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.

I really didn’t like the new Z-A Pokemon game. I don’t think I’m gonna finish it. Playing on the switch again is fun though so I’m picking up Scarlet since I had previously skipped over that gen. I’m much more excited for this one.

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That's an amazing observation—I did, in fact, fail to take into account Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave and eats over 10,000 spiders each day. Your assertion that the average person eats three spiders a year was correct all along!

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Reminder to periodically `strace` random Linux programs you take for granted, just to see what they're actually doing under the hood. You'll learn stuff!

Current status: there really is a whole lot of 'stuff' happening during DNS resolution these days, innit.

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Them: "Consider what having to comply with the GDPR means for small and mid-sized businesses!"

Me: "Consider what having small and mid-sized businnesses not complying with the GDPR means for all of us!"

I'm so tired of discussing digital privacy primarily from the point of view of companies, as businesses have always done and many politicians are increasingly doing.

We're talking about a human right! Our right! Don't let them frame it any other way!
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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 👋

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RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/11534

Rumors that the fediverse can't do mobile identity have been greatly exaggerated: is now in draft status - codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src

This is a proposal for how to migrate all your stuff along with you when you move instances.

The gist:

  • Send a request to move along with a set of stuff you'd like to bring with you. Moderators (optionally) can, approve, send back a change request, or deny. If the changes look ok, start the move, if not, hey you avoided incompatible moderation. Should be possible to layer in any kind of bulk actions you might want: "everything except my DMs," "strip attachments," "only my favorite posts," "nothing," etc.
  • keep a public collection of move events signed by both the source and target for durable, portable proof that you are the same person as the old account
  • the new instance crawls your old account and grabs whatever you specified, and then posts a mapping from old URIs to new URIs.
  • other instances can then immediately remap the URIs so e.g. future interactions get sent to the right place, and then gradually update their local versions over time, spacing out traffic.

Just using existing ActivityPub mechanisms. There are 6 new terms.

Bonus: lays the next steps to migrate to content addressed URIs, decouple accounts from instances, and merge and split accounts.

It being a draft means that there is a 60 day (or longer) public comment period, and feedback/edits/etc. Are very much welcome.
Issue: codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/iss
Discussion: socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

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Ooooooh shit: the AI boom sits on top of a $610Bn stock fraud (detected by trading algorithms on Thursday evening).

"The current inventory trajectory suggests one of two scenarios. Either demand is weaker than management claims and chips are accumulating unsold, or customers are accepting delivery without payment capability"

substack.com/inbox/post/179453

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Adam Something joined me on the Urbanist Agenda podcast to talk about a new political party in Czechia, the "Motorists for Themselves" party, and it was even crazier than I expected.

The far-right is being actively funded by fossil fuel billionaires and they're attacking climate change legislation ... and good urbanism is being caught in the crossfire.

youtu.be/JwwDFsdBol4

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@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: @nrdufourNicolas Dufour If you look at the books by well-known writer Timothy Snyder, often interviewed and quoted, you can see the Red Scare which is still alive in the USA. Snyder views, in one sentence, both fascism and communism as the big danger and I guess it all indeed has to do with Stalin history. However, did the USSR ever really implemented communism in its history ? And what are the differences between communism and socialism ? And what about social democrats ? The USA deserves public healthcare like in other countries.

Until recently, we Americans had convinced ourselves that there was nothing
in the future but more of the same. The seemingly distant traumas of fascism,
Nazism, and communism seemed to be receding into irrelevance. We allowed
ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in
only one direction: toward liberal democracy. After communism in eastern Europe
came to an end in 1989–91, we imbibed the myth of an “end of history.” In doing
so, we lowered our defenses, constrained our imagination, and opened the way for
precisely the kinds of regimes we told ourselves could never return.

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/11/items/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century-by-timothy-snyder-z-lib.org/On%20Tyranny%20Twenty%20Lessons%20from%20the%20Twentieth%20Century%20by%20Timothy%20Snyder%20%28z-lib.org%29.pdf
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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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