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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このところ日本の交通機関の乗車券としてNFC付きの物理クレジットカードを使えるようになったという記事をいくつかみかけた。NFCでクレカから得られる公開鍵があれば、それをキーとして交通機関側で有効な乗車券を確認したり、もっと慎重にするならデジタル署名で私有鍵があることを検証したりするのかしら、と思って読み進めるとGoogle Payでは利用できないとのこと。買い物のときとは違うプロトコルがあるんだろうか…

カードのタッチ決済で1日乗車券「Pass Case」に入場チケット機能 - Impress Watch
https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2031078.html

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At 2024, our volunteers did a lot of work such as: video production and editing, translation, and transcribing. Other conferences work AV team, but PyLadiesCon didn't. It was all volunteers and a lot of work.

This year, we're trying to ease volunteer overwork, so we contacted AV vendor, asked what it would cost them to do all of this.
One vendor said 8K - 13K USD 😵

Moral of the story:
- Say thanks to volunteers.
- Sponsor conferences.
The end.

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What I'm listening to today: "Level 3", Jim Andron

The Phillips CD-I is one of the most infamous video game system failures ever, and it hides a secret: *The CD-I Tetris game had a bizarrely kind of amazing soundtrack.* 10 tracks (I also love "level 0") of the kind of pure vibes "Vaporwave" was trying to chase in the 2010s slowing down 80s r&b. This version comes pre-slowed down! Strange murky easy-listening swamp jazz, general MIDI instruments only

youtube.com/watch?v=ZRVEtOL6Kh

What I'm listening to today: "Wanted", Hiromi

Some chill loungey jazz by a Japanese pianist and her band. Wonderful feel.

This is the kind of music that trip hop was processed from and I believe trip-hop fans should listen to some of the raw uncut stuff once in a while, perceive the woman who casts the shadow. Actually I'm not sure there ARE any trip-hop fans under 40. Maybe liking Portishead in 2025 is the equivalent of liking jazz in 1998. But I did like jazz in 1998

hiromimusic.bandcamp.com/track

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I used to characterize my safety in life as being a consequence of being better at many things than other people

And as much as that is materially somewhat true in our current system, it's unhealthy as hell to base so much in your own psyche on comparison with others. (Luckily the really toxic behaviors that can stem from this I rarely exhibited outwardly, but I did a lot of damage to myself)

So now I realize I am legitimately amazing at certain things, and I would like to find more ways to help others be amazing at some of those things too

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We published this response to a recent article promoting insecure devices with /e/OS with inaccurate claims, including inaccurate comparisons to GrapheneOS:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134

The founder of /e/OS has responded with misinformation promoting /e/OS and attacking GrapheneOS.

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Mentioning an account is also known as @-ing because you type @ and then the name of the account. It's also known as tagging a person.

I've done a full guide all about mentions on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse:

➡️ fedi.tips/what-are-mentions-on

Hopefully this answers all the questions people have about this topic. Let me know if I've missed something 🙂

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!! VERY EARLY PREVIEW !!

KFediViewer (Preliminary name): An application for KDE Plasma, to view the personal data export of a Mastodon profile in a timeline-like manner.

Usefor if someone has exported the personal data as a .zip file from a Mastodon instance and want to view it locally.

Will be published sometimes 2025 on Codeberg under a free (FOSS) license 🙂

Screenshot of KFediviewer. A local tool to view Mastodon data exportsExpanded Image view of  KFediviewer. A local tool to view Mastodon data exports
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So ARPANET had a famous "Flag Day" where they switched over to TCP/IP in 1983; it required a simultaneous switchover of all host machines to the new protocol. And I know that "flag day" has since referred to big changes like that in networked systems. I assumed the name referred to some bitwise flags set in packet headers. Turns out, the term comes from Multics, when similar coordination was required for an encoding change. It happened on actual US Flag Day 1966!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_day

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A lot of Kitsune Tails' signature style is the one single palette of like 80ish colors that we used for literally the entire game. Having a limited color palette for your game can really do wonders for having a recognizable look, I think

Anyway you should give Kitsune Tails a look if you like old Mario games and or gay fox girls, it's 30% off right now on Steam and itch and it recently won the Gayming Award for best LGBTQ indie game kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails/

Yuzu air dashes through a brick wall as a rainbow powered super fox
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A lot of Kitsune Tails' signature style is the one single palette of like 80ish colors that we used for literally the entire game. Having a limited color palette for your game can really do wonders for having a recognizable look, I think

Anyway you should give Kitsune Tails a look if you like old Mario games and or gay fox girls, it's 30% off right now on Steam and itch and it recently won the Gayming Award for best LGBTQ indie game kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails/

Yuzu air dashes through a brick wall as a rainbow powered super fox
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So ARPANET had a famous "Flag Day" where they switched over to TCP/IP in 1983; it required a simultaneous switchover of all host machines to the new protocol. And I know that "flag day" has since referred to big changes like that in networked systems. I assumed the name referred to some bitwise flags set in packet headers. Turns out, the term comes from Multics, when similar coordination was required for an encoding change. It happened on actual US Flag Day 1966!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_day

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