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.

What happens if a cosmic ray hits a voting machine?

In Belgium’s 2003 elections, a relatively unknown Communist Party candidate received 4096 extra votes…from a spontaneous bit inversion.

It was more votes than was mathematically possible at that polling station.

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Mycosphere: Ancient-Future Artifact

An experiment in mycofabrication; conducted in collaboration with Ganoderma lucidum and harnessing the power of the Sun.

Super excited to share this lil project I've been working on for the past few months. The write-up includes a step-by-step breakdown of the cultivation / fabrication process.

mycelial.technology/fungi/myco

Two hollow hemispheres made of mycelium. A black glyph has been burned into the exterior surface of one of the hemispheres.
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If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.

Users have until May 27 2025 to opt out again or forever lose the right. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

This is the random ass opt out URL, which isn’t advertised in their apps: facebook.com/help/contact/6359

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I lost my old account (@me@elizabeth.cat) while trying to update the database

so I guess this is my account now! we'll see if I'm able to restore the old one

boosts appreciated so people's can find me back
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@heymarkreevesMark Reeves 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 The CEO letter pretty much answer this:

"With the landscape changing rapidly, if there is an opportunity to use generative AI for the benefit of our human artists, we may make this opportunity available to our human artists with their explicit consent, via an opt-in mechanism."

Honestly, I wouldn't expect a satisfying answer, and I'm already reconsidering how I'll use their platform going forward regardless of how they'd answer that question.

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미아역 여성혐오 살인사건 규탄 시위

🔥시위 참가 신청: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI
🔥후원계좌: 카카오뱅크 3333316594799 (예금주: ㅂㅁㅈ)

여자만 골라 찌른놈, 때린놈, 죽인놈까지 제대로 수사하고 처벌합시다. 묻지마가 아닌 여성혐오범죄의 가해자로서 죗값을 치룰 수 있도록 싸웁시다.

5월 17일, 미아역에서 다시 만납시다. 강남역부터 미아역까지 여자라는 이유로 죽어간 여성들을 추모하고, 여자만 골라 죽여도 여성혐오범죄를 인정하지 않는 사회에 경고를 보냅시다.

검은 이미지에 위아래로 띠지가 둘러져있다. 띠지에는 검은색, 흰색 네모상자가 반복되며 각 상자에는 여성혐오폭력 규탄 공동행동 트위터/인스타 아이디 @endfemicide2023가 적혀있다.

검은 이미지 중앙에 붉은 글씨로 다음 구호가 적혀있다.
여자 골라 찌른놈 때린놈 죽인놈 제대로 처벌하라!

미아역 여성혐오 살인사건 규탄 시위
2025년 5월 17일 토요일 오후 3시
서울 미아역 1번 출구 앞
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Hello fediverse!
I guess a short is due: I am an architect and academic trying to avoid other social media and eager to see the fediverse grow. I wish all universities would have their own instances but they don't (yet), so thanks a lot to the @FediverseFoundation for hosting me.
I teach , and but I am also engaged in and .
I will probably post about all this and many other random topics in both English and German, sometimes Spanish, eventually Italian. You can filter languages in your preferences in case you don't want a Babel in your timeline.
Give me some time to get started and see you out there in the 'verse!

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And another update from SoundCloud support:

"With our upcoming Terms of Use update, SoundCloud will not use your content to train generative AI models unless you’ve explicitly given consent via an opt-in mechanism.

That means by default, your content will not be used for AI training, so no action is required on your part to protect your content."

And they linked to a letter from their CEO.

press.soundcloud.com/249951-ne

"SoundCloud has never used artist content to train AI models. Not for music creation. Not for large language models. Not for anything that tries to mimic or replace your work."

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