@ssm to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • edit-26 months agoThey'd still both rather use C++ than each other thoughlemmy.sdf.orgimagemessage-square22arrow-up1331arrow-down113
arrow-up1318arrow-down1imageThey'd still both rather use C++ than each other thoughlemmy.sdf.org@ssm to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • edit-26 months agomessage-square22
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilink57•6 months agoTo my knowledge, it’s a name that came out of the free software / GNU movement. So, “hackers” as in clever problem solvers, not those that break into insecure systems.
minus-square@beeng@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink20•6 months agoWhich should be known as a “cracker”, but yeah mainstream media fucked the word “hacker” to mean something it doesn’t.
To my knowledge, it’s a name that came out of the free software / GNU movement. So, “hackers” as in clever problem solvers, not those that break into insecure systems.
Which should be known as a “cracker”, but yeah mainstream media fucked the word “hacker” to mean something it doesn’t.