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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Hey folks, I know Giving Tuesday was yesterday and I purposefully avoided it because there's many causes that deserve your dollars more than us.

If you have something left, I'm contributing more to keep our community alive than what we're getting in, and I know that we can fix that.

If everyone who read this contributed $5, we'd be in a much better position, paying off backed-up invoices.

If everyone who read this committed $10 monthly, it'd pay off our hardware deficit. The hardware I bought to get us off the cloud, I bore the entire $25,000 cost. I'm fine with this as long as we can chip away at it... But as it is, we're not.

Right now we're $453 behind on monthly costs. The physical servers are fine at being chipped down, knowing we're solidified for years to come.

To donate via PayPal: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt

or, via Credit Card: shop.mstdn.ca/products/mstdn-c

Your contribution is greatly appreciated!

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Your `pip` unwrapped 🎇

- you tried to install `requirements.txt` 18 times this year. Doing better than last year!
- of the packages you installed 67% started with py, 11% python, and 6% Py. You guessed wrong 85 times.
- your love for building source has no bounds, except maybe the 92 failed compiles
- you updated `requests` 18 times. Urllib is feeling lonely.
- the average time between updating `pip` was 97 days. But we warned you 338 times!

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@xgranadeCassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ @whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧

Go is what happens when you use C for decades and come up with a load of great ideas to improve it, and then implement them. Along the way, taking great care to never look at any ways other people have improved on C.

It is a language that containers every good idea Rob Pike ever had, and none of the good ideas people who are not Rob Pike ever had. Which would be more excusable if it weren’t the second language to merit that description.

It turns out that there are a lot more smart people in the world who are not Rob Pike than who are.

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Great to be part of social.coop! Here's an : The People's Tech is aimed towards becoming a co-op based in England with a small team of Small Tech workers promoting technology at the intersection of privacy, security, sustainability, *and* inclusivity, Covid-safer and non-hierarchical, slowly rolling out public workshops discussing alternatives to Big Tech, plus private consultation for co-ops, non-profits, and campaign groups on how to make better choices (which has already begun!)

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Apple just announced some upcoming changes to its Observation framework that might look familiar to users of our SwiftNavigation library! We obviously think it’s a great addition, and are happy to see Apple provide the same solution as ours directly in the framework.

See Apple's pitch here: forums.swift.org/t/pitch-advan

And our tool here: github.com/pointfreeco/swift-n

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Noticing someone with a double-barrelled last name and long first name.

Made me remember a person I met with a triple hyphenated last name! Must've been tough to wield day-to-day!

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For your regular every-day name, eg introducing yourself (not your full legal name) how many syllables does it take to say it?

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Noticing someone with a double-barrelled last name and long first name.

Made me remember a person I met with a triple hyphenated last name! Must've been tough to wield day-to-day!

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For your regular every-day name, eg introducing yourself (not your full legal name) how many syllables does it take to say it?

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📢 Academics of mastodon,

We are recruiting one author to contribute to our edited book "A Research Agenda on Critical AI Studies". We are looking for someone who could write a chapter on LLMs from a critical perspective (copyright, surrogation, etc.).

If you are interested, DM or email me at ana.valdivia@oii.ox.ac.uk.

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