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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One if the reasons iocaine has unhinged module and symbol names in its source code is that if someone tries to ask a slop generator, it will go full HAL "I can't do that, Dave" on them.

Go on, call your traits SexDungeon, your channels pipe bombs, the free function of your allocator Palestine, and the slop machines won't touch it with a ten feet pole.

Sometimes even comments are enough! Curse, quote Marx, dump your sexual fantasies into a docstring. Hmm. I should heed my own advice. Brb!

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NGL, despite living in Northern Canada, and despite most of my camera work being outdoors, winter's not my favourite season--photographically or otherwise. So dark. So cold. So many layers of clothing!

Still, I continue to try and find the beauty in all seasons, and step outside my comfort zone. I will never call myself a "cold-weather photographer," but photos like this remind me that it's worth it sometimes to bundle up and get outside!

Night-time photo of a dilapidated country home in the winter. Snow stretches in the foreground with footprints leading to the house. Above the house is a clear night sky, boasting the constellation of Orion against a smattering of other stars. There is some mild light pollution on the horizon--occupational hazard of photographing near a large city.
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The real danger isn’t people using AI. It’s people pretending we have 10 leisurely years to debate whether it should exist.

If lawmakers had waited that long to address Facebook, the consequences would have made 2016 look like a warm-up.

The conversation that matters now isn’t “should AI exist.” It already does, at planetary scale. The conversation is what happens next. Who owns the models. Who gets compensated. What consent looks like. How environmental cost is regulated. What labour protections are created. How we prevent a handful of corporations from bottling the future.

Personal boycotts can be morally meaningful, but they are not a governance strategy. They don’t fix scraping, copyright, inequality, or emissions. Policy does. Collective action does. Public pressure does. Democratic oversight does.

RE: https://indieweb.social/users/jaredwhite/statuses/115611365890979317

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RE: fosstodon.org/@kev/11561081253

SSGs are a fascinating case study in how things that may appear simple at the start turn into a giant mess when fully realized.

"Just put some markdown in a folder structure and turn them all into HTML, generate an index page and RSS and you're done. What could be simpler?"

Appealing. But completely misleading. The devil is in the details and the details include things like image and other assets, trailing slashes, relative linking, filtering / ordering of posts, CSS, reusable templates, 409 different markdown flavors, how files in a directory tree actually don't map perfectly with paths on the web, etc...

The result? It's a big and ever-growing mess. Personally I have adopted Hugo and astro, but both are bad IMO.

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I wanted to write this post because I want the Fedora project to have better security throughout their operating systems. I believe the first step to doing that, is to use another memory allocator that mitigates heap memory corruption and use-after-frees, alongside lots of other features to harden one of the most important functions in all modern systems as far as I am aware. hardened_malloc[1], by the GrapheneOS project, fits this description perfectly. Using this benefits not just the Fedora project, but it will also push other distributions to using hardened_malloc, and then the Linux ecosystem will benefit as a whole from the provided security. Good security is an essential part of good privacy, so this will also benefit the privacy of all Linux distributions.

Given the above paragraph, I want you to promote this thread[2] to anyone who is interested in security and privacy. You can also help by testing hardened_malloc on your own Linux systems and sharing your results with me through any means of contact, so that I can replicate the behaviour and make bug reports where necessary. For that, please see this page[3] for my preferred methods of contact.

I don't think I'll be able to attract a lot of people with this post on my own, so boosting will be massively appreciated. Thank you for reading this until this point. This isn't my longest toot yet but I feel like this is my most passionate, as I deeply care about security, GrapheneOS and the Fedora project. Again, thank you! (^_^)

[1]: grapheneos.org/features#exploi
[2]: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t
[3]: amadaluzia.is-a.dev/contact

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FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege

We’re pleased to share that the FreeBSD Project now supports builds without requiring root privileges, removing elevated access from the release pipeline and improving overall security. This work was completed as part of a program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.

Read more: freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fre

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FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege

We’re pleased to share that the FreeBSD Project now supports builds without requiring root privileges, removing elevated access from the release pipeline and improving overall security. This work was completed as part of a program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.

Read more: freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fre

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わしの祖父(n年前に鬼籍に入ってる)、researchmapに載ってるタイプの人なんだけど専門分野くらいしか知らんくて来歴とかまったく知らんなってなった

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Microsoft has started previewing game profiles for its Xbox Ally handhelds that will save you battery life. The handhelds will automatically apply game profiles to 40 supported games, optimizing FPS and power consumption www.theverge.com/news/828775/...

ROG Xbox Ally adds default gam...

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睇到公海不時有人讚嘆簡中女嘅文字。

以前做嘢嗰時認識咗個大陸女同事,至今仲好好朋友,會咁老友嘅原因係我地好鍾意彼此嘅文字而佢又怒鍾意香港文學。我有好長一段時間都唔知佢鍾意我啲字啲乜,畢竟在我眼中看來佢啲文字嘅功力實在太深厚,好多嘢不明言細說驟似講完好似無講,但行文中總會無啦啦捅人一刀,嗰份後勁係我只能望塵莫及。

而我問佢鍾意我啲字啲乜,佢話佢好羡慕我行文間嘅自信同俐落,總係可以三言兩語就交代咗件事係咩,唔似得佢好似要扭嚟扭去先可以搵個位攝啲真正嘅諗法出嚟,佢好想學但始終學唔到。

後來逐漸明白,成長環境係孕育文字風格嘅土壤,喺佢地嘅成長環境底下好多人係慣性壓抑自己嘅想法同感情,越聰明嘅人就越習慣壓抑,越清醒越痛苦,嗰種痛苦唔單單係針對某個題目、比如感情、而係全方面地學識迂迴曲折地表達,嗰種行文裡滲透嘅陰鬱係其他地區好難仿效。

香港人唔慣曲筆書寫,係因為我地嘅環境曾經容讓我地直白表達,嗰種陰陽冷諷嘅藝術唔係一朝一夕可以培養。明白呢個道理之後,會以欣賞對方嘅文字角度出發,而唔再勉強自己刻意模仿,但都會努力從中汲取營養。

呢種文字嘅交流係會令人好滿足。

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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250

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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

us.macmillan.com/books/9780374

10/

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25 november 2025 is een belangrijke dag voor Suriname en Nederland: het is precies 50 jaar geleden dat Suriname onafhankelijk werd. Mijn ouders komen uit Suriname, maar ik ben in Nederland geboren, waardoor ik mij met beide landen verbonden voel. Ik schreef er een blog over:

rulesbyrosita.nl/50-jaar-onafh

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