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 do mean it even more generally than you're interpreting it, so no argument there. I'm not applying attention to software at all. Attention is part of the demand function for a certain kind of consumer software, which can be a leaf node, but not software generally. Attention-based software products are certainly threatened.

How else to word this…

I'm not casting aspersions on art. There is a finite amount of content we can consume but maybe not software processes we can coordinate.

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I think it would've been easy to throw the logo at some print-on-demand website and be done with it, but I've always wanted Mastodon merch to be something bespoke, something you'd genuinely want to keep for years. This is why I chose the difficult path: Manually finding suppliers, prototyping, ordering in advance and distributing through our own shop. It's a lot of work, which is why it tends to happen as individual "drops" rather than a continuous, all year round stock.

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Business Insider reports that Oura is planning to expand its Oura wearable rings beyond health tracking to allow for payments, authentication, and more.

Well, Capitan Buzzkill (me) here wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year, and found:

• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• As such, Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.

More: this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-r

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If you're feeling bored now that the holiday is over, perhaps you'd like to write a Ray Tracer in Rust. Earlier this fall, I recorded a 7-hour live coding session working through Peter Shirley's "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" project.

- Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhIWonhTGM
- Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=j6zaAi4oYPc

Presented without ads. It's just me, emacs, Rust, and the terminal. Original project at raytracing.github.io/books/Ray

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Photo nerditry: The highest resolution current commercially available 35mm "full frame" cameras pack about 60 million pixels into the sensor, which means each photosite is a bit smaller than 4 µm. With pixels this small, "diffraction" can significantly limit sharpness.

The smaller the aperture (the higher the f-stop number), the larger the "Airy discs" (smallest focusable points) projected onto the sensor.

On a modern sensor, stopping down smaller than about f/8 will reduce maximum sharpness.

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EU politics

politico.eu/article/european-p

haven't seen much talk of this but this fuckin sucks. yet more moral panic driven politics pushing the isolation and control of young people in the name of their so-called protection

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Ultrarunning Reddit is pretty silly. There's quite a lot of "Hi, I'm a non-runner thinking about becoming an ultra runner. But I don't know how to fuel or hydrate perfectly/am afraid of rhabdomyolysis." Just close your computer and start running! Ideally with other people. Go easy at first, and increase pace or distance (not both at the same time) as you gain experience.

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Reading¹ my second short introduction to a programming language book this year "Janet for Mortals" janet.guide by @ianthehenryIan Henry. (janet-lang.org) is a like that can be interpreted, embedded and compiled, and comes with a large standard library with concurrency and PEG parser support. I must say it is very appealing to me.

¹ First one was "Learning Zig" openmymind.net/learning_zig

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