What is Hackers' Pub?

My x1 carbon gen 1 is my favorite BSD desktop. Everyone has his junk system where he just installs crap on it and doesn't maintain it. My openbsd installation is now 2 years old with OBSD 7.7 releasing any moment. It'll work for many more upgrades. My record was probably 5months uptime.

Bare metal printf - C standard library without OS https://lobste.rs/s/uzswgd #c
https://popovicu.com/posts/bare-metal-printf/

Compiler reminders https://lobste.rs/s/2xti6d #elm #practices
https://jfmengels.net/compiler-reminders

I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.

If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.

If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.

This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.

I'm just mad. We spent an hour, after a long day, in a difficult situation room, and I wake up to mastodon people mischaracterizing a situation I can't talk about in detail since we're still resolving the problem

Was stalking @TodePondLu wilson's profile and https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw is actually a really neat project.

Does one thing and does it well, all the while being open-source and easy to integrate.

I use both Obsidian and Inkscape a bit, and an open-source canvas tool is a nice in-between option. #Tools

there is plenty of work that needs doing in the #pondiverse
https://github.com/TodePond/Pondiverse/issues

all changes get accepted, #pastagang style

New AI ethics scandal brewing... turns out a team at University of Zurich had dozens of undisclosed AI bot accounts debating with people on /r/ChangeMyView from November 2024 to March 2025 https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/unauthorized-experiment-on-cmv/

#Wisconsin picks of the day:

➡️ @wcftr - Archive of film, TV, radio, theatre at the University of Wisconsin & Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison

➡️ @Madison365 - Non-profit community news service based in Madison, non-white perspectives

➡️ @WausauPilot@flipboard.comWausau Pilot & Review & @wausaupilot@journa.hostWausau Pilot & Review - Independent news for Marathon County, Wisconsin

➡️ @MilwaukeeNe28e6Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service - Non-profit grassroots news service in Milwaukee

➡️ @gmmkeGood Morning, Milwaukee! - Bot posting useful info to start your day in Milwaukee

🧵 1/4

People Online

Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax https://lobste.rs/s/zhkfsl #plt #ruby
https://blog.jez.io/history-of-sorbet-syntax/

There their in they're house

fuck you jeffery bezos

(this is my git instance)

okay i might need to bug some devs to publish their lexicons.

Lexicon - AT Protocol

APL Cultivations https://lobste.rs/s/tgr67v #apl
https://xpqz.github.io/cultivations/Intro.html

1. Bluesky’s about interop and scale, mastos about topological distribution, blockchains are about censorship resistance. Decentralization means different things 2. All of our PDSes got DDOSed. Any PDS that wasn’t stayed online. If the same happened to AP, they would’ve had the same outage

Pre-orders for my new hacker thriller "Submerged" are active!
· Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/SUBMERGED-hacker-thriller-John-Wilander-ebook/dp/B0F5BLSYGY/
· Apple Books:https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6745112316
· Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/submerged-38
Release on May 3rd. That's when the paperback and hardcover become available too. @bookstodonbookstodon group

@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ have you played Noita? It seems up your alley

https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/

Actual photo from the recall movement in Taiwan

Source: https://www.threads.com/@12scissorkick/post/DI6YEuYPEQj

AI coding: parallels with the Semiconductor Revolution https://lobste.rs/s/7jamj2 #ai #programming
https://xania.org/202504/ai-in-coding

DataFusion - The Database Building Toolkit https://lobste.rs/s/8avzyk #audio #databases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QNNCr8WfDM

No spoilers but my word, tonight's #DoctorWho was amazing. Superb, affective writing and acting - especially from Rose Ayling-Ellis who deserves all the awards I'm sure will be coming her way.

Commodore 64 Assembly, part 5 - adding numbers

https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/commodore-64-assembly-part-5-adding-numbers/

#commodore64 #assembly #RetroComputing

This is why so many of us were alarmed when they started doing this to accused, or even convicted terrorists - we knew it wouldn't stop there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/how-idea-of-stripping-citizenship-for-crimes-spread-across-europe

Speaker from a large tech company: "...if you're working in AI... and gosh, I don't know anyone who's NOT working in AI these days" (a ripple of discomfort runs briefly through the audience)

Don’t put -Weverything in your build flags (2018) https://lobste.rs/s/tydvuu #c
https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2018/12/06/dont-use-weverything/

rss2remarkable - Script to make RSS feeds readable on your reMarkable tablet https://lobste.rs/s/fcai2b #python
https://codeberg.org/akselmo/rss2remarkable

I really don't want go away from #Fosstodon.

It's my first Mastodon instance.
I've donated for some time to maintain it.
I honestly don't mind what people I don't follow post about. However, it kinda looks not ok to have a moderator that expresses opinions I'm not ok with. For a moderator on the other hand that doesn't sound good as moderators have powers to shape discussions and allow same opinions to strive on an instance.
>>>

Charming story of struggle and finding peace in #FVWM If you like those old Linux vibes.
I myself once spent a week struggling with FVWM on #OpenBSD . But OpenBSD, alas, has very old version in base, circa 2002 due to licensing reasons. So I couldn't do many things I wanted to do.
FVWM feels extremely strange and simply crazy when you delve into config files. But then configuration syntax starts to make sense and you feel you can do just about anything with it. I couldn't, though. =(
https://homeforaday.org/fvwm/

New Track: "Pressure Wave"

Gear: Roland MV-1; ASM Hydrasynth Desktop; Disting NT; After Later Monsoon (Clouds), Pachnko (Marbles); Make Noise Morphagene, Wogglebug; Joranalogue Orbit 3.

Copyright (C) 2025 Flock of Nazguls. License: CC-BY-NC-SA.
All sonics by FoN. No AI crap.

#SoundCloud
#synthrawk
#music

https://soundcloud.com/flock_of_nazguls/pressure-wave

"But before you form another thought, you’re going to want to keep reading this five-hundred-word bumper sticker on my Tesla so you can fully understand why I am not a bad person.

First, you must know that I got this car before Elon went evil billionaire. I recognize that its being a 2023 Tesla Model S does complicate that message, but you must also know that the only thing I hate more than what he’s doing to the American people is me being perceived as the bad guy."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-five-hundred-word-bumper-sticker-on-my-tesla-explains-why-im-not-a-bad-person

newly discovered computer issue: on system76 laptops, only when using the internal keyboard, pressing Ctrl+C kills the `glasgow repl` interpreter, instead of clearing the command buffer like usual

with a USB keyboard it works fine

✨ Take a deeper look into the new FediDB redesign.

Available soon!

#fediDB

does anyone need to see a little cat's sleepy face? because here's one.

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut’s https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/26/instagram-edits-topped-7m-downloads-in-first-week-a-bigger-launch-than-capcuts/

slashdot.org on January 25, 1999
https://web.archive.org/web/19990125092017if_/http://slashdot.org:80

Garage or SeaweedFS?

Decentralized, Federated, Localized.

Humans independently edit Wikipedia for humans. They don’t have any Ads or cannot be bullied into removing content. Wikipedia is free from AI slop. No wonder tech bros with AI companies want to eliminate it so that their fake AI text generator can show or push propaganda. Please do not let Wikipedia die. It is an independent source and far more reliable than Gen AI companies. It is a real shame that it comes to this.

A reply to a followers-only post should be addressed to the OP and the OP's followers, not to the replier's followers. #ActivityPub

@openrisk @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber in theory the Wikimedia Foundation is federated: we have chapters and user groups all over the world, and Wikimedia Deutschland actually has a pretty substantial budget and funds some development itself.

But there is still a lot of centralization as well, mostly for efficiency and coordination, and it would/will be very hard to relocate.

Part of the original motivation for centralization was to collapse legal regimes, so that the project only had a single legal venue to dictate terms w/r/t copyright, libel, privacy etc. USA was seen at the time as a safe and stable bet.

Moving to (say) the EU would be an enormous legal undertaking, in addition to all the other costs.

You're only decentralized if you have a Raspberry Pi running your own ActivityPub instance that's also bridged to AT, Nostr, and Farcaster, otherwise you're just a part of the oligarchy, man

ui_design_is_my_passion.tga

hello world

Hello World

I have been too busy with Xogot to devote attention to my library to embed Godot into your SwiftUI apps.

This past week, I worked to clean up the various branches, the CI and the packaging to fix this.

I have been promising this work for months, but I had been too busy on Xogot.

We now have a clean slate:

https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot/discussions/699

People have been saying that we're living in the end times for almost 2000 years. I always take it with a grain of salt but, this time, they might be right. #religion #alcohol

slashdot.org on January 25, 1999
https://web.archive.org/web/19990125092017if_/http://slashdot.org:80