zachlatta

I just got one of these (https://aiphor.com/products/bluefox-nx1-4-0-android-smartpho...) that I'm hoping to try and make my weekend phone. It's a small Android phone. It runs WhatsApp / Google Maps. I am going to set it up to forward my calls to it on the weekends. It just arrived, so I'm excited to try it out.

Comment · 1 month ago

The AI companies should all make visionary donations to the Internet Archive.

Comment · 1 month ago

For teens ages 13-18, Hack Club is running a free grant program to help kids learn to solder! They can sign up and get a free kit from us at https://solder.hackclub.com/

Comment · 2 months ago

One easy answer to the slopification of hackathons is to turn to the same method that game jams use - peer voting.

We made this switch in 2022 for nearly all Hack Club hackathons and it’s hugely helped project quality.

Comment · 3 months ago

If you go to https://hackclub.com/clubs, there’s an application form. Once you fill it out you’ll get a response within a week. If anything comes up, please email [email protected] who runs the clubs program (or post in the clubs channels on Slack).

Comment · 3 months ago

If you go to https://hackclub.com/programs, there are a bunch of things you can join right now! Another commenter mentioned it - but you should also join the Hack Club Slack at https://slack.hackclub.com

Comment · 3 months ago

If you have any ideas on how we can better orient the community around self expression and self actualization, please email me!

It’s really important to me that Hack Club is a space that helps teens become the people they want to become vs. pressuring them down any one path.

[email protected]

Comment · 3 months ago

Hey, you should join Hack Club! I was just at an event where a high schooler designed and built a continuous variable transmission (https://outpost.hackclub.com).

You’ll meet a ton of interesting, friendly teens who are all helping each other build awesome projects.

Cool project!

(Hack Club is a nonprofit and I’m the founder of it)

Comment · 4 months ago

I once set up a 1 month hotspot with Verizon when I moved into a new place that didn’t have internet yet.

After the month, I returned the hotspot to the store and they told me I was all good (in writing too!).

Then I started getting monthly bills that I couldn’t cancel online or over the phone. I repeatedly went into the store and they told me it was a billing mistake and they’d fix it.

Eventually they sent me to collections, my credit score dropped, and a debt collector started coming after me.

It took 2 years to finally get them to stop and to remove it from my credit history.

Verizon is a bad company that doesn’t care about its customers.

Comment · 4 months ago

At Hack Club we have made tremendous investments to help teenagers get into electronics and design their own PCBs over the last 2 years.

It’s much harder to fake and in many situations much more exciting than software, especially for beginners. Some of you might like this video from a recent event at GitHub HQ: https://youtu.be/kaEFv7e49mo?si=sLer815jCJIyWR9Y

We have an upcoming event called Hack Club Fallout where we’re bringing a bunch of high schoolers from across the USA and world to Shenzhen for a 7 day hackathon because it’s one of the few places you can get same day PCB turnaround: https://fallout.hackclub.com

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