What is Hackers' Pub?

"Why don't you just Amazon it?" asks my mum.

Because I walked up to the local shopping centre and I bought Christmas cards and actual gifts from a little gift shop. I get to handwrite the cards and wrap the gifts myself and it feels personal. I touched these soft toys and wrapped them and wrote the little card.

Then I went to the post office and bought the box and packaging I'd need to post them tomorrow. There was an old lady with a frame delivering mince pies to the staff. At the checkout counter I saw some gift label stickers and I'd just run out, so I bought them too.

Then I went via the local cafe for a takeaway tea and laughed at a small boy (2ish) determined to pay for his ice cream by himself, thereby holding up the whole queue in an adorable way.

As I walked home I smiled at the random guy walking past me and he smiled back.

Sure, this way of gift-giving is much longer and takes much more effort. But I've given my friend the gift of time and energy and that makes it much more special.

And I got to feel like part of a community for a moment.

The EFF Nails It: What’s Wrong With UK Digital ID

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/09/the-eff-nails-it-whats-wrong-with-uk-digital-id/

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

もうちょっと面白くなりたいわね

이번 아오모리 지진 옆 동네인 미야기현은 311 대지진 때도 1만명의 사망자가 발생한 곳으로, 당시 일본 전체 사망자의 50%가 그곳에서 발생했습니다. 특히 초등학생 수백명이 해변에서 시신으로 발견되기도 하고... 기사 보다가 옆 나라 일인데도 피 토할 것 같은 심정이 되었던 기억이 납니다. (어린이들의 명복을 빕니다..) 2011년 대지진하고 다른 지각판이라 오히려 대지진 가능성이 더 큰 위치라고 합니다. 에너지가 발산이 안 된 거니까요.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oeors5le2tmvqzojsjxxqwro/post/3m7j5y5rwjs2e

암호화폐에 인생의 8년을 낭비했다 news.hada.io/topic?id=24918 *자유지상주의·사이퍼펑크 이상에 매료돼 뛰어들었지만, 시간이 지나면서 탈중앙 금융이 아니라 초대형 온라인 카지노를 만들고 있었음이 드러남 *장기적으로 이 산업의 금융화·도박화가 사회적 이동성을 약화시키는 독성 구조라고 경고하며, “돈이 아니라 옳음”을 선택하겠다고 결론 "만드는" 사이드 이야기라 더 사무치는...

암호화폐에 인생의 8년을 낭비했다 | GeekNews

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...... 구글 개놈들

13 mini 使いなので残念。来年は機種変かなあ、山で遭難した時に便利そうだ

ソフトバンクもiPhoneやApple Watchで衛星経由のメッセージに対応、当面無料 - ケータイ Watch https://k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2069887.html

鳥撮りは楽しい

良い並び

ま、10000DLのmodの作者ぞ？？ひれふせ？？？

「AWS re:Invent ふりかえり ビジネス活用にむけた最新動向キャッチアップ」のウェビナーで、生成AIに関するセッションで登壇しました #AWSreInvent
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/aws-reinvent-2025-biz-webinar-genai-session/

#dev_classmethod

LLMs are effectively optimized for bamboozling CEOs into mistaking them for intelligent activity, rather than autocomplete on steroids.

And so the corporate leaders extrapolate from their own experience to that of their employees, and assume that anyone not sprinkling magic AI pixie dust on their work is obviously a dirty slacker or a luddite.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html

"European officials eye ‘nuclear option’ of dumping US Treasuries if Trump cuts Ukraine deal without allies, per WSJ." 라는 unusual whales의 글을 봤는데 ㅋㅋㅋ 와 이걸 입으로 이렇게 말하는 시대라니.. 이렇게 되면 미국도 죽고 유럽도 죽고 공멸하는 엔딩인데... 지금 보니 1주일 정도 지난 뉴스 같습니다 www.reddit.com/r/europe/com...

それにしてもこのピコピコ
ほんと​​

和好gay友浪漫行港島，由天后站走到香港大學

snac の記事公開されました

https://snac.kagolug.org/info/p/1765275678.168028

Mozilla Hubs が結構軽量(LaptopのCore i第6世代のiGPUでも遊べていた)でOSS で普及しないかなーと思っていたんだけど終わったorz

End of support for Mozilla Hubs | Hubs Help https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-mozilla-hubs

“Governments should join the Fediverse!”

IMO, Governments should have websites that work and are regularly updated and should leave social media entirely.

今んとこ高市早苗は円安対策とか物価高対策とか何もやってないに等しいじゃないですか。これも「自分の命は自分で守れ」というポリシーゆえですか。

`com.atproto.identity.getRecommendedDidCredentials`で押しつけられる（？）PDSのローテーション鍵って後から勝手に消したらどうなるのだろう。消されていることに気づいたらPDSが怒ってリポジトリをdeactivateしたりする？

虫さん​​
この日のジョビちゃんは大サービス
めっちゃ目の前でピコピコしてくれた​​
渡りから日数も経ってきたからか、段々と警戒心も薄れ人の距離が近づいてるっぽい
#misskey写真部 #photography #birdphotography #birds #野鳥

PHP 8.5の新機能を解説（＋非推奨機能と変更点） https://kinsta.com/jp/blog/php-8-5/

自らの命は自らで守るという原則ってなんじゃー！
そんな原則があるなら総理がいる意味ないから今すぐ辞めろ！！

Hurray!
This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source

https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

#OpenSource #Microsoft #boycottMicrosoft #removeMicrosoft #movetoLibreOffice #LibreOffice #Germany #linux #BOYCOTTBigTechs
#DigitalSovereignty #EU #opensourceGovernments #FOSS

『投資家は遠からず、AI収益の爆発力と、それを維持するための天文学的な維持コスト（減価償却費や燃料費）のバランスを厳しく精査し始めるだろう。AIバブル論の真の懸念は、需要の有無ではなく、この「利益率の構造的低下」にあるのではないか。』

AIバブル崩壊の引き金は「電力」か？ 米国を襲う“老朽化した電力網”とOpenAI・Microsoftの存亡を賭けたエネルギー戦争 | XenoSpectrum https://xenospectrum.com/us-ai-power-crunch-19gw-gap-crisis/ [参照]

Ik neem morgen een tractor mee om de #staking van #WOinActie kracht bij te zetten.

#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs

なんでまだ仕事してるんだ……​​

ワイの知り合いの方、（今はお亡くなりになっているが）ちょっと前まで都内の立派な介護施設に入っておられて。

あるベトナム人の介護士さんがとてもきめ細かい介護をしてくれて、たいそうお世話になったト。いい人だったト。ただ、1年チョイ前、そのベトナム人の介護士さん、お辞めにならはって。故郷の家族に仕送りをするために働いていたから、日本の方々には大変お世話になったけど同じ労働でももっと沢山仕送りできるオーストラリアに行きますって。
その方、メッチャ残念がっておられていたが「そういう事情なら仕方ないですよね」って。

いや…仕方ないですよねじゃなくて…
円安にしたのは政治ではないのであろうか。仕方ないってあきらめる場面なのかなあ、と今でももやもや。

この話、ここで過去にも書いているけど、今でも時々思い出すんよねえ。

その時はまだ排外ヘイトが横行する前だったけど。
円安で貨幣価値は低くなってるわ、ヘイターばっかじゃもう誰も来てくれないよね。政府主導で排外主義煽ってるんだから。ばか過ぎる。

On strike today, and off to Amsterdam in a bit to join my colleagues at the demo. Stop the cuts to higher education. #woinactie

북극곰 엄마와 회색곰 아빠 사이에서 태어난 그롤라 곰. 이들의 탄생은 멸종위기에 처한 북극곰에게 희망이 될 수 있을까요. 최근 연구를 종합하면, 현실은 그렇지 않았습니다.

아빠 곰은 회색곰, 엄마 곰은 북극곰…애기 곰은 ‘생태...

On my way to Amsterdam to meet my PhD advisor and (hopefully) thousands of other colleagues at the #woinactie demo. Stop the cuts to Dutch higher education!

Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

Ik sta straks op de Dam om nog maar eens te protesteren tegen de bezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. De rampzalige maatregelen van het oude kabinet zijn nog niet van tafel, en er moet dus een duidelijk signaal komen naar de formerende partijen!
https://woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/12/programma-stakingsactie-9-december.html

#WOinActie #UvA #Academia

"Overall, around half of such encounters with bongkrekic acid end fatally. Even the smallest amounts of the substance—one to one and a half milligrams—can cost an adult their life."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/death-by-fermented-food/

#Food #Poisons #Bacteria #Fermentation

Favorite Photo: Vlasoff Cay by Cruising, traveling & dive pics. https://flic.kr/p/2rKw4ot

Favorite Photo: Sunrise above Passo Giau (Once again) by thephotohikes.com https://flic.kr/p/2rKvocC

Favorite Photo: Osaka sunrise by MorBCN https://flic.kr/p/2rKneC3

에드가 케이시는 그래도 미국에 있었으니 미국에 대해서는 꽤 구체적인 힌트를 줬었는데요 이탈리아의 유명한 화산들 몇개가 터지고 영향을 받으면 미국도 그뒤로 몇개월내에 미 서부가 문제가 생길것이라고 이야기했었죠 이런거보면 어떤 절대적인 시간에 맞춰서 이벤트가 일어나는것이 아니고 상대적인 시간의 타임라인이라는것을 알수있는데 ... 등등

The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn

Link: https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/11/27/the-joy-of-playing-grandia-on-sega-saturn/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203138

Suspicion As A Service

Suspicion As A Service

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@anna/115683023084099052

I really wonder what promises the politicians are going to make today.

#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #WOinActie

Welche Bezeichnung ist am treffendsten?

#둥근달에필사해요 #필사토돈

​​お立ち台ジョビちゃん​​​​
#misskey写真部 #photography #birdphotography #birds #野鳥

The #nix #microvm project added #darwin support!

https://github.com/microvm-nix/microvm.nix/issues/154#event-21442108737

#microvmnix #NixOS #nixdarwin