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.
As WhatsApp’s introduction of targeted ads goes to show, “if you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.” https://www.theverge.com/news/687519/whatsapp-launch-advertising-status-updates
We are wrapping up day 1 of LeadDev London #LDX3 at the Intercontinental O2!
If you've not come to see us yet - we are still here for another day tomorrow with some great swag and even greater conversation!
Come find us in the Solutions Zone!
Don’t sweat it folks this guy is going to save America and freedom
New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning."
The interesting thing is: People who used search engines (to find sources etc) did not show similar issues. This is an important antidote against the belief that LLM-based tools are just like search engines. Which they are not. They are massively degrading their users' mental abilities and development. Which is why these systems have absolutely no place even _near_ any school or university.
Who let Schrödinger have a cat in the first place?
Got asked to review a book proposal for "A Guide to Prompt Engineering".
More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"
にょえー
おきてゃ
ねるまえにやりたかったことおもいだしたからおきた
IEEE 802.11ac to RFC 1149 Gateway
As some of you may have already noticed, in the latest #Mastodon update, we've reworked the layout of the web app for smaller screen sizes. It should be easier to navigate and more pleasant to the eye. Let me know what you think!
Has anyone coined a colloquial term for #Bluesky's flavor of decentralization? #ActivityPub is often associated with the “federation" flavor, but that term doesn't feel applicable to Bsky/ #ATProtocol
297) Bugbot. Finds interesting bugs and carefully brings them over for you to see, then puts them back safely. #SmallRobotsRemastered
リンクに張ってあるMisskeyアカウントをちらっとみられたら一発で本来の僕が露呈するにも関わらず
I spent time over the weekend with my #Tangara, and have written up my first impressions. Did I love it? Hate it? You'll have to read for the details - but the TL;DR is that it's a cool device that falls short and isn't quite ready for prime time.
Wanna know why? Read my blog post all about it: https://wrewtopia.com/read/2025-06-15-2
やったか？！
@mcc for what reason?
チキチキボーン
おふとんになった
VRCのステータスメッセ、「〇〇なので〇〇する」「✕✕をやってみる」みたいにタイトル風にした方が（自分のプレイスタイル的には）良いかなと思いつつ「ねてる」「おきてる」みたいな硬派気取りを辞められない、、、
Je nach Personenzahl einen bis zwei zarte Elefanten mit 3l Vollmilch und 150g Zucker kurz aufwellen lassen, unter ständigem rühren ein Eigelb beigeben, in gespülte Puddingform gießen, nach dem Erkalten stürzen und mit Mandeln servieren.
Je nach Personenzahl einen bis zwei zarte Elefanten mit 3l Vollmilch und 150g Zucker kurz aufwellen lassen, unter ständigem rühren ein Eigelb beigeben, in gespülte Puddingform gießen, nach dem Erkalten stürzen und mit Mandeln servieren.
<ここみんはいいぞ、アタッカーここみんはいいぞ
<さぁ探索してみよう、本の虫になっている彼女を連れだして
<一緒なら見つけ出せるはず、心の奥でかくれんぼしていた、あの時の僕が
<過ぎ去った過去のここみんがノックする
<おどけた顔してさ僕は進むよ、きっとあの日の君に会えるはずさ
<May all the beauty be blessed
<アタッカーここみんはいいぞ
<May you, the beauty of this world always shine
<ここみんと一緒なら、あなたにも世界の美しさがみえるはずさ
I'm thrilled to announce the first release of Quark, my new reverse proxy written in #Rust 🦀
Quark v0.1.0 is out and fully functional, built on top of the robust #Hyper and #Rustls libraries. It's designed to offer high performance and security for your web applications.
Quark is open source and available under the MIT license.
People wonder why I don't like donations, why we don't have a Patreon. This shows exactly why: you vendor lock yourself in with VC-backed company to handle your fans. This company chases growth and eventually, your fans support is the best way to grow their revenue. https://www.theverge.com/news/687570/patreon-standard-price-plan-increase-10-dollars
https://www.theverge.com/news/687570/patreon-standard-price-plan-increase-10-dollars
부팅하면 Welcome 뜨는 알리 짝퉁 폰 vs 트럼프 모바일
@mcc eh Canadian and BC law is pretty clear that "contract" is a very broad term* and there was at least partial consideration - the developer clearly had a duty of care.
If the unpaid funds were for ongoing hosting the the developer would have had a right to take down the site, but there is no Canadian jurisdiction where a judge would permit the behaviour of the web developer.
(*one of the many reasons I spend so much of the year dealing with formal contract negotiation/signing)
こっちの服でも負け
#Fediverse 
版 YouTube の #PeerTube 
は今度アプリ出るのかな？クラウドファンディングしてる 
App crowdfunding — Let's go live! | JoinPeerTube
https://joinpeertube.org/news/crowdfunding-app-goal-3
이거도 주말에 생각한 건데, detail 은 어쩌다가 ディティール 가 됐는지 궁금해졌음
chocolate → チョコレート 같은 건 late 를 レート 로 잘못 읽어서 그렇게 됐구나라고 추측이라도 하는데, 왜 tail → ティール 인지는 감도 안 잡힌다
영어에서 온 게 아닌건가 의심도 했는데, 대충 찾아보니까 그렇지는 않은 듯
ディテール 라고 멀쩡히? 표기, 발음하는 경우도 있고…
i am grumpy beware, world
@mcc Agreed, though this is a mess of a situation.
The developer should have had a contract with the PM and gone after the PM for lost fees, unless and more appropriately, the developer should have had a contract directly with the client.
IMO the PM is the one at fault, unless the client received the invoices and did not pay.
Technically, and apparently legally, after the engagement is over (per the contract and outstanding invoices) the developer should not have touched the site. But IANAL.
We’re kicking off the 2025 maintain-a-thon today at UN Open Source Week! It’s taking place in the Economic and Social Council Chamber of the UN in New York. This is perfect because maintaining public digital infrastructure is fundamental to economic and social development.
The maintain-a-thon follows an unconference format. The FOSS experts from our delegation proposed core topics grounded in real-world experience with open source maintenance.
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おやすみ
일본 지식인
몇 년 전에 한국에서 유행했던 "어쩔티비"는 한 물 갔나요?
일본어로 하면 어떤 느낌인가요?
The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication https://lobste.rs/s/nngpza #vibecoding
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
My fave painting I’ve done. Finished piece.
Uprooted-Flying Geese Series, 2025
24x36” Acrylic on MDF Board.
It’s sooooo much nicer IRL and big!
#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #migration #immigration #quilting #bonsai #climateEmergency #climatechange #environment #climate
Got asked to review a book proposal for "A Guide to Prompt Engineering".
More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"
Cognitive aids do not "make people dumb" and cognitive impairment does not change anything about someone's inherent worth as a member of our community. I am certainly troubled by the political alignment and uses of AI in the world but I will never sign on to a dehumanizing narrative about cognition just because I think it might work against the uses of AI I disagree with. We need better arguments than that.
Also just as an aside the bar is HIGH for showing "cognitive change," honestly. Really high. You can't just say one person zoned out in a task oh wow their brain will never work again
O god. One of the kids has just got into Blippi.
If the Trump parade reminded you of something, you are not wrong ... ;)
Monty Python's Camp Marching
https://youtu.be/P0dWo31hwpI
Komplett OHNE Zusammenhang (nudge, nudge):
Nerderziehung, die zweite Schulstunde
Freitag, 2025-06-20 20:15–21:15, ZKM Medientheater
https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn23/talk/7YNADE/
とける
うにゅ
「貴方しかいなかったのに」
이어폰 또 잃어버림
Day-068 ルカ様
#巡音ルカ #100日チャレンジ
In general I think we should be very cautious about sweeping claims about human intelligence and impairment of cognition. From "cellphones make you stupid" to "LLMs make you stupid", from "coding makes you a genius" to "knowing math makes you a genius." Pushing for absolutisms about human intelligence and human cognition is a toxic pattern that is also so baked into our history and cultural patterns and it plays right into dehumanization for either extreme
I think there's a lot to be said and studied about what helps or hinders our problem-solving but we need to free ourselves from this essentialist approach that's always looking to define who is "smart and dumb." It's a weapon against human well-being every time.
GENKI
Dr. Anna Latour
Glyph
leyrer
もつ神@ちよ
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