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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Come on , if you can, put some money where your heart is. The people from Framasoft are working hard on and are only looking for €75.000. With less than 40 hours to go, you can be part of the difference we want to see in the world :)

Soon we will be able to livestream from our smartphone to the fediverse!

Framasoft is a French non-profit, based in Lyon.

support.joinpeertube.org/en/?m

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What should happen if an Like activity uses direct addressing (no as:Public)? It seems the intent is that you want to send a "private" Like notification to the activity recipients. Should the public like count be incremented or not as a side-effect? If not, Like counts would be dependent on the authorization of the actor fetching an AP object. I hope ActivityPub 2.0 has better authorization guidance.

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Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalography (EEG) to assess cognitive load during essay writing, and analyzed essays using NLP, as well as scoring essays with the help from human teachers and an AI judge. Across groups, NERs, n-gram patterns, and topic ontology showed within-group homogeneity. EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use. In session 4, LLM-to-Brain participants showed reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.

arxiv.org · arXiv.org

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Come on , if you can, put some money where your heart is. The people from Framasoft are working hard on and are only looking for €75.000. With less than 40 hours to go, you can be part of the difference we want to see in the world :)

Soon we will be able to livestream from our smartphone to the fediverse!

Framasoft is a French non-profit, based in Lyon.

support.joinpeertube.org/en/?m

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⚠️ We’re now entering the “extinguish” part of “Embrace, extend, extinguish”. We’ve had the first proposals in @socialcgSocial Web Community Group to remove requirements of that have been in place for 7+ years, and without an explanation how the removal improves anything.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrac

React if you’d like a when there are proposals to change the requirements of ActivityPub as we’ve begun to see the last couple weeks.

Join w3.org/community/socialcg/

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Got spam emails this morning by someone who opened an issue on GitHub with what was probably a very unsafe link and then just tagged dozens of users over and over and over. Why we needed 50 copies in a row of the same notification, IDK. Thankfully, the account is terminated already, but if this starts to be a regular thing, I might have to abandon GitHub altogether.




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BEWARE of Google AI generated video scams -- eight second segments can be a critical clue!

Fraudsters are now using the new advanced video system to create scam videos (including claiming to be from ) of humans speaking to camera. These are EXTREMELY convincing. One clue (for now) is that the created videos are often limited to eight second segments. To create longer scam videos, fraudsters are stringing together these segments of no more than eight seconds each, usually with a quick fade between them to mask the discontinuities between the segments.

Google is making life much easier for the fraudsters, but much worse for you.

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Big Storage on question: suppose you have eight-lane LSI/Avago/Broadcom SAS card (mpr(4)) and a WD Ultrastar Data60 enclosure. If you connect both miniSAS connectors on the HBA to the same IOM on the enclosure, does the HBA actually treat it as a single eight-lane link or is it functionally indistinguishable from connecting each four-lane cable to a different IOM? (We have a decent number of these, despite some peccadilloes it's been our preferred JBOD enclosure for some time.)

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BTW really loving the updates from . they showed out to even though Indivisible cancelled the event.

this is important.

a mostly white, suburban crowd decided they didn’t need permission to protest fascism. minnesotans decided the moment was more important than the fear of fascist .

to those of you who carp about the comforts of the hegemonic majority: if not the hegemons, who?

this is what a point of sociological inflection looks like.

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수도권 한 종합병원에서 간호사로 일하는 이진영(가명)씨는 지난해 2월 이후 병원 노동자들의 근무 여건은 “재난 상황”이라고 말합니다. 의-정 갈등으로 이씨 소속 병동 전공의 3명이 사직하며 가뜩이나 달리던 일손이 더욱 부족해졌기 때문입니다. 입원 환자 처방과 퇴원 기록지 작성부터, 중심정맥관·비위관 삽입 같은 고난도 시술까지 그에게 맡겨졌습니다.

[단독] 사무직마저 ‘환자 시술’…의사 없는 병원은 여...

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