Cyberdecks Are Having a Moment, Rejecting Big Tech Surveillance With Style and Substance
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Cyberdecks are having a moment, rejecting big tech surveillance with style and substance:
An article where you simply must see the pics.
When I reach out to the self-proclaimed "open source baddie" CC for an interview, I'm pretty sure she's emailing me back from a pink mermaid purse.
"I'm just having so much fun," she tells me about her seashell cyberdeck. "It's a Tamagotchi. It's also an e-reader. It's networked to my vault and my servers, so it has access to all of my server data, which has all my PDFs, and books, and notes, and everything... It's also connected to my local AI setup at home."
CC has no background in software engineering or computer science, but she's gotten good enough at building unconventional cyberdecks - small DIY computers - that she documents the process on her blog Bimbo Tech so that other women can follow her lead, even if they don't yet know what RAM is.
The idea of the cyberdeck originated in William Gibson's 1984 sci-fi novel "Neuromancer," and when credit card-sized computers like the Raspberry Pi came on the market in the 2010s, hardware enthusiasts began building and sharing their own cyberdecks in niche online communities. But over the last few months, these communities have exploded in popularity thanks to women on social media who are teaching each other to build artistic, hyper-feminine computers by documenting their building processes.
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built a #cyberdeck inside a pink mermaid shell #raspberrypi 3A+ 512MB my own custom os #ai assistant mermaid tamagotchi e-reader markdown editor server monitor full terminal mesh vpn full #howto build guide + all parts linked @ bimbotech.co/cyberdeck #tech by girls
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