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Comment by BoredPositron | Hacker News Reader

Reads like a personal experience applied to a giant group of people. Hacker culture was never more alive...

I appreciate you pointing that out, you’re right that this post is very much colored by my own experience. I don’t mean to suggest curiosity or hacker culture is gone entirely, more that in my circles it feels a lot harder to find than it used to.

I’m genuinely glad to hear your perspective though it’s encouraging if you’re seeing the opposite. Maybe the truth is that the spirit is still alive, just spread out in different communities, projects, or corners of the internet than where I tend to hang out. But sadly I'm just not seeing it.

At least in Germany we get more and more second spaces for hackers — most big cities have a makerpaces now and in smaller towns most libraries started to act as makerspaces with 3D printers and soldering stations and some electronic parts. There is steady growth in CCC memberships. Besides the big congress the other events like GPN, Easterhack are getting more visitors. I don't have much experience in the US but Europe and Asia have a really healthy community. I think you need to look away from people that have money as their primary goal in computing.

Ah I haven't lived in germany for about 7 years now, it has come a long way then you say?

That's amazing and super cool, didn't even know those things existed there.

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