What is Hackers' Pub?

박근혜를 잡아넣은 검사가 극우 내란수괴가 되고, 한 번 끌어내린 트럼프가 재집권하는 따위의 퇴행이 이루어진 걸 보고 나니, 그에 앞서서 몇 가지 상쾌한 이벤트들이 있었던들 그것을 민주주의의 승리라고 섣불리 불러서는 안 되는 것이었다고 생각하게 된다.

2017년 이후의 여러 흐름으로 경험한 것은, 민주주의의 승리를 쉽게 말해서는 안 된다는 사실이다. 아무리 거국적 분위기가 그럴싸해 보여도 차별, 혐오, 증오, 선동이 방치되는 이상 전선은 언제라도 후퇴할 수 있다. 민주주의의 승리는 선거 한두 번이나 악당 몇 명의 처벌로 달성되는 것이 아니다. 나는 견고하고 불가역절인 사회대전환을 원한다. 빠르고 확실하면 제일 좋으나, 둘 모두를 동시에 달성할 수 없다면 확실하기라도 해야 한다.

A short tale from way back when I worked at Apple: My team had a lot of lunchtime meetings and they usually got pizza to feed us lunch while we worked. There were two of us on the team who were vegetarian, so they'd order six or eight pizzas for the team and all of them would have meat except for the one meatless pizza they had for just the two of us. But everyone likes vegetarian pizza, so people would get in line, take what looked good which included the veggie pizza, and by the time I got to the veggie pizza it would be gone and I'd have no lunch (and the other vegetarian had the same problem, of course). They tried to get the non-vegetarian people to stop eating the veggie pizza, then tried to hide it so only we veggies could get it, but nothing worked. So I suggested they order four kinds of vegetarian pizzas and a couple pizzas with meat, and that worked out great and there was much rejoicing.

This is a post about gatekeeping disability accommodations.

I have a small talk on making org-babel reactive in this year's #emacsconf (it's the first talk on 6th). It's honestly not much but hey! if you are hanging around, I would love to discuss and learn your org-babel workflows and tricks.

#emacs #orgmode

In a partnership with Mistral AI, CNRS is deploying a locally-hosted LLM chatbot for its employees.

They provide some examples of tasks you can ask the chatbot: summarizing a long text; translating; and writing an outline for an article.

Tasks you'd want to delegate to an assistant because they're beneath you.

And then they decided it would be a great idea to "honor" Emmy Noether, one of the most influential women mathematicians ever, by naming this chatbot Emmy after her.

I cannot fully express how angry that makes me.

Can't be arsed to read something yourself? Ask good old Emmy to summarize it for you, that's right up her alley, she'll do it between proving two major results in algebra or mathematical physics, too bad she's only a website and can't make you a cup of coffee while she's at it.

https://alan-poc.dsi.cnrs.fr/accueil/index.html (in French)

Edited to add: given the URL, looks like it's Turing whose memory they first wanted to "honor" https://mastodon.opportunis.me/@olasd/115656931602686583

@HydrePreverLe Néandertal sous benzo the name upsets me even more than the tool. Bloody well done.

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@Em0nM4stodonEm Also a somewhat distinct right of #anonymity that’s being lost. That you can walk down the street without strangers ID’ing you, likewise surfing the Internet

みなさまおはようございます。
今日もみなさまにとってお健やかに素敵な1日がおとずれますように。

You are broke so we are going to charge you for being broke.

-Bank fees

Tiny Privacy Tip for The Holidays 🎄📸:

Do not forget to ask for consent before posting online a photo including other people.

Data privacy is team work and consent is essential. This is important.

Always ask first ✔️💚

#TinyPrivacyTip #Privacy #Holidays

@Em0nM4stodonEm Privacy and free expression leave your mind outside the purview of fascists. You can still say 2+2=4. This must be defended in order to defend anything else, or we end up with the modern equivalent of the town crier, the bottleneck to control the flow of information.

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"The law of war is a delusion designed by great powers by their servant lawyers & diplomats so that it will never hinder their military ambitions."

"There's so much wriggle room... by the major powers... that their own troops will, by & large, not fall foul of it."

Eg, Nuremberg didn't prosecute Göring for bombing civilians, bcz "they were afraid he'd run the 'You did it too' defence."

"Bcz there's no clear law against it."

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/geoffrey-robertson-war-crimes-/106097984

#USPol #Europol #WarCrimes #Press .

寒っ、寒っ😆

With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps
Workers trapped by algorithmic management are stripped of agency and problem-solving opportunities.

"Cloudworkers" and other algorithmically managed workers are relentlessly surveilled.

おはさむ・すぎる

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With algorithmic management, bosses have figured out new ways to evade the law and steal from workers https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps
Workers trapped by algorithmic management are stripped of agency and problem-solving opportunities.

"Cloudworkers" and other algorithmically managed workers are relentlessly surveilled.

なるほど
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1tsSFpauw

@mcc GMP used to use none-vendor-os to disable its compiling for a specific processor. That is not compile to use AVX2 even if you are compiling on an AVX2 machine. This is useful for packagers of say GCC which uses GMP.

@mcc If the computation is reversible then it could be called a SKIBIDI machine

Palm!!! - Hirohisa Suzuki
https://macthemes.garden/themes/1a7e8b587d98-Palm

The accompanying News & Views piece "Even in space, satellites photobomb telescopes" by @merrdiff.bsky.socialMeredith Rawls is excellent!

https://rdcu.be/eSZJX

Here's a lovely space-based telescope image, with 560,000 satellite friends. Thanks, techbros.

You are broke so we are going to charge you for being broke.

-Bank fees

秋のスポットライト #misskey写真部

with or without AI, A/B testing as practiced by Silicon Valley is unethical. It ranges from quiet gaslighting to full-on Stanford prison experiments with no ethics board or informed consent.

函館だって!!

Dass die #CDU allen weismachen will, Walter #Lübcke, der Mord an ihm und dessen Gedenken wäre jedem anderen verboten und als schändlich zu kommentieren, entspringt derselben Gutsherrenart, die auch "verbietet", #Merz für seine #Stadtbild -Äußerung oder seine Mehrheitsbeschaffung mit der #AfD zu kritisieren. Die unanfechtbare Unbelehrbarkeit dieser Partei und der Ton, den sie bei ihrer Abwehrhaltung auffährt, sind eine Schande!

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2025-12/konrad-adenauer-haus-walter-luebcke-statue-cdu-berlin

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@mcc be bold: “unknown-unknown-unknown”

@on_codeLaurent 🫠

I'm a member of the Boulder Valley School District's "District Accountability Committee" or DAC. Each school in the district has a representative that meets once a month at district headquarters to hash out policy, budget, and other recommendations to the school board.

At last night's DAC meeting, during the Q&A period following our Superintendent's briefing (in which he brought up the ongoing problem of kids vaping in school bathrooms), I mentioned an amazing talk I saw at this past @defcon #DEFCON33 called "Unmasking the Snitch Puck: The creepy IoT surveillance in the school bathroom" - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCnojaEpF2I

You see, New Vista High School, which just opened a brand new building, has installed these devices, called a Halo 3C Smart Sensor, in all the bathrooms and elsewhere inside the school building, and has made a measurable impact reducing the number of vaping-in-school incidents. But, as I told superintendent Anderson, the sensor itself brings along with it some seriously problematic security vulnerabilities, in addition to the undocumented capabilities that the researchers in the talk exploited.

The superintendent's response to that made the whole room bust out laughing: "Andrew, you never fail to bring to my attention things that scare the hell out of me" - to which I responded, literally my job, Rob. It's why they call it "Threat Research" my guy.

This is why every community board, council, committee, etc. needs a thoughtful hacker present, to relay important information like this to policy implementers and policy makers who just don't keep up with this space.

#BVSD #schoolboard #edtech #edpolicy #techpolicy #Boulder #COpolitics

@on_codeLaurent 🫠

Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit via @rudi https://lobste.rs/s/dxqyh4 #release
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

UPSのリレーにｶﾁｶﾁ威嚇されました

Kindleで買った漫画が年末年始集英社マンガ祭2025-2026の対象だよってメールをもらったけどやっぱり

> 応募資格
> 日本国内にお住まいで、かつ賞品のお届け先が日本国内の方

よねw
https://shueisha-mangasai.jp/guideline/

AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches before blaming the site! https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/

Another canary in the collapsing coalmine.

A paper today in Nature by Borlaff et al. on the impact of ever-increasing numbers of satellites in low-Earth orbit on space telescopes like Hubble, SPHEREx, & CHEOPS today, & Xuntian & ARRAKIHS in the future.

The number of proposed satellites is eye-watering, & the effects on astronomy horrendous – there are wider effects on pollution of the upper atmosphere & safety of key orbital assets as well.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09759-5

#Science #SpaceScience

The point to donating to this trike crowdfund on #BandcampFriday is that Bandcamp waives its fees for me on that day. Only PayPal will charge me a fee. So that increases the amount of money from a music purchase that goes to me and this recumbent crowdfund.

So this Friday, December 5th, if you're able to donate to help a disabled geezette like me out, I would so appreciate it. https://meganlynch.bandcamp.com/album/songs-the-brothers-warner-taught-me #BikeNite #BikeTooter #MutualAid #Accessibility

In meinen Augen ist es kriminell, Schüler:innen zwangsweise #Microsoft auszuliefern.

Freie und offene Systeme sollten Standard sein.

Intellectual challenge: Come up with a plausible meaning, any plausible meaning, for the target triple "none-none-none".

Maybe impossible.

Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?

Link: https://alexene.dev/2025/12/03/Why-do-my-headphones-buzz-when-i-run-my-game.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46135627

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

Link: https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137783

I just filed a Rust compiler Major Change Proposal to introduce a standalone, non-WASI Wasm Component target using the `wasm32-component` target triple:

https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/948

Die erste Schwarze Frau im Bundestag zu sein, klingt großartiger als es ist.
Heute haben wir im Plenum die Erinnerungskultur verhandelt.

Die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte wird von BKM Weimer an den Katzentisch verbannt. Die meisten finden nichts dabei.

An solchen Tagen spüre ich besonders, dass ich die einzige Schwarze Frau im Raum bin.

@nedbatNed Batchelder @vossisbossMeagen Voss YES!

I think that's maybe what bugs me about trying to bypass the process altogether.

There is genuine value in learning how to communicate effectively and clearly. Reading through your own drafts, identifying holes in logic or continuity, and sometimes mulling over a specific word that needs tweaking for a specific context--this is an empathetic endeavor (whether conscious or subconscious) toward your reader. It is communal!

And many times, that process uncovers some things you may have overlooked or taken for granted in the past. (This happens every time I try to find how many "just" or "simply" I put in my technical writeups.)

It is unfortunate that this process lacks value for those who would otherwise offload a large part of it to the LLMs.

あ、おはようございます