reading that entire thread is painful, none of you understand the hacker perspective.
'Winter Woman', if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. You have acted the fool in fearing this individual and through your fear you have extinguished a little bit of love in the universe. hackerspace is for hackers, you do realize this right? you do realize what happens when you open your notebook or connect your phone to the wifi right? Like if you have ever checked your gmail from the space, most everyone that hangs out has your email password ( same for facebook ) and that is just offline packet capture analysis... the cookiejacking is always a fun game to prank psuedo sudos...
That 'Widow Maker' was 120v and probably going into a 15-20A breaker... As an electrician, part of training is getting shocked by this amount of voltage to train you to not 'jump' as jumping in a load center you might jump your hand into a 600v fan starter capacitor that will stop your heart instantly. Although I do recognize what a huge fire hazard a live wire like that is - you all could have lost the space.
There is no excuse other than he was not aware of the danger and importance of handling electricity. That sounds like he needs support and community help, which instead of offering, you kicked him out. Wow, you are a momentary(disgrace) to all hackers, and I hope you can use this as a learning experience to offer help and compassion in the future. Don't lead a lost soul into the dark, but show him the way. Please don't cause any more emotional damage to young anons, the keys to the future are under their fingers.. They need to think straight and true not have anger in their hearts as their strokes will be misguided.
-background on me- yes I worshiped cult of dead cow growing up in texas, and read "mein Kampf' by hitler and know the whole story of Charlie Manson and his friends and family, punkrock and speedmetal, Doesn't mean I held on to it after around 21-22. Just trying to get attention and trying to hard. But people grow, life is a journey, change is eminent. I am glad I fell into a good group of people ( strangely through psychedelics and the rainbow gatherings ) and I changed my life when I realized the choice for love or fear truly was mine to make, I choose love, and I see a reflection of myself in this youngster. If you, through the hackerspace, could be the light for this kid, he will have a much easier time than I have had in this life. Wandering the darknet alone is a dark path, I would not wish that upon my worst enemy.
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