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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Imagine Microsoft winning the browser wars so hard they absorbed Netscape, Sun, Yahoo, Google, Mozilla.

Internet Explorer everywhere. ActiveX for everything.
No smartphones. No open source.
Just Windows.

The web got very lucky.

Also: strong encryption was literally treated like an export-controlled weapon for years, and we keep learning how often “backdoors” were the plan.

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Ich hab gestern in einem YouTube Vlog gehört, dass jemand für einen Termin in Köln die ÖPNV Verbindungen mit geplant hat und dann 2 Stunden durch die Stadt geirrt ist, weil nichts von den Informationen stimmte. Rein aus Interesse hab ich das heute mal versucht mit einer Strecke, die ich gut kenne, weil da mein Augenarzt ist. Als erstes wollte die KI mich anstatt in die Amtsstraße ( die weit draußen am Rande der Stadt ist) zum Amtsgericht in der Innenstadt schicken. Außerdem wurde behauptet ich könnte dort mit der Straßenbahn Linie 2 hinfahren. Es gibt in diesem Stadtteil überhaupt keine Straßenbahn, ausschließlich Busse. Leute müssen wirklich aufhören zu denken, dass KI in irgendeiner Weise nützlich ist, den die ist dumm wie Brot.

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Fedi MTV is coming... This Xmas! Fuck yeah.

"It’s late capitalism, and artists have nowhere to go. Where’s left? Where can people discover new, risk-taking art? ...

We need a real human place for real human video art. So, we made one."

meljoann.com/posts/fedi-mtv/

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Live du 10/12 - Surveillance des personnes étrangères : aux frontières du fascisme

Cette semaine, nous avons parlé de la surveillance des frontières et du rôle que jouent les technologies numériques dans les politiques de contrôle et de répression des populations étrangères.

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Looks like Trump is trying to find an alternate supplier to Canada's potash. Trump wants to put massive tariffs on potash to spur the US growth in it: problem is there's really no viable source of potash in the US.

So, maybe he tries to get it from a more "friendly" country in Belarus? Key problem for this plan: the main export port for Belarus potash is in Lithuania & the EU has not lifted an embargo on it so none of it will get out that way.

I suppose Belarus could ask Putin to take it and ship it out of a Russian port, but travel/shipping costs would make it more expensive.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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@dansup what the Internet does not need is more “leaders”. Today’s leader become tomorrow’s dictator. Far better to think in terms of facilitators - ie. people who help things happen, not seeking power or ownership.

Like Tim Berners Lee ecosia.org/search?q=inventor+o

@peterbrown I disagree, when I said leader, I obviously meant ethical and forward thinking leaders or builders.

They are the same, you have to make a path before you can expect others to walk it.

When it comes to open source projects like these, dictators have no power, anyone can fork and the people can decide which path they take.

And we should embrace this, otherwise we'd be stuck on Internet Explorer v20 unless that kid announced his new hobby project called linux back in the early 90s 😉

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Proposal for a new regulation, dear @EUCommissionEuropean Commission. When a digital service like Apple iCloud, Google, Facebook etc decides to block or delete your account, they MUST give you a way for a limited time (I'd propose 6 months) to download all data/files they have stored under that account. You should be able to access it using the last known credentials. AFTER a full download has occurred, the account may be finally deleted. I am sure it needs more refinement, but the principle should be established.

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🤡
huffpost.com/entry/james-carvi

"First of all, it seems like she’s well-educated. It seems like she’s — got a lot of energy. But she, to me, she violates the first rule of politics and that is in politics, you always make it about the voters and never about yourself,”

-Carville

Black people can read between these lines.

If you're still listening to Carville in 2025? Then you cannot be useful to Jasmine Crockett, yourself, or anyone else.

Just pay him a lot of money (again), lose your election (again), and go.

His opinion on 2025 politics is as useful as his opinion on UK drill rap: he doesn't even know what he's listening to!

So you can't really get mad at him for trying to map it to an era and genre that he does understand, and then giving weird takes as a result.

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Proposal for a new regulation, dear @EUCommissionEuropean Commission. When a digital service like Apple iCloud, Google, Facebook etc decides to block or delete your account, they MUST give you a way for a limited time (I'd propose 6 months) to download all data/files they have stored under that account. You should be able to access it using the last known credentials. AFTER a full download has occurred, the account may be finally deleted. I am sure it needs more refinement, but the principle should be established.

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