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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When speaking about the recent mysterious massive spambot attack on , it tends to spread hybrid Russian war and political propaganda tailored to languages corresponding to given TLD. But the propaganda part is suspiciously mild, uninteresting and self-repeating - so it actually may be even just systematic nuisance effort, only masking as propaganda. Who knows.. I am no counter-espionage expert.

It may help to to cooperate and share lists of banned mailservers, from which they registered new accounts. I can contribute already more then 10, soon more. All of them are in .com TLD. Even if they have thousands of them, it should be still possible to create blacklist. But I am not sure, if more mail domains can be imported to Mastodon moderation backed at once...

At first, they were reusing IPv4 addresses and mail domains, but when they figured out, that double registrations from weird .com domains and exotic IP pools are extremely suspicious and immediately lead to bans, they no longer reuse mail domains.

In a way, this seems to be worse, than Nicole, the Fediverse chic. Although the random sequences of syllables (LLM tokens?) used as TLDs and .com domains create pattern, which can be somewhat recognized after some time, moderation backend does not provide any useful way to automate this.

Closing registrations won't help, because before bots start doing their bot thing, you are never 100% sure, what you are banning. Someone clearly intends to force to switch to invite-only mode, but I don't want to subdue.

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People who went skeptical on recent “AI-orchestrated APT” report by Anthropic most likely haven’t tried to use their recent models coupled with custom MCP tools for intrusion security purposes. As person who did tried — I can say yes, they’re really that good. Getting Sonnet to hack shit for you isn’t even a challenge anymore, while gaining the same performance level from self-hosted models still is

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How come criminal psychopaths run the place?

No more than 1% of the popn & typically marginalised by their communities, today's criminal psychopaths have organised to an unprecedented level (via the internet, for all its goods)

For psychopaths, power is everything. Money is just a means to it

They have no empathy, so no conscience.

The disorder is so far incurable; only we can stop them.

Even chimps throw out bully leaders.

independentaustralia.net/polit

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Civil disobedience is not our problem.
Our problem is civil obedience.
Our problem is that people all over the
world have obeyed the dictates of leaders.
Millions have been killed because of this
obedience. Our problem is that people
are obedient all over the world in the face
of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war
and cruelty. Our problem is that people
are obediently filling our jails full of petty
thieves while the grand thieves are
running the country. That's our problem.
~Howard Zinn
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User interface pretending to be human: fraud.

Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.

Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.

Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.

Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.

Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.

Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.

Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.

Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.

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How come criminal psychopaths run the place?

No more than 1% of the popn & typically marginalised by their communities, today's criminal psychopaths have organised to an unprecedented level (via the internet, for all its goods)

For psychopaths, power is everything. Money is just a means to it

They have no empathy, so no conscience.

The disorder is so far incurable; only we can stop them.

Even chimps throw out bully leaders.

independentaustralia.net/polit

.


Civil disobedience is not our problem.
Our problem is civil obedience.
Our problem is that people all over the
world have obeyed the dictates of leaders.
Millions have been killed because of this
obedience. Our problem is that people
are obedient all over the world in the face
of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war
and cruelty. Our problem is that people
are obediently filling our jails full of petty
thieves while the grand thieves are
running the country. That's our problem.
~Howard Zinn
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More than 90% of new electricity capacity installed worldwide in 2024 came from clean energy sources. Yet energy demand is growing so quickly that renewable power isn't always replacing existing fossil fuel plants or preventing new coal construction. theconversation.com/can-the-wo

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Oh no.
Guy Who Is Good At Optics ™️ once again thinks that qualifies him for all other fields of physics as well, and talks about "challenging the mainstream scientific perspective" within the first minute of his video.
This bothers me more than the usual quacks, because he's proven that he's got a basic understanding of physics / optics , giving him a good credibility in the minds of potentially less knowledgeable viewers. Not to mention that he has a huge viewer base to begin with.

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Evan Prodromou shared the below article:

Building Human Rights Into the Social Web

Social Web Foundation @swf@socialwebfoundation.org

Last week Mallory and the Internet Exchange team hosted a series of events related to human rights and the social web at MozFest 2025 in Barcelona. Mallory joined Rabble on the revolution.social podcast-- Check out the episode below or wherever you get your podcasts. In addition, with Mozilla's support we convened a MozFest Fringe Event on strategy in for growing, healthy, sustainable and multi-polar social web in 2026 and beyond. Colleagues from Pangea, Tech for Palestine, World History […]

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We’re taking

1. the *most extreme purity* ever engineered in a mass production context and…

2. pushing it into a *rapidly degrading environment* and…

3. building out an entire economy on new levels of *waste* (which feeds back on 2)

“The utilization rates of GPUs for AI workloads in a datacenter run by cloud service providers is between 60% and 70%. With such utilization rates, a GPU will typically survive between one and two years, three years at the most”

tomshardware.com/pc-components

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