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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Calling postdoctoral researchers! 🧪👩‍🔬

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, this call will support around 1,650 researchers, both European and non-European.

🧭 Considering your next research destination?

We are increasing support to early career scientists under , offering higher allowances and longer contracts.

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

Apply by 10 September 2025 → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
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Hey Fediverse friends 👋

We're happy to help make the web a little more connected and open.

With our ActivityPub plugin you can connect your Discourse community to Mastodon and the wider Fediverse

Check out all the details in our latest blog post:
blog.discourse.org/2025/04/dis

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I have to ask because searching for things like "holding drafting compass portrait" give results littered with garbage like this.

More than half of image search results are AI generated and they are *so* bad. Even if I wanted a magnetic compass he's not even holding it!

A AI generated image of a boy with freckles in pretty sunlight his body is merging into a tree trunk. A magnetic compass floats above his hand which seems oddly truncated. 

The colors and textures are pretty but the overall impact is uncomfortable.
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I'm thinking of doing a little slideshow exploring the (geometric)compass and the lesser known divider in art history.

What are some paintings/drawings/engravings you like (or find hilarious) where someone is holding one of these instruments?

"Melencolia I" from 1514 by Albrecht Dürer features an angel who reminds me of my students, she had about enough of geometry puzzles. She's holding a divider which is used more often in woodworking and cartography than geometry.

Melencolia I, a fine very detailed black and white engraving. There is a magic square, hourglass, sphere, skinny sleeping dog, bell, scales, saw and wood plane, rainbow, ladder, and many other objects related to geometry, woodworking and puzzles.
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"Politisch Verfolgte genießen Asylrecht."

Grundgesetz, Art. 16a.

Das steht dort als Konsequenz aus dem Nationalsozialismus, weil vor Verfolgung Flüchtende geschützt werden müssen.

Wenn der CSU-Innenminister allen die Einreise verweigert, ist das das Gegenteil von "Nie wieder".

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So apparently nearly all students cheat with AI chatbots now and basically aren't learning anything nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

I'm grateful I got my education before these tools were available.

Still, part of this might be that education might be best if it's not actually based around grading, but working with students to actually be excited about learning

But there's no way such a worldview will be rolled out in time to survive this

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Also; while I’m blathering about nothing into the ether… I am tired. I have had a tired week. Like in my body and soul.

Hoping to catch the next small wave of energy and surf it to larger ones, but honestly - my motivational sea is a bit of a mill-pond atm. Lots of moments where I’d like to just zone out and stare into nothing.

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I have just arrived back in Japan, bringing home the 1:20 scale model of the JAXA Hayabusa2 spacecraft that has been on display at the London Science Museum.

Five customs officials examined the model.

There was nothing amiss with the paperwork. They just wanted to see the model 😂

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5/8 JP鯖、新規登録時に意気込みを書いて審査されることに

JP鯖では、園の地主さんからスパムを捨てる動物を排除するように要請がありました。そこで本日から、JP鯖に新しくやってくる動物を審査することを発表しました。管理者のすじやんさんが、12時間以内に申請を随時確認して承認していくようです。

審査の中身ですが、JP鯖の新規登の用紙に、これまでどおりロボットではないことにチェックしたあとに、「意気込み」を書く欄が設けられました。この意気込みが審査されることになるわけです。

じつは、JP鯖の新規登録の用紙は古いものが使われているため「意気込み」として聞かれますが、最新の用紙では「審査の参考になるような、簡単な自己紹介やサーバーに登録したい理由」という欄になっています。とりあえずはスパムを持ってないことを書いておけば良さそうです。

JP鯖に既にいる動物たちは審査されないのですが、意気込みをお題として大喜利をおこないはじめているようです。わたしとしては、銘柄メモを1万まで伸ばしたいところです。

今回の承認制プログラムの発動により、スパムが駆逐されることを期待したいです

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« Vous avez la langue curieuse ! » 

C'est ce que m'a dit ma chirurgienne-dentiste hier 😅

Je sais, on pense tout de suite à quelque chose de salace, mais c'est seulement le fait que la langue vienne toucher la dent soignée ou les instruments pendant le soin.
Elle m'a expliqué qu'une petite partie des patient⋅es faisaient ça inconsciemment.

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I'm thinking of doing a little slideshow exploring the (geometric)compass and the lesser known divider in art history.

What are some paintings/drawings/engravings you like (or find hilarious) where someone is holding one of these instruments?

"Melencolia I" from 1514 by Albrecht Dürer features an angel who reminds me of my students, she had about enough of geometry puzzles. She's holding a divider which is used more often in woodworking and cartography than geometry.

Melencolia I, a fine very detailed black and white engraving. There is a magic square, hourglass, sphere, skinny sleeping dog, bell, scales, saw and wood plane, rainbow, ladder, and many other objects related to geometry, woodworking and puzzles.
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