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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Enjoyed reading The Atlantic's take on the highly incestuous and circular investments that are powering AI companies as they scrape and scrounge for more data centers. Or, why all this AI investment promises to be a lose/lose for everyone but the super rich. Tranches. Packaging and repackaging risky data center debt into financial instruments that people can buy or sell. Does any of this sound remotely familiar?

"Boom and bust can feel like two sides of the same coin: Consider also that if AI companies deliver on their massive investments, it would likely mean producing a technology so capable and revolutionary that it wipes out countless jobs and sends an unprecedented shock wave through the global economy before humans have time to adapt. (Perhaps we will be unable to adapt at all.) If they fail, there will likely be unprecedented financial turmoil as well."

theatlantic.com/technology/202

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정치, 냉소

‘31세 교수 임용’ 유승민 딸 유담, 경찰 특혜의혹 수사
4일 경찰에 따르면 인천 연수경찰서는 공공기록물 관리에 관한 법률 위반 혐의로 인천대 이인재 총장 등을 고발하는 고발장을 접수했다.

고발인은 유 교수의 채용 과정이 불공정했다며
공공기관인 인천대가 ‘전임 교원 신규 임용 지침’에 따라 영구 보존해야 하는 채용 관련 문서를 보관하고 있지 않다고 주장하고 있다.
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올해 임용되었는데 채용 관련 문서가 없다면 관련자들 줄줄이 날라가겠군요.
그런데 조국/조민에게 그렇게 떠들었던 사람들이 왜 이리 조용할까요?

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ずっとaiにお願いしてたら、にっちもさっちも行かなくなった。ここから巻き返しするくらいなら自分で書き直したほうが速い気がする……、aiに任せてクイズノック見てた結果、何も得ることができなかった。

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美國副總統Cheney去世了

小時候唯一印象是這個副總統怎麼常常心臟病發,要進院做手術,沒想到也活到84歲(也太沒禮貌

Christian Bale曾經增肥拍他的傳記電影《Vice》(港譯《為副不仁》
我後來才知道他被稱為史上最有實權的副總統,笨笨的George W Bush只是他的木偶
電影說他任內加強國家反恐監控,但對象和程度就差不多不受控制,也被指對美國兩次出兵中東有很大影響

美國進步派的指控多少有點偏見,不過也可以知道他是現代最受爭議的副總統了

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"The Authoritarian Tech Stack"

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

A project led by Prof. Francesca Bria with xof-research.org

➡️ Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system.

authoritarian-stack.info/
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아니 근데 진짜로 재미가 없다 걍 툭하면 할복하고 모가지 굴러 떨어지는 일본 만화가 스티븐 유니버스보다 재밌다고? 10명이서 40분동안 부모님의 존재성을 걸고 키배 뜨는 게임이나 스킨 씌운 파칭코가 GTA5야숨왕눈보다 재밌다고? 죽을 때까지 이해 못 할 듯

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Bobcat! In the backyard!

I’ve seen a lot of mutuals in northern areas posting bobcat sightings the last few days, so when the pups alerted me that something was out back, I grabbed the camera and crossed my fingers!!!

And lo - came on a Tuesday!

My gawd the light could not have been more perfect!!!

Bobcat in loaf mode, facing the viewer. Dappled light from the morning sun cuts a bright swath across the middle of the image, illuminating the cat and some of the undergrowth it is resting in. The top and lower third of the image is dark undergrowth.Bobcat sitting up on its honches, facing the viewer. Dappled light from the morning sun cuts a bright swath across the middle of the image, illuminating the cat and some of the undergrowth it is resting in. The top and lower third of the image is dark undergrowth.Bobcat doing a BIG yawn, facing the viewer. Dappled light from the morning sun cuts a bright swath across the middle of the image, illuminating the cat and some of the undergrowth it is resting in. The top and lower third of the image is dark undergrowth.Bobcat doing a little licky mlem while wandering off to the right often the image. Its front passenger side paw is lifted doing a lil step. Dappled light from the morning sun cuts a bright swath across the middle of the image, illuminating the cat and some of the undergrowth it is resting in. The top and lower third of the image is dark undergrowth.
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We need to talk about Mastodon gGmbH. They are the main developers of Mastodon's server software & official mobile apps, they own mastodon.social and Mastodon's trademarks. Their behaviour is inexplicably going in two totally opposite directions.

A couple of years ago they started promoting mastodon.social on the official apps while downplaying other servers, causing their server to grow while other servers shrank. Mastodon.social is currently about 28.7% of the active Fediverse and growing.

For comparison, another major server mas.to is just 1.2% of the active Fediverse. Mastodon.social is about twenty-four times bigger.

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Two screenshots from Mastodon shown side by side.

On the left side is the "more replies found" dialogue box which indicates new replies in a thread, allowing people on small servers to see the same number of replies in a thread as people on large servers. This screenshot is captioned "This button is building the Fediverse..."

On the right side is a screenshot from Mastodon's official app's front page, which has a large "join mastodon.social" button and below it a less noticeable "pick another server" button. This screenshot is captioned "...this button is destroying the Fediverse."
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Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission, is one of my heroes. She had to work twice as hard for everything, and did so much.

The Austrian government did not open the universities to women until 1901, when she was 23. They had only opened high schools to women in 1899, but luckily her father had hired a tutor to prepare her for the university before it opened, so she was ready to enter as soon as they let her in.

She decided to work on physics thanks in part to the enthralling lectures and friendly encouragement of Ludwig Boltzmann. After getting her doctorate in 1906, she went to Berlin to work with Max Planck. At first she found his lectures dry and a bit disappointing compared to Boltzmann's, but she soon saw his ideas were every bit as exciting, and came to respect him immensely.

In Berlin she also began collaborating with Otto Hahn, a young chemist who was working on radioactivity. Since women were not allowed in the chemistry institute - supposedly because their hair might catch fire - she had to perform her experiments in the basement for two years until this policy was ended. Even then, she did not receive any pay at all until 1911! But gradually her official status improved, and by 1926 she became the first woman physics professor in Germany.

Meitner was one of those rare physicists gifted both in theory and experiment; her physics expertise meshed well with the analytical chemistry skills of Hahn, and as a team they identified at least nine new radioisotopes. The most famous of these was the element protactinium, which they discovered and named in 1918. This was the long-sought "mother of actinium".

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Photograph of Lise Meitner, maybe in her 30s or 40s, with long dark hair tucked behind her head, looking serious but contemplative.
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