[M4v3R]

From the Introduction:

> After the past several decades of humanity putting all of its collective knowledge online, we are seeing more ways to prevent us from accessing it.

This hits so hard, especially for someone who saw the Internet becoming this awesome, huge open library that everyone can access and contribute and then witnessing it being paywalled, drowned with ads and slop, monetized to oblivion, sometimes straight up disappear. It's heartbreaking.

[chedabob]

Pretty fitting as I can't get on that site because it's marked as "Radicalization and Extremism" by SonicWall's content filter on our corporate firewall.

[bawolff]

In fairness, i can see how stuff like http://phrack.org/issues/7/6.html#article might fit that description.

Early internet seems like a much less sanitized place.

[simula67]

The worst part of it is that the "true Internet" is probably still out there, but we can't find it anymore. The search engines have gotten way worse over the years and we no longer have good enough filters to ignore all the nonsense.

[asmr]

the last article "Calling All Hackers" touches on this. There are still plentiful communities and resources outside of the mainstream internet. A lot of what I personally refer to as the "real internet" are these smaller indie sites and communities.

[stackghost]

Any idea what "pinkchan" is, as referenced by cts?

[asmr]

It's a discord group

[BiteCode_dev]

*by the very same companies that made bank from the web openness.

[ghostway]

adding to that, I currently see the internet as a "noise-first" kind of library, transformed from one that had little signal but where noise was sparse too

at the same time, (some of) the awesome people are still here, and they're still doing amazing stuff :)

EDIT: :)'d

[keyle]

Yes it's a very sad state of affairs. But like never before, the hacker spirit is more important than ever!

Can't fix a bug unless you understand the code... Can't change the world unless you understand it.

[smartmic]

The whole introduction is great and hits the nail on the head. A hearty greeting also goes to all uncritical LLM apologists, whose sometimes brainless efforts and arguments do a disservice to freedom of information (and thus to humanity in the long term). Packaging free knowledge together with false information in an unsolicited and non-transparent manner and then selling it as the new saviour should bring all hackers to the barricades - thank you, Phrack, for speaking the truth!