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anime avatars and uwu are as much a part of hacker culture as burritos are

[dijit → oh_sigh]

There’s definitely a strong correlation among certain segments of hacker culture.

There’s a lot of furries too.

Might be confirmation bias, we see the people that stick out, but to say there isn’t a large cohort that strongly identifies with anime is just wrong.

[maccolgan → dijit]

>There’s a lot of furries too.

Wrong part of the internet.

[detaro → maccolgan]

Nope. Internet infrastructure almost runs on furries nowadays.

[yellowapple → detaro]

Between O'Reilly's programming books and FOSS mascots, this outcome should be entirely unsurprising.

[bozhark → detaro]

Furries run them tubes

[anthk → detaro]

One of the oldest MUDs was furries based. Go figure.

[xg15 → detaro]

owo.

[mhh__ → oh_sigh]

Old hacker culture, no, current hacker culture, yes. Anime themed ricing of Linux distros is extremely common, there are probably more anime profile pictures than not in some communities I hang out in

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I guess I don't consider "ricing" your Linux distro as hacker culture. The people I knew from college CS courses who did that almost entirely spent more time tweaking themes than hacking(based on their success in the CS program). I see far more anime avatars associated with anti-social Twitter trolls rather than actual hackers.

[tcmart14 → mhh__]

uwu is rather new, but anime, not so much. SDF pubnix started around anime, but has had a strong hacker culture in it since then (1987).

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Burritos definitely seem to be a critical part of hacker culture to me.

Speaking of, a burrito sounds great right now, so thanks for the reminder to go grab some dinner :)

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Burritos must be a regional thing then. At all my CCC interactions burritos never stood out to me.

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anime has been a part of hacker culture since a while now

[TadeusTaD → bobthebuilders]

I dare say it's a part of the hacker culture for as long as both coexist

[bozhark → TadeusTaD]

Ghost in the fucking she’ll yo

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out of touch with new gen

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nope.

[bobobob420 → oh_sigh]

fair enough

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FWIW the Linux users group at my university (in North Carolina) is predominantly anime people