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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Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications by Shawn E. Nordell & Thomas J. Valone, 2024

Animal Behavior has garnered praise from reviewers for its accessibility, student engagement, and profound exploration of major concepts and empirical methods in animal behavior. The goals of this text are to allow students to learn how knowledge about animal behavior is generated and to promote an inquiry-based process.






This approach helps students understand the research that illustrates major concepts in animal behavior. Each chapter is built around four to six broad organizing concepts, emphasizing an in-depth exploration of carefully selected ideas, and offering students a clear learning progression and a solid framework for scaffolding their knowledge. Each concept is illustrated using research from primary literature, emphasizing the methods of the featured studies. This edition prominently features research from a diverse set of scientists, paying attention to gender equity, geographic diversity, and researchers from underrepresented groups. Incorporating scientists from a broad set of backgrounds demonstrates to students that there are scientists conducting animal behavior research who may be just like them.
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Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications by Shawn E. Nordell & Thomas J. Valone, 2024

Animal Behavior has garnered praise from reviewers for its accessibility, student engagement, and profound exploration of major concepts and empirical methods in animal behavior. The goals of this text are to allow students to learn how knowledge about animal behavior is generated and to promote an inquiry-based process.






This approach helps students understand the research that illustrates major concepts in animal behavior. Each chapter is built around four to six broad organizing concepts, emphasizing an in-depth exploration of carefully selected ideas, and offering students a clear learning progression and a solid framework for scaffolding their knowledge. Each concept is illustrated using research from primary literature, emphasizing the methods of the featured studies. This edition prominently features research from a diverse set of scientists, paying attention to gender equity, geographic diversity, and researchers from underrepresented groups. Incorporating scientists from a broad set of backgrounds demonstrates to students that there are scientists conducting animal behavior research who may be just like them.
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al-Rashid, 2025

In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby, instructions for exorcising a ghost, countless receipts for beer, and the adorable, messy writing of preschoolers.





Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly intimate, raw and relatable moments, like a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, or the imprint of a child's teeth. In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby, instructions for exorcising a ghost, countless receipts for beer, and the adorable, messy writing of preschoolers. We meet an enslaved person negotiating their freedom, an astronomer tracing the movement of the planets, a princess who may have created the world's first museum, and a working mother struggling with 'the juggle' in 1900 BCE. Together, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.
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'I have never read a book on Mesopotamia that so beautifully brings to life the people themselves ... It melts away the sense of time. A wonderful read.'
TOM HOLLAND

'A tender, moving and vivid history of ancient Mesopotamia and how it still speaks to us.' ROBERT MACFARLANE

'Fascinating and magnificent, beautifully written and explained: this book is a masterpiece.'
GEORGE MONBIOT

'Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history ... spellbinding.'

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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al-Rashid, 2025

In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby, instructions for exorcising a ghost, countless receipts for beer, and the adorable, messy writing of preschoolers.





Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly intimate, raw and relatable moments, like a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, or the imprint of a child's teeth. In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby, instructions for exorcising a ghost, countless receipts for beer, and the adorable, messy writing of preschoolers. We meet an enslaved person negotiating their freedom, an astronomer tracing the movement of the planets, a princess who may have created the world's first museum, and a working mother struggling with 'the juggle' in 1900 BCE. Together, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
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Younger generations don't realize just how influential The Beatles were. The guitar didn't exist before The Beatles invented it. Songs didn't have lyrics before Paul McCartney wrote Hey Jude. Music used to be just a bunch of guys standing in a field, clapping rocks together and yelling "Shaw! Shaw!" up at the sun.

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Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life by Paul Leonardi, 2025

A revelatory examination of why you’re feeling so worn out—and practical daily strategies to change your relationship with your devices.
Unplugging is not a long-term solution for the stress caused by technology. If you want to keep your job, participate in society, and maintain meaningful relationships, you can’t escape your many apps and devices.




Paul Leonardi maps out an achievable path to reducing your digital exhaustion, drawing on extensive research to show how real people can use technology in healthy ways. These are realistic approaches that won’t fragment your attention and deplete your cognitive and emotional reserves. Many of the changes are simple yet surprisingly effective, like waiting longer to respond, making sure you’re using the right tool for your task, and being more conscious of the time and energy we allocate to our devices. He also explains the emotional traps that lead us into dysfunctional relationships with our technology.
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Meet the dazzling Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata). This bird is a flashier relative to the typical Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). It sports a lustrous coat of colorful feathers and a blue head dotted with vivid orange bumps. The word “ocellated” in its common name refers to the eye-like markings on this turkey’s tail, which are similar to those found on a peacock’s plumes.

Photo: Rich Kostecke, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

via amnhnyc



This spectacular bird's gobble begins with a series of low frequency thumps—similar to the sound of a starting engine! Image Description A photo of an Ocellated Turkey. It is facing the viewer, head turned away. It is covered in shimmering feathers, and has a blue head covered in bright yellow lumps. And ocellated tail.
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NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula

NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a about 25 light-years across, a cosmic bubble blown by winds from its central, massive star. This deep telescopic image includes narrowband image data, to isolate light from hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The oxygen atoms produce the blue-green hue that seems to enshroud the nebula's detailed folds and filaments.

Image Credit & Copyright: Greg Bass



Visible within the nebula, NGC 6888's central star is classified as a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 10,000 years. In fact, the Crescent Nebula's complex structures are likely the result of this strong wind interacting with material ejected in an earlier phase. Burning fuel at a prodigious rate and near the end of its stellar life, this star should ultimately go out with a bang in a spectacular supernova explosion. Found in the nebula rich constellation Cygnus, NGC 6888 is about 5,000 light-years away.
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Fediverse Report – #144

The News

The Bristol Cable has launched a mobile app that bundles their journalism with the fediverse in a single app. It’s built in partnership with the Newsmast Foundation and available to members from £1/month. While their journalistic articles remain free, The Bristol Cable sees the social fediverse integration as the premium additonal option. The app consists of three layers: a home screen with news articles by the Bristol Cable, a dedicated member space for connecting with journalists and other supporters, and curated channels that pull in content on themes like climate change, linking Bristol’s local work to wider discussions. The app functions as a fediverse server, with the dedicated member space functioning as a local-only posting place, and the curated channels as a way to connect with the rest of the fediverse network, via Newsmasts’ channel.org network.

WebSocialBR is the first fediverse event that will be held in Brazil, on December 3rd in Brasília. The event wants to “bring together community administrators, managers, parliamentarians, researchers, and communicators to exchange experiences and strengthen decentralized networks in the country”. The event draws backing from Brazil’s Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and FediForum. ActivityPub co-creator Evan Prodromou and FediForum co-founder Johannes Ernst will participate virtually. WebSocialBR is organisated by Alquimídia, who has been coordinating Brazilian instances on age-restriction legislation and pushing for a “.social.br” domain category for federated networks.

Bonfire talks more about their platform and crowdfunding, by writing about their Mutal Aid stretch goal for the project. Bonfire also talks more about what the project is, and how it is “plural by design”. The opening sentence points is a clear statement by the project: “Bonfire is difficult to pin down with a single definition, and that’s a feature, not a bug.” The article then lists various features of the project, such as how it’s extensible, and that it’s a framework for building community platforms. Bonfire even quotes some people saying that they’re interested in the project, but find it confusing as to what it actually is. Bonfire has chosen for the approach that they do not want to run a flagship server for Bonfire Social. That however is now leading to the situation where there are no people running a Bonfire server in production for a community yet, making it hard to demonstrate in practice what Bonfire Social actually looks like. This poses a challenge for their crowdfunding effort. When potential backers try to understand what they’re funding, they encounter a platform that exists primarily as possibility rather than demonstration. The project’s own article quotes would-be supporters expressing this confusion directly: “I do wish they could get a little better at communicating what exactly their project is though, it took a hot minute, reading, and also asking folks on lemmy to try and figure out kinda-sorta-vaguely what they’re building…” Another notes, “I wish them the best, but I think they really need to work on their sales pitch. It’s hard to tell what it is.”Without a clear accessible demonstration of how Bonfire can operate in practice, it is a hard pitch to ask backers to fund an abstract framework based on its potential applications.

I usually don’t write about Threads, but this caught my eye: The latest PewResearch study on social media usage by Americans find that 8% of adult Americans have ever used Threads. This is in contrast with 21% of adults for X, and 4% for Bluesky, with Mastodon not measured. Meanwhile, Threads claimed a few months ago to have over 400M monthly active users, and another study from this summer found that Threads and X have almost the same number of daily app users (115M vs 130M). I’m really not sure what’s going on with these numbers: 8% of American adults is around 21M people who say they have ever used Threads. This leaves at least 380M monthly active users that are not in the US, but it is unclear where they are located. It seems that Europe also does not have a large number of Threads users, as the app launched much later on the continent. The most likely explanation seems to me that Threads aggressively counts people who use Instagram and get shown a Threads post on Instagram as a user of Threads, which would go a long way towards explaining both why the user numbers for Threads are so large while also explaining why so few people actually know about Threads.

FOSDEM has the Social Web Devroom about ActivityPub, hosted by the Social Web Foundation, and the deadline to submit talks is December 1st. There is still space for more talks to be hosted, so consider submitting a talk if you’re going to FOSDEM!

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connectedplaces.online/reports

small pond in the early spring
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Boob Club

"I didn’t know that breast cancer is typically more aggressive in young people and is the leading cause of cancer death in women aged from 20 to 39. I wasn’t aware that breast cancer treatment is one of the longest and most demanding of all cancer treatments. I didn’t know that more than 90 per cent of breast cancer patients don’t have a family history".
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I joined one of the most exclusive clubs in my city – but the entry qualifications are brutal

With these women, the conversations go deep quickly – and I hear things I’d never heard anyone else talk about.

www.theage.com.au · The Age

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🚨 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a Caribbean strike to “kill everybody.”
SEAL Team 6 hit the boat, two men survived — so a second missile killed them in the water.

Experts say the traffickers posed no threat, there’s no armed conflict, and the order “amounts to murder” and “a war crime.”

washingtonpost.com/national-se

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rob pike @robpike@hachyderm.io
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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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Glyph @glyph@mastodon.social
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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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I am really learning to dislike being right about everything all the time, but like, not in a way that lets me make a billion dollars on a bold short position businessinsider.com/executives

Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests

Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.

www.businessinsider.com · Business Insider

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Paul Goracke @pgor@mastodon.social
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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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적녹색약이라 색보정안경 중 크로마젠 안경을 6년동안 사용해본 후기를 블로그에 작성해봤습니다. creativesilver.tistory.com/413549

색약을 위한 색보정안경 - 크로마젠 안경 6년 사용 후...

색약을 위한 색보정안경 - 크로마젠 안경 6년 사용 후기 (Color Correction Glasses for Color Blindness -

안녕하세요, 실버입니다.이번 후기 글은 제가 여태 사용해본 물건들 중에서 블로그로 올리는 후기 글 중 가장 오랫동안 사용한, 가장 장기간의 사용후기 글이라고 생각합니다. 무려 6년 여의 시간동안 사용하면서 느낀 점을 적는 후기인데요. 도대체 어떤 물건이길래 구매에서 후기를 작성하기까지 6년동안 걸렸냐고 하실텐데요. 대단하다면 대단하지만 또 한편으로는 한없이 소박하다고 할 수 있는 물건입니다. 바로 안경입니다. [색약, 그리고 색보정안경이란?]저는 시력이 양쪽 두 눈 모두 2.0 2.0입니다. 그러면 왜 갑자기 안경이야기를 하느냐고 하실 겁니다.사실 저는 다른 사람들과 다른 시각을 가지고 있는데 바로 적녹색약입니다. 아예 색을 못 보는 전색맹까지는 아니고 특정 영역대의 색의 구분을 잘 못하는 것을 색약이라..

creativesilver.tistory.com · SILVER AREA

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Thom Hartmann @ThomHartmann@mstdn.social
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And if Donald Trump approved or encouraged these actions, then impeachment and criminal referral are not optional: they're required to defend the rule of law...

hartmannreport.com/p/breaking-

Breaking News: If Hegseth Gave an Order to “Kill Everybody,” He Must Be Removed and Prosecuted

And if Donald Trump approved or encouraged these actions, then impeachment and criminal referral are not optional: they're required to defend the rule of law...

hartmannreport.com

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Denis - The COVID info guy - @DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social
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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/

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

"The risk following vaccination is substantially lower than the risk following infection".

www.zmescience.com · ZME Science

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Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social
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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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