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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dazraf @dazraf@mastodon.social
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@Mastodon is powered by a protocol called ActivityPub. While sick in bed, I spent today learning about it. Fabulous work by its authors! My humblest thanks to them.

w3.org/TR/activitypub/

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
@rhiaro@rhiaro@toot.cat
@evanproEvan Prodromou
Erin Shepherd
Jessica Tallon

ActivityPub

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.

www.w3.org

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Gymnopedie:nsfw::happymac: C106落選 @sonota_oozei@misskey.io
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信じられないものを見た気分だけど、よく見たら『マウスでスワイプ』していることに気がついた…
カーソルの意味から教えた

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롯데마트 토이저러스, 2000여 종 완구 최대 40% 할인 판매 n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl... 레고·캐치! 티니핑·헬로카봇 등 인기 브랜드 행사 '닌텐도 스위치2 본체'와 '삼성SD카드 256GB'를 함께 구매 시 2만 원 할인 혜택을 제공한다. '스위치 1·2 인기 타이틀 47종'은 최대 20% 할인 혜택을 제공한다.

롯데마트 토이저러스, 2000여 종 완구 최대 40% ...

롯데마트 토이저러스, 2000여 종 완구 최대 40% 할인 판매

뉴스1 | 네이버 · 롯데마트 토이저러스는 크리스마스 시즌을 맞아 25일까지 총 2000여 종의 완구를 최대 40% 할인 판매한다고 9일 밝혔다. 글로벌 인기 브랜드 완구 레고 300여 종을 최대 40% 할인된 가격에 선보인다. 행사 기

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The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city. The Course of Empire comprises the following works: The Course of Empire – The Savage State (1); The Arcadian or Pastoral State (2); The Consummation of Empire (3); Destruction (4); and Desolation (5).

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The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city. The Course of Empire comprises the following works: The Course of Empire – The Savage State (1); The Arcadian or Pastoral State (2); The Consummation of Empire (3); Destruction (4); and Desolation (5).

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Israel army chief says withdrawal line in Gaza is ‘new border’

Israel’s army chief, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, says the demarcation line that Israeli troops have withdrawn behind in Gaza is a “new border.”

“We have operational control over extensive parts of the Gaza Strip and we will remain on those defence lines. The yellow line is a new border line – serving as a forward defensive line for our communities and a line of operational activity.”





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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...

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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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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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