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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Why don't politicians in general admit that we must ?

> In some ways its astonishingly simple. We allowed the collective management of the national interest to be corrupted by the idea that naked would provide more wealth for ‘everyone’, infamously, it would ‘trickle down’. It did no such thing. It never will. It only ever gushed rapidly upwards. We need a reset.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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Today I learned about 'rabbit starvation' and how Neanderthals avoided it.

When you're a hunter-gatherer and it's winter, you may try to survive by eating only meat - like rabbits, but also deer and other game. But this gives you too much protein and not enough carbohydrates and fat: most of this meat is very lean. If you eat enough lean meat to get all the calories you need, you can die from an overdose of protein! It's called 'protein toxicity'.

Hunter-gatherers in this situation sometimes throw away the 'steaks' and 'roasts' - the thighs and shoulders of the animals they kill - or feed them to their dogs. They need FAT to survive! So they focus on eating the fatty parts, including bone marrow.

So, in some cultures, while the men are out hunting, the women spend time making bone grease. This takes a lot of work. They take bones and break them into small pieces with a stone hammer. They boil them for several hours. The fat floats to the top. Then they let the water cool and skim off the fat.

There's been evidence for people doing this as far back as 28,000 BC. But now some scientists have found a Neanderthal 'bone grease factory' that's 125,000 years old!

This was during the last interglacial, in Germany. In a site near a lake, called Neumark-Nord, Neanderthals killed a lot of bison, horses and deer and crushed their bones, leaving behind tens of thousands of small bone fragments.

• Lutz Kindler et al, Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago, science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

Thanks to @sarahtaber for spotting this!

Map showing the German town of Neumark-Nord and the maximum extent of ice sheets near there during the  Saalian and Weichselian glaciations.  From here:

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago
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Hello Fedi friends!

I just published a blog post on my site inspired by the movement - recapping highlights from June and July (so far).

It was a nice opportunity to revisit the generosity of the Fediverse in helping with my promo video.

A tiny excerpt:

"These days I’m finding a lot of joy and hope in the Fediverse, feeling its full potential. I’m hoping to recruit more people in this 'rebel alliance' standing up to Big Tech."

🔗 : news.elenarossini.com/what-im-

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Hello Fedi friends!

I just published a blog post on my site inspired by the movement - recapping highlights from June and July (so far).

It was a nice opportunity to revisit the generosity of the Fediverse in helping with my promo video.

A tiny excerpt:

"These days I’m finding a lot of joy and hope in the Fediverse, feeling its full potential. I’m hoping to recruit more people in this 'rebel alliance' standing up to Big Tech."

🔗 : news.elenarossini.com/what-im-

🚀

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Finally managed to properly install Caesar III under , to run under the open source re-implementation of the gaming engine, . It wasn't as straightforward under Linux due to case sensitivity on files, and a special tool to unarchive shielded .cab files, but it worked at the end thanks to the wiki. Bear in mind, the game requires the original artwork from 1998 (easily found online).

Ceasar III running under Linux Mint and the Augustus engine
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Public Money, Public Code
publiccode.eu/en/

これを思い出している。こっちは EU でのキャンペーンだけど日本にもこういう流れがきてほしい (し、まずこれが何を言っているかわかる人が増えてほしい)

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