The term `hacker` has become mostly meaningless these days. But I'm curious. How would you describe a hacker in 2024? And why?

1 year ago · 👍 martin, bavarianbarbarian

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A practising Anarchist is a Hacker. · 1 year ago

I say pirate for those who breach into systems · 1 year ago

certainly no cert-chaser is a hacker tbh. doing it just for a corporate job is about as anti-hacker as i can think of. · 1 year ago

Hoodie, sunglasses...

jk, I consider myself hacking when I'm trying to understand how something works, or trying to make it work in a creative or unusual way. · 1 year ago

@resetreboot I'd not say cracker, white/blackhat hacker seems to me the most correct term. dramatically spoken, we are masters of one of the most dangerous tech on the planet, just image what a bunch of evil minded sysadmins could do.... · 1 year ago

To me a hacker is someone that really manages to push a technology in ways they weren't originally designed for. Or someone with real deep knowledge of a certain tech.

So to me, someone that makes Doom run in some appliance or someone that knows the ins and outs of a microprocessor, are hackers.

For those that breach into systems, I stick to the "crackers" name. · 1 year ago