficult options. Being either a hack or a hacker requires dedication and both approaches narrow your world. Being hacky, taking imperfect shortcuts, in the world is immensely satisfying. It is play disguised as problem solving. 

Fox by Arnold Peter Weisz Kubincan. Original public domain image from Web umenia

A successful hack takes tremendous effort and dedication just to pretend to be great at something. Humans are great at spotting and discarding hacks. It takes a true master to fool a large enough population and build financial columns under the smoke. Being a hack is constant desperation, there is no play. It is no way to live. 

On the other end of the same horseshoe as the hack, is hacking. Here, you are actually achieving something difficult enough to require mastery. “Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.” says Richard Stallman. Now, I’m all for the playful, the difficult, and the useful, but not the “or not”. At minimum hacking should be in service of a prank. Doing things just because is like felling a tree in a forest when no one is around. At least a jump scare is a sine qua non (the dictionary is working :P). 

Most systems, especially computers are designed by people for people like you and me who are neither very bright nor very invested in the thing. We want to not have the problem. You can always walk away but that is neither fun, nor useful, and certainly not hard. My favored way is to take the Nakatomi Tunnel through problems. Be hacky. Try enough approaches, push buttons that may do the thing you want until the alignment is just so and you slip through. Effectiveness here = solving many real-world problems quickly while preserving playful momentum.

I want to draw a distinction here from the oversubscribed idea of jugaad. Jugaad was once framed as creative improvisation. It is not. I do not care for jugaad. To make something substandard and expect people to accept it is no way to be in the world. Build good stuff, be hacky route through the small issues.

A hacky mindset is a foxy mindset and not just in the Hendrix way. The Hedgehog and the Fox is a great essay by Isaiah Berlin where he talks about the two kinds of people in the world. Hedgehogs, are great at one big thing. Foxes are mediocre at many things. Foxes thrive on lateral moves and opportunistic shortcuts, you know, hackiness. The hacky, foxy approach to life is more my style. 

Breadth, speed, and joy beat fakery and fixation every time

as you may know I am using less and less #mastodon and more and more #usenet and #lemmy for my daily activities, so I created also the #cyberpunkred #cyberpunk lemmy group here lemmy.ml/c/Cyberpunk_Red you can post from any fediverse place as @Cyberpunk_Red there is also the "matrix space" chat rooms for the community here: matrix.to/#/#cyberpunk-red:mat and soon we will have a #usenet newsgroup !!! and we will work on a gateway bot from lemmy 2 usenet #hackerculture #hackers #cyberpunk #TTRPG #ROL

matrix.toYou're invited to talk on MatrixYou're invited to talk on Matrix

Today I updated some of my bug hunting/hacking/pen-testing techniques(some of them ha ha not all I need to keep my job, unfortunately we live in capitalism and I need to pay bills) here is one of the new sections I create with updated techniques man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wik #hacking #hackerculture #hackingIsNotACrime #2600
#2600Madrid #hispagatos check them all here: man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wik look on the #bughunting section open for git-email patches! so send them ;) #htb #hackthebox #ctf

Reminder that the next #FirstFriday of a month is #July 4th, which is a big day for a lot of people, so we decided to move the #NH2600 meeting to be on #Friday July 11th instead. If you're in #NewHampshire, then please join us in #Peterborough at Mi Jalisco, located at 19 Wilton Road at 7:00 PM EST.

If you live elsewhere in the world on #FirstFridays & want to attend a local #2600meeting, then check out 2600.com/meetings to see where they're happening!

#2600 #26OO #NH2600 #NH #HackTheSystem #HackingIsNotACrime #Hacker #Hackers #hacking #HackingIsAWayOfLife #HackingIsALifestyle #HackerCulture #infosec #cyber #cybersecurity #MiJalisco

2600.com2600 MEETINGS FOR JUNE | 2600

I loved how you could see random #ZKM visitors (usually older people) passing through who'd sometimes stop and look at the #GPN23 hack centre in awe.

Imagine expecting to go to an art museum and then being hit with the full brunt of our culture; #hackers on benches with their laptops, colourful LEDs and odd electronic contraptions everywhere, tonnes of #queer and/or #furry people and so much more :D

🔴⚫ #2600 #Madrid Hacker Meeting - June 6! 🔴⚫

📅 Friday June 6 @ 21:00
📍 La Pianola Bar, Lavapies
🚇 Metro L3 Lavapies

Join us to hack for a more humane, transparent & decentralized future! 💻✊

Topics: #Meshtastic, #Reticulum, #learn2hack mentoring, #usenet_reborn & Telefonica pay phones

🔗 2600.madrid
💬 Matrix: #2600_Madrid:hispagatos.org

#hacking #hackers #hackerculture #privacy #FOSS #usenet #rust @2600@mastodon.online @2600@lemmy.world

2600.madrid2600 Madrid! – 2600 Madrid

On Friday,May 2 the #2600 Monthly Meeting in #Madrid is happening
The meetings are monthly worldwide, the first Friday of the month,
hackers and lovers of free and creative culture come together
to talk, share ideas, projects, politics. Is a meeting for all, welcome to the
curious who are eager to know what #hackerculture is
- [https|gemini]://2600.Madrid
- #matrix #2600_madrid:hispagatos.org
- #usenet alt.2600.madrid alt.2600 alt.2600.hackers alt.2600.hope
More info: news.novabbs.org/computers/art

news.novabbs.orgRocksolid Light - alt.2600 - Madrid May 2nd 2025 2600 hacker meetup!

"Usenet Reborn" is an Usenet and NNTP TUI client in Rust language, in alpha stage!
- sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn/
Now that I have a 1.0.1 released for my #NNTP library called "rek2_nntp" crates.io/crates/rek2_nntp was able to go ahead and get "Usenet Reborn" client in a usable stage a brand new #usenet client in #TUI format using the #ratatui #rust #libs not a rust expert so patches are WELLCOME to both projects! #hackers #hackerculture #decentralization

Today we added a new #usenet peer, 2 our usenet instance that is now 3 years old is awesome how new usenet instances are poping up I like it way more than #mastodon I miss 90% of interesting toots, on usenet is async I can follow a thread anytime!

for more info the new peer is news.dnd3.net
see infeed status:
news.hispagatos.org/innfeed.st

#hackerculture #hackers #innd #peers #decentralization #libre #transparent
@hispagatos @2600

for a usenet 2,0 account see: sybershock.com/#usenet

news.hispagatos.orgnews.hispagatos.org: outgoing feeds
Antwortete Packet-lost soul

@rek2 Aside from that source, which is extremely important, I believe the primary source is essential: the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) at MIT. That’s where the term and its meaning originated. I need to dedicate more time to this and collaborate with you all. What a disaster. 🙏
web.archive.org/web/2006050307
#hackingIsNotACrime #hackerculture

web.archive.orgTMRC - Hackers