What is Hackers' Pub?

AAAARGH! I'm not at all surprised, but NIST's excellent whitepaper on Inclusive Language (NIST.IR.8366) has been withdrawn:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2021/NIST.IR.8366.pdf

This was an excellent resource that I reference all the time. I feared it would go away so I made a snapshot a few weeks back that I uploaded here: https://nygren.org/archived/NIST.IR.8366.pdf

#InclusiveLanguage

광화문 생중계 중입니다.

전봉준투쟁단 서울재진격 - 경복궁

Weirdos sharing the same activitypub server as your friends would be less of a problem if there was less server sharing.

“On Monday, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice made two arguments in two different courts that, taken together, amount to a legal claim of near-dictatorial power by Trump.”

That is, a claim of unreviewable, unstoppable, limitless power by Trump.

Will people finally stop saying the US is “headed towards” a Constitutional crisis and finally understand that it already happened. The coup is already in place. The question is whether Americans can overthrow it.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/trump-boasberg-constitutional-crisis-latest-doj-king.html

#RuleOfLaw

all cops are bastards

광화문 생중계 중입니다.

전봉준투쟁단 서울재진격 - 경복궁

3/26-29の能登被災地行きは順調です。
計6人で決行します。

現在都内で待ち合わせ中…。
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Hello and welcome to all of the new followers!

I'm an artist north of Boston telling stories about light and atmosphere with oil paints.

I paint both large and small, and my originals are available in my online shop.

My large paintings are all currently on sale!

https://tishamark.com/shop

#MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt

현재상황 1. 견인차 앞 정혜경 의원, 여성농민 등 남성경찰들이 사지 들어 끌어냄 2. 경비과장 합법적집회장에서 직접 지시하며 끌어내라 지시 3. 경비과장 스스로 넘어져놓고 폭행현행범이라며 정용준 상황실장 불법 연행 시민여러분 광화문으로 모여주세요! [비상행동 심규협 사무국장 페북]

트랙터에 막힌 남태령 고개…퇴근길 시민들 "정치 싸움 도 넘었다"

https://n.news.naver.com/article/025/0003429409?ntype=RANKING

생존을 위해 투쟁과 시위를 하는 사람들을 출퇴근 하는 사람들이 불편하다는 핑계대며 앞서서 비난하는 언론 문화가 좀 바뀌어야.

Hey Rockstodon, I found this interesting object in the mountains north of Reserve NM. It's quite dense and attracts a magnet but I was able to gouge a bit out of the back without revealing any metal. Is it a fossil? Is it a rusty tool handle? Maybe you have an idea? #rocks #geology #paleontology

Wow, this Pixelfed bug is *nasty*. Allowed users to access private posts of remote users they're not following so long as another user on the same Pixelfed server legitimately followed that account.

If you're running a Pixelfed server, definitely upgrade immediately now that the vulnerability is publicly known.

https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

Really enjoying Ghost’s new ActivityPub feature by @index@activitypub.ghost.orgBuilding ActivityPub.

It’s been a while since something genuinely felt like the future of the web, and this really does. As more features come online, I might even make that my primary social web account.

Think about that. My blog could be the medium through which I interact with the rest of the web!

If you want to get a head start, you can already follow my blog @index@thoughtcicles.xyzThoughtcicles. I’ll post more about this, soon.

NYC - if you like experimental sounds, come see me and Thessia Machado this Thursday, March 27th, 7pm at Various/Artists: 19 Essex St, New York www.variousartistsrecords.com/19essex

$10 suggested donation

also will be live-streamed at https://experimentalintermedia.org/index.shtml

@teleclimberOlivier Forget Yes. Most security scanners (Pentesters) are that stupid.

I speak from experience, trying to tell customers that just because it said the server they installed have a vulnerable version of something or other installed, that's not actually the case.

The ones that *actually* try to break stuff (like using known issues, fuzzing input and such) are great, though. Use those.

Nice post with some good tips on Digital Hygiene.

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/digital-hygiene/

#digitalhygiene #privacy #security #encryption #passwords #yubikey

I've been gifted a Thinkpad X220 that's been lying dormant a number of years.

Instead of my usual Debian I _was_ going to install Arch, but now I'm thinking of making it a dedicated BSD machine. Going to give OpenBSD a go.

#Thinkpad #OpenBSD #RunBSD

Having re-watched the Old Town Road music video several times now... has this been shot to work in portrait mode?

I am sure like 85% of the shots here work with only the center third, and outside is no critical information.

진보당 김재연: 트랙터 앞을 지키던 정혜경 의원과 여성 농민들은 사지가 들려 끌려나오고, 트랙터는 견인되었습니다. 도대체 이 나라 공권력은 누구를 지키는 겁니까!!! x.com/jaeyeon80/st...

x.com/jaeyeon80/stat...

Fire code is a scam invented to forbid cool architectural features such as secret rooms, hidden passages, and labyrinthine layouts

soju 0.9.0 has been released!

https://codeberg.org/emersion/soju/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Not even a day has passed and I have to tap the sign already...

https://hachyderm.io/@jakehamilton/114221818627709232

After careful consideration, I have come to the personal conclusion that

- Elon Musk is a fascist
- Donald Trump is a fascist
- Viktor Orbán is a fascist
- Björn Höcke is a fascist
- Alice Weidel is a fascist
- Herbert Kickl is a fascist
- ...
- And that I am resolutely antifascist.

#fascism #nationalism #politics #antifascism

현재상황 1. 견인차 앞 정혜경 의원, 여성농민 등 남성경찰들이 사지 들어 끌어냄 2. 경비과장 합법적집회장에서 직접 지시하며 끌어내라 지시 3. 경비과장 스스로 넘어져놓고 폭행현행범이라며 정용준 상황실장 불법 연행 시민여러분 광화문으로 모여주세요! [비상행동 심규협 사무국장 페북]

"I encourage maintainers to reject user feedback that is much more properly directed to some commercial software vendor who has not implemented the specification correctly"

💯 This is the way. Don't bend to deviations from specs, even if it means a user is unhappy.

https://alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/25/postels-law-and-the-three-ring-circus/

저도 가야 되는지 고민되긴 하는데 일단 수면부터 취해야 될 것 같아요 뒷일을 부탁합니다...

🇵🇸 Liste BDS mise à jour !

Pour être efficace, le boycott doit être ciblé et stratégique. C’est la différence entre une démarche purement individuelle et la campagne BDS qui se veut un outil collectif de lutte contre l’occupant israélien et ses crimes.
Partagez au maximum ! 📣
#bds

Wow, this Pixelfed bug is *nasty*. Allowed users to access private posts of remote users they're not following so long as another user on the same Pixelfed server legitimately followed that account.

If you're running a Pixelfed server, definitely upgrade immediately now that the vulnerability is publicly known.

https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

OpenAI's new multi-modal image output, added to
GPT-4o and ChatGPT this morning, finally gave me the selfie with a bear I've always wanted https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/introducing-4o-image-generation/

@ayo Music, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nz7gtCArOw

Really enjoying Ghost’s new ActivityPub feature by @index@activitypub.ghost.orgBuilding ActivityPub.

It’s been a while since something genuinely felt like the future of the web, and this really does. As more features come online, I might even make that my primary social web account.

Think about that. My blog could be the medium through which I interact with the rest of the web!

If you want to get a head start, you can already follow my blog @index@thoughtcicles.xyzThoughtcicles. I’ll post more about this, soon.

트럼프 행정부가 전방위적으로 외국인들을 체포·구금하면서 유엔본부 직원들까지 위협감을 느끼고 있습니다. 유엔은 뉴욕 본부에 근무하는 모든 직원과 그 가족들에게 유엔 신분증과 비자가 포함된 여권 페이지 사본을 항상 소지하라고 권고했습니다.

미, 정윤서씨 같은 영주권자도 ‘추방 대상’…유엔 직원...

GitHub Actions now supports free-threaded Python!

I wrote up how to add it your workflows so you can start testing free-threaded Python 3.13 and 3.14 with either actions/setup-python or actions/setup-uv.

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/free-threaded-python-on-github-actions/

#Python #FreeThreaded #GitHub #GitHubActions #CI #testing

I really did not anticipate how relevant that "these are not bright guys and things got out of control" quote from _All The President's Men_ would be, here in the 21st century. It keeps on giving.

I've just moved what I think is a leopard slug from the top of one of our bins to the flower bed where I struggled so much with SO MANY slugs last year.

I gather leopard slugs are more likely to eat other snails and slugs and the rotting plant matter, rather than my living plants. Fingers crossed 😅

남태령역 2출 인근에 아직도 극우 많음, 정신공격(?) 이외에 실질적인 위해는 없을 듯

AAAARGH! I'm not at all surprised, but NIST's excellent whitepaper on Inclusive Language (NIST.IR.8366) has been withdrawn:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2021/NIST.IR.8366.pdf

This was an excellent resource that I reference all the time. I feared it would go away so I made a snapshot a few weeks back that I uploaded here: https://nygren.org/archived/NIST.IR.8366.pdf

#InclusiveLanguage

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6x6 inch (no matting): $50
10x10 inch (no matting): $75
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8x8 inch on canvas: $80 g
10x10 inch on canvas: $100
12x12 inch on canvas: $120

16x20 on wood: $500

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remaining 50% plus shipping when piece is finished and approved by you

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Here are my notes on putting the brand new Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces - I'm very impressed: it did extremely well on image recognition, audio transcription and returning accurate bounding boxes for creatures in a complex photograph, plus it rendered a pretty solid SVG of a pelican on a bicycle
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/gemini/

It's shamelessness, lack of decency, lack of self-awareness, a broken psyche desperately hungry for ego reinforcement, will to power ... those are advantages in our system, adaptive qualities. That's what distinguishes the people in that chat, the people running things. They don't need to be smart.

📑 New on my postroll:

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus

There are right ways for a developer to respond to a responsible vulnerability disclosure.

This is not one of those ways, and demonstrates (once again) that the developer behind one of the most popular ActivityPub implementations is maybe not a great steward of the thing(s) he creates.

https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

Wow the new Discord UI is so much better

"I encourage maintainers to reject user feedback that is much more properly directed to some commercial software vendor who has not implemented the specification correctly"

💯 This is the way. Don't bend to deviations from specs, even if it means a user is unhappy.

https://alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/25/postels-law-and-the-three-ring-circus/

hot take: dealing with vuln disclosures can be really scary and carry a lot of shame and/or embarrassment, but if you can't handle that or if you're so immature that you don't even mention the issue in your release notes, you probably shouldn't be leading the development of multiple federated social network platforms

Now available: ORCID's 2024 Annual Report!
Highlights include:
✅ Helping address the research integrity crisis through new Record Summaries and Trust Markers;
⚙️ Improving data quality through automation and smart recommendations;
🌏 Expanding global participation we welcomed new consortia in Lebanon and Nigeria in 2024!

Explore the full report to see what we've accomplished together—and don't forget to register for our April 1 Community Town Hall to learn what's next: https://info.orcid.org/now-available-orcids-2024-annual-report/

(X위터발 속보) 트랙터 일부가 광화문으로 갔는데 경찰에 의해 기습 견인당하고 있어서 다들 광화문으로 모여주셔야 x.com/yoonoutactio...

윤석열즉각퇴진·사회대개혁 비상행동 on X: "[긴급 ...

i’ll have another :) due for a re-read anyway, and glad to have a spare copy of @beepEthan Marcotte’s killer book YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION to lend out to beloved friends 🤍🥀

One of our highlights of 2024 was our work with the GNOME Foundation to make GNOME OS a viable daily driver for QA.

The project included migrating GNOME OS to systemd's new update system — sysupdate — which offers improved benefits such as immutability, auto-updating, and modernised security properties.

You can read the first blog post covering the project here: https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/GNOME-OS-systemd-sysupdate/