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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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A zoom into one of my Western Interior Seaway illustrations from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Mike Benton. Featured are two Triceratops crossing a waterway with two curious and hungry Tylosaurus.

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そういえば三鷹駅北口からバスで10分くらいのところにスイス食堂ルプレというのがあったんだけど、閉店してしまって夫婦ともども悲嘆に暮れている。

leprefromage.com/archives/1801

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y'know when you want to implement switch debouncing, and every single time you realise you haven't got a clue what the bouncing actually looks like and end up just fudging the numbers until stuff seems to mostly work as intended?

well here's some actual data! I took a bunch of different switches I had laying around and measured their bouncing behaviour, during both close and open.

graphs in the repo, CSV data available in releases.

github.com/gsuberland/switch_b

Graph showing voltage versus time for a switch being closed, with 32 closing operations overlaid on top of each other and synchronised to the trigger. The voltage jumps around a bunch.
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What does this mean? Can everybody now run their own infrastructure like people run fedi servers now and be just as independent and what then would be the advantages of one over the other? Is the new goal of just to make sure their network becomes at least as decentralized as ours is? Why give any more VC money?
fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

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To QWERTY/Vim users: Your middle finger is longer than your index finger. That’s why Vim’s HJKL (on QWERTY) home row keybinding isn’t comfortable. I use U and H for moving the cursor up and down instead — it makes finger movement much smoother. Don’t cage your fingers on the home row.

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mcc regrettably (& completely understandably) running into The Python Problem:

- it’s appealing to use for system tools, so core OS bits are often built with it (Ubuntu, RH yum, included by default in macOS, etc)
- also appealing for random user scripts
- single global package environment by default
- average user can’t be expected to have virtualenv knowledge
- now one’s user scripts are tightly coupled to the system tools interpreter
- aw, fuck, shit!!
mastodon.social/@mcc/114445964

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New just dropped. I can't get enough of the original electronic music, short form analog video, subtile creepy vibes and cats of this channel. It's one banger after another IMO

I post about them all the time, if you haven't tried watching one yet, you should. It's short. Like a little vacation:

youtube.com/watch?v=fw_tqKezFB4

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(pikchr.org) is a great little piece of software from the SQLite folks. It parses a little language for describing diagrams with boxes and lines and things, and puts out SVG.

(orgmode.org) has, among many other things, a way you can make code notebooks, . Like , but less webby, and inside , and supporting many languages - even multiple in the same document - thence its name.

Thanks to the ob-pikchr package by @SReyCoyrehourcq, Pikchr is one of the languages you can just write in the middle of your document this way.

Pikchr supports , and I've just made a pull request that gets ob-pikchr in on the dark-mode game.

github.com/reyman/ob-pikchr/pu

Many thanks to Sebastien for the help ob-pikchr has provided in diagramming my thoughts! You go use it too!

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I have been thinking for a while about the issue of anonymity in Web3 (and, more in general, anonymous transactions). The growing realization of the damage caused by decentralized financial technologies is nagging my cypherpunk self, who has been at war for a lifetime against invasive tracking, manipulative marketing, and surveillance capitalism. I collected my thoughts here: gagliardoni.net/#20250427_priv

Spoiler alert: I'm not endorsing backdoors, but I think some middleground solution must be found.

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@SnoopJ @mcc this is all true but the thing I hate about this situation is that there isn’t really a first-party or well-integrated consensus “good” python to use for your own purposes on linux. I really want python dot org to start providing one but we seem to be moving in the wrong direction for that

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이것과는 별개로 탈코운동 자체에 대해서는 긍정적으로 보고 있습니다. 어떻게 입어도 된다!! 라고 하는 스테레오타입(코르셋) 을 벗어던지자는거니까요. 하지만 요즘 ㅌ들은 탈코운동이 아니라 새로운 코르셋 만들기 운동을 하고 있습니다....😫

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sjfdilgcpeyjnqo7u6apdfn/post/3lochvkxars2k

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