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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@liaizonwakest ⁂ Not about our two members (that I’m aware of). Only learned about it in our omg.lol community chat. But here’s a solid writeup about the CEO similarly harassing someone else: d-shoot.net/kagi.html

(Lots of interesting things in there, such as how he refused to add any kind of help/intervention text for searches related to suicide.)

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in magic systems there is often the concept of a True Name that gives people power over you, and sometimes there is also the concept of being able to change your True Name in order to break magical restrictions. if you assume in a legal system that your True Name is your legal name, then this suggests the concept of having to get a legal name change every time you get cursed

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Fedi Frontend that LinkedIn-ifies your Fedi experience.

Boost: "Someone shared your post with their network!"
Favorite: "Someone found your post insightful'
Follow: "Someone wants to reach out to you, broaden your network!"

Broaden YOUR network for more cursed ideas!

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In Montana, local organizers have drafted and submitted a constitutional initiative for voters to consider in 2026 — the first step in a movement built to spread nationwide. It would decline to grant to all corporations the power to spend in elections.

Called the Transparent Election Initiative, it wouldn’t overturn Citizens United — it would negate the consequences of Citizens United. (Click on the link and you’ll get the details.)
via Robert Reich
transparentelection.org/

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Who had the funny idea to turn tags to lowerCase on auto-completion in the Mastodon Web UI? That's kinda nasty. Especially if I select a tag like "AndroidAppRain" (spelled exactly like that in the suggestion) by typing "AndroidA" and let it auto-complete: "androidappRain" is *NOT* what I'd expect.

I've checked the preferences, but found nothing. Any hints on how to set this to sane defaults? Screenreaders have it easier with CamelCase…

@downeyMichael Downey 🧢 some setting on instance level maybe?

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Fedi Frontend that LinkedIn-ifies your Fedi experience.

Boost: "Someone shared your post with their network!"
Favorite: "Someone found your post insightful'
Follow: "Someone wants to reach out to you, broaden your network!"

Broaden YOUR network for more cursed ideas!

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Besides which, scores of high math ability do not in fact particularly associate with gating an eng/science major for men; the barrier to entry to these majors is quite low for men, achievement-wise.

you have to be willing to roll your sleeves up and truly pore over econ and assessment data at scale to really get this, which I am, and which approximately a billion thinkpieces on this apparently are not

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Masterclass: “Colourspaces in D-cinema, ACES, and Streaming”

Vancouver, Sat Dec 13, 09:30–17:30.
Presented by Charles Poynton, PhD
Organized by VPA and VES Vancouver
Hosted by Elemental Post

We’ll explore the theoretical and practical aspects of colourspaces commonly used in production, VFX/CGI, post-production, and presentation of movies, broadcast, streaming video, and games.

VPA, VES Members: $315
Non-Members: $350
Info & registration: zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/char

Charles Poynton Masterclass: Colourspaces in D-cinema, ACES, and Streaming

In this one-day masterclass, we unpack the colourspaces that drive today’s professional imaging pipelines – from camera and VFX working spaces through grading environments to final delivery in cinema, broadcast, UHD/HDR/WCG, and streaming. We’ll connect the dots between Rec.709/BT.1886 SDR monitoring, theatrical P3 grading, Rec.2020 (BT.2020) wide-gamut UHD delivery, and metadata-driven HDR formats such as Dolby Vision.Why are there so many colourspaces in digital cinema/UHD/HDR/WCG/streaming pipelines?We’ll break down the distinct requirements – and colourspaces – used at each stage:• Colourspaces for cameras & VFX/CGI• Colourspaces for grading and look development• Colourspaces for distribution (P3 theatrical, Rec.709/BT.1886 SDR, Rec.2020 HDR)• Colourspaces for presentation/display, including HDR10, HLG, and Dolby VisionYou’ll see how scene-referred camera spaces and ACES working spaces are transformed into display-referred deliverables for:• D-cinema masters in P3 (typically P3-D65 or P3-DCI)• Broadcast and streaming SDR in Rec.709 with a BT.1886 (≈2.4) EOTF• UHD/HDR streaming that often uses P3 primaries in a Rec.2020 container with PQ or HLG transfer functions, including Dolby Vision trims and metadata.Who this masterclass is for:• Cinematographers & DITs• Colourists & colour assistants• Studio colour scientists• VFX supervisors & colour-pipeline TDs• Post-production supervisors• Lighters, shaders, look developersWhat you’ll learn:We’ll explore both the theoretical and practical aspects of the colour spaces most commonly used in production, post-production, and presentation of movies, broadcast, streaming video, and games. You will:• Understand why the requirements at capture, grading, and delivery are different, and how the transforms among camera, ACES, P3, Rec.709, and Rec.2020 spaces are managed.• Gain a deep understanding of power-function (“gamma”) and logarithmic/quasi-log (“log”) encoding, and how they relate to BT.1886 (2.4) and 2.6 gamma reference environments.• Learn how OpenEXR, CTL, ACES, and OpenColorIO are used to implement and standardize transforms between scene-referred and display-referred colourspaces.• Understand the implications of sRGB, 2.2, 2.4 (BT.1886), and 2.6-gamma viewing for SDR monitoring, and how they contrast with HDR10, PQ, HLG, and Dolby Vision HDR workflows.• Appreciate why video in distribution is always display-referred – even when the upstream pipeline is scene-referred – and what that means when mastering for P3 cinema, Rec.709 SDR, and Rec.2020/PQ or Dolby Vision HDR deliverables.Lots of graphs and equations will be shown and explained. If you have first-year university math, you’ll be able to dive deeply into log coding, the CIE chromaticity diagram, and the geometry of colour gamuts such as P3 and Rec.2020. If your background is high-school math, we’ll still cover the necessary fundamentals, so you come away with a solid working understanding of modern colourspaces and HDR/SDR systems.About Charles PoyntonCharles Poynton, PhD, is an independent researcher in image and colour science based in Toronto, Canada. He specializes in the physics, mathematics, engineering, and algorithms of digital colour imaging systems, with particular focus on digital cinema, HDR/WCG, and modern distribution systems such as Dolby Vision and HDR streaming platforms.

www.zeffy.com · Zeffy

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World's smallest violin needed, again:

hollywoodreporter.com/business

"OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits" —if found guilty of 'wilful" infringement OpenAI could be on the hook for up to $150,000 per work. (And circumstances don't look great for them—they appear to have destroyed lists of the copyrighted works they'd trained GPT on.)

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Who had the funny idea to turn tags to lowerCase on auto-completion in the Mastodon Web UI? That's kinda nasty. Especially if I select a tag like "AndroidAppRain" (spelled exactly like that in the suggestion) by typing "AndroidA" and let it auto-complete: "androidappRain" is *NOT* what I'd expect.

I've checked the preferences, but found nothing. Any hints on how to set this to sane defaults? Screenreaders have it easier with CamelCase…

@downeyMichael Downey 🧢 some setting on instance level maybe?

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