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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RFC Editor @rfceditor@mastodon.online
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RFC 9766: Extensions for Weak Cache Consistency in NFSv4.2's Flexible File Layout, T. Haynes, et al., rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9766 This document specifies extensions to NFSv4.2 for improving Weak Cache Consistency (WCC). These extensions introduce mechanisms that ensure partial writes performed under a Parallel NFS (pNFS) layout remain coherent and correctly tracked. The 1/3

Information on RFC 9766 » RFC Editor

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william.maggos @wjmaggos@liberal.city
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Shared by Evan Prodromou

@ntnsndrNathan Schneider @evanEvan Prodromou

any chance of getting on the fedi? at least an account but maybe a server for staff or a or site for video...

the great promise of the imo is that we can address the Chomsky concerns re attention. that the people not money can finally determine what info, ideas and art go viral. seems perfectly in line with the DN mission.

@mondoweissMondoweiss 🇵🇸 is blazing the trail for establishing true indy media for the dissident left here.

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Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ @xgranade@wandering.shop
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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.

circumstances.run/@davidgerard

David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)

oh i officially don't hate ai. i just hate shitty ai. good ai is when it's a product that just fucking works, like machine translation or xray scan assistance or transcription. bad ai is bubblenomics and impressive demos pressed into service as products that just do not fucking work.

circumstances.run · GSV Sleeper Service

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Manuela Malasaña @Xibanya@mastodon.xyz
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Shared by Stefan Bohacek

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

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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You Wouldn't Steal a Font

Link: fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfu
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Rib :ms_red_panda: (@Rib)

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 (https://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 (https://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! 📎

fedi.rib.gay · fedi.rib.gay

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Rib :ms_red_panda: @Rib@fedi.rib.gay
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Shared by Stefan Bohacek

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!

A screenshot of FontForge opening a PDF brochure from the "Piracy is a Crime" campaign, showing that it is using the font XBAND Rough, an unlicensed clone of the font FF Confidential.
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Anthony @abucci@buc.ci
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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.
From https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/trumps-antisocial-state/

I admire Melinda Cooper's analysis and I think she is spot on here too. People like to call what's happening in the US some variation of "fascism", but that's not what this is. This is rule by sovereign decree, a kind of monarchy or theocracy, ruled by dogma and raw power, happy to destroy knowledge and entire sectors of the economy.


Trump’s Antisocial State - Dissent Magazine

The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

www.dissentmagazine.org · Dissent Magazine

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde@infosec.town
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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?
And have never felt more seen or personally attacked.

This is also not quite the whole of my job. Sometimes I tell people what other people they work with already know and understand so that they can make better choices. Sometimes I just write extremely high quality copy. Sometimes I tell people about problems (rather than opportunities) which they hadn't noticed yet. And sometimes I go to meetings or talk to outsiders or make decisions so that other people don't have to.

But mostly it's just giving people permission to be good at what they're already doing.

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Alexandre Mutel @xoofx@mastodon.social
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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! 🚀

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