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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*calls the HMRC international number*

After some trying I manage to get through the bot that guarded the office, it was recognising my coughs as answers and getting very confused.

HMRC: would you like to take a 4 question survey to make our service better?

Me: Sure

HMRC: sorry, I didn't get that

Me: Yes

HMRC: Please tell us your UK mobile number to continue

Me: Why would I have a UK mobile number if I'm calling on your international number from a german number??

HMRC: Sorry, I didn't understand that.

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Fuck sake these automated bots are stupid.

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Choose Science. Choose Europe.

In 2025, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions will invest over €1.25B for cutting-edge research, supporting more than 10,000 researchers.

A new Choose Europe for Science pilot aims to create more stable career pathways for early-career researchers, reduce precarity, and align research roles with long-term institutional strategies.

If you're a researcher eager to bring your ideas to life, now is the opportunity.

Explore the calls → europa.eu/!xX9Nq7

A black-and-white photo of Marie Skłodowska-Curie is featured alongside the EU flag. Bold text reads: “Choose EUROPE for Science.” Below, a caption says: “New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions pilot initiative.” The design uses shades of blue and turquoise with EU branding.
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Mastodon is all fun and games until you realise it can become a very heavy and hungry piece of software.

If you're thinking about spinning your own fediverse instance, take a look at GoToSocial, Hollo or Snac.

GoToSocial is a very secure, privacy-minded alternative and can run without complications in a very cheap VPS with only 512 MB of RAM and a database file (SQLite).

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In the era of vector embeddings with millions of dimensions, are the kids still taught "a vector is something with magnitude and direction"?

I guess it's still kinda true, you can still talk about cosine similarity of vector embeddings if you really want to

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Love Death + Robots Vol. 4 is now out on Netflix, and I wrote two of its episodes: "The Other Large Thing" and "Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners," both directed by Oscar-winning animator Patrick Osborne. I hope you enjoy both, and the entire terrific new season.

A poster with the Love Death + Robots symbols (a heart, an "X" and a stylized robot head) where the symbols look like crystal and a rainbow of light is prisming out from the "death" symbol.
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🚨 ERROR 406 T͚̙̈́ͮ̽͒͢E͡Ć̵ͭͪH̴͉̝ F̰ͩẠ̟ͨ̒_̄ͤS̠̥̯̅͑Cͯ̋͂͋I̪͓̰̣͒S̻͜M Ǹ͕̞̘͊͗͞O̹͈̙͑T AͅC͍̭̞͖̆̔̌C̟̥̍͑̀Ë͇́͑̔ͧP͌T̹Ȧͣ̂̐B͇̟̙̅͜LÉ̷̤̺̼͙ͫ🚨 — CALL FOR PROJECTS

Error 417 Expectation Failed is looking for 10 scores against tech fascism. Artists, curators, and collectives worldwide are invited to apply with project ideas, instructions, how-tos, interventions and practices that engage with the contemporary condition.

⟶ Grants from € 1’500 to € 7’000
⟶ Application deadline: 17 June 2025
⟶ Jury: Hito Steyerl, Nora O' Murchú and Sam Lavigne

👁️ Our first Open Call is now online ⟶ error417.expectation.fail/406/

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Any artists want to make an UpCloud 88x31 gif?

One idea is text saying "Hosted on UpCloud" with our logo..

Or whatever, get creative, make something awesome/funny/ebin for people who host their sites on UpCloud! :D

€100 each in free credits to the top 3.

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なんで機械に寺院があんだよ
教えはどうなってんだ教えは
お前ら禁じられた寺院を
平気で使ってんじゃねえか
分かってんのか!?
「シン」が生まれたのは
人間が寺院に甘えたせいだろうが
金取んのかよ!?
くそったれ!

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꿈에 나온 오펜하이머 박사가 계속 앞으로 걸어가고만 있었고
시카고에 있는(왜 시카고?) 핵실험 시설에 장치를 해뒀고
이 버튼을 누르면 임계점을 넘는 핵반응이 일어나 시카고가 통채로 날아갈 것이라면서 걷다가 멈추고 인류는 계속해서 전쟁을 계속하고 배우는게 없으며 또 다시 전쟁을 계속할 것이라면서 오펜하이머가 버튼을 눌렀고 건물 전체가 핵폭발에 휘말려 증발하면서 꿈에서 깸

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Linux 6.15 is right around the corner, which means it's time for another progress report! We have been pretty busy behind the scenes and we have some exciting developments to share with you all!

As always, we want to thank everyone who support us as none of this would be possible without your generous support.

asahilinux.org/2025/05/progres

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How do I build an accessible color palette? I usually start with my default color.
Then, I'm trying to make sure that I can always use the dark shade, with a light shade, with enough contrast for text on background (4.5:1).
I used to do this manually, meaning that I will go into the color picker, and tweak the color, until I get something I like. Then, check the contrast.
Recently, I found a very nice Figma plugin that lets me streamline this process: Figma color ramps figma.com/community/plugin/148

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