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> The viewpoints that the folks who run this site have are probably quite alien to your own.

As someone that finds more kinship with the ideas in this post, this very well sums up the deepening alienation I experience when I compulsively open a new tab to this forum.

I do not believe that, when I created my account 15 years ago, anyone would have called the work of Devine Lu Linvega alien or iconoclast. To me that's one of the purest examples of a hacker. A person that explores the art of computer programming just for the fun of it, instead of relegating it to simply a means to an economic end.