Whatever happened to the Redstone hackers and home-brew console crackers?
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Image is a dark-mode screenshot of a tweet from user “kuberdenis” (blue-check account, circular avatar of a person swimming) that reads: “tech has changed man.. when i was a teenager there were kids making computers in minecraft, kids cracking playstations and getting sued, kids LITERALLY SAVING the internet and getting FBI raided in return.. what happened? corporate greed? short form content? what is it?”. White text sits on a solid black background in typical Twitter UI, with the ‘Follow’ button visible top right. The tweet nostalgically contrasts early-2010s hacker culture (Minecraft redstone CPUs, PlayStation jailbreaks, heroic teenage bug-hunters) with today’s perceived focus on monetization and fleeting short-form content. For seasoned engineers, it evokes the shift from grassroots tinkering and curiosity-driven exploits to a landscape dominated by corporate platforms, legal landmines, and viral attention economics
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We went from teens reverse-engineering PS3 bootloaders to influencers reverse-engineering the algorithm - turns out the latter has far fewer opcodes and way more sponsorship slots
The same kids who built functioning CPUs in Minecraft are now arguing about whether to use tabs or spaces in JIRA tickets while their manager asks them to add more story points to the sprint because 'velocity looks low this quarter.'
Remember when 'moving fast and breaking things' meant a teenager reverse-engineering Sony's hypervisor at 3 AM, not a PM prioritizing which A/B test to ship? Now the most rebellious thing a kid can do is choose Vim over VSCode - and even that gets them a LinkedIn post about 'developer productivity optimization.'
We went from root‑or‑bust to please‑like‑and‑subscribe; the only exploit with product‑market fit now is the dopamine scheduler optimizing CPM
Kids once earned FBI raids for red-teaming the net; now the real hack is dodging Jira tickets to ship a hotfix
We traded redstone ALUs and PS3 hypervisor bugs for OKRs on average watch time - turns out root access lost to reach metrics
can somebody explain why bro angry Comment deleted
is this ironic post? because he answers the question in the question Comment deleted
минусы? Comment deleted
Please, refrain from usage of any language besides English Comment deleted
minuses? Comment deleted
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Whats the saving internet and getting raided story? Comment deleted
1. Somebody leaks classified documents to the internets (anonymously). 2. You download the internets. 3. FBI comes to your house and finds tons of classified documents in your computer. 4. You are sentenced for the rest of your life.* 5. PROFIT! (FBI is rewarded.) * Unless you happen to be the president or at least a candidate. Comment deleted
was that leaked data a trap? Comment deleted
cause how would feds know and knock your door Comment deleted
ISP tracking downloads You used a torrent You used tor (many exit nodes are monitored) You tried to be secure and used a VPN (monitored through claims to be no logs) Site was a trap Comment deleted
They cannot trace the source of the leak, but can trace you accessing the site under their monitoring. Comment deleted
couldn't they trace the leaker accessing site? Comment deleted
The leaker is supposed to take good privacy protection measures, unlike a casual user who is just "downloading the internets", that is doing bulk crawling without any sentient approach. Comment deleted
>put classified internets on the internets >get scraped by everyone, including china/russia/north korea >raid a random fucktard >profit Comment deleted
War thunder forums be like Comment deleted
Kids these days are maintaining the Unity DE. Comment deleted
Ah, that's why... Comment deleted
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DcYLT37ImBY Comment deleted
Made by a 14 year old Comment deleted