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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What have either of these people done that would warrant attention? They are not experts in anything. They don't know anything in particular, have no particular skills, have not accomplished anything of particular note. They're just young women willing to say what old rich white men want to hear.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/post/3m7xiqecucs2a

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"Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
And ye that on the sands with printless foot
Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him
When he comes back;"
- , Tempest

The sunset is picking out detail in the flanks of the mountain and its cap of cloud. Tufts of withering grass scattered across the black dunes are made golden by the low light.

Kambhorn (522m/1712ft) at Stokksnes, .

A colour photo of a mountain with a cloud-capped peak. Low sunlight from the left is highlighting the scree slopes. The foreground is black sand scattered with tufts of yellowed grass, in the distance on the right is the sea. The sky above the cloud cap is clear cyan.
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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?

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I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article. I said "seen", not "read", because I'm blind and I could not read it.
for your reference, here's the first beautiful sentence of this article:
"ffGE ARrj XRejm XAj bZgui cB R EXZgl, Rmi mjji jrjg-DmygjREDmI XgRDmDmI iRXR XZ DlkgZrj."
I don't know the technology behind this BS, but screen readers see it as scrambled text, kind of encrypted or something like this. I guess it's some font juggling (ChatGPT supposed it's gliph scrambling, where random Unicode values are mapped to random letters — I'll trust her in this because I really don't care about the tech behind it), but if you have a tiny little grain of empathy, never ever ever do this, for goodness sake.
tilschuenemann.de/projects/sac

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Tiny Mastodon Tip About Globalisation 🌍 :mastodon:

On Mastodon, there isn't an algorithm to restrict your reach to your own country or region when you post.

Additionally, many people post in English, even when it's not their native language.

If you post a comment or question
that is related to a specific region of the world, please specify which one, and don't assume people worldwide will know this acronym or reference.

You will have a better chance to
get the answers you seek, and more boosts from people living in different regions of the world.

Also consider adding a hashtag relevant to the country or region you are posting about.

Keep in mind the Fediverse is global! 🌏🌍🌎✨

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“Rural America knows the truth long before the rest of the country feels it. Nothing collapses all at once. It just stops working in small places first while everyone else calls it local hardship. That’s why wood banks—like a food bank but for fuel—are important. They’re the clearest sign that basic systems in this country have already failed.”

newrepublic.com/article/204051

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What have either of these people done that would warrant attention? They are not experts in anything. They don't know anything in particular, have no particular skills, have not accomplished anything of particular note. They're just young women willing to say what old rich white men want to hear.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/post/3m7xiqecucs2a

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I pulled all my e-books off Kindle yesterday because of this. It effectively ends my writing career because, despite everyone complaining that Amazon is evil... nobody buys books from the many other stores my books are available on.

I am sad. I am angry. I am *exhausted*.

I am ONE indie author. I am nobody. My protest is utterly meaningless in the face of this ever-expanding AI takeover. Unless all indies do this, and all tradpub authors pressure their publishers to fight Amazon, my pulling my books is not going to do a damned thing to make Amazon stop doing this. All it will do is end whatever tiny little chance I might still have had at having a real writing career.

But I am so sick of AI being shoved into every aspect of my life and not even having the right to opt out of it. This is the ONLY protest I CAN make. So that's what I'm doing. And at least I know they won't be able to use my books this way.

writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k

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The cool thing about cats is you don't have to get them a Christmas present, because empty boxes, balls of crinkly paper, shiny bows, and unattended plates of food are the greatest gifts of all. Oh and let's not forget the full tree filled with sparkly toys, you clearly put up for their enrichment.

Wait...did cats invent Christmas?

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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.

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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.

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What I'm listening to today: "313", evadum

Percussive minimal acid house. Got an actual original 303 in the mix but it's there to do (satisfyingly subtle) support work and the focus here is on the beats. Skeleton of 80s-flavored 90s dance music, constantly shifting 808-soundy drums*. Focus on the fundamentals. Sometimes that just feels good.

youtube.com/watch?v=xATA9VNDQwY

* I think every sound that isn't the 303 is just Ableton lol. 50% vintage 50% software reproduction

What I'm listening to today: "Massive Cure", Smoosh

At some point around 2000 the drummer for Death Cab for Cutie started teaching the drums to a local six year old, setting off a series of events leading to this album recorded when the drummer was 10 and her sister, on keyboards, was 12. They play with the exuberance of 10-year-olds and it really works. I love the casual, effortless poetry of this one track. Electric piano through an overdrive pedal just always works.

youtube.com/watch?v=JUBJUVceEzA

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OK So I'm interested to find out what all those cool folk running at home as servers are using hardware wise. Don't worry there is nothing to be ashamed of here as I'm really excited and interested to hear from folk recycling equipment. What CPU, RAM do you have? Also do you have a separate boot and data disks ? How big are they and are they raid or not? How many services are you running on that hardware? :openbsd:
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