What is Hackers' Pub?

“Jesus, who typically is depicted lying in hay, is instead nestled in a reflective blanket often used by immigrants in detention, with his hands bound with zip ties. And behind the family stands three Roman centurions wearing vests with a very modern label: ICE, or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” https://religionnews.com/2025/12/05/ice-nativity-scenes-churches-reimagine-christmas-story-amid-deportations/

Ich muss anprangern, dass man die Mütze nicht zur Skimaske entrollen kann. Wie soll man denn da anständig hacken können? https://tickets.events.ccc.de/39c3-merch/
#merch #39c3

Me: "I wish this RAM bullshit got devs to care about memory usage again"
The monkey's paw curls
"Discord solves memory leak by restarting the application if it exceeds 4gb"

i know everyone stopped thinking of the live action cowboy bebop ages ago but i finally was able to articulate what they got wrong. the big theme of the original Cowboy Bebop was the inherent dignity of caring deeply for something even if it isn't "important" and at every turn the live action series instead presented characters as pathetic for their trivial pursuits. all other complaints, the dialogue, the costumes, the pacing, are window dressing in comparison

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Neděle: Rusko aktivovalo všechny své zahraniční influencery v koordinovaném informačním útoku na Evropu. Celé MAGA hnutí včetně jeho vrcholných představitelů zaplavuje digitální prostor výzvami k rozpuštění EU, revoluci proti „evropským byrokratům“ a vyzývá k podpoře krajní pravice, která prý jediná dokáže „zastavit cenzuru a civilizační proměnu Evropy“. Tomu všemu pomáhají technokraté jako je Musk nebo Durov, kteří navíc už v minulosti ohnuli algoritmy svých sítí tak, aby podobnou propagandu rychleji šířili. Ironickou tečku tomu dodávají představitelé Ruska, jako je Medveděv nebo Dmitrijev, kteří výzvy k „ukončení cenzury“ hojně sdílejí a komentují napříč všemi známými sítěmi, a to i přesto, že v Rusku jsou veškeré západní sociální sítě včetně Facebooku, Instagramu nebo X úplně zakázány. Zatím nejostřejší reakci ve vrcholné politice předvedl polský ministr zahraničí Sikorski, který Muskovi vzkázal, aby „odletěl na Mars, kde mu nikdo nacistické pozdravy cenzurovat nebude“. Klíčovou informací ale je, že Rusko si (samozřejmě) přeje rozpad EU a NATO, aby mohlo snáze napadnout jednotlivé státy. A každý, kdo usiluje o to samé, je – ať už vědomě, nebo nevědomě – agentem Ruska. I kdyby to měl být americký prezident. A děje se také tohle https://www.facebook.com/dnesnaukrajine.cz/posts/pfbid0Kw2CvzXei5JE5nn5fX9F5emXRGNTy21UfoduKWqkuCmJ4px7PiibURDjttXYXWWnl:
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Mastodon Bird UI support for Mastodon v4.6.0 with CSS properties is coming soon. The theme will also be modularized using SCSS partials to match Mastodon's new style infrastructure.

The build process will include npm scripts and Parcel, making the theme ultra-portable for any Mastodon instance, whether added through the Custom CSS textarea or directly by a Mastodon admin.

I'll also create a simple bash script for Mastodon admins to enable the theme as a selectable option more easily than the current fork-and-cut method.

This is no easy feat, but definitely worth it.

GitHub: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui

Progress in the nightly branch.

#MastodonBirdUI #CSS #OpenSource #MastoAdmin #Theming #BirdUI #Mastodon #BuildInPublic

Neat Techniques To Make Interactive Light Sculptures

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/neat-techniques-to-make-interactive-light-sculptures/

If other operating systems have damaged your Master Boot Record, you can
reinstall it with gpart(8). See
"man gpart" for details.

“Jesus, who typically is depicted lying in hay, is instead nestled in a reflective blanket often used by immigrants in detention, with his hands bound with zip ties. And behind the family stands three Roman centurions wearing vests with a very modern label: ICE, or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” https://religionnews.com/2025/12/05/ice-nativity-scenes-churches-reimagine-christmas-story-amid-deportations/

A friend of mine is watching the "Air Bud" movies for some reason and apparently one of them is a legal drama?

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@iansuIan Sutherland 🇨🇦 @mcc

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we were re-watching Stranger Things and my kid commented on the poor quality of the flashlights as maybe a way to ramp up the drama and i had to point out that no, serious, flashlights were **fucking terrible** in the 1980s, if anything the show **overstates** the effectiveness of flashlights back then, they **fucking sucked** kids who grew up in an LED world have **no** idea how bad we used to have it for flashlights.

@iansuIan Sutherland 🇨🇦 i can has elevated system privileges? :3

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なにっ！？前に描いた絵を再掲してもいいのか！？

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Gruppe D des #Obstturnier hofft Ihr hattet einen stressfreien Samstag...
#ObstturnierVote

Kurze Vorstellungen:
Die Kaki (Persimmon), auch genannt Chinesische Quitte oder "Götterspeise", ist die süße, orangefarbene, einer Tomate ähnelnde Frucht des Kakibaums. Sharon ist eine Unterart.
Zur Zuckermelone gehören u.a. "Netzmelone" und Galiamelone, beide entsprechend nicht extra im Turnier.

Achtung: In der Gruppenphase finden 2 Abstimmungen am Tag statt, Start um 08:00 Uhr und 20 Uhr, je 24 h lang

Da nach der Teilnahmeberechtigung des Rhabarber am #Obstturnier gefragt wurde:

Rhabarber ist botanisch gesehen ein Gemüse (Knöterichgewächs), da man die Stängel und nicht die Frucht isst,
wird aber kulinarisch wie Obst verwendet (Kuchen, Kompott).

Er passte daher zu meinen Kriterien, was Obst ist und sich qualifizieren kann.

Ich muss anprangern, dass man die Mütze nicht zur Skimaske entrollen kann. Wie soll man denn da anständig hacken können? https://tickets.events.ccc.de/39c3-merch/
#merch #39c3

GPUなしでもここまでできる - AWS LambdaによるYOLOv8推論の最適化手法
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/gpu-aws-lambda-yolov8/

#dev_classmethod

なんだかんだ「専門外の趣味を語る Advent Calendar」は参加者が増えて嬉しい所。

まだまだ枠空いているので募集中ですよ！！！

専門外の趣味を語る Advent Calendar 2025 - Adventar

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oh wow my crates are getting used and stuff

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In which period was the music you listen to recorded and/or released? Choose all that apply.

#EvanPoll #poll

Beim Aufräumen sind getrocknete Algen aufgetaucht. Deswegen gibt es zum heutigen #fungday Misosuppe mit Shiitake, Algen, Spinat, Pak Choi und Tofu.
#vegan
#food

@scribblesonnapkinsEvan Ah, yeah, that’s a great point! Immediately found this for SWAC, which was from 1950. And there were some earlier computers.

Latest iteration, and this one prints with no supports (but requires some assembly).

#3dprinting

kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with russia’s vision

by Shaun Walker in Kyiv

moscow welcomes White House document critical of the #EU as talks to end the #Ukraine war enter a key phase

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/07/kremlin-hails-trump-national-security-strategy-as-aligned-with-russia-vision

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I am wishing all OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS a very DO NOT INTENTIONALLY SET YOURSELF ON FIRE https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/@surfhosting/115674236291033568

Hacky and absolute unsupported way to run 32-bit programs under wine-devel on #FreeBSD 15: Use the binaries from FreeBSD 14.

1. Install compat14x-amd64.
2. Use the following pkg32.sh script instead of the one installed by wine-devel.

```
#!/bin/sh -e

if [ "$(id -u)" = 0 ]; then
echo "Don't run this script as root!"
exit 1
fi

I386_ROOT="${WINE_i386_ROOT:-$HOME/.i386-wine-pkg}"
ABI="FreeBSD:14:i386"
OSVERSION="1403000"

if [ ! -d "$I386_ROOT/usr/share/keys/pkg" ]; then
mkdir -p "$I386_ROOT/usr/share/keys"
ln -s /usr/share/keys/pkg "$I386_ROOT/usr/share/keys/pkg"
fi

# Show what we're going to do, then do it.
echo pkg -o ABI=$ABI -o OSVERSION=$OSVERSION -o INSTALL_AS_USER=true -o RUN_SCRIPTS=false --rootdir "$I386_ROOT" "$@"
exec pkg -o ABI=$ABI -o OSVERSION=$OSVERSION -o INSTALL_AS_USER=true -o RUN_SCRIPTS=false --rootdir "$I386_ROOT" "$@"
```

ねよー​​​​
また一週間がんばりましょー

kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with russia’s vision

by Shaun Walker in Kyiv

moscow welcomes White House document critical of the #EU as talks to end the #Ukraine war enter a key phase

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/07/kremlin-hails-trump-national-security-strategy-as-aligned-with-russia-vision

For Caturday, the small yet very loud Hunter Yoda, who will stalk around, bellowing, if he wakes up and I am not where he left me.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

#PuertoRico picks of the day:

➡️ @notibotPRNotiBot Puerto Rico - Automated account posting news related to Puerto Rico (in Spanish)

➡️ @recuperandoelaireColectivo Recuperando El Aire - Promoting public health in Puerto Rico (in Spanish)

🌤️ Weather forecast accounts for Puerto Rico:
@aguadilla__puerto_ricoAguadilla - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@arecibo__puerto_ricoArecibo - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@bayamon__puerto_ricoBayamon - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@cabo_rojo__puerto_ricoCabo Rojo - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@caguas__puerto_ricoCaguas - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@carolina__puerto_ricoCarolina - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@humacao__puerto_ricoHumacao - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@mayaguez__puerto_ricoMayaguez - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@ponce__puerto_ricoPonce - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@rio_grande__puerto_ricoRio Grande - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo
@san_juan__puerto_ricoSan Juan - Puerto Rico - FediMeteo

– Can you explain these gaps in your CV?
– Look, I made it with TeX. I can't explain anything in my CV.

@tuban_muzuru @billiglarper @mekkaokerekemekka okereke Here's a piece of history many people in the West aren't particularly familiar with, but most people in China know deeply.

The Pearl River Delta flows into the South China Sea.

Around the Pearl River Delta is a cluster of critical Chinese trading ports. Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Dongguan, Shenzhen, and Macau.

Chances are most of the people reading this are doing so on a phone built in the Pearl River Delta region.

A key battle during the First Opium War was a British attack on the Pearl River Delta:

"The Second Battle of Chuenpi[a] (Chinese: 第二次穿鼻之戰) was fought between British and Chinese forces in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong province, China, on 7 January 1841 during the First Opium War. The British launched an amphibious attack at the Humen strait (Bogue), capturing the forts on the islands of Chuenpi and Taikoktow. Subsequent negotiations between British Plenipotentiary Charles Elliot and Chinese Imperial Commissioner Qishan resulted in the Convention of Chuenpi on 20 January. As one of the terms of the agreement, Elliot announced the cession of Hong Kong Island to the British Empire, after which the British took formal possession of the island on 26 January."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Chuenpi

That battle led to China ceding Hong Kong to the British, beginning the "Century of Humiliation". (That's the century before Mao seized control of China.)

China wants to avoid the Pearl River Delta cities being attacked by a hostile naval power, and the Pearl River being blockaded, and the South Chins Sea being blockaded.

That's by the British again, or the Americans, or any other hostile foreign power.

Thus the critical importance to China in controlling the South China Sea.

Truth be told, were there a mononuclear armed conflict between the US and China, the US would almost certainly at least attempt to blockade the Pearl River Delta or the South China Sea, if it were in a position to do so.

And I don't think you can understand China's determination to control the South China Sea without understanding the Opium Wars.

Portrait of a great nation bespoiled by a hate-fueled, malignant regime: People who did everything right, followed all the rules, did all the work, passed the test, and then, at what should have been a celebration, humiliated, pulled out of line, citizenship yanked at the last minute.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-12-05/immigrants-kept-from-faneuil-hall-citizenship-ceremony-as-feds-crackdown-nationwide

This might be the most perfect meme in Canadian politics right now.

#StephenHarper #Conservatives #CPC #LPC

사실상 연구실에서 해야할 일을 지금 혼자서 해내신거...

I'm really happy with the progress FLOSS communities have had over the past 3 decades in the kind of environment they foster. For the longest time they were spaces where "got good"/RTFM/PEBKAC was the abrasive default mode of communication between themselves and specially newcomers and that permeated down to the documentation and the software itself. Some places remain like that, but the Cambrian explosion of projects has led to alternative spaces, to the point where I'd say the places where being consistently a dick to each other is acceptable are now a minority.
As an small anecdote that remains seared in my mind and I find representative, as a tech curious young lad I was scouring every bit of open source documentation I could find to learn. I recall reading GNU documentation that kept talking about the Meta-key. I could never figure out how to AltaVista what the hell that was, and it was of course not mentioned anywhere that it was "old-speak" for Alt. The mailing lists looked intimidating, specially when I saw how people treated each other, so I never asked there. Eventually I muddled with getting RedHat and Slackware that came with some magazine installed but would get stuck on gettting my winmodem to work. I never felt I could actually "be part" of the open source space, until Ubuntu came out, sent me CDs to share in school, with a more "meet people where they are"/"welcoming" attitude.

Scala 3 slowed us down?

Link: https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182202

#scala