I started out programming by hacking games to do what i wanted and sometimes tinkering with hex codes.
This article is very true, we have indeed lost the ability to do "naughty" things because everything has been made "safe" (illusion) but my gripe is even not that.
My gripe, the one I keep ranting about, is that the users themselves have become tamer.
They have believed that the way "Google" tells you to do things is the "right" way and you should always do only what the application suggests you to do.
Whereas I grew up in the early 2000s with a purely hacking and fun ideology for computing. Make bizarre graphics because something extra was deleted, talk to people who were into this and just have countless hours or fun tinkering.
This article is very true, we have indeed lost the ability to do "naughty" things because everything has been made "safe" (illusion) but my gripe is even not that.
My gripe, the one I keep ranting about, is that the users themselves have become tamer.
They have believed that the way "Google" tells you to do things is the "right" way and you should always do only what the application suggests you to do.
Whereas I grew up in the early 2000s with a purely hacking and fun ideology for computing. Make bizarre graphics because something extra was deleted, talk to people who were into this and just have countless hours or fun tinkering.