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Questions User 10/17/15 (Sat) 19:56:24 No.35457

What does it mean to be /cyber/. like what are some of your hobbies, fashion style, music preference, etc.

User 10/17/15 (Sat) 20:35:03 No.35458

So.

What does it mean to be /cyber/.

Simple. You hang out on /cyber/. Righty righto.

Hobbies. Well, I like computers. And music. I play games sometimes, but usually they bore me. Books are good. Socialising is good.

Fashion style. I dress like someone without any. Sweatpants. T-shirt or similar. Hoodies. All black. I have two pieces of non-black clothing. I need to replace them with black. Why so much black? I can just pick something out whenever. No time wasted.

Music preferences. Well, I really like classical music. But lately I've been listening to some cyberish stuff found here on cyber. Pretty neat.

Etc.

Don't do drugs, stay in school.

. . 10/17/15 (Sat) 20:37:15 No.35459

So.

What does it mean to be /cyber/.

Simple. You hang out on /cyber/. Righty righto.

Hobbies. Well, I like computers. And music. I play games sometimes, but usually they bore me. Books are good. Socialising is good.

Music preferences. Well, I really like classical music. But lately I've been listening to some cyberish stuff found here on cyber. Pretty neat.

Etc.

Don't do drugs, stay in school.

User 10/18/15 (Sun) 00:37:00 No.35465

>>35457

>>35458

>What does it mean to be /cyber/

High tech, low life. Which is different from being a low-life. Drugs are very noir but too much just makes you an un-/cyber/ junkie.

>Hobbies

I do a tiny bit of programming as a hobby, right now I'm learning C so I can start the book on making drivers for linux (it says in the first chapter you have to be comfortable with C). I intend on helping making linux drivers and one day working for a corp that will pay me heaps to do what I love. After all, someone's gotta make them new phones work. Aside from that I play the violin, drink with my buddies, play games often, and read ebooks

>Fashion

Pretty much skinny jeans and a normal coloured shirt. Black or dark purple or pink. Depends on the day. I don't need anything to stand out in particular.

>music preference

Dubstep, industrial, DnB, and metal, respectively, are my favourite.

User 10/18/15 (Sun) 01:50:57 No.35468

>What does it mean to be /cyber/.

I think first and foremost, being interested in tech in a way that's deeper than the typical user. It feels like you have to have a connection to the net to qualify. There's a political implication, too, here.

>hobbies

I've been /cyber/ a long time, and now I'm old. I have a family, three kids, all that. I make music when I can. I like exploring the outdoors. I tinker with cars. I like guns, going to the range, spending time with friends. I'm politically active, enjoy tech, etc.

>fashion

Dark jeans, button downs, some tshirts. Hiking shoes or steel-toe combat boots.

>music

Metal, electro, industrial, rock.

User 10/18/15 (Sun) 11:19:01 No.35494

>Hobbies

I mostly spend my time learning about programming and malware. Also about programming for embedded systems.

>Fashion Style

Mostly just hoodies and jeans, plain colored. A few officer shirts from the army surplus store.

>Music

80s Japanese pop, ragga jungle, bhangra, and various electronic musicians.

>Etc.

I've been earning some extra spending brouzouf scoring Magic cards from my friend's work and reselling them. People pay a lot of brouzouf for them, for some reason…

User 10/18/15 (Sun) 16:21:46 No.35516

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>What does it mean to be /cyber/

To understand that technological skills, among others, is what will keep you alive in a corporate controlled country. To know that in meatspace you may be alone and surrounded by shazbots, but you will always have a haven in the wires.

>Hobbies

I run a website. I drink cheap beers while reading, gaming, or listening to music. I keep to myself, mostly.

I eventually want to learn to tinker with hardware and develop some RasPi projects.

>Fashion

I only own a suit, my work uniform, and sleep clothes.

>music preference

I was raised on Ozzy and other metal bands. I have broadened my taste to just about anything, but mostly 80's stuff. I listen to ambient electronic stuff like 'Carbon Based Lifeforms' while I'm working.

User 10/18/15 (Sun) 23:49:36 No.35541

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What does it mean? See pic related for a good chunk of my feelings on it. Just decouple it from corps if that's how you hang.

>hobbies

Guns, vape, vidya. I'd call my server rack a hobby, but it's really more training for my career.

>fashion style

Flecktarn parka if I'm cold. Khaki dickies. Button-down shirt, usually more casual than corpcuck shit outside of work. Think 70s South Africa more than white-collar. T-shirt sometimes, usually emblazoned with IT-related logos and slogans. It depends, really.

>music

Soviet and post-soviet rock (Кино, Наутилус Помпилиус), weird electronica (Crystal Castles, for example), some synthwave/neo-80s, the odd bit of power metal (mostly Blind Guardian), She, some EDM, Death Grips if I want to play hipster, a bit of kpop, and other odd shit now and then.

User 10/19/15 (Mon) 08:28:22 No.35571

>>35541

Sysadmins are IT-department tier people. All they do is sit around and do nothing, they're redundant. Just get someone with knowledge about servers to handle shit when stuff is going on and you're fine. Make sure everyone knows about servers in the hiring process so at least anyone can help out.

User 10/20/15 (Tue) 11:09:10 No.35645

>>35571

>Sysadmins are IT-department tier people

That doesn't really make any sense, given that they're often the core of your department.

>redundant

Who, exactly, makes them redundant? What, is helpdesk supposed to be able to handle T3 work?

>Just get someone with knowledge about servers to handle shit when stuff is going on and you're fine

That would be the sysadmin.

>Make sure everyone knows about servers in the hiring process so at least anyone can help out.

I'd love to see you run a mid-sized department into the ground. No, seriously, it would be hilarious.

User 10/21/15 (Wed) 01:38:05 No.35693

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>>35457

What does it mean to be /cyber/

>Hobbies.

videogames, books, movies, some computer stuff. FOSS LINUX. being disgusted of and completely against capitalism, and corporations in general. disagreeing with many of the things the government does. being a critical thinker and avoiding fluoride.

>Fashion style.

Functionality. comfort. nothing expensive. as long as it looks neutral, but not horrible.

>Music preferences. some classical, some japanese 1970's rock, some 80's music like terminator 2 theme, eiffel 65 I'm blue. maybe some 80's japanese pop.

>eating habits

nutritional systematic functionality through veganism.

>it's the future

>meat is rare or nonexistant

>most food is lab grown or greenhoused or home grown

>eating alot of bean paste and spirulina for protein

>chia seeds

I'm the /ckfitvegan/ mod. I have stickies on how to make my own toothpaste and deodorant. It's got some interesting advice that could be seen as /cyber/

User 10/21/15 (Wed) 22:30:37 No.35739

>>35693

>I have stickies on how to make my own toothpaste and deodorant. It's got some interesting advice that could be seen as /cyber/

Make a pdf for us, comrade.

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 04:23:40 No.35752

>>35457

take 150mg caffeine tablet

make a tea, roll a cig

check my feeds

run 45min

shower

check my feeds

work

cook, eat

check my feeds

daydream

take 150mg caffeine tablet

work

cook, eat

make a tea, roll a joint

make some memes

sleep

repeat

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 10:28:23 No.35755

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Is Fascism /cyber/?

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 11:02:35 No.35756

>>35645

>I need to defend a job anybody can do

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 17:41:08 No.35774

>>35739

.pdf's are not very secure and can be infected with dangerous things.

https://8ch.net/ckfitvegan/catalog.html

shows the stickies. there are only a few so they are easy to spot.

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 21:42:08 No.35779

This thread is pure cancer.

>>35755

Fuck off /pol/

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 22:14:37 No.35782

>>35779

it had some nice things in it.

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 22:40:16 No.35783

>>35541

>Crystal Castles

mah nigga

User 10/22/15 (Thu) 23:56:29 No.35789

>>35756

>I'm a user

>or management

>or both

User 10/23/15 (Fri) 04:24:18 No.35796

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>>35774

>.pdf's are not very secure and can be infected with dangerous things.

Very good. Remember to follow the following process for sharing files over imageboards:

>zip up files

>cat the zip archive to the end of some shway image

>name filename.zip.png

>upload and profit

User 10/23/15 (Fri) 15:44:48 No.35816

>>35796

>cat the zip archive to the end of some shway image

>cat

I don't know how to do this.

I'm also extremely paranoid to the point that I wouldn't be okay with unzipping some image.

User 10/23/15 (Fri) 15:45:54 No.35817

>>35796

>Oni-chan

Are you implying that i'm a demon?

User 10/23/15 (Fri) 16:09:45 No.35820

>>35755

Anything can be cyber.

User 10/23/15 (Fri) 17:00:21 No.35823

>>35816

If you're on a *nix system:

cat shway.png files.zip > shway_files.zip.png

In winderps, open powershell and use the following:

Get-Content shway.png, files.zip | Set-Content shway_files.zip.png

Zip files are safe as long as you're not some luser using winzip. Open with 7zip and you're safe from zipbomps and auto-executables

>>35817

whoops but maybe you're a daemon though…

User 02/14/16 (Sun) 19:06:57 No.39635

>>35755

It can be

User 02/14/16 (Sun) 23:35:24 No.39643

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>people actually responding to this

Cyberpunk isn't an aesthetic. It's not about your fashion or style. It's an outlook or perspective on a rapidly approaching post-industrial future built on cybernetics, internet, AI, IoT, etc. The punk part comes from an element of rebellion and dystopia, i.e. High Tech with Low Life.

To "be cyberpunk" would mean to align yourself with this context, enact it around you and help accelerate its becoming. Not attaching yourself to commercial imitations of its surface aesthetics. For example, synthwave /looks/ cyberpunk, but jungle music /is/ cyberpunk, being built on a logic of machinic extension of the human body (the amen break), simulacrum sampling of sampling of sampling, a break from the past and embrace of a distorted alien rhythm. The same argument can be made for industrial techno, or ketamine.

If you listen to the former thinking you're cyb, you belong on /r/cyberpunk, shazbot.

User 02/15/16 (Mon) 00:34:40 No.39645

>>39643

I would say that cyberpunk is an aesthetic. Not in the sense of a visual style, but rather akin to how a combinatorial (mathematical) proof has an aesthetic in terms of its underlying logic. Besides, for sure there are cyberpunk hobbies.

User 02/16/16 (Tue) 17:05:00 No.39724

>>39648

I'm relatively well acquainted with the literature, but you got me curious. Are there entirely theoretical text? If so would you care pointing me towards some of them. Only thing that could come to mind would be 80's Baudrillard.

If you rather create a new thread that's fine by me.

User 02/18/16 (Thu) 23:41:17 No.39787

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>39724

>Are there entirely theoretical text?

Yes, there's quite a lot. Possibly more theory than there is genre fiction depending on how inclusive you consider cyberpunk*. For example, all the way back in 1872, we have Samuel Butler discussing what sounds remarkably like artificial intelligence:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/butler-samuel/1872/erewhon/ch23.htm

And upwards to cybernetics/info theory, media theory, and then yeah, crit theory. Not just Baudrillard, but Deleuze, Virilio, Land, etc. semiotext[e] cemented that intersection with their SF and semiotext[e]-USA anthologies of largely cyberpunk leaning underground scifi.

Lots of 90s net-based cybertheory zines/journals:

http://www.ccru.net/abcult.htm

http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ctheory/issue/archive

Some other things like the london/berlin's hardcore/breakbeat label Praxis that was known for being a host to radical theory as much as an underground club

I'll try and dump some stuff when I have the time

*For the record, my opinion's that the genre is founded in Burroughs (in Nova Express etc), not Gibson, but some consider that a stretch