2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly (Vol. 41, No. 3) Autumn 2024
by 2600 Productions
This page contains highlights I saved while reading 2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly (Vol. 41, No. 3) Autumn 2024 by 2600 Productions. These quotes were captured using Readwise and reflect the ideas or passages that stood out to me most.
Highlights
In practice, Agile has been twisted into a tool for management to push us harder and faster. They say it's about "responding to change over following a plan," but let's be honest - it's about doing more with less and keeping us on a treadmill that never stops. The sprint becomes a marathon, and we're the ones paying the price.
Hackers, we've always been about more than just code. We've been about freedom - freedom of information, freedom from control. Unionizing is the next logical step. It's about taking the hacker ethos into the workplace, about organizing to protect ourselves and each other.
nce the start of the pandemic. More and more, I see headlines lamenting the idea that high schoolers who graduated between 2016 and 2024 are entering the workforce with less and less basic computer literacy, possibly due to Chromebooks obscuring even further a basic understanding of computer files and file structures.
let's not forget the ethical side of this equation. We're being asked to build the future, to develop AI, blockchain, and all the other buzzword technologies that are supposed to change the world. But at what cost? How many of us have been forced to work on projects that make us sick to our stomachs - surveillance tech, data mining tools, algorithms that reinforce societal biases - because we don't have the power to say no?
The 3264653699 part, which looks like the ID of a tweet, is indeed a disguised IP address in decimal format. This is a valid format, although most people don't know. An IP address is, in fact, a 32 bit number. It's easier to represent it in the normal dotted notation, separating it in four parts, each part having eight bits, like we usually do. But we can use it in decimal format as well.
We're in an industry where burnout isn't just common - it's expected.
We're living in a world where billion dollar tech companies expect us to live and breathe code, demanding 80 hour weeks under the guise of "passion." And what do we get in return? Burnout, anxiety, and the constant threat of layoffs.