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.
Last night, the Vera Rubin Observatory sent out 800,000 alerts for changes it spotted in the night sky. What do they all mean? https://spectrum.ieee.org/vera-rubin-observatory-first-images
엥 노엘 방 🏳️⚧️ 컬러링인 거 지금 앎 그리고 자취방 구할 때 부동산 어플 켜면 냉장고가 보통 저 소파처럼 되어있음
We Ball!
Straight fluff baller, shot-caller.
Bleppin' at the haters, could ya be any smaller?
Don't need my tower to be 10 feet taller.
What? I never said cats were *good* at spitting rhymes.
I'd argue that very few companies have any real appreciation for how many of their employees are already feeding API keys and other stuff into fairly new and questionable agentic AI tools or platforms. So many companies are like, oh we're taking a wait-and-see approach to adopting AI. Meanwhile, half their dev team is doing critical development work on shared servers that have no authentication or limited (no 2fa) auth.
@briankrebs I am also really curious how many people have aggressively violated various privacy laws by feeding stuff into various LLMs for "summary" and "analysis".
Frankly it should be a much larger compliance nightmare than it is. (Or, I suppose, it *is* a ginormous compliance nightmare and just right now everyone's thinking it isn't. Incorrectly)
Many subprime toots were packaged into Mastodon-backed shitposts (MBS) and ultimately defaulted, contributing to the 2026 Fediverse crisis
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Gargron controversially received a bailout because dot-social was Too Big to Fail
Agentic AI-based services are the new Shadow IT. Change my mind.
I'd argue that very few companies have any real appreciation for how many of their employees are already feeding API keys and other stuff into fairly new and questionable agentic AI tools or platforms. So many companies are like, oh we're taking a wait-and-see approach to adopting AI. Meanwhile, half their dev team is doing critical development work on shared servers that have no authentication or limited (no 2fa) auth.
Many subprime toots were packaged into Mastodon-backed shitposts (MBS) and ultimately defaulted, contributing to the 2026 Fediverse crisis
Short everything that cat has tooted I want half a billion more in boosts.
ScummVM has been accepted to the Google Summer of Code 2026!
This year we also coming with the good news: We've been accepted again to the Google Summer of Code program!
ScummVM :: Latest Developments :: ScummVM has been accepted to the Google Summer of Code 2026
This year we are also coming with the good news: We've been accepted again to the Google Summer of Code program! So, if you love Adventure games or RPGs and would like to spend your summer with our cool team, we look forward to your application and …
www.scummvm.org
Link author: 
ScummVM@scummvm@manitu.social
すっかり寝坊した。まぁ間に合うけどね……珍しく朝シャワー断念
@Kahte@masto.bikeKahte🐿️ Tu vois maman chat, on s'aime beaucoup
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
진심 이 패로 진다고
Ticket acquired for Growing the social web!
l’m not sure this is very well known fact but early Playstation 1 console models had more issues with color banding that later ones, they HW patched in the later PS1 revisions so some games would look different depending on where you played it.
You don't need to browse my timeline to look for past tips, they are all listed on my website at:
The "Quick Start" section at the top of the front page of the website is especially suitable for new people. It has the guides to all the basics.
If you scroll down past the quick start, you'll see the full contents of the site divided up into themed sections.
Hello, Hivemind - looking for recs for a Python IDE, ideally with no AI tools embedded.
very important question, ready?
sudo
I had an earlier post about municipalities leaving X and joining Mastodon and a thought occurred to me.
Cities and towns could benefit from having their own instance running #Friendica - the closest #Fediverse equivalent to Meta/Facebook. It would allow them to have separate groups for neighborhoods or communities within their municipality, and integrate easily with other Fediverse apps. It would give them more control and focus for their communications.
I'm not sure if anyone in Canada is actively working with #Friendica or looking for ways to improve the experience or user base. If you are working on this platform in Canada, please reach out to this account. We might be able to help with awareness.
なんかスマホの通信が不安定
important safety/security concern if you have an accessible amazon wishlist and especially if you use it to receive things from internet people or other strangers: you can no longer disable sharing your address with third party sellers. These folks can and often do disclose it to the purchaser.
And, to be clear, anyone can be a third party seller on Amazon which means anyone can get your physical shipping address and full name with ease.
Despite what this email says, the Amazon list page says this functionality is already disabled thus you are already at risk ("This setting will no longer be supported starting February 25, 2026. After this date, third-party sellers will receive your shipping address to fulfill orders.")
This is bad. If you have any hope for privacy and do not use a PO Box, make sure to unshare your lists.
Okay so language question. When Japanese speakers onomatopoeize "Bang", it sounds to me like they are saying "Pan". Are they saying "Pan" or "Ban", or are they saying "Bang" and it just sounds to me like "Pan" due to my limited familiarity with Japanese phonetics?
@evanEvan Prodromou is Shaler here somewhere?
@godberAustin Godber ha! I just have a lot of people arguing in my mentions -- mostly over my head, but with me still addressed. It's a pugilistic day on the Fediverse for some reason.
AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.
I was reminded of Casey Muratori's "Handmade Hero" video project where he shows you how to write a game in C from scratch without using any libraries. It's a cool project, but, hear me out here, libraries are great! You can walk in there and they've got desks and/or computers for you to use, and you can tell the librarian about how you want to make a game from scratch, and they'll be like "that sounds rad" and you can walk out with an armful of game programming books and a spring in your step
UTF-1: unary encoding.
to encode codepoint N, emit N 1s and a final 0.
During one of the macOS updates (26.2?), Apple somehow introduced an ObjC exception that sometimes triggers when a new tab is created while in the tab overview. Swift CANNOT CATCH ObjC exceptions. Instant crash. This affected Ghostty as well as Electron (unrelated project).
The fix is equally crazy: write an ObjC wrapper around the crashy-function, catch it, and basically retry periodically. This is 100% an Apple bug, but the way it manifests and the fix required to workaround it is pretty gnarly.
Credit to everyone but me, I didn't do any research here, I only read the good work by others on this one (all visible in the refs).
Ref: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/8b1e4c66d7eedbc9455e5e06c15b531945b1ccc3
Ref: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/49819
Many subprime toots were packaged into Mastodon-backed shitposts (MBS) and ultimately defaulted, contributing to the 2026 Fediverse crisis
I was reminded of Casey Muratori's "Handmade Hero" video project where he shows you how to write a game in C from scratch without using any libraries. It's a cool project, but, hear me out here, libraries are great! You can walk in there and they've got desks and/or computers for you to use, and you can tell the librarian about how you want to make a game from scratch, and they'll be like "that sounds rad" and you can walk out with an armful of game programming books and a spring in your step
I *just* updated this fantasy font to:
- make it more readable;
- add (even more) languages;
- reduce its pri-- wait, is this a mistake? I was supposed to INCREASE the price, and yet...
What interesting (and smaller) conferences are there in 2026? https://lobste.rs/s/vtyttw #ask #event
起床のさわがに おはさわがに
Come to the Fediverse in the next 20 minutes if u want an ass kicking
Remember: on March 26 we have the annual #curl distro meeting. If you work on packaging curl for a distro, or a distro-like situation, I'd encourage you to join!
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/28/curl-distro-meeting-2026/
Our next game is Verminsteel!
You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun
PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/ #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev (boosts super appreciated)
UTF-7 is real and can hurt you.
very important question, ready?
sudo
でもまあfediverseはみんな構ってくれるから楽しいですよ
Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157224
Random Number Generator Uses Camera Noise
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/random-number-generator-uses-camera-noise/
https://linktr.ee/quazarsamcoupe
A quick post to my new LinkTree for links to everything #retrocomputing I do - my main website for all my SAM Coupe development, the two smaller sites for ZX Spectrum hardware and peripherals for RC2014 & compatibles. My other social media accounts and my Tindie and eBay stores.
#samcoupe #zxspectrum #rc2014 #retrogaming #demoscene #indiedev #gamedev #z80
l’m not sure this is very well known fact but early Playstation 1 console models had more issues with color banding that later ones, they HW patched in the later PS1 revisions so some games would look different depending on where you played it.
$ ruby -e 'puts "びっとこいん".chars.shuffle.join'
びんっこいと
7시간 휴식없이 잘했다 나놈
US Americans are, slowly but surely, learning what it’s like to be a citizen from anywhere else in the world at a border crossing. Top of the NYTimes is how to get and (gasp) pay for a UK ESTA:
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Andreas Freise
Andy Piper
