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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Miti Mazmudar @mitimazmudar@ftp.crysp.org
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Shared by Christine Lemmer-Webber

I am excited to announce that I’ll be joining University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor in Security & Privacy, within the Computer Science department.

I will be hiring graduate students to start in the next Fall (September 2026 onwards). These positions will be fully-funded.

My research is at the intersection of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and software engineering, with an emphasis on human-centered approaches.

Google Scholar profile: scholar.google.com/citations?u

[More information upcoming]

Miti Mazmudar

University of Waterloo - Cited by 50 - Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - Trusted Execution Environments - Differential Privacy

scholar.google.com

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맛스타통:verified_communism: @3me57@masost.one
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Shared by KAGAMI🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

https://www.domoleft.net/entry/%EC%BF%A0%EB%B0%94-%EC%9D%B8%ED%84%B0%EB%84%B7-%EC%9A%94%EA%B8%88-%EC%9D%B8%EC%83%81-%EB%85%BC%EB%9E%80

쿠바 인터넷 요금 인상 논란으로 본 '현실사회주의'의 현주소

[국제] 쿠바 인터넷 요금 인상 논란으로 본 '현실사회주의'의 현주소중남미의 유일한 사회주의 국가 쿠바가 최근 큰 폭의 인터넷 요금 인상으로 자국 내 논란을 빚었다. 유일하게 남은 '현실사회주의' 국가 쿠바는 민중의 낙원인가, 혹은 우파들의 말처럼 단지 실패한 체제를 부여잡고 있을 뿐인가? 쿠바 사회주의의 성과와 한계, 그리고 현실사회주의의 현주소를 살펴보자. 반공주의라는 현대 주류 자본주의 사회의 컨센서스 속에서, 흔히 '공산주의'와 등치되곤 하는 '현실사회주의(Real Socialism, 구 소련을 비롯해 현실에 존재하는/존재했던 사회주의 국가들의 체제를 이르는 말: 편집자 주)'는 우파로부터는 "평등하되 모두가 빈곤하다" 혹은 "전체주의 통제 사회", 좌파로부터는 "실질적인 평등의 부재" 등 좌우 ..

www.domoleft.net · 도모 - 사회운동단체 전환 웹진

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William Lindsey :toad: @wdlindsy@toad.social
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Who predictably abuses minors? Not drag queens, not LGBTQ people, not the woke — but Republicans and right-wing Christians:

As Evan Hurst says, take the widely available and indisputable data, the facts, about who abuses minors, and you can only come to the conclusion Josh Marshall recently reached (see Hurst, linked below, for the link to Marshall):

"Sex with minors, child porn, overwhelmingly Republicans."


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evanhurst.substack.com/p/an-ov

An Overwhelmingly Republican Christian Problem

Not drag queens. Not LGBTQ+ people. Not the 'woke.' It's Republicans. It's conservative Christians. It's conservative Christian Republicans.

evanhurst.substack.com

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jonny (good kind) @jonny@neuromatch.social
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Shared by rob pike

if you haven't taught someone who is helplessly addicted to LLMs, LLM brain is so much worse than you can possibly imagine. the problems i'm seeing from someone i am currently teaching are indistinguishable from illiteracy - this person literally cannot read single-line, fully descriptive error messages, and proceeds to just copy and paste whatever they say into the chatbot and copy/paste whatever it spits out, and in this problem domain the LLM is wrong nearly 100% of the time. when i ask them to stop and think about what the problem is, what steps they might need to take to diagnose and resolve it, and how does that fit in with the context of what we've been doing together for >6 months, they literally can't.

Edit: Oop this post escaped containment. I am not implying that it is impossible to learn with an LLM, so if it works for you then that is basically irrelevant to my description of this one very specific pattern of learning with which I have direct and repeated experience. This person is otherwise very smart and competent, I am describing the impact of the LLM on their mode of learning the things I am trying to teach them.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win
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When people are having a complex conversation and someone uses a big fancy word.
And then someone else asks: "What does that mean?"
And then the person just tells them simply and with no strings and the conversation keeps rolling.

For some reason that's the warmest most wonderful safe feeling. When that happens I know I'm in a good place.

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Evan Prodromou @evan@cosocial.ca
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I have an extra day in Vancouver for and I want to have a hackday with friends and colleagues. But I didn't get organized and find a venue. Vancouver friends, where could I get a private or semi-private space for people to hack together and maybe eat and drink for a half day on a Sunday?

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Hacker News 100 @hn100@social.lansky.name
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The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "

Link: jpcamara.com/2025/08/02/the-o-
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

The /o in Ruby regex stands for “oh the humanity!”

Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itself? If you said yes to all of the above, have I got a feature for you! But first, let’s start with a story. The cliffs of insanity I was recently reviewing some code, and part of the functionality was about matching.

jpcamara.com

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