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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Rozhodnutí o Eurovizi je pro Izraelce významné nejen kvůli hudbě. Soutěž sleduje každý rok přes 150 milionů lidí, kterým země může ukázat jinou než válečnou tvář. Nově schválená pravidla ale mají zabránit vládám, aby zástupcům svých zemí dělaly takovou kampaň, jakou dělá právě Izrael. 🧵2/2

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Irská, nizozemská, slovinská a španělská televize odmítly účast v oblíbené hudební soutěži Eurovize, ve které zůstane zástupce Izraele. Evropská vysílací unie, která show zaštiťuje, včera schválila změny pravidel. O vyloučení Izraele ale nakonec nerozhodovala. 🧵1/2

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As someone who has been an artist before,
and had my hard work stolen by billionaires without compensation and my copyright violated against my consent,

I cannot tell you how much rage and disgust I feel inside every single time I see a genAI image. I'm guessing many other artists feel the same. Please keep it out of my sight at least.

@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified:

I did a short thread this morning about the fact that blocking scraper bots entirely will also block the two biggest search engines.

It particularly hits home at the moment because I'm seriously stressing about pricing my work and whether, even if I get the pricing right, I will be able to make any of it pay for itself. Meanwhile literal trillionaires feel like they can take my work and do what they want with it.

If I am ever made emperor, they will be sentenced to life of hard labor picking up trash on the roadside or cleaning up toxic waste.

In the meantime, I block people who post machine generated crap.

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Is it useful for a Unix sysadmin to know how to use ed(1) and do basic things with it? Sure. Sometimes ed(1) is all you have or is your best choice. Is it a priority for a sysadmin to learn ed(1), given that there are so many other things to learn in this field? I don't know, but I feel much less certain. There's a ton of things in system administration that are 'useful' to know, too many for any one person to actually know.

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Oh wow. We were just talking about the "Law of Demeter" in compilers this morning and then that Cloudflare outage report just dropped in our lap. blog.cloudflare.com/5-december

For context: writing a compiler potentially involves a lot of complicated data structure manipulation and it's really easy to get buried in too many layers of nested attribute lookups on objects. Doing that often indicates an abstraction wart of some sort.

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We've been getting asked a lot lately: why ?
Your social data stays on your device. You own it, it's private, you decide what happens with it. This unlocks powerful local tools that shared servers can't offer. Since ActivityPub does not lock you into one format, we take full advantage. Same account, but the interface can change in a tap. Text feed, photo grid, video player. One identity, your rules. That's our goal, and we're getting closer every day.

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I've been noodling on the idea of starting a non-profit hosting company within the US in a similar fashion that Codeberg operates its Forgejo hosting. Seems like there could be a lot of small to medium sized organizations that could benefit from this from not only a technical perspective, but a values perspective too.


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in my understanding rustc uses some nested arenas to great effect and for certain kinds of memory access patterns, they're fantastic. but i do think that some people end up deciding that they're the be-all end-all of memory management, and that's just not the case

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I'm routinely impressed by the work The Ocean Cleanup (and critically their local partners!) is doing.

Having less plastic in the oceans seems like an insurmountable problem, but they're trying. I think they work they're doing on very polluted rivers is key, and interesting. It's a lot easier to stop plastic from getting into the ocean than it is to sweep it out later.

theoceancleanup.com/

youtube.com/watch?v=TCbfaxPAOVY

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Chao-c' shared the below article:

'We have lost a lot of time.' Former NASA chief says US needs to start over with moon landing plans or risk losing to China

Space Information Aggregator @spaceinfo@libera.site

#^'We have lost a lot of time.' Former NASA chief says US needs to start over with moon landing plans or risk losing to China

Former NASA chief Michael Griffin told the U.S. Congress that while China is making great strides in its plan to reach the moon, the United States has "stuck to a plan that does not make sense."

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