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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I hate when websites aren't specific about their password requirements.

The site said I needed to use at least 1 letter and 1 number. So I used a cuneiform 3 (𒐮), but it kept complaining that I hadn't used a number!

Frankly, I was adding way more entropy than a Western Arabic Numeral 3 would have.

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Here is a void cat who just floor-is-lava-traversed the whole living room from the TV stand to the windowsill to the cat tree to another windowsill to the back of the couch to another windowsill to a random box to a dining room chair and up onto the tall dining room windowsill...and now she is stuck and crying pitifully for help.

Minna, a black cat, at the edge of a tall windowsill looking worried.Minna, a black cat, rubbing her face at the edge of a tall windowsill and reaching one paw out toward the camera as if to say "put the phone down and help me, you idiot"
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Some helpful advice for all you software devs:

- You cannot solve social problems with code

- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does

- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they are trying to accomplish

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Demand real art from real artists.

I don't even mean you should only like "good" art. I just mean we should expect human intention in all the media we interact with, & we should give no attention to the artifacts of soullessly produced "content".

If I can't see a person behind the art, I don't even know why I care. It's fascinating to watch a person make music. It's fascinating even simply listening to a recording of them. Somehow, in some way, that person is sharing something.

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Trust our sovereign cloud! We run it in our own datacenter!

Says the vendor whom:

  1. Has Microsoft as their MX records (meaning: uses the MS cloud for mail),
  2. Records and stores every phonecall to them in Azure, transcribes it using CoPilot,
  3. Uses Win11 + O365 on nearly every desktop/endpoint,
  4. Is awarded Microsoft partner of the year,
  5. Has a website including portal which are completely infested by Microsoft, Adobe, Google and many others.

Yeah. Seems rather trustworthy :flan_XD:

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Unpopular Opinion:
Wenn die Behauptung wahr wäre, trans Frauen würden ihren Geschlechtseintrag nur ändern, weil sie sich davon Vorteile für ihre Karriere erwarten, obwohl sie in Wirklichkeit als Mann leben, dann würden viele Frauen den Geschlechtseintrag sofort auf männlich ändern.

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Das neue Polizeigesetz, das die schwarz-rote Landesregierung Sachsen verpassen will, ist ein umfassendes Sammelsurium heftiger Grundrechtseingriffe: u.a. Datenanalyse a la Palantir, Staatstrojaner, alle Arten "intelligenter" Videoüberwachung. Das absurdeste Projekt: Drohnen, die Menschen jagen, die am Steuer telefonieren. Ich habe den Gesetzesentwurf durchgearbeitet und dabei immer wieder den Kopf geschüttelt.
netzpolitik.org/2025/novelle-d

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Unpopular Opinion:
Wenn die Behauptung wahr wäre, trans Frauen würden ihren Geschlechtseintrag nur ändern, weil sie sich davon Vorteile für ihre Karriere erwarten, obwohl sie in Wirklichkeit als Mann leben, dann würden viele Frauen den Geschlechtseintrag sofort auf männlich ändern.

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so, okay, we've been making mistakes in production with DNS since we were 16, right? we can tell you some stories!

none of them end in someone telling us "don't worry, nobody else understands the changes they make when they do this either".

hearing this from someone well-regarded in our field would have been actively detrimental to getting us to where we are today.

because we guarantee you that for every do-ho-ho bumbling mediocre guy who goes "lol, nobody understands $thing" there is at least one person who does, cleaning up after the messes that this type of fucking guy leaves behind.

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Today on New Living Internet Translations:

Do not post in anger, do not get mired in a flamewar because you’re mad online. If a comment is in your cause’s favor, then post it; if it’s not then FFS stop. Anger can be replaced by cat pics, the maddest online can still learn to touch grass — but a banned account isn’t getting unbanned, and the people who blocked you aren’t gonna unblock. Watch yourself, bro.

— Sun Tzu’s Art of Social Media

excerpt of Sun Tzu in Classical Chinese in a textbook
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