What is Hackers' Pub?

탐론 슈퍼줌(28-200)으로 찍은 사진을 보고 있는데 화질이 아쉬운 대목이 여러군데 보이는군요 역시 (특히 200mm같이 쭉 늘렸을 때)

저렴하고 가볍고 비교적 포터블하면 품질에서 손해를 볼 수 밖에 없겠지만 그래도 욕심을 부리고싶어

I was reminded of the great #Cisco security fix of 2019

#curl

I'm collecting all 242 unique treasures in #Pikmin 2 across the three regions (US, JP, and PAL). I've created this web page which automatically updates as I collect more treasures while playing on real #GameCube hardware.

👉 https://sethmlarson.dev/pikmin-2-international-treasure-hoard

방송 3사 당선 예측 시스템이 3일 밤 11시43분 기준 이재명 더불어민주당 대통령 후보의 당선이 ‘확실’하다고 예측했습니다.

[속보] 이재명, 방송 3사 ‘당선 확실’

Icons!

Regularly, projects lead to the creation of custom pictograms, which is a lot of fun to do. Translating concepts into simple shapes can be an interesting puzzle.

They can be minimalist or more detailed, monochrome or multicoloured, geometric or organic, corporate or informal, all depending on the visual identity they are matching and the target size they’ll be displayed at.

Attaching a range of four icon sets I did in varied styles 😊

#Icons #Pictograms #IconDesign #GraphicDesign

권영국 후보는 언론에서 철저히 외면당한 게 컸다고 봄. 언론사 사주들은 노동정책을 말하는 후보를 절대 지면에 실어줄 생각이 없으므로...

@ip6li Ja, und kompetente Kandidaten sind halt dann nicht mehr in deren Bewerberpools...

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/112717491956459983

방송 3사 당선 예측 시스템이 3일 밤 11시43분 기준 이재명 더불어민주당 대통령 후보의 당선이 ‘확실’하다고 예측했습니다.

[속보] 이재명, 방송 3사 ‘당선 확실’

TIL: Epipens are prescription medication in Germany. Because of course you would only want an epipen if a doctor has signed off on it, right? Cause like emergencies don't happen?

Burrr - Stephen Crocker
https://macthemes.garden/themes/cb80f0663692-Burrr

et quand le soleil se couchait, il fallait bien le suivre

Christian Spencer
#sun #birds #photography

Tired of the same ol' HTML dialog with a white background and box shadow? Here's a bunch of inspiration from @malarkeyAndy Clarke to jazz things up.

https://css-tricks.com/getting-creative-with-html-dialog/

現在、韓国では大統領選挙の開票が行われています。その中で、20～30代の男性たちが反フェミニストで実質的にファシスト候補である李 俊錫（イ・ジュンソク）氏を最も支持している事が明らかになりました。私は自国の同世代の男性たちを恥ずかしく思うだけでなく、非常に憂慮しています。10年から20年後の韓国はファシスト国家になる可能性が極めて高いと考えています。社会主義者であり左派として、私は深い無力感を覚えます。

Happy #WorldBicycleDay - if you haven't given yourself the gift of a bike fitting, consider it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VYhyppWTDc

The difference between a nice bike and a nice bike that fits. you perfectly is the difference between "this is a nice ride" and "I can fly". Give yourself the gift of not trying to run in borrowed shoes.

Joined in righteous indignation but then realized there’s a good chance that, say, Andy Clark or Lisa Feldman Barrett or George Lakoff or … would have the same reaction to my podcasts derived from their work.

I guess the difference is that, were they to contact me, I could argue my misrepresentations were sincere and that I feel bad about them. An important difference, it seems to me. https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/114615555862028534

Calligraphy

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Mosstodon #Photography

it's nice to know that some people see some things that fly below the radar

IT-Sicherheitsvorlesung... Der Professor lobt den CCC hier in den Himmel (ePA, biometrische Angriffsmöglichkeiten von @starbug etc.) … 🙈

Und ich weiß nicht, wie ich mich verhalten soll. 😅

man, i just read something about me that's so nice, i legit almost cried.

사실 이재명이 밖에 있으면 누가 암살시도 할까봐 걱정된다

주무실 분들은 진정하고 주무시고... 거 어쨌든 투표를 한 우리는 오늘까지 할 수 있는 거는 다 했습니다. 다들 정말 고생하셨습니다.

Page Magic: A Chrome extension that uses AI to customize the appearance of any web page https://lobste.rs/s/h9maxf #css #vibecoding
https://github.com/khaledh/pagemagic

Ukraine's autonomous killer drones defeat electronic warfare

Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-killer-drones
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44168658

MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps

Link: https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-15-monsterui.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44162814

#ActivityPub trick question. If a C2S client actor identified by “http://bar.example/actor” posts {“id”: “https://foo.example/something”} to its *outbox* server endpoint, is that valid? Why or why not? If the answer is “it depends”, it depends on what?

【NHKニュース速報 23:41】
韓国大統領選挙　イ・ジェミョン氏当確
公共放送ＫＢＳ伝える
#ニュース #NHKニュース速報

【NHKニュース速報 23:41】
韓国大統領選挙　イ・ジェミョン氏当確
公共放送ＫＢＳ伝える
#ニュース #NHKニュース速報

확실떴다

In der Süddeutschen erklärt Dr. jur. Ronen Steinke nochmal, weshalb die Behauptungen von Merzens Dobrindt BS sind, die Entscheidung des Verwaltungsgerichts Berlin sei nur "vorläufig" und Einzelfall-bezogen.

Bedauerlich, dass der Quatsch heute von DLF bis phoenix im ÖRR immer wieder verbreitet wird...
&überdies in dem ganzen bösen Spiel das Wichtigste in Vergessenheit gerät: Dass es hier nicht um irgendwelche Zahlen geht, sondern Menschen mit Rechten & Menschenwürde.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/verwaltungsgericht-berlin-entscheidung-asylverfahren-dobrindt-li.3263081

Tired of the same ol' HTML dialog with a white background and box shadow? Here's a bunch of inspiration from @malarkeyAndy Clarke to jazz things up.

https://css-tricks.com/getting-creative-with-html-dialog/

...... 와 진짜 김문수 득표율 무엇 ......

캠핑가서 차문 열어뒀다가 벌어진 일

#HotTake: Wer "#KI" im #Recruiting einsetzt gehört mit #Berufsverbot wegen mangelnder #Berufsethik belegt!

#AI #AIslop #Enshittification #Datenschutz #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #ITsec #GAFAMs #DSGVO #BDSG #Diskriminierung #InformationelleSelbstbestimmung

@rl_dane Could you try wsconsctl display.brightness=20?

Maybe works better

~ $ doas wsconsctl display.brightness=40
display.brightness -> 40.00%
~ $ doas wsconsctl display.brightness=60
display.brightness -> 67.00%
~ $ #???
~ $ xbacklight -get
100.000000
~ $ #????!??

Right now, South Korea is counting votes for the presidential election. Amid this, it has been revealed that men in their 20s and 30s overwhelmingly support Lee Jun-seok—an anti-feminist and effectively fascist candidate. I feel not only ashamed of my country's men of my generation but also deeply concerned. I believe there is a very high chance that South Korea could become a fascist country in 10 to 20 years. As a socialist and leftist, I feel powerless…

Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a question I’ve been asking myself a lot in the past years.

And I think that the author of this article has hit the nail on its head on most of the reasons - but he didn’t take the last step in identifying the root cause.

What Bell Labs achieved within a few decades is probably unprecedented in human history:

• They employed folks like Nyquist and Shannon, who laid the foundations of modern information theory and electronic engineering while they were employees at Bell.

• They discovered the first evidence of the black hole at the center of our galaxy in the 1930s while analyzing static noise on shortwave transmissions.

• They developed in 1937 the first speech codec and the first speech synthesizer.

• They developed the photovoltaic cell in the 1940, and the first solar cell in the 1950s.

• They built the first transistor in 1947.

• They built the first large-scale electronic computers (from Model I in 1939 to Model VI in 1949).

• They employed Karnaugh in the 1950s, who worked on the Karnaugh maps that we still study in engineering while he was an employee at Bell.

• They contributed in 1956 (together with AT&T and the British and Canadian telephone companies) to the first transatlantic communications cable.

• They developed the first electronic musics program in 1957.

• They employed Kernighan, Thompson and Ritchie, who created UNIX and the C programming language while they were Bell employees.

And then their rate of innovation suddenly fizzled out after the 1980s.

I often hear that Bell could do what they did because they had plenty of funding. But I don’t think that’s the main reason. The author rightly points out that Google, Microsoft and Apple have already made much more profit than Bell has ever seen in its entire history. Yet, despite being awash with money, none of them has been as impactful as Bell. Nowadays those companies don’t even innovate much besides providing you with a new version of Android, of Windows or the iPhone every now and then. And they jump on the next hype wagon (social media, AR/VR, Blockchain, AI…) just to deliver half-baked products that (especially in Google’s case) are abandoned as soon as the hype bubble bursts.

Let alone singlehandedly spear innovation that can revolutionize an entire industry, let alone make groundbreaking discoveries that engineers will still study a century later.

So what was Bell’s recipe that Google and Apple, despite having much more money and talented people, can’t replicate? And what killed that magic?

Well, first of all Bell and Kelly had an innate talent in spotting the “geekiest” among us. They would often recruit from pools of enthusiasts that had built their own home-made radio transmitters for fun, rather than recruiting from the top business schools, or among those who can solve some very abstract and very standardized HackerRank problems.

And they knew how to manage those people. According to Kelly’s golden rule:

How do you manage genius? You don’t

Bell specifically recruited people that had that strange urge of tinkering and solving big problems, they were given their lab and all the funding that they needed, and they could work in peace. Often it took years before Kelly asked them how their work was progressing.

Compare it to a Ph.D today who needs to struggle for funding, needs to produce papers that get accepted in conferences, regardless of their level of quality, and must spend much more time on paperwork than on actual research.

Or to an engineer in a big tech company that has to provide daily updates about their progress, has to survive the next round of layoffs, has to go through endless loops of compliance, permissions and corporate bureaucracy in order to get anything done, has their performance evaluated every 3 months, and doesn’t even have control on what gets shipped - that control has been taken away from engineers and given to PMs and MBA folks.

Compare that way of working with today’s backlogs, metrics, micromanaging and struggle for a dignified salary or a stable job.

We can’t have the new Nyquist, Shannon or Ritchie today simply because, in science and engineering, we’ve moved all the controls away from the passionate technical folks that care about the long-term impact of their work, and handed them to greedy business folks who only care about short-term returns for their investors.

So we ended up with a culture that feels like talent must be managed, even micromanaged, otherwise talented people will start slacking off and spending their days on TikTok.

But, as Kelly eloquently put it:

“What stops a gifted mind from just slacking off?” is the wrong question to ask. The right question is, “Why would you expect information theory from someone who needs a babysitter?”

Or, as Peter Higgs (the Higgs boson guy) put it:

It’s difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964… Today I wouldn’t get an academic job. It’s as simple as that. I don’t think I would be regarded as productive enough.

Or, as Shannon himself put it:

I’ve always pursued my interests without much regard for final value or value to the world. I’ve spent lots of time on totally useless things.

So basically the most brilliant minds of the 20th century would be considered lazy slackers today and be put on a PIP because they don’t deliver enough code or write enough papers.

So the article is spot on in identifying why Bell could invent, within a few years, all it did, while Apple, despite having much more money, hasn’t really done anything new in the past decade. MBAs, deadlines, pseudo-objective metrics and short-termism killed scientific inquiry and engineering ingenuity.

But the author doesn’t go one step further and identify the root cause.

It correctly spots the business and organizational issues that exist in managing talent today, but it doesn’t go deeper into their economic roots.

You see, MBA graduates and CEOs didn’t destroy the spirit of scientific and engineering ingenuity spurred by the Industrial Revolution just because they’re evil. I mean, there’s a higher chance for someone who has climbed the whole corporate ladder to be a sociopath than there is for someone you randomly picked from the street, but not to the point where they would willingly tame and screw the most talented minds of their generation, and squeeze them into a Jira board or a metric that looks at the number of commits, out of pure sadism.

They did so because the financial incentives have drastically changed from the times of Bells Labs.

The Bells Labs were basically publicly funded. AT&T operated the telephone lines in the US, paid by everyone who used telephones, and they reinvested a 1% tax into R&D (the Bells Labs). And nobody expected a single dime of profits to come out from the Bells Labs.

And btw, R&D was real R&D with no strings attached at the time. In theory also my employer does R&D today - but we just ended up treating whatever narrow iterative feature requested by whatever random PM as “research and development”. It’s not like scientists have much freedom in what to research or engineers have much freedom in what to develop. R&D programs have mostly just become a way for large businesses to squeeze more money out of taxpayers, put it in their pockets, and not feel any moral obligation of contributing to anything other than their shareholders’ accounts.

And at the time the idea of people paying taxes, so talented people in their country could focus on inventing the computer, the Internet or putting someone on the moon, without the pressure of VCs asking for their dividends, or PMs asking them to migrate everything to another cloud infrastructure by next week, or to a new shiny framework that they’ve just heard in a conference, wasn’t seen as a socialist dystopia. It was before the neoliberal sociopaths of the Chicago school screwed up everything.

The America that invested into the Bell Labs and into the Apollo project was very different from today’s America. It knew that it was the government’s job to foster innovation and to create an environment where genuinely smart people could do great things without external pressure. That America hadn’t yet been infected by the perverse idea that the government should always be small, that it’s not the government’s job to make people’s lives better, and that it was the job of privately funded ventures seeking short-term returns to fund moonshots.

And, since nobody was expecting a dime back from Bell, nobody would put deadlines on talented people, nobody hired unqualified and arrogant business specialists to micromanage them, nobody would put them on a performance improvement plan if they were often late at their daily standups or didn’t commit enough lines of code in the previous quarter. So they had time to focus on how to solve some of the most complex problems that humans ever faced.

So they could invent the transistor, the programming infrastructure still used to this day, and lay the foundations of what engineers study today.

The most brilliant minds of our age don’t have this luxury. So they can’t revolutionarize our world like those in the 20th century did.

Somebody else sets their priorities and their deadlines.

They can’t think of moonshots because they’re forced to work on the next mobile app riding the next wave of hype that their investors want to release to market so they can get even richer.

They have to worry about companies trying to replace them with AI bots and business managers wanting to release products themselves by “vibe coding”, just to ask those smart people to clean up the mess they’ve done, just like babies who are incapable of cleaning up the food they’ve spilled on the floor.

They are seen as a cost, not as a resource. Kelly used to call himself a “patron” rather than a “manager”, and he trusted his employees, while today’s managers and investors mostly see their engineering resources as squishy blobs of flesh standing between their ambitious ideas and their money, and they can’t wait to replace them with robots that just fullfill all of their wishes.

Tech has become all about monetization nowadays and nothing about ingenuity.

As a result, there are way more brilliant minds (and way more money) in our age going towards solving the “convince people to click on this link” problem rather than solving the climate problem, for example.

Then of course they can’t invent the next transistor, or bring the next breakthrough in information theory.

Then of course all you get, after one year of the most brilliant minds of our generation working at the richest company that has ever existed, is just a new iPhone.

https://links.fabiomanganiello.com/share/683ee70d0409e6.66273547

Vibe coding case study: ScubaDuck https://lobste.rs/s/fgt681 #vibecoding
https://blog.ezyang.com/2025/06/vibe-coding-case-study-scubaduck/

I hope this email finds you or she will become extremely suspicious.

I hope this email finds you or she will become extremely suspicious.

髪乾かした

にゃあ

et quand le soleil se couchait, il fallait bien le suivre

Christian Spencer
#sun #birds #photography

shot, chaser