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.
on that note i have been taking inventory of various things in plain text then progressively converting it to turtle. keyboards i own, concerts i've been to, stuff like that -- pretty bounded within a single document, a good exercise to mapping relations and ontological practices. we'll see what falls out
Pretend I know nothing about home design/home improvement (because I don't).
I want to wallpaper one of my office walls. Is there a specific brand of wallpaper I should look at?
For chronic pain reasons, I'll hire someone who knows what they're doing to actually put it up.
Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
Link: https://defusedcyber.com/ivanti-epmm-sleeper-shells-403jsp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946062
Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy
Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eddie-bauer-bankrupt-outdoor-apparel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948708
First post on public network created using minimitra:
All identifiers are ap URIs, so only FEP-ef61 implementers can load this post and interact with it.
This account has a website full of tips and step-by-step guides about how to use Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse:
➡️ https://fedi.tips <-------- Click here to open the website
The entire site is written in ordinary non-technical language, aimed at a general audience. There's a section at the top with quick links to the most essential stuff, and a complete list of guides below that.
If you can't find the answers you want on the site, ask me and I'll try to help directly.
and now to log off for several days and go work on my website, methinks
@martinvermeerMartin Vermeer FCD There's so many interesting things out there and only so much time and brain!
I have deeply mixed feelings about #ActivityPub's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building #Fedify.
Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of developers jump into ActivityPub development without really understanding JSON-LD, and honestly, can you blame them? The result is a growing number of implementations producing technically invalid JSON-LD. It works, sort of, because everyone's just pattern-matching against what Mastodon does, but it's not correct. And even developers who do take the time to understand JSON-LD often end up hardcoding their documents anyway, because proper JSON-LD processor libraries simply don't exist for many languages. No safety net, no validation, just vibes and hoping you got the @context right. Naturally, mistakes creep in.
But then the other part of me thinks: well, we're stuck with JSON-LD now. There's no going back. So wouldn't it be nice if people actually used it properly? Process the documents, normalize them, do the compaction and expansion dance the way the spec intended. That's what Fedify does.
Here's the part that really gets to me, though. Because Fedify actually processes JSON-LD correctly, it's more likely to break when talking to implementations that produce malformed documents. From the end user's perspective, Fedify looks like the fragile one. “Why can't I follow this person?” Well, because their server is emitting garbage JSON-LD that happens to work with implementations that just treat it as a regular JSON blob. Every time I get one of these bug reports, I feel a certain injustice. Like being the only person in the group project who actually read the assignment.
To be fair, there are real practical reasons why most people don't bother with proper JSON-LD processing. Implementing a full processor is genuinely a lot of work. It leans on the entire Linked Data stack, which is bigger than most people expect going in. And the performance cost isn't trivial either. Fedify uses some tricks to keep things fast, and I'll be honest, that code isn't my proudest work.
Anyway, none of this is going anywhere. Just me grumbling into the void. If you're building an ActivityPub implementation, maybe consider using a JSON-LD processor if one's available for your language. And if you're not going to, at least test your output against implementations that do.
Alright well this is very much a WIP but it's already more info than I've found on this subject anywhere else on the web: the fandom discord to IRC migration page is live!
tech ceos: return to office for synergy and kismet reasons
also tech ceos: why are you talking to your coworkers. just ask the ai
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 (MiniDisc player) via 
@jevinskieJevin Sweval https://lobste.rs/s/w8uju4 #hardware #reversing
https://sir68k.re/posts/rh1-firmware-available/
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
Link: https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947777
Despite a policy shift away from renewables from the Trump administration, energy companies are still turning to the fast and cheap power of solar and wind energy to provide power. The thing that’s actually changing? Their messaging. https://spectrum.ieee.org/trump-renewable-energy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Ordered an “abolish ice” flag from flagsforgood.com
It came with a free whistle…
It feels like a real sweet spot that I'm notable enough to have my name appear multiple times in a Wikipedia search but not notable enough to appear at all in an Epstein files search.
起きまーす
Nur noch einmal schlafen! #hibbel
(OK, in Köln und nicht im London Hilton. Man kann halt nicht alles haben ...)
RAYE - Worth it. (Live at London Hilton on Park Lane)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uoAzWUHCRpU
#leyrerplaylist
Midday in mid-October.
Nikon F3 w 28mm/f2
f8 @ 1/60s
Lomography Color400 EX2013 EI200
#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #Lomography #StreetPhotography
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663
On bsky, I could give https://links.robb.is its own username/domain and be done with it but I'm not sure what to do about mastodon – I'm thinking I just forward every post here with a hashtag? https://mastodon.social/@dlx/115990932251214457
목욕할 때 마저도 코딩하고 싶은 개발처돌이가 아니라 그냥 개발할 때 가만히 있을 겸 뜨물에 몸 담그고 싶은 뜨물처돌이입니다
방수 맥북 나오면 좋겠다 목욕하면서 코딩하고 싶음
There's never been a better time to
abandon Discord and start using Matrix with Element for your communities 💚
#Discord #AgeVerification #Censorship #MassSurveillance #Privacy #E2EE #Matrix
Have declared Signal amnesty and marked everything as read. If it was important, message me again I guess?
(Brought to you by me missing messages as I have Too Many Notifications)
Testing Ads in ChatGPT
Link: https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949401
I guess I should add that it's GOOD these guys are trying to retcon with the NYT's help, even if you shouldn't believe that it's driven by any real honest introspection. It means the delicate alliances that propped up this deadly kakistocracy are fracturing and they know shame is returning.
So it's not just that Discord is requiring pictures or IDs to verify age. They're also going to be running AI against everything you do on there to "infer" your age... So make sure you "type old".
Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age. Some users may be asked to use multiple methods if more information is needed to assign an age group.”
Cat update:
3rd cat date went well! We spoke with the cats some more, one of the kitties even let me pet her a little bit, and the woman who socializes the colony cats even gave me her old recurve bow for free, since we were talking olympics and I mentioned that I do back yard archery for fun. Odd thing to give a near total stranger but, to be fair, we have been coming to this humane society weekly for 3 weeks now and talking to the socializer woman every time.
We have a video call tomorrow so we can show the head of adoption that we have installed a storm door to keep the cats from bolting and added childproof straps to the cabinets to keep them from getting lost in the cabinetry, but she said that with the photos we have shown her that it's mostly a formality at this point.
Cats are going to the vet next week on Monday or Tuesday for a final checkup and to get some more vaccines. We are being told that, unless something catastrophic happens on the call tomorrow, we will be able to pick the cats up straight from the vet.
IT'S HAPPENING!!! WE ARE GETTING KITTIES!
What I'm listening to today: "BASTL WAVE🐦⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE", boop _e_
A couple days ago I posted this artist using the Citadel, a eurorack module reprogrammable as any of Bastl's "Kastle 2" devices. Here's the equivalent desktop/handheld device, this time programmed as a "Wavebard", with the eurorack cables replaced with little wires.
Track is a soulful, disorienting dream about being lost in fog while giant glowing blobs of color pass by you, paintsplotches in the mist
What I'm listening to today: "(Untitled1)", TAKAAT
Picked this up on Bandcamp Friday. "Is Noise". This band are somehow connected to Tinariwen, the group from 1979 called the grandfathers of Tuareg (Saharan) rock music. Here's an epic lo-fi rock album intro, "unedited jam… recorded live to tape in Washington D.C", made in the modern era but coming off plausibly like it could have opened the rawest rock album of 1982. Shredding
えっ、ちょっと待って。高市早苗ってこのまま総理やめるまで日中関係悪化させたままでい続けるつもりなの!? [757453285]
https://greta.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/poverty/1770621289/
infosec, salt typhoon, telecoms
Man, who would have guessed that "we need all of our telecoms to be easy to wiretap so we can spy on our own people" would eventually turn into "oh god, somebody found a way to get into our system that we use to wiretap telecoms and spy on people"?
A true mystery. Nobody could have seen this coming.
Patrick Klepek on the reality of parenting in the age of Roblox and YouTube.
https://www.404media.co/the-screen-time-panic-sets-parents-up-to-fail/
Never Stop Fighting Nazis
Fascism is not an opinion, but a practice of oppression. It is not fought with neutrality, nor with hollow institutions that shelter it behind democratic display cases. Whether as “underground” Nazi groups or as parliamentary authoritarianism in a suit, fascism feeds on passivity and fear.
Stand in Solidarity
infosec, salt typhoon, telecoms
Man, who would have guessed that "we need all of our telecoms to be easy to wiretap so we can spy on our own people" would eventually turn into "oh god, somebody found a way to get into our system that we use to wiretap telecoms and spy on people"?
A true mystery. Nobody could have seen this coming.
Deploying Django just got easier!
django-simple-deploy prepares your Django project for deployment across multiple platforms, with automatic setup for some. It supports https://Fly.io, Upsun, and Heroku, and uses a plugin system to extend support to more platforms.
GitHub has had 15 incidents so far in February. It is February 9th.
tech ceos: return to office for synergy and kismet reasons
also tech ceos: why are you talking to your coworkers. just ask the ai
後付けだけど、選挙の争点がなかったのは高市のせいだと思ってたけど、ぜんぜんそうじゃなくて野党の争点設定が完全におかしかっただけだな。高市が脱アベノミクスの流れのなかでもういちど積極財政を持ち出して円安になっているのだから、脱アベノミクスをストレートに主張すればよかった。それがジャパンファンドとか消費税減税だと、むしろアベノミクス的発想のなかでやっているから、円安にたいして効力があるか疑問だし争点にならない。もっと緊縮的なメッセージだしても何の問題もなかったとおもうけど、「悪夢の民主党政権」というイメージに自縄自縛だったんじゃないか。消費税増税を決行した野田が消費税減税を訴えて選挙戦をするのは、なにか自己否認的な欲望が動いていたんじゃないかという気がする。
Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:
Stefano Marinelli
Glyph
@
Inside Fediverse
Gabriele Svelto
Vitu
Jan Lehnardt 
Chris Siebenmann
Jenniferplusplus
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Andy Piper