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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Saw something unremarked in the background of a YouTube video, spent 5 minutes in CAD, walked to the 3D printer and pushed the button. An hour later my life was just that little bit better.

I like that that is possible nowadays, much as I dislike so much else about the modern world.

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so, to the extent that I am biased, I am actually biased in the *opposite* direction, actively looking for an "out" and willing to meet people more than halfway. it just so happens that LLMs are, as a wise person once said, "shit from a butt", and my *particular* heuristics do not allow for many handwaving shortcuts in this specific area

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Pro app consumer tip: An annual subscription is effectively a lifetime subscription, & without monthly nags/reminders. If you don’t use it enough to feel worth renewing next year, don’t. Renewing is generally equivalent to version upgrades of yesteryear.

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"New Data Shows COVID-19 Infection Much Worse For Children Than the Vaccine."

"A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and other top institutions combed through the health records of nearly the entire population of children in England, a total of 13.9 million children and young people."

"The verdict? The vaccine is the safest bet by far. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation caused by the vaccine is far less dangerous than the virus itself, which leaves children vulnerable to blood clots, heart issues, and severe inflammation for up to a year after infection."

Source: zmescience.com/science/news-sc

Study: thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/

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Apparently I am going to have to do my bit for consumerism basically right now, since I just discovered that my ancient phone has gone spicy pillow. This is going to be a bit inconvenient, since I use my phone for So Much Stuff and I don't have a great replacement for a lot of said stuff.

Also, so much for keeping this phone as a spare/etc when I got its replacement, spicy pillow is getting turned in to however takes these hot potatoes.

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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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