XPost: alt.cyberpunk.movement, alt.cypherpunk   
   From: rek2@usenet_reborn.tui   
      
   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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)