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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As I posted recently, the continuned growth of mastodon.social is putting the in danger (here's why: fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide).

The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records.

If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to both these issues:
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon-a
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon-i

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As I posted recently, the continuned growth of mastodon.social is putting the in danger (here's why: fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide).

The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records.

If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to both these issues:
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon-a
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon-i

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Do you want to do a binary upgrade of your running FreeBSD installation? Use freebsd-update(8).

To install updates and patches for the running branch use
# freebsd-update fetch install

To upgrade to a newer release use
# freebsd-update upgrade -r ${name_of_release}

-- Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org>

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With eight different flux transition times, we can start to draw with what are essentially "flux pixels". Fluxels? Flixcels?

We can't actually fit one pixel immediately above another - x always advances, but the perceptual density is high enough on the x-axis that it appears as if we have a raster display.

But we can improve this.

A floppy disk flux timing diagram showing "flux pixels" displaying the text "Hello Disk"
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If you care deeply about the Ruby programming language, open source sustainability, and community growth, here is your chance to help shape the future of the Ruby ecosystem. Accepting applications for the Board of Directors until November 21st: rubycentral.teamtailor.com/job

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Data on a floppy disk is encoded via a series of flux transitions. You're familiar with magnets having a north and south pole. We can encode data efficiently on a disk by encoding a '1' bit as a flip in the orientation of the magnetic field.

A lack of a '1' within a given time window encodes a 0. I'm glossing over some details here, but that's basically what you need to know for what I want to show you.

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Fediverse! Which password manager do you recommend to your parents, grandparents, kids, grandkids, those people from your sports club who come to you for computer help?
Please comment for additional options, I can only fit four options here.
I'd love a boost for this, it's for a talk I'll give in a week at the heise HQ in Hanover, Germany.

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