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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Let’s break down some major financial scams happening to folks right now.
1st, scammers are capitalizing on fears of a recession to trick folks into:
- Making bogus investments to “get rich quick”
- Joining "investment coaching" groups w/ expensive fees

Thanks Meta for partnering with me to make this PSA to keep folks safe.

These investment scams promise quick returns with "no risk" with assets like shares of a company, cryptocurrency, real estate or metals/coins.
And they target people on social media, texts, emails, or calls.

Folks often feel embarrassed that they have fallen for an Investment Scam or paid high fees to join a bogus "exclusive investment group/opportunity" so they suffer in silence while the scammers recruit more people into their fraudulent scheme. We have to talk about this to protect people.

For example, scammers have been targeting people using fake Facebook / TikTok accounts to pose as experts, employees, & investment coaches affiliated w/ cryptocurrency and investment apps.
Scammers claim they have "trading secrets" (and you have to buy in to their group with expensive fees).
They post images and videos of people crying or happy with screenshots of how thankful they were that they "made profits" so others fall for the scam.
They also pretend they have internal access and can "support with account recovery".

Now let's talk through 2 other major types of financial scams in action right now:
1. Advance Payment Scams
2. Overpayment and Refund Request Scams
Even if you haven't fallen for this, you or a loved one have likely encountered someone making one of these claims this year!

Advance Payment Scams:
These scammers often hide behind legit looking profiles (like a Facebook Marketplace account). After chatting and agreeing to sell an item to you, they then ask that you pay *before* picking up the item to secure you as the buyer. After you pay, the scammer ghosts you.

Overpayment and Refund Request Scams:
This is when a scammer may provide too much money for an item they purchased online (or they claim they have with a fake receipt photo) and request a partial refund from you. After they receive the partial refund, the scammer then reverses their original payment (if they made one at all), keeping the original payment + the refund.

How do we protect ourselves:
1. Be wary of investment advice from people you don’t know or have recently met
Only take investment advice from licensed and registered investment firms or advisors that you have confirmed are who they say they are -- not someone you just met or watched on social media

2. Spot investment red flags
If it’s too good to be true, an opportunity to “get rich quick”, or "guaranteed with no risk", it's likely a scam

3. Be politely paranoid during money transfers
Only transfer money to people you know personally, people you’ve independently verified are who they say they are, or once you’ve met up to receive an item you want to buy IRL.

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モデレーションリストとかいうのはいかにも人類には過ぎた代物感がある。こんなのどう考えてもどこぞの誰かの私怨混じりとも知れぬリストを鵜呑みにする人々が続出したり集団的な相互ブロック競争に発展する未来が見えなくない? それとも私の性格が悪すぎるだけ?(その可能性は多分にある(?))

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「パレスチナ温かい家」で出会ったこちらの作品は、日本帝国主義の植民地統治下に、朝鮮半島から日本に渡った人びとを記憶する地域にはえる雑草を集めたもの。場所の記憶をモニュメントではなく、土地特有の草の匂いであらわしている。ガラスの蓋をあけて、宇部市、飯塚市、八千代市、それぞれの現場の記憶を鼻から吸いこんだ。

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The next release of will probably bring not a single new feature, but focus on improvements, especially regarding . Support for using ( et al) to handle is a part of it (which is done and works). Still unsure whether I'll also add support for ' . Using kqueue also as a better backend for is on the list.

Another hopefully quite relevant change is here:

github.com/Zirias/poser/commit

In short, so far my lib was always awaiting readiness notification (from kqueue, or on Linux, or select/poll for other platforms) before doing any read or write on a socket. This is the ideal approach for reads, because in the common case, a socket is NOT ready for reading ... our kernel must have received something from the remote end first. But for writes, it's not so ideal. The common case is that a socket IS ready to write (because there's space left in the kernel's send buffers). So, just try it, and only register for notifications if it ever fails, makes more sense. Avoids pointless waiting and pointless events, and e.g. with epoll, even unnecessary syscalls. 😉

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まあそれはそれとして、旧Twitterのブロック機能の改変の流れとかを見るに、このまま上手く騙くらかしたままネットワーク効果の引力に絡め取った後なら、ブロックが公開されていることが多少知れ渡ろうが案外大したダメージにならないような気もしている。それが社会的厚生の観点で望ましいのかは別として

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대기업 계열사에서 이력서를 보고싶다고해서 보내줬는데, 코딩테스트에 초대를 해주셨다.

거기서 만점받음.

누가 코테본다고 했을 때 옆에서 훈수는 몇번 둬봤는데, 직접 참가자가 되는건 손에 꼽을 정도였기에 좋은 경험이었다.

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I am humbled and thrilled to be a member of the @fediforum Advisory Board!

It was formed to address the hard questions, and to make the most welcoming and ispiring gathering to push our beloved to a brighter future.

Proudly, I am the youngest and hands-down the craziest member of the board—I joined our first meeting from @ilcubobeachIl Cubo Beach ☀️, with a beer in my hand. 😎

Reach out if you have issues, questions, or ideas to raise. I am, we are, all ears.

It’s so cool to collaborate with this group of incredibly skilled people!

Long live the Fediverse ⁂ ❤️

mastodon.social/@fediforum/114

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MayFirst is a member-owned cooperative offering autonomous community tech, including
* web hosting
* email
* video conferencing

we have board elections going on right now and all the candidates do incredible work at the intersection of technology and justice.

I ended up voting for the seven I found to have the most concrete and clear vision for the coop.

A prevailing theme is improving service delivery and growing membership to help people get off Big Tech

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「パレスチナ温かい家」で出会ったこちらの作品は、日本帝国主義の植民地統治下に、朝鮮半島から日本に渡った人びとを記憶する地域にはえる雑草を集めたもの。場所の記憶をモニュメントではなく、土地特有の草の匂いであらわしている。ガラスの蓋をあけて、宇部市、飯塚市、八千代市、それぞれの現場の記憶を鼻から吸いこんだ。

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Maybe to be prepared, we don't only need to have sufficient stocks and a battery powered radio, but more local communities producing whatever are our first needs. For me it connects to the , with local energy grids in the hands of neighbours, telecommunications infrastructure that is owned and governed by your local community, food coops and community supported agriculture.

7/X

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La dernière mise à jour de cartes.app est extraordinaire 🤩

cartes.app

Tu as l'impression d'être sur GMaps.

Tu cherches 'bricolage' puis tu peux voir tous les magasins de bricolage s'afficher quasi-instantanément. Pareil pour des dizaines de catégories 👌🏻

Vraiment, re-essayez !

(Sans compter les vues satellites, hybride, , photos commons, ...)

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난 그냥 썬더볼츠에 대한 평이랑 이걸로 MCU가 어떻게 방향이 변할수있을까 이런게 궁금한데 한국영화유튜브란놈들 죄다 PC를 버리고..PC때문에 망하다가..이지랄들 쳐해서 뭐 볼수있는게 없음

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