XPost: hispagatos.talk, alt.2600, es.cpm.hackers   
   From: NerdRat@radicalnerd.com   
      
   ["Followup-To:" header set to hispagatos.talk.]   
   On 2025-09-05, ReK2  wrote:   
   > Hello fellow hackers and cyberpunk enthusiasts,   
   >   
   > After 12 months of writing and research, I'm excited (and honestly a bit   
   > nervous) to share my first tech-thriller novella "Connection Timeout: The   
   > PingStarved Chronicles" with this community. This is my first time publishing   
   > fiction, so I'm both shy and thrilled to finally put it out there.   
   >   
   > Set in 2030 Barcelona, it follows Andrés "PingStarved" Reyes, a 56-year-old   
   > hacker who must choose between protecting his estranged son and surrendering   
   a   
   > revolutionary mesh networking protocol that could liberate global   
   > communications from corporate control.   
   >   
   > What makes this different from typical cyberpunk:   
   > * Features real mesh networking protocols (Meshtastic, Reticulum) Based on   
   > * actual security research and exploitation techniques Grounded in   
   technologies   
   > * currently in development Authentic hacker culture representation - written   
   by   
   > * someone who lives it   
   >   
   > This has been a labor of love, combining my passion for privacy tech and   
   > resistance against surveillance capitalism into a narrative that I hope   
   > resonates with our community. As someone who's been hacking for years but   
   never   
   > written fiction before, I poured everything I know and believe about our   
   > culture into these pages.   
   >   
   > Details:   
   > - 29,429 words (86 pages, 2-3 hour read)   
   > - Available in PDF and EPUB formats   
   > - Price: $4.99   
   > - Available at: https://rek2.gumroad.com/l/connection-timeout-cyberpunk   
   >   
   > If you enjoyed Neuromancer, Little Brother, or Mr. Robot, this explores   
   similar   
   > themes of surveillance capitalism, digital liberty, and technological   
   > resistance - but grounded in the real tech we're building today.   
   >   
   > Any feedback from the community would mean the world to me. Thanks for   
   reading!   
   >   
   >   
   > Happy Hacking   
   > ReK2   
      
   I am glad you have published this novel, now that i've been reading it   
   and i see you are putting contemporary matters it could become a living   
   journal of the cyberpunk distopia we are living now.   
      
   I am grateful to you for this, i think is a great idea and seeing it   
   materialize is inspiring.   
      
   --   
   r4dnRd   
   Nevermind i he might be coding all night...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)