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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.

“Evil, I think, is the Absence of Empathy”

Thinking about this quote from Gustav Gilbert, the psychologist who interviewed Nazi prisoners during the Nuremberg Trials after WWII

They came from all backgrounds, all walks of life

Gilbert concluded the one trait they all shared was a lack of empathy
dirkdeklein.net/2019/05/22/evi

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Weyland-Yutani Health & Spa invites you to beautiful LV-426 for a groundbreaking beauty treatment with our new 100% biologically sourced face masks! After a refreshing 48 hour sleep cycle, you will awake feeling like a completely new being!

Only 24,999 credits, including cryosleep transfer and luxury condo. (*)

(*) Some conditions apply. One-way transfer, return trip booked separately.

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The Python Language Summit is a yearly event that takes place before , where core developers, triagers, and other guests discuss the future direction of .

You can read the summaries of each session on the PSF blog: pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/06/p

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This is the 100 year anniversary of humans having an idea of what the heck the sun and all the stars actually are. If you had asked a leading astronomer in 1925 what the sun was, they would say that it's basically the same as Earth, but very hot.

In Cecilia Payne's doctoral thesis she was the first to say, from spectral data, that the sun was overwhelmingly made of hydrogen and helium.

It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_

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Working with a coworker to understand and then rein in an ancient class hierarchy where much of the naming and documentation are misleading and/or no longer apply, and...

If you have never worked in a large, older codebase that has grown organically, lemme just say that it is an EXPERIENCE.

It's an art as much as a science, and if you don't keep things tidy it's *so* easy to snowplow tech debt.

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The biggest scandal in AI energy usage right now deserves to be the xAI data center running on 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because they are "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother?
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/

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12·3 쿠데타, 1·19 서부지법 폭동, 이준석 3차토론 성적폭언 등등을 봤으면서도 '차별금지법은 아직 이르다' 소리 나오는 게 이해가 잘 안 감. 차별금지법 제정은 '천리길 끝에 있는 목표'가 아니라 '겨우 앞으로 내딛는 한 걸음' 수준인데. 빛의 광장에서 터져나왔던 발언들을 벌써 잊은 건지 들은 척만 한 것인지...

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Stepping outside the algorithm

“The idea that billions of people should gather, speak and be governed under one algorithmic roof has already proven to be not only dangerous but unsustainable.”

---> This article was produced thanks to the contributions of several APC members, particularly from the global South:

apc.org/en/news/stepping-outsi

cc @smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @peertube @globalvoices

An abstract illustration depicting human figures interacting with technological elements, data streams, and organic forms like a large lotus flower. The colour palette is dominated by pinks, purples, and blues, suggesting a blend of digital and natural worlds, and the complex relationship between technology, human experience, and efforts to understand or influence algorithms and digital spaces. Illustration by Ellena Ekarahendy for APC.org
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Death (famous person recently deceased of old age)

The recently deceased Brian Wilson wrote God Only Knows, a Beach Boys song that Hans Zimmer has described as "a perfect song", and Paul McCartney as "the greatest song ever written." (Even if you assume I don't know shit about music, those two certainly know their shit about music.)

You know what that song doesn't have? A key. Nobody — not even Brian Wilson — can or could tell whether it was in E or in A major.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Only

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“Evil, I think, is the Absence of Empathy”

Thinking about this quote from Gustav Gilbert, the psychologist who interviewed Nazi prisoners during the Nuremberg Trials after WWII

They came from all backgrounds, all walks of life

Gilbert concluded the one trait they all shared was a lack of empathy
dirkdeklein.net/2019/05/22/evi

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Kritische Sicherheitslücke in Microsoft 365 Copilot zeigt Risiko von KI-Agenten
heise.de/news/Kritische-Sicher
Nutzer waren über Monate von einer kritischen Sicherheitslücke bedroht. Der KI-Assistent für Firmensoftware konnte dazu gebracht werden, sensible und andere Informationen preiszugeben. Dafür war lediglich eine E-Mail mit geschickt formulierten Anweisungen notwendig, es erforderte keinen menschlichen Mausklick. Denn die Künstliche Intelligenz hat die E-Mail selbstständig gelesen und verarbeitet

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Kritische Sicherheitslücke in Microsoft 365 Copilot zeigt Risiko von KI-Agenten
heise.de/news/Kritische-Sicher
Nutzer waren über Monate von einer kritischen Sicherheitslücke bedroht. Der KI-Assistent für Firmensoftware konnte dazu gebracht werden, sensible und andere Informationen preiszugeben. Dafür war lediglich eine E-Mail mit geschickt formulierten Anweisungen notwendig, es erforderte keinen menschlichen Mausklick. Denn die Künstliche Intelligenz hat die E-Mail selbstständig gelesen und verarbeitet

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Nachdem Innenminister Dobrindt mit rechtswidrigen Zurückweisungen von Schutzsuchenden an den Grenzen das Recht auf Asyl faktisch aufgehoben hat, rufen wir mit einem breiten Bündnis zu einer Demonstration für eine humane Asyl- & Grenzpolitik am Samstag in Düsseldorf auf: www.rav.de/publikatione...

Gleiches Recht für Alle: Beweg...

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