What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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So tempted to be in a high collar shirt, buttoned up right to the top so you can't see a hint of skin, but then put a harness over it that's definitely from Ann summers.

Can hear Husbeard's voice in my head: "DON'T ANTAGONISE THE PLATFORMS THAT PAY YOU"

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Kate Riga makes an important point here about the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team and their interaction with Trump: "That is what you're scared of as a woman all the time. That men who are nice to your face, and who take photos with you, and nominally support you, the second you're out of the room are making fun of you and undermining you."

youtube.com/watch?v=UplloDhjOWY

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Many, many years ago, at school for CS and before that interning at NASA Ames, I learned to take programming seriously as engineering work, and also the level of rigor that engineering work requires. In the intervening thirty years, I have had to come to terms with the degree to which this attitude is rare in theory and vanishingly rare in practice again and again. Tooling has gotten better, but the rigor applied to the average line of code has gotten worse.

I would hope that safety-critical systems would be different, and in some cases they really are. However, the number of people who want to build secure communications systems that they want to be safety critical and who expect thousands of people to literally use in a case where a breach of the threat model means the users will die and who as developers cannot bother to meet the basic design rigor requirement of 2006 — have a fucking threat model that is accurate and up to date — will never cease to shock me.

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Silly PR person. Unicorns are imaginary illusions created to scam investors and enrich billionaire-wannabes.

Also, it's unfathomable to me that anyone overseas would risk their privacy and security to increasingly authoritarian US borders crossing goons.

Connecting with Irish Cybersecurity Unicorn at RSA 2026 2 ©
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Hi Dan,
| wanted to see if you were planning on attending RSA 20267 If you are, would you be interested in
connecting with Tines and their CEO, Eoin Hinchy?
Tines uses Al to automate workflows and help companies streamline operations, enhance productivity,
and mitigate risk. The company achieved unicorn status following its Series C funding round which
valued the company at $1.125bn.
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Hi, yes, welcome to Mozilla Burger. It's true our burgers come with asbestos but the good news is you can pick it off yourself. Look how easy that is. No we can't make a burger without it and let you add it yourself later. Why would we do that?

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I have a thought I've been stewing on. For most of the history of computing, the ability to support or operate software was pretty well correlated with having the ability to produce it in the first place. And thus you could start with a reasonable assumption that software was more-or-less fit for purpose by the simple fact of its existence. You could assume that whatever faults it had could be and would be remediated, and you'd be right so often that the remainder didn't make a difference. This is complicated a little by the existence of spam, or viruses, or app store shovel ware, but you could control for those things.

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"2026년 이후 시장은 더 많은 코드를 쓰는 사람보다, 지저분하고 복잡한 환경에서 결과를 끝까지 책임질 수 있는 엔지니어에게 프리미엄을 지불하고 있다." 읍내의 글인데 아마 AI가 어떻게 산업을 재편하는가를 보려면 개발자 시장이 어떻게 되는지 보면 되는것 같은데 정말 기존 모델이 못하고 전문 지식 레벨이 깊지 않으면 쓸려나가는것이 확정적인것 같음; x.com/SergioRocks/...

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"“범용 개발자” 업무 상당수가 압박을 받고 있다: 반복적인 CRUD, 단순 API, 기본 대시보드 등. Opus 4.6과 GPT 5.3은 이미 그런 것들을 해낼 수 있다. "성장은 다음을 할 수 있는 전문가에게서 나온다: - LLM을 프로덕션 기능으로 전환하기 - 실제로 확장되는 데이터 파이프라인 설계하기 - 실질적인 위협으로부터 프로덕션 환경을 보안으로 지키기 - 티켓이 아니라 성과(결과) 중심으로 사고하기. 핵심은 “코딩을 더 빡세게 배워라”가 아니다. “스택 위로 올라가라”다."

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"소프트웨어 엔지니어링은 죽어가는 게 아니다. 가격이 다시 매겨지고 있다. 2025년에 크게 들린 이야기는 해고였다. 2026년에 조용히 진행되는 이야기는 수요 증가다. Indeed의 2026년 2월 수치에 따르면 소프트웨어 엔지니어 채용 공고는 2025년 중반 바닥 이후 약 15% 상승했다. Citadel도 같은 신호를 요약했다: 소프트웨어 엔지니어 채용 공고가 전년 대비 11% 증가했다. 그렇다면 실제로 무슨 일이 일어나고 있는 걸까? 업계는 줄어드는 게 아니라 전문화되고 있다."

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Quantum simulators mimic systems, directly encoding problems into the structure of the system. Unlike more flexible quantum computers, we can make and use them right now. Startup Silicon Quantum Computing has created a silicon quantum simulator that simulates how a material can change from an insulator to a metal. spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-twin

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RE: infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116

To make matters worse derivative markets were created from those shitposts and they in turn were repackaged as top tier shitposts but were in reality even worse than the original sub-prime toots. Many people following the market had no idea that they were not genuine and not backed by actual shitposts. As if this weren't bad enough others retained options to recieve future shitposts.

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Kate Riga makes an important point here about the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team and their interaction with Trump: "That is what you're scared of as a woman all the time. That men who are nice to your face, and who take photos with you, and nominally support you, the second you're out of the room are making fun of you and undermining you."

youtube.com/watch?v=UplloDhjOWY

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so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery!
now I'm bedridden for recovery, fun!

I'm in a lot of debt from my illness and I've not found a job yet, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!

ko-fi.com/fooneturing

and my patreon is at patreon.com/c/foone , if you'd like to set up a monthly donation. Thanks!

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Here's a bit of good news for you, an important one too IMHO. Both Glovo and Deliveroo are now under judicial control in Italy, as both companies have been found brutally exploiting their gig workers and paying wages well below the poverty line. Under judicial administration the companies will be likely forced to hire their workers with regular contracts and working hours.

lastampa.it/economia/2026/02/2

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> This design probably hits the record of simultaneous use of TI parts in a single device.
*looks inside*
> Figure 2-1. 100-kV Reference Voltage
It said high-voltage reference on the tin. I expected high-voltage, just not 100kV.

For those reading along from a safe distance: ti.com/lit/an/sbaa203b/sbaa203

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RE: infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116

To make matters worse derivative markets were created from those shitposts and they in turn were repackaged as top tier shitposts but were in reality even worse than the original sub-prime toots. Many people following the market had no idea that they were not genuine and not backed by actual shitposts. As if this weren't bad enough others retained options to recieve future shitposts.

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so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery!
now I'm bedridden for recovery, fun!

I'm in a lot of debt from my illness and I've not found a job yet, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!

ko-fi.com/fooneturing

and my patreon is at patreon.com/c/foone , if you'd like to set up a monthly donation. Thanks!

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for some reason sales were shockingly bad this month (i blame the fascism) and so we could really use your support to help me and my partner cover our basic cost of living

you can donate via ko-fi here ko-fi.com/sharkhugseniko/goal?

if you're so inclined you can also set up a recurring donation on ko-fi or join my patreon (link in my profile)

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A practical question that's come up in Arcalibre development: how should we handle AI-vulnerable dependencies?

forums.rereading.space/post/16

What should be done about dependencies that turn AI-vulnerable ? - rereading Forums

Hi. I’m Damien, a contributor to the project currently working on the pydofo library that’s meant to replace Calibre’s PoDoFo binding. Upon interacting with upstream to file a bug report [https://github.com/podofo/podofo/issues/318], I found out that the developer and maintainer of the library is experimenting with using Copilot [https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Apodofo%2Fpodofo+copilot&type=issues] to author PRs [https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Apodofo%2Fpodofo+copilot&type=pullrequests]. Per cgranade’s taxonomy, this means that unless the maintainer changes his(?) mind, the project is on track to become AI-vulnerable. So what am I to do about it ? One one hand, this seems very much contrary to the purpose and the ethos of the rereading project. On the other hand, the landscape looks grim and complete isolation from AI dependencies looks like an increasingly hard problem, the situation may repeat for any dependency at any point in time. What do you think should be the course of action here ? — Update: the exchange on the github issue went a bit further and the maintainer clarified its position and “experiments”. https://github.com/podofo/podofo/issues/318#issuecomment-3967036898 [https://github.com/podofo/podofo/issues/318#issuecomment-3967036898] > In this case it would have been an experiment only. As long as I am the maintainer, I guarantee this library will be free of AI slop. […] I’m not intellectually satisfied by the response, but I guess that exchange can be taken at face value and provides some sort of policy for AI contributions to the library. The issue of having a policy for handling such cases in the rereading Project still persists.

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