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.

earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Guess hoo? It’s the Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus), of course! This majestic bird of prey is easily identified by its white plumage and piercing yellow eyes. It can be found north of the Arctic Circle year round, but often travels south during winter. In the United States, this bird has been observed as far from home as Florida and Texas. Unlike many owls, this species is primarily diurnal—meaning that it hunts by daylight.
Photo: Silver Leapers,CC BY 2.0, flickr

via amnhnyc


Image Description A photo of a Snowy Owl standing on snowy terrain. The owl is primarily white, with dark patterning on its chest, head, and back. Its eyes are piercing yellow. This owl feeds on a variety of small mammals and birds, but its favorite snack is lemmings. A single Snowy Owl can eat more than 1,600 lemmings a year!
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Migration: A World History by Michael H. Fisher, 2013

Migration began with our origin as the human species and continues today. Each chapter of world history features distinct types of migration. The earliest migrations spread humans across the globe. Over the centuries, as our cultures, societies, and technologies evolved in different material environments, migrants conflicted, merged, and cohabited with each other, creating...




..., entering, and leaving various city-states, kingdoms, empires, and nations. During the early modern period, migrations reconnected the continents, including through colonization and forced migrations of subject peoples, while political concepts like "citizen" and "alien" developed. In recent history, migrations changed their character as nation-states and transnational unions sought in new ways to control the peoples who migrated across their borders. This volume will explore the process of migration chronologically and also at several levels, from the illuminating example of the migration of a individual community, to larger patterns of the collective movements of major ethnic groups, to the more abstract study of the processes of emigration, migration, and immigration. This book will concentrate on substantial migrations covering long distances and involving large numbers of people. It will intentionally balance evidence from the now diverse people's of the world, for example, by highlighting an exemplary migration for each of the six chapters that highlights different trajectories and by keeping issues of gender and socio-economic class salient wherever appropriate. Further, as a major theme, the volume will consider how technology, the environment, and various polities have historically shaped human migration. Exciting new scholarship in the several fields inherent in this topic make it a particularly valuable and timely project.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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How to Fall in Love with Questions by Elizabeth Weingarten

A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty

Journalist and applied behavioral scientist Elizabeth Weingarten charts a new path to embrace the questions of our lives instead of seeking fast, easy answers.

What do you do when faced with a big, important question that keeps you up at night? Many people, understandably, seize answers dispensed by "experts," influencers, gurus, and more.




But these fast, easy, one-size-fits-all solutions often fail to satisfy, and can even cause more pain. What if our questions—the ones we ask about relationships, work, meaning, identity, and purpose—are not our tormentors, but our teachers? Inspired by 150-year-old advice from Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and backed by contemporary science, Elizabeth Weingarten offers a fresh approach for dealing with these seemingly unsolvable questions. In her quest, Weingarten shares her own journey and the stories of many others, whose lives have transformed through a different, and better, relationship with our questions.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao, 2025

From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy.




When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources: the “compute” power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans “cleaning up” that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire: only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations? Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Armed with Microsoft’s billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history—toward what end, not even they can define.
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Gough Whitlam: The Vista of the New: The Definitive and Most Up-To-Date Biography From Australia's Leading Political Biographer Troy Bramston, 2025

A commanding biography of one of Australia's greatest and most visionary prime minsters by an acclaimed political journalist and author. There has been no one like Gough Whitlam in public life - a charismatic, inspirational and visionary leader who ushered in a reform revolution to modernise Australia, which endures to this day.


But Whitlam's immense self-belief, relentless determination, misjudgements and blunders were truly Shakespearean and help to explain his downfall. Drawing on thousands of pages of newly discovered archives and interviews with more than one hundred people, Troy Bramston, Australia's leading political biographer, gives the most comprehensively researched account of Whitlam's life and career ever published. It is an epic story of triumph and tragedy, filled with revelations that will surprise and shock, and offers new insights into Whitlam's family and upbringing; wartime service and legal career; ascendancy through Labor ranks; prime ministership; and life after politics. This is the definitive biography of Australia's twenty-first prime minister, and the first since his death in 2014, providing an unvarnished analysis of his achievements and failures, how he governed, and the dramatic story of his dismissal on Remembrance Day, 1975. Fifty years later, it could not be timelier. PRAISE 'Brilliant' PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE'A bunker buster of a biography, smashing through partisanship and legend in search of truth about our most controversial prime minister' LAURIE OAKES, former political journalist and author'A fresh portrait of Whitlam emerges from this work, using previously unseen personal and official archives. Bramston gives a new take on Australia's most revered and reviled prime minister' SARAH FERGUSON, journalist and host, ABC 7.30
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vkc (Veronica Explains) @vkc@linuxmom.net
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Every social media needs Mastodon's "personal note" feature.

That thing where you can leave a note only-you-can-see about why you followed, or why you muted, or why you blocked a profile.

I use this all the time in Mastodon to explain to future me why I took an action, and it would be great to know that while I'm wasting time remembering why I subscribed to various YouTube channels, or why I blocked various commenters.

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Flying Over the Earth at Night

MUST WATCH

Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. Such visual spectacles occur every day for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but the featured video captured several from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 and set them to rousing music.

Passing below are white clouds, orange city lights, lightning flashes in thunderstorms, and dark blue seas.

youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g



All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS

FAQ: https://randomphotons.com/alone Images: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Music: 'Freedom Fighters' by Two Steps from HellEditor: David PetersonServing Suggestion...

www.youtube.com · YouTube

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Syrian exodus

The 14-year-long war led to one of the world’s largest migration crises, with some 6.8 million Syrians, about a third of the population, fleeing the country at the war’s peak in 2021, seeking refuge wherever they could find it.

More than half of these refugees, about 3.74 million, settled in neighbouring Turkiye, while 840,000 found refuge in Lebanon and 672,000 in Jordan.


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歐洲動態(國際) @europechinese@mstdn.social
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日本東北青森縣以東水域週一深夜發生黎克特制7.5級地震後，氣象廳在週二凌晨2時首度發出「北海道．三陸沖後發地震注意情報」，意思是指未來一週（下週二16日凌晨零時前）相關地區發生8級或以上地震的機會較正常高，升至1%，提醒居民加強震災前準備

europechinese.blogspot.com/202

日本首發出「北海道．三陸沖後發地震注意情報」 東北未來一週8級巨震機會升至1%

日本東北青森縣以東水域週一深夜發生黎克特制7.5級地震後，氣象廳在週二凌晨2時宣佈，首度發出「北海道．三陸沖後發地震注意情報」，意思是指未來一週（下週二16日凌晨零時前）相關地區發生8級或以上地震的機會較正常高，提醒居民加強震災前準備。

europechinese.blogspot.com

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org
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I’m currently messing around with a new logo / branding concept for @spectraSpectra Video

The original logo was something that I whipped up in like 20 minutes, threw it on the instance, and just haven’t changed at all. I don’t think it’s the worst thing ever, but I think we could do better.

If you have ideas or proposals of things you’d like to see, I’m open to feedback!

A series of logo mockups and concepts on a moodboard for the Spectra Video PeerTube instance logo. Most of the ideas involve a series of connected wires making an "S" shape inside of a TV test pattern.
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth@hachyderm.io
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I have a lot of thoughts on AI.

I've been working on this post for a couple of months now. It's very personal, characteristically lengthy, and sure to be at least somewhat controversial. Take it (or don't) as you will.

joshcollinsworth.com/blog/slop

AI optimism is a class privilege

I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yourself in.

joshcollinsworth.com · Josh Collinsworth

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鵤（或ル少女）C106(土)東タ25a @preteen_girl_sw@misskey.io
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​:ohayo:​ 過去のブログから、現在の活動にも繋がっている記事を選ぶ３記事目（ラスト）。私が強く影響を受けているイラストレーターさんのお話​:ablobcat_cheer:​
https://note.com/preteen_girl_sw/n/nafc565eee1db?sub_rt=share_pw

【転載】風景＋少女｜鵤（或ル少女）

※Ci-en(2024/01/07 18:17)からの転載です　過去の記事から、現在にも特に繋がっているものを選んでみました（３記事目。こちらが最後です） このブログをご覧の皆様、そして写真集を買って下さった皆様、本年もよろしくお願いします。 昨年末に自分が影響を受けている、あきま先生の画集『潜性都市』の出版記念展に行ってきました。 あきま画集「潜在都市」出版記念展　会場写真 原画を見たり、大きくプリントされた画像を見れて、モニター上では得られない印象を得られてとても良かったです。 自分は写真が趣味という意識はありませんでしたが、業務の記録用にも使えるのでコンデジをずっと持

note.com · note（ノート）

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toddbuddy @toddbuddy@4bear.com
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Today the company I have worked for 33 years told me that I am taking early retirement on the first. Which means they aren’t giving me anything. Lordy. In the middle of my cancer treatment. What pricks. Any SFers know a good lawyer?

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kazuhito @kazuhito@vivaldi.net
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"読者が五十代の会社員であっても、人生百年時代、いずれ新たな職場に向かうことになる。その第二の人生を輝くものにするために求められるのも、この「五つの基礎力」に他ならない。"

活躍する人材「五つの基礎力」：田坂広志の深き思索、静かな気づき | Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブス ジャパン） forbesjapan.com/articles/detai

活躍する人材「五つの基礎力」：田坂広志の深き思索、静かな気づき | Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブス ジャパン）

筆者は、毎年五千名の学生が実社会に巣立つ学園を預かる立場であるが、学生たちの後姿を見送るとき、彼らの前途にある困難な未来への憂慮を禁じ得ない。なぜなら、現在の社会では、彼らを職業人として育ててくれる職場環境が失われているからである。それは、...

forbesjapan.com

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org
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I’m currently messing around with a new logo / branding concept for @spectraSpectra Video

The original logo was something that I whipped up in like 20 minutes, threw it on the instance, and just haven’t changed at all. I don’t think it’s the worst thing ever, but I think we could do better.

If you have ideas or proposals of things you’d like to see, I’m open to feedback!

A series of logo mockups and concepts on a moodboard for the Spectra Video PeerTube instance logo. Most of the ideas involve a series of connected wires making an "S" shape inside of a TV test pattern.
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Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social
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Our (Grafana) Loki installation occasionally comes in handy, even though I'm not a fan any more¹. If only there was a free thing that was more "a Prometheus for system logs" than Loki turned out to be. One that was worth the effort to switch to, and as accessible via Grafana, and etc.

I'm wishing for multiple ponies here.

¹ it's still running because so far it needs no attention.

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