Love the aesthetic. There was another ezine like this years ago focused on cybersecurity, I’ve forgotten its name now but the ASCII art involved was top notch.
Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.
mckirk · 2026-08-28 07:31:06 UTC
Maybe you're thinking of Phrack [1]?
I wonder if there'll be another edition of it, and if yes what it would look like, now that the AIpocalypse seems to have reached security research...
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Interview: Doug McIlroy: https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html
- can we get a whole magazine that explains ideas like this? https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.
[1]: https://phrack.org
[1]: https://thugcrowd.com/archive.html
Edit to add, apparently one of the ThugCrowd people is part of tmp.0ut so that would explain why my mind immediately went there.
(and interactions like these are part of the reason why I <3 HN)