5 sats \ 4 replies \ @tomlaies 27 Jan \ on: Dangerous ideas, hacker culture, and free speech ideasfromtheedge
I find the idea of "forbidden knowledge" really childish. Are you 12 reading a detective novel where the protagonist unearths mysterious secrets? Come on.
It's the internet age. Aside from classified information and very niche topics nothing is forbidden. You can look up how to make moonshine or grow illegal drugs (cannabis, magic mushrooms, opium poppies...) or cnc/cat files for ghost guns on the internet in 5 minutes to 1 hour tops.
I find the idea of "forbidden knowledge" really childish. Are you 12 reading a detective novel where the protagonist unearths mysterious secrets? Come on.
This is an insulting and remedial interpretation of what this post was about.
It's the internet age. Aside from classified information and very niche topics nothing is forbidden. You can look up how to make moonshine or grow illegal drugs (cannabis, magic mushrooms, opium poppies...) or cnc/cat files for ghost guns on the internet in 5 minutes to 1 hour tops.
Correct. And obvious. So you should have realized that's not what this post is about.
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I'm sure he meant 30years ago.. things were A lot harder to find then.
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things were A lot harder to find then.
Especially technical documentation. No public docs or training on any of the dominant operating systems back then. All proprietary and expensive and private. My biggest thrill came when my company bought a Unix system to replace our mainframe. I could actually buy books in a bookstore to learn the operating system.
One day our tech could become as impenetrable as life and the universe to our ancestors.
Back then the tech "became penetrable". The old impenetrable tech was at a great disadvantage when this happened. The old companies had to change their ways or die out. I don't think tech can ever become more impenetrable (artificially controlled) than it was back then.
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Correct.
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