I identify as a 'hacker' in the 2600/Phrack tradition, and I definitely feel like a luddite rejecting the centralization of control as everything moves into the cloud, and proliferation of anti-consumer software that disempowers. Linux and BSD are beginning to feel like the last bastions of true user freedom, and the only remaining place that I have any control over my destiny as a user (and creator) of software.
DRM, app stores, subscription models, SaaS... I would burn all of these things to ground if I could
DRM, app stores, subscription models, SaaS... I would burn all of these things to ground if I could