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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Having multiple kids is weird. You have one kid you could trust to be home alone for a whole weekend & you know they'd eat vegetables, lock the doors, & wash the dishes.
Then you have another kid who is not allowed to hold an umbrella.
And they're almost the same age.

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ใƒขใƒŽใ‚ฏใƒญใ€ใƒใ‚คใ‚ณใƒณใƒˆใƒฉใ‚นใƒˆใฎใƒ—ใƒญใƒ•ใ‚กใ‚คใƒซใฏใ‚‚ใจใ‚‚ใจใใ†ใ„ใ†ใคใ‚‚ใ‚Šใงๆ’ฎใฃใฆใ„ใ‚‹ๅ†™็œŸใ˜ใ‚ƒใชใ„ใจใกใ‚‡ใฃใจ้›ฃใ—ใ„ใ€‚NX Studioใ€ใ‚ฏใƒชใ‚จใ‚คใƒ†ใ‚ฃใƒ–ใƒ”ใ‚ฏใƒใƒฃใƒผใ‚ณใƒณใƒˆใƒญใƒผใƒซใฎใ‚ฐใƒฉใƒ•ใ‚กใ‚คใƒˆใ€‚

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Advocate for privacy & digital rights in your local community: We have new designs available in the Privacy Guides shop, designed by (human!) hand by our resident designer @Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified: ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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Here's an easy way to understand the US "hacking back" / Offensive cyber operations proposal: You lose the keys to your house down the back of the couch. It would be very time consuming to try and dig them out, but buying new locks would cost money.

The least expensive option is to simply remove the entire front door, which your family approves of. This would leave more money to gamble in the slot machine (some guy who says he is 100% definitely not the owner of the slot machine has told you that if you put in enough money, you will receive a return on your investment).

After voting to remove the front door, someone walks into your house and steals your TV. Having to buy a new door, new locks, and new TV would cut into the slot machine fund. Which is unacceptable.

You decide the most cost efficient option is to track down every thief in the world and punch them in the face. The family agrees that punching every thief in the face would certainly deter any further theft, and have absolutely no possible negative consequences at all.

The not slot machine guy has also offered to buy all your house's windows for $30, to help you recuperate some of the losses from your TV being stolen. You agree that this is indeed a good deal, and proceed to remove every window.

One day you come come to find a 600 pound grizzly bear rooting around in your pantry eating all your food. Your are completely perplexed. Despite your best efforts to secure your home against theft, people have still been walking in and taking whatever they want. However, a grizzly bear is new.

You consult with the not slot machine guy, who has recently used all his not slot machine money to buy up every local hospital. You are concerned that the punching everyone in the face policy does not appear to have affected theft rates. Also, this policy was designed for humans, not bears.

The not slot machine guy reassures you that this is the best way. He tells you that you just aren't punching people hard enough. He also says that there is no reason why the same policy couldn't also be applied to bears. He sells you some punching classes for $5 trillion dollars and send you on your way.

With your new found punching skills, you are now ready to fight the bear. You return home to find out that all of the local bears have learned that your pantry is a great place to get food. There in now an entire group of them. That is ok though, you've been training for this.

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i have an extremely naive question about physics

my understanding - possibly incorrect - is that at any time, any particle *could* change to any energy state, it's just not very likely that this will happen spontaneously. but i have no frame of reference for *how* unlikely this is. so what i want to know is,

have i ever emitted a photon?
has anyone ever emitted a photon?

when will it be my turn to emit a photon?

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Rebecca Solnit: A Year on From Trumpโ€™s Victory, Resistance Is Everywhere. โ€œThere has, in fact, been a tremendous amount and variety of resistance and opposition and itโ€™s mattered tremendously.โ€ theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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What I'm listening to today: "mode 1", StereoMan

Some more 1997 sample tracker music. A lot going on in this and just a lot of satisfying sounds. A kind of crashing silverware-on-glassware percussion, beats like some 90s dance act I can't place, and a bunch of synth sounds that give me a feeling like the composer listened to Incunabula/Amber-era Autechre and was like "what if I tried to make something sounding like this but more dance-y?".

youtube.com/watch?v=BJpNKJRNNVM

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Today in Labor History November 28, 1990: Margaret Thatcher resigned in tears after a mass non-payment of her hated poll tax forced her out of office. The tax was a flat tax, hugely unfair, charging all adults, regardless of their wealth or income, the same amount. At the height of the campaign, nearly half of all British adults, 17 million people, had refused to pay the tax. The Labour Party refused to back any protest of the tax. But Anti-Poll Tax Unions formed across the country, and there were thousands of demonstrations, many of which became riots after mounted police charged the protesters. Over 100 were injured and more than 330 were arrested in the protests.

Poll Tax Riot 31st Mar 1990 - Horse Charge. By James Bourne - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40395295
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