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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あさっぱらからみーちんぐねむねむ :saba:

0479efdbb6 (upstream/main) Fix intermittent failure on account note system spec (#34295)
ef879a532f Convert `activitypub/*` controller specs to request specs (#33992)
445aa4ac72 Convert `activitypub/inboxes` spec controller->request (#34292)
1326088110 Change `AccountReachFinder` to consider statuses based on suspension date (#34291)
8a3bed1933 Fix SASS deprecation notices (#34278)
aa575341c2 chore(deps): update dependency rubocop to v1.75.1 (#34286)
99f93e675a New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#34290)
0e3ff680d3 Update `rubocop` to version 1.75.0 (#34283)

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I think a lot about how information about how computers work often seems to get passed down in an "oral history" kind of way

like how “the terminal” works is sort of documented, but it's made of so many components that the documentation is split across a million different documents

and some parts of "how the terminal works" are just broad conventions which aren't documented anywhere I know of (like “TUI programs like `top` or `less` will probably quit if you press `q`)

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Much of the Signal discussion is overlooking a key point: an entire apartment building was leveled to kill one guy.

How many civilians died? Is this a war crime?

The religious language—“prayer,” “God bless,” “Godspeed to our Warriors”—makes it all the more revolting, like a game of Battleship from the safety of a church basement.

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A friend who used to do tech support told me that he learned that instead of asking "is it plugged in" it was better to ask the customer to unplug it and plug it back in. Then they might notice that it was unplugged but they don't have to admit it. I think about that a lot

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A friend who used to do tech support told me that he learned that instead of asking "is it plugged in" it was better to ask the customer to unplug it and plug it back in. Then they might notice that it was unplugged but they don't have to admit it. I think about that a lot

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If you click on a link in a Bluesky post, it is now automatically redirected via the domain go.bsky.app before it actually goes to the link in the post. There is no way to stop this or know that it is happening as the redirect only flickers on the screen for a fraction of a second.

Presumably this means Bluesky can now track all link clicking on their platform, including IP addresses, destinations etc?

Or have I misunderstood?

Bluesky is spinning it as a tool for publishers to track referrals, but going beyond the spin it seems to be giving Bluesky access to people's online activity?

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In addition to all the great work happening in public spaces, one of the amazing things about the Fediverse that isn't readily apparent or obvious is how much cooperation is going on behind the scenes between different developers, products, platforms and companies to move things forward.

The best way for any of us to succeed individually is for us all to succeed collectively, and that creates positive sum incentives for collaboration over competition.

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I get that issue trackers are hard, but I feel like stale bots that *close issues* come off as so hostile. I shouldn't have to come back to the issue tracker every month to confirm, “Yes, this is still an issue!” to prevent the issue from getting closed.

Tag an issue as “stale” for easier triage—that’s fine! But “oops you aren’t engaged enough, sorry, your issue doesn’t exist anymore” feels like a bit of a slap in the face. Especially if it gets closed as “not planned.”

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Xユーザーの荻野幸太郎/OGINO,Kotaroさん:
結論から言ってしまうと、そもそも今回の「エロ広告」論争自体が、「エロ広告」というキャッチーな宣伝手法を使って、「それ以外の政策」をヌルっと売り込もうとするいくつかのクラスターが並行的に参加することによって招いた事案であったわけです。
x.com/ogi_fuji_npo/status/1905
> この議論が外からどう見えていたかなと考えると、おそらく日本でこの話を見かけた普通の人たちの多くは、他の先進国で起きているそういう極端な最近の状況を知らないので、「エロ広告を子ども用のサイトやアプリから外せるように何か考えてほしいというだけの話に、何でこんな反対する変な人たちがいるの?」vs.「たかがエロ広告でそこまで大騒ぎするのは神経質なのでは」くらいの論争になりがちということだとは思うんですよね。

表現規制ネタの議論、海外での動きや思想宗教の絡む勢力の話になると、ぶっちゃけ追いかけるコスト高いし、そもそもフィクション愛好ガチ勢とかでもない限り情報を追う動機もないわで厳しいよなあ……

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