/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

>Using a stargazing app to see the stars I can't see with my eye due to light pollution.

The amount of light in my city at night is crazy.

> lurking on police scanners with calm music in my dorm, sondering over the people outside while sitting in near darkness

I need to get out more.

I still remember that time my friends managed to pull me to a rave.

It was awful, but it was the most cyberpunk experience I have had, with all those people dancing alone, the lasers, the loud music and all the girls with half-shaved haircuts.

>>41263

>Not getting to tweak out on digital drugs I pirated online and uploaded into my neural computer

>>41263

>living from paycheck to paycheck in a shitty job, contemplating carding just because everything else is a lottery ticket

>jacking into your own personal account on a public-access Unix system

>surfing in a VR browser even though you're too poor to own a VR headset

>friday night alone at my desk with a handful of terminals open and a pile of amphetamine powder waiting to be lined up next to my laptop

>>41292

>>>surfing in a VR browser even though you're too poor to own a VR headset

Just experienced this tonight. It was pretty cyber.

>>41302

What's a VR browser?

>>41342

JanusVR

>listening to the BBC Radio Play version of Neuromancer and getting chills at how tangible it feels

>>41392

typical shoehorning pureple prose hedonist

>>41392

Thanks for the album rec, love it

>>41478

OP here. I live in suburban Phoenix, but I get around a lot. Whenever I'm downtown or in another city I do this. There's something beautiful about feeling so small. Almost gives you hope, for us humans.

Would cyber related feels include being bummed you might not live to see the age of augmentations?

>>41554

Definitely

Also fuck you for reminding me

>>41559

Well realistically it just seems unlikely.

>>41587

A man can dream

>>41510

Isn't that hard to make up words either, but honestly there should be an actual dictionary word for that.

Every time I go to a city I get that. It's not even like I live in the middle of nowhere. I live in a suburb just an hour drive from the city and its just insane every time. Probably the most striking thing is that for all the great riches and wonders in cities, there's equal poverty and suffering.

>complaining on a taiwanese claymation forum about the complaints about what is or is not according to a trend

Truly them feels

>>41698

>for all the great riches and wonders in cities, there's equal poverty and suffering.

The prosperity promised by the dot-com boom has already arrived, but it's just not equally distributed.

>Cigarette runs out of battery

>it's no morning mist, it's nasty smelling smog

>cistern with undisclosed chemicals was set on fire near by

>had to learn about it by word, actual news report was buried under a ton of non-newsworthy someone-said-something shit and it was only a brief mention with "it's not toxic, we promise" snippet from "experts"

Coincidentaly, I was actually planning on buying a respirator, but only because I thought it would be neat to wear one when I undust my PC, since I have to do it in my bathroom.

>>42206

Speaking of porta-nebulizers, there's a lot of women smoking e-cigs lately in my area. Some of them young mothers.

They even manage to pull it off without looking like smug tech-hipsters.

>>42208

m80, you can get a pack of cheap respirators off a dollar tree.

>>42220

Dollar trees don't bloom in my climate.

>>42221

Nah, I'll just grab whatever cheap shit they sell in the nearest shop.

>>42222

Poundland, Dies peso mundo, Y'know.

>>41491

>tfw a fellow /cyber/ user lives near you

>>42221

does anyone know the name of what that woman is using on her face?

>>42242

That would be a mask.

>>42245

thanks, mate

>>42243

User, you're a gutsy man, and a big help.

>>42250

Nah, I'm just a smartass.

>eating runny half-boiled eggs because the thermometer on my 5 dollar electric hotpan is busted

>trying to establish a four way handshake between my neighbors wpa and a 1995 DELL laptop equipped with an external card-bus antenna

>having to use a 1995 DELL laptop because I accidentally spilled beer on my newer one in drunken stupor

>>42245

that image looks schway as fuck.

>>41263

>>41478

>>41507

>>41510

I've felt that feeling, but never really felt the need to actually go out and do it. My dreams are filled with that sort of thing, though. That and wandering the streets and buildings where things don't connect quite right. At least that's what I remember.

Speaking of dreams, I pirated an alright little Link's Awakening type game that had a similar sentiment and a nice tune related to this. It's a shame the devs seem to be huge faggots and don't even like their own game anymore (although I think I get their sentiment in some ways).

>"I know cities can be dirty and crowded and everything, but I like to come out here and look out over all the lights. It's beautiful in its own way. It's not nearly as infinite as the stars, but there is something about its humanness that adds a layer of wonderful complexity. Behind every light is a person with hopes and fears and secrets… looking out is both terrifyingly lonely and fierceley personal. I think I love every person behind every window. I love you, people, for being my stars. I love you no matter how fucked up your life is or how far you think you've fallen. You are lovely for tonight…"

>>42301

That's a 3M 3200 Half Face Respirator.

>>42302

It really is a sick feeling. With some synthwave or breakbeat enhances the feeling you get walking through a neon night city.

>>42310

Paris must be real nice to stroll through during the night. Your pic could is cool but could be a black metal album cover.

>>42389

The only thing that sounds schway as fuck to do in Paris is cataphilia (exploring the 300 km long underground mines)

>Sat under 30 foot TV screen using the free wifi from the building it is attached to

>Neon colors from the TV reflect off the window of an opposite glass sky scraper

>Browsing /cyber/ on iphone

>2am need to home and make some dinner

>Put on some bigbeat and breakcore for the walk home

>Actually feels kinda good.

>>42402

I go the the forbidden catacombs of Paris every month. And yes, it's fucking cool and huge.

You ever found anything that recent people have left behind or any cool stories?

>>41285

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwave_entrainment

>>42416

There's a lot of things actually. The main network is about 230km long. So there's a lot of rooms with cool stories behind it. Memorials, ossuary, tags…

People leave "tracts", with rumors, party, guides etc It's an entire culture

>>41292

S D F

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5nfQ0NEMHc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_vdcIM9pS8

A while ago, a puclic french TV channel aired 10 hours of a man walking backward in Tokyo in reverse, accompanied by live music the whole way through, during the night. Feel like it fits here.

>>42731

Got the song for that?

>>42785

Sounds like Machine Girl to me

>>42732

crashing in a booth in a Shibuya manga-cafe over night and order microwaved pizza and calpis. Try to block the sound of ojiisan snoring in the next booth with a coat over your head. Kicked out at 5am for train across the city. Bodies and trash line the streets around 109 to scramble as you make your way to the station.

>>41292

>>41302

>>41342

I made a whole thread a while ago exploring ideas for a DIY cheap VR headset using a smartphone or cheap tablet. Basically if you already have a phone and cardboardVR you could plug it to your PC and use it as such

Nobody cared, so here we are

Listening to Blade Runner Blues as I browse the board….

>>42884

Have you checked out TrinusVR? It streams your desktop in VR to your phone. It works pretty well, but it's only viable for video or image. Phone VR doesn't have high enough resolution for good text display yet (maybe on 4k phones).

The other problem with phone solutions is the manual placement of the phone in the case. This leads to easy misplacement of the VR screens. I haven't tried solutions like the GearVR yet, but for the cheap solutions (which is most likely the kind people on here would have) this is a pretty big problem.

>>42785

Machine girl - out by 16, dead on the scene

>>42933

Also filename is source

>>42912

I haven't tried 2k phones yet but plenty of people were using the dk2 with virtual desktop and that one is 1080p, same as most phones these days

As for text that can be improved with other tools, besides the point of VR is that you can have interfaces that aren't possible with regular monitors, see vid for examples

>>42944

>the point of VR is that you can have interfaces that aren't possible with regular monitors

The problem is we got so good at using regular monitors for our UI needs, early development interfaced of VR just don't offer the marginal revolution to make a switch.

Shit in the movies might look cool, but try standing and moving your head and arms around, you'll get tired and go back to sitting and typing really fast.

I thought we learned this lesson with Nintendo Wii, Kinect etc.

I tried to imagine functional VR general purpose interface once, but only ended up with virtual keyboard and virtual monitors.

look can you just go back to /tech/ and post CP there?

not that i like it but it's better than your nonsense bumps of nonsense threads here.

>>43491

Which is why for business AR will dominate. Especially for engineering, it's already shifting that way. VR will stay mostly in entertainment.

A friend of mine is currently working on an AR-powered dating app. What a time to be alive.

>>42969

it totally is as cool or fun, but your portion of the world isn't.

>>43491

>VR monitors require standing

where do you tools come from?

>>43513

I was talking about hollywood shit.

Watch first 30 sec of >>42944 video, they almost all standing and wave their hands around.

I didn't watch the whole video properly last time, looks like author agrees with me that it is bullshit.

Also look at Vive, they went standing up and waving arms around route too.

>>41263

Work at megacorp

12 hours a day + morning workouts

working on developping next generations of technology

using company time to learn useful skills and improve myself, making myself an invaluable asset

study machine learning and pen-testing on weekends for fun

need to get back to martial arts though…

I live in a small closet, not even a room. No windows, just a door. Nothing but CRT monitors, old game systems, and a yellowed mattress ontop of a network of duct-tape and wires. All of my old 80s technology is intricately connected and barely working. Some T60 laptops are plugged into the monitor and keyboard setups to watch anime without a DVD player. All I have is a black JVC with a stack of VHS next to it and 6 terabytes of piracy. Some cigars by a multi-input phonograph (Plays just about anything) and a bottle of cheap vodka. Wood grain furniture with mounting squares so everything has sockets and surge protectors. Minifridge is full of nothing but soda cans and a plastic bottle of apple juice, ontop of it is gas-station tier snacks. My dresser is full of computer parts and there's 3 monitors with more underneath them. They nearly touch the ceiling, they've been stacked up. Buckets of spare parts, tracfones, everything's in cash. I'm either a disgusting technoNEET or schway as fuck.

>>43710

Yeah, I probably am just a hoarder, but it gives me a sense of comfort.

If I were to link them all up, it'd require a lot more input devices and defeat the purpose of having other towers. I'd rather each monitor have a different, specific use and link them to dataswitchers. I have a few that I haven't tested because I need to upgrade a few of the pieces to get them to play nice with my fat 6tb stack. Soon, I suppose, I'll have them all linked to the one at my desk. For now they're only linked to eachother. It's all they can read.

>>43597

Holy fuck pls tell me you're Ian.

>>43695

Ey you posted these in my thread about what to do with cyber scrap we collect. Man that was like a year ago.

>>45133

>Why the fuck would you want to replace parts of your body with computerized augmentations?

Because I don't have to worry about that kind of thing if I build them myself.

>>45132

…/liberty/ Christian poster, is that you?

I just accidentally infiltrated my sister's workplace to ask if she wanted some pizza for dinner.

I held the door for the garbage guy, walked in, said "yo sis want some pizza" and her manager said "yeah, um, you're not supposed to be here".

Not my fault, the open sign was lit and the garbage guy was a dumb shaz.

>>45175

Next time wear a nice suit. You'd be amazed how many places you can get in if you just dress well.

>>45177

It's not the suit, but the appropriateness of the clothers you're wearing.

Disk type:    Phase change
Manuf. index: 69
Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited
Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo.
The orange forum likes to get brouzouf for recent information.
The information for this media may not be correct.

>software I use complains about greedy corps

>actually name drops it, and it's actually a Japanese greedy corp to boot

Their site http://www.orangeforum.or.jp/ is down, so I guess it's just a piece of historical curiosity than anything else, but wew, I felt a tingle there for a second.

Optical disk ripping and burning is a rare case where free software and piracy/cracking communities intersect, not that I think about it.

>>42969

Go to a big city and walk around the tech area. It's happening.

>>43695

Is this Nick Fedorov?

>>41270

>sondering

I'm glad you used that word.

>>41392

I fucking love you anon.

I do all of this too, and while alone. I wouldn't mind having fellow cyberpeeps along with me but some nights doing these things alone I feel helps me find myself…

>>45182

This was…a bit of an eye-opener. Thanks anon.

>tfw browse janus VR without a vr headset because poorfag

>tfw laptop is an aging peice of shit that's been beaten to hell and back

>tfw drinking cheap beer and listening to a playlist designed to evoke the feeling of bombed out cities and twisted steel superstructures while my girlfriend sleeps in the next room of our 9th floor apartment

>tfw come on here and shitpost occasionally looking out of the balcony door where I can see the permaglow of downtown through the winter mists

>>48972

>Nearly two years later, lurking on imageboards with calm music in my home, grinning over a shared appreciation

Finger guns, my dude.

>>49032

Good god, this gave me the shivers. Got something to share as well.

>sit on roof of an abandoned freight train station

>got me a sixpack of beer

>listen to amateur radio

>watch as the sun sets and the city starts glowing with light

>>49249

It's pretty comfy dude.

I used to occasionally climb one of the 19th century shop/apartment buildings when I lived downtown, picking my way between footholds in the crumbling brick, rusting access ladders, and tin roofs, then get high and/or drunk on top of there and have an adventure making my way back down after sunrise. Was great seeing some of the alleyways and odd graffiti and victorian detailing that I wouldn't normally see otherwise.

>>49518

Been a few months, but you fucks are still here anyway.

I live in a 365000 people "city". Nothing fucking happens. Night time comes, the city is DEAD.

Fucking govs have the guts to call it a metropolitan area as well. I'm reminded how it isn't whenever I go out for a midnight ciggy.

>vacation in Berlin

>cheap hostel with automatic check-in using keypads

>can't sleep because late at night

>go out at 2300, city buzzing with life

>just walk out the door and follow whatever road I please

>random bar, get shitfaced

I HATE living here. But I'm still a student and have a job here. Can't afford to move anywhere and my significant other wants to stay here.

All I can do is dream.

>>50438

Oops.

>can't sleep because sleep cycle's fucked

>the season was transiting from spring to summer, hearing the sound of the raindrops to the roof outside

>couldn't sleep at a 4am night in the dorm

>browsing in the dark with the little ray from ThinkLight

>connected myself online via a top-of-the-line 802.11n router from 2013, purchased second-hand from eBay for 20 USD, with hacked transmit power to get my location covered, by patching the kernel.

>bypassing ISP censorship and big brother by routing traffic to Europe, to Asia with independent layers of encryption, then to the three layers of Tor relays towards the rendezvous point, yet before the traffic was sent to another three layers to an obscure imageboard.

>reading dead cyberpunk websites, and a thread full of people's /cyber/ feels, comfy. read, scroll, read, scroll, in the background noise of the slow-rotating laptop fan, and coil whine while scrolling.

>finally realized those posts were from 2016, two years ago, and the websites are even earlier. links are dead, imageboard went down, community dead before I've got a chance to discover them. and these posts were so tangible to, I feel, but these were just some data leftover. I felt I had a conversation to the people but it's simply an illusion, in fact they have long gone since then. what I read now was just an abandoned building of history buried in the past, a live playback of video recording tape. the people and their things you felt related to, ceased to exist a long long time ago, the melancholy of knowing I'll never have a chance to meet them once more.

> I tried to find something real, something tangible to grasp onto. In the end, I found nothing. Nothing, but a vast collection of dead pages and lost posts.

>room full of half broken electronics, old computers and various wires everywhere

>>50442

Congrats. Your post got me through the following thoughts, in order:

>comfy as soykaf

>nice tech bro

>fucking emo shazbot jesus

>shit, he's onto something and is actually poetic, not emo

Thanks for the ride, user.

>>50442

schway, but don't laptop fans spin at hundreds or thousands of rpm? Thats hardly slow rotating.

And don't feel bad, /cyber/ was never VERY active. You didn't miss out. You're still experiencing it right now.

>>50459

>tfw no Apple II

>tfw no 300b modem for calling BBS

>tfw no downloading pirated software from file repos

>tfw no sysop yelling at you for leeching

We missed a bunch, don't try to deny it.

>>50459

>but don't laptop fans spin at hundreds

This is slow.

>or thousands of rpm?

This is not, you're right, English /lit/ (or /lit/ in general) is too hard for me. I should have used a better word to describe the slight, benign and comfy fan noise of the laptop, you know, when you were only browsing HTML pages and the CPU just stays cool.

>>50449

>And don't feel bad, you didn't miss out. You're still experiencing it right now.

>>50449

>Congrats.

thx, users.

>>50463

>tfw no Apple II, no 300b modem for calling BBS, no downloading pirated software from file repos, tfw no sysop yelling at you for leeching

>We missed a bunch, don't try to deny it.

tfw you jack yourself into olduse.net, a server for live replaying the entire Usenet, time-shifted by 30 years. A portal, a wormhole to the past. Today is May 18, 1988. Great Naming was just completed one year ago, a new hierarchy known as alt.* arrived 7 months earlier.

You see people are talking just like us, but the quality of each post is comparable to a nowadays project mailing list. You see some memes in your 80x24 text console, and you find they are in fact an integral part of the hacker folklore. You don't see even a single shitpost. You see hackers with big names, were still playing around in their youths. Larry Wall, John Gilmore, except Linus Torvalds who hasn't yet to come… Richard Stallman's fine-tuning words for the GNU Manifesto You see the parties, clubs of the SF-fans, with their endless fan works of Star Trek. You see the first generation of otakus who are not weaboos, making anime fansubs with a VCR and an Amiga 500, running on Motorola 68k @ 7.16 MHz. You see pages of impassioned discussion in alt.cyberpunk. You see a new version of NetHack released out. The calling-for-mod and the flamewars.

This is the digital equivalent of sondering, except you can read their inside thoughts, recorded without a single missing NNTP-Posting-Host. Except the people and the age which has long gone. Finally you ended up with the same feeling in >>50442. It's only you, a /cyber/ user who is spending the whole night reading it, but for everyone else, who would remember this world on your screen, or even realize such a world ever existed in the first place? This place is irrelevant, ephemeral, and has already forgotten, died and buried…

Check it out! Read the Blog, the FAQ, then try the interactive console on the homepage, net.hackers. If you feel you're getting into it, find a Usenet reader, such as slrn, and jack in, users!

>https://olduse.net/blog/

>https://olduse.net/faq/

>https://www.olduse.net

Sorry for hijacking the thread, I should continue with the original topic, but free to have a look here.

>>46283

looks interdasting got any more context?

>>50468

IIRC I was trying to burn some audio CDs using one of the standard Linux tools.

>stroll a vibrant city at night

>go bar hopping, chat to random wageslaves over a beer

>realize that as much as I don't want to, I have to be one of them

>no hopes of subsisting without joining a company that sells software by screaming buzzwords

>go home

>work through old programming books

>realize the times for simple computer pioneering are long gone

I kinda sound like an old guard.

>>50517

>chat to random wageslaves over a beer

Must be nice living in a place where you can talk to someone at a bar without looking like a degenerate loner or getting stabbed with glass.

>>50532

Depends on the bar, really. Irish pubs, Hard Rock Cafés (which have become so hipster you wouldn't believe, but carry good dark beer) and the occasional small pub with some drunk old farts and cheap beer.

It is kinda cyber. I'd go clubbing, but I hate clubs.

Where the hell do you live where you get shiv'd on a regular basis for having a beer and talking to strangers?

>>42277

i know this feel

Posting on /cyber/ for the firs time ever. Real life seems more boring than fantasy cyberpunk.

Sure wish I could find any kind of roof access by night.

Reading these posts gives me the feels. How does one go about that anyway?

>take apart old gameboy

>realize what could be done on these machines with small cartridges

>look at "retro-style" games

>hundreds of megs for SNES style

>start to read old sourcecode

>realize programmer skills are degrading

Browsing hyper-efficient hacky code from 80s and 90s felt cyber as fuck.

>>50647

Easiest thing is parking garages. You can usually drive to the top level, and there might be an elevator box that's a little higher, by like 8 feet, that you climb up, but that's it.

>>50697

It's not a matter of skills improving/degrading. It was almost an entirely different skill, but once you learn it, it's very simple.

If you want to get started, there's a great series on the ATARI 2600, and since it's so limited, there's really only a few ways to write a game. You learn what you can do in a day, and then spend the next few weeks trying to fit your idea into that box.

You'll come out a month later a different person.

>>50710

Thanks for the help, chummer. Got a few places nearby I'll check out on the weekend. So far, I've stuck with the abandoned places I know, but ladders there are often rickety and downright dangerous.

>>50711

Based. Can you hook me up with a link?

>>50719

>Based. Can you hook me up with a link?

I've done ATARI and Gameboy. ATARI is a good place to start because there's just not that much to learn, and the emulators and everything are standardized and easy to get running.

For ATARI, I just installed DOSBOX on a tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard and played with 2600 code over lunch breaks. It's pretty simple. Once you get the basic ins and outs of Assembly, it's not that hard to move to the z80, which is what the GameBoy, and a ton of other systems are based on.

This is the standard for getting started: https://atariage.com/2600/programming/index.html

Other things to look at, if you're looking to get started in Assembly, would be CoreWars, where you use a fake assembly language called RedCode to write viruses that try to take over a virtual memory core. It's all based on Mainframe thinking, but it's a good way to get a sense of how assembly code works. It's a game, but I'm not sure I'd say it's any easier than ATARI programming.

I'd avoid starting with Gameboy, just because there are some tricky things like debouncing buttons that you probably want to save for later.

>>50788

Thanks user.

>>50710

>late evening

>buy two beers

>go to parking garage

>top level

>see some wannabe anarchists throwing around trash and screaming nonsense about fighting the system in a drunken rage

>loud as fuck, not chill at all, violent tendencies

Yeah, trying again.

>>50517

>"but anon, do you do full-stack devops in an agile pattern?"

>>50936

>I almost want to pick up wardriving to liven things up, but I don't think the wife would approve…

What do you imagine you'll gain from wardriving? Reading the emails of your neighbors, or stealing CC numbers you don't need, all while learning nothing new, because you're just using Kali and Meta after hitting the router with Aircrack-NG …

Hacking has become 'NetSec'. It's a boring ass job now. DefCon is overrun with corporations, 'Spot the Fed' is about finding an employer, and most actual 'Hacking' is happening on the university level where people compete to publish white papers about zero-days.

Meanwhile, youth underground movements hardly exist because everyone is afraid to leave their houses and they carry tracking devices with them everywhere they go, and video everything they do.

Cyberpunk != hacking. It's about using formerly unavailable technology in novel ways to break the system.

We need fewer people in NetSec and more kids just willing to figure out a cheap and simple way to block GPS, WiFi and cameras. We need do make Raves a thing again … not the fucking sanctioned, legal, parties they call raves now, but old school, abandoned buildings, experimental music, sex and home made drugs.

We need solutions to the apocalypse of privacy, and fewer jerk offs thinking they're already as cool as they could possibly ever be because they got a job in NetSec, so why bother actually DOING anything?

Hacking is over. Netsec is lame. Makers are your grandpa in his woodshop. Everything else is cosplay … if this is living in the future, then the future sucks.

>>50937

>Hacking has become 'NetSec'. It's a boring ass job now. DefCon is overrun with corporations, 'Spot the Fed' is about finding an employer, and most actual 'Hacking' is happening on the university level where people compete to publish white papers about zero-days.

Every frontier gets civilized eventually, the only way out is to move forward.

>>50942

Exactly, but first we need to all sit down and admit that being a hacker isn't what it used to be. It turned out that reading other people's emails and leaving fake index.html files 'claiming' sites didn't add up to all that much.

Cyberpunk had very few hackers if you get right down to it. Hell, even Hiro Protagonist spends the 99% of the book offline, and only writes one actual program, an anti-virus scanner, the entire book. Case was a hacker, sure, but after that Gibson met some real hackers, decided it was lame, and came up with Bobby, a wanna be who grows up and becomes something else. Most of the rest of the books steer clear of the hacker trope, because it's boring as fuck, and the researchers in their basement labs are the ones doing all the interesting shit.

Hacking is mostly easy, mostly boring, and mostly doesn't amount to jack shit.

hacking … /pentesting is so much more interesting in movies and books. Definitely don't enjoy spending days looking at a website trying to figure out how to get a cookie

>>43512

Wonderful. So wahmen can ignore your messages, only in VR.

>>43503

I am well aware that it's been over 2 years, but related fictional feel:

>write a complicated software

>use VR to completely dive into your own coding world

>nothing around you but your code, docs, tutorials and calm music

>no distractions, nothing unproductive, ideal usage of space

Coming up with a system that allows one to not use a system of windows, but a whole environment representing data in an intuitive and efficient way would probably be worth the effort.

Fuck it, I'm opening a thread.

>stumble across videorelated

>realize that the mainstream has co-opted cyberpunk (at least aesthetically)

>but big cooperations vacuuming up niche subcultures and selling them back in a neat little package is an extremely /cyber/ thing

>not sure how to feel

I guess this was always going to happen.

>>51047

>>mainstream has co-opted cyberpunk

>You just noticed?

When the original authors tried to kill off Cyberpunk in the 90s, it was because the mainstream had co-opted it to make shitty movies and games for the masses … basically, all the shit you think of as 'real' Cyberpunk is just the first generation of shit the corps shoveled down your throat.

>>45182

This. I experienced cyberpunk when I started attending 16h techno parties in warehouses with people doing drugs everywhere, every minute you see someone snort something. It's such a nice feeling being in there with the people of your own time, it's like the 1990-2000s answer to all boomer shit.

>be me, security guard in an independent v&v facility over summer break.

>it's the weekend, so i pull out my wizard laptop and tuto manuals

>reading about cryptography, learning to fall off the net

>get to early computer crypto and get explanation of Lucifer cipher

>looks okay, I guess. Simple to implement today.

>that feel when you were taught DES was shit and not to be bothered with.

>OWO what's this?

>NSA limited DES keys to be 56 bits so they could crack them more easily.

>DES didn't just die, IT WAS MURDERED

>prototype DES with 256 bit key on python.

>works ai'ight I guess

>got to work on implementing it on DOS box under 16bit x86 assembly to simulate it's relative effectiveness then

I'm really enjoying this retrospective look on DES and what it could have been. I'm still in uni so I might do a write up on what was lost by NSA's fuckery

>Cleaning my CCW while trying to learn more about computers

>Browsing forums at night

>Working at a shit job for shit pay

>Drinking whiskey while bitching with friends about the state of the world.

> Think I see a long lost friend riding a bike at the park.

> Scrawl a chalk sigil, a link disguised as a tag, how we used to back in the BBS days.

> Check HTTP log a while later.

> Yep, Friend is live. They acquired a new PC and use Internet from a nicer neighborhood.

> this counts as us "catching up".

tfw, a hightech lowlife's true friends avoid all overt social interaction.

>>51157

>> Scrawl a chalk sigil, a link disguised as a tag, how we used to back in the BBS days.

this is schway as fuck

details?

>>51155

Sounds less like cyberpunk feels and more like a normal day. Unless of course this is how the transition of 20th century life to a dystopian cyberpunk future starts.

>>42245

freka is more fashion than it is actual protection, iirc

>>51226

It's bullshit. BBS's didn't have 'links'. It's just another cosplayer writing shit that sounds good.

>What do you imagine you'll gain from wardriving?

Knowing a list of APs that have shitty dictionary words for WPA2 passwords is useful especially ones accessible from public places.

Do recon at public libraries etc with nmap, actual penetration from these nodes. 1 job per node.

Increasingly coffee shops etc log MAC addies or have CCTV, truly untracable connections are *always* useful…

Tor is good, but it's slow. Sometimes you need a hardline Neo

>>51578

>log MAC addies

y not just spoof it?

>>51584

If you're a macfag it's harder macchanger doesn't play nice w/ airport.

>>41263

Bottle of cheap gin and 7up. Chillwave. Dark but still humid out. Configuring a router I bought to lessen my bill. It was cheap, 12.90USD. Looks like I might have to flash the VPN on there.

>>51610

If your ISP has something like a captive portal that is available even if you've drained your balance, you can try patching shadowsocks to spoof Host header. I was able to use free 4G internets this way for some time before it was reported by some do-good cunt. I have an already patched version (pretty old tho) if you don't want to do this yourself.

>>51033

but windows are intuitive and efficient.

I and (I would assume) many others think in terms of windows, in directories and subfolders. You'd be hard pressed to make a huge paradigm shift-type interface that didn't fall flat on its face.

I love how this thread has become a blur of real life and not-yet-real-life.

>dream of huge city

>got laid off, no friends, no significant other

>realize nothing is holding me here

>spend my last bit of brouzouf on train tickets, tent, sleeping bag, backpack and some non-perishables

>take train

>wander around, sleeping below bridges for some time

>find homeless community in park, next to train tracks

>one of them looks up, says nothing, offers me a cup of nettle tea

>share stories, they take me in with no hesitation

>set up tent

Found a new job eventually, got a flat, found other friends… and yet I never felt this much in touch with society. I still visit them for nettle tea and have a good cry, as the fine gentleman who first gave me a cup was beat to death and nobody except us cared.

Truly, misery brings out the good in people. It felt like family.

Whole new level of sondering, I tell ya. Have respect for those who have nothing. Believe me - being considered a human being is important for these folks.

>be me

>be poor

>walk around city for a few hours b/c bored

>sit behind old warehouses smoking and fucking around on an old rooted smartphone

>hobos chase me off

>walk home alongside long abandoned train tracks

>starts raining

>get soaked

>phone shorts

>sit under bridge waiting for the rain to stop

>it doesn't

>phone dries off enough to turn on

>screen doesn't work

>start playing music

>light up another fag

>lean against the wall watching cars drive in the rain

>feel

>>51284

that's actually quite disappointing really. Seems like it would've been a cool story

>Rent an apartment with my girlfriend, she has a pain problem

>Kitchen is a fucking mess

>Big ugly fucking concrete building, in a block of other buildings, looks like a bunch of soviet apartment blocks in miniature

>Have a Tritium earring, little 3D printed lantern with a Tritium Vial secured in it with resin

>Eat pot cookies and sit on the balcony wearing said earring

>scratch at beard, sip a nice blended scotch and look out over the city in the night while the pot kicks in slowly

>Car Dealerships, sushi bars, asian grocers, jewelers, and train tracks are all visible from here

>not-too-distant lights of downtown, neon and LED lighting from the shops 9 floors below, the occasional roar of a motorcycle or a wannabe street racer in the distance

>listen to a bit of industrial music

Whole thing is comfy as fuck and with a bit of front 242 or nitzer ebb playing feels cyberpunk as fuck.

>>51096

that second image, cp437->utf-8 can be done using a python3 one-liner using "a cp437 string".decode("cp437").

I just got back from China and it is unironically the most cyber place on the planet. Mega cities. Air pollution fog. Dictatorship. Digital payments for everything. LED lit buildings at night everywhere. Unironic Asian text.

>>52122

>tell story to friends and family

>they try to cheer me up

>but you can tell they don't get why I still associate with these folks

>post story to a board full of strangers

>a simple sentence expressing happiness and compassion

>tfw /cyber/ shows more humanity than RL

This is literally a /cyber/ feel, isn't it?

Thanks chummer.

>>52145

Spot on. It hurts sometimes but…I find solace coming to these sites, something to look forward to at the end of the day.

>>52145

Not to be some fag that dishes out platitudes for the sake of being deep, but it makes sense that, in an apathetic, anti-social society, the counter culture would be to be kind and caring.

> arrive to Japan

> huh, Tokyo isn't too cyber as the normalfags say

not that I expected it to be, but still

> last days of the trip

> come back to Tokyo, stay in Kabukicho of all places

> the fuckedupness of it falls on you like an ice bucket

Japan, for most part, isn't punk (or, at least, it's very well hidden) or really cyber (it's all old tech, but more widespread than in the West, that's all). But this fucking place, while not being much more cyber than the rest of Tokyo, has the absolute maximum of punk per square foot. All kinds of low life folks, lots of trash, huge crowds and closed estabilishments. It doesn't look too bad at night, but the morning after… Fuck this place, seriously. If that's what the entire world is going for, sign me up for the Unabomber club.

>>52305

Remember: The anti-social society calls itself social.

This "counter culture" looks edgy as fuck on the outside, but when you get rid of all the 1337, fashion and bragging trash, you can tell we have the "stick together" phenomenon most outsiders know.

In a way, this board is like the hobo society I lived with, just on the web and with more LARPers.

Posting this is a cyber feel in itself.

>>52325

Most won't even do that. They'll pretend to care by doing the bare minimum for their close buddies, expecting maximum returns.

Once you hit rock bottom and require actual help, you'll see how much of a facade everything is. Your friends, your loved ones, your significant other, your boss… their compassion is a thin sheet, an alibi for themselves so they don't feel bad.

You pierce through their "helpful" attitude and realize they're cardboard characters.

Once they hit rock bottom, they might understand. They may realize themselves how replacable and forgettable they are and IF THEY DO, they get the opportunity to become decent human beings.

But to get that opportunity, they have to lose it all. They must be broken and lose all faith.

They have to get in a situation where their survival becomes an actual effort.

I realize this sounds cruel, but supply me with another explanation why nobody cares as much as those who fell and got back up?

Saw this today. Imagine Alphabet hunting me down for being a thought criminal. Imagine having to jump on its back and try to use some annoying torx driver to get at the cables I need to snip. Friend helps me, but then we have to run from quadcopter surveillance drones. F

>>41554

>>41559

>>41587

>>41657

Realistically, unless you're 60+, it isn't that far fetched that you'll live to see, and most likely use, augmentations. We've come a hell of a long way in 40 years. Hell, they've existed in lab environments for decades already.

>>42729

The website is called level 0, you're obviously not digging deep enough into the code, anon.

>>43493

Fellate a shotgun, this is the schwayest thread on this board.

>>52354

>Answering to posts that have been made two years ago

Thanks for posting, chummer, but maybe answer to more recent posts to keep the conversation going?

>driving through downtown

>listening to vidrelated

>looking at people walking in street

>see guy riding skateboard past people on their smartphones

>modernist graffiti art littering walls of numerous buildings around me

>LED billboards and huge glass skyscrapers in background

>about to go through huge system of twisting, winding highway bridges and concrete pillars

>>43923

>Driving on the right side of the road in Japan.

Am I confused or is this image mirrored?

>>45133

>Smelly raves

If you can find a qt at one of these, who doesn't mind the smell, you know she's a desperate skank and there is a 90% chance you can get her to go ass to mouth for you. if you're a degenerate fuck who does anal.

>>48970

>Elroy's Toy

>1 searx later

Apparently it is for children.

>>50948

It all depends on who you choose to target. Activist hacker != schway hacker. Compare Julian Assange and modern day anonymoose

>>51044

Cyberpunk has been co-opted for quite a while.

>>51693

>Windows != windows

>>52356

Like this? :^)

>All the video links in this thread

I see invidious hasn't taken off on this board, huh?

>>52364

Here's hoping invidious doesn't end up like hooktube.

>>52352

qt robowaifus when

>>52364

> Am I confused or is this image mirrored?

Shit's much simpler: it's not Japan, it's China.

Um… doesn't China also drive on the… OH… it's not Hong Kong.

>>51147

Last time I went to a techno party it bored the shit out of me. Nobody knew how to dance.

What parties are you going to?

>>52080

and a less derpy way would be to just use

iconv -f cp437 < source.ansi

>work in a medium-sized corp

>feel weirdly detached from coworkers, despite smalltalk, jokes, eating together and common interests

>-cut-

>navigate a large crowd of people in the city

>somehow feel closer to every single stranger walking past than my friends and coworkers

This is my family now.

>>51057

What's real Cyberpunk?

>>52599

Don't you know? Playing a victim while trying to act tough while copying successful works in any way you can and whining about everything around you is, of course. The most loud bitch that jumped the highest on the oppression train is the cyberpunkest of cyberpunk and gets to decide what is cyberpunk and what isn't.

>>51284

>It's bullshit. BBS's didn't have 'links'.

We did, you just weren't "elite" enough to use them.

BBS artscene appropriate the tagging culture to make cool but hard to read BBS logos, and quickly this was used to encode multiple meanings. Or at least the boards I frequented did. Sort of a visual "Thieve's Cant". If one of us saw one of those tags, guaranteed they'd hit up online equivalent of our old BBS.

There was a lot of local BBS culture back then due to long distance charges. So there were tons of small BBSs only visited by folks in the community. We'd reference each other via "greets" in our artwork and game cracks, put clues on how to access our questionable outdials, or links for short.

It was common to encode silly phrases in phone numbers using 1337-speak, and an artists tag-style was usually identifiable. Less common was to hide phone#s in names, (ANSI)art, cracktro "smack talk", greets to non-existent groups, etc. My "druidic" trick was a secret BBS navigation tree. One series of menu navigations would lead to the outdial links, misstep once and the menu disappeared, your account flagged not-elite. I'd make a graffiti style tag to encode the path to follow, and coordinate the navigation. What looked like a BBS name or a cool tag would be a series of commands.

So, we actually did have links back in the BBS era, but they were outdials and "board ads". A Link board was called such because it had (or could establish) one or more persistent toll-free gateways to other BBSs. A board with Raw Outdials allowed you to call out via their line to another BBS and connect you. Link boards were often permanently linked to only a few "safe" destinations – but the best destinations allowed raw outdials.

This is how we bridged calling areas and avoided long distance. In the movies you'll still see the animation of a call being traced across its links from BBS to BBS. That's mostly propaganda though because the pen register records the call history in the telcos when you 1st make the call, and when you hang up. The time diff is how you get charged for the call. If you hang up before some time limit it doesn't matter. To "trace a call" the feds could just pull the pen register for a node, then see what that called to, get that pen register, etc. But there were ways of dropping off the register grid…

Before the digital conversion the phone system was operated by tones. Famously a 2600 cycle per second tone would tell the telco that you hung up the phone (and log the calltime ended). So, you could call a toll-free 1800 number, then emit the 2600 tone, ma bell's pen register would think you hung up, but the line was still on-hook. So you could then dial out and not get charged for it. Some zones, call would be charged to the 800#. Other methods of going off-radar involved physically connecting pins in switching stations or connecting wires across terminal blocks. I heard of even hijacking the on-rail train coms.

Nation wide toll-free piggyback links were created before the Internet. These outdial / link BBSs were (mostly) shut down when the grid moved away from tone based controls. The Zine "2600" references the phreaking one used to create the dark network of links, but plebs wouldn't know that. The 2600 crew is full of glow-in-the-dark plants who don't know crap anyway.

Windy City to H-Town link was 312 <-> 713 areas. Reverse the 1337 2 words: bir/biz, tie/lie.

A Crowley ref in the BBS advert, (Crow Lie, BIRd LIE, 312-713) or a silly line like "Big Bird Lies!", in a (open) "Sesame" street ANSI, would mean an elite board had a link available for out-dial to select elite users, this is why being 1337 was kewl. You could dial up the H-town side and bridge the link, you'd now be logging into a Chicago BBS that had an outdial for 312 boards and stay on w/o long distance $$$.

There's many symbols for cities, fedora in the wind or rocket ship for Houston (we have a phroblem), or sky scrapers for New York (212, I recall a link ad: loose neck-TIE with R&R on it). Most of the BBS underground wasn't concerned with having wide spread at in the scene packs. Outdials are a footnote even in BBS era Documentaries.

My calling area somites put full phone numbers in a tagger style graphic, pixel art too not just ANSI, eh? Popular groups like ACiD and iCE made "tagger" style graphics, but weren't really elite. You could get status making an exploit, or cracking competitors and defacing them in fun ways, etc. demonstrations of skill, making artwork (but had to know what hidden creative juice to use), or befriend a sketchy sysop.

Imagine if /cyber/ was a local group of a few dozen souls in a big urban sprawl, and some knew of each other IRL. Now its a decade or more later, this place is bitrot, but a (/cyber/) sticker blocks your path out of the blue. Would you run a search and lurk over what had become of ye ol' /cyber/? If not, why even live?

>>52350

I really want to call you an edgelord.

Yet somehow, I can't.

>leave kitchen job walking in the dark

>spend my last few brouzouf on food, cigarettes, and a rideshare scooter to get home

>power got cut off

>alone in the dark trying to find solace in the friends I have here

Someone bring me back to the golden days

>>53059

>rideshare scooter

asking for trouble.

>>42912

Eventhough it's been a long time since this post, I'll still tell my experience with TrinusVR/Cheapish VR (still bretty /cyb/ feeling through the whole thing):

First of all, I've used TrinusVR with both Google Cardboard (15€ + Shipping from us to eu) and some cheap phoneholder/earphone combo from ebay (~30€). So some key points to consider for both phoneholders:

Cardboard:

- Uncomfortable

- Still have to use external headphones for audio

- really few configuration options to fight motion sickness

+ lightweight & small (it just looks like a small box, can be carried virtually anywhere)

+ surprisingly good lenses

+ doesn't get too warm over time since the phone is mostly exposed to air

Cheap plastic holder:

- gets quite warm since phone is enclosed in the whole frame

- definitly cheaper lenses than the cardboard

- the cable for the 3.5mm plug is ~ 1.5 cm long so you have to put your phone on one specific side

- heavy and blocky af (no chance I'd take that thing anywhere with me)

+ comfy af thanks to inbuild cushions

+ about 3 knobs to adjust lenses, phone position, etc. to counter motion sickness

+ headphones were surprisingly good

+ face doesn't hurt even after long vr sessions (my usual vr time is ~ 5h highest was 8h)

Now for the setup:

I've used a 3m 3.5mm aux and a 2m usb-c cabel from my pc to my headset so I can just sit back in my chair and relax. Both cabel were connected at the front, I've used usb 3.0 ports so my phone would also get enough power.

After connecting everything, just start TrinusVR and use "Mouse" as a tracking sensor. You can also use a TrackIR setup if you have one.

When everything is setup (lenscorrection, sensitivity, SteamVR driver, etc) and the phone is connected with the TrinusVR Server its a fucking blast to use this thing. Especially with things like Bigscreen/Virtual Space but also some other VR stuff like media players, and small games that don't have headtracking. also ama if you want.

>>53075

oh shit, didn't mention:

The aux cable was male to female so it directly connected from my pc to the headphones in the headset

>be me, CS student

>have gf who's into CS and cypunk as well

>actually do shit to keep our asses anonymous

>activists, not the rioting leftist spergs or rightfags

>try to direct normalfags' attention towards the dystopian issues

>ffw 1 year

>her sister rejoices about how these "Spotify passes" are great

>basically "I'm glad net neutrality has finally died."

>gf's arguments are dismissed because "the experts on the newspaper sites say it will allow a new era of free* telecommunications"

>my father complains how the terrorists and pedophiles can't be properly tracked

>blames Tor and lack of camera surveillance

>the classic "You don't mind being watched unless you're a criminal."

>my arguments are dismissed because "the experts on TV said surveillance would help"

>at some point, my (technology illiterate) aunt of all people asks me: "How come people don't protest against how their freedom is being taken away from them?"

It's hopeless. It has always been hopeless.

Don't try to fight for others. Make sure you're as safe as you can be. You cannot prevent the dystopia. The dystopia is now.

>>54335

Yes, you are very superior to me. Now go suck Russian dick.

>>54334

>Don't try to fight for others. Make sure you're as safe as you can be. You cannot prevent the dystopia

Sadly have to agree, i try to have some more serious conversations with people, but it's almost impossible, as time passes i'm just focusing on surviving myself.

oh also

>lose an ear of working audio on my headphones

>try to fix headphones

>obvious problem; a wire totally fell off a contact

>resolder it

>they work for maybe a month

>lose one ear of audio again

>they were a dollar store pair the whole time so fucking fuck it who fucking cares fuck everything

>problem fixes itself if i listen to loud enough music

HOW CAN WIRE FATIGUE EVEN BE REAL WHEN NOTHING HAS A RESISTANCE OF INFINITY

>>54799

circuit theory is only a model, and assumptions like wire shape, size, composition doesn't matter breaks down at high frequency, or higher voltages. Maxwell's Classic EM is a better, but more complicated description. Quantum Electrodynamics is the full story.

>>54913

this overly flowery understanding of the world via pure theory out of textbooks misses the points I've made;

The points are:

>Things being broken is okay, because they aren't that broken that the thing is totally unusable, and so, the situation is still fine. The things are degraded, but are ultimately still serviceable and still usable.

>fixing things and the fix failing is okay, because things break all the time, and so the fix failing is really not anything out of the ordinary.

>be Europoor

>hundreds of thousands of people protest on the street against new laws

>politicians suck lobby dick all day

>the will of the people is ignored

Corps control the EU. The most cyber feel of them all.

Holy shit. I think I found the holy grail of cyberpunk feels.

>be me, 27, software engineer

>interested in crypto and microcontroller programming, especially Z80 clones

>following international politics, watch "free" countries go to shit

>democrats everywhere fragmenting over stupid shit, paving the way for extremists

Yesterday evening, I decided I needed a change of scenery, grabbed an old student ticket and took the train to a larger city in my vicinity.

>grab a beer and sit down by the river watching the sun set

>decide to check out the most shady bar I can find

>poorer district with mostly Asian immigrants living there

>sign pointing down an alley to a single door with a spotlight

>whynot.tga

>approach door, chink bouncer doesn't even want to see ID

>get in

>low volume EDM, low light, bar stools screwed to floor

>sit down at bar

>cute bartender approaches and slam a pint on the counter without asking my order

>"It on house, friend. We gone in few nights."

>why.jpg

>"No deal with cops. Dad in jail."

>offers me a ciggy, accept

>holy shit this nicotine kick

>"I work here because see new faces. Your face new."

>bouncer comes in and locks door

>wonder if this is how I die

>last victim of a nameless chink mob

>bouncer sits down next to me

>better English than bartender

>"You look troubled friend. What's wrong?"

>then it hit me

>these people were saying goodbye to their very lifestyle

>they know

>"Everything."

>"Amen, brother. Let's pretend it isn't."

>bartender grins

>"Stay this night. Drink with us."

I stayed there, drinking, chatting and smoking until the dawn broke. I realized I have to go to work and am in pretty rough shape. Drunk and tired.

Bartender handed me her remaining cigs and two pills. Took them and now I'm awake and sober at work.

I'll return tomorrow night, hope they're still there.

>>55665

That's kind of depressing. They sound schway.

>following international politics, watch "free" countries go to shit

>democrats everywhere fragmenting over stupid shit, paving the way for extremists

I'd drink to that.

>>55678

I've done this last November minus the drinking and smoking part, top tier feeling.

10/10 can't wait for it to become summer so I can do this while listening to embed related

>>55722

Sounds pretty 水, chummer.

>>55665

Reporting back in. Door was locked.

>>55805

Damn shame.

>>50787 has some spot's mentioned, all dead.

>>41263

>Work in a factory, one of few around the world in the states

>Notice a lot of things up with the IT infrastructure

>Ended up becoming acquaintance with a guy that has a bachelors in computer science

>He uses a VPN he has setup at home and runs a few portable apps from a flash drive and uses a portable version of Firefox to fuck around on the internet

>We talk about, quite about about the works IT infrastructure

>It's weak, no it's shit

>Raspberry pis setup as desktops and some of them are setup for security such as tracking when a door is open or closed and some more setup for other shit

>They are all setup with default accounts, ssh enabled, and have all the default shit installed

>IT also likes to use LattePandas for cheap workstations around the workshop floor

>Messaging system we use is built on Node-Red which the back end is easy to access and been fucked around with

>The few security cameras are cheap Chinese shit that still has code comments in Chinese

>WiFi password is the phone number for the main office

>No network logins are beings used. All employees that have a user account is bound to a computer that is in there work area

>Most of these users files are backed up to One Drive

>The file server we do have is mostly files of old shit dating back to the late 90's and still runs a HTML intranet

>IT's 3D Printer can be accessed from any computer that is connected to the network

>Most of the Windows settings are default

So tempting to take this shit down. So easy to do….. The IT guys we have (only have 2 of them) are lazy tard fucks.

Well, I was thinking about typing up a report and sending it to the IT at HQ but havent found away to get a hold of them, but even if I did, would they even care.

>>55846

> Well, I was thinking about typing up a report and sending it to the IT at HQ but havent found away to get a hold of them, but even if I did, would they even care.

No they wouldn't, I guarantee the job of one of your IT people is to do a cost/benefit analysis once a year or something of how much it costs to secure things, and they don't think their digital assets are very important. Welcome to the tech sector: Security is fucked and no one cares enough to fix it.

Also don't "take this shit down" or your file might come across my desk. Don't make work for me please

>>55847

Yeah, most IT departments get their requests for things necessary for maintenance declined. The concept of improving security or even just planning for lesser downtime in the future is hard to even imagine.

If HR doesn't have some anonymous way of reporting problems I wouldn't bother, they're more likely to shoot the messenger than appreciate your input.

I can’t be the only one who’d want to be some heir to a series of mega corporations focused on weapons and defence contracts, research on human cloning, producing pharmaceuticals and developing space travel technology, and live in a massive penthouse apt in a towering skyscraper and look down upon the sprawling cityscape, right?

>>55805

Update.

>returned there, want to knock on the door

>approached by cop without uniform at train station, wants to see ID

>ask him for his duty pass first

>calls HQ, asks them to run my name and address

>"why do you visit this city, mr anon?"

>whatthefuck.jpg

>answer it's none of his business

>no evidence or suspicious behavior, he can't keep me

>leave

At this point, I was a bit… worried, to be honest. Sometimes, they like to check for weapons at train stations, but they're usually uniformed and, hell, nobody asked me why I'm here since I went on vacation to the UK.

>exit train station

>cops everywhere

>everyone seems to be in a hurry

>everyone avoids eye contact in general

>return to said chink immigrant district

>patrol cars everywhere

I retreated. If there was a deal with the cops and that deal blew up, I don't wanna get up in their business.

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but I ain't going to jail for greentext.

>>55846

>The file server we do have is mostly files of old shit dating back to the late 90's and still runs a HTML intranet

Nothing wrong with that, if it does what they want. Plain HTML > Web 2.0 bloated shit.

The RPi SBCs are fine too if they're powerful enough (better than using x86 botnet garbage). The default account shit of course is fucked, but that's a common problem in lots of places. People are lazy and don't want to set strong passwords.

>>56006

You can always put a potting resin on the board to make it rugged and difficult to take apart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potting_%28electronics%29

>>56006

If you need industrial level SBCs, Olimex makes some that aren't expensive. They're only slightly more expensive that the regular boards. You have to get the ones with T2 SoC, not the A20 ones.

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-MICRO/

They also have 64-bit model, if you really need that (but the board I linked to is adequate for a lot of things).

>>42221

tfw you see people wearing that tube-shit on their faces to breathe in a concrete city with a grey sky in the background.

>>52639

Exciting. Would you have graphical examples, safe to dump since obsolete but kept for nostalgia for example?

>>56369

Chummer, don't give up. Find what you like and what ever little beauty you can see in your situation.

Then cling to it. It'll get better. I've been there and if a drekkhead like me can recover, there's no way you can't.

For the record, this thread is the one that truly captures cyberpunk for me. These stories deserve to be turned into a collection of short stories, just to emphasize how cyberpunk creeps into everyday life.

Oops, no cyber feel :^)

>>42237

I prefer up north. Flagstaff and The Verde Valley areas. Phoenix is too garbo. Did you hear about the state accepting bitcoin payments for taxes? AZ is the place to be for cyberpunk

>56369

>millionth migraine this week

>induce sleep with narcotics

>migraines

>narcotics

I think I see your problem. Anyways, What helps me is 400mg in vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) a day. Works better than advil/aleve/excedrine all that shit, works like 90% of the time. You can find em for like 5 bucks ! GNC

>fish out an old tablet from under mountain of electronic garbage on my table

>it used to be a flagship model but planned obsolesence hit it really hard

>unreplaceable battery can't hold any charge anymore, and is buldging, cracking the case

>updates stopped coming out 5 years ago, most of the software doesn't work

>after corporate takeover drama, even community doesn't provide new firmware for it anymore

>oh well, maybe at least I can set it up as a local police scanner

>cars stolen, people missing, street fights, illegal parking

>some drug-addict looking kid says he ran away from a clinic

>a guy lies in a alley in a pool of blood

>report of "ethnic-looking" men gathering with improvised weapons

>sound suddenly stops as tablet finally dies, locking itself into an endless reboot loop

>feel somewhat relieved, because shit started to get a bit too real

>>56399

tried that before. It didn't work unfortunately.

There's a family history of migraines. The cause is likely genetic. My mother actually has this crazy cranial electrostim implant installed that runs across the back of her skull. She started getting migraines around the same age I did, and hers got really bad around 40, so I have around a decade until I'll probably need a similar implant.

Come to think of it, that's pretty cyber anyways, so who the fuck knows, it might be alright.

>>56417

Damn, my sympathies user.

>>50467

>slrn

This. This is why I come here.

>>56417

Some of the new monoclonal antibodies are pretty amazing for migraine treatment. I've been using Galcanezumab for a few months now, and mine have all but dropped off the radar.

>>56410

What voltage is it? you could probably nigger rig it to work.

>>56659

I guess I could power it on with some work, but it won't solve software issues, so I don't see any point.

>>57356

Feel ya chummer. If I knew you I'd chuck you my old cans.

>>57643

but then i'd have to be around goths anon

>was worried about the Grey Death a few months ago

>pulled my old 3M full-face out of storage

>been wearing that around with my shitty collection of milsurp for the past few months

>been thinking about chipping in the dosh for a Ghost Gunner printer and a P.oly80 design so I can slap a Holosun optic and s.olvent kit on it

>gonna throw more brouzouf at a chipping in the dosh for a VPN and new phone that I'll fuck around with till I'm satisfied

I still don't know what the fuck I'm doing (tech-wise or in general) but this past month I feel like I'm actually writing my own destiny, even if it isn't all necessarily above-board and gov-approved. Pray for me, boys.

>>57707

Many of them are surprisingly approachable and nice.

There are… sub-optimal individuals within any subculture but they are by no means representative of the whole.

That and there are so many niches:

>Fetish goth

>Cyber goth

>Cabaret goth

>Corporate goth

>Pastel goth

>Gothabilly

>Trad goth

>Steampunk/Victorian goth

>Hippie/vegan goth

>Military goth

>Glam goth

List is by no means exhaustive.

>>41268

Could you throw on a sodium vapor filter to get rid of at least the orange light? Low pressure sodiums are not used so much anymore because LED's are PREFERRED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR BETTER RENDERING THEIR VICTIMS'S CAR COLORS. LPS lamps were easy to filter, as they emitted almost entirely in the yellow part of spectrum, in two narrow bands.

>well-payed job, house, wife, two children

>find out she cheats, confront

>lose it all because judges will never believe the husband

>ex bleeding me dry through alimony

>move to single-room place in the nearest big city

>evenings are spent finding vantage points and chatting with people far away over a beer

>stay up late, sitting on a hill, drinking a beer

>proceed to go bar-hopping

>this actually fulfills me

>I am happy

>>57766

i feel for you anon, but how is that 水 other than moving to a big city and being content with a simple social life? not sure if you're looking for sympathy or just venting frustration but this ain't the thread for it. the feels are definitely there though, hope life's treating you well.

i'd love to drink a beer with you on a rooftop whilst looking at the amber lights radiating from a bustling sprawl. still able to bar crawl in your city?

>>57769

You should take a picture

I live in a relatively large oceanfront city in the southeastern US. Since the quarantine started things have gotten a lot more /cyber/ for me.

>Wearing a mask, sunglasses, gloves, hoodie and baseball cap makes you anon. There are cameras everywhere here and it has always bothered me significantly but now I feel better knowing I am basically just a humanoid shape.

>Homeless people everywhere.

>Cops no longer respond to certain calls. Get away with a lot more, especially graffiti.

>Rise in crime rate so now everyone is armed.

>Despite everything being closed the neon lights stay on.

>>57771

I might share some in the next days, though I would rather share them from my old flat when I was still living with my parents. It looks pretty similar. I'm just a bit paranoid about releasing pics of my current location.

>>57781

A purist trad goth I see.

>>57783

Understandable

>>57767

I dunno, working sysadmin (sorry, forgot that part) by day and walking through a city that never sleeps by night meeting strange people with outright bizarre stories, living in a single-room apartement and bonding with others via IRC… kinda feels cyber.

Not venting, honestly. Not looking for sympathy either. Just feels like my situation fits the mood.

>>57810

Not the same guy, but that's a schway place little room you got.

>>57811

No English good

>>57811

thanks chummer

>>57791

That context helps me understand where you're coming from a bit better, with the wageslave tech job and all. Do the people you typically interact with on IRC/irl come and go or do you have a consistent group you keep in touch with?

>>57810

Nice, looks comfy as fuck

There used to be a great bar in my city. Quiet on weeknights, loud on the weekends. Crazy good Japanese food at rock bottom prices to entice you to buy more beer. Fitted out in scavenged panelling and cracking vinyl from the 90's, except for the two back walls which were one huge projector screen. They'd play chilled out beats over scenes from Akira interspersed with old movies and speedrun videos. You could order drinks and huddle up at a table with a pirated book on your phone for hours as long as you were buying drinks or food. It was every "hip-hop beats to study/relax to" fantasy you've every had. It was down an alley, for fuck's sake!

Some billionaire bought the building and doubled the rent overnight, so they closed. There's a hotel there now. Nothing more cyberpunk than that.

(The owners have a sick jazz and izakaya bar up north now. It rocks, and they're doing well.)

>>57819

Well, you know how it is with IRC. There's some regulars in most channels, larger ones have a good amount of people coming and going.

I'm pretty much a shut-in, do have a few peeps I meet up with. Mostly for drinks though, conversations with them tire me. Typical "I don't have anything to hide" people, happily being bullied by govs.

I understand not being able to do something about shit like that, but they don't even realize they're slowly being turned into cattle.

>>57825

Ownership of one's information is everything.

I've honestly never used IRC, probably due to the fact I'm quite a bit younger than most people who do. I am speaking from ignorance here, but I assume those who used IRC back in the 90's/00's around its peak are still riding that wave out of nostalgia and familiarity. You fit in that camp?

>>57825

>>57829

IRC has one big issue: Anonymity.

>>57828

>>Contemplating purchasing a cheap firearm

nice. what are you thinking of?

I know a revolver has it's limitations but the ruger LCR can be pretty 水 in my opinion. If you can replace the stock grips with translucent amber ones. I know there was someone who did that and it looked nice.

also with a laser attachment too: https://shopruger.com/Ruger-LCR-LaserMax-Laser/productinfo/12979/

I'd say a pocket sized six shooter in .327 is not too bad.

>>57841

I've been looking at a few revolvers. Gun laws here in Canada are some ridiculous shit and some of them are up in the air because of the shazbot in charge right now drafting legislation on stuff he knows nothing about.

SLavshit rifles tend to be a little cheaper though, SKSes and such are 200-400 dollars. I'm not terribly concerned with what I get for my first firearm so long as I find it comfortable to use.

>>57840

i feel the same way about a few boards, more pure melancholy than anything.

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>>55614

Hope you all and everyone else in this thread are doing ok now. Cyberfeels to you guys and know you aren't alone

>>57824

Sounds sweet

>>57840

I Feel the same way anon.

>>57856

>>mfw I realize that dystopia arises from beaurocracy

Very well put

>>50467

This post made me incredibly happy and sad at the same time somehow. Happy because I was daydreaming how I was a part of this early tech-culture. Sad, because I am not, and todays equivalents, if there are any, are few and far between.

>>57870

I remember how amazing it was to me when I was a young kid to have this crazy box of boards and wires sitting in front of me with a screen that I had to type commands into and would get games or doodling programs or word processing programs going…this was back in the early 90s when computers were really starting to become a ubiquitous part of peoples' homes. I used to play Arkanoid and Escape from Castle Wolfenstein on the one at home, and it's just nuts to think about how far technology has come from there. Every now and again I see a new gadget or think about some of the stuff we have now like smartphones and tablets and can't help but remark "This is fucking crazy. 25 years ago when I was a kid this stuff was unthinkable as anything other than science fiction fantasy, and now it's a thing, not just a thing but a common thing. It's AMAZING." and nobody else seems to really appreciate how huge of a thing that is.

>>58031

Protip: Take the stock grip off, make a mold of it with silicone, and pour some Alumilite resin to make your own goddamn grips.

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based, see ya in shadows chummers

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gtfo corpfag /r/ditors;

>>43662

nice gurl

>>58125

You called me both based and a corpcuck. You really are a massive fucking shazbot aren't you, chummer?

>>58367

>What's more /cyber/ than browsing a dead /cyber/ board.

This. I unironically got into this board less than a year ago and I'm browsing it regularly even though there are only weekly changes.

The board is alive, but the old users went away. Where? Maybe they adapted to the new world and enjoy their SpIphone or they just happened to quit imageboards alltogether because they are such a toxic environment.

For me who just got into privacy related stuff just recently and is still about learning IT-stuff this really is gold. Since I've been browsing this page and the linked pages, I've learned a shit ton of things, so the page still has to offer something, even for new users.

The main problem is probably that most /cyber/ punks don't want to visit a website that is so politically incorrect as 8kun. Like most /cyber/ punks aren't racists or don't want to coexist with them on boards like these, while others don't give a fuck.

Anyways, as long as there are more or less frequent users, I'll come here.

>blacked out windows

>crystal castles playing in headphones

your getting pissed off trying to fix your shitty python scripts

>2 am

>only illuminated by street lights

>listening to police scanner

>hoodie up

>>58375

>The main problem is probably that most /cyber/ punks don't want to visit a website that is so politically incorrect as 8kun

That's pretty hilarious

>call yourself punk

>"8kun is too scary and un-pc"

I'm pretty sure it's just a general 8chan thing though. Traffic has decreased immensely since the site first died, most traffic here is being driven by Q boomer ilk.

>>58387

>most traffic here is being driven by Q boomer ilk.

Hey, ya gotta hand it to president trump, staging a fake coup, using holographic technology, and having loyal spec-ops warriors on your side to keep biharris and their ilk locked up at gitmo while you secretly govern was a pretty genius move.

>>58387

Qtards, Tarrant, that one shooting in August 2019, Hotwheels and Jim Watkins are the ones that killed 8chan. Prove me wrong.

>>58391

I can't, that sounds about right.

>>41507

same

>>58465

Vibes.

>>58465

It always surprises me how /cyber/ 2021 is so far

great, the latest update broke the site even more and now I cant even have a look at the pictures anymore. but I guess a dying, breaking site is even more cyberpunk, no?

anyways, I though I check back on this place after probably a year. i guess only a handful of people still regularly check in, I mean there are new threads and replies. whats more /cyber/ than frequenting a dying imageboard?

>>41263

>Working in my PC repair shop during the winter, its cold, but I am warm. The shop is heated by 2000 W space heater that has a hash right high enough to keep me warm. If I owned the thing I would probably lose brouzouf, but I don't have to pay the fixed expenses, because I am building and selling them.

>A homeless looking man in a trench coat, dressed like a 90s cyberpunk knocks on the door. He asks if have batteries available for various ancient bits of hardware he has some how collected - Old Cell Phones, a PDA , an old laptop.

>I laugh internally thinking how unlikely it would be to source any battery's and tell him I can't get them.

>He pulls out a working PDA, records something, and asks me for the wifi password to the shops wifi.

>I give it to him because the AP has client isolation anyway.

>I ask the man if he has ever heard of cyberpunk. He hasn't. He asks what it is.

>He disappears into the night, and no ransomware is deployed or my network.

I still can't tell if he was a cyberpunk or not, since not knowing what cyberpunk is what identifies someone as a poster here.

>>58472

>vaccines kill one from thousand

Look for Nicole Sirotek at youtube, you'll see what is really happening.

beep boop I'm still here. Been just another while

>in a mental health ward for hopping the fence at Stonehenge

>using Tor to bypass WiFi restrictions and access blocked altchans

>listening to techno for the last couple of weeks while reading about cybergoth culture on Ccru

>using brainwave entrainment technology and two mind machines as "synthetic drugs" because no access to organic ones

>video calling with my family and friends

I don't know about y'all but I find touchscreens and video calling very /cyber/, it's one step away from holograms

There was an anarchist here until they hauled him away to a higher security place for being too obnoxious and loud. He had lived in Mexico and Ireland and got picked up in Taiwan for trying to go off-grid in a forest.

Then there's the Chinese guy who tries to ask

"Can I help you?"

Then

"What's your story?"

Then

"Are you the agent?"

(???)

I asked him whether he likes techno and he said "techno? sorry I dont speak English too well" and then he muttered something under his breath about the Fuhrer. Then I asked him what his story is but he just said "my story? I just want to get rid of the CGP".

I don't know if he meant to say CCP or something. He seems pretty high level but I just wish he was happy.

Anyway here's the most /cyber/ image I know.

>>55665

Reporting back in. I'm this guy.

>get opportunity to go DevOps cloud engineer whatever-the-fuck-the-current-buzzword-is

>actually worked for it, company doesn't usually do GNU/Linux shit and needed an admin

>boss remembers I worked admin during my student days

Whole different story, will share after this one.

>improvise a small network of embedded systems using mobile routers, RasPis and Arduinos

>everyone's happy, boss impressed

>take the opportunity, get a raise

>project is run by shitheads

>understaffed, underfunded, colleagues basically make do with what little they got

>atmosphere, if stressed, is great

>soon realize that I'm the only one on the project who knows what's going on in our AWS infrastructure

>onboarding sucked, need to spend DAYS waiting for credentials that should've been handed over

>6 months later

>I'm now the only person who remotely understands our IaC

>I'm also the only one with full access to the infrastructure, including client staff

>client continues to be a shithead

>start making small changes here and there

>whenever I optimize something, I leave a "gift"

>easter eggs or user accounts that happen to have more rights than needed

>I also happen to have the private keys, no SSH login, but goes without saying

>another 3 months

>I could now nuke the entire customer company by just firing up expensive instances en gros and leaving them running for one hour

>nobody sees it fit to pay extra for access logging

>backdoors everywhere

>develop god complex

>>58665

*no password login

>>58665

Story from admin time as promised.

>poor as fuck

>look for student job

>web admin for CS faculty

>sure.jpg

>get shown my workplace

>what the fuck

>"server room" is a cluster of decommissioned towers

>wild cable spaghet of a few CRT monitors, keyboards and KVM switches

>cramped as shit

>no chairs

>no fucking chairs

>IKEA shelves holding the hardware

>fucking cold

>more frequently than not, SSH just doesn't work for whatever reason

>going to work means grabbing a fleece jacket, standing in front of the shelf, craning my neck to look at the monitor and kinda squeezing my arms in there to reach the keyboard

>actually bring a flask with cheap honey liquor or homebrewed mead from time to time

I don't miss it.

>>55665

>>55666

I read these posts and realized this was from 2019. I don't think anyone could have seen coming that shit was gonna get much worse. Man.

I think I'll have a drink tonight to the destruction of our freedoms. God bless this planet.

>>58668

As the shazbot who posted that stuff, I'll drink with you, chummer.

Closest thing we can do, though, is probably tell each other what we're drinking. I'm gonna go for some whiskey. On the cheaper side, low budget booze kinda gives me the vibes from when this thread was magical.

I still read it top-to-bottom when I need to calm down. It radiates serene fantasies with some bitterness and glamor sprinkled over it.

This board's unique and it needs to return.

>>58675

I had a whiskey and coke. Nothing too fancy, just ordinary Jameson. Still good.

Cheers, to the destruction of life as we knew it.

>>58676

Went with Tully. Jameson is pretty good. Amazing for mixing as well. Nice taste anon.

In all seriousness, fuck that. I'm getting married to another software dev and had a heart-to-heart a long time ago. We agreed that if we're going to jail for fighting the bullshit going on, then so be it. No regrets.

Might be too late, but the harder the bastards have to work for it, the better.

Well, here's mine.

>live in post-soviet shithole

>drop out of uni because of the fucking corrupt administration an professors demanding a bribe for an exam entrance permission(what the actual fuck)

>sitting in my room for weeks, going out only to get more smokes and beer

>one day meet up with a friend from uni just to borrow some hardware

>stopping by some grocery store to get a new pack of Reds and 4 cans of Bud

>get back home avoiding surveillance cameras, passing by a cop car with two officers inside actually checking some of them for whatever reason

>double-check the curtains and the door, nobody came inside my room when i was away

>log in around 5pm, woke up at 1pm

>check whether my torrents are being downloaded by someone at all

>check stats

>realize i hit 2TB seeding milestone

>feelsgood.jpg

>crack a beer for that reason

>pour it down my throat while logging into some small BBS I found while randomly surfing the web

>no new posts in a week, this board is slow as fuck

>close the connection, getting back to my pentesting courses I was scrapping the brouzouf for half a year

>let the VLC play whatever I have on my external hard drive, a strange mix of some breakcore, post-soviet garage punk and eminem for whatever fucking reason

>hear my dipole antenna is picking something on airport control tower frequency from SDRSharp running 24/7

>–905, change your course to 070

>nothing much, just another regular internal flight

>sit in drunken stupor for a while, notice that three cans are already gone

>start contemplating my life choices as I get fully dwelled in my studies

>didn't even notice how the night came

Maybe not as /cyber/, but I guess somehow relatable.