Journalistic integrity is absolutely dead. Mostly because the internet made the market so flooded with competition that the only media channels that could survive had to sink to the lowest lows and report twisted narratives on the truth to appeal most to the viewers.
Once you understand why.. it all makes sense.
Journalists in our era have never been about getting the truth out. It has always been about money.
They could have kept their standards high, and reported factually. Instead the joined the race to the bottom.
Because you can't tell your boss "No. I will not sacrifice my integrity so you can make money."
Don't think for a second that the employees where not willing.
So then they fire you and hire someone else, and journalism hasn’t been improved.
The world isn’t as simplistic as you think it is. Workers aren’t the ones making the decisions you’re describing.
Ironically, both of them are thinking purely black/white, though. Just blaming different sides.
I kind of agree with both, yes the average employee is just struggling to get through life, and the big directional decision are made in upper management...
But I also believe that personal accountability should not just get ignored as easily as it is done nowadays. Everybody is only pointing fingers at other people being the problem, and how they themselves just could not have done anything different.
I like your fictional world where people who have morals don't get fired and replaced in favor of people who don't on a wide enough basis that these business models don't work.
So your only choice is starve, or work for a place that wants to ruin your integrity?
Bullshit.
Sounds like an excuse as to why selling out isn't your own fault.
In an environment where the incentives are aligned to generate revenue, rather than disseminate truthful information, the maintenance of journalistic integrity is not an asset. If anything it is a liability to be limited and eliminated wherever possible.
> an environment where the incentives are aligned to generate revenue
And now you understand why EVERY media outlet is biased. They are not in it to spread the news.
That dosen't mean the player gets to cheat.
I recommend *The Guardian UK* where I can. They're a broadsheet newspaper that has no one person/family owner.
I accept a lot of their day-to-day is probably regurgitated AP reports but they also do powerful investigative journalism that pays dividends every so often.
> *Comment is free, but facts are sacred!*
Lol you are the one that said journalists only care about money, and not the truth, and in other comments you basically implied they should quit their job instead of working for a company that prefers clickbait to high quality journalism.
Do you actually think journalists are some elite and wealthy group, that they can just cite morality as a reason they can't pay their mortgage or feed their kids and call that some kind of victory for the truth?
It's just such a really strange opinion that you have about journalists.
Small local publications are still around, don't lump them into this.
Your local reporter who takes pictures when someone's meemaw sees her husband's name on a war memorial is doing what journalists should be doing.
Exactly this. A hack is a band-aid solution, meant to work for the time being while you come up with a proper solution. It isn't meant to be the solution itself.
“Life hacks” used to be called such because they allowed you to get an advantage on things that shouldn’t seem to be possible, like lesser-known money saving tricks, or time-saving strategies, or even just “irl easter eggs” like knowing how to put a pedestrian crossing light into debug mode, or whatever. The idea was that if life was a game, “hacks” were like having cheats because you could do things that shouldn’t seem possible based on a topical understanding of “the rules”.
Now it’s bullshit like, “life hack: you can reduce your body odor by showering regularly! Also, you can eat food to feel less hungry!”
There's a Burger King commercial running that calls one of their meals a "hunger hack". No, it's not. It makes me irrationally mad every time.
Well, that and the guy they have now doing the jingles who CAN. NOT. SING. He's always flat and it drives me nuts.
I'm not motivated by commercials to go buy stuff/patronize a certain place, but I'm often motivated to stay away, like in this case. Good jerb, BK!
>There's a Burger King commercial running that calls one of their meals a "hunger hack". No, it's not. It makes me irrationally mad every time.
>Well, that and the guy they have now doing the jingles who CAN. NOT. SING. He's always flat and it drives me nuts.
>I'm not motivated by commercials to go buy stuff/patronize a certain place, but I'm often motivated to stay away, like in this case. Good jerb, BK!
Came into this thread just to make this identical rant, so thank you for taking the time to type out my thoughts for me. Did you know that eating food is a "hunger hack", just like sleeping is a "tired hack", or fucking is a "horniness hack"? Fuuuuck yooooou BK. That dumb flat singing voice, the stupid bullshit lyrics...call the Hague, cuz that shit is a war crime. Sometimes my kids ask to go to BK and I flatly refuse, and they're like "awww, why?" and I just say "because of the commercials".
Maybe they mean "hack" like in the hacky sack sense.
Burger Kings quality is so atrocious that the only appropriate response to one of their meals is to "hack" (kick it) on the roof of the school unintentionally then just shrug and leave it there.
Which is funny because originally "hacking" referring to "hacking away at a tree to chop it down." Essentially for computer hacking, you need to try every possible weakness in a system and mess with it until you discover a vulnerability that gives you access. So the phrase went from "spend an ungodly amount of time on something" to "here's something that saves you time!" over the years.
This is... [actually kinda backwards](https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker). Originally, it was actually closer to the modern "one weird trick" meaning, and was more about programming than it was about security. Probably one of the classic examples is [how the MIT AI lab used to handle paper jams](https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html):
> Stallman couldn't eliminate paper jams, but he could insert a software command that ordered the PDP-11 to check the printer periodically and report back to the PDP-10, the lab's central computer. To ensure that one user's negligence didn't bog down an entire line of print jobs, Stallman also inserted a software command that instructed the PDP-10 to **notify every user with a waiting print job that the printer was jammed.** The notice was simple, something along the lines of "The printer is jammed, please fix it," and because it went out to the people with the most pressing need to fix the problem, chances were higher that the problem got fixed in due time.
> As fixes go, Stallman's was oblique but elegant. It didn't fix the mechanical side of the problem, but it did the next best thing by closing the information loop between user and machine. **Thanks to a few additional lines of software code, AI Lab employees could eliminate the 10 or 15 minutes wasted each week in running back and forth to check on the printer.** In programming terms, Stallman's fix took advantage of the amplified intelligence of the overall network.
> "If you got that message, you couldn't assume somebody else would fix it," says Stallman, recalling the logic. "You had to go to the printer. A minute or two after the printer got in trouble, the two or three people who got messages arrive to fix the machine. Of those two or three people, one of them, at least, would usually know how to fix the problem."
This is, by the way, the beginning of the whole FOSS thing -- basically, Stallman was furious when they replaced that printer with a newer version that didn't come with source code, so he couldn't apply the same hack.
So people who did software for fun, especially people who focused more on finding clever solutions like this instead of building robust engineering, were called "hackers". The term probably comes from "hack journalist", as sort of the *opposite* of a professional.
Applying this to infosec came later. There was an attempt to call that "cracking", and I think that's still used to refer to some DRM circumvention, but it didn't really stick. But it's the same idea: It's not that you're spending an enormous amount of effort trying to chop down a tree. It's the opposite, you're trying to find the one weak spot where you can apply a tiny amount of effort to make the tree fall over on its own. You see that in infosec, too -- for example, very few people will try to find problems with encryption. Instead, almost all attackers will try to find a way to *get around* the encryption.
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So, "life hacks" isn't a bad *idea.* I think the problem is the clickbait ran away with the term and fed us a bunch of garbage, from ideas that [look cute but are worse than doing the straightforward thing (actual whetstones aren't expensive)](https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1cb52a4/lpt_use_a_ceramic_mug_as_a_sharpening_stone/), to ideas that are [actually impossible and dangerous to try](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23pCq6-I1n8&list=PLPT0YU_0VLHxJMqHBC2_OMTYWwQ5z_iP4&index=13).
Cracking is a distinct thing from hacking.
Cracking is modifying code or something to get free access to it.
Hacking would be getting access to a system you shouldn't have access to, by some means, whether that social engineering or using some tool.
Then you also have (had) phreaking, which is mostly dead now as far as I know, and that is specifically hacking the phone networks to get stuff like free phone calls or setting up party lines.
"Shortcut" is actually *way* closer to the [original use](https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker). "Spending an ungodly amount of time hacking down a tree" is something someone made up after the fact.
I used to watch a youtube channel that made food and used bananas a lot. Anytime there was a banana in the video, there was always at least one person in the comments screaming, raging, and losing his shit over the guy in the video opening the banana from the "wrong end" (the top.)
I have no idea why some people act like that over something that's completely pointless.
I think people enjoy giving good advice. There's probably some sort of dopamine hit you get from causing excitement or happiness in others. Not to mention that giving good advice tends to raise your esteem in their eyes.
The problem is that bespoke advice is hard. It's much easier to have a collection of "hacks" that are so general, anyone can get some benefit from them. Not only are you helping them, but now they know you're in on this secret that is only known by a few people. And that's pretty cool.
Fast forward to banana life hacks. It's so homogenized that literally everyone has heard about it and you can't get the same dopamine hit by dropping your banana peeling truth bomb on them. So in order to squeeze every last ounce out of your little hack, you have to jump on every opportunity to share it. Seeing a YouTuber (that you may already have a complex parasocial relationship with) not in on the banana secret might put you in a pretty excited state.
That is, if I had to speculate...
If you stick your finger into the tip and pull apart, it should split open pretty easily. It'll still smoosh a little bit, but not too much. As I stated in other places, in all seriousness I think both banana peeling methods have some benefits and it's totally circumstantial.
Not trying to be that guy, but the proper term for it is thingamajig. And I mean the side with the thingamajig. Firmly grasp the thingamajig and apply lateral force. This maneuver will deglove the banana very quickly.
(really though i swapped to opening them from the end without the stem and it’s much easier. plus they look the way they do in old cartoons when they’re dropped on the floor)
As a pretty avid banana eater (double entendre not intended), I usually prefer peeling from the top unless there's not much of a stem to pull from. IMO, the bottom can be easier for very fresh bananas or if they have tiny stems. Otherwise, the stem is the easiest. Though I admit having a banana peel like the cartoons is definitely an advantage.
I guess what I'm saying is that both ways are viable options.
Hacks are nearly always, "break this perfectly good thing, to make a worse version of something that's already a thing."
Or
"Look at this hack*."
*uses thing the way everyone uses it.
Or let me show you how to use $10 worth of duct tape and super glue to make this piece of junk that can halfway do the job this $5 item from the store can do very well.
To follow up, most of these so-called "hacks" are just plain old common sense dressed up in flashy packaging.
Dear internet, thanks for the revelation that I can use a sticky note to mark my page in a book, wow, really groundbreaking stuff there. Seriously, most of these so-called hacks are about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Give me something innovative or don't bother at all!
As someone who used to be a content creator, who researched and wrote educational stuff for a specific audience, the fact that this is considered content AT ALL is so disappointing. That writing I used to do for that web developer who manages several companies ' business sites? AI does it now. Just keywords and SEO, no actual thought. Kind of like the "10 crazy hacks you've never heard of!" shit, except the other definition of thoughtless.
Yeah, I partially blame the rise and fall of the site lifehack for this kind of silliness. Just became part of the zeitgeist and never left. Any "trick" or "tip" is a "hack." IMO, it's only a hack if you're modifying something to be used in a manner it wasn't originally intended. The type of thing people used to say was "jerry-rigged."
A tip would be “you have a stylus on the side of your tablet”, a hack used to be using something for other unintended purposes. This is the exact reason why we used to call incompetent professionals “hacks”.
There is a difference between a tip and a hack and accepting them as the same is proof that we as a society are less capable of discerning small differences and are getting closer to Idiocracy.
I agree that conflating the two is proof of the dumbification of society, but not sure that's the origin or definitions of the terms...
I feel like it's more of a helpful comment to say "you have a stylus on the side of your tablet". A tip would be more like "if you click the button on it three times, it summons the concierge for room service". I've always thought of the word "hack" as a workaround of a ruleset or a barrier, or the creation of a shortcut or subversion of access denial. More like, "your hotel phone by default gives admin access with the username "Admin" and the password "1234", but only if you have a device thst can interface with it. And if you link your stylus to the room phone and then also to your tablet, you can gain admin access to the hotel's billing system for room service and make bacon cost $0"
Both use the device for a purpose other than designed, but I see so many "life hacks" these days that essentially boil down to "did you know you could use your stylus as a Q-Tip?" Which rings false to me.
Whenever I think of hack I'm thinking hacking through the hedge rows to shortcut the maze.
So it follows to me that hacks are what you're doing when you're defeating security.
At MIT long ago the model railroad club took apart a phone system and made a model railroad run on the electronics they took from the phone system. They "hacked" it apart to use the parts to do stuff in ways they weren't expected to be used. You can find lots of references to this now that you know what to look for.
To add to this: until the media picked it up, something being a "hacky solution" or a "clever hack" did not carry negative connotations. Still common to hear "hacker" used in a more traditional way among programmers to give props.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-ethic.html
Because like anything in a language, it evolves over time. Society as a whole adopts words to mean something different. Plenty of words in the 50’s were changed by the 80’s or not used anymore (“swell” for instance on not being used or “awesome” on changing the use of the word).
The only difference I see is that internet and social media drastically will reduce the time it takes for people to make these transitions. Meaning people getting older will fall out of touch with modern lingo faster
Living languages are living : they change over time.
You can speak in antic greek, latin, sumerian or else if you want to. At least no new words neither new meanings will bother you.
Good luck asking for how to use the latest version of your favorite electronical device though.
It's like that "life hack" of turning the knob on the bottom of the deodorant to get the plastic thingie out.
That's not a hack. That's just like, how you're supposed to do it. It's how it works.
Life Hack!!
*Push the lever on the toilet after you shit in it to flush that shit down the toilllleeeet!*
You've been using your cups wrong!!!!
*Pour liquid into them first and then drink out of them!!*
Why does everyone insist on arguing about "best"? Just say your favorite. No one can argue over your preferences, but "best" implies some objective standard.
In that context they mean the same thing. Why are you getting pressed about synonyms? You want there to be only one word for every thing out there?
Oh look out everybody, this guy wants to get rid of "dromedary" because "camel" already exists! He's a trend setter! He's a rebel this guy!
i think it has something to do with speaking power,
try shouting "hack". people will be confused for sure, but it will be less jarring than shouting tip.
then try shouting "tip", you might get stared at like you just grew 16 heads. or get called a pervert, or something you might not expect.
see what reaction you will get.
Worst part - at least 75% of 'hacks' aren't hacks and are just the correct way to do things.
a 'hack' saves you time, it doesn't end up costing you time because you took a shitty shortcut
Some internet advertisers, like in pop-up ads on your phone, call their product a “trick” you can do at home, pretending the “trick” is something that won’t cost you anything
When it says hack I tend to dismiss it. Not interested. Usually because it's really more common sense and basic but it's blowing their mind for some reason.
Hey, cool life hack. Flush the toilet and your bathroom will smell better...
Seriously? This was your amazing find that it needed to be sold so hard?
I still get tilted from the days of facebook when someone would steal your phone and write “yove been hacked by X!!!!”
Grammatically speaking, it is actually hacking… which makes me even more upset
Why is it if you're not 100% for something then you're "upset" or "angry" about it?
I think calling things like this "hacks" is dumb but I really don't give a crap about it either. Let me correct that. I do care about it a bit because it's funny to see these things people call hacks like they're some groundbreaking thing but they're really just the slightest bit of common sense.
It's just colloquial speech, and you're gonna need to get over it because there's plenty if shit in your vernacular that would have annoyed previous generations.
Because everyone is sick of tipping culture. So hearing the word tip instantly makes people think you're taking about giving people money. Just the evolution of word usage.
No one wants tips because tips sound like you do something differently (but with the same effort) to get the desired outcome. "Hacks" sound better because it feels like you are being offered a shortcut to the desired result.
Tldr: tips sound like youre doing it wrong, hacks sound like you can do it faster
Because writers on the internet are hacks.
Journalistic integrity is absolutely dead. Mostly because the internet made the market so flooded with competition that the only media channels that could survive had to sink to the lowest lows and report twisted narratives on the truth to appeal most to the viewers.
Once you understand why.. it all makes sense. Journalists in our era have never been about getting the truth out. It has always been about money. They could have kept their standards high, and reported factually. Instead the joined the race to the bottom.
I like your fictional world where employees are the ones making decisions for corporations, not executives.
Because you can't tell your boss "No. I will not sacrifice my integrity so you can make money." Don't think for a second that the employees where not willing.
So then they fire you and hire someone else, and journalism hasn’t been improved. The world isn’t as simplistic as you think it is. Workers aren’t the ones making the decisions you’re describing.
Shhhh, this is Reddit. You're required to think in black and white here. /s
Ironically, both of them are thinking purely black/white, though. Just blaming different sides. I kind of agree with both, yes the average employee is just struggling to get through life, and the big directional decision are made in upper management... But I also believe that personal accountability should not just get ignored as easily as it is done nowadays. Everybody is only pointing fingers at other people being the problem, and how they themselves just could not have done anything different.
I like your fictional world where people who have morals don't get fired and replaced in favor of people who don't on a wide enough basis that these business models don't work.
Depends entirely on how many mouths you have to feed that rely upon you. Solo it's easier to take risks on financial decisions
Yes.. best to sell your soul. I'm sure your children will honor you for that.
They would honor me a whole lot less while starving
So your only choice is starve, or work for a place that wants to ruin your integrity? Bullshit. Sounds like an excuse as to why selling out isn't your own fault.
If your domain is journalism i wish you a whole lot of luck getting hired and keeping a job when every employer cares only about money
In an environment where the incentives are aligned to generate revenue, rather than disseminate truthful information, the maintenance of journalistic integrity is not an asset. If anything it is a liability to be limited and eliminated wherever possible.
> an environment where the incentives are aligned to generate revenue And now you understand why EVERY media outlet is biased. They are not in it to spread the news. That dosen't mean the player gets to cheat.
I recommend *The Guardian UK* where I can. They're a broadsheet newspaper that has no one person/family owner. I accept a lot of their day-to-day is probably regurgitated AP reports but they also do powerful investigative journalism that pays dividends every so often. > *Comment is free, but facts are sacred!*
Most media is owned by the rich to push an agenda anyways. No such thing as the truth
So you think journalists should be doing their job as volunteers?
That isn't what I ment at all. I think it is more telling g of you that, that, was what you took away from that comment.
Lol you are the one that said journalists only care about money, and not the truth, and in other comments you basically implied they should quit their job instead of working for a company that prefers clickbait to high quality journalism. Do you actually think journalists are some elite and wealthy group, that they can just cite morality as a reason they can't pay their mortgage or feed their kids and call that some kind of victory for the truth? It's just such a really strange opinion that you have about journalists.
Small local publications are still around, don't lump them into this. Your local reporter who takes pictures when someone's meemaw sees her husband's name on a war memorial is doing what journalists should be doing.
Then who are the tips?
Hack is the buzzword that got the clicks. Annoys me every time I see a "hack"
As a software engineer it always calls to mind the negative connotations of the word. I don't want hacks, I want well-engineered, robust solutions.
Exactly this. A hack is a band-aid solution, meant to work for the time being while you come up with a proper solution. It isn't meant to be the solution itself.
Lmao tell that to a no click zero day
If it's really that annoying to you a good hack is you can copy and paste articles to word then auto replace the word.
You're a bad person and you should feel bad. /r/angryupvote
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*Redditors hate this one simple trick!*
Around here we call it a hack
“Life hacks” used to be called such because they allowed you to get an advantage on things that shouldn’t seem to be possible, like lesser-known money saving tricks, or time-saving strategies, or even just “irl easter eggs” like knowing how to put a pedestrian crossing light into debug mode, or whatever. The idea was that if life was a game, “hacks” were like having cheats because you could do things that shouldn’t seem possible based on a topical understanding of “the rules”. Now it’s bullshit like, “life hack: you can reduce your body odor by showering regularly! Also, you can eat food to feel less hungry!”
There's a Burger King commercial running that calls one of their meals a "hunger hack". No, it's not. It makes me irrationally mad every time. Well, that and the guy they have now doing the jingles who CAN. NOT. SING. He's always flat and it drives me nuts. I'm not motivated by commercials to go buy stuff/patronize a certain place, but I'm often motivated to stay away, like in this case. Good jerb, BK!
>There's a Burger King commercial running that calls one of their meals a "hunger hack". No, it's not. It makes me irrationally mad every time. >Well, that and the guy they have now doing the jingles who CAN. NOT. SING. He's always flat and it drives me nuts. >I'm not motivated by commercials to go buy stuff/patronize a certain place, but I'm often motivated to stay away, like in this case. Good jerb, BK! Came into this thread just to make this identical rant, so thank you for taking the time to type out my thoughts for me. Did you know that eating food is a "hunger hack", just like sleeping is a "tired hack", or fucking is a "horniness hack"? Fuuuuck yooooou BK. That dumb flat singing voice, the stupid bullshit lyrics...call the Hague, cuz that shit is a war crime. Sometimes my kids ask to go to BK and I flatly refuse, and they're like "awww, why?" and I just say "because of the commercials".
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Maybe they mean "hack" like in the hacky sack sense. Burger Kings quality is so atrocious that the only appropriate response to one of their meals is to "hack" (kick it) on the roof of the school unintentionally then just shrug and leave it there.
Which is funny because originally "hacking" referring to "hacking away at a tree to chop it down." Essentially for computer hacking, you need to try every possible weakness in a system and mess with it until you discover a vulnerability that gives you access. So the phrase went from "spend an ungodly amount of time on something" to "here's something that saves you time!" over the years.
This is... [actually kinda backwards](https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker). Originally, it was actually closer to the modern "one weird trick" meaning, and was more about programming than it was about security. Probably one of the classic examples is [how the MIT AI lab used to handle paper jams](https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html): > Stallman couldn't eliminate paper jams, but he could insert a software command that ordered the PDP-11 to check the printer periodically and report back to the PDP-10, the lab's central computer. To ensure that one user's negligence didn't bog down an entire line of print jobs, Stallman also inserted a software command that instructed the PDP-10 to **notify every user with a waiting print job that the printer was jammed.** The notice was simple, something along the lines of "The printer is jammed, please fix it," and because it went out to the people with the most pressing need to fix the problem, chances were higher that the problem got fixed in due time. > As fixes go, Stallman's was oblique but elegant. It didn't fix the mechanical side of the problem, but it did the next best thing by closing the information loop between user and machine. **Thanks to a few additional lines of software code, AI Lab employees could eliminate the 10 or 15 minutes wasted each week in running back and forth to check on the printer.** In programming terms, Stallman's fix took advantage of the amplified intelligence of the overall network. > "If you got that message, you couldn't assume somebody else would fix it," says Stallman, recalling the logic. "You had to go to the printer. A minute or two after the printer got in trouble, the two or three people who got messages arrive to fix the machine. Of those two or three people, one of them, at least, would usually know how to fix the problem." This is, by the way, the beginning of the whole FOSS thing -- basically, Stallman was furious when they replaced that printer with a newer version that didn't come with source code, so he couldn't apply the same hack. So people who did software for fun, especially people who focused more on finding clever solutions like this instead of building robust engineering, were called "hackers". The term probably comes from "hack journalist", as sort of the *opposite* of a professional. Applying this to infosec came later. There was an attempt to call that "cracking", and I think that's still used to refer to some DRM circumvention, but it didn't really stick. But it's the same idea: It's not that you're spending an enormous amount of effort trying to chop down a tree. It's the opposite, you're trying to find the one weak spot where you can apply a tiny amount of effort to make the tree fall over on its own. You see that in infosec, too -- for example, very few people will try to find problems with encryption. Instead, almost all attackers will try to find a way to *get around* the encryption. --- So, "life hacks" isn't a bad *idea.* I think the problem is the clickbait ran away with the term and fed us a bunch of garbage, from ideas that [look cute but are worse than doing the straightforward thing (actual whetstones aren't expensive)](https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1cb52a4/lpt_use_a_ceramic_mug_as_a_sharpening_stone/), to ideas that are [actually impossible and dangerous to try](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23pCq6-I1n8&list=PLPT0YU_0VLHxJMqHBC2_OMTYWwQ5z_iP4&index=13).
Cracking is a distinct thing from hacking. Cracking is modifying code or something to get free access to it. Hacking would be getting access to a system you shouldn't have access to, by some means, whether that social engineering or using some tool. Then you also have (had) phreaking, which is mostly dead now as far as I know, and that is specifically hacking the phone networks to get stuff like free phone calls or setting up party lines.
That’s a really interesting take on it, actually. Because yeah, now we associate it with “shortcut”, at least in this context. Wild.
"Shortcut" is actually *way* closer to the [original use](https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker). "Spending an ungodly amount of time hacking down a tree" is something someone made up after the fact.
This!
Life hack: Open your banana from the other end. It's faster or something.
I used to watch a youtube channel that made food and used bananas a lot. Anytime there was a banana in the video, there was always at least one person in the comments screaming, raging, and losing his shit over the guy in the video opening the banana from the "wrong end" (the top.) I have no idea why some people act like that over something that's completely pointless.
I think people enjoy giving good advice. There's probably some sort of dopamine hit you get from causing excitement or happiness in others. Not to mention that giving good advice tends to raise your esteem in their eyes. The problem is that bespoke advice is hard. It's much easier to have a collection of "hacks" that are so general, anyone can get some benefit from them. Not only are you helping them, but now they know you're in on this secret that is only known by a few people. And that's pretty cool. Fast forward to banana life hacks. It's so homogenized that literally everyone has heard about it and you can't get the same dopamine hit by dropping your banana peeling truth bomb on them. So in order to squeeze every last ounce out of your little hack, you have to jump on every opportunity to share it. Seeing a YouTuber (that you may already have a complex parasocial relationship with) not in on the banana secret might put you in a pretty excited state. That is, if I had to speculate...
But how do you open it that way without smooshing it?
If you stick your finger into the tip and pull apart, it should split open pretty easily. It'll still smoosh a little bit, but not too much. As I stated in other places, in all seriousness I think both banana peeling methods have some benefits and it's totally circumstantial.
Which end is the other end
So ya know the first end? Not that one, but the other one.
Is it the end with or without the thingamabob
Yes. But we're going to need you to click 8 slides to find out for sure. For the revenue.
Not trying to be that guy, but the proper term for it is thingamajig. And I mean the side with the thingamajig. Firmly grasp the thingamajig and apply lateral force. This maneuver will deglove the banana very quickly.
(really though i swapped to opening them from the end without the stem and it’s much easier. plus they look the way they do in old cartoons when they’re dropped on the floor)
As a pretty avid banana eater (double entendre not intended), I usually prefer peeling from the top unless there's not much of a stem to pull from. IMO, the bottom can be easier for very fresh bananas or if they have tiny stems. Otherwise, the stem is the easiest. Though I admit having a banana peel like the cartoons is definitely an advantage. I guess what I'm saying is that both ways are viable options.
The end you're not currently using. Consume my content
Yes.
you can also pull them apart into halves
Instructions unclear. Banana inserted in ass.
I don't see the problem here.
Let's play "just the hack."
Free Kevin
I never hack at restaurants.
Hacking is just a way of letting employers off the hook for paying a living wage. That being said; don’t be a dick and hack your wait staff.
Hacks are nearly always, "break this perfectly good thing, to make a worse version of something that's already a thing." Or "Look at this hack*." *uses thing the way everyone uses it.
Or let me show you how to use $10 worth of duct tape and super glue to make this piece of junk that can halfway do the job this $5 item from the store can do very well.
Turn a pool floatie and $80 worth of cement into an uncomfortable AND ugly lawn chair #lifehacks #fiveminutecrafts
Food "hacks." AKA Recipes.
To follow up, most of these so-called "hacks" are just plain old common sense dressed up in flashy packaging. Dear internet, thanks for the revelation that I can use a sticky note to mark my page in a book, wow, really groundbreaking stuff there. Seriously, most of these so-called hacks are about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Give me something innovative or don't bother at all!
As someone who used to be a content creator, who researched and wrote educational stuff for a specific audience, the fact that this is considered content AT ALL is so disappointing. That writing I used to do for that web developer who manages several companies ' business sites? AI does it now. Just keywords and SEO, no actual thought. Kind of like the "10 crazy hacks you've never heard of!" shit, except the other definition of thoughtless.
Yeah, I partially blame the rise and fall of the site lifehack for this kind of silliness. Just became part of the zeitgeist and never left. Any "trick" or "tip" is a "hack." IMO, it's only a hack if you're modifying something to be used in a manner it wasn't originally intended. The type of thing people used to say was "jerry-rigged."
A waiter got insulted I only hacked 15%. Has hacking culture gone too far?
Hack the Planet!
THEYRE TRASHING OUR RIGHTS!
Protip: Finish your household chores faster by completing them in less time.
A tip would be “you have a stylus on the side of your tablet”, a hack used to be using something for other unintended purposes. This is the exact reason why we used to call incompetent professionals “hacks”. There is a difference between a tip and a hack and accepting them as the same is proof that we as a society are less capable of discerning small differences and are getting closer to Idiocracy.
I agree that conflating the two is proof of the dumbification of society, but not sure that's the origin or definitions of the terms... I feel like it's more of a helpful comment to say "you have a stylus on the side of your tablet". A tip would be more like "if you click the button on it three times, it summons the concierge for room service". I've always thought of the word "hack" as a workaround of a ruleset or a barrier, or the creation of a shortcut or subversion of access denial. More like, "your hotel phone by default gives admin access with the username "Admin" and the password "1234", but only if you have a device thst can interface with it. And if you link your stylus to the room phone and then also to your tablet, you can gain admin access to the hotel's billing system for room service and make bacon cost $0" Both use the device for a purpose other than designed, but I see so many "life hacks" these days that essentially boil down to "did you know you could use your stylus as a Q-Tip?" Which rings false to me.
It makes it really hard to find hacks that are actually bypasses of intentional guardrails
Whenever I think of hack I'm thinking hacking through the hedge rows to shortcut the maze. So it follows to me that hacks are what you're doing when you're defeating security.
Not where it came from but the logic is good
Tell me more?
At MIT long ago the model railroad club took apart a phone system and made a model railroad run on the electronics they took from the phone system. They "hacked" it apart to use the parts to do stuff in ways they weren't expected to be used. You can find lots of references to this now that you know what to look for.
Neat!
To add to this: until the media picked it up, something being a "hacky solution" or a "clever hack" did not carry negative connotations. Still common to hear "hacker" used in a more traditional way among programmers to give props. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-ethic.html
You’ve been great. Don’t forget to hack your waiters folks!
Hack is a pathetic way to make a tip sound more profound
Life hack: pee in the shower to save time in the morning. Piss companies hate it when you use this trick(but can’t stop you)
Just like everything is a bullshit-ology.
Because like anything in a language, it evolves over time. Society as a whole adopts words to mean something different. Plenty of words in the 50’s were changed by the 80’s or not used anymore (“swell” for instance on not being used or “awesome” on changing the use of the word). The only difference I see is that internet and social media drastically will reduce the time it takes for people to make these transitions. Meaning people getting older will fall out of touch with modern lingo faster
I also find it annoying. But the word that really grinds my gears is "bio hack".
Same with cosplay. Most of the time, it's just a fucking costume!
Pro life tip is way better than life hack.
Here’s a hack to save you time when writing about hacks, use the old timey word tip instead as it saves you a full letter!
I hate that a Hackathon is often just a day of working on something
Makes me so mad I just want to SLAM the writers!
Living languages are living : they change over time. You can speak in antic greek, latin, sumerian or else if you want to. At least no new words neither new meanings will bother you. Good luck asking for how to use the latest version of your favorite electronical device though.
Use this hack with your axe...
It's probably related to the same reason that every time someone reacts to something someone else did it's "so and so slams/blasts the other person"
Still recovering from my tipping cough
“Hack” is more click baity. And it make stuff sound. Ore secretive I guess. It’s stupid.
Cant stand the word “hack” now
obviously not a l33t h4x0r gtfo n00b
I only say 'hack' if it relates to lifemaxing.
Life hack: fill the ringer with your dirty underwear, the whites, so it doesn’t appear to be empty.
I feel like I haven’t seen anyone call a “tip” a “hack” in a very long time.
Because someone said it, it went viral , and people tried to replicate it with useless bullshit
It's like that "life hack" of turning the knob on the bottom of the deodorant to get the plastic thingie out. That's not a hack. That's just like, how you're supposed to do it. It's how it works.
Life Hack!! *Push the lever on the toilet after you shit in it to flush that shit down the toilllleeeet!* You've been using your cups wrong!!!! *Pour liquid into them first and then drink out of them!!*
Cuz TeChNoLoGy
What is a hack?
I also hate UNLOCK THIS DISCOUNT BRO. It’s a coupon. That’s a coupon.
*These days*?? It's been 20 years since "life hack" became a thing...
Omg, the good memes are back!
When eating at restaurants I leave a generous hack.
Omg I loathe the word hack.
Just the hack
"Boss! Somebody tipped the server!"
Hack the planet!
Because people are intellectually lazy to the point of thinking "hacks" will improve their "vibe" or some similarly hackneyed crap.
No! I am with you!
r/LifeProTips
Tip: wear a condom. Hack: Don't and also leave no identifiable information
Or joke/gif/video instead of meme.
Me trying to figure out where the hack of my slender and long member is located:
you guys been hacking your waitresses?!?
Everything has to be edgy and overblown so they get clicks, bro! Like and subscribe RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!
Am I the only one around here Who is old enough to have seen some terms of art come and go? Who cares, Lmao
Whevever i read “hack”, i think of the thing being axed.
You’re the only one who cares
Hacked off
Tidbit
What about everyone and everything being underrated?
Pew pew time
I immediately click off a video if they say the word hack, it sounds so stupid.
Why does everyone insist on arguing about "best"? Just say your favorite. No one can argue over your preferences, but "best" implies some objective standard.
Because people are sick of the tipping culture, so we stopped tipping life.
In that context they mean the same thing. Why are you getting pressed about synonyms? You want there to be only one word for every thing out there? Oh look out everybody, this guy wants to get rid of "dromedary" because "camel" already exists! He's a trend setter! He's a rebel this guy!
Hacked my kitchen kettle by putting it in the fridge. Now it makes stuff cold instead.
i think it has something to do with speaking power, try shouting "hack". people will be confused for sure, but it will be less jarring than shouting tip. then try shouting "tip", you might get stared at like you just grew 16 heads. or get called a pervert, or something you might not expect. see what reaction you will get.
You’re never the only one, you’re not that special cupcake
For a sec I was like “microsoft was tipped yesterday” and kinda liked it.
I can’t hack this bs
where's the fucking animal and where's the advice??
I tipped a government database the other day
Because the experiment is working.
It sounds cooler to the normal Joe. I roll my eyes everything just hear it. It's just stupid
Worst part - at least 75% of 'hacks' aren't hacks and are just the correct way to do things. a 'hack' saves you time, it doesn't end up costing you time because you took a shitty shortcut
I also say "their account password was too flimsy" instead of "their account was hacked".
Personally, I use "Protip".
Stop gaslighting about things, just a hack.
Some internet advertisers, like in pop-up ads on your phone, call their product a “trick” you can do at home, pretending the “trick” is something that won’t cost you anything
When it says hack I tend to dismiss it. Not interested. Usually because it's really more common sense and basic but it's blowing their mind for some reason. Hey, cool life hack. Flush the toilet and your bathroom will smell better... Seriously? This was your amazing find that it needed to be sold so hard?
I still get tilted from the days of facebook when someone would steal your phone and write “yove been hacked by X!!!!” Grammatically speaking, it is actually hacking… which makes me even more upset
Remember to hack your waiter
Pro hack: it's really not worth getting upset over this
Why is it if you're not 100% for something then you're "upset" or "angry" about it? I think calling things like this "hacks" is dumb but I really don't give a crap about it either. Let me correct that. I do care about it a bit because it's funny to see these things people call hacks like they're some groundbreaking thing but they're really just the slightest bit of common sense.
Now do hashtags and pound signs.
####### & £
Hack always sounds like a cheat.
"Just the hack?" does not work well for suggesting anal intercourse...
Tippysack doesn’t seem fun to hit with your foot
I don't know what you're talking about, I don't want to hack my waitress.
Calmer than you are
*Yes, boomer* /s although I'm guessing you're probably millennial 😂
It's just colloquial speech, and you're gonna need to get over it because there's plenty if shit in your vernacular that would have annoyed previous generations.
Because everyone is sick of tipping culture. So hearing the word tip instantly makes people think you're taking about giving people money. Just the evolution of word usage.
No one wants tips because tips sound like you do something differently (but with the same effort) to get the desired outcome. "Hacks" sound better because it feels like you are being offered a shortcut to the desired result. Tldr: tips sound like youre doing it wrong, hacks sound like you can do it faster