/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

Same here, but is there a culture for high tech, high life?

Even so, I think we're all a little cyberpunk in that we're living in a world that has dystopic technological elements like widespread government surveillance, greedy corporations, etc.

For example, Volkswagen used software embedded in their cars to cheat government regulations. Maybe it doesnt LOOK cyberpunk but it seems from a thematic point of view that it is. I think too much of the culture is wrapped up in the visual style, so because everything isn't neon and raining, we discount it. Some users might say thats an argument for divorcing asthetics from cyberpunk, as in we shouldn't try to decorate and accessorize, but I think oppositely, that we should strive to make our surroundings match the culture, so we can remove that psychological barrier and realize just what a cyberpunk world we're actually living in.

>>34314

Well remember, fictional cyberpunk is completely stylized for a reason: it's fiction. Real-life cyberpunk was never going to be stylish, with cyborgs and sprawling polluted gleaming megacities. The cyberpunk now is extremely subtle, and it might take a while to truly understand the level of dystopia that is today.

>>34289

> come from affluent parents and have lived comfortably all my life.

Rope. When the time comes..

>>34289

Find a cyber related hobby you like and devote an hour or so a day to it. You can find tutorials for all kinds of schway drok online.

Dick around with a game engine, fix your own computer, find an abandoned building to explore, get /fit/ and take up parkour, learn to mix cocktails, fuck with people online, dumpster dive behind your favorite store, buy black-market shit from shady Chinese dudes, give to the homeless, cut out some stencils to do graffiti, etc etc etc.

The world is your depressing, polluted oyster.

>>34321

you're perfect cyberpunk dude

i wish i lived your life

>>34361

Uh, yes sir, yes I do.

Honestly, a few months of cyberounk living would be more exciting than all the years of my life combined.

>>34396

Start off by buying modafinil, or if you can get an ADD/ADHD diag (easy to fake), get some adderall (dextroamphetamine).

Get good with computers in general. Start building up that server collection. Go dumpster diving. Install loonix on that laptop of yours, muck around with it. Bonus points: No GUI, use command line only.

Buy a gun. Buy lots of guns. Obsessively read the writings of ESR. Read the entire Jargon file. Laugh at Stallman for being a shazbot. Watch Serial Experiments Lain and Ghost in the Shell; read Neuromancer. Don't drop facebook and google - learn to go greyman instead, and use them for that and only that. Understand the difference between free-as-in-freedom and free-as-in-security, and embrace the latter.

At this point, you'll discover that it's not actually that exciting, and that you still like looking at the city skyline at night more than sitting around in your apartment being paranoid about the NSA. Not that you shouldn't be paranoid, but it's hardly exciting. From there, you could become a skiddie and h@x0r people's shit for t3h 1u1z, you could go further greyman and go into IT (maybe even sell off corporate documents and client credentials), you could drop working entirely and live off of borderline illegal shit, you could become a tech-savvy hobo… there's plenty to do.

But you won't make it that far, any more than I did, if even that.

>>34439

Few questions.

1. Who or what is ESR?

2. What does go greyman mean?

>>34456

Each of these can be answered by a quick use of the search engine of your choice, but since you're new and probably don't know that, I'll spoonfeed you. Yes, the term is derogatory, and yes, you should feel bad - search engines are how most IT types solve any issues they haven't encountered before.

>ESR: Eric S. Raymond. Runs catb.org and is a wizard. Wrote The Cathedral and The Bazaar. Talks shit about RMS, and doesn't afraid of anything. Freetards would call him cancerous, and he would call them worse. His site is absolutely worth a thorough read.

>Greyman/Grey Man: Most often seen in survivalist literature or in the context of armed citizenry, it essentially refers to looking like a NORP. The idea is that you want to appear as normal as possible as a second life or visible identity, while in actuality fighting for a cause. You see it all the time on imageboards, whenever people refer to "hiding their powerlevel", except in this case, it's a lot bigger and deeper than simply not sperging out when people have shit taste in vidya. Hiding in plain view. On the cyber level, you could equate this to having a Windows box with gmail and a facebook account to which you post trite shit to appear normal to the system, while doing all serious stuff on a hardened *nix box that's completely separate from the Windows one.

>>34289

Continue to be shazzbot. Mindless drones are pretty /cyber/, am I right, shazzbots?

>>34314

>high tech, high life?

that's normal life dude

Install Gentoo?