What is Hackers' Pub?

// Bonfire
#define r(a)*=mat2(cos(a+vec4(0,33,11,0))),
void main(){float i,t,a,n,w,o,d=1.;for(vec3 p,q,k;i++<5e1&&d>.001;o+=d>n?d=abs(n)*.4+.05,1./d:exp(3.-length(k)*.6),t+=d*.5)for(k=normalize(vec3(P+P-R,R.y))*t,d=k.y+=6.,k.z-=15.,w=.0025,a-=a,n=.96*length(k.xz)+.27*k.y-5.34;a++<9.;w+=w)p=k,p.zx r(a*2.4)q=p,q.y-=a*T,n+=abs(dot(sin(q*.7/w),q-q+w)),p.z-=5.,p.zy r(atan(a*.18))d=min(d,max(abs(p.z+5.)-5.,max(abs(p.x)*.9+p.y*.5,-p.y)-.3));O=vec4(tanh(o*vec3(9,3,1)/5e2),1);}

#shader #demo #glsl #art

Broken thoughts and fixed ideas

You know that thing in a fantasy movie where something evil bites you and then you turn evil too. I always think “no way that could happen to me! I’d be strong enough to resist.” … Then I remember the last time I got hangry.

🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 13 🎄

Today we have another content creator. I'm sponsoring Vimjoyer, a YouTuber dedicated to creating videos about NixOS with nice visuals. His videos played an important role in my NixOS journey.

Learn more about Advent of Donations and Vimjoyer in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations#day-13---vimjoyer

#AdventOfDonations #YouTube #NixOS

Looking for more places I can meet up with people outdoors in the rainy season in #portland. I want the outdoor space to be ventilated, and ideally have outdoor heaters. Lists often list places like Laurelhurst Market, but their tent is completely enclosed. The Asylum cart pod is a good place, The Fireside in NW is pretty good if the wind is coming from the south. Other suggestions #pdx folks?

Making Kin With Trees: A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care by Solvejg Nitzke, 2025

This book analyzes how trees act as mediators of interspecies relationships in popular science writing and creative nonfiction. Making Kin with Trees argues that trees emerge as agents of “arboreal poetics” shaping not only fictional but also material interactions.

#books
#nonfiction
#anthropology
#trees
#Springer

On the first day of Nixmas ❄️🎄 DetSys gave to thee 🎁: Determinate Nix 3.0, a downstream distribution of Nix for enterprise users, with stable flakes, SOC 2 Type II compliance, and more!

https://determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-30

I am tired of saying "I use NixOS btw." so from now on this responsibility is delegated to my new keyring.

#NixOS #nix #unix #linux #keyring #3dprint #ams

ちょい前にした旅行の写真見てると、
脳内で旅行で得られる楽しさの疑似成分が分泌されて
幸せになる(？？？)

#misskey写真部

おはよう

You know that thing in a fantasy movie where something evil bites you and then you turn evil too. I always think “no way that could happen to me! I’d be strong enough to resist.” … Then I remember the last time I got hangry.

So Remnick on Apple TV has just concluded season one and I must say I really liked it. A wonderful series on people, motivation, conflicts, embedded in a wonderful surrounding nature setting. I also really like Pluribus. Once you think of the "unified" people in there as "AI" users, it really drives the horror deeper and deeper :)

可動フィギュア？
https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/2843325/

Broken thoughts and fixed ideas

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115713071946346627

I saw a story similar to this one a few years ago, but about someone who was locked out of their Google account due to a nearly identical flag. It's what inspired me to start ditching major platforms in the first place and start focusing on services that use end-to-end encryption and allow for full proper data exports and backups.

This sucks.

// Bonfire
#define r(a)*=mat2(cos(a+vec4(0,33,11,0))),
void main(){float i,t,a,n,w,o,d=1.;for(vec3 p,q,k;i++<5e1&&d>.001;o+=d>n?d=abs(n)*.4+.05,1./d:exp(3.-length(k)*.6),t+=d*.5)for(k=normalize(vec3(P+P-R,R.y))*t,d=k.y+=6.,k.z-=15.,w=.0025,a-=a,n=.96*length(k.xz)+.27*k.y-5.34;a++<9.;w+=w)p=k,p.zx r(a*2.4)q=p,q.y-=a*T,n+=abs(dot(sin(q*.7/w),q-q+w)),p.z-=5.,p.zy r(atan(a*.18))d=min(d,max(abs(p.z+5.)-5.,max(abs(p.x)*.9+p.y*.5,-p.y)-.3));O=vec4(tanh(o*vec3(9,3,1)/5e2),1);}

#shader #demo #glsl #art

Reposting this banger of a photo of my pupper.

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これは​​のテンニンカちゃんだよ​​​​🎂

Local Greens Cities and Twenty-first Century Environmental Problems by Katrina M. Wyman & Danielle Spiegel-Feld, 2025

As the federal government failed to take ambitious action to limit climate change in the early 21st century, many cities in the US pledged to step into the void. Networks of city governments and philanthropists offered support and cities invested their own resources in sustainability offices.

#books
#nonfiction
#cities
#environment
#ClimateChange

When I first watched Dexter I thought it was unrealistic that he had so much plastic wrap and then I came to America. To a business Costco, specifically

I was just telling someone how it’s taking me years to finish my 1000 sq ft roll of aluminum foil from Costco

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おきた
おはよう

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115713071946346627

I saw a story similar to this one a few years ago, but about someone who was locked out of their Google account due to a nearly identical flag. It's what inspired me to start ditching major platforms in the first place and start focusing on services that use end-to-end encryption and allow for full proper data exports and backups.

This sucks.

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馬場駅前のバラックっていうか寿司屋は私が学生時代からあった気がするぞ

#クソ物件オブザイヤー2025 結果発表｜全宅ツイ https://note.com/kusobukken/n/n5be39d9027af

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits

Link: https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Federal Wallet Inspectors; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/

#Pluralistic

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🔳 Yes

🔳 Maybe¹ later²

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¹ automatically opted in
² after 30 days

A short story

Conservative: "Companies say 'Happy Holidays' because they hate Jesus."

Economics 101: "Companies say 'Happy Holidays' because they want to sell cheap plastic garbage to 100% of the population instead of 65%."

The 'War on Christmas' is just the Free Market you claim to worship working exactly as intended.

You are fighting the Invisible Hand. And losing.

@malwaretechMarcus Hutchins I have no delays at all in my Amazon deliveries, because it’s been years since I last bought anything from them.

FedEx, on the other hand, promised me that a package was on its way to my house 3 days in a row. It finally arrived this morning, and the driver said “it’s just come off the trailer”, so the last 3 days they were just lying to me.

Liturgies for Resisting Empire by Kat Armas, 2025

"A thought-provoking look at the intertwining of religion and social control."—Publishers Weekly

● Explains what "empire" is in our modern day
● Gives practical spiritual guidance for resisting empire's daily influence
● Explores how early Christians navigated imperial pressures
● Unpacks how empire influences how we see ourselves and others

#books
#nonfiction
#Christianity
#religion
#empire
#resistance
#theology

Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect?

Link: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/will-west-coast-jazz-finally-get
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176592

Mui (無為) v0.2.0 is out 🎉
A Vim-like TUI editor written in Ruby.

Features include:
• Modal editing with familiar Vim motions
• Precise Visual / Visual Line selection
• .muirc and project-level .lmuirc configuration
• RubyGems-based plugin system
• Git, LSP, and filer support

Check it out on GitHub:
https://github.com/S-H-GAMELINKS/mui

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The problem is that the alternatives are completely inaccessible to most people, I struggle to get my head round what's trapped to self-host my own email server. How would you even begin to help someone who's only ever used phone apps? For the vast majority, there is no alternative to big cloud

@MigueldeicazaMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115713071946346627

New mini display

When autocracy takes hold in a country, everything goes on as before—police go on policing, landlords go on collecting rent, people go on showing up to work. The transition takes place so smoothly because all the elements necessary to fascism were present under democracy.

https://crimethinc.com/democracy

People imagine fascism as the opposite of democratic governance. In fact, it employs the same police, courts, property rights, patriotic mythology, and habits of obedience as state democracy. Wherever there is a powerful state with a monopoly on violence, fascism is only an election away.

This is why resistance to authoritarianism must take place at all times, not simply when an army is invading under swastika flags. We must never conflate the smooth functioning of the state with freedom itself. Assuming that the "rule of law" is identical with self-determination gives aspiring despots a free hand.

@m0xEE Jazmin enjoys the basket. The other perches are first come. Everyone likes the top 😅 #cats #caturday

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Just started watching "Mr. Scorsese Reviews" on Apple TV and it's like getting inside the head that came up with all those movies, with scenes from the movies in there too. What a gift. https://www.metacritic.com/tv/mr-scorsese/

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Israel hails joining US-led AI initiative, Pax Silica

Netanyahu’s office says joining the Trump administration’s AI initiative is “a badge of honor for the State of Israel and the Israeli high-tech industry”.

Dubbed Pax Silica, the initiative aims to bolster “cooperation on AI and supply chain security” between the US and its allies, the State Department said in a factsheet this week.
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#PaxSilica
#Israel
#news
#AI

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