What is Hackers' Pub?

One lesson Democrats should take away from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is that they should be as unapologetic about policies that help people as Republicans are about those that harm people (e.g ICE, no gun control, cutting healthcare subsidies, government layoffs, research funding cuts, etc).

Seven swans to rule them all
Six geese to find them.
Five rings to bring them all,
And in the pear tree
Bind them.

@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) @ezeno789ekZepp_Pf we do have the ability to moderate replies built into ActivityPub, though.

Every object has a `replies` collection that is owned and managed by the creator of the object. If you don't want someone's reply to appear in the list of replies, you can remove it.

Mastodon does not surface this feature. It also doesn't show the `replies` collection remotely. That's too bad; it would cover most of what people want from replies management.

self driving cars

ねる。

Yep, Cosplay Hegseth wants the entire U.S. military depending on #Google AI, but Google AI still can't even get simple math correct, like the difference between 2 weeks and 3 weeks? Eh?

Spread Fediverse through Entertainment

I have a thesis (related to helping bring more people onto the Fediverse) —

№1: Most people are interested in Entertainment.

№2: the collective appetite for Entertainment is, in a practical sense, unbounded.

Therefore, a (practical) path to help bring more people onto the Fediverse is to increase the amount of Entertainment on the Fediverse.

#Fediverse #SpreadFediverse

Spread Fediverse through Entertainment

I have a thesis (related to helping bring more people onto the Fediverse) —

№1: Most people are interested in Entertainment.

№2: the collective appetite for Entertainment is, in a practical sense, unbounded.

Therefore, a (practical) path to help bring more people onto the Fediverse is to increase the amount of Entertainment on the Fediverse.

#Fediverse #SpreadFediverse

You hear the howling of the CwnAnnwn...

The GNOME project has banned developers from including AI-generated code in its shell extensions

https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2025/12/06/ai-and-gnome-shell-extensions/

💯🤣 I’m definitely looking forward to visiting Kentucky one day in particular… https://bsky.app/profile/captainawkward.bsky.social/post/3m7xbjbqp7c2n

@mayintorontoMay Likes Toronto We used to say “don’t trust anything you read on the internet”, but this? This is next-level bullshit.

I just noticed that all best (stiudent) papers awards and test of time awards from the SAT conferences are available from the SAT association web site:
https://www.satassociation.org/awards/

@ezeno789ekZepp_Pf

Mastodon could become that. But, it would need to add some new features.

Mastodon has "editable posts". Which is great.

But Mastodon doesn't give you a "choice of home-feed algorithm" yet. Currently, Mastodon only support reverse-chron as its home-feed algorithm. (I.e., what some inaccurately call "no algorithm".)

And, Mastodon doesn't yet given users the "ability to moderate replies" to their posts.

Prior to 1989, when Eastern Europeans fled to the United States to escape communism, I never imagined that four decades later, American’s would be fleeing to Europe to escape fascism.

You hear the howling of the CwnAnnwn...

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#SilentSunday #sewing

I clicked on a link and started reading. It read like a thoughtful interview from years passed...

And then I read this question: "You passed away on your eighty-eighth birthday – 4th August 2020. Do you reflect on mortality?"

What the fuck?

At the end of the article:
"Editorial note: This interview transcript is a work of dramatised historical reconstruction. Frances Allen died on 4th August 2020, and cannot speak. The words, reflections, and responses attributed to her in this document are constructed from historical records, published interviews, biographical materials, technical papers, and documented accounts of her life and work – but they are not her actual words, spoken in real time."

Tell me you used AI without telling me you used AI.

ALSO, this was "written" by a MAN dramatizing the perspective of a woman pioneer in computer science. He's got a whole series on dead woman.

FUCK RIGHT THE FUCK OFF.

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/115717705308072732

surprised nobody has gone "eniko please" to this yet. clearly you all expect this level of nonsense from me now and i must try harder

Also this might be the best piece of #knitting I’ve done recently. My friend asked for an *unusual* Christmas stocking for her daughter

I kind of want to buy a new office chair, as my current one is flaking plastic off it & getting uncomfortable. I've seen a few people with cute gaming chairs, but I'm not sure where in Germany would be a good place to buy one.

@kutter.bsky.socialJan Kutter | Freak neuen Typs legt man eine Laugenbrezel auf eine Säurebrezel, britzelt es und man hat eine doppelt so schwere Salzbrezel.

for this silly sunday, i present block game but it's hot dog stand themed

#EniBlockGame

Great piece.

https://newpublic.substack.com/p/we-need-a-revolution-in-social-media

happy throwing shoes at George W Bush day to all who celebrate!

#silentSunday

It would be easier and simpler for us to emigrate to the Netherlands, Ireland or Portugal than it would be for me to return home to the UK. Go figure

Shai-Hulud: A complete post-mortem https://lobste.rs/s/4ixwyf #security
https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem

If I can't pet your cat, seeing photos of them is the next best thing. :3

Tomorrow we'll release a new #Holos version that fixes notification filtering and the mentions bug. The counter bug will also be resolved. Thanks for the feedback!

One lesson Democrats should take away from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is that they should be as unapologetic about policies that help people as Republicans are about those that harm people (e.g ICE, no gun control, cutting healthcare subsidies, government layoffs, research funding cuts, etc).

Liefste Mastodon: help. Ik zoek een organisatie (#repaircafe , iets #fietsbieb achtigs,...) in de buurt van #Stekene waar oude laptops worden gewist en met een nieuw (#Linux) besturingssysteem ter beschikking worden gesteld van mensen of organisaties die ze nodig hebben. Ik heb zelf wel een laptop te geef, maar vooral: ik ken 'n pientere gast die daar best wat tijd voor zou kunnen maken (en die een positieve geengageerde "derde plek" nodig heeft). #jeugdzorg
(Edit: hashtags)

subshells

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/subshells/

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.

Baseline: Operation-Based Evolution and Versioning of Data https://lobste.rs/s/xys2jw #pdf #programming
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09762

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

Link: https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262021

#Exercitium: Desemparejamiento de listas. https://jaalonso.github.io/exercitium/posts/2014/12/23-desemparejamiento-de-listas/ #Haskell #ProgramaciónFuncional

@greenpeteGreenpete @Em0nM4stodonEm @murmel_socialMurmel yeah it almost sound like if they were using AI... oh !

Compulsive contradictorians will say it's just custom feed like BS but as pointed, I don't think Murmel clients users follows consented to that.

Digests are being scraped and sent by email. "But you can't prevent your followers from saving your toots it's the same"

Indeed you can't prevent assholes.

Mastodon has no algo* ? Buy one
https://murmel.social/pricing

*I know, I know...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115719315291125628

“As we drive, we see them, more and more people out on the streets, watching. On a corner at a gas station, a small group of people, some in KN95 masks, stand on the grassy strip at the side of the road, watching. At the Home Depot, Lucy parks and hops out to say ‘hi’ to the people at the table near the parking lot, expecting them to shut down for the morning. A new shift of volunteers, however, has come to stay longer.“

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115719315291125628

“As we drive, we see them, more and more people out on the streets, watching. On a corner at a gas station, a small group of people, some in KN95 masks, stand on the grassy strip at the side of the road, watching. At the Home Depot, Lucy parks and hops out to say ‘hi’ to the people at the table near the parking lot, expecting them to shut down for the morning. A new shift of volunteers, however, has come to stay longer.“

life is a box of chocolate and im a dog.

Der Begriff "Vielvölkerstaat" hat mich schon immer irritiert.

It sure is wild seeing all these AI companies still hiring like the bubble is never ever going to burst

Team Orca is at it again