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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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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hold on. holdonholdon

the Schmitt trigger, the one used in basically all digital electronics, is inspired by a biological object? More specifically, _the_ squid giant axon?? I can't believe I'm only learning this now despite hearing a lot of things about Schmitt triggers _and_ squid giant axons!

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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hold on. holdonholdon

the Schmitt trigger, the one used in basically all digital electronics, is inspired by a biological object? More specifically, _the_ squid giant axon?? I can't believe I'm only learning this now despite hearing a lot of things about Schmitt triggers _and_ squid giant axons!

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leonbby @leonbby@autonomous.zone
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Shared by wakest ⁂

Hello Fediverse!

After a few months of lurking I am writing my introduction post (as is custom I am told).
My name is Leon (he/him - they/them), I am based in Berlin, studying Ethnography, where I also work as a student counselor, and am part of a mutual aid meal train project for disabled people here in Berlin. I am interested in knowledge production (like on here!), music cultures, societal visions of a different way of living together, activism, and trains (they are fun). Happy to be here^^

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4am ❧ @a2_4am@mastodon.social
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Shared by Chris Siebenmann

MicroTimes (1985): "[They] met a couple of years ago at a party ... They became good friends before they started in partnership to produce software." <theprintshop.club/2024/07/26/t>

@LaineNooney, "The Apple II Age" (2023): yeah I interviewed them personally. They were a gay couple. "Both had relocated to the Bay Area ... to explore their nascent identity in what was then a vibrant locus for the gay liberation movement in the United States."

Happy Pride! 🌈

title screenshot from "The Print Shop" copyright 1984 Pixellite Software
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futur @futur.blue@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by Steve Klabnik

appviewappviewappview - after 6 months, I'm running what is, afaik, the first full-network bluesky appview - you can use it at zeppelin.social, query it at bsky.zeppelin.social, read about it at whtwnd.com/futur.blue/3..., & help me keep it up for more than a few weeks at github.com/sponsors/fut...

in and out, quick appview adve...

zeppelin.social

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

zeppelin.social · zeppelin.social

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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
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I was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office 😅 businessinsider.com/show-up-mi

I was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office. I feel responsible for my team and customers.

Freddy Kristiansen, 59, was laid off in May after 23 years working for Microsoft's Denmark office. He's still turning up to the office.

www.businessinsider.com · Business Insider

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WeatherBotAK @WeatherBotAK@elsewhere.cozysumo.space
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Flood Advisory, Haines Borough and Klukwan, 2025-06-23 10:18 AKDT.

A change of pattern through early week will lead to cooler afternoon temperatures and increasing cloud coverage, slowly decreasing the amount of snow and ice melt at higher elevations flowing into the Chilkat River Basin. Water levels will gradually rise and fall on a diurnal pattern. With warm weather subsiding, minor flooding is expected to continue near the Chilkat River through Tuesday evening.

WHAT...Flooding caused by snowmelt continues.

WHERE...The Chilkat River near areas around mile post 14 and 24 of the Haines Highway near Klukwan and the Chilkat River Bridge.

WHEN...Until 1000 PM AKDT Tuesday.

IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying areas near the river.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 1015 AM AKDT, river gauge reports indicate rises in water levels from upper elevation snowmelt across the advisory area. The Chilkat River gauge near Klukwan shows that the stage was at 127.4 ft & near steady as of 10:15 am Monday. Minor flood stage is 126.0 ft. With warm weather subsiding, minor flooding is expected to continue near the Chilkat River through Tuesday evening. - Law enforcement reported flooding was observed on the North side of Klehini Bridge at Mile Marker 26.

- For Chilkat River at Klukwan: At 10:15 am the stage was 127.4 feet & near steady Flood Stage is 126 feet. Forecast: The river level is forecast to continue to very slowly fall until finally dipping below minor flood stage late Tuesday evening.

Impacts: At 126 feet: Bankfull stage. Water will begin to flood backyards along the Chilkat River in the village of Klukwan.

At 126.5 feet: Expect flooding of yards and bank erosion near the Jilkaat Kwan Cultural Heritage Center Campus Traditional Knowledge camp in the village of Klukwan. Water will flood lower elevations in backyards along the Chilkat River near Klukwan and start to impact some smokehouse and a river access road.

At 127.5 feet: Lower elevations in backyards along the Chilkat River in Klukwan will be underwater, and a river acess road, smokehouses, and storage sheds will flood. Bank erosion is expected to increase near Jikaat Kwan Cultural Heritage Center Campus Traditional Knowledge camp.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?zoneid=AKZ319


National Weather Service

forecast.weather.gov

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mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social
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It is 2025 and when I plug an external keyboard into MacOS it completely forgets the remapping on the laptop keyboard and I hateses it.

Anyone know if I upgrade to Seqoia, if this fixes anything? Is Apple Intelligence Intelligency enough to wander into my keyboard settings like it's a yard full of rakes?

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Jon Sterling @jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz
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Why don't I go to conferences anymore? It's not worth getting sick, and the only thing worse than getting sick is getting sick in a foreign country. So tired of it!

I might go to a conference again in a few years, but it's going to be very rare. I miss some aspects, but then I hear about everyone getting covid or the flu, and I'm like, "My god I'm so glad I didn't go".

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Mithical @superplane39@mastodon.social
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After spending a large part of the morning in a bomb shelter (while TRYING to pick up groceries), a large part of a missile did land a few hundred meters from where I was, but everything's fine. I even made it to my Zoom class on time.

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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Making TRAMP go Brrrr

Link: coredumped.dev/2025/06/18/maki
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Making TRAMP go Brrrr….

I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work on remote machines. Since I am Emacs user, the most common way to do this is using TRAMP (Transparent Remote access, Multiple Protcol). TRAMP is an Emacs package that let’s you treat a remote host like a local system, similar to VSCode Remote Development Extension. I had used TRAMP before and it tended to be slow.

coredumped.dev

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Johannes Ernst @j12t@j12t.social
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One of the big conceptual questions that's unresolved in the is: Just what exactly is an instance for?

Yep, it's a separate installation of server software. But what exactly does instance 1 give me compared to instance 2?

Answer A: it makes no difference except on policy: who runs it, what are their TOS, moderation policy etc. The Local feed has no significance.

Answer B: Beyond that, it defines a community. The local feed is essential.

Which should it be?

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Data Rescue Project @datarescueproject.org@bsky.brid.gy
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Shared by Stefan Bohacek

The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟

Data Rescue Project Launches N...

Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal

The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP volunteers and other organizations have rescued over 1,100 public datasets from 80+ government offices. Started as

www.datarescueproject.org · Data Rescue Project

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon@social.vivaldi.net
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I was on a new podcast called WTF Now. My episode is called How the internet went wrong. Sad title, but you will understand when you listen.

This is really back to my strong belief that we need regulation when it comes to user profiling. IMHO it should just be banned. Have a listen and let me know what you think!

youtube.com/watch?v=NxvqCwu2cI

Episode 3: How the internet went wrong

Enjoying the podcast? Tap follow, leave a review, or give us a like.As the internet grows more polarised and manipulated, we’re joined by Jon von Tetzchner—c...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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The Luddite @theluddite@assemblag.es
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Since 2016, the number of papers on mis/disinformation has skyrocketed. It's hard to imagine another phenomenon for which there exists such a complete dataset, but this field must label things as true, biased, etc., sticky concepts to define at scale. How can you label millions of tweets as true/false?

If we pick a paper and follow the provenance of its data, I think that we can learn about not just this field, but the role of data and computation in society.

theluddite.org/post/spectacle-

Dave and the Spectacle of Computation

An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.

theluddite.org

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Kim Scheinberg @kims@mas.to
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Objectively, it's far more troubling that they're banning Toni Morrison and David Levithan and Art Spiegelman and any books that even hint at representing the right's Horsemen of the Apocalypse

But there's something so completely batshit about banning _Calvin and Hobbes_, a comic strip so family friendly that it ran uncensored in the most conservative newspapers in the country for more than a decade

pen.org/magic-tree-house-autho

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America

The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

pen.org · PEN America

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Olivier Forget @teleclimber@social.tchncs.de
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Shared by Emelia 👸🏻

Good post indicating how Avery Pennarun plans (hopes) to keep free of enshittification.

Also it's quite refreshing to have a CEO of a Bil$$ corp write so candidly about the topic on their personal blog. 👍👍

apenwarr.ca/log/20250530

The evasive evitability of enshittification

Our company recently announced a fundraise. We were grateful for all the community support, but the Internet also raised a few of its colle...

apenwarr.ca

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b9AcE @b9AcE@todon.eu
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Shared by wakest ⁂

"Iran says it has attacked US forces at air base in Qatar"
theguardian.com/world/live/202
"Missiles launched at base housing US troops in Iraq, security official says"
theguardian.com/world/live/202
"Qatar says it reserves right to respond after Iranian attack on US military base in Doha"
theguardian.com/world/live/202

Iran attacks US forces in Qatar as missiles launched at Iraq base housing American troops – latest updates

State TV made the announcement as martial music played; security official says missiles launched at base housing US troops

www.theguardian.com · the Guardian

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