What is Hackers' Pub?

shoutout to one of my favorite images of all time
(from https://analognowhere.com/)

@violet0461Violet @KorawolfsrainKora ​​

How the (German) Nazis did control the military?

No love affair

The relationship between the Nazis and the German military was no love affair right from the start.

When Hitler and his brown-shirted buddies stormed onto Germany’s political stage, the mood in the Reichswehr officer corps was about as cheerful as a CEO when the tax auditors arrive.

The Reichswehr liked to see itself as the last bastion of dignity and tradition: aristocratic accents, stiff uniforms, and the comforting smell of pipe tobacco in the officers’ mess. The Nazis, by contrast, looked like a gang of brawling soccer hooligans who had somehow stolen a flag factory.

For the generals, these upstarts were noisy, unruly, and far too fond of parades with bad choreography. Worst of all, their SA goons had this brilliant idea of replacing the professional army with a “people’s militia.” To the Reichswehr, that sounded about as appealing as handing over the keys of the national treasury to a kindergarten. In their minds, the army was their exclusive club, and the Nazis were the drunk guys banging on the door.

1/6

"The only way to scale a hero-based organization is overtime.“ 👏 (Rich Sheridan)

… as heard during today’s Seattle Code Crafters Meetup:

https://www.meetup.com/seattle-software-craftsmanship/events/307081546

You can find the recording here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFyNvnMwbqQ

#OnModernDev #AlexThuWatching #AlexThuTalk

The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45373102

what the hell

Cloudflare Introduces NET Doll...

OH: "Das ist unabsichtlich manipulativ, aber so amateurhaft. Das ist eine Beleidigung an meine Intelligenz"
"Also wenn du mich schon manipulierst, dann nicht so offensichtlich?"
@KopfKriegÉlinya~ (low energy) >^.^<

Puffin says "You better not try to steal my sun spot"

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

The year is 2025

There are five browser cores:
- webkit
- chromium
- gecko
- servo
- youtube-dl, which ended up implementing a full-fledged browser in python to keep successfully downloading videos

Web-based Hands-free mouse control
L: https://trackymouse.js.org/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375879
posted on 2025.09.25 at 13:22:30 (c=0, p=3)

Redox OS Development Priorities for 2025/26
L: https://www.redox-os.org/news/development-priorities-2025-09/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376895
posted on 2025.09.25 at 14:29:50 (c=0, p=4)

Can a model trained on satellite data really find brambles on the ground?
L: https://toao.com/blog/can-we-really-see-brambles-from-space
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377748
posted on 2025.09.25 at 15:28:16 (c=0, p=3)

Poll: When you encounter an ideology, what do you do

I have not signed the "hard fork" letter, not because Tobi won't think I'm a terrible person—I hope he does—but because I don't want a hard fork of Rails. I want the community to use Rails less. I want Rails to be less important to the community. One reason I created https://brutrb.com

​​ ​​

Emotions are neurophysiological modalities, they can cloud but also clarify; it would be intellectually dishonest of me to say I can separate mine from my values, my politics, my reality-underlying axioms. "I am not emotional about this" is an emotion. Sometimes people you trust, trust people that you do not. We live in a society.

Added a new API. Now you can add deliveries to your account 😎

https://parcelapp.net/help/api-add-delivery.html

Yeah that's going to end well. #CatsOfMastodon

Emotions are neurophysiological modalities, they can cloud but also clarify; it would be intellectually dishonest of me to say I can separate mine from my values, my politics, my reality-underlying axioms. "I am not emotional about this" is an emotion. Sometimes people you trust, trust people that you do not. We live in a society.

The cognitive dissonance between a really nice vacation (in Denmark no less) and seeing my professional community getting shred to pieces is breaking my brain. I should have ignored the latter this week, but I really couldn't.

Honestly, Rails was a career changer for me. I was never the biggest DHH fan, but I owe large parts of my career to the works of him (and countless others, of course).

This hurts. I'm not sure what to make of it. I'll fight but is it worth it?

Electron-based apps cause a huge system-wide lag on macOS 26 · Issue #48311 · electron/electron

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311

#electronjs #macos #performance

Last week I gave a talk at the IPTC’s “Photo Metadata Conference”. Here’s a blog-ified version, with lots of juicy digging into exactly what works and what’s broken in C2PA in 2025. Also strong opinions about provenance. And a link to the YouTube recording: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/18/C2PA-Investigations

#photography #c2pa

does anyone feel #Fediverse lacks #chat rooms ?
is there such thing?

Funnily enough, a week on since Mastodon introduced quote toots and apart from a small flurry of tests at the beginning, I don't think I've seen a single actual instance of one in the wild.

#Mastodon #Quotes #Quoots

The Tor Project has joined the Rust Foundation (@rustfoundation) as an Associate Member! Read the announcement to learn more about our investment in the Rust Project: https://rustfoundation.org/media/rust-foundation-member-announcement-fledgio-qrt-code-construct-tor-project/

A few weeks ago I told someone I want to do a passion project of ‘playing Ravel’s Boléro, but it’s me playing all the instruments, and then stitching up the video’. I was concerned I would not find the time. Time to work on this?

I think the thing that kills me so much about the whole Rails thing is that the Rails community that *I* have experienced is full of people who seem to genuinely care about other people and the work they do. The community, aside from the obvious leadership issues and a few bad actors, really matured while I was actively a part of it. We demanded better inclusion and a lot of people really took that to heart.

(pls boost)

hi fedi (oh, and also bluesky, hi)!!

i'm looking for good electronic dance music (with a preference towards dnb, but go wild!) that released between 2004 and 2012, pls share as much as possible if u know some <3

"good" is subjective, it can be anything you can think of, i just wanna discover more from that era

thanks!!

A long way to go, y'all. 9/29/2025

Lateness is not tolerated by the overlords. Please chip in and tell a friend or five?

Every effort to uplift and meet on time is appreciated.

On/offline *cheres* in kind spaces ok.

AT $300.72/1260 with just 4 days to go.
0/100 food
v:skillingmesoftly
pypl: kshernandezinc
ko-fi.com/khernandez

#helpfolkslive2025 #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #disability #BlackMaGe #housingcrisis @mutual_aid@hexbear.net @mutual_aid@starflower.spaceMutual Aid Bot @mutualaidmutualaid group @disabilityjusticeDisabilityJustice group

Ollama Web search
L: https://ollama.com/blog/web-search
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377641
posted on 2025.09.25 at 15:21:52 (c=1, p=6)

おきた

Thanks for the warning AO3!

I wouldn’t want to accidentally consume heterosexual media.

#gay #lgbtq #ao3

Framework, a small laptop maker focused on repairability, just released a new module that upgrades its existing laptops' GPU. The new module slots right into the Framework 16’s existing graphics bay, connects to the same custom interposer, and is secured with the same screws.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/upgrade-laptop-gpu-framework-nvidia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

New jobs on the jobs webbed site! bsky.social/about/join

Thanks for the warning AO3!

I wouldn’t want to accidentally consume heterosexual media.

#gay #lgbtq #ao3

Brazil Enacts Age Verification Law Mandating Digital ID, Curbing Net Anonymity
L: https://reclaimthenet.org/brazil-enacts-age-verification-law-mandating-digital-id
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377593
posted on 2025.09.25 at 15:18:31 (c=0, p=4)

If you want to see the best piece of transmasculine fiction I have seen come out of Japan you should read "Boys Run the Riot"

믹스커피 vs 제로콜라 vs 녹차 vs 홍차
고민 중..

When I was growing up we all got three square days a meal

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ymn5qcq7hzp3ctlisdg43t6r/post/3lznh257tdk23

Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe

Link: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376977

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

Link: https://dfarq.homeip.net/athlon-64-how-amd-turned-the-tables-on-intel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376605

#intel

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠
Meow! 😻

Yeah that's going to end well. #CatsOfMastodon

Puffin says "You better not try to steal my sun spot"

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

They arrived.

oh no. OH NO.

(pls boost)

hi fedi (oh, and also bluesky, hi)!!

i'm looking for good electronic dance music (with a preference towards dnb, but go wild!) that released between 2004 and 2012, pls share as much as possible if u know some <3

"good" is subjective, it can be anything you can think of, i just wanna discover more from that era

thanks!!

Images of the plane overrun at #KROA where you can see it being stopped by EMAS (engineered materials arresting system) which is basically a sticky trap for planes that overrun runways but more ethical haha

#aviation

🚨 **BREAKING NEWS** 📣

The creator of the most popular #OpenSource #Rails application as measured by GitHub stars (Mastodon), none other than @GargronEugen Rochko himself, has signed the “Plan Vert” open letter calling for Rails Core and the #Ruby community to cut ties with DHH.

The symbolic importance of this act *cannot* be overstated. This is HUGE. Mastodon is approaching Rails itself in stars with 49.1k vs. 57.6k.

This and more in my latest #RubyCentralTakeover update here:

https://jaredwhite.com/articles/ruby-central-is-not-operating-in-good-faith