What is Hackers' Pub?

I have two FreeBSD 14.2 virtual machines running on UTM and VMWare Fusion on a MacBook. They both operate quite similarly, and I’m currently testing them out.

I managed to get sway working headless under my user account, thanks to the excellent video tutorial by #BSDJedi. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/@BSDJedi [I don’t know his account here]

I’m also learning how to use Wayland (sway) the easy way through a virtual machine.

Interestingly, Firefox only runs with ASLR disabled. Here’s the reference for that: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271081

bindsym $mod+Shift+b exec ~/bin/firefox-wrapper

cat ~/bin/firefox-wrapper
#!/bin/sh
proccontrol -m aslr -s disable firefox "$@"

Everything was going so well.. until the moment where I thought about how well it was going.

Do not be alarmed, I am new here so if you interact with one of my posts I may follow you.

I only wish to observe you.

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#OpenWeb #WebStandards #W3C

being called the f-slur by your friends vs being called "fruity" by online strangers

@rl_daneR.L. Dane 🍵 this is what a real clock looks like :p

i still think @lynnesbianLynnesbian was cooking with "hen"

@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.spaceLynnesbian Is this supposed to assist you or harm you? I feel like I know a good amount of fedi users who would favour the second line over the first

I'm not sure where I picked up this site from, but for the last couple of weeks, whenever I've been unhappily pissed off about the state of the world, I've looked at owls in towels and felt better

https://owlsintowels.org/

edit: get your @owlsintowels on fedi!

discord feels like slack but for kids

okay yeah I think I need to work on my voice, I watch a video of me and I see myself and think "what a nice looking woman" and then I hear my own voice and hit cognitive dissonance

well maybe it's time to start voice training I guess

#LaGuiriWorldTour es un proyecto para sugerir una canción por cada país del mundo.
1 Voy por regiones.
2 Primer criterio, mi gusto. Segundo criterio, qué tengo ya en mi colección. Hay listas en Spotify y Tidal.
3 Al principio creía que me iba a saltar los países menos poblados, pero qué va. Puede que falten uno o dos.
4 Hay música "tradicional" e influida por el rock, electrónica y demás estilos anglos.
5. Voy a hacer trampas con exiliados, diásporas, países recién independizados. Es inevitable. Paciencia y comprensión con los errores y sesgos, por favor.

Listas Spotify:
1 El área flamenco-árabe. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zS92a9k0QSkc5uE9UO9mZ?si=53a48e23efc84161

2. América. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4k8c3lD0Z8IlxLaLOXFb5z?si=641a5445658f4327

3. Lusofonía. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ycyXAFQPbmfo1Bc4KHTpv?si=7053e8b538084a79

4. África (excluyendo lo que toque en las listas 1 y 3) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5VL1ZvdlVMtlo8iY7U9oAR?si=399c87b4f9214f1a

5. Asia oriental en proceso. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ueogryzDMxEffMK5k7Sgj?si=46065dd360b94b42

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Just when I think I'm going to get something done I see a good video making opportunity. 4 seconds of 240fps bees slowed down.

#beekeeping #bees #BeeVideo #SlowMotion #HoneyBees #CCBYNCND

#introducción #presentación. Sin cambios, la repito para fijarla.

Madre divorciada, chronically online.

Profesora de inglés. Chaotic good, espero que más lo segundo que lo primero.

Aquí pataleo, hablo de música folk de todo el mundo, hago muchísimas listas de tareas, cocino. Intento no pontificar, pero a veces se me escapa.

얘들아 이거 제발 설문 조사 해주실분 진짜 제발 부탁할게 대학생 한명을 살릴 수 잇다고 그리 생각하면 좀 기쁘지 않겟어??? 턴제전투를 해봣으면 누구나 ok임 forms.gle/425zqCqsFGZ4...

턴제 전투 PL 아트풍 선호도

huh,,, youtube took down rickroll after 15 years ​​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ no longer works

うにゃあ

Apparently a YouTuber covered my blogpost about Bluesky and decentralization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0wbCctcEIA

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

This quote about the bandwidth of physical transportation is roughly 10 years older than me. It came up in the Packet Pushers slack channel, and somebody wondered if it's still valid in 2025. Ouch! I got nerd sniped! Now I'm wondering too. Let's investigate.

To start, we'll need some numbers. This is gonna be pretty big on guesstimates, royally rounding things up or down, and ignoring some geometrical factors.

I can't ascertain the quote's origin, but I'm certain it originated in the USA. A 1975 American station wagon could have been a Ford LTD Wagon. Let's pick that one, it looks like a sweet ride. According to the brochure, it features a cargo volume of "over 100 cu. ft. counting lockable below-deck stowage". That's over 2,800,000 cubic centimers.

Let's choose a distance outside of the USA, UK, Liberia and Myanmar. That way we can stick with the International System of Units (SI), avoid dealing with miles, and avoid deteriorating our sanity any further.
One of my longer road trips featured a drive from Rome, IT to Dordrecht, NL: around 1600 kilometers. Assuming two alternating drivers, some bad traffic and some stops, let's say the drive takes us 25 hours.

The bandwidth could be 800 Gbit/s today, ignoring bandwidth-delay product. If you get creative with source and destination storage arrays and the network inbetween, you could conceivably multiplex and achieve some multiple, but 800 Gbit/s seems like a fair number so we'll stick with that.

Pushing 800 Gbit/s for 25 hours straight, we're are able to transfer a total of 9,000,000 gigabytes (9,000 terabytes or 9 petabytes). At this point I'm already intuiting the final answer, but let's move along.

According to a quick Google search, the highest capacity SSD for the last few years (HDD's don't come close anymore) has been the ExaDrive EDDCT100/EDDCS100 at 100TB. The ExaDrive is a 3.5" SSD. However, Solidigm is currently releasing a 122.88TB version of the D5-P5336 SSD. The D5-P5336 is a tall 2.5" SSD with a volume of 105 cubic centimeters. The weight is guesstimated at 300 grams.

A possible alternative are microSD cards. The highest capacity ones are 1.5 TB today. A microSD card weighs about 0.5 grams. The volume of a single card is about 0.165 cubic centimeters. So a microSD fits in the tall 2.5" SSD model roughly 636 times. Rounding up, the microSD's give us a nice single petabyte in the volume of a single tall 2.5" SSD, or almost a factor 10 difference. Interestingly, the weight of a single tall 2.5" SSD's volume is roughly equal to the weight of that same volume in microSD cards. So microSD cards it will be!

To keep things simple, let's work with the rounded numbers we have so far. 105 cubic centimeters worth of microSD cards will fit into the Ford LTD Wagon more than 25.000 times. However, that would be almost 10 million microSD cards, or almost 5000 kilograms of them. I can't find all the numbers for the Ford LTD Wagon, but the towing capacity I found was close to 1000 kg. I'm taking the towing capacity as an indication of the weight capacity of the car itself, even though there are different factors involved. Assuming a couple of humans and a bunch of stuff actually in the car during that towing, I'm picking a maximum of 1500 kg worth of microSD's. With two drivers, let's hope that the axles will hold and sacrifice a goat for zero speed bumps. 1500 kg would allow for 3 million microSD cards or 4500 petabytes.

One final note: we're ignoring the time it might take to transfer some data set from some storage array to 3 million microSD's (and to load them into the station wagon) before departing. We're also unsure about and ignoring any transfer time after arriving at the destination. I suspect these same assumptions were also in place about the tapes when the original quote was made.

The suggested drive will take 25 hours, and in that time the 800 Gbit/s connection will "only" transfer 9 petabytes. So with 4500 petabytes, the station wagon will transfer about 500 times more data than the 800 Gbit/s connection. Wow! You'd need a lot of multiplexing to offset the difference.

It's clear that the limiting factor is the weight capacity of the station wagon. A small truck or sturdy van would have been a more sensible choice. In any case, the station wagon wins hands down. Unless that old thing breaks down.

#bandwidth #storage #networking #stationwagon

昼光貯金時間 (Daylight Savings Time)

#Git mini tip:

You can shorten SHAs to as few as their first four characters, and Git will still accept them. In the case of ambiguity, where the same prefix matches two commits, Git will tell you. Short prefixes can save a lot of copy-pasting or typing when jumping from commands, such as from `git log` to `git diff`.

アメリカ西海岸が3時間の向こうに離れていっているっぽくて夏時間の息吹を感じる←

welcome to 2025 where mainboards have 7 different kinds of USB ports

FlaskCon is happening again this year at PyCon US 2025! https://flaskcon.com/2025/ The first day of PyCon, Friday May 16, 2 - 6 PM. We're looking for talk proposals about using Flask or the other Pallets projects, CFP closes April 17! #python #pyconus #flask

another unix terminal poll: which part(s) of the terminal do you think are responsible for making basic text editing (like "pressing arrow keys") work? You can pick more than one.

(again not interested in the truth here, I know it's complicated, curious about how people think about it)

i still think @lynnesbianLynnesbian was cooking with "hen"

i finally got the last problem addressed with this #tangara shell design. this took WAY too long. now i can just clearcoat parts and then do final assembly. this is on printables now, and should be easy to find - there are only a handful of tangara models on that site.

Very happy to see my friends @snarfed.orgRyan Barrett @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja moving forward with @anewsocial 👏🏻 https://blog.anew.social/breaking-ground/

shot with a Game Boy Camera

@h3artbl33dh3artbl33d @stefanoStefano Marinelli Totally agree. It’s up to us to protect this space of freedom and tolerance.

terminal poll: when you think about how `Ctrl+C` is handled in a unix terminal, who do you think is in charge of making that work? You can pick more than one.

(not interested in the truth here, I know it's complicated, just curious about how people think about it)

Ich hab hier noch nie ein Video hochgeladen ... Das probier ich doch direkt mal.

Und was ist dafür besser als eine kurze Vorstellung von mir? (Eigentlich als Loop gedacht, damit es komplett Sinn ergibt, also bitte am Ende direkt wieder Play klicken. 😋 #EndlosSchleife)

#CaroMachtSachen

"It’s really hard to know exactly what happened — working-class immigrants don’t answer a ton of surveys. But our best guess is that they swung 23 percentage points against the Democratic Party.

The crazy thing is, if you believe this — and there’s some uncertainty, but I think some version of this is probably true — then something like half of the net votes that Trump received came from immigrants."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-david-shor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.SS55.0qpFRuWoH3Jj&smid=url-share

#USPol

Me too. 50 years ago roughly now (not sure of the exact day, but it was early 1975) I first used Unix (v5) in the Computer Research Facility (CRF) at the University of Toronto's Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP), which shared the PDP-11/45. DGP got the machine from 5PM to 8AM and the whole weekend. I spent countless nights in the lab.

Thanks to DGP head Ron Baecker for seeing something in me.

https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/114185282405281215

MAXIMUM #GAMING. AS GABE INTENDED.

#steamdeck #steamcontroller #steam

facts I know for sure:

- The same DM has been mass sent from probably over 100 different Fediverse instances, since around Jan 31 2025 to this day.
- The DM has some pointedly specific details about Nicole the Fediverse Chick (Polish girl from Toronto, studying pre-health).
- The putative university varies (Toronto Metropolitan University, George Brown College).
- The DM uses nerd lingo ("Fediverse Chick") and points to several nerdy/non-mainstream social media spaces attributted to "Nicole" (friendica, discord, matrix, stumblechat).
- "Nicole" accounts so far have never responded to contacts, or to my knowledge ever tried to scam or bait or even talk to followers in any way.
- The chat rooms (discord, matrix) are abandoned. The admin "Nicoles" never post anything.
- As of yesterday, my "Nicole" DMs are pointing to a Friendica at namestaci.cz. There are also Friendicas at friendica.world (3 times), my-place.social, friendica.io, poliverso.org.
- The Friendica accounts expose a putative work address in Toronto, publicly (!!).
- There's many different photos for "Nicole". All appear to be the same woman and not AI-generated. All are very low quality; someone suggested early 2000s webcam photos, but they look more like video stills to me. Many of the photos clearly group together into the same source video, same outfit etc.
- The namestaci.cz Friendica posted a photo two days ago, titled "My dad's office. He works in renovation and always has a lot going on." This, too, is low quality like a video still.
- The friendica.world accounts have a few dozen photos, most of them seemingly random stills from the videos. (edit: many look like, random or automated/sneak shots of the ceiling or from awkward angles etc.)
- At some point there were "Nicole" Peertube instances. I've watched one cached video, said to be about "hanging out around work"; it shows probably the woman from the photos, walking in the cold somewhere consistent with the Friendica work address. She was talking in the video, but the version I found had no audio.
- At some point there were "Nicole" "live" streams. Reports are that it was some video of the same woman, on loop.
- Reportedly, at some point her Matrix room had the topic "I work at the ****. Come say hi sometime! I work in the **** section, so just ask for Nicole!" This has since been removed.

the more I look at this, the more I think it's targeted harassment of an actual Nicole. either by someone she knows like a vengeful ex, or by 4chan-style trolls who got their hands on a few video clips and personal details.

A reminder to donate directly to all the crucial projects building and maintaining privacy preserving tech, monitoring censorship, and working with people on the ground.

It was clear funding was going to be tight over the next few years, but the reality may be much worse.

Sometimes, Ofcom bewilders me:

Ofcom has said that for small sites, the costs of complying [with the Online Safety Act] “are likely to be negligible or in the small thousands at most”.

Small sites, especially volunteer-run community sites, generally don't have "small thousands" to spend on legal advice. And even if they did, that's far from "negligible".

https://archive.ph/eRu0m

#OnlineSafetyAct

I'm not really sure why this website has a non-mobile version.
I signed up on my laptop, and it told me it needed to verify my identity. First, a SMS code. Normal enough.
then it told me to use my smartphone to scan a QR code to send me to a website that used my phone's browser to take a picture of my ID with the camera.

"Nonviolent communication", bah!

It's not the words themselves that constitute violence, it's the intent you are conveying, the act you are performing with your speech. And here's the bottom line: you can rephrase what you say into whatever enlightened language you like, whatever modality of conversation you can imagine, and the intents and the acts remain present.

There's a reason that we sometimes beg someone to "just call me <slur>". At least that's honest. And concise.

𝘾𝙤𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 2
Acrylic on paper, framed
19 x 26”
2024

#generativeart #plotterart #abstractart #creativecoding #p5js #axidraw #genartclub #mastoart #moire #worksonpaper

タイピング音もすてきw
https://x.com/rubycitymatsue/status/1901877999550787700

I imagine public discussion is pending some kind of official statement (or its happening on bluesky?), but the private conversations that are taking place regarding the future of digital rights/privacy tech funding are pretty damn dire.

寝るかぁ…

I'd like to thank @maryrobinetteMary Robinette Kowal and TOR Books for making The Martian Contingency available on bookshop.org DRM-free.

I want to be able to keep my library no matter where I buy my books (and reduce my Amazon usage), so I will only buy books from sellers who do this.

子どもと一緒に寝てしまい早朝に色々お風呂に入ったり歯を磨いたりしていた

おやすみなのかおはようなのかわからない…

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@neutrinocerosClément Robert @nedbatNed Batchelder

Testing @pillow

Without branch coverage (and without sysmon), it's about 80 seconds for both 7.6.12 and 7.7.0.

Without branch coverage (and using sysmon), it's about 38 seconds for both 7.6 and 7.7.

With branch coverage (and using sysmon), coverage 7.7 ran 2.42 times faster than 7.6!

107 -> 44 seconds!