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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Chat am I an influencer

I generally don't think of myself as an influencer, but folks online and IRL label me as one pretty often (usually NOT as an insult???)

Then every other time I pop onto Fedi, I see some post like, “Praise be that we have no influencers here! No foul creatures who do X, Y, and Z!”, and I'm reading those lists like... I've never done any of that in my life

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...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right?

"I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto"

"Over time however, I felt like I have lost my purpose in crypto. The initial siren songs of crypto’s transformative powers waned after working in the space full-time. I was disillusioned by my target customers and who I was really building for. I completely misunderstood what the actual users of crypto are v.s. just propaganda. Crypto purports that it helps decentralize the financial system, which I completely bought into, but in reality, it’s just a speculation and a gambling hyper-system that’s really just a mirror of what the economy is now."

"The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I am NOT building a new financial system. I built a casino. A casino that does not call itself a casino, but it is the biggest, online, multi-player 24/7 casino our generation has ever concocted. Some part of me wants me to feel proud that I contributed at least my 20s building this casino out. Another part of me literally feels like I wasted my entire 20s in this space. I wasted my life on this, but at least I made good money from it."

x.com/kenchangh/status/1994854

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せんたくものほしたよ :saba:

607449336d (upstream/main) Merge commit from fork
85bf5be604 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37146)
cf23f0414f Add `id` to collection serializers (#37157)
55becaa1b5 Preload tag to prevent n+1 (#37154)
8625721805 Draft API to get all collections by an account (#37139)

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We would like to highlight the work of Mark Crutch, who has been writing tutorials, tips and tricks for Full Circle magazine for over 10 years 😍 !

Whether you're learning Inkscape, want to read about the workflows of others, or just marvel at how much Inkscape has changed (since 0.48!), you can download and read the magazines' Inkscape special edition collections for free at the following website:

fullcirclemagazine.org/special

A pencil drawing the Full Circle magazine's logo. Text: Inkscape on Full Circle Magazine
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If you're recommending Mastodon and the wider Fediverse to organisations, friends, family or colleagues, don't worry if they say no. You have done something really important simply by making them aware of it as an option.

Most people and organisations don't immediately try stuff they hear about. Usually they need to hear it mentioned by a few different sources before they actually try it.

By being one of those sources, you're nudging them closer to actually trying it 👍

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There are so many FCC comment periods that will close right at the beginning of January, on really stupid, short-sighted, make-billionaires-richer things they want to do with loosening the already incredibly loose regulations for satellites. I am tired. But I have to write stuff for these, because it's the one and only way to formally protest. Fuck.

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Bluesky Shits The Bed: ICE Edition

What happens when your husband gets kidnapped by ICE and you worry about it on Bluesky? Your account gets suspended, the Head of Trust and Safety trolls you on a secondary account you create to try and figure out what happened, then bans that account!

Fucking HELL what is WRONG with that site?!?

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...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right?

"I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto"

"Over time however, I felt like I have lost my purpose in crypto. The initial siren songs of crypto’s transformative powers waned after working in the space full-time. I was disillusioned by my target customers and who I was really building for. I completely misunderstood what the actual users of crypto are v.s. just propaganda. Crypto purports that it helps decentralize the financial system, which I completely bought into, but in reality, it’s just a speculation and a gambling hyper-system that’s really just a mirror of what the economy is now."

"The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I am NOT building a new financial system. I built a casino. A casino that does not call itself a casino, but it is the biggest, online, multi-player 24/7 casino our generation has ever concocted. Some part of me wants me to feel proud that I contributed at least my 20s building this casino out. Another part of me literally feels like I wasted my entire 20s in this space. I wasted my life on this, but at least I made good money from it."

x.com/kenchangh/status/1994854

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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...

Follow-up to this morning's post about .

@bookstardustradioactivestardust @lefteristrip23Λευτέρης Τ. suggested I could turn off AI-gen image recommendations on . I did - thank you!

No more LEGO AI slop... but now my feed is 100% illustrations with the same style... and I don't know what to trust anymore.

I found an illustration of NYC really odd (Statue of Liberty in the middle of the city?!?), zoomed in and boom: complete gibberish on a store sign (aka surest sign of AI slop).

No more Pinterest for me 😭

an illustration of a snowy NYC with the statue of Liberty smack in the center of the city, a yellow taxi with blurry "T" on the car doors and a store on the right with an unreadable signa screenshot showing a zoomed in part from the larger illustration... the store sign is impossible to read, it's a mix of weird letters and numbers
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(I'm writing WebGPU code)

Me: I cannot BELIEVE that Apple is forcing me to use WGSL. This is an OUTRAGE and I will NEVER FORGIVE THEM

(I'm writing SDL3 or literally any other that is not WebGPU)

Me: Hey can I use WGSL with this

(I am a cat?)

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Dear OSS community on Mastodon,

Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:

“First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"

or

“Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!”

or

“Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out”

… and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.

Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum?

So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context.

  • Tell us what your software does.
  • Tell us why this release is cool.
  • Tell us what it requires to work.

Example:

We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.

Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”.

Yours truly,

Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements

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Přátelé Fediverse,

na mamutovo.cz nově zavádíme schvalování registrací.
Důvodem je zvýšená aktivita botů, které se v posledních dnech snaží hromadně zakládat účty.

Pro běžné uživatele se nic nemění – noví členové jsou vítáni, jen jejich registraci ručně potvrdíme.
Opatření je dočasné a zrušíme ho, jakmile se situace uklidní.

Díky za pochopení. ❤️

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Přátelé Fediverse,

na mamutovo.cz nově zavádíme schvalování registrací.
Důvodem je zvýšená aktivita botů, které se v posledních dnech snaží hromadně zakládat účty.

Pro běžné uživatele se nic nemění – noví členové jsou vítáni, jen jejich registraci ručně potvrdíme.
Opatření je dočasné a zrušíme ho, jakmile se situace uklidní.

Díky za pochopení. ❤️

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