What is Hackers' Pub?

普通に風邪引いたぽい。

Just some random THOUGHTS from my reading these days.

Presenting all evidence as equally high-quality and equally robust is a bad implicit message. It takes a lot more work to contextualize, but contextualize we must. Listing a huge stream of studies with all kinds of different characteristics and wildly different theoretical framings isn't really a service to your reader. It teaches science = list of facts rather than a process of evaluating overlapping, changing, dynamic bodies of evidence

@stefanoStefano Marinelli @grunfinkThe Real Grunfink Absolutely LOVE this. I've said it before and I'll say it again, MANY times I'm sure, the reason that the Fediverse is going to last forever and continue to exist is because of folks like yourselves. :-) <3

lb: ffmpreg -i girl.exe gremlin.err

POV: Du sendest der #polizei in #karlsruhe eine Anfrage per E-Mail. Dein Mail-Programm sendet automatisch deinen öffentlichen PGP-Schlüssel für eine Ende-zu-Ende Verschlüsselung mit.

Nach zwei Wochen erhälst du eine Antwort, die sich lediglich auf den Betreff bezieht, da das Sicherheitssystem der Polizei den Anhang als verdächtig identifiziert und kurzerhand den gesamten Inhalt der E-Mail sperrt. So steht es also um die #Digitalisierung bei unserer #Exekutive.

My new t-shirt has arrived!

Made and modelled by me; joke by Person or Persons Unknown.

Selfie con changuito!

스무살 이주노조, 미래 과제 핵심은 ‘활동가 양성’ “한국사회에 이주노동 현실 알려” … ‘이주할당 노조 간부제·이주노동 의무교육’ 등 제안 입력 2025.04.29 19:21 www.labortoday.co.kr/news/article...

스무살 이주노조, 미래 과제 핵심은 ‘활동가 양성’

After 53 years, a failed Soviet Venus spacecraft is crashing back to Earth

Link: https://gizmodo.com/after-53-years-a-failed-soviet-venus-spacecraft-is-crashing-back-to-earth-2000595234
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43831602

로맨틱한 사랑이나 성적 관계가 아닌, 친한 친구와 가치나 관심사를 공유하며 관계를 유지하는 '우정 결혼'이 중국 젊은이들 사이에서 늘고 있는 것으로 전해졌다. 등록 2025.04.29 04:00:00 www.newsis.com/view/NISX202...

"부부지만 연인은 아니다?"…중국서 번지는 '우정 결혼...

We re-launched our website at the Applied Social Media Lab, which is not very exciting except that

1) we have an announcement for Frankly, a newly open source project I helped (a little bit) with that builds some public interest infrastructure for deliberative decision-making https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2025/04/29/we-open-sourced-frankly-heres-what-that-means-for-collaborative-dialogue/

2) you can follow @asml.cyber.harvard.edu🦜 Home - Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University to get updates here on fedi via the now-working RSS feed (or just use an RSS reader)

둠둠여자갑자기보고싶어서그림 #OC

Is the term "buzz coding" already coined? If not, I'd like to coin it.

Basically vibe coding, but instead of using a llm you're drinking. The result is the same - new code that no one understands. But more fun!

nc(1) (or netcat) is useful not only for redirecting input/output to
TCP or UDP connections, but also for proxying them with inetd(8).

霧雨が降ってきたけどオープンの乗用車は平気で走ってる #おっさんぽ速報

HELLO. Here's a brief update video on the SBCL and Trial/Kandria port to the Nintendo Switch.

Please consider supporting our continued work on Patreon: https://patreon.com/shinmera

#indiedev #gamedev #lisp #nintendoswitch

スペイン・ポルトガルなどの停電について、スペインの電力会社が「原因はわからないけどサイバーアタックによるものではない」と発表（NHKラジオニュース）できるのは、Crowdstrikeとかを確認してるのかな…

Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive

Link: https://blog.tylerglaiel.com/p/programming-languages-should-have
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43831628

Microsoft Authenticator needs me to validate with Authenticator in order to log in with Authenticator to use it to authenticate another app with Authenticator.

Here is the app telling me to open itself to validate itself with itself.

#infosec #iHateComputers

so after repairing that ps2 fat yesterday, i noticed that it wasn't playing back Ico properly. the disc would attempt to spin up for a half second, retry several times, then give up for good.

the disc was in perfect shape.

i noticed that it was a blue/purple bottomed disc, which made me curious. as it turns out, the blue discs are CD-ROMs. there are very few of them for the PS2, and then almost always cause read problems.

in the 00's teenagers figured out that if you put two pieces of masking tape on opposite sides of the spindle hole of a CD, the PS2 would read the game properly. i was perplexed by this, because i couldn't find any explanation of why the "tape trick" worked. was it shimming a gap between the disc and the tray?

as it turns out, a very young kid named Denzel explained it perfectly in his 16 year old 3gp cell phone video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaaRs_H5Fjc

the problem is caused by a weak magnet used in the tray that hovers over the spindle. seen below, this white piece of plastic clamps down on top of the CD's "clamping area" (the perimeter of the donut hole). it is meant to both hold the disc level, *and* prevent the disc from slipping on the spindle.

since putting downforce weight/pressure on the spindle is a Bad Idea (motors don't love this), engineers embedded a magnet in the white plastic: when the plastic came close to the metal spindle, the magnetic forces sandwich CD between the spindle and white plastic. with enough magnetic grip, the CD wouldn't slip at all.

it works great for DVDs that spin at 4x.

unfortunately the PS2 engineers did not consider at least three things:
- playstation CD-ROMs are much heavier and more difficult to spin than DVDs, requiring more friction from the spindle.
- the CD-ROM in the ps2 spins at 24x. the motor goes into jet engine mode when it detects a CD. it needs *much* more sticky friction to keep that CD from slipping when the motor is sending your disc off into orbit.
- the cheapass fridge magnet inside of the plastic disc would lose their magnetism over time - due to various factors (EM fields, shock, heat). even a tiny percent change was enough to let a CD disc slip.

the solution? i stole a tiny strong button magnet from one of my fridge magnet toys. it very easily centered on the existing magnet, without needing glue.

this is information now buried in hundreds of shitty youtube videos and reddidiots *still* telling people to stick tape on their CDs.

#repair #playstation #retroGaming

okay so, trying to be charitable: does anyone know why eslint removed --ignore-path? or why it doesn't just respect .gitignore by default? because now you need like three lines of code to do what sort of should be a default option? am I missing something?

"We can show that increasing the number of trees by at least 30% could reduce the number of hours per year of extreme heat by nearly 64% and the amount of runoff by 58%, so trees can strengthen resistance to heat and flooding, especially in districts with high building density," Saha said.

The results of the two projects show that diverse green spaces with trees can improve human health in cities & mitigate the negative effects of climate change

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-diverse-tree-populations-cities-climate.html

#ClimateChange #Climate

started trying to make a flow chart of the things I think about (mostly subconsciously) when I run a program in the terminal but I feel like I'm missing a lot of things

Hi! 👋🏻 My name is Mitch (he/him), and I am an illustrator, graphic designer, creative director, brand director, and goober. I am currently on sabbatical from work, but I work in the tech industry, specializing in making clear, authentic brand stuff for things associated with programmers and sysadmins.

I am a practicing Bahá'í, and am very interested in conversation around things like comparative religion, pacifism, Linux, FOSS, where you're from, and what life is like there.

#introduction

Elasticsearch Hybrid Search Recipes - Benchmarked https://lobste.rs/s/hlhfpg #ai
https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/03/13/elasticsearch-hybrid-search-strategies

O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data

Link: https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-04-28-can-o3-beat-a-geoguessr-master
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43835044

#veryImportant #poll
If I were to start a #liveStream channel where I play my collection of games I've curated for my kids, should I call it

リアル対人関係で晒しにくい部分をSNSに流してもらって喜んでる者としてはそういう人間性の佃煮みたいな部分をAIに盗られるのが嫌なので、みんなでTLを人間性のドブ川にしていこうな

人間性のドブ川すき

okay, yes, this entire approach to “ai” in the workforce is yet another instance of a tech CEO beclowning himself

at the same time: when a leader says human workers are a source of “bottlenecks”, and that automation is the source of “solutions”, pay very, very, very close attention

(and if you haven’t already, start getting organized with your coworkers)

https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers

#veryImportant #poll
If I were to start a #liveStream channel where I play my collection of games I've curated for my kids, should I call it

This is in a box with a bunch of early 90s stuff. If memory serves this mysterious note was left on the notepad when I was checking into a hotel. Do you think Jeremy ever saw it?

@loeweLö(h)we @pixelfed We're going to tag a new release today.

"We can show that increasing the number of trees by at least 30% could reduce the number of hours per year of extreme heat by nearly 64% and the amount of runoff by 58%, so trees can strengthen resistance to heat and flooding, especially in districts with high building density," Saha said.

The results of the two projects show that diverse green spaces with trees can improve human health in cities & mitigate the negative effects of climate change

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-diverse-tree-populations-cities-climate.html

#ClimateChange #Climate

Just got told #ATproto relays are cheap and easy to run. Haven't heard that before.

Again, I just want a network where every govt and journalistic outlet (at least) can afford to run a piece of social media infrastructure such that whatever they want to tell the public, can go viral without the approval of any middleman company. Just like when they post something on their website or send an email. Adding "democracy of reach" to the "freedom of speech" the web gave us.

#SocialWeb #LiberalValues

#OtD 29 Apr 1932 Korean anti-colonial activist Yun Bong-gil hurled a bomb into the Japanese emperor's birthday celebrations in Shanghai, killing several leading military and civil officials https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10067/yun-bong-gil-attentat

Nice little example of your average #berniebro (replying to me).

#CovertRacism is rampant among #berniebros. I've debated with thousands of them since 2016.
#uspol #USPolitics #bernie

둠둠여자갑자기보고싶어서그림 #OC

하드 여덟장 더 사고...

h11 accepts some malformed Chunked-Encoding bodies http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/df126e23-24fa-11f0-ab92-f02f7497ecda.html

Hi everyone!

Super stoked to be working with @_elenaElena Rossini ⁂ on her Fediverse video series, can't wait to share our work with the world!

In the meantime, I think I'll use this account to post some stills from recent
projects. Stay tuned 🤑

#introduction #NewHere

@lcamtuflcamtuf 2,
1 is random lolwtf
3 is dwelling and weird

프로젝트 데이터 구조와 프로젝트 외 데이터 구조가 거시기하군 아

Our latest release is Solus 4.7 Endurance, released at the start of 2025. This release focuses on updating our editions, and refreshing the default kernels. We’ve called this release Endurance to highlight our promise to users that we will continue to deliver timely updates to keep their systems stable and beautiful.

Check out the full blog post here: https://getsol.us/2025/01/26/solus-4-7-released/

Download page: https://getsol.us/download/

#Solus #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #Release

- Evan

Reading https://opensource.org/blog/announcing-the-new-directors-of-osi-board#update and thinking about Sinn Féin's stance in Northern Ireland - they refuse to swear loyalty to the British monarch and so cannot actually sit in parliament, but people keep voting for them anyway. OSI seems to treat board elections as a purely practical mechanism rather than a way for their membership to express their desires, and their continued refusal to publish the actual election results means the desires of their membership remain unknown.

I've migrated my account from mstdn.jp to here, which I was on for 4 years as the instance appeared to have issues with loading images for far too long.