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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Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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There's a new product that has been gaining some buzz in the blind community, a Windows app called Guide that uses AI to perform tasks on your computer. It's pitched as a way to get around web accessibility problems in particular. I won't link to the thing itself, because I don't want to give it that validation, but I'll link to a previous discussion thread about it: fed.interfree.ca/notes/a5wf4ys

I've spent some time taking this app apart. The level of shoddy work here is deeply disgusting. 1/?

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 (@fastfinge)

Update: I've exchanged some long emails with Andrew, the lead developer. He's open to dialogue, and moving the project in the right direction: well-scoped single tasks, more granular controls and permissions, etc. He doesn't strike me as an #AI maximalist can and should do eve...

fed.interfree.ca · Interfree

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io
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Oh hi, it's , just popping up to say hi, I'm trans and work on trust & safety for the Fediverse, help with hachyderm infrastructure, and contribute to a whole bunch of open source projects.

If you'd like to support my work: support.thisismissem.social

Right now your support is the difference between me being able to make ends meet and not, as freelance work is a bit hard to find right now.

Support Emelia Smith (@thisismissem)

Fund her work on the Fediverse, improving trust & safety and other open-source contributions

support.thisismissem.social

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BlitzErich @hobbypaedagoge@pnpde.social
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Nachdem ein paar Mal die Frage aufkam, wie ich mit vorbereite, will ich in aller Kürze mal mein Setup und mein Vorgehen darstellen. Das meiste ist sicher schon bekannt.
Bisher hatte ich es so gemacht, dass ich in eine Notiz alles kopiert habe und dann intern verlinkt habe. In der rechten Seitenleiste hatte ich dann die Gliederungsansicht offen, so dass ich "schnell" nach dem betreffenden Abschnitt suchen konnte. Das war Murks.
Daher musste ein neuer Ablauf her...

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stroz (he/him) @stroz@infosec.exchange
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Before the awful festivities of tomorrow's holiday, I wanted to take a moment to reflect, as it will mark 17 years of for me, personally.

It's been a tough road, and 45/47 definitely has made the past decade rough as all hell. But I keep showing up, one day at a time.

My health has declined since the first COVID infection in 2022, but even with these symptoms, it's a world of difference being sober. My liver and kidneys aren't constantly filtering poison from my body, and after 17 years of time off, maybe they're doing pretty great. Take a look at the before and after photos below...70 extra lbs is a lot to carry!

If you are questioning whether you need to stop drinking, or picking up that drug of choice: Don't lie to yourself. It's incredibly easy to lie to yourself, very difficult and admirable to reject lying to yourself in this moment.

If I can do this, you can do this. Stay strong. Stay alive.

Here's to tomorrow's challenges, which I will face like I did today's: With effort, but also resolve

A photo of an obese man holding a child (whose face is redacted). Standing in front of a tourist trap "Castle" in New England, wearing an "All your base are belong to us" t-shirtA selfie of a smiling, healthy-looking man with a beard and blue hair
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Ángel @angel@triptico.com
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LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO: La familia (Capítulo 4, extracto)

Unos días después, a la vuelta del instituto, Bran se encontró con su madre en mitad del salón con la mirada perdida en la pared. Su mano izquierda sangraba profusamente; en la otra tenía un cuchillo de cocina. Bran la sentó en el sofá, corrió con el corazón galopando en el pecho hasta el botiquín del baño, cogió el yodo y unas vendas y volvió para curarla. Tenía un corte largo desde el codo hasta la muñeca. Le limpió la herida y la envolvió en la venda, que poco a poco se iba empapando de un rojo profundo. Le habló y le habló pero su madre estaba ausente: la persona detrás de aquellos ojos hundidos y amoratados parecía estar muy lejos. Deseó que Cristóbal estuviese allí, pero probablemente había ido a trabajar o a comprar. Aquellos días eran como un torbellino.

Y de repente su madre se incorporó, la miró y le dijo unas palabras que no entendió pero que ya nunca pudo olvidar:

—He conocido al Hombre de Cuerdas.

Bran le preguntó de qué estaba hablando; ella se quedó como en trance unos instantes con el labio superior tembloroso y después continuó:

—He estado estos días en la casa de Cincogargantas. En su Casa Infinita. Lo que me ha pedido está muy claro. Es mejor no ver.

Bran se sobresaltó: ¿dónde está Pedrín? Y a modo de respuesta escuchó el ruido de algo cayéndose al suelo al otro lado del pasillo.

Echó a correr hasta la habitación y Pedrín estaba allí, en su silla de ruedas, con la cabeza ladeada; una bandeja y un plato estaban desparramados por el suelo y un fuerte olor a orín y excrementos inundaba la estancia. Tenía los labios secos y pegados. El organismo de Pedrín, en continua degradación, se deshidrataba fácilmente; Bran le pellizcó en el brazo como le habían enseñado y comprobó que la piel no volvió a su estado normal. Buscó a toda prisa el bote de plástico, lo encontró caído detrás de una silla y le dio de beber. Él lo hizo muy poco a poco porque estaba casi inconsciente.

Bran sintió que estaba a punto de llorar cuando oyó abrirse la puerta de la calle. Cristóbal entró cargado de bolsas. Bran se lanzó hacia él y le explicó como pudo la parte que entendía de todo lo ocurrido. Él la escuchó, tratando de calmarla. Le dio un beso en la frente y le dijo que no se preocupara, que él se encargaría de todo.

Aquella noche, nada más dormirse, Bran tuvo un sueño espantoso: un ser enorme y ensangrentado, con los dedos largos como gusanos serpenteando hasta el suelo, se arrastraba hacia ella cargando con el mismo cuchillo que había visto en la mano de su madre. Le decía con voz cavernosa que era el Hombre de Cuerdas; por alguna razón, ella ya lo sabía antes de que abriese su boca llena de dientes diminutos. La pesadilla duró apenas un instante. Se despertó empapada en sudor. Miró el reloj digital de su mesilla: 02:13.

Le costó conciliar el sueño; solo lo consiguió a base de repetirse una y otra vez como un mantra que todo había pasado. Todo ha pasado. Todo ha pasado.

Pero lo peor estaba aún por llegar.

LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO



Presentación del libro: miércoles 2 de abril, 19:30, librería La Lectora Infiel, calle Fuente del Berro, 23, Madrid
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Matt Campbell @matt@toot.cafe
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There's a new product that has been gaining some buzz in the blind community, a Windows app called Guide that uses AI to perform tasks on your computer. It's pitched as a way to get around web accessibility problems in particular. I won't link to the thing itself, because I don't want to give it that validation, but I'll link to a previous discussion thread about it: fed.interfree.ca/notes/a5wf4ys

I've spent some time taking this app apart. The level of shoddy work here is deeply disgusting. 1/?

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 (@fastfinge)

Update: I've exchanged some long emails with Andrew, the lead developer. He's open to dialogue, and moving the project in the right direction: well-scoped single tasks, more granular controls and permissions, etc. He doesn't strike me as an #AI maximalist can and should do eve...

fed.interfree.ca · Interfree

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Large Heydon Collider @heydon@front-end.social
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📝 New Blog Post: Poisoning Well

I have started publishing nonsense content on my blog, to hopefully mess with LLM crawlers.

Here is the article, all about it: heydonworks.com/article/poison

And here is the nonsense companion article, all about whatever: heydonworks.com/nonsense/poiso

An empty, self-closing HTML tag

Poisoning Well

An experimental strategy for contaminating Large Language Models

heydonworks.com · HeydonWorks

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hoonie-blog v1.1.1 등장!

카미유 @renegade_v00@hackers.pub

개선된 기술 블로그 1.1.1 버전이 공개되었습니다. 이번 업데이트에서는 사용자 경험을 향상시키기 위한 다양한 개선 사항들이 적용되었습니다. 특히, 사이트 성능 최적화를 통해 로딩 속도를 개선하고, 반응형 디자인을 강화하여 다양한 기기에서 일관된 사용자 인터페이스를 제공합니다. 또한, 새로운 기능들을 추가하여 블로그 탐색 및 콘텐츠 접근성을 높였습니다. 이번 업데이트는 마치 게임 패치노트처럼 작성되어, 개발 과정과 변경 사항을 더욱 재미있게 확인할 수 있습니다. 블로그를 방문하여 새로운 기능들을 직접 경험하고, 개선된 사용성을 느껴보세요.

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Don't Let Me Fall @ddnnacheta@mastodon.social
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What I dislike most about is the fact that the people doing it know the power of boycotting, but they mostly use it to what people say or believe in.

Governments and are destroying privacy, a critical pillar of democracy, with the goal of doing the same thing that cancel culture is about.

That is, controlling what people are allowed to say (dissent/freedom of speech) and controlling what people believe in (culture/family).

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social
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Ah thanks for making exactly the structural power point completely clear. This is the kind of reply that my work often elicits and I really find it fascinating. "Diverse colleagues" being not "actual engineering" and rendered as "distracting bullshit" is exactly the credentialing you need to perform to align with a vision of tech as all power no accountability. You're not demonstrating what you value, you're demonstrating that you have the power to devalue.

ioc.exchange/@lpwaterhouse/114

Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse (@lpwaterhouse@ioc.exchange)

@grimalkina@mastodon.social being *employed* in software engineering is *made* hilariously social. #ftfy Software engineering *is*, at its core "thinking about a problem really hard", a solitary activity. But when " managers" get involved, they are convinced that everything is just better with moar social. Sure, having a diverse group of colleagues readily *available* to debate with when needed is great, but the actual *engineering* suffers from all that distracting bullshit.

ioc.exchange · IOC.exchange

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social
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Ah thanks for making exactly the structural power point completely clear. This is the kind of reply that my work often elicits and I really find it fascinating. "Diverse colleagues" being not "actual engineering" and rendered as "distracting bullshit" is exactly the credentialing you need to perform to align with a vision of tech as all power no accountability. You're not demonstrating what you value, you're demonstrating that you have the power to devalue.

ioc.exchange/@lpwaterhouse/114

Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse (@lpwaterhouse@ioc.exchange)

@grimalkina@mastodon.social being *employed* in software engineering is *made* hilariously social. #ftfy Software engineering *is*, at its core "thinking about a problem really hard", a solitary activity. But when " managers" get involved, they are convinced that everything is just better with moar social. Sure, having a diverse group of colleagues readily *available* to debate with when needed is great, but the actual *engineering* suffers from all that distracting bullshit.

ioc.exchange · IOC.exchange

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