What is Hackers' Pub?

JFC they're trying to make it so women can't have credit cards again. LIKE MY MOM IN THE 70s

THIS FUCKING SHIT, I swear.

Leave a comment (it matters so much they disabled comments—try anyway): https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/CFPB-2025-0039-0001

Great tiktok on this: https://www.tiktok.com/@whattheish/video/7583502787271609613

TELL EVERYONE

今度は能登で震度４か……起きる

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-quits-hiding-truth #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Check this diva!

#catsofmastodon #mastocats #Cats #Leiden #Sleutelstad #Singelpark #SilentSunday

On day 13 @lloydi presents one of my favourite debugging tools. #htmHellAdventcalendar

https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/13/

Screening “Scrooge”, 1951 with Alistair Sim (my favorite portrayal)

#CatsOfMastodon

"Soft And Chewy Gingerbread Latte Cookies" #nom

Recipe: https://cooked.wiki/saved/ecd6ab1e-9633-48cf-9a44-5ac413cd9a39

@mayu27_sky_high🦾👹🈳高🥼🗼

Our daughter is currently studying on the Netherlands, she is getting an education degree from an international teaching school but she finds the town and school a bit too small, and wants to go back to the US. We'd like her to stay in the EU, but funding school information on the internet is painful. Anyone have any idea on English speaking universities in the EU with strong science and education degrees? @quixoticgeek , @jonJon Worth @bert_hubertbert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

Are there any software projects that people would be willing to pay a small weekly or monthly contribution to support me while I develop it? I need a way to feed my family, and I don't like asking for handouts.

Please respond with ideas of things you'd like to see exist, that you'd maybe be willing to contribute an ongoing nonzero amount towards, and boost for reach. If you don't have idea of your own, that's fine. Boosting will still help!

#FediHired
#OpenSource
#Python
#MachineLearning
#Data
#Reporting
#BackendDeveloper

갑자기 삘이 와서 블로그 리팩토링을 한참 했고 이제 각주에도 수식을 쓸 수 있다!!

"Soft And Chewy Gingerbread Latte Cookies" #nom

Recipe: https://cooked.wiki/saved/ecd6ab1e-9633-48cf-9a44-5ac413cd9a39

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@LonelinessCorps Also, in case it's not clear: This is not focused on dating, but simply finding friends.

Hey #fediFriends
Is there interest in monthly support crowdfunding @hosford42Aaron to work on building a matchmaking platform for folks to find local connections of the fediverse community?

An interface to find #meatspaceFediFriends basically.

This is a brand new idea as per:
https://disabled.social/@vlrny/115712588525647591

Ya'll can spitball scope and logistics below (pls untag me in replies, I'll just lurk)

🔄 Appreciated!

#spoonies #actuallyAutistic @LonelinessCorps #fediverse #hopepunk #community #startLocal

~ Lesbian life on Reddit ~

I’ll see whats happening in /r/latebloominglesbians

*Reads

“I’ve been single my whole life and just turned 18…”

“I broke up last year and feel like I’m running out of time! How do you find someone as a 22 year old?”

“Just learned I’m a leabian at 20 and now feel like I’m destined to be alone.”

*throws phone across the room.

@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.

Postfix Macros and let place https://lobste.rs/s/duyqgm #rust
https://nadrieril.github.io/blog/2025/12/09/postfix-macros-and-let-place.html

#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?

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) that reminds me, I need to take down infosec.exchange sometime over the holidays to hose out
the servers. They handled a lot of junk this year.

I am getting reports that Mitra and #Friendica don't federate anymore.

There is a recent issue that seems to be about this problem: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/15262. Apparently the breakage was caused by some change in our @context. The fix was merged in November, but it has not yet been included in a stable release.

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Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes

Link: https://boringsql.com/posts/vacuum-is-lie/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262777

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OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-quits-hiding-truth #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) @ezeno789ekZepp_Pf
One thing I would love too is the ability to set up a post only allowing the people I follow (or followers) to reply.

Whenever I get insults or trolls in my replies, it's always from someone who doesn't follow me and I don't follow.

“The most important reason for purchasing organic foods seems to be beliefs about the products' health-giving properties and higher nutritional value.These beliefs are promoted by the organic food industry, and have fueled increased demand for organic food despite higher prices and difficulty in confirming these claimed benefits scientifically.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food

RE: https://stranger.social/@lednaBM/115718877275566120

It's weird how every time someone runs a UBI or GBI test like this, it always turns out positive. Like, I *never* see headlines saying "UBI Trial in Bumfucksburg, West Idaho Fails to Achieve Goals".

They always work, never fail.

It's almost like they're a good idea and we should move past the "trial" stage, hmm? 🤔

#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #BasicUniversalIncome #GuaranteedBasicIncome #poverty

If you do not have jobs for juniors,

you won't have seniors for the jobs you need them for.

The use of llm-driven tools to eliminate junior-level jobs means you will not have senior-level candidates for the roles you need them for.

No llm is capable of the systemic understanding of projects that a senior developer needs to have.

If you are using llm tools instead of juniors and interns, you are shooting yourself in the foot.

https://restofworld.org/2025/engineering-graduates-ai-job-losses/

Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System

Link: https://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetition
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264492

Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils

Link: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.5.0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264329

#rust

Small watercolor painting by my wife. #SilentSunday

"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

Yeah, the arm rests on my current chair starting to go is part of why I'm thinking about a new chair.. resting your arm on a bolt isn't fun

GraphQL: The Enterprise Honeymoon Is Over

Link: https://johnjames.blog/posts/graphql-the-enterprise-honeymoon-is-over
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264704

#graphql

雪に濡れたバラは美しい
Olympus E-3 + Olympus Zuiko Digital 35mm F3.5 Macro #Misskey写真部

@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.

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

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.

One person's request for Fediverse applications —

Alex wants to be able to choose what the preview image is for a video, chosen from the frames in the video.

...

I can imagine editing tools (in Fediverse applications) would also be useful.

It is also common elsewhere for people to be able to use custom images for preview images.

#FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #PreviewImage #Video

One person's request for Fediverse applications —

Alex wants to be able to choose what the preview image is for a video, chosen from the frames in the video.

...

I can imagine editing tools (in Fediverse applications) would also be useful.

It is also common elsewhere for people to be able to use custom images for preview images.

#FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #PreviewImage #Video

made an image. created it by hand in a photo editor. there's some off-black text and some chromab and lasers and stuff. it's setting off my slop senses because the same properties are common in generative images. now I hate the thing I made.

can't have anything nice.

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@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

I don't know why but I heard the sound when a predator changes their hunting vision in my head (a quick snapping/whipping sound as it cycles from infrared to emf I believe?) followed by their iconic 'rrrrrrrr' sound as soon as I saw this

Seems fitting somehow

My son is into playing GeoGuessr where you get a random Google street view and guess where you are based on clues in the scene. I thought I had a fairly good sense of geography but through watching him play I realized how bad I am at placing countries on a map. So I've been shamed into making sure I know where every country is and it has been surprisingly fun. I started with a quiz of African countries combined with reading wikipedia articles which helps me remember. https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3163

I'll end with the last paragraph of the paper:

"In addition to the dangerously high collision risks calculated here, we are already experiencing disruption of astronomy, pollution in the upper atmosphere from increasingly frequent satellite ablation, and increased ground casualty risks. By these safety and pollution metrics, it is clear we have already placed substantial stress on LEO, and changes to our approach are required immediately."