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    From zero@VERT/JASBOR to All on Fri Sep 18 18:09:36 2026
    I like to talk tech, whos out there?

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  • From jehar@VERT/CONCHAOS to zero on Sat Sep 19 00:31:00 2026
    Re: Testing tech talk
    By: zero to All on Fri Sep 18 2026 06:09 pm

    I think there's a few of us out there!

    I'm on here recharging my batteries
    after a day full of SSO and MFA nonsense. Not to mention "remember this device/login" checkboxes that, as near as I can tell, do nothing.

    By the by, I'm revisiting Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown, 34 years after the fact. It's certainly a different perspective now.

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to zero on Sat Sep 19 02:51:56 2026
    Re: Testing tech talk
    By: zero to All on Fri Sep 18 2026 06:09 pm

    I like to talk tech, whos out there?

    That's pretty broad, but me too. Most of it, anyway. There _is_ some tech that's boring.

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to jehar on Sat Sep 19 02:53:09 2026
    Re: Testing tech talk
    By: jehar to zero on Sat Sep 19 2026 12:31 am

    By the by, I'm revisiting Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown, 34 years after fact. It's certainly a different perspective now.

    Diff perspective because you're older/more pro, or what?

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to jehar on Sat Sep 19 09:08:59 2026
    jehar wrote to zero <=-

    By the by, I'm revisiting Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown, 34 years after the fact. It's certainly a different perspective now.

    Definitely a good read, and one of the first DRM-free, free to
    distribute books I ran across.

    https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101



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  • From jehar@VERT/CONCHAOS to phigan on Sun Sep 20 01:36:53 2026
    Re: Testing tech talk
    By: phigan to jehar on Sat Sep 19 2026 02:53 am

    Diff perspective because you're older/more pro, or what?

    In some ways, that's inevitable yeah. It's a Wonderful Life is a different movie to me every year.

    But beyond that, it happened at this exact nexus between one onramp of online activity and the next, so the sense of momentum carries with it some assumptions about the future. I'm less interested in the accuracy of those assumptions than I am just appreciative of getting to see an encapsulation of that period of time.

    And it's a plain fun read in it's own right as well.
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  • From Troff@VERT/DMINE to jehar on Mon Sep 21 15:02:50 2026
    Re: Testing tech talk
    By: jehar to zero on Sat Sep 19 2026 12:31 am


    By the by, I'm revisiting Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown, 34 years after

    Added to my reading list
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