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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The Wagtail Space 2025 YouTube playlist is LIVE! 🔥 Don't miss your chance to recreate the conference experience at home (and maybe escape your family for a bit during the holidays 😂 ).

Check it out here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfw

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I am still at a point where I feel like this is irrational catastrophizing, but not, like, completely: every time I open Feedback Assistant now, I think, "if I submit a sysdiagnose along with this feedback, will the information it contains be used to imprison or kill me or a politically active member of my family"? It's a question I wish that journalists would ask Cook.

mastodon.social/@daringfirebal

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Also, nostalgia is nostalgia. It's easy to wipe out all the awful things in the process, or turn them into something you find charming.

One thing about the Attention K-Mart Shoppers tapes is the GOD-AWFUL new sitcoms they'd announce. They're so terrible! And partly because they're terrible but *distant*, they're kind of fun now.

But I would have groaned so hard suffering through them back when they originally came out, of course.

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cloudflare themselves get it: blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-... writing their code differently is only one of four steps here. because this kind of mistake should not be able to cause this much damage. that's approaching problems in a systematic way rather than via band-aids

Cloudflare outage on November ...

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@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: Agree. What has been aggravating me lately is that coworkers have been recording meeting transcripts, running them through an AI tool to summarize, and then posting the summary to others within our company.

The AI summary often gets it wrong. It will also claim that people in the meetings said things that they didn't. It has caused issues when someone reads the summary and goes to accuse the person who supposedly said the thing. "But so-and-so said we need to do this!" 😖 I'm so frustrated having my name presented next to things I never said, and then having to go through that conversation.

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More generally, I do think OKRs / measure-what-matters has cooked peoples' brains to the point that folks can claim things — with a straight face, even! — like that AI adoption proves that ordinary users demand AI.

Three critiques of OKRs / MWM:
1. The ease with which something is measured is not the same as the importance of measuring it.
2. Placing incentives on measurements ruins the empirical value of that measurement.
3. You will never have perfect data, and must reason in uncertainty.

Numbers are a kind of magic trick for our brains, they make things feel way more concrete and certain than they necessarily are. That doesn't make numbers or empiricism more generally useless, it means it's hard work to do empiricism *correctly*, and that bad empiricism can be as bad as not doing any empirical reasoning at all.

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More generally, I do think OKRs / measure-what-matters has cooked peoples' brains to the point that folks can claim things — with a straight face, even! — like that AI adoption proves that ordinary users demand AI.

Three critiques of OKRs / MWM:
1. The ease with which something is measured is not the same as the importance of measuring it.
2. Placing incentives on measurements ruins the empirical value of that measurement.
3. You will never have perfect data, and must reason in uncertainty.

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Helpful tip for web server operators¹: if you want to know all of the network address space associated with a particular organization in a nice text form, find out their ASN (perhaps from bgp.tools/ with an IP address) and then:

whois -h whois.radb.net -- ' -i origin AS150436'

Dump that in a file, get all of the 'route:' entries, and feed them to your favorite CIDR/netblock calculator to minimize them and give you a nice list for your web server ACLs/etc.

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tons of people SUPER EXCITED for any negative thing as a result of using rust, because they've come up with an idea in their head that everyone who thinks rust is good is some zealot who thinks rust magically solves all problems so it's gotta be rust's fault

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My heroine this week is ABC’s White House Correspondent Mary Bruce who asked the Saudi-Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman what Saudi-Arabia was doing at The White House, after Saudi-Arabia’s involvement in both 9/11 and the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

May her courage inspire us all.

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Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released

A Roanoke judge has ordered the Western Virginia Water Authority to release information related to a potential Google data center.

roanokerambler.com/google-stri

All over the world, Google tries to keep secret its water use

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Beaming a good and kind and positive International Men's Day to all. I've spoken about this before but there is so much untapped potential in men - so much wasted due to fear and toxicity. Trumps and Putins weren't born that way - it took a lifetime of poor parenting, fear and unkindness, all being constantly negatively reinforced. No young man is a monster. But they do need positive role models, love, guidance and support. And without us all making an active decision to do this it creates a vacuum filled by opportunists or lazy media stereotypes. We ask ourselves 'what are we meant to be' and draw from what is available. Which is invariably not the sort of man who focuses on community, compassion and empathy. We're all superhero rockstar antiheroes. Swashbuckling rogues. Given the choice between Luke and Han we are all Han. Whilst great, Han is a cool uncle. You don't want Han raising a new generation of young men. Look at what happened to Kylo. Although I'm not sure Luke is a good example either. They're fictional anyway why are we even talking about this? I've lost my point.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Small actions have big results. Show kindness. Correct lazy unkindness. Normalise saying 'that's not ok' or 'I don't agree with that', and 'well done' or 'that was great' or 'you've got this'. People will respect you more for having the mettle to stand up for yourself and others in small ways. And then you can lead them all... to victory!

I love you. You're great. Love yourself too (not like that) and remember how important it was to receive guidance from male role models in your life. You are that person now. Wield it wisely and we all win. X

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I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:

A scanned PARC-internal memo entitled "Bit BLT."  The full document may be found here: https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/BitBLT_Nov1975.pdf
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연합우주 여러분들에게 여쭤보고 싶습니다. 방송용 1억화소 카메라가 제가 아는 업체를 통해 렌트가 가능해져서 서울의 풍경을 세계인들과 후손들을 위해 영구적으로 남기고 싶습니다. 혹시 추천할만한 서울의 장소가 있으신 분은 자유롭게 답글로 달아주세요.

フェディバースの日本の皆様に一つ、お願いがたします。放送用1億画素カメラが私が知る業者を通じてレンタル可能となり、ソウルの風景を日本と世界の人々と子孫のために永久に残したいと考えています。もしおすすめのソウルの場所をご存知の方がいらっしゃいましたら、お気軽にリプライご記入ください。

To peoples on fediverse, I have ask some favour. 100MP broadcast camera is now available for rental through a vendor I know, and I wish to permanently preserve the scenery of Seoul for the people of the world, and future generations. If you know of any recommended locations in Seoul, please feel free to reply with your suggestions.


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