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.

最近 mstdn.jp や Pawoo にログインしていなかった主な理由は、今年2月末、29歳の誕生日に6億円相当の資産をハッキングで失ったため、FBIやインターポールと連携して対応していたからです。
そのせいでとても多忙になり、Mastodon関連の運営にまで手が回りませんでした。本当に申し訳ありません。🙏

ただし、盗まれたのはあくまで私の一部の資産に過ぎないため、Mastodonプロジェクトの運営や発展には影響はありません。

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1. Replace workers with AI.
2. Now instead of wages you pay a company for AI services.
3. Despite the likely decline in quality of the work, suppose you become dependent as a company on this service. Suppose you make it work.
4. AI is heavily subsidized by venture capital, its priced lower than the cost to provide the service to attract early adopters (and to lock companies like you in.)
5. Inevitably the AI bubble bursts, AI services jack up their prices.

How is paying rent better than wages?

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"Meta recently announced that it is building a 4 million-square-foot AI data center in the state of Louisiana — its biggest ever, with energy needs to match.

AI processing is incredibly power-hungry, and Meta’s AI factory needs 2 GW of electricity, enough to power about one and a half million households. This means building a new natural gas power station nearby at a cost of $5 billion.

Woof! That’s a big bill for Meta, isn’t it?"

fierce-network.com/cloud/op-ed

Everywhere, Big Tech is getting massive electrical and energy infrastructure built. Whose paying? The public. You and me.

"Here we have a trillion-dollar company, Meta, sticking the ratepayers of the second poorest state in America with the bill for its shiny new power station, which, by the way, they won’t get to use."

fierce-network.com/cloud/op-ed

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Novelo de fios :ball_of_yarn:
Para deixar fixado threads que mantenho aqui no mastodon, não que sejam toots absolutamente necessários ou imperdíveis, mas sou viciado em listas e curadoria e vai que a alguém interessar possa, né? :ablobcatwink:

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Erfahrungswerte gesucht! Bitte boostern!

Die Mitgliederkartei des ist alphabetisch sortiert worden. Eine geografische nach Mitgliedern aus Ortsgruppen ist daher nicht möglich (🤯).

Als lokale beschert uns das 1000% Mehrarbeit - oder kennt ihr noch weitere Möglichkeiten der ortsgebundenen Recherche ohne jede Einzelperson anfragen zu müssen?

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"Meta recently announced that it is building a 4 million-square-foot AI data center in the state of Louisiana — its biggest ever, with energy needs to match.

AI processing is incredibly power-hungry, and Meta’s AI factory needs 2 GW of electricity, enough to power about one and a half million households. This means building a new natural gas power station nearby at a cost of $5 billion.

Woof! That’s a big bill for Meta, isn’t it?"

fierce-network.com/cloud/op-ed

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personally getting into politics is an underappreciated way of enacting change. but you need to organise and think unconventionally

in most swedish municipalities, the local branches of most parties that have political representation on the city council are TINY. in many cases it's like just that one elected politician and their mother. that's the local branch

in most cities, you'd just need like say 5 friends to take over the local branch of most of the parties with political representation

there are enough queer people in sweden to do this to the sweden democrats, the nazi party that's also our second largest, in EVERY MUNICIPALITY. and once that's done, you control the party completely.

obviously the nazis will move on to other parties, but there's a momentum that will last—i believe—over at least two elections, where people will keep voting for it even though it's nothing like before politically

that's one way to do it.

now, imagine what you could do with a party that's a lot closer to the politics you want! where your group could fly under the radar, like in a leftist, green or centrist/european style liberal party.

i once stopped a clandestine coup like that, by some right-leaning liberal people who were appropriating feminist and climate action language. it's a thing that happens. you can do it too

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Ich hatte lange Ladenlokale und kann euch sagen: Kartenzahlung annehmen ist einfacher und Billiger als Bargeld management.
Aber in Deutschland artet es immer direkt in "Demokratie und Freiheit!" Vs. "Steuerhinterziehung" aus.

Karte: 1-2% pro Vorgang. Fertig.

Bargeld: Kasse zählen, Abweichung erklären, in den Beutel, begleitzettel, wöchentlich in den Abholbeutel, Bargeld bestellen, Bargeld versichern. Waren bei mir rund 30h/Monat + Gebühren.

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Medical blood pressure PSA:

Are you overweight? Does your blood pressure read high? Does your upper arm hurt when it's measured?

The more overweight I've become, the more I've grown to fear BP measurements, because it always hurts quite a lot. I can feel the anxiety rising as the cuff is strapped on. Then I get higher heart rate and BP readings than when I am relaxed.

I guess something about a fatter arm means it hurts much more to get to similar pressure levels?

It's a known thing.

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クラウドプロバイダーのポリシーにより、mstdn.jp では画像表示用のCDNに一部不具合が発生しています。現在、修正に向けて積極的に対応中です。
その間、Pawoo および mastodon.cloud は通常どおり正常に動作しています。どうぞご了承ください。

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クラウドプロバイダーのポリシーにより、mstdn.jp では画像表示用のCDNに一部不具合が発生しています。現在、修正に向けて積極的に対応中です。
その間、Pawoo および mastodon.cloud は通常どおり正常に動作しています。どうぞご了承ください。

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Now. Canada and Aus. Learn from America; and Britain…
… just because you pulled through this time doesn’t mean you’re safe. Keep doing politics like you have, and you’ll fail next time. It’s a pattern. Learn.

Go hard on public spending, go hard on social security, go hard on taxing companies and the rich.

It’s your only option. Don’t? You saw what happened in America. You see what’s happening in the UK.

Change. Really, actually, deliver for people. It’s a matter of global security.

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質問状を送りつけて回答期限を直近に設定し、「回答は得られなかった」として一方的なあてこすりの記事を書くという誹謗中傷や世論扇動の手法があるんだねえ。過去には

> 週刊新潮の石川諒記者
> 産経新聞政治部記者の奥原慎平氏

らがそれを使ってきたと。
こういう情報は読み手としても知っておかなきゃいけないね。

産経新聞の驚きの取材方法に対する考察
tenku123.hateblo.jp/entry/2025

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The AI bubble is a stunningly designed grift. Here's a machine that promises to automate the alienation of labor for knowledge workers, built on their past work, marketed to a buying class who has none of the skills to evaluate the output of these tools or the talent they promise replace.

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How does banning a party work in Germany, and why do we even want to ban a party?

a simple explanation

One of the German intelligence agencies, specifically the "Bundesverfassungsschutz" (Federal Constitution Protection Agency), has produced a more than 1000 pages long report about the AfD, a party you surely know by now.
The report contains a thorough analysis of AfD's ideology and their connection to extremist groups all over the world.

This report and the work the agency does, is something like a warning system. The agency itself can not make any decisions about the legitimacy of a party, and neither can they interfere or disrupt a parties political work. All they are allowed to do is to listen in and collect proof of a parties anti-democratic/unconstitutional tendencies and plans using intelligence gathering techniques like hiring informants, tapping phone lines, analyzing network traffic, etc... This is only allowed, if significant concerns have been raised about a party that is allegedly acting against our constitution or planning serious action against our democratic state. If a preliminary analysis confirms those concerns, the agency gets the power to use said surveillance against the party in question.
In the case of the AfD, they have been a suspected extremist party for several years now, allowing the agency to surveil their communications and inner workings, until they came to the conclusion, that the AfD is indeed fighting our democratic state and are following a right-wing extremist ideology, something that is incompatible with our constitution.

Now that a flag has been raised, there are obvious reasons the party needs to be hindered from successfully eroding or even destroying our democracy. In Germany we have multiple paragraphs in our constitution that allow for a ban of all parties, groups, and organisations that are aggressively attacking the foundation of our free democratic state, are planning to remove the constitution, or to significantly alter it by force or with other antidemocratic means. There are specific extra-strict laws about banning parties since making that too easy would also make it easier for oppressive governments to ban democratic parties. Part of these laws is also the condition that the party has to be significant enough to have actual potential to cause damage.
How that works: The ONLY way to ban a party here in Germany, is to task our supreme court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) to review a parties incompatibility with our constitutional law and to declare a ban on them and all following organisation's trying to bring back that party. The review process often takes years and is extremely thorough since banning a party is a pretty extreme "ultima ratio" measure.

The idea behind banning a party is not to convince them or their voters that they were on the wrong path or to punish them in favor of other parties. The paragraphs for banning a party have been created explicitly to protect the state, its institutions and citizens from harm coming from said party and its structures, members, and supporters.
The voters will still be there. The members will still be extremist. But the party as an organized way of preparing harmful actions will be destroyed, and all following attempts to bring it back under a new name, with a new image, etc. will be outlawed as well.

Last but not least, our German supreme court, which specializes explicitly on dealing with issues related to the constitution and the constitutional rights of the people, will not start the process of banning a party on its own. It needs to be tasked with that by either the parliament (Bundestag), the federal council (Bundesrat), or the acting government (Bundesregierung).

After having been tasked with the review, the court will start a long investigation into the organisation, in our case the AfD, and will collect evidence that supports the claim that they are unconstitutional. For that, it also uses the 1100-page report of the "Verfassungsschutz", police reports, other court cases against the party, etc.

Should the court decide the AfD is actually unconstitutional, which in my opinion, and the opinion of many experts here, is highly likely, the party will be banned and ordered to seize all its operations, and to disband their headquarters and all other places they've worked in. They will also be forbidden to found a new party trying to replace it. If the party continues to organize action, not as a party any more but as a banned organisation, law enforcement will enforce the ban and disrupt any action taken by members of it, that contribute to the goals of the former party.

Now that the AfD has been officially found to be right-wing extremist, the pressure on our government, parliament and federal council is rising to ask the Supreme Court to review a ban of the AfD. There are no more excuses. If this actually happens, remains to be seen.

(As of right now, our conservatives and neo-liberals are still opposing a vote to start the judicial investigation against the AfD)

A little remark from @nicobruenjesNico, that really shows how strict the rules around banning parties are:

So far, the Supreme Court only banned two parties in the history of our Federal Republic: The SRP (Sozialistische Reichspartei) in 1952, which was an openly acting successor organisation of the Nazi Party NSDAP. And the KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands), the communist party of Germany in 1956.

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今天是利物浦球迷最輕鬆的比賽日了

因為提前四輪確定聯賽冠軍,餘下賽程只是例行公事
還可以接受今晚對手Chelse的列隊致意
明天還有一天假期(只剩一天了! :blobcatmeltcry:

為數不多的幸福時光

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