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I don't know. I personally have a mild dislike of self-applied labels like this.

"You know what punkers don't do? Call themselves punkers."

Yep. Just like "activist", "entrepreneur", "intellectual", "genius", and so many others, "hacker" is a word without meaning when applied to oneself.

The article does say that you shouldn't apply it to yourself. It permits you to accept the label when others apply it to you.