Pretty much from our first encounter, Richard Stallman has been asking me to translate free software and hacker ethos terminology into Japanese. I have found some interesting solutions in classics.
To explain what a hacker is you first have to understand. Hacker is a noun derived from the verb "hack." Hackers are good at dividing problems into smaller parts. They are also good at producing terse code. In the past, when memory was expensive and small, this was an essential skill for programmers attempting anything substantial. Nowadays, with DRAM measured in gigabytes and communication speed in gigabits per second, this is not true anymore. Or so it seemed, until the coronavirus came along. I have been through some strange experiences recently. Certain web pages take seconds to load. In some instances the communication fails with a time-out. Pages that Google had ranked top in search result lists last year are for some reason gone when the same search is conducted. I have a theory of what is going on at Google. The traffic load of live video conferencing and video content download is putting a heavy load on server and exchanges. As a result page fetch requests occasionally fail and the relevant content is dropped from the search results. Perhaps some fellow list subscribers are going through similar experiences. I advice any person in charge of maintaining a web server to take a look. I am thinking of how to inform ordinary computer users about this issue. I welcome your opinions.