What is Hackers' Pub?

#61.5 ☁️

#art #mastoart

The old joke throughout grad school was that machine learning is statistical inference that doesn't work, and that AI is machine learning that doesn't work.

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114389224077110177

Some days, I miss cgi-bin

Job Interviewer: Describe your process for troubleshooting a network issue.

Sysadmin candidate: First, I check if it's DNS.
Second, I check if it's DNS.
Third, I check if it's still DNS.
If it's not DNS, then it's a cosmic ray.

there's another internet, buried under this internet, and it also sucks

Teaching LLMs how to solid model

Link: https://willpatrick.xyz/technology/2025/04/23/teaching-llms-how-to-solid-model.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774990

New blog post! I made some squiggle orbs! https://mzucker.github.io/2025/03/15/squiggle-orbs.html

<— autistic bad bitch attracted to your autism like a magnet

Delete all Meta accounts

“ #Meta's advisory board approves videos containing disparaging remarks about #trans people, in a first test of looser content rules introduced in January.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/23/meta-oversight-board-trans-content-moderation-hate-speech/

@antijingoist¡Abbie! I absolutly love this so good. The BeOS theme is the best. Are you still going to release Hai on Android as an .apk? Or only PWA? Is there an issue tracker for it yet?

これ食べたら逆に花粉症治りそう（根拠なし）。

You wouldn't steal a font https://lobste.rs/s/5wvnry #art
https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f

one of my favorite moments in a stage performance that plays with the diegetic vs non diegetic is when Doctor Bartolo sings his arietta in Act 2 of The Barber of Seville to try to show the younger characters that music was much better back in his day. In most productions he sings it somewhere between amateurishly and badly. There is no spoken dialogue in Barber so when Bartolo isn't singing, his singing is excellent, and when he is singing his singing sucks

You Wouldn't Steal a Font

Link: https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775926

MastodonのPumaとSidekiqとストリーミングはローカルのファイルシステムを共有する必要はないけどPostgresとRedisとS3は許由しないとよね

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

#ShitIFind #Neurodivergent #autism #ActuallyAutistic

Poll: Do you

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하스켈로 만든 스프레드시트 https://b4er.github.io/recalc/

MinC - OpenBSD-flavored cygwin-alike for running UNIX-y things on Windows https://lobste.rs/s/bny5ko #unix
https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html

@LoginBonusログインボーナスbot ログボ

// Paris · 2025 // #lastreet #placetobe #explore #decay #graffitiparis #visitparis #wanderingaround #spraypaint #larue #letters #handmade #tag

#61.5 ☁️

#art #mastoart

Project 2025 indulges every fantasy of Trump’s cabinet members, a coterie of private fund investors and business founders with preferential ties to the fossil fuel industry, real estate, and Silicon Valley. The manual shows how the president could open up federal lands to fossil fuel prospectors and actively obstruct any progress on climate change mitigation. It shows how the Federal Reserve could abandon its function as lender of last resort and allow for a return to free banking, with gold or some other commodity equivalent (perhaps cryptocurrency) acting as backstops to privately issued money. And it shows how the Department of Housing and Urban Development could sell off the country’s remaining public housing stock and withhold support from low-income borrowers. Meanwhile, the president is urged to dissolve the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the independent government agency charged with preventing bank runs) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the agency that recently extended anti-fraud regulation to the digital finance sector). Project 2025 represents the apotheosis of the antisocial state: a state form that has withdrawn from the task of social insurance and placed its entire administrative apparatus in the hands of a small group of uber-wealthy business partners.

Your daily reminder that download counts are a bad proxy for legitimacy

Case in question: newly published npm package gets half a million downloads a day. How? because they faked the downloads.

Stars on GitHub can also be farmed by bots.

Someone just described my job to me:

So you work with people who are smarter than you and better and more capable at the whole thing your team is trying to do. And you just like… tell them what they already know, so that they notice what they already secretly knew but hadn't consciously realized was the right thing to do? And you help them plan to do that, and then just get out of their way and tell them what a good job they did after they do it?

すき。
youtu.be/Xy2pNiC1azw

I have been building my home PCs for 30+ years, but it is only recently that I bought a 2nd GPU Graphics card (AMD) instead of having only one (usually Nvidia)... and I should have done that much earlier - to have 2 GPUs, green and red target-able from the same machine. It is extremely handy to be able to test GPU computing and rendering quirks from a single PC! 🚀

📞 Introducing voice & video call for the Fediverse ✨

Sora is a futuristic Fediverse client for Mastodon, Bluesky, Misskey, Pleroma all in one. Comes with local ML to curate posts and the For You timeline.

In the next update V10, Sora allows you to have a Peer-to-Peer call using Fediverse credentials.

Demo video:

#bluesky
#fediverse
#mastodon
#misskey
#sorasns

It's kinda hilarious watching Republicans attack Democrats for representing a "far left" ideology that has been dead and buried within the party for years, just because they know Democrats will immediately snap to attention trying to prove their conservative bonafides.

It's kinda hilarious watching Republicans attack Democrats for representing a "far left" ideology that has been dead and buried within the party for years, just because they know Democrats will immediately snap to attention trying to prove their conservative bonafides.

Save the dates!

#BSidesNoVA2025 Friday, October 10 - Saturday, October 11 in Arlington, Virginia.

Check back for more info! bsidesnova.org

C++26: more constexpr in the core language https://lobste.rs/s/t1lbrg #c++
https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/23/cpp26-constexpr-language-changes

Since no one has picked up the slack around here, I have implemented a new state-of-the art VIBINT platform. Since y'all are my fedi friends, you can check it all out for free.

The service accepts hashes, domains, and IP addresses. As well as other IoCs and IoAs that aren't yet documented. And it works with any browser, including especially cURL.

Try it yourself:

https://cascadiacrow.com/isThisMalware?hash=e71ee9dca014e33b7da6843aeeb8b980

https://cascadiacrow.com/isThisMalware?domain=cloudflare.com

https://cascadiacrow.com/isThisMalware?ip=127.0.0.1

「Featured」が「注目」に。ふむーん

Following the FEP-fe34 update, I am publishing a new version of FEP-ae97: Client-side activity signing

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/564

The registration process is completely different now. Keys for signing S2S requests are generated on the server and only public parts are shared with the client.

When FEP-ae97 client retrieves activities from the inbox, it signs GET requests with a key associated with actor's DID authority.

For example, this actor:

ap://did:key:z6MkhaXgBZDvotDkL5257faiztiGiC2QtKLGpbnnEGta2doK/actor"

Will generate an HTTP signature with this keyId parameter:

keyId="did:key:z6MkhaXgBZDvotDkL5257faiztiGiC2QtKLGpbnnEGta2doK#z6MkhaXgBZDvotDkL5257faiztiGiC2QtKLGpbnnEGta2doK"

Implementations have been updated too (Nomadic AP Client and Mitra).

#fep_ae97

Active Automata Learning in Haskell

https://github.com/steve-anunknown/haal

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/steve-anunknown/haal

#haskell #programming

眠ろうとしてる時に目を使うと疲れが取れない気がするのでポッドキャストを流しとくなあ

マイナバードの写真ないなーっておっさんぽの時に撮ろうとしたんだけどPixel 7aちゃんのカメラだとこれがせいいっぱい (ちゃんとしたカメラを持ってても腕前がね)

The Rust Foundation is proud to be hosting @rustconf this year! 🦀✨

Reminder: the call for talk proposals closes on April 29 — if you’ve got an interesting #rustlang story to tell, we’d love for you to submit a talk proposal! https://sessionize.com/rustconf-2025 #rustconf #rustconf25

《419 守護台灣 拒絕統戰》集會活動

我是原住民，對於這次的大罷免，實在很抱歉我們沒能參與連署罷免原住民的舔共立委高金素梅，明著在國會喊：我們習近平等等舔共的行為，想想心裡真的非常的不甘心。

有次看到罷免羅明才的罷免團體，看見我經過跟我說來連署罷免，但我只能很抱歉地說：不好意思，我是原住民，心裡真的難過，所以這次想要再用行動站出來，至少我站出來了，有份參與守護台灣的行列裡，讓舔共的知道，真正愛台灣的人是絕對多數的，有我們在休想出賣台灣。

想告訴身邊的朋友，不要放棄你手中可以連署的機會，因為已經少了我們原住民可以連署的機會，你們更不能放棄，算是替我們一起守護屬於我們台灣人的台灣，謝謝你們了。