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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Social engineering -- the art of tricking people into doing stupid shit -- has always been the most reliable way to hack anything. Now with AI browsers and agentic this and that, we've actually built social engineering into the code. So it can be used to trick others but also trick itself. Brilliant!

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In case you missed it, I have a website which has thousands of handpicked Fediverse accounts to follow organised into hundreds of topics:

➡️ fedi.directory

To find out more about an account, click on its Fediverse address.

To follow an account, copy-paste its Fediverse address into your search box in Mastodon etc.

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갠적으로 의외로 난 상대의 외모에 신경은 잘 안쓰는데,(예쁜가 잘생겼는가)
그게 아니라 무언가에 다른것에 대해서 거부감을 쉽게 느끼는것 같음...
예를들어서 아예 안맞는 톤의 피부화장을 떡칠해서 신경쓰인다던지...?

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"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."

huffpost.com/entry/history-pro

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politics, useless governments

@sashin @Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified:
many would argue that government has been hollowed out by business/wealth. every politician has rich donors making a buck on the back end

Adam Smith said that state and business are in a boxing match and one steps out of line the other smacks them, but I don't even recall the last time state threw anything close to a punch

the only time we've had epic social progress its been due to pressure from the outside - the civil rights movement, forcing politicians into a corner

perhaps, as Sashin says, forcing the ruling into a corner

its really them state cares about - and the compromises from past battles are the things we took for granted growing up

but if people that came before us managed to push the ruling class into a corner then it can be done again - don't get defeatist

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My Feedly Pro annual subscription finally expired, so I switched to @Inoreader on @molly0xfffMolly White's recommendation. It does everything Feedly did but better, without shoving unwanted AI features and ads for creepy corporate surveillance/threat intelligence services down my throat. Recommended! inoreader.com/

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I’m starting to go over some of my favourite albums this year, and this live version is great.
Triple Deer are a Taiwanese post rock (ish, sort of) band that sing in Amis, one of the indigenous languages of Taiwan. I really like the album this comes from, SOWAL.

youtube.com/watch?v=APi-mb3ndC8

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This irrational fear of socialism from some politicians in the US looks so bizarre from Canada, a country with universal healthcare and some kind of social net that is still sadly very much under the grasp of destructive capitalism.

Are those politicians terrified the people could be healthy, fed, safe, and happy? What exactly terrifies them here?

@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: Nothing about this terrifies them. It’s performative creation of a boogeyman to distract US citizens from the real causes of the problems in this country.

What does worry them is the possibility that people will see through the subterfuge and realize what they are doing. That’s why they work so hard to silence criticism and generate so much anti socialism propaganda.

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ME: I feel like I haven't been artistically productive for a long time

MY BRAIN: Make a Virtual Boy game

ME: I've been making stuff, but it's either been things that were never finished, or experimental work that was never meant to leave my computer

MY BRAIN: Make a Virtual Boy game

ME: It's been rewarding, but art with no audience has a hollowness

MY BRAIN: Make a Virtual Boy game

ME: I just feel like I want to make something that has an impact on people

MY BRAIN: Make a Virtual Boy game

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Save the Children!

✅ Ban AI-chatbot groomers

✅ Secure children's communications with end-to-end encryption

✅ Forbid companies from requesting personal identification or biometrics of children or potential children

✅ Prohibit privacy-invasive legislation like Chat Control or Age Verification laws that would endanger the children

✅ Make it illegal to collect any personal data about children, potential children, parents of children, or ex-children

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Child abuse, government mistreatment of families, racism

Ah, yes, of course the country pushing chat control in the EU would also be the one with "parenting tests", taking away newborn babies if you fail. There's no bias at all in those tests, pinky promise!

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wlw2

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Tomorrow (23rd November) is the first round of the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup from Tábor, Czechia 🇨🇿. This year, it's a more compact programme of 12 rounds.

Unless you have a subscription to Discovery/TNT, Eurosport, FloBikes etc. a VPN is probably the best option to be able to watch the races for free on the UCI's YouTube channel. You will need a VPN that allows you select a country that is not geoblocked.

India and Singapore are usually good options. Be careful as when I checked just now, some counties do not have all the races listed. Full details here:

assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x

Enjoy the racing if you watch. The races are usually available to catch-up, also subject to geoblocking.

The logo for the first round of the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup in Tábor, Czechia. The wording is in white on a red background. In the top left is the UCI logo, consisting of horizontal rainbow coloured stripes on a white background next to 'UCI'.
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This irrational fear of socialism from some politicians in the US looks so bizarre from Canada, a country with universal healthcare and some kind of social net that is still sadly very much under the grasp of destructive capitalism.

Are those politicians terrified the people could be healthy, fed, safe, and happy? What exactly terrifies them here?

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RE: fosstodon.org/@shollyethan/115

The self-hosting survey is out. Complete dominance by:

- Linux >90%
- Men >90%
- ...who work in Tech 80%

Outside this bubble:

- Linux: single digit percentage of people are familiar
- Work in tech: single digit percentages again in the US
- Male: ok that one is around 50%

People ask why don't users self-host? But the real question is why hasn't self-hosting been made attractive to the 90+% of the rest of the world?

fosstodon.org/@shollyethan/115

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HURGL!

DYMO LabelManager PnP worked perfectly fine via "labelle" last time I used it.
Today: nothing.

labelle reports no errors and printing success, but the printer never prints anything.

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
I just weant to print a label, not debug the whole stack.

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