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.

EU Commission's X account has been removed after the EU fined X for transparency failures at the tune $150,000,000. I hope someone at the EU is paying attention to X's behavior as well as our growing community here on the #fediverse .

https://www.euractiv.com/news/x-blocks-eu-commissions-advertising-account-after-e120-million-fine/

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It's Monday, and that means an essay. Today's is a call-to-care about the value of Free/Libre and Open Source Software. It's written in part for those who don't already know and value F/LOSS, but also as a reminder that now is the time to care about software which helps us exercise agency.

not-so-obvious.net/why-i-love-

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medical ableism

gotta love how all my doctors are telling me they need to only talk about my ADHD bc my insurance would not believe anything i said if they formally diagnosed my autism :blobcat_stabby: :blobcat_cry:

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EU Commission's X account has been removed after the EU fined X for transparency failures at the tune $150,000,000. I hope someone at the EU is paying attention to X's behavior as well as our growing community here on the #fediverse .

https://www.euractiv.com/news/x-blocks-eu-commissions-advertising-account-after-e120-million-fine/

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Dear Fediverse, thank you for being a safe haven from AI slop.

This morning, I checked out Pinterest for the first time in forever and saw an image purporting to be a LEGO set that was obviously AI generated - yuck!

Then on Reddit's popular page there was a video compilation of people saving children from terrible falls = AI slop.

YouTube's homepage: a short video showing a child and her dog covered in mud = AI slop.

What was I thinking? I should visit and instead...

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I'm getting a LOT of new followers this weekend and today from mastodon.social that claim to be news aggregators. all created in the past 72 hours. Someone's spinning up a MONSTROUS propaganda/fake news campaign out there right now! I'm guessing it's a state level actor. Be cautious and double-check anything that sounds too good to be true or too outrageous to ignore!

screenshot showing an example mastodon profile of one of the fake news followers referred to in this toot.  (No useful images, only clearly mendacious content hence lack of detailed description here.)
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