What is Hackers' Pub?

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It is November & there's still some #yarrow blooms at #WellandCommunityOrchard 🙂

#Bloomscrolling #Autumn #flowers #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #NativePlants #MedicinalPlant #botanical

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I'm going to Seoul to participate in the Open Source Summit Korea!
#OSSummit

Funding pitch for catgirl startup which is just a series of slides of increasingly insistent meowing

https://polyglot.city/@Stoori/115487953668303059

flight for FOSDEM has been booked

ARM 컴퓨터는 부트로더 표준화될 때쯤 살지도(맥미니, 서피스 제외)

読みやすい文章読みやすい。

지금 이러나따

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おはむぎちゃん！​​

@mcc sure looks a lot more inhabitable than this joint, at least

So ganz dumm ist die #KI nicht. Ich will eine Mail schicken mit "anbei die Teilnamebestätigung für .." Und das Programm fragt mich beim Klick auf den Senden Button, ob ich einen Anhang vergessen habe 😀

OK, geht auch ohne KI aber auf jeden Fall hilfreich.

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キムタク……こんな姿に……

I implore you to please peruse the offerings in my newly re-opened electronic commerce website. Items suitable for fulfilling your holiday materialism responsibilities.

I have...
• Screen Prints of long ago rock and roll shows, theatrical presentations & strange creatures: https://octophant.us/screen-prints-store

• Original paintings of hot dogs and many other things: https://octophant.us/paintings

• Cheap stickers of various curiousities: https://octophant.us/stickers

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anyone got any recommendations for Drum & Bass music? this frequency response chart from my hearing test today suggests that I should get really into Drum & Bass music

​​ 寒暖差アレルギーでクシャミが止まらん​​​​​​

I've been getting mad a lot about hollow-eyed, artless money ghouls telling me what's inevitable and then I had an idea I had to draw about it.

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おはようございますお ​​

The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge

Link: https://blog.somnolescent.net/2025/09/mp3-com-rescue-barge-barge/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45714937

Typo of the day: nit test
#TypoOfTheDay

webmd isn’t about spider health??

ARM 서버 이야기 해서 서버용으로 구입한 M4 맥미니가 있는데, 아이들 전력소모가 정말 드라마틱 했습니다. 지금은 서버용으로 사용하지는 않지만... ​​

tko (@tko_htko) さん
から ​​ ​​ を 受けてました ​​

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This is the only place that people can live https://mastodon.social/@dirtypair/115487914273078119

New blog post up on my website! https://librarymonster.io/

Just a whirlwind 2 months. Best time of the year!

#Disneyworld #Democracy #SocialMedia
the #Paranormal and the #Occult and #Halloween 🧡🖤🧡🖤

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What if you don't need MCP at all? https://lobste.rs/s/ek1thj #vibecoding
https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-02-what-if-you-dont-need-mcp/

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#vinylcache project launches logo & mascot competition

1500€ in prizes to be collected by 3-6 winners

Calling all designers to create

(1) Logotype and logomark
(2) Mascot

Main rules:

* Only drafts required
* No AI
* No commercial fonts
* Winning entries become CC BY licensed
* Bonus points for 7 bit ASCII representation
* Submit until end of November 2025

Read announcement for full details:

https://vinyl-cache.org/#vinyl-cache-logo-and-mascot-contest

#competition #design #foss #mastoart

edits see https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/logo-contest.html#vinyl-cache-logo-and-mascot-contest-edits

Admins, how many of you have hits for this user agent in your logs?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36

7 weeks until solstice

U.S. prosecutors have charged two rogue employees of a cybersecurity company that specializes in negotiating ransom payments to hackers on behalf of their victims, with carrying out ransomware attacks of their own.

A third cybersecurity professional was also indicted as part of the scheme. 👀

More, from me: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/03/doj-accuses-us-ransomware-negotiators-of-launching-their-own-ransomware-attacks/

Twitter (etc) makes everyone think society is way more extreme than it is because the 2% who are actually passionate about [issue] tweet 40 times a day while the 98% who don't care tweet zero times. Democracy by retweet is just the tyranny of whoever has the most free time.

🚨 AI is a billion dollar bet. And Big Tech wants YOU to pay for it. Now Microsoft got sued for tricking users to pay 45% more for its AI. 🚨

👉🏼 Australia’s competition regulator says Microsoft misled around 2.7 million users into paying more for Microsoft 365 when offering its AI Copilot.

Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/microsoft-price-hike-because-of-ai

#Microsoft #AI #Microsoft356 #Australia

Holy shit, I'm not fine with GenAI in general already, but I didn't realize it would also undermine the credibility of skill.

I spent a day preparing hilarious high quality meme images for a presentation, like "Santa gives little Suzie a silicon wafer for christmas." From photos, using GIMP. After the prez I was asked whether I was ok with using so many AI images.

My brother in christ, has it ever occured to you that I may just be GOOD AT IMAGE EDITING?

まゆでぃすこぉ

It is three years on Mastodon for me. A friend of mine said, you could always try Mastodon... and here we are. Thank you to all of you who make this place special.

fun fact: bats can run on all fours and it has the most playful wyvern vibe ever

</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening

Link: https://htmx.org/essays/the-fetchening/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803358

Listening in to a meeting of radio astronomers: direct-to-cell satellites are SO BRIGHT that even though they're following the rules and broadcasting in their allocated bands, they destroy astronomical observations across a huge swath of frequencies.

Radio telescopes were designed to operate in remote place far from cell towers. Now the cell towers are directly overhead, blasting into the incredibly sensitive detectors. Yet another way we're losing our window to the stars: bye bye SETI.

コスモスはたけ #misskey写真部

굿모닝

다들 굿모닝이에요

I’m looking for some accounts on certain subjects, who/what would you recommend?

- #sociology (macro, urban, digital, antiracist criminology, cultural, transformative)
- #PublicInterestTech (inequality, advocacy, ethical/responsible tech)
- #sts (sociology, technology, race, policy)
- #police (technology, surveillance, segregation in the US)
- advocacy groups in the US that focus on any of the above
- other things you think I might like!