What is Hackers' Pub?

Completely noob blogging:

Spain black-out – Kimchi diary

https://kimchi59.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/spain-black-out/

@h2onolanA More Honest Dystopia my limited understanding of the water issue is that it's really complicated! As I understand it some data center applications need drinking-quality water, but steam turbines for power generation don't. I think the impact varies massively for different communities in different global regions

I wish I knew more about this

Just dropped our CI from 29 minutes to 5 minutes, thanks to nextest's built-in sharding. I split our CI across 6 workers. Very impressive stuff from @rainrain 🌦️ and the nextest contributors. It was very easy to do, see this link: https://nexte.st/docs/ci-features/partitioning/

Just finished the first chapter of a story I've been trying to write for the past 8 months! It's only about 3,900 words, but there were about 20,000 words written, revised, and deleted behind the scenes 😵‍💫 https://archiveofourown.org/works/65129773/chapters/167506408

It's a fanfiction of Fire Emblem: Fates, a fantasy action RPG for the 3DS. I played it as a preteen when it came out, and it's had a special place in my heart ever since.

The whole fanfic is titled "If Flames Unseal", a reference to Fates' original Japanese title (Fire Emblem: If) and the Seal of Flames, a legendary weapon which the game revolves around. This chapter is titled "Madam President" and it's mostly a dream the main character is having. It serves to show that my version of the main character is different from the canon version. Why did I change her, you may be wondering?

In canon, her character flaw is that she's too trusting, but that conflicts with her backstory. Three people are only alive because she intervened to save them, against the wishes of everyone around her. A fourth is (presumed) dead because she couldn't do that. So I think it makes more sense for her character flaw to be a tendency to try to gain control over her surroundings; After all, when she fails, people die. TL;DR My Corrin isn't out of character, the canon one is /LH #writing #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #CreativeWritingCommunity #FireEmblemFates #FireEmblemIf #FireEmblem14

A StarlingX explainer: what it is and what it’s good for https://lobste.rs/s/krx9gv #networking
https://www.windriver.com/blog/From-Edge-to-Enterprise-The-StarlingX-Advantage

I really like how we verify the examples of 493 libcurl man pages in CI by test-compiling them and making sure there are no warnings. Every man page also must feature an example or the build fails.

Let's Debug via @fanfTony Finch https://lobste.rs/s/dsybwy #debugging #security
https://letsdebug.net/

I use zip bombs to protect my server

Link: https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43826798

I really like how we verify the examples of 493 libcurl man pages in CI by test-compiling them and making sure there are no warnings. Every man page also must feature an example or the build fails.

Windows XPを使ってた頃には最初にインストールしてFocus Follows Mouseを有効にしてた…のはPowerToysじゃなくて何だっけ (macOSでsloppy focusにしてもらう方法は未だに見つけられないし上にメニューバーがあるUIではきっと不可能 🥺

書いた。こっちの人には今更かも

tips: PowerToys は使ったほうがいい | mordiford
https://wiki.maud.io/ja/vrchat/tips/powertoys

📣 We've extended the talk submission deadline for #rustconf!
You now have until May 6 (11:59pm PDT) to submit a speaking proposal.

More time = more great ideas from the Rust community. 🦀✨

Submit here: https://sessionize.com/rustconf-2025
#rustconf2025

書いた。こっちの人には今更かも

tips: PowerToys は使ったほうがいい | mordiford
https://wiki.maud.io/ja/vrchat/tips/powertoys

OK, so the stats / scientist brain in my head goes off at this paragraph.

• You'd need to interview 10,000 students, faculty, and staff for the quoted differences between Jewish and general populations to be an error bar apart (they interviewed 4300).
• Self-reporting of feared future consequences is not especially robust as an indicator of what is actually happening (to wit, Christians saying they're more likely than atheists to be physically harmed for their beliefs).

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/30/task-force-reports/

#running is an expensive "free sport".

taps mic
Is this thing on?

Hello again Fediverse, and hello my fellow polymaths! For those, who don't know me: I'm Nikita, a 25-year-old web developer from Germany 🇩🇪

To be honest, I don't always consider myself a real polymath, for I spend most of my time coding: both at my job and at home. While I don't have other hobbies, I do enjoy other activities: cooking, watching YouTube, and cycling. And I can yap non-stop about linguistics, graphic design, and open-source projects!

I also have a blog which I don't update as often as I'd like to :(

Thrilled to have moved here and excited for what's to come!

#introduction

#OpenData picks of the day:

➡️ @openstreetmap - OpenStreetMap official account

➡️ @wikidata - Free open source collaborative knowledge base

➡️ @ORCID_OrgORCID Organization - Free open identifier system for academic authors/contributors

➡️ @openmeteoOpen-Meteo 🌤🌍 - Open source weather data API free for non-commercial use

➡️ @plazi_species - Openly accessible digital taxonomic data on plants, animals, fungi

➡️ @OpenDataSocietyCanadian Open Data Society | Communauté canadienne - Open data supporters org in Canada

➡️ @opendataGovData - German government portal for open data

🧵 1/5

"It does not matter what degree you have, but what you can do." #Competency #SoftwareEngineering @icseconfICSE

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This is great. By https://eva.town

https://hypertext.tv/

"This latest move follows Martin’s established pattern of constitutional violations, including investigating protected speech by Congress members, attacking the Associated Press, and probing medical journals over their editorial policies.

But his attack on Wikipedia represents something even more dangerous: a federal prosecutor attempting to control how the internet’s largest collaborative knowledge platform manages its content.

The way this works is pretty straightforward: First, you find some pretext to investigate. Then you write a threatening letter. Then you leak that letter to a friendly media outlet. In this case, Martin sent his letter to The Free Press, a publication that has spent years warning about government censorship — at least when they pretend Democrats do it.
(...)
There’s more in there, including complaints about how AI tools train on Wikipedia, suggesting (ridiculously) that this might implicate Wikipedia if “foreign actors” are able to “launder information” into AI systems. And the letter threatens to revoke Wikpedia’s non-profit status (something the IRS would normally investigate, not the US Attorney for DC).

There are also demands to know details about Wikpedia’s editorial processes and how it handles trust & safety. Just imagine the freakout that would occur (probably led by The Free Press) if a US Attorney during the Biden admin had demanded to know Fox News’ editorial policies and standards and practices, while claiming that they were letting too much propaganda online. The screaming would never stop.

Indeed, what Martin is doing here represents exactly the kind of government interference in editorial decisions that free speech advocates have been warning about. But where are those voices now?"

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/

#USA #Trump #Wikipedia #Censorship #Authoritarianism #FreedomOfSpeech

Nice interview on Weixin with Paranoid Void, one of my favourite bands ever, from their recent festival appearance in China (interview in English, Chinese and Japanese).
#ParanoidVoid

Paranoid Void: TMS-Live 独家对话 | Montreux Jazz Festival 现场
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YrU4QKKfsMEyXChcJafuVw?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaf6G7DlrNx1n95H2l6-Oq1VbudCPZAXe-uyHJVaDQ9-F3xV8Zz3iJLaIc8Tkw_aem_XfrNlyUpopddBp-3ACLG-w

Stopped by @mfamelisMichalis Famelis/Φαμέλης in the corridor. He saw my moustache and knew it was me! 🥸

I find myself in Duisburg tomorrow and I am looking for a coworking space. Are there any that offer day tickets?

@ayoAyo Ayco I will be the normie and admit that I think Endgame is the best one, but Iron Man is my favorite one.

I've adorned my cassette emulator device with a hand whittled label. The top panel has some bumps from through-board solder pads, so nothing I can do about that. But overall it's alright, if you don't look too closely and/or judge too harshly.

#ZXSpectrum

Given what's goin' on Fosstodon-wise, there is presumably a few more people than usual trying to figure out what their next Fedi home should be. If you already have a bit of a following, my suggestion is not to join an instance, but BE an instance (i.e. set up a personal instance). Here's some related stuff I've written and resources!

- Owning my own social: https://shellsharks.com/own-my-social
- #GoToSocial on K&T Host: https://shellsharks.com/notes/2025/01/10/gotosocial-on-knt-host
- Hosting providers list: https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/01/fediverse-managed-hosting-providers

Sure, I have videogames and central heating and fried chicken, but a wild dog never had to create a new Excel spreadsheet

i wonder if this particular divide is simply unfixable. of course this isn't every c programmer either. and few of them rarely say it so plainly.

Mike Masnick nails it: the Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

> So, no, rust compiler, i do know what im doing. you're not my dad, rustc!

> Im coming from a C background and I'm used to carefully and intricately designing my memory allocations, deallocations and access patterns, even in such ways so as to make more efficient use of the CPUs cache hierarchy and prefetching algorithms and what not.

> Writing rust feels like someone constantly trying to make fun of my programming and memory management skills and constantly telling me that I have no idea what im doing.

if you understand the above post your brain is pretty far gone, well done

developing a theory that will make literally everyone mad: a lot of c programmers just want to abolish bedtime

I'm starting to question if I really need this 4gb log file of every https request going back to 2022.

If I ever tell you that you look gray, or to have a gray day, please know that it was autocorrect that hates the word gray, I mean great

Xubuntu 24.02.2ちゃんどばー

$ sudo sh -c 'apt update; apt dist-upgrade -y; snap refresh'
:
The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing:
apparmor cloud-init distro-info-data fwupd grub-efi-amd64-signed
libapparmor1 libapparmor1:i386 libfwupd2 libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-2.0-0:i386
ubuntu-drivers-common xserver-xorg-input-libinput
The following packages have been kept back:
grub-efi-amd64-bin
The following packages will be upgraded:
grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common keybase libnetplan1 libxml2
libxml2:i386 libxml2-dev libxml2-utils netplan-generator netplan.io
python3-netplan
13 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
4 standard LTS security updates
:
Setting up keybase (6.5.1-20250428154451.19f9cfeddb) ...
Autorestarting Keybase via systemd for zunda.

あ？あれ？すすまないぞ？ (放置)

How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science

Link: https://erringtowardsanswers.substack.com/p/intrinsic-motivation
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830544

I released a bunch of small bug fixes and performance improvements for #FediAlgo, the mastodon timeline feed algorithm (though unfortunately it still requires a command line to run I promise I will soon deploy it somewhere anyone can enjoy it as they can with stuff like Phanpy).

https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

#FediTools #FediTips #Fediverse #Mastodon #activitypub #mastohelp #Fedi #foss #nodejs #opensource #MastoAdmin #SocialWeb #Feed #timeline #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #TL #algorithm #node #nodejs #mastojs #Masto

they killed a titanfall extraction shooter?!?!?

Electronic Arts Lays Off Hundr...

DECtalk speech synthesizer archive https://lobste.rs/s/xiiqar #retrocomputing
https://dectalk.nu/

Cloning a Windows 11 installation from a 256 Gb SSD to a 2 Tb one. At least the storage slot in a Surface Pro 8 is accessible... I wish the memory was upgradable, and suspect the hard limit on that is likely to be the owner's biggest ongoing pain point...