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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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Un deuxième monde, Michel Adam, 2018

La nuit des Kikuyu du Kenya

La parole à la nuit : l’amour et les contes, la chasse et la collecte du miel, les fantômes et les sorciers. L’aube et le crépuscule sont de faibles frontières entre soleil et lune qui se livrent un éternel combat. Accompagné par les illustrations de l’auteur, et guidé par un texte qui fourmille de notes précises et passionnantes...


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le lecteur voit la gazelle dik-dik, écoute l’engoulevent au crépuscule, sent le parfum des fleurs mellifères, goûte la garbure et (comme le disent les Kikuyu dans leur langue) « caresse les vaches » (guthathaya). Tout est dit avec la discrétion qui nous permet d’écouter chuchotements, non-dits et silence de cet « autre monde ».
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The World as Abyss by Jonathan Pugh, 2023

The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene

This book is about a distinctive ‘abyssal’ approach to the crisis of modernity. In this framing, influenced by contemporary critical Black studies, another understanding of the world of modernity is foregrounded – a world violently forged through the projects of Indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery and colonial world-making.


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Modern and colonial world-making violently forged the ‘human’ by dividing those with ontological security from those without, and by carving out the ‘world’ in a fixed grid of space and time, delineating a linear temporality of ‘progress’ and ‘development’. The distinctiveness of abyssal thought is that it inverts the stakes of critique and brings indeterminacy into the heart of ontological assumptions of a world of entities, essences, and universal determination. This is an approach that does not focus upon tropes of rescue and salvation but upon the generative power of negation. In doing so, it highlights how Caribbean experiences and writings have been drawn upon to provide an important and distinct perspective for critical thought. "How is it that ontology has come to be seen as the antidote for modernity? While Foucault denigrated ontology as a mistaken and parochial exercise, contemporary social theory holds out the promise that new modes of planetary knowledge will save us from our own excesses. Drawing together long traditions in Caribbean scholarship with Afro-pessimist thought, Pugh and Chandler illustrate how the search for more emancipatory ontologies - relational ontologies, indigenous ontologies, non-human ontologies, etc. – not only misunderstands the problem of modernity but (more importantly) works to veil the negative force that marks both the limit and cause of all such knowledge practices: what they term the abyss.
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Is IP fragmentation still considered vulnerable?
L: blog.apnic.net/2025/09/16/is-i
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
posted on 2025.09.28 at 04:42:05 (c=0, p=4)

IPv4 Fragmentation

Is IP fragmentation still considered vulnerable? | APNIC Blog

Guest Post: IPID has a 25+ year history of abuse as a network side channel. This post categorizes IPID exploits, and makes a surprising recommendation about mitigating them.

blog.apnic.net · APNIC Blog

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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The Spectral Arctic by Shane McCorristine, 2018

A History of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration

In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition.


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Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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The Society of the Selfie by Jeremiah Morelock, 2021

Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet.


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Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance.
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Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union
L: ashvardanian.com/posts/beyond-
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
posted on 2025.09.28 at 04:53:36 (c=0, p=4)

Beyond OpenMP in C++ & Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union 🍴

TL;DR: Most C++ and Rust thread-pool libraries leave significant performance on the table - often running 10× slower than OpenMP on classic fork-join workloads and micro-benchmarks. So I’ve drafted a minimal ~300-line library called Fork Union that lands within 20% of OpenMP. It does not use advanced NUMA tricks; it uses only the C++ and Rust standard libraries and has no other dependencies. OpenMP has been the industry workhorse for coarse-grain parallelism in C and C++ for decades. I lean on it heavily in projects like USearch, yet I avoid it in larger systems because:

ashvardanian.com · Ash's Blog

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Randahl Fink @randahl@mastodon.social
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It has been a very interesting week in the Mediterranean.

65,000 Gazans have been killed, and Israel has attacked volunteer ships from the Sumud Flotilla which is trying to get aid into Gaza.

Monday, 500,000 Italians went on a strike organized by labor union USB, blocking trains and highways, demanding that Italy serveres relations with "the terrorist state of Israel".

Wednesday, prime minister Georgia Meloni then declared, that Italy would change its course and recognize Palestine.

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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw@front-end.social
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I have only just discovered cybercelibate.com by breakfastatmyhouse.com (with the most charmingly grumpy scroll effect I've ever seen) and I feel like I've found a kindred spirit.

I have so much reading to do.

Cyber Celibate | Tiffany | Substack

I'm going analog — printing my FYPs, chaining phones to walls, faxing friends. Help me explore alternatives to tech. Click to read Cyber Celibate, by Tiffany, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

www.cybercelibate.com

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The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice by Chris Cunneen, 2023

The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice focuses on the growing worldwide movement aimed at decolonizing state policies and practices, and various disciplinary knowledges including criminology, social work and law.


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The collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge, politically engaged work from a diverse group of writers who take as a starting point an analysis founded in a decolonizing, decolonial and/or Indigenous standpoint. Centering the perspectives of Black, First Nations and other racialized and minoritized peoples, the book makes an internationally significant contribution to the literature. The chapters include analyses of specific decolonization policies and interventions instigated by communities to enhance jurisdictional self-determination; theoretical approaches to decolonization; the importance of research and research ethics as a key foundation of the decolonization process; crucial contemporary issues including deaths in custody, state crime, reparations, and transitional justice; and critical analysis of key institutions of control, including police, courts, corrections, child protection systems and other forms of carcerality. The handbook is divided into five sections which reflect the breadth of the decolonizing literature: • Why decolonization? From the personal to the global • State terror and violence • Abolishing the carceral • Transforming and decolonizing justice • Disrupting epistemic violence This book offers a comprehensive and timely resource for activists, students, academics, and those with an interest in Indigenous studies, decolonial and post-colonial studies, criminal legal institutions and criminology.
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Alexandre Mutel @xoofx@mastodon.social
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From time to time, I need to investigate binary data, and while I bookmarked imhex.werwolv.net/ quite some time ago, I'm not sure why I kept using HxD until today. 🤔 So I just tried ImHex again, and I'm really impressed with it 🤯: the data pattern spec and data processor are super practical. 🚀 Kuddos to WerWolv! 😎

ImHex

A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

imhex.werwolv.net

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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw@front-end.social
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I have only just discovered cybercelibate.com by breakfastatmyhouse.com (with the most charmingly grumpy scroll effect I've ever seen) and I feel like I've found a kindred spirit.

I have so much reading to do.

Cyber Celibate | Tiffany | Substack

I'm going analog — printing my FYPs, chaining phones to walls, faxing friends. Help me explore alternatives to tech. Click to read Cyber Celibate, by Tiffany, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

www.cybercelibate.com

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The cultural context of biodiversity conservation by Petra Maass, 2008

seen and unseen dimensions of indigenous knowledge among Qʹeqchiʹ communities in Guatemala

How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies...


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that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dynamics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenous knowledge. It intends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions of the natural environment. The basic idea is to illustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on.
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LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard

Link: signoz.io/blog/llm-observabili
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

LLM Observability in the Wild - Why OpenTelemetry should be the Standard

LLM Observability breaks in wild today as new libraries like OpenInference don't adhere to OpenTelemetry standards leading to silos and suboptimal performance for users who want to tie LLM observability with rest of their observability stack

signoz.io · SigNoz

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The Big Gamble by Milena Belloni, 2019

The Migration of Eritreans to Europe

Why, every year, tens of thousands of people are willing to risk their lives in perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea? Why do they face such an ordeal to reach European countries where their long-term prospects are often dismal?


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The Big Gamble answers these questions through a multi-sited ethnography with refugees, their families back, smugglers and relatives in the diaspora. By visiting family homes in Eritrea, living with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan and Italy, the author untangles everyday challenges as well as images, desires and feelings of young Eritreans pursuing their desired destination in a context of protracted crisis and long-term displacement. Throughout the book the author shows the importance of recognizing the space for choices in contemporary refugee movements. It argues that imagination, morality and emotion are crucial elements to understand the trajectories and the motivations of those who bet not only their resources but also their lives to seek asylum in Europe.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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The Art of Anthropology / The Anthropology of Art by Brandon D. Lundy, 2013

Collectively, the essays in this volume explore not only art through the lens of anthropology but also anthropology through the lens of art. Given that art is a social phenomenon, the contributors to this volume interpret the complex relationships between art and anthropology as a means of fashioning novelty, continuity, and expression in everyday life.


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They further explore this connection by reifying customs and traditions through texts, textures, and events, thereby shaping the very artistic skills acquired by experience, study, and observation into something culturally meaningful.
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David Whittle @DaveWhittle@mastodon.social
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Bacteria attached to charcoal could help keep an infamous ‘forever chemical’ out of waterways
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Bacteria attached to charcoal could help keep an infamous ‘forever chemical’ out of waterways

An environmental engineer explains how his research team is developing a system containing bacteria, biochar and gel to break down pollutants in waterways.

theconversation.com · The Conversation

Link author: The Conversation U.S.@TheConversationUS@newsie.social

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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror@infosec.exchange
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@MiddaparkaJohn Parker no, you can do nothing and provide no evidence for your arguments. It doesn't matter to me; nothing matters to me. I am doing the county level GMI studies no matter what. No one can stop me from doing science and putting my money in the hands of poor people in rural counties in the USA. You do whatever you need to do, John, and I will do what I need to do to stay alive. How about that. blog.codinghorror.com/the-road

The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income

The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.

blog.codinghorror.com · Coding Horror

Link author: Jeff Atwood@codinghorror@infosec.exchange

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The russian attack on Ukraine lasted over 12 hours, involving around 500 drones and more than 40 missiles.

In Kyiv, the strike killed four civilians, including a 12-year-old girl. Another strike hit a cardiology institute. Across Ukraine, at least 40 people were reported injured

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Ashihara NepuYona @nepu47.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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참신함에 대한 칭찬이 아니라 콘티의 가독성에 대한 칭찬으로 시작했는데, 거기서 블록버스터 영화에 대한 디스리스펙트를 보내는 건 그냥 정말로 자기가 무슨 말을 하는지 모른단 거죠... 보기 쉽게 만들고 기초가 충실하단 건 대중적이란 뜻이잖아? 근데 이제 문학은 여기 못낌 ㅎㅎ 영화미만잡 장르가 되어버림

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zuacnce6ssdmxn2jawsei3fm/post/3lzuxfed77c2u

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x.com/Star_guardian3/status/1971823799650996683 북북서로 진로를 돌려라 같은 흑백영화로까지 거슬러 올라가야 진짜 '클래식'이고 '씨네마'로 치는 풍토는 진부한 스노비즘의 일환이고 후지모토 타츠키는 샤크토네이도와 노인을 위한 나라를 없다를 둘 다 인생 영화로 삼는 부류겠져...

bsky.app · Bluesky Social

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