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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Adfichter @adfichter@infosec.exchange
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"Switzerland decision sets a precedent,
this is the most powerful element here.

When a neutral country renowned for financial security and data protection concludes that Palantir poses unacceptable sovereignty risks,
that assessment becomes ammunition for every European procurement decision.

(....)

Getting ghosted by Swiss bureaucrats just probably had to sting."

youtu.be/R5UMAt0bEzs?si=j7Ri02

Europe DONE With US Tech - Palantir CRASHES After Swiss Army Says NO

For seven years, Palantir Technologies pitched nine Swiss federal bodies — from the armed forces to public health. The result? Nine rejections. And when a sm...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw@front-end.social
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My mother is a strong Christian, of the loving and inclusive kind, but recently she said something that was so anti trans that I thought it could only have come from the UK TV media she consumes.

Anyway, I sent her a message after watching a video of a sermon that I think would be a good thing for her to listen to.

I'm not even Christian (any more, if I ever was), but I do think Jesus was a real and radically inclusive person.

Message follows.

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee@hollo.social
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Shared by 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:

Update: we've decided to go ahead and submit the CFP to @COSCUP 2026. The track will be called Fediverse & Social Web—think FOSDEM's Social Web devroom, but in Taipei. is free to attend, like FOSDEM.

If the track is accepted, would you be interested in coming to Taipei (Aug 8–9) to give a talk?

(Boosts appreciated!)

https://hollo.social/@hongminhee/019ca8b2-ecca-7150-a237-37f35de45401

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
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Reading through Anthropic's official repo for giving agents various "super skills"[1]... There's an "algorithmic art" skill and the instructions are explicitly encouraging pure deception as one of the key "critical guidelines":

"The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise," "painstaking optimization," "master-level implementation.""

github.com/anthropics/skills/b

For someone who's been working in this field for almost 30 years, this "skills.md" file is just the worst... and so far off the mark! 🤮

Touch some effing grass, Anthropic (and all boosters)! How can so many people think this approach is _the_ future? The map is not the terrain...

[1] Alone the premise of this repo is pure comedy gold and pure sadness in equal measures!

Public repository for Agent Skills. Contribute to anthropics/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

skills/skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md at main · anthropics/skills

Public repository for Agent Skills. Contribute to anthropics/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com · GitHub

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
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RE: mstdn.social/@rysiek/116226720

Louder for people at the back:

If ‘AI’ gives you a 20% productivity increase, in an economic system that rewards growth at the expense of everything else, the rational thing for any company to do is use that productivity increase to expand into new markets. This may involve some redundancies because you need different skills for the new opportunities but they will be matched by increased hiring in the other areas. If you and your competitors both see a 20% increase in productivity and you use it to make people redundant and they use it to ship more products in more areas, then they will grow at your expense. Their products will be better than yours and you will lose market share.

If you are claiming that you have redundancies because ‘AI’ is increasing productivity, then one of the following is true:

  • Your leadership team does not understand market economics (in which case, investors should worry that the board has not replaced obviously incompetent leadership).
  • You are an unchallengeable monopoly and have already filled all adjacent markets and have literally no possibility of growth (in which case, investors should take note and set their price predictions based on today’s revenue, with no expectation of future growth, which would wipe out over 80% of Meta’s market cap).
  • You are lying about productivity gains (in which case, investors should worry about what else you’re lying about and should start prodding the SEC to investigate).
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Horologram @horologram.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by Silverkey | 은열쇠

저는 AI 시설/데이터센터만 자꾸 늘리는것에 대해서는 회의감이 있는데요 지금 회사들이 돈이 부족해져서 채권 발행하고 사람들 쳐내고 하는것은 주로 시설 확장과 관련된것인데 막상 실제로 연구개발을 열심히 잘 하는지는 의문이 있고요 다들 마음만 급한것 같은데 ㅎㅎ;; 이번에 버블터지면 M7의 멤버가 상당히 갈리지 않을까 하는 생각도 좀 들고요 (..)

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zygoloid @zygoloid@hachyderm.io
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Shared by Mara Bos

Hello Mastodon!

Since this is my first post, I thought I'd share some incredibly niche C++ trivia / pedantry:

For an enum whose enumerators all have the value 0, C++ asks us to imagine a hypothetical integer type with minimal width that can represent 0 (eel.is/c++draft/dcl.enum#8.sen). This means we must consider the case where the width is 0. For an unsigned integer type, this gives a range of representable values of [0, 0], and that's the type we pick. But before we can determine that that's minimal, we must also consider a signed integer type with a width of 0, for which we get a range of representable values of [-½, -½]! (eel.is/c++draft/basic.fundamen) Conveniently that range does not include 0, so we discover that we must use an unsigned integer type to determine the range of values of the enumeration. (We also rule out an unsigned integer type of negative width as that would have a range of values 0 to -½ (inclusive) or smaller, which I think we can reasonably conclude is an empty range despite the parenthetical.)

In any case: if you ever wondered whether a zero-bit signed integer type in C++ can represent only the value 0 or only the value -1, now you know: no, it can represent only the value -½. Truly a marvelous compromise.

Follow me for more brilliant insights like this one :)

[dcl.enum]

eel.is

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Silverkey | 은열쇠 @silverkey.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by Silverkey | 은열쇠

메타가 오는 5월 8일부터 인스타그램 DM에서 종단간 암호화 기능을 삭제할 예정 이러한 결정은 DM의 내용을 메타가 읽을 수 있고 광고주에게 공유될 수 있으며, 법원에까지 공유될 수 있음을 의미 이를 반대하는 분들은 모질라 재단이 받고 있는 서명에 참여하시는 것도 좋을 것 같습니다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jxrrsbtaptoynkhm2tdvxohg/post/3mgxusypnrs2j

Mozilla (@mozilla.org)

Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May. This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts. Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition. https://www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/keep-encryption-for-instagram/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=26-ig-encryption&utm_content=link_launch&utm_term=en

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by Silverkey | 은열쇠

Meta spent seven years telling us they were working on true end-to-end encryption across all their various messaging apps... and finally rolled it out in 2024. And then less than three years later, they're shutting it off for Instagram? What? www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is...

Instagram to discontinue end-t...

Instagram to discontinue end-to-end encryption for DMs [Update: Meta's statement]

Pulling the plug on privacy?

www.androidpolice.com · Android Police

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Yoshi-REX🦖 @YoshiREX@misskey.io
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やってやるよL・・・
僕の計画は完璧だ・・・！
ポテチを取り、食べる・・・！
そして・・・ポテチを取り・・・食べる・・・！
そして・・・ポテチを取り・・・食べる・・・！

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