What is Hackers' Pub?

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know you should listen to some Bill Withers tonight.

🔴 This Week in Privacy #28 is live! Come say hi to our newest full-time team member, find out what we're planning in 2026, and ask us anything: https://youtube.com/live/ZBAqzbxYliE

#Privacy #PrivacyGuides #TWIP

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know you should listen to some Bill Withers tonight.

wenn man 4 mäuse an einen computer anschließt kann die ganze familie online sein

Y'know... I generally like my job, but sometimes it's frustrating how much the team pushes back when I try to introduce modern development practices

(Today's battle: #Python type hints)

애인(아직 아님)님 저 빨리 안데려가면 저 당근마켓에 무료나눔으로 올릴거에요(협박중)

I was a judge in the Independent Games Festival again this year - here are some of my highlights from 2026. Not a "who I think's going to win" prediction, just "here's some games I think are cool!" https://cdrom.ca/games/2025/11/19/igf2026.html

The New AI Consciousness Paper

Link: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-new-ai-consciousness-paper
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005928

So, hetz ma Tacheles bei de Fisch...

... weil's heute SCHON wieder Jemand gesagt hat: wenn Du Dich lieber mit ChatGPT als Menschen unterhältst, weil ChatGPT zuhört, Dich ernst nimmt, Dich nicht anfährt, und Deine Ansichten validiert, dann ist das kein Zeichen, dass ChatGPT gut ist. Es ist ein Zeichen, dass Du Dir neue Menschen suchen musst.

Außer das mit den Ansichten. Echte Freunde hinterfragen sie, fordern sie heraus. Und echte Freunde sind damit OK, dass sie hinterfragt, herausgefordert, und aus der Komfortzone gezogen werden. Echte Freunde sagen Dir, dass es nicht die Hose sondern dein Arsch ist, der Dich dick aussehen lässt. Echte Freunde raten Dir, wenn es sein muss mit Nachdruck, vom Manbun ab. Echte Freunde halten Deine Hand beim Genitalpiercing, werden Dich aber für den Rest Deines Lebens damit aufziehen, dass Du wie ein kleiner Hund gejault hast.

ChatGPT kann das alles nicht. Und Psychologie kann es schon gar nicht:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/teens-seek-mental-health-help-from-chatbots-thats-dangerous-says-new-study-24d06f8d?st=U8fEZ2

I think that's the most annoying thing, to me: You can't debloat Linux because the package management tools forbid it.

Cups is pretty damn good, I have nothing against the project, it's *way* better at just working than any print stack in the commercial operating systems, but if I'm not printing then I should be able to remove it from my computer that I own in my own house.

Try it, though, and literally *everything* vanishes, because apparently you can't watch a video without ffmpeg (in case you need to transcode it for streaming), and ffmpeg can't work without imagemagick (in case you're tired of actual video formats and wanted to animate a series of .jpg files) and imagemagick can't work without the inline documentation system (in case you can't just google the actually readable online documentation in 2025), and the documentation system can't work without ghostscript (in case you wanted to convert your man pages to PDF for printing in a big binder on your desk in the year 2025), and ghostscript can't work without cups in case you wanted to convert your PDF to PS and the only reason you would want a postscript file is to pipe it directly to your laser printer that's enterprise enough to still have a postscript interpreter.

I think that's the most annoying thing, to me: You can't debloat Linux because the package management tools forbid it.

Cups is pretty damn good, I have nothing against the project, it's *way* better at just working than any print stack in the commercial operating systems, but if I'm not printing then I should be able to remove it from my computer that I own in my own house.

Try it, though, and literally *everything* vanishes, because apparently you can't watch a video without ffmpeg (in case you need to transcode it for streaming), and ffmpeg can't work without imagemagick (in case you're tired of actual video formats and wanted to animate a series of .jpg files) and imagemagick can't work without the inline documentation system (in case you can't just google the actually readable online documentation in 2025), and the documentation system can't work without ghostscript (in case you wanted to convert your man pages to PDF for printing in a big binder on your desk in the year 2025), and ghostscript can't work without cups in case you wanted to convert your PDF to PS and the only reason you would want a postscript file is to pipe it directly to your laser printer that's enterprise enough to still have a postscript interpreter.

頭痛で目が覚めた、さいあくー

My week: https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2025-November/000135.html

strict torture, 3,000, Hackerone, Known risks, QUERY, Daniel uses, AI tooling

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여자친구 있냐고 물어보면 어떻게해야할지 고민중
애인(아직 아님) 있어요

クローゼットに愛人を隠そうね

In Amsterdam next week and part of a group underrepresented at tech confs, or can't afford a ticket? Private Packagist is sponsoring @symfony Con (Nov 27th/28th) and we have a ticket to give away: Reply your favorite PHP8.5 feature to win #php #phpc #symfony #symfonycon

Me: "What's appropriate music to put on while I plan my outfit for the party tonight? Given the party's theme... what kind of music is goblin-y...?"
My brain: "The Crystal Method."
Me: "I don't think that's-"
My brain: "The Crystal Method."
Me: "Well okay then."

Discovered our industrial receipt printer can produce output of unlimited length, really fast.

So here's a two story high version of timecube.

Breaking | Israeli occupation forces detonated residential buildings in eastern Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

小学生の頃の出てきた

Breaking | Israeli occupation forces detonated residential buildings in eastern Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

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The why of LisaGUI

LisaGUI is an amazing project that recreates the entire user interface of the Apple Lisa in the browser, using nothing but CSS, a bit of HTML, and SVG files, and it's an absolute joy to use and experience. Its creator, Andrew Yaros, has published a blog post diving into the why and how of LisaGUI.

I had been trying to think of a good project to add to my programming portfolio, which was

https://www.osnews.com/story/143874/the-why-of-lisagui/

#RetroComputing

Nice place here. When comes my supper?

#Boomer
#CatsofMastodon
#FediCats
#CatsOfFediverse
#Cats

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

Helping Valve to Power Up Steam Devices https://lobste.rs/s/zypzg0 #games #graphics #linux #performance
https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

Data Becker, komm zurück und rette uns!

This fucking meme, but it’s vibers doubting any human can program and be good at it. Because they can’t anymore

#Edinburgh is so scientific, they have fractional platform numbers. At least it's easier to remember than "Platform 0.36787968862663154".

css-tree 3.6.8 has been released!

🐞 Fixed parsing of comma-separated declaration values as Raw nodes

Details:
https://github.com/eslint/csstree/releases/tag/css-tree-v3.6.8

impala - A TUI for managing wifi on Linux https://lobste.rs/s/fwsgcq #linux #rust
https://github.com/pythops/impala

XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox

Link: https://www.xbox-scene.info/articles/announcing-xbmc-40-for-the-original-xbox-r64/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005349

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Mozilla's new strategy document makes it clear: it's an AI company, and the organization you trusted to protect the open web is dead.

https://taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle-pt3/

so redbubble is having a 50% off sale on a bunch of stuff

if any of my nonsense designs take your fancy, i highly recommend the triblend-tshirts. theyre SUPER COMFY

https://www.redbubble.com/people/ph0bos/explore?page=1&sortOrder=recent

well, since Sharetron finally came back up I tried to do a follower migration and I guess maybe there were just a lot of dead accounts in my followers on the old domain. But there's also, as far as I can tell, no way to know what happened in Gotosocial's interface. Oh well! Hello to those who made it 👋

In case you weren’t already aware that Democrats are a right wing party https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/21/congress/house-denounces-horrors-of-socialism-00664412

I'd been putting off writing this blog post for a while, but finally got around to it--wherein I draw from a film I've always revered to make observations about technology and technologists during these polarizing times...

https://pythonbynight.com/blog/princess-mononoke

Please listen to this podcast about ANOM:

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/146/

The FBI ran a sting operation in Europe where they created their own 'secure' phone and messaging platform. Their OS used portions of our code and was heavily marketed as being GrapheneOS or based on GrapheneOS.

#Edinburgh is so scientific, they have fractional platform numbers. At least it's easier to remember than "Platform 0.36787968862663154".

#FootpathFriday from Switzerland, 2014

Israel plans to seize 180 hectares (1800 dunams) of privately owned land in the occupied West Bank, claiming it wants to “develop an archaeological site.”

Haaretz reported on Thursday that the targeted area sits near the town of Sebastia, north of Nablus. It contains tens of thousands of olive trees.

The order covers land in Sebastia and the neighbouring village of Burqa.

#Israel #Occupation #westbank #Palestine

@palestinePalestine_Group

Kristn Du Mez points to what Dias and Graham say in their interview as they note that "Christian nationalism" "was a term invented by scholars and they just do their reporting on American religion these days without touching that term."

Robert P. Jones responds:

"That's the most ridiculous thing ever. … So, you're going to be a science reporter and you're going to write about human genetics without using the terms DNA, right?"

#Trump #ChristianNationalism #NewYorkTimes
/13

Dias' and Graham's position (and the position of New York Times) is generating a lot of dismay and even anger among well-respected religion scholars who have done everything but stand on their heads to demonstrate the close connections between Trump's agenda and Christian nationalism.

As Jemar Tisby notes, you can't talk about Trump's stepped-up calls for violence without talking about Christian nationalism.

#Trump #ChristianNationalism #NewYorkTimes
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvSmMqT6Fw0

But the Times and its religion reporters think that the term "Christian nationalism" isn't accurate: it's biased. Using it is "taking sides" and not being "objective."

Using it is offensive to Trump and the white Christians who support him. Dias suggests that this is a scholarly term rather than a description of anything real — as if journalists can make up the reality on which they report while ignoring scholarly consensus.

#Trump #ChristianNationalism #NewYorkTimes
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Israel plans to seize 180 hectares (1800 dunams) of privately owned land in the occupied West Bank, claiming it wants to “develop an archaeological site.”

Haaretz reported on Thursday that the targeted area sits near the town of Sebastia, north of Nablus. It contains tens of thousands of olive trees.

The order covers land in Sebastia and the neighbouring village of Burqa.

#Israel #Occupation #westbank #Palestine

@palestinePalestine_Group

秋の木彫りふくろう #misskey写真部

My role at Plotly was part of a recent reduction in force, so I'm looking for something new. I would ideally like to work in education, developer experience, open source, or scientific computing, and I'm open to part-time, full-time, or contracting positions, either in Toronto or remote. There's more about me at https://third-bit.com/about/ - if you'd like to chat, please give me a shout.