What is Hackers' Pub?

Some people want BREAKING NEWS.

RE: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1710701583988896115

#FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #SpreadFediverse

So, my polyfill for Translator API works quite well. But I don’t know how to reasonably make up-to-date, high quality language models easily available for users, without requiring gigabytes of disk storage to host, say, pl-fe. I don’t want to bring too much centralization by hosting a model registry in one place for all pl-fe/polyfill users or favoring a single pl-fe deployment.

RT: https://pl.fediverse.pl/objects/b0908627-8d73-4a15-babc-7d803866a523

@maddiefuzzMaddie’s All Sorted

The widespread use of alt text is one of Mastodon's strengths. Creative and/or highly detailed alt text is a joy.

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

RE: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/115719061440623488

Just imagine if all that had been kept within an anticapitalist economy.

#silentSunday

It's up there... In the trees.

#Python folks, let's say I want to configure a CI build (perhaps a Github action) that uses the *MINIMUM* version of Python and dependencies specified in a pyproject.toml file for the test. I.E. to ensure that features not present in those versions aren't used in new code added to a library.

Is there already an easy way to do this?

IT security in the 90s ...

#infosec

tired: using an LLM to answer someone's question
wired: using your own knowledge and words to answer someone's question
inspired: writing in the style of an LLM because that's apparently what people trust more

#SilentSunday #sewing

Everyone should have the right to speak up against injustice without ending up in a database. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/how-cops-are-using-flock-safetys-alpr-network-surveil-protesters-and-activists

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Yo check it out. Very excited to review this tomorrow. This is the last piece so we’ll definitely be able to ship ARM64 UEFI builds starting with OS 8.1

https://github.com/elementary/website/pull/3922

Without their money, billionaires would be nothing but failing middle-management at best.

"Ahmed al-Ahmad, a 43-year-old Muslim man identified by Australian media, tackled & disarmed one of the shooters in the Bondi Beach attack, in which 11 people were murdered at a Jewish holiday event on Sunday.

Ahmad, whose cousin told Australia's News 7 that he was shot once in the arm & once in the shoulder, is being hailed as a hero on social media.
....Ahmad is currently in surgery & expected to make a full recovery."

Jerusalem Post 14/12/25

A Muslim hero who risked his life saving Jews

Thinking about the conversation in the latest @djangochatDjango Chat Podcast about making it easier for people to test alpha versions of Django before they are released.

Test matrixes are normally how I've made sure that code works across multiple versions, via nox locally and in CI/CD (with a GitHub Action).

Creating a noxfile.py in django-new feels... presumptuous somehow? Also unsure about adding a GH Action for this…

Maybe circling the same thought process as I was thinking about for https://github.com/adamghill/troml/

"AI could invent free renewable energy."

Or, y'know, we could deploy the stuff that works and is already cheaper than the fossil alternative, while doing the hard political work of figuring out how to pass the savings on to households, balancing the interests of shareholders and ratepayers.

#ai #climate #energy

Fuck racism and fuck guns.

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.

Without their money, billionaires would be nothing but failing middle-management at best.

@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.

RE: https://sfba.social/@fonts/115719285750742239

Yes yes yes:

"What if the web, and most websites besides the few obvious exceptions, were instead more like book publishing? A few thousand dedicated readers out there, at best."

I'd argue it already is and always has been :)

"And perhaps we should let our websites be small and private things once again."

The real disgrace in UK's welfare bill is that so much of it is spent on people in work. We are subsidising jobs that do not pay enough to live on. If we genuinely made sure work paid a decent living, then we would not have such a high bill.

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.

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

You hear the howling of the CwnAnnwn...

💯🤣 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/

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