hey let’s see what the people who killed and buried hacker culture think should go in the jargon file!

If the spirit of the original Jargon file was to be a living document, alas, it failed to keep with the times.

Hackers at large have moved away from Lisp despite Paul Graham and other evangelists […]

Hackers also have moved away from academia at large, and 9-5 jobs at tech behemoths are more natural habitats for them, which also shaped the lingo. I mean, there’s a whole layer of slang usually pertinent to outsourcing agencies and to cubicle farms.

I can’t wait for the corporate-approved jargon file, with any hint of anti-capitalism replaced with fun words and quotes from billionaires to share as the soul leaves my body

So in order for the document to evolve, we need a system to determine consensus. Everyone who cares runs a program on their computer that joins the network and registers their intent. With each proposed change, a query goes out to the network, and it’s up to everyone on the network to say yea or nay to the proposal. With enough "yea"s, the document is updated.

…this is starting to sound like a blockchain, isn’t it.

for the absolute sake of fuck. coming soon: HackerDAO! collect 10xer tokens and finally prove to the junior devs why corporate gives you so many points to crunch on! vote on fun new jargon, but only if it’s crypto-related! surely you’re hacker enough to be on the pump side of this pump and dump!

  • self@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    you’re right, there’s nothing anticapitalist at all about esr’s jargon file. I feel like hacker culture as it originally existed pre-esr had strong anticorporate elements (such as open access to systems and knowledge with no profit motive, including via what’d later be known as software hacking and piracy; this shit got whitewashed to fuck by esr and others to make hacker culture more palatable to corporations), though to be honest that’s probably wishful thinking on my part. either way that ideal largely got swept away by the greed surrounding the first AI bubble

    I definitely love a good hbomb. gonna put that one on in the background while I reassemble this semi-busted Pinebook